Subject: IS THE APC CURED OF THIS VERY DESTRUCTIVE TENDENCY!
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 08:41:14 03/26/07 ()
Email Address: RNMDTWO@YAHOO.COM
Entered From: at 198.24.31.125
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13. "Under the APC, central government sustained itself through corruption, nepotism
and the plundering of state assets. These practices were replicated at regional
and local levels, where Chieftaincy became synonymous with power, patronage
and control of resources. When Sierra Leone adopted a one-party constitution in
1978, any semblance of accountability or effective opposition had already been
eliminated. Historical trends like economic decay and fragmentation of the
national spirit were exacerbated under the one-party system and became key
causes of the conflict".(SLTRC REPORT)
Subject: Re: IS THE APC CURED OF THIS VERY DESTRUCTIVE TENDENCY!
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 08:56:15 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.111.162.74
Message:
NO
Subject: Re: IS THE APC CURED OF THIS VERY DESTRUCTIVE TENDENCY!
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 08:58:32 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
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I second de motion.. Nominations closed....den feel say den go fool we again.. NOPE IT AIN'T HAPPENING..
Subject: Quoting John Leigh
From: Astafulai
To: All
Date Posted: 06:52:48 03/26/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@yahoo.com
Entered From: 219-88-16-17.dialup.xtra.co.nz at 219.88.16.17
Message:
Other tactics used included (i) bald threats of victimization ("if you get up to nominate John Leigh we will finish you." "No more contracts for you". "The government will not pay the money we owe you."); (ii) intimidation (powerful political/government bosses sat prominently upfront before the voting delegates and near the ballot boxes eyeing every delegate aggressively, while chaperons sat amongst each district delegation whispering into delegates' ears); (iii) putting physical restraints in the way of some delegates (voting delegates wanting to stand up to nominate John Leigh were reportedly pulled to sit down), (iv) duplicity (a phony nominator and seconder were planted in my camp to entice me to place reliance upon them to nominate and second my nomination only to lay low at the appropriate time or abscond); (v) and surveillance teams followed me around the campus and (vi) any voting delegate deemed too friendly to my cause was swiftly and arbitrary dismissed as a delegate with his ID given to a pro-boss person. Such dismissals were done with absolutely no opportunity for redress.
John Leigh
We Was Robbed
Subject: PLEASE PARTICIPATE IN THE SURVEY
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 06:52:20 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
There is a a Cocorioko Forum Survey going on. Please click on COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION and participate. Your participation is appreciated.
Berewa so far has an early lead.
Subject: Re: PLEASE PARTICIPATE IN THE SURVEY
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 06:54:07 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157
Message:
hey you have already lost the elections just see how many people don vote BEREWAH..
Subject: Re: PLEASE PARTICIPATE IN THE SURVEY
From: NO
To: All
Date Posted: 06:53:54 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Get a life. Participate in a survey for what? Go and urvey those who are registered to vote in July.
Subject: appeal to all cdf supporters to vote for pmdc.
From: cdf supporter
To: All
Date Posted: 05:32:02 03/26/07 ()
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Entered From: firewall.drenthecollege.nl at 195.169.155.126
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i will like to ask my fellow pmdc supporters to vote for pmdc. the pmdc will be the only party that can protect us. The slpp did not protect us. Instead they arrest and jailed our head and lied that it is international court who arrest. I did not go to school to hear all those big and fine english words they used. If you vote for slpp they will finish their jod by arresting even small fontobah like me. The slpp is ungratefull. We used to fight for them so thatthey can rule.But today they are planing to arrest and jail us again. We are not stupid. we are going to vote for charles margai. slpp will not win. So cdf members please show yourself up for charles margai or the slpp. Let us donot make mistake. We should show slpp that we and hinga helped and sacrifice for them to power. They betrayed us, so, let us take them out. long live charles margai and the pmdc. please everyone, all cdf members hear my appeal. We all all mendes.Buwa Bisieh.
Subject: Re: appeal to all cdf supporters to vote for pmdc.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:58:38 03/26/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14
Message:
Before he passed away, Chief Norman issued a written statement in Freetown, Bo and Kenema through his attorney of record, Dr. Bubakarr Jabbie, that neither the SLPP Administration nor the Party is responsible for his sad unfortunate plight and that he is supporting the SLPP and its presidential candidate for the Office of President of Sierra Leone in succession to President Kabbah.
Please respect the late man's wishes as well as the wishes of the Norman family to keep politics out of this terrible affair. Thank you very much. -JL
Subject: correction - charles margai or pmdc.
From: cdf supporter
To: All
Date Posted: 05:44:51 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: firewall.drenthecollege.nl at 195.169.155.126
Message:
i mean charles margai or pmdc and not
charles margai or slpp.
just put big letterX on slpp.
thank you for voting for pmdc.
Subject: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 04:32:39 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 218.248.0.180
Message:
I would like to conduct a simple survey to check the pulse of forumites in the coming election. Let us be honest and do not respond more than once. And let us use our right handles, please.
The question is simple:
IF YOU WERE TO VOTE TODAY, WHICH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WOULD YOU VOTE FOR?
Please no articles, purely write the name of the political. You can only choose one:
1. BEREWA
2. ERNEST
3. MARGAI
4. OTHERS
5. INDEPENDENT OR NOT DECIDED
6. NONE OF THE ABOVE. (Meaning I do not support any and intend not to)
Thank you for your participation
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: Sister Soja
To: All
Date Posted: 08:57:20 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.111.162.74
Message:
Berewa - SLPP
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 08:56:02 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-074-228-219-218.sip.asm.bellsouth.net at 74.228.219.218
Message:
ERNEST KOROMA --APC
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 08:55:32 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.24.31.125
Message:
SLPP= BEREWA
Did I hear you say "I am surprised by your choice?" This is the lesser of three evils!
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: Santigie Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 08:52:41 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.111.162.74
Message:
Berewa - SLPP
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: Sengbe Wutehteh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:32:32 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.85.62.235
Message:
BEREWA - SLPP
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: KOLONKO
To: All
Date Posted: 08:51:16 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
KOROMA - APC
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 08:24:28 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-20-101-62.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 76.20.101.62
Message:
Berewa without a doubt.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: IBRAHIM FOFANA
To: All
Date Posted: 06:47:31 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50
Message:
1. BEREWA-SLPP
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: J. LAMIN ISCANDRI
To: All
Date Posted: 06:45:41 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50
Message:
1. Berewa-SLPP
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 06:44:08 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157
Message:
1. Berewah- SLPP
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 06:09:03 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-70-20-197-79.phil.east.verizon.net at 70.20.197.79
Message:
Berewa - SLPP
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 05:04:50 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-143-5-48.range86-143.btcentralplus.com at 86.143.5.48
Message:
BEREWA - SLPP
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 04:33:29 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 218.248.0.180
Message:
3. MARGAI
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: Astafulai
To: All
Date Posted: 06:45:25 03/26/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@yahoo.com
Entered From: 219-88-16-17.dialup.xtra.co.nz at 219.88.16.17
Message:
In the absence of any credible alternative, I will vote PMDC.
Why vote Berewa to continue the misery....the only country where children jubilate when they see light. To continue mocking our teachers that they now have enough that some even refuse to take pay when month ends, when he, as VP doesn't refuse to take pay. To make sure Sierra Leone remains perpetually at the bottom of UNDP, so that in Berewa's words, the donors will be inclined to give us more money. To advertise and re-advertise the same project for road maintenance until his term ends. To continue using ACC for those who see things differently from him. To continue practising nepotism so that anyone having a different opinion will not get any job and remains marginalised in his own country.
Besides, I will not support Berewa just because he has John Leigh supporting him...a man whose only principle is his personal interest. A man who saw danger in serving Kabbah (someone he is by far qualified than) and vowed never to support and serve under a less qualified person, but now praise-singing Berewa and wants to serve him (when Kabbah is more educated than Berewa).
More to come.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: Jimmy Kandeh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:50:45 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: frh177097.richmond.edu at 141.166.177.97
Message:
Astafulai:
Like you, I vote Charles Margai and the PMDC in the absence of a better alternative.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 08:55:12 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.111.162.74
Message:
Jimmy Kandeh,
Voting for Charles is one more way of exposing Sierra Leone to destruction and ruin, just like you foks did when you ran away instead od fight Shaki.
You people always start a revolution, but you never complete it.
Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FORUM SURVEY - ELECTION
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 08:42:41 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-074-228-219-218.sip.asm.bellsouth.net at 74.228.219.218
Message:
ERNEST KOROMA APC
Subject: BREAKING NEWS CORNELIUS. CRASE MAN ADMITED AT KISSY MENTAL.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 03:19:03 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip565bc167.direct-adsl.nl at 86.91.193.103
Message:
Good news for this forum. The so called CRASE MAN whose idelogy is to use abusive languages instead of discussing or putting his message accross with good language has now been admitted at MENTAL HOME in KISSY.
We have however not been informed how long the therapy will last. The doctors could not give any information about the insane man.
We shall brief you as we get further information on his health.
Thanks.
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS CORNELIUS. CRASE MAN ADMITED AT KISSY MENT
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 06:10:24 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-1e1271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.30
Message:
From the pages of Black History, 23 years ago. Ahmed Sékou Touré died on 26th March 1984 on the operating table whilst undergoing heart surgery in Cleveland Ohio. Touré had told Charles De Gaulle, "We prefer poverty in liberty to riches in slavery," when severing ties with France.
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/sekou.htm
As far as the Sierra Leone elections are concerned, let’s hope that all is peace and quiet in Guinea, by Election Day.
This is probably your idea of having fun such childish and small-minded nonsense that would like to pass off as a cheap Sierra Leone trademark
I am a participant at Leonenet and other Middle East Forums and I have my own blog which is beyond any kind of censorship and there I satisfy my pen. It’s like writing a short story, not intended for the graduating class of FBC or their critics, politicians or leaders….who are not my leaders or inspirers. That’s why some of the best of Sierra Leoneans have never been visible in any of your Forums or politics for the simple reason that you don’t want us here. You think this is intellectually stimulating? What would Mother Theresa say about you lot?
Look here whoever you are. I was last in Sierra Leone for a week in March 1970.
It is distressing that you obviously would not like me to take part in any intelligent discussion concerning the land of my birth and the standard of life of Sierra Leoneans that I am concerned about. I am not interested in anyone's wife, mother, lover, girlfriend who I'm sure is not my cup of tea nor am I interested in your financial fortune and I know how impossible it can be to discuss with anyone who does not have the necessary tools with which to discuss - namely an understanding of simple English and what in Arabic is called ADAB.
With this level of seriousness shown by the one who calls himself "craseman" and now this Lilliputian who ridicules himself with the title " Justice" is it any wonder that Sierra Leone is one of the least developed countries in the world?
You may continue to have your fun. Those who drop in here must think about our history of amputations, rapes, murders, child soldiers, illiteracy, poverty and
understand that primitive man is still alive and evolving.
You must realize that these words disgrace you yourself and do me no physical, mental harm or financial loss. There is nothing impressive about what you have said so far. If you think you are doing a good deed, then your reward will eventually catch up with you, and I assure you that you will not be cheated in this life or in the next. That's why you are where you are presently.
At the end of the day, you and your people will get the politics and life and happiness that you deserve and that does not depend on anything that I do or say to you.
Be careful my countryman…….
Subject: KABS, HOW SECURE ARE THE NAMES. TWO JUSTICE NOW ON FORUM.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 02:18:24 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip565bc167.direct-adsl.nl at 86.91.193.103
Message:
KABS, I saw another JUSTICE given an article today. We are as I see supporting the same party.
Will yuo please check.
I will try to say something to him. May be to add a number to differentiate between the two.
I think the other justice should add something to make it different
Thanks.
Subject: LET ME BE PRECISE KABS. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT Justice.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 02:38:47 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip565bc167.direct-adsl.nl at 86.91.193.103
Message:
KABS, The two articles were not posted by mee.
The said writter used the name JUSTICE. That is why I made the appeal to you to to check it. I have als replied the writter to tell him or her that JUSTICE already exists in this forum.
I am not talking about Justice, but the JUSTICE who wrote the undermentioned articles.
ReSLPP SHOULD GO NOW - JUSTICE 01:46:10 03/26/07 (0)
THEY WILL NOT INTIMIDATE JUSTI9CE - JUSTICE 01:36:23 03/26/07 (4)
Subject: Re: KABS, HOW SECURE ARE THE NAMES. TWO JUSTICE NOW ON FORUM
From: Justice
To: All
Date Posted: 02:26:18 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 84-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.84
Message:
I think you yourself said that we have two Justices. One using capital letters which is you.
Do not fret. Although we are in different parties but we are united in spirit to see the back of the SLPP in July.
Subject: THIS ARTICLE WAS NOT POSTED BY MEE. SOMBODY ELSE DID.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 02:32:51 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip565bc167.direct-adsl.nl at 86.91.193.103
Message:
Justice, I did not post the undermentione article.
ReSLPP SHOULD GO NOW - JUSTICE 01:46:10 03/26/07 (0)
I know that you use small letters. But this person this time used CAPITAL letters.
You have no problem. Yours is OK.
Somebody else posted it and the person used the name JUSTICE.
Thanks Justice.
Subject: Re: THIS ARTICLE WAS NOT POSTED BY MEE. SOMBODY ELSE DID.
From: Justice
To: All
Date Posted: 02:46:02 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 84-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.84
Message:
Buddy, if you feel someone is using your handle. Move on and find something unique.
You know our Justice tag is a thorn in the flesh of SLPP apologists.You can just abandon it and raise your head high! After all we have beaten them mercilessly and the only thing left for them is to employ abusive language.
Subject: Re: THIS ARTICLE WAS NOT POSTED BY MEE. SOMBODY ELSE DID.
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 06:47:03 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157
Message:
HEEEN and the answer is? You are wrong once again.
Subject: SLPP uses abuse to attack. Shame
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 01:12:18 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The SLPP government employed informer systems and tried to coerce or forbid membership in political organizations. There were reports that SLPP members monitored opposition political party meetings. Civil servants who attended such meetings risked losing their jobs or government housing (see section 2.b.). There also were reports that the government pressured paramount chiefs (and paramount chiefs in turn pressured subordinate chiefs) to discourage the activities of opposition political parties in the provinces, particularly in remote areas (see section 3).
In March a senior mines monitoring officer in Bo who became a member of the newly-registered PMDC party was removed from government housing, which was turned over to an SLPP member. The mines monitor was transferred to a different office in Makeni and was not given government housing.
In June the Ministry of Education removed the head teacher of a primary school in Pujehun from the government payroll (the head teacher also was the Pujehun District Chairman for the PMDC). When the teacher complained, the national education secretary called him in for a meeting on August 25, during which the teacher claimed that he was told that he would not be allowed to attend the upcoming dedication ceremony of his recently refurbished school unless he joined the SLPP. The teacher, who refused to join the SLPP, had not been paid by year's end.
In June the principal of a girls' secondary school in Bo fired a teacher after he joined the PMDC.
In June the Nyawa-Leagai paramount chief fired the Nengbema town (Bo District) chief for attending an All People's Congress (APC) meeting.
In June the Soro Gbema paramount chief in Pujehun District suspended four section chiefs for attending a June 10 PMDC meeting.
There were reports that supporters of opposition political parties also faced other forms of discrimination. Early in the year Ministry of Lands officials marked a house for demolition that had been built on chiefdom-owned land. The church leader (a PMDC supporter) who owned the house claimed that he had prior permission to build on the land. The house was still marked for demolition at year's end.
There were reports that membership in the ruling SLPP was required in order to access certain government benefits, particularly micro-credit and other development assistance. On July 7, a paramount chief in Kenema district denied a woman micro-credit because she did not possess an SLPP party card.
In August the chairman of the Kenema District Council denied the issuance of seed rice to councilors who joined the PMDC.
There were reports that the government punished family members for alleged violations by individuals. In late August a young man in Barri Chiefdom (Pujehun District) was summoned to the paramount chief's residence for wearing a PMDC tee-shirt. The paramount chief ordered the man to remove the shirt. When he refused, the paramount chief summoned the man's mother and threatened that she would be "dealt with" if her son continued to defy him.
In April the father of a PMDC member was fired from his job at the Pujehun District Council office where he had worked for 26 years after his son joined the PMDC. The father was fired from a subsequent job at the Office of National Security in August.
Subject: Re: SLPP uses abuse to attack. Shame
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 01:30:51 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 84-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.84
Message:
The so-called crase man exhibits an SLPP that is desperate to retain power at all costs. The Satanic League of Parasitic People are using abuse and profanity to come against forumites here who do not ascribe to their derogatory and kleptomaniac regime.
The Satanic League of Parasitic People has nothing to deliver. They use abuse and lies to try to hide shame.
We all know what it means to lose millions of dollars meant for the poor people in the case when the opposition will win. Your Satanic League of parasitic People will not milk again after July.
Tha san san boys want their status to be changed and since you took power, Sierra Leone has got more san san boys, okada drivers, young girls on the beach, increased health hazards, mass exodus of educated Sierra Leoneans, killings of innocent civilians, tribalism at all quarters, political victimisation of opposition supporters, short life span for Sierra Leoneans, poor educational results, consistent blackhouts, inadequate food,etc, etc.
Satanic League of Parasitic People, where do you have the support to rule again after all the troubles and misery you have forced ordinary Sio\erra leoneans to live with.
This elction is to change the status of our san san boys and to put Sierra leoneans in postion of trust based on honesty and performance.
The san san boys have allowed a graduate from Wales University to rule for twelve years and all what they are getting is bashing and lies.
This Satanic League of Parasitic People seeks to create lies to distort history. Knowing their acts to kill their own sons and daughters, they will not mind to stoop so low to rig the elections.
The Satanic League of Parasitic People will have a rude shock in July. Any attempt to rig the elctions will be met by people's power.
Subject: YES, THIS IS JUSTICE
From: NEWS
To: All
Date Posted: 01:34:42 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50
Message:
Is it a crime? I can use any handle in the world. Mind your own business.
Subject: THEY WILL NOT INTIMIDATE JUSTI9CE
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 01:36:23 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50
Message:
Justice is here to stay. I will not relent until the PMDC or APC takes power. God has chosen Margai and Ernest to lead salone. Margai and Ernest are God's chosen people. These men of God will save salone.
Subject: COULD YOU PLEASE ADD A SYNTAX TO YOUR JUSTICE.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 02:23:48 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip565bc167.direct-adsl.nl at 86.91.193.103
Message:
JUSTICE, we are fighting the same course as I see it.
But for your information, there is JUSTICE already on the forum.
Could you add a syntax for example NEW JUSTICE or JUSTICE N0.1 to differentiate between the two?
Thanks in advance for your co-operation.
Subject: Re: COULD YOU PLEASE ADD A SYNTAX TO YOUR JUSTICE.
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 06:52:22 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157
Message:
You are very smart.... Hehehehe.. having a very good communicating with yourself.. justice to justice.. APC to APC...
Una think say we fool bah....your record is nothing to talk about...As for PMDC, there is no record to stand on, pass margai im yuki yuki business..
Subject: Please stop intimidating us. We shall overcome
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 01:37:58 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50
Message:
news is here to stay. We shall overcome. We will save our nation in July. What is wrong if I post as Justice? is that a crime? Get a life, Mr. SLPP.
Subject: Re: Please stop intimidating us. We shall overcome
From: JUSTICE and news will take care of these useless SLPP people
To: All
Date Posted: 01:41:42 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50
Message:
SLPP supporters are the most useless people on earth. Why did God create them/ they are satanic people. When APC ruled salone, we had light, water and everything. Primary education was free. Fourah Bay College had 24 hours electricity. Freetown was very clean. APC did not accumulate any debt. The SLPP destroyed the legacy of the APC. Siaka Stevens and Momoh are icons of salone politics. These two menmade salone proud. SLPP has destroyed their legacy. Give the APC a chance again, and we will repeat what we did in the past by building roads, schools, provision of electricity etc.
Subject: SOME SLPP MEMBERS DONOT DEBATE BUT ABUSE OR INSULT.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 02:56:28 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip565bc167.direct-adsl.nl at 86.91.193.103
Message:
Thank you very much for your observations. We are all fighting the same course.
We are also here on this forum to teach and educate some of them on simple behaviour.
As the saying goes, who cares for the dead rat?
Only the vulture.
Most of the SLPP members behaving like that at home and even on this forum lack simple understanding. They can not argue or discuss to make pass their message accross. They are lack of words to challenge their opponents. So it is obvious that they result in using abusive languages to satisfy their frustrations.
These people forget that this forum is international and every one is watching. It just puts the SLPP into more trouble by letting the world know that the SLPP party cannot command or control its members.
So, let us as THE NEW APC teach them how to behave. We should have done our country a better job.
What I do most times is to snub their replies and just say good bye to them as a simple courtesy to teach them good manners.
DEN DAY GO JULY 28 MAKOLON.
E LEK DEN KOHS.
GOD BLESS.
Subject: ReSLPP SHOULD GO NOW
From: JUSTICE
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Date Posted: 01:46:10 03/26/07 ()
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Vote for the APC in July.
The APC gave us roads.
The APC gave us 24 hours electricity
The APC provided water for all the provinces and Freetown.
The APC provided free education
Under the APC, Fourah bay college was no.1 in Africa
The APC fought against corruption
The APC made our judiciary the number 1 in Africa.
The APC provuded so many opputunities for Sierra-leoneans, that we need to apologise to this great party for allowing the NPRC overthrow them.
APC OH YEAH
EE LEF PAN SLPP
SLPP UNAR GO GO MARKOLO0
Subject: Re: ReSLPP SHOULD GO NOW
From: NAR U SABI
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Date Posted: 05:24:02 03/26/07 ()
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NAR U SABI
Subject: Re: SLPP uses abuse to attack. Shame
From: JUSTICE NEWS
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Date Posted: 01:32:58 03/26/07 ()
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Are you now using your handle? What about your Justice handle? Are you looking for another handle?
Subject: Re: SLPP uses abuse to attack. Shame
From: Justice
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Date Posted: 01:49:30 03/26/07 ()
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The issue of handle has nothing to do with the message. When the words glow, then there is credence in the wordsmiths' domain.
Different handles are needed to bring varying punches on the face of the Satanic League of Parasitic People.
Subject: Re: SLPP uses abuse to attack. Shame
From: NAR U SABI
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Date Posted: 05:29:11 03/26/07 ()
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NOR TO CRASE YOU DON BEGIN CRASE SO WEY YOU DAE TOK TO U SEF BOYS WATCH OUT O DE ELECTION DAE FAR FOS
Subject: FOR KARAMOH KABBA: MY SYMPATHY FOR YOUR LOSS
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 22:19:41 03/25/07 ()
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Mr. Kabba,
I just read on Cocorioko news that you lost your younger brother earlier today. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sympathy to you and the rest of your family. May your brother's soul rest in peace.
I will keep you and your family in my prayers.
God bless.
Subject: Re: FOR KARAMOH KABBA: MY SYMPATHY FOR YOUR LOSS
From: JUSTICE
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Date Posted: 02:26:04 03/26/07 ()
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My sincere and heartfelt sympathy to KARAMO and his family.
GOB BLESS.
Subject: APC APC APC ....OH APC.............WOONAR NOR DAE CHANGE????
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 21:53:44 03/25/07 ()
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1. They promote KDDA + EKUTAY
2. They are Poverty Spreaders
3. They made corruption the order of the day, institutionalized it, and sanctioned it e.g. they made the saying "who sai den dae tie cow, nar dae ee dae eat" a party slogan
4. APC = Akarta People's party
5. APC = Alaki party for Corrupt Individuals
6. They actually made Josephine Momoh a leader ---- the man could not lead a flock of sheep
7. The party that brought war on us
8. They introduced us to Winston Incompetent Bankole Johnson
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW EFFECTIVE ERNEST KOROMA WILL BE AS A LEADER TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT WINSTOM BANKOLE JOHNSON - THE INCOMPETENT MAYOR OF FREETOWN
SECOND, TAKE A LOOK AT THE INTERNAL MESS IN THE APC. THE MAN (ERNEST) CANNOT UNITE HIS OWN PARTY.
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SLPP WILL FOLLOW NEXT.
Subject: Re: APC APC APC ....OH APC.............WOONAR NOR DAE CHANGE????
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 07:53:09 03/26/07 ()
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When APC took power in 1967, 2 leones equal one pound sterling and one leone equaled one US dollar and fifty cents.
Thus upon APC's assumption of power, the exchange value of Le3,000 was $4,500. APC's malgovernance ruined this ratio. The NPRC unstable regime of juniors worsened our currency's degradation. And the AFRC/RUF couligan regime of war, brutes and thieves and led by soldiers put in the military by the APC like Johnny Paul and supported by APC bigwigs like Momoh, deepened the terrible mess further.
Today, Le3,000 can produce only $1.00. The $4,499.00 shortfall is merely one measure of APC's couligan corruption. It is also a quatitative proof of the extent of the poverty inflicted upon Sierra Leoneans by previous regimes.
Obviously, if a common man is entitled to $4,500.00 and you takeaway $4,499.00 leaving him with only one dollar in his pocket, you would be improvishing him.
That is exactly what non-SLPP governments have done to our people.
Why would a sane individual want to be associated with with a poverty-spreading political group like the APC?
By the way, the current exchange rate between the Leone and Pound Sterling is One pound equals le5,600.00 rather than one pound equals two leones.
This adultration of our currency means that of the Le5,6000 one must surrender for each pound, Le5,598.00 is the actual penalty cost of APC/AFRC/RUF malgovernance.
English goods that once cost us Le2.00, now costs us Le5,600.00. Hence, Sierra Leone is the destination for second goods of all types, including vehicles, space parts, "Belgium" goods and junks.
Nothing spread poverty so extensively and deeply in our country that the degradation of our currency under the determined leadership of the APC.
Also behind the mass poverty in Sierra Leone is the spread of unemployment resulting from APC's constructive expulsion and closure of numerous European companies such as: UAC, UAC Motors, PZ, PZ Motors, GB Olivant, Rawlinson, ABC Textiles, CFAO, CFAO Motors, SCOA, SCOA Motors, Multistores, Kingsway, Kingsway Chemists, West African Drug Stores, British Petroleum, Texaco, Agip, DELCO, SLST, DIMINCO, Staveley, J Mehielem, Henry Duck, A Genet, Jourdan, BoJons, UTS, Leventis, Cold Storage Department Stores, Major Pharmaceuticals, UMARCO, Mining & General Services, Hodges, Philip George & Co., O Swiessy & Co.
APC and the other dingbat governments ruined the people of Sierra Leone with their wall-to-wall corruption, greed and brainlessness.
More to come. JL
Subject: Re: APC APC APC ....OH APC.............WOONAR NOR DAE CHANGE????
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 00:34:54 03/26/07 ()
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My friend, the same individuals are today "GREEN" under sitting comfortably on top of the palm tree eating and drinking from its fruits. What would say about that?
Until we start realising that our country is destroyed by bunch of greedy and crooked groups of people, blaming a party is not the answer.
I can assure you that if Hilter was in Sierra Leone today and there are greater chances for him to win the election, you will see the same individuals singing his praises.
I believe we should start a campaign against corrupt individuals and not just he political entities. We have to expose them in order for democracy to have any meaning in that country.
Subject: Re: APC APC APC ....OH APC.............WOONAR NOR DAE CHANGE????
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 08:38:33 03/26/07 ()
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That is a bold lie.
The leadership of gthe APC ruined Sa Lone. All the other followers were just yes mans and yes mams.
If the APC leadership (Shaki,SI, Kamara-Taylor, Abdulai Conteh, AKT, etc) were smart enough the country would not have gone down the drains. Why blame the yes-man who made no decisions but simply kissed-ass and followed the status quo? Why blamed the yes-man who knew just what to say to survive? Why blame the yes-man who stole when he saw the leaders doing it and getting away with it?
Stop your NONSENSE EXCUSES.
Had APC put policies in place and mechanisms to run the country efficiently, discourage corruption, the yes-mans and yes-mams would have followed the good path.......
\I suggest you read the book titled BUILT TO LAST. You will learn a lot about builoding an organization (a business, a govt etc) to stand the test of time.
Subject: YOU MEAN CRYING AND RUNNING AWAY FROM THE FALLING PALM TREE?
From: JUSTICE
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Date Posted: 02:11:06 03/26/07 ()
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Albert, as you said these people were eating and drinking under the palm tree in the hay days of the SLPP with people like CHARLES MARGAI and HINGA(may his soul rest in peace).
Now they are running away from it because it is falling.
The PALM TREE is rotten and is fill with BUGS as I stated in one of my articles.
Every thing is rotten. That is why we want the SUN to shine again for greener pastures every where. So that even the PALM TRRES will enjoy from PHOTOSYNTHESIS stimulated by the presence of the sun to grow.
SLPP DON DONE KPATA KPATA.
APC DAY KAM EN E GO WIN ON JULY 28.
AMEN, AMEN, AMEN, FATHER GOD.
GOD BLESS.
Subject: Re: YOU MEAN CRYING AND RUNNING AWAY FROM THE FALLING PALM TREE?
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 04:20:44 03/26/07 ()
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I know you are serious, but every time I read your kpata kpata, I cannot help it but laugh my guts out. All the same you are right.
Stay cool as you always make me laugh.
Subject: Re: APC APC APC ....OH APC.............WOONAR NOR DAE CHANGE????
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Date Posted: 00:20:23 03/26/07 ()
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shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutup
Subject: Re: APC APC APC ....OH APC.............WOONAR NOR DAE CHANGE????
From: APOLITICAL
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Date Posted: 00:23:05 03/26/07 ()
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shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutup
Subject: Breaking News
From: fair play
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Date Posted: 21:46:37 03/25/07 ()
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unconfirmed reports i am getting from the city of freetown is that the General elections will be deferred to a later date in the interest of fair play, clean and transparent elections...
More to come...
Subject: NOT APC OR SLPP? BUT INDIVIDUALS
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 21:35:18 03/25/07 ()
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I LOOK AT THE INDIVIDUALS MORE THAN THE PARTY.
When we start to look at the individuals instead of concentrating on the political entity either APC or SLPP, then we will recognize that corruption is
1. inside our "blood"
2. in the "air" we breath
3. it is what that makes Sierra Leone "spins" to the bottom of world charts or indices
4. it is ingrained in our culture
5. in the food and water we eat and drink
6. our way of life
7. THE MOTHER OF ALL EVILS IN OUR SOCIETY.
To blame it on any particular party, may win political points but does not address the real issue. WE SIERRA LEONEANS ARE CORRUPT TO THE BONE. We need a leader an individual who can lead by example and deal with this menace before we are doomed forever.
Let us look at the Presidential Candidates, Berewa, Ernest and Margai. My choice is the latter two for their exemplary performance of services. Ernest is too gentle and because of the past records of INDIVIDUALS under the APC, the chances of winning are very slim. I strongly believe Margai can uproot corruption in this country. LET US SUPPORT HIM.
Subject: YOU ARE RIGHT ALBERT. IS BEREWA RESPONSIBLE?
From: JUSTICE
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Date Posted: 01:47:12 03/26/07 ()
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Albert, I will aggree with you on this particular issue.
That is why I am now asking you whether BEREWA was among the law makers responsible for the ailing malaise of our country?
If he is, then he will not have been selected as flag bearer in the first. Which means he is not fit to rule Sierra leone.
But I leave that to SLPP members to decide.
I am THE NEW APC.
Thank you Moinina.
Subject: Re: NOT APC OR SLPP? BUT INDIVIDUALS
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 21:57:01 03/25/07 ()
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Margai can uproot corruption?
The man gave contracts to his wife and relatives....
Even though there are no laws against doing that, the appearance of favoritism and corruption makes it stink....If he had brains, he would not have done that.
Why waste your vote on a fool like that????
Subject: Re: NOT APC OR SLPP? BUT INDIVIDUALS
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 00:26:42 03/26/07 ()
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What is your choice then? If your chioce is Berewa, please tell us what he has done to fight corruption. Thanks for enlighting us.
Subject: ALBERT, THIS MAN IS PRO CORRUPTION. HOW CAN HE FIGHT IT?
From: JUSTICE
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Date Posted: 03:36:53 03/26/07 ()
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Fighting COLLUPTION(CORRUPTION I MEAN), never under the big green banners of this man.
They were given two decades to fight corruption, but they could and will never.
LEH DEN JUST PACK DEN BUNDLE DEM EN READY FOR GO!
DEN TEM DONE DONE.
GOD BLESS.
Subject: Conditions worsen at Kroo Bay
From: kroobaymom
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Date Posted: 19:27:18 03/25/07 ()
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Conditions worsen at Kroo Bay James Fallah 22/3/2007
Chief Pa Alimamy Kategbeh of Kroo Bay Community recently pleaded with government and called its attention to the worsening health conditions that continue to affect his people.
Chief Kategbeh said paramount on the community's long list of problems is the dire need for pipe-borne water, as there is no single tap in the whole community. He also made reference to the poor sanitary condition, citing the non-availability of toilet facilities to cater for that overcrowded slummy settlement of Freetown , as another serious concern.
The Chief, therefore, appealed to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation to assist the inhabitants of Kroo Bay with garbage bins among other things, as there is none in the community. Hence, people now indiscriminately throw refuse on roadsides and sewage disposals in the drainages causing problem for the free flow of water in the gutters.
Subject: Re: Conditions worsen at Kroo Bay
From: Chief Pa Alimamy Kategbeh
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Date Posted: 19:42:34 03/25/07 ()
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MEDIA & SOCIETY
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STANDARD TIMES
Any Hopes For Kroobay Slum Life
Posted by Mohamed Issa on Feb30, 2007, 02:40
Slum life generally is considered hard, and associated with many vices. In Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown most of the slums are located close to the sea and they are home to thousands of Sierra Leoneans.The Kroobay slum is a popular one in Freetown dating back to the fifties after the Second World War. Standard Times press recently caught up with Mr.
Shanty town...Kroobay
Mohamed Kargbo, who is the secretary of the Kroobay Area Development Committee Organization and quizzed him on a number of issues regarding life in Kroobay. Responding to questions relating to life of people in the Kroobay community, Mr. Kargbo maintained that there is currently a verse difference between “Kroobay life in the sixties and now.
Mr. Kargbo noted that before now, people have the notion that Kroobay was not conducive for human habitation but because of the immense development that has taken place, Kroobay is now much conducive for human habitation.
From 1994, Mr. Kargbo further noted that the Plan International trained 25 area development committee members on leadership quality project implementation and sustainability. The committee had written so many projects to many NGOs who have responded to assist their community.
In the sixties Kroobay had only one public toilet but that has now increased to six including a primary school, health centre, foot bridge and a mini stadium project which is yet to kick off soon.
In 2002, a project was funded by ICRC the Grassroot Empowerment (GEM) in collaboration with the Ministry of Lands and Country Planning. Four men each representing a section in the Kroobay committee were trained for the production of soil bricks with the motive of selling them at an affordable rate to members in the community so that they can change their shanty houses to bricks.
On the issue of flooding which has become a perennial hazard to people living in Kroobay, Mr. Kargbo remarked that the danger of flooding is universal and more acute in other countries than Sierra Leone. To forestall the dangers of flooding a drainage cleaning project was funded by NaCSA and it necessitated the clearing of the Samba gutter a project which created job facility for the youths for 23 days.
Despite what Mr. Kargbo presented as development for the Kroobay environment, the fact remains that Kroobay community is highly prone to health hazards because of the filth in the area.
Subject: Slave trade shameful, says Blair
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 19:25:23 03/25/07 ()
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Slave trade shameful, says Blair
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6493507.stm
How was this event marked in Sierra Leone?
Subject: Life in Diamond Rich Baama Konta
From: Mohamed Konneh
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Date Posted: 17:50:29 03/25/07 ()
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Life in Diamond Rich Baama Konta
STANDARD TIMES
Posted by Mohamed Konneh on Mar 25, 2007, 04:42
The chiefdom of Baama Konta, though very poor, the people are very much active in the nation’s politics these days.This diamond rich chiefdom and its people since the start of voter registration have being very active with the people coming out in large numbers to register.
Baama Konta is a metropolitan chiefdom comprising of different ethnic groups.
Information gathered by the press in the township revealed that only three parties including Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), All Peoples Congress (APC) and People Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) are the only political parties making headway in the chiefdom.
As at present eighty percent of the people have so far been registered in Baama chiefdom, of which the youths make up the majority.
This was confirmed by the registrar, Sulaiman Momodu who also maintained that the registration is going on peacefully.
The people, he observed are very much cooperative with nothing adverse to report about.
Political debate among school going children, the youth and elderly is very much visible within the township, as is political tolerance which is also very much alive with a lot of open discussions witnessed by this press in the township.
According to people interviewed before now the entire chiefdom was purely SLPP, but now other parties like the APC and PMDC have also gained ground in the chiefdom.
Freedom of expression is very apparent as supporters of various parties do express themselves freely with no intimidation or harassment.
This chiefdom, though rich in diamond, yet the people are poor who are mostly farmers that spend the day on their farms.
Education is progressing slowly in the chiefdom, although with limited facilities. School children are encouraged to take extra classes after school free of cost especially for students sitting to the NPSE and BECE exams. Education officials do visits the chiefdom regularly to monitor progress.
The Sabuba education project has also been introduced in the chiefdom which has increased the number of girls in the schools.
Parents are also being encouraged to send their children to school with the notion that education is the best thing that one could give to his or her child. Presently a rigorous sensitization is ongoing within Baama Konta and its envious to discourage parents from sending their children to mine diamond.
Political campaigns have however not yet taken hold in the chiefdom except for pocket discussions among the people themselves. No head of a political party has visited the people, according to reports gathered note that some strong supporters of various political parties normally visit the chiefdom to interact with their core supporters and the chiefdom elders.
In actual fact, many of the people this medium talked to noted that the ruling SLPP is control of the township followed by PMDC and APC.
A survey revealed that the elderly make up the majority of supporters for the ruling SLPP, whilst the youths are supporting PMDC and APC, but it is definitely too early to draw a conclusion as to which political party control’s that particular area in terms of popular support.
Diamond mining areas are mostly hotly contested areas when it comes to party politics and elections, hence a good number of people who talked to this press also expressed their own personal view about political party supports in the chiefdom.
The July 28th 2007 parliamentary and presidential elections are important not only to the people in that part of the country, but the whole country. This is very evident in the fact that the people talk about the election on a daily basis and almost all the time especially as the chiefdom has a very huge population and an enlightening youth.
This area is in touch with daily happenings in and around the country, and foreign nationals are always in the chiefdom due to the mining activities taking place.
The chiefdom is a war ravaged area with its infrastructures in ruins. Mining is been done within the entire chiefdom. Without anybody saying nothing to you, you could spot the evidence of mining activities as you enter the township. Miners within this area are mining close to the roads leading to the township. There are dug-out holes along the main routes leading to Baama and some villages in the chiefdom have clear evidence of mining in the town.
This press also talked to teachers and other influential people in the chiefdom, who expressed series of concerns including the need to see all party manifestos before the elections.
The development of Baama Konta is also very much paramount to them, and that political parties or presidential hopefuls need to convince them about their plans for the chiefdom before July 28th.
Some people within that chiefdom are comfortable with the present situation. Food and other related items are not their problem. Their concern is about the peace they are now enjoying for with peace they believe the chiefdom will come out of its present predicament.
Subject: APC, SLPP, PMDC Where is the Builder?
From: STANDARD TIMES
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Date Posted: 17:46:43 03/25/07 ()
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APC, SLPP, PMDC Where is the Builder?
STANDARD TIMES
Posted by Santigie Kamara on Mar 25, 2007, 12:07
This adage has connotations that might subsequently result to reality in most cases.
Apparently, the art of politics in the modern trend of globalization entails a lot of speculation with regards to state governance, developmental growth and the improvements of the social status of individuals.
In essence, this clearly indicates that the concept of politics is mostly centered on the seizure of state power, consolidation of state power and the use of state power. Unlike other parts of the world, the electorates in Sierra Leone are blind to the reality. All they care about is how to make ends meet without consideration of the fact that a single vote can make and unmake a government by choice or not.
With barely four months to approach the 28th July elections, one would wonder who exactly will be the head corner stone. By look of things over the past years, the Vice President of Sierra Leone and Presidential candidate of Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Hon. Solomon Berewa came from nowhere to some where. He became Sierra Leone’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice after the first ever democratic elections of the country in 1996. Following the AFRC coup in 1997, Mr. Solomon Berewa fought tooth and nail to ensure the AFRC/RUF alliance signed the Lome Peace Accord which subsequently resulted into lasting peace in Sierra Leone that we are now enjoying without threats as the case may be.
The 2002 elections elevated Solomon Berewa to the seat of Vice President as he was instrumental in ensuring the party gained it status of incumbency. In fact, his appointment as Vice President created negative impact within the party as most party loyalists were not anticipating President Kabbah to sack Dr Joe Demby and replace him with Mr. Berewa.
However, Solomon Berewa exhibited professionalism and talents to the surprise of his critics and the people of Sierra Leone. He proved his critics wrong when he contested the party leadership at Makeni where he defeated Charles Margai, J.B. Dauda, John Leigh and Dr. Lansana Nyallay with landslide victory.
However, his victory at the party convention in Makeni also brought split in the SLPP that warranted the likes of Mr. Charles Francis Margai, now leader of the break away Peoples Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC), to quit. Even though people are claiming that the PMDC has penetrated into the strong holds of SLPP, this speculation cannot be taken for granted as many of those in PMDC’s wagon have returned to the SLPP as their traditional party.
In fact, the number of people in PMDC is far below what one may anticipate as a secured electorate to ensure a winning in the south and east strongholds.
These regions believe in the importance role of elders as a custom and tradition of the SLPP. Therefore, they cannot be changed by PMDC by twinkle of an eye by introducing a new political party against SLPP.
In the north and western areas, PMDC is not also popular as most people in these regions support the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC).
Thus, in reality, the only major political parties in the country and beyond are SLPP and APC.
Between the two, APC which might be a threat to V.P. Berewa’s victory is seriously rocked with internal courts wrangling despite efforts attempted to resolve the problem amicably. As another adage says “charity begins at home” this is contrary to what is presently going on within the ranks and files of APC. Further supported by a renowned scholar of political science, Professor Khon who remarked in Political Parties and Politics, “It would be difficult for any conflicting home to dwell in the road of victory”.
If the APC members put aside their differences and concentrate on the up coming elections, they might challenge the incumbent government party in power and even defeat it where the case may be as it did in 1967. It is sad to note that most of the aggrieved members in the APC only care about themselves and not the success of the party.
These problems which up till now remained unresolved would mean a sign of victory for Solomon Berewa who many people failed to consider as “the head corner stone” of the politics of the country. Unlike the leader of the opposition in parliament who is also the presidential aspirant of APC Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma, he is more occupied with court cases while his counterpart Mr. Berewa is more concern about winning the elections. Recently, the Vice President gave micro-credit loans to market women in return for voter apathy, promised to construct forty boreholes in Freetown and the provinces respectively, and he is now taking developmental projects in areas that have been rejected by the previous government of APC.
The rehabilitation of Cannaught hospital, Kissy Mental home to name but few projects have seriously indicated the current vice president might be the head corner stone of Sierra Leone. What the people of the country need now is a discipline and hard working leader who will stand by his words, respect for the rule of law and uphold human rights enshrined in the constitution.
Today public examination fees are history as government is paying them for school going children and parents who cannot afford them. At some point, the high rates of school examination fees in previous administrations, left many people out of school because parents could not to afford to pay such exorbitant fees.
In conclusion, the formation of PMDC may not stop the SLPP from winning the upcoming elections. Although its formation is widely welcomed as a democratic breakthrough, yet doubts about unseating the ruling government are far growing beyond reality. Its counterpart, APC, cannot be banked on either as it too is wrangled with internal court cases over the past years. These ugly developments will definitely pave the way for SLPP’s Solo B to be the head corner stone.
Subject: VP Berewa commissions completed NaCSA projects in the North,
From: Bampia James Bundu
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Date Posted: 17:21:07 03/25/07 ()
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VP Berewa commissions completed NaCSA projects in the North, Sierra Leone
By Bampia James Bundu
Mar 15, 2007, 20:20 Email this article
The Honorable Vice President Solomon Ekuma Berewa during his recent six-day tour of the Northern Province commission various completed projects undertaken by the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) in a number of communities.
VP Berewa and Commissoner Sesay on a conducted tour of the Boronoh Health Centre
One of such beneficiary communities is the Gbanti Kamaranka Chiefdom. They benefited from a modern market with storage and toilet facilities. The market, according to the people will not only serve their commercial needs, but is also adding to the beautification and modernization of their community.
The newly constructed NaCSA Bridge at Royeama
The people of Gbanti Kamaranka commended the SLPP government for establishing a Commission like NaCSA a move they referred to "visionary" and "in line with the needs and aspirations of the people". The also described NaCSA as an asset to the government and people of Sierra Leone by virtue of "the excellent job it is doing throughout the country." The people also commended NaCSA’s Chief Commissioner, Alhaji Kanja Sesay for what they also referred to as "his dedication to the service of the people and the commitment and patriotism with which executes his national responsibility."
Side view of the newly constructed Gbinti Maria
The women of Gbanti Kamaranka were especially grateful to the government for considering them, noting that they will never conduct their businesses under rain and sun again. For the women, the construction of the market facility was an indication of government’s determination to empower women through commerce. They therefore resolved to continue supporting the SLPP government in order to allow it continue with its development programmes across the country.
Commissioner of NaCSA, Kanja Sesay explaining facilities contained in a newly constructed Health Center to VP Berewa
Vice President Berewa also commissioned a primary school at Gbinti Maria Town, also in the Gbanti Kamaranka Chiefdom. He also commissioned a bridge linking Gbinti Maria and Royeama all in the Gbanti Kamaranka Chiefdom. The need for the construction of the bridge according to the people had been a longstanding desire, for the old rickety structure that existed over the stream between the two communities had virtually created movement problems for them. The Vice President again commissioned a Court Barray at Mateboi, the Sanda Tendaren headquarter. The Court Barray, was requested by the people and according to them it now serves as a symbol of justice and a model for peaceful co-existence within their community.
Front view of the newly constructed Gbinti Maria
The Vice President at each of the commissioning ceremony referred to NaCSA as "one of the numerous institutions of repute that responsible governments like the SLPP has put together in the interest of national development." He told his audiences that because of the government’s concern over what the people were undergoing as a result of the war, they had to think it fit to establish the Commission, first starting as the National Commission for Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Resettlement (NCRRR), during the emergency period immediately after the war. NaCSA, the Vice President maintained has so far met the expectations of both the government and the people, noting also that NaCSA has made a lot of positive impacts on the lives of ordinary Sierra Leoneans. "As a government, I believe through NaCSA we have extensively addressed the social needs of our war ravaged people," the Vice President stated. VP Berewa in that regard commended the Chief Commissioner of NaCSA for "the good job you are doing on behalf of government" and assured him of government’s continued support to him and the Commission "to ensure that you continue to do your work perfectly," he stated.
Front View of the Market at Kamaranka
He told his audiences that what they have seen being done by the SLPP government "is just the beginning" noting that when the party shall have won the July 28 elections and he becomes President, his government will continue with the development programmes already in progress with NaCSA at the helm and assured that more would be done for as long as they ask for it. He pledged to do more for the Bombali District, pointing out that it is only the SLPP government that is concerned with the development of that district.
He advised the respective beneficiaries to take good care of the facilities provided for them, noting that it is upon these that more could be provided.
Vice President Berewa however encouraged the people to go out and register so as to empower them to vote for the candidates of their choice in the coming elections. He also encouraged the people to vote back the SLPP because according to him, the SLPP is the party they now know as a development party and which they must ensure to remain in power in order to continue its development programmes for their benefit and that of their children and their grand children. The Vice President was accompanied on this tour by a number of senior party Functionaries and Government Ministers which included; Alhaji Kanja Sesay, Chief Commissioner of NaCSA, Hon. Alpha Timbo, Minister of Labour and Industrial Relations, Hon. Dr. Kadi Sesay, Minister of Trade and Industry, Hon. Alhaji Momodu Koroma, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Mrs. Abator Thomas, Minister of Health and Sanitation and Hon. Dr. Alpha Tejan Wurie, Minister of Education, Science and Technology.
Contributions were made by the respective Ministers and Head of Departments present on their respective roles in enhancing government’s collective determination to ensure national development.
In all of the communities visited by the Vice President and his entourage, they were accorded very warm receptions which were characterized by pomp and fanfare.
Subject: Reading tips for Dr. Thomas and his Cabal!
From: positive thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 17:20:41 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: pthinker@gmail.com
Entered From: host-87-74-40-102.bulldogdsl.com at 87.74.40.102
Message:
One fool at a time:
Listen and Listen well:
Always read a piece of literature at least twice. So that you are able to understand the intention of the writer.
By so doing, you eliminate the element of AMBIGUITY.
You see. So that you cannot read things wrongly or misunderstand people.
I clearly know what MD or PhD is. But are all MDs necessarily PhDs or all PhDs MDs? Certainly no.
I was really not impressed by the personal attacks Dr. PhDMD had made in his previous posting(s).
You have never been able to impress me with issues of national concern but I still respect you. Not because you are an ILLITERATE MD but as a human being and your opinions.
And the rest of the other fools follow suit.
Sorry if you cannot understand my 'RHETORICS' or MIMIC.
What an ILLITERATE MD you are.
No more war please!
You are always my brother even when we don't share the same view on how to take mother Sierra Leone ahead.
Subject: Re: Reading tips for Dr. Thomas and his Cabal!
From: CURTIS-THOMAS'S FORMER WIFE
To: All
Date Posted: 17:23:34 03/25/07 ()
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Message:
PT,
Nor fall Curtis one balls. Em Papa en Mama bin sweh am. De chap is hopeless. What a reckless, pathetic trash can he is. Curtis-Thomas is a disgrace. Big man big fool.
Subject: APC Has Lost Sella Limba to Berewa / Sierra Leone People's P
From: Bampia James Bundu
To: All
Date Posted: 17:19:06 03/25/07 ()
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APC Has Lost Sella Limba to Berewa / Sierra Leone People's Party
By Bampia James Bundu
Mar 15, 2007, 21:37 Email this article
The widely considered notion that members of the Limba ethnic group are fore ever die-hard supporters of the All People’s Congress (APC) party, that is now history as the Paramount Chief of Sella Limba Chiefdom, PC Kandeh Luseni said that his Chiefdom is now "a full-blown SLPP stronghold."
PC Luseni made this declaration last Friday, 9th March 2007 at a jam-packed meeting at Kamakwie during the visit of the SLPP Leader and Flag bearer, Vice President Solomon Ekuma Berewa.
"We were in darkness. We have now seen light in the SLPP," the Paramount Chief declared. He disclosed that his people had begun jubilating over the visit of the Vice President well before his arrival, which he said is an indication of the change of loyalty of the people of Sella Limba Chiefdom. He noted that the SLPP is the only political party for him and his people. He however stated that they would however receive any other political in the Chiefdom, in the spirit of tolerance and fair play.
"But let me emphasize, our hearts and minds are with the SLPP the political party we have come to know as development oriented," the Paramount Chief stated.
The Chief acknowledged the development programmes brought to his Chiefdom by the SLPP-led government which he noted have "greatly enhanced the lives and status of my people."
Responding, Vice President Berewa thanked the Paramount Chief and people of Sella Limba for their support and assured them that he and the SLPP will not let them down. He said of how he is aware of the problems faced by the people because of what he referred to as "the system of intimidation and victimization that was evident in those days." He said with pluralism now in politics and the democratization of the country by the SLPP, the people are now actually free to express their opinions on national issues and of course decide to which political party they wish to belong.
"The SLPP has not only democratized your minds, the SLPP has also democratized the distribution of resources in the interest of all peoples of this country," he told the people, adding that they must be resolute in the decision they have taken, "in discarding" the APC and all other political parties.
Speaking on the nature of the other political parties, especially the APC and the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC), Hon. Berewa noted that they are "built around personalities." The PMDC he said "will catch cold if Mr. Charles Margai catches cold and will certain die if Mr. Charles Margai dies."
As for APC, Vice President Berewa stated also that since members of the APC see Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma as "their angel" around which notion his popularity is being built, he opined that if anything should happen to him the APC also will certainly die because according to him, the party will find it hard to have "a suitable replacement within their rank and file."
According to the Vice President, that is one major difference between the SLPP and those two political parties.
"In the SLPP we have too many esteemed, capable and competent people. If something should happen to me today, the party is capable of finding a fitting replacement that will go to win the elections just as I am destined to win this July 28th election," VP Berewa said.
He further stated that the SLPP is built on a philosophy which is endearing to the people because of its nationalistic and patriotic nature. "Our founding fathers did not make a mistake when they chose our party’s slogan, "One Country and One People" which is an indication that any one who joins the SLPP automatically becomes a member of a national family that is how different we are from the other clubs. I do not see them as political parties," the Vice President ended as he proudly agreed that indeed, "Sella is now SLPP."
Subject: ARE YOU PRAISING THE NEW APC CAMPAIGN FREEDOM? GREAT.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 03:10:47 03/26/07 ()
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Message:
Because the people of Sella Limba gave a rousing welcome to BEREWA does not mean that they own loyalty to him? It is good for him to come and campaign. Let come and talk any type of BOTO BATA. At the end of the day, the people will show their loyalty to ERNEST KOROMA.
WELCOME and LOYALTY are not the same thing.
You see, that is exactly what is wrong with the SLPP.
People like you are still thinking of that old time politics thinking that no confusion or problem is OK.
ERNEST KOROMA has taught all the APC supporters to be tolerable. Let them accept everyone to come in and campaign. What matters is loyalty.
The entire country is now loyal to ERNEST KOROMA. So, donot make a big fool of yourself.
Let SLPP go and take the south first from PMDC.
Is it because CHARLES MARGAI and the PMDC have driven the SLPP out of the South and most Parts of the EAST that you want to come to the NORTH to fool people? It wiil not work. You are just kidding.
Go first and retake the SOUTH from the PMDC before you come to the SELLA LIMBA area.
YOU YEHRY!
GOD BLESS.
Subject: Konos Now Boast of New Maternal Care Training Centre in thei
From: Bampia James Bundu
To: All
Date Posted: 17:16:32 03/25/07 ()
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Konos Now Boast of New Maternal Care Training Centre in their District in Sierra Leone
By Bampia James Bundu
Mar 19, 2007, 19:35 Email this article
The people of Kono District are now breathing a sigh of relief with regards the welfare of their children, with the construction and recent commissioning of a modern Maternal and Child Health Care Training Centre. The center is to train Maternal and Child Health Delivery Assistants on safe delivery methods and post natal care of mothers and babies in the district. It is the first of its kind ever in the district. This center was officially commissioned by the Vice President, Solomon Ekuma Berewa in late February.
In his overview of the Maternal and Child Health Delivery Service in the district, Dr. Momodu Sesay it is a major problem in the district and has caused the lives of many mothers and babies especially following the end of the war when basic health delivery infrastructure were non existent. He also added as a problem the lack of adequately trained personnel to offer the required services to especially those people in further remote areas of the district.
Dr. Sesay went on to state that because of this unfortunate situation, the District Health Management Team approached the Kono District Council with the issue. He noted that the Center is as a result of the positive response of the District Council to the plight of mothers and children in the district.
Dr. Sesay went on to further disclose that the project was executed from funds under the Rapid Results Initiative (RRI) under the auspices of the Kono District Council. He also informed that before now, Maternal and Child Health Students from Kono district who were trained at the Magburaka Center had not been finding it easy and as a result many abandoned the course, which he noted has been the major reason for the lack of adequate indigenous professional personnel in that domain. He described as "wise decision" by the SLPP government for adopting a decentralized system of government and the quick devolution of some "critical" aspects of health service delivery to the local councils. He said the action of the SLPP government in this regard, "is a manifestation of good governance" and "determination to give the people the opportunity to determine their development in their own way."
Paramount Chief Kaimachende II said the construction of the health centre training center in Kono District is a demonstration of government’s commitment to improve health service delivery in the district. He thanked the government for their continued support to the people of Kono District in ensuring that the district returns to its former glory.
The Paramount Chief admonished all users of the Center to make sure proper use is made of all the facilities provided for sustainable usage. He called on young Kono indigenes to take advantage of the training center in their community so as to help protect the lives of the women and children.
Responding, Vice President Berewa thanked the people of Kono for the warm reception accorded him and his entourage. He described the center as "a reflection of government’s determination to remove Sierra Leone from the phenomenon of being the least developed country in the world." He said before now, the country was classified as such because of the absence of structures such as the Training center which trains people to handle issues of maternal and child health in parts of the country.
Vice President Berewa acknowledged the significance of having a "sound and healthy" population, which he noted is a crucial element for the development of any country like Sierra Leone. He also noted that the high rate of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity in the country has been a major set back for the country’s improvement on the UNDP Human Index Report. He however expressed hope that with the provision of facilities such as the training center, improvements are bound to be recorded by next year.
He encouraged the people of Kono and more especially the users of the facility to make good use of it and to retain it strictly for intended purpose.
Subject: YES, LAST MINUTE CAMPAIGN - LET HIM BUILD FOUR STAR CLINICS.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 01:40:19 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip565bc167.direct-adsl.nl at 86.91.193.103
Message:
Bampia James Bundu. The name does not surprise me.
I hope you are not the James Bundu that was BEREWA'S clerk at his chambers. I remembered very well when I escorted my friend for a libel case in 1991.
If it is, then for you to rushing this article on this forum is no surprise.
Last minute campaign will not work. What ever he does.
SLPP DAY GO YAH, ME MAN.
E LEK DEN BUILD SKY SCRAPERS. NA FOR NATIN.
DEN DAY GO JULY 28.
SALONE MAN NO FULL AGAIN OH.
MA TELL YOU.
JUST CAN JOIN THE NEW APC.
NA DEN NOHMOH GO HELP SALONE KOMOT OUT OF THIS WAHAL YAH SO.
YOU YEHRY?
GOD BLESS.
Subject: PROCUREMENT REFORM
From: National Public Procurement Authority
To: All
Date Posted: 17:02:01 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Welcome to the National Public Procurement Authority Website
Background
The Government of Sierra Leone is in the process of rebuilding and improving the institutions of government. The Government has identified Public Procurement as an area that needs urgent attention to overcome widespread allegations of corrupt practices and inefficiencies, and to build trust in the system. An efficient public procurement system will ensure value for money of government spending, which is essential in a country that faces enormous challenges recovering from a decade-long civil war.
The Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) has received a loan/grant from the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to undertake a comprehensive Public Procurement Reform. Under the guise of this reform programme, it will be of utmost importance to enable the dissemination of information to ensure the buy-in and continued support of all stakeholders.
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Subject: IDA at work - Sierra Leone: Recovering from years of conflic
From: IBRAHIM FOFANA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:52:39 03/25/07 ()
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Source: The World Bank Group
Date: 23 March 2007
IDA at work - Sierra Leone: Recovering from years of conflict
After 11 years of brutal civil conflict, and five years of post-conflict recovery, Sierra Leone is consolidating its return to democratic rule by holding its third cycle of presidential and parliamentary elections in 2007 and implementing a decentralization plan to empower locally elected district and town councils.
Country Indicators 1999 2005
GDP per capita (US$)a 150 220
Real GDP growth –8.1 7.3
Infl ation rate (%) 34.1 12.1
External debt (% of GDP) 194 132
Poverty incidence (%)
70
Gross primary school enrollment rate (%) 65 160
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000) 170 (1997) 170 (2002)
Under-fi ve child mortality rate (per 1,000) 286 (2000) 283 (2004)
Population (millions) 4 5.5
a. World Bank Atlas methodology.
Sources: World Bank and UNICEF.
Sierra Leone’s civil war destroyed infrastructure, businesses and the most basic social fabric of the society. Near the end of the war, the average citizen survived on the equivalent of 38 cents (US$) a day, and 2 million people, nearly a third of the population, had been displaced.
But solid macroeconomic performance following the cease-fire led to strong economic rebound.
As often happens when countries emerge from the devastation of civil war, income jumped substantially—in this case to an annual average of US$220 per person by 2005. International support helped restore many basic services, with a 146 percent rise in primary school enrollment since 1999. The last United Nations (UN) peacekeepers withdrew in December 2005, leaving full responsibility for security with domestic forces. A civilian UN office remains to support the government.
The International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s fund for the world’s poorest countries, has been at the core of the international partnership working with Sierra Leone as it emerged from conflict, and set the priorities for recovery and rehabilitation. International assistance was crucial to deliver tangible benefits to the population to consolidate the peace and helped pave the way for reconstruction and public sector reforms.
COUNTRY ACHIEVEMENTS
Sierra Leone is starting to emerge from the ravages of war.
Eleven years of civil war.
Civil conflict between 1991 and 2001 concluded with a 1999 peace agreement, followed by UN peacekeeping support and a formal declaration of peace in January 2002.
The World Bank had ceased new lending in 1997—following the unraveling of the first peace agreement and a coup d’état—but had retained a presence during the conflict years, keeping development projects afloat where possible. A crisis point came in January 1999 when the resurgent rebel forces invaded Freetown, leaving thousands dead and devastating the capital before being driven out by West African regional forces (ECOMOG).
In May 1999, the rebels agreed to a cease-fire and in July signed the Lome Peace Agreement. In November, the arrival of UN troops proved to be the turning point in consolidating the peace and returning to stability and democratic norms.
The UN troops set the stage for new IDA support focused on the root causes of the conflict—alienation and corruption.
Consolidating its return to democratic rule and stability.
Having peacefully completed two presidential and parliamentary election cycles (1996 and 2002), Sierra Leone is preparing for the third in July 2007. In addition, the government reestablished the institutions of local government, which had been dismantled 30 years earlier, with the 2004 elections for district and town councils. Since 2004, government completed the first phase of decentralizing a range of functions from agriculture to sanitation to local and regional administrations.
Strong post-conflict growth.
Sierra Leone’s GDP per capita sank to 38 cents (US$) a day near the end of the conflict in 2000. Following the peace accord, it rebounded to US$220 per capita in 2005. As the conflict ravaged the economy, consumer price inflation surged to 36 percent in 1998 before subsiding, and has been at about 12 percent in 2005 and 2006.
Sierra Leone declared free universal primary education in 2001. As a result, gross primary school enrollment increased from 65 percent in 1999 to the current rate of 160 percent (1.3 million students), reflecting the participation of large numbers of over-age students who missed out on educational opportunities during the conflict. From 2001 to 2005, the number of pupils passing the annual national primary school examination more than doubled from 21,000 to 56,000 pupils.
Governance is improving.
The task of building an honest and capable state in Sierra Leone is a major challenge, following the institutional erosion of the conflict years. Governance indicators for Sierra Leone show improvement but from a very low base. From 1998 to 2005, Sierra Leone’s average percentile ranking for all governance categories tracked in a World Bank survey (Governance Matters V) improved from
14.9 to 20.4, low by global standards and markedly below the Sub-Saharan average percentile of 29.8.
Subject: Re: IDA at work - S. Leone/ It Desn't take much to be civili
From: musa Kalawa
To: All
Date Posted: 23:47:46 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
It doesn't take much to be civilize within a general populace. Postings are hurtful at times and in many cases educative for those who thrive to learn, not by using profane words on people simply because you disagree with their thought, or simply because they did not think the way you do.
I have been doing thorough reasearch about you for your deliberate/miscalculated attack you continue to use not only against me, but as well as my sacred and personal family. It seem like people don't know you well so they hardly respond to your posting. Some of your disrespectful comment previously directed towards me, I requested for their permanent posting on "Google" World Wide Web under "MUSA KALAWA" so that I can lawfully nail you down for such misconduct.
Subject: Re: IDA at work - S. Leone/ It Desn't take much to be civili
From: IBRAHIM FOFANA
To: All
Date Posted: 07:09:33 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50
Message:
What? You are a miserable man. Go get yourself a life.
Subject: WARNING!
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 16:17:50 03/25/07 ()
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Entered From: 181-66-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.66.181
Message:
We will not tired to come out with the facts that will make the SLPP history come July 28th 2007.
It is not only here.The san san boys are having the message on the ground.
Subject: Re: WARNING!
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 16:22:15 03/25/07 ()
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Entered From: host86-143-5-48.range86-143.btcentralplus.com at 86.143.5.48
Message:
Be real and come out with what you really feel - SLPP another LANDSLIDE VICTORY!!!
Subject: Re: WARNING!
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 16:23:43 03/25/07 ()
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Message:
WUTETEH.. solo B all the way
Subject: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: news copied
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:09 03/25/07 ()
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Message:
The SLPP government employed informer systems and tried to coerce or forbid membership in political organizations. There were reports that SLPP members monitored opposition political party meetings. Civil servants who attended such meetings risked losing their jobs or government housing (see section 2.b.). There also were reports that the government pressured paramount chiefs (and paramount chiefs in turn pressured subordinate chiefs) to discourage the activities of opposition political parties in the provinces, particularly in remote areas (see section 3).
In March a senior mines monitoring officer in Bo who became a member of the newly-registered PMDC party was removed from government housing, which was turned over to an SLPP member. The mines monitor was transferred to a different office in Makeni and was not given government housing.
In June the Ministry of Education removed the head teacher of a primary school in Pujehun from the government payroll (the head teacher also was the Pujehun District Chairman for the PMDC). When the teacher complained, the national education secretary called him in for a meeting on August 25, during which the teacher claimed that he was told that he would not be allowed to attend the upcoming dedication ceremony of his recently refurbished school unless he joined the SLPP. The teacher, who refused to join the SLPP, had not been paid by year's end.
In June the principal of a girls' secondary school in Bo fired a teacher after he joined the PMDC.
In June the Nyawa-Leagai paramount chief fired the Nengbema town (Bo District) chief for attending an All People's Congress (APC) meeting.
In June the Soro Gbema paramount chief in Pujehun District suspended four section chiefs for attending a June 10 PMDC meeting.
There were reports that supporters of opposition political parties also faced other forms of discrimination. Early in the year Ministry of Lands officials marked a house for demolition that had been built on chiefdom-owned land. The church leader (a PMDC supporter) who owned the house claimed that he had prior permission to build on the land. The house was still marked for demolition at year's end.
There were reports that membership in the ruling SLPP was required in order to access certain government benefits, particularly micro-credit and other development assistance. On July 7, a paramount chief in Kenema district denied a woman micro-credit because she did not possess an SLPP party card.
In August the chairman of the Kenema District Council denied the issuance of seed rice to councilors who joined the PMDC.
There were reports that the government punished family members for alleged violations by individuals. In late August a young man in Barri Chiefdom (Pujehun District) was summoned to the paramount chief's residence for wearing a PMDC tee-shirt. The paramount chief ordered the man to remove the shirt. When he refused, the paramount chief summoned the man's mother and threatened that she would be "dealt with" if her son continued to defy him.
In April the father of a PMDC member was fired from his job at the Pujehun District Council office where he had worked for 26 years after his son joined the PMDC. The father was fired from a subsequent job at the Office of National Security in August.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 16:44:48 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-1e1271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.30
Message:
It's about time for the resident slpp apologist to say something loud.
Subject: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COURAGE CORNELIUS.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 01:03:29 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip565bc167.direct-adsl.nl at 86.91.193.103
Message:
I thank you very much for the manner in which you handled the so called CRASE MAN. He knows where insane people hould be. If he is insane, let him go to mental home in freetow.
Thank you very much for defeating him with words and not insults.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: CRASE MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 16:46:10 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50
Message:
Bo go sidom with you crase. Biig man bigfool. Lef for posrt the same trash more than once. Have you taken you meds yet, crase old pa.
Subject: MR. CRASE MAN, YOU HAVE BEEN ADMITTED AT MENTAL HOME KISSY.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 01:13:15 03/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip565bc167.direct-adsl.nl at 86.91.193.103
Message:
It was interesting to me that you call yourself the so called Mr. CREASE MAN. It is no surprise to me because of the manner in which you are behaving in this forum. Donot think that you will be hiding. You are not. There is someone out there watching all of us and if they want to trace any of us becaues of bad behaviour or rudeness, they will. So bear that in mind.
Secondly, what is your contribution towards this article. Nothing. Only lines of bad words.
Bad words will never find space in this forum.
So please try and be informed if you want to participate in this forum. If you don't then, the facts of other people inflicted on the party you like will only lead you to frustration and anger.
But before you come back, seek first admition at MENTAL HOME IN FREETOWN.
YOU YEHRY?
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 16:53:04 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-1e1271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.30
Message:
It's ok crase-doctor, on display, you probably don't know who you are (can't find your tail) but you can continue to pretend to be what you really are.
It's plain to see that such are the issues that concern you most. Anything else?
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Crase man
To: All
Date Posted: 16:54:12 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
hAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDS YET? CRASE OLD PA. GO GET A LIFE.
Subject: CRASE MAN, ARE YOU IN HIDING? COME OUT. APC WILL HELP YOU.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 01:26:00 03/26/07 ()
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Mr. CRASE MAN come out of your hiding and participate in this forum.
The only thing we want to tell you is to enlightened you on how to behave at international standards. We want to give you guide lines if you donot know on behaviours.
Bear in mind that there is no school for bad languages.
Any individual in this world can abbuse properly but not everyone can BEHAVE properly.
If an article does not taste your needs or the interest of your party, argue it out and find points by convincing your opponents. That is all what democracy is about.
Donot feel that you can just sit down behind any computer and insult people. It will not work. You will be detected and there are rules for.
So come out and lets discuss.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:00:41 03/25/07 ()
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Pity your dada didn't use a condom for you you to be capable of thinking that concerned about my life.
One in five billion and one who does not depend on you.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: CRASE MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 17:04:26 03/25/07 ()
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No, you should be annoyed at your whorish wife. I just finished ramming her from all angles. She told me that you are a 30 seconds man, so she was surprised when i rammed her for 45 minutes. And guess what, we did it on the bed that you are sleeping on tonight. You crazy old fool.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:09:34 03/25/07 ()
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it's your politics and I'm not in bed with any of your leaders - in other words.....insane
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: CRASE MAN
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Date Posted: 17:10:48 03/25/07 ()
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Nope, bring it on, you rude, old filthy trash. Ar go deal with you ass tiday. Stupid wretch. Nasty ass.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:12:18 03/25/07 ()
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Are you feeling ok?
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: CRASE MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 17:17:22 03/25/07 ()
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Yes, after screwing your wife. Go take your meds.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:24:39 03/25/07 ()
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Sierra Leone is your mother, isn't she?
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: CRASE MAN
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Date Posted: 17:27:33 03/25/07 ()
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Nope, your wifey just got rammed by yours truely, Mr. 30 seconds. Big man Bigfool.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:23:03 03/25/07 ()
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The sick and mordid world of fantasy clamouring for attention.Do go on.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: CRASE MAN
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Date Posted: 17:25:39 03/25/07 ()
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Nope, you are a sick man. They have kicked you out of both leonenets because nar so so mammy cuss you sabi. You are a disgrace. At 69 years of age, you are still acting like a fool. Nor wonder your wifey is cheating on you. Oh by the way, I will be ramming her again tonight.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:30:33 03/25/07 ()
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Look:
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: CRASE MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 17:33:27 03/25/07 ()
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Then read the trash that you wrote. You started it, and I will finish it. Ar go deal with you tiday, foolish man.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:22:20 03/25/07 ()
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You think (it's your idea) that some King Jimmy ranting is " dealing with me". I don't even understand what you are saying. You certainly seem to be very angry about something, but I don't know what it is.
Go deal with a good book instead of wasting your time on me. It would be much better for you.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: CRASE MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 18:25:31 03/25/07 ()
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Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50
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GO TAKE YOUR MEDS. YOU NEED HELP, YOU OLD FOOL.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:37:25 03/25/07 ()
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Crase man, is that your real name?
Surely you can be more crazy than that! Is that all you can do and say?
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: CRASE MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 19:07:15 03/25/07 ()
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Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50
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GO TAKE YOUR MEDS, YOU CRAZY OLD FOOL.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 06:13:24 03/26/07 ()
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Entered From: c-1e1271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.30
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Try to be less focused on me.I am not important. The issues that won't go away are.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 16:42:40 03/25/07 ()
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Entered From: c-1e1271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.30
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It's about time for the resident slpp spokesperson to say something loud.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: Referee
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Date Posted: 19:24:02 03/25/07 ()
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I have been keenly folowing the back and forth between Cornie and Crase Man and I have come to the conclusion that Craseman has got some issues,he needs urgent help for some psycological problem and he should be the one who should be medicated.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: RUBBER DUCK
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Date Posted: 06:28:53 03/26/07 ()
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Yea I thought so too. He seriously needs help. perhaps you could help him
DUCK
Subject: REFEREE, SUCH ATTITUDES MUST NOT BE TOLERATED HERE.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 01:29:45 03/26/07 ()
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Entered From: ip565bc167.direct-adsl.nl at 86.91.193.103
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Referee, thank you for your observations. If the said CRASE MAN is sick or insane, let him go to MENTAL HOME in KISY. They are experts on that field. He will get help within the twinkle of an eye.
Subject: Re: SLPP intimidates PMDC/APC members.Int Community looks
From: jj
To: All
Date Posted: 21:24:49 03/25/07 ()
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I think Kabs should expose who 'craseman'is so he can get urgent help
Subject: I HAVE ALREADY GIVEN CRASE MAN HELP - MENTAL HOME KISSY.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 01:17:42 03/26/07 ()
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Entered From: ip565bc167.direct-adsl.nl at 86.91.193.103
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jj, you are right, may be there are some other help that KABS might want to give him.
I have already asked him to seek help at MENTAL HOME in KISSY.
I am sure that he will get good treatement.
Subject: SLPP thievery continues: no sight in end!
From: news
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Date Posted: 16:07:09 03/25/07 ()
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A government survey in Sierra Leone has revealed that the West African country's public sector is still riddled with corruption, despite warnings from international donors that they would slash much-needed aid if the scourge was not tackled.
The report said "corrupt practices in Sierra Leone are widespread... and service delivery by the public sector is generally marked by irregularities and bribery."
According to the survey, two-thirds of users of public services, from telephones to banks to schools or hospitals, reported having to pay bribes to use the service.
Forty-two percent of public officials have admitted to mismanaging their institutions, including misappropriating budgets, usually by drawing on international aid earmarked for rebuilding the west African country after its decade-long civil war, which ended in January 2002.
Some suggest that corrupt practices by a string of military governments fuelled the 1991 uprising by the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) against President Joseph Momoh. That rebellion plunged the country into a civil war marked by widespread amputations, rape, murder and the forcible conscr1ption of children as fighters.
Five months after the war ended, a civilian government was installed after elections generally described as fair. Hopes were high that the new administration of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah would finally bring an end to the bribery and graft that characterised previous governments.
But despite repeated warnings from donors and oversight by a UN, there has been little progress in ridding the country of the corruption scourge.
"The government has an uphill task to fight corruption in the country, which is now regarded as the second war to be fought after the end of the 10-year rebel war," a western diplomat said on condition of anonymity.
"If it does not distance itself from corrupt officials or put them on trial, it faces the risk of losing the lucrative economic and financial support of the international community."
urgency of ridding the country of corruption.
But Sierra Leone has continued to fall short on promises to curb corruption, and that has begun to have an impact on the money flowing into the country of 5,4 million people, many of whom live on less than a dollar a day.
The European Union has withheld two million euros that were to be used to fund local elections set for May 22, citing among its reasons the fact that the electoral commission has not accounted
Subject: TEJAN KABA WILL BE SACKED VERY SOON BY THE CONSTITUTION.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 02:02:17 03/26/07 ()
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I was one of the very many Sierraleoneans who hoped for a better country when Kabba was elected. But to my surprise, he deviated from developing Sierra Leone to saying HE and the SLPP brought PEACE to Sierra Leone.
But he will be sacked by the CONSTITUTION of Sierra Leone on JULY 28 2007. That is now certain. No doubt about it.
Peace was brought to Sierra Leone by CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP both at home and abroad.
They were formulating this strategy to come and fool us on the JULY 28 2007 elections.
You see, BEREWA now opening schools, markets and clinics all over the country as last minute CAMPAIGN.
It will not work this time around. The people of Sierra Leone are now very smart. Smarter than ever.
So, donot mention Tejan Kabba. Lets hit on the weak points of the SLPP and BEREWA in a consructive and organised manner.
Every body now knows that TH NEW APC is the only way out of this mess.
Your article is perfectly right.
We shall prove it to the Sierraleonean people when ERNEST KOROMA shall have occupied STATE HOUSE on JULY 28 MIDNIGHT.
GOD BLESS.
Subject: Re: SLPP thievery continues: no sight in end!
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 16:27:27 03/25/07 ()
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When was this piece published? It loks like an old publication. things have gotten better as most of the funds mentioned in the piece have been indirectly handed to us.
Subject: TRIBALISM - A DETRIMENT TO PROGRESS IN A NATION!
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 15:56:50 03/25/07 ()
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Temne people
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The Temne people are the largest ethnic group in northern Sierra Leone, Africa and they make up about 30 percent of Sierra Leone's total population. Temnes migrated from the North into what is now Sierra Leone in the late 15th or early 16th century, seeking access to new trade with the Portuguese that was developing along the Atlantic coast. They followed the Rokel River from its upper reaches to the Sierra Leone River, the giant estuary of the Rokel River and Port Loko Creek which forms the largest natural harbor in the African continent.
[edit] History
Historians believe the Temnes were involved in the long-distance kola nut trade during the period of the Mali and Songai Empires when West African trade was directed north across the Sahara Desert, and that they used their commercial expertise gained during that earlier period into the new coastal trade when the Europeans arrived. The English word "cola" (as in Coca-Cola, which originally contained extracts of the kola nut), is said to derive from the Temne word a©¯-kola (kola nut). The Temne speak a language in the Atlantic sub-family that closely resembles the Sherbro language spoken in Sierra Leone and the Baga language spoken in the Republic of Guinea .
Today, the Temne are rice farmers, marine fishermen, and traders. Temne culture revolves around the paramount chiefs and the secret societies, especially the men's Poro society and the women's Bondo society. The most important Temne rituals focus on the coronation and funerals of paramount chiefs and the initiation of new secret society members. Most Temnes are staunch Muslims though, like other West Africans, they combine their Islamic faith with a strong adherence to traditional African religious beliefs and practices.
Sierra Leone's national politics centers on the competition between the north, dominated by the Temne and their neighbors and allies, the Limba, and the south dominated by the Mende and their political allies, the Sherbro, Kissi, Gola, etc. Temne culture places great emphasis on individualism, hard work, and personal initiative. Indeed, Sierra Leoneans sometimes refer to their Temne neighbors affectionately as "Germans" because of their reputation for aggressiveness.
Bai Bureh was a great Sierra Leonean ruler and military strategist who led the Temne uprising against the British in Sierra Leone in 1898.
Subject: Re: TRIBALISM - A DETRIMENT TO PROGRESS IN A NATION!
From: curious
To: All
Date Posted: 16:06:33 03/25/07 ()
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Truth
In your last post about the mendes there was a figure of 500000 in pop.. How come the temnes do not have a figure but percentage. And how old is this information?
Is this another case of tribalism?
Subject: Re: TRIBALISM - A DETRIMENT TO PROGRESS IN A NATION!
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 16:20:09 03/25/07 ()
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I am merely reproducing research done by others to quell the flame of tribalism. we are one and the same - different directions in space and time brought about these significant changes in our being. Check out the sites in my post and you will be able to find out more. Sorry for being lazy - it is sometimes difficult to post lengthy articles on the forum as they are rejected as spam.
I am not a tribalist - a nationalist to the core. Born a temne and grew up in mendeland, limbaland and susu land. Count me as a true Sierra leonean cutting across. I have never noticed or sense tribalism in Sierra Leone. Tribalism is like racism - FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN.
Subject: Re: TRIBALISM - A DETRIMENT TO PROGRESS IN A NATION!
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 16:22:39 03/25/07 ()
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"Tribalism is like racism - FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN". this will be a very good signature on my emails...
Thanks bra/ma'am
Subject: Re: TRIBALISM - A DETRIMENT TO PROGRESS IN A NATION!
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 16:24:20 03/25/07 ()
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Message:
No worries - i got some from you as well but sorry that i forgot to tell you. stay blessed!!
Subject: John Leigh---me against the world.
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 15:54:03 03/25/07 ()
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Bra you make PMDC shut up....You against the world and you are winning. They(PMDC) have to acquire the services of Bra Iscandri for (save) face...Where are the Harvard, Moscow , British, propagandists?
Just checking....
Subject: TRIBALISM - A DETRIMENT TO PROGESS IN A NATION!
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 15:40:22 03/25/07 ()
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Mende Information
locat1on: Southern Sierra Leone
Population: 700,000
Language: Mende (Mande)
Neighboring Peoples: Bullom-Sherbro, Vai, Temne, Gola
History: The Mende language is closely related to the Mande language group, indicating that the Mende migrated from the Sudan to the north. The oral traditions of the Mende tell of a peaceful migration into the area that may have spanned the period from 200 to 1500 A.D. Cultural and physical differences among the Mende suggest that immigrants may have originated from more than one source. This could also be a result of intermarriage with the peoples who had already lived in the area. Artistic traditions link them closely to the coastal Bullom peoples, a phenomenon which most likely resulted from the Mende borrowing ideas they found to be useful in their own society.
Subject: For John Leigh real?
From: flip flop
To: All
Date Posted: 15:39:00 03/25/07 ()
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Entered From: 181-66-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.66.181
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If Berewa qualification is so powerful, why he has failed to re-discover Sierra leone? You yourself has spoken about the sick nature of your now embraced SLPP.John you are really paranoid. This must have to do with Charles' role to form PMDC and you have tried vainly to put it on the floor that you started the third force campaign. Whilst, you were blasting Kabbah/Berewa/SLPP cannot qualify you to be an uncompromising leader for any third party. You lack the support base to take any party into Parliament.Do you know why Prince Harding got the audacity to molest you at the SLPP convention is because he knew you are a weak politician without any constituents.
As far as politics goes, you are immatured. Your money and big english words are the reasons for the SLPP yo encourage you.
It is good that you are avoiding the san san boys areas as you are courting with the PCs and other big alagbas. Keep it in your mind, that all your big, big words are only for this forum. We have recorded your sound-bites to be repeated as we approach July 28th,20007. The SLPP is under a big shock with JL on board. You have helped our campaign vehicle, with all the good information you
Who would have taken you seriously in your so-called third world campaign when many know your dubious nature. Right here, you said you can be bought with a big money?
Subject: Re: For John Leigh real?
From: bo nar lie you dae lie
To: All
Date Posted: 15:46:09 03/25/07 ()
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by your bitching, you sound defeated by this barrage from John leigh.. Keep it up my Yoni Brother..
Subject: Med Sesay Blasts John Leigh
From: Copied news
To: All
Date Posted: 15:06:52 03/25/07 ()
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Med Sesay Blasts John Leigh
- Wednesday 14 June 2006.
As a decent citizen, I refuse to condescend to John Leigh’s current lows and therefore has no intention of using vulgarities, slang, and krio in this piece since I am better educated than John Leigh and more comfortable in the Queen’s language than this self proclaimed educated AMERICAN or lest I forget, he denounced it for diplomatic assignment and currently wallowing in the state of unemployment, precipitated by the traumatic consequences of his untimely, and seemingly hasty sacking by the Kabbah Government. Since the Makeni convention where John Leigh’s disgraceful disappointment was symbolized by his infamous picture displayed like a tottering façade, on the front pages of most tabloids in Sierra Leone, this academic midget as depicted in his writings full of krio and slangy slurs, portrays all the trappings of a person struggling for survival and would stop at nothing to satisfy his selfish ends even if that means cursing people and bungling in obscenities with people young enough to be his children.
The source of my piece titled “How corrupt is Solomon Berewa”? Published in the Cocorioko of June 9th 2006, was unambiguously referenced. My caption was not a statement but a question but Leigh is too uneducated to know these simple grammatical rules of writing. Needless to waste time here on semantics and syntax or else Leigh will submerge into oblivion. His feelings of grandiosity since the onset of his campaign have been rendered useless by the realities of Sierra Leonean politics. In his seemingly arrogant stature, characterized by hasty and illogical conclusions about others, especially on matters of politics and education, Leigh takes everybody for granted and believes with poignant anxiety that he is better educated than anybody else. Leigh’s claim to academic sophistication is pointless. Who knows who? However, the cliché, empty vessels make the most noise comes into play when one reads John Leigh’s statements.
In the interest of readers, I reproduce verbatim the source of my article from the Patriotic Vanguard. The quote which John Leigh is now denying, reads “He however conceded that government vehicles and drivers paid by the government are used during the tours. Petrol is also bought with money from government coffers”... (Patriotic Vanguard online June 8, 2006).
The language in this quote is unambiguous and I implore readers who follow the news to check the source for that is what intellectuals do. The statement itself is a disgrace to the current SLPP government seeking re-election in 2007.In a typical election year in America or any democratic country, this statement is so important that it should be investigated to bring the government to book for unethical practices in the use of public funds. The fact of the matter is that the SLPP government to which John Leigh is now struggling for belonging has failed the nation. The government lacks accountability as evident in the utilization of public funds and logistics like fuel and vehicles for private and personal aggrandizement as encapsulated in John Leigh’s statement.
The quote could have come as a surprise to Solomon Berewa, who must be thinking twice now about the viability if any, of having a political miscreant like John Leigh, whose immaturity in the game of politics has reduced him to the level of a delinquent whirlwind since the Makeni fiasco. The desperation in his reaction to my piece on Berewa is a testimony to the fact that he was touched by the facts which I never manufactured as he alleges, but got those facts from a source as reliable as the Patriotic Vanguard. The fact that the statement was in quotes makes it clear that it was from another source, not a figment of imagination or fabrication as Leigh makes the case. Leigh’s nakedness in this discourse is self-perpetuating and contradictory, the very image of a man under pressure ‘from above’ to debunk, rebuff or withdraw the statement or save-face a party that is crumbling under the yoke of corruption and ineptitude.
Leigh states “No one knows exactly what weed Mr. Sesay might have been smoking when he lied about my statement and jumped to his erroneous conclusion. Or why Mr. Sesay deliberately refused to disclose that I had reported that Mr. Berewa made it very clear at each stop during his entire tour that he was touring on government business as evidenced by his inaugurating government-built clinics, markets and schools and explaining government’s policies, practices and plans to his audience. Having said this, I now declare that I never uttered the words ascribed to me and quoted above by Mr.Sesay”
This is desperation and spin at its best. Leigh’s contempt for his compatriots is self evident. Readers could clearly infer from this quote from the Concord times that John Leigh made a political blunder in the first place by making these statements. As promised among others, I cannot react to Leigh’s vacuous statement about weed as I do not even smoke. About why I did not comment on the positive allusions he made to his master, Leigh should realize that readers hate to be bored and a brief , pointed, and well researched article as mine published in cocorioko makes more interesting reading than the lengthy and defensive grammatically bankrupt reactions of John Leigh. One fact that Leigh cannot understand is that nobody hates him not least the writer for his political conviction. Every Sierra Leonean has the right to freedom of association although civil servants are intimidated by Leigh’s bosses. Since his defeat at the SLPP convention in Makeni, Leigh has been on the defensive within and without Sierra Leone. He has been effectively put on a defensive corner by the dynamism of young Sierra Leoneans in and out of the country that one only needs to read the archives of Cocorioko, Awareness times( Leigh’s first enemy after Makeni), Patriotic Vanguard, Concord times, to name a few, to see the litany of obscenities written by the previously misplaced Ambassador. If Kabbah was effective in any decision throughout his tenure as President of Sierra Leone, then that decision was the recall of John Leigh. The appointment as I can discern now from Leigh’s misguided statements and hullabaloos was a misplacement.
Leigh also states “If Mr. Sesay wishes to be genuinely helpful to our country, to which I suspect is what he might be aspiring, I respectfully recommend that he decamps from the notorious Sierra Leone ghetto community of political flunkies in Philadelphia and move on into the American mainstream for a more positive and productive professional exposure. Otherwise, his writings will never reach professional standards and his narrow-mindedness that is based on bogus write-ups, fake quotations, lies, omissions and flunky argumentation will only continue to hold him back”.
I could definitely excuse you on this Mr. Leigh, because the statement is conditional and therefore iffy. For the records, I have always aspired to the progress of Sierra Leone and I will always remain to aspire and render those services that would raise the image of Sierra Leone not for the self but for others. Unlike you who migrated due to the lack of your ability to compete for admission to the prestigious Fourah Bay College, and has never returned home to actually live and work towards nation building, I migrated to the United States by a push factor-the war. Prior to migration, I had made ten years of input as a civil servant and continue to work for Sierra Leone everyday.
Fourah Bay College and Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA/USA) educated, there is no reason for me to be in the ghetto and I know of no ghettos here of the Sierra Leonean community. Sierra Leoneans here are mostly highly educated and gainfully employed in very decent jobs. I entered the American mainstream two months after I arrived in the United States by virtue of my employment status and strong academic background from the citadel of learning (FBC). By American standards, I could conveniently locate myself in the American middle class and by Sierra Leonean standards Upper class. For my age Mr. Leigh, I have already served and will continue to serve Sierra Leone. This explains why our generation will continue to bring your generation-one that is replete with failures into disrepute and come 2007; your octogenarian, hegemonic party will crumble under the canopy and prowess of the new wave of rising Sierra Leoneans like us.
Subject: Re: Med Sesay Blasts John Leigh
From: John E. Leigh
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Dear Mr. Copied news:
When you re-post a posting previously published in this Forum, the civilized thing to do is also to re-post the rebuttal side-by-side so the readers can have a balance view of each side's debating position.
My previously posted rebattal follows:
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MR. MOHAMED SESAY STOP YOUR LIES, OMISSIONS AND BOGUS CONCLUSIONS.
By John E. Leigh
In his opinion piece on the June 9th edition of Cocorioko International Front Page and titled: HOW CORRUPT IS SOLOMON BEREWA? one Mr. Mohamed Sesay, said to be a regular writer for Cocorioko Online News, quoted the following baseless allegation against me:
"He [John Leigh] however conceded that government vehicles and drivers paid by the government are used [for private campaigning by VP Berewa in Port Loko and Kono Districts]. Petrol is also bought with money from government coffers".
Mr. Sesay claimed that he got my exact words from the Patriotic Vanguard, also an online newspaper specializing in Sierra Leone news, regarding statements that I allegedly made about what I observed during Mr. Berewa’s recent tour. As a result of these my so-called exact words, Mr. Sesay recklessly concluded that “the corruption and desperation of the present SLPP government could not be overemphasized” and so on.
No one knows exactly what weed Mr. Sesay might have been smoking when he lied about my statement and jumped to his erroneous conclusion. Or why Mr. Sesay deliberately refused to disclose that I had reported that Mr. Berewa made it very clear at each stop during his entire tour that he was touring on government business as evidenced by his inaugurating government-built clinics, markets and schools and explaining government’s policies, practices and plans to his audience.
Having said this, I now declare that I never uttered the words ascribed to me and quoted above by Mr. Sesay. Further, I never spoke to anyone at the so-called Patriotic Vanguard about my travels with VP Berewa and I have not seen or heard of that news medium for about a year. Lastly, what I said about my travels with Mr. Berewa cannot be interpreted as proving that the government is either corrupt or desperate let alone both corrupt and desperate.
Please note that after my May 22 endorsement of Solomon Berewa for the office of president of Sierra Leone in succession to President Tejan Kabbah, certain disappointed political opportunists became aggressive towards me, relying on bogus allegations, fictitious quotations and unintelligible argumentation to smear my public record.
As usual, I replied point-for-point to each and every major attack on me, including writing a detailed report of my tour of Port Loko and Kono Districts in Mr. Berewa’s entourage. Following publication of this my report in Cocorioko, I received a very legitimate inquiry, via Cocorioko Online Forum, from a reader concerning who was picking up the expenses of the Berewa tour of Port Loko and Kono Districts. The enquirer identified himself/herself as “Botkidi”. I duly responded. Set forth below are the relevant portions of the Botkidi-Leigh correspondence.
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(1) FROM BOTKIDI, DATED JUNE 03, 2006:
“Mr. Leigh,
I have carefully read your narrative on the recent SLPP tour and your participation in it. My questions are: Who was paying for all the food and drink of all those people as they gallivanted around the country? Was the money taken from the national treasury or from SLPP party funds? Were the vehicles used by those people government vehicles or private vehicles? Who paid for the petrol or gas? Would like to hear from you. Thanks.”
(2) REPLY FROM JOHN E. LEIGH, DATED JUNE 04, 2006
“Mr. Botkidi:
Thanks for your very legitimate questions.
I did not inquire about who picked up the expenses for the Port Loko/Kono tour at all. But this is what I overheard from a top party official: SLPP head office in Freetown paid for the food [and drinks]. Volunteers prepared it. SLPP no longer expects hosts to foot the bill for bigwigs visiting from Freetown!
As for the vehicles, they appear to be government-owned. Entourage vehicles came with petrol and drivers.
But get this: it was made clear by VP Berewa that the tour was in respect of government business.
This claim has merit because everywhere Mr. Berewa went he opened a clinic, a market or a school; responded to complaints about governance failures and answered quarries on behalf of the government.
And also, everybody in his entourage was a government office holder except for me and a few party officials...…..”
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I believe that it is the above correspondence that Mr. Sesay corrupted with his deliberate lies and omissions for the purpose of making unwarranted conclusions against the SLPP & VP Berewa about misuse of public funds for party political purposes. If Mr. Sesay was a professional-quality correspondent, he would have used the correct facts in my report and my response to Mr. Botkidi’s inquiry which Cocorioko carried in its Forum.
If Mr. Sesay wishes to be genuinely helpful to our country, to which I suspect is what he might be aspiring, I respectfully recommend that he decamps from the notorious Sierra Leone ghetto community of political flunkies in Philadelphia and move on into the American mainstream for a more positive and productive professional exposure. Otherwise, his writings will never reach professional standards and his narrow-mindedness that is based on bogus write-ups, fake quotations, lies, omissions and flunky argumentation will only continue to hold him back. Thank you. *JL*
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Thank you for your attention. - JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh Blasts Med Sesay
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 20:55:25 03/25/07 ()
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The rebuttal below should have been copied side-by-side with your reposting of Mr. Sesay's rubbish. Thank you. - JL
MR. MOHAMED SESAY IS FULL OF PMDC MALICIOUS LIBEL
A local rag sheet of a newspaper and published by Mrs. RUF Sylvia Foday Sankoh Gongorleeness continues to publish her series of libel against me. In her most recent libel, she published untrue and malicious statements authored by one Mr. Mohamed Sesay of Philadelphia and the apparent PMDC leader in the area.
I am told that Mr. Sesay had his libelous statements published in Mrs. Sankoh’s rag sheet because he knows that I do not read that trashy paper as I have so stated on a number of occasions. He thus believes that I may not be aware of his false accusations against me. However, friends have brought his article to my attention.
I now write to rebut the principal falsehoods written by this Mr. PMDC Sesay as published in Mrs. RUF Sankoh’s rag sheet – a tiny circulation newspaper in Freetown that is widely referred to in my circle as the RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times.
Mr. Sesay’s piece in is full of self-serving lies; wild, baseless allegations and trashy statements by a man who was kicked out of his home by the very RUF he now writes for.
First, Mr. Sesay falsely wrote that I denounced my supposed “American citizenship for a diplomatic assignment” and so I am “currently wallowing in the sad state of unemployment that I find myself”.
My response to this falsehood is as follows: (i) I was never an American citizen at any time. (ii) I have never denounced my citizenship anywhere at anytime. I retain the Sierra Leone citizenship I obtained at birth.
Further, the Kabbah Administration is not the only employer in the world. I am fully employed as an attorney at law and living it up nicely in New England in my own home. I am also very busy managing my investments.
Finally, I am not a citizenship harlot of the type familiar to Mr. Sesay who would opportunistically renounce an acquired citizenship and revert to his original citizenship for cheap employment purposes in his old country. Such shameful opportunistic harlot conduct invites disrespect and contempt for all Sierra Leoneans abroad. The civilized way to behave is once acquired by choice any new citizenship should be for keeps - forever.
Second, Mr. Sesay then goes on to falsely allege that I once conceded that government vehicles, drivers and petrol are used by VP Berewa for his political campaigning.
This Sesay man is lying for I never "conceded" any such thing at any time any where. I made it known in response to public questioning that when I traveled with VP Berewa in Port Loko and Kono Districts in May, he made it known in every town or village he went that he was on government business to open Health Clinics, Markets and Schools and to take and answer questions from the assembled public on government activities and plans. In fact, contrary to Mr. Sesay’s bogus claim in that RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times, I repeatedly argued that Mr. Berewa’s use of government vehicles for government business was legitimate.
Third, Mr. Sesay continued with his reckless lies by claiming that I immigrated to the United States due to my inability, unlike him, to compete for admission to the “prestigious” Fourah Bay College. This Sesay man is famous for allowing his mouth to run recklessly all over the place without his knowing the facts. He is a lying fool.
Here are the facts. I initially went to the USA for further studies on a student visa. I did not immigrate then. Upon the completion of my studies, I returned home only to be disappointed by backward leadership. I returned to the USA eighteen months later.
During my secondary school days, Fourah Bay College was definitely prestigious but I was never interested in attending Fourah Bay College at any time or even going to a country like Britain for further studies. This was because I wanted to study – and I did study - Banking and Finance. Such sophisticated subjects weren't thought at FBC and there were no plans to introduce the teaching of such subjects anywhere in Sierra Leone.
And even if Banking and Finance were taught then at FBC, I wanted more than a mere college education and in a dull environment such as FBC. I wanted the excitement to be in a rich dynamic country full of practicing financiers and bankers whom I could learn from instead of learning from lecturers whose education is mostly from textbooks and with no practical real life experiences in a world class market economy. The education I wanted is exactly the education I got!
Moreover, I was over-qualified for admission to Fourah Bay College at the time. For your information, I came to America with seven subjects at School/”O” Level Certificate and three "A" Levels - each obtained in a single sitting. Furthermore, I was armed with an unassailable USA SAT (college admissions) scorecard.
Finally, let’s face it, FBC was once prestigious but it has seen far better days. Our task now is to correct the injustices and fiscal abuses heaped on FBC, etc.
Any body who today believes that FBC was still a prestigious place of learning at the time Mohamed Sesay became a student there during the 1980s, needs his head screwed on correctly. Ever since the students' strikes in the late 1970s, Siaka Stevens retaliated by slashing FBC's budgets. And given the continued erosion of the exchange value of the national currency, the Leone plus the damage done to staffing by the RUF war of plunder and destruction - among other things - FBC has ever since headed steeper down hill.
Fourth, Mr. Sesay’s next wild and erroneous claim is that I never returned home to actually live and work towards nation building. Mr. Sesay writes flippantly.
After obtaining an MBA degree and after a twelve-month internship at the Chase Manhattan Bank, I returned home to a position at the Bank of Sierra Leone. A co-worker of mine at the Bank was Alhaji U.N.S. Jah, current SLPP Chair. I served as a Senior Research Officer at the Bank of Sierra Leone. I quit after eighteen months or so because I saw poverty-expanding policies (exchange control, anti-foreign investment, SLPMB’s incompetent export monopoly, corruption, favoritism & tribalism, etc.) being put in place by the SL authorities. I argued against such policies to no avail and also to my peril.
Even so, I told my bosses that those policies will lead the country to failure and widespread poverty. I boldly predicted that if they persist in pursuing those selfish policies, poverty will be so endemic that many highly educated people won't be able to write a check for even a $100 in time to come. And that is exactly what has happened. Today, poverty and the daily hardship are most profound in our country.
I quit the Bank of Sierra Leone because I wanted my own children to have an equal or better education than myself and I felt that if I stayed behind, I won't be able to pull off such but would instead be pulled down by selfish and wicked national leadership.
Fifth, Mr. Sesay has a lame excuse for abandoning Sierra Leone and immigrating to Philadelphia. He self-servingly claimed that he migrated to the United States by a “push factor – the war”. He boasted that prior to his migration he put in “ten years of inputs as a civil servant and continue to work for Sierra Leone everyday." Actually, Mr. Sesay was working for himself.
The "push factor" as Mr. Sesay puts it was not the war at all. The war was merely the end product of years and years of terrible, poverty-expanding, corrupt, incompetent, unfair and rubbish governance (with a few exceptions here and there, of course).
Mr. Sesay was in the middle of all this willful maladministration of our country for ten full years by his own reckoning but he had no clue at all of the egregious abuses heaped upon our people by our pre-war governments. He cared nothing about public suffering as long as he was comfortable and prosperous with his government sinecure.
Some in the civil service oppressed others, taking gross advantage of the poor people of Sierra Leone like some lawyers that practiced Open-Call law. The tax-paying, high-employment international sector in SL was expelled by wrongheaded policies and corrupt practices. Those were the heydays of foolish politicians, so dense that they killed the goose that laid the golden egg without giving it further thought.
From the way Mr. Sesay argues, one can tell that he might have contributed to the decay of our country or was so shallow he did not even know about the massive wrongdoing flying before his face or suspected the coming catastrophe that would devastate our country.
In fact, he was completely blind to the on-coming catastrophe that kicked him out of his home and country.
After having departed SL because of the violence to come, I was not going to return to a worsen situation. So, I made a nice life for myself and my family in both Nigeria and the USA. Hence, I have been a self-made, independent man for over thirty years. This benefited ungrateful wretches like Mr. Sesay and his kind. Because of my personal economic situation – and I say this in all humility - I (with help from others) was able to keep the SL Embassy functioning at full capacity during the AFRC/RUF interregnum and to successfully checkmate Johnny Paul, Foday Sankoh, Charles Taylor and a whole host of coupligans, their patrons and lackeys.
We also negotiated USA TPS immigration benefits so that ungrateful wretches like Sesay could stay in America without being deported back to his brutal foolumunku coup mongers and his ‘push factor’ traumatized homes and places of business.
Sixth, Mr. Sesay claims as “fact” that “the SLPP government to which John Leigh is now struggling for belonging has failed the nation". Mr. Sesay is lying again as regards my intention. I am not like him. The fact is I am not struggling to belong to any government for I am a heavy and effective critic of the government. But this cannot be interpreted, as was obviously done by some flunkies and remedials, that I automatically must quit SLPP and join their immature political grouping of tribal dunces.
Seventh, Mr. Sankoh boasted ventriloquently that "the government lacks accountability as evident in the utilization of public funds and logistics like fuel and vehicles for private and personal aggrandizement as encapsulated in John Leigh’s statement."
Clearly, the current SLPP government is not perfect. I have criticized them heavily in the past. They have done some things poorly. They‘ve also done a number of things properly; nor did any of my statements ‘encapsulate’ allegations of private and personal aggrandizement of “logistics like fuel and vehicles”. Mr. Sesay is not truthful. He sounds like an opportunistic political harlot hack.
All things considered, I prefer to work with my party than switch to another party, especially one full of flunkies, drop outs, tribalists and remedial dunces. Again, all things considered, Berewa is my choice as our next president to succeed Tejan Kabbah.
After having responded as above, it is clear that people like Mr. Sesay rely for 99% of your news from rogue newspapers such as the RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times. Such people are naive types who accept at face value whatever rubbish is published by our local press.
But people like Sesay and the RUF rag sheet must understand that when neighbors perceive that the people of a country are willingly led by dunces, flunkies, tribalists and remedials, some of those neighbors like Charles Taylor may invade to plunder and dismember the weakly led country.
There are diplomats and visitors in Freetown from foreign countries who know the difference between what is happening in the country and the trash that is published by rag sheets. So be careful. Do not take newspapers at face value for you will be misled.
Eight, Mr. Sesay boasts that he writes the Queens English while I include Krio in my writings. Mr. Sesay should stop his unwarranted boasting. If he truly understands proper English he would have understood what I meant by “someone who operates within the Sierra Leone Philadelphia ghetto” instead of boasting about his shabby degrees and his cheap, non-ghetto residence.
Finally, Mr. Sesay like others before him, made much about my recall from Washington as ambassador because he has absolutely nothing else negative to say about my public record. He might in time get to know the true reasons why I do not belong to the current administration. Suffice it to say that he should recognize that many excellent public servants in Africa are done away with for no good reason.
Does Mr. Sesay know how many good people were sacked, jailed or killed by Messrs. Charles Taylor, Idi Amin and Mobutu, etc.?
Does Mr. Sesay know how many no-good people were appointed, promoted and favored by Messrs. Charles Taylor, Idi Amin and Mobutu, etc.? Now you know why several African countries are extremely backward and poverty stricken, full of disease, sickness violence and death and susceptible to plunder and destruction.
My point is simple: those sacked, jailed and killed are not necessarily evil people. Those appointed, promoted and favored do not necessarily act in the public interest. The sackers might be the very evil beings keeping you and your people in backwardness and poverty.
Thank you for your attention. – JL 6/21/06
Subject: Re: Med Sesay Blasts John Leigh
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 15:23:43 03/25/07 ()
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I am happy for the rebuke on John leigh - one thing is certain though, SLPP is going to be a changed party that looks to the best minds of tomorrow's Sierra Leone. 28 July 2007 is the rebirth of a new breed of SLPP. It is the only party that stands for positive change. What you saw in the last ten years is a party that tried to bring peace into an insane society by being all inclusive. look at its present compositon, do you see hardline SLPPs? The new government will greatly make up for these lost years of discontent. Berewa will be the true engine to propel our nation.
Subject: Re: Med Sesay Blasts John Leigh
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 20:21:32 03/25/07 ()
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Mr. Winston PMDC Kabia:
Before expressing your happiness for the so-called rebuke by Med Sesay, an intelligent individual would first ask to review the rebuttal. Here it is below and thank you for your attention. - JL
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MR. MOHAMED SESAY STOP YOUR LIES, OMISSIONS AND BOGUS CONCLUSIONS.
By John E. Leigh
In his opinion piece on the June 9th edition of Cocorioko International Front Page and titled: HOW CORRUPT IS SOLOMON BEREWA? one Mr. Mohamed Sesay, said to be a regular writer for Cocorioko Online News, quoted the following baseless allegation against me:
"He [John Leigh] however conceded that government vehicles and drivers paid by the government are used [for private campaigning by VP Berewa in Port Loko and Kono Districts]. Petrol is also bought with money from government coffers".
Mr. Sesay claimed that he got my exact words from the Patriotic Vanguard, also an online newspaper specializing in Sierra Leone news, regarding statements that I allegedly made about what I observed during Mr. Berewa’s recent tour. As a result of these my so-called exact words, Mr. Sesay recklessly concluded that “the corruption and desperation of the present SLPP government could not be overemphasized” and so on.
No one knows exactly what weed Mr. Sesay might have been smoking when he lied about my statement and jumped to his erroneous conclusion. Or why Mr. Sesay deliberately refused to disclose that I had reported that Mr. Berewa made it very clear at each stop during his entire tour that he was touring on government business as evidenced by his inaugurating government-built clinics, markets and schools and explaining government’s policies, practices and plans to his audience.
Having said this, I now declare that I never uttered the words ascribed to me and quoted above by Mr. Sesay. Further, I never spoke to anyone at the so-called Patriotic Vanguard about my travels with VP Berewa and I have not seen or heard of that news medium for about a year. Lastly, what I said about my travels with Mr. Berewa cannot be interpreted as proving that the government is either corrupt or desperate let alone both corrupt and desperate.
Please note that after my May 22 endorsement of Solomon Berewa for the office of president of Sierra Leone in succession to President Tejan Kabbah, certain disappointed political opportunists became aggressive towards me, relying on bogus allegations, fictitious quotations and unintelligible argumentation to smear my public record.
As usual, I replied point-for-point to each and every major attack on me, including writing a detailed report of my tour of Port Loko and Kono Districts in Mr. Berewa’s entourage. Following publication of this my report in Cocorioko, I received a very legitimate inquiry, via Cocorioko Online Forum, from a reader concerning who was picking up the expenses of the Berewa tour of Port Loko and Kono Districts. The enquirer identified himself/herself as “Botkidi”. I duly responded. Set forth below are the relevant portions of the Botkidi-Leigh correspondence.
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(1) FROM BOTKIDI, DATED JUNE 03, 2006:
“Mr. Leigh,
I have carefully read your narrative on the recent SLPP tour and your participation in it. My questions are: Who was paying for all the food and drink of all those people as they gallivanted around the country? Was the money taken from the national treasury or from SLPP party funds? Were the vehicles used by those people government vehicles or private vehicles? Who paid for the petrol or gas? Would like to hear from you. Thanks.”
(2) REPLY FROM JOHN E. LEIGH, DATED JUNE 04, 2006
“Mr. Botkidi:
Thanks for your very legitimate questions.
I did not inquire about who picked up the expenses for the Port Loko/Kono tour at all. But this is what I overheard from a top party official: SLPP head office in Freetown paid for the food [and drinks]. Volunteers prepared it. SLPP no longer expects hosts to foot the bill for bigwigs visiting from Freetown!
As for the vehicles, they appear to be government-owned. Entourage vehicles came with petrol and drivers.
But get this: it was made clear by VP Berewa that the tour was in respect of government business.
This claim has merit because everywhere Mr. Berewa went he opened a clinic, a market or a school; responded to complaints about governance failures and answered quarries on behalf of the government.
And also, everybody in his entourage was a government office holder except for me and a few party officials...…..”
===================================================
I believe that it is the above correspondence that Mr. Sesay corrupted with his deliberate lies and omissions for the purpose of making unwarranted conclusions against the SLPP & VP Berewa about misuse of public funds for party political purposes. If Mr. Sesay was a professional-quality correspondent, he would have used the correct facts in my report and my response to Mr. Botkidi’s inquiry which Cocorioko carried in its Forum.
If Mr. Sesay wishes to be genuinely helpful to our country, to which I suspect is what he might be aspiring, I respectfully recommend that he decamps from the notorious Sierra Leone ghetto community of political flunkies in Philadelphia and move on into the American mainstream for a more positive and productive professional exposure. Otherwise, his writings will never reach professional standards and his narrow-mindedness that is based on bogus write-ups, fake quotations, lies, omissions and flunky argumentation will only continue to hold him back. Thank you. *JL*
Subject: Re: Med Sesay Blasts John Leigh
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I am no PMDC!!!
Subject: Re: John Leigh Blasts Med Sesay
From: John E. Leigh
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MR. MOHAMED SESAY IS FULL OF PMDC MALICIOUS LIBEL
A local rag sheet of a newspaper and published by Mrs. RUF Sylvia Foday Sankoh Gongorleeness continues to publish her series of libel against me. In her most recent libel, she published untrue and malicious statements authored by one Mr. Mohamed Sesay of Philadelphia and the apparent PMDC leader in the area.
I am told that Mr. Sesay had his libelous statements published in Mrs. Sankoh’s rag sheet because he knows that I do not read that trashy paper as I have so stated on a number of occasions. He thus believes that I may not be aware of his false accusations against me. However, friends have brought his article to my attention.
I now write to rebut the principal falsehoods written by this Mr. PMDC Sesay as published in Mrs. RUF Sankoh’s rag sheet – a tiny circulation newspaper in Freetown that is widely referred to in my circle as the RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times.
Mr. Sesay’s piece in is full of self-serving lies; wild, baseless allegations and trashy statements by a man who was kicked out of his home by the very RUF he now writes for.
First, Mr. Sesay falsely wrote that I denounced my supposed “American citizenship for a diplomatic assignment” and so I am “currently wallowing in the sad state of unemployment that I find myself”.
My response to this falsehood is as follows: (i) I was never an American citizen at any time. (ii) I have never denounced my citizenship anywhere at anytime. I retain the Sierra Leone citizenship I obtained at birth.
Further, the Kabbah Administration is not the only employer in the world. I am fully employed as an attorney at law and living it up nicely in New England in my own home. I am also very busy managing my investments.
Finally, I am not a citizenship harlot of the type familiar to Mr. Sesay who would opportunistically renounce an acquired citizenship and revert to his original citizenship for cheap employment purposes in his old country. Such shameful opportunistic harlot conduct invites disrespect and contempt for all Sierra Leoneans abroad. The civilized way to behave is once acquired by choice any new citizenship should be for keeps - forever.
Second, Mr. Sesay then goes on to falsely allege that I once conceded that government vehicles, drivers and petrol are used by VP Berewa for his political campaigning.
This Sesay man is lying for I never "conceded" any such thing at any time any where. I made it known in response to public questioning that when I traveled with VP Berewa in Port Loko and Kono Districts in May, he made it known in every town or village he went that he was on government business to open Health Clinics, Markets and Schools and to take and answer questions from the assembled public on government activities and plans. In fact, contrary to Mr. Sesay’s bogus claim in that RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times, I repeatedly argued that Mr. Berewa’s use of government vehicles for government business was legitimate.
Third, Mr. Sesay continued with his reckless lies by claiming that I immigrated to the United States due to my inability, unlike him, to compete for admission to the “prestigious” Fourah Bay College. This Sesay man is famous for allowing his mouth to run recklessly all over the place without his knowing the facts. He is a lying fool.
Here are the facts. I initially went to the USA for further studies on a student visa. I did not immigrate then. Upon the completion of my studies, I returned home only to be disappointed by backward leadership. I returned to the USA eighteen months later.
During my secondary school days, Fourah Bay College was definitely prestigious but I was never interested in attending Fourah Bay College at any time or even going to a country like Britain for further studies. This was because I wanted to study – and I did study - Banking and Finance. Such sophisticated subjects weren't thought at FBC and there were no plans to introduce the teaching of such subjects anywhere in Sierra Leone.
And even if Banking and Finance were taught then at FBC, I wanted more than a mere college education and in a dull environment such as FBC. I wanted the excitement to be in a rich dynamic country full of practicing financiers and bankers whom I could learn from instead of learning from lecturers whose education is mostly from textbooks and with no practical real life experiences in a world class market economy. The education I wanted is exactly the education I got!
Moreover, I was over-qualified for admission to Fourah Bay College at the time. For your information, I came to America with seven subjects at School/”O” Level Certificate and three "A" Levels - each obtained in a single sitting. Furthermore, I was armed with an unassailable USA SAT (college admissions) scorecard.
Finally, let’s face it, FBC was once prestigious but it has seen far better days. Our task now is to correct the injustices and fiscal abuses heaped on FBC, etc.
Any body who today believes that FBC was still a prestigious place of learning at the time Mohamed Sesay became a student there during the 1980s, needs his head screwed on correctly. Ever since the students' strikes in the late 1970s, Siaka Stevens retaliated by slashing FBC's budgets. And given the continued erosion of the exchange value of the national currency, the Leone plus the damage done to staffing by the RUF war of plunder and destruction - among other things - FBC has ever since headed steeper down hill.
Fourth, Mr. Sesay’s next wild and erroneous claim is that I never returned home to actually live and work towards nation building. Mr. Sesay writes flippantly.
After obtaining an MBA degree and after a twelve-month internship at the Chase Manhattan Bank, I returned home to a position at the Bank of Sierra Leone. A co-worker of mine at the Bank was Alhaji U.N.S. Jah, current SLPP Chair. I served as a Senior Research Officer at the Bank of Sierra Leone. I quit after eighteen months or so because I saw poverty-expanding policies (exchange control, anti-foreign investment, SLPMB’s incompetent export monopoly, corruption, favoritism & tribalism, etc.) being put in place by the SL authorities. I argued against such policies to no avail and also to my peril.
Even so, I told my bosses that those policies will lead the country to failure and widespread poverty. I boldly predicted that if they persist in pursuing those selfish policies, poverty will be so endemic that many highly educated people won't be able to write a check for even a $100 in time to come. And that is exactly what has happened. Today, poverty and the daily hardship are most profound in our country.
I quit the Bank of Sierra Leone because I wanted my own children to have an equal or better education than myself and I felt that if I stayed behind, I won't be able to pull off such but would instead be pulled down by selfish and wicked national leadership.
Fifth, Mr. Sesay has a lame excuse for abandoning Sierra Leone and immigrating to Philadelphia. He self-servingly claimed that he migrated to the United States by a “push factor – the war”. He boasted that prior to his migration he put in “ten years of inputs as a civil servant and continue to work for Sierra Leone everyday." Actually, Mr. Sesay was working for himself.
The "push factor" as Mr. Sesay puts it was not the war at all. The war was merely the end product of years and years of terrible, poverty-expanding, corrupt, incompetent, unfair and rubbish governance (with a few exceptions here and there, of course).
Mr. Sesay was in the middle of all this willful maladministration of our country for ten full years by his own reckoning but he had no clue at all of the egregious abuses heaped upon our people by our pre-war governments. He cared nothing about public suffering as long as he was comfortable and prosperous with his government sinecure.
Some in the civil service oppressed others, taking gross advantage of the poor people of Sierra Leone like some lawyers that practiced Open-Call law. The tax-paying, high-employment international sector in SL was expelled by wrongheaded policies and corrupt practices. Those were the heydays of foolish politicians, so dense that they killed the goose that laid the golden egg without giving it further thought.
From the way Mr. Sesay argues, one can tell that he might have contributed to the decay of our country or was so shallow he did not even know about the massive wrongdoing flying before his face or suspected the coming catastrophe that would devastate our country.
In fact, he was completely blind to the on-coming catastrophe that kicked him out of his home and country.
After having departed SL because of the violence to come, I was not going to return to a worsen situation. So, I made a nice life for myself and my family in both Nigeria and the USA. Hence, I have been a self-made, independent man for over thirty years. This benefited ungrateful wretches like Mr. Sesay and his kind. Because of my personal economic situation – and I say this in all humility - I (with help from others) was able to keep the SL Embassy functioning at full capacity during the AFRC/RUF interregnum and to successfully checkmate Johnny Paul, Foday Sankoh, Charles Taylor and a whole host of coupligans, their patrons and lackeys.
We also negotiated USA TPS immigration benefits so that ungrateful wretches like Sesay could stay in America without being deported back to his brutal foolumunku coup mongers and his ‘push factor’ traumatized homes and places of business.
Sixth, Mr. Sesay claims as “fact” that “the SLPP government to which John Leigh is now struggling for belonging has failed the nation". Mr. Sesay is lying again as regards my intention. I am not like him.
The fact is I am not struggling to belong to any government for I am a heavy and effective critic of the government. But this cannot be interpreted, as was obviously done by some flunkies and remedials, that I automatically must quit SLPP and join their immature political grouping of tribal dunces.
Seventh, Mr. Sankoh boasted ventriloquently that "the government lacks accountability as evident in the utilization of public funds and logistics like fuel and vehicles for private and personal aggrandizement as encapsulated in John Leigh’s statement."
Clearly, the current SLPP government is not perfect. I have criticized them heavily in the past. They have done some things poorly. They‘ve also done a number of things properly; nor did any of my statements ‘encapsulate’ allegations of private and personal aggrandizement of “logistics like fuel and vehicles”. Mr. Sesay is not truthful. He sounds like an opportunistic political harlot hack.
All things considered, I prefer to work with my party than switch to another party, especially one full of flunkies, drop outs, tribalists and remedial dunces. Again, all things considered, Berewa is my choice as our next president to succeed Tejan Kabbah.
After having responded as above, it is clear that people like Mr. Sesay rely for 99% of your news from rogue newspapers such as the RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times. Such people are naive types who accept at face value whatever rubbish is published by our local press.
But people like Sesay and the RUF rag sheet must understand that when neighbors perceive that the people of a country are willingly led by dunces, flunkies, tribalists and remedials, some of those neighbors like Charles Taylor may invade to plunder and dismember the weakly led country.
There are diplomats and visitors in Freetown from foreign countries who know the difference between what is happening in the country and the trash that is published by rag sheets. So be careful. Do not take newspapers at face value for you will be misled.
Eight, Mr. Sesay boasts that he writes the Queens English while I include Krio in my writings. Mr. Sesay should stop his unwarranted boasting. If he truly understands proper English he would have understood what I meant by “someone who operates within the Sierra Leone Philadelphia ghetto” instead of boasting about his shabby degrees and his cheap, non-ghetto residence.
Finally, Mr. Sesay like others before him, made much about my recall from Washington as ambassador because he has absolutely nothing else negative to say about my public record. He might in time get to know the true reasons why I do not belong to the current administration. Suffice it to say that he should recognize that many excellent public servants in Africa are done away with for no good reason.
Does Mr. Sesay know how many good people were sacked, jailed or killed by Messrs. Charles Taylor, Idi Amin and Mobutu, etc.?
Does Mr. Sesay know how many no-good people were appointed, promoted and favored by Messrs. Charles Taylor, Idi Amin and Mobutu, etc.? Now you know why several African countries are extremely backward and poverty stricken, full of disease, sickness violence and death and susceptible to plunder and destruction.
My point is simple: those sacked, jailed and killed are not necessarily evil people. Those appointed, promoted and favored do not necessarily act in the public interest. The sackers might be the very evil beings keeping you and your people in backwardness and poverty.
Thank you for your attention. – JL 6/21/06
Subject: Med Sesay Blasts John Leigh
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Med Sesay Blasts John Leigh
- Wednesday 14 June 2006.
As a decent citizen, I refuse to condescend to John Leigh’s current lows and therefore has no intention of using vulgarities, slang, and krio in this piece since I am better educated than John Leigh and more comfortable in the Queen’s language than this self proclaimed educated AMERICAN or lest I forget, he denounced it for diplomatic assignment and currently wallowing in the state of unemployment, precipitated by the traumatic consequences of his untimely, and seemingly hasty sacking by the Kabbah Government. Since the Makeni convention where John Leigh’s disgraceful disappointment was symbolized by his infamous picture displayed like a tottering façade, on the front pages of most tabloids in Sierra Leone, this academic midget as depicted in his writings full of krio and slangy slurs, portrays all the trappings of a person struggling for survival and would stop at nothing to satisfy his selfish ends even if that means cursing people and bungling in obscenities with people young enough to be his children.
The source of my piece titled “How corrupt is Solomon Berewa”? Published in the Cocorioko of June 9th 2006, was unambiguously referenced. My caption was not a statement but a question but Leigh is too uneducated to know these simple grammatical rules of writing. Needless to waste time here on semantics and syntax or else Leigh will submerge into oblivion. His feelings of grandiosity since the onset of his campaign have been rendered useless by the realities of Sierra Leonean politics. In his seemingly arrogant stature, characterized by hasty and illogical conclusions about others, especially on matters of politics and education, Leigh takes everybody for granted and believes with poignant anxiety that he is better educated than anybody else. Leigh’s claim to academic sophistication is pointless. Who knows who? However, the cliché, empty vessels make the most noise comes into play when one reads John Leigh’s statements.
In the interest of readers, I reproduce verbatim the source of my article from the Patriotic Vanguard. The quote which John Leigh is now denying, reads “He however conceded that government vehicles and drivers paid by the government are used during the tours. Petrol is also bought with money from government coffers”... (Patriotic Vanguard online June 8, 2006).
The language in this quote is unambiguous and I implore readers who follow the news to check the source for that is what intellectuals do. The statement itself is a disgrace to the current SLPP government seeking re-election in 2007.In a typical election year in America or any democratic country, this statement is so important that it should be investigated to bring the government to book for unethical practices in the use of public funds. The fact of the matter is that the SLPP government to which John Leigh is now struggling for belonging has failed the nation. The government lacks accountability as evident in the utilization of public funds and logistics like fuel and vehicles for private and personal aggrandizement as encapsulated in John Leigh’s statement.
The quote could have come as a surprise to Solomon Berewa, who must be thinking twice now about the viability if any, of having a political miscreant like John Leigh, whose immaturity in the game of politics has reduced him to the level of a delinquent whirlwind since the Makeni fiasco. The desperation in his reaction to my piece on Berewa is a testimony to the fact that he was touched by the facts which I never manufactured as he alleges, but got those facts from a source as reliable as the Patriotic Vanguard. The fact that the statement was in quotes makes it clear that it was from another source, not a figment of imagination or fabrication as Leigh makes the case. Leigh’s nakedness in this discourse is self-perpetuating and contradictory, the very image of a man under pressure ‘from above’ to debunk, rebuff or withdraw the statement or save-face a party that is crumbling under the yoke of corruption and ineptitude.
Leigh states “No one knows exactly what weed Mr. Sesay might have been smoking when he lied about my statement and jumped to his erroneous conclusion. Or why Mr. Sesay deliberately refused to disclose that I had reported that Mr. Berewa made it very clear at each stop during his entire tour that he was touring on government business as evidenced by his inaugurating government-built clinics, markets and schools and explaining government’s policies, practices and plans to his audience. Having said this, I now declare that I never uttered the words ascribed to me and quoted above by Mr.Sesay”
This is desperation and spin at its best. Leigh’s contempt for his compatriots is self evident. Readers could clearly infer from this quote from the Concord times that John Leigh made a political blunder in the first place by making these statements. As promised among others, I cannot react to Leigh’s vacuous statement about weed as I do not even smoke. About why I did not comment on the positive allusions he made to his master, Leigh should realize that readers hate to be bored and a brief , pointed, and well researched article as mine published in cocorioko makes more interesting reading than the lengthy and defensive grammatically bankrupt reactions of John Leigh. One fact that Leigh cannot understand is that nobody hates him not least the writer for his political conviction. Every Sierra Leonean has the right to freedom of association although civil servants are intimidated by Leigh’s bosses. Since his defeat at the SLPP convention in Makeni, Leigh has been on the defensive within and without Sierra Leone. He has been effectively put on a defensive corner by the dynamism of young Sierra Leoneans in and out of the country that one only needs to read the archives of Cocorioko, Awareness times( Leigh’s first enemy after Makeni), Patriotic Vanguard, Concord times, to name a few, to see the litany of obscenities written by the previously misplaced Ambassador. If Kabbah was effective in any decision throughout his tenure as President of Sierra Leone, then that decision was the recall of John Leigh. The appointment as I can discern now from Leigh’s misguided statements and hullabaloos was a misplacement.
Leigh also states “If Mr. Sesay wishes to be genuinely helpful to our country, to which I suspect is what he might be aspiring, I respectfully recommend that he decamps from the notorious Sierra Leone ghetto community of political flunkies in Philadelphia and move on into the American mainstream for a more positive and productive professional exposure. Otherwise, his writings will never reach professional standards and his narrow-mindedness that is based on bogus write-ups, fake quotations, lies, omissions and flunky argumentation will only continue to hold him back”.
I could definitely excuse you on this Mr. Leigh, because the statement is conditional and therefore iffy. For the records, I have always aspired to the progress of Sierra Leone and I will always remain to aspire and render those services that would raise the image of Sierra Leone not for the self but for others. Unlike you who migrated due to the lack of your ability to compete for admission to the prestigious Fourah Bay College, and has never returned home to actually live and work towards nation building, I migrated to the United States by a push factor-the war. Prior to migration, I had made ten years of input as a civil servant and continue to work for Sierra Leone everyday.
Fourah Bay College and Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA/USA) educated, there is no reason for me to be in the ghetto and I know of no ghettos here of the Sierra Leonean community. Sierra Leoneans here are mostly highly educated and gainfully employed in very decent jobs. I entered the American mainstream two months after I arrived in the United States by virtue of my employment status and strong academic background from the citadel of learning (FBC). By American standards, I could conveniently locate myself in the American middle class and by Sierra Leonean standards Upper class. For my age Mr. Leigh, I have already served and will continue to serve Sierra Leone. This explains why our generation will continue to bring your generation-one that is replete with failures into disrepute and come 2007; your octogenarian, hegemonic party will crumble under the canopy and prowess of the new wave of rising Sierra Leoneans like us.
Subject: Re: John Leigh Blasts Med Sesay
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 20:31:11 03/25/07 ()
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Mr. Copied news:
Below is my swift and detail rebuttal to Med Sesay's rubbish which you republished here today without posting my well-received rebuttal as should be the case. - JL
PS: Mr. Winston PMDC Kabia, please take note. - JL
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MR. MOHAMED SESAY IS FULL OF PMDC MALICIOUS LIBEL
A local rag sheet of a newspaper and published by Mrs. RUF Sylvia Foday Sankoh Gongorleeness continues to publish her series of libel against me. In her most recent libel, she published untrue and malicious statements authored by one Mr. Mohamed Sesay of Philadelphia and the apparent PMDC leader in the area.
I am told that Mr. Sesay had his libelous statements published in Mrs. Sankoh’s rag sheet because he knows that I do not read that trashy paper as I have so stated on a number of occasions. He thus believes that I may not be aware of his false accusations against me. However, friends have brought his article to my attention.
I now write to rebut the principal falsehoods written by this Mr. PMDC Sesay as published in Mrs. RUF Sankoh’s rag sheet – a tiny circulation newspaper in Freetown that is widely referred to in my circle as the RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times.
Mr. Sesay’s piece in is full of self-serving lies; wild, baseless allegations and trashy statements by a man who was kicked out of his home by the very RUF he now writes for.
First, Mr. Sesay falsely wrote that I denounced my supposed “American citizenship for a diplomatic assignment” and so I am “currently wallowing in the sad state of unemployment that I find myself”.
My response to this falsehood is as follows: (i) I was never an American citizen at any time. (ii) I have never denounced my citizenship anywhere at anytime. I retain the Sierra Leone citizenship I obtained at birth.
Further, the Kabbah Administration is not the only employer in the world. I am fully employed as an attorney at law and living it up nicely in New England in my own home. I am also very busy managing my investments.
Finally, I am not a citizenship harlot of the type familiar to Mr. Sesay who would opportunistically renounce an acquired citizenship and revert to his original citizenship for cheap employment purposes in his old country. Such shameful opportunistic harlot conduct invites disrespect and contempt for all Sierra Leoneans abroad. The civilized way to behave is once acquired by choice any new citizenship should be for keeps - forever.
Second, Mr. Sesay then goes on to falsely allege that I once conceded that government vehicles, drivers and petrol are used by VP Berewa for his political campaigning.
This Sesay man is lying for I never "conceded" any such thing at any time any where. I made it known in response to public questioning that when I traveled with VP Berewa in Port Loko and Kono Districts in May, he made it known in every town or village he went that he was on government business to open Health Clinics, Markets and Schools and to take and answer questions from the assembled public on government activities and plans. In fact, contrary to Mr. Sesay’s bogus claim in that RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times, I repeatedly argued that Mr. Berewa’s use of government vehicles for government business was legitimate.
Third, Mr. Sesay continued with his reckless lies by claiming that I immigrated to the United States due to my inability, unlike him, to compete for admission to the “prestigious” Fourah Bay College. This Sesay man is famous for allowing his mouth to run recklessly all over the place without his knowing the facts. He is a lying fool.
Here are the facts. I initially went to the USA for further studies on a student visa. I did not immigrate then. Upon the completion of my studies, I returned home only to be disappointed by backward leadership. I returned to the USA eighteen months later.
During my secondary school days, Fourah Bay College was definitely prestigious but I was never interested in attending Fourah Bay College at any time or even going to a country like Britain for further studies. This was because I wanted to study – and I did study - Banking and Finance. Such sophisticated subjects weren't thought at FBC and there were no plans to introduce the teaching of such subjects anywhere in Sierra Leone.
And even if Banking and Finance were taught then at FBC, I wanted more than a mere college education and in a dull environment such as FBC. I wanted the excitement to be in a rich dynamic country full of practicing financiers and bankers whom I could learn from instead of learning from lecturers whose education is mostly from textbooks and with no practical real life experiences in a world class market economy. The education I wanted is exactly the education I got!
Moreover, I was over-qualified for admission to Fourah Bay College at the time. For your information, I came to America with seven subjects at School/”O” Level Certificate and three "A" Levels - each obtained in a single sitting. Furthermore, I was armed with an unassailable USA SAT (college admissions) scorecard.
Finally, let’s face it, FBC was once prestigious but it has seen far better days. Our task now is to correct the injustices and fiscal abuses heaped on FBC, etc.
Any body who today believes that FBC was still a prestigious place of learning at the time Mohamed Sesay became a student there during the 1980s, needs his head screwed on correctly. Ever since the students' strikes in the late 1970s, Siaka Stevens retaliated by slashing FBC's budgets. And given the continued erosion of the exchange value of the national currency, the Leone plus the damage done to staffing by the RUF war of plunder and destruction - among other things - FBC has ever since headed steeper down hill.
Fourth, Mr. Sesay’s next wild and erroneous claim is that I never returned home to actually live and work towards nation building. Mr. Sesay writes flippantly.
After obtaining an MBA degree and after a twelve-month internship at the Chase Manhattan Bank, I returned home to a position at the Bank of Sierra Leone. A co-worker of mine at the Bank was Alhaji U.N.S. Jah, current SLPP Chair. I served as a Senior Research Officer at the Bank of Sierra Leone. I quit after eighteen months or so because I saw poverty-expanding policies (exchange control, anti-foreign investment, SLPMB’s incompetent export monopoly, corruption, favoritism & tribalism, etc.) being put in place by the SL authorities. I argued against such policies to no avail and also to my peril.
Even so, I told my bosses that those policies will lead the country to failure and widespread poverty. I boldly predicted that if they persist in pursuing those selfish policies, poverty will be so endemic that many highly educated people won't be able to write a check for even a $100 in time to come. And that is exactly what has happened. Today, poverty and the daily hardship are most profound in our country.
I quit the Bank of Sierra Leone because I wanted my own children to have an equal or better education than myself and I felt that if I stayed behind, I won't be able to pull off such but would instead be pulled down by selfish and wicked national leadership.
Fifth, Mr. Sesay has a lame excuse for abandoning Sierra Leone and immigrating to Philadelphia. He self-servingly claimed that he migrated to the United States by a “push factor – the war”. He boasted that prior to his migration he put in “ten years of inputs as a civil servant and continue to work for Sierra Leone everyday." Actually, Mr. Sesay was working for himself.
The "push factor" as Mr. Sesay puts it was not the war at all. The war was merely the end product of years and years of terrible, poverty-expanding, corrupt, incompetent, unfair and rubbish governance (with a few exceptions here and there, of course).
Mr. Sesay was in the middle of all this willful maladministration of our country for ten full years by his own reckoning but he had no clue at all of the egregious abuses heaped upon our people by our pre-war governments. He cared nothing about public suffering as long as he was comfortable and prosperous with his government sinecure.
Some in the civil service oppressed others, taking gross advantage of the poor people of Sierra Leone like some lawyers that practiced Open-Call law. The tax-paying, high-employment international sector in SL was expelled by wrongheaded policies and corrupt practices. Those were the heydays of foolish politicians, so dense that they killed the goose that laid the golden egg without giving it further thought.
From the way Mr. Sesay argues, one can tell that he might have contributed to the decay of our country or was so shallow he did not even know about the massive wrongdoing flying before his face or suspected the coming catastrophe that would devastate our country. In fact, he was completely blind to the on-coming catastrophe that kicked him out of his home and country.
After having departed SL because of the violence to come, I was not going to return to a worsen situation. So, I made a nice life for myself and my family in both Nigeria and the USA. Hence, I have been a self-made, independent man for over thirty years. This benefited ungrateful wretches like Mr. Sesay and his kind. Because of my personal economic situation – and
I say this in all humility - I (with help from others) was able to keep the SL Embassy functioning at full capacity during the AFRC/RUF interregnum and to successfully checkmate Johnny Paul, Foday Sankoh, Charles Taylor and a whole host of coupligans, their patrons and lackeys.
We also negotiated USA TPS immigration benefits so that ungrateful wretches like Sesay could stay in America without being deported back to his brutal foolumunku coup mongers and his ‘push factor’ traumatized homes and places of business.
Sixth, Mr. Sesay claims as “fact” that “the SLPP government to which John Leigh is now struggling for belonging has failed the nation". Mr. Sesay is lying again as regards my intention. I am not like him. The fact is I am not struggling to belong to any government for I am a heavy and effective critic of the government. But this cannot be interpreted, as was obviously done by some flunkies and remedials, that I automatically must quit SLPP and join their immature political grouping of tribal dunces.
Seventh, Mr. Sankoh boasted ventriloquently that "the government lacks accountability as evident in the utilization of public funds and logistics like fuel and vehicles for private and personal aggrandizement as encapsulated in John Leigh’s statement."
Clearly, the current SLPP government is not perfect. I have criticized them heavily in the past. They have done some things poorly. They‘ve also done a number of things properly; nor did any of my statements ‘encapsulate’ allegations of private and personal aggrandizement of “logistics like fuel and vehicles”. Mr. Sesay is not truthful. He sounds like an opportunistic political harlot hack.
All things considered, I prefer to work with my party than switch to another party, especially one full of flunkies, drop outs, tribalists and remedial dunces. Again, all things considered, Berewa is my choice as our next president to succeed Tejan Kabbah.
After having responded as above, it is clear that people like Mr. Sesay rely for 99% of your news from rogue newspapers such as the RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times. Such people are naive types who accept at face value whatever rubbish is published by our local press.
But people like Sesay and the RUF rag sheet must understand that when neighbors perceive that the people of a country are willingly led by dunces, flunkies, tribalists and remedials, some of those neighbors like Charles Taylor may invade to plunder and dismember the weakly led country.
There are diplomats and visitors in Freetown from foreign countries who know the difference between what is happening in the country and the trash that is published by rag sheets. So be careful. Do not take newspapers at face value for you will be misled.
Eight, Mr. Sesay boasts that he writes the Queens English while I include Krio in my writings. Mr. Sesay should stop his unwarranted boasting. If he truly understands proper English he would have understood what I meant by “someone who operates within the Sierra Leone Philadelphia ghetto” instead of boasting about his shabby degrees and his cheap, non-ghetto residence.
Finally, Mr. Sesay like others before him, made much about my recall from Washington as ambassador because he has absolutely nothing else negative to say about my public record. He might in time get to know the true reasons why I do not belong to the current administration. Suffice it to say that he should recognize that many excellent public servants in Africa are done away with for no good reason.
Does Mr. Sesay known how many good people were sacked, jailed or killed by Messrs. Charles Taylor, Idi Amin and Mobutu, etc.?
Does Mr. Sesay known how many no-good people were appointed, promoted and favored by Messrs. Charles Taylor, Idi Amin and Mobutu, etc.? Now you know why several African countries are extremely backward and poverty stricken, full of disease, sickness violence and death and susceptible to plunder and destruction.
My point is simple: those sacked, jailed and killed are not necessarily evil people. Those appointed, promoted and favored do not necessarily act in the public interest. The sackers might be the very evil beings keeping you and your people in backwardness and poverty.
Thank you for your attention. – JL 6/21/06
Subject: I am going to be your moderator Mr/Dr Thomas.
From: positive thinker
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Date Posted: 15:02:08 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: pthinker@gmail.com
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''This forum is brought to you by COCORIOKO, Sierra Leone's biggest and most widely-read newspaper online. It was set up to give you the opportunity to discuss matters of supreme importance affecting our country.''
Please don't forget the above code of conduct upon which contributions to the forum should be made.
Luckily, you would be previledged in due course to have some lectures and moderations from my sixth form notes as to how to contribute to a forum.
Your first lesson is: a priori reasoning.
Thanks buddy.
Subject: we will allow other people to teach your illiterate ASS
From: CHIEFDOM ELDERS
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Date Posted: 15:50:21 03/25/07 ()
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Posted by DBK on March 25, 2007 at 15:31:50:
In Reply to: Re: COLUMBA BLANGO'S Ph.D FROM RUSSIA HOW MUCH IS IT? posted by positive thinker on March 25, 2007 at 14:30:51:
MD is the Doctor. In the popular words of Sanford and sons "You big dummy"
Subject: Re: we will allow other people to teach your illiterate ASS
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Date Posted: 16:30:49 03/25/07 ()
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As an elder of the chiefdom - please watch your tongue!
Subject: Re: we will allow other people to teach your illiterate ASS
From: positive thinker
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Date Posted: 15:57:31 03/25/07 ()
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There is no word like ''ILLITERATE'' or ''ASS'' in the Ethical dictionary of educated and civilised men and at least would-be leaders of mother Sierra Leone.
Or do I need to look at your ''ORIENTATIONS''?
Subject: (Trouble in Form Six) big fool ASS
From: CHIEFDOM POLICE
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Date Posted: 15:45:50 03/25/07 ()
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You have failed in defending the appendices to your 'not too familiar' name. I mean your BSN, MD, MPH and what not. But I think MPH is no equivalent to PhD. So why the Dr? Has it got something to do with your job or your academic excellence.
I am a mere sixth former but I don't think you can match up with my younger brother in terms of muscle flexing 'common-sense' wise.
Grow man!
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If you are a six former and do not know THAT MD means Medical Doctor, then you are nothing more than an illiterate BIG-FOOL ASS!
Did we hear you say, " NOR BLAME ME, ME MAMA AND ME PAPA NAR STACK ILLITERATES?"
Subject: Re: (Trouble in Form Six) big fool ASS
From: positive thinker
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Date Posted: 16:52:49 03/25/07 ()
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I guess I heard heard you whisper to the forum that:
" NOR BLAME ME, ME MAMA AND ME PAPA NAR STACK ILLITERATES?"
So that is why I want to make a name for myself and the rest of my family in Sierra Leone.
Subject: do not start A WAR when you have no exit strategy !
From: CHIEFDOM POLICE
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Date Posted: 15:37:07 03/25/07 ()
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If you are a NEW COMER to the forum,it will be to your advantage to know WHO YOU CAN AND WHO YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO TOUCH WITH A MILLION-FOOT POLE!
Be warned that you are "about to hold a tiger by the tail.
Do you have protection from our "shock and awe and our carpet bombing?
Subject: Re: do not start A WAR when you have no exit strategy !
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 16:28:24 03/25/07 ()
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aye tiday sunday oh unar lef opincall
Subject: Re: do not start A WAR when you have no exit strategy !
From: positive thinker
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Date Posted: 16:47:28 03/25/07 ()
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If you can theaten a war on the forum, what would you do in Sierra Leone when things don't go your way?
I am really not impressed.
Use your keyboard to type and not guns.
Subject: Re: do not start A WAR when you have no exit strategy !
From: positive thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 17:09:48 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: pthinker@gmail.com
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Message:
One fool at a time:
Listen and Listen well:
Always read a piece of literature at least twice. So that you are able to understand the intention of the writer.
By so doing, you eliminate the element of AMBIGUITY.
You see. So that you cannot read things wrongly or misunderstand people.
I clearly know what MD or PhD is. But are all MDs necessarily PhDs or all PhDs MDs? Certainly no.
I was really not impressed by the personal attacks Dr. PhDMD had made in his previous posting(s).
You have never been able to impress me with issues of national concern but I still respect you. Not because you are an ILLITERATE MD but as a human being and your opinions.
And the rest of the other fools follow suit.
Sorry if you cannot understand my 'RHETORICS' or MIMIC.
What an ILLITERATE MD you are.
No war please!
You are always my brother even when we don't share the same view on how to take mother Sierra Leone ahead.
Subject: COLUMBA BLANGO'S Ph.D FROM RUSSIA HOW MUCH IS IT?
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 13:49:56 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: RNMDTWO@YAHOO.COM
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Message:
Posted by BOOK BOOK BOOK on March 23, 2007 at 11:06:48:
In Reply to: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? posted by DBK on March 23, 2007 at 10:29:50:
COLOMBA BLANGO IS A RUSSIAN TRAINED WHO IS A DOCTOR OF SPORTS....BOOK BOOK BOOK , WHAT BOOK? MY FOOT
JUST ANOTHER RUSSIAN DOCTOR
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Posted by Truth on March 23, 2007 at 11:20:52:
In Reply to: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? posted by BOOK BOOK BOOK on March 23, 2007 at 11:06:48:
Again, let us don't follow Mr. Leigh's footsteps here. What is book? Commonse made book and everyone can acquire it given the right circumstances and opportunities. I am aware that under UK law his PhD is HND - Higher national Diploma - not even a BA/BSc. That does not make Colomba anything less. The difference in learning environments and the educational politics makes people like Colomba's advanced russian qualifications dwarfed in the UK. See link below for those of you from Russian who want to do something about your PhDs
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Posted by Jaigboi on March 23, 2007 at 15:52:13:
In Reply to: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? posted by Truth on March 23, 2007 at 11:20:52:
Truth, you seem to have fallen prey to the "put me down" syndrome that afflicts many Sierra Leoneans. Whatever one might have against Columba Blango, there is no doubt that he has proven himself both within and without Sierra Leone. He represented us in the Olympics in the 80's, has taught for many years in the London School system and has served as councillor and mayor of a large borough in London. He is the first African to achieve such a feat! I know Columba Blango and believe me, he's no 'efulefu" as others would want you to believe
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Posted by Truth on March 24, 2007 at 01:58:19:
In Reply to: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? posted by Jaigboi on March 23, 2007 at 15:52:13:
I am not putting dowm Columba. I am merely pointing out facts. Read my post again, please!
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Posted by LIE DOG on March 23, 2007 at 16:02:43:
In Reply to: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? posted by Jaigboi on March 23, 2007 at 15:52:13:
Do you know how many Africans served as mayors in ythe UK before your slum Mayor Blango. Mammy Mambu of salone served as a mayor in the 80's or 90's. Several Saleoneans and other africans have also served in the same capacity. Blango is not the first, and infact he was mayor for less than 1 year of a slum. Bo lef we ya with you Slum Mayor, you lie dog.
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Posted by Name one on March 24, 2007 at 01:30:59:
In Reply to: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? posted by LIE DOG on March 23, 2007 at 16:02:43:
Mr. Liar,
Name one African who was mayor before Blango?
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Posted by MAYORS on March 24, 2007 at 11:37:52:
In Reply to: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? posted by Name one on March 24, 2007 at 01:30:59:
I respect Blango but there were many Africam Mayors in London before Blango...Marion Schuman, a sierra leonean woman at Lambeth in 1985 for example and then,There was one in Wandsworth.
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Posted by Truth on March 24, 2007 at 01:55:32:
In Reply to: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? posted by Name one on March 24, 2007 at 01:30:59:
The man just gave you a name - Mrs mambu - VJ mambu's wife was mayor in manchester for quiet some time.
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Subject: Re: COLUMBA BLANGO'S Ph.D FROM RUSSIA HOW MUCH IS IT?
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 14:45:15 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Geographical locat1on is the reason for the difference in standards of the qualifications possessed by many who studied at a place other than the UK. It takes four years to gert a BA in Scotland but only three in England. It takes 8 years to 10 years to get a Ph.D in Russia, Columbia and non-latin countries. This is the equivalent of a Higher Naqtional Diploma in England. The reason for this is that these countries focus on broad based tutorials whilst England just focuses on the core subject and makes students more specialised in the field that they study. take Columba's Ph.D, he has things on his transcr1pts as the communist manifesto and other modulkes that are reggarded as irrelevant to his sports degree. In England, if you are doing Sports Science, you do not have to study the labour policies or capitalism - that is the difference my Curtis. Columba could have converted such to have gotten an English Ph.D. Aside this, Columba is a brilliant speaker if he trains more. He needn't be a side-kick of arrogance like Charles. He has done well in the communiy and will pray that he rethinks his stance on the politics of Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: COLUMBA BLANGO'S Ph.D FROM RUSSIA HOW MUCH IS IT?
From: positive thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 14:30:51 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: pthinker@gmail.com
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Message:
You have failed in defending the appendices to your 'not too familiar' name. I mean your BSN, MD, MPH and what not. But I think MPH is no equivalent to PhD. So why the Dr? Has it got something to do with your job or your academic excellence.
I am a mere sixth former but I don't think you can match up with my younger brother in terms of muscle flexing 'common-sense' wise.
Grow man!
Subject: Re: COLUMBA BLANGO'S Ph.D FROM RUSSIA HOW MUCH IS IT?
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 15:31:50 03/25/07 ()
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MD is the Doctor. In the popular words of Sanford and sons "You big dummy"
Subject: heheheheheheheheheh d
From: Dr. C. CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 15:56:01 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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heheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheehehehe, YERRI WAY ARE LAFF OH!
Subject: Re: COLUMBA BLANGO'S Ph.D FROM RUSSIA HOW MUCH IS IT?
From: positive thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 15:48:39 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: pthinker@gmail.com
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Message:
Thanks for calling me a ''a big dummy'' but I think your dumminess exists in the superlative. The biggest dummy or dummiest dummy? You can't even understand that I was only trying to be clear on his bogusness. You need a lesson in ethics and I expect that having PhDs, MDs and the like is not the solution to our problems.
Can I once again try to remind you that we should shift our emphasis from PhDs, XYZs to ''how can we change our nation for the better, if not for ourselves but for that of our children yet unborn.
Subject: Re: COLUMBA BLANGO'S Ph.D FROM RUSSIA HOW MUCH IS IT?
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 15:56:06 03/25/07 ()
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You fen plaba.. stop before you get a spanked... A word for a wise...
Subject: DOES THE POWER-HUNGRY SLPP HAVE A "D. LANSANA" IN THE ARMY?
From: CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS, BSN,RN,MD(Hons.),MPH
To: All
Date Posted: 13:22:17 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) in Power.
The SLPP majority party
formed the first post-colonial government in 1961. The 1962 elections then
revealed the depths of ethnic and regional polarisation in Sierra Leone and
the superficiality of the ideological differences between the opposing parties.
The SLPP retained power by winning most of its seats in the South and East
of the country, which were predominantly populated by MENDE PEOPLE. The
SLPP government was therefore labelled as a MENDE GOVERNMENT. This
image polarised public opinion in the country, introduced notions of cronyism
in many state institutions and laid the foundations for military involvement in
politics. The period had terrible, albeit foreseeable consequences on the
unity of the young state and served to deepen existing cleavages.
• The 1967 Elections and their Aftermath.
The elections of 1967 were scarred
by bitter power struggles based on ethnicity, personality and party affiliation.
Although the APC won the most seats, the leadership of the SLPP stoutly
refused to concede defeat. The resultant standoff signalled a watershed in
the political fortunes of the country and ultimately led to the destruction of
the multi-party system. The head of the Army sabotaged the swearing-in of
the APC Prime Minister and declared martial law.
When it became apparent
that this move was engineered to favour the SLPP leadership, junior-ranking
soldiers staged a coup. The consequent period of military rule served to
narrow the political space in Sierra Leone and compelled others to seek
alternative routes to power that did not depend on free and fair elections. It
set the scene for multiple further coup attempts in the following decades." (SLTRC REPORT)
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The aforementioned has precipitated a number of questions:
1. What if the SLPP LOSE the July election, are now mature enough to accept the result ? Or is the SLPP still suffering from "POWER-CONSCIOUSISM".
2. Does the current Sierra Leone Army have a "DAVID LANSANA" put there by the SLPP FOR "just in case"?
3. How instrumental was the SLPP in selecting the current Army?
THESE ISSUES SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN LIGHTLY
Subject: Re: DOES THE POWER-HUNGRY SLPP HAVE A "D. LANSANA" IN THE ARMY?
From: positive thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 13:44:50 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: pthinker@gmail.com
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Message:
I guess your intention is to press the wrong BUTTON, but I am quite sure you would not get much reaction.
A lot has gone wrong in the past but why can't we move foreward?
Subject: Re: DOES THE POWER-HUNGRY SLPP HAVE A "D. LANSANA" IN THE ARMY?
From: CHIEFDOM ELDERS
To: All
Date Posted: 13:52:43 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
IF WE DO NOT LEARN FROM THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST, WE ARE SURE TO REPEAT THE SAME MISTAKES AGAIN.
Subject: YOU MEAN DAVID LANSANA THE CHIEF SOLDIER?
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 13:43:21 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
What an interesting article CHARLES. I shall reply tomorrow.
DEN DAY PREPARE FOR REPEAT 1967.
BUT DEN LIE.
DEN GO MEET LEK WAY COCVOLESE MAN SAY "MBANGA MWANSEH MOBATA".
FORCES SHALL MEET FORCES.
Thanks.
Subject: Re: YOU MEAN DAVID LANSANA THE CHIEF SOLDIER?
From: positive thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 13:59:24 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: pthinker@gmail.com
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Message:
Is Thomas's transmitted article or whatever you may call it a recipe` for intellectual thuggery?
Tremendously enough, we have already got another - JUSTICE.
Please don't use cyberspace to recruit real thugs.
Subject: Re: YOU MEAN DAVID LANSANA THE CHIEF SOLDIER?
From: Dr. C. CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 13:55:45 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
That's Him. He was ultimately "murdered" by the APC!
Subject: I can't ref a contest with no ethical rules.
From: positive thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 12:58:02 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: pthinker@gmail.com
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Message:
I am no ref but a child of my fatherland.
Sadly, I do not ref matches and shamefully for you guys, you are not even better players/contestants.
The least had I realised that this forum is a ring for throwing punches.
Why can't we bury our personal differences [along the lines of who and what you are and how much politics you claim to know] and exploit the good things we may have in common for the common and everlasting good of our beloveth Sierra Leone?
Subject: Re: I can't ref a contest with no ethical rules.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 14:34:56 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This is for those who are not MPs or have never been.
I agree with you that there must be self-respect and respect for others. No one here is a fool, whether he/she has been to school or not and we could try to maintain something (smile)of the etiquette that prevails in the British House of Commons, where it is a tradition to refer to "My Honourable friend". All lawyers know this. Hon.Charles Margai who is a seasoned member of parliament knows and practices this in parliament and out of parliament, and I'd appreciate those who should have had some public manners and acceptable ways of "saying things" instilled in them when in diplomatic school or Sunday school. It is not the same as "calling a spade a spade". The English language is flexible and has fully developed resources to cope with this need and the bad-word syndrome switched on to its habitual criminal mode of king jimmy jargon, just won't do, even if such people are proud of the public record stored in the archives.
Subject: Re: I can't ref a contest with no ethical rules.
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 14:51:12 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This piece should be directed at Mr. Leigh, my fellow SLPP mate. I pray he disists from such and learn the art which he so served for many years - TACT.
Subject: Re: I can't ref a contest with no ethical rules.
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 13:07:49 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I think the only way to be constructive and positive is to accept you negatives and differnces .
Subject: Re: I can't ref a contest with no ethical rules.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 15:05:42 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Forum Decorum. Well, there are hard and fast rules which the Rev Kabs Kanu's admin have wielded arbitrarily and at their sole discretion - and according to their personal whims and fantasies/fancies
Fact is, that we are all one class of humans and don't want a headmaster Sargent-at-arms screaming to us all day long, this one word:Fools! We know that we are and
it's been also said, that Jesus came essentially for the San-San boys ( who were mostly his disciples) whilst he was less attractive to those who were overflowing with self-esteem.
Subject: Putting Sierra Leone first and not ...........
From: positive thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 09:36:12 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: pthinker@gmail.com
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Message:
Hi all,
Good to know that a platform exists where, atleast, we can honestly, selflessly,seriously and most importantly,devoid of party lines, discuss, prescribe and substantialy subscribe to the [ailing] malaise of our country, nation and at least the next generation to come. But all of you guys, for the last couple of days, I have realised, get so personal and otherwise. Can we please change the tone and put national interest first.
Subject: Re: Putting Sierra Leone first and not ...........
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 14:29:23 03/25/07 ()
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Message:
Such is what the nation needs. National interests should be of paramount importance. may God help you on this forum as you encounter the diverse opinions that make the whole. Welcome positive Thinker. Keep up thinking positively.
Subject: DO YOU WANT TO BECOME THIS FORUM REFEREE Mr. P THINKER?
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:16:48 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
First of all WELCOME.
I personally will be very happy to see you the referee of this forum. That will be a good idea.
READ:
DO YOU KNOW NATIONAL INTEREST MORE THAN US Mr. P. THINKER? - JUSTICE 10:10:16 03/25/07
Thanks
Subject: Re: DO YOU WANT TO BECOME THIS FORUM REFEREE Mr. P THINKER?
From: positive thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 12:49:07 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: pthinker@gmail.com
Entered From: host-87-74-40-102.bulldogdsl.com at 87.74.40.102
Message:
Sadly, I do not refere matches and shamefully for you guys, you are not even better players/contestants.
The least had I realised that this forum is a ring for throwing punches.
Why can't we bury our personal differences [along the lines of who and what you are and how much politics you claim to know] and exploit the good things we may have in common for the common and everlasting good of our beloveth Sierra Leone?
Subject: SLPP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE AILING MALAISE positive thinker.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 13:35:04 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I agree with what you are trying to put across according to you article. But you should know that the SLPP is responsible for this AILING MALAISE.
They were sleeping for two complete decades without development for Sierra Leone. Now is the time for the people of Sierra Leone to show their power.
KICK THEM OUT ON JULY 28.
NA THE ONLY WAY DAT OH.
NOH VEX OH positive thinker.
NA SO SALONE DAY TEEDAY.
CORRUPTION NOH GET PLACE AGAIN.
WE GO SMOKE CORRUPTION OUTSIDE ALL DEN JUKI JUKI SAI DEM.
By the way, which political party do you belong to. Elections are approaching and everybody is trying to push their party's agenda to the people of Sierra Leone.
Like wise the writers on this forum. We do not appreciate other as much. We discuss and debate. there is no pardon when it comes to debate on this forum. Everybody is trying to put his or her views in a responsible manner accross. You are new to the forum but you may get to know it sa time goes on.
Readers of our articles appreciate what we are doing and that is great.
If you are not a member of a political party or if you are undecided, come and join THE NEW APC.
You'll be glad you did.
WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS HERE.
GOD BLESS
Subject: Re: DO YOU WANT TO BECOME THIS FORUM REFEREE Mr. P THINKER?
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 11:27:11 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I think most of our discussions are more about the country than about ourselves. We tend to deviate a little yet we are always discusing issues realated to the country. Lek me so will be going back home to give back to those that helped me achieve my dream by TEACHING FOR A YEAR OR TWO AT NUC OR FBC
Subject: Re: DO YOU WANT TO BECOME THIS FORUM REFEREE Mr. P THINKER?
From: babybob
To: All
Date Posted: 11:33:03 03/25/07 ()
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Message:
Thats very nice and patriotic. I have done my national service and continue to do so by providing jobs for my people
Subject: Re: DO YOU WANT TO BECOME THIS FORUM REFEREE Mr. P THINKER?
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:25 03/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
you know if only all of us can do at least a service to sierra leone in our own little way, we will be a different and better society.
Subject: Re: DO YOU WANT TO BECOME THIS FORUM REFEREE Mr. P THINKER?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:39:54 03/25/07 ()
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Message:
Sorry the last post by babybob was me. I am 100% in support of us going tbcak to contribute to our people
Subject: A MODEL FOR REDUCING POVERTY IN SIERRA LEONE?
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 07:43:11 03/25/07 ()
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Message:
[The following recent exchange regarding the question of whether restoring the exchange rate of the Leone to parity with the dollar would reduce poverty in SL is presented here, courtesy of SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com, in the continuing effort to apprise fellow S/Leoneans of proposals which, if implemented, have the potential to develop our country. The name of my correspondent has been redacted on privacy grounds].
--- In SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com, MohmJ@... writes on March 25, 2007:
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In a message dated 3/23/2007 11:43:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [Name Redacted]@.... writes on March 23, 2007:
"I guess I am trying hard to move us from being fixated on economics theories to helping us break it down into a way we can explain these awkward phenomena to our people, and you have done so good so far Moh'm. Over to you again.
Is our farmers being taken for a ride? How does devaluation applies? And how do we clamp down on such abuse of our economies?"
[Name Redacted]:
Thank you for your rejoinder and for your compliment. I commend you for recognizing that the most important audience for our discussions on economics has to be the ordinary man and woman in SL and S/Leoneans abroad. Therefore, in order to maximize the chance that our message will be understood, it is necessary, as you correctly noted, that we "break it down into a way we can explain these awkward phenomena to our people." This is the why I have always kept my published writings simple, while adhering to the generally accepted principles of economics.
In accordance with your request, let us now continue to "explain these awkward phenomena to our people." You asked: "Now, why is it very expensive to live on fresh fruits and vegetables here and very inexpensive to live on fresh fruits and vegetables in Sierra Leone?"
The answer can be found in the economic theory of demand and supply. Simply stated, that theory holds that the price of a good (or service) is determined by the interaction between the demand for it and the available supply.
So, in the particular case of fresh fruits, all other things being equal, at any given level of demand for them, the higher the available supply, the lower is the price at which they can be sold. This is because there are more fruits in the market than the quantity people want to buy. Accordingly, in order for the sellers to sell their "over supply," they have to cajole the buyers -- by lowering the price of the fruits. This is exactly why fresh fruits back home are inexpensive relative to those here in the U.S.
In SL, due to our vast arable farmlands, conducive weather and diligent farmers, we have an abundance of fresh fruits that is more than sufficient to meet the demand of our relatively small population. That demand has been driven even lower than otherwise by the strange perception by many S/Leoneans that fresh fruits are not as good as imported canned fruits from "superior" foreign lands. As a result, there are more fresh fruits available back home than there is the demand for them. Accordingly, in order for the sellers to sell their "over supply" of fruits, S/Leonean farmers and petty traders have to sell them at a low price. (Remember those piles of oranges and mangoes spread out at Guard Street in Freetown that you could buy for a few Leones? Or, the oranges many S/Leoneans used to buy for "two-for-penny" as children? That was before the IMF showed up to fool the SL government into devaluing our currency and put those "goodies" out of the reach of formerly middle-class people whom the devaluation has turned instantly into poor people!
The opposite situation obtains here in the U.S. There are not enough fresh fruits to meet the very high demand for them from the far greater population. That demand is made even higher than otherwise because, for some reason, Americans -- unlike their clueless fawning admirers in SL -- believe that fresh fruits are better than canned fruits! (Think Colonial Mentality, if you want to explain why S/Leoneans prefer the mostly foreign-made canned fruits). So, in order to "ration" the inadequate supply for fresh fruits to meet the "over-demand" among Americans, farmers and places like the Seven Eleven store you visited charge relatively high prices for those fresh fruits to American consumers.
Which, of course, raises the question to which you astutely alluded: Since many of those same fresh fruits sold expensively in America stores come from farms in countries such as SL, why then are our farmers not paid high prices for their fresh fruits? The answer should come as no surprise to those who remember my writings seven years ago on Leonenet wherein I identified the oppressive troika of factors responsible for the massive underdevelopment of Africa, in general, and SL, in particular -- the foreign "aid" and foreign trade policies of mainly Western countries, and the Colonial Mentality among African leaders that facilitates their clueless embrace of those policies.
It would come as no surprise to you when I state that the Trojan Horse used by the purveyors of western foreign "aid" is none other than devaluation -- which I have long described as the meticulously disguised, gargantuan theft of an unwitting nation by opportunistic foreigners. So, exactly how does the devaluation of the Leone deprive our farmers of a fair share of the profits from their fresh fruits sold at high prices here in the U.S.?
In order to answer that question, it is necessary to go back to a more prosperous era in SL during the 1970's which you described in your penultimate posting -- when the exchange rate was eighty cents (SL) to $1. Assume that a bunch of bananas then cost eighty cents at the farm in Bo and were sold in the U.S. for $1. 50 If an American firm wanted to sell Bo bananas in the U.S., it would have to pay the Bo farmer eighty cents in SL, which it would have to buy, say through the Bank of SL, for $1. So every time the farmer's bunch of bananas was sold for $1.50 at a Seven Eleven store here in the U.S., the Bo farmer got 80 SL cents which was equivalent to $1. So, the farmer received 67% of the sales proceeds ($1/$1.50).
Now, that Bo farmer could take those eighty cents and buy $1 worth of anything in America (e.g., after using it to buy foreign exchange of $1 at the SL Commercial Bank, he could send the $1 to his son at Howard University, who could use it to buy $1 worth of food).
Then came the IMF with its devaluation scheme. The exchange rate was manipulated so it deteriorated against the Leone from eighty SL cents to $1 before the devaluation, to Le 2= $1 after the IMF had fooled the SL government into announcing the new devalued exchange rate. That's right, devaluation is no more or less than a mere announcement. In other words, the devaluation reduced the value of one Leone from $1.25 to less than half that value, i.e., $0.50.
What did this mean for our Bo farmer? If the price of his bunch of bananas stayed at eighty cents (SL), instead of getting the equivalent of $1 he used to receive when the exchange rate was Le 0.80=$1, the farmer would now get less than half of that, i.e., $0.40 (since Le 1 was now equal to only fifty U.S. cents, Le 0.80 was only worth forty U.S. cents). Therefore, even though the farmer's bananas were sold in the U.S. at the same price of $1.50 as before, because of the devaluation, he would get a significantly smaller percentage of that $1.50. Specifically, instead of the 67% (or $1) he used to get before the devaluation, the Bo farmer would now get less than half of that -- a measly 27% ($0.40).
Clearly, therefore, the answer to your question ("Is our farmers being taken for a ride?") is a very sad one: Yes.
As regards your other question ("How does devaluation applies?"), the answer should now be equally clear -- it is the insidious and patently immoral means by which western countries defraud our poor farmers of a fair share of the profits from the sale of S/Leonean produce in western and other foreign countries.
Finally, the answer to your question (" how do we clamp down on such abuse of our economies?"), is the same one as that which I have been advocating since my article, "Devaluation: A Rich Man's Cure" was published in We Yone in Freetown nearly thirty years ago: We must undo the devastation of our country's economy and the consequent pauperization of our people caused by the greatest fraud against our country by westerners since our country's independence. Specifically, we can do so by reversing the demonstrably inappropriate devaluation of our once strong currency which had enabled S/Leoneans to enjoy the good life to which our abundant natural resources entitled us -- and which you accurately described in your childhood recollections.
We can take action either through the government or through the private action of patriotic and knowledgeable S/Leoneans. My hope is that our country will be blessed with a new government after the July 2007 elections that will be totally different from the clueless succession of failed, Colonial Mentality-afflicted governments which have been the unpatriotic collaborators of the IMF and the World Bank in the totally unnecessary impoverishment of millions of S/Leoneans over the past thirty years.
Otherwise, with similarly enlightened fellow S/Leoneans like the learned Jonathan Rose, who has been advocating the same change in policy for twenty years or so, [please see our recent article accessible via the link below] and the patriotic Amadu Massally, among many others here, a group of us can act, as I have described in the plan I proposed here a few days ago, to marshal the existing remittances and other easily available financial resources of our fellow S/Leoneans. Acting within the private sector, we could then use the requisite foreign exchange generated to finally bring down the artificially, astronomically and immorally inflated exchange rate for our once strong currency that has needlessly transformed the once proud middle-class majority of our compatriots into a demoralized majority of S/Leoneans notorious worldwide as the poorest people on earth.
Best regards,
Moh'm
--- In SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com, [Name Redacted]@... wrote on March 23, 2007:
>
>
> In a message dated 3/23/2007 5:16:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, MohmJ@... writes:
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> "So, like most S/Leoneans whose childhood memories are similar to yours, one day, thirty years later, you realize that all the goodies you remembered are gone."
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> "...all the goodies are gone," and it turns out that the most inexpensive mean of survival in this part of the world is on the all-gone-goodies, which may be considered not healthy.
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> Now, why is it very expensive to live on fresh fruits and vegetables here and very inexpensive to live on fresh fruits and vegetables in Sierra Leone? Yet, the all-gone-goodies that is considered here as junk is more expensive to live on in Sierra Leone -- where only the very rich can afford it these days.
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> It also turns out that the raw material for the all-gone-goodies are from third world economies. Most intriguing, I visited Seven Eleven this morning for a cup of coffee and the glamour around the coffeemakers for coffee was amazing; everyone was spending at an average of a dollar, which reminds me of my very poor coffee farmer grandfather in Sierra Leone.
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> And another observation; vegetables and plantation farmers are the poorest people in our economies unlike the first world farmers who are among the riches people in society.
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> I guess I am trying hard to move us from being fixated on economics theories to helping us break it down into a way we can explain these awkward phenomena to our people, and you have done so good so far Moh'm. Over to you again.
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> Is our farmers being taken for a ride?
> How does devaluation applies?
> And how do we clamp down on such abuse of our economies?
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> [Name Redacted]
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>
Subject: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: Round One
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Date Posted: 04:45:09 03/25/07 ()
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Posted by M. Alieu Iscandrai ESq on March 24, 2007 at 16:23:10:
In Reply to: Re: Why John Leigh Supports VP Berewa posted by John E. Leigh on March 23, 2007 at 09:51:15:
"APC has a bad record of minority tribal hegemonistic discrimination, corruption, incompetence, and war-provocations. Only the narrow-minded, selfish and stubborn elements within a certain tribal grouping as well as the few beneficiaries of their 26 years in power are supporting the so-called New APC"
John you really are either atampting to misrepresent the true facts here or you are acting in the capacity of a cheerleader but one who I may charge has a DUTY to be upfront and truthful. Your claim that the APC has a bad record of minority tribal hedgemonistic discrimination is spurrious and heres why.
The APC is the only political party which has tended to benefit ALL tribes in sierra leone and more so the mendes of the South East. If this were not so, peple like Marda Bio SAJ Musa, and most of the army brass who were recruited during the APC would have been recruited had the APC been as you have described it. Furthermore, at least three if not more of sierra leones vice presidents under siaka stevens and momoh were from the south east, and associated with the slpp. Salia Jusu Sherriff, FM MInnah, JB Dauda et al.
I want you to tell me then in all honesty how could the APC be as you have described it if the facts that I have presented to you were true. Finally in all honesty when Prince Harding told you to Shut up and sit down, I recall being told that he had also mentioned that you were a damn krio boy. As a matter off fact way beofre you attempted to contest for the leadership of the SLPP, it was clear that you would not get nary a vote because you were a krio boy and notwithstanding the fact that your birth mother was from mendeland. Do you really want us to enter the debate of which politically party is more tribalistic, then it has to be your party the slpp, which has little appreciation for you because of your having had a krio father. You see john when you throw ashes into the wind, it follows you. Dont talk about tribalism and I wouldnt expose what I know about SLPP tribalism.
"CORRUPTION INCOMPETENCE"
John the character of coruption was not invented by the APC, rather I would submit that it was the pre 1967 SLPP that perfected corruption. Do you recall the beoku betts and dove edwin commissions of inquiry, well they unearthed many corrupt practices under the SLPP which if you were honest you would admit. Even as a kid I vividly remember RGO KIngs testimony. RGO King if you would recall was finance minister under both Albert Margai and Milton Margai. Even Ahmed kabba the President who not so long ago you swore alegiance to was found to be corrupt by the Beoku Betts commission and BANNED from HOLDING PUBLIC OFFICE. That Ban was overturned by Momoh upon the advice of his then attorney general Abdulai Conteh. So had it not been for the APC policy of letting bye gones be bye gones, you might not have ever had Tejan Kabba as a leader.
Now lets talk abot Incompetence. I would be the first person to agree with you that the Government of Saidu Momoh was to some extent an incompetent government. I dare you make the same bold assertion regards the SLPP government that you served as ambassador. I am almost certain that you wouldnt and therein lies the diference between you and I. You may want to avoid the issue because its your party and elections are fast approaching which I think is sad because our failure to speak when we are divinely placed in a position to do so is unrighteous.
That the SLPP before it was corrupt does not in any way obviate the massive corruption under the APC which record was only broken by the more massive corruption under the NPRC (while the SLPP advisers looked the other way), and the record breaking corruption now going on under the nose of the SLPP while people like you John who should be the conscience of the nation, argue vehemently regards to its non existence.
"In fact, there is no such thing as the New APC. The same KDDA and Ekutay corrupt stupid bunch that ruined SLeone and draged us to last place are exactly the same bunch behind the Koroma APC. Koroma alone won't make much difference. He is surrounded by very experienced crooks up to no good"
I am one of those people who surround Ernest Koroma and I am sure that you would nt call me a crook. If you would recall, those who were once with the APC, occupied positions of authority in the APC are now with the SLPP and occupying positions of authority in the SLPP. Remember Sama Banya, JB Dauda just to name a few, welll at least these two managed to retain a ministerial position in every APC government. Lest I forget your old nemesis Dr. Prince Harding, another krio boy of dubious origin who was born in the sothern province and raised there. He was also an APC Minister. So If you are looking for crooks within the APC, the truth is that many left for 'GREENER' pastures and they are now card carrying members of the slpp.
Every time you mention something about the Ekutay and the KDDA, my blood churns and boils because I remember back when I had to defend you at a public gathering behind your back, when someone accused you of being anti- Limba. I said you werent and still do believe that you are not anti limba, but what if for arguments sake I were to tell you that nearly all former ministers of the APC with a few exceptions were members of EKUTAY. have you though about how many of your number within the ranks of the SLPP were once members of "Ekutay corrupt stupid bunch that ruined SLeone and draged us to last place"
Finally you mentioned that the APC provoked the war and nothing could be further from the truth. You have committed the falacy of blaming the victim for the crime. Your continued tirades in this direction will only serve to serve to provide an excuse for the war which was fought on slpp resources of men and materielle and contacts.
Stay Blessed
Subject: Re: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 14:08:30 03/25/07 ()
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Al:
All I am trying to do in this Forum is tell the truth the best way I know it. Lets face it: APC was a disaster for Sierra Leone.
You are wrong about the APC record: APC did not benefit all tribes equally. Favoritism and nepotism prevailed throughout their disastous reign. The biggest gainers were the KDDAs and the Ekutays from a small section of the Northern Province. They were the elite, the crooked ones, the powerful ones.
You've made reference to Bio, Musa and other non-Limbas as having benefited from the APC's fairness. True, people from other tribes made some progress under the APC but benefits were not proportional.
If APC was fair, how come 95% of the AFRC coupligan ringleaders were from one single tribe of no more than 8% of our population? When I pointed this fact truthfully to the world, some selfish, daft tribalists accused me of anti-Limba tribalism. They are full of rubbish.
How come Johnny Paul Koroma who flunked out in St. Edwards Form Three became a military cadet in England? Why were almost all the other qualified people with "O" Levels bypassed for military scholarships? Wasn't this tribalistic favoritism to pack the military with its core tribesmen for their own supposed protection?
Did not all the APC KDDAs and Ekutays line up squarely behind Johnny Paul and his brutal, savage, primitive regime?
Didn't I help to burst up those coupligans brutes by calling a spade a spade?
APC TRANSPLANTS
You've mentioned SLPP's Banya, Harding and Dauda as beneficiaries of APC largesse. True, those are senior SLPP members transplanted from the APC. They were forced to belong to Stevens' party because he instituted one-party rule. Further, these gentlemen are not really popular within SLPP's reform wing and two of them were bitter opponents of mine although things are improving.
Two of these gentlemen lost their elected positions in Makeni. The other is close to President Kabbah, but not to Berewa.
For your information, Harding is not a krio though he has a Western Area name. He is a Mende who stood for and won an office previously reserved for a Krio because his name might have confused some people. If you say his conduct to me in Bo in 2002 was anti-krio, it won't be surprising at all because tribalism is a serious problem in the whole country but things are improving within the SLPP.
Even so, tribalism is alive and well in my party. I am fighting it with good works, truthfullness and fairlessness. If Harding can contest and win an office previously reserved for a Wester Area member, I am not hesitating to go for the leader position. That's how progess is gained.
From what I know, Berewa is not going to be tribalistic. I can assure you of that. He needs good people and he must find them to help solve our nation's difficulties.
On the other hand, tibalistic Limbas are lurking inside the APC. Nationalistic Limbas, Temnes, etc. are with me inside the SLPP reform group helping with badly-needed reforms. Its not easy but that's the way to go.
"CORRUPTION INCOMPETENCE"
I agree with you that the character of coruption was not invented by the APC. But APC took corruption to the most extreme extent ruining the whole country over 26 years of maladministration. Below is a summary of the cost of APC maximalist policy of wanton corruption:
YOUR APC ekutay-kdda types are the people who ruined the Sierra Leone currency - both its convertibility and its value as a medium of exchange;
The APC:
abolished multi-party democracy and instituted one-party monopoly afro-politrics including corrupt general elections;
expelled tax-paying corporations by corrupting exchange control;
created mass unemployment through dunce economic policies based on corruption, favoritism and nepotism;
introducted wall-to-wall corruption in society during the OAU Conference that gave the Chairmanship to Siaka Stevens;
deposed democraticly-minded paramount chiefs and replaced them with APC lackeys;
accummulated IMF/World Bank debts fiti-fata - debts now settled by the SLPP;
shut down the railroad and sold it for scrap;
shut down Marampa mines; shut down SLST and
put Jamil Shaeed in charge of DIMINCO;
wrecked the Road Transport Department;
sold the Madison Ave UN Mission embassy; Sold the Ambassadors residence in Bethesda, and put the proceeds in private bank accounts, etc;
degraded provincial towns by allowing power stations, water works and surfaced roads to deteriorate without mentainance, let alone renovation;
impoverished the population on a massive scale;
degraded SLeone normal new vehicles market to nation of secondhand vehicles only;
degraded Sleone normal new books market to a nation where only used books are available;
Awarded scholarships on the basis of political affiliation and tribal bloodlines, Etc., etc., etc.
According to Martin Meredith in his book: The Fate of Africa (a review of 50 years of African Independence), Siaka Stevens stold $500 million from our country.
The above-described conduct provoked the war that destroyed our country because despite its evil record of malgovernance, the APC bunch wanted to continue in power forever.
More later. Please stay tuned. - JL
Subject: Re: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 15:09:26 03/25/07 ()
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Well done, Mr Leigh. Such is what is needed - the objective facts. Even our party has bad apples!!
Subject: Re: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 12:59:17 03/25/07 ()
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When I mentioned it that John Leigh blamed the limbas and the temnes as been the trouble makers on a TV broadcast, no one believed me. Remember, I never met John Leigh in person and I stand to gain nothing to make false accusations about him. He is very tribalistic, so as many politicians from the south/east and if you don't believe try to ship things to freetown and you cannot converse in mende.
Note: Mande people are generally friendly, but the mende politicians are tribalistic
Subject: Re: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: Ishmael Yillah
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Date Posted: 12:56:46 03/25/07 ()
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When I mentioned it that John Leigh blamed the limbas and the temnes as been the trouble makers on a TV broadcast, no one believed me. Remember, I never met John Leigh in person and I stand to gain nothing to make false accusations about him. He is very tribalistic, so as many politicians from the south/east and if you don't believe try to ship things to freetown and you cannot converse in mende.
Note: Mande people are generally friendly, but the mende politicians are tribalistic
Subject: Re: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: sierraleone
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Date Posted: 13:11:33 03/25/07 ()
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one good turn deserves another... Nar that nor ar go say.. Una do am for two an half decades you did not see anything wrong with that, now al of a sudden it is wrong...Member ohh wae nar so so limba en temne den bin dae talk nar offices in Sierra leone freetown in particular...
Subject: Re: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 05:18:17 03/25/07 ()
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An honest opinion I would dare say. Thanks Mr. Round One I had missed it.
Subject: Re: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: Fengai
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Date Posted: 11:52:01 03/25/07 ()
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Posted by M. Alieu Iscandari Esq on March 24, 2007 at 14:57:15:
In Reply to: Re: CHARLES MARGAI NA LAWYER EN BEREWA NA ORGAN PLAYER OH TEE. posted by CADMUS on March 24, 2007 at 11:18:36:
What is so difficult about Equity and Trust? I cannot believe that as gentlemanly as I have always thought you to be, you want to involve yourself in another putdown of Charles Margai on the same basis as others on this site and I think that it is a low blow to continue putting down the brother just because we do not agree with him. If I could well remember in one of our earliest meetings on this forum you had touted the fact that you supposedly had a higher class law degree than I had as if to make the claim that you were somewhat much smarter than I was, or that in fact you do know what class of law degree that I have. I resented your arrogance then and I resent it now that it is drected at Charles Margai. I practiced in front of the Special Court with a very fine and brilliant lawyer from Ireland and he was impressive. I also practiced with some down right arrogant lawyers fromEngland and Australia who could not match this Irish Lawyer I know.
My point is that you and all of those who have been putting Charlese Margai down on the basis of his school grades and whether or not he graduated from an accredited law school or whether he is Irish Barred or English Barred are downright condescending and the more you continue to do it the less effective it effective it becomes as a tool to campaign with and the more popular he becomes.
dont make the mistake of putting down a person who may one day become your president if his party wins. I say Challenge Charles Margai on his tenure as a minister in the different governments that he has served in but not on something as inane as where he went to school and by extension that he is not so brilliant. What has brilliance doen for our country. Pound for pound, sierra leone has been blessed with some very brilliant minds but what have they done to uplift out nation? NOTHING. Maybe its time for someone not so brilliant to take over the country and attempt to recreate it from the crap that it is now.
Subject: Re: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: Fengai
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Date Posted: 11:46:00 03/25/07 ()
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his is all the more credible because Alieu Is always defending John Leigh. Lets see what Leighs response is. I hope hhe doesnt go overboard with his response this is going to be a good debate between two titans. Alieu Iscandari Iscandari v. John Leigh. APC v. SLPP.
Pass me the pop corn and my house shoes please this iss going to be fun.GOOD FUN
Subject: Re: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 21:18:27 03/25/07 ()
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"Pass me the pop corn"
YOu made my day. I just couldn't stop laughing. You are indeed a funny guy.
Subject: Re: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: Round One
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Date Posted: 11:34:54 03/25/07 ()
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Albert I think that you guys in the PMDC should try to bring Iscandari over to your camp. He has been hitting John Leigh and others on your behalf and on behalf of the PMDC leader all weekend. The guy is good
Subject: Re: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: Albert Moinina
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Date Posted: 01:48:43 03/26/07 ()
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Mr. Round One,
Not a bad idea at all. As much as I would like to see him support PMDC, the fact is he is supporting APC. He has however clearly stated that he will support PMDC in the event of a runoff. I will say the same thing, in the event of a runoff I will support Ernest. He is far more superior and honest, hastafulai, than Berewa.
Subject: Re: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 18:36:41 03/25/07 ()
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Good in what?????
ROTMAFLAO
Subject: Re: Iscandari takes on John Leigh
From: Round One
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Date Posted: 20:20:00 03/25/07 ()
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Good in the way that he writes and addresses his issues. BTW what does ROTMAFLAO mean? Sorry I am ignorant about these abbreviations.
Subject: REMEMBER MARCH 23, 1991!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 21:51:42 03/24/07 ()
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Source: Awareness Times
In memory of all those who lost their lives on that fateful date of March 23rd 1991 in Bomaru, Kailahun, Eastern Sierra Leone and in memory of the tens of thousands more who lost their lives in the ensuing turbulent years of civil strife in Sierra Leone, Awareness Times Newspaper will not be publishing anything today. So much was lost on a national level and on personal and individual levels, that we urge all to use this date and this weekend as a time of deep reflection. May all the souls of the departed rest in perfect peace and may truth, morality and righteousness crushed to the ground, rise up again in beautiful Sierra Leone.
Mar 23, 2007, 12:27
Source: Awareness Times
Subject: APC created RUF
From: DBK
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Date Posted: 19:44:00 03/24/07 ()
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The policies of APC created the RUF...
Subject: DID I HEAR YOU SAY SLPP CREATED RUF BY PROXY?
From: JUSTICE
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Date Posted: 03:55:27 03/25/07 ()
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Mr. DBK, the policies of the APC has nothing to do with the RUF.
The RUF was formed by disgruntled CRININALS who were condemed for STATE CRIMES.
They were supported by THE EMPEROR of DIAMOND EMPIRE and his CLAN to come and course destruction to Sierra Leone.
After having supported the RUF, came an INTERREGNUM ochestrated by a group of young warriors. The young warriors commited the worst destruction of DIAMOND EMPIRE.
This same CLAN arranged with these youg ruthless warriors to hand over DIAMOND EMPIRE with the pretext of organising a GENERAL SELECTION.
I hoe you have been informed.
Subject: Re: DID I HEAR YOU SAY SLPP CREATED RUF BY PROXY?
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 04:40:33 03/25/07 ()
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"Mr. DBK, the policies of the APC has nothing to do with the RUF."
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If you really think you are being honest may I ask how old are you?
Subject: Re: DID I HEAR YOU SAY SLPP CREATED RUF BY PROXY?
From: DBK
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Date Posted: 11:12:32 03/25/07 ()
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late twenties. Yet i am old enough to know the APC created the RUF.
Now if you want to dispute that fine with me. we have been hearing about the NEW APC, yet we have the same old criminals, who ran the country aground, sent their kids( most of them are in their 50ies and 60ies)to schools in the western world,at the same time messing up our educational system, parading as members of the Reformed APC....
You know, th APC can start reforming bye appolozing to the 3.5million sierra leoneans that they marginalized,hundreds of families that were hurt by their brutality, and get rid of VICTOR FOH as their Secretary General. Then and only then can we( the people) see them as a political party. But for now, they are just a bunch of CRIMINALS...
lets roll...
By way i am enjoying my sunday service and getting ready for NBA....
Subject: Re: DID I HEAR YOU SAY SLPP CREATED RUF BY PROXY?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 11:25:40 03/25/07 ()
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Victor Foh is the problem with you son. I call you that not because you are my son but because you are my sons age and he is only my second child. Get this right VICTOR FOH will never leave the APC for the SLPP and he is not a turncoat politician like all of those you have been used to dealing with. At the age of late 20's you are not old enough to understand the truth about APC policies and I dare say that whatever you know, you learned from the propaganda machine. I mean the SLPP propaganda machine. BTW are you mende? Dont lie now.
Subject: Re: DID I HEAR YOU SAY SLPP CREATED RUF BY PROXY?
From: DBK
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Date Posted: 11:29:54 03/25/07 ()
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Bra nar YONIBANAH ar born My village moyambwoo has both temnes and mendes.. My mom is the only one of the siblings that speaks mende. All my aunts are temnes...
Me wef nar Creole.. Now bra me nar SALONE MAN.
Subject: Re: DID I HEAR YOU SAY SLPP CREATED RUF BY PROXY?
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:32:35 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Mr. DBK:
Pleased to know you are from Yonnibanah.
I went to school there when I was 10 years old and stayed with the head of what is now the UMC Mission. I probably was in school with your father's oldest brother.
I enjoyed my stay tremendously. My Sissi, Mary Kargbo, was from RoChain where she took me to on long weekends and during holidays. She virtually adopted me as her son.
Her father was the village blacksmith so I became one of his apprentices. I also spent time in forested Kaswe on the Moyamba line. Here is another mixed Temne-Mende community that thrived in peace and much mutual happiness. I visited the late Dr. Jim Forna, my schoolmate, often in Petayfu.
Say, what are Yonnies doing these days to develop their lovely chiefdom, one of SLeone's largest? - JL
Subject: Re: DID I HEAR YOU SAY SLPP CREATED RUF BY PROXY?
From: DBK
To: All
Date Posted: 12:37:30 03/25/07 ()
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Bra me dad nar bin forest ranger nar Kaswe in the 60s and 70s ...My elder brother went to St Francis sec school in Makeni and another one went to school in Kabala..do you see how de world small?
Subject: Re: DID I HEAR YOU SAY SLPP CREATED RUF BY PROXY?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 05:05:31 03/25/07 ()
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Loggy he is old enough to know that the policies of the APC did not create the RUF and he stands by his opinion. I can believe that you have also been bought into that SLPP propaganda that the APC created the RUF. Lets put things in perspective, all of these so called people masqueading as SLPP stalwarts today were APC stalwarts. Back then they were responsible collectively speaking for whatever policies that the APC romulgated.
These very same people while they were APC secretly supported the rise of the RUF through the Ndorgbowusui insurrection and then later on the RUF. It was betrayal at its best. I dont buy that propaganda that the APC caused the RUF because at the time the RUF took off, Momoh government had by the 191/92 constitution which had been passed, outlawed one part state and said yes to plural democracy. That being so, there was no need for a war. There are those in the SLPP who have their hands dirty with the blood of the innocents who sufered at the hands of the kamajors/RUF which wer all creations of the SLPP.
Now dont you dare ask how old I am. LOL
Subject: Re: DID I HEAR YOU SAY SLPP CREATED RUF BY PROXY?
From: positive thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 09:23:18 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: pthinker@gmail.com
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Hi all,
Good to know that a platform exists where, atleast, we can honestly, selflessly,seriously and most importantly,devoid of party lines, discuss, prescribe and substantialy subscribe to the ailing malaise of our country, nation and at least the next generation to come. But all of you guys, for the last couple of days, I have realised, get so personal and otherwise. Can we please change the tone and put national interest first?
Subject: DO YOU KNOW NATIONAL INTEREST MORE THAN US Mr. P. THINKER?
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:10:16 03/25/07 ()
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Do you think that we are idle to talk about self interest on this board?
We are not MINISTERS in freetown seeking CONTRACTS at the expense of the Sierraleonean people. Go and ask them, they will tell you more about self interest.
Donot ask us to change. Remember that this is a forum. If you have an article, just put it on the board, you will see the reaction. OK.
This forum has been here for years so you are not the one who should ask us to change the tone.
Mind your business, my dear.
HOW YOU WORRY SO?
IF YOU WAN TALK SOMETIN, TALK AM YAH.
NOH KAM BEGIN WITH BELLA WOKE. EH HEN.
YOU YEHRY.
GOD BLESS!
Subject: Re: DID I HEAR YOU SAY SLPP CREATED RUF BY PROXY?
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 06:46:21 03/25/07 ()
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Alieu, how old are you?
Are you old enough to remember how many times you have conceded to the fact that the APC of Siaka and Momoh helped destroy Salone? And that Today’s APC, in so many words, is far better? Well, in my book, the APC’s one party state creation, without doubt, and its human rights abuses helped create the RUF.
And to be fair to you, the SLPP too cannot run away from the sins of the RUF.
As far as I am concern, the SLPP and the RUF is a family affair went bad.
Now, are you old enough to remember taking a picture of me? If so where is it you damn APC gbolfonk!
Over to you bra Yaya.
Subject: Re: DID I HEAR YOU SAY SLPP CREATED RUF BY PROXY?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 10:47:09 03/25/07 ()
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made me laff my butt off this morning. Its on one of my disks or flashdrives. call me anyway we need to talk and I will tell you how old I am now and how old I am oing to be soon.
human rights abuses?
Do you mean like the execution of the Wellington street 9 or the Mamy Yoko Street 7? Because if you were to listen to those on the "Greener" side of the aisle say it, you would think that the GREAT Siaka Probyn Stevens were a monster. This is all propaganda my friend. There were no massive beatings of mende men in Freetown or elswhere and as I understand it there were quite a few fights in Bra Enviables neighborhood in Kailahun. These fights occured because the stubborn people of kailahun refused to allow the APC to campaignthere during the elections.
Talk of Human Rights abuses was not on a large scale and any assertions to the contrary is simply just SLPP/mende people propaganda. You have to understand that these people have created the best propaganda machine of all the politicl parties in sierra leone. They have succeeded in villifying the APC to the point where the world thinks that the APC Invented corruption, caused massive human rights abuses and was the reason the RUF was created.
The truth bra is that the RUF was created to concentrate power in the hands of the people of the south east and the slpp, who were not content to be part players in the governments of the APC. A god example of this is that JB Dauda once stated that he joined the APC in order to destroy it. Thisis the kind of hate that these untrustworthy judas types cary for the APC. JB Dauda as APC ordered the burning of the SLPP headquarters in Kenema Town. But listen to the propaganda spin masters "The APC burned down the headquarters in Kenema" Would someone tell these people that it was not the act of the APC, but rather the act of a power drunk politician.
Lets talk about the creation of a one party state in sierra leone. How could that have caused the RUF war bra? The purpose of the one party state was to create a UNITY OF POLITICAL PURPOSE. It was prudent at the time and maybe even so now to bring all tribes under one political umbrella rather than having different tribes back their respective parties and create an environment where tribal hedgemony would reign supreme. Under the one party state, EVERY tribe was involved in party politics if this is corect how could it have been bad for the nation. That it was bad for the nation is also SLPP/Mendeman PROPAGANDA, and of course a few people on this forum like John Leigh my very good friend who is now sounding like a broken LP stuck on the same groove with the same booring message of "SLPP bad, Now Good, Later bad and everyone else unfit and illiterate"
Loggy if I could get a penny for everytime some SLPP tonto like Sengbe Knice, Cadmus, John Leigh (to name just the few half way politically savvy ones)come to this forum and speak about how the APC committed human rights violations against them, I would be a Millionaire. Their biggest beef is that Siaka Stevens made the decision of disbanding the railway and that he siaka being mende did not as we say in Foulah Town "Brasskeetle" dem tribalistic selves. BTW kindly use some white out and clean off Sengbes name as a politically savvy because he is not and you know that brother.
This is elections time and the Gloves are politely off. I will not engage in any personal attacks and or below the belt or uncricket like conduct. I hereby affirm that I will be an officer and a gentleman in all my postings but I will hit the opposition real hard with the TRUTH.
Subject: Re: DID I HEAR YOU SAY SLPP CREATED RUF BY PROXY?
From: Sengbe Big Axe
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Date Posted: 14:01:21 03/25/07 ()
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You do not know what the word "TRUTH" means, you LIAR of the first degree.
I have never told anyone on this forum that I am a "politician". Anyone who has been reading my on-line articles on these 'forums' for the past ten years knows my profession.
I do not pretend to be what I am not.
I speak, and write the truth, and nothing but the truth. And the truth is that you are an untrustworthy BIGOT - you hate the SLPP and Mende people, in general. Your uncle Yayah has attested to this on numerous occasions, and so have many other folks.
Based on the FACTS, which you constantly shun, you keep alluding to the the SLPP as a "Mendeman party" when you bloody well know that the statement is quite untrue. Yet you maintain your KHAZALI MENTALITY regarding this issue.
All man say sugar sweet, but you, based on your lying tendencies, say sugar bitter.
Whodat go ever believe you again nar dis dunia? Pass peeple way share you KHAZALI MENTALITY in politics.
Subject: Re: DID I HEAR YOU SAY SLPP CREATED RUF BY PROXY?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 15:57:19 03/25/07 ()
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Just as I thought another "knee jerk response worth of ignoring and no response" I am not about to trade insults with you I have said my piece and I am at peace with what I have said. You are by no meands a politically saavy personality perhaps "odious" is a better definition of your character.
You cannot speak of being a tribalist. How many non mende friends do you have. can you count them on the fingers of one hand? You epitomise a tribalist.
Subject: Re: APC created RUF
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 00:31:30 03/25/07 ()
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Partially true.........
We should also blame all Sierra Leoneans (essentailly all of us) for failing to stand up to APC and force their one-party dictatorship out of office. Our passive nature led to Sankoh's war.
Inaction or lack of concern by "good" citizens leads to dangerous action by scum-bags like Sankoh.
Subject: Re: APC created RUF
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 06:07:46 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: Saigobe@lanset.com
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Message:
Independent,
You you did not know about the UDP? You did know about The Committee For the Restoration Of Multiparty Democracy in Sierra Leone with Board of Directors of the following?
Olufemi John, Adewole John, Momoh Guah, Tom JOnes, Ada Dupree, Paul Kamara, Yaya Fanusie and Ben Gbondo.
There was also a group led by Hindilo Trye called PAS.
For years the SLPP Traditionalists did not oppose Shaki and wanparty, eventually they formed RUF.
Yaya Fanusie
Subject: Re: APC created RUF
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 12:54:27 03/25/07 ()
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SLPP did not form RUF. All these groups you mentioned did not do anything useful. They only embolden the APC thugs.
RUF was formed and led by scums like Sankoh because reasonable minded citizens were too complacent with the one-party system. They refused to stand up to thuggery, nepotism, and all the other ills the APC one party government brought to Sa Lone.
We have to be engaged in our welfare. We have to care. We ave to ensure that useless governments do not continue to ravage our country. Until and unless we do, there will be another war down the road.
Subject: Re: APC created RUF
From: Concerned
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Date Posted: 13:14:41 03/25/07 ()
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More like... only help create people like YAHYAH FANUSIE
Subject: Re: APC created RUF
From: Waraba
To: All
Date Posted: 14:12:29 03/25/07 ()
Email Address: Saigobe@lanset.com
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Concerned:
I think the correct spelling is Yaya.
Waraba
Subject: Re: APC created RUF
From: Concerned
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Date Posted: 15:27:34 03/25/07 ()
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spelling nor mean anything you are always changing like the spelling of your name.
Subject: Re: APC created RUF
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 20:05:14 03/24/07 ()
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Ok and the SLPP supported the RUF
Subject: APC + SLPP = RUF, RUF, RUF!!!
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 23:51:08 03/24/07 ()
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And now the creators and the supporters are back for 2007. It's deja vu all over again.
Subject: For Mr. John Leigh Again
From: Sierra Leonean Student
To: All
Date Posted: 17:59:11 03/24/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@yahoo.com
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Message:
Mr. Leigh,
In the spirit of brotherhood, kindly avail me the opportunity ot know why you didn't defend Chief Norman after having told you face-t-face that Charles demanded $50,000 to defend him, because I have not read your response(s) to the issue.
Please, at least this time once and for all.
Subject: Re: For Mr. John Leigh Again
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 19:32:17 03/24/07 ()
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The respose to that question is in the archives of this forum?
If you cannot access the archives, ask Kabs Kanu.
Subject: WHO IS THE APC SEC GEN
From: Former NUC STUDENT
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Date Posted: 16:49:14 03/24/07 ()
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His Name is synonimous to Voucher gate, AFRC, RUF and a man who on august 18 1997 was on radio supporting the actions of the RUF/AFRC alliance...
IS the APC really reformed? Is this the NEW Reformed APC or something else?
Subject: DID SLPP PASS ON FALSE INFORMATION TO YOU NUC STUDENT?
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 03:45:37 03/25/07 ()
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I hear you talking about VOUCHER GATE, AFRC, RUF.
Please donot confuse things. Be a good student from NUC.
Be precise and we shall explain the whole affair to you. That was why this forum was set up.
Sorry for this question, how old are you?
Because if you were old enough to know what happened during the VOUCHER GATE era, you will not even be linking the man with it.
Most of the CULPRITS of the VOUCHER GATE SCANDAL are hiding under the shelters of the SLPP.
Wait after JULY 28, when ERNEST KOROMA shall have assume duties as Sierra Leones' first DEMOCRATICALLY elected PRESIDENT, then you will see the real culprits of VOUCHER GATE, AFRC or RUF. We shall not only discuss matters as vougher gate, but also SPECIAL COURT INDICTEES.
Mind you, no one has IMMUNITY as far as the SPECIAL COURT is concerned. I shall remind you on this forum on midnight JULY 28.
One last thing I would like to say to you is not to support a dying organisation as the SLPP.
I know that most SLPP supporters are frustrated about their leadership, but they could not talk. I can understand your frustrations but unfortunately I am not SLPP. I am THE NEW APC because I want to be free and want FREEDOM for Sierra Leone.
That is the difference in THE NEW APC. We talk with ERNEST like with any other person without fear and he listens to us. You will never sit down with the ASSISTANT and talk with him.
You see the difference.
Switch over now before it is too late. The dynamism of THE NEW APC is so high for you not to miss it. Think about it seriously.
Come and join THE NEW APC.
Come and lets talk. We are open to every one. Our opponents are not our enemies, they are our brothers and sisters.
Please read THE NEW APC agenda. May be you have not yet seen it.
You will be convinced in a twinkle of an eye. No joke about.
THE NEW APC means BUSINESS.
GOD BLESS US ALL.
AMEN.
Subject: Re: DID SLPP PASS ON FALSE INFORMATION TO YOU NUC STUDENT?
From: curious
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Date Posted: 11:18:33 03/25/07 ()
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Hey. you are better than that. i guess there is a better defence for FOH as an AFRC spokeman..
Nice try...
Subject: Re: DID SLPP PASS ON FALSE INFORMATION TO YOU NUC STUDENT?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:30:54 03/25/07 ()
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During the AFRC takeover where was Victor FOH? If you know? I want you to stay with me now so that either I convince you about the untruths contained in these nefarious allegations against Victor Foh or you adopt a sticktothelie attitude. Just answer the question.
Subject: Re: DID SLPP PASS ON FALSE INFORMATION TO YOU NUC STUDENT?
From: curious
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Date Posted: 11:33:43 03/25/07 ()
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IN FREETOWN...and ?
Subject: Re: DID SLPP PASS ON FALSE INFORMATION TO YOU NUC STUDENT?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:38:14 03/25/07 ()
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Did you know that he was in JAIL. Having been arrested on false charges, tried and condemned to death by the vindictive slpp govt?
Subject: Re: DID SLPP PASS ON FALSE INFORMATION TO YOU NUC STUDENT?
From: curious
To: All
Date Posted: 11:51:11 03/25/07 ()
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Yes i did. but he was in freeton. Was he innocent of the charges? Did he not aid in the killings of innocent students on august 18? I WAS A STUDENT...
Subject: Re: DID SLPP PASS ON FALSE INFORMATION TO YOU NUC STUDENT?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:57:09 03/25/07 ()
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August 18 of what year my friend? He was charged with treason and that is not a charge that a prosecutor brings for an alleged killing of students is it. If you are to be believed, he should have been charged with murder and I am sure you know the difference.
We got to cross all of thse humps before we get to the issue of innocence or guilt or whether or not he was allegedly aiding and abetting any crime of homicide. lets take baby legal logic steps.
When you say that he was in Freetown it is a bit disingenuious because the truth is that he was in Jail and not a freeman roaming the streets.
Subject: Re: DID SLPP PASS ON FALSE INFORMATION TO YOU NUC STUDENT?
From: curious
To: All
Date Posted: 12:27:49 03/25/07 ()
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August 18th 1997.. Do not bring up Treason. He was not in prison, he was not charged, he was not forced, he did not have any gun up his head. He willingly went on national radio on that faithful day, and bragged that they the AFRC will teach all students who deceide to demonstrate against their govenment a lesson.. in his words "una mama dem go wear black".
This is the same FOH THE REFORMED/NEW APC HAVE AS THEIR SEC GEN..
Subject: Re: DID SLPP PASS ON FALSE INFORMATION TO YOU NUC STUDENT?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 16:02:04 03/25/07 ()
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August 18th 1997, my friend was within the period of the AFRC coup when Foh and other were sprang from prison. What did you expect him to say? Extoll the virtues of the SLPP government that had locked him up charged with treason and if God forbid he had not been sprung from prison would have definitely faced execution? Give me a break. Do you know how many actual combattants of the RUF, AFRC and kamajors are within the ranks of the SLPP?
Go check your facts before you start acting up. satisfy your "CURIOUSITY"
Subject: Re: DID SLPP PASS ON FALSE INFORMATION TO YOU NUC STUDENT?
From: curious
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:50 03/25/07 ()
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What facts? So his action was justified. The students that lost their lives trying to protect DEMOCRACY DID IT IN VAIN... Now my friend you are not objective.
Subject: Re: WHO IS THE APC SEC GEN
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 19:37:30 03/24/07 ()
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Message:
NOR MEN APC FOLKS. DEN FEEL SAY DEN GO FOOL WE AGAIN.
THIS TEM NA NAIL WE DAE PUT NAR DEN COFFIN.
ERNEST KOROMA GO GET THE SHOCK OF IN LIFE ON JULY 29, 2007.
Subject: QOTE OF THE DAY
From: INDIANA BEDROOM
To: All
Date Posted: 14:51:17 03/24/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50
Message:
SAM-FORAY ON MARGAI
"Meanwhile, Bubuakei Jabbi is doing a magnificient job on our behalf and his client is well pleased with him. The support group should give Dr. Jabbi all the support he needs to carry on the herculean task he is undertaking. At least we know that there is one man not drunk with greed and is willing to put principle before personal gain." sam foray
Subject: Re: QOTE OF THE DAY
From: DBK
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Date Posted: 15:03:34 03/24/07 ()
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Message:
and who is that one man? Charles PMDC Maggai
Subject: SAM FORAY SAYS MARGAI WANTED $60,000
From: INDIANA BEDROOM
To: All
Date Posted: 14:45:21 03/24/07 ()
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Message: Kinei Kaikai, I am very much aware that the trial goes on with or without the defendants. The trial only stops if and when the lawyers quit as well. And, of course, that assumes you pay their salaries. The lawyer you have or had in mind(Uncle Charles) wanted $60,000 before he could talk to me. I told him I will call him when I get $60,000. Meanwhile, Bubuakei Jabbi is doing a magnificient job on our behalf and his client is well pleased with him. The support group should give Dr. Jabbi all the support he needs to carry on the herculean task he is undertaking. At least we know that there is one man not drunk with greed and is willing to put principle before personal gain. I understand that you have been there my brother, but I don't hink you understand the issue at hand in the slightest. Since you brought it up, it may not surprise you that what transpired in Freetown and London during and after your visit is well known by the defence support group abroad. But posterity will judge us right or wrong. The fact is that Chief Norman is on the right track on the issue of service and arraignment on the consolidated indictment. His abstention from the court sends both a legal as well a moral statement that Sierra Leone is not a banana republic where every yahoo from abroad goes to have a good time at the expense of our people. Norman didn't start the war. We employed him to finish it. If people don't like the way he fought it, they should not have fled the country and left it to barbarians. As for criticizing lawyers making $500 a day and $100 per hour for the mess Crane, Vincent, Berewa and Kabbah created, don't hold your breadth for me to quit deriding them. I think this a perfect example of you missing the whole point of this trial. Going to Freetown for a couple of weeks and fighting with everyone on the defence team including Chief Norman himself, does not give you a better insight than those of us following the trial from abroad. Stay Tuned, Sam. Subject: Re: SAM FORAY SAYS MARGAI WANTED $60,000 Message: Subject: Re: SAM FORAY SAYS MARGAI WANTED $60,000 Message: Subject: Re: SAM FORAY SAYS MARGAI WANTED $60,000 Message: Subject: Re: SAM FORAY SAYS MARGAI WANTED $60,000 Message: Subject: Re: SAM FORAY SAYS MARGAI WANTED $60,000 Message: Subject: Re: SAM FORAY SAYS MARGAI WANTED $60,000 Message: Subject: Re: SAM FORAY SAYS MARGAI WANTED $60,000 Message: I will not address the issue of Solo B having Diabetes because foir me it is a non issue. Sickness lek rain nor dae fordom nar wan man do mot. I dont express any happiness when someone is sick and that includes any one. Although I read the attacks againmst solo B, I found them to be in "BAD TASTE" but not entirely in appropriate since Solo B is a "public figure" and his medical records should be open to scrutiny. Still I find the mention of his ailment to be in bad taste. Subject: Re: SAM FORAY SAYS MARGAI WANTED $60,000 Message: Subject: Re: SAM FORAY SAYS MARGAI WANTED $60,000 Message: Subject: Re: SAM FORAY SAYS MARGAI WANTED $60,000 Message: Subject: Re: SAM FORAY SAYS MARGAI WANTED $60,000 Message: Subject: SAM FORAY IS DISHONEST Message: Sam, Both Leigh and Charles Margai are speaking from both sides of their mouths. As for Charles, if he really thinks that the so-called special court is illegal, all he has to do is resign from it. He is an officer of the court, after all. An officer of an "illegal court", according to him. Leigh is a Johnny Come Lately. Both of these guys tried to convince Chief Norman to drop his protest on the issue of Consolidate Indictment. Both are lawyers and both did not believe Norman could win his appeal. Leigh told me that Mr. Norman would be convicted in absentia if he did not attend the trial. Margai was so sure that Mr. Norman will lose the appeal, he convinced his client, Alieu Kondewa, to break ranks and attend the trial. It now remains to be seen whether Kondewa will receive the benefit from Norman's victory over the Prosecutor - whatever those benefits might be. In any case, neither one of these men can be trusted on the issue of the so-called special court. Like Nyapoi Jebetu said "ta yeh hein, ta yeh hein" (den dae so, den dae so). The Good Book is right: "A double minded person is unstable in all his ways". Suddenly, everyone is going to dissolve the so-called special court after they are elected knowing fully well that the court is scheduled to be concluded before the elections. SmF Subject: Re: SAM FORAY IS DISHONEST Message: I am one of those who believed that the Norman case is winninable. So my advice was to press ahead with the main case and conclude it quickly to minimize his time in detention. The self-appointed spokesman did not get that point. Subject: Re: SAM FORAY IS DISHONEST Message: Subject: An unholly alliance: APC and Hezbollah Message: Are we going to vote in a party that gave THE PEOPLE of Sierra leone second class citizenship? Are we about to see a flock of lebanese and syrians into sierra leone if the APC comes back to power? Subject: YOU ARE OLD TO KNOW THAT HEZBOLLA IS A MIDDLE EAST AFFAIR. Message: Ask the SLPP very well, because they know the TERRAIN: (FREETOWN - TRIPOLI - BEIRUT). Finally, the THE NEW APC respects FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND MOVEMENT. Just see the WELCOME BEREWA received in APC strongholds. He was enjoying the NEW APC CAMPAIGN FREEDOM ACT. YOU YEHRY? GOD BLESS! Subject: Re: An unholly alliance: APC and Hezbollah Message: Subject: THEY ARE MAKING MOCKERY OF THE SLPP. APC WIIL NOT RESPOND. Message: Two sentences are enough and I find that appropirate. I have told them the last time that Hezbolla is a middle east affair. So encouraging someone debate on middle east affairs is iddling. A word for a wise is quite sufficient. Subject: Re: An unholly alliance: APC and Hezbollah Message: Subject: Re: An unholly alliance: APC and Hezbollah Message: Subject: BEREWA ENJOYED THE NEW APC FREE CAMPAIGN ACT. TELL curious. Message: He saw how THE NEW APC have educated their voters in the full spectrum of the political arena. See how BEREWA was enjoying THE NEW APC FREE CAMPAIGN ACT althoug with some sort of a sour face. May be he was surprise by the rousing welcome. He gesture he has never seen in Sierra Leone politics. Did he even say; BO, WOONA ORGANISE OH! READ COCORIOKO FRONT PAGE. An atmosphere that was aprreciated not only by SLPP and Sierraleoneans at home, but als by renowned INTERNATIONAL ELECTION MONITORING GROUPS. One ANALYST even stated that, it was the first in AFRICAN election history to see an opposition party candidate campaigning an opponents area without problems. ERNEST KOROMA will never be welcomed in SLPP strongholds. Their supporters are still rauw and lack election principles. They want us to be intolerable. that will never happen under the watches and guts of THE NEW APC. I once more call on all of them to come and join THE NEW APC to clear the mess that SLPP has accumulated for the past decade. BACK BITING IS NOT THE ANSWER. VOTE THE NEW APC IS THE ANSWER AND NOTHING ELSE. GOD BLESS. AMEN. Subject: Re: An unholly alliance: APC and Hezbollah Message: Subject: Re: An unholly alliance: APC and Hezbollah Message: Subject: Re: An unholly alliance: APC and Hezbollah Message: Subject: Re: An unholly alliance: APC and Hezbollah Message: Subject: Re: An unholly alliance: APC and Hezbollah Message: Subject: Re: An unholly alliance: APC and Hezbollah Message: Subject: Re: An unholly alliance: APC and Hezbollah Message: Subject: Re: An unholly alliance: APC and Hezbollah Message: Subject: Re: An unholly alliance: APC and Hezbollah Message: Subject: PMDC and NORMAN-- Did Margai demand $50.000 from Norman? Message: Subject: Re: PMDC and NORMAN-- Did Margai demand $50.000 from Norman? Message: Greetings. Your loyalty to Uncle Charles is well noted. But to answer your question, we are not asking Dr. BuBuakai Jabbi to resign because: 1. He has never said that the so-called special court was illegal. His defence of Chief Norman is on the grounds that his client is innocent of charges against him. You should know the difference between the guilt or innocence of a client and the constitutionality of a court. 2. Chief Norman is well peased with the defence of "our lawyer". - BuBuakei Jabbi!!!!1 3. More importantly, it was you that tried to convince Chief Norman to drop his boycott of the hearings on advise of Charles Margai on the grounds that Norman will not win his appeal on the issue of Consolidated Indictment. As the whole world now knows, both of you were wrong. Mr. Norman did win his appeal, thanks to the brilliant tactics of "our lawyer". Uncle Charles convinced his client to break from the CDF defence and end the boycott and now he tells us that the court is illegal? Perhaps you should advise "your lawyer" that as an officer of the court, he is treading on thin ice by calling the court illegal. There is some thing in law called contempt of court and he could be in breach of that. The same is true with Amb. Leigh. As Kabbah's most senior diplomat, he helped negotiate for the so-called special court to sit in in Sierra Leone in supremacy over our own High Court. Now he is going to dissolve it "if he is elected President"? All of a sudden after realizing the mess Kabbah has brought upon us, the people who helped him bring it to Sierra Leone want to dissolve it - if they are elected. Like Kamor Gorglei said (and as we say in Lugbu): Nyakeh haa nga ngele blaa, a yeh hei loh ba soh soh. If you plan to bring the sky down after your father dies, you should start picking at it while your father is till living. Tell Uncle Charles and Mr. Leigh to start dissolving the court now before they are elected. Good Day, A. SamForay, Hinga Norman-CDF Defence Fund. Subject: Re: PMDC and NORMAN-- Did Margai demand $50.000 from Norman? Message: Subject: Leone Stars Message: Subject: DO YOU HAVE FOOD, WATER OR ELCETRICITY AT HOME? YOU GLADY! Message: I hear you say that the NPRC did it. Did what? They were not on the pitch. They were busy in their homes planning how to rape the economy, BEAT UP JOURNALIST and surpress press freedom. So donot give them credit. Give the players then all the credits. As for the political parties, they are busy with programs that will help us have enough food, water and electricity. Without food, you will not be on the pitch to play. Football is often out of campaign. It is not only in Sierra Leone, but all over the world. Your idea and article is great, but you should address it to the MINISTER OF YOUTH AND SPORTS. But if you want it to be on political campaigns, then you will be dreaming. You very well know what is happenin now. When the government spends money on FOOTBALLERS and ATHLETES to go overseas and play, they ask for ASSYLUM and never return. Do you think that the government will be pleased? So, bear in mind that all the governments before and after INDEPENDENCE have contributed greately to sports. Let me tell you now. DEN SEF WAN LIVE GOOD LIFE. DEN WAN FOOD WATER EN LIGHT. DEN WAN DRIVE MOTOCAR. DEN NOH WAN SUCK AIR NA SALONE. SO, WAY WE GET BOHKOO EAT FOR EAT EN WATER FOR DRINK, WE GO TALK BUT FOOTBALL. YOU YEHRY? GOD BLESS. Subject: samsung s500 big LCD with frame samsung s300 LCD samsung a31 Message: website: www.cellphonextra.com Subject: Re: samsung s500 big LCD with frame samsung s300 LCD samsung a31 Message: Subject: Re: samsung s500 big LCD with frame samsung s300 LCD samsung a31 Message: /Moderator Subject: Motorola L7 housing, L7 lcd, L7 keypad, L7 flex, L7 camera, Message: Online servce: Subject: nokia 9210 housing nokia 3310 housing nokia 3410 housing no Message: Subject: nokia 1100 housing,nokia 1110 housing,nokia 1600 housing,no Message: Subject: nextel i275 LCD, nextel i30 LCD, nextel i35 housing, nextel Message: website: www.cellphonextra.com Subject: Chief Norman and John Leigh Message: I am still interested in knowing why you did not defend Chief Norman. You are crying down Mr. Margai everyday for having demanded a huge sum of money to defend Chief. As a trained and qualified lawyer, why didn't you defend Chief Norman when you pitied him so much and professed to have been dear to your heart. Looking forward to hearing from you. Subject: Re: Chief Norman and John Leigh Message: Subject: QUESTIONS FOR ALFRED SAM FORAY Message: Just asking Subject: Re: QUESTIONS FOR ALFRED SAM FORAY Message: Subject: SIERRA LEONEAN MEETING IN CANADA ENDS IN BIG FIGHT!!!!! Message: Winnipeg: Sierra Leonean Meeting Ends in Chaos Many have described the incident as unfortunate and just a replica of the disunity of Sierra Leoneans back home. What was scheduled to be a nomination for the ushering into office of a new executive, turned into a fiasco. The newly appointed Electoral Commissioner, Anthony Kamara, chaired the meeting after the resignation of the former Commissioner, Muckson Sesay, for reasons that are still mysterious. Anthony spearheads the current five-man electoral commission including, Abbas Kamara, G. Koroma, Abdul Kanu and Randolph Gorvie. The trouble that day snowballed from nothing to everything including gender equality in the electoral commission, payment of dues and registration deadline. It also has to do with the president of SALNAM, Alex Bockarie, hinting on a very sensitive issue in the Sierra Leonean community, namely, the alleged misappropriation of 4000 dollars by Bockarie. In the midst of all this confusion, almost everyone in the tiny office was quiet and listened to Bockarie. He reacted in a very calm voice: “SALNAM doesn’t have that kind of money so how can I steal funds that were never there?, he asked. As he was finishing his statement, another war of words erupted between some other people who were confronting one another. The trouble started when the Electoral Commissioner began his opening speech. Sally Wai, a member, questioned the selection of the people in charge of things. She queried the absence of females in the electoral commission. In a very calm tone, SALNAM’s Secretary General Sylvanus Otterbein addressed the issue by saying, “we’ve contacted her (Sally) about two times in the past but to no avail.” “You guys only got in touch with me during Folkorama because you wanted some favours from me,” Wai replied. Zainab Fergusson, another member, then became furious. She retorted: “Most of you folks came to the country because of SALNAM and we’re the people that have laid the foundation.” Another young lady quickly fired back at Fergusson with angry remarks. Former Electoral Commissioner Muckson Sesay and SALNAM’S co-founder member Foday Kamara then halted the fierce exchange of words. In a short speech, Sesay asked the people to come together and become a united front. He said: “ Please,this is nominations time, let’s proceed if need be.” The meeting however ended with no nomination for any position as the ruckus continued. The process was postponed indefinitely to another date to be announced by the Electoral Commissioner. Meanwhile, a statement on the SALNAM website on the unfortunate turn of events reads thus: “Following the pandemonium and chaos during SALNAM’s election nominationmeeting last Sunday March 18,2007,at the Acomi Resource Centre, 421 Kennedy Street, the executive of Salnam would like to inform all Sierra Leoneans that SALNAM’s advisory body and the Electoral Commissioner would hang heads this weekend and chart the way forward for our community.Please check this site for further information. Thanks." Photo: Drummers at the ACOMI centre in Winnipeg, Canada. --------------------------------------- Subject: SAIERRA LEONEAN MEETING IN CANADA ENDS IN BIG FIGHT!!! Message: Many have described the incident as unfortunate and just a replica of the disunity of Sierra Leoneans back home. What was scheduled to be a nomination for the ushering into office of a new executive, turned into a fiasco. The newly appointed Electoral Commissioner, Anthony Kamara, chaired the meeting after the resignation of the former Commissioner, Muckson Sesay, for reasons that are still mysterious. Anthony spearheads the current five-man electoral commission including, Abbas Kamara, G. Koroma, Abdul Kanu and Randolph Gorvie. The trouble that day snowballed from nothing to everything including gender equality in the electoral commission, payment of dues and registration deadline. It also has to do with the president of SALNAM, Alex Bockarie, hinting on a very sensitive issue in the Sierra Leonean community, namely, the alleged misappropriation of 4000 dollars by Bockarie. In the midst of all this confusion, almost everyone in the tiny office was quiet and listened to Bockarie. He reacted in a very calm voice: “SALNAM doesn’t have that kind of money so how can I steal funds that were never there?, he asked. As he was finishing his statement, another war of words erupted between some other people who were confronting one another. The trouble started when the Electoral Commissioner began his opening speech. Sally Wai, a member, questioned the selection of the people in charge of things. She queried the absence of females in the electoral commission. In a very calm tone, SALNAM’s Secretary General Sylvanus Otterbein addressed the issue by saying, “we’ve contacted her (Sally) about two times in the past but to no avail.” “You guys only got in touch with me during Folkorama because you wanted some favours from me,” Wai replied. Zainab Fergusson, another member, then became furious. She retorted: “Most of you folks came to the country because of SALNAM and we’re the people that have laid the foundation.” Another young lady quickly fired back at Fergusson with angry remarks. Former Electoral Commissioner Muckson Sesay and SALNAM’S co-founder member Foday Kamara then halted the fierce exchange of words. In a short speech, Sesay asked the people to come together and become a united front. He said: “ Please,this is nominations time, let’s proceed if need be.” The meeting however ended with no nomination for any position as the ruckus continued. The process was postponed indefinitely to another date to be announced by the Electoral Commissioner. Meanwhile, a statement on the SALNAM website on the unfortunate turn of events reads thus: “Following the pandemonium and chaos during SALNAM’s election nominationmeeting last Sunday March 18,2007,at the Acomi Resource Centre, 421 Kennedy Street, the executive of Salnam would like to inform all Sierra Leoneans that SALNAM’s advisory body and the Electoral Commissioner would hang heads this weekend and chart the way forward for our community.Please check this site for further information. Thanks." Photo: Drummers at the ACOMI centre in Winnipeg, Canada. -------------------------------- Subject: BOCKARIE? SLPP'S DIE HARD FAN IN CANADA? - DOLLAR SCANDAL?. Message: If he is, then this just tells you how even the children of the SLPP have followed the foot steps of their father's so much that they too are practicing CORRUPTION outside Sierra Leone. I hope no, but if he is, then it is a very bad news for the SLPP. May be other SLPP fans will help us investigate this matter. READ: It also has to do with the president of SALNAM, Alex Bockarie, hinting on a very sensitive issue in the Sierra Leonean community, namely, the alleged misappropriation of 4000 dollars by Bockarie. PAPA TIF? PEKIN TIFF? AY! WOOSAI SLPP DAY GO IF NA TRUE? Subject: Mr. Leigh, First Things First Message: If you intend to do it under the SLPP, please change the so called UNTRUSTED LEADER before the "good people" can govern. Alternatively, form a political party. Otherwise, the mud you are throwing at PMDC and Margai is all over your face. Subject: Re: Mr. Leigh, First Things First Message: Subject: Re: Mr. Leigh, First Things First Message: This is not a question and answer session. I can write a solid chapter entitled ”Jonathan Livingstone Leigh” that will make you laugh on every page, put words in Joe’s biggy mouth and get some credible dialogues going. Better than that I am at liberty to comment without hindrance, on some of the less interesting things that you have had to say in your monomaniac way. This is still friendly in tone and intent. We did correspond privately a few times, not without cause but there is an attitude – a sour attitude that does not befit the person I think that you are and it is the attitude of looking down on other people, from where you think that you stand so elevated. Even a dispassionate observer of the Sierra Leone circus gives you credit for – so it would seem, wanting to clean up the rank corruption you allege took place in the SLPP convention that was Makeni – not entirely in a spirit of sour grapes, but you do not cut a very handsome figure with an arrogance that has no foundation and I am referring to your ludicrous attitude to the PMDC – a fledgling party, trying to establish itself throughout the Sierra Leone electorate and Diaspora. Do you think that Kabbah and Berewa are the most intelligent or educated or most gifted men that Sierra Leone can produce? Are you? I am trying to imagine you in Barack Obama’s shoes, talking to your black folk there in the United States of America. Is that the kind of soul brother that you are? Here is one of my African heroes, one of my buddies, and I don’t think that you are half the man he is: Subject: Re: Mr. Leigh, First Things First Message: Subject: For Mr. Leigh: LACKS TRUST = SUPERIOR LEADER? Message: MY RESPONSE: Mr. Leigh, I am a supporter of the PMDC and in your own words we are fulumunkus and have no brain. I sat my GCE ¡¥O¡¦ Levels twice. Oh poor me!!! I sometimes do not get it all at once and sometimes never seem to get it. This is reality, I am not making jokes but is the truth. There are things that I never understand. Even if you cannot bear with me for not getting it, you already know that I do not get it sometimes. My humble concern as a simplistic person is this: YOU HAVE TOLD US THAT THE SLPP IS THE best and superior POLITICAL ORGANISATION IN THE COUNTRY UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF BEREWA. PLEASE EXPLAIN IN SIMPLE TERMS, YOU MAY HAVE EXPLAINED IT A MILLION TIMES, WHY SIMPLEMINDED PEOPLE LIKE US WITHOUT SOPHISTICATED BRAINS SHOULD SUPPORT BEREWA WHEN WE WERE CLEARLY MADE TO BELIEVE ¡§HE CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH THE AFFAIRS OF THE COUNTRY¡¨ FEW YEARS AGO? NOTWITHSTANDING THE ALLEGED INCOMPETENCY OF THE OTHERS BY YOU HOW CAN BEREWA BE A SUPERIOR PRESIDENT WHEN HE IS A MAN THAT ¡§CANNOT BE TRUSTED? Mr. Leigh, sometimes I am so disappointment and feel frustrated that if you were right few years ago about Berewa and absolutely right about Margai and the PMDC and the APC, then there is no future for this country at least for the near future. I know in life you always have to make a decision based on what you have. If the above allegations were ALL TRUE, and this is where my unsophisticated mind does not get it and therefore totally disagrees with you, then your path cannot be for the interest of the nation. You would either be opposing all the current parties or stay away completely. Your vocal and frontline support for Berewa, unfortunately tells me that you love SLPP more than Sierra Leone or your own personal interest prevails. Mr. Leigh, this was my message to the people of Sierra Leone during my short visit in December 2006. Support PMDC for the presidency, but do not dismiss APC or SLPP individuals in the parliamentarian election. I know there are good people in the APC as well as the SLPP. But I am not inclined to support Berewa because he ¡§cannot be trusted¡¨. Mr. Leigh, I have made this very clear that I have no problem you criticizing Margai and the PMDC. Where I disagree with you? I find it almost impossible to reconcile your current views and the serious allegations you made few years ago. I STILL CANNOT GET IT, MAY BE IT IS ONE OF THOSE THAT I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND with my flunky little brain. Wishing you all and hope you understand I am not confused things. I am not a politician and never intend to be one. I studied the sciences, engineering where the logic is different from others especially in politics. Subject: Re: For Mr. Leigh: LACKS TRUST = SUPERIOR LEADER? Message: Subject: Re: For Mr. Leigh: LACKS TRUST = SUPERIOR LEADER? Message: In a small country such as ours, there is actually no difference. The Berewah that you told us cannot be trusted with the affairs of state yesterday, who according to you was one of the most corupt leaders in sierra leone, cannot have metamoprphsed overnight into being the leadership equivalent of a florence nightingale. So Tell us john what is the difference between pre and post convention politics? This is going to boil down on the issues of credibility. Are you credible now when you say Berewah is the best person for sierra leone, or were yiu credible then, when you claimed that Berewah is bad bad news for sierra leone and to elect him would be a mistake. Surely such positions whoch are diametrically opposed cannot be reconciled so easiliy. either one is correct and the other wrong or in the alternative the speaker is not convincing. What are we to believe now. Were you being deceitful when you told us that Berewah and the SLPP machinery at Makeni was perpetuating Elections fraud? Or are you to be believed now when you claim that the SLPP is the only party that has what it takes to lead sierra leone. We are still searching for credible leaders and these conflicting statements are working against you. stay Blessed Subject: Re: For Mr. Leigh: LACKS TRUST = SUPERIOR LEADER? Message: The bottom line is this: with all his faults as I saw them, Berewa is far superior in leadership quality and trustworthness than his rivals combined. The others are inferior characters supported by inferior organizations and surrounded by inferior personalities. I am trusting Berwea for the next five years. I will never trust margai nor koroma in this life or in the next, if any. Period. - JL Subject: Re: For Mr. Leigh: LACKS TRUST = SUPERIOR LEADER? Message: Subject: Dont give my cousin any responsible post again Message: Subject: Re: Dont give my cousin any responsible post again Message: For your information, the genuine Evelyn Leigh is actually my brother, not my cousin, and he is backing me 100% but quietly. As for RUF Awareness Gongorlee Wohwoh Times, my rebuttals have silenced them. Lets face if it, you now are without any reasonable defense left. - JL Subject: Re: Dont give my cousin any responsible post again Message: Subject: Re: Dont give my cousin any responsible post again Message: Subject: IS EVELYN YOUR BROTHER OR SISTER JOHN LEIGH? Message: EVELYN sounds to me as a woman's name. Subject: Re: IS EVELYN YOUR BROTHER OR SISTER JOHN LEIGH? Message: Subject: Re: Dont give my cousin any responsible post again Message: Subject: ELECTION FAIRNESS SHOULD PREVAIL ON JULY 28. WHY? READ. Message: The people on the African continent are begining to do what they should do when they have a dictator or bad government. The developing situation in Zimbabwe is another SIGNAL of peoples power. The people have the RIGHT and WILL to take back the power and AUTHORITY they entrusted to rogue HEADS OF STATES and POLITICIANS if they donot deliver the goods. You see, the ARCHBISCHOP is even calling for CIVIL DISSOBEDIENCE if it comes to PUSH and SHUB. SLPP be aware. Donot think of rigging the the forth coming elections. The people will of Sierra Leone are very smart. The will not wait for tan ARCHBISHOP or IMMAM to tell them what to do. The action will de SWIFT and CO-ORDINATED. THE PEOPLES POWER SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED. So let fairness play in the forth coming elections. Subject: JOHN LEIGH - A LESSON TO BE LEARNED!! Message: Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH - A LESSON TO BE LEARNED!! Message: Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH - A LESSON TO BE LEARNED!! Message: Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH - A LESSON TO BE LEARNED!! Message: Move on to something else. Leave John Leigh Alone. Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH - A LESSON TO BE LEARNED!! Message: Please stop your 'hollier than thou' childist tricks. Your referral is irrelevant. SLPP has beeen wooing defectors since before August 2006. You are just now merely seeing the possibilities. I was in SLeone then and I participated in a few. It is an on-going process. I don't need to learn such from a 40, 80 or 10 yearold caucasian or from you. Thank you. Second, I cannot remove my personal agenda from politics. My personal agenda calls for a national merit system free of discrimination on the basis of tribe or religion, etc.: no dynasty, no tribalism, no yuki-yuki, no kalo-kalo, etc. No matter how big a tribe is, part leaders must avoid putting superior achievers under their inferiors. Further, the performance of public duty should always be in the public interest. Third, SLPP cannot purge itself of all its hyprocrites instantaneously. Some people with bad record flock to the SLPP because they smell success. We ought to retain them and reform them not throw them out. In the meantime, we ought to be careful so they do not gain power and destroy our party and/or society and in the meantime, they could be making contributions. Lastly, I really do not need your free advice. Your sanctimoniousness is offensive. Thank you. -JL. Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH - A LESSON TO BE LEARNED!! Message: Subject: A MESSAGE TO THE SLPP CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN Message: Copyright 2001 SLPP I cannot stop believing the above statement. Subject: FBC student radicals and their RUF links Message: "Money came from Libya for students; free books from Libya for students; people studied the Green Book like the Bible. It was ideology. Students were encouraged to spend holidays in Libya; brainwashing process there and many did not come back. The student unions were adherents to the Green Book. Gadhafi sent money to student unions: radicals were serious about toppling government; could be genesis of war. According to the Green Book, every government in Africa that wasn’t radical should change. Gadhafi’s intention was to destabilise Africa for positive change. Libyan government had influence throughout Africa in the 70s and 80s right up to the 90s. Before the war started, Ali Kabar became president of the Student Union. He was articulate in English and French and the main person Libyan agents went through. He refused to train in Libya. Libya gave millions to recruit from all over Africa, especially West Africa. Recruits were never told that they were going to Libya to train. They were told they were to receive scholarships to teach and would be paid thousands of dollars. On arrival, recruits were kept in dormitories in Libya. They had to go the fields to train as guerrillas and had no choice. After training as guerrillas, the recruits were sent to Liberia. Meanwhile, Kabar had fled to America with millions in loot. The aim was to destabilise Liberia first, then Sierra Leone, then Gambia. This is how Charles Taylor started his movement". Culled from darkness over paradise-A film about terror in Sierra leone Subject: Re: FBC student radicals and their RUF links Message: Subject: VIOLATION OF OUR ANONYMITY AND PRIVACY RIGHTS ON THE FORUM Message: Subject: can you remove the "MASK" now? Message: Indications from your postings tell us that you are an assert and you therefore connot afford to be Just another "Truth". You have lived up to your name, so can you remove the "MASK" now as Dr. Curtis-Thomas had asked you earlier? YOU CAN DO VERY LITTLE FOR A NATION IF YOU WANT TO BE IN OBLIVION! Subject: Re: can you remove the "MASK" now? Message: Subject: JIMMY KANDEH & THE R.U.F. ISSUE Message: Do you deny that you have AMNESIA about Abu Kanu (Buza), Rashid Mansaray, Ishmael Rashid, Bawus (bauwouley-Williams), Prof. Abdullah--to name a few-- and Cleo Hanciles who was instrumental in recruiting Foday Saybanah Sankoh? I DETEST all the political parties, consequently, I will NEVER be associated with them. You can spin the issue of your interview with Kabba that is between you and your conscience. Subject: Re: William Farah Marah Bangura Message: Subject: Re: JIMMY KANDEH & THE R.U.F. ISSUE Message: Subject: Re: JIMMY KANDEH & THE R.U.F. ISSUE Message: Didn't Abdullah visit Sankoh in Lome during the peace talks? Sylvia Blyden can attest to that. What were Bouws and Cleo doing in Libya? Abu Kanu--may the Lord grant him perpetual peace-- was not "an idealist who misled himself into joining the RUF." He was an idealist who--since his secondary education--comprehended that it was the same means which Alieu Iscandri's tryannic A.P.C. had utilized to suppress Sierra Leone, was to be applied to liberate the country. Subject: Re: JIMMY KANDEH & THE R.U.F. ISSUE Message: Now Scram or seek help from somewhere else.. Subject: Re: JIMMY KANDEH & THE R.U.F. ISSUE Message: So your stupid theory regarding the genesis of the ruf maggots pertinent to the SLPP, and my Mende people, in general, creating the ruf is out the window. LIAR! LIAR!! PANTS ON FIRE. Everyone now knows that your vile hatred for the SLPP, and Mende people is the only reason you are perpetuating your KHAZALI MENTALITY relative to this issue on this forum, and not the facts. More revelations regarding this issue will most definitely ensue, and your gross dishonesty will be shown to the whole world as time goes by. In fact most sane people can already read into your lying tendencies, and bigotry on this forum. The truth crushed to earth will arise. Have you heard from Willy lately? Subject: Re: JIMMY KANDEH & THE R.U.F. ISSUE Message: Subject: Re: JIMMY KANDEH & THE R.U.F. ISSUE Message: Were you? Subject: Re: JIMMY KANDEH & THE R.U.F. ISSUE Message: NOTICES & DOCUMENTS Greetings to you all. I have called this Press Conference to debunk the deliberate attempt by the Peep Newspaper of today’s edition Captioned "JOURNALISTS ARE EXTREMELY STUPID". This is a deliberate attempt by the Editor OLU GORDON to set me up with the press. I will take this opportunity to REVEAL to Sierra Leoneans and the World over the reason why this man called Olu Gordon had attempted to always bring me down in life though without success. I first met him in 1979 long after the famous "No college no School" Country wide campaign spontaneously launched by High school Pupils following the demonstration by some Fouray Bay College Students against The Late Former President Siaka Stevens. Then he was a lecturer who was perceived as leftist and since I was also in search for a better Political alternative to the then prevailing system we naturally met at a point. Shortly afterwards I left for Guinea where I was offered a scholarship by the Late President Ahmad Sekou Turay to study History and philosophy at the Institute Poly Technique Gamal Adel Nasser currently The University of Conakry- Republic of Guinea. On my return home in -1984, I taught at the Makeni Comprehensive Academy in Makeni and later at the Kabala Islamic Secondary School, Kabala. In 1986 I returned to Freetown and worked with Alhaji Unisa Alim Sesay in the Private sector briefly wherefrom I started my own private Business. Before then, I had joined the Pan African Union (PANAFU) organisation on my, return home in 1984. This organisation was formed two years earlier. Olu Gordon was a member. Sometime in May of 1987, Pan African Union had a meeting to which I was invited at 71 Black Hall road, house of Retty Foster one time Broadcast journalist of the SLBS. Among the people present were Sidi Jalloh of Malta street, a business partner of lawyer Fio Edwards, Jeffery Bowaly-williams an engineer businessman, Dr Ismail Rasid Currently a lecturer in USA ,Mohamed Kamara aka boss Niger (one of the students shot on the day of the "no college no school" demonstration of 1977) to name but a few. In that meeting, we were told that there has been a solid line of communication between the expelled students of Fouray Bay College in 1985 led by Alie kabba and PANAFU. Among the Lecturers expelled during the 1985 unrest at Fouray Bay College were late Cleo Hancils, Dr Jimmy Kandeh and Olu Gordon who had apparently fled to Canada. Though Gordon was in Canada he was able to maintain strong links with the Alie Kabba group in Ghana. And that in the course of their relationship a meeting was held in Conakry where PANAFU was represented by OLU GORDON AND SIDI JALLOH . At that meeting, it was agreed that PANAFU should recruit Young People to be trained in Libya to overthrow the reactionary regime of Siaka Stevens. OLU GORDON and SIDI JALLOH agreed and promised that in return for sponsor from LYBIA they will comply with the request of the kabbah group in Ghana. So even before we were called to the above mentioned meeting at 71 Black hall road, it was a fait accompli arranged by people who were phrase mongers of revolutionary theories with no intentions to practice the least what they were preaching. But of course we knew ourselves, we knew those who were sincere to combine words with action. This was how OLUGORDON and SIDI JALLOH AS MEMBERS OF THAT DELEGATION nominated my humble self, Jeff Bawoly -williams, Mohamed Kamara and Late Rasid Mansaray to go on the trip. Please note that we were nominated by them in our absence. We left Freetown in July 1986 and returned February 1987. OLU GORDON met us in Accra from Canada at the International Student Hostel where Alie Kabba and others were residing as a way to encourage the delegation. The following were witnesses to his sojourn Ismail Rasid, Late Cleo Hancils, Abdulai Jalloh, Samuel Foyoh etc. etc. On our return the same People who sold us to the Accra Group reneged on their promise since the funding that they expected was not forth coming. In a meeting at Sidi Jalloh’s house at 21 Malta Street, it was evident that we were now being betrayed by the Olu Gordon Faction in PANAFU. It was at that same meeting that I vowed never to be involved in any thing to do with their so called revolution and the likes of Olu Gordon. From that day GOD almighty Knows that I have had nothing to do with anything concerning leftist struggle in Sierra Leone. After my return from that trip I never left the shores of Sierra Leone until I was given the opportunity by Council in 2001 to go on a short course in Washington.D.C at the Institute of Public Private Partnership (IF3) Olu Gordon knows that in 1991 before the formation of the NDP, he used to visit me at Afro Continental (SL) Ltd at 12 Wilberforce Street, where I was working for a Trans National Jewish Company. The present Deputy Defence Minister Joe BleIl was Managing Director and H.E. Morikeh Fofanah was Genaral Manager respectively of the said firm. And it was during frequent visits to my office that he got to know these personalities whom I introduced him to. Olu Gordon also knows that when Foday Sankoh fired his first shot, he met me in that same office and asked me my view about the development as it were and I told him that I honestly believed that Sankoh had bastardised the Struggle of our People. And he replied that he shared my opinion. All of these people that I have mentioned will attest to the fact that what I have said is true and of them all Gordon knows very well that his intention has been to assassinate my character each time I am promoted by God Almighty. If not Ladies and Gentlemen examine these sequences of his attempts: 1. On April 13 2003 barely three days after the death of my mother this man wrote a banner headline on his News paper captioned "SLPP PARLIAMENTARIAN RECRUITED FODAY SANKOH" WHEN HE KNOWS VERY WELL THAT IT WAS PANAFU THAT RECRUITED FODAY SANKOH THROUGH MONIES THAT WAS GIVEN TO HIM BY JEFF BAWOLAY- WILLIAMS WHO WAS THEN PANAFU’S RECRUITMENT OFFICER. This man has continuously and systematically published false propaganda and lies against me in his Newspaper. I have turned a blind eye to it for the following reasons: a. I know that they were lies coming from a man who is bent on the ruin of some body whose rise in society is a torment to him. b. Because some members of PANAFU had prevailed on me not to expose the truth. c. Also because I am a strong believer in the will of God for every man. But it would appear that some section of our society have almost come to accept it as gospel Truth.. Little wonder that the Standard Times Newspaper of today’s edition is also referring to me as a Former RUF member. It was also said that I represented the RUFP in City Council. How can we be so wicked to one another, deliberately distorting the fact? But when my Political opponents wanted to join his queue by calling me Fayia Musa. It was Gordon who wrote in his usual front page banner headdline of one of his November editions of 2004 that "VICTOR REIDER IS NOT FAYIA MUSA". The FACT is that Olu Gordon who has been constantly vilifying me out of share malice and vindictiveness more than any body else knows the TRUTH. 2. But of cause he has a mission. That was why again in June this Year, when my wife who knows that Gordon’s Mission is to destroy Victor Reider had a domestic problem with me, she readily hired his News Paper. So instead of Gordon advising Madam to resolve the problem amicably, he chose to make it a front page material for three consecutive publications. Is that how you treat a family whose bread and butter you have enjoyed in the past.? Is there malice better expressed? To come to the issue of the day, it was a press talk which I had with a couple of distinguished reporters on Monday at our Party’s Headquarters after a meeting addressed by, our Leader in which I took time off to answer to some questions posed to me. I have never referred to "Journalists as extremely Stupid" nor will I ever. I am too seasoned not to know that in my capacity as The National Publicity Secretary of my party ,I need to be In a very good working relationship with the Media. The question of me being an antagonist of the Peep Newspaper is ironical to say the least considering how much I have let go in the consistent denigration of my person by this same Newspaper. IT IS ON RECORDTHAT I HAVE NEVER REPLIED TO ALL HIS ATTEMPTS TO BRING ME DOWN BECAUSE GOD CONTINUES TO LIFT ME UP. SO WHY WASTE TIME WITH LIES GROUNDED ON THE COMMON BAD HEART.? Who else in this Country does not know that Peep Newspaper is the medium that is always available if you want to tarnish the character of Victor Reider and other decent people in society? But from now on I will use the courts of law for redress to this systematic and consistent smear campaign against my character. However, I want to assure you all that I have a tremendous respect for the press and you the Members. I want to say here that the attempt by Olu Gordon to set me up with the press should be treated with the scorn it deserves especially after you now know where it all started. I remember appealing to the members of the press whom I addressed that day not to quote me out of context. I thank God Peep newspaper was not the only News paper present. That in it self should let the world judge the malice behind most of what he has published in his Newspaper about me. With these few words I want to assure you ladies and Gentlemen that I will continue to respect the press and its members and will always strive to ensure a good working relationship between the Fourth Estate and my Party The Sierra Leone Peoples Party. I thank you and God bless us all. Subject: Re: JIMMY KANDEH & THE R.U.F. ISSUE Message: Politics As the Propaganda War between the SLPP and the PMDC heats up with every passing day, the former RUF Spokesman, Eldred Collins has yesterday strongly denounced efforts by the P.M.D.C.’s J. Alusine Kamara, which sought to give the false impression to the public that the SLPP’s Publicity Secretary, Honourable Victor Reider was actually the person going by the pseudonym of Fayia Musa during the RUF war years. It is very untrue for anyone to say that Reider was the RUF’s nominee to the Freetown City Council. That is an outright lie. In politics, people expect propaganda but not outright publications of lies." Collins told Awareness Times. "Fayia Musa, the former RUF Spokesman is a real person. He was a former school teacher alongside Deen Jalloh and they were both active RUF members like me." Collins emphasised. However, the section of J. Alusine Kamara’s opinion piece that Collins took the most offence to was the part which stated that he was now the beneficiary of fat contracts from the SLPP. Whilst pleading with the Editor of Awareness Times newspaper to assist him with some small money to cover his transportation back to Kissy, Collins denied that he had enjoyed any contract from the SLPP Government. "I am a very broke man right now. No one gives me any money let alone contracts. I dont think anyone can say that I am a ‘catch’ by the SLPP. My support to the SLPP is not for any monetary or physical benefit. I joined the SLPP because the party is the way forward for Sierra Leone out of all the other parties. The SLPP means well and they are embarking on good programmes like NASSIT and reconstructing the infrastructure destroyed during the war. After my association with the RUF, I want to be associated with a good thing during the remainder of my lifetime and that good thing is the SLPP. It is not for any financial benefit." Collins expounded. Collins ended up by saying that he was never a combatant in the RUF and implored the PMDC to be more responsible during their propaganda exercises. © Copyright 2005, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Subject: SLPP IS FULL OF SPECIAL COURT INDICTEES. NA THE TRUE DAT OH. Message: The problem of these people pretending not to understand know the STATUS QUO right now. That is why they donot want change. Some of them are hiding under the PALM TREE THAT is falling and already rotten and filled with BUGS. Most of them are in the molting stage, but they will be out by JULY 29. GOD WILLING. AMEN, AMEN, FATHER GOD. Subject: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? Message: For your information, Margai and my junior brother were classmates in CKC. My brother met him in form four and flogged him in class. Then left him there. Your man flunked out. What has your man ever achieved in his long life that would impress me sufficient enough for me to join his breakaway, privately-owned outfit? Nothing".(John Leigh) This is very interesting stuff. Several questions need to be answered urgently. 1. DID Charles Margai really fail in form four; and is there a school transcr1pt to answer this question. 2. Is Charles Margai mentally challenged ? 3. Is the PMDC really "a privately-owned outfit"? In other words, who "owns" the PMDC Subject: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? Message: 2. One has to be able to define what is mentally challenged within the right context. I think he is as myopic as Pa kabba. Charlie Boy, if he envisaged today should have worked yesterdAY TO GET AN EASY RIDE. He is impetuous; and such people can worry wise men. 3. Charles and people like Colomba Blango, another disgruntled element, are the make up of PMDC. It is supposed tobe a party that cuts across the nation. With maturity, it will someday be a formidable force. no disrespect to us, but they took away a lot of our SLPP 'unhappies'. Before the 28th July 2007, we will endeavour to bring so many of them back into the party. May God direct them - we still want them. We do not owe any grudge!!! Subject: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? Message: Mr. Margai had an opportunity to help Sam Hinga Norman as told to me by the worrior himself. He never did. Instead, he agreed to defend RUF Omery Golley. Where is the brain power in this? A good lawyer must be well educated and intelligent. Speaking bombastic multi-syllabic English and latinese to pre-literates and others barely literate may appear brilliant, erudite to those unfortunates but not to seasoned people. If Mr. Margai and Colomba Blango are the make up of the PMDC as claimed here, then PMDC is a Moyamba District phenominom. Thank you. JL Subject: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? Message: This is one of the things that make me think you do not have leadeship potential. Why do you try to always portray othes as pe-literates and illiterates ? How literate are you ? You are just full of big mouth. You are not clever at all.No clever person will endorse Berewa and SLPP. Subject: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? Message: Thanks for your comments. - JL Subject: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? Message: Subject: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? Message: Subject: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? Message: Subject: Re: PENDAHUN PENDAA MASSA, LOKOJAH SOEFOOT Message: Subject: CHECK HIS FACE ON THE FRONT PAGE. E SAWAH LEK LEM. Message: WEAK AND SICK. BO, THE MAN SICK! Subject: Re: PENDAHUN PENDAA MASSA, LOKOJAH SOEFOOT Message: Subject: IT TELLS YOU HOW FRUSTRATED THE MAN IS curious. Message: The man is OLD, WEAK and SICK. If we say we are going to discuss this issue, then it will distract us from important issues affecting the lives of the ORDINARY Sierraleonean. He should thank God that there is nothing in the CONSTITUTION that allows the SCRUTINY of presidential candidates on matters of health. He would have long since been disquallified. May be it is in the constitution but I donot know. I will seek information from someone who knows about the Sierra Leone constitution. BO, IF YOU NOH KNOW, THE MAN SICK. E NOH GO ABLE RULE SALONE. NA THE TRUE DAT OH. WHETHER YOU WAN YEHRY OR NOT. Come and join THE NEW APC curious. YOU'LL BE GLAD YOU DID! Subject: BEREWA A MATERIAL FROM GOD Truth? OR PLAYING ORGAN MUSIC? Message: BEREWA himself knows that he is not a material from God. He himself wrote it in his autobiography that he is a CHURCH ORGAN MUSIC PLAYER. Is it because the assistant is a Church organ music player that opt you to say that he is a material from god? It would have been better if you call him JOE MA JOE the village teacher. You wait. After JULY 28, he will either begin teaching or ask for a job for playing organ church music. I am not convinced. May be you will convince me later. Subject: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? Message: Isnt Margai entitled to choose who his clients should be? Subject: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? Message: Subject: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? Message: Subject: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? Message: Subject: Re: IS THE PMDC LEADER REALLY MENTALLY CHALENGED ? Message: You must be another Simple Simeon to say Mr. Margai and I are alike. The other further comments you've made here are likewise rubbish. Mr. Margai and I are not alike at all. We are opposites. For example, I do not hip hop or flop flop from one party to another. I am not arrogant or haughty. I respected my teachers very much and I completed high school. I was a school certificate material and "A" Level material as well. I never flunked my bar exams. In fact I passed simultaneously in two states and exempted from most. I have never asked superior achievers to serve under me at any time. I hold no pretenses to any dynasty. I am not surrounded by relatives, yesmen and crooks. You will never catch with a disbarred, disrobed and defrocked lawyer inside my inner circle. I cannot encouraged Tombo-Dumbo Bangucrooks in politics. And I do not tarry with flunkies or harlot politicians. If I choose to establish a political party I will do it openly in a collegial manner with Bintumni One, Two and Three conferences involving the like-minded public. It will be all hands on deck, not me, me and me making each and every important decision was is PMDC. I will not set up a purported national organization in secret nor seek to own and control it to realize my dynastic or other dreams. No, no no. I stoop up on the oil issue. Mr. Margai did nothing. I stood behind Chief Norman. He did not. And so on and on. I am not exploiting Chief Norman's unfortunate situation for political gain. I will not accept a forged document to claim that Chief Norman is supported my party. I remember my words of criticisms of Berewa and Kabbah. Those criticisms are still valid and I have not eaten any of them. In fact, I sta
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:36:15 EST
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From: Shocked
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Date Posted: 03:28:14 03/25/07 ()
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I will not bring up the issue of morality.There were Lawyers in Freetown like Arnold Gooding, Renner Thomas, Terrance Terry etc, who could charge this kind of Fees for legal matters, but Charles MArgai never belonged to this category.His fees was Le 1 million-Le2 million.
From: DBK
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so why de $50000.. for NORMAN's defence?...
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 11:49:55 03/25/07 ()
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because it ws not a run of the mill case and he is entitled to get paid for his work as a lawyer in any case. this issue is really moot and smart people should not be discussing that. It has been established that he asked to get paid for his legal services in representing Hinga end of story. Does he deserve to get pai for his work? Did he claim that he was going to do it pro bono? No leave the man alone on this issue. call him on other issues not this one
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Bra do we dictate what others discuss on this forum? Aye bo us kin ALVANTACE da wan dae...
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
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Date Posted: 12:00:51 03/25/07 ()
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No we do not dictate what must be discussed, sound reasoning does however dictate what should be discussed and I hope that you have access to some sound reasoning. The point of whether he asked to be paid or not is not in dispute. It appears as if the point in dispute is that he had the audacity to ask to get paid for a professional job which he is entitled to.
From: DBK
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are you defending the PMDC? did one of them nat accuse SOLO B of having diabetes and been a sick man on this forum? WHERE were you?
Or are we hiding something...
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
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I am not defending the PMDC, I am defending Charles margais right to seek valuable consideration for his services which you guys seem to be having a problem with. So what if I am defending the PMDC what you gon do about that.
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watin nar opin call? E nor dae take... Charles Margai is a public figure and so is his character, his social life and one day his medical records.. So if the man DEMAND Fifty tousand from a poor kamajor, then that should be seen as a fair game and should be attacked from every angle. You KIN GO SWEH for all i care...
We will not rest until after de elections.
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PMDC propagandist defend this one.... We have to see what you write about the about mail from sam foray
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:42:46 03/24/07 ()
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Chief Norman told me in a face-to-face meeting inside the Special Court Detention Center that the Margai request as for $50,000.00 for legal fees. -JL
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Bra JL..
I believe you. You are more trustworthy than the man wae gee im wef contract under yuki yuki...
From: INDIANA BEDROOM
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LEONENET ARCHIVES 2005
Alfred Sam Foray
From: John E. Leigh
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Here is a scondrel accusing me of speaking from both sides of the mouth. This dingbat!.
Lastly, I do not discuss legal matters with an officious intermedler. Thank you & Goodbye - JL
From: Prof Kay
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I believe the special court should interview SAM FORAY about the visits to the Chief in Senegal...
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The rest of the world is watching..
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I just want to remind you once again my dear that Hezbolla is a niddle east affair.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 15:26:07 03/24/07 ()
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Are you trying to raise issues that are non issues? The lebanese and syrians are still in sierra leone and have not left. Some of them did nt even leave the country during the war. ARE YOU TRYING TO INCITE HATE AGAINST THEM?
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Alieu, it was good of you giving them the correct answer to their article.
From: DBK
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Date Posted: 16:23:58 03/24/07 ()
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"Are you trying to raise issues that are non issues"
why is it a non-issue? It affects everything that makes us a nation and you think it is a non-issue..
Purrot...wan gbepeh me...
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 15:24:10 03/24/07 ()
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Curious, I will find it difficult to keep my membership in the APC if AN APC GOVT IS GUILTY OF DISCRIMMINATION.
Yaya Fanusie
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Yaya, curious have got the message but he is pretending not to.
From: curious
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when will you give up your membership in the APC and join de SLPP?
From: Yaya Fanusie
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wen a turn Okobo.
From: Independent Man
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Hahahahahahaha
Bo YAYAH you passmark
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well ar tink you don lat becos you nar OKOBOO
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 15:11:32 03/25/07 ()
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DBK:
Give me a troika= Your mother, your wife and your daughter and let them tell you their experience.
Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 15:26:19 03/25/07 ()
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how about your daughter, your ex-weves can attest to that.
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 16:17:59 03/25/07 ()
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DBK:
An intelligent response should have been " Hey Yaya! I am not upset because You do not know me since I am using a mask-handle; so I do not tak your response personal."
Yu stupit
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admitted you got me....
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 00:59:35 03/26/07 ()
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Hey! Everything I said to you was comedy. You I have been involved with comedy in America since 1986. 21 years comedy in America. If you want to know more then visit
www.blackcomedycompetition.com
My friends Tony and Rhonda Spires own Full Circle Entertainment which produced the show and developed all major AfricanAmerican comedians who have had TV shows.
As I read all the postings on this forum and many others I am sad at the tendency of many from sierra Leodne to sspend time on useless talk. We have opportunities looking at us to use to develope Africa but all we do is just act like idiots.
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Here is a quote from John Leigh "How can such a war hero switch his considerable political support and public sympathy to a man who preferred to represent Omery Golley over him or cooly demand $50,000?"..
We want to know....
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-----Original Message----- From: Leonenet [mailto:LEONENET@listserv.tamu.edu]On Behalf Of Alfred Sam Foray Sent: 07 June 2005 14:46 To: LEONENET@listserv.tamu.edu Subject: Re: COCORIOKO : JOHN LEIGH TO DISSOLVE SPECIAL COURT
Kamor Moijue,
From: curious
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Date Posted: 16:21:15 03/24/07 ()
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So why do we have some in the PMDC claiming to have the kamajoisia's support? When their(PMDC) boss is more intrested in the GREEN as akata kin call money nar merica.
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Hi Kabs,
Thank you very much for this great website. I gues you are a sport (Soccer) as majority of the youths of Sierra leone. I am appealing to you for a Sierra Leone soccer section on your site, i have never seen an article from any of the political parties dicussing their plans for sports in that country. Although, FIFA do not want government interference in football administration, the Government should still play an important role, like financial and oversight. The NPRC did it, although they had shortcomings we won tow Amilcar cabral zone two tournaments under them and went to two African Nations Cups.
Sierra Leone is presently loosing to Togo by 2 goals in the second half, one of the players revealed to me that it was 17 players in Togo last night. I think the Government needs to step in. We have the talents all over Europe but they are not willing to play under the present circumstances. Nigel reo Coker nad Liam Rosenoir played for England this morning,if Sierra Leone was like Senegal Or Ivory Coast in terms of soccer, trust me these guys would have been in Togo today.
Hope to hear from you and other viewers.
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 12:13:45 03/24/07 ()
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Mohamed, thank you very much for your article. No doubt over the matter of sports. Every government has done very much to improve sports in Sierra Leone. No one government is better than the other in terms of sport.
Do you know why the players or athletes seek assylum.
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From: For Kabs Kanu and Moderator
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Date Posted: 09:26:32 03/24/07 ()
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Date Posted: 12:31:23 03/24/07 ()
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From: Sierra Leonean Student
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Date Posted: 05:23:56 03/24/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@yahoo.com
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Mr Leigh,
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:05:24 03/24/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-ad12.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.206
Go check the archives of this forum for the answer you seek. The matter has been raised and answered a number of times and I am sick and tired of re-inventing the wheel. I will no longer response to this your inquiry. Thank you. - JL
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 02:50:31 03/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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Rev. Sam Foray,
I will appreciate it very much if you could answer the following questions:
1. Did you attend Pa Norman's funeral?
2. Were you one of the Sierra Leoneans who were initially excited about the formation of the SPECIAL COURT?
3. Who elected you to be a spokesperson for the Kamajors?
4. Have you ever met any of the so-called senior Kamajors you are supposedly speaking for????
From: Sam Foray( Indie Bedroom)
To: All
Date Posted: 12:59:06 03/24/07 ()
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Quiz.
Answers
1) No
2) Yes
3) No one looking for a job
4) Amadu Nallo
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 02:42:58 03/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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Source: Patritic Vanguard
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- Saturday 24 March 2007.
By Sahr Musa Yamba and Lans Omar.
Winnipeg (Canada) police officers had to intervene Sunday March 18th to quell heated confrontations between some members of the Sierra Leone National Association of Manitoba (SALNAM) at the Acomi office at 471 Kennedy Street in Winnipeg.
Source: Patriotic Vanguard
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 02:41:09 03/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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Source: Patriotic Vanguard
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Winnipeg: Sierra Leonean Meeting Ends in Chaos
- Saturday 24 March 2007.
By Sahr Musa Yamba and Lans Omar.
Winnipeg (Canada) police officers had to intervene Sunday March 18th to quell heated confrontations between some members of the Sierra Leone National Association of Manitoba (SALNAM) at the Acomi office at 471 Kennedy Street in Winnipeg.
Source: Patriotic Vanguard
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 03:21:40 03/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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I hope the ALEX BOCKARIE mentioned is not the DIE HARD SLPP SUPPORTER I knew and came to meet in CANADA.
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 00:43:19 03/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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YOu wrote "Fourth, I am not a diplomat and I no longer hold any diplomatic position. I am now in the political arena to encourage Sierra Leoneans to find good people to govern regardless of tribe or region. There ought to be discrimination against no one"
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 07:45:50 03/24/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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I am not throwing mud at anyone. I am stating the facts. And the facts are hitting the intended targets with precision. - JL
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 13:54:10 03/24/07 ()
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Mr Leigh,
This seems to have started when you failed to gain a nomination at your Makeni Conbention (Hon. Charles Francis Margai did and was runner up wasn’t he?)
For those of us who are interested in fostering a multi-party democracy, this is a supportable new enterprise which can only be all to the good – and Mr. Margai is widely respected - even among British diplomatic staff that have served in Sierra Leone and are well acquainted and well informed (perhaps much more than you will ever be) about all the defining issues that make Sierra Leone a still volatile place.
Your half-brother Evelyn – will verify that he and Nagbi were domiciled opposite me and Akintola Wyse during our first two terms at FBC. I know him as a cheerful, middle of the road and by no means arrogant lad. What is there to be arrogant about? William Leigh was not arrogant, nor was Commissioner Keeling (one of Sir Milton Margia’s best friends).
Since I am not aware that you have ever been regarded as part of the self-created Krio aristocracy or its Mende counterpart breezing in the Elysian fields, I still wonder from which basket you choose the plethora of denigration whenever you refer to the members of PMDC as ”san-san boys” ”komanehs, flunkies, discarded harlot politicias, well known dumbos “ “manic flunky organization, practising family politics and populated by mostly empty-headed, inexperienced, unifluential types”
“Only flunkies, etc. follow him”
Only flunkies, etc. follow him, Mr. Leigh?
Is Dr. Columba Blango, a flunky?
Is that how you are going to court those who you want to vote for you, calling us uneducated, riff-raff, san-san boys?
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 00:45:33 03/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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Meant "distrusted leader"
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 23:32:28 03/23/07 ()
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MR. LEIGH WRITES: ¡§Even with all my pre-convention criticisms of Berewa and Kabbah and the SLPP leadership, I still deeply believe that VP Berewa is a far, far, far more superior leadership material than any of the other candidates. Berewa will make a superior president than any other candidate. Your man was not even school certificate material according to the principal of his school¡¨
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 07:50:49 03/24/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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You should learn to understand the vast differences between pre-convention politics and post-convention elections. - JL
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
To: All
Date Posted: 10:20:41 03/24/07 ()
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" understand the vast differences between pre-convention politics and post-convention elections"
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:42:42 03/24/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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If you do not know the difference between intra-party politics and inter-party competition, then you should not be taking part in this political debate.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:10:10 03/24/07 ()
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John you know that more than many on this forum, I do possess an intellect good enough to understand the salient differences between politics within the the party and against other parties. what I also understand is that during the "Intra party" fight, we were told all of these very destructive things about Berewah and now you are telling us something totally opposite of what you told us the last time. Take into consideration that we are not SLPP supporters and we intend to use what you told us in the coming elections. With regards to Charles Margai, although I may not vote for him because I have a candidate that I believe is better, if the choice comes down to between Margai ad Berewah guess who I am going to vote for and it will be all due to the statements you made as to his character. Think about it. We dont believe what you say now. The truth is that we cant speak out of both sides of the mouth because most times both sides of the mouth dont jive
From: Evelyn Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 21:44:12 03/23/07 ()
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John Leigh is my cousin.I have been hiding this for long time but my cousin is not mentally okay. I am appealing to the government not to give him another post. You have all read his madness on the forum. Awareness Times did not tell lies about him .He has gone mad . I hope the government listens to my plea.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 07:57:05 03/24/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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You have no shame impersonating someone - and someone you do not know enough about.
From: Evelyn Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:29:03 03/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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John, who is more shameless, you denying a relative and me telling the truth ? YOU KNOW HE IS NOT THE ONLY RVRLYN IN THE FAMILY. You are really not a serious man, coz.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:33:28 03/24/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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There is only one Evelyn Leigh in my family. He is my brother. I have no cousin called Evelyn Leigh. Please do not waste my time with trash. Goodbye. - JL
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 11:49:52 03/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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John Leigh, a point of correction. Is the said EVELYN LEIGH a man or woman?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 15:28:27 03/24/07 ()
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Evelyn can be a man or womans name. I went to school with a fellow called Evelyn Blake aka (Munda) an excellent footballer if there ever was one
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 02:46:18 03/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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Bo go sidom sarful with you nonsense.
Seems to me that you are the unstable and mentally retarded one. Go take your medication, and follow doctor's orders.
ROTMAFLAO......
From: JUSTICE
To: All
Date Posted: 14:33:38 03/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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This is a developing situation in the history of African politics. Religious leader asking for a head of state to be brought down.
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 13:57:12 03/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Mr. John Leigh, please click link below to take political and electioneering lessons from a 40 year old caucasian!! Please show maturity to help our party. Remove your personal agenda from this campaign and put on the coat of our dead fathers who wanted to see chnage in Sierra Leone. SLPP needs to be purged of all hypocrites.
From: Truth truth
To: All
Date Posted: 01:13:23 03/24/07 ()
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John Leigh, is not a political material.Such a person can never be elected, even for Parliament.He can only bag/beg positions, such as Ambassador, or perhaps Minister.Only contribution he can make to SLPP or any other Party, is financial.
However, things have changed now.In 1996, when he donated USD10,000.oo to SLPP, he was embraced by them, because they were broke.Now,after having ruled for 11 years, SLPP is in a position to give him donation.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 07:41:33 03/24/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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You are ignorant of the facts. - Jl
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 15:43:42 03/23/07 ()
Email Address:
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Bo yousef comot behen t his man now.
You able fashin one thing oh.....
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 15:14:59 03/23/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-af05.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.69
Mr. Winston PMDC Kabia:
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 01:45:03 03/24/07 ()
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No offence intended - just a way politis go. You cannot discard - you gather for the whole!
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 12:05:02 03/23/07 ()
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As a party in power, I believe there should be a campaign fund to help conduct an effective campaign. I spoke to you sometime ago, when you were in kenema, and you have yet to respond to me. Please do not be complacent and believe things to be as rosy as we believe. we have to canvass our people and sometimes people in the diaspora who look after their people bcak in sierra leone can effectively helpm in such issues. Greed does not pay. Use the funds to mount an effective campaign. LEARN THIS FROM WHAT CP FORAY SAID OF SIR BANJA TEJAN-SIE:
"Although uncompromisingly patriotic and passionately fond of politics he was not by temperament the archetypal African politician. He believed that political chicanery had limits; he would not adopt certain measures nor pursue certain goals just to win votes"
From: kroobaymom
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:13 03/23/07 ()
Email Address: kroobaymom@yahoo.com
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The truth needs to be told and those involved should ccome out now. Read on:
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 12:58:51 03/23/07 ()
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Your story is incomplete and confusing. The first thing first. How did Taylor came to Libya is the first question. Second, how did Foday Sannoh came to the war and became the leader of the RUF? If what you said was true then the students are conscr1pts. They are not to be blamed. The fact of this war is still not been told. Ndogbowusu was the variables for the war. Please make more research and get more than you've got.
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 10:33:52 03/23/07 ()
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Kabs and moderators, where is the anonymity and privacy on this forum. It is not fear that makes one want anonymity but to be able to say what you want without biais. I have so many friends and relatives on this forum who do not listen when one sparks their conscous box - here is when I have the opportunity to express myself with no emotional or sentimental attachment - all for the nation and nothing less!!!
From: CHIEFDOM ELDERS
To: All
Date Posted: 14:27:47 03/23/07 ()
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Dear Truth:
We think that too much anonymity can rub you of your rightful place in life.
In your article you said:
"here is when I have the opportunity to express myself with no emotional or sentimental attachment - all for the nation and nothing less!!!"
From: WINSTON KABIA
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Date Posted: 14:32:46 03/23/07 ()
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He is Winston kabia. He used to call himself Chez Winakabs Europe. Winston Kabia, please come out of hiding.
From: FARRAH MARRAH
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Date Posted: 09:55:53 03/23/07 ()
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Jimmy,
From: Jimmy Kandeh
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Date Posted: 17:44:24 03/23/07 ()
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Now I know you are William "Tolo" Bangura, a political miscreant of the first order, I rest my case. The last time I heard about you was when you were listed as the RUF representative at a US State Department conference on SL (2000) but you were smart enough to duck the meeting - none of your other RUF buddies showed up and truth be told some of us were really spoiling for a showdown. What a waste Tolo - your progress must never come at the expense of your people but that's what you settled for when you joined the RUF. Like I said before, have a good life.
From: Jimmy Kandeh
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Date Posted: 11:38:21 03/23/07 ()
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Are you saying I Rash, Bows and Cleo were RUF, so I have to be by association. None of these guys were RUF. I knew Buza, an idealist who misled himself into joining the RUF, but i never knew or met Mansaray. Mark you, I left SL in 1981 and was a graduate student at UW-Madison from 1981-87 and a professor since. So what's your point? Ebiyemi Rieder, the SLPP publicity secretary, is believed to have recruited Sankoh into the RUF, not to mention Haroun Sankoh, fromer junta strongman now SLPP beneficiary.
Cross-check your facts my brother before making wild accusations. It is particularly insulting for you to think I ever initiated any contact with Kabba or wanted to join his cabinet (how sickening! God forbid). Those who know me know better - I call it as I see it, without fear or favor. Have a good life.
From: FARRAH MARRAH
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Date Posted: 12:53:48 03/23/07 ()
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Jimmy,
Victor Reider has articulated that it was Cleo who recruited Sankoh, and the former also mentioned that Olu Gordon was involved.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 18:02:38 03/23/07 ()
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Tolo Farrah Marrah William Bangura and you names may not nbecessarily be in that order on your damn birth certificate, Tell why is it that you always want to bring me in to a fight after you are bloodied. My boy Jimmy Kandeh has just kicked your rump and now you want to bring me in for the finishing. Well I have a principle I NEVER kick a man when he is down in the gutter and brother you your ideas and everything you beileve in are down in the gutter where you belong. I am not going to get in ther and mess up my Armani Suit on a filthy RUF Pig like you.
From: Sengbe Big Axe
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Date Posted: 16:11:03 03/23/07 ()
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Iscandri esq., please note that none of these guys is Mende by tribe, based on what is being revealed on this forum by William Bangura, aka Farrah Marrah, at this moment.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 18:08:55 03/23/07 ()
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were you on RITALIN as a child? You are so easily excitable
From: Sengbe Big Axe
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Date Posted: 21:06:21 03/23/07 ()
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No!!
From: JEFF BAWOLEY-WILLIAMS
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Date Posted: 16:19:13 03/23/07 ()
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From Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown
The Deliberate Attempt by Olu Gordon to set up Hon. Victor Reider with the press (Advertorial Supplement)
By Hon. Victor Reider
Sep 30, 2005, 10:49
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Fourth Estate,
WHY ME OLU GORDON?
THE PRESS TALK.
From: ELDRED COLLINS
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Date Posted: 16:27:33 03/23/07 ()
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From Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown
“Victor Reider is not RUF’s Fayia Musa”- Eldred Collins in Sierra Leone
By Sayoh Kamara
Feb 7, 2006, 13:57
"Since I joined the RUF in 1991 uptil the time I resigned last year, I never spoke to or even knew Victor Reider. Infact, the very first time that I spoke to Victor Reider was at the SLPP Convention up in Makeni last year September 2005. It is very untrue that Victor Reider was a member of the RUF.
From: JUSTICE
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Date Posted: 12:32:11 03/23/07 ()
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Hello Jimmy, donot waiste your time discussing such matters because these people will not understand you. We understand you and got the message.
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 09:45:32 03/23/07 ()
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"When numerous people like yourself and your colleagues bombarded me repeatedly to 'join' Mr. Margai's stupid outfit, I made it known - again and again and again - that Margai is the last man I will ever join as he is my inferior in terms of achievements.
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From: Truth
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Date Posted: 10:09:20 03/23/07 ()
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1. In my opinion, failing in form four is irrelevant as i am a victim of lack of understanding difficult or problem children. i failed twice in form four because my attendance record was bad. i managed to take my GCE's two years later than my contemporaries but made a good grade. Today, majority of my contemporaries then still have their GCE's and nothing more. Would i say the are fools - NO!!. Charles became a successful lawyer, i used to go see in Bo court whilst at CKC and I admire him. My bones with him is that he considers less of others. Charles could have built a reputation for helping those who do not have access to justice. He only thought about this later in his fifties. he was not cut out to be a nation's person. he is for himself and that is the bone I have with him.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 10:21:04 03/23/07 ()
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Failing in form four is not the issue. The real issue is failing twice in form four and then flunking out school despite all the huge privileges one had.
From: PMDC
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Date Posted: 21:22:09 03/23/07 ()
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JOHN,
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 07:31:34 03/24/07 ()
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Mr. PMDC:
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 01:47:24 03/24/07 ()
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Berewa is a material from God and his election to our highest office is certain!!!
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 07:35:09 03/24/07 ()
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I don't agree with you at all. Berewa is flesh and blood and mortal like you and me. His election's prospects look very good to me but he has to continue working at it like he is doing until the last vote is counted. Nothing can be taken for granted. - JL
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 10:26:30 03/24/07 ()
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Check his known history and come back to me. When you are endowed with the Almighty's blessing, nothing can stop you when the time is right. The man's past shows a man with the niche to survive and who can help in such dogged determination to succeed? Only the Almighty. I am not saying we should not canvass our people. That job like you rightly said should continue. Do you know how John Major of the UK became prime minister?
From: manday langba
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Date Posted: 16:39:04 03/24/07 ()
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mr leigh while you were with berewah did you smell anything funny like pus from a sore thas not healing aka "penda". there have been lot of rumours that he is stricken with a diabetic sore and that he stinks from the pus that comse from that sore is that true? Jes checking.
From: JUSTICE
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Date Posted: 23:56:15 03/24/07 ()
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Manday Langba, just look at the assistance's face on the COCORIOKO front page.
From: curious
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Date Posted: 17:05:02 03/24/07 ()
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Will that affect his ability to perform his duties as President? If not leh we discuss better thinks.
From: JUSTICE
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Date Posted: 00:16:22 03/25/07 ()
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Lets don't discuss about the effectiveness of the ASSISTANTS abbility to perform his duties.
From: JUSTICE
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Date Posted: 02:15:02 03/24/07 ()
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Truth I respect what you said about BEREWA but I am not conviced.
From: M. Alieu Iscadari Esq
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Date Posted: 18:13:30 03/23/07 ()
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Mr. Margai had an opportunity to help Sam Hinga Norman as told to me by the worrior himself. He never did. Instead, he agreed to defend RUF Omery Golley.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 07:39:20 03/24/07 ()
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Yes. He is free to do so. He is also free to charge whatever amount he believes is adequate as well as the method of payment. If he wants $50,000 up front before opeining a file in any particular case, that's his right. Thanks. - JL
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 01:52:12 03/24/07 ()
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He is, ofcourse!! The issue that troubles many is the embracing of the matter after the client is dead. Do you see mr. leigh's point?
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 11:13:53 03/23/07 ()
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With repects, Mr. leigh, stop the thought that you have brain power. You are fortunate to be what you are today but who knows tomorrow. Becareful in your words for someday they will come to haunt. You and Charles are alike. You always eat your words. Remember what you said of Kabbah and Berewa? You can construct better arguments than the ones you are posting as point-scorers. They do not score points, Sierra leone is now aware that we have to look after our inept and not call them names. To me you calling margai a fool because he did not pass his form four exams is double standards. How many of our brothers and sisters in sierra leone are slow learners? In late life they turn out to be the best minds. Both you and margai are the same. no defence here on behalf of margai but for our people with learning difficulties. it seems like you are sending a message that only the people with brain power can become leaders. What is your definition of 'brain power'. you may not be taking this seriously - I am. Give us something better, mr. leigh. i know a man of your experience and years could do that. Remove yourself from gangsterism and be a gentle diplomat that speaks with authority and not through coercion. You can do it!!
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 11:46:44 03/23/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Moniker Truth/Winston Kabia:
My English is not bombastic. I can write effectively. I don't seek to impress with Latin.