Subject: SLPP is the GOP of Sierra Leone?
From: Steven N Rogers
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Date Posted: 10:45:07 01/03/07 ()
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...We are delighted that members of the Grand, old Party of Sierra Leone now recognize us as a factor for democratic and fair journalism.
Wow..I didnt know we had a Republican Party in Sierra Leone. Please dont elect Bush or Bushism for president.
Subject: Fuel scarcity heralds New Year in Nigeria
From: GOOD JOB
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Date Posted: 18:29:03 01/02/07 ()
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Fuel scarcity heralds New Year in Nigeria
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The fuel scarcity which ruined Christmas for Nigerians has ushered in the New Year on a wobbly footing, as pumps remained dry in several cities across the oil-producing nation.
The economic capital city of Lagos seems to be the worst hit by the scarcity, which started in the days leading to Christmas and has persisted despite assurances by the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that it would soon subside.
On New Year's day, several commuters were stranded and the ever-busy city roads mostly deserted as most fuel stations ran out of fuel.
Desperate motorists besieged the few filling stations that remained opened, creating a bedlam at such stations.
On Tuesday, some local newspapers reported that some fuel stations had marked up the pump price of fuel, which officially sells for 65 naira (50 cents) per litre, in anticipation of a government announcement raising fuel prices in the New Year. No such announcement came.
NNPC officials were quoted as saying they would close down fuel stations that either hoard the product or sell at unofficial rates.
The black market, where a litre of fuel goes for as much as 400 naira per litre (US$3), has continued to thrive despite warnings from the police that those selling fuel in plastic containers risk arrests.
The scarcity, especially in Lagos, has been blamed on a variety of factors, including the recent pipeline fire that killed over 200 persons, hoarding and inadequate supply of the product.
Nigeria, Africa's largest oil-producing nation, has a history of fuel scarcity largely due to ineffective local refineries.
Lagos - 02/01/2007
Subject: Re: Fuel scarcity heralds New Year in Nigeria
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Date Posted: 20:47:07 01/02/07 ()
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How do we explain this? An oil-rich country like Nigeria almost buckling under fuel scarcity? One of the most pragmatic things Africa can do through an all-African conference can be a clear definition of LEADERSHIP, vis-a-vis the continent's status as a mineral-rich place afflicted by wars, diseases, poverty and economic troubles.
Western imperialism and our colonial backgrounds may explain our troubles, but scenes of willful, incompetence have clearly caused a lot of dangers in Africa. Fuel scarcity in Nigeria? A racist European looking at this picture can easily remark that Africans are incapable of ruling themselves. Africa needs to reverse this racist view through a sober definition of what LEADERSHIP means to us.
Subject: Re: Fuel scarcity heralds New Year in Nigeria
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 23:07:29 01/02/07 ()
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Bra Enviable,
The new Leadership in Africa is the Political Leadership whose vision is to set up the Federation Of African States. If you understand the Political Ecomomy writings of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah you would understand the reasons for the Nigerian Fuel problem.
I know that Africans have tendency not to believe or take the advice of those who look like themselves but when White say the same thing they(Africans) believe and act on it. Do visit Nkrumah's wwritings especially advocatintg an African Political Federation.
Also, if you have time please read the contributions of Jean Monnet one of the founders of the European Union which they are now crawling towards it eventhough he advocated that in 1950s.
In 1953, Jean Monnet anticipated globalised economy
said" Our countries have become too small for the world......measured against America and Russia today(1950s)and China India tomorrow".
What a pity that Europe is crewing toward Political integration but many Africans are doing their best to stay micro.
Yaya Fanusie
Please visit www.coaforum.com
Subject: Re: Fuel scarcity heralds New Year in Nigeria
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 03:02:17 01/03/07 ()
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Point taken, Bra Yaya.
As a matter of fact,
I am a Pan-Africanist,
Nkrumah style.
If imperialist Europe
can become a united
bloc, why not poor Africa?
Individually, African
countries cannot
make it on the global
stage.
Also true, meaningful leadership
has eluded Africa, and the consequences
are all to unmistakable to be ignored.
Subject: http://www.drphil.com/shows/show/757
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:26:11 01/02/07 ()
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. When I watched the Dr. Phil Show last night I started to shed tears but then, I reasoned to believe that crying, yelling, coursing nor swearing will cut-it. Today, I walked about twenty miles so as to gain access to a computer to show-up on this forum, where my learned brothers and sisters, from the same country and same background have been talking with me for over nine to ten years. I thought about you when the show was in progress.
The show was about a law suit a gentleman whom so much was written about in a forum, simalr to this, which has caused him pain or he envisage would cause him pain, what he has worked for all these years, gone to college and so forth but what was written about him might be perceived differently, which might cause him jobs and the chance of living a worthy life. (Rings a bell?).
When I saw those aplaus, I realized that indeed, it is the America I have fell in love since I was a kid, the America I came to, though I have for several years not believed if I was in that America.
It is nice to listen.
It is important we read it, reflect and probably caution as to what we say here.
Subject: EDITORIAL IN COCORIOKO
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 17:05:58 01/02/07 ()
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The Editorioal in Cocorioko of the 2nd january 2007 was a masterpiece.
The accuracy of the editorial was unprecedented, refreshing, and exciting all the same.
Some us have for sometime now been making these points on this forum and elsewhere, but now that the respected, and authoritative Cocorioko's editorial have boldly stated these facts, I am sure SLPP will be seen in a different light.
SLPP has allowed, Democracy and cemented the same in Sa Lone by allowing freedom of speech,and freedom of the press.The rule of Law is alive and kicking in Sa Lone.
Thank you REV Kanu, and thank you Cocorioko, we look forward to this type of honesty in 2007...But with a REV at the Helm, honesty should not be problem.
Happy new year, Alieu...long time not heard...I hope all is well over there.
Subject: Re: EDITORIAL IN COCORIOKO
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:40:36 01/02/07 ()
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How you doing!
Subject: NO RESPONSE TO SALONEMAN 2'S GEM?
From: GOOD JOB
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Date Posted: 16:16:42 01/02/07 ()
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Posted by Saloneman2 [ool-44c29146.dyn.optonline.net at 68.194.145.70] on December 28, 2006 at 21:16:37:
Contrary to what APC loyalists on this forum are propagating, the APC-led Freetown City Council (FCC) is neither broke nor is it being screwed up by the SLPP government. The FCC has several sources of own source revenue that was assigned to it under the local government Act of 2004. There are for example, property taxes, market dues, trading licenses, local taxes, property rents, etc., etc. Conservatively, these sources generate billions of leones for the FCC. In fact Gordon Mwesigye’s recent report on the FCC states that the FCC has the potential of quadrupling its revenues if it can cut down on the slack within its bureaucratic structure and implement more efficient methods of revenue collection.
In addition to what it receives from its sources of own source revenue, the FCC receives 462 million leones ($ 196, 596) from the SLPP government to finance the city’s clean-up operations. This was recently revealed by no less a person than the Secretary-General of the APC, Mr. Victor Foh when he surmized:
“According to Mayor of Freetown Municipality Winstanley Bankole Johnson, the central government only allocates 462 million leones to finance the capital city’s clean-up operations, which is allegedly “half the sum of more than 900 million leones that was allocated to the Youths and Sports Ministry.”
Juxtaposing the foregoing with the present unsanitary conditions of our capital city, it makes a cogent argument to posit that an ultra-corrupt bureaucracy exists at the FCC that is hell bent on tarnishing the image of the SLPP government. Why in the world are some of the towns in the provinces with only negligible sources of revenue far cleaner than Freetown whose city council is pampered with monies from multifarious sources?
Subject: Sierra Leone's 2007 Elections Fund gets $10 Million
From: GOOD JOB
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Date Posted: 16:14:47 01/02/07 ()
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Sierra Leone's 2007 Elections Fund gets $10 Million
Posted by on Jan 2, 2007, 17:07
The European Commission has signed a Contribution Agreement with the United Nations Development Programme UNDP) managed Basket Fund, which was created to support a comprehensive reform of the electoral process in Sierra Leone and the National Electoral Commission (NEC). The agreement contributes EUR 7.5 million (US$10 Million) into the Basket Fund, following a signing ceremony at the European Commission headquarters in Regent, Freetown on 28 December 2006.
Creating the Basket Fund is an efficient and effective approach to providing assistance to NEC and the government. Mr. Hans Allden, the European Commission’s Head of Delegation in Sierra Leone, said the coordinated approach is essential, because “the building of a strong and stable electoral administration capacity is a better long-term investment than ad hoc contributions to electoral events”. And while those advances are being made, the Executive Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sierra Leone Mr. Angelo observed that Sierra Leone has made progress that compliments the development of its electoral process.
Mr. Victor Angelo said “2006 has seen political maturity in Sierra Leone” and that it was “time to emphasize the positive” strides the country has made. Mr. Angelo noted the signing of a Code of Conduct for Political Parties, which was signed by eight active political parties on 20 October 2006; respect the government is showing to the NEC, for the commission’s independence from government and the development of a Code of Conduct for the Media, which would guide journalists in reporting and coverage of the electoral campaign and the presidential and parliamentarian elections, after it’s ratified in January 2007, as important steps in the right direction.
All those developments would help create an electoral process that would remain in place after the 2007 elections by “preparing the ground for the 2008 elections and building the machinery for national elections capacity”, Mr. Angelo said. That view was shared by the Chairperson of the National Electoral Commission and Chief Electoral Commissioner, Ms. Christiana Thorpe, who supports the need for “capacity building”, stating that “the election is not an event; we’re looking at the process before and after” the elections. Ms. Thorpe added “we need to develop media and civil society”. The NEC chair said the European Commission’s support boost their work and pledged that the NEC would deliver a “credible election to Sierra Leoneans”.
Mr. Victor Angelo noted that the Contribution Agreement makes the European Commission the largest contributor to the fund and that the agreement is signed “at a time when we feel optimistic about the future of Sierra Leone”. Mr. Angelo said the UNDP has been helping to build Sierra Leone’s national electoral capacity, particularly in helping develop the NEC since 2005, assisting to put the electoral reforms in place for the presidential and general elections in July 2007, and preparing the framework for local elections in 2008. Despite the advances being made in reforming the electoral process, Mr. Angelo advised that the voter education process must have “a strong gender component” and that “women must be involved in the political process”.
The Minister of Development and Economic Planning, Hon. Alhaji M.B. Daramy disclosed that election observers would come from the UNDP, European Commission, the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States. Adding “one of the most important contributing factors to good governance is free, fair, peaceful, credible and transparent elections”. There would also be national observers who Ms. Thorpe said are important “as they would monitor that the process is going well after the elections”.
The Government of Sierra Leone is expected to contribute about US$9, 300,000 to the Basket Fund. The Department for International Development donated US$7.5 million and Development Cooperation Ireland gave US$1, 350,000, and has pledged an additional US$2, 700,000. At the launch of the fund in 2005 the UNDP gave US$350,000 thousand.
The UNDP-managed Basket Fund was created after a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between UNDP and development partners creating a project that gives “Support for Electoral Reform and the National Electoral Commission” on 14 December 2005.
Subject: Legal Justice, Please
From: GOOD JOB
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Date Posted: 11:19:45 01/02/07 ()
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Legal Justice, Please
Monday, January 1, 2007
THE ANALYST
THREE RECENT INCIDENTS at the Monrovia Central Prison and the Police Department of the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) in relation to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) drew our attention. The first of these events is the escape of over 50 hardcore criminals from the supposedly maximum security prison, the Monrovia Central Prison (MCP), on Sunday, November 26, 2006. The second is the presidential visit late last week which resulted to the pardoning of several female prisoners many of whom, having been arrested and detained for “petty crimes”, were neither charged nor tried in accordance with the dictates of the law. The third is the alleged escape from the detention cell of the MCC Police Department of 17 suspected drug dealers. The suspects were entrusted to the custody of the Monrovia City Police Detail by the DEA because of the limitation of the holding facilities of the latter.
WE DO NOT doubt that major efforts are currently being mounted by the Liberia National Police (LNP) to re-arrest the more than 50 hardcore escapees and remand them to jail. We have no doubt also that the DEA, too in conjunction with LNP, is on the look out for the suspected drug dealers. If both efforts work according to plan, all of those who escaped “justice” will be back in detention to have their days in court collectively or individually. We see no wrong done also in the presidential pardon of the first batch of female prisoners from MCP. We believe the action concurs with the New Penal Code of Liberia regarding time allotment and procedures for the arrest, charge, detention, and prosecution of suspects.
HAVING NOTED THE merits of each scenario, we want to register our disappointment and despondency at the existence of missteps, odd practices, and legal laxities that led to each of these scenarios. We are disappointed that after all the years of war for political and social transformation and the noise about justice and liberty, Liberians are still being thrown into jail without proper procedures such that they are compelled to resort to jail breaking in order to get justice or freedom. The justice system of this country subscribes to the belief that the accused is innocent until proven guilty in a court of competent jurisdiction, until the accused faced his accusers and is given the opportunity to defend him- or herself against charges and accusations leveled by the complainant. In order for the accused to maintain his or her dignity and rights as a citizen, the law provides for summons or arrest based on a warrant where applicable and preliminary investigation by police or hearing in a court of law or detention with the option to be out on bail (save where not applicable) pending preliminary hearing. Where the accused is detained, the prosecutor is under obligation to hold hearings or trial within two days or 48 hours. The law also provides that when neither charge nor trial is held after 48 hours, the basis for holding the accused or suspect is illegal. This is an old song sung by lawyers, judges, prison wardens, the police, politician, human rights advocates, and even the lay people in the streets and we repeat it here for emphasis. It is the song that interprets vividly the precepts of freedom and justice and the love of liberty that founding Liberians say brought them here.
BUT YET, AND regrettably so, it is a song that seems very, very difficult to master by Liberia’s law enforcers and law interpreters, the difficulty being impervious to the political changes and the legal and social realizations that are sweeping the nation. Today, even with basic reforms of the Judiciary initiated and the LNP dissolved, retrained, and redeployed significantly, it is difficult to say in Liberia whether the police or judicial officials regard a suspect or accused innocent until found guilty in a court of competent jurisdiction. Suspects and accused are still essentially been thrown behind bars on the slightest provocation, irrespective of whether or not there is sufficient evidence to establish a prima facie case. Police, judicial officials, legislators, local government administrators, and men and women of influence in society all have the carte blanche in Liberia to call the police and remand anyone of lesser caliber or influence in jail. Most times, all that is required is the finances to push a few buttons and it is done. Some of those thrown behind bars in this illegal manner stay there until the complainants find a place in their hearts to pardon them and request their release. Some, who are not so lucky, languish in jail in difficult conditions for protracted periods of time ranging from six months to several years. Some even die in prison before anyone has time to give them a day in court while a few others work up plans to freedom through jailbreaks.
WE CONCEDE THE 14-year civil upheaval has turned the Liberian society on its head by destroying cardinal virtues once held jealously by the Liberian social structure. We also agree that as the result of that, many Liberians have given to criminality, for some, as a survival kit, and that because of this, most communities across the country are endangered. We cannot agree any more that those Liberians who gave in to crimes, sentimentalism aside, cannot be completely justified and so we agree that they must be taken off the streets, prosecuted, and corrected.
BUT WE CONTEND that cannot be done but only with justice borne of the criminal justice system. We say this because the criminal justice system in any democracy, emerging or grounded, is a continuum. It is a part-specific and sensitive continuum a break or flaw in any part of which portrays bad governance and human rights violation, which are the critical antithesis of people-sensitive democracy and progress. We have come a long way; 159 years of nationhood is a long time to experiment with the precepts of democracy without mastery. It is therefore time to strengthen and apply the criminal justice system as part and parcel of the nation’s drive to peace, reconciliation, and peaceful co-existence.
SO WE CALL on all those concerned in the Judicial and Executive branches of government to ensure that justice is delivered without hindrance, that inmates are not compelled to get freedom through jailbreaks, and that it does not require the President of Liberia to free a man or woman who is held for many years without trial for simple assault of a member of the elite class. Arbitrary arrest and detention must stop. The nation craves legal justice.
Subject: UPDATE ON DISCUSSION FORUM
From: Progressive Alliance of Sierra Leone
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Date Posted: 01:17:18 01/02/07 ()
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The forum has been set up and is undergoing security tests . We hope to have it out by this weekend.
The forum will be called "The Progressive Forum" and it will have the same pattern and an open format like this Cocorioko Forum.
We are not taking you away from this forum. Two parallell forums running is good for our country.
Our Admin. will get to you this week.
We thank you all.
Subject: Liberian President's financial "gift" to media backfires
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Liberian President's financial "gift" to media backfires
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Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - The Press Union of Liberia has described presidential "gift" of US$500 checks placed in Christmas cards sent to several Liberian media outlets as "a further attempt by the presidency to ridicule the press".
But President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf promptly replied that "it was a good gesture and not meant to influence the press."
The Christmas cards containing the checks drawn on the Central Bank of Liberia were distributed among many media institutions during the Christmas season but several newspaper publishers and journalists rejected the gesture and returned the checks to the presidency.
The Press Union of Liberia (PUL) on Saturday commended the action of the media organisations that rejected the US$500 which the office of President Johnson-Sirleaf termed "a goodwill gesture".
In a statement, the PUL said it considered the rejection of the President's Christmas gift as a "strong courage to resist attempts to further subject the press to disdain," and condemned journalists who "shamelessly signed for and expended the money without regard for their ethics."
The row over the presidential Christmas gift comes four months after Johnson-Sirleaf bitterly criticised the local press for unprofessional reportage, and described its members as "chequebook journalists".
"Memories are still fresh when President Johnson-Sirleaf launched a damming attack on the media referring to them as check book journalists. The union wonders how four months later, the same president will now be selectively dishing out checks to journalists in the name of Christmas party," the PUL statement said.
But Johnson-Sirleaf told reporters at a news conference that her "gesture was based on what was in the government's budget for holding Christmas parties for children, sending food to hospitals and not forgetting the media in the goodwill gesture."
The PUL and the concerned journalists also questioned how such money to media outlets was budgeted, but the Liberian leader said it was a valid government arrangement.
"I thought not to have forgotten our friends in the media, who will be holding Christmas parties. Those who saw it to be wrong; I take responsibility. I beg you, if you send it back, we will take it and give it to a needy group," Johnson-Sirleaf told journalists.
The exact number of local media organisations that received the "financial gift" was not revealed, but informed sources told PANA that at least 16 such cards went out to media outlets.
Monrovia - 31/12/2006
Subject: We are starting a discussion forum
From: Progressive Alliance of Sierra Leone
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Date Posted: 01:14:42 01/01/07 ()
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We are coming up with our own discussion forum very soon. The forum will be known as The Progressive Alliance Forum. It will be devoted to debates on Sierra Leone. There will be no censorship.You will be free to write all you want. Our administration will get to you in a moment.
Long live Sierra Leone
Long live our fatherland
Subject: Re: We are starting a discussion forum
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No censorship? Great news. Please keep us informed. It will be great to have a competing forum since some former forumites are complaining that they have been banned from this forum.
Subject: A bitter family saga is at an end
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It was not about WMD or the killing of Kurds. Read this:
A bitter family saga is at an end
By Matt Frei
BBC Washington correspondent
The US said Saddam Hussein was hanged after a "fair trial"
When Saddam Hussein looked in disbelief at the over-sized noose that was fitted by masked volunteers around his neck, the man who helped to put it there by invading Iraq and toppling the dictator was soundly asleep at his ranch in Texas.
It was only nine o'clock in the evening in Crawford but George Bush was already embedded in the land of nod, with orders not to be woken until the morning.
The blithe indifference of deep slumber was the final snub to the dead man who once described himself as "Salahadin II", "the Redeemer of all the Arabs" and "the Lion of Baghdad".
Some might think that George Bush can't afford to sleep soundly these days with his approval ratings in the cellar and his policy towards Iraq in inertia.
But while the world stirred to comment, cyberspace buzzed with applause or condemnation and Cable television hyperventilated, George Bush soldiered on in sleep. He arose only at 4.40am, we are told, which is his usual time of rising.
One hour later he had a 10-minute conversation with his National Security adviser Stephen Hadley about the events in Baghdad.
Saddam Hussein tried to get George HW Bush assassinated. Shortly thereafter the White House issued a pre-prepared written statement: "Today Saddam Hussein was executed after receiving a fair trial - the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime."
The statement, which will not be complemented by a presidential turn for the cameras, betrayed no hint of gloating or crowing. It went on to say that "bringing Saddam Hussein to justice will not end the violence in Iraq".
On one level, the hanging of Saddam Hussein is the end of a dramatic family saga that has pitted the Bushes of Texas against the Husseins of Tikrit.
Failed alliance
It is a saga that started with a tacit alliance.
When George HW Bush was vice president, Saddam Hussein was still seen as a potential partner thanks to his status as the enemy of America's enemy, Iran.
It was in 1983 that Donald Rumsfeld was dispatched to Baghdad as a friend of the Reagan administration to shake the hand of Saddam Hussein and offer America's help against the ayatollahs during the Iran Iraq War.
Alliance finally turned into animosity when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and President Bush cobbled together an international alliance of Western and Arab states to remove him from Kuwait but not from power.
"The butcher of Baghdad" began to call President Bush "the viper" and George junior, "the son of the viper".
It was at that time that the famous Al Rashid hotel in Baghdad received an elaborate mosaic of President Bush "the criminal", which patrons were forced to stomp across on entering the lobby.
Two years later Saddam Hussein tried to get President Bush assassinated.
The White House has always maintained that personal grudges had nothing to do with the invasion of Iraq.
And yet in September 2002, as preparations for war were well under way, George Bush the younger told a Houston fundraiser: "This is after all the man who tried to kill my dad."
Mafia rule
The personal side of this bitter family saga is over.
But even from his unmarked grave, Saddam Hussein will continue to haunt the Bush administration and define the legacy of the 43rd president of the United States.
Saddam had always promised to lure, fight and defeat the Americans in the cities of Iraq.
No-one thought at the time that this would happen after he had already been deposed.
But his prophetic threat is becoming reality, triggering a multi-headed insurgence that no longer fights on his behalf, and a vortex of sectarian violence that makes a conventional civil war look organised and coherent.
The former Iraqi leader is likely to haunt the Bush administration
The brutal bloodletting, ethnic cleansing and vicious fragmentation, in which American troops now find themselves embroiled, is also a legacy of Saddam's regime.
A quarter of a century of his mafia rule, in which tribal loyalties were lavishly rewarded and anything less was severely punished helped to rot the cohesion of a young and artificial country.
The extent to which Iraq is disintegrating has taken many Iraqis by surprise. It was grossly under-estimated by the officials who planned the occupation.
President Bush and his advisers have always liked to compare the birth pangs of Iraqi democracy to the emergence of a free Germany after the World War II.
Bloodletting
But what they were dealing with was not Germany 1945 but Germany in 1648 emerging from the feudal bloodbath of the 30 years war.
Another example would have been Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
So not even the few beleaguered optimists in the Bush camp, including the president himself, believe that the execution of Saddam Hussein will stem the bloodletting and allow America to plan for a graceful exit.
The sectarian violence in Iraq has reached its own alarming momentum, in which Saddam Hussein had been reduced to a walk-on part.
Nearly 3,000 US servicemen and women have already been killed
The White House may boast about the new rule of law but for many ordinary Iraqis justice comes in the form of death squads, torture gangs and rogue police road blocks.
These days the wrong identity card can get you executed. This is not the kind of justice that George Bush had in mind.
So now the noose has done its deed the Pentagon is, if anything, expecting a spike in the sectarian violence.
The US State Department has put its embassies on a security al3rt "to prepare for demonstrations and possible attacks".
And the American public, which had long expected the execution of Saddam Hussein is waiting with growing impatience to see how exactly the president will execute his heralded "new Iraq strategy".
More troops? More money? More hope? For American soldiers December 2006 proved to be the bloodiest month of a bloody year.
Sometime in the next 10 days 3,000 US servicemen and women will have been killed by a war that was declared "accomplished" in May 2003.
Saddam Hussein is dead. His legacy lives on.
Subject: NEW YEAR, NEW ATTITUDE TOWARD SIERRA LEONE?
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 13:24:08 12/31/06 ()
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The New Year is here. It is very customary to hear people talk about resolutions and the unlearning of bad habits at the beginning of the year. Although some new year resolutions are as short-lived as the emotional spasm that made them, resolutions are a normal mode of thinking. The making of resolutions suggests that the person who makes them is aware of his own personal shortcomings, and the road to be traversed for success. In politics as in personal life, mistakes are made, and when such mistakes get corrected, growth takes place as a result. Enduring democracies, like the ones that shape political thought in Washington, London and Paris, began with simple, 'Horse and Buggy" methods. In other words, there were times when those democracies were {almost} primitive, and largely lacking in refinement. In a bid to grow, thinkers made resolutions, corrected past bungling steps, and put their institutions on a surer road to stability. What is our resolution as Sierra Leoneans? Can we begin with the simplest resolution that obliges every Sierra Leonean to be tolerant of opposition without recourse to anger and intemperate utterances?
I have seen that the expression of dissenting views on this forum causes a lot of stir in some circles. Our national history is so full of dishonesty and wasted moments that every Sierra Leonean needs one fact at the back of his or her mind: Do not trust--or fall in love---with our politicians to an extent that makes you incapable of putting Sierra Leone above your political party. I am a member of the PMDC, but Sierra Leone's national history is so mottled with deceit, that I will never be surprised when that party runs foul of the law. In the same vein, I am ready to tolerate-- but not necessarily love--the opinions of our opponents. Maintaining the balance between TOLERANCE and CIVILITY is something we have so far not done on this forum. I love the PMDC. However, my trust has been so frequently abused by Sierra Leonean politics that I cannot continue to be a party defender when the need for reappraisal is staring me in the face. What is our resolution for the New Year? Have we resolved to politically grow up by challenging and defeating ideas without the use of slander? Have we resolved to accept the fact that we have been fooled so often that we cannot convincingly vouch for the honesty of whoever rules Sierra Leone? We need a resolution, and whatever we resolve to do, must spell tolerance and supremacy as canons of the day.
Subject: Re: NEW YEAR, NEW ATTITUDE TOWARD SIERRA LEONE?
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 13:29:12 12/31/06 ()
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...must spell TOLRENCE and Sierra Leone's SUPREMACY as canons of the day
Subject: NEW YEARS GREETINGS
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 13:06:55 12/31/06 ()
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TO ALL FORUM USERS.........I would like to wish a prosperous new year to you all and Sa Lone in particular for 2007.I pray that the good Lord will
continue to guide our country in the good direction
that it has followed so far in the past 5 yeras.
CADMUS
Subject: Re: NEW YEARS GREETINGS
From: Sylvester Johnny
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Date Posted: 21:00:25 01/02/07 ()
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Hi CADMUS,
You may be interested in seeing the most discussed lady on this forum.Given what I have read about her over thge years, I was expecting somebody far different from what the picture shows.
http://awarenesstimes.com/drwebsite/publish/index.shtml
Subject: GOOD BYE SADDAM
From: K.L
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Date Posted: 08:59:44 12/31/06 ()
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Translation of Arabic subtitles accompanying the latest execution footage when broadcast on al-Jazeera TV station:
[Saddam] Oh God.
[Voices] May God's blessings be upon Muhammad and his household.
[Voices] And may God hasten their appearance and curse their enemies.
[Voices] Moqtada [Al-Sadr]...Moqtada...Moqtada.
[Saddam] Do you consider this bravery?
[Voice] Long live Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr.
[Voice] To hell.
[Voice] Please do not. The man is being executed. Please no, I beg you to stop.
[Saddam] There is no God but Allah and I testify that Muhammad is the messenger of God. There is no God but Allah and I testify that Muhammad...
At this point the video stops and the sound of the trapdoors opening is heard in the background.
Subject: Re: GOOD BYE SADDAM
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
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Date Posted: 13:06:48 12/31/06 ()
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The execution of Saddam should be a lesson to leaders all above the world.As a leader,you must be very careful in the discharge of your duties because there will surely come a day that you will answer for all your actions.
The people must also be willing to put in motion checks that will prevent dictatorship.We the people must not treat are leaders like semi-Gods.We must make sure that our leaders understand that they are servants not masters.
Dont forget that,If you build a monster, there will come a time that you will not be able to control it.
POWER ONLY BELONGS TO THE ALMIGHTY GOD.
Subject: Did you say "a day that I will answer for all MY actions"?
From: BANDELE
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Date Posted: 13:40:25 12/31/06 ()
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"The execution of Saddam should be a lesson to leaders all above the world.As a leader,you must be very careful in the discharge of your duties because there will surely come a day that you will answer for all your actions."
Subject: Pastors in Nigeria become informants for armed robbers
From: Surprised
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Date Posted: 18:05:07 12/29/06 ()
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BEWARE! Robbers Now Recruit Pastors As Informants
From BLESSING AKPARANTA, Abuja
The Christian community, especially the Pentecostals have been warned to be careful on their dealings with pastors and other men of God.
The Area Commander of Suleja Police area command, Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim (ACP), gave the warning as his men foiled a robbery attack on a woman recently at Suleja.
While explaining to the National Mirror in his office, Mr. Ibrahim said the woman was returning from one of the Penticostal churches when the robbers attacked her on the way.
“We were able to foil the attack and saved the woman because we already have the information of the robbers through community policing.” he disclosed.
The area commander disclosed that his latest discovery on the system through which armed robbers get information is by the robbers recruiting pastors who give them information on wealthy men in their various churches.
The pastors who are paid either salaries or commissions by the robbers, keep tabs on these wealthy men through various pious means, such as visiting their homes, then the robbers who would strike, taking these gullible wealthy people unawares.
The area commander therefore warned those who carry large sums of money to the house, especially politicians to be careful and if possible very discreet about it.
On the crime rate in Suleja , especially with the influx of those displaced from their homes in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), during the ongoing demolition, Mr. Ibrahim said he was doing his work effectively been using the community policing system which has by yielding dividends by preventing crime instead of fighting it.
Mr. Ibrahim who pointed out the importance of information in preventing and fighting crime, urged residents of Suleja to inform the police about criminal hideouts and activities.
He advised that anyone who is afraid to pass information to the low rank police officers should come to him directly as such persons’ identity would be protected.
On the possibility of reaching him easily, being the chief security officer of the city, Mr. Ibrahim said: “you can see I run an open door policy. You just walk inside my office without filling any form, without any police disturbing you.”
He had earlier expressed Ibrahim Awal, the Suleja Council Chairman, Alhaji Abdulahi Suleman and the local heads for the supportive role they have being playing since he assumed office.
“I have been holding series of meetings with hoteliers, local chiefs, educating them on how to live peacefully with the influx of people coming into Suleja and how they can easily detect criminals among them.” I believe to prevent crime is better than to fight it.” Mr. Ibrahim said.
He however warned that anyone wanting to commit crime in Suleja would be surprised because his system of community policing is very effective.
“You can see there are very few policemen here, they are all in the communities in plain cloths monitoring criminals,” he disclosed.
Subject: Oprah Winfrey's New Plane - Luxist . Dream big.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 16:54:47 12/29/06 ()
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Who said the American Dream is not achievable!
Instant gratification and deferred gratification.
Indeed, a dreamer is born.
Subject: U.S.AMBASSADOR WARNS AGAINST RIGGING
From: Politics
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Date Posted: 15:53:47 12/29/06 ()
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From one of our newspapers
The United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone, His Excellency Thomas N. Hull has warned political parties not to interfere in the preparation of the upcoming 2007 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Ambassador Hull made this disclosure to members of the press and civil society organizations on Friday 8th December at Regent village, where he official launched the Voters Education Programs implemented by the National Democratic Institute (NDI).
The Ambassador observed that as the country moves toward the 2007 election, preparations are being made for the successful transition to a new president and parliament.
“Those elections and campaigns that precede them as well as the transition that follows will be watched closely by the United State, as an indication of Sierra Leone progress in moving to greater democracy,” he assured, adding that the National Electoral Commission (NEC) and the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) have established the way forward for the political process, which he said must be respected by all concerned through non-interference in election preparations, and by tolerance of all political parties everywhere in the country.
Ambassador Hull further said that the progress of election preparation is encouraging, but must be sustained right through to the local election for district and town councils in 2008.
He assured the gathering that the American Embassy would work with the commissions, the United Nations and other organizations to assure that the playing field is as level as possible for all players.
The United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone further stated that, civil society organizations can play a vital role in preparing citizens for the impending elections through voter education campaigns at the national, regional and local levels.
Subject: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 09:10:42 12/29/06 ()
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Sengbe, How do you deal with this irony in your personality? You wail and shout democracy each time the clock ticks, yet you remain characterisitically opposed to democratic principles. Why are you apparently incapable of expressing your opinions without resort to insults and name-calling?
If everyone on this forum thinks and sounds like the other, this place will look like a venue for boring, brainless people. How do you decry our ugly past of incivility while remaining attached to it? What's up with your love-affair with insults on a public forum? If our politics were to continue in that vein, then we would have nothing to write home about!
You have lived long enough in the united States to know that you can disagree with an opinion, but the speaker's right to say it, entitles him to express himself without fear of threats and the raw name-calling that is so characteristic of you.
Bra, not even brothers from the same Mama and Papa do agree on everything. The political field is the best place for controversies and the expression of counter-opinions. And you know that, Bro Sengbe.
Please express yourself without the use of insults. Growing up involves governing your temper well, and in politics, it means one must face the reality of dealing with people you disgree with, or may not even countenance. Yet, the ability to be civil without recourse to insults and threats, is what sets civility apart from uncouthness. Bra, let's talk with civil tongues. How u hart wam so?
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 11:32:46 12/29/06 ()
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Who Sengbe? Don't blame him Bra E.
Since my sister left him for a white man he hasn't been the same. Remember now we are talking about Sengbe Konouwa the great.
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 12:37:24 12/29/06 ()
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Loggy u too funny.
That is NOT true, at all.
I have my own very beautiful and very cultured queens. And they are all black Africans. No prejudice intended here. [Nar u bring in the color ting].
Oh yah! ar cuss the bra ee papay so ee vex eh?
Tough luck.
As long as I speak, and write the truth, and nothing but the truth, I shall fear no evil.
Let him read my response to Seydouba. Maybe he will come to his senses as to why I lashed out.
All ting na politricks to dem negative peeple dem ya so. Bra me nor mix. Ar gee praise where praise is due, ehn hib cuss-cass when I am provoked into it.
Dat nar de word from me. Ar nor go respond to ignorance.
Remember ar go Bo School, where "MANNERS MAKETH MAN" is our motto. So ar geh manners - always.
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: cornelius
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Date Posted: 16:12:39 12/30/06 ()
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A very happy and very wonderful New Year to you and all your very beautiful and very cultured black African queens.
AS you know I am banned on this Forum.
You are reading this because I am not posting it from home.
The Rev Kabbs Kanu doesn't want me to go to his heaven
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 17:52:00 12/30/06 ()
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Same to you, Bra Cornie. However, instead of the very beautiful and very cultured African queens [at my desire / pleasure, many happy returns to your "Swedish" queen, your wife, and the rest of your family.
I thought the ban was lifted when I wrote my "I miss Bra Cornie" speech on my return from my European trip in August.
Reverend Kabs, if you read this, please 'un-ban' Bra Cornie immediately, especially since there is a paucity of meaningful/intellectual discourse on the forum nowadays.
How about that Bra Moderator, and Bra Forum Police?
What did he (Bra Cornie) do this time around for him to be banished into peeperland?
The same goes for my uncle Knice.
Please do me this favour as my New Year's gift.
Thanking you in advance.
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: Cornelius
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Date Posted: 10:00:51 01/01/07 ()
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Senor Sengbe,
A happy 007 New Year to you and yours.
You mention my " Swedish" Queen" well she is the queen of Sweden...and if you mean my "Swedish" wife ( since your sentence was elliptical) well she's 100% Swedish, born of a Swedish mother ( Märta) and a Swedish father ( Karl), born in Bromma in Stockholm and mostly bred there. Before I met her ( she was on a world tour) , France, Spain, Italy, Seattle in particular, Tunisia, the Gambia and then I detained her in Sierra Leone for six months. ( Where were you then ?)
So just for fun I ask, why "SWEDISH"?
Are you " Mende"?
If you stick to topics you " know" - you could be a good " speech " writer in any language.
In the meantime I'm sure that my Swedish better-half probably knows more than you ( but not me) about Dr . Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and I'm sure that she is more acquinated with details of Mr. I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson's life and certainly about I.T.A. and the West African Youth League than you are, since you have spent less than a hundred hours in the colonial archives of the British museum libarary researching the matter......
However, it's never too late and you too you could do so dear Sengbe, as part of graduate school, the next time you make a state visit to Europe.
And how do you respond to the suggestion? More important things to do in the lab?
And the preposterous idea of my "Missus" locking me up!
I hope that you don't think that I am Andy Capp
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 11:30:16 01/01/07 ()
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Hi Bra Cornie, happy new year, again, to you and your family.
I did not really know for sure that your wife is Swedish, that is the reason I put that adjective in quotes. Now you have told me, I will gladly remove the quotes.
I am happy that you have now been "un-banned" from the forum. You see, when Sengbe asks, the Reverend listens, and obliges. I hope you are posting from your computer at home before I become too presumptuous.
I know a lot about those great people you mentioned in your post. Probably not as much as the scholarly research conducted by your Swedish wife [the daughter of Marta and Karl] relative to them, but I can hold my own in this regard. Does she teach African History / African Politics / African Studies at a University / College in Stockholm?
Yeah! Bra Cornie, I am a lab rat, and my lab is not "little" by any measure. I have a university lab, where I teach, and a US Government lab, where I, my collaborators, and students, conduct very meaningful research to help mankind at the present, and into the future.
Well, based on your absence from the forum, I thought you were Andy Capp. I am glad that you are not. Afterall, it is a man's world, but it would be nothing without a woman. And you know where that came from. He is now residing in the kingdom of God.
Stay happy in 2007.
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: cornelius
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Date Posted: 11:50:10 01/01/07 ()
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Sometimes I call my wife "the Africanist" so you may retain the quotation marks
I'm not sure that I have been unbanned. I'm posting this from a down-town cafe aS THE TERRORISTS HAVE DOWNED MY COMPUTER.
Please use your good office to prevail on the good Rev to unban me and I sincerely wish Jesus and Rev Kanu too and all of his best people a Happy New Year.
No my wife does not teach African History ANYWHERE. She taught French at the FSSG for a few months when Ms Garber was principal.
Be good.
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: cornelius
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Date Posted: 09:55:26 01/01/07 ()
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Senor Sengbe,
A happy 007 New Year to you and yours.
You mention my " Swedish" Queen" well she is the queen of Sweden...and if you mean my "Swedish" wife ( since your sentence was elliptical) well she's 100% Swedish, born of a Swedish mother ( Märta) and a Swedish father ( Karl), born in Bromma in Stockholm and mostly bred there. Before I met her ( she was on a world tour) , France, Spain, Italy, Seattle in particular, Tunisia, the Gambia and then I detained her in Sierra Leone for six months. ( Where were you then ?)
So just for fun I ask, why "SWEDISH"?
Are you " Mende"?
If you stick to topics you " know" - you could be a good " speech " writer in any language.
In the meantime I'm sure that my Swedish better-half probably knows more than you ( but not me) about Dr . Namndi Azikiwe, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and I'm sure that she is more acquinated with details of Mr. I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson's life and certainly about I.T.A. and the West African Youth League than you are, since you have spent less than a hundred hours in the colonial archives of the British museum libarary researching the matter......
However, it's never too late and you too you could do so dear Sengbe, as part of graduate school, the next time you make a state visit to Europe.
And how do you respond to the suggestion? More important things to do in the lab?
And the preposterous idea of my "Missus" locking me up!
I hope that you don't think that I am Andy Capp
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 18:31:24 12/30/06 ()
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Let me ask this question out of curiosity: Why was KNICE banned from this forum? Of all the Sierra Leoneans I have seen in cyberspace, KNICE is the last I can characterize as antisocial. Is he stubborn in defence of his views? He is, and, as the British will say, with knobs on! A gentleman? I will say so beating my chest, citing my knowledge of him during our most difficult days when Sierra Leone was afire. Why would KABS ban KNICE of all Sierra leoneans???
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: Peeper
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Date Posted: 20:53:08 12/30/06 ()
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BRA ENVIABLE, believe Sengbe, you will believe Judas. KNICE was not banned by Kabs at all. KNICE was on the same band wagon with Sylvia Blyden during the events that lead to the closing of the Sierranet forum. After Kab's creation of this forum, KNICE, for reasons very suspicious, never participated.
To remind you how hypocrete Sengbe is, less than six months ago, this same issue was brought up and Kabs made it plain that KNICE was not suspended. If my memory serves me well, Kabs went as far as inviting KNICE to the forum and Sengbe promised this forum he will get in touch with KNICE, and then report back to us. Now, all of a sudden, this same Sengbe fellow is back with this same old crap that KNICE was suspended. I am not God so I will not make any judgements against this fellow. But if I were to do so, I will not be a fan of his.
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 10:52:42 12/31/06 ()
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"...Now, all of a sudden, this same Sengbe fellow is back with this same old crap that KNICE was suspended..."
I said "banned", NOT "suspended".
Get your facts straight.
Now who is the liar / hypocrite, Mr. Iscariot?
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 10:26:51 12/31/06 ()
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Who really cares whether you are a fan of Sengbe or not?
And how would you know that I did contact him, and the indication was that he was still "banned" because he could not / cannot access the forum from his computer even after Kabs' public statement?
Why would I be hypocritical about an issue that I garnered from the proverbial horse's mouth? Maybe you are playing God, and making a judgement based on some public proclamation from our hosts, and not the behind-the-scenes activity, and proclamation made by Knice himself? Have you ever considered that aspect, Mr. Peeper?
Maybe that is why you mainly reside in peeperdom, based on your lack of first-hand knowledge about issues you'd like to poke your long nose into.
It is one thing to publicly invite someone to participate on a forum as a host, but quite another, based on the technological aspect of not granting access due to the IP number so involved. Did you consider that aspect too, Mr. Nosy Somebody?
There are intangibles that may have made the validity of that invitation unworkable in its implementation, based on the information I gathered from Knice himself. Are you privy to all of these intangibles? If not, then you need to re-examine your critical analysis of my utterances pertinent to this issue.
Sengbe ain't no hypocrite, Mr. Busybody Peeper.
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: Peeper
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Date Posted: 15:29:48 12/31/06 ()
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It is one thing to promise this forum that you will report back after your contact with KNICE, which you failed to do, and it is another to craft an excuse based on technological aspects of not granting access due to IP number. Did you ever contact Kabs about this so-called technological problem after your contact with KNICE, or you were waiting for an opportunity to keep complaining? Well, thanks to Bra Cornie, you now have that opportunity.
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 19:37:42 12/30/06 ()
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You forgot the magic word, Mr. Manners.
And that word is PLEASE.
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 20:15:33 12/30/06 ()
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Sengbe, E look lek yu biznes tranga eh?
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: Cyber sports promoter!!
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Date Posted: 10:02:26 12/29/06 ()
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This could be the debate of the year. A end of the year Blast.
SENGBE VS BRA E!!!!!!
SHOW TIME.....ASAP
COVER CHARGE free
Forumites will be able to cast votes for the Victor, with KABS and his gracious staff deciding the winning
response or thread.
Happy holidays to all!!
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:00 12/29/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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I dont want you to witch hunt but its not only shengbe that is doing this.You have so many guys here who thinking that they are PHD, nobody can oppose them.I am sure degree is just for the individual and there families in this part of the world where the gap between the educated or not is very small.So please i advise you point this to all who visit here.We are not in Africa where we look down on people because of education.
Subject: Re: BROTHER SENGBE, PLEASE SHOW SOME MANNERS
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:56:49 12/29/06 ()
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This has nothing to do how much education a man has attained. Civility is the topic here. Apparently, Brother Sengbe cannot disagree with an opinion without relying on insults as a method of communication.
Outgrowing bad habits is part and parcel of manliness.
So far, Brother Sengbe has not shown the strength a man needs in being disputatious without being insulting.
Subject: GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WANT MOROVIA CITY MAYOR TO RESIGN
From: GOOD JOB
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Date Posted: 21:55:36 12/28/06 ()
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David Kortie wants Monrovia City Mayor resign
Written by Joseph Cheeseman
Thursday, 28 December 2006
A member of the Governance Reform Commission has called for the resignation of Monrovia City Mayor, Ophelia Hoff-Saytumah.
Mr. David Kotee said the city of Monrovia is too dirty.
Mr. Kotee said filth has taken over the city and the MCC was doing nothing to improve the condition.
The Monrovia City Mayor has always said she was not getting the requisite support to keep the city clean.
Madam Saytumah also said the huge population has overwhelmed the capacity of the MCC to dispose of the garbage produce on a daily basis.
Subject: THE FREETOWN CITY COUNCIL IS NOT BROKE
From: Saloneman2
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Date Posted: 21:16:37 12/28/06 ()
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Contrary to what APC loyalists on this forum are propagating, the APC-led Freetown City Council (FCC) is neither broke nor is it being screwed up by the SLPP government. The FCC has several sources of own source revenue that was assigned to it under the local government Act of 2004. There are for example, property taxes, market dues, trading licenses, local taxes, property rents, etc., etc. Conservatively, these sources generate billions of leones for the FCC. In fact Gordon Mwesigye’s recent report on the FCC states that the FCC has the potential of quadrupling its revenues if it can cut down on the slack within its bureaucratic structure and implement more efficient methods of revenue collection.
In addition to what it receives from its sources of own source revenue, the FCC receives 462 million leones ($ 196, 596) from the SLPP government to finance the city’s clean-up operations. This was recently revealed by no less a person than the Secretary-General of the APC, Mr. Victor Foh when he surmized:
“According to Mayor of Freetown Municipality Winstanley Bankole Johnson, the central government only allocates 462 million leones to finance the capital city’s clean-up operations, which is allegedly “half the sum of more than 900 million leones that was allocated to the Youths and Sports Ministry.”
Juxtaposing the foregoing with the present unsanitary conditions of our capital city, it makes a cogent argument to posit that an ultra-corrupt bureaucracy exists at the FCC that is hell bent on tarnishing the image of the SLPP government. Why in the world are some of the towns in the provinces with only negligible sources of revenue far cleaner than Freetown whose city council is pampered with monies from multifarious sources?
Subject: A QUESTION
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 21:11:41 12/28/06 ()
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How many card-carrying members of the major political parties do we really have here on this forum? It appears to me that some forumites here are just loud-mouths who have no idea what's going on within the political parties they rant about.
Please help! Lol
Subject: Re: A QUESTION
From: Pa javombo
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Date Posted: 12:57:52 01/01/07 ()
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KING,
You said it right.
Subject: MUCH ADO ABOUT NO ELECTRICITY
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 19:09:13 12/28/06 ()
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I have seen a lot of oddities in the behavioral patterns of Sierra Leoneans. However, the latest ringing of joy-bells over electricity in Freetown, came as an exceptional sting that awoke me to even more reasons behind Sierra Leone's state of disrepair. The fact that well-educated Sierra Leoneans are the leading horsemen in this celebration, makes it even more disquieting to think about the essence of sincerity in our national recovery.
Optimism is surely needed in a poor country like Sierra Leone. However, confusing optimism with naivety, is as hurtful to Sierra Leone as the plagues that have always stymied our national growth. After a series of deceptive exercises by successive governments that bled us dry, common sense should have primed Sierra Leoneans to be skeptical enough to see new {political} tricks in motion. Sadly enough, the festivities marking the REINTRODUCTION of electricity in Freetown, do not point to a politically al3rt nation.
Growing up in Sierra Leone under Siaka Stevens, I remember listening to official messages to Sierra Leoneans that talked about "Five-Year Development Plans" whenever ministerial elections were about to be held. Needless to say, our development programmes always fizzled into nothingness before they could be actuated into reality. This state of affairs continued for as long as Stevens lived. Self-sufficiency in food has recently been dusted off and sold anew to Sierra Leoneans. In true Sierra Leonean fashion, that promise is as dead and forgotten as the atrophied veins of hungry Sierra Leoneans. Why is the REINTRODUCTION of electricity in the capital of a country that should have boasted fail-proof amenities, stirring so much excitement? Going by our history of national betrayals, the reintroduction of electricity in Freetown can only be an election gimmick. If we want to remind our politicians that we have been fooled enough, the fits of rhapsody that greeted the coming of electricity should be withheld until every town in Sierra Leone is "lighted" at night. If anything, the least we can do as conscious citizens is to keep our joyful outbursts in check until we know that electricity is in Freetown to stay. I am certainly tired of being fooled over and over and over again, using the same tricks with predictable patterns.
Subject: Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT NO ELECTRICITY
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 20:16:20 12/28/06 ()
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"If anything, the least we can do
as conscious citizens is to keep
our joyful outbursts in check
until we know that electricity
is in Freetown to stay."
Bra E, nor to di word that?
Subject: Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT NO ELECTRICITY
From: seydouba
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Date Posted: 04:23:48 12/29/06 ()
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Bra E,
Go tell it to Sengbe.
SLPP is using the same old APC trick.
Bra E, nar for talk haf lef half
Sengbe please take note.
Cheers
Subject: Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT NO ELECTRICITY
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 10:04:31 12/29/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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Message:
Oh these APC sons.
Subject: Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT NO ELECTRICITY
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 06:09:12 12/29/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Well, maybe if your ruf buddies did not come to Freetown in January 1999 on their destructive path as per "Operation no living thing" we would not be celebrating the lighting of the streets in 2006. Instead, we would have lighted up the city in 1996 when the SLPP came to power through democratic elections. But then again Foday Laimpay, your Papay, was in the bush killing, and maiming our people, while Maskita, your cousin, was busy burning down their homes and raping our mothers, daughters, babies, etc., etc.
Bloody maggots!!
Sure enough, I have taken note.
Bloody ingrates!!!
Subject: Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT NO ELECTRICITY
From: seydouba
To: All
Date Posted: 06:51:14 12/29/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sengbe,
Happy new year in advance...ar hope say you go change.
Cuss cuss nor mix...
Subject: Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT NO ELECTRICITY
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:15:05 12/29/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Seydouba, my intention was not to insult you personally. But the fact that you people forgot that a brutal war was waged on the peoples of Sa Lon for eleven years (1991 - 2002)- a war that was so very destructive - irked the giblets out of me. I was merely responding to your latent insensitivity, and callousness with regards to this issue.
Don't you all remember that the war ended in January 2002, and most of the infrastructure in the nation was totally destroyed by the rebels, and sobels - animals that you, and that other guy, supported through your statements in cyberdom, and perhaps materially on the ground? Is your memory that short and shallow?
Here we are, at the end of 2006, the SLPP led GoSL is working hard to restore infrastructure that was completely destroyed, and building new ones, with the help of friendly countries like Morocco, and all you guys can read into this development is "politricks"?
Why are you folks so cynical? I bet you, the folks that are directly affected by this development - the restoration of street lights in Freetown - are appreciative.
Do you all believe that the rebuilding / restoration of the destroyed / damaged infrastructure would be done overnight? It takes time, and lots of money to do so. We should count our blessings that people like Pa Kabbah, and his team are doing a wonderful job in making this development happen.
It is relatively very easy to destroy, especially when high on mind-altering drugs, but very difficult to rebuild, and when people who by the thoughts in their public statements, and/or actions, people who supported the rebellious destroyers of the land decry those who are working assiduously to straighten things out in our nation, I tend to get upset and lash out. This has nothing to do with politics, but the desire to see our people live in some comfort, comfort that was taken away from them by some zombie 'aliens' obeying the orders of their papay.
I cannot believe that you guys can be so insensitive.
Every good thing that comes out of the activities of this SLPP government for the benefit of the nation is looked upon with suspicion and skeptism by you, the critics.
Don't you all understand that the foundation has to be laid down before our multilateral partners come to our aid in rebuilding that nation? It is not as if we are just going to simply ask the World Bank and the IMF to relieve our debt burden, per se, by knocking on their doors, and they would acquiesce in cancelling our debts, as they have done quite recently. A lot of very hard work goes into meeting the conditionalities imposed on our leaders, and the nation to achieve such debt relief.
It is not as if Pa Kabbah just called on the King of Morocco one night to seek his help in regenerating our defunct Kingtom power station, and voila, the Moroccan experts came to Town with their tons of equipment to put lights back on the streets of Freetown. A lot of negotiations go on, and through the goodwill of the development partners, we are seeing the benefits of the good works of Pa Kabbah and his SLPP team. I think that their efforts should be applauded by nationalistic and patriotic-minded S/Leoneans. We must not always decry these efforts, as you, and that other guy, have done recently.
Where wuz u at when they were burning the midnight oil to write and submit those proposals; the endless meetings they attended to get the loans, and grants needed to pay for the equipment and manpower, etc. etc? Where wuz y'alls at? Probably sitting in front of your keyboards munching on popcorn crying them down. For my part, I appreciate their hard work, and I will shout out my appreciation to them from the valleys to the mountain tops.
Now, if it means that your opinion of me as what that other guy has wrongly described is sustainable in your mind, then so be it. I ain't gonna lose any sleep over it.
You fellows make me want to puke by this negative attitude of yours, and I cannot be held responsible for how I lash out.
I hope I have not deflated y'alls bloated egos in negativity.
Happy new year, Seydouba.
I remain Sengbe. Thank you very much.
I don't have time for the other guy. Thus, no response from me to him.
Subject: Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT NO ELECTRICITY
From: seydouba
To: All
Date Posted: 22:57:34 12/29/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sengbe,
Benjamin Franklin once said"your critc is your best friend ,as he/she is tellyou your short comings".
Sengbe we for lef leybellism nar Sa Lon.
If you are still thinking of running in the year 2011 I wish you well.
it is no open secret that SLPP did support the rebel war.
Why SLPP Gov't did not execute Gibril massaquoi and Mike Lamin because they are sons of SLPP.
Cheers
Subject: Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT NO ELECTRICITY
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 07:32:53 12/30/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
What do you mean by "leybellism nar Sa Lon"? I do not understand that language. Please educate me.
Indeed, it is "no open secret that the SLPP did support the rebel war". The SLPP was not is existence when you guys started your brutal war of plunder. The APC had ensured that the SLPP was in the political wilderness, until we came aboard the political landscape in 1994 or thereabouts.
The SLPP, as a political party, could not have executed anyone who committed TREASON. It was the GoSL, in upholding the laws of the land, that legally did so through the courts / judicial system.
Those bitches (Gibril Massaquoi, and Mike Lamin) were spared because of the Lome Peace Accords. Not because "they are sons of [the] SLPP". Besides, they snitched on you morda phockers (sic) in the ruf for the good of the nation. But where are they now? Please tell us. They were your comrades in the ruf cadre. You forgot to mention Eldred Collins, Kposowa, your presidential candidate, Pallo Bangura, and many others. Are they "sons of the SLPP" too?
I will not seek your support in 2012. I do not want any maggots around me during that time. There are more patriotic, and nationalistic-minded Themnes in the Sa Lon, who are friends of the nation, whose support I will seek. Not your ruf kind of Themnes.
Cheers to you too.
Where is your buddy Farrah Marrah? aka William Bangura.
Subject: Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT NO ELECTRICITY
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 10:52:56 12/30/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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Message:
Dont wast your time those rebles{APC SUPPORTERS} will never admit to any fault.Now they are going in between PMDC to win election knowing that the party itself will never live longer after this first election.
Subject: Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT NO ELECTRICITY
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:56:26 12/30/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Okay doc, I will take your advice.
I wish they'd stop provoking me. They know very well that I do not like RUFfians. There is just something about them I hate.
ok dok, kehtamia.
Subject: I WISH EVERYBODY A HAPPY 2007.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 18:43:53 12/28/06 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
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I thank the Almighty God for protecting all of us in 2006, and I pray that he will continue to surround us with his protection come 2007.
I pray that peace breaks into your houses and thieves come to steal your debts.
May the pockets of your pants become a magnet of U.S. dollar notes.
May love stick to your faces like petroleum jelly, and may laughter assault your lips!
May your clothes smell of success like smoked tires and May happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy.
May the problems you had and will have in the future forget your home addresses!
GOD BLESS YOU.
I WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Subject: SLPP uses lies to distort history
From: Bai Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:08:58 12/28/06 ()
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It took the APC and turn-coat SLPP politicians twenty four years to push Sierra Leone into the ditch of economic misery. Trust me, Sierra Leone never forgive its citizens who are working against its interest.
It was through inspiration and his inner feeling to exhort God to defend Sierra Leone's integrity, that Governor Clarkson prayed fervently for our Country.
The wrath of God's anger is being manifested whenever Sierra Leonean politicians walk in the wrong path.
Who kicked the corrupt one party government? They were young lads and when they transgressed, the ordinary masses forced them to leave in pieces.
Kabbah came in and he finds that war cannot help to bring change. Five years, since the end of hostility, Kabbah is still struggling to find a safe road for his Country. Apart from being a reticent leader, Kabbah thinks that his cabal have the tools to save Sierra Leone.
The fact is that those who are at the center stage to usurp co-existence,economic growth,and social equity in Sierra Leone will not escape the wrath that had visited many before them.
Because, it used tribalism to get its votes and elevate folks because of tribal links, the SLPP needs to be condemned in the annal of history.
One wy=ay to do that is to use the media and it will be fine if the forces of change to engage some of us on the air waves.A program for people to talk about the situation in the Country. I challenge anyone to post a radio link here that one can relay message to listeners in the Country.
Subject: Re: SLPP uses lies to distort history
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 10:56:59 12/28/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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Message:
Tribalism{wow}Do you know S.I KOROMA from the north who was educated in the south but preached the very nonsense you are talking about?I guess you are one of the people with such qualities.
Subject: President's Website
From: Worried
To: All
Date Posted: 09:30:55 12/28/06 ()
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Message:
Can anyone access Presidential Website?????I tried to open it, and it shows funny advertisements.Is it a fund raising exercise or something has gone wrong.
Subject: Please Phone Home
From: Kalokoh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:56:21 12/28/06 ()
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Message:
Could you fools that jubilate about the street lights being turned on please phone home and ask your folks if they have electricity at home. I can not understand you guys!! You ******* would rather have street lights than electricity at home?
I make it a point of duty to read your nonsense every day but got upset that not one of you bothered to phone home and ask if your families have electricity. You guys...ok dok,APC Man, Sengbe etc etc are no better than the fools that currently run the country. You guys sit in comfort of your homes in the west and write thrash about yourselves.
I spend three gallons of diesel a day to kept my family in some amount of comfort.
Do you not care about the standard of living of your families at home? How can anyone bleat about the SLPP or the APC for that Matter!!
The country is boomed if the guys on the outside are no better than the guys on the inside!
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:57:42 12/28/06 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
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KALOKOH,The SLPP is repairing the entire electricity system in the whole country.If you call home,your relatives and friends will tell you that experts are now working on the electricity poles that take power into houses.Please,give us a little more time, we will clean up the mess of the APC and pump fresh blood into our beloved SIERRA LEONE.Keep in your mind that rebuilding a country that had been damaged by war and APC mismanagement takes time and involves huge amounts of money.
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 07:08:57 12/29/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
SAIDU,WHY,WHENEVER DEN GE LIGHT NA FREETONG,KISSY,WELLINGTON NOR GO EVER ENJOY DE SAME RIGHT? BABADORIE,JUBA,MARJAYTOWN DEN ALL GO GET LIGHT BUT EAST 3 CONSTITUENCY,WHY? Is it because your SLPP party do not stand a chance to win over there come elections time? Or is it because that constituency is the only one in Freetown that had stood up to the current regime?
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Emmanuel Jarrett
To: All
Date Posted: 22:44:53 12/28/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Why does this government and all in Africa think that giving the citizens basic neccesity should be compared to winning the lottery....fools
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Pa javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 03:38:55 01/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-66-56-36-91.hsd1.ga.comcast.net at 66.56.36.91
Message:
Good question Emmanuel.
This is how backward we have become. When the Monks of Mongolia mountains think light is a God given right to them, here we are in the 21st century jumping and clapping with our feet at the sight of electricity.
How long it will last is the million dollar question.
Okay electricity is available but is it affordable?
Did we put in place not only elctricity bill colection mechanism but accountability for that collection?
I bet very soon we are going to have a killowatt gate.
Well, it is already there just been condoned.
Is it true that Morrocans will be running our electricity?
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 11:50:15 12/28/06 ()
Email Address: njai@comcast.net
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Message:
Kalokoh,
One thing at a time. If after a lot of pressure there is now street light lets keep the pressure up for " home lights". And by the way lets show some sign of appreciation.. This is the first time my daughter has seen street lights. Need I tell you when she was born?.
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Waraba
To: All
Date Posted: 20:52:42 12/28/06 ()
Email Address: futatoro@gmail.com
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Message:
Njai,
Why are you pro SLPP?
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 11:46:56 12/29/06 ()
Email Address: njai@comcast.net
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Message:
Waraba,
Why are you not pro SLPP if it implies?
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 07:46:54 12/30/06 ()
Email Address: njai@comcast.net
Entered From: 207-172-203-84.c3-0.upd-ubr7.trpr-upd.pa.cable.rcn.com at 207.172.203.84
Message:
Yes, Njai is my REAL NAME.
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 07:42:50 12/31/06 ()
Email Address: njai@comcast.net
Entered From: 207-172-203-84.c3-0.upd-ubr7.trpr-upd.pa.cable.rcn.com at 207.172.203.84
Message:
Bra Yaya,
If you are referring to Bom Posseh of Ibrahim Njai, formerly of housing ministry; yes-she is my sister-in-law.
Happy New Year.
Are you related to the family?
Peace.
Njai.
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 20:46:39 12/31/06 ()
Email Address: futatoro@gmail.com
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Message:
Njai,
No, I am not related to her family. I grew up in Edward Street and I think Bom Posseh's mother had relatives who live next door to us. Her mother was very fond of me and she always call me her namesake. We call her Mammi Yaya.
Ijust talked to my cousin in Hollywood and she talked highly about Mammi Yaya and she said Bom was called Baby Yaya.
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 18:26:40 01/01/07 ()
Email Address: njai@comcast.net
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Message:
Bra Yaya,
Happy New Year.
You are right about Posseh and that was her mom, Mammi Yaya. Unfortunately,the mom past away a long time ago, 10, 15 yrs I cant remember exactly.
This is my email address so we can talk further:
njai@comcast.net.
Best of 2007.
Njai.
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 00:42:30 01/02/07 ()
Email Address: futatoro@gmail.com
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Message:
Njai,
Sorry to learn that my namesake Mammi Yaya left us some time ago. She was a very good person. I am sure she is in
heaven.
I will contact you by private mail.
Yaya Fanusie
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 13:15:25 12/30/06 ()
Email Address: futatoro@gmail.com
Entered From: adsl-75-23-156-193.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net at 75.23.156.193
Message:
Then are you related to Bom Posseh?
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 17:03:44 12/29/06 ()
Email Address: futatoro@gmail.com
Entered From: adsl-75-19-135-13.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net at 75.19.135.13
Message:
Hello,
Is Njai your real name or just an handle for this forum?
Yaya Fanusie
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Concern Citizen
To: All
Date Posted: 12:40:29 12/28/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 87.139.47.132
Message:
Mr.Njai CAN YOU PLEASE LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG BEFORE IS TOO LATE,YOU ARE OFFSPRING OF THE MENACE WE ARE IN,OR YOU WANT THE SIERRA LEONE POPULACE TO REPARTRIATE YOU WHERE YOU CAME FROM, YOU ARE AN OPPORTUNIST,BACK OFF.YOU YESTERDAY SIERRA LEONEAN.
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 14:52:43 12/28/06 ()
Email Address: njai@comcast.net
Entered From: static-70-20-197-79.phil.east.verizon.net at 70.20.197.79
Message:
Concern Citizen,
What cat are you refering to? I am just been realistic here. We have been in perpectual darkness for well over... who remembers. Now that there is at least street lights why not appreciate the effort even if it is to gain political favours.Trust me; any regime that can provide at least the basics for Sierra Leoneans is worth voting for, considering what others have done before... I mean from 1977 to 1997.
By the way I live in Phidelphia and I am here to stay as long as I want to. So just forget about your bull***** of returning me home. I can go at anytime I want to.
If you are a man/woman enough show yourself.Coward.
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 11:04:34 12/28/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: px2nr.wp.shawcable.net at 24.66.94.141
Message:
Who cares how many millions of gas you use?SLPP never brought black out.APC took over from that party with the promise of more development but wow,it was underdevelopment that ended up.Tell me when you came overseas so that i shape your ideas{be honest}
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Bai Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:41:28 12/28/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.98.218.191
Message:
Thanks Man for exposing these unpatriotic duffers. One is even hiding behind an APC moniker to creat mischief.
The lies and evil intentions of the SLPP government will at all times be exposed.Ordinary people and many of the Sierra Leoneans holidaying in town are not impressed. Kabbah had made it a routine every December, to provide Freetown with electricity.This is to appease its fruitful and credible sons/daughters that are visiting their town.
To get a daily meal everyday is better than to have a flash of electricity.
The SLPP government is employing treachery and lies to continue its thievery rule. One thing is certain, good always triumph over evil!
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 11:00:12 12/28/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: px2nr.wp.shawcable.net at 24.66.94.141
Message:
Is it not better why APC never even pretended?How can someone from overseas be impressed with light in the third world?SLPP is not impressing those holidaying but people living there.
Subject: Re: Please Phone Home
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:57:41 12/28/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 216.190.22.163
Message:
Greetings my brothers and sisters. Kalokoh, please calm down and realize that everyone writing here is writing in the interest of the country, sierra Leone, and I am convinced that none is gloating over street lights but enthralled that there is hope. Yes, Sierra Leone had lights in the Seventies, Eighties and part of the Nineties. I lived in Kamakwie, in the Bombali District and in Freetown I live briefly in Kissy and spent six to seven years at Wilkinson Road. I went out to night clubs such as "Where Else," "Bacardi, " "Hill Top," in fact, my final send-off party was held at Count Down. I spent four years at State House. So I should know if there was light in Sierra Leone during the mentioned periods or not. But candidly, we never had total black-out for months as I saw when I went to Sierra Leone in 2003.
You whom we left in Sierra Leone or who helped for us to come abroad did so with an idea that we will come here, help ourselves and help our country. There are several ways of helping. One way is getting-the-word-out. Our people have been suffering in silence and our freedom of speech sometimes meant "short life" instant death should one exercise it as it is suppose to be exercised, which is to be without fear or favor. We are blessed with this medium that can help us get-the word-out without fearing of being brutalized or killed because the laws of the lands where some of us reside have it in their laws and it is part of their ideals for people to have freedom of speech. Besides, that was why the Internet was created. So we are using this medium to educate ourselves about each other and about the obscured notions of one another, sections, individuals, tribes, sometimes these notions have been convoluted beliefs that have caused bitterness and resentments of multiple kinds. I think we are helping Sierra Leone in that we are letting the world know our way of life and what goes on in our socio-politico-economic spectrum.
We do not need to call home because we know the problems there and calling home will not resolve these problems if the key players or catalyst to the problems do not hear our views, are not stopped. This cries or discussions here are sometimes representative of the anger you are venting: the voice of the people.
The jubilation you are reading is not meant a total satisfaction because there are street lights but when one is denied for too long the mention of freedom gives him hope. This is what you see here. The mention of a semblance of hope is refreshing. Ask Nelson Mandela he will tell you all about it. He knows what it means when people's freedoms are restricted. Who feels it knows it all.
So do what you can over there while we play whatever role we can in the Diaspora and let us meet somewhere in the middle; we will be glad we made the efforts we are making.
Let us unite. United we stand divided we fall. I love you all, God bless us all.
Subject: Controversy over City Council Account...
From: GOOD JOB
To: All
Date Posted: 21:14:31 12/27/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.106.39.216
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AWOKO NEWS
Controversy over City Council Account...
Posted by Ayo –Luk-Johnson on Dec 19, 2006, 00:18
A senior GTZ official, Dr. Nour on Thursday 14 December 2006 refuted the Peep Magazines’ publication of 18 November 2006 which implicated the German government technical cooperation organization in a conspiracy linked with the ruling SLPP in the bid to usurp the sanitation functions of the Freetown City Council.
Speaking to pressmen at the conference room of the organization’s offices at Frazer Street in Freetown, Madam Nour described the publication as unfortunate and a flagrant technical information mistake.
On this line of reason Madam Nour explained in detail to journalist the ideological conflict with the Mayor of the Freetown City Council.
The conflict relate to the World Bank money offered for waste management which by all indications Mayor Bankole Winstanley Johnson argued must be paid through the elected body which is city council. Behind this background Madam Nour reiterated the Mayor cannot exercise patients to go into discussion with GTZ.
According to Madam Nour the perception of the World Bank is not to give 2 million dollars to the city council for the cleaning of the city.
Rather the desire is to establish a functionary waste management system on sustainable basis. The World Bank she added can put the money into the system which reproduces its own resources.
Until now Madam Nour revealed it was the task force proposal which seem to guarantee that the money to be poured by the World Bank would reproduce its resources.
Hence she indicated when the World Bank team was in Sierra Leone, GTZ offered to help free of cost in the preparation of the document proposal.
The government did accept GTZ to work with the technicians of the city council through the task force for two months.
The document, she continued is not GTZ document rather it is the task force with the assistance of the coordinator office of the environment and works yard of the Freetown City Council.
The technical work she intimated was concluded with a budget proposal.
The $600,000 mentioned in the publication she continued was meant for the rehabilitation of works yard and the twenty eight broken trucks.
It was also meant to pay salaries for a year for everyone who works in the waste management section, and includes other items which make the system on going as an independent unit.
Hence Madam Nour depicted the scenario of the probability that if the $600,000 is properly managed we cannot need the $1.4 million.
For she argued the system will produce its own income through the door to door collection of garbage, which go along with subscr1ption fees.
In the similar vein part three of the proposal suggests the recycling of the garbage to further generate income in the system.
Part two of the proposal, according to Madam Nour suggested the management of the waste, but stressed that it is not because someone is elected that gives that someone the political know how in management.
Behind this background GTZ suggested the creation of the authority to take care of part two.
This authority, she added should be an enterprise, which means it does not wait until government gives money to do cleaning.
She stated, “this authority functions like an enterprise, which indicates with this starting capital from the World Bank they are going to organize part two which is a public service,” adding that the enterprise serves the public by transporting waste from the transit to the dump site.
Hence the enterprise, according to Madam Nour will need trucks, bulldozers, an administrative unit and drivers. The cost of such service rendered will go along with bills to be dispatched to the Ministry of Finance and the government will pay these bills to keep the system functioning.
Madam Nour concluded the press briefing with the analogy which indicates that “promoting the private sector is promoting the population, and not promoting a political force.”
In the middle of the descr1ption by Dr. Nour that the publication was a ‘heap of trash’ falsely put on GTZ, we here publish the documents of the letter signed by the Mayor in relation to the letter signed by the Minister of Local Government and Community Development on the issue of Municipal Waste Management dated 14 December 2006.
Subject: Re: Controversy over City Council Account...
From: Alie Formeh Ka,mara
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Date Posted: 21:42:53 12/27/06 ()
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I can see why the City Council Mayor would be very suspicious of the intentions of GTZ. Take a look at this quote from the article above:
"Hence the enterprise, according to Madam Nour will need trucks, bulldozers, an administrative unit and drivers. The cost of such service rendered will go along with bills to be dispatched to the Ministry of Finance and the government will pay these bills to keep the system functioning."
First, it is not the government but the Freetown City Council that has jurisdiction for garbage clearance.
Second, the Government has now used a flimsy excuse to completely anex the duty and replace the Freetown City Council for garbage collection.
This is all dirty politics. They see that good things are about to come and want to claim credit. So what do they do? They anexed the functions of the City Council.
There is big money involved and like leopards hunting for their prey they have their eyes fixated at it. Now what better way to ensure thay they are closer to the money so that they would be able to get some of it and have their political hench men become the benefactors of the new enterprise that would be created but to be in charge of all things related to garbbage.
This SLPP must go. They are a pain in the rear.
Subject: Keep the City Clean
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 16:57:51 12/27/06 ()
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Please read the message bellow:
Subject: Kennedy Center honourees include India-born conductor
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 16:08:23 12/27/06 ()
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Director Spielberg, composer Lloyd Webber and singers Parton and Robinson also feted
Wae den dae talk betteh thing!
Subject: Mayor Winstanley Johnson is an Embarassment to the APC
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 16:02:45 12/27/06 ()
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I am really upset with my party the APC. We have squandered every opportunity over the years. Our latest misstep is the selection of Winstanley Bankole Johnson as Mayor of Freetown. This guy is worse than JS Momoh in terms of incompetence. He uses every opportunity he has to show how dumb he is. He is really a sorry excuse for a leader. Why does my party always come up with people like this??? The man and his council cannot clean the city, and are busy bitching over who controls what.
I am not a fan of Pa Kabbah, but I am happy he has put his foot down and has transferred the task of cleaning the city of Freetowm to the Local Gov't ministry.
People like Winston Bankole Johnson are the ones who scream the loudest when they are out of power. They seem to know all the solutions to our problems when they are observers. As soon as they gain power, they show us that they are worse than the people they were criticising. What a shame!!!!
Subject: Re: Mayor Winstanley Johnson is an Embarassment to the APC
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 19:06:33 12/27/06 ()
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Dear APC MAN:
Mayor briefed APC members in Maryland about two years ago
about the problems he was facing with the SLPP GOVT to release funds that was mandaded by the constitution for operational costs.
It is also a pity that you govt continues to sell our national sovereignty to the outside world. Please read the press release again and let me know how you feel.
The world is treating you all like infants and you are proud of? How sad. How sad.
A few of us would rather be dead than be a SLAVE.
The mayor did the right thing.
Yaya Fanusie,
APC
Subject: Re: Mayor Winstanley Johnson is an Embarassment to the APC
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
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Date Posted: 18:58:36 12/27/06 ()
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APC MAN,You are the best APC supporter of the year 2006 because you always speak the truth.Unlike some of your friends who support your party blindly, you are objective and fair.I hope all APC members will copy your example.Keep it up,please,continue to redirect the minds of your membership.Happy New Year.
Subject: Re: Mayor Winstanley Johnson is an Embarassment to the APC
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Date Posted: 09:09:38 12/29/06 ()
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Saidu wrote "APC MAN,You are the best APC supporter of the year 2006 because you always speak the truth."
SUBHANALAI, WAL-HAMDULILAIHI,WA-LAHILAA ILALAHU,ALAHU AKBAR.Fake Ormurray lef for lie.God nor go make you go heaven.Saidu you were at the townhall meeting when his Lordship Winstanley Johnson addressed and took questions from the audience in Atlanta,Ga.Who was the first person that stood up and endorsed the Mayor for his job well done and his stances toward corruption in the FCC?Well,I will remind you, since you are still on your medications.It was a strong SLPP and Tegloma lady who has inside track to Pa Berewa and Pa kabba that stood up and say "if only we can have two of his kind to help run our country".By then you were not a SLPP ga member,but you were present at the townhall meeting.
"Unlike some of your friends who support your party blindly,you are objective and fair.I hope all APC members will copy your example".
ORMURRAY LEK A WRITE,GOD GO LOCK EH HEAVEN GATE FROM YOU, IF YOU NOR LEF FOR LIE.FIRST OF ALL NO TO U NAME ALPHA SAIDU.YOU TRU TRU NAME NA SAIDU BANGURA WHO SID YOU GO PULL ALPHA GOD ONE GRAN KNOW.The APC party does need to copy the example of APC MAN, because our leader Ernest Koroma is as objective and fair as it may come.With a honest and fair leadership all the subjects/followers will at least follow suite of honesty.Whilst we are on this subject,let's talk about the falsely accusations of corruption,failing to respect the office of the Mayor and refusing to fund FCC projects that were levied on his Lordship only to found out the truth that a cheque of $2ml that Pa Kabba and the Mayor were to sign,but Pa Kabba never signed ,because he wanted some of the money to go to a project that was not in the agenda when the allocat1on of the said money was given to the FCC.The Mayor refused to compromised with him that is why those accusations were brought on him.NOW TELL ME WHO DAT CORRUPT?
This is the last time the SUN in Atlanta will respond to any of your writings,because you not a legit member of the SLPP GA chapter.You have still not paid your $500 donation when Pa Berewa was in town for the catering of the dinner that your party had for him, and Amadu Jabbie is the only link that you have in the party.Your party is busy trying to recruiting us to join you guys,but sorry our country is our main focus and not your cohorts with thier selfish motives.
Subject: Re: Mayor Winstanley Johnson is an Embarassment to the APC
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 20:06:02 12/27/06 ()
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Bo Saidu nar so you bigfull. Dont you know that the so called 'APC man' is playing reverse psychology to put down the APC. He is using the monica to give one the feeling he is APC.
Subject: Re: Mayor Winstanley Johnson is an Embarassment to the APC
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 20:29:41 12/27/06 ()
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Reverse Psychology???
No Allie, I am not into that. I am APC to the core. But Sa Lone comes first. I speak my mind freely irrespective of who I am blasting for. I am not a fan of Kabbah and his SLPP, but to tell you the truth, he has done more in his tenure than we did in 25 years. If we want to return to power, we have to distance ourselves from the thuggery and incompetence that characterizes our past performance. The Mayor of Freetown is reminding voters of the do-nothing APC, and that spells disaster for us. The sooner we shut him up and get him to do his damn job, the better for our party. Do not expect me to praise fools like Winston Bankole and his likes. This is the same fool who almost engaged in a fist fight with other APC councillors. What sort of leader is he? Is this what we are promoting? I certainly hope not.
Subject: Re: Mayor Winstanley Johnson is an Embarassment to the APC
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 21:04:16 12/27/06 ()
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You are dead wrong about the Mayor. It shows how immature you are if you cannot comprehend the political game the SLPP is playing.
This is what I have to say about the dirty politics that the SLPP is playing that you dont understand. Now read this-------
Too much politics by the SLPP will only hurt Sierra Leone. Just because the Mayor is APC and the Government is SLPP does not mean that they cannot work together.
Even a blind man can understand the underhanded tricks by the Government to defame the Mayor because the SLPP is running scared that history is repeating itself.
Before APC won the national elections in 1967, they first won the Freetown City Council. Many have been saying that history is repeating itself and that the victory of the APC in the Freetown City Council heralds a coming change in the national arena.
If this is a prophesy, nothing that Kabba does is going to change it.
Rather than work with the Mayor to improve the well been of Sierra Leoneans the SLPP is doggedly engaged in blasphemy and underhanded tricks to give the impression that the Mayor cannot do his Job just because he is APC. If that same man was an SLPP, the government would put him in a peddle stool and give him all the support he needs to make him successful.
But Sierra Leonenans are not fools they understand quite well what is going on.
Imagine the government providing moneys for garbage collection and requiring a contractor or service assistant to be a signatory to the account meant for the City Council. What greater nonsense can there be than that? What significance does making a white man, volunteering to assist, a signatory to the City Councils account? Who asked for there assistance in the first place? What difficulty is there in garbage collection that his Lordship, the Mayor, cannot deal with?
This take over by the Government of the task of Garbage collection was orchestrated to belittle the Mayor and the APC. Now that it is election time, you will see moneys expended on garbage collection by the Government because they want to use that as a tool against the APC.
The question rationally minded Sierra Leonenas should ask is why the government placed politics and saving their asses ahead of the welfare of the people of Sierra Leone.
My friends this SLPP must go. They are just a bunch of phony individuals masquerading as our protectors.
Subject: Re: Mayor Winstanley Johnson is an Embarassment to the APC
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 21:43:59 12/27/06 ()
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Allie,
What I know is that the city is filled up with trash and the City council is unable to perform such a basic function. All the other major towns are relatively clean and their councils are not necessarily SLPP controlled. Bankole Johnson is an idiot and I for one will not defend him just because he belongs to my party. He is what he is - an incompetent fool. The man did not speak to his deputy (who is APC by the way) for a long time. This tells you that he cannot even work with one of his own party members. How can we then blame the SLPP for the so-called stalemate you mentioned??? Bankole Do-Nothing Johnson knows nothing about leadership.
The perfomance or lack there of, of the Freetown City Council goes to show what we as a party stand for. Go to Freetown and ask APC folks how many regret the selection of Bankole Do-Nothing Johnson as Mayor. The man is a disgrace to us, and the sooner we recognize it, the better for us.
If Bankole is the sort of people we are promoting, then we might as well not field any candidates in 2007. We will be better off throwing in the towel in that case.
I am so pssed off with APC folks. After 25 years of wasted opportunities, we have not learned anything. What a shame.........
Subject: Re: Mayor Winstanley Johnson is an Embarassment to the APC
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:09:10 12/27/06 ()
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You very well explained what you know. But there is a great gulf between what you know and the blame you are casting and that is very unfortunate.
Before you start bashing the Mayor you must get your facts straight and support your conclusion with irrefutable facts.
It is unfortunate that you are using such strong language to characterize the Mayor when you are turning a blind eye to the political machinations of the SLPP government.
Have you ever heard the phrase: 'look before you leap’? It is telling you to be careful. Likewise, the phrase 'things are not always what they seem' is equally telling you to think before you jump to conclusions.
Now go do your home work so that you may be able to detect the devil in the SLPP even when clothed in angel’s suit.
Subject: Re: Mayor Winstanley Johnson is an Embarassment to the APC
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 11:11:54 12/28/06 ()
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All man say gbarngbar bitter, A lie Formeh say gbarngbar sweet. Oose tem u go learn, bra?
Unu cry for power, the peeple of Freetong gee una power. Waetin unu do with da power dae in the four years unu party don lead the FCC?
Unu apc party nor even able for serve the most basic function for keep the city clean ehn sanitary at all times, with all the support wae the gofment and the international community don provide to unna. Yet unu sidom ehn dae complain bort udat geh the sole right for sign the checque dem. U tink say the gofment go trust akarta peeple with money?
You constantly bitch, moan, and groan among yourselves while the people live in very unsanitary conditions. Don't you think that it is quite reasonable for the government to remove that responsibility from your inadequate, and irresponsible representatives in the FCC? We think so.
This government is working in the interest of the peoples of Sa Lon while your representatives are trying to line up their empty pockets as is usually the case with your apc authorities.
The people are residing is gross filthiness while your fiduciarily paranoid politricians are fighting tooth and nail to be the sole signatories of checks meant for performing the peoples' tasks. What is wrong with you akartas? New day, but the same thieving mentality. If you really think that 2007 is gonna be like 1967, then you must be having a very bad dream, the pmdc notwithstanding.
Unu too passmark. Dem gee una power, but unu nor able do nartin with ahm. Den unu wan put the blame pan the SLPP wae wan do right by the peeple. Ar go bet me bottom dollar say unu nor go win dem forthcoming local / municipal elections again, nor mehn the general
ehn presidential elections.
You know how many people are contracting malaria, lassa fever, and other preventable diseases based on the share incompetence of your leaders in the FCC? How unu money-hungry so ba? And you are talking about the "political machinations of the SLPP government"? How about the gross incompetence of your apc mayor and his cabbodle as depicted by one of your very own, who seeks the interests of the nation more so than your partisan narrow-mindedness.
Nar wae u dae Albany, NY. U nor geh for suffer lek we peeple back home nar dat mek u dae torke nonsense along these lines. U nor geh wan shame.
Subject: Electricity Don Cam for Salone Oh..I Go Chop Your Leone
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 14:03:01 12/27/06 ()
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMRjymIvGu4
Subject: Re: Electricity Don Cam for Salone Oh..I Go Chop Your Leone
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 15:50:50 12/27/06 ()
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Loggy,
This is a very good video. This guy is very funny.
Subject: Re: Electricity Don Cam for Salone Oh..I Go Chop Your Leone
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 19:31:39 12/27/06 ()
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APC MAN:
Why do you use handle of APC MAN when by your contribution here we know you are not APC.
It may appear funny at one level but the message of the song and video is about the oorruption and lack of accountabilty of the slpp govt. They make false claims about what they do when infact it is done by others.
Who is the artist? Where can you get his cd?
Yaya Fanusie
APC
Subject: Re: Electricity Don Cam for Salone Oh..I Go Chop Your Leone
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 20:23:44 12/27/06 ()
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Yaya,
Are you the APC gate keeper? I am APC to the core, but I always put my country first. Party politics is secondary to my love for Sa. Lone. I was one of those who blasted Momoh and called for his ouster, and one of those who wants to see the back of Eddie Turay and his raray boys. That is thetype of APC supporter I am.
Anyway, I am just enjoying the artist and his lyrics. I did not interprete his message in terms of Sa Lone corruption, or lack there of. What is wrong with that?
This "artist" was the main character/actor in the Movie "Osofio goes to London" or something like that.
Merry Christmas and may the NEW APC Prevail.
Subject: FOR CILATY DABOH AND PATRICK BOCKARIE
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 09:54:30 12/27/06 ()
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jpripley@cox.net
Dear Mr. Kabs-Kanu:
My name is Jim Ripley and I'm also an editor. My paper is the East Valley Tribune--an 80,000 circulation daily, in the greater Phoenix area. Our Web address is eastvalleytribune.com. I thought perhaps you might help a fellow editor. I'm a former Peace Corps volunteer who served in Fanima Wunde 1969-71. I was seeing if there was a way of tracking down some of the people from my village. A couple of names that google popped up for me during my search are Cillati Daboh and Patrick Bockarie. I'm pretty sure Mr. Daboh is the grandson of the paramount chief who was so kind to us when we lived there. A girl by the name of Massah Bockarie cooked and cleaned for us when we lived there. She might be related to Patrick, because there is a reference to his being from Wunde. While both are mentioned on your Web site, I have not been able to track down valid emails for both. If you have email addresses for them and could forward mine for possible reply, I would appreciate it. Interestingly, Mr. Daboh used "wundemoi" as an one email address that I tried. That was my nickname when I lived in Fanima.
Thank you.
Jim Ripley
Subject: PRESS RELEASE
From: GOOD JOB
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Date Posted: 09:49:28 12/27/06 ()
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SIERRA LEONE GOVERNMENT
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
PRESS RELEASE
22nd December, 2006
Government wishes to inform the General Public about its concern for keeping the City of Freetown clean and about the mounting garbage all over the city. In order to arrest this situation, Government has decided to transfer the responsibility of garbage collection in the city of Freetown from the Freetown City Council to the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development. Government is constrained to take this action because of the inability of the Freetown City Council to effectively carry out this responsibility.
You will recall that Government has taken several measures to assist the Freetown City Council in the implementation of a programme to keep the City clean. For instance, Government solicited technical assistance from the German Government which offered the services of GTZ, an agency with considerable experience in waste management. Government has also provided experience in waste management. Government has also provided equipment and the sum of US$20,000 (Twenty Thousand United States Dollars) to kick-start the programme for cleaning the city. When Government directed that this amount be placed in a special account to be jointly operated by the Freetown City Council and GTZ thus ensuring transparency and accountability, the Mayor categorically refused, insisting that he, the Mayor, should be the sole signatory to the account. This is at variance with the provisions of GTZ and the World Bank who are also providing funds for the implementation of the project.
Even when the Government offered skip trucks to Local Government Councils to assist them in the collection of garbage, only the Mayor of Freetown refused to take delivery of the 8 skip trucks the Government has offered to the City Council. The Mayor insisted that cash must be provided for running the vehicles before he would take delivery although all other councils collected their vehicles and are running them at their own cost.
GTZ has already trained youths to operate in four zones of the city each containing six transit sites. These youths are anxiously waiting to start work. A large number of subscribers who are willing to contribute to the implementation of the project have been identified and they too are extremely impatient to have the exercise started. This programme has been developed specifically to fast track the process for cleaning the city of Freetown and to provide gainful employment for the youths of Freetown . All the obstacles outlined above have however prevented the programme from getting off the ground.
In the light of the foregoing, the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, acting in accordance with sub-section 6 of Section 97 of the Local Government Act 2004 (Act No. 1 of 2004) has therefore taken over from the City Council of Freetown the responsibility of waste management in the city. Meanwhile, a taskforce under the leadership of the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development comprising representatives of the Ministries of Local Government and Community Development, Finance, Youths and Sports, Works and Technical Maintenance and National Privatisation Commission will be set up to work with GTZ. The special account established for the programme shall be operated jointly by the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development and GTZ.
Government wishes to assure the public that these measures have been taken to ensure that the City of Freetown is kept clean and therefore solicit the support of the entire public
Subject: Re: PRESS RELEASE
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 20:55:48 12/27/06 ()
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Too much politics by the SLPP will only hurt Sierra Leone. Just because the Mayor is APC and the Government is SLPP does not mean that they cannot work together.
Even a blind man can understand the underhanded tricks by the Government to defame the Mayor because the SLPP is running scared that history is repeating itself.
Before APC won the national elections in 1967, they first won the Freetown City Council. Many have been saying that history is repeating itself and that the victory of the APC in the Freetown City Council heralds a coming change in the national arena.
If this is a prophesy, nothing that Kabba does is going to change it.
Rather than work with the Mayor to improve the well been of Sierra Leoneans the SLPP is doggedly engaged in blasphemy and underhanded tricks to give the impression that the Mayor cannot do his Job just because he is APC. If that same man was an SLPP, the government would put him in a peddle stool and give him all the support he needs to make him successful.
But Sierra Leonenans are not fools they understand quite well what is going on.
Imagine the government providing moneys for garbage collection and requiring a contractor or service assistant to be a signatory to the account meant for the City Council. What greater nonsense can there be than that? What significance does making a white man, volunteering to assist, a signatory to the City Councils account? Who asked for there assistance in the first place? What difficulty is there in garbage collection that his Lordship, the Mayor, cannot deal with?
This take over by the Government of the task of Garbage collection was orchestrated to belittle the Mayor and the APC. Now that it is election time, you will see moneys expended on garbage collection by the Government because they want to use that as a tool against the APC.
The question rationally minded Sierra Leonenas should ask is why the government placed politics and saving their asses ahead of the welfare of the people of Sierra Leone.
My friends this SLPP must go. They are just a bunch of phony individuals masquerading as our protectors.
Subject: Re: PRESS RELEASE
From: FOOL
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Date Posted: 21:12:50 12/27/06 ()
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Controversy over City Council Account...German national wants to become signatory
Posted by Ayo –Luk-Johnson on Dec 19, 2006, 00:18
A senior GTZ official, Dr. Nour on Thursday 14 December 2006 refuted the Peep Magazines’ publication of 18 November 2006 which implicated the German government technical cooperation organization in a conspiracy linked with the ruling SLPP in the bid to usurp the sanitation functions of the Freetown City Council.
Speaking to pressmen at the conference room of the organization’s offices at Frazer Street in Freetown, Madam Nour described the publication as unfortunate and a flagrant technical information mistake.
On this line of reason Madam Nour explained in detail to journalist the ideological conflict with the Mayor of the Freetown City Council.
The conflict relate to the World Bank money offered for waste management which by all indications Mayor Bankole Winstanley Johnson argued must be paid through the elected body which is city council. Behind this background Madam Nour reiterated the Mayor cannot exercise patients to go into discussion with GTZ.
According to Madam Nour the perception of the World Bank is not to give 2 million dollars to the city council for the cleaning of the city.
Rather the desire is to establish a functionary waste management system on sustainable basis. The World Bank she added can put the money into the system which reproduces its own resources.
Until now Madam Nour revealed it was the task force proposal which seem to guarantee that the money to be poured by the World Bank would reproduce its resources.
Hence she indicated when the World Bank team was in Sierra Leone, GTZ offered to help free of cost in the preparation of the document proposal.
The government did accept GTZ to work with the technicians of the city council through the task force for two months.
The document, she continued is not GTZ document rather it is the task force with the assistance of the coordinator office of the environment and works yard of the Freetown City Council.
The technical work she intimated was concluded with a budget proposal.
The $600,000 mentioned in the publication she continued was meant for the rehabilitation of works yard and the twenty eight broken trucks.
It was also meant to pay salaries for a year for everyone who works in the waste management section, and includes other items which make the system on going as an independent unit.
Hence Madam Nour depicted the scenario of the probability that if the $600,000 is properly managed we cannot need the $1.4 million.
For she argued the system will produce its own income through the door to door collection of garbage, which go along with subscr1ption fees.
In the similar vein part three of the proposal suggests the recycling of the garbage to further generate income in the system.
Part two of the proposal, according to Madam Nour suggested the management of the waste, but stressed that it is not because someone is elected that gives that someone the political know how in management.
Behind this background GTZ suggested the creation of the authority to take care of part two.
This authority, she added should be an enterprise, which means it does not wait until government gives money to do cleaning.
She stated, “this authority functions like an enterprise, which indicates with this starting capital from the World Bank they are going to organize part two which is a public service,” adding that the enterprise serves the public by transporting waste from the transit to the dump site.
Hence the enterprise, according to Madam Nour will need trucks, bulldozers, an administrative unit and drivers. The cost of such service rendered will go along with bills to be dispatched to the Ministry of Finance and the government will pay these bills to keep the system functioning.
Madam Nour concluded the press briefing with the analogy which indicates that “promoting the private sector is promoting the population, and not promoting a political force.”
In the middle of the descr1ption by Dr. Nour that the publication was a ‘heap of trash’ falsely put on GTZ, we here publish the documents of the letter signed by the Mayor in relation to the letter signed by the Minister of Local Government and Community Development on the issue of Municipal Waste Management dated 14 December 2006.
Subject: Re: PRESS RELEASE
From: FOOL
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Date Posted: 21:07:42 12/27/06 ()
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"Imagine the government providing moneys for garbage collection and requiring a contractor or service assistant to be a signatory to the account meant for the City Council. What greater nonsense can there be than that? What significance does making a white man, volunteering to assist, a signatory to the City Councils account? Who asked for there assistance in the first place? What difficulty is there in garbage collection that his Lordship, the Mayor, cannot deal with?"
Oh Alie,
The world bank gave that money to the city council. That is the condition that wes laid down by the bankers. The donors have to monitor how the money will be spent by the council. Even a blind man knows that. Why did the mayor refuse to allow the World Bank and GTZ to be signatories to the account?According to you, the APC never does anything wrong. Just like the SLPP guys, you guys are just too pathectic.
Subject: Re: PRESS RELEASE
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Date Posted: 14:33:59 12/27/06 ()
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Well, I told you all that Winstanley and his team are incompetent, and y'all thought that I was being partisan.
If the apc cannot run a city government effectively / efficiently, do you really believe that they can run a nation efficiently / effectively? Nar so so tiff dem wan tiff we korpor.
If you really love mother Sa Lon, then VOTE for the SLPP during the elections in July 2007. For the only political party that can save Sa Lon is the SLPP.
One country, one people.
The SLPP will ensure UNITY, FREEDOM, and JUSTICE for ALL.
Long live the PALM TREE. Long live Sa Lon and her peoples.
Subject: Re: PRESS RELEASE
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Bravo, the Gov't is finally putting its foot down! The Mayor of Freetown and the entire Freetown City Council are the most incompetent people I have ever come across. The Bo Council, Kenema Council, Makeni Council, etc., are busy doing effective jobs in keeping their respective areas clean, and are engaged in development projects in partnership with the federal gov't. As for the Freetown City council, they are busy bitching, fighting for control without any sort of transparency or accountability.
These are the very people who give the APC a bad name.
We in the new APC are working hard to restore our party to prominence and to let the Sierra Leonean people forgive us for the past deeds of the old APC. We are trying to present a solid agenda to the country. But with people like the Freetown Mayor making an ass of himself at every opportunity, I am afraid we are doomed to fail. What a shame! I hope Ernest will step up and tell this flunky Mayor to do his job and stop picking fights with the SLPP gov't.
Subject: Sierra Leone: Freetown Jubilates Over Street Light
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Sierra Leone: Freetown Jubilates Over Street Light
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Concord Times (Freetown)
December 20, 2006
Posted to the web December 27, 2006
Mohamed Massaquoi
Freetown
The darkest city in the world, Freetown as claimed Tuesday had a different outfit, when after decades of blackout saw residents along major streets in the city jubilating over the switching on of street lights.
The installation of damaged street lights along major streets in the city has been very prominent over the past weeks.
Workers of the National Power Authority in collaboration with Moroccan Experts have been assiduously working to ensure that residents of Freetown enjoy electricity facility during the Christmas celebrations.
Major streets, including Pademba Road, Siaka Stevens, Lightfoot Boston, Krootown Road and other streets within the central district have been ignited with electricity.
Residents along Krootown Road, and Kingtom areas yesterday lined up in admiration on seeing the electricians installing the facility.
Ahmed Kandeh a 45 year old man lamented that since independent the street lights and most other facilities were broken down, because people do not have respect for public properties.
"I have worked for three regimes, and all of them did not actually concentrate on things that will beautify the city. Electricity is very important. I must commend the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) government reinstating street light to the city," he said and appealed to Sierra Leoneans to make good use of the opportunity.
Mohamed Barrie, a businessman at Pademba Road also thanked the SLPP for their efforts, as the street lights would help prevent criminal activities. "The government should also ensure that we get electricity in our homes. We don't want the SLPP to use this as a campaign strategy," he noted.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Freetown Jubilates Over Street Light
From: KLA
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Date Posted: 09:32:42 12/27/06 ()
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Donors are starting to demand visible results for funds allocated to specific projects.
This should not be time for partisan jubilation.! Some of us grew up in a Sierra Leone where there was
light! We must be lamenting the lost productivity and help bring to justice those responsible for the retrogression!!
TSTM
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Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Freetown Jubilates Over Street Light
From: GOOD JOB
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Date Posted: 09:43:10 12/27/06 ()
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Which donors? When did they tell you that? Have you seen the Makeni road? The donors saw it, and they know that their money was well spent. The Bo-Masiaka road has also started and the donors know that their money will make a difference. Connaught and Kissy mental hospital have been rehabilitated and the donors know that.
It is people like you who are spreading lies about donor money. Since you left salone in the 80's, have you gone back? Nope, but you want others to develop it for you while you sit in America and spew rubbish. I grew up in salone in the 80's, and there were no street lights. There was no television in the late 80's. The NPRc revived SLBS TV, but it was only in Freetown. Do you know that Bo and Kenema now have TV stations? stop your nonsense and go develop your country. The electricity project is supported by the Moroccan government and no other donor agency. The donors including EU and World Bank are supporting Bumbuna, and phase 1 will be completed in July. They have refused to spend an extra dime on any other electricity project. Get your fact right, and stop spewing gabbage.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Freetown Jubilates Over Street Light
From: KLA
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Date Posted: 13:36:17 12/27/06 ()
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"Which donors? When did they tell you that? Have you seen the Makeni road? The donors saw it, and they know that their money was well spent. The Bo-Masiaka road has also started and the donors know that their money will make a difference. Connaught and Kissy mental hospital have been rehabilitated and the donors know that. "......Good Job
Your above quote simply adds muscle to my assertion that the various Donors to post war Sierra Leone are demanding tangible results.
You ask what donors at one breath, then go on to add that the donors in question are satisfied with various projects.
Common sense dictates that project evaluators will be demanding documentary and provable evidence for funds spent in Salone.? Bra nah so di World day woke?
Some of us have investment projects right there in Salone, and else where in the MRU. It behoves you to calm down and go through the provided web links documenting
my assertion on Donor activities in Salone.!!
TSTM
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Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Freetown Jubilates Over Street Light
From: GOOD JOB
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Date Posted: 09:13:07 12/27/06 ()
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NPA and the Moroccans have extended the coverage to the East and west end of the city. Ecowas street, Sani abacha street, Mountain Cut, kissy street, GuARD sTREET ETC ALL HAVE STREET LIGHTS THESE days. The technicians have started installing new equipments in the west end including Lumley, Wilkinson road, Aberdeen, Spur Road etc.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Freetown Jubilates Over Street Light
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Mr. Good Job,
Do you really think that the moroccan government and the salone government pays the fees for that project? If you do, you must inject a syringe full of "thinking drugs" in your head. However, I must applaude the government for taking a small step in install the long overdue electricity in freetown.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Freetown Jubilates Over Street Light
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Morrocans assure Vice President of Sierra Leone about Power Sector
By Bampia J Bundu
Nov 7, 2006, 21:39
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A team of visiting Morrocan Engineers have assured Vice President Solomon Berewa that they will do everything in their power to solve the perennial problem of electricity in Freetown and the Western Area as a whole.
VP Berewa chatting with the Morrocan head of delegation
This assurance was made yesterday, Monday, 6th November, to the Vice President in a meeting with top Morrocan Engineers at his Spur Road residence. The Morrocan Engineers arrived in Freetown over the weekend with tons of loads of equipment and spare-parts for the generators at the National Power Authority (NPA) power house at Kingtom.
Addressing the Vice President, the Head of the delegation, Anal Bovanana, said they have come to assist the Government in solving the power generation crisis it is facing. He recognized the fact that Government is under pressure from the people of Sierra Leone, more especially, the residents of the city of Freetown. He assured that by the time they would have finished with the necessary repair-works, which he noted, would be done in conjunction with NPA Engineers, the issue of electricity will be "a thing of the past".
He further disclosed that they came with tons of loads of equipment and spare-parts, including five top power generation Engineers to do the necessary repairs on damaged parts of engines at the NPA. "When we shall have finished, the local Engineers at the NPA would have been adequately equipped to handle the machines whenever there is a problem, since we shall be working closely with them," the Head of the Delegation assured.
According to Mr. Bovanana, they had got themselves au fait with the problem at the Kingtom power house during a feasibility study sometime last year. "That gave us a detailed knowledge of the problems at Kingtom, and we are, therefore, prepared to face the challenge," Mr. Bovanana further assured.
Vice President Berewa welcomed the Moroccans and assured them of Government’s cooperation as well as Engineers and staff at the National Power Authority and the Kingtom power house in particular.
He acknowledged that the problem of power-generation is indeed affecting Government’s socio-economic strides, being that the lack of electricity has overshadowed all other positive strides made by government in the eyes of the people of especially Freetown.
"What ever we have done and continue to do as a government is over shadowed by this problem of lack of electricity," he noted, and added, "perhaps it is when this problem is ameliorated, would the people begin to see clearly what it has been doing towards the enhancement of their welfare." He encouraged the Moroccans to do all they can in the shortest possible time, in his words, "to bring our dream to reality" by restoring electricity back to the city of Freetown.
© Copyright by Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Freetown Jubilates Over Street Light
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 16:48:35 12/27/06 ()
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. The problem of electricity and other areas of our socio-economic development is not about donor contribution to make these areas function but rather, self-esteem. Continuity and maintenance has been our major problems. The manner in which the law is effected is poor. In that any jack or Jill, because of parastatal connections, and because of partisan politics have resorted to destroying public property or hoarding materials needed for the maintenance of these properties for self-aggrandizement. I can bet my life that majority of Sierra Leoneans don't do things for national pride and do not care about national pride if it does not involve a personal benefit.
When the justices system in Sierra Leone is served equitably, and our senses of justice is refined, Sierra Leone will become a heaven overnight in that, we have been endowed with the necessary resources, all of which have not been used appropriately. Which if used appropriately, effectively and in the interest of Sierra Leone and not personal or for partisan politics, we would not be jubilant over electricity but be confident of our right to enjoy these facilities. But as exemplified, rights are lacking but do we care or know if we deserve them? Think about it, the Bumbuna Project started long ago. It is either that we are unaware of how power (energy in this case,) can boost a nations productivity in both tourism and other economic and technological advancements.
We must stop taking Sierra Leone to be a personal property and think of her as a national property, which we must work collectively, with deep love of the nation to make her what she should be, a prosperous nation. Selfishness will never develop Sierra Leone. Everyone wanting to be the "one" is not the way forward. We must think of how we are viewed collectively as a people of a land called the "Lion Mountain," Sierra Leone. It is time we open our eyes and our mind to see what is real and what other nationals of other nations call pride and how they view our pride for Sierra Leone. The world has moved a long way. Here we are, with a record of the most brutal war in human history. Most of the things we do or jubilate about will not surprise those who have been watching. In that if we can be that vicious to one another in the manner we did, we can sure deny light to many, our brethren. But is that what we are? Think about it! We have to be reminded about what we have taken from our people through the war and other areas we denied them, to force us to bow our heads for that vicious past to bring in us the human we should be, if we are not.
Nonetheless, it is good to give praise where it is due. In that vain, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the government, the National Power Authority, the Moroccan Engineers and most importantly, the people of Sierra Leone whose rights have been denied for so long.
KLA how are you? It is the same Bambay from the AfricanOnline Forum of 1997 and contributor at Congress. How is Canada?
Subject: We've got debt relief, now what?
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 15:27:39 12/26/06 ()
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The World Bank, and the IMF came down the chimney in November and gave Sa Lon her Christmas present early, to the tune of a six hundred and eighty million dollars ($680 million)in debt relief due to our status as a highly indebted poor country (HIPC). But before this debt relief could be approved under the multilateral debt relief initiative (MDRI)we had to meet certain conditionalities contained in the written document associated with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), namely, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP).
This paper, and the implementation of the four main paradigms inherent in it [namely: participatory process; growth strategies; public expenditure management; and poverty and social impact analysis] were submitted and approved by the WB and IMF through the auspices of the SLPP-led GoSL under Pa Kabbah.
I congratulate HE Pa Kabbah, and his team, for a job well done in this regard.
To understand the magnitude of this effort, one needs only refer to Mr. John Mannah's article in BabySista's Awareness Times.
In that article, Mr. Mannah offers insights into the policy and institutional reforms done by the Kabbah administration under the following titles:
1. The solidification of Sa Lon's macroeconomic stability - we geh 7.5% yearly gross economic improvement since the year 2000.
2. Improvement of the enabling environment for the private sector - if u poe norto gofment fault, na u yone fault becus the environment sound ehn clean enuff for mek u mek yousef go befoe. Unu lef for blame gofment for unu yone sorry state.
3. Public Sector governance has been dramatically improved - we now get FCC, we now get District Council dem, ehn orda local governing bodies for see to ram say we govern wesef democratically, ehn provide the services wae we bin rely on the central gofment for do for we. Dat mean say, we nor for solely rely pan the SLPP gofment for clean we city ehn tong dem for we wae we geh the Freetong City Council, per se, ehn orda municipal gofment dem. Nar for know waetin nar we responsibility normor ehn implement the function wae we for serve.
4. Infrastructure is being strengthened - all una geh for do for see waetin dis SLPP gofment dae do in dis regard nar for see the amount of construction wae dae go on nar the kontri in terms of schools, roads, houses, hospitals, etc., etc. Una ask NaSCA, NASSIT, etc., etc. Bo ehn Kenema bin always geh light. Now Freetong always geh light - night or day - nar so for Makeni, Port Loko, Magburaka, Kabala, Sefadu, Lunsar all geh light (for true?).
5. Accelerating Human Development - infant mortality rate, ehn post-natal maternal mortality nor high lek how the apc bin lef ahm traday. The youth dem condition dae improve keleh keleh wan. More student dae go school now pass befoe tem. We teacha ehn civil servant dem dae geh paid more money ehn on time than in the past.
Anyway, as a consequence of the dedication and the professionalism imparted into the governance of the nation, we need to say thanks to Pa Kabbah and his team for a job well-done up to this point relative to this regard.
This brings me to the inevitable question:
Now what?
What must we do as Salonblia in order to consolidate our gains relative to this debt relief?
We must maintain the continuity that showered us with the opportunity of this debt-relief. We must do so by seeing to it that one of the architects of this development - overt and/or latent - stays around to ensure the accruement of 100% these benefits.
In other words, let us allow Solo B. to be elected as President of Sa Lon under the SLPP in 2007. Let the opposition (PMDC and/or APC) be vibrant enough after the 2007 elections to monitor his progress for the good of the nation.
Happy 2007 everyone.
Subject: SIERRA LEONE REGISTRATION DATE SET
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 07:02:27 12/26/06 ()
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FREETOWN(AFP).Sierra Leone National Electorial Commission will on february 26th begin voter registration for presidential and parliamentary elections next july,it annouced."Selected registraton centres for voters will be identified soon and these centres will also be used as polling stations",said a press statement from the commission.Only Sierra Leone nationals aged 18 will be registered.
The Police annouced a parallel plan to start the training of 3,200 police personel in January in public order management and election police in the west African country."We would ensure that all police officers involved in the election are non partisan and neutral",Assistant Inspector general of police Richard Moigbeh told journalistss,saying some $830,000(631,000 euros)were needed as an "operational cost"
Subject: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 05:39:50 12/25/06 ()
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To all our readers and forum contributors, we wish you a merry Christmas. We thank God for keeping us alive to see another Christmas.
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS
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Date Posted: 17:29:43 12/25/06 ()
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Merry Christmas to you and the rest of my family.
Thanks for giving us the gift of INFORMATION.
There is no better way to TRANSFORM a NATION.
Serenity ... Love ... Harmony and Tranquility.
Peace and Blessings
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: cornelius
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Date Posted: 13:56:29 12/25/06 ()
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Merry Xmas evreybody
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 08:07:40 12/25/06 ()
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I wish you and all your readers the peace that this season brings.When we say "Api Krismes" we follow up by saying "Tell god tenki me nor die". The powerful gifts of life, freedom and justice for all, are what we have a right to and ask for.
Kabs, you are doing a fantastic job. Stay blessed.
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 00:14:28 12/27/06 ()
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AFRC/Rebel Olu go away. This forum is for human beings, a race that you (and your fellow rebels) are not part of. Go find a place for "animals". You need not look far to find this - go to www.evilanimals.com and register yourself. Sankoh, Mosquito, Omrie Golley, Johnny Paul and the 21 Sobels killed for treason are all on that forum. They have lively debates on satanic and other evil topics. If you are not satisfied with that forum, then do the following:
Get in your car (one of the vehicles you thugs seized from descent Sa .Leoneans, take I102 to Hell, Exit on Satan's Corner. Then turn right at the intersection of Fire Road and Evil Lane, keep straight until you arrive at the newly minted AFRC/RUF Ct. Sankoh, Mosquito and their colleagues have nice houses there.
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 09:45:54 12/27/06 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
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Normally I'd prefer to ignore your dumb smears and what you write, because I have a hard time figuring out how it fits into this discussion.
No two wrongs make a right and the passing of sentences and the carrying out of extrajudicial executions without affording all the judicial guarantees recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples, makes the sysem no different from the rebels and sobels.
Weasels like you fail to respond to the substance of an argument and resort to name calling. I welcome honest debate and discussion, which this forum stands for, and which you have no interest in doing.
Dont hide behind a pseudo name. Unmask yourself and let us find out who the "wor-wor-li-wor" is.
Gotta go. Talk to you later.
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 13:17:47 12/27/06 ()
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Bo Dorty Olu leave this discussion forum.
You nar rebel. We nor want you nar yah. Get it?????
People like you who believe in thuggery and usurpation of power through the barrel of a gun have no place in a civilized society.
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: ok dok
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Date Posted: 11:23:16 12/26/06 ()
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OLU BECKLEY please real Gods name begins with capital letter but i dont know if you are a kafri.
Merry christmas and happy new year.
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 09:51:48 12/27/06 ()
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Kufars are always out to embellish the annointed ones.Give your soul some spring cleaning and you will be blessed.
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 16:07:31 12/27/06 ()
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What happened to the travel ban against AFRC coupist and RUF rebel/collaborators?
Olu, you better shut the hell up and sit quietly in your little rebel corner. If you don't, we (the descent Sierra Leoneans)are going to write to the state department and start a campaign to remove you from the US.
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 08:39:22 12/28/06 ()
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Ignorance is dangerous especially when it is in the hands of the uninformed. Keep your mouth shut and people won't know how stupid you are - put it in writing and prove it!
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 12:36:40 12/28/06 ()
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Dorty Olu,
Are you still trying to fit in with human beings?
I have told you nicely to leave this forum. You are not welcome here. "Abi you nor dae yerri"????
Rebel/RUF/AFRC animals have no place among us.
Coriokokoko Corioko Commot nar yah.....
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: ok dok
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Date Posted: 11:35:01 12/27/06 ()
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Your big neck and bushy eye brows
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 06:39:09 12/25/06 ()
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Merry Christmas to you too and to all forum contributors.
May your hopes be fulfilled and may God bless Sierra Leone.
Subject: JAMES BROWN, KING OF SOUL, PASSES AWAY
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 05:37:32 12/25/06 ()
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The Music world is in a shock this Christmas morning . James Brown , the fATHER of Soul Music, has died .
Subject: Re: JAMES BROWN, KING OF SOUL, PASSES AWAY
From: APC Man
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Date Posted: 00:03:40 12/27/06 ()
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Brown has entertained the world for a long time. He is truely a legend. It is sad that we had to lose him in 2006. May his soul rest in peace.
Subject: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty.
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 19:53:35 12/24/06 ()
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As he vies for the Presidency, where does Vice President Berewa stand on the issue of the death penalty? Section 40(4) of the Sierra Leone Constitution outlines one of the responsibilities of the President as the exercise of the Prerogative of Mercy.
When Amara Conteh a lance Corporal and eleven others were executed by the NPRC Government, “the former Attorney-General and Secretary of State for Justice, Franklyn Kargbo, resigned in September 1994 in protest against the use of the death penalty”. (Amnesty International, Sierra Leone, -12/26/94)
When S.F.Y. Koroma, Kula Samba,Abdul K. Sesay and 21 others were executed by the Kabbah led SLPP government, the "Legal Brief Africa of Wednesday 09/20/2006" states and I quote “The current Vice President, Solomon Berewa, was then the Attorney General and he was instrumental in rushing the trial and executions through even though there were representations by the international community calling for caution in carrying out the decision of the court martial. Berewa was quite hawkish in dealing with such pleas. He argued that executions were part of Sierra Leone’s history – going back to British colonial days to justify the government’s action”.
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
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Date Posted: 19:25:18 12/27/06 ()
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Mr.Olu Beckley,with respect, I draw your attention to the fact that our law books cater for the death penalty.The statutory obligation of the Hon.Solomon Berewa as Attorney-General was to implement the laws of the country.Kula Samba and others committed a crime punishable by law,what is wrong in following the laws of our country?Under the SLPP,Sierra Leone will always be a country of laws,nobody will be above or under the law.
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty.
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 09:12:59 12/28/06 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
Message:
Thanks for your insight. I do not hold brief for the deceased, rather I strongly believe that our laws, the rights of a state to govern, and our leaders, no matter which political party, should not be oblivious of international human rights law.
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty.
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 05:20:12 12/25/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: px2nr.wp.shawcable.net at 24.66.94.141
Message:
No ,they all died by the law.KABBA AND HIS GREAT VICE are law people.Frank Kargbo never love NPRC that why.
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty./urnful
From: musa Kalawa
To: All
Date Posted: 21:49:08 12/24/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-69-230-209-225.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.230.209.225
Message:
don't you think it is necessary to re-visit the legality this people implied, and on which ground the law was enforced which lead to the killing of these 21 people. If there was any heasty decision in executing these people, incoperate it with any constitutional reasons the Kabba Government use to convict the people, the families of these 21 deceased individuals file a complain with the international comunity, aided by Amnesty Internation that will help bring them (Kabba & Berewa) to justice.......LONTA
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty./urnful
From: musa Kalawa
To: All
Date Posted: 06:36:07 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-69-230-209-225.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.230.209.225
Message:
[at 69.106.39.216]
Listen I can identify you by your IP address. It's unclear were you are writing from. I may have to compare these numbers above and make refrences.
With this little information, you, it's still not clear who you are behind the machine (computer). Can you identify yourself as a person for a better interactive discussion?
thank you.
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty./urnful
From: AFRC COLLABORATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 00:53:58 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.106.39.216
Message:
Musa, are you serious? You are a very big IDIOT.Olu Beckley was a rebel minister. Beckley is a shameless rebel collaborator. The man is a disgrace. Musa is a ddisgrace.
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty./urnful
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 08:00:41 12/25/06 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 65.117.246.211
Message:
There you go again, helping me make my point. You have a right to your opinion, but my question was meant to address the humaneness of our leaders and their respect for and adherence to the rule of law.
Firstly an “AFRC collaborator” is referred to all those who stayed back in Freetown when the SLPP government fled to Guinea, and accussations of “collaboration” formed the basis for human rights abuses. The then Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Solomon Berewa, set out the policy of the Government towards collaborators in a letter entitled ‘Present Position relating to the Collaborators of the AFRC Junta’.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission found that policy and the incessant arrests, detentions, trials and executions that followed a denial of basic rights; a contravention of international human rights laws, and a crime against humanity.
The end does not justify the means and we should not forget that Charles Taylor is curently facing several indictments for crimes against humanity. The families of those 23, are crying for justice and we should leave no stone unturned in our pursuit of equal treatment before the law, irrespective of who is involved.
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty./urnful
From: APC Man
To: All
Date Posted: 10:56:09 12/26/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.106.39.216
Message:
Bo go sidom sarful and shut up.
Dem soja dem commit treason en den get watin den deserve. You forget say dem monsters den day unleash all kind of trouble pan we people dem. No sober person nar the country nor dae cry for dem - pass wona den rebel oh.
You lucky the CDF or the civilians dem nor bin deal with you good wan en gi you good beat. Rebel collaborator lek you, you nor dae shame sef for show you worwor face nar this forum. We nor want nartin for do with people lek you.
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty./urnful
From: olu beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 09:42:52 12/27/06 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
Message:
Normally I'd prefer to ignore your dumb smears and what you write, because I have a hard time figuring out how it fits into this discussion.
No two wrongs make a right and the passing of sentences and the carrying out of extrajudicial executions without affording all the judicial guarantees recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples, makes the sysem no different from the rebels and sobels.
Weasels like you fail to respond to the substance of an argument and resort to name calling. I welcome honest debate and discussion, which this forum stands for, and which you have no interest in doing.
Dont hide behind a pseudo name. Unmask yourself and let us find out who the "wor-wor-li-wor" is.
Gotta go. Talk to you later.
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty./urnful
From: APC Man
To: All
Date Posted: 13:23:35 12/27/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.106.39.216
Message:
Dorty Olu,
Get lost. We don't want you among us. Like I said in an earlier post, you do not belong to the human race.....yours is an evil satanic, rebel-loving, thuggery preaching, Bin ladden worshipping, backward mentality race. Go to hell and join Pa Sankoh, Maskita, and co. Charles Taylor will join you soon.
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty./urnful
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 15:21:20 12/27/06 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
Message:
The limits of your language are the limits of your world. You sound like one of those who will scream "Yeah, light don cam" when the street lights came on in Freetown. "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he". Proverbs 23:7
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty./urnful
From: APC Man
To: All
Date Posted: 15:37:56 12/27/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.106.39.216
Message:
Dortu Olu is now quoting the Bible? Lord ar mercy oh!!!
Rebel Olu, AFRC Olu nar in dae call you name so? Dat na Blaspheme oh .......
Olu commot nar yah so. Go join Johnny Paul en Charles Taylor pan wunu Alaki rebel bizzness. This forum nar for civilized people dem. You nor to human being.
You nar Satan in disciple oh .....
Olu commot nar yah so.
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty.
From: AFRC/RUF COLLABORATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 20:21:30 12/24/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.106.39.216
Message:
From Peter Anderson's archive, olu Beckley was the director of Housing. Bra, how mus land you sell?You rebel/Afrc official.Shame on you.
Mr. Olu-Beckly
Director of Housing Co-operation
Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
As of 11 September 1997 *
Major Johnny Paul Koroma
Chairman, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief
Corporal Foday Saybana Sankoh
Deputy Chairman
Captain Solomon A.J. Musa
Chief Secretary
Colonel A.K. Sesay
Secretary-General
Staff Sergeant Abu Sankoh
PLO 1
Staff Sergeant Alex Tamba Brima
PLO 2
Staff Sergeant Brima Bazzy Kamara
PLO 3
Colonel Sam Bokarie
Major Morris Kallon
David Kallon
Colonel Issa H. Sesay
Colonel Gibril Massaquoi
Colonel Michael Lamin
Squadron Leader Victor L. King
Major Carter Tarawallie
Captain Lawrence S. Womandia
Lieutenant Eldred Collins
Warrant Officer II Franklyn Conteh
Warrant Officer II Samuel Kargbo
Sergeant K. Bangura
Sergeant S. B. Khanu
Sergeant George Adams
Sergeant Sahr Gborie
Sergeant Sulaiman Turay
Sergeant K. Kallay
Corporal Momoh Bangura
Lance Corporal Hector Bob-Lahai
Lance-Corporal Ibrahim D. Sesay
Staff Sergeant Moses Kabia
Lance-Corporal Abdul M. Sesay
Mohamed Saidu Kamara
Bai Hinga Kurrary-Bangura
Abdul Michael Munu
Kendeh Sorie-Sabba Bangura
Secretaries of State
Captain Soloman A. J. Musa
Chief Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Mineral Resources
Mr. Joe Amara Bangali
Secretary of State for Finance
Ajibola Manly-Spaine
Attorney General
Alimamy Pallo Bangura
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Mr. Victor Brandon
Secretary of State for Development and Economic Planning
Sahr Kaigbanga
Secretary of State for Education
Colonel Karefa I. S. Kamara
Secretary of State for Health and Sanitation
Captain (Rtd.) Abubakarr Jomo-Jalloh
Secretary of State for Marine Resources
Brigadier (Rtd) Modibo I. Leslie Lymon
Secretary of State for Internal Affairs
Mr. Cecil Osho-Williams
Secretary of State for Transport and Communications
Mr. Augustine Vandy (People's Army)
Secretary of State for Agriculture and Forestry
Colonel Sabah Kamara
Secretary of State for Works
Mr. Solomon B. Rogers (People's Army)
Secretary of State for Lands and the Environment
Abdul Williams
Secretary of State for Employment and Industrial Relations
Major Kula Samba
Secretary of State for Social Welfare, Children and Gender Affairs
Mr. Umaru Din-Sesay
Secretary of State for Youths, Sports and Social Mobilization
Major Victor L. King
Secretary of State, Office of the Chairman
Major Abdul M. Koroma
Secretary of State, Northern Region
Captain Eddie P. Kanneh
Secretary of State, Eastern Region
Major Augustine F. Kamara
Secretary of State, Southern Region
Under Secretaries of State
Lt. Col. Allie B. Y. Koroma
Under Secretary of State for Defence
Major (Rtd.) Gabriel Turay
Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Mr. Hassan Barrie
Under Secretary of State for Energy and Power
D.S.P. Dennis Kamara (S.L. Police)
Under Secretary of State for Agriculture and Forestry
Mr. Ibrahim Foday Sesay
Under Secretary of State for Finance
Mr. Mohamed A. Bangura
Under Secretary of State for Trade, Industry and State Enterprises
Dr. Matilda King
Under Secretary of State for Health and Sanitation
Captain Paul Thomas
Under Secretary of State for Mineral Resources
Captain Johnny More
Under Secretary of State for Youth, Sports and Social Mobilization
Major Fatoma S. Gottor
Under Secretary of State for Internal Affairs
Mr. Abubakarr Sesay
Under Secretary of State for Development and Economic Planning
Directorates
Mr. Saaba Tumoe
Director of Information and Broadcasting
Mr. Sedu B. Turay
Director of Tourism and Culture
Colonel (Rtd.) Max Kanga
Director of the National Relief, Rehabilitation and Demobilization Commission (NARECOM)
Mr. Olu-Beckly
Director of Housing Co-operation
Brigadier D.K. Anderson
Director General of Defence
Lt. Colonel (Rtd.) Andrew Koroma
Director, National Intelligence Service
Public Liaison Officers (PLOs)
Staff Sergeant Abu Sankoh
Mineral Resources, Transport and Communications, Lands and Environment
Staff Sergeant Alex Tamba Brima
Works and Labour, SierraTel, Customs and Excise, SALPOST
Staff Sergeant Brima Bazzy Kamara
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Energy and Power, Lotto and Income Tax
Advisors to the PLOs
Major Johnny Paul Koroma
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty.
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 21:05:53 12/24/06 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 65.117.246.219
Message:
Foday Sankoh was granted amnesty by the same government that carried out the extrajudicial killings. I speculate that President Kabbah will at the end of his term express his regrets for those killings. He has already started by apologising to Jim Sampha Koroma. Thank god Mr. Koroma is still alive!!!! There is no harm in conceeding error. Political forgiveness does lead to social healing and that was the whole purpose of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Subject: Re: Vice President Berewa and the death penalty.
From: HOUSING MINISTRY
To: All
Date Posted: 20:16:07 12/24/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.106.39.216
Message:
Is this the Olu Beckley whi was an Ambassador appointed by Johnny Paul of the AFRC?Those soldiers commited treason, and they desrverd what they got. The AFRC messed up oir country, and one OLU BECKLEY was their housing official.
Subject: Obasanjo
From: Father Xmas
To: All
Date Posted: 12:50:40 12/24/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-159-177.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.159.177
Message:
Obasanjo has decided to give a Xmas gift to his VP Abu Bakarr, by sacking him.Apparently VP is against Obasanjo getting 3rd term, by manipulating the Constitution.
Subject: Musings
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 19:57:19 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: nc-71-2-93-33.dyn.embarqhsd.net at 71.2.93.33
Message:
I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone on this forum, and in peeperland, Season's Greetings.
I wish those who practice it a very merry Christmas, and everyone a very prosperous New Year.
I pray that the SLPP will win the elections in July 2007.
Now, to the task at hand.
Musings - Part II.
1. Why does it take us thirteen weeks in the USA to train a soldier from the stage of bootcamp to a participatory role at a warfront, but it takes four or more years to do the same in the case of the new Iraqi Army?
2. Why was there no bloody/brutal sectarian violence in Iraq for the 35 years when Saddam was at the helm, but this brutality is presently en vogue under "our" 4-year-old occupation? Who is the better governor/ruler of Iraq? Saddam or George? Do we really need more boots on the ground in Bahgdad, or should we just declare victory and call it quits, so that the Shias, Sunnis, and Kurds, can duke it out on their own terms, and the winner takes over the country?
3. They fought for many years so that the Berlin wall would be torn down during the cold war with the Reds, but now they want to erect a wall along the US-Mexican border to keep out the illegals, and Israel is building a West Bank security barrier to Bethlehem. If this is a global village as they want us to believe, why build up these walls in the first place? Why can't we all just get along in this global village, and study hate and war no more? If we can silence the guns, we can then embark on global micro-credit schemes to eradicate abject poverty in order to generate peace and prosperity for all.
4. Is Mogadishu really a khat-free city? Why are the Islamists so afraid of the Ethiopians? Is it because Uncle Sam is wielding a big stick behind the lines with the Abyssinians?
5. Why is the Nigerian Army serving as the clique behind the political class that has always ruled Nagoland in recent history? I mean, from (retired) Generals in the Army to Presidents in Naija.
6. Why did Kabbah really go to Botswana? Did he learn anything about how a country/nation runs her business when it comes to natural resources?
7. The say Sa Lon is stable but still fragile, and that she needs help with security, human rights, justice, and in preparation for the elections next year. If this is true, why do we call ourselves an independent nation? Is Sa Lon really a self-governing state, or nation?
8. If Jamil Sahid had total control over Pa Shaki's APC of old, and Ernest Koroma is now running Jamil's RitCorp Insurance Company, as leader of the new APC, who then really owns the New APC?
9. If Nabih Berri, the SaLonman who is the speaker of Lebanon's parliament, made it possible for Jamil Sahid to gain Lebanese citizenship when Pa Shaki was ostracized from the apc in favour of Joseph Momoh, and we all know that Berri runs the policies of Syria in Lebanon, could the Syrians really own the apc using the Sa Lon Lebanese as their proxies? Who, in turn, use Ernest and cousin Victor as their own proxies relative to the new apc? Enquiring minds would like to know.
10. Why is A-lie Formeh so fixated with Justin Musa, and his whereabouts? Did Musa kill A Lie's puusse/cat? Or did their erstwhile business dealings go sour, and A-lie Formeh lost all the money he invested in Musa's enterprises - legal or illegal. Please bear in mind that these two were very close at one time or another as per Alie's account of serving as the "best man" / "god-daddy" for Musa's daughter or son in Albany, NY. He will probably soon start singing that war song in Limba:
E woggi woggi woggi wone wolowonso
Na nan dae na nan conday
E woogi woggi woggi wone wolowonso
Na nan dae na nan conday
And to which I will reply in a Mende song:
Lae dae vah laendeh
Ai tija
Lae dae va oh laendeh
Ai tija
Laendeh va nya borni
Ai tija
Ee nya boi nya mi lor
Ai tija
Ee nya boi nya bi lor
Ai tija
Bway bla klo yorkoh
Ai tija.
11. Why does Loggy propose that we Mende people go to the Bolilands in the North to grow rice farms when we have Bartilands in the South to serve that purpose so much more effectively? Can't Northerners rewardingly grow their own rice farms productively in the Bolilands?
12. Why is Javombo still holding on to my copy of that picture he promised to mail to me about a month ago? It has been almost four years since he promised to print a copy for me. Maybe Tegloma needs a new VP. Any takers?
Subject: Re: Musings
From: cornelius
To: All
Date Posted: 14:00:21 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 212.73.17.208
Message:
u cs spend more time in your little lab and increase yr personal possibilities win Nobel Prize in Chemsitry ( no hope for winning in Literature as you know) and then to wrest the dream leadership of yr ole slpp from the hands of your present favourite politician
Subject: Re: Musings
From: cornelius
To: All
Date Posted: 14:04:41 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 212.73.17.208
Message:
I said that you could spend more time in your little lab and - very remote as they are, increase your personal possibilities of winning the Nobel Prize in Chemsitry ( no hope for winning in Literature as you well know-know) and then you are all set up to wrest the dream leadership of your ole slpp from the hands of your present favourite politician and redeem the country.
Merrie crismess
Subject: Re: Musings
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:29:00 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: nc-69-69-49-214.dyn.embarqhsd.net at 69.69.49.214
Message:
Merry Christmas, Bra Cornie.
Where have you been all this time?
I hope the Missus did not put you under lock and key away from the forum until you behaved nicely. Now I see that she would have to repeat the process.
Be good, Bra Cornie.
Wish you a Happy Hannukah.
Subject: Re: Musings
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:36:16 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I have said before that Swegbe Justin Musa is only a small catch even when billions of Leones are involved. There may be much bigger guys involved including the so called Minister under who's watch all the embezzlement occurred. Unless we as Sierra Leoneans start taking corruption seriously there is no future for us.
I am surprised that Sengbe, of all people, would want to know why it is important to pursue Swegbe Justin Musa. Is it because it is your SLPP government that is in power that is why you turn a blind eye to thieves of the state?
I maintain that for Sierra Leone to see progress in the 21 st century we must do something about corruption.
If Sengbe does not care about curbing corruption, then let him just shut his mouth.
Subject: Re: Musings
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:23:00 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Hi there, Alie Formeh! How are you?
I do care about curbing corruption in Sa Lon.
What I do not understand is your incessant fixation with only one individual - Justin Musa - in this case.
When did you try this guy and found out that he is/was guilty of corruption? You cannot be the prosecuting attorney, the judge, and the jury in absentia when it comes to his case.
I thought his case is under adjudication in the courts in Sa Lon, is it not? Why do you believe that he is not innocent but guilty when the case has not even received the judicial attention it deserves? Don't you believe in the "innocent until proven guilty" doctrine? In the SLPP we believe in this doctrine.
You state, and I quote:
".... Is it because it is your SLPP government that is in power that is why you turn a blind eye to thieves of the state?..."
Alie Formeh, please don't forget that it was the SLPP-led GoSL in the first place that prevented him from crossing the border into Guinea in an attempt to flee the country, and perhaps justice, undetected. Does this government deserve your commendation in this regard? We cannot rush the course of justice just because you do not like Mr. Musa. That is not the way things are done under the rule of law as practiced by the SLPP.
I assume that you'd be prepared to serve as a witness for the prosecution when Mr. Musa's trial starts sometime in the future, since you know so much about the corrupt practices of your erstwhile friend. Do you have prima facie evidence for his incarceration prepared already? I hope you do, so that you can help curb corruption to this effect.
Have a merry Christmas.
Subject: Re: Musings
From: Ibrahim
To: All
Date Posted: 11:53:11 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c29146.dyn.optonline.net at 68.194.145.70
Message:
Look who is talking about corruption and thieving.
Subject: Re: Musings
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 09:05:20 12/24/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-138-88-2-81.res.east.verizon.net at 138.88.2.81
Message:
"Why does Loggy propose that we
Mende people go to the Bolilands
in the North to grow rice farms
when we have Bartilands in the
South to serve that purpose so
much more effectively? Can't
Northerners rewardingly grow
their own rice farms productively
in the Bolilands?"
You see Sengbe, my perception is that there are rice farmers among the Temne people but you hardly see Temnes pride themselves as the inhabitants of Sierra Leone's bread basket. Many among Temnes are traditionally traders and they travelled the country searching for trading opportunities. If I read you right, you said the Bartilands in the South Serves effectively the purpose of Mende Farmers. My problem with that statement is that Sierra Leone continues to import rice. Could it be the Mende farmers are really, really are not effective farmers or the Bartilands cannot produce enough food for Salone?
What I think is that South/Easterners allow themselves to be taken for a ride by their politicians by refusing to forgo past political problems with Northerners. By doing so, a lot of excuses has been generated to justify this refusal. Trust me buddy, if Northerners can make it in the South/East, South/Easterners can also make it in the North. But all these grudges must be abandoned.
Subject: Re: Musings
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 21:45:05 12/24/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: nc-71-2-93-33.dyn.embarqhsd.net at 71.2.93.33
Message:
You may have a point there my friend. But what "grudges" are you talking about? I fail to understand that aspect of your posting.
Based on what happened in Lunsar, Marampa, and Peppel during the iron ore boom days, SouthEasterners shy away from the North, I presume.
It was the late Sherbroman who told that history, if you can recall.
Anyway, if the North is made as palatable for Mende people as the South, and the rest of the country has been made for your Themne folks, I am quite sure that they would also migrate into that region of the country. Who knows?
Why put the blame for importing rice into the country solely on the "lack of effectiveness" of Mende farmers? Is there any hunger in the Bartilands of Sa Lon? Who imports the rice into the country when they should be upholding their end in this farming business up yonder in Bolilands? The Temne business people/class? Is Rokupro in the South, or in the North, where the rice research station is located?
The point is; we must never categorize our tribal affiliations into specific professional or vocational outlooks. There are Mende business people as well as Mende farmers; doctors as well as engineers; politicians as well as goat herders; etc., etc. That goes for all other tribes in Sa Lon. I hope you get my point.
Merry Christmas, if you are so inclined.
Subject: Re: Musings
From: K.L
To: All
Date Posted: 08:00:45 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-138-88-2-81.res.east.verizon.net at 138.88.2.81
Message:
Anyway, if the North is made as
palatable for Mende people as
the South, and the rest of the
country has been made for your
Themne folks, I am quite sure
that they would also migrate into
that region of the country. Who knows?
Sengbe, please give some "beef" to this statement as I have no idea what you are talking about.
-----------------------------------------
"Why put the blame for importing
rice into the country solely on
the "lack of effectiveness" of
Mende farmers?"
I recently told you that you need to be decaffeinated right? Now go back and read to what you are responding to.
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"Is there any hunger in the
Bartilands of Sa Lon?"
DUH!!!!
-------------------------------------
"Who imports the rice into the
country when they should be upholding
their end in this farming business up
yonder in Bolilands? The Temne business
people/class? Is Rokupro in the South,
or in the North, where the rice research
station is located?"
What's wrong with the South/East farmers to capitalize on this void? Is it because of the Land Tenure system?
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"The point is; we must never categorize
our tribal affiliations into specific
professional or vocational outlooks.
There are Mende business people as well
as Mende farmers; doctors as well as engineers; politicians as well as goat herders;
etc., etc. That goes for all other
tribes in Sa Lon. I hope you get my point."
Do you really mean that? Wow!!!
Well don't blame me my friend. I guess I picked up the attitude from someone from the South/East who once said Temnes are diamint peddlers. How far we have come! Now I wonder what was your response to that individual when made those statements.
Merry Christmas Branlaw and please tell my sister to reply me.
Subject: Re: Musings
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:53:09 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: nc-69-69-49-214.dyn.embarqhsd.net at 69.69.49.214
Message:
"...What's wrong with the South/East farmers to capitalize on this void? Is it because of the Land Tenure system?..."
Yeah right!! Monkey woke babu eat. Tell u peeple leh dem cormot na shop ehn go till dem Boliland for ress if dem hungry. Land tenure system has nothing to do with this.
"...Temnes are diamint peddlers..."
Who said that? Is there where their business expertise solely lies? I always thought that they were better business people than that. Well! as long as they make a profit, nothing wrong with that.
"...please tell my sister to reply me..."
Bettttttehhhhh!!! U wan mek da waiteman beat me? Or u wan tell me say dem don part?
Subject: Re: Musings
From: Lady J
To: All
Date Posted: 17:21:02 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.8
Message:
King of Kindness... Merry Christmas to you and your family. I am so sorry about the delay, I will get to it ASAP.
Big Axe ... U nor go blow? Merry Christmas to and ALL.
Why do you wish ill upon my wonderful guy? He hasn't done anything remotely wrong my dear ... Cut him some slack.
Anyway .. May your days be filled with joy and happiness.
I like your musings ... Cooool.
Peace and Blessings
Subject: Re: Musings
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 19:53:17 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
Merry Chrismas to you and your family too your highness. Don't mind Sengbe, he always thinks someone is gaining on him.
Subject: Re: Musings
From: Big Axe
To: All
Date Posted: 18:46:58 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Seasons Greetings to you and yours.
I do not wish him ill, that is why I did not want to relay Loggy's message since you do NOT even answer my calls to you at work.
Anyway bad nor dae.
I am glad you like my Musings. You always had good taste in that regard.
Subject: Re: Musings
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 16:07:33 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
"Yeah right!! Monkey woke babu eat.
Tell u peeple leh dem cormot na shop
ehn go till dem Boliland for ress
if dem hungry."
Monkey woke babu eat uh?
So Sengbe do you really believe that if South/Easterners work the bolilands they will be working for free right? Bo me fren ah don loose hope pan yu. You nor to betteh Mendeman.
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Subject: Re: Musings
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 18:57:10 12/25/06 ()
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Message:
Nar u nar betteh Temne man - always dae misinterprete waitin u read.
How ba, Temne peeple nor sabi plant ress for dem self? Nar dat u wan tell the world?
Anyway, me don don with dis torke ya so.
Subject: Re: Musings
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 19:50:26 12/25/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
"Nar u nar betteh Temne man -
always dae misinterprete waitin u read."
Look am, ihm hart don warm again.
If ah always di misinterprete waitin ah read,
na becus yu nor sabie di difference between a question en an answer. Burgeddor
Subject: Re: Musings
From: Neutral Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 08:39:26 12/24/06 ()
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Entered From: host86-129-159-177.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.159.177
Message:
the posting is just indicative of, as Pa Kabbah said, Saloneman ge BAD HEART.This is the reason, you people never make any progress, and still live in the stone age.
Subject: Re: Musings
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 17:11:49 12/24/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: px2nr.wp.shawcable.net at 24.66.94.141
Message:
Where is the BAD HEART?
Subject: Re: Musings
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 21:49:05 12/24/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: nc-71-2-93-33.dyn.embarqhsd.net at 71.2.93.33
Message:
Indeed, where is the bad heart?
okdok, my brother, there are folks amongst us who hardly comprehend what they think they have read. We should not pay them any undue attention. We should just go about our business as usual.
Kahui yieh nar?
Subject: Re: Musings
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 05:30:43 12/25/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: px2nr.wp.shawcable.net at 24.66.94.141
Message:
Merry christmas and happy new year shemgbe
Subject: Re: Musings
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 05:29:17 12/25/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: px2nr.wp.shawcable.net at 24.66.94.141
Message:
They are all APC kids and they are supporting PMDC undercover to win.They all came overseas through that corrupt money and system.
Subject: Re: Musings
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 10:52:09 12/24/06 ()
Email Address: njai@comcast.net
Entered From: 207-172-203-84.c3-0.upd-ubr7.trpr-upd.pa.cable.rcn.com at 207.172.203.84
Message:
How neutral are you?
Subject: FOR KABS KANU
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 08:19:10 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.79
Message:
I have just had sight of your posting accusing me of being a Bigot and tribalistic.
I have always respected you on this forum, but I am now having my doubts.
I am not sure about the word bigot, but I want to challange you on the tribe issue.
Rev, if you can print out a posting from me on this forum at anytime over the past year, that has any tribalist tendency, I will pay £1000.00 to any charity of your choice.I will pay the money to the Sierra Leone high Commission in London.
Eceryone knows me, CADMUS is not a Hnadle, it my nick name, friends call me by.
I have never posted anything tribalistic on this forum.My last posting was under PATROTISM which is still on this sight..I advise you and other formunites to read it again, and print an apology..failing that I will lose all respect for you.
I am a political party supporter, so if I am a bigot for supporting SLPP then so be it,I dont apologise for that and I do not demand one.
I raised the point because it was you who stated that you will delete all postings about this woman.I am not asking you to delete anything.I am a good Defender, I can defend anything if I want to.
Rev, the way you have reacted make me suspect that you may be hiding something.
Think about this, go back and read my posting on this forum,posted a few days ago under Patrotism....
As a man of God come back and call me Tribalitic after reading that posting.
You do not know my Tribal make up, Rev, Just because I am SLPP,defends the Mende people from insult and abuse does not mean I am a Mende. That is narrow mindedness. If you accuse me of something please have the proof ready, I am not Sylvia Blyden, I can handle myself believe me.
Subject: Re: FOR KABS KANU
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 09:54:35 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.8
Message:
CADMUS,
I express my most sincere apology if I misread your post.As I have always said, we all do err, especially where it is an argument involving a controversial human being like the person at issue.
You have been a great participant on this forum. Your analyses have been good and even if one does not agree with you, he respects your capacity to stand up for what you believe. Please keep it that way and do not try to diminish the respect people have for you on this forum by defending Sylvia Blyden. Nobody who has defended her in the past has come out of it with his/her respect intact. Even the very I.B.Kargbo she is tearing apart so maliciously now was not only her defender but her goddaddy . Sylvia was born in Bo and at that time I.B. taught at UCC, if I am not mistaken. During her christening, IB was her goddaddy . If she can tear him apart like this now , you should be careful.
I will not talk about the mistakes I also made in that respect. If at one time I was the scourge of Leonenet , falling out with many people, it was because of my support for Sylvia in those days.
You annoy people when you infer that Sylvia's fight with Richie Gordon was because the latter attacked Mendes and thus you will help her fight. People are silent because they are sick of Sylvia but they all know that Sylvia is not fighting for Mendes. I will bet $10, 000 and give it to any charity myself if anybody ever produces any convincing evidence that Sylvia's batlles are for causes bigger than her own.
Ofcourse, Mendes are a proud, progressive and versatile people and I can bet you also that if anybody offends them, they have a sea of more qualified , competent and respectable people to defend them than somebody being blown here and there by her own neurosis. I think George Khoryama and others handled Gordon well.
Anyway, I am very sorry for labelling you wrongly. I was wrong and I admit it here. I hope you will forgive me. I have high regard for you and all other forumites. Please have a HAPPY CHRISTMAS and a PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.
KABS KANU
Subject: Re: FOR KABS KANU
From: K.L
To: All
Date Posted: 11:05:10 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-138-88-2-81.res.east.verizon.net at 138.88.2.81
Message:
Kabs, forgive the young man as he appears to know not what he is talking about when it comes to Sylvia. But you can also help him out as a brother. If available, why not give him a dose of reality by posting a link to the archives of the now defunct NUPSL forum. I bet you after reading a day's work of Sylvia's rantings, mammy curses, and other derogatory adjectives against Mendes and the SLPP, then, and only then, will our good buddy CADMUS realize how ignorant he has been.
Until then, he sees no evil and hears no evil with Sylvia.
Subject: Re: FOR KABS KANU
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 18:34:30 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-147-177-128.range86-147.btcentralplus.com at 86.147.177.128
Message:
My GOOD REV KABS,
Thank you for the apology. I accept. As you know I am one of those who have always admired your impartiality on this forum, I have even wondered if you can keep it up..but so far God has guided you well. You are a true man of GOD.
I am a Political animal apart from being a Lawyer which is only a means to earn a living.
I can take anything thrown at me as far as SLPP or my politics is concern, I am capable of defending that.
Tribalism is something I take very seriously.I know the dangers of that,and Since I come from a family of mixed tribal parentage, I have always believe in one Sa Lone.I am not that narrow minded,I therefor get hurt and angry if I am labelled as such.
I do not know Sylvia. I do not know her past. I am not that good a lawyer to defend some thing I hold no brief to. All I have ever done is to defend her rights to say what she feels and believes, that is the underlining principle of Democracy we all fighting so har for in Sa Lone today.
I would always like to ask for forgiveness if I have offended anyone on this Forum in my determination to promote SLPP, so far thus...I am SLPP because I honestly believe that it is the best party for Sa Lone at the moment,I respect other people who take a different stance...That is healthy Democracy. We can do that and still remain friends and brothers and sisters, because at the end of the day all we are fighting for is a better Sa Lone...
Have a Merry Christmas with the family, politics will wait for week.
By the way Freetown has now got lights...one of the many wonders of SLPP...(smile)no more politics I promise.untill after christmas.
Subject: Re: FOR KABS KANU
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 12:08:16 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.8
Message:
I think we can help him by finding this link for him. Is there any on this forum who can provide it ?
Subject: Re: FOR KABS KANU
From: P a javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 15:49:10 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-66-56-36-91.hsd1.ga.comcast.net at 66.56.36.91
Message:
Go to sierra Leone open Forum under Seirra-leone.org
you'll an archive there.
Subject: What if this happened to you ?
From: Segun Ojugbemi
To: All
Date Posted: 18:27:33 12/22/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 0-1pool12-254.nas32.newark2.nj.us.da.qwest.net at 63.235.12.254
Message:
The Day I Tested Positive To HIV
It was in the year of our Lord two thousand and one, in the month of June, I had been chosen as one of the successful candidates to be recruited into the Nigerian Airforce.
That exercise was held in Calabar old Airport Base of the Nigerian Airforce, the camp was choked up, so many people were looking for jobs! We were told that the Calabar exercise will determine our final selection therefore, we had to work extra hard to qualify for the final selection.
The exercise comprised of both physical and medical tests. Every imaginable fluid in my body passed through one type of laboratory test or the other. It was not easy, my body was subjected to needle pricks, given at regular intervals, extracting specimens for lab tests. I had horrible nightmares where I saw myself being used as an object of experimentation for newly manufactured drugs.
We spent one week in Calabar and I had to go home with the instruction to look up the result of the exercise in one of the national newspapers in two weeks’ time. I started picking up every issue on the paper, borrowing from friends where I ran out of money to buy one. I spent precious time in the journal section of a library close to my house. I was so desperate , sometimes I would join the crowd of free readers scanning newspapers at the bus- stops and paying the vendor N20 for his benevolent service. I did this for three good weeks until finally on the third day of the third week, I saw the publication. Only 400 names were published, I was flabbergasted. Four hundred people out of 5,000 people who not only paid N500 for forms each but spent one week in Calabar in what can be compared to Hitler's Camp of Horror and stress!
I started scanning the list for my name. It was the second to the last name, ah, I almost didn't make it? But thank God for little mercies.
The paper instructed all shortlisted candidates to report at Kaduna Airforce Base two weeks after the publication date. We were instructed to come with the original of every certificate obtained right from the womb. No stress, the Calabar experience had prepared us adequately, all my papers were intact.
I arrived the Airforce Base, Kaduna, a day earlier, just to be on the safe side. We were just four in the hostel, three other girls also shared my enthusiasm and were there hours before me. The girls, Amina, Jane and Doris all lived in Gwagwalada, Niger State. They too did not want to be late .
The following day, the camp was filled up, the excerise started in earnest, what we saw in Calabar paled in comparison. Exercises started from the wake-up call of 4a.m with lunch breaks and siesta breaks in between. These activities were punctuated with periodic screening of credentials and more needle pricks and lab tests.
In the hostel, I initiated a morning prayer routine, in reality, my day had never been completed without a morning prayer. During the prayer sessions, I could sometimes chip in prophetic utterances to spice up the morning and to my astonishment and the astonishment of my roommates, the words would come to pass. There was this particular morning when one girl complained of missing credentials. I called a prayer and we prayed for the missing credentials and I prophesied to the girl that the credentials would be found that same day. She found the credentials quite right, but she was responsible for the loss. She had hidden them for the sheer intention of causing alarm during screening that morning. She hid them because they were forged. We had pronounced ominous curses on the thief's and she was scared of the curses if she did not produce the credentials. From the day of the missing and found result, my mates started looking on to me with respects. I performed more miracles and voiced out more of God's words.
On the third day, we gathered in the hall to be addressed by the Chief of Air Staff who had arrived from Lagos for that purpose. Besides him, the assistant, who was in charge of the recruitment training with a long list in his hands. He called out four names from the list, my name being the first and said we were to meet with the Wing Commander in charge to our hostel immediately before any further announcements could be made. As soon as our names were called, we found ourselves in a circle of soldiers who herded us off like sheep who have suddenly developed lion's fangs. We were marched towards the hostel and when we got there, we were ordered to pack our belongings. Puzzlement defined our postures as we started packing. Then one bold girl stood up and demanded for our offence. “Shut up, the solider favoured her with a whip lash on her back, shut up and continue packing, you felt you could sneak into the Airforce, you are asking me what your offence is, you want me to believe that you did not know before you came here that you have AIDS!
I froze in the act of packing and immediately stretched out as a stinging pain tore across my back. “Pack, the soldier commanded, “what are you pausing for, you pretender, all of you knew your status and you want to bring it here and infect us, God has disgraced you today, pack my friend”
My head started spinning, AIDS! I did not get it, AIDS, after all the gruesome tests in Calabar only last month. When did AIDS crawl into my blood? I know myself, I had been enforcing the Zip-Up edict long before this time. Good God!
That day, we were escorted outside the gate and it was locked and barred as soon as we stepped outside, we looked at ourselves, one of my roommates looked at my downcast frame and started laughing, even you, Prophet Agnes! Na wa o!. I kept mute.
I sneaked into our house after dark, I had to wait at the motor park until it is quite late. Mum was sitting in the parlour when I opened the door, she saw my face and rose up, as soon as she came near, I let out a flood of tears and wept like I had never done before in my entire life. The wailing attracted my dad who came out of his bedroom to inquire in an anxious but firm voice what the problem is. “I have tested positive to HIV” I mumbled and started weeping again, this time mum join in the wail but dad maintained a stoic silence. I was their only child after the death of my two siblings in road accident two years back.
Dad quietly went inside, dressed up and went out while mum and I wept ourselves to sleep right on the parlour floor.
The following day, I started contemplating the best method of committing suicide. I did not want to live long enough for the news to spread. I wanted to spare my parents’ name. My parents were not as rich or as comfortable as most people but they had their own share of detractors. Both disciplinarians, dad was a school principal while mum was a headmistress.
Apparently suicide was out of the question in this case. In my culture, the corpses of suicide victims are dumped in the evil forest. This mode of burial would have done untold damage to my parents’ reputation.
I remember reading somewhere about arsenic and its slow but sure killing effects. A housewife had used it for her husband to prevent it being known that he had been poisoned. The investigator had been told by the doctor that arsenic injected in small quantities can kill the victim who may eventually die of heart attack instead poisoning.
I managed to lay my hands on some qualities of arsenic which I started eating in small quantities everyday. It did not possess any unique taste and I only felt slight dizzy after the third day.
On the fourth day, I vomitted blood, mum rushed me to the hospital, according to her I had fainted after vomitting a lot of blood.
After a week in the hospital, I was stronger and the dizzy feeling had totally disappeared. Two days later, my parents came to my hospital room together, it was strange to see dad accompanying mum, usually, he would come to visit before or after work. Mum used to come on her own because she would prepare something for me to eat before coming and dad would not have time to wait for her. This day, however, they came together and in answer to my curious questions mum explained that the doctor had summoned dad and requested both of them to be around because he had something to tell the three of us.
The doctor came in shortly after this explanation, apologised for keeping us and proceeded to address my parents. “We took a culture of your daughter's blood, Mr. Eze, the doctor announced. I am sorry to say this but we believe your daughter has been poisoning herself, we found a considerable amount of arsenic in her blood, she was lucky to survive, the percentage of the drug in her blood was quite high. Maybe your daughter has an explanation as to what would make her want to commit suicide, that is the reason for my summoning this meeting. If there is anything, it would be best if it is addressed here so that if need be we could attach a counsellor to her case.
Mum spoke through tears “Agnes, said she, you don't have to kill yourself, we could not abandon you even if every other person does, we love you, you are precious to us in spite of everything.
My dad supported mum's sentiment, he told me that he had called friends outside the country to assist us with the first batch of antiretroviral drugs for my condition.
The doctor voiced out before my dad could continue, what condition are you talking about? he asked, I don't understand, the drugs you mentioned are administered to AIDS patients! I was so angry at this dumb statement, I screamed out at the poor man .. shut up, I said, are you so daft, you could detect arsenic in my blood and not detect the HIV virus that had been there for God knows how long?
HIV! exclaimed the doctor, your blood has been on culture since the first day you came here, there's no HIV in your blood!
Subject: Re: What if this happened to you ?
From: Pa javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 11:29:53 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-66-56-36-91.hsd1.ga.comcast.net at 66.56.36.91
Message:
Second and even third oppinions are always good in such cases. Misdiagnosis have happened in many medical tests. It has happend to me before. The unfortunate side of your case is that you have no recourse with the millaitary in Africa.
Subject: Road rehabilitation starts in Makeni
From: GOOD JOB
To: All
Date Posted: 15:33:34 12/22/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.106.50.5
Message:
Road rehabilitation starts in Makeni
A three-month contract has reportedly been awarded to Senegalese Company - CSE - by the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Government for the construction of major roads in the Makeni Township. According to report, the construction work started last Monday, 15th December, attracting hundreds of onlookers at the Independence Square in Makeni as the two giant caterpillar machines started work along the Magburaka Road.
Subject: Re: Road rehabilitation starts in Makeni/I am Confused
From: musa Kalawa
To: All
Date Posted: 02:10:02 12/23/06 ()
Email Address: muskalawa@yahoo.com
Entered From: adsl-69-230-209-225.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.230.209.225
Message:
Why all of a sudden the upsurge of major developemental overhaul in Sierra Leone? Is this not a premature way of telling the people of Sierra Leone to Vote the sitting government (SLPP) in power come july 2007 election? First we heared of the BLOOD BUSES donated by the So-Call Lybian Government, the reconstruction of the peninsular road and more over, the bringing back to life the street light system from Clinetown to Kingtom bridge....Remember, once a fool is not but twice a fool is an idiot.
Subject: Re: Road rehabilitation starts in Makeni/I am Confused
From: Concern citizen
To: All
Date Posted: 13:23:18 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: p57a74e91.dip.t-dialin.net at 87.167.78.145
Message:
Yours truly.I am surprise to your negative response to the ongoing upgrading of roads in makeni,you people are enemy of the state,you want to see the populace of makeni in backward or deplorable condition of the days of momoh ekutay APC and NPRC of strasser and bio.Please leave the development of the town to the authorities to do their job.
Subject: Re: Road rehabilitation starts in Makeni/Responds 2U
From: musa Kalawa
To: All
Date Posted: 13:41:02 12/23/06 ()
Email Address: muskalawa@yahoo.com
Entered From: adsl-75-22-35-96.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net at 75.22.35.96
Message:
First you should be able to identify youeself so we can tell who you are. However, I was not trying to crititize. I was simply trying to get things straight. Yes I appreciate every little erffort any sitting Government offerd to its' people, though it was long over due.
I am mearly trying to raise an eyebraw of concern to the voters of Sierra Leone Come july 2007 elections. Is this not part of the believe we suppose to have in our demortracic process in Sierra Leone?
Subject: Re: Road rehabilitation starts in Makeni/Responds 2U
From: Concern citizen
To: All
Date Posted: 14:10:44 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: p57a74e91.dip.t-dialin.net at 87.167.78.145
Message:
I am a concern citizen who doesnt belong to no party and region.My concern is to see sierra leonean in a proud and prosperous,well to do families.The sierra leone i want to see is a sierra leone of patriot and nationalistic mentalitat,not of bogus idealist that will end up to foreigners,as to the days of old APC of momoh,and tribalist SLPP of kabbah and berewa.I fear no one,respct of the youths because they are the future rulers of tomorrow.Old sierra leone politician are the course of the problem in sierra leone.May the lord redeem us from this bondage,the soul of the innocent who died for no real causes rest in peace.
Subject: Re: Road rehabilitation starts in Makeni/Responds 2U
From: musa Kalawa
To: All
Date Posted: 01:58:19 12/24/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-69-230-209-225.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.230.209.225
Message:
Thanks, That makes lot more sense.
Subject: Re: Road rehabilitation starts in Makeni/I am Confused
From: APC Man
To: All
Date Posted: 03:00:53 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.106.39.216
Message:
Musa,
I made the same point to someone this evening and I was told the following: A lot of these projects are starting now or getting completed now because the so-called funds that were promised (for these things) about 3 to 4 years ago only became available recently.
Whatever the case, it is better late than never.
Subject: How to Win the Election
From: First Political Analylt
To: All
Date Posted: 10:40:40 12/22/06 ()
Email Address: fpolian@aol.com
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.8
Message:
It is very simple, and not a lot of diction, if political aspirant do not follow their pride,APC and PDMC combine they will surely defeat the SLPP goverment who has being inadequte in suppling the needs of her citizens and are plauged with corrupt politician and civil servants. Berewa is going to be playing dirty and if they combine they will defeat his evil tricks, if not we will have to go through with a President that do no have no possitive agender and cannot be questioned only if you want to end up in Padember Road or executed like the 24 soilder. Remember his record as AG. We need a change, new blood or breed of politicians who will have Sierra leone at heart, who will educate her citizens not to be tribalistic, but partriotic, seeking the county's interest at heart. But O how soon we forget, Electricity now, it is only temporarily, do you see how dark the place is even with the street lights on, what does that tell you, low KWA that will soon burn itself out immediately after the holidays. Vote for APC and PDMc Combined and hope fully we will not see to many recycled politician who are still living in dark ages. The word to the wise is quite sufficient.
Subject: Re: How to Win the Election
From: Delaw
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:53 12/22/06 ()
Email Address: lawlawde80@yahoo.com
Entered From: user-0c2ikij.cable.earthlink.net at 24.41.82.83
Message:
Mr Analyst, if u really want to campaign this forum is not meant for that. Sure ur wishful illusions about APC and PMDc for a brighter Sierra Leone will only remain what they are and nothing else. As a rightful patriot you should show solidarity that electricity is back and in full force on the streets of Freetown. There is no need for hate or PHD syndrome here mr. You are in another land backslided by i dont know what and all you could do is write some sacastic comment about progress in the land you so claim to love??? you APC, PMDc or whatever the hec you call yourself are really full of hate. Why cant you people learn a simple lesson for a minute. Whether you like it or not Sierra Leone will prevail once again as the anthems of West Africa, so keep hating fooooooool. Go finish your nursing home tripple shift that some of you are cloned to. Wasteful dough bag keep talking trash.
Subject: Re: How to Win the Election
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 11:15:42 12/22/06 ()
Email Address: njai@comcast.net
Entered From: static-70-20-197-79.phil.east.verizon.net at 70.20.197.79
Message:
You have said it all, the APC and PMDC will never combine as they are both full of negative pride. Remember 1996, Margai did not accept the running-mate position and up to the last time I checked, Koroma is still fighting with others in the APC for the leadership of the party.
I am not too sure which 24 soldiers you are refering to but if they were layal soldiers and not politicians in uniform then... over to you again.
Subject: Justin Musa is in the United States
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 07:22:52 12/22/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.116.198
Message:
How did a major flight risk, Justin Musa, come to the United States? He is here now. How will he be prosecuted? Does anyone think Justin would go back to Sierra Leone? Does anyone think that the Government would recover monies from Justin.
Was he ever jailed? Who released him? Did he escape? Is the Government trying to do a cover up?
Subject: Re: Justin Musa is in the United States
From: sahr musa yamba
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:33 12/22/06 ()
Email Address: sahrmusayamba@yahoo.co.uk
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Message:
Justin Musa's move to the US was stagemanaged. I remember speaking to ACC boss, Joko, while as editor of Concord Times, and he told me, in a press conference, that he was not willing to allow the man (Justin) go because his medical report was questionable. But he had to allow Justin move on because....
So, forget it, Justin is not going back to Salone and the money he stole should be written off as bad debt.
Sorry, but that is the fact!
Subject: Re: Justin Musa is in the United States
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 00:09:34 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Not so fast.
If he is convicted and a verdict is pronounced We would seek the American Government's help.
Subject: Re: Justin Musa is in the United States
From: APOPKA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:33:17 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Alie, be specific here...who would seek the American Government's help? You? the slpp government, or the APC party?
Subject: Freetown Street Light Turned on!!!!!!
From: APC Man
To: All
Date Posted: 00:17:41 12/22/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
After so many years of darkness on the streets of Freetown, residents were shocked to see the lights turned on. From Up-gone Turntable to Kingtom, the lights on the streets came alive about two days or so ago.
Kudos to the gov't for finally listening to the demands of the people - is it election politics? You decide.
Subject: Re: Freetown Street Light Turned on!!!!!!
From: Pa javombo
To: All
Date Posted: 11:05:02 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-66-56-36-91.hsd1.ga.comcast.net at 66.56.36.91
Message:
This is good news. We will take anything Santa brings us at this time of the year. We have suffered for too long. But I still have a wait and see attitude to this good news.
When people go jubillating in the streets at the sight of electricity in 21st century Sierra Leone when even to the Monks of Mongolia is a way of life, it makes me wonder who we are and where we have been.There was light in Bo when I was born some&%%% years ago.To call the availabilty of light as development is a little worrisome.
But let us remember that Freetown is not Sierra Leone and even in Freetown it is not all areas that have light. I know my folks as of this morning are still using the Kabbah Tiger I bought for them
I hope it will not turn out to be Receive light today and get a whopping bill tomorrow.
Talking about bill, this so-called electricity will only be sustainable if people are able to pay their bills and those ebills paid into the right coffers for the maintenance of the machines.While it is good that light is in some parts of Freetown, did the govt take in consideration how people will pay the bills for the service? We all know the earning power in Sierra Leone. How is a teacher earning Le 150.000.00/mo going to pay for the srvices?We will end up having it for the sole comfort of the elite or back to darkness as there will be no money to maintain the machines. As things stand today this govt does not have the testicular fortitude to prosecute those who will be found wanting in the handling of the bills paid and there are going to be many. I say this because the president himself lamented at one time that the govt. has given all the necessary tools to Kigtom Killowatt men/women for the delivery of electricity. The Killowatts, the president said had converted the materials to their personal use.
Yet again with the presiden't personal knowledge of this coruuption, no head rolled. Instead like Kanji Daramy of SALPOST coruption these Killowats were promoted.
All I cay say is let the Holiday revellers enjoy. Their dollars, Pounds, Euros and Francs are needed.
Subject: Re: Freetown Street Light Turned on!!!!!!
From: Not APC man
To: All
Date Posted: 04:30:57 12/22/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
It does not make much difference, when you have day light robbery at places like Wilberforce Street, Siaka Stevens Street at 9 am?????
Subject: Re: Freetown Street Light Turned on!!!!!!
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 05:03:02 12/23/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: px2nr.wp.shawcable.net at 24.66.94.141
Message:
Shama on you.
Subject: Re: Freetown Street Light Turned on!!!!!!
From: sahr musa yamba
To: All
Date Posted: 16:04:34 12/22/06 ()
Email Address: sahrmusayamba@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: wnpgmb01dc2-38-198.dynamic.mts.net at 142.161.38.198
Message:
Too little too late! It is all capaign stunt. I suffered in darkness for months and spent a fortune on 'Kabbah Tiger,' will my money be refunded? No!
Any way, in as much as it is a good achievement, let's wait and see if it is sustained.
Lonta!
Subject: Re: Freetown Street Light Turned on!!!!!!
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 05:25:57 12/25/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: px2nr.wp.shawcable.net at 24.66.94.141
Message:
I guess you are now in winnipeg as i do,you will not live in darkness but you will pay all your bills eventhough you never paied bills in Freetown,Bo,Kenema,maneni etc.I hope you will preach better life to people back home.
Subject: Re: Freetown Street Light Turned on!!!!!!
From: APC Man
To: All
Date Posted: 10:35:55 12/22/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.106.50.5
Message:
Reducing robbery is not the reason why the gov't worked hard to turn the street lights on. It might deter some small time crooks from preying on people on the streets at night, but the big time criminals will always break into houses/shops irrespective of these lights.
Subject: Re: Freetown Street Light Turned on!!!!!!
From: APC Man
To: All
Date Posted: 10:16:35 12/22/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.106.50.5
Message:
What has having street lights on got to do with robbery in the morning, day time or at night?
What drug are you on???
God you people will find a way to criticize your country and the gov't, no matter what they do.
To put it mildly in creole, you get "bad-heart", but e go lef pan you. Sa. Lone go move forward without pad hart monkey lek you
Lonta
Subject: Re: Freetown Street Light Turned on!!!!!!
From: Kailondo
To: All
Date Posted: 16:41:22 12/22/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
i am pmdc supporter and we should be in a position to give praise where praise is due. Kudos to slpp for restoring street lights in freetown. on this ocassion i think president kabbah has done extremely well. please keep up the good work your excellency.
Subject: Re: Freetown Street Light Turned on!!!!!!
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 17:30:34 12/22/06 ()
Email Address: futatoro@gmail.com
Entered From: adsl-75-21-43-56.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net at 75.21.43.56
Message:
Brah, They the slpp are just hoodwinking the thousands of Saloneans who are on annual pilgramage. So they make sure lights are on in Freetown.
slpp supporters dem bikful oh,
Yaya Fanusie
Subject: Re: Freetown Street Light Turned on!!!!!!
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 18:08:33 12/22/06 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: px2nr.wp.shawcable.net at 24.66.94.141
Message:
Is this not what we refer to as development? Guys lets praise Kabba as they never made such a campaign around America,England etc.
Subject: Re: Freetown Street Light Turned on!!!!!!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:50:30 12/26/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 216.190.22.163
Message:
Let me appologize for posting in the wrong thread, I had opened it while I typed the following response somewhere else.
Greetings my brothers and sisters. The essence of decentralization is to prevent bi-partisan politics and the slow-down of development in the country. The reason the politics of Sierra Leone has been a "we against them" issue is because the lack of the right communication tools, which can be employed to sensitize the people: inform them of political issues, governmental issues, economic issues, social issues and national issues, which has forced people of every denomination, tribe, section and gender to want to belong to something. The lack of these communication tools has forced the congestion that we see in the city. Most people are not recognized for the good they do but these good is attributed to the government of the day. In that case therefore, we have seen an-fighting that has resulted in the malfunctioning, degradation or degeneration of many areas of our socio-economic life.
The National Power Authority should be commended for the lights and not only the government. I have read through your posts but I have hardly seen any good-did attributed to the National Power Authority. This is the reason why whenever a government is elected or ascends to power, until they use force, most of the areas of the socio-economic development of the country lacks because when the powers are centralized and when all the praise for whatever goes right in the country is attributed solely to the government, members of other parties tend to undermine such good operation because they are not party members and have not been recognized for the good they do. This is the reason for most of the failures attributed to the A.P.C. governments and the same goes for the current S.L.P.P. government.
To avoid this tug-of-war, it is prudent that there be decentralization of significant areas of our socio-economic development so as to prevent the development of these areas from being a politic but national issue. When it becomes a national issues whereby, patriotism is respected and valued, the tendency for anyone to undermine any government will be minimized. It is important that we view and do things in national interest. Most of the theft that goes on in Sierra Leone, which has caused the degeneration of water supply, electricity supply or payment of employees salaries is due to the lack of patriotism and more of self-aggrandizement. Can that help a nation or any individual, my answer is no because such nationalistic agendas steals an indivudal's self-esteem and self-worth. Without which, one can only fool themselves because their pillows also remind them of not being worthy of what one posses wrongly.
Sierra Leone should be our ultimate goal and Sierra Leone should be our pride.
Subject: PUJEHUN DISTRICT:
From: Almamy Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 17:33:35 12/21/06 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: hs02nichols3.cpmc.columbia.edu at 156.111.41.39
Message:
Can some one help me with the following questions:
Population?
Number of Chiefdoms?
Number of Schools (elementary and Secondary)?
Tertiary Institutions?
Hospitals/Health Centers?
Main Agricultural Produce and Marine Resources?
Minerals?
Tourism/Places of Interest?
Infrastructure/Accessible Roads?
Clean Drinking water?
Electricity?
Distance from Freetown, Bo, Kenema,Monrovia, and Makeni?
Climatic Conditions?
Size as compared to other districts
Subject: SYLVIA Blyden
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 07:20:16 12/21/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.71
Message:
Rev...
A few days ago you promised that you will work with the forum moderator to ensure that no defamatory postings are made about Sylvia over this festive period. So what is going on....some idiots are still trying to mess up this forum and spoil averybodys christmas.
What ever you think of Sylvia, people knew her past when they were friends with her, in some cases working closely with her, and in others writing glowing references about her...all these happened after the nasty RUF debacle. It is therefore a matter of fact that the current hatred for Sylvia has nothing to do with her past, but something personal in most cases, which should not be brought into public discussion forums like this.
As long as Sylvia continues to fight for the rights of the ordinary citizen not to be defamed in Sa Lone, and especially, as long as she continues to fight some one as ODIOUS as OLU (all mendes are bad) Gordon then people like me will continue to support
her. Untill you guys come clean about this Sylvia issue I will continue to have my suspicions.
I will personally collect money from every Mnede person and their friends I know in the Uk to send as a fighting fund if sylvia ever wants to fight OLU(all Mendes are Bad) Gordon...
We know that half of the other idiots that lambast Sylvia,on a regular basis on this forum are simply the usual suspects, who are anti-SLPP,who attack Sylvia for her determination to talk about SLPP success stories.... they should, therefore, never be taken seriously.
Merry Charitmas....I hope!
Subject: Re: AT THE SAME TIME...SYLVIA Blyden
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 08:37:49 12/21/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196
Message:
CADMUS,
Many people would think that you too does not deserve to be allowed to post here because some of the opinions you express are wrong and bigoted. You people need to leave this tribalism thing alone.
If the Moderator and Forum Police decide that we delete, we will delete your posts too because they are tribalistic and divisive.
You have a right to support Sylvia Blyden in the controversies she keeps churning --And so do others who detest what she is doing. They are entitled to their opinions, especially where you false accuse them of hating Sylvia for personal reasons.
I personally disagree with you that people hate Sylvia. What I believe is what somebody else said here : UDAT TROWAY ASHES, ASHES GO FALLAH AM.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA Blyden
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 08:30:27 12/21/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196
Message:
CADMUS,
Without even finishing to read your article ,since I am very busy, I am also concerned about some of the posts but when you start to delete people's posts the cry will come up that we are not democratic.
Secondly, if contributors can desist from name-calling, their contributions can be excused by the fact that Miss Blyden herself keeps churning up conflicts that hinge on national issues .Maybe, what people need to do is debate these issues to give their opinions on them, instead of calling names. We want to give everybody a fair chance to let out steam. If it is a matter of national interest, they can discuss it but they should stick to the issues and not be verbally abusive.
Moderator and Forum Police, what say ye ?
Subject: Re: SYLVIA Blyden
From: ABK
To: All
Date Posted: 09:24:19 12/21/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ca32-ch01-bl08.ny-newyorkc0.sa.earthlink.net at 207.69.138.13
Message:
Kabs,you got it right this guy(Cadmus) is the worst bigot on this forum.He is not even in the same level with Sengbe.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA Blyden
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 07:58:47 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.79
Message:
ABK,
Thank you, so there are vaeying degrees of bigots, and I am not to the level of Sengbe..you are not educated so you do not know the meaning of the word Bigot..so just go away.
Subject: Re: SYLVIA Blyden
From: ABK
To: All
Date Posted: 11:45:16 12/23/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ca1462-ch01-bl08.ma-cambridg0.sa.earthlink.net at 207.69.137.207
Message:
I repeat Cadmus is the premier bigot on this forum and incase you don't know what bigot means;it means intolerant of another's creed,belief or opinion.Now,digest this definition and take a hard look at yourself and tell me if you are not a bigot.
I agree I am not educated but at least I don't murder the english language as you do.Point of correction you said,"I am not to the level of Sengbe",it should have read:I am not at the level of Sengbe.Now take your so called education and shove it.
Subject: King Suluku's decisive journey across Biriwa
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:16:45 12/21/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
KING SULUKU’S DECISIVE JOURNEY ACROSS BIRIWA
One day King Suluku set out on foot with an entourage across the sprawling hills of Biriwa for a trip to the village of Kateneh, a long distance away from Kamabai. This was one of those royal journeys that accorded the King the opportunity to meet with his people. With his army beside him he ventured the Camels Back which was and still is the tallest hill over looking Kamabai, before making the royal journey. The Camels Back was a strategic security viewing post from where the King received clearance for his trip.
From atop the Camels Back, the King could see many miles away across Biriwa and if anything suspicious as a security risk he would abort his trip and summon his advisers for an assessment of the security threat.
King Suluku was a warrior who had his wits around him He could prepare for battle at a moment’s notice. On this day of viewing, the King saw no big risk except for a gang of gorillas venturing close to a nearby village called Kamagbemgbe.
Wearing a Ronko, the traditional outfit of Limbas, with a spear in his hand, the King’s General led the way. A few miles into the journey, the general was confronted by several stubborn gorillas that would not yield so that the entourage would move on. The General waved his hand and made sounds the gorillas could understand so that they may disperse. But these were not your everyday gorillas. They were hungry for food and stood ten feet tall. Defiant and threatening, the gorillas beat their chests as if ready for war.
Seeing this, the General commanded the entourage to take a break. He then whispered to King Suluku the magnitude of the threat and after a word with the King he proceeded to mobilze his army into combat readiness for an eventual extermination of the gorillas if they failed to yield.
In Unisom, the Biriwa army roared the song of war:
E woggi woggi woggi woggi wone wolowonso
Na nan dae na nan conday.
E woggi woggi woggi woggi wone wolowonso
Na nan dae na nan conday.
Wait! Cried out the King to his general. He remembered that he had with him the white man’s magic - a bag full of gun powder. Take this and light it up, he said to his General. By this time the gorillas were already charging at the entourage.
The gun powder was lit just in time and a loud boom was heard throughout Biriwa and beyond. Running helter skelter, and felling trees as they ran, the gorillas dispersed frantically. The villagers were amused and every one laughed and sang, hail to the King.
Continuing on the journey to Kateneh, the entourage reached the village of Kamanameh. The King was greeted with pandemonium. A fight was about to ensue between cattle owners, mainly Fullas who were strangers from Guinea and the Farmers who were indigenous native Limbas. The Farmers gripe was that cattles roamed everywhere leaving them with nowhere to grow their crops and when they do grow crops the cattle eat them.
The King was in familiar territory as he was accustomed to settling disputes among his subjects. ‘Send them away’ a voice cried out to the King and another voice said ‘jail them’. But the King sat patiently until all testimonies were heard. He then cleared his throat and said:
My fellow Limbas, the Fullahs are our strangers.
They came here from far way sister lands and have
assimilated. We gave them our daughters to marry
and their offsprings are our relatives. Let us treat
them as we treat ourselves. As regards the cattle
problem it shall come to pass as I now demand
that all cattles be raised in a Warreh with strong
fences and any cattle that stray away is fair game.
Lonta.
Hail to the King, Hail to the King, the strangers and the natives cried out. Once again King Suluku has left an indelible impression among his subjects as an able leader with vision for the future. He has shown that he loved his strangers and would do anything to protect them and his people.
Next, the entourage reached the village of Kanthiri. The King sat down for a drink of palm wine with the village headman. It was locust season. Little did anyone know that locust was about to arrive. Locusts are insects that fly hundreds of miles in millions and eat selected vegetation along their path. They can devour hundreds of acres of farm crops in less than a minute. Legends have it that they appear once every fifty years. Before the King could have a good sip of palm wine and belch the words ‘Ah! from God to man’ there came running a woman crying as she approached the village.
What is it? King Suluku asked. Locust have eaten all our crops. King Suluku sent word across his chiefdom telling villagers to use nets to catch the locusts, dry them and eat them. He dispersed his army to help the villagers catch enough to last for the entire season.
Upon reaching Kateneh, thousands of villagers from across Biriwa turned up to receive him. Among the hosts were Mandingoes, Lokos and a handful of white missionaries.
To be continued xxxxxxxx.
Translated by Alie Formeh Kamara
Subject: Re: King Suluku's decisive journey across Biriwa/Continued
From: musa Kalawa
To: All
Date Posted: 05:11:38 12/23/06 ()
Email Address: muskalawa@yahoo.com
Entered From: adsl-69-230-209-225.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.230.209.225
Message:
Upon reaching Kateneh, thousands of villagers from across Biriwa turned up to receive him. Among the hosts were Mandingoes, Lokos and a handful of white missionaries.
His eloquent method of approach continue to earn him respect not only among his subjects, his might continue to amaze other kings in the suburban regions of what was then known as (Ro-keyamp)in Temne and in today’s English meaning Freetown. Remember, King Suluku was no stranger to our forefather (King Bai Bureh)who wage a strong revolt against the British imposition of tax on his subject, Suluku play a great instrumental role in helping Bai Bureh strengthening his army against the fight with the British with regards to the Hot Tax War. He helps guarantee fair trade dealings with Bai Bureh's folks and his (Suluku's) empire. As King Bai Bureh was also known for his greatness in fighting, He also earns himself greater respect among other sub regional Kings and Leaders of modern day Sierra Leone. But don't forget, Bai Bureh never was interested in making friends with weak leaders in a heart beat, he will not hesitate to topple a leadership he identify as weak and turn them his slaves. Bai Bureh only came to earn the respect of King Suluku, when he (Bai Bureh) visited Sulukus empire on one occasion due to their diplomatic ties they earlier have. King Suluku seize the opportunity to demonstrate his military might which left a remarkable respect in the minds of the two leaders of which we continue to enjoy on to this modern day of today’s. King Suluku, upon arrival at Kateneh, summons all the surrounding leaders which comprises not only of Limbas, but of Fulas, Loko, Mandingos and some Yolenkahs. He inform them about the purpose of his visit, and the appearance of the other race (the white man) from Britain or of the clouds and
To be continued........................
Subject: Swegbe Justin Musa is in New york not SL jail
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 05:38:48 12/21/06 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I have long heard that Swegbe Justin Musa was here in the Albany area with his family. I was told this five months ago. But last week, my wife confirmed speaking with Justin Musa at an African Grocery store. He, Justin Musa did not recognize my wife.
Was Justin ever imprisoned? For how long? Were the stollen Billions of leones ever recovered? Did justin escapr from prison?
If anyone wants information from me regarding Swegbe Justin Musa send me an Email at Smoothgems@aol.com with the subject matter: Justin Musa
What is really justice under the SLPP government? I wonder what Joko Smart has to say about this?
Subject: Bad-art Rebel Harlot
From: No !!To Awareness-dat
To: All
Date Posted: 17:23:43 12/20/06 ()
Email Address: napoleon@waterloo.kom
Entered From: 5ac25fd6.bb.sky.com at 90.194.95.214
Message:
Please unu warn da rebel ooman make e lef for speak evil of the dead. E tif papa wae dae forge charity invoice nar London for buy motocar (evidence available) nor fit tinap before de memory of my dead relative (RIP). Tell am say make e quit while e dae ahead leh (SFO-UK) den nor deport e papa for fraud comot nar London. Lonta.
Subject: Re: Bad-art Rebel Harlot
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 06:33:06 12/21/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.71
Message:
Here We Go Again....even na Christmas time unu nor go lef this woman?
That is interesting, I never knew Sylvia's Dad was in the UK...Thanks for the information.
It is a shame that it comes from people like you, a Coward...Why don't you give your proper name,I will then recommend the name of a good Libel Layer in the Strand to Pa Blyden, then you can produce you so-called evidence in the Courts in London..this is not Sa Lone where Libel goes for nothing, and Journalists are fighting for more rights to Defame innocent citizens at their will.
As I said before, The more you attack her the more people like me feel justified to defend her, and as long as she continues to fight for the rights of Sierra leoneans not to be gratuitously Defamed, and fights people like OLU( all Mendes are bad) Gordon,then she is worth defending.
Subject: Re: Bad-art Rebel Harlot
From: Justice
To: All
Date Posted: 10:16:17 12/21/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196
Message:
Cadmus does not even know that Babatunde lives in Britain but he wants to defend him.This guy is sick.
Subject: Re: Bad-art Rebel Harlot
From: PUBLIC ENEMY
To: All
Date Posted: 19:17:40 12/20/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.116.198
Message:
Has everyone seen what I have seen ? Sylvia Blyden may be enjoying all this spotlight she is giving herself. I strongly suspect that she is using notoriety for a purpose. Otherwise, what joy can a serious human being derive from being Public Enemy ?
Subject: Re: Bad-art Rebel Harlot
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 07:24:15 12/21/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.71
Message:
If you were educated, I would have tried to explain to you that ...'not everything the publuc is interested in is in the public interest..' think about it.
Which part of the public is Sylvia's enemy?please explain if you can..
Subject: Re: Bad-art Rebel Harlot
From: Patriot
To: All
Date Posted: 08:43:32 12/21/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196
Message:
Cadmus, you are dishonest. Because somebody now cunningly pretends to support a tribe she had condemned in the vilest language before does not mean she is pursuing the national interest.You need to think about the country's overall interest, which I suspect you are not doing. Sierra Leone is bigger than tribe, you know.
Subject: For Mr. Steven N Rogers
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:46:42 12/19/06 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 216.190.22.163
Message:
Greetings my brothers and sisters Mr. Steven N Rogers, what has she specifically done is what most of us would like to know. We have heard that she joined the rebels. Let us assume that is true. But to date, no one has specially given us detailed information as to the part she played. Besides, even before the end of the war, Dr. Blyden was hanging heads with the President himself, Dr. Alhaji Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. Recently, a reporter or contributor if you will, indicated here that her newspaper is about to be placed in the Vice President and Presidential aspirant, Hon. Solomon Berewa's office. This to me indicates that she must not have played an ugly role during the war. That not withstanding, the International Criminal Court did not name her nor indict her for any role she played in the war. Therefore, in the absence of such arrest or indictment if you will, and for the fact that we, all Sierra Leoneans and the International Community decided, in order for peace to prevail in our beloved country, Sierra Leone, that we put the past behind us and move forward as a people. That we embrace all members of our community, be them rebels or rebel supporters to the core and fabric of our society. This is how some rebels members were employed to serve in the military; this is how some of them became parliamentarians or are playing key roles in the country. In that case therefore, I see no relevance in the pursuit of such claims of her involvement in the war and I see no base in accusations that are not purported by any evidence.
I would like you and her contemporaries or detractors to know that they are not only talking for people with the same mindset but the International Community as a whole. We who are trying to see that they bring forward a case, know for fact that their efforts to chastise this woman in the most uncertain terms is offending the female communities around the world.
In that note, I would like to make one thing clear that because I post nude photographs of celebrities on this forum does not necessarily blind my sense or respect for women because I was born by a woman and have sisters. Nonetheless, as we have individual differences, and as these celebrities are over twenty-one, which the law permits, as it is in their cognizance that these pictures were taken and for a good cause, and as this cause involves me and humanity as a whole, I therefore, decided to be the messenger to enlighten my educated brothers and sisters when I see most of them disgracing themselves, perpetrating ignorance in the eyes of the world because they did not know what was amiss, disgrace in an unequivocal terms, particularly when such disgrace involves the entire world, that they restraint and think about their actions. It is in this vain that, as information about the issues is received that only the uninformed will act irresponsibly towards me as you have seen vividly.
By and large, I am of the impression that the newspapers or the contenders should reflect on how they can improve the quality of their reporting so as to attract the audience they wish to attract. Castigating Dr. Blyden will serve the alternate effect.
Why is this so is because we live in a democratic country, which allows freedom of opinion and freedom of speech. The entire world condemned the rebels for wanting to take power by forceful means. The same way, Johny Paul Koroma was not allowed in the 1996-97 ECOWAS summit because he grabbed power by force. As such, imposition of our opinion on other people is basically undemocratic. This being the case, the parliament and or cabinet is the only body or bodies mandated by law to ratify laws or the constitution of the nation. They do this through debates and voting. Dr. Sylvia Blyden is not a Parliamentarian nor a cabinet Minister. Therefore, her opinion or any other ordinary Sierra Leonean's opinion will matter only if such opinion carries with it the merit that is considered by a two-thirds majority within the named body or bodies. If that is the case, and if there is never a grudge that has been employed to castigate any move this lady makes, as educate people as she is, it is fitting that the contenders respond to her opinion, giving adequate counter response to whatever she might have written, responsible enough to impress the Sierra Leonean community and the mentioned body or bodies. Failure to do so but castigating her is indicative of the very despotic polity that most people, including the news media have levied against most governments. The fact that she is a woman does not oblige us to neglect our responsibilities and indulge in character assassination. This is what most reasonable people who have been following our forums since 1996 will conclude. Especially when vibrant reasons are not brought forward, and particularly when they see a replica of such grudging attack on a participant of this forum. It is based on this evident that the attacks her are reflectively baseless and grudge-related. We can never enable any government to straighten-up nor bring responsible citizenry should we remain in the mindset that because we had degrees way before people, because some are younger and others are women they must adhere to you. In such a case, we have no need for democracy but allow the brutal manner rebels stormed our nation or the coup-detats that have been part of change for Africa. Otherwise, we would allow ourselves time to convince people, as that is the reason for democracy and the reason political parties campaign for election or re-election.
In conclusion, I would like to suggest a book: The Secrete of Life (DNA.) It is eye-opening. If you would like to know why racism flourished in the early years of the 1900's and have dwindled now please read this book. If you would like to know about the Eugenic society in America and Nazism you would like to read the Scientific explanation. The book is easy to read, it is like History with Scientific undertones.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Steven N Rogers
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Date Posted: 19:27:07 12/19/06 ()
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Bambay, you nar man en haf.
Even Eldred Jones and C.P. Foray
need more than endurance to read
your pamphlets.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Steven N Rogers
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Indeed Bambay nar man en haf.
"I would like to make one thing clear that because I post nude photographs of celebrities on this forum does not necessarily blind my sense or respect for women because I was born by a woman and have sisters."
What a guy
Subject: Re: For Mr. Steven N Rogers
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 15:58:17 12/22/06 ()
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. Craiss Bambay, leave us in peace, Gongoli journalism,Another Bambay Fan, Fan of another fan of Bambay thank you for your responses. Let me start by saying that not even the sky is the limit. There are those who have gone to space and beyond. That is great effort. A forum is for people to talk what they know about or learn from those who actually know. Otherwise, we will be making a fool of ourselves. Laziness will never take one to space and back. Take it from me.
That besides the point, to respond to you, let me say that we do not need to be paid to deffend someone or request information an issue as long as we are democratically minded. Regardless of what Dr. Blyden might be, it is prudent that to fully understand what she might have done is by requesting evidences to puport allegations as most have made here. Especially when these are journalists. I am doing this not in her interest of Dr. Blyden alone but in the interest of democracy and justice for those who have suffered injustice over the years.
We can all agree on onething that Sierra Leone is a country where justice is not served equitably. Besides, there are those who are prone to dictotarial mindset, whereby, their ideas must not be challanged and one has to accept whatever they say without questioning because they should have all the right and all the say. If we are to change that mindset, it is best we start standing for something and begin demanding answers.
The anger the first respondent made is an expose of that mindset, which is the very mindset that resulted into an eleven-years brutal war in that some are not equiped enough to debate issues through democratic practice. This is the vulger manifested here because such a person wishes me to accept for granted what he or she says, hate somebody because he or she hates such a person. I am glad, I have been refined to believe that in any democratic setting, people should be heard before judgement passed on them.
I am not involved in any femist or organisation or from any feminist school of thought but I have heard and read the United States and first world countries go to Africa to cure HIV/AIDS. I have come to learn that most of what we call shamefull are not but do not consider breaking of the law, the commandments as something glarring more glarring than seeing the naked body of a willing adult celebrity who has money enough not to have exposed her body if she was not conveying a message that most of us would hate to hear. I am of the impression that it is best to see these naked beautiful women than to chop-off or cause young girls' hands to be chpped-off because of the want of money or fame. I believe that is more repungnant than watching nude cecelebrities.
How is space?
By and large, I thank you for your comments and for you who wrote with maturity please keep it up to contribute and promote a healthy and civilized debate.
My effort on the Dr. Blyden issue is to promote democracy and the sense of justice in Sierra Leone, where most people have suffered injustices because of who they are. This is not right and for me to stand for such when I do not have any evidence will be rediculus.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Steven N Rogers
From: Craiss Bambay, leave us in peace
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Date Posted: 11:33:04 12/20/06 ()
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Bambay,
How much has Worwor Sylvia paid you to defend her on this forum ? We know that because you are the most lazy, the most useless and the most unserious Sierra Leonean in America ( Not even a roof to lay your sick head ), e nor pass you for Gongoli Sylvia to bribe you to defend her on this forum. You think you can you can convince us against the obvious that we all knew that Sylvia was RUF rebel. Just leave us in peace, you craiss man.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Steven N Rogers
From: Gongoli journalism
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“I Am Not I.B. Kargbo the Buffoon in Sierra Leone. I am Olu Gordon and I Vow To Crush You!”
By Olu Gordon
Dec 20, 2006, 17:00
The notorious Olu Gordon of Peep Magazine has in a telephone call made to Dr. Sylvia Blyden, the Publisher of Awareness Times, vowed that he will use his newspaper to "crush" her and "totally destroy" her because he claims that the poem entitled, Ballad To A Sad Man that this newspaper published a few days ago was all about him.
When Dr. Blyden explained to the apoplexic Olu Gordon that the poem (which was submitted for publication by a loyal reader who goes by the pseudonym of Shackles’ 75, could not possibly be about him, he exploded further.
"Do you think I am a fool? You call my mother a night nurse? You wait for me. I am not I.B. Kargbo the buffoon who allowed you to disgrace him over radio. I am Olu Gordon and I vow to crush you!" he raged on the telephone in a fit of barely controlled anger.
Speaking in the local Krio parlance, he continued raging, "By the time I finish with you, you will know you have rubbed your waist on a pepper stone this time. Do you think you can stand up to what Standard Times, Spark and Peep are cooking up for you? You think you are tough in Sierra Leone but you are just a foolish braggart. Wait and see."
Meanwhile, Dr. Blyden has given the go-ahead to the Editorial Department of this newspaper to publish Part 2 of the poem named, Ballad to a Sad Man. This has been done today. The writer of the poem who is a loyal reader of Awareness Times has also explained that the poem was a work of fiction culled purely from his imagination and is not about anyone alive or dead.
The author also expressed surprise as to why Olu Gordon should suddenly believe that the poem was all about him when the poem made no mention of anyone named Olu but was about a fictitious character who was a sad man named Orlu who because of the frustrations that rose from the manner of his birth and his upbringing and his educational misadventures, has decided that he will ensure that no man should enjoy any form of honour on earth because he was born without honour and is living without honour himself.
The 2-part poem also highlights the role of diamba weed, drugs and alcohol in creating the sadness and wretchedness of the fictional Orlu.
© Copyright by Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Steven N Rogers
From: Another Bambay Fan
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Date Posted: 16:12:47 12/20/06 ()
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Mr.Bambay; That sounds like a well researched essay. Wow!!! I am very impressed. If only you had used such energy and intellegence and fine examples to defend someone else other than an indefensible, plague-prone, malicious, ill-motivated, greedy-monger, unpatroitic,money-hawkish,junta-turned-quack-journalist individual like Sylvia Blyden, this forum could have been a much better place.
When you talk about allegations against Sylvia Blyden, you know that the writings are definitely on the wall.We do not need a two-third majority in parliament to know that Blyden was the ninja-behind-the ninjas during the darkest days in Sierra Leone. Sylvia is very talented. Unfortunately, she used and continues to use her talent for her personal aggrandizement at the expense of her country. She spares no one including the people she works with. The moment they fall out, they are on her paper the next morning for the loan she had given them while they worked for her. Like Steven mentioned " she has no permanent friends, only permanent interests".
On a softer side, I admire that you are a respecter of women and women's rights and you are more than willing to demonstrated that by posting nude pictures of naked women on public forums much to the disapproval of everyone else. I initially thought this was a deviant behavior until you made me realize that it is part of feminism - I will be happy to know which feminist school of thought you belong to.
All that besides - happy holidays Mr. Bambay Kamara.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Steven N Rogers
From: Fan of another fan of Bambay
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Date Posted: 17:00:20 12/20/06 ()
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I liked the part below most of everything. Very funny. My sides..... Help!
"On a softer side, I admire that you are a respecter of women and women's rights and you are more than willing to demonstrated that by posting nude pictures of naked women on public forums much to the disapproval of everyone else. I initially thought this was a deviant behavior until you made me realize that it is part of feminism - I will be happy to know which feminist school of thought you belong to. "
Subject: Re: For Mr. Steven N Rogers
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 15:46:45 12/26/06 ()
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. The essence of decentralization is to prevent bi-partisan politics and the slow-down of development in the country. The reason the politics of Sierra Leone has been a "we against them" issue is because the lack of the right communication tools, which can be employed to sensitize the people: inform them of political issues, governmental issues, economic issues, social issues and national issues, which has forced people of every denomination, tribe, section and gender to want to belong to something. The lack of these communication tools has forced the congestion that we see in the city. Most people are not recognized for the good they do but these good is attributed to the government of the day. In that case therefore, we have seen an-fighting that has resulted in the malfunctioning, degradation or degeneration of many areas of our socio-economic life.
The National Power Authority should be commended for the lights and not only the government. I have read through your posts but I have hardly seen any good-did attributed to the National Power Authority. This is the reason why whenever a government is elected or ascends to power, until they use force, most of the areas of the socio-economic development of the country lacks because when the powers are centralized and when all the praise for whatever goes right in the country is attributed solely to the government, members of other parties tend to undermine such good operation because they are not party members and have not been recognized for the good they do. This is the reason for most of the failures attributed to the A.P.C. governments and the same goes for the current S.L.P.P. government.
To avoid this tug-of-war, it is prudent that there be decentralization of significant areas of our socio-economic development so as to prevent the development of these areas from being a politic but national issue. When it becomes a national issues whereby, patriotism is respected and valued, the tendency for anyone to undermine any government will be minimized. It is important that we view and do things in national interest. Most of the theft that goes on in Sierra Leone, which has caused the degeneration of water supply, electricity supply or payment of employees salaries is due to the lack of patriotism and more of self-aggrandizement. Can that help a nation or any individual, my answer is no because such nationalistic agendas steals an indivudal's self-esteem and self-worth. Without which, one can only fool themselves because their pillows also remind them of not being worthy of what one posses wrongly.
Sierra Leone should be our ultimate goal and Sierra Leone should be our pride.
Subject: I Will Not Contest In 2007 Elections"Says PMDC Strongman
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“I Will Not Contest In 2007 Elections"Says PMDC Strongman
Posted by Ayo Luk-Johnson on Dec 19, 2006, 23:52 www.standardtimespress.net
The former Minister of Energy and Power, Mr. Emmanuel Grant who in an interview with the Standard Times disclosed he was sacked behind the backdrop of his decision to support Mr. Charles Margai for the leadership of the SLPP Party, has disclosed he has no intention to contest the 2007 elections.
Mr. Grant stressed, “No! I will not be contesting for any seats in the 2007 elections.”
He continued, “I am just supporting the party, assist where I could so that we can win more support in the Western area.”Mr. Grant reiterated that he has technically won three elections in 1977, 1982, 1996 under the PRC system although he resigned when he was appointed as a cabinet minister.
“I have gone to parliament three times. We need to give others the opportunity to work for this country. One does not have monopoly of knowledge,” Mr. Grant reiterated."Lets give other capable Sierra Leoneans chance to run this country and see what they can bring to the table.Its not suppose to be the same people running the government all the time"He emphasized the need to bring more people into the machinery of government.
Meanwhile Mr. Grant has expressed his subjective view that comparatively the PMDC has an edge over the SLPP and APC, and added that he has worked in both parties and can safely say that PMDC has sober minded people and should be given the chance to rule. He continued, “we have tried these two parties and they have failed us,” noting, “they have not lived up to expectations and this time around Mr. Charles Margai will make a difference.”
Subject: THE SHAMEFUL TRUTH ABOUT FOREIGN AID IN SIERRA LEONE
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 10:27:58 12/19/06 ()
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[The following recent posting is presented here, courtesy of SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com, in the continuing effort to empower fellow S/Leoneans by sharing with them information that should make it harder for future leaders of our country to continue to be fooled by cynical foreign entities, with devastating consequences for millions of hapless S/Leoneans].
--- In SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com, MohmJ@... writes on Decemeber 19, 2006:
Greetings Fellow S/Leoneans and Friends:
If there were an annual global prize for governmental cluelessness, the perennial record holder would undoubtedly be a government from the long list of desperately poor African countries. Sadly, the successive governments in SL since 1967 would be the prohibitive favorite for the annual honor of the most clueless on earth. Cf. "How the IMF Fooled the Sierra Leone Government into Impoverishing Sierra Leone." http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_2005980.shtml
It is a testament to the depth of the hole from which our country has to climb that, here we are in the 21st century and the latest SL government still trumpets with clueless delight the most recent announcement of yet another foreign "aid" package from its undoubtedly well-meaning benefactors -- the very same, mainly Western, entities which have massively impoverished millions of S/Leoneans during the last three decades through the unwitting agency of their own blissfully derelict government.
Whether it is debt relief for SL from the Paris Club, or a grant from the World Bank, the government of SL never bothers to ask a crucial question before leaping for joy at its imagined windfall -- is this really aid and does it represent the best way to develop SL? See, for example, "How the World Bank Helped the IMF Impoverish Sierra Leone." http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20051127.shtml and also
In my humble opinion, had our successive governments back home ever asked that question, the last thing on their minds would be songs of praise and appreciation for their perceived benefactors. In testament to the truism that not all S/Leoneans are as clueless as their own government, let us now proceed to do a small part of the SL government's piling homework for it. We shall do so by posing that key question in regard to one of the latest manifestations of "aid" to our country -- the World Bank grant of $10 million to SL to which our own patriotic Daphne Sawyerr-Dunn al3rted us here last week.
According to the World Bank, "[t]he grant is designed to provide quick disbursing support to the Government's 2006 budget in a single tranche." In simple English, the Bank is giving the SL government money that it can spend immediately.
Had the World Bank left it at that, it would not have opened the door to the eminently valid charge of cynically making a fool of the SL government, yet again, by getting it to actually thank the Bank for handing it crumbs left over from the Bank's (and its cohorts') massive feasting on SL's resources. But the Bank made the additional claim that it was doling out the $10 million to help develop our country, viz.
In a message dated 12/16/2006 5:36:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dsawyerrdunn@fosalone.org, quoting a World Bank press release, wrote:
The grant will contribute to economic recovery and growth by: (1) providing foreign exchange resources for imports of essential commodities, (2) providing financial resources to the Government budget to finance priority public expenditures, (3) supporting reforms to attract private investment and (4) contributing to maintaining macroeconomic stability and low inflation, thus helping to close the financing gap in 2006.
Which raises a significant question: Is the provision of a mere $10 million (or similar) grants to the SL government the best means available to the World Bank to contribute to the improvement of the ability of the SL government to pay for essential imports, as well as services to millions of impoverished S/Leoneans, etc.? In short, is the delivery of such grants the best the World Bank can do to alleviate poverty among S/Leoneans? As anyone who is familiar with the belatedly self-admitted pervasive failure of the World Bank's policies in Africa knows, the unequivocal answer to that question is: No. As always, let us go to the evidence.
According to the IMF Country Report for SL (No. 04/420 of December, 2004), SL's imports totaled $303.7 million in 2003. In the same year, SL's exports totaled a mere $92.4 million. Therefore, in 2003, S/Leoneans spent more than three times more foreign exchange than they earned -- compared to a much worse performance the previous year, when the country spent more than five times more foreign exchange than it earned ($264.3 in imports v. $48.6 million in exports) -- a situation that the SL government could (and did) blame on the 1991--2002 "civil war."
All other things being equal, the SL government massively dug itself deeper into debt in 2003 alone -- by a staggering $211.3 million ($303.7 million in imports minus $$92.4 million in exports to pay for them). This is not an academic figure. On the contrary, it is real money that the SL government would have to pay foreign entities, comprising mainly Western countries and their surrogates, the World Bank and the IMF, as well as another of SL's biggest creditors, the Paris Club.
In order to understand the folly of the SL government rejoicing excessively whenever the World Bank, the IMF, the Paris Club, or other Western entities announce debt relief or other forms of so-called aid for our country, it is sufficient to understand how that debt came into being, in the first place -- through the catastrophic, carefully disguised gigantic Western robbery of millions of S/Leoneans that is otherwise known as devaluation.
I will detail that massive fraud and its preeminent role in the escalating, searing poverty of millions of S/Leoneans in the past three decades in my next posting. Meanwhile, I will close with a sobering thought that should put into proper perspective the even more cynically trumpeted recent "aid" from Western countries to our hapless country -- the $215 million the European Union (EU) announced three days ago it intends to provide as "development aid" to SL over the next two years.
Consider this: That "aid" to SL from the EU represents $107.5 million a year -- about half of the unacknowledged aid that SL involuntarily gave to the mainly Western countries in 2003 when, as noted above, SL's needlessly inflated high-priced imports compared to its exports resulted in the increase of SL's debt to mainly Western entities by a stagering $211.3. million in a single year!
And yet, sadly, the perennially clueless SL government dutifully rejoiced at the EU's perceived generosity, while it remained blissfully ignorant of the fact that said "generosity" actually represents only a cynical partial atonement for the far greater theft of SL's resources over the past thirty years by the very same Western culprits it regards as its benefactors! Cf. "Why the Sierra Leone Government's Poverty Reduction Strategy Will Fail." http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_2005879.shtml
Best regards,
Moh'm
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Subject: Re: THE SHAMEFUL TRUTH ABOUT FOREIGN AID IN SIERRA LEONE
From: Steven N Rogers
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Date Posted: 17:38:14 12/20/06 ()
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According to the IMF Country Report for SL (No. 04/420 of December, 2004), SL's imports totaled $303.7 million in 2003. In the same year, SL's exports totaled a mere $92.4 million. Therefore, in 2003, S/Leoneans spent more than three times more foreign exchange than they earned -- compared to a much worse performance the previous year, when the country spent more than five times more foreign exchange than it earned ($264.3 in imports v. $48.6 million in exports) -- a situation that the SL government could (and did) blame on the 1991--2002 "civil war."
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This article is missing something...the major source of Sierra Leone's foreign exchange is from the money we send back home from the west. And from a conservative point of view, it is probably three times more than the amount spent on import. This is the only thing that keeps our people going - any economic thoery on Sierra Leone that is devoid of this important fact to me is inadequate.
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Subject: Re: THE SHAMEFUL TRUTH ABOUT FOREIGN AID IN SIERRA LEONE
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 00:44:52 12/21/06 ()
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Steven N Rogers wrote on December 20, 200:
"This article is missing something...the major source of Sierra Leone's foreign exchange is from the money we send back home from the west. And from a conservative point of view, it is probably three times more than the amount spent on import. This is the only thing that keeps our people going - any economic thoery on Sierra Leone that is devoid of this important fact to me is inadequate."
Steven:
Remittances from S/Leoneans abroad into SL are not considered exports from SL. They are properly counted as financial inflows into SL.
Money sent to SL from any foreign source that is not intended to pay for goods exported from SL is accounted for in SL's balance of payments -- a measure of the net total foreign financial inflows, i.e. [export revenue plus non-export related financial inflows into SL] minus [import revenue plus non-import related financial outflows from SL].
My article addressed the issue of foreign trade (imports and exports) as a source of SL's debt burden. Remittances from S/Leoneans abroad are not considered exports or imports. Therefore, they are irrelevant in a discussion of foreign trade.
I hope the above information sufficiently clarifies the issues for you.
Subject: Re: THE SHAMEFUL TRUTH ABOUT FOREIGN AID IN SIERRA LEONE
From: Steven N Rogers
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Date Posted: 12:22:48 12/21/06 ()
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Mohamed:
Thank you for your clarification. In my haste, I didn’t have a time to read through your entire article before my first response. That not withstanding, I absolutely believe that you mentioned quite a few interesting things that need further discuss. I perfectly agree with you for the most part, although I am a little apprehensive whether this only applies to Sierra Leone when it comes to IMF and its saga in Africa. Let me just quote from your original submission.
“If there were an annual global prize for governmental cluelessness, the perennial record holder would undoubtedly be a government from the long list of desperately poor African countries. Sadly, the successive governments in SL since 1967 would be the prohibitive favorite for the annual honor of the most clueless on earth. Cf. "How the IMF Fooled the Sierra Leone Government into Impoverishing Sierra Leone." http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_2005980.shtml
I have not read the above article but from my experience, it is common knowledge that no singular institution in recent time has facilitated the debilitating spread of poverty in Africa than the IMF. Instead of being a partner in progress it prefers to remain a mere front for imperialist interests. Sierra Leone is no exception Mohamed. I have my own reservations when it comes to taking loans from IMF and or any other lending institution. Talking about cluelessness, you might want to take a comparative analysis of other countries and see for yourself first hand how IMF conditionalities have further impoverished their peoples and economies.
Mohamed, I would encourage you to embark on a brief historical excursion to what happened in Ghana in the recent past. Not so long ago, Ghana had a splendid National Health Service. Then came the IMF with a new-fanged "full-cost-recovery-plan" demanding that government remove subsidies and make the people pay for everything from education, health, water and other utilities. This ushered in a new era of cash and carry syndrome in public service. Patients pay for every visit and everything, surgery, drugs, blood, cotton wool, needle, scalpel, name it. There are recorded cases of people held prisoner in hospitals because they could not pay their medical bills and corpses not released until relatives found cash to pay. In the mean time, the cedi was in a free fall. This deliberate deception continued until Ghana progressed to a stigmatized "highly indebted poor country." To cut a long story short, Ghana embraced the IMF and its mean conditionalities, faithfully implementing first structural adjustment program, SAP, then economic recovery program, ERP, and finally, enhanced structural adjustment program, ESAP. Seventeen years down the road, that country was not only asked to declare itself bankrupt, but classified among the 24 poorest nations in the world.
Therefore, talking about “cluelessness”, one wonders whether Sierra Leone is the only country that deserves an “annual prize for global cluelessness, in as much as we would definitely be a star pupil for that prize.
It goes without saying that given the same or relatively better credit terms African countries will surely do well in fighting the ravages of poverty, illiteracy and diseases. But do the international mothers and fathers wish Africa well? For this reason African economies increasingly regress and nobody really comprehends. The more Africa plays according to the global rules to uplift itself, the more some invisible forces seem to negate everything. Africa deserves a breathing space. It does not serve the interest of humanity to suppress Africa to the status of a scavenger feeding on the rancid crumbs of global economy. We deserve a seat on the table of prosperity. The continuation of the present unfair treatment means we will ever remain in the doldrums with little prospect of becoming a partner in global affairs. To abandon all claims to these spurious debts is the least developed countries can and should do. They cannot continue to unleash
forces that promote poverty while at the same time preach democracy and human rights.
This opprobrium of the IMF does not however in anyway vindicate Sierra Leonean officials from the squalor and deprivation that pervades among that nation’s citizenry. It only speaks to the fact that there is another hypothesis for this state of seemingly permanent disrepair. Many policy analysts would see it as a conspiracy theory – on the part of both the Sierra Leonean government and the lending/loaning instintutions. But again, like I tell many people, this is subject to debate.
Steven.
Subject: Re: THE SHAMEFUL TRUTH ABOUT FOREIGN AID IN SIERRA LEONE
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Steven N Rogers writes on December 21, 2006:
"This opprobrium of the IMF does not however in anyway vindicate Sierra Leonean officials from the squalor and deprivation that pervades among that nation’s citizenry. It only speaks to the fact that there is another hypothesis for this state of seemingly permanent disrepair. Many policy analysts would see it as a conspiracy theory – on the part of both the Sierra Leonean government and the lending/loaning instintutions."
Steven:
Thank you for your rejoinder and the instructive example of Ghana's similar descent into national impoverishment at the insidious hands of the IMF and its co-conspirator in the rape of Africa, the World Bank.
While one may arguably suggest a more deserving candidate than the successive SL governments over the past 30 years, from among the inevitably African finalists, for the title of global champion of cluelessness, I know of no other African country which had the explicit, detailed, and repeated published warnings that I gave the APC governments of presidents Siaka Stevens and Joseph Momoh -- at grave risk from those murderously vindictive regimes to my barely post-teenage limbs, liberty, and even my life, between 1979 and 1985, in Freetown.
Even though you state that you haven't read the articles I referenced in my latest article in support of my thesis of unconscionable IMF and World Bank malfeasance as the preeminent -- but not the only -- cause of massive, pervasive poverty in SL, your above-quoted statement suggests that you would fully agree with the common fundamental conclusion in all of them.
In particular, here is how I put it in a typical one of my articles, entitled, "How the World Bank Helped the IMF Impoverish Sierra Leone." http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20051127.shtml
"So, who bears the greatest responsibility for the pathetic paradox of Sierra Leoneans wallowing in abject poverty amidst an abundance of minerals and other natural resources? If you answered that it is the IMF, aided and abetted by the World Bank deliberately, and, to a lesser extent, by the SL government, unwittingly, you would be absolutely right."
© 2005 Mohamed A. Jalloh
You may contact me at MohmJ@aol.com for a more structured examination of this issue.
Subject: Re: THE SHAMEFUL TRUTH ABOUT FOREIGN AID IN SIERRA LEONE
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MJ,
Debt cancellation for Nations like Salone, is indeed relative.Afrikans can indeed make the claim that her traditional exploiters...Slavers, Colonialists and HOME
GROWN Compromisers, may not be playing fair on the issue of debt relief.
Much more efforts must be expended in realising the GOALS of Economic parity for the Afrikan Continent.
MJ.your efforts to inform us on the various financial schemes that have pauperized Afrikan economies, must be noted with some kind of an award.
Our highly regarded forumites may even have ideas in that direction...recogniton and REWARD with a Afrikan
flavour!!
The salient question must be posed at this juncture.
Are Afrikans on the Continent capable of breaking free from the shackles of Economic Disadvantages,in this information driven Global economy of Today?
Your usual erudite response is anticipated.
TSTM
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Subject: Re: THE SHAMEFUL TRUTH ABOUT FOREIGN AID IN SIERRA LEONE
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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KLA:
Thank you for your kind sentiments. In truth, as much as I appreciate the rationale for your suggestion for an award for my efforts in helping our compatriots become aware of the ploys that have impoverished our country, it is reward enough for me if future S/Leonean leaders take heed of the lessons that abound in my narratives -- and avoid enabling further suffering for the people of SL at the hands of the IMF, the World Bank, and their like-minded cohorts.
As regards your interesting question, unless and until we Africans develop self-esteem, it would be hard for us to free ourselves from the mental slavery that manifests itself as fawning admiration for anything and anyone foreign and a simultaneous repudiation of comparable African things and people for no other reason than their racial differences.
It is that self-denigrating mentality that impels Africans to choose to follow transparently fraudulent IMF prescrptions to devalue their curency, despite preponderant evidence of the folly of such action provided by their fellow Africans.
In short, we will be free to act in our informed self-interest pursuant to our national interest if, and when, we finally rid ourselves of what I have publicly referred to since 2001 as Colonial Mentality.
Subject: Re: THE SHAMEFUL TRUTH ABOUT FOREIGN AID IN SIERRA LEONE
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"As regards your interesting question, unless and until we Africans develop self-esteem, it would be hard for us to free ourselves from the mental slavery that manifests itself as fawning admiration for anything and anyone foreign and a simultaneous repudiation of comparable African things and people for no other reason than their racial differences. "
...MJ.
A lack of Self esteem, others know best,FALAMAKATA and so on, are the products of an education not always suited to the overall interests of Afrikans.
How long eh go take we for get this self esteem back, so we go grow up? WE get for realize say there are aspects of Afrikan culture way don stand the tests of ages. When one travels the globe, African contributions to Global civilization becomes apparent.
All of humanity are of Afrikan descent, till proven otherwise, OUT OF AFRIKA we say!! AFRIKAN CENTERED EDUCATION must be an integral part of our Knowledge base,thus completing our learning duality of AFRIKAN WISDOM and positives of the present and future.
On a relevant note,there is the suggestion that a proper valuation of our mineral reserves, in this era of high prices,could be used to reposition our current
balance of payments. Given the importance of say GOLD etc,in Global finances,the Highly inflated LEONE could
receive a value boost, instead of the battering it is currently subjected on the currency markets.
ANY INPUT ON THIS?
Thanks again for your reply !!
TSTM
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Subject: Re: THE SHAMEFUL TRUTH ABOUT FOREIGN AID IN SIERRA LEONE
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Mohamed, I would be interested in speaking with you to see if you are my long-lost friend that I met years ago in Georgia.
Subject: Re: THE SHAMEFUL TRUTH ABOUT FOREIGN AID IN SIERRA LEONE
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Debra:
Thank you for your interest. My name, as you probably know, is a very common S/Leonean name. So, to help you out, it would be helpful to know what year you may have met me in Georgia.
Subject: Re: THE SHAMEFUL TRUTH ABOUT FOREIGN AID IN SIERRA LEONE
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Subject: Sierra Leone in debt relief deal
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BBC NEWS
Sierra Leone in debt relief deal
A young girl washes dishes in a river in Freetown, the Sierra Leone capital
Sierra Leone has made progress but still faces huge challenges
The bulk of Sierra Leone's debt will be written off after it took steps to stabilise its economy, improve governance and tackle poverty.
About 90% of the country's debt, worth about $1.6bn (£815m), will be cancelled in a series of deals with creditors including the World Bank.
The move follows last year's agreement by G8 leaders to cancel the debts of the world's most indebted countries.
Sierra Leone has been largely stable since its civil war ended in 2002.
During a visit to Sierra Leone earlier this year, World Bank boss Paul Wolfowitz praised its post-conflict recovery as the most successful in Africa.
'Milestone'
The World Bank said the debt deal was a major "milestone" for Sierra Leone, but stressed that more needed to be done to boost its economy and tackle poverty.
Sierra Leone qualified for debt relief worth $994m under the World Bank's heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) initiative after making key reforms to the economy, government administration, health and education.
Sierra Leone has made good progress toward securing macroeconomic stability
Norbert To, International Monetary Fund
Having taken these steps, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions have cancelled a further $610m in debt under the terms of a multilateral debt initiative agreed at Gleneagles in 2005.
The twin deals leave Sierra Leone with an external debt of just $110m.
The World Bank said Sierra Leone's government was committed to ensuring that the resources made available by the debt deal would be directed to growth and anti-poverty initiatives.
Ministers were also committed to tackling waste and corruption in government and public procurement, it added.
"Sierra Leone has made good progress toward securing macroeconomic stability and established a good track record of policy implementation in 2005 and the first half of 2006," said Norbert To, the IMF's most senior official in Sierra Leone.
"Looking forward, a key challenge is to sustain high economic growth rates in order to further reduce poverty while maintaining macroeconomic stability."
The Sierra Leone government said it was committed to "ridding" the country of poverty while pursuing sustainable economic growth.
Subject: Vietnamese rice experts to help farmers in war-torn Sierra L
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Vietnamese rice experts to help farmers in war-torn Sierra Leone
(16-12-2006)
A farmer in An Giang Province is taught to care for new rice varieties. Vietnamese rice-growing experts will head to Sierra Leone to help the nation boost farming output. — VNA/VNS Thanh Vu
HA NOI — An Giang University plans to send farmers and technical support to war-ravished Sierra Leone to help the west African nation improve farming output and food security.
Under the co-operation agreement between the university and Sierra Leone Government, which was announced recently, personnel will begin arriving in the capital Freetown this month to help repair the country’s irrigation system and prepare research ahead of the project’s commencement.
The project officially begins in February with Vietnamese experts and farmers introducing new agricultural techniques and technology. Delegates will also be granted 200ha to conduct research on new rice varieties, according to Professor Vo Tong Xuan, a leading agriculturalist who is participating in the project.
The first aim is to rebuild Sierra Leone’s irrigation network in rice growing regions, and then to begin research on short-term high-yield rice varieties.
About 20 Vietnamese farmers will travel to Sierra Leone in the first year of the co-operation to assist the project.
Sierra Leone’s agriculture sector was left in shambles after an 11-year war that tentatively ended in 2002. The Government has since tried to rebuild.
Sierra Leone’s ambassador to China sought help from Viet Nam, which faced similar food security issues a decade ago but has since become a leading exporter in rice, coffee and other agriculture commodities.
At the invitation of the Government, Professor Xuan visited Africa and began discussing with officials the possibility of sending Vietnamese agriculturalists and labourers to help improve farming conditions.
The Professor also conducted surveys of crop growing regions. Sierra Leone does not have an agricultural research centre equipped to study rice output and growing techniques.
The Rokupr research centre, which was built in 1932 by the English, is aging quickly and focuses primarily on studying soil content. The centre also uses traditional varieties which require longer growing times and limits output.
Project managers want to introduce new varieties that are adaptable to various soil and irrigation conditions in order to accelerate production.
According to the Professor, Sierra Leone has only 1 million ha of cultivated land suitable for rice growing.
He also noted several similarities between the west African nation’s environment and Viet Nam’s Mekong (Cuu Long) delta region, which should help project researchers in their work. The areas have comparable seasonal rain conditions, and several large rivers to help with irrigation.
The biggest challenge, according to Xuan, will be the lack of new farm technology and a shortage in workers.
The university intends on sending farmers from An Giang Province to address the labour issue, and may seek international aid to help export Vietnamese experts and farm technology to Sierra Leone.
Ultimately, project managers want to boost production so the country can begin exporting to other west African nations.
The university’s assistance will not only create employment for An Giang farmers and help Sierra Leone re-establish stable rice production, but also create political goodwill.
Sierra Leone Vice President Solomon Berewa has praised the co-operation, while Xuan adds, "The success of the project will boost Viet Nam’s position in the United Nation." — VNS
Subject: Farmers help African growers
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VIETNAM TIMES
Farmers help African growers
The Mekong Delta province of An Giang will soon start advertising for farmers interested in going to the African country of Sierra Leone to transfer their rice farming knowledge.
It started when An Giang University’s Professor Vo Tong Xuan made a tour of Sierra Leone a few months ago at the invitation of its government. He said upon his return that he saw many similarities to Viet Nam. Just like Viet Nam, the country has both a dry and monsoon season, and also has six large rivers similar to the Mekong Delta.
The one difference is the Sierra Leone farmers’ lack of experience in growing irrigated rice. Xuan said he had asked the Sierra Leone Government to allow some Vietnamese agriculturists and 100 farmers to test if their farming model suited the African nation. It had agreed to his proposal, he said.
Meanwhile, at an annual meeting in HCM City last week between Vietnamese ambassadors and entrepreneurs, Pham Tien Tu, Vietnamese ambassador to Cuba, who was based in Africa for many years, narrated Xuan’s story to exhort Vietnamese businesses to invest in Africa.
Many Vietnamese physicians, building contractors, and traders had become millionaires in Angola and other African countries, he said.
"If Vietnamese learn in the west, then they can use their skills in Africa and transfer their knowledge to Africans."
Amidst Viet Nam’s recent development boom, Vietnamese businesses should consider investing in African education, agriculture, health care, irrigation, construction, banking, and information technology, he said. — VNS
Subject: Injustice Reigns In Liberia
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Injustice Reigns In Liberia
Says Kofi Annan’s Report, Blames Weak Rule Of Law Structures
The Johnson-Sirleaf Administration rode to power on the promise that
laws, rather than socio-economic and political dukes, queens, princes,
and well-connected families, will rule.
She promised the Liberian people that impunity would become a thing
of the past and would be replaced by justice for all.
But 11 months on, the UN’s 13th Progress Report on the Promotion of
Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Liberia says much needs to be
done in terms of the practice and application of the rule of law.
The Analyst Staff Writer reports.
The 13th Progress Report of the Secretary General of the UN, Dr. Kofi
Annan, says notwithstanding the efforts of UNMIL and the government
of Liberia, inujustice still prevails in Liberia.
The Secretary General is therefore calling on stakeholders to make
every effort to ensure that the flaws in the criminal justice system are
rapidly and fairly addressed, leading to the end of widespread violence
against women and children.
“During the reporting period, respect for fundamental human rights
continued to be impeded by weak rule of law structures,” said the
Secretary General’s reports that was released on December 11, 2006.
As the result of the weak structures which the report says exists
throughout the country, the application of the law has been everything
but coordinated and judicially applied, the UN boss said.
“In this regard, the few operational county circuit courts in the country
are either applying legal rules and procedures in an inconsistent
manner or are failing to observe minimum human rights standards,”
the report said with examples.
It however noted that incidents of corrupt practices involving
magistrates and judicial officials, inefficiency in trial processes and
prolonged pretrial detention periods have also been reported.
In some remote areas of the country, the report claimed, communities
continued to practice trial by ordeal, in part owing to the absence of
courts and police services.
“The problems in the area of juvenile justice are yet to be fully
addressed. There is only one functioning juvenile court in Monrovia. In
a number of counties, juveniles are held in long-term pretrial detention
with adults, without being indicted or tried, while in other locat1ons
they are sometimes tried by magistrates’ court or released without
trial,” the report noted.
Moreover, it said, more than 10 months after the enactment of the
Rape Amendment Act, very little progress has been made in stemming
the high incidence of sexual violence, including rape of women and girl
children.
“The relevant provisions of the Act have not been uniformly applied by
the magistrates and judges when trying rape cases and many cases are
either not being investigated or brought before competent courts.
In the few cases where rape trials took place, minimum sentences were
handed down,” the report noted, failing to take into account the life
sentence handed down for rape in Bong County early this year.
According to the report, detention conditions are still below minimum
human rights standards with some correction facilities, including the
Monrovia Central Prison, remaining overcrowded.
In four facilities in Bong, Grand Bassa, Bomi and Margibi counties, the
report said, detainees cited prolonged pretrial detention without
adequate sanitation as reasons for prison riots.
“During the period under review, there was also increase in the number
of jailbreaks, including by persons accused or convicted of rape. On 27
November, 57 inmates escaped from the maximum security prison in
Monrovia.
While eight of them have been recaptured, the remainders are still at
large. An investigation is being conducted into the circumstances
surrounding the escape,” the report noted further.
It revealed that a human rights audit of key Liberian legislation to
determine whether the laws conformed with international human rights
standards and instruments that have been ratified and signed by the
government concluded that there were several laws, including some
provisions of the Constitution that were not in compliance with
international human rights standards and instruments ratified by
Liberia.
It fell short of pointing out the laws and constitutional provisions that
are odd, but instead recommended that the applicable laws be
amended to comply with these standards.
The report reported increase in court activities throughout the country,
during the reporting period, especially in trials for serious offences,
such as murder, rape and armed robbery.
It credited the increase primarily to the engagement of national
lawyers, with UNMIL support, to serve as prosecutorial and public
defense consultants for indigent defendants.
“However, the justice system continues to be constrained by the lack of
court buildings and a dearth of qualified judicial and legal personnel,”
the report insisted.
This picture of the judiciary, the report said, existed despite UNMIL’s
continued reported expansion of its capacity-building activities in the
counties through the provision of training for legal and judicial
officers.
“The Mission also conducted workshops to enhance the practical and
procedural capacities of legal and judicial officers. In addition, some
261 magistrates were trained by UNMIL between May and November
2006.
UNDP has also funded the recruitment of a Liberian expert to support
the Governance Reform Commission’s work on rule of law and the
strengthening of the judiciary,” the report noted without saying
whether UNMIL would work with its partners to review the support
strategies for these institutions in view of the reported poor
performance.
Meanwhile, the report said UNMIL continued to assist the national
Bureau of Rehabilitation and Corrections in improving the conditions of
correctional facilities throughout the country.
The refurbishment work on the facilities, which is being funded by
Norway and the United States, the report said, is at various stages of
completion.
“While the refurbishment of the Harper and Buchanan prisons has been
completed, the rehabilitation of the Monrovia and Bondiway prisons, as
well as the Zwedru Palace of Corrections, is still ongoing.
The contract to refurbish the Gbarnga prison had to be terminated
owing to the inability of the contractor to implement the project,” the
report noted and added that UNMIL is also utilizing its quick-impact
project funds to improve the facilities in Voinjama and Sanniquellie.
In a related development, Dr. Annan said besides the need to improve
prison conditions and the application of the law, the government
needed to reduce crimes by creating more jobs to absorb the
unemployed.
“The presence of large numbers of unemployed youth in the urban
centres, ex-combatants still awaiting reintegration opportunities, and
deactivated police and army personnel, remains a very serious source
of tension.
I encourage the government to intensify its efforts to revive economic
activity and to create job opportunities for the unemployed, including
former combatants, without which the security of the country will be
undermined,” the report noted.
Dr. Annan realized the enormity of the challenge of providing jobs for
Liberia’s unemployed and urged international partners to continue to
work closely with the government to ensure that the remaining former
combatants who have not yet entered rehabilitation and reintegration
programmes are provided with opportunities to do so in an
expeditious manner.
Dr. Annan recognized the effort of the Johnson-Sirleaf Administration,
but noted that much remains to be done to enhance its capacity to
deliver public services, including judicial and legal services, to all parts
of the country.
“The effective countrywide administration of justice is not only a
prerequisite for the people of Liberia to fully enjoy their basic rights,
but is also essential for economic growth.
I appeal to donors to provide funding required for the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission and the Independent National Human
Rights Commission to become fully operational,” the ongoing secretary
general noted.
He expressed concerned by the high incidence of sexual violence,
including rape committed against women and girl children in Liberia,
as well as by the spate of violent crime in Monrovia and elsewhere in
the country and prayed that swift actions would be taken to curb
criminal activities in the country.
“Every effort must be made to ensure that criminal justice is rapidly
and fairly addressed and that widespread violence against women and
children is brought to an end,” the man who will relinquish the UN high
post in two weeks said.
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Subject: WHY SHOULD SIERRA LEONE TRUST THE APC?
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I have never stopped wondering why the APC party keeps thinking about governing Sierra Leone via democratic politics.
The APC party is so steeped in tribalism that it is yet to grow into a responsible, vanguard party fit for national captainship. Here is one example that sadly typifies the APC's inability to outgrow its vile political history:
This political party finds it difficult to present Ernest Koroma to the people of Sierra Leone as its undisputed leader because, as far as its policy of "exclusive ethnicity" is concerned, Mr. Koroma is NOT Temne enough! How can a political party with such a tunnel vision successfully rule a country thirsting for unity in diversity?
Subject: APC demo turns chaotic as supporters clash
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APC demo turns chaotic as supporters clash
A little out-blown in the front page of the ruling party’s Unity newspaper, the story of a violent clash between factional supporters within the opposition All Peoples Congress Party (APC) is significant in view of the upcoming general elections in 2007.
According to the report tensions rose high as the two groups hurled stones at each other, causing a state of pandemonium for peaceful residents, which warranted police intervention. According to For di People, Police arrested two. The ugly incident took place at the newly rehabilitated headquarters of the party over the weekend, during a peace demonstration mounted to harmonizing feuding members of the party. The leadership of Hon. Ernest Koroma has long been disputed by other members of the party such as lawyer, Mr.Eddie Turay, whose faction is involved in this latest clash.
Subject: Re: APC demo turns chaotic as supporters clash
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Date Posted: 10:47:54 12/18/06 ()
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Nobody should be surprised when the APC results to voilence because that is all they know.I wonder why Ernest Koroma who can not win the leadership of the APC by lawful means believes that he will win the leadership of Sierra Leone at the next elections?
Ernest must understand that the bulk of the people in Sierra Leone know that he is a direct disciple of Siaka Stevens and Jamil Sahid Mohamed,therefore there is no way he will be president of our beloved country.
Subject: Re: APC demo turns chaotic as supporters clash
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Itis my conviction that the APC should now rise above violence. Their history portrays mostly violent conduct of opponents. But with a very decent gentleman at the helm of APC affais, ernest Koroma, they should follow his example. A word forthe Wise.
Subject: Re: APC demo turns chaotic as supporters clash
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Saidu wrote"I wonder why Ernest Koroma who can not win the leadership of the APC by lawful means believes that he will win the leadership of Sierra leone at the next elections?"
A BO,U SEF THINK.BUT A NOR BLAME U ,NA D PROZAC NA EH DAE DO U SO.Saidu,if you know what you are talking about,you would not have written this statement.I would not defend the SUN on this matter,because the court with several appeals from the said group of Eddie Turay and others gave the APC party the mandate to conduct it convention.You are in Atlnata not getting your facts straight,and now you are jumping into conclusion.What a dreadful decision for the SLPP ga,chapter to had appointed you as their PRO.That shows the common sense of these well educated individuals in your chapter.PAPA GOD HELP WE NA TROUBLE THIS OO, IF SLPP WIN NA DEN KIND CRASE MAN PA BEREWA GO CHOSE FOR RUN WE COUNTRY.PAPA GOD SORRY FOR WE PEOPLE DEM NA SALONE.
"Ernest must understand that the bulk of the people in Sierra leone know that he is a direct disciple of Siaka Stevens and Jamil Sahid Mohamed,therefore there is no way he will be President of our beloved country"
U,U BORN WIT SWEAR.If there is no way he will become the next president of Sierra leone,why don't you advise Pa Berewa to sit and wait for july 29th so that Mrs Thorpe can pronounce him as the next leader of our country,instead he is kriss crossing Salone campaigning for his political life? O O I forgot,the SLPP had placed a gag order on you from talking in public on their behalf.You've been a puppet of Amadu Jabbie,and now you trying to become the puppet of Solomon Berewa jr of which he trying to disassociate himself away from you,because he now know your true color.Thanks to the loyal SUN membership whom had decided that it will never disrepect our Vice President's character,but only talk about the issues that are affecting our people back home.The political groups in the ATL including the SLPP had agreed to dicuss the issues,but you continued attacking and assasinating peoples' character like,what you tried to do when Mr Charles Margai was in town,and he made you and your cohorts looked so stupid.
What you need to do is make sure that your papers are straight before you could join this dicussion in the disapora.Ask your menture Mr Jabbie to help you out please or I am willing to render my help to you.
Subject: Re: APC demo turns chaotic as supporters clash
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Date Posted: 12:28:23 12/18/06 ()
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Saidu wrote"I wonder why Ernest Koroma who can not win the leadership of the APC by lawful means believes that he will win the leadership of Sierra leone at the next elections?"
A BO,U SEF THINK.BUT A NOR BLAME U ,NA D PROZAC NA EH DAE DO U SO.Saidu,if you know what you are talking about,you would not have written this statement.I would not defend the SUN on this matter,because the court with several appeals from the said group of Eddie Turay and others gave the APC party the mandate to conduct it convention.You are in Atlnata not getting your facts straight,and now you are jumping into conclusion.What a dreadful decision for the SLPP ga,chapter to had appointed you as their PRO.That shows the common sense of these well educated individuals in your chapter.PAPA GOD HELP WE NA TROUBLE THIS OO, IF SLPP WIN NA DEN KIND CRASE MAN PA BEREWA GO CHOSE FOR RUN WE COUNTRY.PAPA GOD SORRY FOR WE PEOPLE DEM NA SALONE.
"Ernest must understand that the bulk of the people in Sierra leone know that he is a direct disciple of Siaka Stevens and Jamil Sahid Mohamed,therefore there is no way he will be President of our beloved country"
U,U BORN WIT SWEAR.If there is no way he will become the next president of Sierra leone,why don't you advise Pa Berewa to sit and wait for july 29th so that Mrs Thorpe can pronounce him as the next leader of our country,instead he is kriss crossing Salone campaigning for his political life? O O I forgot,the SLPP had placed a gag order on you from talking in public on their behalf.You've been a puppet of Amadu Jabbie,and now you trying to become the puppet of Solomon Berewa jr of which he trying to disassociate himself away from you,because he now know your true color.Thanks to the loyal SUN membership whom had decided that it will never disrepect our Vice President's character,but only talk about the issues that are affecting our people back home.The political groups in the ATL including the SLPP had agreed to dicuss the issues,but you continued attacking and assasinating peoples' character like,what you tried to do when Mr Charles Margai was in town,and he made you and your cohorts looked so stupid.
What you need to do is make sure that your papers are straight before you could join this dicussion in the disapora.
Subject: Blood Diamond Reviewed by The Timbuk-Vision Magazine
From: Karamoh Kabba
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Date Posted: 07:24:14 12/18/06 ()
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Diamond is, in Hans Biedermann’s Dictionary of Symbolism, "the most precious of precious stones that has the symbolic signature of perfection, purity, and imperviousness." It is the symbol of Christ in early Christian era. "Behold, I will set a diamond in the midst of my people Israel: ... and the sanctuaries of laughter shall be laid waste." ((Amos 7:8—9) But not so fast in the Kono land and people of Sierra Leone amongst whom the phrase; Blood Diamond, was coined during the rebel war.
“God left this land a long time ago”, says Leonardo DiCaprio (Danny Archer), the Soldier of Fortune (SOF) fictional character. In the prelude to Robert T. Parsons' 1964 book, Religion in an African Society, on the Kono people, he writes; "To the Kono people among whom God has not left himself without a witness." The Kono land is one of the homes to the most precious of precious stones including the world's third and sixth largest ones [968.80 and 770.00 carats in their rough, found in 1972 and 1945 respectively]. Indeed not only in the person of Parsons did God live a witness, but also in the fictional work of Ian Fleming's Diamonds are Forever, 1971, in which Roger Moore acted as James Bond and now, in the persons of Djimon Hounsou (Fisherman Solomon Vandi) and Dicaprio...... (Read The Timbuk-Vision Magazine December Edition)