Subject: President Ernest Koroma
From: The Nationalist
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Date Posted: 08:40:49 09/15/07 ()
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Just awaiting confirmation on Monday. When that is done, we will discuss the bad spirit of losing we have seen from SLPP. PMDC and APC too must learn to do the same if they ever loses. This is becoming ridiculous. Even if Berewa has the remaining votes in the South -East he can't win .
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma
From: Anonymous2007
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Date Posted: 09:23:15 09/15/07 ()
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I agree with you that this getting ridiculous. Some of the people on this forum are well educated and respected members of the salone community but you would be ashamed if you found their true identities because of their ridiculous statements on this forum. Monday is only 2 days away and this nonsense will be over because i don't understand how anyone with more than one brain cell can believe that SLPP is going to win this election even by 20 votes. It's over and Christina Thorpe is going to toss out all fraudulent votes and there is nothing anyone can do about it, not even the supreme court. It was already done in Bombali and you did not hear one complaint from APC but just wait until Monday when she tosses out votes from the southeast, then all hell will break loose.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 09:37:56 09/15/07 ()
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Do not be too sure. What will you say if Christiana Thorpe does not turn up on Monday and Nyallay declares in favour of SLPP?
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 09:55:11 09/15/07 ()
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The reason why people with any cintilla of a brain cell will think of an SLPP victory , unlike you nebulous APC fanatics in the diaspora is the reports were given by polling stations. Polling stations do not equate to the amounts of votes. Unless the outstanding votes at the remaining polling nations are less than ernest koroma's lead , APC can not claim victory. It is tight but not impossible.
Can't you APC fanatics understand simple analysis.
Basco, please take a medical check up on monday. I want you to be around after the big surprise. No matter how much ballot stuffing APC did it is not enough for victory
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma
From: anonymous2007
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Date Posted: 10:08:05 09/15/07 ()
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for the heck of it lets just say that figures from the remaining polling stations actually have the magical 400,000 votes that SLPP is craving which will put SLPP ahead be 14,000, what makes you think that NEC won't toss out any of the southeast votes? If NEC tosses out even 5 of the Southeast polling stations won't that be more than the 14,000 votes, in which case APC will still be leading? This is the part of the equation that SLPP fanatics are leaving out. Can someone please give me one good reason why NEC won't cancel any of the southeast votes that obviously appear to be fraulent per complaints from APC and international observers? Why do you insist of avoiding the fact that southeast votes are going to be tossed out? On monday this will all be over, i stronly believe NEC will not be intimidated and they will toss out any votes they think are fraudulent, just wait and see.
Subject: Re: President Ernest Koroma
From: anonymous2007
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Date Posted: 09:47:42 09/15/07 ()
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By the grace of God nothing will prevent Christina Thorpe from declaring the winner on Monday. This process has taken too long, it has been over a month and there is still no winner in this presidential election. But i am certain that she will toss out votes from the southeast because she would have never tossed out votes from Bombali if she did not intend to do it everywhere else.
Subject: CHRISTIANA THORPE IS UNRELIABLE
From: paps
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Date Posted: 08:34:23 09/15/07 ()
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so i know people are going to frown at this, i will make my position clear that we truely usher in a leader that have the country at heart. now for the wonderful statisticians please tell me if am wrong, the results released for BONTHE is short by about 600 votes. when you add the total votes for SLPP and APC plus the invalid votes (25466 + 19154 + 1440 = 46060), the NEC total is 46747 with 68.2% turnout. so please help tell me what happened to the difference of 687. oh poor Sierra Leone.
Subject: SLPP must concede and not be a sore loser-Patriotic vanguard
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 08:33:19 09/15/07 ()
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SLPP must concede and not be a sore loser
- Friday 14 September 2007.
Commentary
By Dr. Abdul Rahman Kamara.
In defeat, the SLPP has been as unscrupulous in exploiting the innocence, ignorance, and credulity of Sierra Leoneans as in its 10 year stewardship of the country.
Most Sierra Leoneans and the world over believed that a run-ff was not necessary given the dismal performance of the SLPP in the August 11th 2007 election and advised Berewa to take the high road and concede not only to save Berewa and the SLPP the current embarrassment of defeat but to preserve the fragile peace. While it was obvious to the whole world of an APC victory in a run-off, Berewa and the SLPP’s only hope was to circumvent the will of the people without regard to the consequences of such actions.
The SLPP leadership must understand that there is dignity and gallantry even in defeat especially in the hands of a magnanimous coalition of the APC and the PMDC poised to start task of healing the nation.
I invite the SLPP statisticians who have promised to perform statistical legerdemain for the party, and the SLPP to refute my analysis for an APC victory even with the SLPP given the benefit of the votes purported by the SLPP in the SLPP stronghold of Kailahun, Kenema and Pujehun.
SLPP apologists’ claim that “76.1% of the polling stations reported do not mean 76.1% of the votes” is correct for the wrong reasons. They are suggesting that more votes remain to be counted than 23.9% of the total votes cast in this run-off which will be a fallacy of a logical conclusion from their statement. Such deceptive reasoning is a hallmark of these apologists.
Based on NEC results released on Thursday September 13th 2007, Ernest Koroma with 859,144 votes is leading Berewa with 567,449 votes by 291,695 votes.
Kailahun Votes:
Number of Registered voters = 185,583
Voter turnout in run-off = 185,583 assume 100% voter turnout and zero invalid votes
As per SLPP apologists:
SLPP Votes =171,583
APC Votes =14,000
This gives Solo B a positive variance of 157,583 votes over Koroma in Kailahun.
Kenema Votes:
Number of Registered voters:= 271,254
Voter turnout in run-off =217,003
With 52.5% polling stations reported, Koroma (26,631 votes) and Berewa (83,187 votes) for a total of 109,818 votes for both candidates.
Koroma + Berewa votes total = 109,818
Invalid votes so far = 2,178
Total votes countenanced in NEC Report of sept. 13th = 111,996
Votes remaining to be counted = 217,003 - 111,996 = 105,007.
Currently Berewa has 75.5% of votes and Koroma 24.5% of votes. If remaining votes of 105,007 are divided based on these percentages, Koroma will get 25,464 more votes and Berewa will get 79,542 more votes.
Positive variance for Berewa = 79,542 - 25,464 = 54,078 votes from kenema.
Pujenhun votes:
Number of Registered voters:= 98,453
Voter turnout in run-off = 78,762
With 33% of polling stations reported, Koroma has 5,926 votes and Berewa has 20,184 votes for a total of 26,110 votes. Add the 592 invalid votes and you have 26,702 votes countenanced in the NEC report.
Remaining votes to be counted: = 78,762 - 26,702 = 52,060 Currently, Berewa is getting 75.6% of the remaining 52,060 votes (or 39,352 votes) and Koroma will get 24.4% or 12,708 votes.
This gives a positive variance of 26,644 votes in favor of Berewa over Koroma in Pujenhum not yet reflected in the NEC report.
Total votes for Berewa over Koroma from the SLPP stronghold Districts of Kailahun, Kenema and Pujehun: 157,583 + 54,078 + 26,644 = 238,305.
Koroma’s current lead = 291,695
Berewa’s lead in Kailahun,
Kenema and Pujehum: = 238,305
Positive variance for Koroma over Berewa = 291,695 - 238,305 = 53,390 votes.
The rest of remaining counting will be in Ernest Koroma’s stronghold. The APC could only do better in the remaining Districts.
Berewa and the rest of the SLPP leadership, the day of reckoning is here. Sierra Leoneans will be unforgiving to you and the SLPP for your continued misrepresentations of the facts.
“Hope for a better day is the only comfort one could give to a weeping child” in this case to a sore loser.
Subject: Next SPEAKER of parliament
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 07:03:13 09/15/07 ()
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Who is the potential Speaker of parliament? Students of our constitution, what are the functions/roles of this position?
Subject: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 06:58:02 09/15/07 ()
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"I believe I love Sierra Leone more than you do!!
Do you think I was happy to leave Sierra Leone in my teenage years in search of a peaceful environment? APC caused myself and so many to do so!!" -- Chez
Winston Kabia, aka Chez,
Let me tell me that your words above mark you as the most selfish, unpatriotic Salonean ever possible. You have admitted that your doposition to the APC is because of what you say it did to YOU. Not a word about what the APC did to/for the rest of Saloneans. Can there be any more evidence of your selfishness?
Let us go to your shameless unpatriotic rants. You say you want the most corrupt regime in the history of Salone, which has stole4n more than $1.5 billion of Salone's money top be returned to power in the person opf its leaqd co-klepromaniac, President Kabbah's VP, Solomon Berewa.
In a sign of your treason against the state of Salone, you, Kabia, that say you want Berewa to be imposed as president of Salone despite his sound rejection by the people of Salone. Do you know that usurping the will of the people expressed through elections is treason? Are you so selfish that you would join the kleptomaniacs, Berewa and Kabbah, in the dock for treason if they usurp the constitution of Salone by depriving the people of their right to choose their own leader?
My advice to you, Winston Kabia, is to be very careful. You are not more important than the people of Salone, despite your own statement implying that you think you are.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 08:08:16 09/15/07 ()
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Saloneman, most of the damage to Salone was done by the educated elite who despite the hifalutin degrees and academic accolades, remain at heart primitive creatures in whose breasts still rage the parochial storms of tribalism and unpatriotism.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 08:17:30 09/15/07 ()
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Malombo, you are quite correct. It is the educated elite that are the ones that have committed such dastadrly crimes against the people of Salone to reduce them to the poorest people in the world. Meanwhile, the educated criminals fly high with their loot they stripped from the backs of poor Saloneans.
Now, in my mind, that reminds me of what one of our brothers used to wrtite on this website. He said that there is a difference between an educated person and a knowledgeable person. He explained that the difference is one of morality.
I leave you, Malombo, to guess which one of the two types of educated people our brother said should have been leaders in Salone.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 07:37:50 09/15/07 ()
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Saloneman, I said, '...myself and so many to do so!!'. So many young minds left Sierra leone during the era I am talking about.
I know I am not selfish and your words on that note will not pierce me into changing my beliefs.
You cannot threaten me with treason. My father was charged with treason for speaking out against the ills of your party on the people. You kept him at pademba Road for a long time. He made a lucky escape but for the love of his country, on the invitation of Momoh, returned to Sierra leone only to be met with death under your government. With God's help I was able to leave Sierra leone and found peace in foreign lands.
Evil deeds ate into so many of us that we had to resort to killing one another. only a very few orchestrated this scheme and it engulfed the whole country. When will we learn to disagree and not resort to name calling and scare tactics.
i am not a person who has fear of mankind. God is my guide. kabba or berewa cannot help me. I have helped more of our leaders than you can think. I sometimes beg them to take a look at proposals that could make them noble and honourable citizens.
Your anger directed at my person is because I gave you the news of what was on the ground - how many times have you guys concocted stories to suit your convenience? Did I angrily disagree with you. I treat you with reasoning. Through explorative reasoning I was able to be one of you though I was on the other side. Now that I have delivered news that is not good to your ears, you become angry and be ready to lynch me. God, my shield and my guide will protect me. Whom then shall |i be afraid of?
Saloneman, let us allow time. Anything can change. Our minds are all clouded with uncertainties.
Insults and anger will not help you - reason will help!
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 08:01:08 09/15/07 ()
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"My father was charged with treason for speaking out against the ills of your party on the people."
Chez, as a rule, I do not debate with people who are not serious. So, in order for me to engage you in this discussion, I request proof that you should be taken seriously.
So, as proof that you should be taken seriously, even if not of your "explorative reasoning", please provide the proof which you failed to provide when you claimed that I belong to the the party which you allege charged your father with treason.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Chez winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 08:14:51 09/15/07 ()
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Check the sierra Leone High Court Case Memorandum of 1981/2 and also Pademba Prison records of 1981/82.
I have some articles on that dating back 1977 to 1981. You can even check 'West Africa' archives of 3rd quarter 1981 and those after.
If you email me at: winakabs@rock.com, I will find some and scan them for you to read. I have no hatred but it will interest you are innocent people have died for the sake of the good of the whole.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 08:46:23 09/15/07 ()
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Thank you for the offer, Chez. However, you seem to have caught a strain of the apparently uniform blind SLPP supporters' affliction -- an inability by to understand what they read!
If you go back and read my question, I did not ask for details of your father's alleged charge for treason. What I asked you for, quite simply, is proof that you had failed to provide of YOUR claim that I am a member of the party which you alleged had charged your father with treason when you wrote: "My father was charged with treason for speaking out against the ills of your party on the people."
Here is my original post containing the question that I hope you will now answer responsively after hopefully understanding it better, in view of my above simplification of the original post below:
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Posted by Saloneman on September 15, 2007 at 08:01:08:
In Reply to: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS posted by Chez Winakabs Europe on September 15, 2007 at 07:37:50:
"My father was charged with treason for speaking out against the ills of your party on the people."
Chez, as a rule, I do not debate with people who are not serious. So, in order for me to engage you in this discussion, I request proof that you should be taken seriously.
So, as proof that you should be taken seriously, even if not of your "explorative reasoning", please provide the proof which you failed to provide when you claimed that I belong to the the party which you allege charged your father with treason.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 09:17:43 09/15/07 ()
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My apologies. I hastily responded without going to the end of your sentence. I think it is quite natural for such to happen. i was under the presumption that you are APC hence the ...'...your party on the people'. my apologies again.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 09:23:19 09/15/07 ()
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No need to apologize, mon ami Chez!
Just an acknowledgment that you assumed a fact (that I am APC) for which you have no proof, will do. But, since you have graciously offered an apology, I graciously accept it with humility.
May I ask if you could kindly prevail upon your SLPP leaders in the destruction of Salone, Kabbah and Berewa, to similarly apologize to the people of Salone for their crimes against them?
Thank you in advance for ytour continuing cooperation as we try to usher a new era of SLPP people (and their leaders, hopefully) finally takinf responsibilty for their actions.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 07:22:23 09/15/07 ()
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There you go again with your false accusations. No international agency is going to give $1.5 billion directly to any Sierra Leonean Govt with the past experience of the APC crooks. I do not deny members of Kabba's govt may embezzled funds. It is impossible for them to steal 1.5 billion that they do not have access to.
They may have given sierra leone $1.5 billion in aid including the costs of the United Nations force.
If you have the proof , show us the documentation that 1.5 billion was given directly to the kabba Govt which they stole. If you have this proof, let us take kabba to court and sue him. I will support you.
If not stop bring false and libelous information to the net.
SHOW US PROOF , BROTHER
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 07:53:53 09/15/07 ()
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The proof was posted here when you asked the same question last month oin this website. It is proof that you nver understand what you read, as you have been told many times, that you are now asking the very same question that has been answered multiple times.
At the last time, the person answeing your question provided the proof with a series of figures showing that the kleptomaniac SLPP regime of the crooks, Kabbah and Berewa, received $800 millionf under the RPSP, and more than $1 billion from the British giovernment in DIRECT budgetary support.
Given that you don;t understand what you read, it is perhaps too much to ask that you understand how to count. But your multiple failures of comprehension and computation do not give you the right to inflict your multi-faceted ignorance upon sober people.
Please repair to the SLPP forum where you will find comfort among your fellow dim-witted, unpatriotic SLPPers.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 09:11:35 09/15/07 ()
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Nobody has shown me any concrete proof that $1.4 billion was given or stolen by the Kabb a administration . There was debt relief of $ 1.5 billion which you crooked APC racked up. If the Kabba administration embezzled $1.4 billion , why would they get debt relief?
You nebulous APC fanatics can not interprete information . You jump at the slightest crumb and misinform the electorate which has a high illetracy %.
Nice try APC , fanatics. you and the APC mouthpiece, cocorioko can not properly decipher electoral statistics. Berate Awareness times, their projections were right the first round and will be right the second time.
Unfortunately, You APC/PMDC meglomaniacs can not accept defeat.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Taylor
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Date Posted: 09:14:35 09/15/07 ()
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"Nobody has shown me any concrete proof that $1.4 billion was given or stolen by the Kabb a administration"
That is because you wouldn't understand such proof as long as it is written in English -- which it has been many times here on cocorioko.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 09:44:06 09/15/07 ()
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Nobody has shown any concrete evidence of the kabba Admistration evidence of Kabba stealing $1.4 billion,.
If the international community was crazy enough to give sierra Leone $1.4 billion that shows the confidence , they have in the kabba administration. That means they are doing something right unlike the previous theiving APC kleptocrats.
Please answer this question, IF the SLPP is corrupt and stealing $1.4 billion. Why would they give Sierra Leone debt relief? Please answer the question then you can insult me like the other nebulous APC fanatics who are not used to democracy or being questioned.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 10:13:33 09/15/07 ()
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"Please answer this question, IF the SLPP is corrupt and stealing $1.4 billion. Why would they give Sierra Leone debt relief?"
The answer -- which was written in simple English on this website when ytou asked the same question several months ago -- is not a secret to those who understand English. Perhaps you could get someone to translate it into a language you can understand. Here it is, again in English:
The international community denied debt relief to the SLPP kleptomaniac regime of Kabbah and Berewa in 2005 because of the unpatriotic duo's massive corruption. That drastic actgion against the people of Salone was taken in a failed attempt to teach the Kabbah-Berewa kleptomaniacs a lesson -- that there will be a cost to their masive thieving of foreign aid.
The key to understanding the error in your unsubstantiated assumption that such aid represents an expression of confidence in the SLPP regimne, but not to the prior APC regime, is simple enough, even for you to understand (once translated into a comprehensible lanjguage): Both the APC and the SLPP received significant aid from the international community. So, it is complete nonsense for you to claim that such aid represents a show of confidence to one party's governmet (SLPP), but not the other.
Now, to answer your final question as to why Salone was given debt relief even though the corrupt SLPP regime's co-leqaders and their cohorts had stolen $1.5 billion, please have someone explain the following answer in any language you understand better than English:
When Salone was denied debt relief in 2005 by the G8, it was over the initial objection of Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, who had promised massive aid to Africa when he became president of the G8. In order for Blair to make good on his commitment to help Africa with unprecedented infusions of aid, particularly debt relief, before he gave up the G8 presidency in 2006, the rules for granting debt relief to Salone were CHANGED.
It was this "allowed-to-pass" that resulted in Salone being granted debt relief that it had been properly denied the previous year -- to a huge outcry from do-gooders like Bono, Bob Geldoff, Oxfam, and other poverty-alleviation advocacy groups in the West. The combined efforts of these Western advocacy groups (who had sizable followings among Westerners who voted in elections) and Blair's own personal stake in delivering on his promise led to debt relief being granted to Salone in 2006 under the SLPP regime, depsite the latter's globally noriotus corruption.
So, my dim-witted friend, I hope you now understand that the "sorry-heart" gesture in recognizing that, despite their SLPP govt.'s massive corruption, the people of Salone should be finally granted debt relief had NOTHING to do with the international community's purported confidence in the massively kleptomaniac SLPP reginme of the thieving duo of Kabbah and Berewa.
On the contrary, it had ecverything to do with the image of Britain's Tony Blair, who did not want to leave the G8 presidency without fulfilling his much vaunted public commitment to make debt relief to Africa a vcenter point of his tenure, and to a lesser extent, to the escalatign pressure for debt relief from Western poverty-alleviation lobbying groups.
Now, please go get a translator to explain the above explanation in a language that you can understand so we won't see you come here again to repeat the same questions that have been answered multiple times -- in English.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: ITK
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Date Posted: 08:20:30 09/15/07 ()
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Saloneman:
How is receiving $800 million in assistance tantamount to stealing $1.4 billion? Do you really think the donors would continue to disburse funds to Sierrea Leone (as they continue to do even as we speak)if such stagggering embezzlement was occuring? OH yes, I forgot, they have no way of knowing that those funds have been embezzled, but you do! kamara clearly indicated that there are corrupt officials in the SLPP administration, just as there were in prior APC administrations, and just as there are in the Kenyan, Gambian and Malawian governments. This is a scourge in Africa that we, the governed, must not tolerate and work hard to eradicate. But I find it so disappointing that Sierra Leoneans, like yourself, exhibit so much hatred when we debate issues relating to our country, resorting to name-calling and insults. There is no reason why we cannot discuss our differing viwpoints without spewing the sort of vitriol with which you end your post. I am a life-long SLPP supporter, but have yet to meet an APC supporter that I dislike. I have engaged in heated discussions with many, but never resorted to the kind of uncivil language peppered in your posting.
THe SLPP and APC will forever be rivals in the political arena, but does that mean their supporters must stoop to a level whre they seek to dehumanize their fellow Sierra Leoneans?
Me man (and this goes for all "party gladiators"), take am easy, we all want wetin best for Salone. We pipul den don suffer too long.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Victor Moigua
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Date Posted: 08:58:09 09/15/07 ()
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ITK, dastardly crimes deserve vitriolic sanctions. I love all people but don't you think that people who, regardless of party, rig elections and destroy econonies, ought to be punished?
Is calling the Kabba-Berewa monster a disaster for Sierra Leone name calling?
Is telling them to their face that stealing elections is treasonous, hatred?
Is calling the enablers of this corrupt SLPP kleptocracy, SOBs hatred?
The real hatred my friend is the inhumane SLPP policies that have bankrupted the country and now threaten to plunge the country into another catastrophe.
If the APC does this kind of thing we will excoriate them the same way. Remember that Siaka Stevens was challenged at every turn of his rule for his undemocratic habits (Remember 1977).
For now, call your people at SLPP HQ and tell them to stop rigging the elections.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: ITK
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Date Posted: 10:06:51 09/15/07 ()
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I REST MY CASE!!!!!!
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 10:17:28 09/15/07 ()
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Is this the SLPP latest dishonest way of saying "I concede?"
If so, I recommend the honest ways of the hopefully new SLPP (post Kabbah-Berewa kleptomania) of Chez Kabia.: When you are wrong, admit it.
It is far better than your old SLPP ways of dishonestly resting a case that does not exist.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 09:12:31 09/15/07 ()
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"If the APC does this kind of thing we will excoriate them the same way. Remember that Siaka Stevens was challenged at every turn of his rule for his undemocratic habits (Remember 1977)."
Victor, you have hopefully helped Chez understand finally the point underlying my still unanswered question to him earlier this morning: "So, as proof that you should be taken seriously, even if not of your "explorative reasoning", please provide the proof which you failed to provide when you claimed that I belong to the the party which you allege charged your father with treason."
Hopefully, Chez and his fellow blind SLPP supporters will open their eyes and see that those of us today criticizing the corrupt SLPP did ALSO criticize the only slightly less corrupt APC regimes of Siaka Stevens and Momoh in the 1970s and 1980s.
It is that realization that would hopefully help Chez and ITK and any others who think like them that we are patriots -- not partisans like them who put their SLPP's unpatriotic interest in continuing to loot from our people and destroy their livlihood above the far greater interest of the people of Salone.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: ITK
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Date Posted: 10:08:47 09/15/07 ()
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I REST MY CASE!!!!!!
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 10:14:34 09/15/07 ()
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What case?
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 08:36:40 09/15/07 ()
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"How is receiving $800 million in assistance tantamount to stealing $1.4 billion?"
ITK, adressing only the serious issue you raised in your reply, it seems you read only $800 million when you should have read at least $1.8 billion. Perhaps the incomprehension debility is a uniform affliction of SLPP supporters.
I mentioned that proof was adduced here in the form of a series of figures representing direct cash given to the SLPP cabal of kleptomaniacs. The failure of the SLPP to account for that money, is documented in indictments of the Kabbah-Berewa government for corruption in 2005 and 2006 by the several international organizations. They included the U.N. the G8, and the European Union.
You may not be expected to admit this, but it is a well-known fact that it is the globally notorious corruption of the sLPP cabal of Kabbah and Berewa which cost the people of Salone more than a billion dolars in debt relief when the G8 and other donors rejected the SLPP government's bid for debt relief.
To you, calling out the massive corruption of the SLPP regime of Kabbah and Berewa, as the international community had done, may mean that those bodies did "seek to dehumanize" Kabbah, Berewa, and their fellow looters of Salone money.
Or is that only when Saloneans do so, as I and many other patriotic compatriots have done do you call the indictment of the SLPP co-leaders and their cohorts for corruption an attempt to "seek to dehumanize their fellow Sierra Leoneans?"
Where is your patriotism, ITK?
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 07:36:06 09/15/07 ()
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The proof was posted here when you asked the same question last month oin this website. It is proof that you nver understand what you read, as you have been told many times, that you are now asking the very same question that has been answered multiple times.
At the last time, the person answeing your question provided the proof with a series of figures showing that the kleptomaniac SLPP regime of the crooks, Kabbah and Berewa, received $800 millionf under the RPSP, and more than $1 billion from the British giovernment in DIRECT budgetary support.
Given that you don;t understand what you read, it is perhaps too much to ask that you understand how to count. But your multiple failures of comprehension and computation do not give you the right to inflict your multi-faceted ignorance upon sober people.
Please repair to the SLPP forum where you will find comfort among your fellow dim-witted, unpatriotic SLPPers.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Historian
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Date Posted: 07:18:09 09/15/07 ()
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Don't forget to remind the blind SLPP that the APC has not ruled in Sa Lon during the past 15 years. Serious people know that the defeat of the SLPP in these electiuons is because of the SLPP's record of corruption, mismanagement and incomptence.
That has nothing to do with the APC for the simple fact that the APC was not ruling Sa Lon during the past 15 years.
Subject: Re: AN EXPANDING CABAL OF TREASONOUS SIERRA LEONEANS
From: max vandy
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Date Posted: 08:22:16 09/15/07 ()
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Only the frustrated economic refugees abroad are propagating these false rumors of an SLPP victory.
Back home. People are already oiling their Kobokos to administer justice on any SLPP thug who dares to mess with the elections.
Historian, isn't it funny that the SLPP always tries to hide their failures by digging up something from the past about the APC?
It is raining today. APC's fault
People are dropping dead from hunger, John Karimu. Blame APC.
Take some responsibility already.
Subject: SLPP IS MONKEYING WITH YOUR VOTE....AGAIN!
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 06:14:52 09/15/07 ()
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40 years after rudely interrupting democracy with a coup, the SLPP is again monkeying with the electoral process.
The tribal, political and economic repercussions of that 1967 coup are still hounding us, making our country kakabokit last in every single development index
Now the SLPP is at it again big time, conspiring a coup against our people who have already been victimised by their egregious policies.
They have decided to flush the ballot results down the toilet and cynically come up with their own numbers. Remember Chez Winakabs 14,000 SLPP victory margin?
SLPP, please be cognizant of our recent history and the blood that was spilled in the rebel war.
It is stuff like this that caused the rebellion.
This time around there will be no Ecomog to save you and you will be laughed off the U.N, if you scumbags try to poop on the ballot box.
See you in Parliament OR
See you in Hell.
Subject: Re: SLPP IS MONKEYING WITH YOUR VOTE....AGAIN!
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 07:08:43 09/15/07 ()
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You are last kakabokit because APC used tribal antics to win the 1967 election. They underwent an internecine blood battle in which the euducated democracy nation lovers were pitted against the illiterate street thugs. Unfortunately the democratic and progressive forces were either murdered or pushed to the wayside.
Consequently, our nation was plundered, looted and corrupted by the street thugs. Our moral fabric and respect as a nation lost forever. That is why we are last in every single development index.
Unfortunately Hypocrite Kabba brought in some of these APC retreads to SLPP.
You can blame SLPP for as much as you can, You can not run away from the fact the APC actions in their 24 year dictatorship was primarily reason that Sierra Leone is in as you say last kakabokit.
Subject: Re: SLPP IS MONKEYING WITH YOUR VOTE....AGAIN!
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 07:30:07 09/15/07 ()
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Kamara, the reason why we are in the dark is mostly because of SLPP's manipulation, corruption and deceit. The street thugs (your guys also called them San-San boys) whom your party shows such haughty condenscension to are also Sierra Leoneans with more common sense and patriotism than some of the brat packers in London and Washington.
Currently, who is deliberately using thugs to intimidate political opponents? SLPP
Who is stoking tribal brush fires to hang on to power? SLPP
Who is playing footsie with the election right now? SLPP
And now, the coup de grace Kamara: Who instigated the first coup in Sierra Leone in 1967?
S.L.P.P!
Subject: Re: SLPP IS MONKEYING WITH YOUR VOTE....AGAIN!
From: ITK
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Date Posted: 08:51:48 09/15/07 ()
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Malombo Sweet:
You know, there was time when I subscribed to the elitist viewpoint that determined "illiteracy" to be one of the serious problems retarding development in Sierra Leone. I now recognize that "education" poses a far greater danger. Believe me, you can subsitute APC for SLPP in all the charges you have levied-- as an SLPP supporter likely would (of course, I don't understand what you mean by SLPP "instigating" the 1967 coup.I am sure you know it is a baseless charge).But where does all this pontificating, intellectualizing and finger-pointing get us? It certainly does nothing for the ordinary Sierra Leoneans you seem to advocate for. Not only the APC and SLPP governing elite, but also our educated classes have a lot of questions to answer regarding the state of our nation over the past five decades. A lot of explaining to those less fortunate than they. What has gone wrong? How can a country poised to be the "Kuwait of West Africa" at the eve of independence deteriorate so badly that it now perenially ranks at the bottom of the UN HDI Index? A country blessed with abundant human, mineral, agricultural and other resources. Folks, it is time to stop the endless and noisy bickering and focus on these questions. To focus on how we can move up in the HDI rankings and make a better future for all Sierra Leoneans.
Subject: Re: SLPP IS MONKEYING WITH YOUR VOTE....AGAIN!
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 09:16:16 09/15/07 ()
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Is it a baseless charge that David Lansana's coup in 1967, was instigated by the SLPP to deny APC their electoral mandate? C'mon ITK, get real.
You want us to move up the HDI rankings? Tell your party to embrace democracy and accept the people's verdict.
Pontiftcation and Intellectualization? NAH!
I am just laying out SLPP's rap sheet for the whole world to see.
Subject: Re: SLPP IS MONKEYING WITH YOUR VOTE....AGAIN!
From: BASCO
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Date Posted: 08:43:24 09/15/07 ()
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DO NOT LISTEN TO TIFF PAPA EX MINISTER kAMARA WHO NOW SPELLS HIS NAME WITH A CAPITAL 'K'. He says he went to private school in the UK paid for by his father omolankay business in Salone. What a lier!! His dad was one of the SLPP ministers who instigated Lansana to go through with first coup. He definately understands about election rigging and overthrows. Giving up power is an an abomination to them. But I bet you if they rig this elections ...............
Subject: Re: SLPP IS MONKEYING WITH YOUR VOTE....AGAIN!
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 09:27:41 09/15/07 ()
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Basco, You are around . Please have a thorough check up on Monday. The SLPP surprise will give you a heart attack, If you are not fit. When they come in this time , they are not going encourage you APC retreads.
Do not worry Basco.I spell my name with small k, because I am a modest kamara.
Look my dad made his money in his omalankay business honestly. The same northern constituents who deserted him for being SLPP were sample people coming to beg him for money everyday as APC failed to deliver. All they could do was to send young people to the soviet bloc on sholarship.
Do not worry , Basco inside your APC , I have and had family members. A.B Kamara the former vice president was my cousin, his cousin Dr Sekou Kamara of Bamoi hotel was rumored to be potential health minister.
Was nt the omalankay business that fulas were first diong , whilst the lazy Sierra leonans were laughing.
Now the fulas are the richest in Sierra Leone. So do not underestimate my fathers omalankay business. We would leave the politics you desperate APC fanatics
Subject: Re: SLPP IS MONKEYING WITH YOUR VOTE....AGAIN!
From: BORBOH PAIN
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Date Posted: 06:18:49 09/15/07 ()
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Mambolo nor worry dem gborrka ya so. RUM KNOW DE WAN WAE DRINK AM. HASTINGS NOR GO DRINK WATERLOO CHAK OH. NA LIE....ORSAAAAAIII! ORWAAAAAAIII!
Subject: REMEMBER 1967
From: Brima Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:12:26 09/15/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
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Message:
Felloe Sierra Leoneans,
What is taking place in our country now is a repeat of the 1967 elections. Though certain people may not want to believe it, yet the proof is there for everybody to see. Believe it or leave it, the days of the SLPP are numbered. It is now left with them to leave peaceably with the chance to win the next elections in 2012 or to be driven out and wait another 29 years in limbo like it happened before. Here is a the trail for you to follow
1962 - SLPP won general elections
1964 - SLPP manipulate cabinet reshuffle to prevent Kerefa Smart from taking over as Prime Minister in favour of Albert Margai
1964 - APC won majority of municipal seats in the Western area and the north of the country
1967 - APC won general elections. SLPP used all sort of means to hang on to power including the military but to no avail. In the end the people triumphed and they went into a 29 year rest.
2002 - SLPP won general and presidential elections
2004 - APC won majority of seats in western area and the north of the country
2005 - SLPP manipilated their own internal elections to prevent Charles Margai from leading the party in favour of Solomon Berewa.
2007 - APC is going to win the elections and the SLPP will also try to use all means to prevent them taking over. Only this time, the army and police will not be there to help trhem as they had maginalised these two institutions in the recent past. They want to use ex-combatants (Nyuma and Bio) and failed politicians (Benjamin and Karimu) to do this. They will surely fail and they will be sent to the same 29 rest or even more this time because the PMDC will have succeeded in eroding all their support in the south and east by the next elections.
Believe it or leave it. The SLPP will never succeed to steal what the people hane fought for and that is Change for the better.
Subject: Re: REMEMBER 1967
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 06:55:02 09/15/07 ()
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Brima, you conveniently forgot to mention anything about the APC held elections. Are you trying to be disengenuous or that was an honest mistake. Brutalisation of FBC students and secondary students in Freetown 1977. Unopposed and thuggery dominated elections. If SLPP tried all means to steal the elections ,how come APC and other parties have competed and won seats during the SLPP term in office. What happened to UDP and other parties during APC's term in power. How many other parties won seats in the APC stronghold. Stop talking about stealing, APC is the last to talk about stealing it is embedded in their psyche.
Please do not leave out the crucial in formation in our nation's poltical history.
Good day
Subject: Re: REMEMBER 1967
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 06:34:16 09/15/07 ()
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Thank you Brima Kamara for educating me. I really learned something from your post. It is just eerie and uncanny reading the timelines.
As they say, those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it's mistakes.
40 years seem just like yesterday.
Subject: S.L.P.P. calls a halt to release of more election results
From: Albert Momoh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:10:05 09/15/07 ()
Email Address: amomoh@yahoo.co.uk
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Message:
According to the Weekend edition of Network Africa on the BBC, The government has ordered NEC to stop all release of results until further notice.
The S.L.P.P. has a credible information that the Liberian I.T. specialist (Tamba) was cooking up results in favor of the A.P.C. he was detained with his boss Christiana Thorpe.
I believe and know that Berewa will emerge as the next President of our beloved Sierra Leone. Stay tuned for more news.
Subject: Re: S.L.P.P. calls a halt to release of more election results
From: Orkaibah
To: All
Date Posted: 06:17:01 09/15/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
Keep dreaming your tribalistic gbaygaby head off! Nothing will stand in the way of Ernest who has been divinely chosen to rule our land.
Stop kidding yourself boy.As I am writing now from Freetown, the counting is going on unabated and to your disappointment a lot of SLPP fake votes have been invalidated to add more salt to your bleeding wound!
YOU HAVE LOST IT BIG TIME!
Subject: Re: S.L.P.P. calls a halt to release of more election results
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 06:41:11 09/15/07 ()
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Orkaiba, You are on the ground. Please tell us the amount of votes that have not been counted, not the polling stations. Ernest is in the lead but does that guarantee he has won.
Give us the true information not the APC slant.we are getting information that there is a great discrepancy between what Christiana Thorpe is reporting from NEC and the results that she is giving to the party headquarters, please confirm
I was in Freetown in July, and I know SLPP underestimated APC and its propaganda machine.
The election is not over till the results are read.
Subject: Re: S.L.P.P. calls a halt to release of more election results
From: Orkaibah
To: All
Date Posted: 08:19:01 09/15/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Message:
Orkama I can't give any figures now but all I can tell you in confidence is that the APC is still leading and that the final results will be released on Monday come rain, come shine.The NEC and its officials are tight-lipped about numbers and all they can say is the pattern of results is same i.e. Ernest still maintains the lead.I was told by an official that by Sunday evening, the two candidates will know exactly how they stand so as to mentally prepare them for any situation the announcement will cause on Monday.
The so-called discrepancy is just part of a propaganda campaign by one of the two sides to find faults incase the results don't go their way.I will keep you informed on any development.
Subject: Re: S.L.P.P. calls a halt to release of more election results
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 09:33:13 09/15/07 ()
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Do you have any idea of thee projected %. Has the counting of votes been completed. Keep us abreast.
Subject: OPPOSITION POISE TO WIN SA LONE ELECTIONS
From: New York Times
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Date Posted: 04:46:31 09/15/07 ()
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Read the article below from the New York Times.
Subject: Re: OPPOSITION POISED TO WIN SA LONE ELECTIONS
From: New York Times
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Date Posted: 04:48:52 09/15/07 ()
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Opposition Poised to Win Power in Sierra Leone
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By LYDIA POLGREEN
Published: September 15, 2007
DAKAR, Senegal, Sept. 14 — With more than three-quarters of the vote in Sierra Leone’s presidential race counted, the opposition candidate appeared to have an insurmountable lead on Friday against the vice president, whose party has run the country through more than a decade of brutal civil war and fragile peace.
Ernest Bai Koroma, of the opposition All People’s Congress, had about 60 percent of the 1.4 million votes counted, ahead of Solomon Berewa, the hand-picked successor to Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, who is stepping down after 12 turbulent years in and out of office.
If Mr. Koroma is confirmed the winner, the succession will be the first time power has peacefully shifted from one party to another in a country whose history has been marked by strife. The election, which went to a second round after the first round failed to produce a clear winner, was one of the most competitive in the region in recent memory.
Mr. Koroma criticized the government of Mr. Kabbah and his deputy, Mr. Berewa, saying it had failed to tackle corruption and deliver a peace dividend to Sierra Leone. A tiny country on the west coast of Africa, it has considerable wealth in diamonds and timber, but has suffered through decades of misrule and violence.
The civil war, which was spawned by a conflict in neighboring Liberia and fueled by Sierra Leone’s lucrative alluvial diamond mines, ended in 2002, but many Sierra Leoneans still have not seen a significant improvement in their living standards. Their nation remains one of the poorest on earth, and efforts to reduce child deaths, malnutrition and maternal mortality have produced limited results.
The country has struggled to recover from the war, one of Africa’s bloodiest, in which boy soldiers addled by drugs hacked limbs off civilians on the orders of their commanders.
But if Mr. Koroma’s likely victory signals change, his party comes with its own political baggage: It ruled Sierra Leone during the long and deeply corrupt era that preceded, and perhaps produced, the civil war that killed tens of thousands of people and sent millions fleeing their homes.
The election tested the police and military, which were reconstituted after the war while United Nations peacekeepers patrolled the country. The peacekeepers left two years ago, and the nation’s security forces had to contend with sporadic election violence on their own. Despite some violence before the second round of elections, the voting, held last Saturday, was peaceful.
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Subject: Re: OPPOSITION POISED TO WIN SA LONE ELECTIONS
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:30:15 09/15/07 ()
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You nebulous power lusting APC fanatics, please learn to read and interprete information in english.Poised to win does not mean he has won the elections. I know you desperate APC fanatics in the diaspora who have mortagaged everything for a job in Ernest's Govt including failed businessman FOday manasaray of New Jersey can not afford to have APC lose.
Please use your head to comprehend the results as they are reported. % OF POLLING STATIONS IS NOT THE SAME AS % OF VOTES.JUST BECAUSE 70% OF THE POLLING STATIONS VOTED DOES NO MEAN 70% OF VOTERS VOTED.POLLING STATIONS DIFFER IN POPULATION SIZES. YOU HAVE TO CALCULATE THE POPULATION OF THE REMAINING POLLING STATION TO PREDICT THE OUTCOME.
Basco, please explain to your fellow APC fanatics that they have not won till the final results are read. This APC jubilation is a bit presumptious and premature. Do not give up their day time jobs yet or some of give of their church or postorial duties.
I implore that Basco , Victor ,Max please take a medical on Monaday. Make sure you do not have a heart condition. I do not want you to be devastated by the surprise this week and I want you to be around for a few SLPP victories.
Subject: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 04:09:04 09/15/07 ()
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Never seen so much pomp and dance! It was a wonderful night out. I got there at 01:00hrs and left at 05:00hrs. I asked myself, how did all these people came to be there at such short notice. The pomp was real and they are still on it.
I asked why we are celebrating and was told we have won. I then said - wait a minute - results have not been announced; I was told Christaina Thorpe is a corrupt woman and she wants to cheat us - we already know the count, the said.
It was a night of serious reflection. A lot needs to be done to show our interests in our country.
APC should now get ready to mount the strongest parliamentary opposition of the century. APC, I salute you!! It was a well contested race!! To the SLPP, I will say we survived a very close shave!! More efforts and seriousness needs to start happening! We cannot be complacent!!
Berewa will be sworn in as president in the 2nd week in October 2007. My advice is for him to distance himself from kabba and start looking at a formidable team that will be loyal to him and ready to bring about change as soon as practicable.
To Berewa, I will not leave you alone! My country is more important. Please look after the nation.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 10:13:23 09/15/07 ()
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I was told Christaina Thorpe is a corrupt woman and she wants to cheat us - we already know the count, the said.
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Is she really? Chez in ur numerous exchanges, you have insinuated that you are a student of law. I am sure that you know that postintg an obviously defamatory statement is it self defamation. You do a disservice to justice when you make statements like the one posted above with RECKLESS ABANDON.
Remember that yiu are one of the most respected members of the newly formed siera leone opposition party on this forum. Statemens such as these will quickly erode your respectability index and preety son you will be in the company of some professors and others like them who speak not wisdom but to borrow from one of your own people on this forum "nar "POIL" talk normor dem dae pan.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 06:44:06 09/15/07 ()
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CHEZ, I believe you are stating your wishes instead of reality. Monday, DAY OF FINAL JUDGEMENT, is around the corner; if you continue with this flawed conclusion, your concession statement would be a difficult one next week.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Victor Moigua
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Date Posted: 07:40:25 09/15/07 ()
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SLPP victory celebration? Hahahahaha!
Wet dream eh, Chez?
Good boy. Now go to bed and get ready to cry on Monday with the Masmot Borbor!
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 06:08:44 09/15/07 ()
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Chez,were you celebrating newyl formulated methods of butchering the innocent and feeding on human flesh?This time around,any move to creat mayhem will be met by a strong and decisive reaction.The new President Hon.Earnest Bai Koroma and his two diligent co-workers Hon.Charles Margai and Mr Sam Sumana have got a tedious job ahead after mis-rule by slpp maggots
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 06:31:41 09/15/07 ()
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Musa, I will wait and see as events unfold! Musa, it was great to meet so many happy people.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 05:18:38 09/15/07 ()
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As you can see this SLPP trial balloon is not gonna fly Chez. No matter how breathlessly you try to convey that propaganda, it is not going to work.
Tell your bosses at SLPP heaquarters that the people of Salone are not buying your BS at all.
Tell them that their crude propaganda has only generated wrathful contempt, that they have lost all goodwill from the APC because of their shenanigans.
Tell your lords that if they steal this vote and threaten the country's fragile peace, it is TREASON, a capital offence.
Tell your gang of looters that we will do everything possible to overthrow them and please, please inform your boss men that we will hunt them in the gutters of Freetown like the Okuru dogs they are.
And have some self respect, Chez. Stop kissing ass so much you brown nosing toady. You used to have class. What happened?
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 06:24:06 09/15/07 ()
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Malombo Sweet, I heard you! How many of the Sierra leonean people are you talking about? The 100% concern referred?
Malombo Sweet, I have become unpopular now and my class has gone because the end has arrived. This end is not to your liking and people like us are now branded as the scum of this earth. It is a shame that our sufferings did not make some of us call you the most disgusting names on this planet. We reasoned with you, we explored with you!
Berewa will be different from Kabba - I still believe that.
Malombo Sweet, I have never kissed an ass in my entire. These people were conceived and were born. The live and they will die. I do not put my faith in any human being. what they have done and are doing, I can do it better if God brings the opportunity. The only thing I have is our one GOD. He has guided me to taste so many paths and that I believe is a preparation for a duty that requires wisdom knowledge and understanding. Find out from people who know me, I have problems with bad people who refuse to change their ways.
My anger with kabba stem from the fact that I knew he was a criminal but thought he would try to pay back by sincerely serving our country. He disappointed us and will be a dishonoured statesman.
Stay focus and blessed. Altruism!!
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 06:57:20 09/15/07 ()
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Chez, your rhetoric does not match your action. I don't get it. Why are you so eager to condemn Kabba and yet exonerate Berewa. Berewa has been at the epicenter of SLPP misrule from the very beginning as one of Kabba's most trusted lieutenants.
Most of the disastrous SLPP policies like the vendetta against thousands of innocents (cynically dubbed as collaborators) was orchestrated by Berewa.
The extrajudicial lynchings and the jailing of opponents-after the Guinea return-were supervised by Berewa.
The revenge execution of Kula Samba and Co. was signed by Berewa.
Most of the ruinous economic policies of the SLPP that have devastated Salone including the wasteland of Lunsar, your hometown, were formulated and supported by Berewa.
Since his coronation at Makeni, Berewa has been the de facto president of Sierra Leone. Well, see the results for yourself.
So please don't play games, Chez. I can't stand Kabba because of his ineptness but Kabba is way better than Berewa.
As I said it is your right to support Berewa. You however have no right to rig Mr. Berewa into our lives to continue our torment.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 07:49:21 09/15/07 ()
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It is sad that we all want the betterment of our people but carry this ambition in different ways. I know that a cuning leader will always use a strong person or strong-willed character to be his lieutenant. Berewa may have greatly erred to some - the moralist. The secularist, will see berewa as a person ready to deal with this cunning man by way of staying close until he assumes the helm of power. Do you think berewa has ever ben happy with kabba. kabba sent all his mentors and strong advocats to the grave. kabba's recklessness is not seen in berewa. berewa is a very serious character that only those that have dishonest plans for the country will fear him. I will never be afraid to tell him the truth if he was to be seen to be doing things against our interest.
I still will not jump to conclude that the election has been rigged.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 08:32:01 09/15/07 ()
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If the the 14,000 SLPP vote margin and the ecstatic London celebrations you reported are true, yes Chez, the elections have been rigged. This would be the mother of all riggings.
Without a doubt, such fraud will not be allowed to stand. We will wait till Monday and see.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Lameeh Gblaah
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Date Posted: 09:22:31 09/15/07 ()
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Fellow readers , It's seem true about this 14,000 votes. Since sunday last I heard about this number but i though its absurd! I was in some mende SLPP gathering when these people were talking about 14,00 votes i never knew what that number was, then there was a phone call from John Benjamin from sierra leone and it was on speaker phone for us all to listen, he said that they would be holding on to Kailahun and Pujehun votes untill the final day and that would be as a top up of all the votes , and Kenema would add to the 14,000 votes. I listen with disbelief. what a travesty ? It's Big Time Rigging !! All what i am saying is that lets wait for monday Thats the day of reckoning. As for Berewa he has past his sell by date. If they practice this rigging as they are preaching we will follow Winton Churhill speach "We will fight them on Land We will fight them on the beaches, We will fight them in the sky and even for years to come " just for the freedom of our mama Salone for the next generation to come .
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Hypocrite Chez
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Date Posted: 04:28:48 09/15/07 ()
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I used to respect your opinions on this forum but no more,you have proven over time to be a dishonest and opportunistic chap.With your so-called intelligence,you very well know there is no way SLPP can win the elections but you keep on feeding us with the slime that your handlers are feeding you with.
I know that you have outlived your usefulness(if at all you have been useful)by staying for decades in the West with nothing to show for it and your only hope now is for SLPP to win and secure a job.
Your unbridled sycophancy is sickening,to say the least.I know that before you go to bed at night your last prayer is to let your dream of seeing SLPP in power at all cost comes true.Remember,that the Peoples Power is greater than those of a few rogue politician
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 04:50:59 09/15/07 ()
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Hypocrite, respect is a two way traffic. I have respect for all not because they soothe my quest but because they are human. I will not stop having respect for because of an unpopular effect.
I do not need a job from Berewa or anyone. I am blessed with the knack to be able to create work for the self and others. Name me anything I have not done and enjoyed doing it!
I do not follow others my good citizen, I have so much to offer that people can spend six to twelve months trying to have an appointment with me. I am not boot licker!
I have done enough during my time out here. I have some lovely children with very high grades at school and college, people who love me and I love them, a place to live in, able to support friends, relatives, etc back home - the responsibilities are too many. Not knowing me betrays your statement against me.
When you say the people power - you do not have a hundred percent populace that have rejected Berewa. You faked a 70% claim of people's support. What about the 30% - who do they support?
I believe I love Sierra Leone more than you do!!
Do you think I was happy to leave Sierra Leone in my teenage years in search of a peaceful environment? APC caused myself and so many to do so!!
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 06:18:38 09/15/07 ()
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To crown it all,you are an Idiot!opportunist,failure and a liar as someone indicated.Dont be embarrassed chez,it is the fact.Keep on dreaming and propagating
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: chez winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 06:36:01 09/15/07 ()
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Even the idiot can make you angry. You clever people with your cleverness did not make me lose my head with your rantings. The tide is different and you have no patience to wait - in hurry you meet disasters.
I am always a dreamer - what are dreams for if not to come true.
Musa, I do not need a job when I am able to create a job for self and others.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Elderman
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Date Posted: 04:23:19 09/15/07 ()
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Now that Berewa has made it on a tight margin, he should learn that he has a long way to go, to improve the country, to improve the living standards of the people, to improve all basic services.If he fails to do so, SLPP will be doomed forever
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 04:52:41 09/15/07 ()
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You are quite correct! He should now quickly start make amends to all the ills he has inherited.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: concern
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Date Posted: 04:21:24 09/15/07 ()
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Chez, you are one of the most untrust worth Sierra Leoneans who will betray anyone for your insatiable desire!
You are an endangered specie who needs to be spat at and not alllow to involve in Sierra Leone's developmental projects.
You are aliar and intrinsically dushonest. It was here you maligned the SLPP administration and talked about forming a third force to redeem our poor people. What Chez did next is to establish contact with the Berewas and you were promised to have a job when Berewa wins. Well, the clock is ticking and we are geared up to celebrate the victory of the people and in the event your party attempts to rig the elctions or prolong its stay, then there will be a hurricane to flush them out. Chez, your rogue buddies have no where to hide and you are weak to face the wrath of the people. Have you read your propagandist piece saying that armed security raided your building. Thats the tip of the ice berg. You have been warned. Desist from bringing chaos in our land and obstructing her peace. Sylvia Blyden has booked an air ticket to continue her subversive mission in The Gambia. Thanks Yayah Jammeh brought peace between herand Kabbah and she will try to convnce Jammeh that she has helped Kabbah to tarnish the image of Sierra Leone.
However, anything that is being done in the dark will become to light. Sylvia will never be encouraged in the midst of decent Sierra Leoneans. She cursed everyone including a well respected educationist, Mrs Cassandra Garber and even the late Mother, of Eric James, Mrs Princess James, a devout Religious woman who annually took Sierra Leone's flag in the holy land to pray for her survival.
Sylvia , juju will not help you. It is temporal. You have to meet your maker!
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 05:13:36 09/15/07 ()
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Concern, no one has promised me a job! I have the knack to create a job for myself and for others.
Yes, I am a critic of the kabbah administration. It was my right as a sierra leonean to see that the people governing are doing that which is in the interest of the people. I remember my late friend and mentor was offered a job that I knew he was incapable of handling. I went berserk and made sure he left the job and gave it to a better person.
My belief in Berewa is the reason for my change. Kabba greatly disappointed all of us and the only person I believe will deal with kabba is Berewa. Concern, you do not understand about the way a tiny group are manipulating the affairs of our nation for their selfish agenda. As I am now a dishonest and untrustworthy character, you will not believe that Kabba covertly toppled the APC led by Eddie Turay and others by putting his main man, Ernest Koroma. Wonders never cease!! Berewa was brought to disrupt a well organised SLPP. It has backfired on Kabba!!
If my intentions are against my people, my God will bear witness to that. The insults I have received for informing what was happening greatly upsets little minds. Will I call you dishonest for supporting Ernest Koroma, who is leading a party that made Sierra leone grow without seeing the brilliance of her sons and daughters. Yes Berewa served under kabba but was not empowered to be independent. His mistake was to follow blindly, a moral mind would think. To a secular mind, he did the right thing to survive the storms of kabba's evil and plan to make him pay for it. Berewa is the only man capable of making kabba confess for his neglect and recklessness.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: concern
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Date Posted: 07:14:21 09/15/07 ()
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I stand by my utterance. You are dishonest and untrustworthy! I care less about your ruling family lineage. All what we have got from your so-called ruling houses are lies, dishonest acts, thievery, tribalism, nepotism and blind loyalty for our Country.
I wonder who are these people who you say are having help from you in the UK. I believe that the people are lazy and do not in any way want to take their chances in this developed society. Britain is not your Sierra Leone where your so-called ruling families have destroyed what belongs to the poor. Each and everyone can have a square meal here or sleep with a fll stomach.
TYour writings depict a desperate man who uses Satan to tell lies and steal. Your new found love for the SLPP is basically hypocrisy and selfishness on your part to take position in governmnet. Thanks, you will be shunned and all what we will remember you for is a man without any moral princples. You betrayed your entire family by alligning witrh Solomon Berewa who made your Uncle died by burning. Your action so far tells it all that you are a betrayer and you will go at great length to sell Sierra Leone to the highest bidder. You must be a crook because you thought the SLPP will win through rigging and now you are writing that people who make appointmnet to see you will take months. Continue to live in slumber and when the news will come out that you have defrauded foreign investors, we will not surprised. Some of you have misinformed potential investors that you are at the corridor of power.
After all talk is cheap. Chez you must hide and not to be stupid. You said one thing today and you said another tomorrow. Just now you say that you were in a party celebrating the SLPP victory and when an SLPP nationalist says that you have lose, you quickly say hje should not saythat because the voting is still being counted. On Monday, you will see your nakedness and I hope you will learn to be honest.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 08:08:53 09/15/07 ()
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Concern, I am a very careful person. i want my children to grow and live to walk around with no one having to say a bad thing about their father. Your disrespect to me, my family line and the lot is not called for. We are discussing a national issue.
Concern, by me carrying on and trying to justify or defend every allegation of yours on my person or family is unnecessary. I will live you with your history of events about me and my family. What i will only say here is that under both regimes my family suffered - some directly orchestrated incidents by the government of the day and others being caught up in civil strifes.
if you discuss the national issue I will respond to you, if not, I will attempt to pass you. I love reasoning and I do not think you are doing that now. You are getting into the personal.
may God save you and give you coolness of the heart and mind. May God save us all and give us coolness of the hearts and minds.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: concern
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Date Posted: 08:18:01 09/15/07 ()
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I stand by my thoughts and if needs be I will delve into your spurious character again!!
Your support for Berewa is vain and it shows that you are a liar.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: chez winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 08:36:50 09/15/07 ()
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Thank you!
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: nico
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Date Posted: 06:47:36 09/15/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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Chez: I left the SLPP because of kabba's evil and manipulation but if Berewa can punish him I will consider rejoining the party even in opposition. Remember I defended the SLPP to the hilt, some of them I cannot mention here.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: nico cross-carpet
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Date Posted: 07:09:42 09/15/07 ()
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Message:
Nico, U dae cross carpet quick O!
Stay put baby, SLPP is not winning.
Don't indulge Chez in his impishness.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 06:54:29 09/15/07 ()
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Without a doubt - Berewa will make him confess his sins!
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Nulie Njongor
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Date Posted: 06:09:18 09/15/07 ()
Email Address: nulie@yahoo.com
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Chez, Being an SLPP Stalwart myself, I think you have over sentimentalize the Berewa Issue. All I can tell you, Kabba was the main factor, but Berewa contributed. These two people were never beleived in the doctrines of SLPP in the first place. We allowed them because we wanted the best for the country and can learn in the process. Berewa was never the choice of over 60% of SLPP members, but we were twisted to accept him for the sake of party loyalty and for the country. We did this for two reasons. Firstly, to maintain continuity of the hard won peace, secondly our respect for leadership and the values of content. These have come to hunt us now. We should have stock to our guns to learn that Berewa was a liability.
Those in the SLPP who did not support Berewa for the leadership were alienated such as people like us, who supported Margai. Despite this, as a true SLPP, we have maintained our cool and did not run to another or form a new party. We felt lessons could be learnt, but it did not happen. We have lost the election. We have let our people down, because we failed to deliver. We did not stand up for what we believed in. Those of us who did, we became nuisance to them. We told our collegues, they did not listen, now we have paid the price.
However it is not all lost for the SLPP. Our Party is an institution. We are goind to regroup weed out the so called hackers and rebuild our party for 2012. This time we know what to do. No more cronism, but realism. SLPP Will Live For Ever. I am urging all SLPPers to stand firm and to know that we will be back and this time with conviction and posterity.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 06:51:38 09/15/07 ()
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So you believe we have lost when the last count has not yet been called.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 05:35:58 09/15/07 ()
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Nobody is condemning your belief in Berewa. That is your preference. My problem with you is that your rage for what ever APC inequity you suffered in the past has made you completely lose your damned mind.
You cannot correct the past by violating the present and endangering the future. How can an urbane cosmopolite like you from a ruling family conspire with a bunch of political thugs to rig elections and make a mish-mash of their aspirations and risk civil war?
You keep saying that you are a self-made man. Frankly sir, I don't buy it. Please be honest and state that you are hoping to be the Managing Director of the Marampa Iron Ore Mines when it re-opens or maybe a minister.
However becareful, sycophants are held in contempt and you may just end up as a deputy minister in a basement office with a crappy typewriter and a black telephone,
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 08:34:13 09/15/07 ()
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Malombo Sweet, with the help of God, i was able to use little ideas and made them great. I used the events that led to my father's death by creating a charity in his honour and the went on for ten years before I wrapped up operations as i needed to get my own identity. The charity was so successful that many thought my late father left the money. malombo, it is not proper for me to come here and start proclaiming greatness because I am been accussed of supporting an individual because I want a job from him. What is wrong with me taking up a job to serve my country. This is not my intention but is there anything wrong in me applying for a job to serve my country?
Malombo, i wish you will know me in person, I am not one who begs to be helped. i learnt something during the years APC voluntarily chased us out of sierra leone - that 'La douleur est un bon conseil' -
suffering is a good advise. I am a person who will suffer to have something and show pride in that thing. I am not as lucky to manking as others. If you do a good deed to me, i will be indebted to you for life and that hurts me as I will not have the freedom and independence. If I happen to be the doer, I will pretend as if such a good never transpired between us. When I first arrived in London, i was sleeping outside a church in a card box just outside Hammersmith Station. I have relatives and friends but my freedom would have been compromised and I may not be able to progress as i did. i travelled all around europe for two years and that equipped me to settle down in London and make something out of these experiences. Why will i try to jeopardise such a brilliant past for the sake of an unpopular effect? ask yourself that! i believe and will not flinch in the face of the strongest criticism. God is my guide!
malombo, let us move on to something national.
Subject: Re: LAST NIGHT'S SLPP VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN THE UK
From: Malombo Sweet
To: All
Date Posted: 10:09:36 09/15/07 ()
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There then, Chez. This is the Chez that I admired on this forum. A man of integrity. Please don't destroy that reputation because of blind allegiance to politicians who wear their trousers one leg at a time like the rest of us. Berewa is not worth it if it means supporting a rigged elections.
You know full well, my friend, that it will be folly for your party to steal the elections, akin to a wilful child tossing matches in a room packed with dynamite.
Show the charitable, patriotic Chez by telling the Alagbas back home:
"Hey guys, I am true-blood SLPP. I love the party just as much as the next man, but I draw the line on dishonest elections. If we lose the elections, let's go into honorable opposition and try again in five years. Let's don't blow up the country with this monkey business. I love SLPP but I love Sierra Leone more."
I was disappointed by the apparent eagerness you exhibited in spreading the elaborate SLPP lie of the 14,000 victory margin and partying. There is no statistical possibility in light of the current trend for SLPP to LEGALLY win. Anyway, I still respect you and will continue to eagerly wait for your posts.
Your Cousin from Bai Rampa Road,
Malombo Sweet.
Subject: Concession
From: Leonean
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Date Posted: 03:57:16 09/15/07 ()
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It is a sad day that Sierra Leone may be going back to the days of APC tyranny. If however this is the wish of the majority of the people, then SLPP should regroup, try to work for the next election and peacefully and graciously concede this particular election.
These results should teach us all one thing. Never take people for granted. After 10 years of civil war, and years of promises made by SLPP without things getting any better, people, even some SLPP supporters just want a change. We will just pray that Ernest Koroma does not do as the APC of old. Though with the likes of criminals like Victor Foh back in top positions, I am not very optimistic.
We should all just pray to God that Ernest has the wisdom to get rid of all the shady and unscrupulous characters of the old APC the moment they start going back to their old ways.
I wish to ask all Sierra Leoneans to start to be realistic about what government can do. In my 38 years on this earth, I have learnt that the best person that can lift anyone from poverty is the self. I encourage youth of the country to engage in technical education. Sierra Leoneans have long looked down on vocational education. Being a carpenter, tailor, mechanic, farmer, trader is a major step to lift oneself out of poverty. The government can never make everybody enjoy. The best they can do is provide an atmosphere where our efforts can be rewarded.
To those of us in America, Europe, Australia, Canada and the rest of the diaspora, let us start investing in Sierra Leone. Let us help rebuild our country. Israel was built by jews in the diaspora, and we can do the same thing for Sierra Leone.
To our brothers and sisters back home in Sierra Leone. Try to be honest to your people abroad. When we send money to buy land, build houses, open businesses and so on, it is not because we are rich, but because we are trying to develop our home for the day we go back and for you guys. Most of us here are just fed up with our brothers cheating us out of our hard earned earnings.
Good luck to Sierra Leone
Subject: SLPP TIPS ON HOW TO DUBIOUSLY WIN AN ELECTION RUN OFF
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 03:10:24 09/15/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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1)Be friends of both the reigning Nigerian and Guinean presidents.Neglect the international community.
2)Forget about fairness,prestige and reputation-Politics is a dirty game;just lock your ears and don't go to the church or mosque so that the fear of God will not make you think twice.
3)Select a chief election commissioner from among the most docile and insecure women who can be cowed easily.
4)Starve the people you are ruling and deprive them of the basic needs for as long as you are in power.During elections canvassing dish out money,food
and the tee-shirts of your party.By doing so people will think you have done them a big favour and will forget the past quickly.
5)Be the first to start your canvassing and start in your opponent's strongholds especially if your opponent is tolerant, popular and confident of winning due to a clean record.
6)Use the home advantage to the maximum.Frustrate all your opponent's efforts to canvass in your strongholds by intimidation and impeding all movements;if possible use aggresive force,road blocks and the 'poro' or 'wunde' devil.
7)Hunt for the opponent's supporters in your strongholds and expel them and if possible go for ethnic cleansing so that they will have no chance to vote for your opponent.
8)On election day make sure that the opponent's polling agents do not enter even a square meter of any stronghold.By so doing you will have the chance to implement multiple voting or ballot-stuffing.It will be a one-man show all the way.
9)If the opponent complains to the election officials,make your own counter complaints and refer to the opponent's strongholds.
10)Employ a special lady to be writing a propaganda newspaper.She will spare no one even the UN in her bad-mouthing so as to achieve your objectives.
11)When the counting starts, tell the election officials to start with your opponent's votes.If you notice you are lagging by a wide margin,emphasize on your previous complaints about irregularities and ask the election chief to eliminate or invalidate any surplus or dubious votes and tell him or her you will accept the same when it will be your turn.
12)When it is turn to count and investigate the votes from your strongholds,take the matter to the court and seek an injunction.Try to influence the court to force the election officials to count without taking into consideration any of the complaints of your opponent.
Subject: Re: SLPP TIPS ON HOW TO DUBIOUSLY WIN AN ELECTION RUN OFF
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 04:52:10 09/15/07 ()
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Bull's eye! Kick-ass observation, as usual Bai Bureh. The decent SLPP folks should be telling their rogue buddies to lay off this rigging business for their own sake. Does the Berewa gang really think they can get away with this applesauce in this day and age, after all we have been through? INCEDIBLE!
SLPP followed every tenet of your rule book, except for Rule #2: Christina Thorpe is neither insecure nor docile. They probably thought so, because of her convent background and all. Big time miscalculation! The lady is a ferocious tigress. Grrrrr!
Subject: Re: SLPP TIPS ON HOW TO DUBIOUSLY WIN AN ELECTION RUN OFF
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 06:10:14 09/15/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Indeed Christiana Thorpe has been their worst miscalculation for which they are now in deep regret.Whatever happens they have lost this election and there is no way they can overturn or manipulate the results.It is crystal clear for the democratic world to see.
Subject: IF CURRENT RESULTS STAND , APC WINS ( From SLPP Forum )
From: Nationalist on Sylvester Johnny
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Date Posted: 01:44:16 09/15/07 ()
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IF THE CURRENT RESULTS STAND, APC WINS
Posted by Sylvester Johnny on September 14, 2007 at 20:13:21:
Some of my SLPP colleagues are understandably not happy with my congratulatory message to APC. The interest of that nation comes ahead of our individual interests. In the last few weeks, I have been involved in numerous projects to ensure that SLPP wins the run-off election mainly because of my life experience under APC when they were last in power. I have been called names due to my unflinching support for the party. Most of these people hardly know me personally. Even my family and friends have been surprised at my involvement in national politics.
We need to be realistic and respect the wishes of the people. As an incumbent we are suppose to run on our achievements but the voters do not seem to appreciate what we have done for the country so far. We now need to regroup and concentrate on the things that will bring us back to power. Please find below the percentage of votes won by each of the candidates to date. It is easy to note that Ernest Koroma's least votes so far are 19%, 23%, 24% and 32% from Kenema, Pujehun, Kailahun and Bo respectively. Contrast with Berewah who scores 10%, 12%, 13%, 23%, and 28% from Bombali, Tonkolili, Kambia, Portloko and Western Area (Rural) respectively. Whereas Ernest Koroma has scored about 70% from all of Bombali, Portloko, Kambia, Tonkolili, Western Area (Urban and Rural), Berewah has so far been able to get 70% only from Pujehun, Kenema and Kailahun. It appears APC wants to win this election more than us. Take a look at our individual financial contributions to the two parties, the APC wins hands down.
% scored
Berewah Ernest
Kenema 0.81 0.19
Kailahun0.76 0.24
Kono 0.55 0.45
Bombali 0.10 0.90
Port Loko0.23 0.77
Koinadugu0.35 0.65
Kambia 0.13 0.87
Tonkolili0.12 0.88
Bo 0.68 0.32
Moyamba 0.56 0.42
Bonthe 0.62 0.38
Pujehun 0.77 0.23
WA Rural0.28 0.72
WA Urban0.31 0.69
I have tried to analyze the outcome based on the results certified by NEC. In all the different scenarios provided below, APC comes out victorious. Even with the unrealistic assumption of SLPP winning all the remaining votes from Kenema, Kailahun, Bonthe, Bo, and Pujehun, APC wins. I really want SLPP to win but it is looking extremely difficult. I wish it was possible to attach the related spreadsheet and readers can perform some sensitivity analysis to determine the possible outcome.I will leave you to judge the merits of each of the assumptions below.
ASSUMPTION 1
Current Voting Pattern using % of polling stations counted
APC 1,041,954
SLPP 836,457
ASSUMPTION 2
Current Voting Pattern using valid votes from First Round
APC 1,032,734
SLPP 805,681
ASSUMPTION 3
SLPP getting all the remaining votes in Kenema, Kailahun, Bonthe, Bo, and Pujehun using % of polling stations counted
ASSUMPTION 4
APC 962,794
SLPP 915,618
ASSUMPTION 5
Current Voting Pattern using all the registered voters for all districts
APC 1,324,177
SLPP 1,081,019
ASSUMPTION 6
SLPP getting all the remaining votes in Kenema, Kailahun, Bonthe, Bo, and Pujehun using all the registered voters for all districts
APC 1,208,397
SLPP 1,196,798
Subject: Re: IF CURRENT RESULTS STAND , APC WINS ( From SLPP Forum )
From: brother true
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Date Posted: 02:03:39 09/15/07 ()
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Sylvester - check mine to your assumption 1
If you look at the current voting pattern in the APC key stronghold regarding the remaining votes to be counted there is no way the SLPP will win this election. Please divide the % of voters turnout to the number of votes counted so far at each district. There is only 425,615 votes remaining: APC will secure from it strongholds;
Freetown Urban 11,606
Freetown Rural 4,436
Bombali 31,127
Kambia 13,365
Koinadugu 7,807
Port Loko 17,037
Tonkolili 10,019
Total votes 92,357 + 859,144 = 951,541
If SLPP wins all the vote from it stronghold plus votes outstanding from APC stronghold, they will have 320,218 +567 499 = 887,717.
Can any reasonable person enlighten me where and how SLPP will win this election.
Subject: Re: IF CURRENT RESULTS STAND , APC WINS ( From SLPP Forum )
From: SUBWANALAI
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Date Posted: 03:30:58 09/15/07 ()
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WHERE: AT THE NEWLY FORMED PORO BUSH ESTABLISHED BY JOHNNY "MAGOONGWAY" BENJAMIN IN DARU.
HOW: MY GETTING THE 'PEOPLES PRINCESS'- CHRISTIANA THORPE TO, LIKE A DOG TO IT'S VOMIT, DENOUNCE HER PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT BY SAYING "SORRY, PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE. THOSE FIGURES I ANNOUNCED WHERE A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION. I GOT IT ALL WRONG.I WAS IN A FAIRY LAND. UNTRUTHS ARE BITTER, BUT ACCEPT THIS. THE SLPP HAD TRILLION VOTES AS AGAINST THE 4.5 MILLION POPULATION OF THIS COUNTRY"
Subject: Re: IF CURRENT RESULTS STAND , APC WINS ( From SLPP Forum )
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 06:48:07 09/15/07 ()
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What is the point? This is not the SUBWANALIE we know or are you just trying to be funny?
Subject: Re: IF CURRENT RESULTS STAND , APC WINS ( From SLPP Forum )
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 04:29:49 09/15/07 ()
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Scathing and biting karate chop! Look, there is no way SLPP can steal this election. Before the internet and cell phone, they probably would have gotten away with this. Trying this crap now just is just laughable if the implications for the country are not so tragic.
Subject: THE REAL REALITY: FACE IT SLPP!
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 00:50:24 09/15/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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According to reliable sources in Freetown, the counting and investigation of malpractices are going on simultaneously and unabated.The NEC has decided to impose a news blackout on any development so as to buy time to do a faster job with freedom from political pressure and also to avoid giving clues to those that were involved in electoral malpractises.The source revealed that no matter what any party does, invalid votes must be excluded from any final tally and that no court, individual or group can halt the process.
The NEC is under immense international pressure to employ the WHAT-IS-GOOD-FOR-THE-GOOSE-IS-GOOD-FOR-THE-GANDER approach by eliminating invalid or fake ballots in the south-east as was the case with Bombali and other areas and to announce the final results as soon as the counting ends to avoid prolonging the constitutional vacuum that has been created.
As is being speculated in the capital,judging by some recent activities of the security forces,the final results will be out on Monday and the new president will be sworn in shortly after that.
From such reliable info, it is clear that the SLPP have got it coming to them fast.It is hightime they face the real reality that clinging to power through the most unfair means is the most difficult thing to do.
Subject: The Price Of Leadership : Even the Dull And The Ignorant; Th
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 00:35:31 09/15/07 ()
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A good reading.
Subject: Breaking News..... Christiana Thorpe under house arrest !!!!
From: Albert Momoh
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Date Posted: 00:27:15 09/15/07 ()
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Just got a credible information from Freetown that Christiana Thorpe has been placed under house arrest, and the counting is going to be done by ECOWAS.
Congrats President Berewa elect.....stay tuned for more.
Subject: For Town Crier.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 00:26:08 09/15/07 ()
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Town Crier thank you for that correction with reference to your response to your last post on September 13, 2007, where you stated: “Correction, it is not 24% of the votes left to count, it is 24% of the polling stations left to report their votes.
The votes vary from polling station to polling station with the cities and towns having a higher voting population than the villages.
The 24% of the polling stations left to report will account for about 412,615 (difference between current reported votes and the August 11th presidential vote total) votes give or take a few votes. With the majority of the votes that remain to be counted coming from SLPP strong holds, it is highly likely for the party to make up the current difference in votes and lead with a small margin to take the elections.
Don't rule SLPP out just yet.”
I am not ruling the S.L.P.P out it is just that a fact is a fact and people like us read what is next by viewing from trend of things. As the trend goes, there is no dice for S.L.P.P.
Actually, all polling stations have reported votes and the N.E.C. is now counting and tallying using the same criteria used during the 11th. August 2007 Election. The N.E.C. is not waiting for votes to be reported by Polling Stations, they are tallying at this point. The 24% is votes or Polling Stations that, as of the time I posted the message, had not been counted and tallied.
Monday is not far off. We will definitely come to that day, the great day that will keep all the guessing away and reveal the true calling. But my statistics as far as political happenings in Sierra Leone are concerned, will not fail me. Despite the fact that I worked at the highest office of the land: States House, which was a stone-throw away from the American Embassy, I also have an unequivocal love for my beloved country and people. All I want and wish for is for her to grow and prosper according to the potentials she is endowed or bestowed with.
If your wishes are to come true, which is virtually impossible except under fraudulent means as they are being investigated currently, and should the voting and counting was and is done correctly, being the voices of the people, we must accept, concede and support the S.L.P.P. and the government they will form. But as I am certain that the people of Sierra Leone will not wish to subject themselves to such misrule any more as was imposed on them by the current S.L.P.P, I will start rejoicing before the day N.C.E's results come out.
But what is important to me, and I assume is the same for you also, is that our political arena is changing and will definately change as time progresses. We are at a threshold, where people must fully utilize dialogue, reasoning and felicitation in resolving our problems rather than through the barrel of the gun. I believe that dialogue has won Sierra Leone a reputable credence in the International Community as exemplified by the influx of showers of praise from all over the world including the America Embassy and the American State Department; it is leading us towards descent democratic practices especially when His Excellency Earnest Koroma takes the baton.
Once again, thank you for the correction. This why dialogue is significant and must be respected over some other methods we have adopted over the years.
Subject: Re: For Town Crier.
From: brother true
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Date Posted: 01:58:23 09/15/07 ()
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If you look at the current voting pattern in the APC key stronghold regarding the remaining votes to be counted there is no way the SLPP will win this election. Please divide the % of voters turnout to the number of votes counted so far at each district. There is only 425,615 votes remaining: APC will secure from it strongholds;
Freetown Urban 11,606
Freetown Rural 4,436
Bombali 31,127
Kambia 13,365
Koinadugu 7,807
Port Loko 17,037
Tonkolili 10,019
Total votes 92,357 + 859,144 = 951,541
If SLPP wins all the vote from it stronghold plus votes outstanding from APC stronghold, they will have 320,218 +567 499 = 887,717.
Can any reasonable person enlighten me where and how SLPP will win this election.
Subject: Sierra Leone: 'We Have Won the Election' - APC Spokesman
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 00:21:15 09/15/07 ()
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Concord Times (Freetown)
14 September 2007
Posted to the web 14 September 2007
Rachel Horner
Freetown
All Peoples Congress (APC) Spokesman, Alpha Kanu Tuesday claimed that his party's leader Ernest Koroma has won the presidential run-off election.
Kanu made this disclosure during a press briefing at his party's office on Hannah Benka-Coker Street.
"Ernest Koroma will no longer be addressed as leader and presidential candidate of the APC but rather the President-elect of the Republic of Sierra Leone," he said.
"Independent of the National Elections Commission (NEC) results tally Centre, the APC has its own Hi-Tech Results Collation Centre (RCC) manned by experts in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, etc. Data input to the centre comes from the over 12,000 Polling Agents the APC deployed all around the country except Kailahun," Kanu said.
Kanu claimed that there was a 100% voter turnout in Kailahun district, adding that all the voters voted SLPP.
"Total number of votes received is 1,263,004 is 63%, of which APC scored 776, 557 and SLPP scored 486, 447. The difference is 290,110 votes," he said adding that the total votes from Kailahun, Pujehun and Bonthe 251, 064.
"For the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) leader, Vice President Solomon Berewa to close the gap between him and Ernest Koroma, he needs 100% of the votes in Kailahun, Pujehun and Bonthe districts and he also still needs to borrow 39,046 votes from Kenema district," Kanu noted, adding that where is the ray of hope for Berewa and the SLPP?
The APC mouthpiece further stated that his leader only needs less than 300,000 votes to cross the finish line in the presidential race.
"We believe that by the end of tomorrow, he will have crossed the rubicon. Then, ladies and gentlemen, Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma will no longer be addressed as leader and presidential candidate of APC, but rather as the president-elect of the Republic of Sierra Leone," Kanu noted.
However, SLPP's Spokesman, Victor Reider said, "this is a tenuous declaration especially so when the election results are not yet to be finalized." Reider maintained that the APC Spokesman is committing treason by declaring Ernest Koroma president.
Subject: BE WARNED PA BEREWA!!
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 22:12:50 09/14/07 ()
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Our Salone Culture dictates reverence for the elderly. For thieves, we harbor only contempt and violent sanction, regardless of age.
You have a chance to set peaceful ballot precedence, go into powerful opposition, save the country from blood, horror and tears...and try again in five years, stronger, wiser, gentler.
But oh no, your poodles and lap dogs may have convinced you to steal it all and thereby irresponsibly plunge the motherland into yet another pool of blood.
Yesterday you were a statesman.
Today you are Ali Baba plotting with your gang of thieves to subvert and frustrate the dreams of an abused people to enjoy peace in the sanctum of the ballot, even as despair rages in the Belleh.
Of course you can steal it all, but...
It will be lonely at the top.
You will be barricaded in Freetown.
You will be isolated by the donor nations.
You will be treated like a leper by your people.
You will destroy the cohesion of the military.
You will be overthrown and pay the ultimate price in the merciless streets of Freetown.
Even in death, you will know no peace.
Your bones will be dug up and hung in shame for all the unnecessary turmoil you put your country through...simply because you extended your kleptomania to ballots and dreams.
So beware Pa Berewa you are 69, slowly but surely
ambling to the grave to meet your maker.
Is it worth it, sir?
Subject: Final Results
From: Kekuda Samba
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Date Posted: 21:30:53 09/14/07 ()
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Ernest Koroma: 49.9 %
Solomon Berewa: 50.1 %
RECOUNT! RECOUNT! RECOUNT!
Subject: Re: Final Results
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 22:21:11 09/14/07 ()
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Kekuda, if this turns out to be the result of a fair ballot, well and good. We will accept the result and move forward.
If those numbers are the result of vile rigging and contempt of every tenet of democracy, it will open up another chapter of horrors in our bloody history.
It will be COUP, INSURRECTION, UNDREDEVELOPMENT!
Subject: U.S. Commends Salone for Peaceful Run-Off
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 21:24:57 09/14/07 ()
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Sierra Leone: U.S. Commends Salone for Peaceful Run-Off
Concord Times (Freetown)
14 September 2007
Posted to the web 14 September 2007
Mariama Kandeh
Freetown
United States Embassy has commended Sierra Leone on the calm and orderly conduct of the presidential run-off election held on September 8 this year.
"The Independent National Electoral Commission and the Sierra Leone Police deserve continued praise for their impartiality and professionalism demonstrated throughout the electoral process," a release from the US Embassy in Freetown states.
The US urged Sierra Leoneans to continue their laudable respect and patience for the integrity of the electoral process as the vote tally are being certified by the NEC in preparation of the final announcement of the results later in the week.
Subject: The game pan
From: Special Cut
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Date Posted: 20:39:23 09/14/07 ()
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The top vons of slpp are charged with the responsibility of falsely keeping their supporter's hopes alive even though the message is boldly on the wall. In doing this, they hope to rally a force with "great expectations". Next week when Dr Thorpe declares the winner,this force including recently released RUF fighters, will be used to stage a foot dragging scenario. This will provoke a response from the oposition and in the event Brigadier Komba Mondeh will step in and take over in the name of maintaining national security.
If there are any hiccups to this process, then they will try to cling unto the SLPP INFESTED Judiciary inorder to buy time to escape with their loot.The slpp sluggards know quite well, the elections are over but if you hear them talk about winning then their is a plan in the closet.
Subject: I HAVE A DREAM
From: Researcher
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Date Posted: 20:02:57 09/14/07 ()
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I had a dream, My dream is of a Sierra Leone where one day when we beg our neighbors for (help) food and they provide it, We do not ask them to cook it or when they do cook the food cause we don't know how to cook it, we then ask them to please provide us spoon to feed ourselves.
When they provide the spoon, we then ask them to please feed us and from then on we become so dependent we are unable to feed ourselves so we now depend on them not only to take the initiative to help Sierra Leone but to come and build all our infrastructure for us as well.
When has a beggar-man who is hungry ask for food and when food is provided, he then ask what kind of rice or soup you cook because he doesn't eat certain type of food and ok you provide him with the cassava leaves he want, but then he said he doesn't eat palm oil cassava leaves, he want white one. I dreamt of a Sierra Leone where we take the dependency syndrome disappear.
Bo do yah me people them, we are living luxurious life in America where we have choices in such things. I believe only when we return to reality of the serious condition facing the nation of Sierra Leone, not the city of Freetown but Sierra Leone, we will then be able to drop our intellectual sense and use our common sense although common sense is not so common.
Look at Sierra Leone today even when IMF or WORLD BANK gives us loan, we pay them from the loan to come do the work instead of hiring sierra Leonean or us doing the work.
I had a dream that one day Sierra Leonean will take it upon themselves to know how to go halfway or take the lead in redeveloping Sierra Leone and not always depend on others so much & then I woke up.
I woke up the morning.... Lying in Bed, I ask myself... What are the secrets to success in life serving Sierra Leonean with our mindset? I found the answer right there in my very room.
The fan said "BO COOL". The roof said "AIM HIGH".
The window said "SEE THE WORLD POSITIVELY". The clock said "EVERY MINUTES IS PRECIOUS, USE IT WISELY".
The Mirror said "REFLECT BEFORE YOU ACT". The calendar said "BE UPDATED".
The stair said "Don't Climb down, climb up even when no stairs is in front of you"
THE DOOR SAID " PUSH HARD FOR YOUR GOALS TO HELP THOSE WHO ARE UNDERPRIVILEGED" AND MY BIBLE SAID GOD WILL DO THE REST.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that i can do. (Edward Everett Hale)
IF Great Is Possible, Then Good Is Not Enough.
Your able servant In Training
Dr. Michel Sho-Sawyer
Subject: Give peace a chance
From: Mannah
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Date Posted: 20:01:19 09/14/07 ()
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To you the dons of the dumbs, The 2 "johny magungways", the mad bios et al. your best choice is to take an honorable exit when your time is up.No time wasting will be permitted. The will of the people can never be compromised.
If you forget were this nation is coming from and try to project ego before country, at the detriment of this fragile peace then you need to give it a second thought. Some of you will prefer to end up in the hands of the Special Court than in the hands of the People.The descision is yours to make and its not too late.All we are waiting for is Dr Thorpe to declare the winner.
Lonta !!
Subject: SLPP Party Headquarters attacked by armed soldiers and polic
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 19:54:49 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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Another online newspaper is reporting this headline. I have no way of verifying this infomation but I suspect this is another attempt on the part of the SLPP to show the alleged biases on the part of the police. If this is truly the case, where is the issuance of the state of emergency Kabbah promised if there was no calm throughout this process. I just see a smoke screen to divert attention from the real issues going on right now. The irony of it all is that this same newpaper is reporting that there is no word from the SLPP execs. If this is the case, who would feel confident about their ability to lead in the midst of a crisis?
Subject: www.solo-b.com
From: Kasseh Bureh Makonteh
To: All
Date Posted: 19:06:04 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: m@m.com
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Enjoy this website and disseminate it for the enjoyment of all. You go laf teh. No substantive policy, but hundred of pictures of his children and grandchildren. Na dis den wan for rule we? -
http://www.solo-b.com/
Subject: ALPHA SAIDU ---CUTTING FAST WITH BIG MAC
From: THE CRAB
To: All
Date Posted: 18:56:16 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip-207-145-43-5.iad.megapath.net at 207.145.43.5
Message:
WOMAN NOR DAE NA MACDONALD,NA DAE YOU DAE CUT FAST. BOBOR YOU SORRY.SAIDU YOU ARE VERY HOPELESS.
Subject: Re: ALPHA SAIDU ---CUTTING FAST WITH BIG MAC
From: RAMADAN GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 05:20:32 09/15/07 ()
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Message:
I THOUGHT WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DISCUSS SOMEONE WHO IS NOT SUBCRIBED TO THIS FORUM
RAMADAN
Subject: Re: ALPHA SAIDU ---CUTTING FAST WITH BIG MAC
From: Oremi
To: All
Date Posted: 19:15:58 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I'm not even sure if he has O Levels. We sat in 4th form at POW and back then we were so mesmerized by his knowledge of national politics and the private lives of officials and teachers. Saidu and Tom Nyuma were the leaders in discussion of political ideas but everyone knew that Saidu (Doh Voh Toti) was destined to fail. He was always disrespectful of teachers and authorities because he had “Iscandari connection” and he was one of the tenured students at the school in that he spent more than 7 years but was still in the 4th form. I'm lost for words that he's now turned his back on the Iscandari family.
Saidu was always picking on some of us that hailed from a relatively “well to do family” back then. Starting with the ALami's, Christian Thorpe, Kutubu, Sorpie (matilda Conteh's son), he even picked on the Namibians (asylums) for crying out loud and the list goes on. He was always bitter against the status quo, he may have had plausible reasons but I guess he used the wrong approach. We tried not to be bothered by him because we saw him as "a raray man" but for the most part it was intimidating for your fellow student to be ranting about your mom and dad's personal lives. Thanks for banning him on this podium.
Oh BTW his name was Moonlight Star because he faked an O'level result to his girlfriend and can you beat this he was not even in 5th form. He was so ashamed of such a revelation that he left POW and went somewhere else. I can go on and on but Saidu has reached his waterloo and kudos to you brother for fighting for all of us.
Subject: THE MAN'S RULES......
From: losangelesrose
To: All
Date Posted: 17:54:51 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: janold23us@yahoo.com
Entered From: cpe-72-130-50-208.socal.res.rr.com at 72.130.50.208
Message:
Hi all, my husband had forwarded this to me, and it is very interesting, so I wanted to share with everyone here. Have a great laugh...
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The Man Rules
At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down
Finally , the guys' side of the story.
( I must admit, it's pretty good.)
We always hear 'the rules'
From the female side.
Now here are the rules from the male side.
These are our rules!
Please note.. these are all numbered '1 '
ON PURPOSE!
1. Men are NOT mind readers.
1. Learn to work the toilet seat.
You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down.
We need it up, you need it down.
You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.
1. Sunday sports It's like the full moon
or the changing of the tides.
Let it be.
1. Shopping is NOT a sport.
And no, we are never going to think of it that way.
1. Crying is blackmail.
1. Ask for what you want.
Let us be clear on this one:
Subtle hints do not work!
Strong hints do not work!
Obvious hints do not work!
Just say it!
1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.
1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do.
Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.
1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument.
In fact, all comments become Null and void after 7 Days.
1. If you think you're fat, you probably are.
Don't ask us.
1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one
1. You can either ask us to do something
Or tell us how you want it done.
Not both.
If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.
1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials..
1. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither do we.
1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings.
Peach, for example, is a fruit, not A color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.
1. If it itches, it will be scratched.
We do that.
1. If we ask what is wrong and you say 'nothing,' We will act like nothing's wrong.
We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.
1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, Expect an answer you don't want to hear.
1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine... Really .
1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball
or golf.
1. You have enough clothes.
1. You have too many shoes.
1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!
1. Thank you for reading this.
Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight;
But did you know men really don't mind that? It's like camping.
Pass this to as many men as you can -
to give them a laugh.
Pass this to as many women as you can -
to give them a bigger laugh.
Subject: Someone please post the SLPP Injunction in PDF
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 17:34:36 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Could someone please post the Injunction filed by the SLPP lawyers on the internet please. I can wait to see what grounds they may have for seeking to enjoin the NEC from performing that which it is statutorily mandated to do.
It is within the rights of the SLPP to bring a motion for an injunction against the NEC and it is within the purview of the court to throw the whole matter out of it is found out that its basis is FRIVOLOUS and to charge costs to the SLPP and its counsel. I suspect that any motion brought to enjoiin the NEC from conducting an investigation into the Kailahun votes, particularly where as here, those votes are suspect to the extent that they are the questionable result of many open violations of the Electoral Laws of 2002.
I would further add that any such motion would be frivolous because the NEC is charged with the conduct of all elections in sierra loeone and investigating fraud as here indicated in the Kailahun and Kenema axis is part of its duties.
The APC's response is "Bring it on you fake democrats"
Subject: Re: Someone please post the SLPP Injunction in PDF
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 06:03:03 09/15/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
" such motion would be frivolous because the NEC is charged "
Hahahahahahahaha!!!!
And how do you determine the frivolity of the motion before its even had a chance to see the light of day?
By your admission, you do not know the grounds of the injuction-why the rush to judgement?
Subject: Re: Someone please post the SLPP Injunction in PDF
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 17:45:47 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.208.159.18
Message:
APC is the fake democratic party, despite the massive cheating that was conducted in the West and the North in the first round, NEC didn't stop announcing to investigate. No one was challenging the democratic credentials of SLPP.
Now that they are attempting to use the courts to enforce the will of the people, you call them "deomocrats"? Ar beg pardon kind Sir.
Al Gore, Kerry, and the democratic party should be taking notes.
Long live democracy....Down with APCracy
Subject: Re: Someone please post the SLPP Injunction in PDF
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 19:51:09 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Do you have a copy of the Motion for Injunction? If not then please do not respond.
Subject: Re: Someone please post the SLPP Injunction in PDF
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 20:24:14 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-227-75-238.hsd1.mi.comcast.net at 71.227.75.238
Message:
Kind Sir, I can respond to anything I want to on this forum.
Last time I checked it was a free for all.
No injunction here....
Subject: Re: Someone please post the SLPP Injunction in PDF
From: Free Zone advocacy
To: All
Date Posted: 21:57:08 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
It is a free for all but dont you look stupid responding to something that is not asked?
Subject: Re: Someone please post the SLPP Injunction in PDF
From: Victor Moigua
To: All
Date Posted: 19:06:45 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
Cry me a river, Town Crier.
Subject: SLPP evil gang will deceive themselves!!!
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 17:07:00 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 51-66-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.66.51
Message:
Berewa, Maada Bio, John Benjamin and other NPRC oldtimers,(tangays) are so stupid that they dare challenge the will of the majority people inhabtited in the west, east, north and South of Sierra Leone.
Despite some Kailaihun sons have been trying tried to stop Sierra Leone from pursuing development and peace. The SLPP thinks that our poor people are sleeping. It reverts to the Court, cause the security apparatus is keen to see that the real winner occupies State house. Any attemps by an SLPP subversive group to destory the great efforts put by the people of Sierra Leone and their International friends will not be tolerated.
The wind of change that blows in Sierra Leone is divinely blessed and no power of the SLPP darkness will bring chaos in the country.
The people have voted and it would not augur well for the SLPP to manufacture any dishonety in the electionprocess. Whaty Berewa and Co is failing to understnad that the security forces are in total control to see that peace reigns in Sierra Leone. I believe the rank and file of the security forces will not want to see war break outin the cOuntry.Why berewa is bringing himsself so low? How can an incumbent governmnet talks about vote rigging when eighty percent of the Electoral Commissioners are SLPP members and Berewa was/is the Chairman of the Police Coucil?
The World is watching closely. THe British have given the Kabbah/Berewa administration fourty million pounds (not dollars) for the last seven years. The British have an eye on Sierra Leone. It exemplifies Britain attendance to instill democratic values around the World. Just as Tony Blair did not allow Sierra Leone to melt, Gordon Brown also will take an extra mail to ensure the people of Sierra Leone enjoy peace and stability. I am sure IMAT and the British military advisers are on top of any diabolical act that will compromise thesecurity of the State. So my word to a would be anarchist is to refrain from the SLPP evil gang plan to deny the mandate of the people.
Berewa no matter what kind of game you practiced, ain't gonna mess up the stage for change. Adieu Berewa
Subject: Re: SLPP evil gang will deceive themselves!!!
From: malombo sweet
To: All
Date Posted: 17:50:28 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
This is what the SLPP is saying: We will rig. You will shut up and don't accept our rigging like polite little pikins.
If they steal these elections, I have a feeling they will be chased out of Freetown like the mangy dogs they are, with Sylvia Blyden clucking like an obese hen right behind them.
Subject: Re: SLPP evil gang will deceive themselves!!!
From: max vandy
To: All
Date Posted: 17:41:31 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
If the SLPP anti-democrats try to stay in power, they will be ostracised by all civilized countries except maybe Nigeria (with Obassanjo pulling the strings).
Subject: Re: SLPP evil gang will deceive themselves!!!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 17:43:44 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
But the people will suffer for it!! Back to the AFRC days!
Subject: Re: SLPP evil gang will deceive themselves!!!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 17:15:25 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
I hear Miss Thorpe has to sleep at IMATT for safety!
Subject: TIME IS OVER
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:05:59 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
You better leave now, nothing will help you to stay even with mercenaries.Put this at the back of your mind,over 70 percent of the population is against you.My advice, for your own lives and the lives of your foolish foolowers,LEAVE NOW!LEAVE NOW!LEAVE NOW!
Subject: Re: TIME IS OVER
From: max vandy
To: All
Date Posted: 19:30:23 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
SLPP, the enemies of democracy are yet again planning to subvert the will of the people. Just as it was 40 years ago, treason is treason. Rigging an election is as treasonous as Foday Sankoh's rebellion. Consequences: Untold horrors for perpetrators and country.
Subject: Re: TIME IS OVER
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 17:54:10 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.208.159.18
Message:
Get it right, it is not 70% of the votes that have been tallied so far, it is 70% of the polling stations in the country that have reported and have had their votes tallied.
We can forgive y'all for being violent, we can forgive y'all for being dreamers and hoping to bring back APCracy to Sierra Leone, but not for seeing GREEN and crying red.
We nah going nowhere!!!! We are here to stay!! Salone is for all of us, and no threats will make us leave. You are welcome to stay and share with us.
One Salone for we all. You better believe that!!!!!
Subject: Re: TIME IS OVER
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 18:03:57 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Relax boy,we are just waiting for our new leaders to take up the job.You will be proud to be a Sierra-Leoean soon under the APC,I promise you
Subject: Re: TIME IS OVER
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 17:50:57 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-202-163.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.202.163
Message:
Musa, are you telling us that APC got 70% of the votes? Please be realistic - the vote is very close! Even with the initial votes being from your strongholds could not give you 70%. Why do you think with after the counting of votes from our stronghold should give you 70%?
I will wait and see the outcome as events unfold!
It is a sad story to jubilate when conclusion has not be reached. You always bring this upon yourselves. Wait! wait! Wait! some of us were saying but ah! You ignore our cries. now you want to blame who?
I will continue to wait!!
Subject: Re: TIME IS OVER
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:56:52 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Chez,I know what I am saying,the game is over from the first round.Dont wait in vain and save your health and nerves.We have a new regime.
Subject: Alieu,kamara,Bia Bureh,Sylvester,Cadmus,are ashamed
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 16:49:34 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
They have not posted since Chez broke the news. Are they shocked about the mal-practices? Or they melting into the shadows and morph into the pigs in Orwell Animal Farm?
Subject: Re: Alieu,kamara,Bia Bureh,Sylvester,Cadmus,are ashamed
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:56:00 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
Basco , I have to make money. I have not mortagaged all I have for a job in Freetown. We are waiting for the final results. you did not explain what your APC boys were doing in Bombali. Did you notify them not to stuff ballots.
We are not melting away. We are going to be around. This is a democracy which you APC fanatics are not accustomed to . You do not just concede because your opponents are lusting for power which they have not tasted in 15 years.
Basco prepare for the big surprise next week. I hope you are good msdical health.
Subject: Re: Alieu,kamara,Bia Bureh,Sylvester,Cadmus,are ashamed
From: Victor Moigua
To: All
Date Posted: 19:16:39 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
Kamara, stealing an election is a treasonable offence. We are waiting for the BIG SURPRISE next week.
It will determine whether you become a responsible political party, or are chased through the streets of Freetown like bloody thieves.
Subject: Re: Alieu,kamara,Bia Bureh,Sylvester,Cadmus,are ashamed
From: Malombo Sweet
To: All
Date Posted: 17:13:27 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
They are on the phone with their bosses, getting propaganda talking points. Just wait for the propaganda wave. It is coming soon.
Subject: Re: Alieu,kamara,Bia Bureh,Sylvester,Cadmus,are ashamed
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 17:13:13 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-196.covad.com at 66.134.72.196
Message:
I have got reports from Freetown that SLPP is challenging the results tallied by NEC and have filed an injunction on the release of additiona results until the allegations are investigated. I am an ACCOUNTANT by profession and not a constitutional lawyer. We have to wait until the legal issues are resolved.
My personal view is that we respect the wishes of the PEOPLE.If the votes do not reflect the wishes of the voters, we then need to toss them. My initial congratulatory message was based on the results released by NEC.I will hate to have APC in power but if the people genuinely prefer them,I am willing to embrace them in the interest of that nation.
Subject: Re: Alieu,kamara,Bia Bureh,Sylvester,Cadmus,are ashamed
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 07:14:27 09/15/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: host86-147-4-178.range86-147.btcentralplus.com at 86.147.4.178
Message:
Johnny: good statement, many of us hate to see the SLPP lose power but one need to be realistic for national interest. If the SLPP had really worked hard with the right people for Sierra Leone htey would not have found themselves in such mess. They really do not deserve to win and they better reorganised for the opposition. There are so many wrongs we need to uncover about the SLPP mismanagement, which they are trying to avoid. But they will fail.
Subject: Re: Alieu,kamara,Bia Bureh,Sylvester,Cadmus,are ashamed
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:24:50 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
What is there to contemplate on?The slpp is dragging its dirty feet into trouble.The figures clearly showed a sound victory by the APC.MORALS,HONOR AND SELF-ESTEEM is actually missing in some folks as what we are seeing in the hopeless and reckless slpp clan
Subject: Re: Alieu,kamara,Bia Bureh,Sylvester,Cadmus,are ashamed
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 17:22:23 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
I hope the SLPP executive have the sense to see it from that point of view!! The likes of me and you are in relative safety,but the innocent ones that will be caught up in the back lash is my worry.
Subject: From the ridiculous to the sublime
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:31:01 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
The word 'shame' is simply not enough to describe the alleged act of the SLPP government.
If the allegations are true that the SLPP is seeking an injunction to stop NEC from investigating voter fraud then the SLPP cannot be trusted to govern Sierra Leone. That would be the highest form of corruption.
The act of stopping an investifgation of wrong doing is clearly wrong.
But rather than expound on the issue I will rather wait to see if the allegation is really true.
Subject: Re: From the ridiculous to the sublime
From: Malombo Sweet
To: All
Date Posted: 17:09:32 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
They steal aid, they steal rice, they steal elections, they steal millions, they steal dreams. Is there anything the SLPP greedies won't steal?
Subject: Re: From the ridiculous to the sublime
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 16:34:28 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
They have had a lot of experiance at the Anti- Corruption Board that has not sentence no one in five years becaused they sqashed all prosecution.
Subject: Re: From the ridiculous to the sublime
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:58:23 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
You are right.
He, President Kabba, changed the head of the anti-corruption commission, because he did not like the fact that investigations were been conducted on his pals.
When Joko Smart came in as head he made a lot of noise about apparent mishandling of the anti-Corruption Commission. He spent so much time trying to straighting things out without carrying on the substantive aspects of the job.
Under Joko Smart, JUSTIN MUSA, the notorious swegbe, was allowed to have his passport and leave Sierra Leone. Swegbe Justin Musa is here in the United STates running a Car Dealership. He is apparently a fugitive. But who knows, may be his name has been cleared already.
I still believe that Justin Musa was a BIG FISH that would have implicated many others, including top Cabinet Ministers. He may have bought his way out of jail.
Recently, that corrupt SLPP government was reported to have ordered the release of a number of RUF criminals from Prison against the orders of the courts. Collusions such as this one between the Executive and the Judiciary is common.
Frankly, the SLPP displays the highest form of wrecklessness ever displayed by a government in Sierra Leone.
The SLPP must not be allowed to go on even for a day in charge of the Ship of State.
Fellow countrymen, I applaud you for your vigilance and your determination to bring about change. We have ourselves to blame for the things we can change that we did nothing about. You are right on. We must not allow the forces of evil to reign.
Subject: Warning for Maada Bio.
From: George Orwell
To: All
Date Posted: 16:21:18 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: Kooroma4@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-72-83-219-221.washdc.east.verizon.net at 72.83.219.221
Message:
It seems as if Maada Bio want to take our beloveth country SierraLeone as his own personal property by dictating what the electoral commissioner should do with issue of Kailahun,Kenema,and Pujehun Districts ballots for his personal reasons, which I think no one is interested to know,bcos,if Captain Straser whom he overthrew to achieved his political aims is there in Freetown quitely,I would appreciate very much if Mr Bio will leave the NEC to do their job without fear and intimidation.BOS NEC are doing their job.They had cancelled some votes in Bombali which were alledged overvoted,so the same thing should be done in every district that NEC suspected of overvoting without favour for the interest of the Nation.Bravo DR Thorpe,Bravo NEC,and BRavo the people of Sierraleone.Allah Bless SierraLeone.
Subject: Be Strong Christina Thorpe.
From: Victor Moigua
To: All
Date Posted: 16:13:55 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
Dr. Thorpe, we your fellow citizens admire you for the exceptional job you have done in supervising these elections and anchoring democracy firmly in Sierra Leone.
Despite the enormous pressure, you have succeeded in comducting an electoral exercise that is honest, credible and fair-- a rarity in Africa. If ever a person deserves the Nobel, it is you madam.
Now, some unscrupulous SLPP nincompoops are trying to rewrite the rules about the elections, mid-stream. These uncouth ones are insolently telling you that they can rig, cheat, steal and stuff a million votes into Kailahun boxes and all you can do is count the fraudulent votes without sanction or protest. Their corrupt lawyers are also telling you that you have no right to investigate electoral malfeasance, that you can only parrot the fraudulent tallies their thuggish operatives thrust in your face.
Isn't it funny how these people are now behaving? When you were announcing the resuts a while back, you always gave the vote totals, and the number of INVALID VOTES and no one complained. You had the prerogative of nullifying rogue votes. But now with the corrupt ones seeing the writing on the wall, they have started parsing the law. Oh no, you have no right to investigate fraud, they say. If a polling station with 800 people shows a total of 100,000 you are supposed to accept it! Their flunkeys in the courts are the ones who should investigate improprieties at the ballot box, they opine.
I know you are being insulted and demeaned by the SLPP operatives and their rag sheets and internet jackasses for doing your job and saving your country from the devastation of another rigged African election.
You are stronger than the whole cowardly bunch of ballot stuffers. We pray for you everyday. Stay strong Madam. Your country commends you.
Subject: Re: Be Strong Christina Thorpe.
From: Malombo Sweet
To: All
Date Posted: 17:00:57 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-247-147-219.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 71.247.147.219
Message:
The SLPP needs to shed this appalling reputation of having a grudge against democracy. The whole sorry history of terrible regimes in our country started with the SLPP damning the 1967 elections by goading David Lansana to stage a coup.
40 years later, they are at it again. Just when we thought we have turned a corner, the SLPP is again trying to make a monkey of the elections by desperately trying to pull off the Mother of all riggings.
If they succeed, it will be a pyrrhic victory, another bloody chapter in our sad saga.
We gotta fight this threat. I know we should be celebrating a vibrant democracy with an accountable government and a strong opposition. But dear me, dear me, I wonder if the SLPP can survive its self-inflicted wounds.
Subject: Re: Be Strong Christina Thorpe.
From: max vandy
To: All
Date Posted: 16:42:43 09/14/07 ()
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A rigged election in Salone at this time will lead to utter devastation for our country. We pray that the honest patriotic ones in the SLPP rein in the gangsters and desperadoes among them. Is it worth it to destroy the country in order to stick yourself in State House?
The SLPP patriots on this forum need to talk to your party bosses to stop this nonsense and get on with the announcing of credible results. Stop intimidating Chtistina Thorpe.
Subject: Re: Be Strong Christina Thorpe.
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 16:46:53 09/14/07 ()
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Max,there is no sober and peace loving slpp on this forum.If I am wrong,please get me corrected
Subject: Re: Be Strong Christina Thorpe.
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 16:34:47 09/14/07 ()
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Victor,those nincompoops as you rightly described them will regret any hideous move to change the current figures.
Subject: Re: Be Strong Christina Thorpe.
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 16:36:00 09/14/07 ()
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I am worried about the innocent lives that could be lost in the process!
Subject: Re: Be Strong Christina Thorpe.
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 16:30:58 09/14/07 ()
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Stupid slimey Chez says Berewa should be made President and the APC should go to court after to APPEAL! What he fails to realise is that 1967 will arise all over again. Mondeh, when he makes a move will be overpowered and a short term Military body will be set up.
The SLPP massive will be imprisoned and power handed over to the APC as in '67. I cannot imagine Ben and others cannot see that history is about to repeat itself!!
I quietly await the news that soldiers under the command of Brig. Mondeh have siezed power in Freetown and have declared marshall law!
Subject: KABS KANU.-WHY SAIDU?
From: king Naimbana
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Date Posted: 15:41:39 09/14/07 ()
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pastor kabs or rev caps
Now you know how hard it is when you use the media to blackmail and slander people. did members of the slpp government, including your president whom you blackmail and abuse ever thought of liabel against you?
there you go again mr, rev kabs. you maligned your fellow writers, your country men and all those who cannot buy the APC indoctrinations. no body raise an eyebrow:-you had the benefit of the doubts. why cant accept criticism? WHO THE CAP FIT SHOULD WEAR IT:
Subject: This is responsible for all the unrealistic optimism
From: COCORIOKO Investigators
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Date Posted: 15:38:20 09/14/07 ()
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BREAKING NEWS : CHRISTIANA THORPE UNDER PRESSURE TO AVOID INVESTIGATING THOUSANDS OF SUSPICIOUS VOTESCOCORIOKO investigators have learnt that National Elections Commission Chairperson , Dr. Christiana Thorpe, is under more tremendous pressure than she revealed during the NEC Press Conference on Wednesday. This newspaper has learnt that the lives of Dr.Thorpe and other electoral commissioners are seriously being threatened .The reason : Thousands of bogus and inflated votes that Dr.Thorpe is being arm-twisted to certify , but which she has refused to accept and has infact decided to investigate
Now , readers can see the basis for the unrealistic optimism supporters of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP ) have been expressing that their Presidential candidate, Solomon Berewa, won the elections by 14, 000 votes or 56% .. Going by the numbers of registered voters, and the amount of voters who really took part in the polls, the figures Dr. Thorpe is being harassed and threatened to certify are far in excess of these numbers , so excessive that they will make nonsense of the meticulous and credible statistics NEC has been collating. The unbending NEC Chairman decided to stop calling the votes for two days to investigate the votes. Now, the SLPP wants her not to investigate and to announce the results. This is responsible for the court injunction . The eyes of the nation and the world are on the NEC as the APC and other organizations have also been collating the results and based on their figures which are in harmony with the NEC's , it is not mathematically possible for the SLPP to win the elections after Wednesday's collated figures which left the SLPP trailing by 291, 000 votes. The plans to hijack the runoffs are falling into place , but most Sierra Leoneans believe that Dr. Thorpe will reject the bogus votes
Subject: SLPP NASTYCRATS : Playing With Fire!!
From: max vandy
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Date Posted: 15:17:44 09/14/07 ()
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Seems like the nefarious bunch that has misruled Sierra Leone is so power hungry that they want to set the country on fire by pulling all sorts of stunts to hang on to power.
After their thumping at the polls, the SLPP nastycrats are hell-bent on hanging on to power even if it means plunging the country into civil war and military dictatorship.
So this is the August Surprise the SLPP has in mind for our people: "We don't care how you vote, We will rig like hell and Christina Thorpe's job is only to certify the rigged elections like a slave, without protest or comment. Only the electoral court, stocked with SLPP lackeys, who will do our bidding can "investigate" rigging." What a bunch of baloney. This hoax is not going to fly.
The people of Sierra Leone are not going to buy it, nor will the international community. We are all for a free and fair elections, but if the SLPP thinks they can ride to power on a tidal wave of fake ballots, they have another think coming.
Everyday they cook up shenanigans, SLPP leaders risk pissing off even more an already pissed-off population.
Subject: Re: SLPP NASTYCRATS : Playing With Fire!!
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 15:29:49 09/14/07 ()
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I agree with you. As I see it, the Electoral Commission can go ahead and nullify votes that are in its estimation rigged. It can also call the winner of the elections. All of these are withing its jurisdiction.
Any challenge can be taken up later.
Below was what I had to say earlier when addressing Chez:
Mr. Chez,
I have worked for the government of the State of New York for the past 23 years and with my experience, I have this to say:
It is in the jurisdiction of the Electoral Commission to decide the winner of the election. In the excersise of its responsibility in conducting the elections the Electoral Commission can make decisions within the framework of the law. If those laws governing the administration of the Electoral Commission are missing vital regulatory provisions then more latitude is given to the Electoral Commision by default. Sometimes that could result in court battles too expensibve for the government to handle.
The determination as to whether ballots should be cancelled or not is for the Electoral Commission to make.
It may seem as though the Electoral Commission is powerful to the point of been untouchable. But that is not the case.
I am sure that if you examine the regulatory provisions you will find that members of the Commission are required to act in good faith and to administer the office in a manner that gives the semblance of fairness and to refrain from any act that would show otherwise.
Failing to do this will subject the Commission to a breach of the authoritative ethical principles of the job. If challenged in court it would become a problem.
But here is the real dilema for Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone's court is a Kangaroo court. We saw how the courts administer justice in Sierra Leone many many times in the past and we can say with almost certainty that they would foul this case if it comes before them.
Should a legal battle ensue I suggest that the International Community which has a stake in the elections have a place in the judgement table. This may be unprecedented but the United nations role in the international community should be dynamic in the face of attempts to circumvent democracy particularly in trouble spots like Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: SLPP NASTYCRATS : Playing With Fire!!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 16:01:14 09/14/07 ()
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AFK, I do agree with all that you have stated save for my contention that the 'stakeholders' did not sign the protocol agreement for them to be at the 'judgment table'.
The issue of the courts in relation to what has happened, I would rather not comment on.
AFK, let us pray for the best to happen during these problem times.
Subject: Re: SLPP NASTYCRATS : Playing With Fire!!
From: Victor Moigua
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Date Posted: 16:29:40 09/14/07 ()
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Problem times, Chez? We are celebrating democracy. The problems in this exercise from start to finish have been cooked up by the SLPP. All these legalistic gymnastics by your party, in order to stay in power is as annoying as a jilted lover who refuses to leave. The people have removed the towel off the SLPP's backside abd it is not a pretty sight.
How the heck do you expect Christina Thorpe to validate the grotesque vote totals your operatives have conjured, without sanctioning you? Me man leh we lef.
Your new-found respect for the courts is laughable considering the stain your party has rigged on the judiciary.
Subject: You notice SLpper s have gone quiet awaiting miracle rig w
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 14:49:43 09/14/07 ()
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They are all waiting for the 14,000 margin win which was planned last week by J Ben and others. The slight problem is Chistiana Thorpe. Chis has even fallen out with Sylvia Blyden for her stupendous maths. Sylvia as was Chez were privee to this 14,000 win margin. I dare John Ben and others to declare a SLPP win. I hope they remember the NPRC/NUP failings in 1996 when Maada ordered his soldiers to intimidate the electorate.
For SLPP to win from this position of 24% remaining they will have to poll 100% in Kailahun,Bo,Kenema and Moyamba.
Is Chez trying to abuse our intellegence?
Subject: Re: You notice SLpper s have gone quiet awaiting miracle ri
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 17:38:28 09/14/07 ()
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Basco...the numbers do not change, they just need to be counted...I'm not even going to bother with the figures again, as your loss has blinded you to the realities.
The only reason Christiana Thorpe and APC are scared of entering the votes is because they know it will result in a loss for the APC.
Count the votes and you lose, no wonder you are shaking and crying all the place.
Subject: Re: You notice SLpper s have gone quiet awaiting miracle ri
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 17:41:35 09/14/07 ()
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Not an ounce of decency in you body!! Be gone!
Subject: Re: You notice SLpper s have gone quiet awaiting miracle ri
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 15:24:40 09/14/07 ()
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Basco, I will not attempt to insult anyone's intelligence. I am a bearer of news that is contrary to the forum's expectation. That is my crime! I am a Sierra Leonean and an SLPP. The last few days saw information coming from all not giving joy to SLPP members/supporters. Did I ever show any lack of understanding to you and others in the APC? No!
We can never be enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.
Subject: Re: You notice SLpper s have gone quiet awaiting miracle ri
From: For Chez
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Date Posted: 16:00:15 09/14/07 ()
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I used to respect your opinions on this forum but no more,you have proven over time to be a dishonest and opportunistic chap.With your so-called intelligence,you very well know there is no way SLPP can win the elections but you keep on feeding us with the slime that your handlers are feeding you with.
I know that you have outlived your usefulness(if at all you have been useful)by staying for decades in the West with nothing to show for it and your only hope now is for SLPP to win and secure a job.
Your unbridled sycophancy is sickening,to say the least.I know that before you go to bed at night your last prayer is to let your dream of seeing SLPP in power at all cost comes true.Remember,that the Peoples Power is greater than those of a few rogue politician
Subject: Re: You notice SLpper s have gone quiet awaiting miracle ri
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 16:21:56 09/14/07 ()
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Here,Here!! I told you guys to be at your most attensiveness in these last moments. I pray that the SLPP will nopt try to pull this elections off by rigging it. If they can quell the riots after their win, their government will be as bankrupt as the AFRC as the international community will cease all funding. There will be civil disobediance, and hardship. They have to think things out properly.
The way I see things, the Army will have to step in with the nod comming from the West. Berewa, John Ben Kanja and others will be lined up and shot! I dont want that to happen!
Subject: BE ASSURED ITS ALL OVER
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 14:25:51 09/14/07 ()
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Compatriots,just give deaf ears to maniacs floating on the forum building castles in the air.God has directed the people to go for a change and it is right there.God and the people have spoken.Our new charismatic leader Hon.Earnest Bai Koroma and his viable and diligent co-workers Hon.Charles Margai and Mr Sam Sumana will take our nation from the state of misery under the out going nepotic,tribalistic,shor-sighted,corrupt,inept slpp clan.God bless Sierra-Leone and the people.
Subject: Re: BE ASSURED ITS ALL OVER
From: Chez say all is not assured!
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Date Posted: 14:36:51 09/14/07 ()
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I think I did not make myself clear. What I meant was - petitions will be heard by the Independent electoral courts not under the supervision of Berewa. Berewa, as president will not interfere as he may be a party to the proceedings. According to NEC sources, Berewa won by 14000 votes which other NEC officials opted to investigate - the legal mind of the SLPP pointed out to NEC that it is not in the constitution for them to do such a thing. There job is done and results should be announced. ECOWAS observers, the only mandated body that signed the protocol with Sierra Leone on issues pertaining to the elections were happy with the results. A recount will be done but not an investigation. This is where we have the problem!!
Subject: Re: BE ASSURED ITS ALL OVER
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 15:13:18 09/14/07 ()
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Chez,there is no problem.The battle is over.I hope slpp has finally come to terms when to concede.The President elect,Hon.Earnest Bai Koroma and his viable team,the Hon.Charles Margai and Mr Sam Sumana will take the nation forward from misery under slpp.
Subject: Re: BE ASSURED ITS ALL OVER
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 15:27:32 09/14/07 ()
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I will wait and see as events unfold - my usual position.
Subject: Re: BE ASSURED ITS ALL OVER
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 16:05:13 09/14/07 ()
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Nothing will come out of it.APC HAS WON AND DR THORPE CANT BE INTIMIDATED OR ELSE YOU HAVE NO PLACE TO HIDE.TAKE NOTE
Subject: Re: BE ASSURED ITS ALL OVER
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 14:31:58 09/14/07 ()
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Mussay, do not take these guys for granted. Call home or your conections and they will tell you that Christiana Thorpe is under pressure to confirm a huge amount of rigged votes. If she succumbs there will be chaos in the streets of Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: BE ASSURED ITS ALL OVER
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 14:56:55 09/14/07 ()
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Basco,I am concern as well and never to underestimate the power thirst thugs.But one thing is clear,the figures are out there with a sound victory for the APC.Besides,the world is watching carefully and Sierra-Leoneans at home are well informed and watching keenly any moves.Everything is under control.Deepest regards brother Basco
Subject: What is today's result?
From: Talangba-orbehra
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Date Posted: 13:42:40 09/14/07 ()
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Is NEC going to release result today?
Subject: Re: What is today's result?
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 13:48:05 09/14/07 ()
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I doubt if she is going to declare any results today as she is under immence pressure to confirm a rediculous amount of votes from Kailahun and Kenema.
Subject: Where did Chez get the 14,000 SLPP win margin from?
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 13:34:22 09/14/07 ()
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If it did not come from a meeting chaired by John Ben,with Maada Bio, Nyuma and Mondeh in attendance!
The mis-calculation has been APC doing well in Kono and Bonthe. The ball is in their court!!!
Subject: Re: Where did Chez get the 14,000 SLPP win margin from?
From: max vandy
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Date Posted: 13:52:18 09/14/07 ()
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The iron-ore dust in Lunsar can cause fuzzy maths even from a great mind as Chez's.
Basco, Chez knows it's really over, this Berewa business.
But you are familiar with the expression: "The last kicks of a dying buffalo..."
Subject: Re: Where did Chez get the 14,000 SLPP win margin from?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 14:14:11 09/14/07 ()
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Mentioning my home time reminds me of how such a beautiful place was brought to become a ghost town under the APC. Berewa and the abled mines minister secured a long term partnership with London Mining Company to start mining operations in lunsar. Such a project would have halted under the APC. The irony of it all is that my people overwhelmingly voted APC. i could not believe it. The reason they gave was that SLPP campaign did not visit them, a truism. We campaigned very poorly. The likes of Bobson should never be made a National Campaign Director for the party. His covert agenda nearly made us lose the elections.
I believe all towns will thrive under a Berewa rule. It will not be like the kabba rule. Berewa will bring back values we once held so high.
I fervently believe in him because I know he has something we have all not seen. i believe I did enough to have stopped pa kabba from treating us like serfs. I did it for my country. I have never accepted anything from the Kabba/Berewa regime. I was against Berewa becoming a leader as I foresaw a problem in the party. I was afraid of berewa meeting the same sufferings Kabba's mentors got from him.
Whatever I am doing is not for a self end but an altruistic. We may not have seen light for sometime now in the capital; have we tried to ask - WHY?
Under berewa's rule we will become the envy of the region.
I pray the final announcement will not bring discomforts into the hearts of my brothers and sisters. I have hope preserved in me as in a fortress. Even when I lose, I will carry my head high as i believe that I have learnt something from losing.
Let us treat what will happen with EQUANIMITY.
Subject: Re: Where did Chez get the 14,000 SLPP win margin from?
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 15:13:25 09/14/07 ()
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Chez, sometimes your analysis make me wonder whether you're truly making sense of the suffering masses or just trying to paint a flambouyant picture of politics as we know it.
Your continous claims of a better government under Berewa began to drain away my reservation for you as someone well informed about the issues of our nation. This has made me realised that, you're just a personal admirer of Berewa not because he possesses any genuine feeling for our nation.
I believe all towns will thrive under a Berewa rule.
What was the position of Berewa in this present government? How much power does a VP have to influence change in terms of development.
If, according to you, all towns will thrive under Berewa why haven't we seen any evidence to corroborate your claims? Or is it that something we did not see that he had done. please provide evidence if you're to be taken seriously.
Subject: Re: Where did Chez get the 14,000 SLPP win margin from?
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 14:27:59 09/14/07 ()
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Chez, you are definately not a well man! you need therapy. You need to get that imaginary government that will arrest you if you go to Freetown of you shoulders. Adinor you claim asylum? Man, twenty years and you have not been home? Get out of here!!
Subject: Re: Where did Chez get the 14,000 SLPP win margin from?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 14:58:32 09/14/07 ()
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There is no comfort in the truth! I do not fear going to Sierra Leone. I was in Sierra Leone during the interregnum. I stayed for less than 24 hours and was out. I am not like many others who will see wrong and keep their mouths shut. As a child I was not like that and at this age I am more outspoken when it comes to protecting others. My twenty years away from home has done good for so many. A tiger does not go about proclaiming his tigritude. I do not have to justify to you what I have done and not done - what I will only say it has benefited so many individuals and families of all Africa.
I am indeed sick for not able to find altruistic beings that can work out a thought through endeavour for our nation. This I have seen in berewa. His determination to bring change gives me this unbounded belief in him.
I have multiple nationalities but all my other countries know that I am a Sierra Leonean true and true!! I have residence in so many countries for what I believe in. Being subtle in my outspokeness and able to get something positive from even the most cruel leaders. i make them see that which will give them honourability and nobility. The only person I could not sell my outspoken subtlety to is kabba. I could not understand how he allowed his reign to be so tainted when he had all the help at hand? I commend him for holding the peace until now.
Basco, the only therapy I need is for our nation to inject resources into the development processes of the young minds of Sierra leone to be able to see others and not only themselves - altruism.
Call me whatever, delivering the news has not been a comfortable thing but I had to do it. i heard it and was willing to share it with you all. it depends now how you process the information I have presented. As I can see, you are going about it the wrong way! I am here and ready to take all the punches - a good fighter never gives up - he sometimes makes tactical retreats but will come back to fight a good fight. Like Berewa, nothing has ever come that easy for me. You may see him as a bad man but wait until you see how he independently handles the affairs of state - you will understand the power behind a man who sleeps when others are talking.
Subject: Re: Where did Chez get the 14,000 SLPP win margin from?
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 14:10:43 09/14/07 ()
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Vandy, SLPP want to play a dangerous game with the electorate. They have under estimated the people before the elections and I am afraid they are going to under-estimate them for one last dangerous time. All hell will break loose if they force NEC to declare them winners.
As of now all their illicite gains will not be investgated by the APC who will draw a line in the sand and start a fresh. But if Ben,Karimu and others bring chaos to Sierra Leone in their efforts to win power, Pademba Road and Mafanta win be made available. And if citizen dies in the chaos treasonable charges will be brought.
Could any lawyer comfirm the charges that could face anyone that brings about deaths as a result of instigatng chaos?
Subject: Re: Where did Chez get the 14,000 SLPP win margin from?
From: Ibrahim Turay
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Date Posted: 15:10:59 09/14/07 ()
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The charges are as follows:
1) Treason
2) Disturbing the peace
3) Aiding and Abeting to create national chaos
4) Intentional Rebellion against the state
5) Electoral Fruad
6) Attempted Murder on president elect
7) Physical Threatening Electoral Officials
8) Attempted Bribery on Electoral Executives
9) Misappropriation of governement and donors funds converted for elections campaign
These are just the basic charges for now and more is on the way.
^
Subject: Re: Where did Chez get the 14,000 SLPP win margin from?
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 16:41:21 09/14/07 ()
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let it be noted that the SLPP executive have been informed of possible charges that will be brought on them if they go ahead and rig the elections and chaos ensues!!
Subject: Congrats
From: Pa Sorie
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Date Posted: 13:30:33 09/14/07 ()
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Never in my life did I ever thought of the possibility of offering my congratulation to the APC. But with all sincerity duff my heart to the well managed campaign teams, and best wishes for their tenure in office. Hope this reign will be a total opposite to the previous ones, as the common man is now au fait with the issue of governance, as we have seen from the outcome of the result. As for 'my' party (regreted my vote in 1996) well I hate to say this, but we knew all along this was inevitable. We had every opportunity to put the put the country on a successful path, but we mis-used it, thus our commupence. Therefore, back to the drawing board, try to be an effective opposition.....oops we forgot to plan for that....Pa Kabbah good luck, hope you get to enjoy your retirement. Whilst it is ok for you to be above politics at this moment, it would have been a lot better had you allowed the party to choose it leader. In as much as we appericiate your effort over the last 11-12 years, you and teams of special advisers have left us in a quamire, it time for the new generation to step up, a new generation that are ready to put the country first, fulfill promises, act as a voice for the people.I know some of my brothers and sisters in the party are dissolusioned. Those of you that are au-fait with re-allingmnet theory in part politics should take heart and start preparing for the next 10 years, as that it what is needed at this point in time.Once more to my APC brothers and sisters, we are watching.....and will point your mistakes in a well meanining and cultured manner through mediums like these.....Good luck.
Subject: Re: Congrats
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 14:31:46 09/14/07 ()
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Thanks pa Sorie.Deepest regards.
Subject: Re: Congrats
From: max vandy
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Date Posted: 14:16:53 09/14/07 ()
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Thanks Pa Sorie for the felicitations. Our country will go a long way if only our leaders can reconcile, after a spirited election. You are a great Sierra Leonean Pa Sorie
Subject: E mail sent to me which I would like to share
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 13:27:30 09/14/07 ()
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Dear All,
Please find time to read below. Very interesting articles from one of our brothers leaving where, I don't even know (smile). If you find it interesting, you may wish to be included on the recipient list. God bless our beloved country. Keep posting Mr Shaw. May God give you the strength to continue doing this good work, in narrating to us the history of our country, some of which I was not aware of. Keep the green, white and blue flag flying.
Best Regards
With Solomon Berewa now incapacitated after getting another devastating stroke making him comatose and only waiting for the last nail in his coffin as votes are being tallied, let us turn our attention to the security under-performance by the outgoing Commander-In-Chief (CIC) and Minister of Defense (MoD) on a background as follows: "Peace partially returned to SL in November 1996 after the signing of the Abidjan Peace Accord, which was short-lived as both parties involved openly undermined it. Chairman Johnny Paul Koroma (JPK) of AFRC had this to say to the nation on June 1, 1997- Fellow countrymen, you will surely agree with me that the unseated President and some of his round pegs in square holes collaborators dragged their feet in implementing the priority clauses stipulated in the Abuja Peace Accord related to developments of mutual forces to carry out encampment and disarming of combatants. The Commission of the Consolidation of Peace (CCP) was never given the attention needed to carry out its functions. The RUF may have been tardy, even dishonest, in implementing their own side of the bargain, but that cannot in anyway justify the Government of Pa Kabbah through Fayia Musa, Philip Palmer, Dr. Mohamed Barrie and others in surreptitiously planning the arrest and overthrow of its leader, Foday Sankoh. Both actions were wrongful. From that moment on the atmosphere got riven with distrust in which combatants on both sides inflicted unspeakable barbaric, heinous crimes and truly ghastly atrocities on innocent civilians. The negative spoils of the rebel war, due largely to the leadership blunders of the Commander-In-Chief, are incalculable to date. In his May 28, 1997 condemnation speech of the Kamajor civil militia and the SLPP Government of Pa Kabbah, JPK had this to say to the nation among others...In 1996, the same group that had been disbanded re-emerged as the Kamajors from being Kamaboys, and like in the days of the Hindu-Hindu, the Kamajors instantly targeted the Army as their perceived enemy. However, the military overlooked the activities of the Kamajors and fought alongside with them as local forces, but when the SLPP came to power, the SLPP government emphasized that the Kamajors should be given anti-military training which caused serious confrontation between the soldiers and the Kamajors. While the Army was only made up of 14,000 men, the number of Kamajors has swelled up to 37,000 men, vastly outnumbering the constitutional Army.
The SLPP, which got the full support of the Army after the election suddenly became very partisan in handling the security of the State. Welfare of the Kamajors was treated more seriously than the welfare of the Army. It was not surprising that a one time Chief Kamajor was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense who spent all his energy organizing the Kamajors. Even though the military had fought the war for five years, the SLPP spent all its time providing logistics for the Kamajors, and totally forgetting the welfare of the Army. The Kamajors in the eyes of the SLPP suddenly became a superior force, even though the Armed Forces is constitutionally responsible for the security of the State. The Kamajors started to engage the Army in battles causing the deaths of many soldiers.
Even though the SLPP claimed to have spent between 2 billion and 3.5 billion Leones on the Armed Forces every month, this was not reflected in the status of the ordinary soldier. The Kamajors, on the other hand, were well catered for as Deputy Defense Minister Chief Hinga Norman alone collected 35 million Leones on behalf of Kamajors every month. This does not cover the amount Hinga Norman collected from government to cover logistics for the Kamajors. Salaries for soldiers were delayed for long periods whereas monies to Kamajors were paid instantly on demand. Ration for the fighting men was reduced thereby putting a lot of pressure on the commanders who felt hard pressed to handle the same number of men.
The above-mentioned were legitimate grievances expressed by the military at the time needing attention but were instead irresponsibly snubbed by their Commander-In-Chief who was enjoying porridge in a porringer at his lodge with no seriousness even when told of a coup plot underway. Upon reinstating his Government, he wasted no time through court martial in executing the military high command, disbanding the entire Army and appointing Nigerian Gen. Maxwell Khobe as Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) thereby letting him (Khobe) access sensitive info of our National Security. Do you know that it is forbidden in the Nigerian Army for a senior officer to marry a woman from a foreign country lest he divulges/discusses security matters of interest with her? [This must be knowledge most likely gained from the incident between Samson and Delilah of the Bible.] That notwithstanding, Sierra Leoneans never protested against Pa Kabbah's security appointments of Gen. Khobe and British Keith Biddle as Inspector General of Police. Unbelievable! [He has brought in again another Brit, Mr. Grant Wilson, as the new Director-General of Mines to gain knowledge of our strategic mineral resources. One thing I have come to know for sure is that Pa Kabbah is good at creating well paid jobs for internationals leaving out the locals, including new graduates to eke out a living on paltry sums.]
Much as I strongly detested the Jan 6 invasion of the capital and the mayhem caused especially by our military, however, I admired their bravery in taking head on well-trained ECOMOG troops who had at their disposal heavy artillery, including Alpha Jets. The ECOMOG Force-Commander, Gen. Shelpedi, was stunned at the tactical maneuvering and gallantry of our battle tested Army. Indeed our wo/men in uniform are the true Lions of the Mountain of SL and are the most seasoned soldiers on the continent. Had it not been for their gallantry in taking hostage 310 ECOMOG soldiers on June 2, 1997 at Mammy Yoko hotel, Freetown would have been reduced to rubbles from the fire power of the Foreign intervention force. Our military deserves a standing ovation from all well-meaning Sierra Leoneans. If the Americans can be so proud of their Marines why not Sierra Leoneans. And I see no reason why anyone should behave like the out going CIC who disowned his military for outsiders. Can anyone tell me why s/he thinks that Pa Kabbah must not be put on trial for stirring dissension and deliberately playing cat and mouse game with our servicewo/men in uniform. [I am confident that he will be indicted by the Special Court sooner rather than later.]
As a matter of fact just days after Jan 6 invasion the CIC left his Army in the battle front in Freetown and traveled to Conakry to attend President Lansana Conte's inauguration. It was a surprise that the CIC can leave his house and military coming under fire to enjoy all types of dishes in Guinea. Incredible! Not even Uriah could do such a thing and in fact had this to say to King David whose pleasurable lifestyle in a time of war reflects that of Pa Kabbah: Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my master Joab and my lord's men are camped in the open fields. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing! [2Samuel 11:11 NIV]." What was even more disheartening about his trip to Conakry was that all his colleague Presidents from other African countries including small Gambia arrived gorgeously for the occasion in their Jets, but Pa Kabbah on a smoky UN helicopter which provoked laughter from those at the Gbesia International Airport. And to this day SL does not have a Presidential Jet of her own. With all the mineral wealth why should our President be dwarfed or get missing in action in a gathering with his/her counterparts? We need to something about this and restore pride to the office of the President.
On March 8, 2000 a peaceful demonstration to Foday Sankoh's house was organized by the civil society in Freetown (to the knowledge of the CIC) which turned violent killing 22 people in cold blood. No commission of inquiry has been set up to date to investigate why Pa Kabbah as Commander-In-Chief and Minister of Defense failed to provide the people at the rally on that day proper security coverage ahead in case of any eventuality from the rebel leader and group. Listen to this, the Americans are still asking and grueling their leaders why 9/11. Is the life of the ordinary Sierra Leonean not equally important?
Our country is like a prostitute that has been raped by her very lovers and left to die, but she will live. You only need to go up Hill Station and its environs and see that our outgoing elected officials have asked what SL can do for them instead of the wise saying of John F. Kennedy "ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country."
Let us flip the page to another subject. I have heard people say that APC-rule led to the rebel war, which is true. However, what is also true though is that the war started from SLPP's traditional strongholds including Kailahun which is still a 'No-go area' for APC. With any two sound premises one can arrive at a logical conclusion, and it is for you to make. The devil is in the details. During the time of the APC, the RUF was not able to cross the Eastern Province where they had started their insurrection in 1991. The first time hostilities spread outside the province was during the time of NPRC, which had tried to justify its overthrow of the APC on the grounds of the latter's ineffectiveness in defending the people against rebel aggression. So it made extravagant pledges of ending the war swiftly, but in the end it failed. The RUF not only forced a war economy on SL; they left an endless trail of unrecognizable shadows of once settled and thriving communities. The motives of RUF looked murky except for the pretext of ridding the country of corruption, misrule and one party system. Its insurrection had begun at the very time the much maligned APC Government of Late President Momoh was laying the foundation for democratic elections under a new multi-party constitution adopted in 1991. All that anyone opposed to the rule of Momoh needed to do was to wait and take part in the then impending elections and vote him out of office. But instead the rebels and their backers took up arms and chose violence. How could they reconcile that with their professed belief in democracy defies comprehension.
Prior to 1992, it is reasonable to credit APC with substantial infrastructural development as well as with an extraordinary good record of bonding its rich and tantalizing ethnic diversity. In other words there was no tribalism during APC rule as seen today with SLPP. Of course there is no doubt of the fact that APC made mistakes along the way and some were serious. An example was opening up diamond mining to all and sundry, a policy that scuppered any ambitions it may have had to turn things around. The result of this openness was diamond smuggling, which became a whole industry in itself, defying regulatory control and plummeting the public purse as never before even to date. It was later to fuel the war today known as blood diamonds. But let us face it: Unlike SLPP today APC made these mistakes under a one party system or at a time when there were no checks and balances. So which is more guilty of misrule, APC or SLPP?
In my own opinion the Late Momoh was by far a better President than Pa Kabbah for the following 3 reasons:
Unlike Pa Kabbah, Momoh was courageous to admit failing the nation
Momoh reasoned with us the students in 1991 and 5 months after our demonstration he lifted the ban on democracy
When overthrown in 1992 Momoh fled to Conakry and unlike Pa Kabbah, he never fought his way back to power with blood and on dead bodies. According to him the God who gave has taken away, which was reflected in his song 'Momoh si don saful nar God don gee you pawa wata wae na fo you e nor go run pas you'
If Pa Kabbah were a true uniter he would have awarded in his two terms in office the Order of the Rokel to some of his political rivals, including Dr. John Karefa-Smart for being a seasoned political veteran and Senior Citizen of SL. But instead he chose to give cronies, including Dr. Julius Spencer for helping reinstate his Government from exile. Such awards are merited based on (longterm) national duty not on close ties. Blessings, MS.
Subject: Re: E mail sent to me which I would like to share
From: Lameeh Gblaah
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Date Posted: 15:45:24 09/14/07 ()
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That episode was very intresting and I am one hundred percent with you!! All what you've written is a factual fact but how can we turn the table around ??
I don't think Ernest Koroma is the answer because the Ernest Koroma I know hasn't got the qualities of the leader that Siera leone is looking for at this moment . This nation needs a radical leader who is a diciplinarian strict steadfast ,firm in decission making and having a stiff upper lip.
One of my utmost priority is to lay more emphasis on law and order ( banning of these so called Occarda drivers ) put more interest on education , Health create jobs and job training ,create or bridge the middle man power, build more trade centres and training schools for those who fall short of the educational system, Encourage indigenous sierra leonean investors as well as foreign investors . Another thing that the government should do, is to diverify the ecomomy and relocate some big government officies into the provicial capital and rehabilitate the capital to some where like Masiaka which is the centre to the east ,west ,north and south.I may be wrong but lets make some changes in the country in that we can fordge away ahead. The land tenure system need to be abolish up in the provinces in that it would encourage investment and let all the land be equally distributed.
Look at that money that, the Kabbah government spent in repainting the Connaught hospital would have been spent in building a modern hospital in places like Songo and use it as a teaching hospital . My friends and foes look at the hospitals in the provinces !! They are an eye sore. That was how our colonial masters left them and there had never been any impovement at all . Please look at our roads deplorable the problems are immense and uncountable.
The said SLPP government never provide the basic necessity for us sierra leoneans. which are food, water,shelter and clothing .
That greedy Kabbah let him perish in hell and may the prayer of governor Clerkson befall on him. When Seehdu Momoh was overthrown he went peacefully without any fight, even though he has some power to fight his way back to power. Even when Strasser too was over thrown and left in guinea , he went peacefully he never come back fighting for power!! BUT that POWER THIRSTY Kabbah RAN away to Guinea and cried all over the place, called upon the ECCOMORG troops to come fighting for power allowing so many innocent men ,women and children to loose their lives making that comment that if it's only one person alive in sierra leone he does'nt care as long as he rules the nation. Is that a true sierra leonean ? Now he has built a massive mansion in Guinea to spend his retirement age with young IG . What A PITY!! These people has no moral .
Subject: Re: E mail sent to me which I would like to share
From: Bugsyb
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Date Posted: 15:15:11 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
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"History is written by the Victors" Winston Churchill
Subject: FUNCTIONS OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 13:21:43 09/14/07 ()
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CHAPTER IV — THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
FUNCTIONS OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION
33. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, the Electoral Commission shall be responsible for the conduct and supervision of the registration of voters for, and of, all public elections and referenda; and for that purpose shall have power to make regulations by statutory instrument for the registration of voters, the conduct of Presidential, Parliamentary or Local Government elections and referenda, and other matters connected therewith, including regulations for voting by proxy.
Subject: Re: FUNCTIONS OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 15:12:54 09/14/07 ()
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Mr. Chez,
I have worked for the government of the State of New York for the past 23 years and with my experience, I have this to say:
It is in the jurisdiction of the Electoral Commission to decide the winner of the election. In the excersise of its responsibility in conducting the elections the Electoral Commission can make decisions within the framework of the law. If those laws governing the administration of the Electoral Commission are missing vital regulatory provisions then more latitude is given to the Electoral Commision by default. Sometimes that could result in court battles too expensibve for the government to handle.
The determination as to whether ballots should be cancelled or not is for the Electoral Commission to make.
It may seem as though the Electoral Commission is powerful to the point of been untouchable. But that is not the case.
I am sure that if you examine the regulatory provisions you will find that members of the Commission are required to act in good faith and to administer the office in a manner that gives the semblance of fairness and to refrain from any act that would show otherwise.
Failing to do this will subject the Commission to a breach of the authoritative ethical principles of the job. If challenged in court it would become a problem.
But here is the real dilema for Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone's court is a Kangaroo court. We saw how the courts administer justice in Sierra Leone many many times in the past and we can say with almost certainty that they would foul this case if it comes before them.
Should a legal battle ensue I suggest that the International Community which has a stake in the elections have a place in the judgement table. This may be unprecedented but the United nations role in the international community should be dynamic in the face of attempts to circumvent democracy particularly in trouble spots like Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: FUNCTIONS OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION
From: nico
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Date Posted: 13:28:19 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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According to that constitution Christina Thorpe only need to declare that the SLPP had massively rigged the election and hence the APC won. The SLPP according to your constition will then have to go the court not the APC. But then they will not go to court because they have denied themself the use of court.
Subject: Re: FUNCTIONS OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 13:47:07 09/14/07 ()
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I think it is the other way round. I cannot comment now on certain things relating to the matter you have just raised as legal proceedings have started. But it is the other way round.
Subject: DELAYED JOY FOR SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Conteh
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Date Posted: 12:48:42 09/14/07 ()
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With over 70% of the votes counted and APC leading the ruling party 60% to 40%, reliable sources tell us that SLPP is making moves to go to Court against NEC. It seems that NEC's refusal to be intimidated and corrupted by the ruling party brought about this decision. Observers question whether this insistence on "power at all costs" by SLPP is really in the interest of the poor masses who have been suffering under them for so long, or in the selfish interests of the ruling cabal, in their insatiable lust and greed for power, plus their fear of all their past perpetrated atrocities being brought to light in a new dispensation.
We have it on good authority however that the NEW APC is not about witch-hunting or revenge, but about changing the face of Sierra Leone for the better. The Unity Government being planned with PMDC and even has some SLPP personnel in participation. IT will cut across tribes and borders, with the untimate objective being the development of the Country.
God bless Sierra Leone and all her Friends.
Subject: Re: DELAYED JOY FOR SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 13:09:01 09/14/07 ()
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I foresee a recount and re-verification of all votes. The situation is tense - results too close to announce to prevent chaos.
SLPP won by 14000 votes.
SLPP - 977,735
APC - 962,144
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
A petition has been filed for an injunction for NEC to desist from tampering or interfering with anything to do with investigations. According to our constitution her job is to conduct an election and announce the winner. Any matters arising from misconducts/malpractices by any party should be handled by the electoral courts.
We have a problem in our hands.
We need urgent solutions to this.
I continue to pray that we calm our hearts and search for solutions.
Subject: Re: DELAYED JOY FOR SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Kekuda
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Date Posted: 13:23:46 09/14/07 ()
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Can you beat the latest stunt? Yet SLPP accuses APC of thuggery and intimidation. May God help us all.
Subject: Re: DELAYED JOY FOR SIERRA LEONEANS
From: nico
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Date Posted: 13:17:54 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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The court is not independent, they are the most corrupt, there is no need . SLPP rigged votes will be nullified by NEC and Koroma elected.
Subject: Re: DELAYED JOY FOR SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 13:16:03 09/14/07 ()
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Chez my faith in you has finally disappeared. Do you knnow that the 14,000 win was decided before the run-off? It shows that you are privee to SLPP mal-practices and you are not straight forward. This win by any means neccesary will bring about a back lash not even Jan 6th could come close. Mark my words. If SLPP compromise these elections there will be hell to pay!!
Subject: Re: DELAYED JOY FOR SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 13:44:36 09/14/07 ()
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I may be a supporter and full fledged member of the SLPP but I put my country above all else.
I understand the frustration we have all been under, your support for the APC will not make me think less of you and I believe you should do the same thing. I am merely reporting what is happening in close doors in Freetown. Premature declarations and threats to others can cause this kind of reaction. I forewarned the danger in making declarations when there are a great number of polling stations waiting to be counted and verified. Propaganda is not good. A wish is different from a propaganda. I had the belief that we will pull through. When the some results in bombali were withdrawn, I called my APC friend to challenge such withdrawal by NEC. NEC had no right. I pointed the constitution to him but he ignored me.
It was then I knew we were going to face difficulties as NEC's overzealous role was a recipe for them to overstep their remit.
Let us search for a solution to the problem - the election was too close to please any party. Either party will have to complain when such is the case.
As a party member, I am not a happy man but as I said on this forum - I HAVE FAITH IN BEREWA. he is the only one to deal with Kabba. he waited too long to ahve the independence in the name of our laws to put this man on trial for crimes against our people. Berewa is not as bad as people perceive him to be. he is a firm man and therefore he stepped on a lot of peoples toes. See most of them in the APC and PMDC.
I will still pray and wait for the official results. The court case will have to be supervised by the independent electoral courts under the new government of Berewa. I will assure you Berewa will not interfere with such a process.
I am sorry if you think I have lost faith for being a patient man. I love to wait until the last count is done. Even when I take exams - I never rejoice until the results are out. You have lost nothing but a will to be able to scrutinise Berewa and his Executive if they step outside their responsibilities to the nation.
Subject: Re: DELAYED JOY FOR SIERRA LEONEANS
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 14:08:01 09/14/07 ()
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You are wasting your time and better concentrate on your alleged exams.Hon.Earnest Bai Koroma,the President elect with his two viable men Hon.Charles Margai and Mr Sam Sumana will make a difference.
Subject: Re: DELAYED JOY FOR SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 13:57:27 09/14/07 ()
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Chez do not make me laugh! An independent court under President Berewa? Why then did he have to bring in Nigerians to run his Court Marshall and execute Sierra Leonean Military Officers?
Subject: Re: DELAYED JOY FOR SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 14:24:00 09/14/07 ()
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I think I did not make myself clear. What I meant was - petitions will be heard by the Independent electoral courts not under the supervision of Berewa. Berewa, as president will not interfere as he may be a party to the proceedings. According to NEC sources, Berewa won by 14000 votes which other NEC officials opted to investigate - the legal mind of the SLPP pointed out to NEC that it is not in the constitution for them to do such a thing. There job is done and results should be announced. ECOWAS observers, the only mandated body that signed the protocol with Sierra Leone on issues pertaining to the elections were happy with the results. A recount will be done but not an investigation. This is where we have the problem!!
Subject: Re: DELAYED JOY FOR SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Bugsyb
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Date Posted: 12:53:19 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
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NO! NO! NO! to a Unity Government, if you campaign as APC, you win as APC for God Sake Govern as APC. We need a Government and a robust Opposition in our Country otherwise we are back to the 1970's and 1980's One Party rule.
Subject: Re: DELAYED JOY FOR SIERRA LEONEANS
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 13:00:22 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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No to unity Governement because it encourages political recycling. That is what the voters have rejected. Earnest must not bring any of those odious, corrupt old timers in his govt. He will lost everything if he try that.
Subject: Makeni Teachers College Tuition
From: Amina
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Date Posted: 12:36:57 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: amieco@comcast.net
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I'm sorry to take you off the election discussion but does anyone know the tuition for Makeni Teachers college? Thanks in advance.
Subject: Nec under heavy pressure!! SLPP need 400,000 vote
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 12:32:46 09/14/07 ()
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The SLPP have come up with 400000 votes from Kailahun,Bo,Moyamba, and Pujehun. Hence the late annoucement of their results. Miss Thorpe has been ordered to release these figure but because of the mal-practices in Kailahun and Kenema she feels that she has to investigate the Ballots.
I wonder if they have the guts to carry this stunt off?
Subject: Re: Nec under heavy pressure!! SLPP need 400,000 vote
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:07:18 09/14/07 ()
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I foresee a recount and re-verification of all votes. The situation is tense - results too close to announce to prevent chaos.
SLPP won by 14000 votes.
SLPP - 977,735
APC - 962,144
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
A petition has been filed for an injunction for NEC to desist from tampering or interfering with anything to do with investigations. According to our constitution her job is to conduct an election and announce the winner. Any matters arising from misconducts/malpractices by any party should be handled by the electoral courts.
We have a problem in our hands.
We need urgent solutions to this.
I continue to pray that we calm our hearts and search for solutions.
Subject: Re: Nec under heavy pressure!! SLPP need 400,000 vote
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 13:03:39 09/14/07 ()
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It is a shame that the SLPP has to go down like this. It is a shame that Berewa and Kabba will leave office with a legacy that they ran a rogue administration.
Conversely, it is admirable that the Hon. Charles Margai, will be credited for bringing down a rogue administration.
Anyone who doubts this later fact would have to ask themselves if they truly believe that the APC on its own without PMDC could have been able to stop vote rigging in the East and the South, the bedrock of the SLPP party.
Though we the members of the Diaspora are not under the common umbrella of an organization yet I ask that we show our greatest respect and admiration to the Hon. Charles Margai for been such a champion of free and fair elections by presenting him with a plaque symbolizing that he is the true champion of democracy in Sierra Leone.
Christiana Thorpe should be another recipient of this great honor. She too should receive a plaque.
Finaly, Ernest Koroma, the peoples choice, should receieve an award for his restraint in the conduct of the elections. He should recieve a peace award of the century as a man symbolizing peace.
If members of the Diaspora agree to this proposition, I would personally arrange for the preparation of the awards and for its inclusion in the inauguration ceremony.
Subject: Re: Nec under heavy pressure!! SLPP need 400,000 vote
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 13:34:36 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 104.red-88-17-107.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.17.107.104
Message:
Stop all this Sycophancy! No awards for people doing what they should. Like Chris Rock say's in "Black People vs Niggers" Niggers want to be congratulated when they say "I look after my kids" you are supposed to. As for Charles Margai he did what was Politically Expedient! He left the SLPP because they wouldn't make him leader for the second time!!!! By supporting APC he did the right thing for the wrong reasons. No award for anyone!!!!!
Subject: Re: Nec under heavy pressure!! SLPP need 400,000 vote
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 13:12:49 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: host86-147-4-178.range86-147.btcentralplus.com at 86.147.4.178
Message:
I agree, a very deserving award. Charles Margai actions are absolutely in the interest of Sierra Leone. The rogues SLPP are dangerous outfit. Sierra Leonean must not be fool by Kabba's pretending to be a democrate, he is a very deceitful character. He is behind all the election riggings.He is a man who urinate on your head and try to convince you that it was raining. He is using every tricks to get Berewa elected, the APC must stop him.
Subject: Re: Nec under heavy pressure!! SLPP need 400,000 vote
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 13:26:42 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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This has nothing to do with Kabba! It is the John Ben and the Kanja's of the SLPP who are going out at all costs to rig these elections. This 14,000 votes win is their last throw of the dice. Mondeh has still not got a sizable proportion of the Army to back him if a SLPP win is declared.
I beg the liberal SLPP members to desist from this final move as it will bring blood to the streets of freetown and the provinces.
People like Chez who knew about the win will not by in Salone to witness the bloodshed it would bring. Infact he has not been to Salone for twenty years!
Please ask him where he got the 14,000 win margin from!
Subject: A WARNING TO MAADA NGOMBU: DON'T TEST THE PEOPLE'S PRINCESS!
From: SUBWNALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 12:14:53 09/14/07 ()
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Maada Ngombu, don't you test.
Comrades of the forum, please read SLPP's highway to the Special Court. Credit Standardtimespress.net
Harrassment and Intimidation :Commissioner Thorpe Exposes World Bank Employee
Posted by Mohamed Konneh on Sep 14, 2007, 02:13
The results released by the National Electoral Commission yesterday clearly put Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma of the All Peoples Congress Party in a comfortable lead with 859,144 and the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party candidate Vice President Solomon Berewa struggling behind with 567,449. A total of 76.1% of the results so far have been reported from 4,687 polling stations. Valid votes stand at 1,427,280 while the invalid votes 36,694 making a total of 1,463,974 counted so far. The national average turnout of voters represents 72.7 percents. Speaking at the usual press briefing at the British Council in Freetown yesterday, the National Returning Officer and Chairperson of the NEC, Dr. Christiana Thorpe maintained that the commission has endeavored to include as much information in the result database as possible, making sure that progress is made on the results from all districts in the country. The verification process she explained continues in order to ensure that the official results are indeed those recorded in the polling stations and accurately reflect the will of the voters. The NEC has even noted results with turn-out of 100% and over. At a meeting held on the 11th September 2007, the commissioner unanimously took the following decisions in the handling of cases with unusual high turn-out. In cases where voter turn-out is between 95% in a polling station, the NEC will conduct an investigation if the station has been the object of complaints, or is named in the incident report from the district office,
In cases where the voter turn-out is at 100%, an investigation will be conducted in all cases, and in cases of voter turn-out exceeding 100%, the station results will be automatically invalidated.
The Dr. Thorpe said that she would like to report an increase in the number of threatening and intimidating calls and messages to NEC officials over the past few days. “I would like to especially request Mr. Maada Ngombu of the World Bank project NDB building to stop abusing and intimidating staff members of the commission and desist from instructing me on my duties’ she warned, adding that his duties at the Transitional Support Secretariat ended with the recruitment of the commission’s core staff. The NEC boss said adding that, misusing the telephone numbers of members of commission acquired during the period was not to be used to threaten and intimidate staff at this time, to say the least; she described his behaviour as “unprofessional”. Dr. Thorpe further explained that some members of the print and electronic media seem to be engaged in a scheme to deliberately misinform the public, despite the commission’s attempt to keep the nation informed through regular updates. The final certified declaration of results rests with the NEC she observed. No press briefing she said would be conducted today until Monday 17th September 2007, when the remaining cumulative results will be presented to the public.
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Subject: MAKE SATURDAY A FULL WORKING DAY
From: bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 11:50:25 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 104.red-88-17-107.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.17.107.104
Message:
The new government should declare Saturday's full working days for the next two years, cutting down on Public holiday's may also be a good idea but as most are relegious it may provoke a backlash. Let's face it we are not at the bottom of the Human Development index because of bad luck. We need to work harder and smarter as a country. In order to fix our country we must make some sacrificesand although it goes against my instincts as a free marketeer perhaps a ban on the importation of rice (or imposition of high import duties) should considered in order to encourage the farmers to grow our own. This must ofcourse go with methods to counter smuggling.
Subject: Breaking News
From: Michael Thompson
To: All
Date Posted: 12:10:25 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: thompe@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: at 80.195.38.188
Message:
Is it true that SLPP have filed in court seeking an injunction to restrain the announcement of further result pendind an investigation into alledge electorial fraud......If nar true nar disgrace ohoooo
Subject: Re: Breaking News
From: Sorba S
To: All
Date Posted: 12:51:50 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
What a disgrace! SLPP does not want to concede this election. They want to hold on to power when the people have spoken. Coming up with 400,000 vote at this time is beyound anybodys control. I smell fish. and na rotton fish.
Subject: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 11:12:07 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy1.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.11
Message:
Someone has suggested that electricity production be privatized to ensure a continuous flow of power. Is this a good suggestion? What are the feasible ideas now regarding privatization? The debate is on.
If someone out there has contacts with an energy company and they want to post a narrative on how this can be done, you are more than welcome.
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: brother true
To: All
Date Posted: 14:55:54 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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We need to ask ourselves practical questions with solutions at the end of it. Why do we need eletricity to be privatised? Is it because a private company is more accountable than a parastatal?A private company has the means to secure foreign investment than a govt body. The investment Govt needs to booth start such investment could be used to invest in human resources particularly education.
The issue relating to govt not paying bills should be addressed by having a good budgetary system, which accounts for its income and expenditure. We need proper internal controls, lack of controls causes corruption that why most third world govt can't pay their bills. Spending create an economy, this involve govt paying its bills and in return receives taxes from companies. We need to discuss these issues.
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: DR. MICHEL SHO - SAWYER
To: All
Date Posted: 12:55:01 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: michel_sawyer@yahoo.com
Entered From: global.life.edu at 72.16.214.206
Message:
Gentlemen,
I like the way this discussion is going but one most important area that is not being address which need to be address is History.
Few companies in Sierra Leone where privatize and let us remember history before we move forward.
1. Remembers the railways - they were privatized and what happen after they become privatized.
2. The oil refinery was privatized and what happen. someone mention subsidies, well at some point in time the government ran out of foreing exchange and those who had dollars went to pay for their fuel directly which kept the company afloat but struck down our electricity. they stop providing fuel for electricity and the masses suffer and continue to suffer. Today we depend mostly on Libya for diesel.
Privatization in an industrial develop country gentlemen where the citizens can afford stock option and so forth is a good venture but privatization in a country like Sierra Leone, HMM. We need to be very careful....
Look at the water supply system, today most who can afford it can buy water bottles and therefore do not really care whether the water supply works. we need to really study history, the mistakes made, the influence of the WEST in some of our decision and decide if whats best for the west is best for Sierra Leone.
Your Able and Humble Servant In Training with lots more to learn, so i"m paying lots of attention to learn. So Please open the discussion and teach us the Young generation.
Dr. Michel Sho-Sawyer....
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 13:15:08 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 104.red-88-17-107.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.17.107.104
Message:
While I am too young to remember the Privatisation of the Railways, I do know quite a bit about the Refinery, in the days when the Refinery was running smoothly before we all knew what Petrol queues were, it was actually owned in part by the Oil Companies (BP, Agip, Shell & Texaco) each taking turns to bring in Crude Oil for Refining, now as none of these four are charitable organisations we assume they were making a profit. When they couldn't get the fx to continue buying Crude they then gave their shares to the Government and hightailed it out of the Country. So it was only when it became a fully Govt owned enterprise that it collapsed.
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: DR. MICHEL SHO - SAWYER
To: All
Date Posted: 13:43:04 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: michel_sawyer@yahoo.com
Entered From: global.life.edu at 72.16.214.206
Message:
SIR Bugsyb,
An argument is always which comes first, an egg or the chicken. Why did they hightail out of the country if the profit margin for there for them. Would you give up on a business where you are making profit.
Now as I stated earlier, there is alot i need to know and you have provided some infor and I respectfully ask that you dig deeper and do some research to provide the answer of what really happen to educate us here on the forums. Another question in mind is was it ( The refinery) collapsing before they left, when it was pass on to the government who lacks the proper foreign currency to keep it afloat but inherited what they could not manage because of incompetence and curruption. Remember one area where government had foreign currency was with the marketing board for cocoa and coffee which was now being used to buy and import rice.
There is alot to discuss and look at and i"m going to return to my studies. I do believe however that the onus of responsibility to develop Sierra Leonen is on us the People of Sierra Leone and not so much on the Government.
Last but not least, we should be very careful when we discuss privatization. we are dealing with a country where the gaps between the rich and the poor is vast and the poor are always place in the back burner, sometimes privatization only serve the rich, those who can afford it.
And last for now even though this is a great area for discussion i do believe we should look at the system and the structural planning of Sierra Leone. Ther are no system in place that is trully functional. Lots of radical decisions are needed and I hope for Sierra Leone sake the next Government has the political will power to get it done or we are back to the drawing board in five years.
I NOW LEAVE IT TO THE EXPERT WHEIL I CONTINUE TO LEARN.
Your Able Servant in Training, willing to listen and learn.
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 13:52:08 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 104.red-88-17-107.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.17.107.104
Message:
The Oil Companies were selling their products in Leones but buying the Crude Oil in Dollars, there were exchange control restrictions, funds went into a "pipeline" it became very difficult to get the fx, rates fluctuated rapidly you could sell at Le70/$ and by the time you bought dollars back you had to pay Le95/$. For Electricity generation it would be in the interest of any Private Company to maximise it's customer base so the poor would benefit too, it is a low value high turnover commodity.
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: DR. MICHEL SHO - SAWYER
To: All
Date Posted: 14:03:31 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: michel_sawyer@yahoo.com
Entered From: global.life.edu at 72.16.214.206
Message:
Thank you for this, it is quite helpful.
Your able Servant in Training
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 12:31:35 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Shembu your suggestion to forumites sounds excellent. I would say it sounds like the best idea, but it will be useless if only for forumites to read. Turn it into a national value based project and translate the results into reality.
I am particularly passionate about issues on energy, education, unemployment, foreign investment and technology. All of these issues are driven by effective sustainable energy production and political stability.
If you need help let me know. I think it is about time we pause on the political bickering and present what ideas we have to any government that is interested implementing 21st century development based initiatives.
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 12:36:28 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Don't you think that the progressive minds on this forum should form a think tank that would be making suggestions to the leadership in Sa Lone in the areas you mentioned namely electricity,education,foreign investment,health delivery,technology etc.
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 12:42:16 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
You hit the nail on the head. My point exactly. Its about that time we take the initiative. It is virtual age. We could create a CyberConference room and get things done.
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: TheRegentonian
To: All
Date Posted: 11:17:16 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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I'm all for market-based solutions but the problem with privatizing electricity in a dysfunctional economy such as SL is that usually the largest user of power is the govt. which usually doesn't end up paying it's bills. The result is that the private operator is forced to go out of business because politically it can't cut off power to govt. yet it can't make a profit because it's largest client is always defaulting...
There was a very good PBS documentary a few years back on this that focused on the former Soviet republic of Georgia, where privatization of electricity failed precisely because of this. A possible solution would be to have a parastatla reponsible for providing electricty to the govt. and privatised utilities for the general populace.
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 11:55:55 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy1.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.11
Message:
The Regentonian,
Excellent point. Our governments have been known to be reckless - of course that is the reason why the government can not provide the people with electricity (a basic need). That said, the people need not be held hostage because of irresponsible governements. We must still find a way, like you suggested by way of a government parastatal.
My question now is how can we entrust energy production to a governement parastatal and expect a good job if the central government itself is corrupt and prone to interfere with the job of the said parastatal? What mechanisms can be put in place to ensure a well functioning parastatal within a disfunctional government (we are hoping though that the new APC government will be one to be proud of).
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: SUBWNALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 11:53:40 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Quasi-privatisation, Regentonian. It's two sides of the same coin you guys are tossing.
The problem is, successive governments, have completely neglected power supply for the good of all,to the point that all and sundry have substituted this with "Tiger Generators". The noveau riche, inclusive of the mercantile class are convenient with this arrangement, because it makes them tax and bill free, whilst they continue to contribute massively to global warming, accentuated by the pollution caused by their JEBU FUEL fueled machines. But I won't say I blame them...
Yeah, before I drift. My suggestion is a strong and committed leadership, not another acronym...Please, please, save me that crap. We have had SALWACO, GUMA, NATIN PASS ALAKI(NPA). This lack-lustred regime(SLPP, which is presently on the treshold of our country's politics, structured/ re-structured, mortgaged/re-mortgaged, rented/re-rented, expatriatised, indigenised, you name it, the NPA. What fruits did these bear: A polluted environment when the machine are ignited or the threat of another Gomorrah(Fire). And whilst all of this happened, the ruling class turned a blind eye and even joked about it in their parties of drink, drunk, drug- thyself -and -have -an -orgy -on -my bill.
So the solution is a strong and robust policy. I am not advocating a militant successor. But if we've got to kick somebody's a***e to push this country forward, so be it. Our leaders can borrow a leaf from the quasi-democrat in neighbouring The Gambia..
His Excellency Dr.AlhagiYayah.A.J.J.Jammeh,O.R.GCR,ETC...and, my oh my, I almost lost my breath...NANGADEF!
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 12:09:11 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy1.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.11
Message:
Nangadef, Subwnalai.
I agree with your suggestion that a strongly willed leader might be able to do it. I do not see that gene trait on our calm and easy going brother Ernest. Looks might be deciving though. I hope for a leader who will kick someone's a** if they have to to get things going. I mean, I still believe that Kabba is himself not a thief but turned a blind eye while Berewapy, J-Bloof, Alhaji Jah, Dambala Dauda and others plunder and rape our resources - which makes Kabba a thief by proxy. I hope Ernest never turn his eyes away from the people's money.
So the suggestions so far:
i) Privatization
ii) By way of a government parastatal
iii) Quasi Parastatal
iV) Government run under a strong leader (not scared to kick whoever's butt).
Now lets move the debate forward folks.......lets end the electricity debate with strong recommendations that we can chanell to the government by some means.
Subwnalai, I asked you before "you nar the pa ei pikin from beyen the wall nar FBC, 1990,91,92?)
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 12:31:13 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-34-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.34.194
Message:
My input on this is that before privatization,there has to be an enabling enviroment that creates a robust middle class in the economy.In Sierra Leone today,there are only two classes the rich and the dirt poor which consist of the majority.If electricity is privatized without any Government subsidy,do you think the dirt poor would be able to afford it.If the dirt poor can't afford to pay their bills,guess what happens the company will fold up.
Methink that the answer to our electrical problem in a subsistent economy like Sierra Leone is for Government Intervention in the form of creating a subsidized parastatal with strong leadership.Also,the Government can make hhydro electricity a priority which I believe will be cheaper than fossil fueled electricity.With hydroelectricity,multinationals would be encouraged to make the type of investment that the country needs.This in turn will help in creating much needed jobs and the middle class would be born.With the majority of the people in the middle class,the next step would be privatizing electricity because it would then be affordable to the middle class.There are stages in development,we cannot just jump into privatiztion.I believe that the first stage should be a mix of socialism and capitalism and the second stage would be wholesome capitalism.
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: DR. MICHEL SHO-SAWYER
To: All
Date Posted: 12:53:00 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: michel_sawyer@yahoo.com
Entered From: global.life.edu at 72.16.214.206
Message:
Gentlemen,
I like the way this discussion is going but one most important area that is not being address which need to be address is History.
Few companies in Sierra Leone where privatize and let us remember history before we move forward.
1. Remembers the railways - they were privatized and what happen after they become privatized.
2. The oil refinery was privatized and what happen. someone mention subsidies, well at some point in time the government ran out of foreing exchange and those who had dollars went to pay for their fuel directly which kept the company afloat but struck down our electricity. they stop providing fuel for electricity and the masses suffer and continue to suffer. Today we depend mostly on Libya for diesel.
Privatization in an industrial develop country gentlemen where the citizens can afford stock option and so forth is a good venture but privatization in a country like Sierra Leone, HMM. We need to be very careful....
Look at the water supply system, today most who can afford it can buy water bottles and therefore do not really care whether the water supply works. we need to really study history, the mistakes made, the influence of the WEST in some of our decision and decide if whats best for the west is best for Sierra Leone.
Your Able and Humble Servant In Training with lots more to learn, so i"m paying lots of attention to learn. So Please open the discussion and teach us the Young generation.
Dr. Michel Sho-Sawyer.
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 13:08:45 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-13-121-79.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.13.121.79
Message:
Dr. I hope you join this initiative to develop a national project team. I think there is a flurry of ideas tha can be explored, analyzed and they are all applicable depending on the cost impact on consumers and the national economy.
I think the problem I see is not so much with the history you mentioned. While it is good to have that the back of the mind of an analyst, what we lack and need to take on is infrastrural overhaul. I t has never been done. NEVER. An overhaul that looks at the changing demography, population shift, residential relocat1on, old and new residential developments.
There is a success story in Sierra Leone...Kenema. The hydro in Kenema has been a qualified success. Soon, it is going to need upgrade like the rest of the national power generation infrastructure.
What we discuss is all good but it is not useful without adapting it to application. Your thoughts.
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: DR. MICHEL SHO - SAWYER
To: All
Date Posted: 13:47:43 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: michel_sawyer@yahoo.com
Entered From: global.life.edu at 72.16.214.206
Message:
YOU ARE QUITE CORRECT THAT OVERHAUL IS NEEDED.
A RADICAL CHANGE IS NEEDED AND AS I HAVE STATED I HOPE WHOEVER THE NEW GOVERNMENT IS THAT THEY HAVE THE POLITICAL WILL POWER TO MAKE THE CHANGES NEEDED.
We need a system overhaul and we need to change the way of doing business in Sierra Leone.
Thank you.
Your Able Servant In Training.
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 12:39:24 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 104.red-88-17-107.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.17.107.104
Message:
There is a middle class, they just dont form as large a socio-economic group as they should, however if you consider how many Mobile phone Companies there are in Sierra Leone, all seem to be thriving, I am sure a pre-paid electricity Company in Sierra Leone would be a success, setting it up would be the problem with everyone from the Minister to the Messenger wanting their cut!
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: Joseph
To: All
Date Posted: 13:09:25 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: joseph@hotmail.com
Entered From: at 66.23.15.6
Message:
Guys i know most of us dissapproved a lot of things that the NPRC boys did during their era,but they produced a lot of electricity.who was the secretaty of state by then,and how did he or NPRC WAS ABLE TO GIVE LIGHT WITH LITTLE OR NO RESOURES.I REMEMBER WHEN I VISITED MY MOTHER, WE HAD LIGHT FOR THE REST OF MY STAY IN FREETOWN.NOTABLY THE STREET WHERE CLEAN,RUNNING WATER WAS AVAILABLE.STREET PHONES. FEWER MOSQUITOES AT NIGHT.CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME HOW THEY DID THAT.AND WHY SLPP CAN'T
Subject: Re: PRIVATIZE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION!
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 16:52:11 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 196.red-80-39-91.staticip.rima-tde.net at 80.39.91.196
Message:
It may surprise you to know that a lot of what the NPRC acheived early on in their tenure were put in place by the APC Government they replaced. A lot of people forget that late President Momoh had reintroduced a Multi Party system and appointed a half decent Cabinet. Things were getting better from what in my opinion was the worst period in the History of post invasion Sierra Leone 1990-1991.
Subject: I CAN'T WAIT TO READ THE KABBAH/BEREWA CONCESSION SPEECH
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:42:44 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Did I hear that Kabbah and Berewa are barely on speaking terms? Tejan Kabbah and his selected lackey for the SLPP party, Solomon Berewa, are free to argue and childishly behave like sparring partners. That's their funeral. Sierra Leone's business is to make sure the two obsolete men do nothing jumpy to endanger the country's newfound peace. Sierra Leone is supposed to be more important than the provincial interests of two culpable men that should have never put their gaze on the highest office of the land. Kabbah did, and as if that was not enough, he turned his innate dishonesty against the political party that brought him to power. The man stilted the political growth of the SLPP by purging every politician with the slightest popular appeal.
Well before the elections, the SLPP was an empty political shell, waiting to be crushed by a feather-weight trudge. Kabbah cared less. Eliminating those who represented leadership potentials was more crucial to the old crook than the political fortunes of the party that gave him the presidency. Kabbah are Berewa are misfits, and their petty tiffs only serve to mirror the poor presidential fibers they are! As long as they do nothing to endanger little Sierra Leone's national security, these two men can quarrel, even fight, like sulking kids blaming each other to escape parental blame. As Sierra Leone awaits a change of presidential actors, one can only wonder whether Berewa and Kabbah are gracious enough to cobble together a well-written concession {speech} to the winner of the electoral prize. If anything, previous statements released from State House have been so laden with political flaws that one is only left to question the suitability of the ruling pretenders that got the best of an ailing country. When the names of towns in a neighbouring country are wrongly spelled in official communiques issued from State House, that is supposed to be an annoying, diplomatic faux pas. Not so with the Kabbah/Berewa State House. I hope to see a concession speech calling for peace, national unity and democratic continuance. Anything less than that should be judged seditious by the people of Sierra Leone!
Subject: This Is For Rev. KABS KANU !!!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
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Date Posted: 10:00:39 09/14/07 ()
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Due to your nature in trying to accommodate everyone and anyone, many today are failing to see your brilliance in journalism and your true contribution in keeping us more than just in a mere AWARENESS Times but with the facts and credibility...
If you can repost my posting which you reposted on your front page about the 28 people that died in that collapsed building in Freetown during the raining season, people will now see that you do and have always published a balanced report... The Awareness Times failed to mention that Ernest Koroma was there visiting the scene, and It was me that pointed out that if it were not for you, we would not have known that Ernest Koroma was there too... Cuz! All we kept hearing is Berewah doing his political cat walk on the scene, never was the footprint of Ernest Koroma... And I brought it straight up for all to see the type of journalism Awareness Times was dishing the people.
Nothing Personal But National Interest!!!
Subject: If there is confusion in Sa.Lone Monday, blame Sylvia Blyden
From: Nationalist
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Date Posted: 09:54:33 09/14/07 ()
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All Sierra Leoneans know from the figures released yesterday that SLPP has no hopes left and were thinking of conceding.Then suddenly , what do we have ? Sylvia Blyden , as usual , coming forward to create confusion with an articles and assumed figures which have deceived SLPP supporters and made them to start havinf false hopes again . The only trouble on Monday will be caused by SLPP when the APC is declared winner ( And Sylvia will be one of the people who will create this problem).If she had not come up with these figures and false hopes , the SLPP supporters would have spent the weekend reconciling themselves to the reality that they have lost the elections. This would have prepared them for Monday. I don't understand why this Sylvia has to always be a confusionist.
Subject: Re: If there is confusion in Sa.Lone Monday, blame Sylvia Blyden
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 10:03:07 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
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I agree completely. It would be so unfortunate if her website suddenly had a virus! Sylvia is a liar and a thief. She has been trying to steal our family property at Lumbly for years and even helped to contribute to the death of my brother-in-law. I know from personal experience that she is not a trustworthy person who is devoid of morals.
Subject: Re: If there is confusion in Sa.Lone Monday, blame Sylvia Blyden
From: foaday saybanah sankoh
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Date Posted: 11:35:18 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: baingak@aol.com
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pls spell properly. Lumley not lumbley.
Subject: NEW DEBATE - The New Gov't NEEDS OUR IMPUT !
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 09:42:10 09/14/07 ()
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Folks,
I am kindly suggesting that we re-focus our discourse in this forum. It is now time we start discussing issues that will eventually lead to salient suggestions for the new government. How about what the new government can do to secure electricity for at least Freetown before x-mas. This is quite possible and the money is there......lets use our various expertise to offer workable suggestions to the New APC government. We can do the same for water and roads and other areas of development.
It is high time we stopped talking about other people. For me personally, I do not give a hoot about personalities. I do not even want to discuss Ernest Koroma personally eventhough I supported APC for the 2007 elections. What is important is what we as a people can do to offer suggestions that make sense to the gtovernement. Hey folks, we are lucky to be alive during this age of information superhighway, and the fact that we can hold these cyber discussions. I believe that if we take advantage of this opportunity, we can be heard loud and clear by the government in Freetown.
So lets go for it and start the debate: electricity, water, good roads and affordable food. How can this new APC government work toward realizing all of these basics ASAP. No theories and show-off of academic prowess please, we need practical and workable solutions ONLY.
Subject: Re: NEW DEBATE - The New Gov't NEEDS OUR IMPUT !
From: Malombo Sweet
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Date Posted: 10:02:25 09/14/07 ()
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I was just thinking that Ernest won the elections because he is more handsome than Berewa. Look at Idi Amin and Bokassa. They are ugly and bad leaders. Kikwetie of Tanzania is handsome and a good leader. What do you think Shembu?
Subject: Re: NEW DEBATE - The New Gov't NEEDS OUR IMPUT !
From: Shembu
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Date Posted: 11:03:12 09/14/07 ()
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That may be a point. The human being is very complex and funny. In America women love Bill Clinton because of his looks and they will vote just because of that. In America again for the 2008 Presidential election, Barack is popular amongst other reasons because of his looks.
We in Sierra Leone can not afford that garbage. Looks can not feed my poor people in Taneh chiefdom. That is one reason why we must not focus our energies on stuff that do not matter. Lets discuss the way forward and leave personalities out of this.
Some one just suggested that we privatise electricity production in S/L.....what do you think?
Subject: Re: NEW DEBATE - The New Gov't NEEDS OUR INPUT !
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 09:46:08 09/14/07 ()
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Sorry for the typo: INPUT not IMPUT
Subject: Re: NEW DEBATE - The New Gov't NEEDS OUR INPUT !
From: Bugsyb
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Date Posted: 10:49:29 09/14/07 ()
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Excellent, this is what I think this Forum should be about. The Government should Privatise the generation of Electricity and I bet you within three years we will have close to 100% capacity.
Subject: Re: NEW DEBATE - The New Gov't NEEDS OUR INPUT !
From: Regentonian
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Date Posted: 11:14:54 09/14/07 ()
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I'm all for market-based solutions but the problem with privatizing electricity in a dysfunctional economy such as SL is that usually the largest user of power is the govt. which usually doesn't end up paying it's bills. The result is that the private operator is forced to go out of business because politically it can't cut off power to govt. yet it can't make a profit because it's largest client is always defaulting...
Subject: Re: NEW DEBATE - The New Gov't NEEDS OUR INPUT !
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 11:23:37 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
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All customers will have pre-paid cards like Mobile phones, Government will find the money when they have to.
Subject: WHY APC IS SERIOUS THAN SLPP
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 08:58:57 09/14/07 ()
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Whilst SLLP continue to beat their chest that they will beat APC, there is no statistical evidence to prove this, and as such leaving their supporters confused. At the onset of the campaign, the APC in their wisdom set up a collation centre. With all their so-called mathematical heavyweights,including Sylvia "Exit Polls" Blyden, did the SLPP think of such a phenomenom? Oosai. They were content with having the two Johnny(MAGUNGWAYS-AKA Benjamin and Karimu), to rig wuteteh, whilst the opportunist Reider played the piper all night long.
Whilst the APC mouthpiece- WE YONE was flourishing, the SLLP decided to kill their own (UNITY NOW) in preference of a scum bag like Sylvia 'WORWORLIWOR' Blyden.
The APC realised too the importance of the elctronic air waves, thus their catch-the-ear radio station, challenged by the SLPP only when "belleh don pwell".
These are few reasons why some of us believe that Ernest Koroma should be given a chance. He has shown more maturity and organisational skills at this early stage. If given the chance, he might just prove to be the dream leader Sierra Leoneans have been yearning for. But if he fails. Fail? Well, WE DAE YAAAAAAAA!
Subject: RE: IT IS ALL OVER NOW CONGRATULATIONS TO APC
From: Jan
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Date Posted: 08:02:58 09/14/07 ()
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Posted by jan on September 14, 2007 at 06:44:59:
In Reply to: IT IS ALL OVER NOW. CONGRATULATIONS TO APC posted by Sylvester Johnny on September 13, 2007 at 14:38:43:
The SLPP should not concede defeat for the follwoing reasons:
First, the total figure of votes counted as reported in the NEC website under summary of votes by districts is 1,463,974. I note that this figure is overstated by 687 as a result of errors in the Bonthe calculation. The true figure for Bonthe is 44620 (19154+25460). In the circumstances, taking this error into account the correct number of total votes counted so far should now be 1,463,287.
Second, we need to establish how many people registered to vote overall then we would be in a position to know how many more votes are expected in order for us to make a true comparison.
Third, the 76.1% is for polling stations reported and not the total of people who registered to vote. In my opinion it will be wrong to say that any catch up will be impossible.
I theefore disagree with Sylvester Johnny on this and I think he made a hasty decision in accepting defeat. However, Sylvester did say his view was based on the Standard Times report another APC supporter. The APC is aware that the result could go either way which is why they are using tactics to get the other side to concede before it is too late for them. Berewa should be praised for believing in himself and not bowing to pressure. Berewa still has a chance of winning this election. I share Abubakarr's view on this.
Subject: Re: RE: IT IS ALL OVER NOW CONGRATULATIONS TO APC
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 09:33:06 09/14/07 ()
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Winners never quit until it is all over and quitters never win if they back out before it is all over! Sylvester Johnny's premature decision to believe when it is not all over is a grave error of judgment. I believe one should learn to hold on until it becomes a fact from the authorised channels. Even NEC have erred in their calculations. I am not a maths fan, though was very good at it during my school days, I have spotted errors in NEC calculations. I am working on them and will pass my observations to a more maths guru for verification before I will make them available to my brothers and sisters on the good pro-APC forum (kabs do nor take am jam me!! A believe say the forum get more APC than SLPP - Me nor know why?)
Subject: Re: RE: IT IS ALL OVER NOW CONGRATULATIONS TO APC
From: Victor Moigua
To: All
Date Posted: 09:51:26 09/14/07 ()
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Message:
Chezzy,
I can't wait for your Mampama Buli math to come out. Your stubborn faith in Berewa reminds me of those poor Japanese soldiers who were found on some remote islands, still fighting the Second World War----50 years after the Japanese surrendered. Somebody forgot to tell them the war had ended!
Wish you all the best in the bunker as you crunch your NEC math.
Subject: Re: RE: IT IS ALL OVER NOW CONGRATULATIONS TO APC
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 14:20:46 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Chez knows about the last rigged card up SLPP's sleave. I wonder if he will back Berewa if he is found out to have rigged?
Subject: Re: RE: IT IS ALL OVER NOW CONGRATULATIONS TO APC
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 09:48:51 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Kabia,
You must be a corrupt rogue yourself. I use to think high of your postings, not anymore. You must be stupid and blind to fail to accept defeat at this time. You are a time waster just like your SLPP godfathers.
Subject: Re: RE: IT IS ALL OVER NOW CONGRATULATIONS TO APC
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 10:10:57 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Shembu,
Chez is an honorable man and I ask that you treat him with that degree of honor.
Subject: Lord! Where is common sense ?
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 09:03:54 09/14/07 ()
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Message:
Please help us understand the logic or understanding of this english language sentence you've just posted...
"... The APC is aware that the result could go either way which is why they are using tactics to get the other side to concede before it is too late for them..."
I am not trying to sweat you, simply lost in your thought or may I say in your quest to say somethin'...
Subject: Re: RE: IT IS ALL OVER NOW CONGRATULATIONS TO APC
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:01:11 09/14/07 ()
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Message:
As statisticians we can reasonably use data provided by NEC from the August general elections and the data we have so far on the September elections to arrive at a reasonable prediction of the outcome of the elections.
No one should expect a statistically significant change in the number of overall voters. But of course one thing that may make a difference is vote rigging which the opposition has been warning against, all this time.
Giving the assumption that the number of overall votes are likely to stay the same, we can compare our totals as of today to the overall vote totals in the August elections.
The total number of valid votes cast in August was 1,839,208. As of today, the total number of votes counted is equal to 1,463,974. The number of votes counted is approxcimately 77.6% of the total valid votes in August.
The total number of votes ganered by the APC, as of today, is equal to 859,144. Altogether, the APC only needs 919,604 votes to get a simple majority. This means that it needs 60,461 more votes to win.
When you aggregate the remaining votes for Bombali, Kambia, Koinadugu, Portloko, Tonkolili, Western Rural District and the Western Urban District it adds up to 120,870. Given that the average percentage of APC votes in all these districts combined was 69.9%, not counting PMDC or other votes, we can safely project that the APC will ganer a total of 84508 votes from the above mentioned districts. 84,508 votes is more than sufficient for the APC to win. Remember it also needs 60,461 votes.
In fact the PMDC factor is real and APC is expected to get some of its votes. Also, note that I took a conservative approach in my predictions. I assumed that SLPP will have 100% of the remaining votes in Kailahun, Bo, Kono, Kenema, Bonthe, and Moyamba. But of course we all know that is impossible.
So my freind, there you have it.
Subject: Re: RE: IT IS ALL OVER NOW CONGRATULATIONS TO APC
From: Jan
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:53 09/14/07 ()
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Message:
I must first of all thank you for letting us know that you are a statistician as we thought you were a lawyer. I should also thank you for your analysis but i would like one favour from you. I would like you to confirm what was the total number of people registered to vote in the first rounds and those who actually voted in same. I have not had time to go through those figures yet so avoid directing me to figures of the last election. I will go there anyway when i am
less bussy.
You may agree with me that the requested information will assist me in drawing my conclusions as to the position of the candidates.
Thanks once again.
Subject: Re: RE: IT IS ALL OVER NOW CONGRATULATIONS TO APC
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 09:08:49 09/14/07 ()
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Message:
Thank you for your brilliant and objective opinion...
We need more poster like you...
Subject: Re: RE: IT IS ALL OVER NOW CONGRATULATIONS TO APC
From: Victor Moigua
To: All
Date Posted: 08:50:22 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Janny Boy,
Whether your boss man gives up the ghost now or later won't make a lick of difference. The last minute rigging you guys are hoping for ain't gonna happen. As we speak now, I bet transition plans are being hashed out for the new APC gov and foreign countries are already quietly congratulating Prez Koroma. Life is flowing by while your party twiddles its thumbs, in the twilight zone.
A man may choose to go with honor and pride or he may choose to exit gracelessly, kicking and screaming....
Subject: Re: RE: IT IS ALL OVER NOW CONGRATULATIONS TO APC
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:16:47 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
The way things are unfolding,I think slpp and berewa will prefer the latter.A gang of no moral integrity.
Subject: Re: RE: IT IS ALL OVER NOW CONGRATULATIONS TO APC
From: Bankie Liber Man
To: All
Date Posted: 08:17:03 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Keep dreaming. Why put our people through this? Be a General of integrity and don't wait till you last soldier is POW before acknowledging the battle is lost. Show some amount of respect to the voters. Out here in the west we don't wait till the last vote is counted albeit the technological challenges back home.
Subject: RE: SLPP BOMBSHELL
From: Bankie Liber man
To: All
Date Posted: 07:35:53 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
It is rumored among close circles of the soon to be opposition that the SLPP was planning on morphing into a Momodu Koroma and Hindowa Momoh ticket right after the elections. The plan was to have Berewa as president for probably 3 years and he would have quit citing health reasons.
I don't know about Momodu Koroma but Hindowa? Please check the records before embarking on a fruitless and diabolical venture. He could not even persuade his camaranks at FBC to vote for him. Give me a break.
Subject: Re: RE: SLPP BOMBSHELL - Garbage, let discuss real issues
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 09:20:12 09/14/07 ()
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Message:
Who cares what the SLPP's dead plan is or was?
Folks, lets not waste each others time. We are getting late if we fail to start discussing issues that will be of substance to the new government and the progress of our country. Remember, it is on us the people. We can not afford to sit idly by and allow politicians to rape our resources again like the SLPP did in their 11 years of terror and lies.
Subject: Slyvia! keep the UN out to corber shame...U may need dem!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 07:25:33 09/14/07 ()
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Message:
Why is this woman and the only one so desperate to drag the United Nations through its representative into her royal political mess?
You all mark my words, we are going to have problem with her, Berewah and that Annie lady in accepting defeat with any degree of grace. These folks seemed so wraped up in themselves so much that they've been counting their chickens way before the eggs were hatched.
The lesson that should be learnt here is that never go into politics just for power sake but to humbly serve THE PEOPLE! You got it now?
The People!
Let us all hope that 2007 does not repeat 1967!
Every living Sierra Leonean that is truly honest to thyself and country should be able to tell the simple difference now that we've experienced both the SLPP and the APC in power. Many of us never had that opportunity since Siaki deprieved us of that, but the people are now singing the good old spiritual hymn -
"I was blind but now can see..." Oooh what an Amazing Grace indeed!
BTW where the hec is Ernest Leigh? In the hands and refuge of sand-sand boys? LOL...
Never again Salone! Never Again!!!
Blood and tears have been shed for the protection of the Land!
*** +++ RIP +++... Chief Sam Hingha Norman! The people are fighting your battle as you have done for them in your living years... You are also my HERO SIR!
Subject: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING!
From: max vandy
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Date Posted: 06:58:53 09/14/07 ()
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My sources in Freetown tell me that the tension that has been simmering beneath the surface since the SLPP's first round trouncing has now exploded into full-blown animosity after the runoff KOBOKO whipping.
The loathing and recrimination between Kabbah and Berewa is so pungent that the two men are not even on speaking terms now. Infact, a full platoon of cops has been assigned to make sure that these two fading stars of the SLPP never cross paths again. It is just not safe for them to be in the same room.
Berewa is pissed that Kabba did not campaign hard enough for him after the Makeni Selection and is resentful that he is paying the price for Kabbah's bumbling and incompetent leadership. He has also vowed never to forgive Kabbah for appointing Christina Thorpe, who Berewa really, really hates. "She is out to get me", Berewa is said to rage to a nodding John Benjamin, my sources tell me.
Kabba, on the other hand, is said to be sadly disappointed in his V.P for the amateurish way he ran his campaign. He feels he has given Berewa every advantage of incumbency including presidential authority, all for nothing. Kabba is angry with the Berewa campaign for trying to sanitize their man's record in his government. "That ingrate! He is losing the damn elections because he just can't connect with the voters. Is it my fault that he has the personality of a Rotweiller?", Kabbah truculently tells his buddies.
Meanwhile, open warfare has broken out within the SLPP between the CONCEDE NOW, STUPID! Camp and the WE CAN STILL RIG THIS THING camp. More on this internecine fighting later, after my morning briefing from Freetown.....
Subject: Re: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING! WHO CARES?
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 08:57:31 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Definitely not me.
If Kabba and Berewapy are not on speaking terms "nar den biznez".
Or "nar THENEWPEOPLE.COM den biznez".
Our business right now is to come up with strong debates in this forum on how to help the President-elect, Hon Koroma with tangible and reasonable advice on how to proceed with this fragile nation. We need forward thinking in this forum. The elections are basically over and we know that APC is the new kid on the block. Hence let us forget discussing people (who really cares), let us discuss issues that will see us out of the human development hole. Let us discuss important things like creating a reliable source of electrical energy, clean pipe borne water, good roads and affordable food for all. Our debate has to re-focus on these and other important issues or else we are headed for another do nothing, tiff all-tin type of government.
It is on us, the people. We can not afford to idly sit by and allow the politicians to rape our resources again. ENOUGHBIS ENOUGH.
Subject: Re: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING! WHO CARES?
From: max vandy
To: All
Date Posted: 09:08:42 09/14/07 ()
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Message:
Shembu,
In good time, my brother, in good time. We will have enough time to make suggestions for the country's development. By the way, some of us have been making such suggestions even during the trench warfare of this election. But for now, allow some of us a small measure of locker-room mischief in wallowing in the misery of those politicians who have damaged the country.
Relax Kotho Shembu, you are a great Sierra Leonean.
Subject: Re: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING! WHO CARES?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 09:14:39 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
small measure of locker-room mischief
---------------------------------------------------------In Stitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Subject: Re: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING! WHO CARES?
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 09:37:42 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: host86-146-133-172.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.133.172
Message:
In Stitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THERE IS A DOKTER IN DA HOUSE IF YOU NEED TO UNSTICH-OR BETTER STILL WILL GIVE YOU A LAUGHING GAS AFTER MONDAY.
HE WHO LAUGHS LAST LAUGHS BEST!!!
Subject: Re: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING! WHO CARES?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 10:12:12 09/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Bo lef me dis morning ya, mek ar enjoy. Ramadan Mubarak
Subject: Re: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING! WHO CARES?
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 11:45:55 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
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Message:
Pa sorry if dis bodar you.
Yousef Ramadan Mubarak.
We go tok Monday
Subject: Re: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 07:56:46 09/14/07 ()
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Max, you can't help it eh. Wait for the final results.
what brilliant campaign did APC or PMDC run. They offered no concrete plan of development. Spoilt sierra leoneans wan t to be spoonfed not work hard and develop their country. Do you think those lazy youthmen in lumley and the other Freetown ghettos want to leave the easy life of crime and work. Hell no. Good luck to the next president.
Stop provoking the old man. He may just surprise you with the monday results.
Subject: Re: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING!
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:24:48 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
Orkama m'bonah topyi anthaba'aah? Kor moon ma koamp or mapoyo kaman chill out.Si bora gbantthanu mor en tina morf.Lol.
Subject: Re: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING!
From: max vandy
To: All
Date Posted: 09:37:47 09/14/07 ()
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Bai Bureh, you dae kill porsin O.
"Si bora gbantthanu mor en tina morf.Lol."
The wifey translated. Crazy funny buddy.
Subject: Re: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING!
From: max vandy
To: All
Date Posted: 08:28:51 09/14/07 ()
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Kamara,
Keep hope alive my friend. At this late hour, that is all you guys have and nobody wants to take that solace from you bra. You know I have a hard-working KOMEHNEH who is devoutly SLPP. He told me his Morrayman threw some cowrie shells on the ground and predicted that Berewa will get all the remaining votes and win an outatanding victory with 150%, a new world record!
Of course Christina is waiting in the shadows, threatening to nullify overachieving ballot stations..
Oh my...
Subject: Re: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING!
From: Nah Sabi Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 07:32:18 09/14/07 ()
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Message:
I'm not surprise...
If nar youself, somebody just spoiled your intended nice comfortable retirement... How would you feel, seeing and wanting to talk to that person?
Pa Kabbah was trying to pull Siaki's number on us, but has failed... They all got to go, Guinea or Gambia, the people doesn't care... If they chose to stay, they must give an account of their assets, Period!!!
Nothing personal, but national interest!!!
Subject: Re: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING!
From: max vandy
To: All
Date Posted: 07:55:07 09/14/07 ()
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Nah Sabi Talk,
Well said. I just saw a Reuters interview in which Ernest Koroma declared zero tolerance for corruption, not even from family members. Looters of the national treasury, please beware, there is a new Sheriff in Town!
Subject: Re: SOURCES: KABBA AND BEREWA, NOT TALKING!
From: Bugsyb
To: All
Date Posted: 12:46:21 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: aburneynic@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 104.red-88-17-107.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.17.107.104
Message:
Talk is cheap, let him declare his assets now and then every year while he is in Office then we will know about Zero tolerance!
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED
From: J
To: All
Date Posted: 05:35:27 09/14/07 ()
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I would appreciate it, if someone could tell me the total number of people who registered to vote in the Sierra Leone election.
Subject: Re: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED
From: Bankie Liber man
To: All
Date Posted: 08:18:18 09/14/07 ()
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Bra just say you nar SLPP and you day contemplate you next move.
Subject: Re: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED
From: henrytay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:27:05 09/14/07 ()
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Message:
2,600,000.00(two million six Hundred thousand)
Subject: WIND OF CHANGE
From: John Sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 05:04:05 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: richycon@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 202.161.146.131
Message:
It is a common fact that nobody like changes but it is the only thing thatis constant and a fact that should be accepted. The wind of change blowing in Sierra Leone is a clear message that the country has seen the light and will go with modern techniques. There will be no more war revolution style but the ballot bopx revolution. The Armed Forces has achieved professionalism and has started UN operations, the same is true for the Police. So to mix them up will be detrimental to the career of the personnel. I salute all members of the forces and bravo the people of our great nation.
Subject: The end of TU FUT ARATA
From: bigamad
To: All
Date Posted: 04:31:16 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: bigamad2001@gmail.com
Entered From: 5ac4923e.bb.sky.com at 90.196.146.62
Message:
Emerson made the prediction and Dry eye Crew sang about it but yet still berewa did not see it coming. He dwelled on the illusion that the people of sierra Leone cannot read between the lines. Berewa and his cohort continued to embezzle the national cake and donor funds failing to realise that the people needed a better deal. It was the peoples power they used to drain the nation failing to realise the same people are capable of taking this power back. This is the end of the road Ngo Berewa pak yu bundle concede defeat en go now at least that can save you some pride.
And let this serve as a warning to Ernest and the APC that the people can no longer be taken for granted
Subject: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA---QUALIFICATION
From: THE CRAB
To: All
Date Posted: 02:53:21 09/14/07 ()
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KABS,PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT ALPHA SAIDU QUALIFICATION. IS ALPHA SAIDU A GRADUATE OF FBC?HE SAID HIS NUMBER IS 1515.
Subject: Re: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA---QUALIFICATION
From: Jay
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Date Posted: 07:51:53 09/14/07 ()
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He was enrolled in a diploma course in eithe Library Studies or Cultural studies during my time at FBC.He is not a first degree holder.
Subject: Re: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA---QUALIFICATION
From: Bankie Liber Man
To: All
Date Posted: 08:58:16 09/14/07 ()
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I'm not even sure if he has O Levels. We sat in 4th form at POW and back then we were so mesmerized by his knowledge of national politics and the private lives of officials and teachers. Saidu and Tom Nyuma were the leaders in discussion of political ideas but everyone knew that Saidu (Doh Voh Toti) was destined to fail. He was always disrespectful of teachers and authorities because he had “Iscandari connection” and he was one of the tenured students at the school in that he spent more than 7 years but was still in the 4th form. I'm lost for words that he's now turned his back on the Iscandari family.
Saidu was always picking on some of us that hailed from a relatively “well to do family” back then. Starting with the ALami's, Christian Thorpe, Kutubu, Sorpie (matilda Conteh's son), he even picked on the Namibians (asylums) for crying out loud and the list goes on. He was always bitter against the status quo, he may have had plausible reasons but I guess he used the wrong approach. We tried not to be bothered by him because we saw him as "a raray man" but for the most part it was intimidating for your fellow student to be ranting about your mom and dad's personal lives. Thanks for banning him on this podium.
Oh BTW his name was Moonlight Star because he faked an O'level result to his girlfriend and can you beat this he was not even in 5th form. He was so ashamed of such a revelation that he left POW and went somewhere else. I can go on and on but Saidu has reached his waterloo and kudos to you brother for fighting for all of us.
Subject: IS BAREWA A DRUG ADDICT?
From: Tigersheik
To: All
Date Posted: 01:49:51 09/14/07 ()
Email Address: umarrsheik@yaho