Subject: SALONE DAE BURN-WE DAE LAUGH
From: Bonthe Pikin
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Date Posted: 20:38:43 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
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I have never in my life felt so bad about being a Sierra Leonean. Taking the country back to war and yet people are appluading all in the name of preventing one party from taking over. More than ever we as a country have been ivolved in nothing but tribal sentiments, setting up one tribe against the other not for the development of the country but our own personal enrichments. This was how the Rwanda conflict began with one tribe feeling superior to the other and only them have the God given right to rule. If we allow this seed of animosity to grow between the North and South-East, pampered by people like Sylvia Blyden who have nothing to lose, we shall only have ourselves to blame. Let us for once think about our country. Whether we live in US or Europe there is no place like Sierra Leone for us and to us. Let us not allow greed to destroy our love for our motherland.
In Rwanda Hutus married to Tutsis had to disown their partners because they felt superior. In Irag the hatredness between Sunnis and Shites have destroyed once a peaceful countr and today homes have been broken. The same will happen in Sierra Leone if we are not careful.
So my brothers and sisters let us think twice about what we tell our people back home. Any mismcalculation will destroy our country for generations to come.
Subject: SLPP PLANS GENOCIDE AS KAMAJORS REASSEMBLED
From: Brima Fofana
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Date Posted: 20:18:06 09/01/07 ()
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Read AWARENESS TIMES for the details. My question is what is the international community doing ?
Subject: SLPP NEWSPAPERS SINK INTO CESSPOOL OF LIES AND PROPAGANDA
From: Nationalist
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Date Posted: 20:13:43 09/01/07 ()
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While Poor Kabs-Kanu is fighting to promote balanced journalism in Sierra Leone, has anyone read the SLPP newspapers AWARENESS TIMES and THE NEW PEOPLE lately ? It is very, very sickening indeed . Both newspapers have gone wild to spread malicious propaganda against the APC and the PMDC to incite violence in Sierra Leone. If none of you is aware that our country is being steadily hijacked from us by the SLPP , you better wake up from your sleep and read what these newspapers are writing. Their ellections defeat in the first round has awakened the SLPP to the reality that only through incitement and violence will they stop the SLPP from being defeated.
What is annoying me are the attacks being launched on COCORIOKO by semi-illiterate SLPP thug in New Jersey. Is this Kai Lebbie guy or what he calls himself reading AWARENESS TIMES and THE NEW PEOPLE ? Oh, poor Sierra Leone. SLPP is steadily bringing back war to Sierra Leone.
Subject: ROUGH TIMES FOR APC CHARLES MARGAI - AWARENESS TIMES
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Date Posted: 19:54:05 09/01/07 ()
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The Vice President is expected to travel back to the South East tomorrow. All indications from our correspondents currently covering every single district in the South East, are that a mammoth welcome awaits the SLPP Candidate all over the South East. On the contrary, the Presidential Candidate of the All People's Congress (APC), Ernest Koroma, in the company of the PMDC's Charles Margai, has to all intents and purposes, been mostly rejected all over the South East which is the region where Margai got most of his 14% of the votes in the First Round of the Presidential Elections. It is this 14% of the votes that will determine the next President.
Supporters of the PMDC Bonthe have issued a Statement read over the radio Stations in the South, that asks the APC Leader not to bother to waste his time stepping his feet in Bonthe as he would not be received by the PMDC. They also denounced efforts to take them to what they termed as "the devil's party" by Lawyer Charles Margai.
Similarly, Pujehun sent word to Charles Margai that he would always be their brother and their son but if he attempts to bring Ernest Koroma and the APC to their district to solicit votes, they cannot guarantee Ernest Koroma would be welcomed in Pujehun and to avoid the embarassment of only a handful of people turning out to welcome the duo, they advised them to cancel their trip to Pujehun. The campaign trip of the Margai/Koroma duo to Pujehun has been cancelled.
It is also worthy to note that the man constantly being verbally harrassed and hounded by the APC, Finance Minister John Benjamin, recently received word from PMDC supporters in Pujehun where his father was born before he emigrated to Kailahun. The PMDC supporters invited Benjamin to travel to Pujehun to talk to them. Upon arrival in his father’s chiefdom in Pujehun, hundreds of PMDC supporters openly pledged their support for the SLPP because of John Benjamin. One PMDC man in his late thirties, openly shed tears as he recounted how the NPRC brought about the democratic dispensation the country was now enjoying by their overthrowing the APC in 1992.
"We were in bondage in this land under the APC until the NPRC freed us. We have been hearing all the threats made against you by the APC. We will not pay you back by selling your life now to the APC. Pujehun is going to vote for the SLPP. Go back to Freetown and rest assured on that," the PMDC gentleman said in a very emotional manner.
Meanwhile, in Kenema, our correspondents state that the people were so incensed at the burning down of the SLPP Party Office in Segbwema, Kailahun that the Police had to step in to safely remove the Margai/Koroma duo from Kenema onto Bo because angry youths had attempted to barricade the duo from leaving Kenema and were even reported to have been stoning their vehicles.
In Bo Town, the motorbike of Sidique Janneh (a PMDC man supporting the SLPP) was burnt down in the early morning hours of Friday August 31st by alleged APC/PMDC thugs accompanying Margai/Koroma, who allegedly attacked Janneh's house and broke his windows. This led to an uprising against Charles Margai by Bo youths who stormed the Sahara Hotel where Charles Margai was putting up. The youths laid siege to the hotel for well over three hours engaging in running battles with the Police who were fiercely protecting Charles Margai despite tremendous resistance from the Bo Youths who were chanting that they wanted Charles Margai's head because he brought thugs from Makeni to burn down Sidique Janneh's house.
In the end, the Police were able to drive off the Bo youths from Sahara Hotel by firing live bullets at them as tear gas did not seem to be able to dissuade the youths from leaving the Sahara Hotel precincts. As soon as the Police was able to clear off the irate youths, Charles Margai and Ernest Koroma were quickly hurried out of Bo Town under heavy police escort which accompanied them until they got to Mile 91 where they were then safely deposited to continue their journey to Freetown.
Subject: SLPP FORM A RAPID PROTECTIVE GROUP (RPG)
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 19:38:28 09/01/07 ()
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The outgoing SLPP party has formed what they called a Rapid Protective Group (RPG). This is the group that is causing problems in the capital Freetown. This group is headed by Maada Bio and others. This morning disturbance in government wharf is caused by this group. It is believe that this group is arming ex kamajors fighters who have being secretly imported to the capital to cause chaos. Stay tune.............
Subject: Re: SLPP FORM A RAPID PROTECTIVE GROUP (RPG)
From: Amadu Kabbah
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Date Posted: 20:02:04 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
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Thank you for the information. It is sad that people like Maada Bio can fall so low. I feel pain in my heart when I hear his name being mentioned in events of destruction. I have convinced myself that they were the ones respnosible for all we have gone through in the country. I had earlier on told Maada that he should not these old folks to use him. He should not forget that he was once Head of State (not to mention how he became Head of State). I am greatly disappointed at what he is alleged to be doing. I was thinking that he could have used Berewa and Kabbah to be thugs instead of him becoming their thug. What a disgraceful fall! Maada lived in a country that is known for democratic principles. He lived in the U.S and saw how things happen out there. Whether they bring Kamajors or Kamaheads, SLPP is breathing its last breath. Maada, you need Sierra Leone much more than you need SLPP; DONT DESTROY IT. DON'T ALLOW THEM TO USE YOU TO AN EXTENT THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO BOW YOUR HEAD WHEN THE TIME FOR RECKONING COMES. Look up and think smart and straight.
Subject: EX KAMAJOR BEING BEING INFILTRATING IN THE NOTH & WEST?
From: GODFATHER
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Date Posted: 18:33:03 09/01/07 ()
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I strongly doubt this rumor but I must say it to know whether it the same false rumors that have being flying around. I heard that ex kamajor fighters have being smugled to the north and west to obstruct the voting in those areas. Is someone else heard the same thing? I am not writing this to attack anyone, but just trying to get the fact so don't attack me.
Subject: Re: EX KAMAJOR BEING BEING INFILTRATING IN THE NOTH & WEST?
From: APC
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Date Posted: 18:39:36 09/01/07 ()
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It is not a fact. The Kamajors have long been disbanded. No cause for fear.
Subject: Re: EX KAMAJOR BEING BEING INFILTRATING IN THE NOTH & WEST?
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 19:30:29 09/01/07 ()
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APC, you said kamajor was disbanded, but report from Moyamba by the SLPP own news paper {awarenesstimes} is reporting that kamajor is buidling up and has started initiating members. What up with that? Is that a false report?
May be GODFATHER'S RUMOR IS RIGHT.
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20056405.shtml
Subject: Re: EX KAMAJOR BEING BEING INFILTRATING IN THE NOTH & WEST?
From: GODFATHER
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Date Posted: 18:49:05 09/01/07 ()
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Thanks man, I hope so too. I heard that the guy in the picture was a kamajor.
Subject: Re: EX KAMAJOR BEING BEING INFILTRATING IN THE NOTH & WEST?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 19:07:30 09/01/07 ()
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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee........
If he "WAS" a kamajor.. and lives in Bo.. or segbewma..WHAT IS YOUR BEEF.
Even if he relocated to tonkolili..maybe betteh soilk for his cassava...
WHATS YOUR BEEF...?
UNA nah chuneh... nor sabi fickles.. even for lie good nor fit una..
Una want promotion?
Lajila.....we sorry
Your winds of change, will bring no change.. same ole same ole....
Subject: Re: EX KAMAJOR BEING BEING INFILTRATING IN THE NOTH & WEST?
From: GODFATHER
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Date Posted: 19:33:12 09/01/07 ()
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Do you know how to read? Did I not warn people like you ahead of time that you should keep your RPG away from my question?
Subject: Occultist SLPP plans big violence
From: Concern
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Date Posted: 18:20:56 09/01/07 ()
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The SLPP occultist group in the diaspora and in Sierra Leone are determined to use their evil scheme to turn Sierra Leone into hell. They have already started it when they made attempt on the lifes of Ernest Koroma and Charles Margai. For anyone to keep vengeance in his mind for the visionary leadership of these gentle-men clearly has Satan.
The SLPP went as far as trying to assasinate the two leaders. It chows that the SLPP wants to see Sierra Leone be like Rwanda. It is outrageous and beyond reason for the SLPP thugs to attack someone whose party has majority in Parliament. It is a dangerous path the SLPP tribalists have taken to engineer tribl warfare. The open use of matchetes and other deadly weapons in Fretown shows that the bad guys have infiltrated Freetown to wage another nasty and brutal war against the people.
I wonder if Kelly Conteh National security Office is coordinating effectively to nip in the bud the extreme security lapse.What becomes of the professional Police force or security personel, British tax payers fund to help them be neutral in their policing duty.
Are the Police or others gping to wait till things went out of hand before they will do their job.
I am sure that Berewa is not bigger than the voices of the people who want protection from thePOlice.
Subject: HARMELBERG,TELL ME THE COST OF CHEESE IN SWEDEN PLEASE
From: okdok
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Date Posted: 18:32:28 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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i AM PLANNING TO EXPORT CHEESE TO OUR COUNTRY SIERRA LEONE,CAN YOU PLEASE HELP SINCE I UNDERSTAND ITS CHEAP WHERE YOU HAVE LIVED ALL YOUR LIFE?
Subject: Re: HARMELBERG,TELL ME THE COST OF CHEESE IN SWEDEN PLEASE
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:07:22 09/01/07 ()
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At your service
and you have my e-mail and you can contact me privately ...there are many types of cheese, Halal & Kosher too...and many other goods that are more important and which you may be interested in importing. Our Ghanaian former MP JOE FRANS now chiarman of FORUM SYD is working on establishing a Ghanaian-Sweden Chamber of Commerce.......
You will surely obtain help from the export Råd who will help faciliate your good work, but please get your priorities right.
I remember a Doctor from Korle Bu - this was in Ghana, and his wife (petty bourgeoisie) was complaining that during the latter part of Nkrumah’s rule butter and cheese were in scare quantities in the supermarket and that’s why she was so happy that Kwame was overthrown…… in Guinea the Osagefo replied that if only he had known that milk was what the Ghanaian Middle Class was thirsty for he would have arranged for a pipeline of the liquid ……. but didn’t specify from where…..
There’s mining equipment available from Boliden too, suction pumps, separators, stuff like that …..
Check with the Swedish Trade Council and the Swdeish Chamber of Commerce
Subject: Re: HARMELBERG,TELL ME THE COST OF CHEESE IN SWEDEN PLEASE
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 19:48:21 09/01/07 ()
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That's not what Sierra Leone needs.
Grow Soya...... a good investment.....
Subject: Re: Occultist SLPP plans big violence
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 18:26:30 09/01/07 ()
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Nonsense as usual.
You want to know when i realised that you where not going to provide any value with this post..?
Just about the time you mentioned assasination attempt.
We at HQ have told you boys out on the street.
Stop using that.. it has be proven to be an election sympathy vote getter..
I served its purpose.. no need to over use it..
Subject: News shows that SLPP incites violence
From: Reuters
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Date Posted: 18:06:30 09/01/07 ()
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The opposition frontrunner in Sierra Leone's presidential election cut short a campaigning tour on Friday after his convoy was attacked by stone-throwing pro-government supporters, witnesses said.
Ernest Bai Koroma, who finished ahead in the August 11 first round of voting, accused the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) of outgoing President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of trying to derail the election, before a run-off vote on September 8.
A Reuters reporter travelling with Koroma's All People's Congress (APC) convoy said SLPP militants used bottles, sticks, stones and spades to attack APC supporters on Thursday as they drove through two south-eastern towns, Segbwema and Kenema.
Police escorting the convoy had to fire tear gas to force a passage through roadblocks put up by SLPP supporters. Koroma abandoned his vehicle after its windows were smashed by stones and its tyres punctured by nails.
"It's all just part of a grand design to delay the elections," Koroma, who faces SLPP vice-president Solomon Berewa in the run-off, told Reuters.
SLPP officials rejected Koroma's accusation. Kabbah said this week he would declare a state of emergency if clashes between rival supporters worsened.
Koroma returned to the capital, Freetown, on Friday under armed guard to attend a meeting about the violence with election officials and representatives of political parties.
"We are on the winning side and we don't want to give them an excuse to declare a state of emergency," Koroma said.
Koroma said three supporters were injured in the rioting, which continued when SLPP militants besieged the hotel where he was staying in the southern town of Bo. Police said they fired shots into the air to disperse the rioters.
These are the first elections in the former British colony since United Nations peacekeepers left the country two years after a 1991 to 2002 civil war, one of Africa's most brutal conflicts. -- Reuters
Subject: Re: News shows that SLPP incites violence : Complete article
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 19:42:25 09/01/07 ()
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Reuters...I believe you left out an entire section of this report.
BO, Sierra Leone, Aug 31 (Reuters) - The opposition frontrunner in Sierra Leone's presidential election cut short a campaigning tour on Friday after his convoy was attacked by stone-throwing pro-government supporters, witnesses said. Ernest Bai Koroma, who finished ahead in the Aug. 11 first round of voting, accused the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) party of outgoing President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of trying to derail the election, before a run-off vote on Sept. 8.
A Reuters reporter travelling with Koroma's All People's Congress (APC) convoy said SLPP militants used bottles, sticks, stones and spades to attack APC supporters on Thursday as they drove through two southeastern towns, Segbwema and Kenema.
Police escorting the convoy had to fire tear gas to force a passage through roadblocks put up by SLPP supporters. Koroma abandoned his vehicle after its windows were smashed by stones and its tyres punctured by nails.
"It's all just part of a grand design to delay the elections," Koroma, who faces SLPP vice president Solomon Berewa in the run-off, told Reuters.
SLPP officials rejected Koroma's accusation. Kabbah said this week he would declare a state of emergency if clashes between rival supporters worsened.
Koroma returned to the capital Freetown on Friday under armed guard to attend a meeting about the violence with election officials and representatives of political parties.
"We are on the winning side and we don't want to give them an excuse to declare a state of emergency," Koroma said.
Koroma said three supporters were injured in the rioting, which continued when SLPP militants besieged the hotel where he was staying in the southern town of Bo. Police said they fired shots into the air to disperse the rioters.
These are the first elections in the former British colony since U.N. peacekeepers left the country two years after a 1991-2002 civil war, one of Africa's most brutal conflicts.
ETHNIC DIVISIONS
SLPP Secretary-General J.J. Saffa said ruling party supporters had responded to provocation. During the violence in Segbwema, a local SLPP office was burned down.
"The APC came dressed in black and (wearing) headbands, behaving like rebels. They came with militias. This is mere intimidation," he said.
Koroma's APC won a parliamentary majority in the Aug. 11 legislative vote and enjoys strong support among the northern Temne and Limba groups. The SLPP commands votes in the south, where the Mende people dominate.
None of the presidential contenders gained the 55 percent required to win the first round outright. Koroma won 44 percent of the vote on Aug. 11 while Berewa polled 38 percent.
Koroma's chances of victory in the run-off have been boosted by public backing from the third-placed first round candidate, Charles Margai, who won 14 percent of the vote.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern this week about the escalating violence and called on political leaders in Sierra Leone to restrain their supporters.U.N. staff were advised to avoid non-essential travel in the interior. (Additional reporting by Christo Johnson)
Subject: Why we need a positive change of government in Sierra Leone
From: Shekito Tarawallie
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Date Posted: 18:04:58 09/01/07 ()
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Why we need a Positive Change of Govt in Sierra Leone
By Maitland Cole (United Kingdom)
In the most simplistic of perspectives, democracy could simply be defined as government of the people, by the people and for the people. If we go by this dictum in the elections that brought the Kabba –Berewa administration to power in Sierra Leone, then why should the outgoing SLPP government now become jittery and intransigent when Sierra Leoneans now make it demonstrably clear about their preference on who governs them. As the people in and out of Sierra Leone prepare for yet the conclusive stage of the presidential election run-off, it is now becoming apparently clear that the most significant election is that of the presidential run-off on Saturday 8th September, 2007. We are almost certain that the people could be faced with election fatigue at a time like this, especially after the August 11 parliamentary and presidential elections. However, this is the route to democratic change - it could be slow but at the same time, the most politically and internationally acceptable method to change modern governments, the world over. In the past, the outgoing President Ahmed Tejan Kabba and his cohorts have always presented themselves as the people with huge democratic credentials in Sierra Leone. It is amazing how things have changed.
When the SLPP government made a social contract with the people of Sierra Leone in 1996 with lofty promises and ideals about what they would offer the country in a ‘Wutehteh’ and ‘Kolonko’ SLPP government, the people took Kabba and Berewa seriously until they began to perform very badly. Part of the many promises by the Kabba-Berewa administration were as follows{ ; we will build a bridge from Freetown to Lungi, make a Freeport, complete the Bumbuna Hydro electric project, improve education, health facilities, water supply, transportation, communication , create food security and make roads, we will develop the country’s economy. None of these have been accomplished by the Kabba-Berewa administration. For this time round and for a long time to come, it will be difficult for Sierra Leoneans to vote for the outgoing SLPP. It is inconceivable to comprehend how right and decent minded Sierra Leoneans can consider the SLPP government to be their government of the people. Those supporting SLPP are mainly those who are hooked up on primitive, tribal and sectional loyalty who in all reality have nothing to offer Sierra Leone.
The run off of the presidential elections have now been plagued by violence, political threats, wide bare faced intimidation by Kabba and his cohorts in their bid to steal their way to the State House. I am surprised that Kabba is threatening a state of emergency when he fully knows that he no longer has the mandate to do this. Cannot someone let Kabba know that he has politically passed his sell by date? His recent political speech to the nation does not hold and it does not have the constitutional teeth to bite. His term of office has ended and Parliament has been prorogued. There is no government at this point in time. All Kabba has to do is to ensure that the process is speeded up, rather than making contentious and inflammable statement that he could not implement. If he messes around with the political tolerance of the people , he would find himself paying an expensive price for this. Kabba should not take the goodwill of Sierra Leoneans for granted.
Everyone acknowledges the fact that Kabba is a failed leader and presently he wants to impose his fellow octogenarian friend, Ekuma Berewa on the people of Sierra Leone. These men have squandered the political goodwill of all patriotic Sierra Leoneans. Why is it that unsuccessful leaders have a habit of selecting political successors whom they are quite certain would do worse than them when they handed over power. Do they want people to feel that it was better when they were in power. Kabba’s hatred and unpatriotic moves for Sierra Leone is venomous and deep rooted. Every patriotic Sierra Leonean know that Berewa as Vice President is another failed leader. Surprisingly, I heard that Berewa is of the opinion that good Sierra leoneans will vote for him on September 8. What nonsense? Does Berewa himself think within his heart of hearts that Sierra leoneans can ill afford the luxury of another failed leader anymore?
As we consider the Kabba-Berewa track record, we must start asking ourselves the following questions:
Do we have regular electricity?
Do we have regular and good water supply?
If I have a job, am I well paid and valued?
Am I eating good food?
What is the cost of a bag of rice?
Do I have a decent place to sleep?
How much money do I have in my pocket?
Do I have a job after graduation?
Am I very happy with this government?
Apart from those who are capable of displaying blind tribal loyalty to Sierra Leone, all decent minded Sierra Leoneans throughout the length and breadth of the country should be asking the following questions as they go to vote on 8th September 2007:
Do you want to be the one who voted for poverty hunger and hardship?
Did you want to be the one who voted for corruption?
Do you want to be the one who voted for demolition?
Do you want to be the one who voted for poor electricity, water supply, and poor health facility?
Do you want to be the one who voted for petrol scarcity, and high transport fare?
Do you want to be the one who voted for unemployment?
Do you want to be the one who voted for exorbitant house rent?
Do you want to be the one who voted for increase in the price of rice?
Do you want to be the one who voted for filth and sickness?
Do you want to be the one who voted for the extra judicial court martial execution of those 24 Sierra Leonean soldiers?
Sierra leoneans should never ebver allowed themselves to be fooled again by votiong for people who will fail to deliver the goods.. As a result of the questions asked about the failures of the SLPP government , this is why it becoces very important to have an immediate change of leadership, change of direction, change reaction, change from SLPP to APC Leadership, to change of a new gynamic and positive leadership in the person of Hon Ernest Bai Koroma. Please ensure that you voice is heard by making sure that you cast your vote properly and contribute the dynamic and positive change that Sierra Leone so badly need at a time like this.
Subject: Re: Why we need a positive change of government in Sierra Leone
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 19:19:31 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
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I will call you SHEKA, because it is the proper way to remind you of WHO YOU ARE. Your positive change in Sierra Leone is to put the APC, back to power. My friend stay in your exiled cocoon and stop confusing the people of Sierra Leone with your one-sided blame for the mess that we are in now. Let me remind you during your glorify APC days under Late president Momoh, as shown in the UN index we were the poorest country in the world. As young as last month, the same index now show that we are the second poorest. Although, it is so humiliating for a country full of natural resources at least it's a one step up the index.Thanks to some of the policies of the outgoing SLPP government. Every true peace loving Sierra Leonean should learn to praise where praise is due and condemn where necessary. But you APC, supporters just want to show the bad side of your opponents as such anger our youths to go into rampage. This is nothing personal SHEKA, but an attempt to balance the scale for the benefit of the youths that are too young to remember the decades of APC rule for them to make an informed decision.
Fellow Sierra Leoneans especially those TOO YOUNG to remember the days of the APC rule. Before we go to the polls for the run-off this month I want us to look at the following questions and their corresponding answers :-
WHO CLOSED THE S.L. RAILWAY = APC.
WHO CLOSED DELCO IN LUNSAR (Iron Ore) = APC
WHO DESTROYED SLST/NDMC (Diamonds) = APC
WHO DESTROYED SLPMB(S.L.Produce Marketing Board) = APC
WHO CLOSED AUREOL TOBACCO ( MAKENI) = APC
WHO CLOSED THE DISTRICT COUNCILS = APC
WHO DESTROYED THE ROAD TRANSPORT BUSES = APC
WHO OWNED CITI LINK AND MARICAN BUSES = APC
WHO DEVALUED OUR CURRENCY (LEONE) = APC
WHO INTRODUCED ONE PARTY STATE TO SILENT OTHERS = APC
WHO INTRODUCED UNOPPOSED ELECTIONS = APC
WHO POLITICIES OUR ARMY AND POLICE FORCES = APC
WHO CREATED THE KILLER SQUAD ISU/SSD = APC
WHO FAILED TO EXPAND THE KINGTOM POWER HOUSE AFTER THE
POPULATION OF FREETOWN OUT GROWN IT = APC
WHO FAILED TO EXPAND THE GUMA VALLEY WATER COMPANY
AFTER THE POPULATION OF FREETOWN OUT GROWN IT =APC
WHO INTRODUCED RICE AND PETROL QUOTAS = APC
WHO INTRODUCED " WOO SAE DEN TYE COW, NAR DAE E FOR
EAT" = APC.
WHO UPGRADED THE LEBANESE COMMUNITY TO 1ST CLASS
CITIZENS AND DOWNGRADED THE BULK OF SIERRA
LEONEANS TO 3RD CLASS WITH OUR MONEY = APC
WHO KILLED DR. MOHAMED SORIE FORNAH AND 14 OTHERS FOR
DARING TO QUESTION THE EMINENT DESTRUCTION OF OUR
COUNTRY = APC
WHO JAILED FODAY SANKOH, FOR SYMPATHISING WITH HIS
KILLED TONKOLILI BROTHERS = APC
Now I can finally ask WHO CREATED THE MONSTER FODAY SANKOH ?, and the eventual brutal murder of our beloved father in particular and the destruction of our country at large = APC! APC! APC!.
Most of the aforementioned companies like Delco(Lunsar), SLST (Kono), SLPMB and Aureol Tobacco company (Makeni) used to give well paying holiday jobs to students not to talk of meaningful employment to all Sierra Leoneans.Think People ! Think ! before you go to the polls on the 8th of this month.
So Mr. Shekito Tarawallie, my premise is, it is unfair to blame the outgoing SLPP government for the woes of Sierra Leone that accumulated over the years without directing some of the blame to the APC that you so badly want to come back to power. Of course, except you are one of those that have already packed to go home if the APC wins to continue the old game.
Subject: Re: Why we need a positive change of government in Sierra Leone
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 18:21:44 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Shekito..
Now i know why they named you after you idol..
Plus his toes...
What is this...?
extra judicial court martial..
How can something be extra judicial and have the word court after it..?
Sierra leoneans should never ebver allowed...
Never neber you said..?
this is why it becoces very important to....
What you say..becoocicocus?
Is that a new bacteria..?
Earnest Koroma.. a new gynamic leader..
Is it gymnastics....
Becareful if not what you hear.. but what you read..
And God forbid you try to propogate nonsense and call yourself a journalist..
Shame on you...
Subject: Live bullets were fired by SLPP at Koroma and Margai--Police
From: Patriotic Vanguard
To: All
Date Posted: 18:02:38 09/01/07 ()
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Message:
Live bullets were fired at Koroma and Margai"---Police
- Friday 31 August 2007.
By Sorie Sudan Sesay, Freetown.
Police this evening confirmed that live bullets were fired on the convoy of the leaders of the All People’s Congress (APC)Ernest Bai Koroma(photo) and the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) Charles Francis Margai, who were on a campaign tour in Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone.
Two of Koroma’s personal jeep vehicles were badly damaged - one of them had its front tire punctured as a result of the firing and is currently at the Kenema police station as exhibit, while the windscreen of the other was damaged.
Both leaders managed to escape through the help of IMATT military personnel who escorted them out of the township. In fact one of the IMATT vehicles which helped to rescue the APC convoy had its windscreen damaged.
The police could not confirm who fired the live shots but admitted that they were forced to fire teargas to disperse the desperate crowds who were bent on causing damage on Koroma and his team.
The convoy was coming from Segbwema where they were also forced to cut short their campaign tour and make a u-turn to Kenema.
On entering Kenema, according to the PMDC spokesman Mohamed Bangura, the police told them they could not guarantee them security forcing the APC men to call in for military and IMATT personnel for securiry.
This latest incident came barely three days to reports of violent attacks on northern businessmen in the township forcing some of them to flee the area because of insecurity.
Ernest and Margai later left for the southern township of Bo where they were also brutally attacked. But the attackers this time met stiff resistance from PMDC and APC supporters who engaged them in a fierce battle plunging the entire township in confusion and commotion.
The Sahara hotel where Margai and Ernest lodged was attacked this morning and police had to be immediately called in who reportedly fired teargas to disperse the attackers.
The residence of Sidique Janneh, the PMDC official who was suspended by his party for insubordination was ransacked.
Calm has however returned to the township but that was after the convoy had left for Taiama.
Meanwhile Ernest and his new political ally of the PMDC Charles Francis Margai, received a massive welcome back in Freetown today.
Koroma and Margai stood inside two jeeps and were driven across the city from the provinces.
Their arrival was greeted with a huge surge of people, mostly their supporters who came out to find out whether their leaders were hurt. The two leaders waved to their supporters, beaming with smiles.
Traffic came to a stand still as supporters ran after the convoy right on to the APC headquarters on Hannah Benka Coker Street, where the leaders briefly addressed their supporters.
The SLPP has not yet reacted on the recent spate of violence in the east of the country in which its supporters are alleged to play a prominent role. The party’s spokesman, Victor Reider, is also unavailable for comments.
Subject: Re: Live bullets were fired by SLPP at Koroma and Margai--Po
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 19:33:58 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-227-75-238.hsd1.mi.comcast.net at 71.227.75.238
Message:
Maybe you forgot to report that Ernest Koroma and his thugged out convoy was between Hangha and Kenema for a long time. They only entered Kenema after the town had been put under curfew and were escorted by IMATT through the town.
I wonder who would have more motive to ransack Sidique Janneh's house. The SLPP whom he has unofficially pledged to support, or the APC / PMDC conglomerate whom he publicly denounced. HMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!
Subject: Re: Live bullets were fired by SLPP at Koroma and Margai--Police
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 18:14:14 09/01/07 ()
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Message:
The only place i saw SLPP mentioned in this article is here..
The SLPP has not yet reacted on the recent spate of violence in the east of the country in which its supporters are alleged to play a prominent role. The party’s spokesman, Victor Reider, is also unavailable for comments.
Now if thats not plagarism..then i dont know what is..
How can you cull an article from another news paper..
Change its heading without even due consent from the originator..?
You guys have no clue about big ideas..
Like copyright.
For you its always little think inside the box..
Green revolution....
heheheheh..maybe SLPP should have used this slogan.
Economic Emergency...
I think they where tryng to say the emergence of a new economy.. you know.. one where minister house turn bank. That was the only place you could find leones..
Subject: SLPP Office store ammunition, matchetes, and sword
From: SLPP is unserious
To: All
Date Posted: 17:59:51 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 175-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.175
Message:
The Police need to make a daring raid in the Office of the SLPP in Freetown. Eye witnesses say that the SLPP paid thugs are well armed and have stored lots of weapons including cutlases at their Office in Wallace Johnson Street.
Yesterday, the SLPP has started to use the same method the rebels were using to chap people with matchetes. A senior Police Officer by the name of Kargbo was chopped by an SLPP thug broad daylight in Freetown. The SLPP Office in central Freetown is a no go area! I think the police have a duty to arrest those who are fanning this violence. There has to be a pre-emptive raid in the SLPP Office.
In order to maintain a fair handling of the situation, the Police must charged the culprits to court and do a thorough investigation to know the big guns who are behind this situation to wreck the runoff.
Subject: APC Cry babies run away when real men came in to play.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 17:32:19 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Where you at my fellow coutry men..
You might wear red, pray to Earnest..
But we still Lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvve you..
Come out, come out.. the big boys are here..
Where you at my dawgsssssss?
I dont believe Hariette Vandy is your best hitter..
A girl..
Shameful......
Hidding behen uman skirt..
Subject: Truoble by awareness times,please post the correct story .
From: foday kabba (san jose,CA)
To: All
Date Posted: 17:12:17 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: fodaykabba@gmail.com
Entered From: at 149.199.62.254
Message:
Interestingly, the reason given by APC's Ernest Koroma for his absence from today's meeting (He sent Alpha Kanu who is shown hugging Berewa) called by National Electoral Commission (NEC) and PPRC, was that he was, according to Alpha Kanu, "mentally troubled" right now and he would not be able to make any public appearances until his level of "mental problems" came down. Ernest Koroma was invited, together with Berewa, to make a public denouncement of violence at the Miatta Conference Center by the PPRC and NEC. The Meeting was jam-packed with members of the International Community including the controversial Victor Angelo, Heads of Foreign Missions and the ECOWAS Secretary General, Mohamed Ibn Chambas alongside President Kabbah and other stakeholders in Sierra Leone. Ernest Koroma's absence to publicly denounce violence raised quite a few eyebrows today.
Sep 1, 2007, 17:17
Subject: Re: Truoble by awareness times,please post the correct story .
From: Belful Tok
To: All
Date Posted: 18:22:39 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
4 day,
You need viagra to be a man again. I think you lost your manhood.
Subject: Re: Truoble by awareness times,please post the correct story .
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 18:29:57 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
No need to bring the mans sexual incapacitations to the forum..
Lets stay with the issues..
Did Earnest complain of head ache or not.. ?
If he did why?
If not.. what his he hiding from and why was he not at the meeting..?
Does he not want to been seen been hypocritical.. ?
Those are the issues..
Lets leave fodays bedroom habits out of this.
Subject: Re: Truoble by awareness times,please post the correct story .
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 18:38:15 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
Did Berewa show any reason why he escaped the debate before the election? To answer your question, NO Ernest did not complain any headache and he is doing fine. Did Berewa complain any run belleh?
Subject: Re: Truoble by awareness times,please post the correct story .
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 19:02:35 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee............
I thought the theme was lets not dwell on the past, una change tune..?
Did APC apologise to our motherland for 24-7 years of not only misrule...
DISASASASASTREOUS and incompetent misrule..
Citilink buses filled with leones driven to minister house..
Una nor get shame..
Una want promotion..?
Subject: BBC report on clashes in Freetown
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 17:07:57 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-227-75-238.hsd1.mi.comcast.net at 71.227.75.238
Message:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6974523.stm
Subject: Humility my ess! Johnny Leigh à bas !
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 14:48:20 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
The sycophant is back with some more ludicrous appeals to the unwary, like that snake in the Garden of Eden.
Why does he this time also deliberately misspell Mr. Golley’s name? So that if you Google it, you only get three hits?
It’s OMRIE GOLLEY, not Omery Golley Mr. Lie or is it Lee? Or is it Li, the Chinese mile?
There is a serpentine twist to Leigh’s argument for the two pleas that he makes below, and it is this: the SLPP having lost the parliamentary elections which have reduced them to a lame duck minority in Parliament, Leigh now urges everybody to vote SLPP, so that power will not be concentrated in the hands of the APC-PMDC.
Now using Leigh’s tortuous argument, if the SLPP had won the Parliamentary elections, Leigh would not in the name of the same argument be advocating that everybody vote for the APC – on the basis that power would be concentrated in the SLPP’s hands, especially if it had been Leigh who had won the Makeni ConBention and was now in his master Ekuma Berewa’s shoes.......
He pleads, with tears in his eyes because should Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma win the presidential elections, then he ( Leigh) will be out of business, that’s why at this late hour he’s back to plead for the master who might reward him with a juicy bone for being a faithful lap dog. You could be a real business executive earning a few million dollars a year if you’re that good Mr. Leigh. Fact is Mr. Leigh, since they know that you think you’re much better than all of them, they really don’t want you, no matter how much you lick their rear or spare parts, with such words:
“But please do not give them control of the Executive branch as well by voting in Mr. Ernest Koroma as our next president, especially after having learned from SLPP’s Kabbah’s administration that absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“Please let us vote SLPP and Solo Be to take charge of the Executive Branch, i.e. the presidency, so that no one individual will again have monopoly political power over the poor people of Sierra Leone as has been the case under the Kabbah regime. Also, by voting in Berewa as president, the vaulting, venal opportunistic ambitions of the likes of PMDC Margai can be checked for the good of those who had trusted him with their votes in the current elections but had been betrayed in his notorious pursuit of self-interest.”
Why is this man detained?
OMRIE GOLLEY
Subject: Re: Humility my ess! Johnny Leigh à bas !
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:37:09 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Mr Hamelberg..
Did you try Francis Minah..
I see you try hard to bazooka the messenger..
Agree or disagree..
The man raises a few valid points..
He might have done it 5 years too late.. But point is still valid..
Subject: Re: Humility my ess! Johnny Leigh à bas !
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 16:31:57 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Yes, Mr. Candid opinion I'll take another look at Mr. Francis Minah - I notice that one of his parents is a Massaly.......but do you think that we should dwell so much on ancient history?
Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma has been leader of the opposition and sitting in parliament these past eleven years, since he was 43 years of age and he is now 54 years of age and the youngest of the presidential aspirants.
About your Mr. Leigh I have addressed the bottom line of his spurious thesis - he should try preaching something similar in the United States. As I observed in that other thraed to you, perhaps the SLPP has lately (finally) repaid Johnny Leigh that $ $90,231.81 he has been crying that they owe him?
Are you familiar the post -ar history of Germany?
Of the history of Ghana since 1966?
Or of Nigeria since the Biafra war?
Of course you have read "Animal Farm"
Subject: Re: Humility my ess! Johnny Leigh à bas !
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 16:04:59 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Lets keep it decent: here's what I say :
Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma has been leader of the APC and the APC has PATIENTLY been in opposition without murmuring, for eleven years. ELEVEN GOOD YEARS in opposition, without violence, during which time Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma has behaved with the gentlemanly decorum that has won him all the respect that I have for him, whilst the SLpp has been busy doing their corruption and mismanagement thing.
All things being free and fair, it would seem that it’s now the SLPP’s turn for patience and perseverance on the opposition benches.
In a multi-party democracy the SLPP should also be able to abide by the constitutional provisions that would relegate SLPP’s defeat to their rightful place on the opposition benches.
The opportunistic babble emitting from Leigh notwithstanding, in Sierra Leone I should think that in practice such a situation, with an SLPP president and an APC- PMDC armed with an overwhelming majority in Parliament it would be an impossible situation. Too much bad blood between them. APC-PMDC is never going to give Mr. Berewa a blank cheque; in fact APC & PMDC having been cheated of the presidential victory and the subsequent bitterness not to speak of abiding hostility, would deadlock, stalemate, hamper, hinder government and such a situation would be untenable.
Of course such a situation would be very exciting for constitutional studies, theses etc another hybrid
The sycophant Leigh is back with some more ludicrous appeals to the unwary, like that snake in the Garden of Eden.
Why does he this time also deliberately misspell Mr. Golley’s name? So that if you Google it, you only get three hits?
It’s OMRIE GOLLEY, not Omery Golley Mr. Lie or is it Lee? Or is it Li, the Chinese mile?
There is a serpentine twist to Leigh’s argument for the two pleas that he makes below, and it is this: the SLPP having lost the parliamentary elections which have reduced them to a lame duck minority in Parliament, Leigh now urges everybody to vote SLPP, so that power will not be concentrated in the hands of the APC-PMDC.
Now using Leigh’s tortuous argument, if the SLPP had won the Parliamentary elections, Leigh would not in the name of the same argument be advocating that everybody vote for the APC – on the basis that power would be concentrated in the SLPP’s hands, especially if it had been Leigh who had won the Makeni ConBention and was now in his master Ekuma Berewa’s shoes.......
He pleads, with tears in his eyes because should Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma win the presidential elections, then he ( Leigh) will be out of business, that’s why at this late hour he’s back to plead for the master who might reward him with a juicy bone for being a faithful lap dog. You could be a real business executive earning a few million dollars a year if you’re that good Mr. Leigh. Fact is Mr. Leigh, since they know that you think you’re much better than all of them, they really don’t want you, no matter how much you lick their rear or spare parts, with such words:
“But please do not give them control of the Executive branch as well by voting in Mr. Ernest Koroma as our next president, especially after having learned from SLPP’s Kabbah’s administration that absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“Please let us vote SLPP and Solo Be to take charge of the Executive Branch, i.e. the presidency, so that no one individual will again have monopoly political power over the poor people of Sierra Leone as has been the case under the Kabbah regime. Also, by voting in Berewa as president, the vaulting, venal opportunistic ambitions of the likes of PMDC Margai can be checked for the good of those who had trusted him with their votes in the current elections but had been betrayed in his notorious pursuit of self-interest.”
Why is this man detained?
OMRIE GOLLEY
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=OMRIE+GOLLEY
Subject: Re: Humility my ess! Johnny Leigh à bas ! (2)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 15:16:02 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma has been leader of the APC and the APC has PATIENTLY been in opposition without murmuring, for eleven years. ELEVEN GOOD YEARS! In opposition, whilst the SLpp was busy doing their corruption and mismanagement thing.
In a multi party democracy the SLPP should also be able to abide by the constitutional provisions that would relegate SLPP’s defeat to their rightful place on the position benches.
The opportunistic babble emitting from Leigh notwithstanding,
in Sierra Leone I should think that in practice such a situation, with an SLPP president and an APC- PMDC armed with an overwhelming majority in Parliament it would be an impossible situation. Too much bad blood between them. APC-PMDC is never going to give Mr. Berewa a blank cheque; in fact APC & PMDC having been cheated of the presidential victory and the subsequent bitterness not to speak of abiding hostility, would deadlock, stalemate, hamper, hinder government and such a situation would be untenable.
Of course such a situation would be very exciting for constitutional studies, theses etc another hybrid
Subject: Do not reply to SLPP propaganda!!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 14:45:20 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
Please do not respond to posts from kamara,Town Crying, and Candid camers etc. They tend to draw us into exchanges to feel our temperature. It is all SLPP propaganda. Some of the lies could make pigs fly!
They a not worth replying to
Subject: Re: Do not reply to SLPP propaganda!!
From: I Just Ignore Them
To: All
Date Posted: 16:07:26 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.84.81.88
Message:
I ignored them. They could have gone to the Awareness Times forum or even the SLPP forum, but they know there is nothing there for them. So if and when I see these names, I simply do not reply to their rancid utterings.
Subject: Re: Do not reply to SLPP propaganda!!
From: Henrietta Vandy
To: All
Date Posted: 15:51:29 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Basco, you call this propaganda? Every virtue that we have extolled about Berewa and the SLPP is true. Let's be very frank, baby. What is the best government ever in the history of Sa Lone? SLPP
What government has built more infrastructure and reconstruction? SLPP, (if it had not been for the sabotage of APC partisans). Go ahead and snicker. Forget about those horrible pictures of Freetown in Cocorioko. Anyway who are you gonna believe? Us or your lying eyes?
Who has received the most money from the international community? SLPP of course.
Which government has demonstrated its commitment to education by sending most of their kids abroad for an excellent education? SLPP of course.
Do you realize the hardships a lot of us will experience abroad if you kick our parents from power? Why, some of us may even have to go look for a job!
I can't do a 9 to 5 and conduct research at the same time. I know that some of you are gonna call me a spoiled brat for speaking the truth. I don't care.
Whether U like it or not, SLPP will win the runoffs. Live with it APC shavelings. Go cry in your coffee. Alieu Sesay, where are U love? You have some of the craziest postings on the forum. I wanna hear from U. I hope U don't have a gruesome deformity, hon because I wanna party it up with U in Freetown, which we will rename Solotown after our election victory. Its late in the afternoon an that Captain Morgan is looking pretty good.
Love and candies to all,
Henrietta,
Subject: Re: Do not reply to SLPP propaganda!!
From: Jay 1
To: All
Date Posted: 16:31:02 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
Bo provoke nor mix oh.Dis na serious bizness mi sista.Stop dem moko dem ya nor.
Anyway I am enjoying your satire.You exude nothing but brilliance.Keep up the good job.You would make a fabulous journalist.Have you ever thought about that.
Welcome,sis.
Subject: Re: Do not reply to SLPP propaganda!!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 16:00:26 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
What do you make of Candid camera/Independent liar?
I think him and kamara are pathalogical liars. Do you know if Dr. Nahim is still consulting? Because these guys actually believe in their own lies.
Subject: Re: Do not reply to SLPP propaganda!!
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 16:40:48 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.242.93.152
Message:
Hi Basco,
Man, as a respectful member on this forum you have a lot to offer, you do not need to waste your time and energy responding to these manipulators there's a lot to come. there are celeberations waiting so don't waste your precious time on them I know you can crush them with their propaganda.
Now you see, they brought in a shameless woman (Henrietta) to humiliate herself on this forum, did you notice her VERBATIM? well, it speaks volume about herself she's probably one of those mistresses who ministers of SLPP has thrown over to the west with the countries money.
Please just read her responses it's not that she don't accept the truth about the SLPP's embezzlement, but she chose to defend them with all the lies she can offer for fear of a course from her SLPP sponsors for betrayal.
Hey Basco, these people knows they've lost tempo but they still throw their last ecitement which would not be seen or heard after 8 SEPTEMBER.
If we don't respond to these people, they will go to hibernation.
Subject: Re: Do not reply to SLPP propaganda!!
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 16:55:04 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-227-75-238.hsd1.mi.comcast.net at 71.227.75.238
Message:
Eddie Grant singing to the APC tunes
Gimme hope APC, Hope APC, gimme hope APC till the morning come. Gimme hope APC amen, hope APC, hope before the run-off come.
I don't wanna dance, dance with APC no more, always do something to hurt Salone. All right the campaign is gone, the campaign is gone. Don't wanna dance, don't wanna dance, don't wanna daaance.
Enjoy...:)
Subject: Re: Do not reply to SLPP propaganda!!
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:12:49 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Oh yeah...
Is this what a DISCUSSION forum is all about..?
I would never have guessed...
Opposing views is like an infectious deasease to you guys..
Thats why before i, Kamara, Town Crier and the other great posters came on this board..
It was all you all talking to yourselfs...
1 man say.. Earnest nar savior, then other wan say.. yeah nah true.. e turn water into orange juice..
1 man say.. Earnest say 24 hours electricity...
All man hallah.. APC oh yea...
Well i am here to say..
Honestly.. he can promise electricity..I just want to know who is going to pay for it..?
He can cry down the fact that we are 60 percent donor driven.. But does he have any solutions in a country where the tax base is less than the annual burger king toilet paper budget?
I am not hollering U yea for anyone until i see practical solutions..
And i think that where we defer.
Subject: Re: Do not reply to SLPP propaganda!!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 15:48:23 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
I will oblige you with one post. You have your bewarenesstime and the oldpeople.com but still you are encouraged in this forum. But LIEs LIEs and DAMN LIES? You guys are in a panic! I will add you to the list blind Bartimaeuses. You all see in shades of green. The advancement of the country is never paramount in your minds. Which is why you salute the last place the country finds itself.
How you can look at the country and applaud Berewa and SLPP bothers me! And I bet you do nothing for your family back home as well.
I leave you to find your conscience. Open your eyes!!!
Subject: Re: Do not reply to SLPP propaganda!!
From: Basco ignore them
To: All
Date Posted: 16:10:12 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.84.81.88
Message:
Basco, please ignore their postings. Have you noticed several forumites are now ignoring their post? Please do the same
Subject: Re: Do not reply to SLPP propaganda!!
From: KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:34:05 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
KEEP IGNORING US , YOU APC COWARDS CAN NOT TOLORATE OPPOSING VIEWS. WE ARE HERE TO COUNTER YOUR APC LIES.
Subject: Re: Do not reply to SLPP propaganda!!
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 16:52:21 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Whats so wrong in bringing the fight to the town bully..
Una just begin pissa bade.
We nor get ISU, WE nor get SSD.. what we have is a record of true.. democracy, open governance, inclusive..
The likes of which your uncle shiaka Steven stole from our fathers..
We re-introduced.. encouraged you.. supported you in your baby little pikin infighting..Now that you fools pull a few baby teeth..You wan bite?
You all want us to leave you alone and not discuss your uncle momohs blatant incompetencies.. and the reason why.. SLPP had to FIX.. FIX.. PLASTER, FIX.. FIX..... concrete.. Tar...
Tay NOw plenty hole dey..
But us as true patriots as we are..
We are not giving up this good fight..
We will uplift our people from APC created sqaulor.
We have begged, borrowed..Just to fix your mess and you call us donor dependent..
We have asked for forgiveness from your bad depts..
We will continue to move our country forward.. With or without your help..
Ah tire with una blind APPPPPCCCCC......ness.
First house i swim in with a swiming pool...
Edward Kargbo.. And his salary back then was le600.
Not even enought to fill the swimming pool..
Yeah but we all swam.. minister pikin...en me..
Me en me en gan day.
Now it is my turn to tell you all....You papa in tiff..
En you sunbathing back in the eighties..
Our grand children even now.. are paying for that frolic in the sun..
Una wan make ah chakra.. ?
Subject: THE SEGBWEMA CHAOS IN PICTURES: The Lies start
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 14:33:31 09/01/07 ()
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Message:
Dear Editor,
If the man in the picture was arrested by police and stayed in their custody, how come he is the one in the hospital in Kenema badly beaten up with wounds on his face.
I will work hard to get a picture of him with his wounds, and his version of the story.
Stop the lies. Report the facts, and let blame fall where it may.
Subject: Re: THE SEGBWEMA CHAOS IN PICTURES: The Lies start
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 18:47:06 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
No man let's be frank, they will not ban him. All we need is show us the picture where the man is in the hospital. Can you do that for us Mr. Town crier?
Subject: Re: THE SEGBWEMA CHAOS IN PICTURES: The Lies start
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:09:41 09/01/07 ()
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Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Aye.....shiiiiiiiiiiiii
Den go ban you...
Nothing like the truth around here...
It is a cardinal sin..
Punishable not by even a suspension..
Out right cut off your keyboard like typical RUF, merged into AFRC then metamorphosed into APC.
No more posts if you dont have keyboard right..?
Subject: Re: THE SEGBWEMA CHAOS IN PICTURES: The Lies start
From: FORUM POLICE
To: All
Date Posted: 15:12:51 09/01/07 ()
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Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
Pl;ease take your propaganda elsewhere.If we were just there to ban people, we could have started with you who is posting under many different monikers .However, this is a free forum. Talk to yourself as much as you can. Nobody will ban you.
Subject: Re: THE SEGBWEMA CHAOS IN PICTURES: The Lies start
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:16:43 09/01/07 ()
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Message:
Well i was banned using the Independent Observer handle.
And i cross my heart that and this is the only 2 consistent handle i have used..
I tried others.. but would not have if i knew it was okay to have another view...
For asking if the Reverend is an APC member.
Until you re-instate that handle, i am of the opinion that opposing views is not wanted around here.
I can understand a warning.. and extreme...a suspension..But BANNED..?
Subject: Re: THE SEGBWEMA CHAOS IN PICTURES: The Lies start
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 15:52:41 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
You must be sick!! You are neither Candid nor independent in you postings. Why not post under the moniker 'Blind SLPPER'. I would give you a little bit of respect.
Do you need a Docter?
Subject: Re: THE SEGBWEMA CHAOS IN PICTURES: The Lies start
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 16:37:05 09/01/07 ()
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Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
OK...
When you can garner 3-4-5 people to support that view..
All with medical accreditation to boot..
Then we can talk and i might reconsider..
In the interim...
Lets discuss issues and not personalities little brother.
Subject: Re: THE SEGBWEMA CHAOS IN PICTURES: The Lies start
From: FORUM POLICE
To: All
Date Posted: 16:05:08 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
Check your browser cache. Nobody banned you.
Subject: Re: THE SEGBWEMA CHAOS IN PICTURES: The Lies start
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 16:34:37 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Not on this computer and not this ip OR DNS address..
If you check your recently banned IP's..
Look for posts from Independent Observer connect the dots to the IP or DNS and release the ban..
Subject: Re: THE SEGBWEMA CHAOS IN PICTURES: The Lies start
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 17:39:42 09/01/07 ()
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Entered From: ppp-68-91-33-198.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.33.198
Message:
Independent Observer was suspended by the moderator as
comparative investigation continued between postings of Independent Man and the former.
Subject: Re: THE SEGBWEMA CHAOS IN PICTURES: The Lies start
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 18:07:32 09/01/07 ()
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Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Now.. that one i do not understand..
Repeat please..
If you are alluding that i was using both handles..
I would say it was only after Independent Observer was banned that i came up with Candid Opinion.
All the same..water under the bridge.. (no to lungi bridge oh).
That was Kabbahs dream projects..
We solobians promise more children to school, a priority on electricity, fairer and renewed tax laws, donor weening, better and accountable civil service.
Road projects that make sense..
Company registration for the average cigarette seller or wood cutter..
Investment policy, water quay revamped..
ok.. no one tiff my ideas please..
I know say Earnest has a blank paper..just waiting to spy..like his apcians here..
Spy nah school.. when given a job at parliament for 11 years as opposition.. natin e nor do.. Now he want promotion..
Subject: John Leigh's Unity Government is a NO SOLUTION!
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 13:29:56 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
After reading through John Leigh's article posted on the indispensable Cocorioko website, I am left with no better comment but rather to wish that John had posted his article on "thenewpeople.com" website. That is the SLPP cyber tool mouthpiece and that is the right place for an article seeking to cajole people toward voting for the unfit and ineffective Solo B.
It would have been a great thing to split the two main political organs of government of Sierra Leone (executive and legislative) between the two main political parties. This, with the hope that the third organ, the judiciary, will be as neutral and non-partisan as we all expect. However, it is unfortunate that the SLPP government choose to do nothing but squandered all the opportunities it had over the last 11 years. The people, therefore, decided on a change and a complete change. Both the house of Parliament and the State house need a new group of individuals, and not the lazy SLPP headmen and their sycophants that seem to see nothing wrong no matter how dark the capital city continues to be. John Leigh's article failed woefully to shed any new idea to our political problems but instead succeeded in depicting Leigh as a sycophant and a blind supporter of the failed SLPP no different than the bunch of lazy young opportunists now formerly known as "thenewpeople.com".
Voters, and folks staying out of the country, please do all in your power to see that the Hon. Ernest Koroma take a new seat at the State House and send Berewapy and co packing. John Leigh is apparently back in Concord, Ma awaiting a call from Berewa if he wins (may the lord forbid)and of course Leigh will always be very happy for the opportunity to recover monies he lost in his failed bid for the SLPP leadership. If Leigh wants to engage cyberspace readers, then his return back to the Cocorioko forum at this crucial moment will be really interesting. Hopefully he is not using an assumed name in "thenewpeople.com" forum.
Subject: Re: John Leigh's Unity Government is a NO SOLUTION!
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:09:47 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Shembu...
Why is it that no one else should have a voice..?
Of if they do.. not here..?
Mr leigh like everyone else is entitled same as you to his own opinion..
Hon Earnest might be salones own Jesus or the second coming..
Or
Could be our own, very own Mugabe.. or Sheku Turay..
Lets wait and see..
With berewa.. we at least know some parts and pieces..
He is a bird in hand.. 3 in the bush is what it takes.
And that does not include leather boots, we do not have a ministry of thuggery, neither plan to create one.
We have tried the APC.. natin..
We have tried the SLPP.. well i would say they stole some.. they eat some.. but they tried..
Maybe a hybrid SLPP, APC is what we have always dreamed of..and we never will know if we never gave it a chance..
Subject: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Henrietta Vandy
To: All
Date Posted: 13:16:02 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
As a political pro and an opinionated woman who has been around the block many, many times, I can just tell when a great man is on the rise (not a double entendre, guys). And believe me, my despondent SLPP men, Berewa is going to win the elections with 75% clean, my sources in the SLPP war room have assured me. For the APC cab drivers on this forum, please understand that we simply cannot allow U boys back to power and mess things up for us. U had power for 28 years. We are gonna get our 28 years also and actually do a better job than U guys ever did. U can scream as much as U want, but it ain't gonna happen, the Ernest Koroma presidency. No way Jose.
Some of the SLPP men are too nice on this forum, but I call it as i see it, devil be damned. We have to win this thing by all means necessary, including rigging. There, I said what is on the mind of every desperate SLPP man's mind but is too timid to express. The international community will scream a while. So what? Fire a few tear gas carnisters in Freetown and Makeni and all will be as quiet and peaceful as a village night at 3 in the morning. It is a tough job but someone's gotta do it. Come on SLPP guys, do U really want to risk everything we have worked for by actually counting the votes of the people who are so clearly ticked off with us? Anyone who says yes should be expelled from our party!
By the way I can't ever vote for Ernest because he is a wimp. I have a thing for brawny, brave men. I was so disappointed by his cowardice in Segbwema. A few little boys glared at Ernest in Segbwema and he ran away crying all the way to Kenema. Wimp! If people have tried that kind of s..t on Tough Guy Berewa, he would have released our thugs on those people, laid them on the road and whipped each one a solid dozen on their bare backsides to teach them a lesson. That is the kind of robust, macho politics that rotates my tires, guys.
So bow down U APC wimps to President Berewa. We will rule for a generation or I will trade my Victoria's Secrets for P.O.Toes.
Love, Peace and Kisses,
Henrietta.
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 20:41:33 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-3d8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.61
Message:
How could Berewa's 75% possibly ever come true?
If Berewa wins with 75% I don't wanta Sierra Leone passport and Berewa won't last
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 14:01:37 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.115.21
Message:
Hen,
Your post is a clear manifestino of what is in your solocratic infested mind. All you want for the SLPP is riggiging the elections to victory. You are dreaming. You think APC is sleeping like your sleeping BEREWA? the APC will not wait to complain later. the people should be allowed to vote. SLPP please give peace a chance now. As we discuss on this forum your SLPP angel are brandishing cutlasses and all sorts of wepons to the extent that even the police are mnot spared by you desperation. NOR TO SO FOR GET POWER.
SLPP don't start a battle that you cannot sustain!
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 18:55:59 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
Are you dreaming or just wishful thinking in your mind. Wake up girl, it is time to face the fact. SLPP is in a cancer last stage. No therapy or medication can cure it. The Dr. Thorpe has already given the number of days remain for the SLPP. Let it go Hen, it is over.
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 14:16:41 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Ali,
Once the NEC has declared a winner, and you know what happened in Nigeria: it has never been known to happen in praxis that the results that have been announced will be rescinded no matter what..........
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:24:18 09/01/07 ()
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Message:
Aye well..
When i tried unopposed at google...guess what came up..
01 October 1985 Presidential Election (Joseph S. Momoh elected unopposed) ...
Opposition to the government was gradually eliminated; in elections held in May 1973, the APC was unopposed. In 1975 Sierra Leone signed a trade and aid ...
by the APC was ratified in his unopposed election in October 1985. ...
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 14:57:25 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Is your post tangentially related to my post?
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:03:52 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
And if it was..?
Do i have to close my windows and batten down the hatches..
Are the ISU and SSD's on thier way?
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 15:59:01 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Close your windows and batten down the hatches and your front door? What for? Because someone looks like Robert Frost but feels like Jesse James?
No of course not.
“It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'”
Mine was a friendly question, even if an academic one, since I'm a little serious, especially about this corruption business- perhaps the SLPP has lately (finally) repaid Johnny Leigh that $ $90,231.81 he has been crying that they owe him?
Sure, even dogs are free to bark as they please if you don't muzzle them.
I was born in Freetown and the word FREE means a lot to me.
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 14:38:27 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.115.21
Message:
You can ask JESUS if you want. All we are saying is that we are no longer in the past we are in the present. So if you are dreaming, you should be able to know by now that the 62% of the people have said NO NO NO....to you BEREWA. You can dream of victory ,that is the best thing for you to do because it costs you nothing to dream.
The APc of today is APC of today and not of the past. It is only you fools in the SLPP and GOD that does not change.
Next post..................
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:00:06 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Why is it anytime a pro apc man is caught playing double standard the first tune we here is
Shaggy...It wassnt me..
You is it we can be judged by an 11 years record and you not by one of 27 years?
I thought moving foward is all about where we have been?
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:13:27 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Alimamy..or langba..
I think you are missing that Henrietta Vandy is using satire to make her political points..
Dont worry komaneh.. she is on your side of the fence..
She is light red.. PMDC..
APC light as we call them in freetown.
Red cool aid with borku water.
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Henrietta Vandy
To: All
Date Posted: 15:15:35 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Candido, you brute! Just when I was about to take a shine to you, you had to spoil every thing by branding me APC...and worse, PMDC (forbid the thought!)
I am 175% SLPP-- 75% beign the SLPP victory margin that is going to make the APC and PMDC plebians cry in the political wilderness. To paraphrase something we used to say at Convent in Brookfields, "We go make APC kolay when we shake we koopay pan dem"
We will not tolerate any mess from Christina Thorpe and the NEC this time. What is this nonsense about free and fair elections? Do they think that this is an election in Britain or America? I don't care how the ordinary people vote, we will make sure that our supporters, activists and bombers (we don't have thugs) follow the scr1pt and get the 75% victory for our man, Solo B. The results of the runoffs are as follows:
Solomon Berewa: 75.03%
Ernest Koroma: 20.97%
Undecided : 4.00%
These are the results that will be announced at the conclusion of the run-off election, take it or leave it. If you don't like it, go and cry to Ban-Ki Moon at the U.N.
Where are U Alieu Sesay, my Crush of all crushes! Candido has been hitting on me all day! I hope U R cute, young and brash, baby. And please don't look like something the cat just regurgitated. Eeewww. Keep posting those intrasigient defences of SLPP. We will party at the victory dance, you crazy Moyamba borbor. Stubborness, like rigging and baldness, is so sexy!
Love, kisses and best wishes to all even the APC wimps and cabbies,
Henrietta.
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: For:Henrietta
To: All
Date Posted: 16:55:19 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
Nor lie pan Rogie or Nelson-Orafor den nor teach you dat na convent.Baby ar member you wen we mi di heng out nar totees en mobil afta convent sport.
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:25:36 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
No harse words baby..
We are in the mist of gentlemen...APC...
Ha..aha..aha...Sniffle.. gaggfle..
No need to rig the election..
We will go back to the people.. clearer message this time..
We do not regret the fact that first time around.. we took our records to the people..
Asking them for another term..
Some got it.. Some where swayed by cheap vegas style illusions, tricks, prankster..
We have learned from that..
We will repackage the message and go back to the people..
They are the ultimate employer..
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:49:50 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Darling..
When are you going to come pick up your red victoria secret thingy at my house?
Why is it that i have to keep on telling you that 44 percent Vs 38 percent + - 4 points either way does not constitute a majority voice..
And this election was decided by one thing, popular culture.. That injectment notice vibe and the positive change slogan sure cost us a few voters. But it is old now and we hope the majority of the voters will see issues instead of fad.
The other day over wine and a good cassava leaf with rotifunk palm oil you where expressing your admiration for the liberian iron lady and how she is moving liberia forward..
I now know by this post that you do not digest information well..If you only knew how ellen got into power you would not doubt the constitutional requirements that require a run off..
But lets leave that for another day.
As it stand right now...We all know that 38 + 14 stolen percents would have been 52 Vs 44.
Okay maybe not all PMDC will go SLPP..say we split it 50 - 50..
You still dont have 55 percent.
Which is still not a clear cut victory.
And it would have been the APC scrambling for a second round.
But Bra Charles as any prodigal son is welcomed to set his sight and take his own path.
My question is.. can he take his following with him to gahanama's gate?
Subject: Re: Berewa's 75 % Will Come True in The Runoffs, Mah!!
From: madsan
To: All
Date Posted: 13:21:25 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c0ecd2.dyn.optonline.net at 68.192.236.210
Message:
Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Subject: SLPP and APC MAKE MOCKERY OF THEIR OWN PLEDGES
From: I Love Awareness Times
To: All
Date Posted: 13:12:24 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 85.195.123.24
Message:
Even as SLPP's Solomon Berewa was busy hugging the APC's Presidential Candidate's Spokesman, Alpha Kanu and the two men were making a public repudiation of violence, their two sets of supporters were engaged in running battles with each other along Lightfoot Boston Street, Wallace Johnson Street and nearby streets. The SLPP supporters claim that their Party Headquarters came under attack at Government Wharf whilst the APC supporters says the SLPP first attacked their own supporters living at Government Wharf and they were retaliating by attacking the SLPP Headquarters. Interestingly, the reason given by APC's Ernest Koroma for his absence from today's meeting (He sent Alpha Kanu who is shown hugging Berewa) called by National Electoral Commission (NEC) and PPRC, was that he was, according to Alpha Kanu, "mentally troubled" right now and he would not be able to make any public appearances until his level of "mental problems" came down. Ernest Koroma was invited, together with Berewa, to make a public denouncement of violence at the Miatta Conference Center by the PPRC and NEC. The Meeting was jam-packed with members of the International Community including the controversial Victor Angelo, Heads of Foreign Missions and the ECOWAS Secretary General, Mohamed Ibn Chambas alongside President Kabbah and other stakeholders in Sierra Leone. Ernest Koroma's absence to publicly denounce violence raised quite a few eyebrows today.
Subject: APC Thugs Intimidate Freetown Residents
From: Sheku Kallon
To: All
Date Posted: 12:57:49 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: shekukal@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 208.100.229.222
Message:
RESIDENTS OF FREETOWN WHO ARE PERCEIVED AS SLPP SUPPORTERS ARE BEIGN SUBJECTED TO A CAMPAIGN OF INTIMIDATION AND PROMISES OF VIOLENCE IN THE EVENT OF AN APC WIN.
Gangs of marauding youth wearing black T-shirts and red scarves have been branding themselves members of the APC Death Squad.
They have accosted peaceful citizens who they think are SLPP supporters and told them that should they vote in the run-off for Berewa and the APC loses or wins, those people will be subjected to a rash of public beating and humiliation.
These threats have intensified in several parts of Freetown. Police have indicated that although they are aware of the situation by hearsay, they are currently not investigating any case of death threats or harassment.
The SLPP secretariat must move very fast in telling all press houses and announcing over the radio that this is happening, and that SLPP supporters have nothing to fear. they must also establish a hotline for complaints with a rapid reaction group ready to get to the site of complaints and investigate fully in conjunction with the Sierra Leone Police.
SLPP voters and supporters may be intimidated into not going to the polls if these threats by these APC thugs continue.
Subject: Re: APC Thugs Intimidate Freetown Residents - BLOODY LIES
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 13:40:02 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-82-4-60.hsd1.de.comcast.net at 68.82.4.60
Message:
Bloody Lies.
How stupid do this dying SLPP folks think we are. Call Freetown, and anyone will tell you the mass jubilation with which Freetown residents recieved the APC/PMDC campaign convoy yesterday (Friday 8/31/07). APC has all the advantage you can think of. And to even think that APC youths are engaged in any subversive activity is tantamount to thoughts of a demented chicken.
Lies, all lies by SLPP.
I was told about an incidence whereby SLPP idlers sitting in front of their party office in Freetown beat up a lady for simply wearing "RED". This happened in front of top SLPP bras but they just laughed off the situation instead of intervening in the poor lady's defence.
Lies, Lies, and more Lies by the SLPP propanganda machine which about to break-down due to lack of fuel.
Subject: Re: APC Thugs Intimidate Freetown Residents - BLOODY LIES
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 16:45:28 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-227-75-238.hsd1.mi.comcast.net at 71.227.75.238
Message:
Check Reuters (http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL01214502.html) and if you have the guts for the something than the gospel according to APC see the pictures posted on Awarenesstimes.com.
I know you are still catching up to events. Whilst your editors are cranking out old news we have moved on to current events.
Subject: Re: APC Thugs Intimidate Freetown Residents
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:19:05 09/01/07 ()
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If this is true as you say, the SLPP SHOULD NOT..
I REPEAT....SHOULD NOT FORM ANY RPID REACTION GROUP..
They should channel all complaints to the police and empower the police with the rapid reaction capabilities to deal with the situation.
We do not want people in green reacting and maybe over reacting to cases of any kind of provocation by boys in red..
Only boys in Blue and responsible for state security and citizen welfare, anything otherwise will be construed as intimidation regardless of who threw the first stone...
Subject: Re: APC Thugs Intimidate Freetown Residents
From: Madsan
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Date Posted: 13:01:07 09/01/07 ()
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THIS PLAN OF YOUR WILL ALSO FAIL.
Subject: FUCK JOHN LEIGH
From: TRUE SAY TOK ME
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Date Posted: 12:05:20 09/01/07 ()
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I am appalled by the latest article posted by John Leigh, asking people to vote for the party of raray boys and tiffman dem he once referred to after losing his bid to be their leader.
I believe he should keep his opportunist dirty mouth shut, he was part of the administration he is now condeming. If he knew Kabbah was corrupt why did he serve as ambassador during the Kabbah regime.
We dont need opportunist's like him teaching us morals. I believe his hands are as dirty as Kabbah and Berewa. So he better keep his opportunist views to himself. Oh watch out another con trick by him to get a job from Pa Berewa. During your time as ambassador, why did'nt you resign from your post when according to you Kabbah have failed the nation. So dont you think that would have been the most honourable thing to do instead of you being fired by Kabbah. So dont preach morals to us, as you yourself lacks the very morals you are preaching to us.
The people of Sierra Leone have spoken, we need change from backwardness to forwardness. Berewa, Kabba and including you and your SLPP cohorts are responsible for the sufferings of we the people of Sierra Leone.
We are voting governments that can deliver what the promise, but rest assured that as of now politicians cant fool us anymore. The practice of embezzling funds and dont deliver basic services, and waiting till election time to come and bribe electorates the very money that was meant for them to get votes, are days that are over. We are cravening for developments like other nations.
The practice of voting out of loyalty to political parties is over, and i can assure you that if the APC is to be elected and the follow on the trends of you and your SLPP cohorts, comes 2012 they will suffer the same fate, as the days of people voting for loyalty to political parties as of now is history.
So better get that on your thick SKULL.
Subject: JOHN LEIGH RE-EMERGES WITH HUMILITY
From: CHIEF BOMBORLAI
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Date Posted: 12:00:57 09/01/07 ()
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THE VENAL SCRAMBLE FOR POWER IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE
© By John E. Leigh
We need a genuine Unity Government in Sierra Leone to replace Kabbah’s powerful regime of national disappointment and widespread frustration. But the violence and rank opportunism to grab power leave much to be desired. Politicians are disgracing us.
The long-running marginalization and exploitation of the common people by evil leaders and their equally evil, collusive supportive cabal - local and foreign - may be brought to an overdue swift end on or about Saturday September 8 if we take proper advantage of the unique opportunity presented to us by those of our citizens who heroically voted on August 11. Today, our First Round voters are admired and respected the world over for what they achieved on that voting day and for the determination and decisiveness; the peacefulness, politeness and patience they stoically displayed in spite of the daily hardships they suffer - hardships presided over by an overrated democratically-elected regime impervious to people’s sufferings.
Certified NEC results show that the opportunity presented our country on August 11 by our voters is the unique chance to terminate the practice of concentrating state power in the hands of one single individual who may or may not be reasonable in his dealing with his colleagues, underlings or with people less fortunate than himself. Imagine having a president with monopoly state power concentrated in his hands only but who views as an enemy, all individuals with a different viewpoint on public policy issues, no matter how genuine or beneficial the different ideas. Such is Sierra Leone for the past 5 years. Concentrating state power in the single person of such an individual who confuses sycophancy with genuine loyalty may also be behind the huge suffering and frustration visited upon us today. We must avoid a repetition of such nonsense.
SPLIT SIERRA LEONE’S POLITICAL POWER
Thanks to our First Round voters, we now have the opportunity to apportion political power among at least two groupings by putting at least two individuals, each in charge of one of the two key political branches of our government: one Legislative, the other the Executive branch.
In this regard, the APC/Margai alliance has clearly won control of parliament winning 69 out of 112 ordinary seats. We can’t change that. Let the APC/PMDC “alliance” have Sierra Leone’s legislative powers so they may have the opportunity to demonstrate true leadership on behalf of the people. But please do not give them control of the Executive branch as well by voting in Mr. Ernest Koroma as our next president, especially after having learned from SLPP’s Kabbah’s administration that absolute power corrupts absolutely. In order words, let us share power in the public interest after 5 years of Tejan Kabbah!
Please let us vote SLPP and Solo Be to take charge of the Executive Branch, i.e. the presidency, so that no one individual will again have monopoly political power over the poor people of Sierra Leone as has been the case under the Kabbah regime. Also, by voting in Berewa as president, the vaulting, venal opportunistic ambitions of the likes of PMDC Margai can be checked for the good of those who had trusted him with their votes in the current elections but had been betrayed in his notorious pursuit of self-interest.
WE NEED PEACE, NOT VIOLENCE
We all are aware that in the on-going desperate maneuverings to gain power in Sierra Leone, our people have been subjected to unnecessary violence with lots of pots calling kettles black. And we have also been presented with dazzling displays of venal opportunism to gain power purely for personal aggrandizement.
Let it be known, however, that the recent disturbances in Bo, Kenema and Kailahun Districts were not instigated by either the APC or the SLPP. Rather, they emanate from PMDC supporters who are furious at the Margai sellout to APC. Such desperate conduct clearly points towards a future, if given power, characterized by the continued replication and expansion of the same troubles and sufferings we’ve experienced in past years if we fail to correct our political system of monopoly political power concentrated in the hands of a single politician, buttressed with venal opportunist.
CHANGE, NOT CONTINUITY
As we weigh our options before voting on September 8, we must first recognize the plain truth: a sizeable majority of our people wants CHANGE, not CONTINUITY.
Fully 62% of Sierra Leoneans who cast their ballots on Saturday August 11 voted for those parties and candidates who advocated a change away from the policies, practices and personalities of the current SLPP regime of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah and his small insider faction.
In my view, the vote for change was even greater that the 62% reported above.
Although 38% of voters supported Solo B, the presidential candidate officially supporting the Kabbah-imposed “Continuity” doctrine, a large portion of such voters also want changes of the type that would more promptly and securely free them from their harsh daily life of massive unemployment, extreme poverty with no practical safety net in the face of escalating cost of living expenses - all this while suffering other daily hardships such as zero electricity, insufficient water, garbage-strewn streets, violent crimes, high rents, etc. and with no relief in sight!
Furthermore, I know from personal experience that many of our pro-Berewa’s voters also want to free their government from the clutches of delinquent, incompetent, sycophantic, clannish, greedy, selfish, insensitive and corrupt elected and appointed officials and so they deliberately voted for Solo B and the SLPP because, among the presidential candidates, he and his party were viewed as the lesser evil of all the others based on the post-independence governance history of our country.
The above are exactly some of the changes which the people of Sierra Leone are desperate for. The changes our people desire, however, cannot mean jumping from the frying pan into the fire by selecting a president the political leader of the so-called New APC but who is surrounded by OLD APC nation wreckers like Victor Watergate and others that serve as his executive officers. Nor does it mean selling out your supporters who were merely protesting the bad treatment of the Kamajors and their leader, Chief Sam Hinga Norma rather than switching to the dreaded opposition.
INEXPERIENCED VOTERS
Many voters jumping from the ‘frying pan’ today, however, are young adults unaware of the true ‘fire’ record of our politicians and their political parties. Many of our voters today were born or were 3, 5 or 10 years old or so when the destruction of Sierra Leone was in full swing in the late seventies and early eighties under the leadership of parties or groups other than the SLPP and so grew up not knowing the truth about the governance of their country and how prosperous and democratic it was under the SLPP just after Independence, from 1961 to 1967.
A PROPOSED SOLUTION
My recommendation to cope with the September 8 opportunity is for us the voters to use the second round of voting on September 8 to once and for all split the government for the peoples’ benefit and to now and henceforth block our oversupply of evil politicians and opportunists from ever again splitting the people for the benefit of themselves and their equally awful supporters and cronies. Let’s split them for our own good!
Again, because the APC/PMDC alliance has already won control of parliament convincingly, we should now vote in SLPP’s Solo B as our next president on September 8. This way we have a split government forcing the president to negotiate and reach good governance agreements with parliamentarians from different tribes. Berewa and SLPP on the one hand and Koroma and the APC on the other hand must be compelled to discuss and agree on all of the important national issues facing Sierra Leone or likely to face our country during the next five years.
Constant negotiations and agreements in the public interest between different tribal groups is an excellent way to address the chronic issue of tribal voting and thus avoid tribalistic hegemonistic policies and practices that have known to generate war. Cross-tribal negotiations and compromises is a far superior system to the present situation of one tribe seeking to and dominating the others as NEC’s voting results have exposed. Tribal voting and tribalism are bad practices for our country.
The problems facing our people today are many and difficult. These include our massive unemployment, the future of our youths, the borbor-pain situation, the high cost of living, insufficient electric generation & supply, the provision of insufficient quantities of pipe-borne clean drinking water, bad roads and sidewalks, food insecurity, crime control, high rents and housing scarcity, foreign affairs (America, UK, Germany, Canada & the rest of the West vs. Ghadaffi, Iran, etc., NASSIT, NasCA, Impartial Elections, Executions of opponents, the freedom and return home of Johnny Pay Paul Koroma and his AFRC Coupligans to positions of authority, the trial or freedom of Omery Golley, the future of the Special Court and its convicts, regional development, foreign investments, A productive minerals policy for the people, political and criminal violence, costly and frequent presidential overseas travels, award of contracts, the judiciary, national budgets, the appointments and dismissals of public officials including cabinet ministers, ambassadors, judges, etc., the grant of national honors, high interest rates, Anti-corruption Commission, trade policy, high customs duties and favored treatment, the military, the police, street trading, market women, the prisons, favoritism, nepotism, tribal hegemony and so on and on and on and on.
Most of the above matters for the past five years have been decided by one single political individual – the president who happened to control parliament with a big majority of seats. Let’s don’t allow such again this time around. Let’s form a genuine Unity Government wherein one man, one party does not single-handedly control everything by himself alone as Kabbah did. Let us share the job between the APC and the SLPP.
This is what I call a genuine Unity Government. It is a government not controlled by one man or one party. The tribes of the North must negotiate with the tribes of the Southeast. The concerns and standards of the Western Area must be respected and attended by all. When such a two-way split but unity regime comes in force, our people will benefit because each will compete for the voters favor. At the next elections the public would by then ought to know whom to vote for based on the performances of Unity Government principals and participant. In the meantime, Borbor-Pain suffering is bound to be reduced.
This, my fellow Sierra Leoneans, is the right solution for our country today and represents my view of what constitutes a genuine Unity Government. Thank you. JEL**08/31/07, Concord, Massachusetts.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH RE-EMERGES WITH HUMILITY
From: Jack Sparrow
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Date Posted: 12:17:55 09/01/07 ()
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John Leigh you may have all these thoughts in your dreams but you will be disappointed to wake up and find out that it is the exact opposite people want.
What did he say when the SLPP had total control over the three bodies? Did you advocate for the presidency in 2002 to go to the APC? Can't you smell the coffee? Haven't you observed that the people want nothing to do with the SLPP? It will be better to keep quiet rather than talking crap.There is nothing sensible in what you have written.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH RE-EMERGES WITH HUMILITY
From: madsan
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Date Posted: 13:05:40 09/01/07 ()
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Nar matter of sleep en wake, sateday go cam , who laugh las !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH RE-EMERGES WITH HUMILITY
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:36:20 09/01/07 ()
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YOu started fine..
An opposing view.. another voice.. mix it up..
And then you curse the man..
Shameful..
What he said definately makes a lot of and bukoo sense..
And i would also include my voice in that calling for a balanced government which i think will serve us better this time around.
We have tried the APC for 27 years...NATIN.
We Tried the SLPP for 11 years.. Beteh nor dey..
So a hybrid solution might just give us our cake and a spoon to eat it with..
And hopefully, with the political conciousness sweeping the nation.. next time around.. we all can engage and make it a better political playing ground.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH RE-EMERGES WITH HUMILITY
From: Kekuda
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Date Posted: 13:13:23 09/01/07 ()
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May be you and John Leigh needs lecturing on the presidential system of government. Are you aware that in such a system the legislature is a lame duck? He should have champion this cause when Kabbah was president. He is a clear opportunist. I guess he's smelled the rat and realize that the SLPP is on its way out. BTW, why does he abhor Charles to such an extent? Why does SLPPers think that the PMDC votes were taken away from them? Don't they believe in the people's right to choice? SLPP believed they would vote purely on tribal lines. What a shame and you folks claim you are educated.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH RE-EMERGES WITH HUMILITY
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:27:35 09/01/07 ()
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Maybe i dont get it..
SO in effect you are saying:
If APC has majority in parliament.. we are doomed..
If APC has minority in parliament.. we are doomed..
If APC has both the executive and the legislative, we are doomed..
Well sir.. whats the use of this exercise called government..?
Why do we even bother to have the legislative.. ?
Tax payers money to those good for nothings..?
What has Earnest as the opposition leader been doing in parliament for the past 5 + years collecting tax payers money when he knew he had no work to do..?
I think it was the SLPP that was more than surprised that the country would vote this clearly on tribal lines..They would never have guessed.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH RE-EMERGES WITH HUMILITY
From: Kekuda
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Date Posted: 13:37:37 09/01/07 ()
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This is a result of the ineffective and depraving constitution Kabbah and his cohorts concocted. You can direct your questions to Kabbah and Berewa. Remember the APC raised these questions and the SLPP's reaction was that it was too time consuming and costly for the general coffers. The APC will embark on a constitutional review to avert such a political travesty. Please check the manifesto. That is a reason you should vote APC for positive change. Berewa being despotic never allowed neither the government nor the opposition to table such an instrument.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH RE-EMERGES WITH HUMILITY
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:58:55 09/01/07 ()
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Good point..
I would have expected APC to abdicate as a protest or not sit in in parliamentary sessions if it was such a travesty and an unjust waste of resources.
If the contrary is the record.. and they are prostitutizing and postulating constitutional reform only when they hope to be in power.. then i find only banter and electioneering in that piece of paper called the manifesto.
I will check the salone gazettes to see if 10 years in the OPPOSITION.. APC ever tabled this or any other constitutional reviews or reform. If not.. then that in my honest humbled opinion is the true political travesty.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH RE-EMERGES WITH HUMILITY
From: Kekuda
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Date Posted: 14:21:46 09/01/07 ()
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Nice points. It appears that we are loosing focus here. Is this a last minute pitch by the SLPP? If you truly believe in the cause which apparently if implemented correctly is noble, then the SLPP should have concentrated it's resources towards the presidential elections to start with. Do not forget that Berewa lacks public appeal and appears vindictive and untrustworthy. I believe that a sample poll among likely SLPP voters will show that they are more likely in favor of the party than in support of Berewa. The party should have gone with a more charismatic and dynamic individual. What am I saying here, he's got no track record of development to run on? You guys let the electorate down and it’s high time you 'vacated the premises'.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH RE-EMERGES WITH HUMILITY
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 14:34:57 09/01/07 ()
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Say it aint so..?
I agree we let A PERCENTAGE of the electorate down..
But we sure have a following..38 good percent of them..
But i think you are shifting the goal post a bit..
This is not a beaty peageant..and if it was for good looks.. then victor Foh should be carrying berewa's umbrella and bag to the office.. not been your party no-2 man. Oh yes i said it.
Sam Samuna will be out faster than an asteriod missing the earth. And Victor Foe will be our Vice President under Eager Earnest.
Berewa has more track record.. in any endeavor than any Earnest can fabricate, so dont even go there..
And for me generally i rely more on the party and records of archievement, sustainable archievement may i add and not the individual leaders or officials for my political leanings..
Aye bo.. how can we vacate the premises when our lease is not over..?
And why would we leave and let in know, convicted, criminals to come babysit our little children?
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH RE-EMERGES WITH HUMILITY
From: Kekuda
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Date Posted: 15:10:52 09/01/07 ()
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Great analogy I must admit it was humorous and I guess we needed that. Forget about the looks Victor Foh go deal with that after the elections (enhancement surgery). Please enumerate the sustainable achievement you are holding onto albeit lack of electricity, access to clean water supply (please don't mention the water wells Berewa graciously embraced and had to get national coverage for) and virtually no health care. E look lek say the voters den change foot pan unu. Berewa appears tired and lack vivacity, few Ginseng might help. The notice will remain till we sen Gascoigne the ex bus superintendent for effect am.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH RE-EMERGES WITH HUMILITY
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 12:16:15 09/01/07 ()
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Surprise, surprise. John Leigh seems sufficiently chastened and introspective in his piece. He actually makes sense. I was ready to pounce on him and throw some punches at him for his past misdeeds but I was kinda surprised by his demeanour and serious tone. Welcome back bro.
Subject: APC thugs attempts to attack SLPP party office in Freetown
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 10:57:52 09/01/07 ()
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Breaking News:
APC thugs this morning attempted to attack the SLPP party office in Freetown at Light-Foot Boston Street, got caught by the police as they approached and were dispersed by firing shots and tear gas.
More details to follow....
Subject: Re: APC thugs attempts to attack SLPP party office in Freetown
From: madsan
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Date Posted: 12:49:52 09/01/07 ()
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If you are not in the position of obtaining factual information, please refrain from twisting stories and wait for the facts. The story is the complete opposite.
Subject: Re: APC thugs attack SLPP party office in Freetown: Details
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 11:10:27 09/01/07 ()
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The APC thugs were split up in two groups. One approached the party office and started taunting and throwing stones at the SLPP youths that were at the office whilst withdrawing towards the post office. When the SLPP youths followed them up to an old abandoned house by the post office, the APC youths then engaged them with stones they had stockpiled in the house.
The second group then attempted to approach the party office from the side streets. Unfortunately, they passed in front of the one of the police stations where they were noticed, and the police had to fire tear gas to disperse them.
More details to follow on the situation, and what the APC is saying in response.
It is also reported that there are plans by the APC to report on their radio station that SLPP youths attacked market women in the PZ area as their version of the story.
Subject: Re: APC thugs attack SLPP party office in Freetown: Details
From: Henrietta Vandy
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Date Posted: 12:01:41 09/01/07 ()
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Where are my SLPP macho roughnecks? Alieu, Candido, Sylvester, Johnny M, Nico...We need U guys over here to defend the home office. Forget about democracy. We need all hands on deck to pull this thing off and make Berewa Prezy. Chez, I have seen U in London. One look at U and all the APC runts will run away when they see U man-mountain! I need to lay off the bottle a while. My head hurts, but my passion for Berewa is red hot. Alieu Sesay, I love your uncompromising, take-no-prisoner defense of the SLPP. I think U R hot. If U R not old (35+), married or look like something the cat dragged in, I'll talk to U after the elections. For now, let's win this for Solo B!
Subject: Re: APC thugs attack SLPP party office in Freetown: Details
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:54:08 09/01/07 ()
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As JOhn Lennon and macko jacko has repeated told us..
Lets make love, not war..
I am a lover baby..
Lets leave APC.. SLPP PMDC holigangsters to themselves..
They will burn the country down, broke the street lights.. tiff the pump, cut the trees.. then at the end of the day..
When i roll into freetown with my hummer and your fine self at my side.. same people will call me borbor belleh and say i steal thier country money, not knowing i still have my retirement and 401 in the US making money for me while i relax at paddys....
Anyways noto me tell them leh dem papa nor been deh APC en send them go overseas 10-20 years ago lek me en you...Abi..
I always remember.. it was your big house at spur road i first saw a swimming pool. To this day i still wonder where your dad got all that money he had in suitcases in his room.
We used to just take a few leones to go to Where else and Lagoonda on saturdays..?
Stay blessed darling. I miss our romantic days at San Souci eating ice cream at the expense of poor sierra Leoneans.
Ps: Hope you finished your masters. Jokers in Salone paid for it.. and it is the same piece of paper you are goign to use to bash and humiliate them..
Hehehehe.. who said.. the world is even..?
Subject: Re: APC thugs attack SLPP party office in Freetown: Reuters
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 12:09:42 09/01/07 ()
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http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL01214502.html
Subject: Where there agents/Observers in a polling stations?
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 10:48:51 09/01/07 ()
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If the election is to be credible and fair.
I would implore all political parties to post (dont know what the NEC rules are) agents in all polling stations.
This grumbling that the SLPP rigged the votes in the south and east, and the APC rigged the votes in the north and west does not cut it for me the second time around.
If we know that there is a tendency for officials to rig the vote i would think it is prudent and a matter of must for each polling station to have a party observer that would keep boxes in thier site at all times.
After the votes are casted, during preliminary counting. Sealing the ballots in tamper proof envelopes, transportation to NEC headquarters and during official tally at NEC.
This is a strategy to mitigate rigging and ballot stuffing and monday morning quarterbacking by any of the political parties.
The people, poor as they are.. when exercising this national and God given right, should not be disenfranchised by any of the parties.
APC, PMDC or SLPP.
Subject: Berewa Moves to Silence Independent Radio
From: Conteh
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Date Posted: 10:18:08 09/01/07 ()
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The Independent (Freetown)
30 August 2007
Posted to the web 31 August 2007
Freetown
There have been widespread condemnations on reports that the there are moves to silence the Independent Radio Network (IRN).
IRN is a network of a consortium of private radio stations. They announced the initial results from polling stations on the August 11 2007 presidental and parliamentary elections.
The announcement gave the public an insight into what the initial results were.
But some public officials are reported to have stated demanding that it should not be done during the Run Off scheduled for September 8", says a public official who prefers anonymity.
Subject: Re: Berewa Moves to Silence Independent Radio
From: Henrietta Vandy
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Date Posted: 11:18:47 09/01/07 ()
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This is the kind of macho action that just leaves me breathless about my SLPP men. I really believe that we would have won the elections, hands down, if it weren't for those pesky radio stations that were messing with our efforts. As Candid Opinion said, it is always wise to suppress dissenting voices if U want to be a winner. At this point democracy is not very nice to us, so we shouldn't be nice to it either. We should close all the bad anti-SLPP radios, Standard Times and others who do not like us and will try to criticize the coming results from the second round (my sources in the SLPP war room are hot, baby!). By hook or crook, we will win this thing and rule and there's nothing U APC wimps can do about it. My sweeties Alieu Sesay, Candid One, John Mannah, Nico, Sylvester Johnny, Chez, Weasel, Alpha Saidu, Abu bakarr Jalloh are tough, brawny, rough-hewn men who will not allow U to mess with our right to rule U for your own good. Stay strong my SLPP true blues. We have this thing in the bag. We will rule Sierra Leone for the next 30 years mah! The international community will just have to live with it. Let me get back to my Tequilla. I am already celebrating. Love U all. See U at the party!
Subject: Re: Berewa Moves to Silence Independent Radio
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:41:55 09/01/07 ()
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Darling please dont finish the bottle all by yourself..
And also please don't mis-interprete me..
My comment meant the radios shold not be allowed to read out election results and build a negative frenzy in the populace and there is strong evidence they did last time around.
And this waite man BUZZ word "dissent" i dont want on your sweet tongue carelessly..
Its a good word if done right.. And should not be allowed to be used by the opposition just to fan the flames.
Dissent like free speech.. comes with responsibility.
Especially if you are the opposition in Africa.
Thats all..
If you think it meant anything else.. Then i am taking out the black leather and whip tonight..
Please leave the door open for me..
Subject: Re: Berewa Moves to Silence Independent Radio
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:39:28 09/01/07 ()
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A wise move.
Subject: Did PMDC get seed money from APC North America?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:51:39 09/01/07 ()
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Message:
Information reaching my desk this very moment indicates that the Charles Margai, Earnest Koroma alliance has been in the works since just after the SLPP convention.
It can be recalled that it was at that convention that Margai failed to secure the candidacy of the SLPP..
Reliable sources within the APC North American Chapter has informed me that APC discussed the forming of a 3rd force or ventriloquist entity to counter the SLPP's dominance of politics in Sierra Leone.
A committee was formed with top APC stalwarts reporting directly to the party secretary general, Mr Victor Foh. This committee it is which had the duty of organizing meets and fund raisers for the PMDC.
And it was this committee that made the first wholesome contribution to the PMDC accounts.
An APC presidency will have devastating consequences to our country and will effect create that 1 party state which is the only way APC knows how to rule.
We at Citizens for a true Sierra Leone (C4SL) will continue pursuing this story because we believe salone election is been engineered and directed to a 1 party state with the Alliance of positive change wanted by the people hijacked to give the opposition total power.
Subject: Re: Did PMDC get seed money from APC North America?
From: Henrietta Vandy
To: All
Date Posted: 10:45:04 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
You are so right my dear that PMDC is a scam created by APC. I also have a hot rumour that you are just going to love! I have the true birth certificate that shows that Ernest Koroma is the illegitimate son of Albert Margai. So you see, Ernest Margai and Charles Margai are really two brothers who have been scheming all along to get a Margai elected president. I hear from authoritative sources at SLPP headquarters (isn't JJ Blood cute) that Ernest is going to acknowledge his paternity at the innauguration and then declare that he is SLPP all along. So we (wink, wink) don't really have to worry. We will still win the prize. Bye for now. There's a couple of chilled beers waiting for me in the fridge. Love U all my SLPP machos.
Subject: Re: Did PMDC get seed money from APC North America?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:58:08 09/01/07 ()
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Message:
Well...say it aint so...?
Lajila....
I always knew it.. that this rumour that only a Margai will be our salvation had no foundation...
SO in effect you are telling me.. salone is after all doomed to a 1 party pariach state under any of the Margai regardless if daddy answer the belleh or not..
And berewa might be the only true democrate in the house and with him at the helm..there is a chance of salone sampling a better political spectrum?
This is like a bad Indian film at globe or the worst Nigerian movie i had ever seen.
Keep the good flame burning..
Subject: Re: Did PMDC get seed money from APC North America?
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 10:54:26 09/01/07 ()
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If you guys are too mature or politically consciencious, you will know that Charles is a man of himself and does not need APC to form a party. In 1977 after stevens declared a one party state, it was ONLY charlie who refused to join the APC. Those so called SLPPers that are now claiming to be were all APC stalwarts. He was jailed by stevens and that jail time was orchestrated by the very south/easterners who were licking stevens' feet. So to say such things indicate a lack of maturity and political conscienceness. Keep trying. You will fail. In fact you've already failed.
Subject: Re: Did PMDC get seed money from APC North America?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:32:04 09/01/07 ()
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Political...
I am not happy with your post.
First off..
Party oficials last month strongly advices that we do not.. I REPEAT....DO NOT..
Admit anywhere, any of the failings of the APC.
So that statement
"In 1977 after stevens declared a one party state"
followed by this
"He was jailed by stevens"
is going off party message and i will pass the word back to HQ that you might need to come back in for reprogramming.
While you are at.. Please do not mistakenly admit that it was that singular move that has haunted our country for the past 30 years.
1 party rule was the nuclei that started state degenaration.
1 party rule is the source of our centralized and archiac economy.
1 party rule is what stiffled our natural growth and we could have been singapore by now if Stevens had not made that eronious calculation just to concentrate power.
And also..Please do not slip again and dare mention that...
Building stupid buildings like stadium, and Youyi building..are just sand castles and wool over the peoples eyes..
Its an APC idealogy and its evident all over the western area..
Eg: A prudent man should/Will not take his lass..to build a big house with fence or buy a flashy car to bluff..
He would start a business, and that business help him build the big house and he still has a business, 2 birds for the prize of one.
So instead of building exotic mansions/and state building with no meaning with loans. And have your party leader has the gull to tell us APC is the only party to build anything in Sierra Leone.
APC should have created, professionalized and supported strong institutions and enterprise like
NRA, NASSIT, SLP, SLRTC, Army. Diamond polishing, rutile procesing, wood furnitures etc..etc..
Instead they mortgage our childrens future with pie in the sky projects thinking it passes for national development.
Subject: Fighting Breaks out in Freetown at Government Wharf
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 09:42:18 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
reports reaching me this morning is that fighting broke out this morning at Government Wharf in the area of the SLPP headquarters. Reports are that tear gas has been fired by the police and live bullets have also been fired from the area of the SLPP headquarters. It is believed that members of the SLPP hold up in the Headquarters, are armed with weapons and deemed dangerous.
so far the police have been reluctant to feret out the armed slpp hoodlums holed up in the headquarters.
Subject: Re: Fighting Breaks out in Freetown at Government Wharf
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:45:46 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-75-66-114-24.hsd1.tn.comcast.net at 75.66.114.24
Message:
Whatever happened to your MOYAMBA/MISISSIPPI BURNING?
You lie-man...
Subject: Re: Fighting Breaks out in Freetown at Government Wharf
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 13:45:08 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-132-124-252.range86-132.btcentralplus.com at 86.132.124.252
Message:
Bra we have to take whatever emerges from this APC Legal boss with a huge pinch of salt.
His reports are almost always prefaced with "rumours" and hardens into "reliable" information.There seems to be an insidious influnce of Kanuquese/Fohquese way of reportage and blinkered perceptions.
The man is quick to extrapolate-from 'shots fired',its now 'SLPP supporters are holed up and armed'.LIE,DAMNED LIES'.
Yeah what happened to your 'torched office'?
Tamba
Subject: sheku Kallon,John Mannah an others incite tribal hatred
From: Salone boy
To: All
Date Posted: 03:45:14 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 175-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.175
Message:
John Mannah, Sheku Kallon, Sylvester Jihnny, Marda Mustapha and many more are in the forfront in inciting thepeople of the South East to use violence against opposition supporters. These so called educated opportunists are creating tribal tension and inciting the youths in Kailaihun and Kenema to wage this time a tribal war . The government officials behind this naked crime is John Benjamin, John Karimu, Berewa, Alie Bangura and many more. These names and others will be complied and send to the International Community to take note that these guys are enjoying the good life in the West and inciting their tribalfolk to create tribal warfare. John Mannah, Jia Kangbai, Sheku Massaquoi and otehrs we are putting your dossier together to use for an eventual war crime against you people including Berewa and Kabbah that are condoning your call for tribal warfare. Because these guys are inferior and depend on government to give them jobs, they are lying and misleading theyouths in the South East to curse anything that is not for that region.
Die hard SLPP supporters know that they have no chance in the run-off.
Now they are ahead to cause mischief and tribal warfare in the Country. The Police are tied by Solomon Berewa not to be pro-active in quelling the attacks of SLPP youths. However, the clock is ticking and the SLPP has no chance but to employ tribal sentiments and warfare to change the course of the people. One thing is certain, the World is watching. Every evil move of the incu,bent governmnet is being recorded and the attack on the APC/PMDC convoy is a serious indictment to rope Berewa and his tribal thugs in the foreseable future. The UN security Council is looking at the situation in the Country and has called on all parties to maintain peace. It is a clear warning to evil politicians that they will not have an easy ride if they obstruct the peace.
Berewa go easy and try to leave power honourably. failing to address the renegade youths in a strong RUF basde in Kailaihun wil resort to you being forced to face the rule of International law.
SLPP must not see its incumbency as a w way to threaten innocent people.
The people have given sixty percent of the vote to the APC in the Parliamentary elections.Why are fools so stubborn and wicked. Can't you see that the people have rejected the SLPP. If you think that you will win the run-off, why can't the SLPP conduct itself in a responsible way.Sierra Leone belongs to all. Nobody should stop anyone to campaign in the length and breath of the Country.
John Benjaminis behind all this wicked gane to prolong his SLPP that kills and denies good life to poor Sierra Leone. I wonder why the Police is so soft in carrying a sweeping operationin areas where fanatics are thorn in the flesh of opposition leaders. Ache Kamara, the World will stand by you if you at least order your Men to operate independently to uproot all those who are reigniting tribal warfare.
Please, put Sierra Leone before the old rogues Kabbah/Berewa.
You have children and many others do. We all want to see them grow up in a civilised nation. Not a land where its inhabitants are crude and use tribal taunt to discourage others. The West Must now help the poor people of Sierra Leone defeat this threat o tribal warfare the SLPP supporters are inciting in war scarred Sierra Leone.
The poor people are tired to be used and killed all for the sake of politics. Where are the moral voices in Sierra Leone?
Subject: Re: sheku Kallon,John Mannah an others incite tribal hatred
From: U Moms
To: All
Date Posted: 12:04:31 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-69-233-26-184.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.233.26.184
Message:
Na you mama wae na raray gial en all man yone na ihm na tribalist
Subject: Athletics
From: OSAKA
To: All
Date Posted: 09:33:12 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 87.114.75.206.plusnet.thn-ag2.dyn.plus.net at 87.114.75.206
Message:
Boy! ave just finished watching the world athletics championship 4x1 relays in Osaka. And it was thrilling to see those Jamaicans toughing it out with the Americans. Although they were runners up (silver) in both men an womens relays, they made me feel proud of them. Unlike my Sa.lone who are not ashame to send twenty hangers-on to go on a UN junket in New York as part of the presidential delegation but cannot even afford to send a single athlete to represent our country.Please!please don't tell me its because of fear of MISSING IN ACTION (MI) because Asafa lives at home in Jamaica. Sa.lone sorry for true. wae Jamaica dae run nar track for whip the Yankee dem, nar bush we dae run for go lay ambush for KILL we sef for useless politicians dem.What a sad case!
Over to you Kabs, i know you love soccer but have you been peeping on the other side in JAPAN for reduce the politics yergba? LOL
Subject: Re: sheku Kallon,John Mannah an others incite tribal hatred
From: LieLieMan
To: All
Date Posted: 04:20:27 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c29146.dyn.optonline.net at 68.194.145.70
Message:
You are lying. Leave these patriotic Sierra Leoneans alone, you tribalist.
Subject: Re: sheku Kallon,John Mannah an others incite tribal hatred
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 04:16:26 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
Keep dreaming salone boy . APC /PMDC are not going to win the runoff. APC is getting scared. My latest information is that APC moles from the north within the SLPP are trying to encourage Berewa to concede before the runoff . political prostitutes never cease to amaze me.
Salone boy , do not insult sierra leone voters. No educated demagogue in the diaspora is going to influence the voters in Sierra Leone. The voters are savvy enough to choose their leaders.
I know this an APC dominated forum but how come the tribalists mentioned are only in SLPP, not the other parties which are just as tribalistic as SLPp
No party got a majority of the vote. Ernest Koroma had 44% of the vote which is hardly a victory a phyric one at best.
I know you APC guys are lusting for power which you have nt tasted for 15 years. Please wait for the runoff. If you win, you can rightfully take power
Subject: Re: sheku Kallon,John Mannah an others incite tribal hatred
From: Orkaibah
To: All
Date Posted: 04:47:06 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
Salone Boy may be dreaming but he is right to dream such.
Now let us be realistic: It is indeed a constitutional obligation for a candidate to secure 55% of the votes cast in a presidential election but take a look at the present sceniaro which warrants an SLPP capitulation.In the first round of the presidential elections the SLPP was soundly and humiliatingly beaten by the APC; what about the parliamentary? The SLPP was once again severely and disgracefully trounced by the APC! It is clear the SLPP lost it all over! What can this be translated into? The answer is simple:REJECTION OF THE SLPP and A 10 YEAR MANDATE TO THE APC.
If the SLPP really care about the feelings of the majority they should refrain from a run-off to save the millions of dollars to be spent for the same thing; they should be ashamed of facing the very people who rejected them to beg for votes; they should have gracefully accepted defeat and go back to the drawing board which would have enabled them to learn from their humiliation and map out a fresh strategy for 2012.
The dollars to be spent in the run-off would have been a good start for the new APC govt. who are obssessed with making Salone the utopia every Sierra Leonean is wishing for.
Subject: Re: sheku Kallon,John Mannah an others incite tribal hatred
From: Voter on the Ground
To: All
Date Posted: 07:56:41 09/01/07 ()
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Message:
There was no humiliation any where. We are obligated to honor the dictates of the constitution. These sacred laws were drawn by a bipartisan committee and agreed upon by all parties before the commencement of this elections process. It is rather anarchic and foolhardy for anybody or any group of people to stand and say we do need a runoff because of the skirmishes going on. Why is the APC so scared of a runoff????
Is this why they are engaging in all types of violence so that they can abort the constitional process???
A party that does not respect the dictates of the constitution is not fit to rule. The process will go on irrespective of the APC's violent behavior. Some of you will get the shck of your lives when you get resoundily trashed. Charles Margai's support of your party is a great blessing for the SLPP since it
clearly draws the battle lines between APC and SLPP. Those of us who had jumped from SLPP to PMDC have come back home for the PMDC has died a natural death. No revival from the clutches of the tarnished APC.
Subject: Re: sheku Kallon,John Mannah an others incite tribal hatred
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:47 09/01/07 ()
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Message:
What a mean and wicked post.
Calling people war criminals..
Making blatant threats against people of the opposing party..
Salone politics.. has not gone anywhere..
SLPP tried to whitewash it, gave the people choices, gave them a free hand, allowed the opposition.. multiple avenues.. radio, print, assocciation all in the name of fair play and democracy..
Well its seems you can take a horse to the water.. but drinking is another issue.... the rust is still deep and entrenched..
And now that that reality sets in..
They now know that the APC of NEW is nothing new..
Just same Ole, sale Ole..
Subject: Re: sheku Kallon,John Mannah an others incite tribal hatred
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 07:52:12 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
If the runoff is canceled it will be the beginning of the end of our democracy and the gradual tampering of the dictates of our consitition. This will end to one party state and the ending of two the term presidency.
Remember, the time of the APC dictatorship is over. If you are so confident that APC severely trounced SLPp, Why not let the run off take place and hopefully ApC should again trounce SLPP.
My freind 44% is hardly a trouncing . With all the tribalistic voting in the north and the rigging in Freetown APC only attained 44%. I know you APC fanatics have never had a free & fair elections in their lives and would not know one if the saw one. APC is only used to elections where they go unopposed and involve thuggery and violence.
The people of Sierra Leone will not tolerate violence from either APC or SLPP,
APC fanatics cool down and experience democracy. Let the runoff take place. If APC wins fine. IF you do not deliver, the Sierra Leone voters will boot you out including your new ally wonderboy , Charles Marga
Keep dreaming homeboy.
Subject: Re: sheku Kallon,John Mannah an others incite tribal hatred
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 07:45:52 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
If the runoff is canceled it will be the beginning of the end of our democracy and the gradual tampering of the dictates of our consitition. This will end to one party state and the ending of two the term presidency.
Remember, the time of the APC dictatorship is over. If you are so confident that APC severely trounced SLPp, Why not let the run off take place and hopefully ApC should again trounce SLPP.
My freind 44% is hardly a trouncing . With all the tribalistic voting in the north and the rigging in Freetown APC only attained 44%. I know you APC fanatics have never had a free & fair elections in their lives and would not know one if the saw one. APC is only used to elections where they go unopposed and involve thuggery and violence.
The people of Sierra Leone will not tolerate violence from either APC or SLPP,
APC fanatics cool down and experience democracy. Let the runoff take place. If APC wins fine. IF you do not deliver, the Sierra Leone voters will boot you out including your new ally wonderboy , Charles Marga
Keep dreaming homeboy.
Subject: WE NEED PATRIOTS AND NOT POLITICIANS
From: Brima Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 01:55:26 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 202.52.243.122
Message:
A wise man once said that "for evil to triumph, it only needs the silence of ‚‡ood men". That is exactly what is happening in our beloved country. The good people are keeping quiet whilst the tribalists and regionalists are having a field day. The good people are silent whilst the anarchists and no-good politicians are sowing the seed of discord among our people.
After eleven years of one of the most brutal civil wars the world has ever witnessed, these evil people are fanning the flames of another war. They sit in their cosy homes or offices in the Western World or in big cities. They know every wrong that was perpetrated by other people decades ago. They know of every reason why other people should not be allowed to exercise their God-Given rights. They fan the flame of tribalism and regionalism. and then sit back to enjoy the country going up in flames. They will then rush to the UN amd other western governments to seek assistance. They will be in talk shows in America and Britain, pointing fingers at the fighters on th ground. Millions of dollars will be spent on conferences, disarnmament programs, trials of human right violations and fact finding missions. Meanwhile our people will continue to suffer. Thousand will be killed or mutilated. Tens of thousands will be raped or forced to become refugees in other countries. Meanwhile these so-called educated elite will still be in their offices enjoying coffee and going to the beaches in the western world.
Afetr the last civil war, the UN spent over a hundred million to prosecute 9 people. They claimed that these were the guys who were reponsibility for atrocities in the country. To me that was complete injustice because the people who bear the greatest responsibility were those who were responsible for bringing the people of Sierra Leone to a state where they can hack off the limbs of others withour feeling. Those who took the country from the athens of Africa to the bottom of the Human Development index. Those who were busy fanning the flames of regionalism and tribalism. Those who ensured that our people remain illiterates so that they can continue to manipulate them. Those who stole millions of dollars from the coffers of the state and made the country to go bankrupt.
These same people are back and their new agenda is regionalism and tribalism. We are taking note of all them this time so that we can inform the necessary authorities in the countries thay are hiding so that this time around the UN will not try poor illiterate fighters in Sierra Leone but the so-called educated people who actually sowed the seeds of hatredness, nepotism, tribalism and regionalism in our country. The people who are responsible for the carnage that will be unleashed when they would have achieved their aims of fragmentising the country.
It is now that we need the good people to stand up to thes tribalists and expose them for who they truly are. We need patriots in our country at this time and not politicians. Elections come and go but good people will always remain because even after death their names will be in history books for posterity to see. I know we have lot of good people in Sierra Leone. We are appealing to them to come out now before it is too late. Let them come out and stand up for what is right. Tribalism and Regionalism should be wiped out for Sierra Leone to take its rightful place in the developed world. We are calling on all PATRIOTIC SIERRA LEONEANS to come out and join in the cause. We know we will triumph because God will be on our side. PATRIOTS, where are You? Your country needs you now.
Subject: Re: WE NEED PATRIOTS AND NOT POLITICIANS
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:06:40 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Brima Kamara...
What a great post..
My sentiments exactly..
It is this history of politics in Sierra Leone since independence and the current crop of politicians that just scares the shite out of me..
Subject: Re: WE NEED PATRIOTS AND NOT POLITICIANS
From: Non partisan
To: All
Date Posted: 07:39:00 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-159-191-169.range81-159.btcentralplus.com at 81.159.191.169
Message:
Are we saying that a politican cannot be a patriot, and the other way round??Cant we have two in one, i.e. a politician who is a patriot and a patriot who is a politican.
Subject: Liberal democracy or Tribal Dictatorship? Let's decide
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 23:56:07 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
All Sierra Leoneans, regardless of party affiliation, need to make up their mind about the future direction of the country. With election violence and tribal tensions mounting, we need to take a step back and reflect on the consequences of the roughneck politics some people are practising. Do we want a tolerant country with credible elections, rule of law and politicians who are genuinely scared that a displeased electorate can bounce them out of office if they do not perform well, and replace them with the next political suitors? Or do we want a country where the tribal grudges from past generations have become the howling monsters of today, preying on all with mutual horror; where the quest for tribal dominance results in endless conflict and tinpot dictators who exploit the attendant vendettas to stay in power while lining corpses in all our streets and villages; where development is nonexistent or medieval. Don't expect the U.N to return to rescue us if we mess up again. They will simply give us the Somalia treatment. They tried to help Somalia once but gave up and left in disgust after they realized that the Somali clans were more interested in killing one another.
Sierra Leoneans, it is not yet late to step back from the abyss. We can start by having a peaceful runoff elections. If you win, form the government. If you lose, go into opposition and try again in the next elections. That will be a powerful precedent that will reverberate through the rest of Africa. We will regain the confidence of foreign investors and donors and refocus our collective energies on the socioeconomic challenges of our country. Let's stay strong and united. May God bless us all.
Subject: Re: Liberal democracy or Tribal Dictatorship? Let's decide
From: Yangama
To: All
Date Posted: 04:42:55 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This is the Mammy Sweh that evolved into the partisan Mammy Blessing now estolling the virtues of an APC that he once condemned into abomination. Where is Mammy Sweh/Mammy Blessing's commitment to democratic Change as in the "Positive Movement for Democratic Change?" Oh how much I miss the balanced analyses of Mammy Sweh which the present posting reminds me very much of.
Analyses like the one above will win you my nomination for a nobel peace prize. Please resist all temptations of the politics of tribalism that have now engulfed our once beautiful cocorioko forum. It is totally reprehensible and sinful. And it is equally nauseating to imagine that some in the sole interest of tribal preponderance would be relaxing in the serenity of the West and making statements that can only incite those at home to push our one and only Salone again into the abyss of a progrom. What a shame. Stay blessed my brother.
Subject: Re: Liberal democracy or Tribal Dictatorship? Let's decide
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:58:17 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Indeed...
New here..
And this is the first post i can honestly say.. i duff my hat off to you my friend.
Objectivity..
It is our sacred duty..to be fair..
Subject: APC Plans to Assasinate Berewa
From: Abdul Rahman Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:38:18 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-127-138-41.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net at 68.127.138.41
Message:
Reliable Sources from Freetown have informed me that APC is planning to assasinate Solo B before the run-off. The decision was taken at a meeting held at Victor Foh's house.
Such an act if attempted would lead to blood shed. I pray that APC folks come to theier senses and stop this madness before it gets too far.
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Assasinate Berewa
From: Ibrahim
To: All
Date Posted: 11:08:28 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-70-16-213-48.man.east.verizon.net at 70.16.213.48
Message:
Mr.man you better refrain from such catastrophic act of igniting commotion. I'm sure you are operating under the auspices of SLPP propaganda machinery. You've failed woefully!!! Wise up.
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Assasinate Berewa
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 04:07:13 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.154
Message:
Where are you my friend? You should immediately report to the Police to assist in the investigation of the alleged assassination plot.
You need to answer the following questions:
1. Who are your sources?
2. Why did they decide to disclose that information?
3. What do you know about your sources?
Please, report immediately to the authorities.
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Assasinate Berewa
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 00:26:20 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
Man no one is trying to assassinate a dying man. It is a waste of time and resources.
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Assasinate Berewa
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 03:46:05 09/01/07 ()
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Funny how you quickly dismiss the rumor of a planned APC assasination on Berewa but we are to readily believe an SLPP assasination attempt on opportunist charles Margai and his APC ally.
Every party can play the rumor and propanda game.
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Assasinate Berewa
From: Med
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Date Posted: 09:49:55 09/01/07 ()
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‘Every party can play the rumor and propanda game.’
That's politics!!!! Unfortunately, the rumors and propagandas are maturing into violence. It’s a circumstance that will definitely disadvantage to benefit one political group against the other, watch and see...
The Sierra Leone Police has a responsibility to protect life and property, maintain law and order. The political party leaders should be protected; their political movements [should be made known well in advance to the SLP], which has to do with campaigns across the country, should be fully covered with police presence, otherwise I am obliged to assume that the deliberate absence of the SLP, during such a sensitive political era of Sierra Leone with the recent alleged political skirmishes, that Sierra Leone Police had a mutual foreknowledge of those acts supposedly with the perpetrators. In addition, the SLP has not only failed to act, but have proved their incompetence to conduct a fair, unbiased and thorough investigation of all political cases reported by the opposition against the ruling party.
The destabilization of the existing peace, if it continues or rather the violence worsens it will benefit an undeserved party and the police have a responsibility to uphold or defend a blame of ‘national disloyalty.’
Med.
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Assasinate Berewa
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 08:55:06 09/01/07 ()
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Kamara....
Don't try that around here my friend..
Making sense will get you BANNED.
For Cock ooo rio KOO (my British accent).
If it doesn't fit our agenda.. its tribalistic.
It might be the editorial direction or its (editorials) lack of oversight on MODERATORS, or just plain the caliber of its contributors.
There is a physcological reference to wanting to only hear your own view or opinions that support that view and nothing else..
I forgot its name.
I am surprised they have not tagged you Koker..
and follow you around on everypost.. with 2 sentence like a cracked village people record..
"You don't understand what you read"...
"You don't understand what you read"...
"You don't understand what you read"...
OR
TRIBALIST..MENDE MENDE MENDE...
TRIBALIST..MENDE MENDE MENDE...
TRIBALIST..MENDE MENDE MENDE...
Sometimes it is of pain that man can degrade and wallow in such astute degree of incomprehension..
And the irony is, we all are our country's hope for direction and future leadership.
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Assasinate Berewa
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 00:16:05 09/01/07 ()
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Thank you for so breathlessly informing us of this. I hope Brima Acha Kamara, the Inspector General of police does not dismiss your "reliable sources from Freetown" as thumb-sucking morons who have rolled one joint too many. I sincerely hope that no one, Ernest, Solomon, Charles or Simi Abudu the legendary Bo School Watchman ever gets assassinated. And I hope that the bloodshed you talked about is nothing but a summer Kool-Aid spray. Let's just have a clean elections without the posturing please. Good night.
Subject: Segbwema Residents protests or SLPP sanctioned?
From: Candid Opinion - BANNED AS INDEPENDENT OBSERVER
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Date Posted: 21:42:33 08/31/07 ()
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Was the Segbwema fiasco sanctioned by the SLPP?
If that is to be the catalyst to salones amargeddon..
Dont we all deserve to know the truth?
There are rumors flying all over the place, All its seems from the opposition. So us sitting in out comfy western sitting rooms with our kids full and sleeping tired from playing in beautiful green spaces.. go on the rampage.. WITH OUR KEYBOARDS.
Did the SLPP sanction the Segbwema incident or did the residents and youths of segbwema take it upon themselves to register a strong protest that Earnest Koroma and Charles Margai are not welcomed in their Town. The way they choose to protest was a bit forceful and unrully and a few laws and windhields where broken in the process but how do we know this is SLPP engineered?
We, the ones with as little to loose as been embarassed at the coffee marchine when a co-worker says. "I heard there is fighting in your country again " are the ones propogating and advocating on the side of callousity.
There has to be a better way for the news to be desimated.
Subject: Re: Segbwema Residents protests or SLPP sanctioned?
From: dusufarah
To: All
Date Posted: 08:59:59 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: madina@yahoo.co.uk
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sierra leone belongs to all sierra leoneans inrespective of the district or region one comes from.
who are the segbwema residents to protest the entering of the town of both ernest koroma and charles margai both true sierra leoneans for campaigning purpose.
they allowed sankoh and his bandits from liberia to settle and use that district to distabilize mother sierra leone for eleven years,but cannot allow ernest and charles to conduct democratic campaign.what a shame.
Subject: Re: Segbwema Residents protests or SLPP sanctioned?
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 22:39:11 08/31/07 ()
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You really shouldn't be smug about this sort of thing. Will you think it is cute if the youths and citizens of, say, Masiaka take it upon themselves to "register a strong protest", as you so glibly put it, against Solomon Berewa with missiles, gunfire and threats of uncaging the Temne Poro devil on SLPP supporters?
We in the diaspora owe it to the motherland to be unequivocal in our denunciation of all forms of tribal politics. we can't be selective in our outrage. There are many bad people in the body politic who want to take us back to the days of horror, by blowing hard at the embers of tribalism. We shouldn't allow them. If Solomon Berewa had stood up and loudly condemned the freak show in Segbwema and appealed to his partisan supporters to allow Ernest Koroma unimpeded campaigning in Kailahun, my opinion of Berewa as a statesman would have been rehabilitated. But oh dear....
I rememder Ernest Koroma exhorting the good people of Makeni to welcome, with open arms, SLPP delegates during their convention. Sigh.
Subject: Re: Segbwema Residents protests or SLPP sanctioned?
From: Candid Opinion - BANNED AS INDEPENDENT OBSERVER
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Date Posted: 08:35:32 09/01/07 ()
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I would think Berewa, Earnest Koroma, PMDC should all come out and condemn acts of election violence.. Everywhere...
But thats after the fact..
They cannot condemn anything they did not instigate or condoned before it happened..
And that is what this thread is trying to explore..
BASICALLY....
Was it sanctioned or irate youths going overboard?
I am looking for an igniter... a combustion catalyst..
We know that if there is copycat and retaliatory political disenfranchise in other parts...it is stemming from this one incident and this one incident that opens up the proverbial pandora's box was not incited by anyone.
It would be unfortunate if we did not see it as such, but instead throw more kerosene in the fire by adventurously blaming the SLPP.
Not that i am saying it is impossible that they did instigate it.
I am just saying
WHAT IF THEY DID NOT?
And the whole country burned down from this petty clusterfuck..And it was US that misinterpreted (WILLFULLY IN SOME CASES)and propogated..
And it was because of our instigations and propogation that APC and PMDC retaliated.
SLPP banned from the north?
FREETOWN cannot be ruled?
TENSION in SALONE?
etc.. etc... etc..
ALL STEMMING FROM SOMEONE YELLING FIRE in A CROWDED MOVIE THEATER.
Get my drift?
Subject: Re: Segbwema Residents protests or SLPP sanctioned?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:25:32 09/01/07 ()
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See my friend..
This is what i am alluding to..
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL01214502.html
I am not ging to take the bait and blame anyone for this..
Its is not Earnest or Margai that told idiots and idlers to go try to burn the SLPP HQ in Freetown.
And this is all stemming from the fact that.. when idlers and idiots blocked the APC convoy in Segbwema.
Some miscretes around here, instead of throwing water on the fire and call for level headedness.. Called for death and destruction on all things green.
Well, your people heed your call...
I hope there is a salone left for the international Community to go rescue after all this is done.
Subject: ENOUGH
From: peace maker
To: All
Date Posted: 21:30:04 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: lejackson@gmail.com
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My heart is breaking over all the violence that has occured during this very important time in our country. I love Salone and its people. I have family and friends from all over: north, south, east, west and in the Diaspora. There is one thing we all have in common. We are all Sierra Leoneans and for that I am proud. Sure we have endured much heart ache and suffering over the years: corruption in government, civil war, unemployment, underdevelopment, poverty etc... I could go on forever. But after all we've been through, we are still standing by the grace of God who is all powerful and all knowing. No government since our existence has been perfect. Nor has any government done everything they promised they'd do. So let us all stop pointing fingers of blame at our leaders past, present, or future. This is not going to help our present situation nor will it have any bearing on the run-off results. Please I beg every person who reads this to examine his/her own life and actions. What are you doing to foster peace during this tumultuous time? Are you praying and encouraging others to do so? Are you talking to your family and friends about abstaining from violence and verbal attacks against their political opponents? Are you fanning the heated flames by attacking your political foes with hateful words? Are you repeatedly on this forum cursing and attacking the characters of your sisters & brothers? God forbid it so.
Right now I don't care if you are APC, PMDC, SLPP, male, female, Christian or Muslim. It is time to stop the violence and threats of violence. We all have a right to our opinions. Due to democracy, we all have a right to vote for whomever we choose to. Let's do that without stirring up turmoil for which we will all suffer from if it gets out of hand. We must talk to everyone we know and compel them to help restore peace in our land. It should start today for tomorrow might be too late. Let your voice be heard at the polls on September 8, 2007. Until then, no more violence or fighting with words. We have bigger fish to fry and it's going to take all of us to get the job done. Won't you help us? Enough is enough.
Subject: Education, Knowledge and wisdom
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 21:23:56 08/31/07 ()
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1967 and 2007 should not be the same. A progressive society has to be dynamic and not be static. It is 40 years since 1967. The number of educated people has increased now. Note that I said "the NUMBER OF EDUCTED PEOPLE" HAS INCREASED!!
Unfortunately the number wise men and wise women have not. There is a big difference between being EDUCATED, KNOWLEDGEABLE and WISE. What benefit mankind the most is wisdom. Whatever we say or do, if not said or done with wisdom, will have little or no benefit. Wisdom does not necessarily mean just having PhD, Masters, and Bachelor, certificate or diploma. You may have just a diploma. However, if you organize the information collected during the diploma program and uses it wisely to enrich you daily life activities and that of your society; your are wise.
Education: The Collection of information using our five senses is it in the formal or informal setting.
Knowledge: Organization of the collected information in a manner that is easily accessible.
Wisdom: The use of knowledge to benefit oneself and the society in which he or she lives.
So we should try to see these differences. I think there is no question that we have many educated people, few knowledgeable people and very small number of wise people.
Like a pyramid, education is the base of the pyramid and that is where the majority falls. Knowledge is at the middle, few people fall here. At the top of the pyramid, the very narrow part, you have wisdom. Let us pray for more people with wisdom in Sierra Leone. Le us try to advance ourselves to the wisdom level.
Subject: Rumours that Charles Margais Home in BO was Torched
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 20:49:41 08/31/07 ()
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I have been informed from reliable sources that the home of Charles Margai in BO was torched by angry SLPP stalwarts. Stay Tuned
Subject: Re: Rumours that Charles Margais Home in BO was Torched
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 22:54:37 08/31/07 ()
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What happened to the APC office that was burned in Moyamba.
Subject: YOU ARE ALWAYS DEN SAY
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 21:31:57 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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BLOW
Subject: Re: Rumours that Charles Margais Home in BO was Torched
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 21:08:43 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
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Message:
BOY!!! DO NOT GIVE UP THE DAY JOB.
WE HAVE STAYED TUNED ALL DAY.HOW MAN DEN NOR ABLE SPIN THE LIE DEN AGAIN OR THE LIE DON SPIN INNA OUT OF CONTROL?
BRA,YOU POSTING LAUGHABLE.. THE HEADLINE SAY RUMOUR-THE BODY OF THE STORY SAY RELIABLE-----TYPICALLY APC.
WE SHALL STAY TUNED UNTIL THE LIES ARE WHEELED OUT.WILL IT BE ALPHA KANU OR VICTOR(VOUCHERGATE)FOE?
Subject: Re: Rumours that Charles Margais Home in BO was Torched
From: Candid Opinion - Sitting in For Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 21:15:36 08/31/07 ()
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Tamba...you are a mean mean man...
That was just devastatingly crisp and clear.
I would have missed the oxymoronism in the post by a mile..
But like you say...
Typical APC.
Subject: A SALUTE TO FORUM'S PROGRESSIVE VOICES
From: Neutral Woman
To: All
Date Posted: 20:39:19 08/31/07 ()
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Weasel, Independent Observer, Santigie Koroma, Kamara, Wayne Dodd, Chez Winakabs Europe, Ebosio, Bigtex, Neneh Kanu, Alieu Sesay, Tamba Moiwo, Abubakar Jalloh, FORREST GUMP, BIGMAMA, Jan, Candid Opinion, Med.
While others on this forum have been busy propagating tribalism and tearing at any chord that holds our society together, all in the name of partisan politics, your voices of objectivity, patriotism and progress have always been reassuring. Keep raising these voices for a better Salone now stands on your shoulders.
Subject: Re: A SALUTE TO FORUM'S PROGRESSIVE VOICES
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 00:49:27 09/01/07 ()
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Thanks Honey
Subject: Re: A SALUTE TO FORUM'S PROGRESSIVE VOICES
From: Ibzzo
To: All
Date Posted: 21:27:12 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
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How could you leave me???
Subject: Re: A SALUTE TO FORUM'S PROGRESSIVE VOICES
From: Biased Woman
To: All
Date Posted: 21:06:19 08/31/07 ()
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Oh,you forgot to mention the other bastion of neutrality-Awareness Times and thenewpeople forum.
Subject: Re: A SALUTE TO FORUM'S PROGRESSIVE VOICES
From: Not so neutral Woman
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Date Posted: 20:45:40 08/31/07 ()
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At least my name tells it all. Now that you know where I stand, start speaking the truth please you are not neutrall and you are not a woman.
Subject: Wake up and smell the coffee
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 19:10:54 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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WAKE UP SIERRA LEONEANS AND SMELL THE COFFEE!!
Wake up and smell the coffee
Did we learn anything from the civil war?
We were all praying day and night for the war to end and never again.
Hear and see what is happening now.
Wake up my brother and sisters and smell the coffee
Who amongst us consider Sierra Leone first priority?
Who amongst us consider a political party first priority?
Who amongst us consider secrete society first priority?
Which of the above priorities should we consider top, for national unity?
Refresh your memory with the National Anthem
Then wake up and smell the coffee.
Most of us in the Diaspora are not willing to back home.
Some will say I have no family member left there anymore.
Some will say, I am comfortable in the Western world why go back?
Some want to go back but don’t know how
Some want to go back and are working at it everyday
So let us wake up and smell the coffee
We are all on people, one nation,
Living in this beautiful and rich eco-geographical locat1on called Sierra Leone.
Land of the Free!!!
Let us stop fighting each other
For political elites and parties
Majority of us fighting now will not gain anything after all
Only few will benefit and enjoy
Wake up and smell the coffee
Are you sure that you will see any positive change in the next five years?
Let us wait and see!!
If there is going to be any positive change, it will a surprise
The powers that be will never change on their own accord
May be when the people rise and hold their feet to the fire
They will attempt to do something positive.
SLPP, APC, PMDC etc,
Do we have a leader yet that has good heart for positive changes in Sierra Leone?
I am not sure but, it is a “wait and see” game.
We are all one way or the other hybridized by inter-marriages.
Wake up and smell the coffee
Subject: Re: Wake up and smell the coffee
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 02:36:58 09/01/07 ()
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We have many amongst us whose sole wish is to sereve their country to a glorious effect. The problem we (aspiring leaders and policy makers) have is that we cannot unite under a force for change. Everyone's aim is to have his/her small following whiuch in effect will not help the process for change. My party, for instance, has so many determined young minds but the marginalisation of these minds by a few challenged minds thwarts the efforts of thes young minds. Some of us are now in our forties but are been denied the encouragement and resources to mature into good servants of our country for the emulation of the generation after us.
The only way to get past our present challenged minds is if we attempt to vote Berewa. I strongly believe he will the Sierra Leone the service by encouraging the nurturing of young minds of Sierra Leone to build a future that will not be like the one he survived in. We must not forget our young for it is them who will take the mantles of running the nation someday. If we do not now prepare them for such a time, we will see history reopeating itself.
An APC win is a disaster as our people will not be under the control of the people they voted into office but virtual outsiders remotely dictating the pace we move in their armchairs faraway in foreign lands.
Subject: Re: Wake up and smell the coffee
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 03:57:21 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
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I agree with most of what you said. I will like to say a little about your opening sentence: "We have many amongst us whose sole wish is to serve their country to a glorious effect" This is very good. We know that government can not provide employment for everybody. Therefore majority of us have to serve our country in different ways. When I was growing up, many Sierra Leoneans were comfortable at home. Most did not want to come to the Western world, especially America. This was true when the Leone was one to one with the British pound. It all started in 1980 when we defiantly hosted the O.A.U.
Inflation kicked in. Corruption became the norm of our society.
Let us ask ourselves one question. Why did we leave Sierra Leone? Why haven't we gone back to resettle?
Now that we are here, try to get what you are looking for, build your house back home, sacrifice and save some money; then go home and start your own private business in the field of your choice. If we are hoping to go back to hunt for job from the government or any other place, it will not easily happen. In the end, we get frustrated and return to the western world. Whatever business it is, "start small and grow big." Instead of buying fancy clothing, shoes, cars and huge houses, stay in an apartment, save some money and plan to return home. It is now that some of us are waking up. We are better known back home than here.
That is my message to those of us that want to serve our country in different ways other than government jobs. A very good example of what I am talking about is the fact that some of our brothers and sisters who came to Europe recently during the war have back home to build their houses and started businesses. We in USA are here living on pay check to pay check. I have a=studied and ask some of them, how they were able to build houses back home and start business. Well some of them will work a year or so, sacrificing European comfort to save money. Then they will buy their round ticket, go home, buy land and start to build. They will do this every year. Within 3 to 4 years, the house is completed. Then they will save money for business and move back home. Most of us in the United do not do that.
Subject: Re: Wake up and smell the coffee
From: Mohamed A. kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:01:21 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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Yes indeed Mr. Fofana you touched on an issue I have very close at heart, and I always discuss with my childhood friends, whenever I am back home visiting. In may this year, I was hanging out with some home base buddies and fellow JCs (as we are now rediculously labeled, like we did not grow up in the neighbourhood), at the same corner we hung out in the mid 70s and early 80s; before many of us took off into the diaspora. The talk at that get together was the staggering difference living life back then, and what one sees now. Mind you, we were dying to leave the country in that era, believing that the situation had become so rough, that even the tough couldn't get going. The job market was almost non-existent. If you did not have anyone in a position to pull some strings, your chances were rather bleak. However, when compared with the current situation, a neighbourhood fellow now living in the U S, opined that we must have lived I quote "Lek shwen shwen". Inspite of the prevalent harsh living conditions, political instability and the sensed powder-keg for national chaos, many of us are gradually going home i.e bought land(s), building houses, have established or in the process of establishing charity organisations and commercial businesses, in turn creating employment. The realisation has began to sink in that indeed, we are our brothers and sisters' keepers, regardless of one's enthnic background, religious and political affiliation, or regional origin. No government can rebuild the country, without input from its ordinary citizens. I live in new york city. With everything and anything it has to offer, it still cannot replace the love for my homeland I have running in my veins. Whenever I am back home I feel like I am breathing freely, like I have taken some weight off my shoulders. I would feel euphoric and happy just being there man. And if anyone would have told me back then,that no matter where else I live, I will miss Sierra leone this much; I surely would have had that individual's head exermined. I believe the number of Sierra Leoneans who will love to make positive contributions in our homeland will increase eventually, primarily out of patriotism, and as the dreadful thought of getting old and living lonely in some nursing home abroad (lord forbid being abused) kicks in.
Subject: Re: Wake up and smell the coffee
From: Ibrahim
To: All
Date Posted: 10:52:41 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
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Message:
Very well said Mr. Fofana.I always knew you are a man of wisdom and integrity. I hope fellow compatriots in the diaspora will embrace such positive ideology. By the way, this is your guy Ibrahim/your tenant in Boston.I
Subject: Re: Wake up and smell the coffee
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 07:51:33 09/01/07 ()
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Mr. Fofana, you are absolutely correct in every thing narrated in your post. We can set up businesses, build houses and the likes - that is good in itselfMy contention though is that if we do not have technocrats and leaders who will protect such ventures -they are futile endeavours. I recall set up vocational projects before the 1992 NPRC coup and after some time the premises of the projects were destroyed and all the equipment looted. Businesses and houses cannot survive under unstable conditions.
Another project of ours in Freetown could not get off the ground because of unstable conditions. We need to first have that for businesses to thrive. I acquired a lot of farm land around the country but cannot cultivate for fear that conditions are still shaky. A friend of mine lost equipment worth millions of dollars during a strife in sierra Leone. I also lost a whole container (40ft) at the port in Freetown during the 1998/9 strife.
We need to instal leaders and policy makers who are beyond reproach and have the country at heart. Such leaders and policy makers will create stable environments for all the you have mentuioned to thrive. That is my ayer and the only way to do this is for government and private sector investors to tap into the nurturing of young minds to lead us into a glorious future. I understand thaty government has not the resources to do all these things at once; they can achieve some success if they champion initiatives geared towards such transformation of the ethics of these yound minds. We are part of so many partnerships and some of these partnerships offer such incentives for potential leaders and policy makers of a sierra leone tomorrow. Mr. Fofana, I pray we have uninterrupted stability.
Subject: THE TRUE SYLVIA BLYDEN
From: ONE NATION ONE PEOPLE
To: All
Date Posted: 18:32:16 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: housetalk@aol.com
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Message:
Sylvia is not to be trusted with anything. This is the same Sylvia Blyden who called Tejan Kabbah and Berewa "DEN DOG PIKIN DEM" when she was in deep romance with RUF. When she failed she came crawling, singing the praise of Kabbah and Berewa. Believe me she will praise-sing Ernest Koroma tomorrow if he becomes President. She has no principles and doesn't believe in anything. Anyone who rubs her shoulders is her God of the day irrespective of whether that person had allowed her mother to rot in jail. Enjoy yourself:
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Posted by 1N1P on April 04,2001 at 14:31:44
I was speaking to one of my cousins today whose father was a politician. One thing he said was that when in Salone politics, be prepared to let them curse your mother, your father and your ancestors dead and gone.
Mrs.Sylvia Blyden remains to date to be the ONLY civil servant whom IMF/World Bank was so impressed with that they included her name in their country report. A previously unheard of achievement.
She remains to be the ONLY civil servant whom Solomon Berewa wrote an official letter to in December 1998 BEGGING her to go back to work to help the Finance Ministry. This was after they had locked her up for 11 months simply because Solomon Berewa told me on the phone, " No to you Mama?" "Well, leh ee suffer for you". "Ee bin done advise you nor for go against we."
They locked her up for no other reason other than she was my mother and then they wrote to her after she was released by Tejan Cole Committee. They had the audacity to write asking her to please go back to work. SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE THEY WROTE TO.
When she faxed the letter to me in December 1998 at the time when Kabbah was telling the country that all was well and no more RUF. I said to her, " If na dry rice en kanya pepper ar get for feed you with na US, ar go feed you but nor even think for work for den dog child den dey again."
She really wanted to go back to work if only for one week. But I said to her, the letter alone is enough justification. Leave them. The true na in dey last.
To continue to slander the poor woman's name for no other reason other than she is my mother who has never refused me anything in this world JUST MAKES ME HARDEN MY HEARTS MORE FOR YOU AND YOUR GOVERNMENT.
I will not lose my cool over trash. Mrs. Blyden train me pass that. But I will surely grind you and systematically expose you and your failed government. Keep it up SLPP. Keep it right up. We will see who will laugh last.
Dr. Sylvia Blyden
Truth & Reconciliation Activist
United States of America
Tel/Fax:-1-775-307-0931
Subject: EDUCATED TRIBALISM
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 17:55:18 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
Entered From: 218-101-100-229.dialup.clear.net.nz at 218.101.100.229
Message:
Unfortunate thing about SL is that it is the so-called educated that are firmly rooted in tribalism. Worst of all, those who call their relatives back and tell them not to allow APC to campaign in their areas, or not to vote for APC are are all living in the West, formenting trouble in the country. At the end of the day they have nothing to lose.
When shall we learn? Had SLPP done their homework all this talk of APC getting closer to power wouldn't have risen. Quite disturbing that we the people of SL should go down so low in the name of politics when at the end of the day it is only the heads and their relatives and girlfriends would live a better life.
Subject: Re: EDUCATED TRIBALISM
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 03:05:46 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-13-80.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.13.80
Message:
Those who preach tribalism are lazy people and therefore unable to succeed in bringing a progressive change.
Please note that kabbah's SLPP government had a lot of APC people whose covert agenda was to see that whatever SLPP tries to do for the betterment of the country faced frustrative or suffocative hurdles. kabbahin his effort to please the international community turned a blind eye to these people. When he opens his eyes they will go home to roost, after amassing the wealth and technique needed to continue their plans to frustrate his efforts. Thank God we have learnt, though too late.
Subject: Re: EDUCATED TRIBALISM
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 19:24:44 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
There is no scarier monster than the educated tribalist. I hope some of the people surreptitiously stoking tribal tensions stop and think about their venal actions. Tribal brush fires are very hard to extinguish. I can't even contemplate the horrors that will be unleashed if tribal politics continues to be a strategy of SLPP. Haven't we learned anything from the rebel war? God save Sierra Leone. Your wicked machinations, oh educated tribalists, will come to naught.
Subject: Re: EDUCATED TRIBALISM
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 18:40:21 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: smtpgateway.azdes.gov at 207.108.136.241
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You said it all my friend. Before the election, I wrote a similar peace in this forum, accusing some of us who believe we are educated. It is a shame to know that most of the people here in the diaspora are still do not know that the world is moving forward. A guy like sylvester Johnny, kamara thoushin and a lot others are fanning hatred by calling their people back home to tell them to forment trouble. Do these people think it is the right thing to do? If the North and west do the samething by attacking SLPP convoy from entering makeni and other northern towns, what does that live us? WAR, WAR, WAR my friends. You guys need to stop these despicable behavior. You are doing a deservice to your mother land.
Subject: Re: EDUCATED TRIBALISM
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:35:19 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
First of all poltical , get your facts rigt, I have never advocated tribalism or fanned hatred amongsts tribe . I am a product of the north and south . If i incite tribal war , I will hurt my family members. I speak from experiences in a multi tribal home. Tribalism like racism is a learned behavior . I think you are being nebulous in thinking that an alliance between charles margai and Ernest Koroma will end tribalism in a democratic nation where people are free to cast their votes without fear. You need to review the voting patterns in ethnicaly diverse nations like Guyana and Trinidad
The bottom line is there was ethnic tensions between the Mende and Temnes before Charles and Ernest and I am sure these tensions will exist afer Ernest and Charles unfortunately.
I talk from experience. The same tribal voting occured in 1967 where my father and SLPP candidate was told by his constituents that they will rather vote a goat or bottle tied with red rag before they vote for an SLPP candidate. So tribal voting is not only an SLPP behavior. Please castigate as a tribalist. I am a SLPP support that responds to APC and PMDC propagnda. If SLPP had take the APC propanda and rumors seriously, they would not facing the current connondrum.
Subject: Re: EDUCATED TRIBALISM
From: Jack Sparrow
To: All
Date Posted: 04:25:20 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
FIRST OF ALL NO OFFENCE HERE
Maybe 40 years ago after the worst experience of an SLPP rule,people thought your father belonging to the SLPP tribalistic bandwagon at that time was worse than a goat! At least a goat goes only on the rampage when it is hungry but the SLPP goes on the rampage just for power not even for going to heaven but State House. If you do some introspection you will discover that a goat was indeed a better preference to your SLPP father in the north.It means your father was toeing the line of the south/east inspite of all the discrimination, tribalism,regionalism and nepotism.Maybe your father was very selfish in that he allowed himself being used by the unscruplous conmen from the south/east for a few personal benefits.
Subject: Re: EDUCATED TRIBALISM
From: KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:45:08 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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May be his constituents were outright tribalists who could not control their hatred towards mendes. As a northerner of principles could not succumb to such tribalistic insticts and would rather lose to a goat to than jump on bandwagon of tribalists.
nice try, tribalist. CONTINUE WITH YOUR TRIBALISTIC BEHAVIOR,
Subject: Re: EDUCATED TRIBALISM
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 20:04:38 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
The attack on the APC/PMDC convoy at Segbwema, is it all APC propaganda? The angry mobs that were threatening the lives of Ernest and Charles, were they APC supporters pretending to be SLPP supporters in an SLPP stronghold, just to give the SLPP a bad name? Do you see how ridiculous this excuse for bad behaviour by the SLPP is?
As for the goat with the red rag, I am sure that in 1967, somebody's father was also told by his constituents that they would rather vote for a goat with a green rag. It's 40 years for Christ sake! We need to get over it and condemn those who would want to pull us asunder, today for politics. The unity of Sierra Leone will survive the scheming politicians perched atop the palm tree. God save Sierra Leone!
Subject: Re: EDUCATED TRIBALISM
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:52:57 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
We definitely need to condemn those who want to pull us assunder anyone who wants to create chaos and mayhem. If SLPP has been unequivocally proven to perpetuate violence,they should be condemned.
We could easily forget or get over tribalism that happened 40 years ago but if it is condemned it will be repeated again as it was done in the 2007 elections. The votes cast in the north was based on blatant tribalism.
The alliance between opportunist Charles Margai and Ernnest Margai is not the catalyst national unity. The Education of people is the key.
I have not made excuses for any SLPP bad. There were earlier reports from the certain APC fanatics in North America that an APC office was burnt in Moyamba. This was categorily refuted by Umaru Fofana on BBC's focus on Africa. Is this not APC propaganda. Should I rush and condemn SLPP from every accusation by the APC fanatics.
IF Tribalism & violence is wrong in kailahun and Kenema ,It is also wrong in Portloko and Binkolo and makeni
Subject: Re: EDUCATED TRIBALISM
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 05:56:47 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
I tell you, you are the kimd of person I enjoy talking to. You are not one of those guys who support every position of their party because to even question one ridiculous position is a sign of weakness. I absolutely agree with you that we need to condemn the misbehaviour of our politicians no matter the political color. Take care brother.
Subject: Re: EDUCATED TRIBALISM
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 08:05:36 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Look I was in Sierra Leone in July. The Sierra Leone voters have changed. Nobody is going to fool these people anymore whether you have 10 PHDS or a multimillionaire. They will vote their interest. My issue is we need general unity among Sierra Leoneans not one that is politically expedient.
We do not need tribalism in Sierra Leone but you cannot outlaw it by force It will be erradicated through education. I do not even have to ask you about your racial encounters in the whiteman's country.
Based on oue experiences abroad we shouls strive to ensure our nation is united and free from discrimination
Subject: Re: EDUCATED TRIBALISM
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 18:10:54 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
No truer words have been said on this forum.
It is mostly those who will gain the least that will suffer the most.
Africans....are we doomed?
Rise up Children of great kings.
Rise up offsprings of Mansa Musa.
Where is you heart for a better world, a better continent for your children?
Subject: Quick Correction: I Pray for a Peaceful run-off elections!
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 17:21:18 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-68-163-27-236.phil.east.verizon.net at 68.163.27.236
Message:
In my posting about peaceful run-off elections, I stated somewhere in my last two sentences that God will help "Thenewpeople.com" succeed in their evil mission. That was an error. Of course I mean that God WILL NOT help the "ThenewPeople.com" succeed in their evil mission.
A win for the APC/PMDC alliance is what we pray for - InshaAllah!
Subject: Re: Quick Correction: I Pray for a Peaceful run-off elections!
From: BIG MAMA
To: All
Date Posted: 20:52:03 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: lfrandall@bellsouth.net
Entered From: adsl-146-222-222.mcn.bellsouth.net at 72.146.222.222
Message:
Why is it that any other media source other than Cocorioko considered evil? Is it because they report the other side of the story which directly disputes Cocorioko? Remember there are two sides to every story and no one gets every single fact exactly right. That's why we all should be careful about what we say.
Subject: Shame on The Kabbah Aministration and S/Leone
From: Mohamed Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:17:05 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: totti23@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-72-75-50-114.washdc.east.verizon.net at 72.75.50.114
Message:
I have been listening to the Focus On Africa programme online,I was so disappointed to hear that certain individuals (SLPP supporters) prevented the Leaders of APC/PMDC from entering Kailahun. I want to know what the government's position is on this issue, and the violence has cointinued today to the Southern towns of Bo and Moyamba with the burning of the APC office in Moyamba.
Mr. President please do not sit by and witness these violent acts by thugs of your party, which will eventually lead to acts of intimidation all over the country. If the people of the North make a proclamation that no SLPP or South/Easterner will not go to that part of the country to campaign ?
Sierra Leone is open to all Sierra Leoneans. Mr. President condemn these acts. The citizens of Sierra Leone want a peaceful handover to whoever wins the runoff.
Subject: Re: Shame on The Kabbah Aministration and S/Leone
From: Santigie Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 17:23:36 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You should not listen to propaganda as orchestrated by Ernest, Margai, Victor Foh and his APC Caboodle(and they are good at it). They are the ones creating all the chaos and blaming others for it.....Poor SLPP, they are so dumb and lack communication skills. No wonder everybody thinks they have done absolutely nothing for the country, even though they have laid an excellent foundation by putting necessary structures in place.
I pray for Sa. Lone, because when APC takes over in a couple of weeks (oh yes they will surely win big in the run-off), they will beat up or kill anyone who criticizes them.
Subject: Re: Shame on The Kabbah Aministration and S/Leone
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 13:52:55 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.115.21
Message:
My fried, you seem to be dreaming. It is only people like you that don't grow mentaly. The APC has grown beyond you negative wishful thinking. Sierra Leone will surely survive under the APC. Long live sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Shame on The Kabbah Aministration and S/Leone
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 02:49:05 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-13-80.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.13.80
Message:
Santos, not this time around. The people are determined and will stop buying their deception. You can fool some people some times but you cannot fool them all the time (BM). The people have had to rethink their mistakes and would not buy the lies of the APC.
As you stated "SLPP, they are so dumb and lack communication skills"; it is not that it lacks such but my party has not the loyalty it deserves from people so entrenched in the upper echelons. They are very two-faced and have to be purged to curb the continuig sabotage. Our leaders are unable to understand their true motives and are so blind to see that these individuals are amongst us to make sure that anything we do will not come out to please our people - they are moles are therefore only have one objective - to paralyse us. Thank God we are beginning to see them. Even some of the arm-twisting by the west accepted by kabba shows the grand plan to frustrate the efforts our leaders are trying to make.
We shall overcome and will not allow the APC to take us back to the chaotic constructions of the 70s and 80s.
Subject: Re: Shame on The Kabbah Aministration and S/Leone
From: Festus George-Sawyerr
To: All
Date Posted: 07:10:50 09/01/07 ()
Email Address: fstfgs1@aol.com
Entered From: cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132
Message:
It's about time we stop pointing fingers and work together for the altimate good of our country.Sierra Leone is a country with great potential but the only ones who are not aware of this are the real Sierra leoneans.
Subject: WE PRAY FOR PEACEFUL RUN_OFF ELECTIONS!
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 17:15:43 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-68-163-27-236.phil.east.verizon.net at 68.163.27.236
Message:
I don't know about others in the diaspora, but as far as I am concerned, I pray for peaceful run-off elections for the sake of our people. I live outside Sierra Leone with my two kids and wife. I have a great job for life and I need nothing from the Sierra Leone government. However, I always want the best for Sierra Leone because it is home. All my family is there, I have a big modern house there and like to spend my vacations there. Hence, all I want is peaceful run-off elections.
I am sick and tired though of this so-called supporters of both major parties telling lies on each other and justifying bogus moves by their parties just because of blind support by all means. I support the APC but I care less about individuals within the APC if they fail to perform their duties. Reason being I donot need a job or any crooked favours from them. People like the "The newpeople.com" are fullof themselves and are desperate opportunist whose last hopes are for SLPP to win so that they can be rewarded with government jobs they donot deserve. Some of these so called newpeople.com have Ph.Ds and Masters degree but yet still drive carbs in the U.S. They are lazy bastards, some of who got their credentials by less than genuine methods. They can not therefore compete well here in the U.S. - reason why they need the SLPP to win by all means so that they can get jobs in Sierra Leone where they will amass ill wealth. Hindowa Momoh is an example. After getting a Ph.D in the U.S., the only reason why one will rush to go to Sierra Leone under these circumstances is to gain undue access to government jobs where they will continue to plunder money from the people.
They live in cheap apartments and talk big and expect people to listen to them. Only folks who do not know them will listen to their sweet talk for underground motives. After fifteen years in the U.S. with degrees after your name, for god sake get a house, do something in Sierra Leone etc. But just sitting here hopelessly waiting for an SLPP job makes me sick to my stomach. God will let "The newpeople.com" succeed in their evil mission.
I pray that we have a peaceful run-off elections and I pray that the APC/PMDC alliance win the presidency.
Subject: Re: WE PRAY FOR PEACEFUL RUN_OFF ELECTIONS!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 02:51:23 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-13-80.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.13.80
Message:
I am with you in praying for peace and continued stability in the country. My other prayer is for God no allow the ruthless APC to come near winning the presidential elections but for God to help us try Solomon Berewa.
Subject: Moderators - Are not "Moderating" They are Executing dissent
From: Candid Opinion - Sitting in For Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 16:56:48 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/42314.html
According to the below.. which i found no link to on the forum itself and therefore never read,
It states 2 key words which i want to bring to the moderators attention.
1) However, be forewarned that any posts that solely meant to ridicule the mods or admins will be deleted straight away.
Radical, but agreeable. If its offensive it needs to be deleted.
There is no where where i was rude without someone been rude to me first.
I in no way, shape or form ridiculed the good Reverend.
I called into question several actions or inaction's he has taken.
I wanted to know where the reverend leans politically and for that.. i am been virtually silenced.
I don't think that's the rule of the game. Its is only with different opinions that a true liberal consensus can be reached.
I may differ, but our end goal is still the same.
Your side of things. My side of things, else its just typical brain washing and it is detrimental to our online and diaspora community.
2) Do not attempt to show disrespect to the mods/admin as this may results in immediate banning.
MAY. suggestive.
Using discretion i presume. And a consensus. Not abitrarily.
If otherwise, it is dictatorial and ungodly
To me your heavy handedness smacks of blatant hypocricy.
Sylvia Blyden, Tom Nyuma, Berewa, His Family, His Daughter, Tegloma, MENDE people... everyone of these people and groups have been chastised,
Ridiculed, cursed, mothers dragged into it etc.. death wished upon them etc.. etc..
And you do nothing.. you even encourage it i would assume if you are not going to warn the perpetrators or delete the offensive posts..
And i wonder, why should the reverend be different..
Why cant i call his service to country and online community in question..
Is it blasphemy just because he wears a collar..?
Now, i am not going to beg, or ask more that once.. for me to be let alone to continue my keyboard contribution to my countrymen and my fellow diasporians and bring another POV to the discuss on Cocorioko forum without fear or favor.
I will take it that Cocorioko and the good Reverend does not and will not practice what he preaches if:
1) I do not recieve a response to this email.
2) My handle as Independent Observer is not restored.
We all have our parts to play. And even the great and beautiful Earnest Koroma needs to hear the other side once in a while or else he ends up been Henry the great.
I await your reply.
Sincerely
A fellow countryman.
Subject: President Lasana Conte Praises Charles Margai
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 16:39:10 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-13-80.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.13.80
Message:
Culled from Standard Times
Sierra Leone: President Lasana Conte Praises Charles Margai
August 30, 2007 09:21 AM While the PMDC Leader, lawyer Charles Margai may be enduring blows and criticisms from a cross section of home based politicians, he has however been lauded by the Guinean President, Lansana Conte as somebody brainy and hardworking. The Guinean President was speaking on Monday this week to some of his colleagues when he reflected on the political situation in Sierra Leone. “Margai is a brain and hardworking, he said and recalled the role he played while the Tejan Kabbah government was in exile in Guinea. “He played a useful role when his government was overthrown, that notwithstanding “I hate him because he wants to disgrace a friend and brother” Conte fumed, and said that he was prepared to support materially and financially his friend if he fails to control five million people.
President Lansana Conte informed his audience that he has already contacted the NDA leader to team up with the SLPP in the second round of the presidential run-off election, and was also prepared together with ex-president Obasango of Nigeria to refund all expenditures incurred by the leaders of the National Democratic Alliance, Mr. Amadu Boye Jalloh and Dr. Baba Conteh of the Peace and Liberation Party if they throw their support behind Solomon Berewa of the SLPP.
It is not known whether or not the Guinean President would want President Kabbah to use the Police, Military and the Electoral Commission to thwart the desire of the people as was done in Guinea and Nigeria where electoral malpractices are the order of the day. He criticized the musicians, radio stations and the newspapers “these are responsible for the downfall of the Kabbah government in Sierra Leone” He said.
A foreign diplomatic who got wind of the political utterances of President Lansana Conte has described him as a dictator, while giving credit to His Excellency Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah as a model of democratic leader in the West Africa sub-region.
It would be recalled that similar sentiments had been expressed by ex-president Obasanjo sometime ago when he predicted that Solomon Berewa would emerge victorious in the just concluded presidential elections of August 11, 2007.
The ex-president of Nigeria would have blamed President Kabbah for being a respecter of democracy and its values, when he reflects on the fraudulent manner he conducted the elections in his country and imposed a puppet leader amidst international and local condemnations.
Sadly, there exist individual differences in both President Kabbah and ex-president Obasango, while the latter could be described as a democrat, the former is referred to as a manipulator and disrespecter of democracy. A Nigerian who spoke to this press said that Obasanjo would not favour counting of ballots to take place at the voting centres, but the headquarters so that the opportunity to stuff ballot boxes would be created. In addition, he would not want radio stations and newspaper to announce the preliminary results until the final results are published. “These are the undemocratic characters of Obasango” He said, adding that, had it been in Nigeria, there would have been delay in the dispatch of election materials and staff where support of the ruling party is weak; with about 60-70% of the staff and the security should be what he described “Your people”
According to eye witness account, the election results in Nigeria were first examined by ex-president Obasango with no representation from the opposition parties before they were released.” Obasanjo cares less about election code and foreign observers” he said.
In a very proud mood, President Lansana Conte said to his audience “How many times have I overcome the opposition”? It would be recalled that the Guinea was in a deep political mess as a result of President Lansana Conte dictatorial political ideology that resulted in the deaths of Guinean citizens and a protracted strike action, which up to this time has not been adequately resolved.
Subject: N OPEN LETTER TO APC/ PMDC ALLIANCE; STOP THE VIOLENCE.
From: Bigtex
To: All
Date Posted: 16:23:01 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: Mactruck_home@hotmail.com
Entered From: at 208.242.58.126
Message:
To the APC/PMDC leaders:
It may not occur to you that as leaders of the APC and PMDC any violence against the people of Sierra Leone in your name or the party’s you represent will be documented with one goal in mind - to use such evidence in any future “crimes against humanity” cause of action that may be brought against you and your group. It is one thing to campaign with vigor and enthusiasm; that is to be expected in a democratic society; however it is absolutely unacceptable to allow your supporters to attack your opponents, destroy their property, or intimidate them into submission. If the recent action in Segbwema of your supporters turns out to be accurate; you may want to consider asking such supporters to cease and desist from such actions now and into the future. The people of Sierra Leone have spent enough human capital to uphold the democratic principles of liberty and justice to now be forced back into the draconian days of one party rule and lawlessness. The rule of law must mean something even when it is uncomfortable.
Sierra Leoneans would not be limited to just seeking human rights violation charges against you and your partners for the Segbwema killing and other crimes against the Sierra Leonean people, additional sanctions may include: seeking a travel ban against you and all officials in any future government you may be privileged to form; freezing your bank accounts, and yes, seeking support in the international community to designate your party a terrorist organization. Though your party has not risen to the level of a terrorist group at this time, if the situation in the country continue to deteriorate as a result of the politically induced violence of your supporters, Sierra Leoneans will be within their rights to not only seek a terrorist designation for your party, it will also be their duty to pursue human right violation charges against your combined leadership.
In the diaspora, we will back the efforts of the Sierra Leonean people with our own campaigns to have the US government and other western nations impose targeted sanctions against you personally and any members of the APC and PMDC who it could be established participated in these heinous crimes. As Sierra Leoneans we are finally energized by the heroic efforts of our people to first rid themselves of the APC, then the Johnny Paul Koroma regime, and finally the RUF. We therefore consider it an affront to all decent Sierra Leoneans that you should allow such violence to be perpetuated against civilians whose only purpose is to exercise their legally given right to vote without fear. As we watch the political process in Sierra Leone, we are painfully aware of one fact; Sierra Leoneans are tired of violence. The choice at this point is clearly yours; you could take the path of a statesman, condemn all violence, ask that those who have already perpetuated violence be brought to justice, and finally distance yourself from such violence in the future.
To Mr. Margai and the PMDC much has been given by the people of the east and south. If you in fact allow the homelands of your own people [Sierra Leoneans] to be destroyed in your effort to show solidarity with your APC partners, it will be the utmost of ironies that those who spent their time and effort bringing your message of inclusion would now be the target of an elimination campaign led by the stalwarts of your coalition partner the APC. In the end it is time that you use your lawyerly skills to persuade your political partner the APC that violence is not the answer, nor should it be the path to state house.
Sierra Leoneans are watching, and this time, violence will not be tolerated. The world is watching; this time any violations of human rights will be investigated and those found to be culpable will be brought to justice in the name of the Sierra Leonean people.
Subject: Sierra Leone Belongs to Sierra Leoneans.
From: Sidique T Konneh
To: All
Date Posted: 15:01:54 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-83-168-151.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 68.83.168.151
Message:
I wish to register my disgust and disdain for the actions of our people in the south and east. Please do not put our tribe on the line as our fathers did in the 1970s. We do not have the right to deny any Sierra Leonean access to the south or east. The country belongs to us all. My wife is from the North and we have never had any problems because we are of the generation who considers us as Sierra Leoneans first before any tribe or region. It is disgraceful and despicable that the APC/PMDC motorcade was not allowed passage through to Kailahun and that IMATT had to intervene, that alone speaks volumes. It is shameful that people have resorted to cheap and diabolic tactics of burning their own party office to solicit public sympathy. But that in itself is a double edged sword that would scare and create paranoia amongst our uneducated people. This sounds like the tactics employed by the HUTUS leading to the genocide in Rwanda. I want to warn the likes of John Benjamin et al, the majority of our compatriots are modern and enlightened. We are ready to file law suites against anyone who attempts to put the lives of our people in danger. We will not be kind to anyone who threatens the stability of our country Sierra Leone in the name of tribalism. The writing is on the wall look at the reasons of the formation of the PMDC and you will understand the signs on the times.
SIERRA LEONE BELONGS TO SIERRA LEONEANS.
Subject: SLPP DESPERATE MEASURES
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 13:58:21 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.247.67
Message:
The main reason for SLPP's desperation to stay in power is very clear to those who understand.
The SLPP knows quite well that, they've messed up badly and that if the APC comes to power they would do things that the SLPP fail to do and being exposed to ridicule that means, with a population so eager for change could mean they would be thrown in the dark for very long time as the which does well in the next five years would be voted back to power.
This is just one of the many reasons why they want to cling onto power.
The SLPP are a failure from A - Z and they know it, and every peace loving, patriotic and honest Sierra Leonean know it, their best bet now is to disrupt the transition process.
My advice to every Sierra Leonean is not to give in totheir distruptive tactics we should all just stay calm and vote the party of our choice. The DESTINY of Sierra Leone is in our hands.
Subject: Re: SLPP DESPERATE MEASURES
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 18:31:26 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Eddie, isn't it just weird to see the SLPP repeating the tragic folly (1967, David Lansana) of attempting to derail the democratic process?
For the life of me, I cannot understand why a party that suffered so much in the political wilderness is ready to risk the peace and unity of our long-suffering country by inciting ethnic and political violence against their opponents. I hope the caboodle calling the shots in the SLPP allow APC/PMDC to campaign freely in Segbwema, Kenema, Kailahun and allows the people to freely vote for/against them. Using the Poro to scare away your opponents...in 2007? SLPP please! Is nothing sacrosanct? Please don't prostitute our culture.
Subject: Re: SLPP DESPERATE MEASURES
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 16:09:58 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-13-80.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.13.80
Message:
Who is disrupting here? The SLPP leadership or I do no know who you guys are blaming for incidents happening in the parts of Sierra Leone the people believed that they have been lied to by APC/Charles Margai information machinery and therefore would not wantto see their faces. I respect the Electoral Laws Act of 2002 and therefore would implore NEC to see that such laws are adhered to by all parties. The police should make it mtheir duty to educate the people in such areas to understand that the breach of such laws are not only contrary to the EL Act 2002 but a criminal offence punishable upon conviction.
My take on these issue is that my party the SLPP whose renegade members, now seen as traitors by the indigenes, are the authors of these desperado antics. They continue to create mayhem upon themselves and blame it on the SLPP. They go to these regions purposefully to provoke a preconceived effect - to cry wolf where non exists. They will fail and will indeed woefully fail.
It is a very sad fact to stomach that there are members in the SLPP and the APC/Charles Margai enclaves whose efforts in causing mayhem is personal and not in the interest of our people. These eements are one and the same and they are bent on destroying each other at the expence of the ignorance of our people. All the fight is borne out of fear and selfishness.
My prayer is for our members/supporters to remain calm and ignore the peripheries of their gatherings so as not to be caught in their preconceived antics. I implore our SLPP leaders in all regions to advise our people to stay loyal and calm - let our people avoid any open confrontation with the APC/Charles Margai bandwagon of hungry miscreants. Their aim is to distabilise the nation, forcing our people to continue to suffer.
The bluinders of the SLPP led by Kabbah should not be seen as an open verdict that the Berewa led SLPP will do the same. Kabbah's strategy to unite our nation can only work in the west. On understanding him last week during a conversation, I was privileged to know why he had so many people from diverse political affiliations in all sectors of our society - an ideology only workable in the west. Sierra leone has not known collectivism in furthering national objectives but individualism in furthering personal or collegial objectives. These tiny groups of greedy individuals in the SLPP and APC/Charles Margai covertly united front cannot hold us back. Let our enlightenment be manisfested in our actions by refusing to accept bribes and th making of our declaration to put country before any individual interest.
May God grant us the understanding to see the evil and treacherous elements in our midst covertly serving a united front that has axis in the two major partiers - we know you and you will not be spared by the wrath of God. Your evil plans for the people and country will not work.
Subject: Re: SLPP DESPERATE MEASURES
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 14:37:31 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: ppp-69-229-9-44.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.229.9.44
Message:
Eddie,
Thank you for your civil message. This kind of campaigning message will sell more than insulting and intimidating each other. You gave reasonable explanation as to why SLPP is fighting hard to hold on to power. You said that they are afarid of their failures being exposed. How? Hopefully, if APC did things that SLPP failed to do. Many people will buy this statement. This is the kind of ideas and debates we need to exchange rather than trying to show oneself as being "Macho" on the cyberspace and in person.
Subject: Poll question(s)
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 13:55:54 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: ppp-69-229-9-44.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.229.9.44
Message:
I would like thank the pollster for Cocorioko.net for the good job. However, I am requesting that a third option should be included. For instance;
Who is your presidential favorite?
a. Koroma
b. Berewa
c. None
d. Not sure.
This will include a wide spread on view.
Subject: Re: Poll question(s)
From: Pollster
To: All
Date Posted: 14:24:19 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-91-33-198.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.33.198
Message:
You're welcome. The third option was omitted since the
NEC ballots may not be having one.
Subject: Re: Poll question(s)
From: Pollster
To: All
Date Posted: 14:16:14 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-91-33-198.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.33.198
Message:
You bet. Here's an even better picture.
Subject: Foday Sankoh's Parlor Wife
From: Daniel Cole
To: All
Date Posted: 13:40:09 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: swooshman@blackplanet.com
Entered From: pool-70-16-223-167.man.east.verizon.net at 70.16.223.167
Message:
Posted by Ibzzo on August 31, 2007 at 13:25:38:
Slyvia is it really true that you had a sexual relationship with the most treachous man ever from Sierra Leone? Can you clear the air with your response that I can't wait any longer to hear? I briefly overheard some formal RUF members discussing this topic but I'll save folks the embarrassment from calling names till I hear your response.
Subject: Re: Foday Sankoh's Parlor Wife
From: Neneh Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 16:00:08 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-249-162.cable.ubr05.haye.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.249.162
Message:
Mr Cole,
I sincerely cannot fathom the motive behind such scurrilous and unwarranted attack on Sylvia. Surely it cannot be merely because she openly supports the SLPP. Both the APC and SLPP parties in my opinion have very little to be proud of as far as the developmental aspirations of Sierra Leone are concerned. Would it do any harm if you stuck to the issues that matter? Such blatant mischievousness is nauseating and can only emanate from a chauvinistic and puerile mindset. Had Slyvia been a man would it have crossed your mind to concoct such filth? IF YOU WAN FART YOU NOR GO GO NA DOE?
Subject: Re: Foday Sankoh's Parlor Wife
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 16:24:15 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-13-80.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.13.80
Message:
May the Good Lord continue to give you and increase your profound wisdom. I do not think our male chauvinist will come to you - you have really drowned him in his rightful place. Stayed blessed and may others of your category learn from you.
Subject: Stop Biased Reporting
From: Wayne Dodd
To: All
Date Posted: 12:32:56 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: wamforgmark@googlemail.com
Entered From: user-5446cc27.lns5-c13.telh.dsl.pol.co.uk at 84.70.204.39
Message:
Dear Mr. Editor
I am very ashamed of the conduct, and most of all the journalist publications. It seems like each press has a preferred party that they are supporting. Whilst I think that you guys are doing a great job in keeping us informed of the current political climate, this should be done in an objective manner.
If you look at your broadcast, its one sided and clearly in favor of APC. Secondly, your comments are inciting violence. I will make my views known to the others who are doing the same nonsense. Personally, I don't care if it's APC, SLPP, PMDC or any other party as long as we maintain the peace. Yes the current government has done very little development for the country but at list they have tried by not fixing the first round of the elections. Let give them credit for that. Are we not happy that they did not follow the foot steps of Nigeria? If APC should win let the people decide and it may happen given the fact that they are leading. On the other hand if PMDC should win let it be.
As an investor and a solid Sierra Leonean I do not want to see a repeat for the last decade of civil war never again. Are we not all the same and human? Did we not suffer consequences of the previous war? So then why are we trying to allow our selfish ambition or preference to stand in the way of a stable Sierra Leone? Let's not forget so quickly where we have come from. I personally, like Ernest koroma but the test of his character should be now. He should come out and sincerely, denouce violence.
Yours faithfully,
Wayne Dodd
Subject: Re: Stop Biased Reporting
From: Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 12:34:16 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-91-33-198.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.33.198
Message:
So, Wayne Dodd, do you find the following report biased
as well?
"Live bullets were fired at Koroma and Margai"---Police
- Friday 31 August 2007.
By Sorie Sudan Sesay, Freetown.
Police this evening confirmed that live bullets were fired on the convoy of the leaders of the All People’s Congress (APC)Ernest Bai Koroma(photo) and the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) Charles Francis Margai, who were on a campaign tour in Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone.
Two of Koroma’s personal jeep vehicles were badly damaged - one of them had its front tire punctured as a result of the firing and is currently at the Kenema police station as exhibit, while the windscreen of the other was damaged.
Both leaders managed to escape through the help of IMATT military personnel who escorted them out of the township. In fact one of the IMATT vehicles which helped to rescue the APC convoy had its windscreen damaged.
The police could not confirm who fired the live shots but admitted that they were forced to fire teargas to disperse the desperate crowds who were bent on causing damage on Koroma and his team.
The convoy was coming from Segbwema where they were also forced to cut short their campaign tour and make a u-turn to Kenema.
On entering Kenema, according to the PMDC spokesman Mohamed Bangura, the police told them they could not guarantee them security forcing the APC men to call in for military and IMATT personnel for securiry.
This latest incident came barely three days to reports of violent attacks on northern businessmen in the township forcing some of them to flee the area because of insecurity.
Ernest and Margai later left for the southern township of Bo where they were also brutally attacked. But the attackers this time met stiff resistance from PMDC and APC supporters who engaged them in a fierce battle plunging the entire township in confusion and commotion.
The Sahara hotel where Margai and Ernest lodged was attacked this morning and police had to be immediately called in who reportedly fired teargas to disperse the attackers.
The residence of Sidique Janneh, the PMDC official who was suspended by his party for insubordination was ransacked.
Calm has however returned to the township but that was after the convoy had left for Taiama.
Meanwhile Ernest and his new political ally of the PMDC Charles Francis Margai, received a massive welcome back in Freetown today.
Koroma and Margai stood inside two jeeps and were driven across the city from the provinces.
Their arrival was greeted with a huge surge of people, mostly their supporters who came out to find out whether their leaders were hurt. The two leaders waved to their supporters, beaming with smiles.
Traffic came to a stand still as supporters ran after the convoy right on to the APC headquarters on Hannah Benka Coker Street, where the leaders briefly addressed their supporters.
The SLPP has not yet reacted on the recent spate of violence in the east of the country in which its supporters are alleged to play a prominent role. The party’s spokesman, Victor Reider, is also unavailable for comments.
Subject: Re: Stop Biased Reporting
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 17:59:21 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: smtpgateway.azdes.gov at 207.108.136.241
Message:
Mr. Wayne, as an investor in the country, it is appealing to appeal for calm in the country as you are doing.However, I am a little bit worried whether the accusation that news papers like cocorioko is one sided, not withstanding the fact that cocorioko has on several occasions publish both SLPP and APC articles.
Secondly, you have to remember that if you take one of your finger and point it to someone, the remaining four fingers will be pointing at you as you have to bend them backward to give room to the one finger. So keep doing what you believe in but be careful not to fall as a pree.
Subject: Re: Stop Biased Reporting
From: Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 14:11:48 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-68-91-33-198.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.33.198
Message:
Mr Dodd,
Please read the account below and tell us how different
was Cocorioko's from what was reported on the ground.
Also, please be encouraged broaden your research. Without looking too far, you may perhaps be able to find out what online newspaper has been biased in reporting events.
Who’s responsible for the Segbwema fracas?
News - National
Friday, 31 August 2007
As expected, accusations and counter-accusations abound over where the responsibility lies for the Thursday 30th August clashes in Segbwema, eastern Sierra Leone, between supporters of the ruling SLPP and the opposition APC. Because of those clashes, a temporary dusk to dawn curfew has been imposed by the police in neighbouring Kailahun.
A Reuters report puts the blame squarely on the door of the SLPP for starting the disturbance. The report published today, Friday August 31st says, ‘dozens of youths stoned a convoy of the opposition All People's Congress (APC) as it rolled into the south-eastern town of Segbwema. They then fought with the party's guards before police dispersed them with tear gas. The pro-SLPP youths forced Koroma's campaign convoy to turn back from Segbwema’.
A Voice of America (VOA) report published also today 31st August, quotes the assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of professional standards and the media, Chris Charlie agreeing with the Reuters report in part that ‘yesterday (30th August) Mr. Ernest Koroma and his whole team were en route to Kailahun after traveling from Kenema, the police have ensured that he was provided with the best security’.
Charlie went on in the VOA report that ‘indeed there were some skirmishes between rival parties in Segbwema in the afternoon hours. But as I am talking to you now I have confirmed with the regional commissioner in the eastern province that even the assertion that SLPP party building was burned to the ground is not true, and she has yet to confirm to us here in Freetown whether other buildings have been gutted’.
‘The police in Kailahun have declared immediate curfew for people to stay in their homes rather than go out because there were some threats this evening for the native Poro Devil (the secret association for men in Mende society) to come out in the streets,’ Charlie said. ‘Our presence is all over the provinces, especially in that part of the country’, he said.
Charlie said the police could not confirm whether it was APC or SLPP supporters who were responsible for the alleged violence. ‘We can only determine that one when there is a full-scale investigation, which the regional commissioner in the south and eastern provinces has now mounted. As I speak to you, we have authorized her today to send an investigating team to Segbwema to unravel the truth because most times during this period you have reports and counter-reports from rival political parties. And we have the arduous task to investigate speedily the allegations and come out with our findings before we can categorically lay blame on x, y, z party or not,’ Charlie said.
Observers believe the elections are bound to attract some amount of violence because they are the first after the departure of UN peacekeepers in 2005. They are a test of the country’s fragile peace, after 11 years of a brutal civil war, and also of its fledgling democracy. It is equally a test of the strength and resolve of the security forces to operate in a democratic climate. Their impartial and professional handling of the present crisis will go a way long way in demonstrating their ability as a force for good in Sierra Leone’s infantile democracy.
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Subject: Re: Stop Biased Reporting
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 12:54:17 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577fa15.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.250.21
Message:
If you are really serious about the situation in the country you so purport to love, maybe you should ask the SLPP to reign in their thugs and stop hindering democracy. Berewa is the one who should stop harassing his opponents.
In the eyes of the world, this SLPP thugocracy has already lost the moral and political authority to rule.
Subject: Re: Stop Biased Reporting
From: EBOSIO
To: All
Date Posted: 14:26:46 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: BGENE@MSN.COM
Entered From: 65.107.195.162.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.195.162
Message:
Where are you MB? Are you in the diaspora or are you at home? If at home, have you been a witness to any of these incidents of violence over the past few days; and were you able to verify the facts of the situation? It is unfortunate that a vehicle that should have been used for positive and constructive debate is being used to propagate tribalistic and party affiliations. As a neutralist, I believe that every Sierra Leonean should avoid party affiliation unless they are part of the polity. We the citizens should view politicians as adversaries positively. We should be ready to kick them out when they fail and embrace them when they succeed, irrespective. Politicians in Salone have been woeful failures for the past 46yrs. They have a whole lot to prove. To realize that Salone has degenerate to a point where people's affiliations are stronger than their love for their country is profoundly heartrending. What has politics done for us since we took over the reins of government? What my rationale cannot grapple with, is to observe so-called educated individuals who should be giving much warranted resource for positive direction to our people, engage in incongrous diatribes and debates that are doing more harm than good to the large number of mediocre intelligence in our society who are the product of the rundown eucation system we have had over the past 30 or more years, the legacy of our polity. Even though I do not agree with WD insnuating that KABS has been biased in his reporting, I do agree with him on a lot of other points pertaining to neutrality. Please don't feel I am trying to get at you in any way, but your response to Wayne Dodd's piece depicts you are more interested in your affiliation than in the restoration and progress of Salone. Even when we do lip serve, we vividly express our desire to get our man and chap our chap. WOW, what a set of people we are.
Subject: Re: Stop Biased Reporting
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 18:01:55 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Ebosio, believe me, my fealty is and always will be to Sierra Leone. And precisely because of that, I think we should call guilty parties on their BS. My party is PMDC, but I am now supporting APC in the runoffs because SLPP disqualified themselves as a result of their woeful mismanagement of the economy and the odious kakistocracy they have inflicted on our country. If in the next elections, they recommit to democracy, stop this nonsense of tribal politics and thuggery and elect leaders who are dedicated to the inviolable unity of the country, I will seriously consider supporting them. The tribe-baiting mobsters who currently are calling the shots in SLPP will get nothing but scorn from me, for now. Had WD called on Berewa AND Ernest Koroma to publicly renounce violence, I would have applauded him. Instead he hypocritically asked the victim of the SLPP-orchestrated violence at Segbwema, Ernest to say the pledge only, giving Berewa, the perpetrator a free pass. So I gave him a small cuff on the head for it. Take care my friend and remain patriotic.
Subject: Re: Stop Biased Reporting
From: Neneh Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 16:13:18 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-249-162.cable.ubr05.haye.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.249.162
Message:
Ebosio,
Well said! Well said! Well said! Well said! Some man dem lek APC/SLPP/PMDC etc. pass how dem lek Salone.
Subject: SLPP TURN TO PORO SOCIETY FOR HELP
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 11:56:48 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: smtpgateway.azdes.gov at 207.108.136.241
Message:
Members of the SLPP party in Kailahun district is threatening oppositions with the poro society. Earlier today, society members have been meeting in the poro bush to discuss the request. Witness has confirmed to me that youths in the township of Kailahun have been roaming in the street singing cultural songs(poro). The SLPP is said to have bribed these youths to obstruct any campaign by the opposition in the district.
This is an indication of how desperate the SLPP is to hang on to power. It has become clear that the only tool of the SLPP is violence, tribal and regional division. We are sliding back to the dark days of our country. God save the country and its people
Subject: Re: SLPP TURN TO PORO SOCIETY FOR HELP
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 13:18:59 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577fa15.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.250.21
Message:
Sierra Leone will remain one country and one people despite the naked tribalistic policies of this criminally insane mafia, the SLPP. How can you care for the country's unity when you incite your murderous thugs to prevent your opponents from campaigning in certain parts of the country? Can you imagine the ensuing chaos if the APC bans SLPP from areas of the North? This is the kind of short-sighted policy that can quickly degenerate into odious tribal warfare.
All patriotic citizens should condemn this awful strategy of tribal politics being practised by the SLPP. May God save Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: SLPP TURN TO PORO SOCIETY FOR HELP
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 13:05:28 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: at 89.240.16.243
Message:
The poro society do not own the SLPP. Kabba is not a poroman. Our elders used to asy that when you allowed a non poroman to lead a poroman you would end up in a dust bin. The SLPPis closeto that.
Subject: Re: SLPP TURN TO PORO SOCIETY FOR HELP
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 14:16:53 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: ppp-69-229-9-44.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.229.9.44
Message:
Are saying that only a poroman should be president in Sierra Leone? In this NANOTECHNOLOGY AGE, any cabable person that has good intension for the country can lead a country irrespective of their differences.
Subject: CHANT AGAINST TRIBALISM
From: Onliner
To: All
Date Posted: 11:46:16 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-91-33-198.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.33.198
Message:
A MESSAGE FOR THE TRIBALISTS.
Subject: ACCORDING TO BBC FOCUS ON AFRICA.
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 11:44:28 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: smtpgateway.azdes.gov at 207.108.136.241
Message:
Listen how the SLPP is instigating war in the country.
Subject: More Authentic News
From: Still Surfing
To: All
Date Posted: 11:05:45 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f298781.ga.unc.edu at 152.4.31.217
Message:
Who’s responsible for the Segbwema fracas?
News - National
Friday, 31 August 2007
As expected, accusations and counter-accusations abound over where the responsibility lies for the Thursday 30th August clashes in Segbwema, eastern Sierra Leone, between supporters of the ruling SLPP and the opposition APC. Because of those clashes, a temporary dusk to dawn curfew has been imposed by the police in neighbouring Kailahun.
A Reuters report puts the blame squarely on the door of the SLPP for starting the disturbance. The report published today, Friday August 31st says, ‘dozens of youths stoned a convoy of the opposition All People's Congress (APC) as it rolled into the south-eastern town of Segbwema. They then fought with the party's guards before police dispersed them with tear gas. The pro-SLPP youths forced Koroma's campaign convoy to turn back from Segbwema’.
A Voice of America (VOA) report published also today 31st August, quotes the assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of professional standards and the media, Chris Charlie agreeing with the Reuters report in part that ‘yesterday (30th August) Mr. Ernest Koroma and his whole team were en route to Kailahun after traveling from Kenema, the police have ensured that he was provided with the best security’.
Charlie went on in the VOA report that ‘indeed there were some skirmishes between rival parties in Segbwema in the afternoon hours. But as I am talking to you now I have confirmed with the regional commissioner in the eastern province that even the assertion that SLPP party building was burned to the ground is not true, and she has yet to confirm to us here in Freetown whether other buildings have been gutted’.
‘The police in Kailahun have declared immediate curfew for people to stay in their homes rather than go out because there were some threats this evening for the native Poro Devil (the secret association for men in Mende society) to come out in the streets,’ Charlie said. ‘Our presence is all over the provinces, especially in that part of the country’, he said.
Charlie said the police could not confirm whether it was APC or SLPP supporters who were responsible for the alleged violence. ‘We can only determine that one when there is a full-scale investigation, which the regional commissioner in the south and eastern provinces has now mounted. As I speak to you, we have authorized her today to send an investigating team to Segbwema to unravel the truth because most times during this period you have reports and counter-reports from rival political parties. And we have the arduous task to investigate speedily the allegations and come out with our findings before we can categorically lay blame on x, y, z party or not,’ Charlie said.
Observers believe the elections are bound to attract some amount of violence because they are the first after the departure of UN peacekeepers in 2005. They are a test of the country’s fragile peace, after 11 years of a brutal civil war, and also of its fledgling democracy. It is equally a test of the strength and resolve of the security forces to operate in a democratic climate. Their impartial and professional handling of the present crisis will go a way long way in demonstrating their ability as a force for good in Sierra Leone’s infantile democracy.
[ Back ]
Subject: APC NORTH AMERICA IS A TRIBALISTIC BUNCH
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:59:53 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-75-66-114-24.hsd1.tn.comcast.net at 75.66.114.24
Message:
From Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown
Local News
APC Demands: Mendes At NEC Must Be Sacked in Sierra Leone
By Amara Conteh
Aug 30, 2007, 21:52
They have no problems with the sister of APC Activist Patrick Ojong, Ms. Theresa Ojong who solely oversaw the Freetown Elections but...
APC Demands for the Removal of the 3 Most Senior Mendes at NEC
And Questions the Integrity of the 4th most Senior Southeasterner...
THE REASONS GIVEN ARE FLIMSY AT BEST AND DOWNRIGHT SHAMEFULLY TRIBALISTIC AT WORST
IS THIS A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME? IS THE QUESTION ON MANY CONCERNED MENDEMAN’S LIPS RIGHT NOW!
It would be difficult to find a Sierra Leonean who does not have a relative involved in politics. Madam Theresa Ojong, the immediate sister of well known All People’s Congress (APC) strongman, Mr. Patrick Ojong was the District Electoral Officer for the Western Urban Area (Freetown). No-one raised any complaints about her closeness to the APC. However, the APC is now claiming that very distant relatives of members of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) should be removed (sacked) with immediate effect from the National Electoral Commission (NEC).
All the people who have been publicly named as deserving to be sacked are from the Mende or Kono tribes which tribes are mostly supporters of the ruling SLPP.
Aiah Mattia: A Konoman from SouthEast is also named by pro-APC newspapers as a suspect
It started off as a mention, way down in an obscure August 23rd Press Release issued by the All People’s Congress which stated that, "the Berewa campaign has three moles at the National Electoral Commission who occupy positions of influence" and then goes on to name Hindowa Momoh who was wrongly described as the "Chief Electoral Officer" (He is rightly the Chief Executive Officer), Edward Nyalley, Commissioner for the Eastern Province, and someone they simply described as "a Mr. Massaquoi, the Logistics Officer" whom the APC claimed without any proof to, "have been found to be acting contrary to the election laws."
Eddie Nyallay is not wanted by APC at NEC
However, the aforementioned innocuous mention in the APC Press Release of last Thursday August 23rd 2007 with the raison d’etre of "appearing to be doing SLPP’s bidding" as their bone of contention against the three Mendes got worse when local pro-APC newspapers picked up the matter and started to drum low down allegations (again with no proof proffered) against virtually all the senior Mendes at the NEC Office.
The photographs of these Mende and Kono men have been blown up and plastered on newspaper pages with accompanying inciteful messages alongside them and with nothing to justify the attacks except their origins: They are South Easterners who have SLPP relatives or SLPP friends. Just like Theresa Ojong has an APC brother.
The APC calls for Hindowa Momoh from Kailahun to be removed from his job
Of note is that it was only in non-mendeland that a whole Presiding Officer named Gibrilla Kanu, was caught red handed with pre-stamped ballot papers in his possession as he tried to rig the elections for APC. As reports of well over 10,000 Ghost Voters casting ballots in Kambia District and all over the Northern Province, now emerge, it is clear that the issue of over-voting is not limited to South Eastern Sierra Leone.
The APC and their allies call for Winston Minah from Pujehun to be sacked
However, in a bid to create some justification for what has now become several "Petitions" to sack virtually the three most senior Mendes at the Elections Office, the matter of slight over-voting in one Constituency is now being cited as justification for what is nothing other than a thinly veiled tribalistic attempt. The reality is that it was only in Kailahun that someone mysteriously left out the names of hundreds of residents who became disenfranchised on Polling Day when their polling station at which they had registered was not set up with no reason given. Those left out were typical SLPP voters.
One of these "Petitions" by the APC for the senior Mendes at NEC to be sacked, was issued in the United States and co-signed by the APC’s Alieu Iscandari who, within days of the death of Chief Hinga Norman, described Norman as a "cannibal" and in an open argument, denounced anyone who named Norman as a hero.
"Hero my Rump! Hero My Rump!" the APC’s Iscandari had stated openly of Chief Hinga Norman on an Internet Discussion Forum.
In the US-based APC Petition for the Mendes to be sacked, they ask for Christiana Thorpe to, "institute an investigation into the acts" of the Mende men. They also wrote, "We request that any investigation be carried out with all alacrity so that these errant members of the NEC would be replaced with all speed."
However, nowhere in the Petition is any evidence or proof to justify why the Mende men are called "errant".
The other two signatures to the "Petition" to sack all the senior Mendes were Leslie Allen and Foday Mansaray but the baseless Petition has come under immense criticisms from Mendes not only within the country but all around the world. One such writer, Rev. Dr. Paul Amara from New York wrote:
"The accusations directed by stalwarts and most disappointingly high ranking party officials of the APC at the National Electoral Commissioners who have sacrificed their time, energy and have even risked their own precious lives to assist conduct the most free and fair elections in the history of Sierra Leone create suspicions."
Rev Amara goes on to ask, "What kind of information and facts are the top-ranking APC officials relying on to make these accusations? Where is the source of their information? Are we going to put in power again people who believe in baseless rumors? Why are these accusations coming mostly from the APC? "
He then points out, "All of the three names mentioned in their campaign for removal all sound Mende. Do they want to clear the non-eastern/non-southern Commission members of all suspicions? This is yet another indication that grudges are still deep seated in the minds and hearts of some people, and that they still do NOT want to get over the differences and unite for the future of our children. As a patriotic Sierra Leonean, I want to ask those responsible for these kinds of propaganda to desist..."
Dr. Christiana Thorpe herself has strongly defended her staff. She is quoted as pointing out that the commission sets high standards for its staff, stressing on neutrality as the primary attribute of whosoever is recruited to work with the commission.
Meanwhile, it is a fact that there is another Mende man at NEC whose name is Philip Koroma and who hails from Kailahun. However, because he is low-key and not in the public eye, only handles inhouse finance matters, and most of all, because of his Northern-sounding ‘Koroma’ surname, he skipped attention and has not been slandered in the local pro-APC newspapers. Aside from Koroma, no other senior Mende man at NEC has been spared the APC’s campaign of calumny.
This has now gotten many Mendes to quietly ponder whether the speed with which their kinsmen were being roughly denounced and the urge to kick them out of their jobs, was not a sign of things to come.
A local pro-APC newspaper recently published an article to the effect that people were tired of seeing Mendes in office. Whatever that meant was not explained.
"I am really jittery over the APC’s campaign against these poor Mendes at NEC. The APC treated Southeasterners to a rough time during their previous reign. Now, even Mr. Mattia from Kono is not being spared by APC news outlets. As a Mende man, I am very concerned for my job," a Government worker stated yesterday at Youyi Building whilst appealing for anonymity.
The APC Leader himself who is currently trying to woo the Mendes to vote for him to become President and rule Sierra Leone has promised that if the Mendes vote for him, he will not victimize them like previous APC regimes did.
However, when his assurance was put to Martin Francis, a Mendeman working at Youyi Building as a cleaner, he shook his head and said, "coming events cast their shadows".
Subject: Re: APC NORTH AMERICA IS A TRIBALISTIC BUNCH
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 11:19:48 08/31/07 ()
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Alieu,
You and I know that is CHEAP POLITRICKS,and it would not work,so give it a REST.....NO TRIBALISM.
CHECK YOU OUT..(LAUGH)
Subject: Re: APC NORTH AMERICA IS A TRIBALISTIC BUNCH
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 15:00:55 08/31/07 ()
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Nar RED are see so? Nar APC RAT that?
That was funny...
Subject: Re: APC NORTH AMERICA IS A TRIBALISTIC BUNCH
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 10:56:07 08/31/07 ()
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Alieu, Sylvia lacks credibility from the beginning. So anything she says is considered nothing more than propaganda, even if some info may be correct. She has damaged her credibility and exposed her inability to be objective. So quoting her is something that will slowly question your very credibility too. I know you don't want to be like her. So try to quote other sources.
Subject: WILL SIERRA LEONEANS ALLOW FEW ELEMENTS TO WRECK THIS NATION
From: Researcher
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Date Posted: 09:26:44 08/31/07 ()
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Will Sierra Leoneans Allow Few Elements to Wreck This Nation?
August 30, 2007 09:23 AM
Certainty, no patriotic Sierra Leonean will voluntarily allow a handful of disgruntled individuals to wreck this nation, after the sad chapter of our barbaric civil war. The second lap, the most important phase of the electoral process in Sierra Leone is ongoing. The presidential run- off election has been scheduled for the 8th September, 2007. This event is what every Sierra Leonean is referring to as the turning point of this nation. Indeed a turning pointed has been long awaited and would surely increase the prestige and confidence of Sierra Leoneans locally and in
the Diaspora.
‘Obviously, it is the turning point that Sierra Leoneans and the international community are anticipating and not the vicious and universally unacceptable vice that seemed to have holistically enveloped few disgruntled elements that may have tasted corrupt power and intend to die with it.
In the game of politics, expertise is a very relative jargon and is mostly claimed by the mediocre, plebian amateurs, peddlers, formers and very jack and Jill. Their claim of specialty is not the bone of contention but their unprofessional, naive and unbalanced postulations that are of very serious concerns, which seems to be the perpetual problem in Sierra Leone.
Even the uneducated palm-wine taper would have known that the majority in every entity should take decision and implement the views of the minority. If at all the proposition stands unchallenged, why are few individuals forcing themselves on those that have rejected them unanimously? Actually, we do believe that hope is the last thing that dies in every individual. But the current degree of hopelessness manifested by the top should be left to speak for itself.
However, the pronouncements of the result of the first round of the presidential and parliamentary election left so many politicians in limbo. People thought, that the presidential aspirant that took the lead should be allowed to take over the reigns of power and form the next government in a bid to maintain our very fragile peace and avoid wasting the financial and human resources of the international community.
Even though, it is not the aspiration of the majority of Sierra Leoneans to conduct a presidential run-off election, it was declared that the provisions of the 1991 constitution be maintained and implemented fully. Now that the world knows that there would be a presidential run-off election in Sierra Leone, the National Electoral Commission, international elections observers and members of the diplomatic corps must ensure that the elections must be conducted in a free and impartial manner and every thing must be done to ensure that the outcome be peaceful, credible and acceptable.
The incredible outcome of the much talked about August 11 presidential and parliamentary elections and the unfolding political marriages being publicly declared have left every Sierra Leonean in a very pensive and analytical mood. The marriage has been critically evaluated and conclusions have been reached using acid tests. The analysis, if at all could be taken seriously lends credence to the expected news of the already anticipated presidential marathon called run-off elections.
By all indication, the electorates have already spoken their minds and would continue to do so to the hearing of the international and local communities until their basic needs are adequately addressed.
Without using universally acceptable political theories and principles of celebrated political think-tanks to the political dynamics of the present scenarios, the unpopularity of some political figures and the frivolous manner by which some of them distribute the nation’s wealth for votes could tell the type of political theories and principles applied by them.
This should not be the time to intimidate, victimize or lay blame on individual(s) and regions for the cumulative failure of any political leader.
Despite the views held by some people that certain ill-motivated party supporters intend to wreck havoc on the nation that should not move the masses from reversing their decision into choosing their future leader. The National Electoral Commission should endeavour to unveil the true voice of the people.
Subject: advice to Sierra Leone election
From: Abraham Kanu
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Date Posted: 08:35:34 08/31/07 ()
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I would like to send this message to both parties, APC and SLPP:
Be free and fair election, no war, and no troublisism. God Bless Sierra Leone.
Subject: Curfew Imposed
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Date Posted: 08:09:24 08/31/07 ()
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Monrovia- Police in Sierra Leone said Friday they had imposed a curfew in Kailahun in the east after violence intensified in a run-off to presidential election scheduled for September 8. Police Assistant Inspector General, Chris Charlie, who is in charge of professional standards and the media, said a probe into renewed violence has begun.
Violence has overshadowed preparations for next Saturday's
presidential run-off elections between Vice President Solomon Berewa and opposition candidate Ernest Koroma.
Koroma's APC won 44 per cent of the polls over 38 per cent for the ruling SLPP candidate Berewa thus setting the stage for a run-off.
Since the campaign was declared open last week, reports say rival supporters of both political parties have engaged in violent clashes.
Unidentified men allegedly torched houses in Segbema where the violence has escalated. The APC's Ernest Koroma has intensified his campaigning in the eastern and southern provinces this week, a stronghold of the ruling SLPP.
"Indeed there were some skirmishes between rival parties in on 30th of August 2007," Assistant Police Inspector General Charlie said but denied that the SLPP party building had been burnt to the ground.
Inspector Charlie said police have been working around the clock to protect all candidates during the election.
"Our presence is all over the provinces, especially in that part of the country," he said, adding, that the APC candidate and partisans had been provided with the "best security."
Police have not confirmed which group is responsible for the alleged violence.
"We can only determine that one when there is a full-scale investigation, which the regional commissioner in the south and eastern provinces has now mounted," Charlie said.
Political observers say the violence is likely to mar gains made during the second post-war election solely supervised by Sierra Leoneans themselves.
Meanwhile, reports from the Liberian border town of Bo Waterside say hundreds of Sierra Leoneans have trekked there to escape potential violence ahead of run-off presidential election.
The local immigration commander at Bo Waterside, in Grand Cape Mount County, said several of them have been denied entry into Liberia. Lt. Col. Ada Obiemiwe said many have no travel documents to enter the country.
Sources at the border said most were nationals of Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Guinea.
"I cannot talk to the press now because I am on my way to conduct regular immigration patrol at the various border points," Ada said.
Subject: What About This, You SLPPers?
From: Are They Lying, Too?
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Date Posted: 08:01:41 08/31/07 ()
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Sierra Leone's Electricity Shortage Charges Up Young Entrepreneurs
By Naomi Schwarz
Freetown
30 August 2007
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In Sierra Leone's presidential election, electricity has become an important campaign issue. In the crowded capital Freetown residents can go weeks without power, but some of the city's youth, faced also with unemployment that exceeds 70 percent, have turned adversity into opportunity. For VOA, Naomi Schwarz reports the city is full of little shops that offer to cut your hair, charge your phone, and let you play video games, all powered by inexpensive generators.
Electricity shop runs with these low-cost generators
Four or five boys crowd on wooden benches and plastic chairs in a tiny, ramshackle shop on a busy construction-filled road in downtown Freetown. More push up to the window to watch what is going on inside.
The boys are playing video game soccer on a small television.
Less than 20 cents gets you four minutes of playtime.
Shops like these dot every neighborhood. They offer a range of services, from haircuts with electric shavers to pay phone calls.
And for about 35 cents at almost any of the shops, you can charge your cell phone.
Although video games, haircuts, and cell phone charging do not seem related, there is one thing they have in common: they all require electricity. And that is something in short supply in Freetown.
Alvin Williams, who owns and operates the video-game, telephone, and cell phone-charging shop, says it has been more than a week since he has had electricity at home.
"From last Saturday to Sunday and at night, it is gone, so up until now," he said.
But the 22-year-old electrical engineering student turned entrepreneur has been able to turn his city's lack of power into an opportunity for himself. He will use the profits from his shop to pay for school.
"I just decided to do that because I am a student, so I have no facilities to pay my fees. So I can get the money to pay my fees," he said. "That is why."
The electricity shops operate with small generators.
Williams' Tiger-brand generator sits several feet away, the noise buffered by the concrete wall of an unfinished building. It cost him about $100.
Williams has been operating his shop for about two months. He said opening it was difficult and expensive, and he has not yet fully repaid the money he borrowed. But he said he could not find employment any other way.
"I have tried, but some of my friends have jobs, but me, I do not know. But I know that is the law. It is the will of God. Everything has time," he added.
The Bobo Penn Center offers video games and cell phone charging
Unemployment estimates in Sierra Leone top 70 percent and are even higher among youth. This, combined with the poor electricity and severe water shortages, have led many young Sierra Leoneans to say they want the upcoming run-off presidential election to result in a change in government.
Albert Thompson, who operates a generator-powered barber and cell-phone charging shop around the corner says this is why he will not vote for Solomon Berewa, the current vice president and candidate for the Sierra Leone People's Party.
"We are looking for a candidate [to bring] the immediate development we need right now," said Thompson.
In the first round, the candidate from the main opposition party, Ernest Koroma, garnered the highest number of votes, about 44 percent.
On September 8, Koroma will face Berewa in the second round.
Political arguing among the players and bystanders in Williams' shop shows that not everyone agrees the ruling party is to blame for the problems in Sierra Leone.
A fervent Berewa supporter, Suma Solo, says the electricity problems are not the fault of the president or his party.
"The president is not the one that did that," said Solo. "We, the Sierra Leoneans, have the problem."
In the meantime, entrepreneurs like Williams will continue to fill the gap. Williams says the name of his shop, Bobo Penn Center, reflects the hardships of living in Freetown that require such shops to exist.
"It is exactly how 'bobo penn' life goes. The hard life. So a really hard life. So that is why we call this place, that is the Bobo Penn Center. That is why," added Williams.
He says bobo penn is a slang phrase that means life his hard, and he says, in Freetown, 'we are all bobo penn.'
Source: Culled from VOA
Subject: SLPP IS A DISGRACE
From: Brima Kamara
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Date Posted: 07:41:09 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
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As my Grandmother use to say,"Wonders Never Cease". The more you live, the more you will see things that will continue to amaze you.
This is the case in point with the present SLPP government we have in Sierra Leone. In almost all other african cases, I have seen and heard of the International Community accusing the government of rigging elections. I have also seen and heard about the opposition parties claiming that elections were rigged by the ruling party. This is the first time that I have seen or heard a ruling government claiming that the opposition and the international community rigged elections. It makes me laugh. However we as Sierra Leoneans should not take it lightly because it may turn us into a laughing stock to the rest of the world.
This present SLPP government is really a disgrace to our nation. They have shown how low they can go to cling on to power at all cost. When I think of all that the international community did for them and this country since 1997 when Kabba was known as 'Pretty soon', it shows that not only are they ungrateful but they take us Sierra Leoneans as illiterates. The citizens who live in this country know what it means to feed themselves and their families on a daily basis, yet the SLPP claimed the international community was responsible for them losing the elections. Berewa was even the one who stated that we should be happy when we were placed at the bottom of the human development index two years ago. He even went further to organise a party in Bintumani to celebrate that. Now he is casting blame on innocent people who have spent their time, energy and money to help and lift us up from the state that the SLPP government has placed us. Eleven years ago they claimed they can solve all our problems with lofty promises. They still want to use these same old promises to win another election when they were not able to deliver on the first ones. Our fathers use to say "fors fool no to fool, na de second wan na im na fool. We are no longer fools.
They are now using violence and "bottom brain" Sylvia Blyden to intimidate UN workers in our country.
I want Tejan Kabbah and Solomon Berewa to know that they cannot intimidate us. If we can stand up to soldiers who are trained killers, they should know we can stand up to them and anything that they can come up with.
PLease SLPP, stop making our country a laughing stock or you will only have yourselves to blame. The People have spoken. Lonta
Subject: SLPP savagery continues - wanna win at all costs
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 07:28:15 08/31/07 ()
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Violence clouds Sierra Leone run-off campaign
Fri 31 Aug 2007, 5:26 GMT
[-] Text [+] By Katrina Manson
SEGBWEMA, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - Rival supporters in Sierra Leone fought with sticks and stones on Thursday, adding to fears that the build-up to next week's presidential run-off could reopen wounds from the civil war.
Dozens of youths stoned a convoy of the opposition All People's Congress (APC) as it rolled into the southeastern town of Segbwema. They then fought with the party's guards before police dispersed them with tear gas, a Reuters reporter said.
APC leader Ernest Bai Koroma, who came first in an August 11 poll with 44 percent of votes, faces Vice President Solomon Berewa of the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), who won 38 percent.
Koroma's APC is in a strong position because of backing from SLPP dissident Charles Margai and his PMDC party, which has created an opposition majority in the new parliament. There is a split between the APC-leaning north and SLPP south.
The election is the first in the former British colony since U.N. peacekeepers left two years ago after helping end the 1991-2002 civil war.
The pro-SLPP youths forced Koroma's campaign convoy to turn back from Segbwema, near the border with Liberia. The local SLPP party headquarters was set ablaze in the violence.
President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah said this week he could declare a state of emergency if electoral violence worsened.
Police imposed a brief curfew on Monday in the eastern border region, a centre of the illegal diamond mining trade which fuelled the civil war.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was "concerned about the tensions and violence that have been increasing in Sierra Leone since last week", his spokesperson said on Wednesday.
"He calls on all parties and their leaders to do everything necessary to prevent the situation from escalating."
VOLATILE EX-COMBATANTS
More than 70,000 fighters were disarmed at the end of the war, each given the equivalent of $100 to hand in their guns. Many drifted into driving motorcycle taxis after donor-funded skills' training schemes closed down or ran out of money.
Mustapha Sesay and Femi Rashid are former foes who work together in a motorcycle taxi club that brings together ex-combatants in the southern town of Bo.
"I shoot you like a chicken," laughs Sesay, 22, an ex-rebel child soldier. "You don't know how to fight," retorts Rashid, 40, once a traditional Kamajor hunter who battled rebels.
The Bo Bike Riders' Association, where the pair work, represents nearly 5,000 motorcycle taxi drivers throughout southern Sierra Leone.
"Once they were fighting, and now they are working together ... It is wonderful," said David Ngombu from international aid organisation Conciliation Resources.
Sesay, who was abducted to fight by rebels when he was 12, says he will not go back to war.
"We only fight with this now," he said, pointing to his thumb, which illiterate voters use to mark their ballot choice.
Subject: APC Plans to Destroy the Kamajors
From: Sheku Kallon
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Date Posted: 07:04:29 08/31/07 ()
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The North America branch of the APC is working on a home-made video documentary that will soon be released. It is part of the propaganda war that the APC executive is financing, and the Washington DC branch of the APC is hoping to send copies of the said documentary to Freetown on September 4.
The video is centered on the Sandline affair in which it is alleged the government-in-exile of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah made an arms deal with a Canadian Businessman in order to arm mercenaries of the Executive Outcomes and Kamajor militia fighters to overthrow the military junta of Johnny Paul Koroma.
ANTI-KAMAJOR SENTIMENTS
The video is especially nuanced to show Kamajor fighters as predominantly Mende killers who targeted only Temne people in Freetown. The video further presents Johnny Paul Koroma as a popular hero who foresaw the persecution of northerners under the current SLPP government in 1997 and wanted to stop it.
The video starts with clips from Sorious Samura's Cry Freetown that show Kamajor fighters arresting an alleged rebel. the narrator announces that the alleged rebel is being arrested because he is a northerner. The irony is that Sorious Samura's documentary was recorded during the AFRC-RUF assault on Freetown and not during the overthrow of the AFRC.
The video's narrator announces that the kamajors were used to overthrow the AFRC just because the AFRC was seen as a northern junta. At several points, the narrator states that because Kamajors allegedly killed AFRC junta fighters, the APC must arrest and try all Kamajor leaders and known former fighters including all SLPP leaders and chiefs who are known to jave supported the CDF.
The video also mentions that all northern chiefs who were associated with Kaprs, Gbethis, and Tamaboro, and all Kono leaders associated with the Donsus will be arrested, stripped of their chieftaincy, tried, and executed.
PREPARING THE WAY FOR "NECKLACE" KILLINGS
The APC North America executive is doing this with the full knowledge of Ernest Koroma, whose speech appears at the end of the video urging northerners to vote for the APC. He is also aware that his rival for the presidency, Solomon Berewa is presented in the video as the chief persecutor of the AFRC, and as being personally responsible for killing northerners. He is declared the number one target, and the narrator does not stop himself from saying that Solomon Berewa must be publicly lynched as soon as the elections are over.
In an e-mail memorandum leaked to this press, the APC officials urge the national executive to show this video on campaign tours in the north of the country and in the eastern parts of Freetown. They also urge the collection of old tires which should be used to burn SLPP leaders to death on the streets of Freetown. In the same e-mail, the APC executive official asked that as soon as the September 8 run-off results are announced, APC should close all airports, sea ports, and land routes in order to prevent any SLPP leader from leaving the country. The e-mail also asks that Brima Acha Kamara, the Police chief, is a traitor to the northern cause and he must therefore be placed under arrest.
JOHNNY PAUL KOROMA TO BE DECLARED A NATIONAL HERO
The video shows several public and television speeches by Johnny Paul Koroma and members of his junta. The narrator calls for a declaration of Johnny Paul Koroma as a national hero who should be granted immediate reprieve by any incoming APC government.
THE AFRC AGENDA OF THE "NEW APC"
As troubling as this development is, it simply highlights the agenda of the "new APC." It points out that the people behind sponsoring and driving the "new APC" have their agenda of ethnic baiting and violence. It is known whether the international community is aware of this development.
The makers of the video plan to release and show the videos 2-3 dys before the elections in particular areas of the country, and to deny the ruling SLPP any time to counteract the propaganda.
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Destroy the Kamajors
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 13:28:53 08/31/07 ()
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Sheku Kallon,
The people of Sierra Leone survived the murderous rampage of Foday Sankoh, bloodied but unbowed.
Sierra Leone will survive tribalistic flame throwers like you and your shamelessly tribalistic SLPP.
Despite the provacations, we the people of Salone will not allow your cynical politicians to raise tribal tensions amongst us. God bless Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: RWANDA ALL OVER AGAIN
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
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Date Posted: 10:17:43 08/31/07 ()
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While at the special court, I was reviewing cases from the Arusha Court when I remember reading an intellectuals inctement to murder and mayhem. It read o much like your present prose. YOU OUGHTTA BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF.
Thats all I have to say..
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Destroy the Kamajors
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 09:54:43 08/31/07 ()
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When a contributor at the prestigious Salonediscussion@yahoogroup questioned you about DEFAMING Dr Cecil Blake character,I thought to myself maybe you are just MAD at the Erudite DR Cecil Blake for bringing out his TWO thoughts together to help solve the political stagnation that our country is in,and as a former SLPP cabinet Minister according to your thinking,he should not had came out and made such statement,but today you have confirmed to the world that you really need HELP,because this is way beyond helping the SLPP party that you claimed to be supporting.Please Sheku Kallon slow down,because we need PEACE in MAMA SALONE,and what you have just written is not the way forward for our country.
ME MAN BLOW. NOBODI WIT EI RIGHT MIND NOR GO BELIEVE WATIN U DAE TALK BOUT.
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Destroy the Kamajors
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 03:18:09 09/01/07 ()
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I would have asked Sheku to direct me to his source. More still, I would wait to see if the video is released before the elections. Sheku may have stumbled upon something that we can help prevent happening.
I will wait to see the release of the video and would like to ask Sheku to send us a clip of the video as I believe, according to his narrative, he has seen it.
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Destroy the Kamajors
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 08:12:41 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
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There’s a Parliament with 112 seats.
Today it’s
APC: 59 seats
SLPP: 43 seats
PMDC: 10 seats.
The APC did not do or need to do Sheku Kallon's evil SLPP propaganda when the APC won 59 seats and the SLPP won only 43 seats.
The SLPP is making this evil propaganda - a criminal act – because it is incitement – and the SLPP wants to isolate the Kamajors who are in the PMDC camp since the PMDC who won 10 seats have allied themselves with the APC.
The SLPP also wants to put a wedge between the British Government and the APC and that’s why they want to lift Sandlines into prominence – after the war - since Sandlines broke arms embargoes tin order to support Mr. Kabbah’s efforts to get power…..
It’s all so clear to see and Sheku Kallon you are either unconscious of being stupid or innocent to be such am mouthpiece for your party, or you are one of the most despicable African I have ever met in print.
Have to fo now but later….. and Kallon, do you know what you are doin?
This is the most shocking, most filthy piece we’ve read so far……..
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Destroy the Kamajors - SHEKU
From: NGULULU KPAKAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:33:23 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip4da2899b.direct-adsl.nl at 77.162.137.155
Message:
The Kamajors as an institution has ever since been de.commissioned and deactivatedn by the SLPP. The SLPP arrested and imprisoned the entire leadership, thus completing the process of destruction. The SLPP has clearly manifested her hatred for the defunct group by the malice and cruelty unleashed against the late Hinga Norman.We do sincerely hope that a change of govt will bring some hope to thIS issue. There is no way we mendes can fall for this cheap propanganda. The entire Kamajor issue is very fresh in our minds,one does not need a lecture on it.
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Destroy the Kamajors - SHEKU
From: NGULULU KPAKAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:32:55 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip4da2899b.direct-adsl.nl at 77.162.137.155
Message:
The Kamajors as an institution has ever since been de.commissioned and deactivatedn by the SLPP. The SLPP arrested and imprisoned the entire leadership, thus completing the process oF destruction. The SLPP has clearly manifested her hatred for the defunct group by the malice and cruelty unleashed against the late Hinga Norman.We do sincerely hope that a change of govt will bring some hope to thIS issue. There is no way we mendes can fall for this cheap propanganda. The entire Kamajor issue is very fresh in our minds,one does not need a lecture on it.
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Destroy the Kamajors
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 07:58:16 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
" and the narrator does not stop himself from saying that Solomon Berewa must be publicly lynched as soon as the elections are over."
All this is not helpful in creating peace.....
I'm hereby recommending to the SLPP leadership to please put a leash on you and your silly propaganda for Berewa and the SLPP's sake....
Who want's to hang a Berewa who is already dying of natural causes?
Subject: Re: APC Plans to Destroy the Kamajors
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 07:41:35 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Why should the APC want to do that?
There's hundreds of hours of video footage from the civil war - who wants to open a new sore at a time when the APC wants all the votes it can get?
Sheku Kallon you're here again trying to fool innocent people with your childish SLPP scare propaganda?
Subject: In Freetown we are all bobo penn, by VOA NEWS
From: Conteh
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Date Posted: 06:48:58 08/31/07 ()
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By Naomi Schwarz
Freetown
30 August 2007
VOA NEWS
Unemployment estimates in Sierra Leone top 70 percent and are even higher among youth. This, combined with the poor electricity and severe water shortages, have led many young Sierra Leoneans to say they want the upcoming run-off presidential election to result in a change in government.
Albert Thompson, who operates a generator-powered barber and cell-phone charging shop around the corner says this is why he will not vote for Solomon Berewa, the current vice president and candidate for the Sierra Leone People's Party.
"We are looking for a candidate [to bring] the immediate development we need right now," said Thompson.
In the first round, the candidate from the main opposition party, Ernest Koroma, garnered the highest number of votes, about 44 percent.
On September 8, Koroma will face Berewa in the second round.
Political arguing among the players and bystanders in Williams' shop shows that not everyone agrees the ruling party is to blame for the problems in Sierra Leone.
A fervent Berewa supporter, Suma Solo, says the electricity problems are not the fault of the president or his party.
"The president is not the one that did that," said Solo. "We, the Sierra Leoneans, have the problem."
In the meantime, entrepreneurs like Williams will continue to fill the gap. Williams says the name of his shop, Bobo Penn Center, reflects the hardships of living in Freetown that require such shops to exist.
"It is exactly how 'bobo penn' life goes. The hard life. So a really hard life. So that is why we call this place, that is the Bobo Penn Center. That is why," added Williams.
He says bobo penn is a slang phrase that means life his hard, and he says, in Freetown, 'we are all bobo penn.'
Subject: Re: In Freetown we are all bobo penn, by VOA NEWS
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 07:25:47 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
IT SHOWS THAT THE PEOPLE IN SIERRA LEONE ARE MORE POLITICALLY RATIONAL THAN THEIR FRUSTRATED KINSMEN IN THE DIASPORA. AT LEAST , THEY CAN ANALYZE THE ISSUES WITHOUT RESORTING TO NAMECALLING , BLAME AND TRIBALISM.
Subject: Re: In Freetown we are all bobo penn, by VOA NEWS
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 07:35:36 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.115.21
Message:
Did I hear you say "Rational". it is for you to come to your senses you have abandoned due to acute "SOLOCATISIS"
Subject: Re: In Freetown we are all bobo penn, by VOA NEWS
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 09:02:39 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
Do you notice that the fool mentions nothing about the bobo pain situation? What kind of amoeba is this kamara guy and other SLPPers? The SLPP government has turned the whole country into a nation of DREG man and women!!
Subject: SLPP: The Worst Party In The World, Bar None!!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 06:43:51 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Thuggery. Attempted assasinations of opposition leaders. Malicious propaganda. Sowing Chaos. Massive rigging. Destruction of infrastructure. Inexplicable fear of elections. Exploiting and raising tribal tensions. Stealing of hundreds of millions of dollars. Recklessly pushing the country towards civil war.
Pa Shaki's crimes? No!! These are the crimes against human decency by the worst party currently in the world.
Will continue when I get back from school this evening. Have a nice day everyone.We will survive this mob my brothers.
Subject: Re: SLPP: The Worst Party In The World, Bar None!!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 07:18:05 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
WITH THE MASSIVE SLPP RIGGING YOUR PMDC WAS ABLE TO WIN 10 SEATS IN SLPP BACKYARD. SLPP MUST BE INEFFICIENT RIGGERS. HOW MANY SEATS DID THE PMDC AND THE OTHER PARTIES WIN IN THE APC BACKYARD. BIG FAT NONE. BECAUSE YOUR APC PARTNER WERE UP TO THEIR OLD RIGGING TRICKS OR THEY ARE BIGGER TRIBALISTS THAN THE SLPP.
WHICH IS IT? LET US KNOW
Subject: Re: SLPP: The Worst Party In The World, Bar None!!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 09:06:22 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
You must be related to ABC DONKOH! You and ALIEU SESAY!
Subject: NEC Commissioners subjected to threats by SLPP
From: Conteh
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Date Posted: 06:37:22 08/31/07 ()
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NEC Commissioners subjected to threats
The Western Area Commissioner for the National Electoral Commission, Mrs Daphne Olu-Williams, has intimated that “at the moment, commissioners and some members of staff are being intimidated and subjected to threats.”
She made this disclosure yesterday at the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) hall, Brookfields in Freetown, when the Commissioner convened civil society members, political party agents, community leaders and all other stakeholders in the election process to a meeting to discus post-August 11 elections and the preparation for the September 8 run off.
She pleaded that, “as referees in the political contest, we urge fellow Sierra Leoneans to allow us to carry out our duty with utmost neutrality and without fear or favor.”
Mrs Olu-Williams also said the meeting was convened “to highlight lapses and to make right the wrongs of the August 11 polls”.
She pointed out that, “our aim is to attain a higher level of efficiency.”
The meeting was also primarily convened to address the issue of invalid votes.
The Western Area Commissioner revealed that the region had a total of 21,728 invalid votes out of a total of 3888,841 votes cast and that in the Western Rural District; the total number of invalid votes was 6,587 out of a total of 85,184 votes cast.
She also averred that although the total percentage for invalid votes for the whole country was 7.7% which fell below the ceiling of 15%, the internationally acceptable percentage of void votes for a post-conflict country, yet the people of Sierra Leone felt that since the votes represented the voters’ voice, it would be appreciated if each voter’s intention was actualized, and void votes to its barest minimum.
The Western Urban Commissioner appealed to both leaders of the APC and SLPP to plan, organize, lead and control the activities and behaviour of their supporters.
Subject: Presidential Affairs Minister Arrested in Makeni…2 Rifles,4
From: Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:21:43 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Dr. Shekou Sesay,current Minister of Presidential Affairs in the SLPP government with office at the Presidential lodge was arrested and later released in Makeni yesterday while heading for his home town, Kabala in the Koinadugu District.
According to the Local Unit Commander, Mr. Christopher John, the police received intelligence report which they acted on immediately Dr. Shekou Sesay emerged at Makeni, but ended up saying that nothing of police interest was discovered. “We found nothing of police interest so we released him to proceed with his journey” LUC John emphasized.
However, the explanation of the LUC appears to be different from eye witness account. Dr. Sesay was traveling with two military officers, a staff sergeant by the name of Conteh. B.S attached to the Wilberforce Battalion and private Conteh Ballah,and a civilian called Farrah Kamara with four political party’s T-shirt. The civilian Farrah Kamara claimed to be a student of the Milton Margai College of Education when he was apprehended.
When the vehicle was searched by police officers two riffles were discovered, SLRA6222 and SLRA 38794 with four magazines containing twenty bullets each with an addition of two empty magazines.
A UNDP vehicle with registration plate ADG 330 different from the license of the vehicle ACU 041 registered on the 31st January, 2007.
Mr. Kasho Cole, an employee of the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) in Makeni who learnt about the incident and the items discovered in the vehicle with fraudulent registration number plate expressed grave concern, saying that why should military officers be in the company of the Minister of Presidential Affairs contrary to the political party code of conduct.
As if the concern raised by the PPRC staff was not enough to instill fear into the youths at Makeni, journalists and youth organizations in the provincial town of Makeni and its environs are becoming very jittery with the prevailing situation and have equally expressed similar concerns.
When this press crosschecked with the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Brima Acha, he confirmed both the arrest and release of Dr. Sesay, stating that the military officers were provided to him by the Chief of Defense Staff, Brigadier Sam M,boma. When our reporter contacted the Chief of Defence Staff for comment one of his aides said he was at a meeting, but would return the call which he failed to do up to press time.
Mr. Acha Kamara said that the police are responsible to provide security for all Government Ministers and dignitaries “I don’t know why he was provided with military officers instead of police officers” Acha queried.
According to reporter Mbanga, when the arrest of Dr. Sesay was made yesterday afternoon, several telephone calls were made from state house by senior government officials urging his immediate release, but could not tell which of the government official made the calls. He however cited the telephone call from the office of the Inspector General of Police instructing junior police officers to release the government Minister. It is not known why the Presidential Affairs Minister was using vehicle with fake registration number plate and why the UNDP released one of its numerous vehicle to him.
Subject: SLPP OFFICES DESTROYED
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 06:11:29 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.com
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
Meanwhile, APC supporters have gone on the rampage in Kenema, destroying stalls and throwing stones at the SLPP offices.
KEEP YOUR EARS AND EYES OPEN.
Tamba
Subject: APC OFFICE IN MOYAMBA TORCHED
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 05:37:06 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
STAND BY FOR CONFIRMATION OF THE NEWS
Subject: Re: APC OFFICE IN MOYAMBA TORCHED
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 06:15:13 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.com
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
'STAND BY FOR CONFIRMATION OF THE NEWS'
Its more like standby for more lies and spin.Bo ina lef den kan naked propaganda.
Kabs did Leatherboot phone to say your APC offices have been torched ?
Tamba
Subject: Re: APC OFFICE IN MOYAMBA TORCHED
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 06:28:58 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-56-160.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.56.160
Message:
ROTFLMMFAO
FORREST
Subject: What did Kabs Kanu Know?
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 05:20:38 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-202.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 195.92.40.49
Message:
"Also calling COCORIOKO to narrate what happened today was Retired Captain Idrissa Kamara, popularly known as LEATHERBOOTS, who is one of the security officers attached to the convoy. He called us even before any newspaper reported on the incident.He said that their convoy had been ambushed by SLPP thugs".
Kabs were you privy to the attack on TOM NYUMA? So forward thinking-is this what they call pre-emptive strike? Man this just shows your online Newspaper as a tool for APC propaganda.
Tamba
Subject: Re: What did Kabs Kanu Know?
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:17:37 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
Entered From: 000-082-469.area3.spcsdns.net at 68.245.64.230
Message:
My friend you hit the nail on the right spot. I really do not know why Rev.Kabs-Kanu, will allow himself to be used in this manner. I was at first so much in love with his coverage but after I realised that he is pro-APC I started to look elsewhere for unbiased coverage.
Subject: Re: What did Kabs Kanu Know?
From: But You Still Come To This Forum, Jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:09:41 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f298781.ga.unc.edu at 152.4.31.217
Message:
Jalloh, if you believe Kabs is bias, why do you keep reading his news or even participate on this forum? When I realize SLPP Forum is one sided or that The New People Newspaper is one sided, I do not even border to go there or read the paper.
I do not read what dont want to read.
Subject: Re: What did Kabs Kanu Know?
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 19:21:22 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
Entered From: 000-043-588.area3.spcsdns.net at 68.244.169.156
Message:
To answer your question, I come to this forum to get the stories of the APC team. After that I visit Awareness Times and lately The New People to get their own side of things. SO YOU SEE, I CAN BALANCE THE SCALE EQUALLY AND MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION AS TO WHO IS CREDIBLE AFTER CONTACTING MY SOURCES BACK HOME. I commend Mr.Kabs-Kanu for the job he is doing but the fact is he is too PRO-APC. You really don't have to be a celebrated analyst to know it. People like you are afraid to speak the truth. If you are a constant visitor to this forum you will see that I am not the only one echoing this concern. So my friend let me conclude by telling you that I don't care who wins the election as long as it is done in a fair and democratic way. No one has the right to intimidate or physically attack a particular tribe for voting their conscience as it was done to our people (THE HARD WORKING FULAS) in 1967. That is something some of us will forgive but will never forget. The same threats are being unleashed on our people again in 2007 for just exercising our inalienable right to vote for whoever we want. In case you don't know we are donors to all political parties but one thing we don't buy is cheap propaganda. I appeal to all my Fula brothers and sisters vote for the party that speaks to our issues. Double check all news before you cast blame as to who is on the verge of destroying our young democracy.
Subject: Re: What did Kabs Kanu Know?
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 10:32:50 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Here Here!! What would you call a bunch of SLPPers posting to one another at their new forums? And in what language? These guys are non-entities. The sooner they go to their own site the better.
Subject: Re: What did Kabs Kanu Know?
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:55:33 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-153-192-221.range81-153.btcentralplus.com at 81.153.192.221
Message:
Una wan dreb we or what leh we know wan tem o for bam bai
FORREST
Subject: CALLING INDEPENDENT OBSERVER
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 05:11:19 08/31/07 ()
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Message:
INDEPENDENT OBSERVER ARE YOU STILL WITH US IN OPPOSITION(THUGS) LAND
FORREST
Subject: Re: CALLING INDEPENDENT OBSERVER
From: Double Standards
To: All
Date Posted: 07:23:12 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
BOyz..
Independent Observer call me yesterday...
Said he was banned..
Not even been here 3 days..
I guess no one should challenge the Mods.. or the reverend around.
They get banned...
Nar for carefull..
We know say APC doesnt take too good to big concepts..
Like free speech.
Subject: Re: CALLING INDEPENDENT OBSERVER
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 09:06:23 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-68-91-33-198.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.33.198
Message:
Independent observer was suspended for harrassing the reverend which is a violation of section 20 of the disclaimer.
Ref:
20. The mods / admins and criticism - The mods / admins are here to ensure the orderliness of the forum. Sometimes, the mods / admins may also engage in debates and arguments, and when they do they are doing so as fellow forumites. They may not be the experts or authority in certain topics so feel free to disagree should you feel that their arguments are not convincing enough. However, be forewarned that any posts that solely meant to ridicule the mods or admins will be deleted straight away. You may bring up matters to admin/mods by doing it the proper and respectful manner. Do not attempt to show disrespect to the mods/admin as this may results in immediate banning. As shown before, the mods and admins do response to feedback or criticism. Such feedback or criticism is best done discretely by sending e-mails to any of the mods/admins at thewsletter@hotmail.com.
P.S.
This forum long existed before and primitive tribal politics reared its ugly head here, and will continue as long as it takes to serve the Sierra Leone online community.
Cheers!
/Moderator
Subject: Re: CALLING INDEPENDENT OBSERVER
From: Candid Opinion -Sitting in For Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 16:54:13 08/31/07 ()
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Message:
Moderators.
CC: Reverend Kabs Kanu.
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/42314.html
According to the below.. which i found no link to on the forum itself and therefore never read,
It states 2 key words which i want to bring to the moderators attention.
1) However, be forewarned that any posts that solely meant to ridicule the mods or admins will be deleted straight away.
Radical, but agreeable. If its offensive it needs to be deleted.
There is no where where i was rude without someone been rude to me first.
I in no way, shape or form ridiculed the good Reverend.
I called into question several actions or inaction's he has taken.
I wanted to know where the reverend leans politically and for that.. i am been virtually silenced.
I don't think that's the rule of the game. Its is only with different opinions that a true liberal consensus can be reached.
I may differ, but our end goal is still the same.
Your side of things. My side of things, else its just typical brain washing and it is detrimental to our online and diaspora community.
2) Do not attempt to show disrespect to the mods/admin as this may results in immediate banning.
MAY. suggestive.
Using discretion i presume. And a consensus. Not abitrarily.
If otherwise, it is dictatorial and ungodly
To me your heavy handedness smacks of blatant hypocricy.
Sylvia Blyden, Tom Nyuma, Berewa, His Family, His Daughter, Tegloma, MENDE people... everyone of these people and groups have been chastised,
Ridiculed, cursed, mothers dragged into it etc.. death wished upon them etc.. etc..
And you do nothing.. you even encourage it i would assume if you are not going to warn the perpetrators or delete the offensive posts..
And i wonder, why should the reverend be different..
Why cant i call his service to country and online community in question..
Is it blasphemy just because he wears a collar..?
Now, i am not going to beg, or ask more that once.. for me to be let alone to continue my keyboard contribution to my countrymen and my fellow diasporians and bring another POV to the discuss on Cocorioko forum without fear or favor.
I will take it that Cocorioko and the good Reverend does not and will not practice what he preaches if:
1) I do not recieve a response to this email.
2) My handle as Independent Observer is not restored.
We all have our parts to play. And even the great and beautiful Earnest Koroma needs to hear the other side once in a while or else he ends up been Henry the great.
I await your reply.
Sincerely
A fellow countryman.
Subject: Re: CALLING INDEPENDENT OBSERVER
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 17:59:27 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-68-91-33-198.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.33.198
Message:
This forum long existed before primitive tribal politics reared its ugly head here, and will continue to do so as long as it takes to serve the Sierra Leone online community.
Cheers!
/Moderator
Subject: Re: CALLING INDEPENDENT OBSERVER
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 04:01:12 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
WHO IS MORE TRIBALIST THAN THE APC SUPPORTERS CALLING EVERYONE A MENDE
FORREST
Subject: Re: CALLING INDEPENDENT OBSERVER
From: Unity Now
To: All
Date Posted: 18:12:30 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
God job Mod.This Dependent Observer was getting out of hands and you nipped him in the bud.This is a warning to all those who try to besmirch the good image of thaose who mean well for Sierra Leone,while you should allow constructive criticism,incitement should not be tolerated and that is what DEPENDENT OBSERVER was guilty of.
I suggest a moratorium till September 10 on all trouble makers from both sides of the political spectrum who fan the flames of tribalism on this forum.We are one people regardless of what region ythat you were born in.
Subject: Re: CALLING INDEPENDENT OBSERVER
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 08:15:56 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-56-160.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.56.160
Message:
Got your message loud and clear The man of God is the fun at L-TAMU they say he reported incident from leather boot hours before it happened.
Subject: APC=Violence+ Thuggery+ Oppression+ Squander
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 05:05:29 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.com
Entered From: gateway-202.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 195.92.40.49
Message:
Vote for Solomon Berewa (SLPP) APC=Violence+ Thuggery+ Oppression+ Squander
APC supporters and thugs are clamoring that they have already won the elections clearly disregarding the constitution that stipulates that a presidential candidate needs 55% of the votes to avoid runoff.
APC shouts "the ides of March has come."
SLPP softly answers: "O Great Caesar but not yet gone. The runoff will tell"
I write to win over logical minds to vote for Solomon Berewa (SLPP). Mind you I am not in anyway affiliated with Berewa. I am not related to him, have never met him or conversed with him. I have researched the two leading candidates and have arrived at the logical and non-tribalistic conclusion that Berewa will continue and improve on the progress, peace and development sustained by the SLPP regime.
Sierra Leone and Africa in general have a myriad of problems. I know most people are anxious about development that matches progress in the western world. Mind you most African countries are underdeveloped and are now on the path of development like Sierra Leone. However the development that we dream and cherish is not going to happen overnight or through an Ernest Koroma Leadership.
APC borrowed huge amounts of international loans, squandered 90% and use 10% to construct capital projects. Remember, the issues of International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionalities that we used to hear from the Momoh and Siaka Stevens regimes? Well, those conditionalities left us owing billions of dollars in debt. APC led us to an economic quagmire!
Luckily, President Kabbah and Berewa have lobbied western governments and 90% of that huge debt has been forgiven. Hence we can now embark on the journey of true progress that you dream of (thanks to President Kabbah and Vice President Berewa).
Bottom line is Ernest Koroma is not the answer to Sierra Leone's woes. Berewa is a more law abiding citizen than Ernest Koroma and will listen to experts, uphold the rule of Law and continue or improve on the 7% annual economic growth witnessed and testified by the United Nations and international reports.
Ernest Koroma was recently a bystander to the attempted murder of Tom Nyuma. Ernest Koroma was in the room opposite Tom Nyuma and can not tell you and me that he had no knowledge of his thugs almost killing Tom. How would you classify a person who stands by and watches or ignores others almost killing another? Ernest Koroma has condoned violence and is not qualified to lead a party or a country. The APC is the same party that condoned violence, oppression and brought Sierra Leone to economic doldrums. APC just has a new driver (Ernest Koroma).
Charles Margai is an opportunist, a flip-flopper and has just committed political suicide. Charles Margai has deceived and misled his people. His ultimate goal is to gain power at any cost. I hope PMDC members will see reason in APC's past misrule and history of violence, intimidation and oppression to vote for Solomon Berewa (SLPP) who has upheld the rule of law, promoted peace, progress and unity. Vice President Berewa has made it a point of duty to build schools, hospitals and roads in northern Sierra Leone without regard to tribal affiliations.
Ladies and Gentlemen, do not be fooled by the proposed alliance of PMDC with APC. The only person who would benefit from that alliance is Charles Margai. Charles Margai does not have the interest of Sierra Leone. He would do anything for material gain!
Under President Kabbah and Vice President Berewa, Temnes, Limbas, Fullahs and all have lived in peace and have freedom of speech. Even most Limbas and Temnes are now praising President Kabbah for conducting a free and fair first round of elections - something that Momoh or Siaka Stevens or even Ernest Koroma will never do.
The APC attacked Kenema, Kailahun and Bo in 1973 and 1977. The SSD's (APC security thugs) constantly harassed law abiding citizens in Kenema, Bo, Kailahun and Kono. In 1973, I was only 3 years old when APC thugs attacked Kenema. My late father and all his male counterparts in Kenema ran to the hills, they spent the night there. How traumatic for a 3 year old? Well, I replay that event every other day. APC is not a party to trust. APC=Violence + Thuggery+Oppression + Squander !
In 1977, APC repeated its usual feat: beat, burned properties and harassed Mendes or any who opposed. Has any Sierra Leone faction or tribe been mistreated by the SLPP? APC thugs are still committing violence round the clock as I write. Attacks on SLPP members by APC thugs have quadrupled in the past few days. The APC's economic mismanagement eroded (devalued) our currency from 1 British Pound to 2 Leones to the current 1 British Pound to 6000 leones.
"Monkey nor blan lef im black han." "APC nor go ever lef im blak han". So, please tap your conscience and vote for someone who has not condoned violence and will at least preserve peace, uphold human rights and freedom and the rule of law. Peaceful Sierra Leoneans can not trust a party with a history of violence, oppression and thuggery.
I am calling on all Sierra Leoneans who have experienced the Misrule of the APC to denounce a party with a history of violence and join Vice President Berewa to sustain peace and improve on progress. Sierra Leone can not afford a (minus) 35% retrogression. We need to build on our gains towards peace, human rights, freedom and progress.
Krioman say "know youself nor to curse". I hope that Mendes who make up 90% of PMDC realize who they are, where they emanate, what their fathers and grandparents suffered from APC Misrule and vote for SLPP. Remember PMDC members, only SLPP can keep the peace, preach and practice the rule of law and uphold your rights as citizens of Sierra Leone. Remember PMDC members, the first round of the elections have been clearly decided along tribal lines. Do not be fooled by Charles Margai or any other person or deny your heritage or yourself. Do not sell your vote to people (APC) who have manhandled you, your relative or your parent or grandparent. Do not vote for Ernest Koroma. Do not vote for the same APC taxi that abused power for over 22 years. Vote for Solomon Berewa. .
Remember the days of President Momoh when a few members of the sect "Ekutay" enjoyed the resources of the country. Well we can not afford to go back to those days. We can not afford to retrogress.
I am making a clarion call to all Mendes, Limbas, Temnes, Fullahs, Madingos, Lokos, Susus, Konos, Kisis, Krios etc. to unite against a party that will lead us down the drains. Vote for steady progress, Vote for Solomon Berewa (SLPP).
Regards,
CSam
Subject: Re: APC=Violence+ Thuggery+ Oppression+ Squander
From: Jack Sparrow
To: All
Date Posted: 08:35:50 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
Only celebrated and brainless SLPP bootlickers write like this.And only a moronic SLPP buttsniffing newspaper can encourage the publication of such crap on its site.Why waste your time on crap? Do you think such drivel will change anything? The results of this run-off have already been divinely decided:God has chosen Ernest to rule Salone for the next ten years whether SLPP like it or not.Come on man let's face it Ernest has all it takes to deliver Salone from Pharoah(SLPP) and take it to the promised land.Didn't your bible teach you about the signs of the times? It is a clear sign from the outcome of both the parliamentary elections and the first round of the presidential elections that the times of a utopia Salone are here! Get it now before it will be too late for you.
Subject: Re: APC=Violence+ Thuggery+ Oppression+ Squander
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 06:29:03 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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This is old old old .....stuff from the SLPP forum.
Go seek for more news my brother
Subject: Re: APC=Violence+ Thuggery+ Oppression+ Squander
From: TAMBA MOIWO
To: All
Date Posted: 07:26:05 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.com
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
My friend if others have not seen it before its not OLD.ITS ONLY OLD IF YOU HAVE READ IT BEFORE.
Besides, I think this APC forum needs to be informed.
NEXT!!!!
TAMBA
Subject: Re: APC=Violence+ Thuggery+ Oppression+ Squander
From: BIG MAMA
To: All
Date Posted: 10:25:33 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: lfrandall@bellsouth.net
Entered From: adsl-146-222-222.mcn.bellsouth.net at 72.146.222.222
Message:
Please do not waste your time on Jack Sparrowbrain. He is obviously misinformed and wishes to remain in the dark. You are far too intelligent to quarrel with the likes of him. Let's just spread the word that APC-PMDC is not the answer for Salone. We also need to pray for peace and safety all over the country. Then we will go to the polls and elect Solomon Berewa president. God bless you.
Subject: Security Coucil is watching Kabbah's SLPP violent plan
From: Culled AFP
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Date Posted: 02:58:39 08/31/07 ()
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UN Secretary General concerned over violence in Sierra Leone
Washington, Aug 30 (PTI) Expressing concern over reports of violence in Sierra Leone after the first round of elections, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has urged all political parties and leaders in the country to do "everything necessary" to prevent the situation from escalating.
"The Secretary-General once again commends the people for the peaceful and orderly manner in which the first round of the electoral process was held," the Secretary General's Spokesperson said in a Statement.
"He is however concerned about the tensions and violence that have been increasing in Sierra Leone since last week. He calls on the ll parties and their leaders to do everything necessary to prevent the situation from escalating," the statement said.
The August 11 presidential and parliamentary elections were it's second since the end of the decade-long civil war in 2002, and the first since the withdrawal of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) in December 2005.
The UN Security Council earlier this week issued a statement hailing the "exemplary conduct" of Sierra Leoneans during the first round of the polls.
The Council also urged the public to maintain the same sense of purpose, discipline and patience as the electoral process enters it's final and decisive phase, the run-off in the presidential election on September 8 between Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress (APC) and incumbent Vice-President Solomon Berewa of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). PTI
Subject: Re: Security Coucil is watching Kabbah's SLPP violent plan
From: Prince Bona
To: All
Date Posted: 03:28:37 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: bona@giga-hamburg.de
Entered From: dslb-088-070-016-107.pools.arcor-ip.net at 88.70.16.107
Message:
I am sorry to say that your headline and the content of your article completely contradicted themselves. There was nothing mentioned about the your so-call "SLPP violent plans".
One thing you should mind though: the web is an 'open space', in which anyone can enter. Distorting facts may not only tell the web what your personalities are, but also describe you as a very stupid person, who reads the articles of others from the right to the left or rather from the bottom to the top.
I read the so called extract and the whole article, there was nothing directed against the SLPP and (or) its violent plans.
Maybe this is another form of journalism, which seems to support the journalistic ideologies of the editor of this online newspaper:- Slander, distortion of facts, politically myopic, incitements, short-sightedness,oh my God!you name them.
Anyway, you don't need to respond to this email, since I would not even qualify you counter statement with a reply. Have a blessed day!
Subject: Palm fronds RUF fighters on the rampage
From: news
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Date Posted: 02:50:29 08/31/07 ()
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Our presence is all over the provinces, especially in that part of the country (the eastern province). What I want you to know is that yesterday Mr. Ernest Koroma and his whole team were enroute to Kailahun after traveling from Kenema, the police have ensured that he was provided with the best security. So our presence is felt all over the place. As I am talking with you, the police in Kailahun have declared immediate curfew for people to stay into their homes rather than go out because there were some threats this evening for the native Poro Devil (the secret association for men in Mende society) to come out in the streets,” Charlie said.
Subject: Evil SLPP lies that its building was burned is false!!!
From: news
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Date Posted: 02:48:02 08/31/07 ()
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“Indeed there were some skirmishes between rival parties in Segbwema in the afternoon hours, the 30th of August 2007. But as I am talking to you now I have confirmed with the regional commissioner in the eastern province that even the assertion that SLPP party building was burned to the ground is not true, and she has yet to confirmed to us here in Freetown whether other buildings have been gutted,” he said.
Subject: Re: Evil SLPP lies that its building was burned is false!!!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 05:25:59 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Logically speaking the sentence "Evil SLPP lies that its building was burned is false" implies that the statement is true.......watch your grammar.....
Subject: OPEN PETITION TO Dr. CHRISTIANA THORPE CHAIRLADY OF THE NEC
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 02:24:50 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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We the members of the APC North America Chapter, speaking on behalf of ourselves and the APC chapters both at Home and in the Diaspora would like to express our concern at the vicious attacks by SLPP supporters on the APC/PMDC campaign team, and the escalating violence between the APC/PMDC campaign team and the SLPP. We further note that another added calamity in this calculus of SLPP orchestrated violence, is the prevention of the APC/PMDC campaign team, from campaigning in the SLPP areas of Kailahun, Kenema and Segbwema, in clear and unequivocal violation of the Electoral Laws Act of 2002.
The incidents occurring in Kenema, and Segbwema are very telling, in that if they could be used as a paradigm of things to come, then we as a nation should expect an escalation of violence on the campaign Trail. Thus, we make this very public appeal to you madam chairlady, for the NEC to make all haste to provide security for the APC/PMDC campaign team to campaign in the areas of Kailahun, Kenema and Segbwema, which is within the spirit of the Electoral Laws Act of 2002.
The following is a rendition of the facts which we believe to be true and from which this very public appeal arises:
In Segbwema today a motorcade of APC/PMDC campaign team was on its way through Segbwema to Kailahun, when it was attacked by SLPP youths armed with rocks and other missiles, and guns. It is our understanding that many vehicles in the APC convoy were destroyed or suffered substantial and material damage. We are informed that the vehicle containing the APC leadership was one such badly damaged vehicle.
We are further informed that the Vehicle belonging to Ernest Koroma, suffered damage to the side glass. The home of a PMDC parliamentarian elect, in Segbwema was burned down. We are further informed that the APC/PMDC campaign team was not allowed entry into the town of Segbwema. We are further informed that although there was police presence, nothing was done to protect the Campaign team and provide an enabling environment for the free and fair exercise of their rights with the spirit of the Electoral laws Act of 2002.
We have further been informed that after the APC campaign team retreated to Kenema. Five miles out of Kenema, the retreating convoy was again stopped by a unit of the Sierra Leone Police force commanded by Local Unit Commander Nabieu, who refused to provide safe passage for the campaign Team. Rather than provide protection and safe passage for the APC convoy, LUC Nabieu ordered that the campaign team should be rerouted through a circuitous route through Panguma.
Negotiations then ensued between the leaders of the Convoy and LUC Nabieu who steadfastly refused to provide protection for the Convoy, until the intervention of the IMATT team which offered to provide Military Protection to the leaders of the APC and PMDC and the campaign convoy.
While driving through Kenema, the convoy was again placed under direct attacks by over vigilant SLPP youths in the presence of members of the Sierra Leone police, who did absolutely nothing to provide protection. Although many vehicles were damaged, including the IMATT vehicles in the convoy, the group was able to make it to the southern capital of BO and relative safety.
Furthermore, We are informed that the campaign team had been threatened with death and destruction, were they to proceed to Kailahun for the purposes of campaigning there.
All of these acts, are clearly in contravention of the Electoral Laws Act of 2002, (hereinafter ELA) and more specifically sections 109 (a)(b)(c)(d) and 110.
Section 109 et seq states as follows:
Prohibition of interference with free political canvassing and campaigning. 109. Any person who— a. Directly or indirectly, by the use of threat or force, violence, sexual harassment or otherwise, prevents the conduct of any political meeting, procession, demonstration or other event of a political nature or any person from attending or participating therein; or b. Creates a material disruption with the intention of preventing a political party from holding a public political meeting; or c. Impedes or prevents or threatens to impede or prevent the right of any representative of any political party to gain access, in the manner and during the hours prescribed, to voters in any particular area, whether public or private, for the purposes of conducting political canvassing or campaigning and of soliciting membership and support; or d. Impedes or threatens to impede or prevent any member of the Electoral Commission, any representative of the Electoral Commission or any other person or organization engaged in voter education to gain access, in the manner and during the hours prescribed, to electors in any particular area, whether public or private, for the purpose of conducting voter education; or
All of these events occurred, and were witnessed by members of the National Democratic Institute a US based Election Monitoring group, European Union, and Reuters.
These developments are troubling and we would like to call the world’s attention, and that of NEC, to the fact that repeatedly, “Agent Provocateurs” of the SLPP have been found to have started violent frays with opposition parties. We believe that Sierra leone and its citizens have a Right to an election free from violence and intimidation. We believe that the NEC has a duty to provide such an enabling environment.
We demand that you madam Chairperson, provide full and unequivocal assurance to the voting public, that the NEC, to the fullest extent of the Law, will prosecute any violations of the Electoral Laws of 2002. We further demand, that you use all of the resources at your disposal to provide support and an enabling environment for ALL political parties to campaign anywhere within the state of Sierra Leone.
To this end, we are asking that the NEC be informed, and that they are charged with providing an enabling environment for the peaceful campaigning of ALL political parties. We in the APC demand that our campaign team MUST be allowed access to Kailahun, Kenema and Segbwema for the purpose of campaigning prior to the Run Off elections which are presently scheduled for September 8, 2007. We further demand that the NEC and the government of Sierra Leone provide safe passage for our campaign team, with military and police escort at all times.
We further demand that the Sierra Leone police force be authorized to make arrests of persons who are in contravention of the section 109 et seq of the ELA of 2002. We further demand that any persons so arrested be booked and made to appear before any courts of competent jurisdiction. We further seek to have the establishment of Section 111 courts with immediate effect to try crimes presently committed in violation of ELA.
We remain pregnant with expectation that our very reasonable demands would be reviewed by you madam chairlady, and that efforts be made to provide a remedy with all speed, such that all parties would be provided a fair opportunity to take their message across the length and breadth of our great nation.
Respectfully Submitted:
M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
APC Legal team
Foday Mansaray
PRO
Leslie Allen
Acting Chair
Subject: Re: OPEN PETITION TO Dr. CHRISTIANA THORPE CHAIRLADY OF THE NEC
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 04:53:28 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-202.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 195.92.40.49
Message:
"We are further informed that the Vehicle belonging to Ernest Koroma, suffered damage to the side glass. The home of a PMDC parliamentarian elect, in Segbwema was burned down."
Well we are reliably informed that the SLPP office in Kailahun was burnt down.Would it have being done by the same SLPP youths who alledgely 'threw stones at the APC/PMDC convey?
APC are past masters of propaganda and very much comfortable with use and promotion of violence and there are no shortages of slimy scribes to lend it a veneer of 'credibility'.A case in point relates to the attack and beatings meted out to TOM NYUMA.
At the time, no less a person than the Presidential spokesman-one Alpha Kanu churned out his own 'rendition' of the 'facts' that there were plans to assasinate Ernest Koroma.We all know now that these were hollow claims put out to smear the SLPP.
The people of Sierra Leone know these tactics-they are reminders of the rapacious greed and penchant for violent lies.Aware of their vanishing fortunes in recent polls, they are making noises to suggest they have been 'sinned against than sinned'.
The SLPP respects the rule of law hence every action is taken not to play into the hands of these provocations.We shall not be derailed from our goal.
Why is it that everytime PMDC or APC campaigns in SLPP strongholds there are always allegations of violence?The forces of law and order are smartly positioned to deflate these marauding thugs of the APC along with their 'intellectual prostitutes'.
We are confident and have faith in our electoral process and no amount of 'cry wolf' will make us change our position or react to their provocations.
Madam Chair,these are a bunch of cranks hellbent on disrupting the fine work you are doing.
Subject: Re: OPEN PETITION TO Dr. CHRISTIANA THORPE CHAIRLADY OF THE NEC
From: Brama Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 08:04:22 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 202.52.243.122
Message:
The reason why anytime the APC or PMDC campaign in SLPP strongholds there are allegations of violence is that you People in the SLPP think that the south-east belongs to you, therefore other people should not go there. If the APC as you claim was a violent party, then SLPP campaign teams in APC strongholds would have been continuously attacked. But you yourself know that is not the case. so we can all see who the violent party is. SLPP. The earlier you remove the idea that the southeast belongs to you, the better it will be for our people. Mind you all claims of violence in the entire elections had the SLPP in the middle of it so any intelligent person can see that it is the SLPP that is violent and nobody else. So it is high time you stop labelling other people as violent.
Subject: Re: OPEN PETITION TO Dr. CHRISTIANA THORPE CHAIRLADY OF THE NEC
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 07:17:42 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Please stop this kind of puppycock talk - it's "flesh and blood breaking down", people dying, arson, murder, suffering, not people lying.
Berewa should be locked up.... now don't answer with some more puppycock if you don't want him locked up. He's only a puny man you know, not better than you or me.....or any of us....in fact he's a lot worse than many of us.....
Subject: Re: OPEN PETITION TO Dr. CHRISTIANA THORPE CHAIRLADY OF THE NEC
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 07:16:16 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Please stop this kind of puppycock talk - it's "flesh and blood breaking down", people dying, arson, murder, suffering, not people lying.
Berewa should be locked up.... now don't answer with some more puppycock if you don't want him locked up. He's only a puny man you know, not better than you or me.....or all of us....
Subject: Re: OPEN PETITION TO Dr. CHRISTIANA THORPE CHAIRLADY OF THE NEC
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 07:13:50 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Please stop this kind of puppycock talk - it's "flesh and blood breaking down", people dying, arson, murder, suffering, not people lying.
Berewa should locked up.... now don't answer with some more puppycock if you don't want him locked up. He's only a puny man you know, not better than you or me.....or all of us....
Subject: Re: OPEN PETITION TO Dr. CHRISTIANA THORPE CHAIRLADY OF THE NEC
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 07:30:24 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Con, save your breath!
Tamba is another victim of "SOLOCATISIS" a disease of the brain that is more dangerous that "Mad cow".
Subject: Slyvia Blyden is bastardising Journalism
From: news
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Date Posted: 02:22:40 08/31/07 ()
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It is a shame the the Media Council headed by bernadette Cole is sitting by Sylvia is besmearing the name of good UN Officials who are helping to establish sanity and development in a ll spheres of life in our Country.
Sylvia yellow journalism against the UN and its officials must be nipped in the bud before it completely destroy the Country.
I hope no sane media houses will protest when Sylvia isfacing the law in the coming months. She needs to be charged to court for libel. Thankfully, she has no journalistic training . Like any otehr profession, Journalism is an art and it there are rules and principle govering journalism. To create one's own opinion in a piece isan abomination to the profession and hope that Sylvia will pay a heavy pice for creating division in Sierra Leone. This is a very dangerous woman.
Money is not an infinite source for happiness and success. I do not think the marabout will be able to help Sylvia when retribution will come to herdoorstep. Those who live in glass house, should not throw stone. Sylvia Journalism is disgraceful and wrecthed. She needs to go back to Medical school and focus on anatomy not in the field of journalism. With her ignorance about the profession, she will ignite civil war and political onstability in our Country. The Independent Media Commision MUST come out with a stern statement to curtail Sylvia Blyden reckless writing. I am sure her parents will not condone her spurious support for the SLPP.
She has no respect for the elderly. Few weeks ago, she lambasted one of Sierra Leone's geatest educationist and senior citozen, Mrs Cassandra Garber for the sake of politics. Sylvia, are you want to be go down in history as a termagant and one who lacks any morality.
Stop your naked propaganda. Within two weeks, you will be sitting alone and asking yourself if you did the right thing.
I am sure the law will hold you responsible soon for spreadfing false alarm and lies. The Ngoboi article is fictitious and it is written by you or your mates at the SLPP.
Sylvia Blyden you need yo apologise to those that you have hurt through your action to stand by John Benjamin. Have you forgoptten how you have been molested by these guys you are now trying to defend blindly?
Subject: Re: Slyvia Blyden is bastardising Journalism
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 04:00:29 08/31/07 ()
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Message:
POPPY-COCK
FORREST
Subject: President Lasana Conte Praises Charles Margai-"he is brainy
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:21:45 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Read.
Subject: Presidential Affairs Minister Arrested in Makeni…2 Rifles,4
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:17:54 08/30/07 ()
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Dr. Shekou Sesay, one time Minister in the APC government of the late president Joseph Saidu Momoh, and current Minister of Presidential Affairs in the SLPP government with office at the Presidential lodge was arrested and later released in Makeni yesterday while heading for his home town, Kabala in the Koinadugu District.
According to the Local Unit Commander, Mr. Christopher John, the police received intelligence report which they acted on immediately Dr. Shekou Sesay emerged at Makeni, but ended up saying that nothing of police interest was discovered. “We found nothing of police interest so we released him to proceed with his journey” LUC John emphasized.
However, the explanation of the LUC appears to be different from eye witness account. Dr. Sesay was traveling with two military officers, a staff sergeant by the name of Conteh. B.S attached to the Wilberforce Battalion and private Conteh Ballah,and a civilian called Farrah Kamara with four political party’s T-shirt. The civilian Farrah Kamara claimed to be a student of the Milton Margai College of Education when he was apprehended.
When the vehicle was searched by police officers two riffles were discovered, SLRA6222 and SLRA 38794 with four magazines containing twenty bullets each with an addition of two empty magazines.
A UNDP vehicle with registration plate ADG 330 different from the license of the vehicle ACU 041 registered on the 31st January, 2007.
Mr. Kasho Cole, an employee of the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) in Makeni who learnt about the incident and the items discovered in the vehicle with fraudulent registration number plate expressed grave concern, saying that why should military officers be in the company of the Minister of Presidential Affairs contrary to the political party code of conduct.
As if the concern raised by the PPRC staff was not enough to instill fear into the youths at Makeni, journalists and youth organizations in the provincial town of Makeni and its environs are becoming very jittery with the prevailing situation and have equally expressed similar concerns.
When this press crosschecked with the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Brima Acha, he confirmed both the arrest and release of Dr. Sesay, stating that the military officers were provided to him by the Chief of Defense Staff, Brigadier Sam M,boma. When our reporter contacted the Chief of Defence Staff for comment one of his aides said he was at a meeting, but would return the call which he failed to do up to press time.
Mr. Acha Kamara said that the police are responsible to provide security for all Government Ministers and dignitaries “I don’t know why he was provided with military officers instead of police officers” Acha queried.
According to reporter Mbanga, when the arrest of Dr. Sesay was made yesterday afternoon, several telephone calls were made from state house by senior government officials urging his immediate release, but could not tell which of the government official made the calls. He however cited the telephone call from the office of the Inspector General of Police instructing junior police officers to release the government Minister. It is not known why the Presidential Affairs Minister was using vehicle with fake registration number plate and why the UNDP released one of its numerous vehicle to him.
Subject: For Bambay Fanatic.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:43:52 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccadmin195198.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.195.198
Message:
Bambay Fanatic, I am at school working therefore, I just wanted to drop you a thank you note for the following magnificent words: "As usual, you cut through the thicket of elephant grass and hit the nail on the head. While the whippersnappers on the forum have been shouting about the state of emergency, you just brought out the constitution and cleared up the mess. Gosh Bambay, you are so smart!
I am hereby calling on all Sierra Leonean who appreciate the unique and Einsteinic brilliance of Bambay Lans Kamara to join the fan club of this great Sierra Leonean. Note: Jealous forumites with no fan clubs of their own need not apply!
I hope that you continue to do well in your studies Bambay. When you finish your studies, I hope you consider running for President of Sierra Leone someday. Your great and frightening intellect is going to frighten the country's problems away. Only great man can accomplish such a feat. Please don't dismiss this out of hand, O Great One. In five years, some of us, your most loyal fans, are ready to recruit you. Your country needs you!
Have a wonderful day in school tomorrow. Astound those professors.
Fanatically,
Bambay Fanatic!
President,
Bambay Lans Kamara Worldwide Fan Club."
I would have responded better but it is fitting to just thank you as of now. Once again, thank you and keep the boil boiling.
Subject: Re: For Bambay Fanatic.
From: Bambay Fanatic
To: All
Date Posted: 23:20:59 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Great One,
Thank you for acknowledging my humble note. I can't wait for you to finish school so that we can vote you in as the greatest president ever of Sierra Leone. We in the fan club are already putting the framework for the 2012 presidential run. We are ready, motivated and crazily committed.
All the leaders we've had in Sierra Leone are political Lilliputians compared to your crazily gargantuan intellect! I know some of the forumites are so jealous about this movement of the Bambaycrats!
We have the finances, zeal and will power to vote for you so that you can save Sa Lone. Dazzle them in school.
Fanatically,
Bambay Fanatic!
President,
Bambay Lans Kamara Worldwide Fan Club.
Subject: Family Pictures
From: Leather Boots
To: All
Date Posted: 22:15:19 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Well folks, i just wanted to share my family pictures with you.
Thats uncle JS..
Uncle Karamoh Kabbah left for the states and studied computers. Been a while since he has been back..but i hear he will soon join us.
Subject: Temne Man
From: Collin
To: All
Date Posted: 21:52:44 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 131.118.34.33
Message:
All these temne people need to return to thier villages. They have really spoiled Freetown and have taken it from its rightful owners. I am not going to say any names but I feel as though the war is over and everyone should return home. NOW!!!
Subject: Re: Temne Man
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 01:21:01 09/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-13-80.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.13.80
Message:
Collin, can you please help me know he "rightful owners" of Freetown?
Subject: Re: Temne Man
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 22:39:58 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
I have a suggestion for you. Why don't you buy the biggest megaphone you can lay your phalanges on, mount it on a taxi or poda-poda and drive through the streets of Freetown yelling your anti-Temne rant.
Just do yourself one little favour, my brother. Make proper arrangements for your funeral. Some people just might not take kindly to ethnic cleanseners trying to evict them from RO-KIAMP!
Subject: SLPP, KAILAHUN IS NOT YOUR TOILET!!!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 21:26:16 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
The beautiful land of Kailahun, home of some of the friendliest and most welcoming Sierra Leoneans has paradoxically always produced some of the vilest and most viperous politicians ever to crawl on our nation's good earth.
The war criminal Foday Sankoh made Kailahun the headquarters of his sick rebellion and turned it into the poster child of savagery and fiendish barbarism. Even Guinea's chain-smoking diabetic president felt the need to pinch a piece of Kailahun at Yenga just for the hell of it, eliciting only feeble complaints from the KabbahBerewa kakistocracy.
And now this incompetent SLPP cabal that has done nothing to alleviate the misery of Kailahun has the temerity to declare it their personal property, not a part of a democratic Salone, but their own personal latrine to defecate on and ill-treat.
To enforce their diabolical plans they have unleashed the vile mobsters Foyoh, Benjamin, Karimu and Nyumah to harass political opponents. These reprehensible SLPP desperados attempted to assassinate Charles Margai in the past and have now attacked Ernest Koroma's convoy at Segbwema. These knaves seem determined to keep Kailahun in the Dark Ages and are ready to do anything, even plunge the country into civil war, to achieve their dastardly goals.
Berewa's mafia will however fail miserably. The proud people of Kailahun are fed up with the political serfdom designed for them by the SLPP with the complicity of their own native sons. Newsflash SLPP: After ignoring Kailahun district for 10 years, you will not be allowed to come over, pull down your pants and relieve yourself messily over the good people of this noble land. Enough is enough. Shame on you. Stop practising One Party politics in Kenema and Kailahun.
Subject: Re: SLPP, KAILAHUN IS NOT YOUR TOILET!!!
From: Wise Man From The East
To: All
Date Posted: 21:58:45 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 134.39.28.254
Message:
The eastern folks are the wise folks. They spoke loud and clear in the first rounds. Those who have ears let them hear!
Subject: Re: SLPP, KAILAHUN IS NOT YOUR TOILET!!!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 22:25:11 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Agreed. Now let us hear them loud and clear in the runoffs without threat or intimidation by the SLPP Area Boys: The two Johns and the trigger-happy ambassador Foyah.
I still stand by my defiance that Kailahun is not a toilet for SLPP. It is a place of great tradition and honor for all Sierra Leoneans. It is not prime real estate for SLPP One Party hegemony. Please!
Subject: Re: SLPP, KAILAHUN IS NOT YOUR TOILET!!!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:43:20 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
With all the neglect of Kailahun by the reprehensible SLPP desperadoes, How come they thrashed APC and PMDC at the polls in Kailahun. I know you are going to say that SLPP rigged the polls but Pmdc was able to take seats from SLPP in the other southern districts.
Please explain why the kailahun people would vote the SLPP cabal intstead of the PMDC and APC saviors
Subject: Re: SLPP, KAILAHUN IS NOT YOUR TOILET!!!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:02 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
The answer is you guys treat your kin like serfs. Instead of lifting them out of poverty you are satisfied in keeping them ignorant and poor. Their time will come when they will rise up. China saw the same thing and is now gently dragging the rural people by the hair into the 21st century. What does Kailahun have? What basic amenities have john Ben and karimu installed for the town folk? The day they(the Kailahun people) see the light you guys will suffer.
Subject: Re: SLPP, KAILAHUN IS NOT YOUR TOILET!!!
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 04:03:32 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
"With all the neglect of Kailahun by the reprehensible SLPP desperadoes, How come they thrashed APC and PMDC at the polls in Kailahun."
The answer is obvious:
The SLPP's criminal minister, John Benjamin and his fellow coup-making criminal in the SLPP-enabling treasonous NPRC regime,John Karimu, RIGGED the Kailahun elections.
In their latest attempt to give power to the SLPP against the wishes of the people of Salone, the NPRC criminal duo of Benjamin and Karimu has resorted to the same crimes against humanity they had employed to keep the treasonous NPRC regime in power long enough to hand Salone over to their SLPP co-conspirators -- Tejan Kabbah and Solomon Berewa.
Having prostituted and pimped Salone to the SLPMB tiffman whoi hasd been banned for life from holding public office in Salone, Tejan Kabbah, these treasonous closet SLPP NPRC marauders now want to repeat the favor by prostituting Salone and pimping it to Kabbah's co-conspiratort in the destruction of Salone, Solomon Berewa.
The people of Salone should do to these selfish cabal of traitors the same thing they did to the AFRC -- chase them out of our country into the ash heap of history.
Subject: NAR DA GOAT
From: BIVOTEH
To: All
Date Posted: 00:00:39 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Please explain why the kailahun people would vote the SLPP cabal intstead of the PMDC and APC saviors
Subject: Re: NAR DA GOAT
From: HIBOVET
To: All
Date Posted: 04:07:37 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Please explain why the kailahun people would vote the SLPP cabal intstead of the PMDC and APC saviors -- BIVOTEH
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The Kailahun people did NOT "vote the SLPP cabal intstead of the PMDC and APC saviors".
the SLPP stole the votes of Kailahun people. And that explains "why the kailahun people would "vote" the SLPP cabal intstead of the PMDC and APC saviors."
Subject: Re: SLPP, KAILAHUN IS NOT YOUR TOILET!!!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 21:57:26 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
"With all the neglect of Kailahun by the reprehensible SLPP desperadoes, How come they thrashed APC and PMDC at the polls in Kailahun. I know you are going to say that SLPP rigged the polls.."
Kamara, thank you for answering your own question so cogently.
Also the political terrorism directed and ochestrated by the depraved SLPP scoundrels: John Benjamin, John Karimu, Patrick Foyoh, Tom Nyumah.....
Subject: Re: SLPP, KAILAHUN IS NOT YOUR TOILET!!!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:35:56 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
DO the SLPP claims of APC rigging in the north and Freetown have some validity, as you are so quick to beleive the claims of SLPp rigging in Kailahun
Subject: Re: SLPP, KAILAHUN IS NOT YOUR TOILET!!!
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 05:59:12 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.115.21
Message:
It was proven by NEC!
Subject: Re: SLPP, KAILAHUN IS NOT YOUR TOILET!!!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 22:56:11 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Kamara
I am sure there was some rigging in some parts of the North and West and in all regions. All politicians are a little devillish when it comes to elections. What I object to however, is this arrogance of the SLPP to prevent other parties from campaigning in their "backyard" of Kailahun and Kenema. Nobody raises a finger against the SLPP when they campaign anywhere in SA Lone. The SLPP should extend the same courtesy to the other parties. Your party should call off its hound dogs and give peace and democracy a chance.
Subject: Re: SLPP, KAILAHUN IS NOT YOUR TOILET!!!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:49:55 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
I appreciate your candidness. Is it the party or the populace in the area that won t have anything to do with the APC after rememembering the harsh treatment they underwent with the old APC, and coupled with the anger many feel to wards Charles who many feel betrayed them by alligning With the APC.
In addition, If it were SLPP policy to prevent other parties from campaigning in their backyard then SLPp would not have lost 10 seats in their backyard.
How many seats did the other parties win the APC backyard. Did they prevent others from campaignin in their backyard or was it blatant tribalistic voting.
Subject: It must be SLPP, just plain common sense
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 20:55:57 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.154
Message:
Common sense, please. WHY WOULD THE APC PARTY CAUSE ANY HAVOC WHEN THEY DID WELL IN THE ELECTIONS?
Is the SLPP not the underdog in the run-off election?
With APC having the lead in the election and now with the backing of the PMDC, who is losing?
Who would want to disrupt the election in such a situation? SLPP or APC?
Thuggery and cuss cuss is NOT AN APC THING, but a backward Sa Lone mentality used by corrupt and careless politicians. These are the politicans that are hanging to the last straw and would do whatever it takes to keep themselves in power so that they continue to oppress our people, plunder our resources and send their kids and relatives to developed countries at the expense of the masses.
Some of these kids and relatives are the lound mouths of this failed government and are cyber thugs and criminals terrorizing us the common man. Living in mansions, educated and financially supported by the tiffy tiffy money from our country.
Subject: Re: It must be SLPP, just plain common sense
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 00:10:25 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
"Thuggery and cuss cuss is NOT AN APC THING, but a backward Sa Lone mentality used by corrupt and careless politicians. These are the politicans that are hanging to the last straw and would do whatever it takes to keep themselves in power so that they continue to oppress our people, plunder our resources and send their kids and relatives to developed countries at the expense of the masses"
I say this not to support a bloated ego in you, but you sir are a master of the truth. What amazes me however is the ease with which you speak the TRUTH. It comes out so effortlessly. Its refreshing to read what you write sometimes. In the bigger sphere of things we are all one people under GOD and any attempt to create a divide within our ranks must meet stiff resistance.
If anyone hadd told me a few years back that we would be standing on the same platform preaching the same sermon of ONE NATION UNDER GOD I would have said that that would be impossible. Now i know that in life their are no impossibilities in human relations just improbabilities that can be mended.
Stay blessed.
Subject: Re: It must be SLPP, just plain common sense
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 00:36:21 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.154
Message:
Alieu,
I never once doubted the integrity and capability of Ernest Koroma, it is only the lagacy of the old APC which I thought would overshadow his chances. Unfortunately, I was wrong. He is our next President.
Subject: Re: It must be SLPP, just plain common sense
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 05:57:32 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-56-160.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.56.160
Message:
Ab hope
FORREST
Subject: Re: It must be SLPP, just plain common sense
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:55:05 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
Hey Albert , You may want to rethink who is the underdog. The presidential race was a statistical dead heat which was accurately predicted by Sylvia blyden's awareness time.
Any party can be culpable of disrupting the election. I can not rush to blame any party at this juncture but what i know is violence and thuggery was the modus operandi of the previous APC govt, whether the rank and file of the new APC has reneged violence , We have to see.
The bottom line is that 70% of the PMDC voters in the first round(175,000) will return to SLPP in the second round . Thus SLPP is not going to disrupt an election it could possibly win.
Subject: Re: It must be SLPP, just plain common sense
From: RBS Coker
To: All
Date Posted: 04:17:42 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"Hey Albert , You may want to rethink who is the underdog. The presidential race was a statistical dead heat which was accurately predicted by Sylvia blyden's awareness time."
There is only one person so lacking in the ability to ever understand what he reads that he would come to such a conclusion from very opposite facts.
The people of Sa Lon are truly having the last laff at the expense of the fruit of RBS Coker's thieving of Sa Lon people's money at SLPMB under his looting godfather, Bandele Stevens.
Subject: Re: It must be SLPP, just plain common sense
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 00:31:22 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.154
Message:
70% of the PMDC will return to SLPP? Where is your evidence? Brother Kamara, SLPP is deceiving itself just like Berewa said he was going to win the election "massively" with 75%. He got slight more than half of his misled prediction or dream.
Subject: Re: It must be SLPP, just plain common sense
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 07:06:26 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Albert Can you seriously tell me that the majority of PMDC will vote for APC? Hell no. PMDC rank and file was a protest vote unlike the PMDC executives and the diaspora members who have their political agenda.
The voters in Sierra Leone are sophisticated and can not be fooled by meglomaniac politicians ,they will end up fooling the politicians. You see how Berewa was fooled by TEmnes that he would would Port loko, makeni and he used this to belittle an harass Charles Margai. and make such unrealistic predictions that he would win 75%
I can not categoricaly produce the evidence that 70% of PmDC will vote SLPP , based on by discusions and understanding of the people from the south, My opinion is that 70% of PMCDC will return to SLPP.
Either way, We will know in two weeks.
Subject: No government can meet expectations
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 20:30:02 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmial.com
Entered From: at 66.99.61.254
Message:
None of the prospective Presidential hopefuls can guarantee the expected changes Sierra Leone needs desperately.
Berewa cannot fix the mess he deputized.
Ernest has no record to prove he can either.
Margai is not fit to be a leader.
I beleive that the next best thing for Sierra Leone is a Project Government of composing mostly citizens who have specialist practical and proven skills(Not big degrees)
The break away republic of Georgia tried the Project government and it transformed that country in less than years. That nation now has WIFI capability in every street corner and its free.
It paid down its debt, developed its economy and now attracts Russian and European investors.
Its time we pause from the political bickering and just do something about our country. It is frustrating to see endbless finger pointing. Most of the voters had no tangible economic reason to support thier votes,except tribal, nepotic affiliation or job seekers.
Show me your economic plan for the next years Berewa and Koroma.
News flash...Poverty reduction was not SLPP's project. It was a World Bank initiative across the globe.
Peace and Power to those who want it.
Subject: Re: No government can meet expectations
From: FARRAH MARRAH
To: All
Date Posted: 09:38:56 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 134.113.7.99
Message:
Jackal,
These are very RADICAL AND PRAGMATIC IDEAS.
It will NEVER be PRACTISED in Sierra Leone, because most of those CLAMORING for either of the parties, A.P.C., S.L.P.P and the P.M.D.C. are as CORRUPT as THEIR PARENTS or AS THEMSELVES.
None of them have VIABLE and PRAGMATIC SOCIO–ECONOMIC and POLITICAL AGENDAS THAT will SOLVE the country's PROBLEMS.
NAT TIFF DEN WAN GO TIFF, BRA!
Subject: REFLECTION!!!
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 17:56:18 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: ppp-69-229-9-44.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.229.9.44
Message:
Some Memories of APC and SLPP
Note: I visit Sierra Leone every year since 2003. I left Sierra Leone in 1991. So I remember some events from 1965, when I was 10 years old until 1991 and then 2003 to now. Right now, I am a neutral person.
APC
1. “OOH SAI DEN TYE COW, NAR DE E GO EAT” (root of bribery and corruption)
2. lack of freedom of speech (“Elephant Ade nor to pikin load, Nar sense make book not to book make sense, damaging press offices and equipments, jailing pressmen, arresting and jailing many others under the guise “for careless talk.”
3. Long line (TOE LINE) for RICE and other basic commodities
4. Quotas system (Rice and other basic commodities) for MPs. Ministers, Military, Police, Hajas and Alhajis, Girl friends and cronies; leading to artificial scarcity and high prices.
5. SSD: (OC Dumbuya)
6. Squad 47 (Jamil police) later incorporated into SSD
7. SLPMB (M.K. Suma)
8. Jamil Sahid, Tholu Bangura, Sanusi Deen and Sierra Fishery
9. Jamil deciding the fate of Ministers, MPs and other civil servants
10. Jamil Loaning government to pay workers! Where did he get the money from?
11. Finance ministry (IOU system) for salary
12. PL 480 rice
13. Ben Kanu rice
14. Violence, harassment and intimidation by party youths
15. Bambay Kamara and Kakai (Police and Anti smuggling squad)
16. Natural resources (SLST, NDMC, GGDO office). I know that some are young to remember!
17. Corruption
18. Ekutay
19. One party system
SLPP
1. Say and do nothing government!!!
2. The Lungi Bridge (did someone say that “it is not feasible now?)
3. Completion of the Bumbuna dam
4. Set up of “Fake and toothless Anti corruption commission” What a show display?
5. The unfinished peninsula road
6. No light syndrome
7. No water syndrome
8. Fitly city syndrome
9. High crime rate (arm rubbery) due to persistent black out
10. Continuous corruption!!!
11. Tegloma
12. Typhoid fever
13. Selling of Mecca (Hajj)scholarship tickets
14. Pilgrims stranded every year either at Lungi or Nigeria
15. Fake pharmaceutical drugs all over the country
16. Fake construction companies (SLRA- roads or other structures), own by MPs, heads of department, Ministers and cronies.
17. Fake contractors and incomplete contracts.
18. A very high salary for NRA boss
19. Corruption at customs
20. embezzlement of donor fund
Subject: Re: REFLECTION!!!
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 05:50:52 08/31/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.115.21
Message:
I thank you for that objective outlook of both parties.
The APC of today has come to terms with its past mistakes and are in a better position to serve this nation than the SLPP. The SLPP came to power in 1996 and after 11 years what can they bost of .........Nothing.
Subject: From a Solocrat
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 17:36:12 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-106-80-14.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.106.80.14
Message:
Whithin the last 3 days to the run offs, Sierra Leone will strike a landmark in World History, with Solo B emerging as a noble price winner for International Peace.Again, news has filtered through a top Solocrat that Solo B will concede defeat, give a moving speech and join hands with APC/PMDC in celebration .Solo B will take a Peace Match together with Charles and Earnest in telling the whole World that PEACE is here to stay. However a minute fraction within the Party is hell bent on resisting change. So many important factors were taken into consideration by the Solo B faction. The need for Amnesty and Immunity against any charges that may be levied on them was bradly discussed.The rocky financial status of the party was also in the minutes. Most investors are shying away from party dues for the run offs, imposing some financial restraints within the party. The poor perfomance in Freetown has scared investors away. Will give you more as it filters.
Subject: Re: From a Solocrat
From: BIG MAMA
To: All
Date Posted: 10:54:31 08/31/07 ()
Email Address: lfrandall@bellsouth.net
Entered From: adsl-146-222-222.mcn.bellsouth.net at 72.146.222.222
Message:
You need to stop smoking crack! HA HA HA... This will never happen. This is no where on Berewa's agenda and you have heard of no such thing. How do you come up with this crap? APC is about to crash and and they know it. That's why they've started their usual thuggery once again. And you crazy APC forumites are continuing on with your lies and false reports. It's all propaganda. It won't work and you'll see September 8th.
Subject: Re: From a Solocrat
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:30:24 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
Stop dreaming special cut , Solo B aint going to concede till he is defeated in a free and fair elections and it does not look like he is going to lose even with the alliance of wonder boy, charles margai and APC. Keep on dreaming my man, you are really comical .
Ask Fan to come out with more evidence of Berewa and Kabba looting of donor funds. May be then, Berewa will lose. This time he should increase it to $ 4 billion
Subject: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: Karamoh Kabba
To: All
Date Posted: 16:51:03 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: karamohslylhorg@aol.com
Entered From: pool-72-83-221-248.washdc.east.verizon.net at 72.83.221.248
Message:
PRESS RELEASE
August 30, 2007
Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
We regretfully bring you this press release of hostilities over the runoff
presidential election campaign from Sierra Leone. As you all know, the
world is yet to end its laudations for what has been named one of the
most peaceful and transparent democratic presidential and
parliamentary elections in Africa.
Now, news has reached us from the APC/PMDC coalition for 2007
presidential runoff election frontline that supporters loyal to the SLPP
have ambushed their convoy in Sebgwema, not far from Kenema,
preventing them from reaching Kailahun, their intended destination.
“We have been forced to return to Kenema, where, about 300 SLPP
youths have surrounded the APC/PMDC headquarters,” Idrissa Kamara
who is with the convoy told us.
Dr. Obaleh, the APC representative at the National Election Commission
(NEC), disturbed, confirmed that the convoy has also called him with
news of hostility against them in Segbwema. “How could we talk of
democracy when people are not free to campaign wherever they want
to campaign?” he concluded.
We called I.B. Kargbo, president of Sierra Leone Association of
Journalists, about the ensuing hostilities in Kenema, Segbwema and
Kailuhun. He also stated that he has talked to the Inspector General of
Police (I.G.) about the unrest in the eastern region and he [I.G.] has
promised to ensure their safe return to Freetown. “We have been told
that the unrest is being caused by SLPP supporters. We also heard that
a Canadian journalist has disappeared and his whereabouts is still
unknown,” he stated.
Ensuring the safe return of the convoy to Freetown is not enough. We
demand that the I.G. act now to ensure safe campaigning by all
political parties everywhere in Sierra Leone.
You may be wondering why news of unrest from Sierra Leone, deep in
the interior, is reaching you from the USA. Well, the answer, in fact, is
in the reason why the people must be given the free hand to choose
their leader: It takes, at least, two days for such ugly development to
reach the rest of the world from Sierra Leone, especially from the
interior, because of the poor or no communication under the SLPP.
Thank God, with the cell phone technology now, we can constantly stay
in touch with our people on the ground. And, with the help of easy
access to information technology on this side of the pond, we are able
to bring you such unwarranted development before it is too late.
We are pleading with the mass media to publish or rerun this news of
hostilities from Sierra Leone by any means available to them to help
protect democracy in Sierra Leone once and for all.
We are pleading with NEC and the international community to rescue
democracy in Sierra Leone.
Democracy has to have a chance in that war torn nation, as we cannot
afford to return to our ugly past. The international community needs to
act fast. Democracy does not like ugliness: Ugliness must be exposed
to give chance to democracy to choose from the good, the bad, and
the ugly. Democracy under threat in Sierra Leone is democracy under
threat everywhere.
THE END
Karamoh Kabba
Comm. & Media – PMDC-USA
Foday Mansaray
Public Relations – APC-USA
Subject: Re: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 21:48:57 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
The irony in this unfolding tragedy in the East is that the SLPPselfishcrats are practising the same dirty politics they keep accusing the APC of.
The only party practising One Party rule by ambushing convoys and hiring murderous thugs to harass political opponents in No GO Areas is SLPP.
The only party that sent assassins after Charles Margai in Kailahun and Ernest Koroma in Bo is SLPP. The only party that has adopted Organized Chaos as a strategy for disrupting an election that they can't conceivably win is SLPP.
The only party that is reckless enough to risk chaos that will invite military intervention is SLPP.
We kindly pray that the SLPP will stop undermining democracy.
Subject: Re: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: Bay Arata
To: All
Date Posted: 22:07:55 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
This is the APC during its evolution in phases..
And we end up with the Karamoh Kabbahs and Foday Mansarays of today.
http://media.twango.com/m1/original/0005/f3611bf4b5be468f9e3d1af021e733bb.jpg
Subject: Re: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: Oh lhamba
To: All
Date Posted: 21:58:06 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Mammy Blessing
Assasins story has been debunked.
I think that vinyl record was mistakenly left on the old APC turntable.
It might be overheating.
Subject: Re: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 22:16:55 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
"Assasins story has been debunked.
I think that vinyl record was mistakenly left on the old APC turntable.
It might be overheating."
Oh lhamba,
Apparently, someone forgot to tell the SLPP miscreants that they should toss that vinyl and turntable to the dust bin, and not adopt its tune as a campaign strategy. The enthusiasm with which SLPP has adopted political assassination as an election strategy just makes no sense. Everytime your party's goon squads misbehave, SLPP apologists laugh it off like a scatological joke. I am really worried that one of your crazies will escape the loony bin and do something stupid and set the country on fire. You gotta control your nut cases and give democracy a chance, buddy.
Subject: Re: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: Oh lhamba
To: All
Date Posted: 22:25:30 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Oh.. sorry... i did not introduce myself...
I am PMDC. Sorry to dissapoint you buddy.
Just wanted to point out that thats an old tune..
Party leaders in a meeting last week asked us to refocus the message so we dont sound offbeat too much.. I dont know if you got the memo.
Lets use injectment notice as much as possible. To get the 80 percent uneducated in the country to vote for us.
Don't worry, no one can read this. Its written in invisible red ink.
But now that we have established that we are on the same side..Please dont use the green word on me no more.
Thanks Comrade.
Subject: Re: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 23:39:17 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Sorry for "greening" you buddy. You just sounded like a palm tree hugger. Anyway, any PMDC comrade is a brother, even those who are miffed by Margai's support for Ernest Koroma and bolted to Berewa.
Hope you all come back and vote this great uniter as president in 2012. Take care bro and lay off the INJECTMENT and CONBENTION jokes.
Subject: AT LEAST THERE IS NO PMDC AGAIN AND NEVER
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 21:27:46 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb11dc1-51-193.dynamic.mts.net at 207.161.51.193
Message:
People only voted for PMDC because they tought they will win and now that they said good bye,its SLPP time.
Subject: Re: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 21:02:34 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
Entered From: 000-026-221.area3.spcsdns.net at 68.244.102.8
Message:
Karamoh, just for a simple correction the cellphone technology explosion in Sierra Leone came during the SLPP regime. It's laughable when you say " the poor or no communication under the SLPP .... Thank God with the cell phone technology now........" I am convice due to your haste to put out this new propaganda you suffered a mental "roadblock".CELL PHONE IS AN EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION TOOL, DO YOU GET IT, MR SPIN DOCTOR. You better thank the SLPP, for encouraging so many mobile phone networks into the country. I for one, do not buy your story about the Kailahun,Segbwema and Kenema incidents. I will wait for credible sources not Cocorioko or you. You people will do anything within your reach to confuse the people of Sierra Leone. Let them vote their conscience on real issues not on your propaganda. Democracy is really being attacked by you spin doctors.
Subject: Re: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: foday mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 23:27:02 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74
Message:
Quick correction.Before the celphone there were land phone.The selfish Prince Harding and his co-host have managed to reduced land phones line to 5%usage proportionate to celphones usage.Do you know how much celphone cost poor people.? Who do you report to for dropped call?Berewa.People cannot afford to eat yet carrying celphones.What happens to the free market economy.?Last time I checked Celtel paid 200,000.00 for there licenses and SLET the old company has not paid there Employees for 4 months.The Employees cannot even talk about back pay ,they will be redundant.All our communication rights has been to sold to subsidiaries of sandlines.Do you know how much celtel paid for license in Banjul$7 .Million and 2.7 million in senegal. Who was negotiating in the interest of sierra leone.? Prince Harding problems had just began. I am sure there are a lot of people behind the decline of our land phone systems and all in the name of greed.We know who bulit houses with SLPP insignia in them. Don't be quick to take credit for something you have no clue about.APC does not have all the answers but we are determined to turn around this stereotype that we are the world poorest and yet they claimed we are the largest exporter of diamond to the civilized world.
Subject: Re: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:04:00 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
D ont mind these opportunists in the diaspora who after years in whiteman's country want to go and milk sierra leone. They are crticising SLPp now, if they attain power they will be 10 times more corrupt than SLPP.
They have a false sense of importance, when they go to Sierra Leone they will find out how insignificant they are . The people in Sierra Leone are savvy enough to pick their govts, they do not need any pseudo intelectual telling them how to think
Subject: Re: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 21:42:28 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Mr Jalloh.
I commend you for that candid and concise rebuttal.
I like you think salones infant democracy is been take over by diaspora instigators who will stop at nothing to plung our country back into anarchy.
My greatest fear this time around is this fight will take a regional or tribal tint. And we the educated, rational bunch are lucifers disciples using our keyboard to do as maximum damage as is imaginable.
Subject: Re: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 17:47:47 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-144-13-80.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.13.80
Message:
continue to cry wolf where none exists! The world entire is now aware of your political antics - you cause problems and immediately send messages to your fellow propagandists in the diaspora to publish your concoctions. I do not believe you want peace in sierra Leone for you will desist from your make-believe stories. Our decent young men have been advised accordingly. We are all sierra leoneans and have the right to roam freely. Why do you love to create a state full of chaos where non exist?
Subject: Re: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: Saidu Daphay Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 19:45:15 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-70-108-205-198.washdc.east.verizon.net at 70.108.205.198
Message:
Chez,
Are you a decent being or an hypocrite who hangs on to urealistic insinuations about the SLPP? Remember, Sierra Leone is not for a particular region or tribe, neither the culture of violence is for sale. If the SLPP think that power is invested in them forever, then keep on bringing excuses of the thuggery and uncivilized, greedy actions of your party. You may hide in Europe or anywhere in the globe, when the day is dawn we will bring all of you to justice I promise you. You and your SLPP supporters fanning flames of confusion will bear the brunch of your unpatriotic actions.
Subject: Re: Democracy under Threat in Sierra Leone Again
From: Jack
To: All
Date Posted: 17:23:09 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-70-20-197-79.phil.east.verizon.net at 70.20.197.79
Message:
Way to go, Karamoh Kabba.
Subject: Fula Votes For Sale???
From: Mohamed Fofana
To: All
Date Posted: 16:36:07 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: mfofana2004@sbcglobal.net
Entered From: ppp-69-229-9-44.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.229.9.44
Message:
In Reply to: FULA VOTES FOR SALE posted by SUWANALAI on August 30, 2007 at 11:20:31:
The Fulas are mainly normadics, business minded, as well as educated people, guided with moral values. Just like the business men and women in the Western world, they may donate to candidates and vote wisely based on issues that is affecting their business and political views.
Do you think that they have forgotten the time when cattles in their "Werehs" were slaughtered violently by thugs of Thaimu Bngura in Sanda? Do you think that they have forgotten when heavy taxes and fines were levied against them by corrupt court chairmen and chiefs for their cattles? Do you think that they have forgotten when they were chased and harrased in Sierra Leone as foriengners? They may have forgiven whosoever the thugs were, but surely not forgotten. Every group in Sierra Leone has something to remind them of the past and identify a particular party with certain activities done to them as a gruop. Please leave the Fulas alone to vote on issues that they consider important to them. Do not start any false propaganda.
Mohamed Fofana
Subject: SLPP and APC : BRAIN WASHING
From: almamysi@hotmail.com
To: All
Date Posted: 16:26:27 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: hsl2.cait.osr.columbia.edu at 156.111.18.71
Message:
If Siaka Steven ruled with a SLPP Ticket nothing would have changed things. Albert Margai was thinking of a one-party state and he would have done the same as a APC leader. We thank God that our world is changing and SL is no exception...since SLPP and APC are the only two options then we must be prepare as winners or losers in the coming run-off. Both parties have to prepare a Cabinet in waiting and like in UK the shadow government serves as a watch dog over the ruling government. The Sierra Leonean Mind Set is as raw as Vamboi in the Village/Yeanoh in Pettifu/Samba in Worreh/
We have to thank God and hope for a balance like Mr Fofanah said earlier: SLPP without Parliamentary Majority or a strong SLPP Shadow Cabinet(In opposition)
Untill forumites and SL's so called literate/educated use their previledge class for honesty and patriotism
When will our pride be put aside?
Subject: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Jan
To: All
Date Posted: 15:59:54 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-134-160-89.range86-134.btcentralplus.com at 86.134.160.89
Message:
The APC governance of twenty-four years left Sierra Leone with nothing but massive debts. The SLPP as the “saving grace” has successfully negotiated the discharge of about 90% of the said debts. What an achievement for a party who took over at a time when the country was experiencing years of instability due to war.
Let us not forget that the APC was responsible for the devaluation of the leone, which made all imports to Sierra Leone more expensive than revenue received from the country’s exports. Sierra Leone was left very weak in terms of World Trade despite the fact that diamonds were the country’s number one export.
The APC proudly introduced the slogan “OOH SAI DEN TYE COW, NAR DE E GO EAT”. This was the root of bribery and corruption. Northerners headed prominent positions thus marginalizing mainly the Creoles, Southerners & Easterners. The lack of freedom of speech made it difficult for the people to have challenged these corrupt heads instead, the people were left with no choice but to accept their actions and pretend as if nothing was happening. The SLPP should take credit for introducing freedom of speech which now enables our people to express their views without the fear of been reprimanded or intimidated by the authorities.
The Bumbuna waterfalls, which were to be constructed to a water dam so as to provide the country with electricity power, sounds like history, although the SLPP is working on it. I have been hearing about this since I was a child and in the period of 24 years of governance by the APC, they failed to bring the water dam project to a conclusion. After 24 years in power, the country became unstable. Why the instability? This was because, enough was enough and the people became so disgruntled that, the APC was finally booted out of power by a military regime. Fortunately for Sierra Leoneans after the long instability, the SLPP took over and gradually brought stability to Sierra Leone. This is what Sierra Leoneans are enjoying today.
It is the very APC who now wants to destabilised the country and its economy by their aggressive and tribalistic views. I say this because the APC executives could not make public statements which will educate their supporters to understand the essence of a constitution and the fact that a run-off should be held where a party failed to secure 55% of the overall votes.
To say that the SLPP is a party for the mendes is an overstatement. The SLPP party in my opinion is a fair party to all Sierra Leoneans who want to help develop Sierra Leone. The SLPP, unlike the APC allocated prominent positions to people from various regions. When APC was in power, the then Commissioner of Police, Mr Bambay Kamara and the second in Command Mr PMB Johson and several other senior officers were limbas and northerners. This is not the case with the SLPP. The impartiality of the supposed “Mende Party” led to a limba northerner to head as Inspector General of the Police and also limba northerner as Deputy Accountant General. IS THIS A PARTY WHO CARES ONLY FOR THE MENDES? The answer is clearly no.
Subject: Re: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Solo B
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:08 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Are you back from awarenesstime. Are you not getting more response at that forum? Camom go back to where you are coming from. We have already seening this peace of crap.
I just want to win.
And by the way rice no rice a de win na ma.
Subject: SLPP will stage managed every wicked act.
From: Saloneboy
To: All
Date Posted: 15:31:57 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 175-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.175
Message:
The wind of change is so ferocious that the SLPP fanatics are positioned to spoil the elections. Only a desperate rogue will believe that the APC supporters actually burned SLPP office. According to Reuters, the youths in Segbwema stoned and did not allow the convoy of Ernest Koroma to proceed. How can the APC supporters that werre out-numbered by the SLPP supporters slip through in the midst of matches, knives sticks, and stones to burn the SLPP building?. This is a fallacy. It is scary for these youths to wield matchets and other sharp objects at this time when the people are using their franchise to vote. Can the International Community intervene to prevent another sad re-occurence of barbarism in Sierra Leone.
The story coming from our Country shows that the sLPP is smelling its demise and it is using every dirty trick to prolong its stay.
Sheku Sesay a Kabbah adviser was caught with soldiers armed and even used an unidentifiable vehicle that belongs to the UN.
The registration of the vehicle does not match the number on the windscreen.
The Police indeed are trying to uphold the peace. It has to be say that Britain and other Countries have invested to see peace reigns in Sierra Leone. The British IMAT must use their security personell on the ground to protect democracy
Sierra Leoneans just want to exercise their franchise. The SLPP should know that violence has made the Country sinks. The people conducted themselves well at the last elections. What SLPP needs to do is to talk with Ernest Koroma as Berewa said that he would like to hug him and discuss hard politics with him. Why can't we forge ahead and leave all those things that divide us. This will be a pleasant moment if Berewa can strike a deal with the APC/PMDC and all work for national unity.
We should not give chance to the brutes, barbarians and wicked politicians to deny Sierra Leone from peace. Let us shout loud against violence in this crucial time. September 8th or not, we need to maintain the peace!
Subject: Re: SLPP will stage managed every wicked act.
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 16:14:22 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.208.251.24
Message:
The facts will reveal the truth...
If you've ever been to Segbwema since the end of the war, you will know that there are not that many people there to outnumber APC youths in Ernest Koroma's convoy...the town is barely being revived from the ruins that the RUF left it in ruins.
You should also be aware that most ministers are now assigned armed police or military guards for their protection and at a time like elections they will travel with them to the provinces. The facts still need to be sorted out in the Dr Shekou Sesay case, so I cannot comment on it.
When APC was leading in the just concluded first round, they were the ones inciting violence through their radio station.
Do you think that would have been possible with an APC govt in power?
Subject: Re: SLPP will stage managed every wicked act.
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 15:36:38 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.115.21
Message:
No Doubt my brother!
The SLPP is prepared to stop at nothing for sake of this presidency even if it will meaning burning down state house. But lEH DEM WAIT............DOE GO KLIN FOR THEM...........
Subject: PRESS RELEASE FROM THE APC
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 15:10:49 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: FMANSARAY@AOL.COM
Entered From: static-host-24-225-231-177.patmedia.net at 24.225.231.177
Message:
PRESS RELEASE
The All Peoples Congress(APC) will like to inform all its Members and Supporters worldwide that the recent news item on Awareness time reporting that the APC and PMDC supporters burnt down houses in Segbwema is totally false. Talking to Security officers in the APC convoy few minutes ago ,they confirmed that the SLPP supporters lead headed by John Benjamin and John Karimu actually ambushed the Leader's convoy between Daru and Segbwema denying the leader the chance to enter kailahum.
It is difficult to determine who burnt down the houses ,because as the APC Leader complained last week hooligans have been issued red t-shirts and ordered to go around causing mayhem with the hope of tarnishing the name of the APC. This campaign strategy has been used by the SLPP in Freetown and some other parts of the country.
The APC leader and his convoy withdrew after the ambush. The story in awareness times Is just a figment of the Editors imagiation. We will bring you more report as the day goes by.
The leadership of APC is pleading to the International Community to intervene because it is the sole wish of the SLPP to provoke violence which will enable them to declare a state of emergency to hang on to power, to rob the people of sierra leone and the International Community of the chance to conduct Free and Fair elections.
FODAY MANSARAY
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