Subject: SLPP WIN RIGGED BALLOTS
From: cayman
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Date Posted: 13:10:53 08/14/07 ()
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Indications are that the SLPP are going to win the elections through rigging. What a lost opportunity for a change. The fact that the results are trickling in shows that the NEC is gauging how to release this bad news on the people. APC, oonar bear yah....nar so oona sef bin dae do.
Subject: Elections 101-How To Rig An Election In Sierra Leone
From: Commissioner
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Date Posted: 13:05:39 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: Commissioner@yahoo.com
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A non performing government is always unwilling to vacate the seat. Once voted into power the incumbent most of the times use all forms of manipulations to continue in power.The use of government funds to employ and deploy thugs for elections; buying votes from the masses and count rigging. So how would such a system actually work?
Well one way to run such a corrupt electoral system might look like this.
- Load up trucks of fake ballot papers already stamped and hide them at polling stations including office of principals of secondary schools
- Transport stamped ballot papers to party strongholds a week or two in advance
-- Buy votes on the morning of the elections at the residence of a prominent party member and distribute T-shirts
- Voters double, triple and quadrupule times
-Max out at 100% of eligible voters
-Each pollig station agent will count the votes in the presence of the party represntatives; record the results and then send report in the tamper proof envelopes to the NEC District Center. Do not provide party agents copies of the result forms, so they do not have proof.
- The District Center puts together all tamper proof envelopes from the polling centers and dispatches them to Freetown.
-Freetown does a quick tally of the votes and notes the strength of the opposition.
-Nullify areas of opposition strength and ask for a recount. Use already stuffed up ballot boxes to make up the numbers for the incumbent.
-Delay vote counting and discredit counting done by the polling agents.
-Intimidate mebers of the opposition by inviting them to the police
-Put the police on al3rt and threaten people with arrests
-Closed down opposition radio stations
This a recipe for disaster. However as so many despots have discovered, eventually such techniques always fail – often violently.
Subject: Update from indep Radio
From: Johnn Colee
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Date Posted: 12:57:16 08/14/07 ()
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1.2 million votes counted
Presidential
SLPP 48%
APC 39%
Subject: Re: Update from indep Radio
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 13:12:08 08/14/07 ()
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You are so weak on your deception. Give us the link to their site.
Subject: 3 APC MEMBERS INVITED TO CID HEADQUARTERS
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 12:45:28 08/14/07 ()
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The Acting Chairman of the APC Mr. Allen is confirming to reporters that 3 of their members has been invited to the police station. The three are Victor Foh, Tamba M''Bayo and Denis Smith. The SLPP government is going out of control. Could the international community intervene and stop these dangerous provocation before something else happen. The SLPP is trying to provock the situation to cause chaos and destruction in the country. The people are not ready for a reversal of the brutal mayhem caused for past 12 years of war. Please SLPP you cannot make so dont break it. Leave in peace.
Subject: Re: 3 APC MEMBERS INVITED TO CID HEADQUARTERS
From: POLITICS
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Date Posted: 13:00:42 08/14/07 ()
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Several Other people should be captured, including JOHN LASANAH MUSA.
Subject: Re: 3 APC MEMBERS INVITED TO CID HEADQUARTERS
From: chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 12:56:19 08/14/07 ()
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This is no news. They were questioned about their reporting of untruthful results among many things. The reporting by the APC radios nearly caused mayhem had it not been for the strong arm of the police force. Such tantamounts to incitement to cause lawlessness. I trust they will be warned and allowed to return to their homes. We have to beresponsible citizens. People say I criticise kabba and yet I am supporting the Party. I want change so I have to speak my mind about my concerns. it will be nice of you APC to condemn the false reporting by your propaganda radios.
Subject: Re: 3 APC MEMBERS INVITED TO CID HEADQUARTERS
From: Shame
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Date Posted: 13:00:44 08/14/07 ()
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" They were questioned about their reporting of untruthful results among many things."
Why then is the SLPP cabood;e not questioning Kabbah's fellow SLPMB criminal, Alie Bangura, the semi-illiterate, for his "reporting of untruthful results among many things?"
You SLPP apologists are showing dangerous signs of deperation. Seems to me you want to repeat your 40-year old hijacking of the will of the Salone people, like you did in 1967 -- and started the coup making in Salone.
And, like fools who never learn from their mistakes, here you are again trying to continue your penchant for illegal coup d'etats now that you sense you have again been kicked out of power by the people you have victimized for the past 10 years of no light, no water, no food, no jobs, no hope, no alafia.
You SLPP teraitors have no shame.
Subject: Re: 3 APC MEMBERS INVITED TO CID HEADQUARTERS
From: Shame
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Date Posted: 12:50:04 08/14/07 ()
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SLPP has no shame. They have impoverishned the Salone people for 10 years. Now the people have said ee do so, the SLPP is using all kinds of thuggish tactics to cling on to power.
What a shame
Subject: MONKEY NORBA LEF EM BLACK HAN
From: Sheku Turay
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Date Posted: 12:42:09 08/14/07 ()
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APC does it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Acting Chairman of the North American Branch of the All People's Congress ( APC) , Mr. Leslie Allen, and his executive have expressed concern about three of their members in Freetown who have allegedly been asked by the Sierra Leone Police to report to the Criminal Investigations Department ( CID).
Subject: PRELIMINARY STATEMENT OF THE NDI
From: Observer
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Date Posted: 12:33:44 08/14/07 ()
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PRELIMINARY STATEMENT OF THE NDI
INTERNATIONAL OBSERVER DELEGATION TO SIERRA
LEONE’S 2007 ELECTIONS
Freetown, August 13, 2007
Thios section is culled from the full report
Counting of Votes. The counting process proceeded without major incident in most places observed by this delegation, although in some cases the count seemed less orderly. Votes were counted at polling stations immediately following the close of the polls. While NEC staff were instructed to consider votes as valid if the intention of the voter is clear, there was some inconsistency in the application of this procedure.
Copies of the results from polling stations were consistently posted outside, thereby providing parties and candidates interested in tracking the centralization of results at the national level with access to such information. This is an important confidence-building measure. Transparency in the counting procedures also helped to establish confidence, and party agents and observers were able to monitor the process. Following the count, materials were transported to district NEC offices and are being transferred to Freetown.
Tallying of Votes and Announcement of Results. Votes are currently being tallied at the National Tally Center in Freetown. Accredited political party representatives, domestic and international observers and journalists are observing the tallying. The NEC plans to announce progressive, cumulative results. The NEC will hold daily press briefings during which results are announced by constituency as they come in. The NEC plans to announce and certify election results within two weeks of the polls as stipulated in the electoral act.
IV. RECOMMENDATIONS
The delegation greatly appreciates the openness of the NEC and Sierra Leoneans at all levels to suggestions from stakeholders to ensure that the electoral process is smooth and transparent. The delegation acknowledges the commitment of the Government of Sierra Leone to support independent institutions such as the NEC and the building of credible electoral process. The following recommendations are offered in the spirit of international cooperation and in hopes of building further confidence in the electoral process. The delegation therefore respectfully offers the following recommendations:
To the National Electoral Commission:
•The NEC should maintain its commitment to announce and certify results in the most
transparent and timely way possible, in order to ensure confidence in the tabulation process
and reduce potential for tension in the electoral environment.
Subject: Amadu Suma, Teacher, Learns to Listen (USAID)
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:33:16 08/14/07 ()
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Amadu Suma, Teacher, Learns to Listen
Amadu Suma used to think there was only one way to solve problems--authoritarianism. Now he knows otherwise, and says that Nation Building training has taught him to listen.
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What has Amadu Suma gained from USAID-sponsored "Nation Building" training?
"Now I am able to listen to people," says Suma. "That wasn't the case before. Even with my wife, whenever I went out and she asked where I was going, I didn't even respond. I felt she was a woman and didn't need to know where I was going. Now after the training, the question I asked myself is, 'Suppose somebody else does the same thing to me--how would I feel?' Even my children--I used to dismiss them as just little kids and never had time to listen to them. Now I make time to talk to them and we share ideas. I am gaining a lot from being with them."
Suma insists that the training has been particularly valuable in helping him deal with his children. Before the training, he was having a particularly difficult time with his eighteen-year-old daughter, who often snuck out of the house without telling him where she was going for fear of being told to stay at home. "I realized that she was really afraid of me, and afraid to talk to me. I decided to accept my faults as a father and confess them to her, and the fact that I was worried about her, and now she is frank to tell me, 'Dad, I want to go out.' Now we're talking. That never used to happen. So, I am very happy about this training."
Nation Building participants like Suma have found the training invaluable not only in learning how to solve disputes among colleagues in the workplace, but also at home by bonding in a positive way with their wives husbands, children, and extended family. Participants have learned to demonstrate love and cohesion within one's family, and then extend those ideas out into the community to promote honesty, settle disputes, and to fight corruption.
As a school director and local representative of the Sierra Leone Teacher's Union, Suma says he recently resolved what he called a misunderstanding between two teachers when one borrowed a chair from a classroom without asking the other, leaving the latter one chair short, and resulting in an argument between two teachers. "I called them into my office and the dispute was settled amicably. 'Learn to say sorry when you behave badly toward your fellow colleague,' I said.
At his school, Suma says that the training has helped him enormously in helping young students learn to resolve disputes peaceably. At a recently-held soccer game, an argument broke out before the game between one of Suma's team members and a member of the opposing football team over who were the legitimate members of the teams. Says Suma, I used the winner-winner solution to settle the conflict before the game started. I asked the argumentative player from each team not to play. The two teams then met without the two players and the match went smoothly. There was neither winner nor loser in the conflict."
As an outgrowth of his training, Suma and several other Nation Building participants have formed a working group to come up with ideas to promote better garbage collection in their community, and to discourage littering. They have also formed a community anti-corruption committee. Old habits die hard, he says, but the Nation Building participants are now advocates for constructive change. "We once were involved in corruption, but now we're trying to move away from it and gradually help educate people of the risks involved in being corrupt."
Suma and the other training participants echoed the desire to see the training extended to the recently-elected Paramount Chiefs and other leaders to help resolve upper-level disputes, and as a way to help promote regional stability. "Sierra Leone shares borders with Guinea and Liberia, with whom we are often in conflict. If our rulers are trained to settle conflict amicably, they can use those peaceful methods of resolving conflict, even with our neighboring countries."
Story and photo by Laura Lartigue
Subject: U.S. State Department
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:28:58 08/14/07 ()
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U.S. congratulates Sierra Leone for peaceful election and urges continued respect for democratic rule
The Associated Press Published: August 13, 2007
WASHINGTON: The United States congratulated Sierra Leone on Monday for its peaceful and successful elections and urged continued respect for the constitutional rule in the West African country.
International observers said Saturday's presidential elections were fair, free and open. Ballot-counting was continuing Monday to determine whether one of the seven candidates who ran to succeed President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah would receive the required 55 percent majority to avoid a runoff election.
In congratulating the nation, U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said, "The independent National Electoral Commission and the Sierra Leone police in particular are to be commended, as well as the general electorate, who voted in record numbers."
Subject: CNN AND BBC BROADCASTS MAY BE NEXT
From: Shekpendeh
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Date Posted: 12:21:07 08/14/07 ()
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For reporting that the opposition is leading the incumbent government candidate in the elctions, the government has closed down a local radio station.
Police security have been placed on the al3rt, and plans of shutting down CNN and BBC receptions who also reported similar results are underway.
However as so many despots have discovered, eventually such techniques always fail – often violently.
STAY TUNED.
Subject: Sierra Leone poll ‘falls short’
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:12:03 08/14/07 ()
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Sierra Leone poll ‘falls short’
EUROPEAN Union parliamentarians who acted as observers in weekend elections in Sierra Leone expressed concern yesterday that the country’s vice-president and ruling party candidate could have handed out cash to voters ahead of the poll.
They also said the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) party could have had more access to the state-controlled media compared to other parties.
“We were ... concerned to witness queues outside the home of the current vice-president where it appeared that money was being distributed to voters and we consider this both surprising and regrettable,” said EU lawmaker Martin Callaman.
He said some SLPP supporters, questioned by observers, admitted to receiving cash in addition to campaign T-shirts.
The ruling party spokesman Victor Reider denied the allegations.
“That is baseless and unfounded, it’s not true,” he said. He accused the EU of bias.
The EU, which has nearly 100 observers watching the presidential and parliamentary polls, said overall the election process passed off well, but fell short of endorsing the entire exercise.
The EU also expressed concern on the ruling party’s tendency to “use the advantage of their position for campaigning” in such areas as access to state-controlled media and their influence on traditional leaders.
Sierra Leone has 145 paramount chiefs who oversee the administration of traditional laws.
On September 1, the traditional rulers hold their own elections to choose 12 representatives who will sit in parliament for the duration of the new legislature. — Sapa-AFP
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Subject: Re: Sierra Leone poll ‘falls short’
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:16:25 08/14/07 ()
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Report supported:
Subject: FUTURE SURVIVAL OF SLPP IS IN THE HANDS OF BEREWA AND MARGAI
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 12:11:40 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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If Berewa sticks to his arrogant ways and stay bent on NOT talking to Charles, it will be the demise of the SLPP. As results are going, unless massive fraud and rigging goes on while the ballots are in the hands of NEC, Margai and PMDC will be a factor to reckon with if the SLPP is to win this.
Otherwise, it will be the demise of the SLPP and the continued vibrancy of the PMDC. Here is why:
1. Kabba will be going into retirement and will never again be active in SLPP politics especially with the blame now going on that he destroyed the SLPP
2. If Berewa loses, he and his running mate are much too unpopular to have any more support from the rank and file.
3. That means the top SLPP leaders will go away and hardly anyone will be left with the power and organizational skills and the conviction to make people stay.
4. Current SLPP big wigs are largely composed of old APC. I have even heard that many of them are now celebrating even here at the UN Mission in New York for their APC party's revival.
5. The South-Eastern people will certainly take it hard, and will begin to look for alternatives. And lo and behold there is the "son of Margei". Mendes pronounce it as Margei, not Margai.
Subject: Re: FUTURE SURVIVAL OF SLPP IS IN THE HANDS OF BEREWA AND MA
From: weasel
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Date Posted: 12:16:21 08/14/07 ()
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There is considerable probability in your analysis.
Subject: Re: FUTURE SURVIVAL OF SLPP IS IN THE HANDS OF BEREWA AND MA
From: Salia Jusu Sheriff
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Date Posted: 12:28:36 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: jusu@hotmail.com
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Charles is done as a politician.
Subject: A Warning to Kabba
From: Emile
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Date Posted: 12:04:40 08/14/07 ()
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Dear Mr.President:
My name is Emile and I am a former supporter of yours.I decided to support another Presidential candidate this year because of your failure to lift the people of Sierra Leone out of their misery.I supported you the last time because given your international experience and the hundreds of millions of dollar that you had access through international aid,you would indeed make a difference but I was mistaken as you proved to be a failure.
My warning to you is not to subvert the wishes of the people of Sierra Leone who are desperately in need of change.The last time you ran away to Guinea like dog with it's tail between it's leg, at the sound of a gunshot leaving the people of Sierra Leone at the mercy of murderous thugs.This time you might not be that lucky as the peoples power will be too much for you.Therefore in the name of God or Allah in your case,don't try any "yuki yuki" business as we will not stand for it this time around.To be forwarned is to be forarmed.
Vox Populi,Vox Dei.Alitua Continua.
A Patriot
Emile.
Subject: Re: A Warning to Kabba
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 12:31:51 08/14/07 ()
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Emile,we are watching him keenly.I hope he wont attempt to play an ugly game or else it will be his last regret on earth.
Subject: Re: A Warning to Kabba
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 12:33:07 08/14/07 ()
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MUSA do not make such statements.. BRA please...
Subject: Re: A Warning to Kabba
From: Budu
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Date Posted: 12:43:23 08/14/07 ()
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why not, slpp apologist?
Subject: Re: A Warning to Kabba
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 12:43:01 08/14/07 ()
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Alieu,this is the 21century and the polls are closed over 72hrs,yet no results.Dont you think something is boiling?Please be frank.They cant change the results and the will of the people.All initial results are on records from the residing polling station officers or agents.
Subject: Re: A Warning to Kabba
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 12:57:59 08/14/07 ()
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I feel yor concern and hope we will get the results sooner with the corporation of the leaders of vrious political parties.
Subject: The Delay
From: weasel
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Date Posted: 11:56:46 08/14/07 ()
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The delay in the result is only exacerbating anxieties, and one can speculate on all kinds of reasons for the delay. It will be bad if a final tally is not established by the end of today.
Subject: Re: The Delay
From: chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 12:05:54 08/14/07 ()
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It was predicted by NEC that Wednesday will be the day all parliamentary elections results be announced. Let us hope and pray they keep to their word for tomorrow. We are all anxious.
Subject: Re: The Delay
From: weasel
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Date Posted: 12:09:43 08/14/07 ()
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yeah, forgot that. But it better be announced.
Subject: Re: The Delay
From: lala
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Date Posted: 12:07:33 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: lala@yahoo.com
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Hypocrite cheat.
Subject: Re: The Delay
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 12:20:33 08/14/07 ()
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Pa mi goodbelleh nar dae a cam tote cuss so oooh! Is this directed at me or some other?
Subject: SENGBE: WHERE ARE YOU
From: FARRAH MARRAH
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Date Posted: 11:55:05 08/14/07 ()
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Sengbe,
Where are you?
Subject: APC,PMDC,CONCERN SIERRA-LEONEANS BE VIGILANT
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 11:50:13 08/14/07 ()
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Compatriots,the APC,PMDC,it is not over yet,the devil-slpp may overtune the rsults of the polls.This is my first time in the 21century,results of an election yet to be announced even though we are approaching 72 hours after the voting.
Subject: Re: APC,PMDC,CONCERN SIERRA-LEONEANS BE VIGILANT
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 11:55:37 08/14/07 ()
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The misinformation by your APC radios has brought us to this point. We have ourselves to blame when we do not respect the laws as laid down. Only, the strong arm Berewa can take away the lawlessness in many of us.
Subject: Re: APC,PMDC,CONCERN SIERRA-LEONEANS BE VIGILANT
From: weasel
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Date Posted: 12:00:23 08/14/07 ()
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Chez you must agree that the delay is causing all sorts of anxities and failure to get reports beyond today will be bad. You cannot justifiably blame whatever propaganda that had been broadcast by the APC station for the delay in giving the results by the day's end.
Subject: Re: APC,PMDC,CONCERN SIERRA-LEONEANS BE VIGILANT
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 12:13:05 08/14/07 ()
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Chez,the BBBC,CNN and other international media gave the same message-APC WAS AND IS FAR AHEAD OF THE OTHER PARTIES.Should kabbah close the bbc,cnn etc?
Subject: Re: APC,PMDC,CONCERN SIERRA-LEONEANS BE VIGILANT
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 12:10:01 08/14/07 ()
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I do understand and i am also very concerned. however, such would have been prvented had our brothers and sisters in the APC not cause - a rethink - at NEC to make sure the propaganda results tally with the actual recount. this has not been so and is causing delays - some counts had to be done five times and ballots checked to see that they have been validated. We should blame NEC but ourselves for making untrue declarations that have now come to haunt us. They are doing their best and by tomorrow will have our parliamentary results ready.
Subject: Re: APC,PMDC,CONCERN SIERRA-LEONEANS BE VIGILANT
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 12:19:50 08/14/07 ()
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Sincerity is a prerequisite for personal credibility and dignity. No justifiable reason could cause the delay other than yuki-yuki game
Subject: Re: APC,PMDC,CONCERN SIERRA-LEONEANS BE VIGILANT
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 12:16:00 08/14/07 ()
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Chez,your fail party slpp lost the elections is it difficult to understand?It is better to leave with dignity.
Subject: Re: APC,PMDC,CONCERN SIERRA-LEONEANS BE VIGILANT
From: Chez Winbakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 12:27:08 08/14/07 ()
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Musa, you guys' propaganda radio said you won all the seats in Freetown without waiting for such pronouncement from NEC. Now we have ten seats waiting for no.11. You still believe we will loose and election were the people do not want to see a comback of the 25+ years of suffering that made people like us walk by road two years of my life - to enter England and complain to the world about what was happening. We will have to rehabilitate a great number of you that do not respect law and order. Our nation has to function civilly without the fears that we have brothers and sisters not ready to understand that we should live as one people under one nation.
It is your own party that has caused this anxiety which is sometimes detrimental to the body. i pray you all stand strong so as not to be a victimof your own propaganda.
Subject: Re: APC,PMDC,CONCERN SIERRA-LEONEANS BE VIGILANT
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 12:39:19 08/14/07 ()
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Chez,I repeat,the voice of the people is powerful than guns and attempt cheating.Your party has failed the nation and they should leave.Is it difficult?
Subject: Re: APC,PMDC,CONCERN SIERRA-LEONEANS BE VIGILANT
From: weasel
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Date Posted: 12:14:38 08/14/07 ()
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One can only pray that they do not let us down tommorow.
Subject: INNEVITABLE FACT. SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT IF
From: WUTETEH
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Date Posted: 11:44:46 08/14/07 ()
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There is an innevitable fact that the SLPP party will be out of politics for good if the APC wins this election. This is because the PMDC is becoming the Party that will replace the SLPP in the South/East. Here is my point, after the elections in 1967 in which the SLPP lost, most of the SLPP agbagba switch party affiliation and join the APC. History will repeat itself, but in a slightly different way. This time the SLPP supporters will prefer to join the PMDC which is now the only credible and vibrant party in that part of the country. Seondly, the PMDC and the APC has good relationship and many PMDC supporters will not hesitate to join an APC government to work for the good of the nation. However, there will still be an SLPP party in name, but will not be a force to be reckoned with just like the PDP or UNPP. This is why the SLPP is fighting like an injured lion to retain power.
Subject: Re: INNEVITABLE FACT. SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT IF
From: Amara Gbellu Luckay
To: All
Date Posted: 12:40:49 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: gbellu2000@yahoo.com
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What a myopic way of looking at things. I wonder which school you attended, because your reasoning shows a blantant disregard for the truth. You failed to mention the fact that for the most part Sierra leone under APC was a one party state, so everyone belonged to APC whether you liked it or not. So the question of joining APC does not arise. To say if SLPP loses, will lead to the demise of the party is like saying when the Bush won the election on two occassion in the US , that was the end of the democratic party.
Bob Marley ones said that he who fight and run away, lives to fight another. SLPP is in this fight to win, so there is absolutely no turning back. People like you have forgotten the fact that 23yeasr of APC mis-rule has brought us to this. So, stay tuned as this is just the start of a fight that SLPP is sure to win this time. You have just won the battle in Freetown, but the war is not over.
Subject: Re: INNEVITABLE FACT. SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT IF
From: Saidu Daphay Turay
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Date Posted: 12:02:02 08/14/07 ()
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Your analysis are quite in place. The SLPP survival if the lose the elections is imminent. They sowed a seed of discontent among themselves and the PMDC will emerge as the vibrant and dominant party of the South/East. Guess what, the APC and PMDC will be like the Democrats and the Republicans in the U.S. where people will assess their achievements and will always vote them to power. Unlike the SLPP it will be like the Green party in the U.S. where their political participation in elections will be to spoil the votes of the dominant parties. Can SLPP blame their demise to Margai? No! The lack of political vision and foresight within the hierachy and nepotism is the root cause of their fall. They have thrown ashes mong themselves thinking they are spoiling their neighbors backyard not knowing that they are spoiling their backyard. All in all political immaturity and presumptousness can be attributed to all these problems of theirs.
Subject: Re: INNEVITABLE FACT. SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT IF
From: Chez
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Date Posted: 12:04:09 08/14/07 ()
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I agree with a lot of what you have said. That is 4 of the last 5 sentences.
Subject: Weasel wrote the above reply not Chez, sorry
From: weasel
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Date Posted: 12:07:09 08/14/07 ()
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Weasel wrote the above reply not Chez, sorry
Subject: Re: INNEVITABLE FACT. SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT IF
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 12:00:58 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-128-74.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.128.74
Message:
Let me give you a few other points of view of your great observation.
1. Kabba will be going into retirement and will never again be active in SLPP politics especially with the blame now going on that he destroyed the SLPP
2. If Berewa loses, he and his running mate are much too unpopular to have any more support from the rank and file.
3. That means the top SLPP leaders will go away and hardly anyone will be left with the power and organizational skills and the conviction to make people stay.
4. Current SLPP big wigs are largely composed of old APC. I have even heard that many of them are now celebrating even here at the UN Mission in New York for their APC party's revival.
5. The South-Eastern people will certainly take it hard, and will begin to look for alternatives. And lo and behold there is the "son of Margei". Mendes pronounce it as Margei, not Margai.
Subject: Re: INNEVITABLE FACT. SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT IF
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 11:59:43 08/14/07 ()
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WUteteh,You have my support,just brilliant.Slpp may exist but marginalised.It is a party on the extinction.PMDC and APC will be the future force
Subject: Re: INNEVITABLE FACT. SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT IF
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 11:52:46 08/14/07 ()
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Wuteteh, the truth lies in here; Read -
'...I had a ‘guru’, Sosoliso, who told me that the problem we are seeing now started during the hotly contested general elections of 1967, which the SLPP, led by the deceased Sir Milton’s brother, Sir Albert Margai (father of Charles Margai of People’s movement for democratic Change (PMDC)), who had crudely and forcefully transformed the ruling party from a national institution into one dominated by the south-eastern Mende.
The Margai led SLPP narrowly lost to the opposition All Peoples’ Congress (APC), which was heavily backed by Temne from the north as well as Krio. The new prime minister, Siaka Probyn Stevens, was about to be sworn in by the governor-general on March 21, 1967, when he was overthrown in a coup d’état. Sheki spent a year in exile and was restored to power in 1968 when a popular uprising overthrew the erstwhile ‘putschists’. Sosoliso recounted that this experience changed Sheki’s look on things and became very paranoid about possible conspiracies perceived to be swirling about him.
In 1971, he used a legally questionable legislative scam in order to amend the Sierra Leonean constitution, transforming the parliamentary democracy into a highly centralised presidential republic. Several years later, he held a preposterous referendum to transform it into a one-party state with the APC as the only legal political organisation. That was not the worst thing sheki did to the Sierra Leone’s political system. The worst was what he did to the economy. Sheki had inherited a sound, if not necessarily rich, economy with a diversified base of diamonds and iron mining as well as agriculture—primarily coffee and cocoa production—that expanded between 1965 and 1973 at the respectable, if not spectacular, annual rate of 4 percent against an annual population growth rate of 1.9 percent, Stevens and his cronies gradually destroyed it all. The annual rate of growth dipped to an average of 0.7 percent between 1980 and 1987 before going into negative figures.
Dwindling revenues from the government’s diamond monopolies and agricultural marketing boards, compounded by governmental corruption and profligate spending on nonessential “prestige projects,” only served to accelerate the sharp rate of economic decline.
Sierra Leone went from being the model for democratic governance and economic prosperity that it had been under Milton Margai to being the example par excellence of Africa’s post-colonial “neopatrimonial” malaise whereby national resources were redistributed as “marks of personal favour to followers who respond with loyalty to the leader rather than to the institution that the leader represents.”Sierra Leone had degenerated, in terms William Reno first coined to describe the country, into a “shadow state”—that is, a system of personal rule founded on neither concepts of legitimacy nor even governmental institutions but on the control of markets and on the ruler’s ability to manipulate access to resources created by those markets so as to enhance his own power.In short, the shadow state—a patrimonial network working for private interests that is normally, but not necessarily, constructed behind the façade of formal statehood—was the very antithesis of civil society, understood as organizations outside government that function as constraints upon government and as advocates of the common good.
In no sector was the “neo-patrimonial” corruption of the shadow state more evident than in the fabled alluvial diamond fields of Sierra Leone’s east. Before the APC took over, the diamond trade constituted one-third of national output and contributed over 70 percent of Sierra Leone’s foreign exchange reserves. By the mid-1980s, less than $100,000 worth of the precious minerals passed through legal, taxable channels.Most of the rest was appropriated by Stevens and a coterie of his closest associates, who also embezzled profits and other assets from various state enterprises. Having looted an estimated $500 million and leaving a balance of barely $196,000 in foreign reserves in the Bank of Sierra Leone on the day he left office, Stevens retired in 1985 after anointing the army chief, Major General Joseph Saidu Momoh, as his successor. Unfortunately for Sierra Leone, Momoh’s regime did no better than its predecessor, thus perpetuating the already vicious cycle of political, economic, and social malaise. As one former United States ambassador to Sierra Leone, John Hirsch, reported:
Unpaid civil servants desperate to keep their families fed ransacked their offices, stealing furniture typewriters, and light fixtures.... One observer has noted that the government hit bottom when it stopped paying schoolteachers and the education system collapsed. Without their salaries, teachers sought fees from the parents to prepare their children for their exams. With only professional families able to pay these fees, many children ended up on the streets without either education or economic opportunity.
Subject: Re: INNEVITABLE FACT. SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT IF
From: WUTETEH
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Date Posted: 12:11:56 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Thanks Chez. All what you outiline was true, but still the fact remains. What's happening in this election right now is a revolt by south/east against the SLPP. During and after the 1967 elections there were no alternative for the people in south/east. Today, there is already an alternative when it comes to the worst and PMDC is the Jesus Christ of the south/east after the SLPP. This is a fact that will not be disputed and this is my point. Since independence, less than 1% of the south/east people had voted for other parties other than the SLPP. This is because there was a tradition factor behind that and the people wanted to preserve it until the birth of the PMDC which was despise by many SLPP members before the elections. Today, things are turning around.
Subject: Re: INNEVITABLE FACT. SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT IF
From: Tawa
To: All
Date Posted: 12:11:15 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: Tawa@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
Message:
The first two paragraphs set the stage for what is going on now and history is about to repeat itself.
Subject: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTING?
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:21 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
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I dont think Sierra-Leone is on a desert or another planet.We are over 48 hours after the polls closed,yet no results.What is going on?
Subject: Re: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTING?
From: chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 11:47:37 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Musa kamara, the misinformation by the APC radios has caused such a slow pace. Most polling stations have to berecounted.
let us be patient and wait for NEC. i believe all parliamentary results should be out by tomorrow. We, SLPP, are leading slightly. We still have to confirm Koinaduga and more of the areas we have strong support. All shall be well for our people.
Subject: Re: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTING?
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 11:53:30 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Chez,where slpp is leading? in Sierra-Leone or in space?Please fear God if you do have faith.My worries are,slpp may attempt to play games.but no way....
Subject: Re: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTING?
From: Big Brother
To: All
Date Posted: 12:05:59 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpc1-lewi7-0-0-cust156.bmly.cable.ntl.com at 86.1.104.157
Message:
Lets be patient NEC is paving the way for slpp thugs to leave the country. I am sure berewa and others are PACKING UP. Let’s give them few more hours; soon it will be APC in charge of the country.
Subject: Re: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTING?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 12:03:42 08/14/07 ()
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Honestly speaking, I pride in myself to be the deliverer of facts. i have spoken to two friends from the APC and four from the SLPP and all have come up with the same thing - we (SLPP) are leading slightly. The APC guys even confirmed the 10 seats we now have in Freetown. What happened was that most of the ballot papers in the east were not stamped (validated) by the polling officers. So, they had to be taken out and discarded. It happened that most of these unstamped ballots were of APC votes thus bringing their count backwards - backwards ever foreward never.
Subject: Re: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTING?
From: weasel
To: All
Date Posted: 12:11:46 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Which East? Eastern Province. East End of Freetown?
Subject: Re: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTING?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:32:02 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
East End of Freetown.
Subject: Re: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTING?
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 12:07:04 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Chez,you are a liar as your slpp party.Dont disturb your peace,we THE APC HAVE WON THE 11.08.2007 ELECTIONS.Have you got it?
Subject: Re: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTING?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:33:49 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Did I blatantly call you a liar when you gave us the results yesterday? I will prove you wrong - I await 2morrow.
Subject: Re: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTING?
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 12:49:52 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Chez,you have no affection towards your nation and your blind support for the worst government in the history of our nation is a confirmation.I will prefer a PMDC rule headed by Margai than your failed and corrupt slpp clan.You have lost the elections and there is no need to start or attempt playing games.The APC has emerged victorious.
Subject: Re: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTING?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:01:15 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Musa, should I say the same for the 25+ years of suffering under the APC and 11+ years of civil strife caused by the APC? i will not call you a disaffetionate person - you are just being human and want me to believe what you believe. i do not have to call you names for supporting the APC. APC has a lot of Good people. I even prayed for my APC friend in Godrich to win. We do not all have to be the same. We only have to compliment each other to make the whole a neauty.
Subject: Re: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTING?
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:57:40 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157
Message:
Musa i sense your subdued tone. Two days ago on this forum, you were busy congratulating Koroma, now you are talking about GOD and Praying that Christiana Thorpe help you....
All dem seats in Freetown that you fraudulently grabbed are now given to the rightful owners....
21 seats my rear....
Subject: Re: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTING?
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 12:04:08 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
My friend and brother Alieu,I am just too confident and relaxed.We the APC HAVE WON THE ELECTIONS.GOD KNOWS,THE PEOPLE OF SIERRA-LEONE AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY.The voice of the people is more powerful than the guns and attempt to cheating
Subject: Fellows! It's Not Over Till It's Over...STOP THE LIES
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 11:41:11 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-128-74.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.128.74
Message:
Now that we have known that too much hyperbolic and exaggerated lies have been pervading the internet and telephone lines, I am happy to hear from Dr. Thorpe that selfish radio stations have being the source of those fallacies and fictitious statistics.
I saw one that said Ernest Koroma has gained 58% of the vote , he is now at the British Embassy to announce victory and the formation of his government.
Another one said the SLPP went from 34% to 47% and is now leading the results.
Others said that the PMDC has 23MPs, SLPP 15 and APC 62
Still others said that APC cleared everything in Freetown, while others trickled in some numbers for the SLPP from 6 to 9, to 7
THEY WERE ALL LIES. So from now on, if I don't see it from the NEC...IT'S A LIE...PERIOD!!!
Subject: Re: Fellows! It's Not Over Till It's Over...STOP THE LIES
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 11:44:14 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-128-74.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.128.74
Message:
Look Out for PMDC roaring back in the provinces. Its not over by any figment of the imagination
Subject: Re: Fellows! It's Not Over Till It's Over...STOP THE LIES
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:43:48 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157
Message:
Are you sure this is you?
Subject: Re: Fellows! It's Not Over Till It's Over...STOP THE LIES
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 11:45:45 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-128-74.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.128.74
Message:
It's the one and only Toegondoe Sagbah. Why? You've started forgetting me already?
Subject: Re: Fellows! It's Not Over Till It's Over...STOP THE LIES
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:48:16 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157
Message:
Because you were incommunicado... Did Charles Margai authorise you to make a statement relating to the elections?
Rumour had it that you are in the dog-house...because of your lies, lies, and lies.
Subject: Re: Fellows! It's Not Over Till It's Over...STOP THE LIES
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 11:50:30 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-168-128-74.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 71.168.128.74
Message:
Tell me the lies, lies lies and lies? And who can put me in the dog house. It certainly isn't Charles
Subject: THE POVERTY OF INFORMATION
From: Saloneman2
To: All
Date Posted: 10:58:41 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Its over 48 hours since polls closed in Sierra Leone and we still cannot get accurate figures of the presidential and parliamentary elections. Why can't the NEC post the authentic figures that can either validate or invalidate the different figures we are getting from party propagandists? Is that such a difficult task given the milions of dollars that have been spent to erect the electoral process?
I am tired of seeing all these dubious figures being thrown around. It satrted with Cocorioko announcing on saturday that the APC had swept the West and North. This turned out to be untrue. Christiana Thorpe, please help.
Subject: Re: THE POVERTY OF INFORMATION
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:15:37 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Have patience and do not take all you see on the forums. My advise is for you to wait till tomorrow when the full results of parliamentaries will be officially announced. For now, take my word that SLPP has won ten seats in freetwon and there is a disputed one. This is the honest truth.
I criticised NEC about their websites months ago and weeks ago I asked the forum to participate in an appeal to make them copy the NEC Liberia website. it is a shame that we are always late in making amends to that which would have been long corrected. This is the case of saturday's election, brothers and sisters in the APC went on air and gave misleading information that has caused the slow pace we are seeing. Why did they not wait for the NEC officials to do the jobs they are paid to do? Our country needs a strong leader to curb the lawlessness amongst our people.
You can also check for updates on the SLPP link below:
Subject: Re: THE POVERTY OF INFORMATION
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 11:38:23 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-078472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.7
Message:
THis too is to you. I could tell you or get someone to tell to shut up, right where you are.
Subject: Re: THE POVERTY OF INFORMATION
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 11:31:39 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-078472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.7
Message:
ARe you the new SLPP mouthpiece? Who appointed you? I very much prefer Kanji Daramy, any day.
Subject: Re: THE POVERTY OF INFORMATION
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 11:29:20 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-078472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.7
Message:
The SLPP can not have won ten seats in Freetown. If they say so then then have rigged the election - massive fraud and the whole excercise should be declared null and VOID.
Berewa is in for a very bad time -
About the snail lilke pace in counting - a Chinese bank teller could count that number of bank notes in less than two hours.....
But we know. You hear.
Subject: Re: THE POVERTY OF INFORMATION
From: Chez winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:43:28 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Why do you think it is fraud? Remember, you guys counted your chicken before they were hatched. You did yourself the injustice by going on the air with your radios and broadcasted untruthful results thereby constructing the chaos that we are begining to see in the streets of freetwon now as we speak on cyber space.
Ralentissez mais des victoires sûres la course
Tout ce qui brille n'est pas or
Il n'est pas dans le commencement mais la fin
Trust me, we have 10 seats and awaiting the 11th.
Subject: Re: THE POVERTY OF INFORMATION
From: WALLIEU
To: All
Date Posted: 11:27:58 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
So the announcement by APC radio makes the slow pace of the result announcement by NEC? I bet you that was not the case. NEC has already got the entire results, but there is a problem they are trying to make. The result doesn't turn out the way the government wanted it to be so Thorpe is now in a hot seat to do something. By looking at her face when she was given the press briefing you realized she is stressful and confused. The result would have been announced by now, but they have to redo the maths to recalculate to fit the solutions. Kabbah has just al3rted the security forces. Why? There is no disturbances in the streets. They shutdown the opposition radio station and control the nation radio stations. Is this what you called denmocracy? I dont think so. Is Kabbah serious when he said sometimes ago that he rather die than hand over power to the opposition? Is he seeing the beginning of his demise? Let there be no more war in Sierra Leone brothers and sisters.
Subject: Re: THE POVERTY OF INFORMATION
From: chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:19:24 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-199-185.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.199.185
Message:
There will be no war in Sierra leone. We should urge our brothers and sisters to know that we are still under a leader who will have to hand over power to another. in this regard, our president, through his sovereign powers is acting accordingly.
Subject: Re: THE POVERTY OF INFORMATION
From: Bogus Updates
To: All
Date Posted: 11:18:26 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f298781.ga.unc.edu at 152.4.31.217
Message:
Your site is bogus, Chez. I will not trust their updates. we will just sit and wait it out with NEC, no matter how long it takes. no more bogus updates from you and your like.
Subject: Re: THE POVERTY OF INFORMATION
From: chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:20:58 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-199-185.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.199.185
Message:
Thank You! I was just trying to assist so that you can see a difference in credibility. if what is put on that site happens to be untrue - the moderator will not permit it to be posted.
Subject: Re: THE POVERTY OF INFORMATION
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 11:13:22 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-185-104.patmedia.net at 24.225.185.104
Message:
SLPP stooge. Who told you it is untrue. NEC is going slowly and when all the results shall have come in to NEC for validation , it will be found that we did sweep the West and North.
Subject: SLPP causing Regrettable Commotion
From: Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:36:50 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.64.15
Message:
It is rumoured that some SLPP supporters have been observed putting on APC Tshirts and colours and causing regrettable commotion in order to discredit the party. The APC has stated over and over its commitment to a peace and non violence. APC supporters are requested to be watchful and to reprot any incidents of impersonation to the Police and the Party Office.
Gone are the days when Siera Leoneans are intimidated into Rubber Stamping Corruption and Treachery. May God bless Sierra Leone."
Subject: Re: SLPP causing Regrettable Commotion
From: Amara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:57:12 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: lawlawde80@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-19-12-138.hsd1.ma.comcast.net at 76.19.12.138
Message:
Conteh thanks for letting us know that it is rumoured by your so called useless APC people. Please post something that contain facts and not rumours. SLPP is far from illiteracy so there is no basis for your rumour. Your half-baked illiterate APC people have been looking for ways to cause trouble but to no avail. If Sierra Leone can enjoy peace and tranquility on election day it is because of the good work of SLPP.
Subject: Re: SLPP causing Regrettable Commotion
From: Saidu Daphay Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:25:13 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-70-108-146-5.washdc.east.verizon.net at 70.108.146.5
Message:
Political,
I am suprised at your ethnic slurs in responding to Mr. Conteh, if indeed you are educated as you purport to be then you should have at least use some diplomatic or dignified words to respond to the "rumors." However, sad to say that, ironically you have proven yourself to be most illiterate, uncivilized beast that needs more literacy tutorials. You should know that the dignity of makind doesn't depend on what he/she purports to be but what he perceives of his fellow being. We may differ today in politics but it is not a license to be morally reprehensible because the destiny of Sierra Leone is the destiny for all irrespective of tribe, party affiliation or race.
Subject: Re: SLPP causing Regrettable Commotion
From: Amara
To: All
Date Posted: 11:55:22 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: lawlawde80@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-19-12-138.hsd1.ma.comcast.net at 76.19.12.138
Message:
If i have proven to be "most illiterate, uncivilized beast" then what is your defense for Mr conteh. Are these the words of a civilized humen being that you claim to be? I guess you and i should take this out of this forum and really prove to each other who is an illiterate fool. By your ironic writing i am certain about your level of education. As a rebuttal have this for you and your germ-line, you have as well proven to be most illiterate, uncivilized bastard that not only you but your genetic tree need more than a literacy tutorial. senseless beast Saidu Turay or whatever you call yourself
Subject: Re: SLPP causing Regrettable Commotion
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:30:48 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I do not agree with your counterattack "...most illiterate, uncivilized beast.."
but this one semms most solid - a thing ever human should have in their thoughts:
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You should know that the dignity of makind doesn't depend on what he/she purports to be but what he perceives of his fellow being. We may differ today in politics but it is not a license to be morally reprehensible because the destiny of Sierra Leone is the destiny for all irrespective of tribe, party affiliation or race.
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Subject: Re: SLPP causing Regrettable Commotion
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 10:59:34 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
They may be far from iliteracy, but very entrenched in violence and deceptions.
Subject: Re: SLPP causing Regrettable Commotion
From: Saidu Daphay Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:55:28 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Mr. Conteh,
It is no rumor, the SLPP is capable of impersonation and will do everything possible to descredit the APC. They have seen their defeat and use NPRC thugs to create commotion and even to the extent of mastermiding a coup. But that will be the saddest mistake they will undertake because our people can no longer be intimidated nor succumb to acts or barbarism. The intermitent military dictatorships, misrule and reduction of the country to a universal laughing stock by the SLPP can no longer be tolerated. As you caution, Let all APC fans and supporters be on the al3rt and be wise as serpents to shame the devil.
Subject: Re: SLPP causing Regrettable Commotion
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 11:16:47 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Yes, there was inaccuracy in some of your report yesterday. You and others reported that SLPP is leading. Based on the NEC report, it turned out to be untrue. Secondly, you reported that SLPP has won 9 + seat in freetown. That was not true either. The only thing that was true in your report is the closing of the APC radio station. You are reporting the same things today that SLPP is leading significantly. I'm not saying it's not true, but I just give you references on your claim yesterday and make sure your sources do not mislead you.
Subject: Re: SLPP causing Regrettable Commotion
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:20:51 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Political! Are you nervous? I am not saidu...Reply to me BRA.
Subject: ELECTION : SLPP ON THE ROLL!!!
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:59:40 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Confirmed sources from Freetown have Berewa and the SLPP leading in the Presidential elections by just over 20000 votes...
The results are:
SLPP:254,191
APC: 234,579
PMDC;110,078
I will continue to monitor and report on our progress...Guys we might be heading for a very interesting situation.....An APC parliament and an SLPP President.. Hopefully Charles..
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP ON THE ROLL!!!
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 10:54:46 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The same confirmed sources you reference yesterday that later turned out to be false.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP ON THE ROLL!!!
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:58:40 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
There is nothing i have reported so far that is false. The station, The results, the APC knows that and so they are quiet.. ...
Lewaly tried to steal the seat in East 1, they tried to steal in west...
We currently have recounts going on in most parts of the country including freetown...all da lie dae comot nar dooe.
Sidom look bra... we await the reports from Dr.. later today.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP ON THE ROLL!!!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 09:27:26 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Alieu sesay, can you post these results to the SLPPworldwide forum.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP ON THE ROLL!!!
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:47:35 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Have done so.. what a fine forum..
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP ON THE ROLL!!!
From: Hashim
To: All
Date Posted: 10:02:29 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: Gboyama@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: host217-43-41-21.range217-43.btcentralplus.com at 217.43.41.21
Message:
Nothing about the August 11 ,2007 nation wide ballot at the NEC mumu site. No need for any interested party here or otherwise to hop around for any official tally of the results . But this just how well the country is working.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP ON THE ROLL!!!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 09:53:09 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Thank you. Please any more info - do sent to them.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP ON THE ROLL!!!
From: Emmanuel J.M.Stafford
To: All
Date Posted: 09:13:44 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: ejmstafford@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: at 78.146.195.121
Message:
you know that it is not possible for the SLPP to roll-back to the top as the Parliamentary result (APC 61%, SLPP 32% and PMDC 7% of the seats in parliament)is a reflection of what the presidential result we look like.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP ON THE ROLL!!!
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:20:39 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
APC 61%? Says who?
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP ON THE ROLL!!!
From: chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 09:28:59 08/14/07 ()
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Says the APC Propaganda radio closed for misleading the general public!
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: PMDC
To: All
Date Posted: 09:05:09 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You must be listening to the other SLPMB crook, Alie Bangura. He learnt his thieving from the chief SLPP SLPMB crook -- your baned-for-life leaderKabbah.
There will be no thieving this time, SLPP apologist. The people of Sa Lon have given you criminals and your corrupt leaders notice: Get out.
And start to reform yourselves -- at Pa Denba Road prison. Your jail cells are waiting for you.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: weasel
To: All
Date Posted: 09:10:26 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
No political era has a monopoly over corruption and incompetence. Things in the late 80s and early 90s were as bad or arguably worse than they are today. Maybe, the next government will improve things.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: Check Your Facts
To: All
Date Posted: 09:28:30 08/14/07 ()
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"No political era has a monopoly over corruption and incompetence."
That is not true. The 1-year old political era of the PMDC does share a history of corruption with the SLPP and APC.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: weasel
To: All
Date Posted: 09:32:01 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
When I wrote what wrote, I took only into consideration governments that ruled. I cannot make any conclusions on PMDC. PMDC has not ruled the country.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: Check Your Facts
To: All
Date Posted: 09:33:44 08/14/07 ()
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Message:
" I cannot make any conclusions on PMDC. PMDC has not ruled the country."
That is exactly the error in your generalization. Be more careful with your wild, wide statements, lest some people take them seriously.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: weasel
To: All
Date Posted: 09:40:33 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
PMDC has not ruled the country. So it cannot be indicted for any failures!
Is this the right interpretation?geez
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: Check Your Facts
To: All
Date Posted: 09:41:21 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Bingo!
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: weasel
To: All
Date Posted: 09:49:09 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I'm not saying it to please you even though it pleases you. It's just a fact, just as the reigns of SLPP and APC were/are failures and there's hardly a thing they can brag about.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: Check Your Facts
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:23 08/14/07 ()
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Message:
And I am not saying it to please you either. "It's just a fact, just as the reigns of SLPP and APC were/are failures and there's hardly a thing they can brag about."
Next time, please avoid wasting my time and that of your readers, as well as yours, by making sure you state the facts at the outset -- not at the end, when pushed.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: weasel
To: All
Date Posted: 10:05:13 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
parting shot...
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: Check Your Facts
To: All
Date Posted: 10:07:16 08/14/07 ()
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Message:
Au revoir.
I guess the truth does really hurt -- and you can't deny it now, as you did before when you hung around.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: weasel
To: All
Date Posted: 10:11:59 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Never disagreed with you.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: Big Brother
To: All
Date Posted: 09:09:57 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpc1-lewi7-0-0-cust156.bmly.cable.ntl.com at 86.1.104.157
Message:
ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: PMDC
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:32 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
So very true. The PMDC will become the new home of ALL authentic SLPPers.
That means fake SLPP interlopers like SLPMB crook Kabba and Bumpe Killer Berewa will not have a place in the true SLPP of Sir Milton Margai and Sir Albert Margai -- the fitting pioneers of their rightful heir, Charles Margai's authentic SLPP aka PMDC.
Hail tro CF Margai, the true SLPP heir!
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:11:10 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157
Message:
Big Bro! Yours is a one-time wonder, just like the UNPP...
By the way good job...
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE EXTINCT BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: Only Time Will Tell
To: All
Date Posted: 09:26:19 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f298781.ga.unc.edu at 152.4.31.217
Message:
Just like the SLPP apologists crying fowl the other day when it was announced Ernest was leading, claiming it was not authentic, so is the majority of us now claiming this new figure has to be authenticated. In reality, though, I cannot see how Berewa will overcome this hurdle when APC has already won 61/2 parliamentarian seats. Of course, you will claim again this is bogus. But time will tell.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 09:08:29 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
have you not heard that all parties in parliament agreed that pademba Road prisons be turned into a super shopping complex and be relocated elsewhere? Freetown does not need any more jail breakouts.
As to the information regarding Freertown, there is truth in it.
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:09:33 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Chez forget about them.. we report facts unlike some people
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: Question
To: All
Date Posted: 09:35:22 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
". we report facts unlike some people "
How can you do that when, likke many SLPP apologists here, you never understand anything you read (or write)?
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: NO ANSWER
To: All
Date Posted: 09:43:58 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
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Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP WILL BE ROLLED BY THE MIGHTY PMDC! !!!
From: Question
To: All
Date Posted: 09:48:57 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
That is the sorry story of the shameless SLPP in Sierra Leone: They are as blank as a slate
Subject: Re: ELECTION : SLPP ON THE EXTINCT!!!
From: Big Brother
To: All
Date Posted: 09:03:34 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
ELECTION : SLPP ON THE EXTINCT!!!
Subject: NO, I HOPE THIS ELECTION WILL NOT BOIL DOWN TO THIS...
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 08:12:57 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: RNMDTWO@YAHOO.COM
Entered From: h-67-103-183-222.mclnva23.covad.net at 67.103.183.222
Message:
The 1967 Elections and their Aftermath.
The elections of 1967 were scarred by bitter power struggles based on ethnicity, personality and party affiliation. Although the APC won the most seats, the leadership of the SLPP stoutly refused to concede defeat. The resultant standoff signalled a watershed in the political fortunes of the country and ultimately led to the destruction of the multi-party system. The head of the Army sabotaged the swearing-in of the APC Prime Minister and declared martial law. When it became apparent that this move was engineered to favour the SLPP leadership,junior-ranking soldiers staged a coup. The consequent period of military rule served to narrow the political space in Sierra Leone and compelled others to seek alternative routes to power that did not depend on free and fair elections. It set the scene for multiple further coup attempts in the following decades.
(Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report)
Subject: Re: NO, I HOPE THIS ELECTION WILL NOT BOIL DOWN TO THIS...
From: Saidu Daphay Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:44:53 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Dr. Curtis,
This is what the SLPP would like to resort to but Sierra leoneans are now enlightened to be pull by nose by any group or groups. Our people have endured the bitterness of military dictatorship, war and misrule so any attempt to thwart the democratic process by unscrupulous and unpatritotic individuals it will be met with strong resistance. After all Sierra leoen belongs to all of us so no tribe or group will claim to be more Sierra leonean than others.
Subject: Realistic Expectations. Why deceive yourseleves?
From: Weasel
To: All
Date Posted: 07:32:44 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
As much as SLPP supporters should not deceive themselves of expecting victories in the North and the West, APC supporters should not deceive themselves about victories or even substantial majorities (in excess of 20%) in the south and east. SLPP will lead there, with the PMDC having substantial minority of the vote.
Subject: Re: Realistic Expectations. Why deceive yourseleves?
From: Emmanuel J.M.Stafford
To: All
Date Posted: 09:03:00 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: ejmstafford@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: at 78.146.195.121
Message:
We are just waiting for the final announcement so that we can jubilate and celebrate in grand stile as Emmerson put it:' na die deat we dae wait, wae wi all go celebrate, wi all go gubilate, foul don wite ee don wite'. Lonta.
Emmanuel Stafford -UK
Subject: FOOLS
From: weasel
To: All
Date Posted: 07:17:59 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
SLPP and APC reigns are equally indictable failures, in which socio-economic conditions hardly improved and especially in the latter drastically deterioated. Just as under the SLPP Sierra Leone has been at or near the bottom of the HDI, in 1990 and 1991, Sierra Leone was at the bottom of the HDI. These are facts. Corruption in both eras was terrible.
While one can state one's opinions, accusations laid by one group of supporters against the other are like the donkey accusing the hare of having long ears.
Most forumites are craven and completely lack magnanimity, stark symptoms of our society, in which failure of responsibility are hardly sanctioned, and people lack any collective sense of duty, and national aspirations! That's why Sierra Leone is so dire, and Black Africa is too. These are woeful failings in human capital/infrastructure which are ingrained in our social fabric. For FOCK sake when these things are lacking direly, how can you FOOLS who believe so, continue to believe that just because of affiliation with ABC or XYZ party somehow things will become bliss. Either you are engaging in self-deception, lack analysis, or are cynically craven.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 07:55:18 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
What is your recommended alternative to that which we 'ALL' on this forum practice? How do you feel calling us all fools with no thorough analysis of forumites' postings? To be a participant observer one needs to be able to make recommendations that are different and mutually beneficial.
Subject: Chez
From: weasel
To: All
Date Posted: 08:12:31 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"Most forumites are craven and completely lack magnanimity, stark symptoms of our society, in which failure of responsibility are hardly sanctioned, and people lack any collective sense of duty, and national aspirations!"
'Most' - I mentioned most. I didn't give any names.
Let me state my allegiances. I'd prefer an SLPP victory. In my opinion the choice between worse and worst.
Never-the-less, the sniping and many unsubstantiated postings given by many supporters of different parties
on this forum - which are so holier-than-thou and gloss over failures are the reasons for my 'rational outburst'. Both SLPP and APC from 1968 to 2007 have performed dismally. One can opine which was worse than the other. I believe APC's era was worse because there was severe deteoriation under it. The SLPP inherited a bad situation, and have done little to alleviate it. So there's little point praising either and I won't be an apologist. Socio-economic conditions were/are dire under both. APC claims to be reborn, but I am not naive. I do not believe their leaders are capable of alleviating the flaws of Sierra Leone's 'human infrastructure that I mentioned'. Victor Foh, an unrepentant thug and crook, is still one of their prominent members. SLPP also has many dubious figures.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 08:41:02 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
thanks for redirecting me to your posting. As humans we err thus I ask that you pardon me for not seeing that. You are quite right, both have failed. It is from this premise that I decided to support the lesser evil - berewa. I know he can change things - Saturday was his wake up call. he is now desperate to see that he does not go down with a legacy of failure. i know he can do it!
We have to now look at ourselves to see how we can participate in the next general elections - planning time and should start by pooling resources togther to strengthen the local economies of our people. i believe such a venture will help see effective leaders and policy makers in the coming years. A congress of 20 worldwide chapters should bring the elctorates closer to such a group. Areas like independent manufacturing, independent agricultural activities, indeopendent small-scale businesses, independent credit unions, independent schools, resource centres, community advice centres, independent water transports, etc can do the tricks to independently develop ourselves and our people. Such enterprise will also bring income to the national coffers.
I have a small community which is currently carrying out such activities to serve as a model for other regions. We can only be better people if we look after our people and make them understand their rights and responsibilities to the state.
I believe if likeminded people get together, irrespective of political affiliations, we can give to our country something.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: Shameless Opportunism
To: All
Date Posted: 09:25:26 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"You are quite right, both have failed. It is from this premise that I decided to support the lesser evil - berewa. I know he can change things." -- Chez Winakabs Europe
You are now the one failing your people. How can an otherwise seemingly rational person like you make such an illogical statement like that above?
Berewa is the co-architect of the worst administration in the history of Sierra Leone. Together with Kabbah, their SLPP maladministration has squandered the largest ever infusion of foreign aid in the history of our country -- over $1.5 BILLION.
And what did they have to show for their corruption? No light, no water, no food, no jobs, no hope for millions of their hapless victims -- Sierra Leoneans like you and I. Such squandering and devastation has NEVER before happened in Sierra Leone. And you have the gall to say the co-architect of such unprecedented destruction of our country's future is the lesser of two evils? Compared to the available electricity, pipe-borne water, good roads and hope of the NPRC and APC-SLPP coalition governments before his wretched adminiatration?
Do you know the meanings of the words you so careless use?
Were you not the same opportunist who less than a year ago saw the very same hopelessness around Kabbah and Berewa? Is it opportunism that has upended your thinking? If that is the case, you, my friend, have joined your hero, the bloodstained Bumpe Killer, Berewa, in the hall of shame in Salone.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 09:41:57 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Anger! Anger! I can sense coming from you. All in the different political parties have had their hands tainted but the better of the lot is the one I am supporting. 25+ years of APC rule saw every fabric that held us together collapsed. 11 + years of civil strife saw another suffering of our people. 9+ years of kabba administratiopn, though not perfect brought peace and stability to our crippling nation. continutity is all the SLPP asks for to complete the reparation of ills done by the two events - APC and the War.
How can I be an opportunist. i could have gone down and won a seat in parliament simple. My two friends decided and they have won. The people cannot see a comeback of APC so soon.
My anger for kabba has dissipated - it went when berewa was elected Leader of our party and presidential candidate.
I am a human and seeing improvement in any phase of life can change me - I have changed and believe in the lesser of the evils our country has.
call me whatever - I stand by my beliefs. sierra leone does not need your Ernest now! maybe some day when he starts doing some grassroot campaigning and not playing tricks on our people - declaring a winner in an election that has not concluded. he should have been disqualified and not warned.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: Shameless Opportunism
To: All
Date Posted: 09:46:51 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Your sensing is not working properly. What you should have sensed, had it been, is the long overdue re-education of Chez Winston Kabia!
That is not the same as anger, unless you continue to have the problem of not understanding the meanings of the words you use.
You are an oportunits for the reason I clearly stated -- you sought to flip-flop for your purely selfish interest, while abandoning the people of Salone (your own people, by your admission) to wallow at the bloodstanied and cruel hands of your former villain-noe-turned-your-hero: the Bumpe Killer Berewa.
It is not too late for you to start redeeming yourself, Winston. The people of Salone you have betrayed are patiently waiting.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 10:00:58 08/14/07 ()
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You are becoming personal and such makes no sense to me. You cannot reveal yourself and therefore a person of no significance. Au revoir! Vous êtes un grand vous dégénérez et avez besoin d'aide.
I will not reply to your kind of base language - talk properly and I will take you on.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: Shameless Opportunism
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Date Posted: 10:05:50 08/14/07 ()
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"You are becoming personal and such makes no sense to me. "
What do you think the harrowing suffering of the people of Salone caused by your hero, the thief called Berewa, is if not personal to them? Have you ever heard of impersonal suffering? Talk sense, man.
You can run away and pretend that you are doing so because of conveniently unspecified "base" language that you nevertheless categorize as not proper talk. It is easy to see through your lame excuse for runing away from the truth. But the truth will never go away, even if you run away from it.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 10:34:18 08/14/07 ()
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promise me something! That you will refrain from overbust language on me. I do not like to discuss with people behind masks. if you take off your mask - you caninsult me and I will continue to do so. But when you are masked, I'll assume your argument or discussion to be personal and you came purposefully to insult me.
Now then! If i get to be promised, I will civily discuss with you and we bot explore each others reasoning.
I am more touched and concern aboput the sufferings of our people everyday. i did not take an aeroplane to come to the west. I travelled like the rest of the brothers that leave our territory into Guinea and make way for the mediterranean. Why did I have top do that at such early years that I should have stayed in my country and get educated and start working passing through our traditional rites of passage. These traditions were denied to us. On arrival in the UK, the first thing I did was to make sure the world knows what was happening in the country.
I then set up a foundation in honour of my late father humiliated and suffered a prejudicial death under your APC. I worked towards chaning the social conditions of so many in the UK. i was at airports ferrying refugees most of the time and even set up housing trusts - providing them with housing and basic educational centres - The Learning Centres - for them to advance themselves in education. Please do not call me names to make me reveal to you that the person you think you know is not that which he is.
Even in Sierra leone, I had a chapter in Jui and 83 Bai Bureh Road, Freetown. I am not doing these things because I want something from anyone. I am capable of creating something out of nothing - the idea is just what I need and the rest of the answers can be found on this earth I live in.
If you want to insult me, please unmask yourself and I will be able to tell you who your are.
I came to the UK and the first thing
Subject: Re: Chez
From: Shameless Opportunism
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Date Posted: 11:40:05 08/14/07 ()
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The only promise I make to you is that I will continue to help you reverse the illogical position that you have taken -- that a known incompetent and corrupt co-architect of the Kabbah-Berewa enghine of destruction, Solomon Berewa, is the lesser of two evils in Salone.
Those who denied you and millions other Saloneans the opportunity to live the good life that Salone's abundant resoutrces should have made possible, had the country been blessed with good leadership are the same traitors of our people that you now shamefully support -- the SLPP cabal previously headed by Kabbah and now headed by Berewa.
As for your request, "If you want to insult me, please unmask yourself and I will be able to tell you who your are,:" it seems you have the wrong person. I don't insult. I state the truth. They may hurt you but it must be said to help you see the light. Also, it seems you don't know that this forum has no rules against anonymous postings. So, please stop trying to divert attention to irrelevancies by harping on about masks.
Stick to the issue: Your unconscionable support of the co-architect of the massive suffering of the people of Salone -- Berewa. That's the same people whose suffering you claim to feel while opportunitically supporting their unrepentant victimizer, Berewa, who has wickedly inflicted untold suffering upon them.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: F/T
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Date Posted: 09:16:08 08/14/07 ()
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I am new to this forum. I am not comfortable in taking part in it. The reason is because of the the tonality of some of the postings. Personally I gave money to the 3 main parties during their fund raising. I really don't care who wins this election. However, if most people including SLPP supporters are saying KABBA has failed the country, I think his party should pay for his sins by loosing this election.
In my humble openion, I think that will begin to teach the next party a lesson to stop following their leader blidly.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: Chez winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 09:51:42 08/14/07 ()
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But the next party has so many of the same corrupt elements that corrupted the ruling party. After the 1996, elections, we had an all inclusive government - we had members of other parties holding ministerial p[ositions. The leader of the APC, Ernest Koroma was the chairman of so many committees under the ruling government. Our leader had the intention to unite all and not 'wiinners takes it all'. he failed in doing so as the buck now shows that it stopped at his table. his regime will go down in history that he tried to appease others rather than rule as a leader.
I believe in the current party leader, Solomon Berewa, who is a contestant in this presidential elections. i thin he is a better administrator than the rest. As a vice-president, he did not have the full sovereign powers to do what was good for the people. he had to kowtow and a large chunk of the smear has rubbed off on him. despite these failings I believe that he can bring us a turnaround economy in a mich qucker time than the others.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 10:32:52 08/14/07 ()
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"As a vice-president, he did not have the full sovereign powers to do what was good for the people. he had to kowtow and a large chunk of the smear has rubbed off on him."
If what you claim is true, is that not evidence that Berewa is an opportunist? If he was notr complicit in Kabbah's destruction of Salone, why did Berewa not resign as any principled person would have done?
The answer is obvious: Berewa is not a principled person. Indeed, he is apart and parcel of the cabal headed by his bebefactor, Kabbah, who looted millions of dollars meant for the people of Salone for their selfish benefit.
In a word, Berewa is totally unfit for the presidency because he ruined the country. The fact that you are too opportunistic to admit that does not change that fact.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 10:43:35 08/14/07 ()
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patriot, if you take out Berewa, who do we have? I believe that by making the darkness conscious we will see light. The whole country was engulf in 'darkness' berewa's door we have tapped and has his assurance that our conscious minds will see spring be reborned under his brighter steps. Every human is opportunistic and only few have grown above that - i am one of the few altruistic beings - that I will pat my chest like a gorilla claiming a territory. you know about the 'selfish gene'. You cannot take that away from any human being. survival of the fittest. I sometimes subscribe to such belief but refuses to be a part of the practical mechanism.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 11:08:01 08/14/07 ()
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"patriot, if you take out Berewa, who do we have?"
Answer: Someone who is not corrupt, a killer, or an opportunist whose bloodstained hands are also complicit in the impoversihment of millions of Sierra Leoneans under the Kabbah-Berewa regime of destruction.
That's what we will have after taking out Berewa..
Subject: Re: Chez
From: chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 11:18:38 08/14/07 ()
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May i have a proper noun?
Subject: Re: Chez
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 11:27:00 08/14/07 ()
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You can have 2 -- Charles margai and Ernest Koroma.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 12:50:40 08/14/07 ()
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Not them for now! PLEASE! PLEASE! We need a strong arm to mentain law and order. I think the only person for such is berewa and we have got him. I wholeheartedly support him.
Subject: Re: Chez
From: Patrot
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Date Posted: 12:56:13 08/14/07 ()
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First you asked for names of people who I told you are not corrupt, incompetent or bloodstained killerslike your shameless hero, Berewa. When I name not one but two, you start shouting not them/"
When are you going to start acting rationally? Your repating the blatant nonsense that the co-architect of the detsruction of Salone -- Berewa -- is the "only person" to run SL is becoming more than ridiculous.
For your own credibility, please start thinking rationally -- you don't ask the perpetrator of a crime to continue defiling his victims and say that 's the best thing for the poor victims.
Berewa is a proven disaster for Salone. It's time for a change if the people's suffering is to come to en end. That means the SLPP regime of constant suffering for the people must be brought to an end.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: Mirror
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Date Posted: 08:28:55 08/14/07 ()
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' I believe APC's era was worse because there was severe deteoriation under it."
Your ignorance is showing. So is your obvious bias in favbor of the SLPP.
The SLPP and the APC BOTH detsroyed Salone separately between 1961 and 1967 (SLPP), 1968 to 1977 (APC and TOGETHER (1978-1992).
Still, the SLPP during the last 10 years destroyed Salone more than any prievious regime. It is a measure of your ignorance and lack of patriotisnm, that, notwithstanding, you would prefer the most destructive SLPP to the APC.
Next time you feel like calling people you don't know fools, do yourself a favour -- look in the mirror.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: weasel
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Date Posted: 08:39:48 08/14/07 ()
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Truth hurts. Say what you like to feel happy. you are entitled to your preferences, but both reigns are poor.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: Mirror
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Date Posted: 08:56:37 08/14/07 ()
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I agree that the truth about you may have hurt you. But it needed to be said.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: weasel
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Date Posted: 09:05:39 08/14/07 ()
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It doesn't hurt. Party ABC or XYZ or whatever has not delivered because of the flaws in human infrastructure. If one won't accept excuses for near-bottom ranking in HDI in 2006 and 2007. One shouldn't for the bottom in 1990 and 1991. Whether you think one is better than the other, they're both dire, and its silly harking about the better of two piss poor situations.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: Mirror
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Date Posted: 09:13:25 08/14/07 ()
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It isn't " because of the flaws in human infrastructure" that the SLPP and the APC succeeded in devasatating Salone.
It is because of the unquenchable greed of those particular revolving-door, unpatriotic politicians and their cohorts. That has nothing to do with any alleged "flaws in human infrastructure" -- it has everything to do with the defects in the character of those particular unpatriotic miscreants.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: weasel
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Date Posted: 09:26:59 08/14/07 ()
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Embezzlement and sabotage is not limited to politicians. People who steal copper cables, refuse to obey traffic rules, or steal fuel, or sell maintenance machinery are not generally politicians. The frequency of such deviance lies in the absence of dedication to collectively beneficial or necessary responsibilities. Regardless of party affiliation, it's lacking. Regardless of ethnicity, it is lacking. One goes to the offices of MDAs and often persons are loitering about idly. It's not politicians who've told them to be idle. I'm not absolving politicians of responsibility, but the fact that there so many dire failures and deviances, irrespective of party of ethnic affiliation isn't due to just politicians. It can be explained due to the fabric of our society.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: Mirror
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Date Posted: 09:40:29 08/14/07 ()
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"Embezzlement and sabotage is not limited to politicians. People who steal copper cables, refuse to obey traffic rules, or steal fuel, or sell maintenance machinery are not generally politicians."
You are missing the crucial fact that should have steered you away from your surprisingly nonsensical statement:
Those "people who steal copper cables, refuse to obey traffic rules, or steal fuel, or sell maintenance machinery" NEVER stood before the people and promised them salvation if they were voted into power in Salone.
Once you understand that simple fact, you should be on the way to understanding the error in your thinking. Hopefully, you will then learn to think straight and understand another simple fact:
Criminals are not politicians, even though the reverse has been true in Salone.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: weasel
To: All
Date Posted: 09:47:15 08/14/07 ()
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You are missing my point. I'm explaining the reasons as to why our politicians and administrators have failed as they have. Because of the values or lack of certain values of our society with respect to collective responsibilities and national aspirations. How else would you explain the dire situation in Black Africa compared to other regions of the world? Because we have smaller brains, or Negroes are inferior?
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: Mirror
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Date Posted: 09:59:01 08/14/07 ()
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Again, the error is in your thinking. Let me try to simplify it for you once more:
The criminals who have destroyed Salone (SLPP and APC and others) do not represent the people of SL. They INDIVIDUALLY chose to become criminals and rape their own people. You can not blame the victims of the criminals for the latter's bestiality. That should be easy to understand.
As for your quesion: "How else would you explain the dire situation in Black Africa compared to other regions of the world?," the answer is rather obvious:
Africa has been subjected to more abuse and exploitation for far longer than any other region in the world. It is that sustained, unprecedented pillage and plunder -- committed mostly by foreigners over the past 500 years, and together with their like-minded African collaborators in the past 50 years -- that fully explains the devastation at the scene of their colective crimes, Africa.
I hope you can see that the reason above is NOT "Because we have smaller brains, or Negroes are inferior?"
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: weasel
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Date Posted: 10:09:27 08/14/07 ()
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That's a contributing factor, but do not dismiss the societal system as an equally contributing factor. I'd argue it is greater. As an African, a Sierra Leonean I bear responsibility for failures. I won't just put all of it on politicians, foreigners, or the West.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: Mirror
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Date Posted: 10:24:50 08/14/07 ()
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"That's a contributing factor, but do not dismiss the societal system as an equally contributing factor."
I disagree. All other regions have criminals in their "societal system." America has them, so does Europe. But, you don't either region wallowing in poverty, do you?
That should tell you that the reason is not in any so-called "societal system." Like I told you before, Africa has been pillaged and plundered by mostly foreigners and lately in collabaoration with African despots to an extent and intesnity NEVER before seen anywhere else in the world.
That is why Africa is the poorest region in the world. It is that simple. Indeed, given the unprecendented pillage and plunder of Africa, it is a miracle that people and the continent still exists.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: weasel
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Date Posted: 10:29:18 08/14/07 ()
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We agree to disagree. Thank you for the frank exhange of views.
Fare well
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: Mirror
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Date Posted: 10:34:27 08/14/07 ()
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You are welcome -- it's all in the service of our country,one compatriot at a time.
Come back any time.
Subject: Re: SLPP FORUM LINK
From: Poro
To: All
Date Posted: 07:57:17 08/14/07 ()
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Message:
Someone posted the link to the SLPP forum. Was it you? Please repost.
Subject: Re: SLPP FORUM LINK
From: Chez winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 08:08:12 08/14/07 ()
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I did! I am afraid it it is still not administered. I spoke to a Mr. Momodu Sheku, one of the contacts, he promised to do something about it - but nothing has been done. Most of the guys delegated to deal with its administration are in Sierra Leone now. We can still use it and exchange information updates on the election. i visit it from time to time sending posts for reference.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: goree
To: All
Date Posted: 07:33:08 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: goree@yahoo.com
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Message:
Since you are not a fool and do not lack manganimity, why did'nt you offer your services. Are you not displaying the same negative attitudes you are alluding to? You must be perched up in some first world corner sipping a cup of tea or a glass of wine. If you are so better than the rest of the forumites, do something better than talking....ACT
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: Weasel
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Date Posted: 07:37:03 08/14/07 ()
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The truth hurts doesn't it. It makes for hard reading, but I'm sure you'll agree with my comments even if you might not admit it. As a Sierra Leonean I am indictable too.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: goree
To: All
Date Posted: 07:46:04 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: goree@yahoo.com
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Message:
I do agree with some of your comments, but i think we should use these elections as a benchmark and move forward. You might not agree with me, but the war has made Sierra Leoneans mindful of violence and this should also be channelled into purging nepotism and all sorts of corruption in our society.
An simple example? How many of us had to pay a small bribe to get our passports to travel overseas?
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: weasel
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Date Posted: 07:57:29 08/14/07 ()
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I hoped they'd be mindful of violence, but currently posting from Sierra Leone, and having witnessed events and listened to comments from people on both sides, my conclusion is that many people on both sides just desire victory at all costs. Magnanimity is seriously lacking and many people of questionable and little competence just see the emergence of one party as a chance for spoils picking.
Subject: Re: FOOLS
From: goree
To: All
Date Posted: 08:03:10 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: goree@yahoo.com
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Message:
I think you are asking for a bit too much. I am one of the people who are looking forward to the SLPP being ousted from power. Not that I am APC, PMDC or any other, but because my opinion is that they did not deliver. I also do not want the APC to have a large majority that would defeat the purpose of democracy. There should be dialogue between parties and people from any political persuasion should be magnanimous (see how you have educated me?)enough to speak to each other.
Subject: APC Victory
From: Mohamed Tayyib-Bah
To: All
Date Posted: 07:16:57 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: tayyibbah@btinternet.com
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Message:
It is now more than abundantly clear that APC has won the general elections in Sierra Leone and is set to replace the SLPP.
But like in 1967 when a similar scenario emerged, the SLPP refused to accept APC victory and had to get the army to take over instead.
But God in his abundant love for SL would not let another military inter-regnum punctuate the political history of the country.
We know the APC has won around 60 Parliamentary seats as against 30 or so for SLPP. The results are undisputable because they are from party representatives on the ground directly involved with the elections.
Why is Christiana Thorpe sitting on the results? Is someone preventing her from announcing them? Does she realise the damage the delay will cause to her integrity and the respect she commands?
One note of caution though I'll want to sound here if APC forms the next Government: if our young, fledgling democracy must grow, there should be no reprisals and no commissions of enquiry on the outgoing Government. It is the rubbish they leave behind that will act as a manure for our young democracy so that by 2012 it shall have flourished even better so that the ruling APC would not need to resort, for fear of reprisals, to dirty tricks to stay in power. We must break the cycle of revenges and reprisals caused by these commissions of enquiries on erstwhile regimes. Let that belong to military regimes who need justification and legitimacy for their coups d'etat.
Subject: Re: APC Victory
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 07:41:50 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
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Message:
Is this Tayyib Bah formerly of the Sierra Leone Police Force? Please, answer quickly because I want to come out with things that will keep you quiet.
My greatest joy is to make sure that people who are not good examples, dont talk in public.
Subject: Re: APC Victory
From: Meddo
To: All
Date Posted: 10:51:17 08/14/07 ()
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Your greatest joy is your greatest mistake as you would soon get to realise. Sidum Luk
Subject: Re: APC Victory
From: Saidu Daphay Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:25:45 08/14/07 ()
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Message:
Alias "Saidu Alpha," who do you think you are that you can bad mouth anyone that expresses his or her opinion in this forum? Only insignificant, illiterate, and uncivilized people like you can delve into peoples personal affairs. You must be a pscycopath like John Leigh who needs mental healing. The sad thing about you is, you lack intellectual acumen to debate or present ideas and opinion for the benefit of forumites instead you have becoma an "imp" and a buffon whose contributions in the forum is an embarassment to forumites. If you need help for your uncontrollable indescipline and madness say it, I will personally refer you to a mental institution.
Subject: Re: APC Victory
From: goree
To: All
Date Posted: 07:58:14 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: goree@yahoo.com
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Message:
You should have let him talk a bit more nonsense before attacking him. Now you have let him run away......hehehehehe
you mot too fast...(no offence meant)
Subject: Re: APC Victory
From: Question
To: All
Date Posted: 07:40:27 08/14/07 ()
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Were not you a strong part of NPRC/SLPP in 1992.So do you now agree that APC could offer a better deal to the Nation??
Subject: Re: APC Victory
From: Wachi
To: All
Date Posted: 07:29:06 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: Cawuta@yahoo.com
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Message:
Tayib, as ann ex policeman and political activist, you should not condone the idea of people being accountable for their actions. One of the reasons the SLPP is having such a dismal showing is their corrupt and inept system of governance which could be determined as a 'free for all' policy. The fact that the war ended in their reign is an advantage they could have used. But they could not because of their lack of leadership and willingness to address the issues of the people. Judging from the showing of the PMDC, they also demonstrated their unwillingness to be iinclusive and compromise with the likes of Charles Margai and others. It shows in the figures. the also showed their unwillingness to compromise by the state in the capital city is in. Dirty and not pleasing to the eye. Just because the APC was in charge of the municipality, no effort was made to clear the garbage from the city. I am not putting the blame soley on the SLPP, but they were in charge and the buck stops with them.
Subject: Re: APC Victory
From: weasel
To: All
Date Posted: 07:19:48 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Continue kidding yourself of a first round victory for anyone.
Subject: Re: APC Victory
From: seydouba
To: All
Date Posted: 09:06:27 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This the the guy commonly known as OC Bah who was demoted by I.G.Bambay Kamara and was sent to Bonthe because he Bambay was having an affair with Bah's wife.
Once he raise hell he was sent to Bonthe so Bambay can have a all the time with his wife.But Bambay had a payback from Commission Cole who was also having an affair with Bambay's wife:The wife of my Boss.
Bambay forced Mr Cole to leave office.
That was the life of APC big Wigs including Momoh.
I am perplex by OC Bah's new relation with APC.
I hope Ernest will not follow the foot steps of Bambay et al...
Subject: SL-NEC RECOUNTING VOTES OR TALLYING POLLING STATION RESULTS?
From: Polling Agent
To: All
Date Posted: 07:06:07 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: Polling@yahoo.com
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Message:
Madam Commissioner, Here are a few questions for you-
1. Are you recounting or tallying? If you are recounting why did you have to employ over 3,000 of us to do the counting at the polling stations?
2. Your center is referred to as the NEC Tallying Center why are you not doing what you are supposed to be doing? We thought the tallying Center should be doing exactly that, i.e. tallying?
3. Why are you trying to confuse the people by not releasing the Parliamentary and presidential results together? In most cases when people vote for a parliamentary candidate of their choice, their presidential candidate is obvious. This is not the USA where a voter might vote for a different presidential candidate.
4. Why are you giving us aggregate numbers instead of raw data per polling station?
5. What are you doing about the stamped votes found in the office of the principal of Muslim Congress?
6. Is buying votes and issuing of duplicate ballots by candidates not a crime? Why are we not hearing your voice at this time.
Please we love our country so much and want the peoples voice to be heard. Resist the temptation and do what is right. You love god and should always seek justice for the oppressed.
Subject: Re: SL-NEC RECOUNTING VOTES OR TALLYING POLLING STATION RESU
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 08:02:53 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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many votes in the Freetown were not validated - stamped - by polling officers and therfore such votes have to be discarded. APC caused their demise! What your party should have done was to remain calm and avoid the release of unconfirmed results to the public - the whole affair is causing the problems now. We hope and pray our forces will be able to contain any disturbances.
Subject: Re: SL-NEC RECOUNTING VOTES OR TALLYING POLLING STATION RESU
From: Just Wrong, Chez
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Date Posted: 08:33:08 08/14/07 ()
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The votes in freetown were tallied and counted properly, according to law. NEC will be releasing the results in the western area today.
Subject: Re: SL-NEC RECOUNTING VOTES OR TALLYING POLLING STATION RESU
From: i parper
To: All
Date Posted: 08:57:43 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: zrelpa@hotmail.com
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I hope the NEC is not trying to play the "Nigerian game" now or the 1967 "JOHN NELSON-WILLIAMS" (the then Minister of Informtion)style of releasing the election results. I vividly recall Hadson Taylor's victory was known by 2am of the day of the poll, but the result was not officially made public for several days. Are we having reflections of 1967 here?
Subject: Radio 98.1 is a replica of radio Rwandan
From: Salone boy
To: All
Date Posted: 06:55:44 08/14/07 ()
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Message:
FM 98.1 used now by Alie bangura to spread false result for the SLPP was used during the AFRC era to kill sheikh Mustaba, Sakomah,the Temne tribal chief, Abu Black and many innocent Sierra Leoneans.
It is this same FM station controlled by Alie Bangura and his bosses messages were sent out to torture Hilton Fyle, Dennis Smith, Late Claude Campbell, JS Momoh, and many motre people.
The SLPP is not elusive and it is a shame that they are clinging in a thin thread to perpetuate their power.
My God given instinct is telling me that there days are numbered and unlike their devilish plan for Sietrra leone, thenew APC will forgive them all and call pon thme to help rebuild Sierra Leone.
There is not benefit in revenge. The new APC be a conduit for peace and reconciliation. Kabbah lacks peace and love within himself. His nature is to harm a fly and heay an eye for an eye doctrine!
Thank God our people have divorced from an evil regime and I do believe that ernest Bai Koroma when he becomes the next President of Sierra Leone will bing moral virtues at State house.
There is no point in revnging.
The good book says, avenge not yourself for vengeance belongeth unto mine.
So forumites of the APC, do not follow the malignant SLPP politicians tokill and oppress. If they ask for forgiveness, please leave them alone and teach thme good moral lessons.
Subject: Re: Radio 98.1 is a replica of radio Rwandan
From: Johnn Colee
To: All
Date Posted: 08:02:21 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: johnnncolee@yahoo.com
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What about the APC hate station that is presently disseminating hate and inciting messages to the public?
There's no way the people of Sierra Leone can vote for a majority SLPP. They know how APC destroyed the nation.
So just wait for the people to exercise their right to vote and have their votes counted.
Subject: SLPP - THE RENEWED FORCE
From: Chez Wibakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 06:01:32 08/14/07 ()
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congratulations to Hon. Victor Lewis, great great grandson of Sir Samuel Lewis and Hon Junior Navo. It was a job well done in the midst of the dangerous red devils. I can see the new parliament with young SLPP men of stamina to withstand any sorm.
Subject: Re: SLPP - THE SPENT FORCE
From: SLPP
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Date Posted: 06:10:34 08/14/07 ()
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Congratulations to Charles Margai, the son of the last true SLPP leader, Sir Albert Margai and nephew of the first true SLPP leader, Sir Milton Margai.
Charles Margai is a true hero for upending the false SLPP of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and the murderous interloper, Solomon "Bumpe Killer" Berewa, Corruption King of pre-election bribery (according to the EU).
Bravo to Charles Margai's PMDC -- the future home of true SLPP members of the Milton Margai and Albert Margai true tradition.
Subject: After all Cocorioko was right
From: Pro Cocorioko
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Date Posted: 05:34:50 08/14/07 ()
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SLPP barbarians, read here
“The chief electoral commissioner Christiana Thorpe released for the first time a set of official results. And in the results, the All People’s Congress Party led by Ernest Bai Koroma was in the lead followed by the ruling Sierra Leon People’s Party led by Vice President Solomon Berewa, who was scoring something like a distant 33,000 votes and Ernest Koroma, was leading by 102,000 votes. The third leading party was that of Charles Badaya who is way behind with about 15,000 votes,” Lewis said.
Subject: Re: After all Cocorioko was right
From: Hasaba Bundu
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Date Posted: 08:09:47 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@verizon.net
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You are a fool to say that "after all COCORIOCO was right". Giving the APC a 57% lead without giving the overall percentage of votes counted at that point and the area those votes came from was an attempt to mislead the general public. And that's exactly what the editorial board did by posting the so-called report of the APC self-appointed spokesman Alpha Khanu.You know what? Kabs-Kanu, can call anyone that points out his flaws uncouth and uncivilized as many times as he wants. We will not stop to be critics of his blind support for the APC,thats part of democracy.
Subject: SLPP BANS APC RADIO
From: MERCY LORD A.K.A SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 05:23:00 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Govt official alleges radio bias over Sierra Leone elections
Freetown, Sierra Leone – A controversy has erupted between members of the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) and the opposition All people's Congress (APC) party regarding the release of temporal elections results.
Results released by a team of radio journalists under the banner of Independent Radio Network (IRN) have been debunked by pro-Government activists through a pro-Government Radio (98.1 FM).
According to Sierra Leone's High Commissioner to Ghana, Alien Bangura, the results released are "grossly inaccurate and misleading", consequent upon which he began announcing his own statistics.
But the chairperson of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Dr. Christiana Thorpe has called for sanity on the part of the media and appealed to Sierra Leonean voters to exercise restraint in the exercise of their duties.
Meanwhile, Dr. Thorpe said henceforth she will announce progressive summary results of five voting districts including Port Loko, Bombali, Tonkolili, Western Area Rural and Western Area Urban.
Freetown - 13/08/2007
Panapress
Subject: Re: SLPP BANS APC RADIO
From: Deja Vu
To: All
Date Posted: 06:05:12 08/14/07 ()
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According to Sierra Leone's High Commissioner to Ghana, Alien Bangura, the results released are "grossly inaccurate and misleading", consequent upon which he began announcing his own statistics.
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Is this the same Alie Bangura who was a junior clerk at SLPMB in the 1980s? He was caught stealing SLPMB money. He is totally corrupt -- one of the semi-illetrates that try to use corruption to make up for their poor schooling.
This criminal should be in jail, like his hero, Tejan Kabbah, who also stole SLPMB money belonging to the people of Salone. Now, like the other SLPMB tiffman, Tejan Kabbah, this criminal semi-lliterate wants Alie Bangura is trying to steal the election for the rotten SLPP? What a disgrace.
Subject: Re: SLPP BANS APC RADIO
From: news
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Date Posted: 06:17:30 08/14/07 ()
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Alie Bangura is a propagandist of high level. He and Julius Spencer set up the first Rwandan type radio in Sierra Leone during the interregnum. He and his bosses were responsible for the indiscriminate burning of Sakomah, Sheikh Mustaba, Winston aka Chezwinkabs' uncle, Musa Kabia.
However, Kabbah had the UN in his pocket and no charges were brought against Alie Bangura. His reward is his diplomatic post in Ghana.
The voices of those they tortured and set alight with fire are crying. Kula Sambna and otehrs have not rest in their grave. Their wailing has been heard by the people of Sierra Leone and tomorrow they all will be given befitting funeral by the good force of hope the voters have approved of. Bravo to you who hjave cast your votes inspite of Kabbah's evil machination.
Subject: Re: SLPP BANS APC RADIO
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 06:54:50 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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What happened to Sakomah, Sheikh Mustaba and my uncle was a tragedy that many still wonder - why did we allow such to have happened in the presence of authorities. The investigations in why this happened is ongoing and therefore would be premature for me to comment on this. I had to save my late father-in-law who was apprehended at Eastern Police - a call came through and I called the late RES lagao, who sent a force to stop him being burnt alive. i wish I had received the same call when my uncle was surrounded. God knows why such call never came through and he has played his game. May their souls rest in perfect peace. My other uncle Sidiki Dao (RIP) was also arrested for taking a post but later released because we found out that he had to take the post or he would have died as a result of a refusal.
Subject: Re: SLPP BANS APC RADIO
From: Salone boy
To: All
Date Posted: 07:02:17 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 117-66-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.66.117
Message:
Chez inspite of my loating of your stance to support the SLPP, I do admire you for your magnanimity. You are strong and courageous man. you mean that you do not have any hatred for Berewa?
Winston, indeed, you are one out of thousands of Sierra Leoneans with that attitude.
Keep it up brother.
Subject: Re: SLPP BANS APC RADIO
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 07:42:06 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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I am a twin and my twin brother is angry with me for disagreeing with him over an issue that he was wrong. i told him the truth and found a resolve that did not hurt him. he has not spoken to me in two years. I do send him emails and sometimes call but he changes his number the moment he hears my voice. I will always think good of him and wish him to understand the world we live in. it is a complex world and in, all ernest - it is damaged. We have to find ways of replenishing the greases that keeps us stuck in our character towards one another. My mother's enemies were my friends - she abhorred me for that - what she did not know was that everytime they want to plan something bad for her they remember me. In a long run we all became a family.
I live amongst white neighbourhoods and one night went into a club and unknowingly accepted a drink from the club manager's girlfriend. Drinking and laughing with her, I saw two bouncers walk towards me and ask me to leave the club. i said why and they just grabbed me and I fought back. Police arrived and was taken away by police but not locked up. it was then the police told me what had happened and ask if I wanted to press charges. i said no and the following day in the evening, i wanted to the club and apologies to the guy. i told him that I was just an innocent clubber who had just moved to the area. he felt shy and apologised as well. we became friends and now I am always there with him most weekends. he is evwen planning a gig for either Alpha Blondy or Lucky Dube next summer. These little human understanding go a long way and allow the doers to see their rights or wrongs. that is me and I thank God for giving me such human understanding. Do not get me wrong, I am a fearce fighter for those offering no inclination to change their attitudes.
Subject: Re: SLPP BANS APC RADIO
From: Deja Vu
To: All
Date Posted: 06:40:51 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Alie Bangura is a propagandist of high level. He and Julius Spencer set up the first Rwandan type radio in Sierra Leone during the interregnum. He and his bosses were responsible for the indiscriminate burning of Sakomah, Sheikh Mustaba, Winston aka Chezwinkabs' uncle, Musa Kabia."
My friend, the genocide carried out by the SLPP's leader, Kabbah and his barbaric henchmen like Berewa, Alie Bangura and Spencer will not go unpunished. The blood of Saloneans is not cheap. These SLPP criminals will pay for their watsing of Salone people's blood for their selfish ambition.
Let them keep victimizing the people of Salone and let them keep thinking that they have got away from murder, torture, maiming and torture of the people of Salone.
They will find out what Charles Taylor found out -- that the arm of the law is very long. And it don't care if you claim to have been a president or a "radio Rwwanda" semi-illiterate like Alie Bangura. You will face the law. And then you will pay, you criminal SLPP despots. The blood of Kula Samba, Sakomah, Musa Kabia and other Saloneans will not be shed for nothing. Insh'Allah.
Subject: Re: SLPP BANS APC RADIO
From: Allie em fumble dem
To: All
Date Posted: 07:38:21 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Allie, the member of death squad is not semi-illiterate, but semi-literate.He will once again take over the Radio, with Spencer, which has been very rewarding for both of them.If people died, so what???
Subject: Re: SLPP BANS APC RADIO
From: Deja Vu
To: All
Date Posted: 12:13:22 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Nor kill me wit laff!
Alie the semi-illiterate is the same semi-literate. If he wants to know the answer to your question: "If people died, so what??? " ask him to ask one mass murderer like him called Charles Taylor. He will find him in jail at the Special court set up to deal with those most responsible for killing outr people.
Subject: Re: SLPP BANS APC RADIO
From: Deja Vu
To: All
Date Posted: 11:43:08 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Nor kill me wit laff!
Alie the semi-illiterate is the same semi-literate. If he wants to know the answer to your question: "If people died, so what??? " ask him to ask one mass murderer like him called Charles Taylor. He will find him in jail at the Special court set up to deal with those most responsible for killing outr people.
Subject: CAUGHT IN THE ACT. BEREWA BRIBED FOR VOTES
From: MERCY LORD
To: All
Date Posted: 05:20:16 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sierra Leone poll ‘falls short’
EUROPEAN Union parliamentarians who acted as observers in weekend elections in Sierra Leone expressed concern yesterday that the country’s vice-president and ruling party candidate could have handed out cash to voters ahead of the poll.
They also said the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) party could have had more access to the state-controlled media compared to other parties.
“We were ... concerned to witness queues outside the home of the current vice-president where it appeared that money was being distributed to voters and we consider this both surprising and regrettable,” said EU lawmaker Martin Callaman.
He said some SLPP supporters, questioned by observers, admitted to receiving cash in addition to campaign T-shirts.
The ruling party spokesman Victor Reider denied the allegations.
“That is baseless and unfounded, it’s not true,” he said. He accused the EU of bias.
The EU, which has nearly 100 observers watching the presidential and parliamentary polls, said overall the election process passed off well, but fell short of endorsing the entire exercise.
The EU also expressed concern on the ruling party’s tendency to “use the advantage of their position for campaigning” in such areas as access to state-controlled media and their influence on traditional leaders.
Sierra Leone has 145 paramount chiefs who oversee the administration of traditional laws.
On September 1, the traditional rulers hold their own elections to choose 12 representatives who will sit in parliament for the duration of the new legislature. — Sapa-AFP
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Subject: Chez winakabs in Europe, are you there?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 05:09:08 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Mr.Chez winakabs Europe, just in case you were referring to me when you said this ”Do not mind our friend. I saw his post with a covert message that - next time I will insult your mother - such a man is not a mouth piece for Charles please refrain from getting into a cyber altercation with him. manners maketh man (not a Bo School boy but it is a worthy motto)."
Perhaps you just found out that the world is round. Let me put it this way: I am not a Bo Boy either; I am not anybody's boy. You are one out of 5,000,000 Sierra Leone people, and I am also one out of five million.
Now about this "maketh manners man" and other such things that you were taught, are things that were inculcated and became apart of me before I was eleven and that an area in which you can never excel me, no matter how many finishing schools you go to - as my Yoruba professor has told me more than once, it's not the monkey using a knife and fork or chopsticks, that makes him the equivalent of Sir Winston Churchill.
Now your sitting there somewhere in Merry England and appointing me a "ceremonial head" of some organisation that you are cooking up at long last , is something that interest me in no way whatsoever - " let the high office and the honour go to one that would do thus."
Finally let me tell you this: I am in direct contact with people who are in direct contact with Hon. Charles Francis Margai, on a daily basis and I am not that vain, that I should want to waste his time by being in personal contact with him, or writing him personal or flattering letters – since I am no sycophant and do not look up to him for my present or future daily bread. I could be in more direct contact – and have open avenues for that directly to any of your idols in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Lansana Conteh in Guinea, to just name a few.
So you may feel like Lord Mountjoy and there we were talking about Sierra Leone matters – your Berewa , Koroma and Margai – not how much they are worth, how many legal £sterling they have in the bank or diamonds in the vault , because they have not declared their assets, or the quality and character of their love or sexual relationships, but I have traced (h153n2fls33o89.telia.com at 213.64.102.153) your ardent supporter (pretending to be in Freetown) – the toothless old hypocrite who sent this message “cornelius, you welfare parasite, instead of disparaging others why don\'t you do yourself a favor and get yourself a job, and lay off welfare?
With your big mouth, you should be down here in Freetown helping to develop our country. Instead, all you've ever done is to live on Swedish people's taxes and that old hag I hear you are shagging.” Etc and I notice that you did not object to his thoughts and language…..but Justice is on its way moving in a very mysterious way…..nothing to cry about…..and let me tell you, if I want I can tell you all about you ……or your idols, .but I am not curious about either…..I am here for a purpose……and not wasting my precious time……you may be here or there for reasons that are very different from mine.
If you knew what I know you would be laughing a little less than you do now. Now please try to respect yourselves and don’t be flippant or mess with me.
Subject: Re: Chez winakabs in Europe, are you there?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 06:26:51 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You are the author of all the things you've accused others and me. I suggested the 'Ceremonial Head' to mellow you down. The work I do does not entail me to beg you to become a participant. it is in the interest of social justice to help those, in some ways, incapable of helping themselves. When I saw your post about 'freedom of speech' and put orange and apple somewhere', I decided to avoid that kind of cyber talk with you. I advised the the other forumite to do the same - not to get engaged in a 'nasty cyber confrontation with you'. mr. Cornelius, i do not have to tell you who i know - it does not make me a better person - what makes me a better person is my reactions and treatment towards a detractor. i find joy in exploratively reasoning with such detractors. You are no exception to this category. Like I said before, you are a wonderful character with misplaced iobjectives that if channellled in the right direction and for the right purposes is a gem for our nation. I sometimes wonder why you do not use your fortune of years to transform the character image of some of us you think a 'minions' and 'boy boy'. Mr. Cornelius, my pride allows me to suffer to attain that which I want than having to owe gratitude to people I know will someday throw it back at me. I have had uncles in great position all around the world and have offered to help me. My instincts tells me not to receive such help that if they can do it, i can also do it - that is what I am. I do not beg Berewa or Kabba - When I was publishing my magazine during the civil strife - 1994 to 2001, I received the sum of $25,000.00 for an advertorial from the my government in Exile to help with my costs. I turned it down and publish their advertorial for free as it was in the interest of the country and of objectivity as we had done an advertorial on Johnny Paul Koroma. I cannot be bought.
I am not on this forum to proclaim tigritudes. i think we all have to learn to agree and disagree without coining up derogatory remarks. Have I ever blatantly of expressly called you names? What you call 'mess with me' has no bearing to whatever I have said on this forum. You simply want me to agree with you and support your thinking. I am not that sort of person. You do good, I will tell you that you are good - you are bad I will find a pleasant way for you to tell yourself that I am bad. i do not insult you, you have always insulted yourself.
let us move on to more good things and not dwell on petty bickerings. You can be a gem but the ball is in your court - your fortune of years should guide you in bringing out the gem in you.
Subject: Re: Chez winakabs ( corrected - as an act of self-respect"
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 08:40:57 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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“ i do not insult you, you have always insulted yourself.”
“ Like I said before, you are a wonderful character with misplaced iobjectives that if channellled in the right direction and for the right purposes is a gem for our nation.”
How presumptuous!
Is that you Kabia Europe ? Do you know me that well to be passing such judgment on me? Could you stand in my shoes from 1963 till today and say that? You know what my objectives are? You know what the purpose of life is? You better ask your pastor what I just asked you.
Boss, you know what a minion is? (Ask your dictionary) And what in the Gambia, we call “boy boy”?
Always talking about president Kabbah, Mr. Berewa your leader, he said this and that. Him leading you here and there and you following him to Calvary….or the Fullahtong mosque as a fisher of not men but votes.
And your philosophy of” your fortune of years “you sound like you are coming from the seventeenth century – and your idea chronological age theory about being older and wiser than most of us…….I have no argument for that – even if you perish in the dust as the last or first of your generation - for me, continuity means from generation to generation….. holding fast. And restoring any broken link in the chain, from Mt. Sinai. MY RESPONSIBILITY. You can go on leading your flock. I already have a leader and a teacher that I don’t have to vote for – because he has already been elected by the Almighty. Get that straight.
I read this last night, “Each educated person must know not only where he is going but where he comes from” (Haim H. Cohn “Human Rights in the Bible and Talmud.”)
Just because we meet on this Forum, you assume a lot of things. Your assumptions obviously start in your imagination.
When you are not casually boasting about your” profound knowledge” you are now
” exploratively reasoning” with your “ detractors”. Who are you idols? Berewa? Kabbah? Heidegger? Wittgenstein? Paul Holbach?
Have you tried reasoning with them?
You should know who you are talking to. You are not talking to Pa Kabbah or Mr. Berewa.
Perhaps it is the English language that we have in common, but there are more diverse ways of using that language than you are dreaming of in the world of inter-personal relationships – and this caries from one culture to another, where many varieties of the spoken word are not as derogatory as you imagine , unless you have a permanent chip on your shoulder or suffer from a crippling inferiority complex , which sometimes wants to lead or to surpass others – and has a tendency for kinds of crude homiletics that you persist with, on this forum wanting to teach me how to talk , how to not talk and whose ass to kick or not kick in your fight against or with your terrorists.
I repeat: I have my own teachers. Cocoriko is a meeting place for people with common decency and people with diverse cultural backgrounds and experience.
Indeed you” find joy in exploratively reasoning with such detractors”
Yes, I can hear you singing this
“"I have no name;
I am but two days old."
What shall I call thee?
"I happy am,
Joy is my name."
Sweet joy befall thee!
Pretty joy!
Sweet joy, but two days old.
Sweet Joy I call thee:
Thou dost smile,
I sing the while;
Sweet joy befall thee!
For our more literary minded Forumites:
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/blake02.html
This is your playground, your podium and our pulpit. Your arena for your intellectual and moral discourse, this is where you make ends meet. At least this is where you meet me and start assuming a lot of things.
You situate yourself on the pinnacle of arrogance from which you want to” to mellow you down” by appointing me “ceremonial head” of some organisation or the other which you want to boss? Kindly appoint one of your more qualified folk as ceremonial head – as I’ve told you before, I’m not interested in being a ceremonial or any other head. Give it to someone on the same plane, someone with whom you see eye to eye, someone more like you and less like me. Someone that corresponds more to the type of being that you are, someone who understands what you say and what you mean, someone other than me.
Pinnacle of deceit: “ mr. Cornelius, i do not have to tell you who i know”. Well, who do you know? That’s what Mr. Theodor Katz asked me when he met me at the synagogue library in 1995. “Who do you know?” he asked me, and I said , “I don’t know anybody,” and then he gave me the address to Lady Sonya , and that is where I met the one who was to be my best friend for many many years, Dr. Mikhail Tunkel.
Didn’t you write, “have had uncles in great position all around the world and have offered to help me” Is that all?
You wrote this: “I received the sum of $25,000.00 for an advertorial from the my government in Exile to help with my costs. I turned it down and publish their advertorial for free as it was in the interest of the country and of objectivity as we had done an advertorial on Johnny Paul Koroma. I cannot be bought.”
You received the sum - to help with the costs” “and then you “turned it down”. All this is just empty talk and a large some of money, relatively speaking, considering that it could have provided Tom Nyuma just the right amount to tot up what he required from your “government in Exile” for his military endeavours in your fatherland whilst Pa Kabbah was sitting tentatively in Conakry.
You condone and have condoned vilification – by your tacit agreement, by your silence when it occurs. In the culture of what is permissible in friendly discussion ( you call it debate) there are expressions , emotions that fall within the ambit of what is permissible , at least in the civilised English speaking word – where to you the expression “ don’t be daft – of which you are often most deserving causes you such great offence, that you call it derogatory - and your English is not so prim and proper either – indeed ,” manners maketh man” and despite your broken headed preachments, that does not seem to be one of your strong points lacking as you often are in simple decorum. A Krioman like me should expect better from a Temne boy like you, but I had better cease to entertain such great expectations the saying is that “empty buckets make most noise:” SO I had better learn to be a little more circumspect and more quiet.
You “suggested” the “ceremonial head” to “mellow” me “.down” You sound like you were the owner and proprietor of Bill Gate’s MICROSOFT and doing me a favour. That’s how they reportedly taunted Jesus on the cross: “Others he saved, himself he cannot save.” Now Mr. Big shot director, why don’t you do yourselves a favour “in the interest of social justice” offer the ceremonial heads (of whatever it is) to those who as you say, “in some ways, incapable of helping themselves”?
“mr. Cornelius, i do not have to tell you who i know - it does not make me a better person - what makes me a better person is my reactions and treatment towards a detractor.”
Yes, we have yet to see your tender touch as you treat those your detractors who chop off your hands and legs, your tongue and those eras with which you sometimes fail to hear , or listen to the music or that nose that will not wake up and SMELL THE COFFEE!
HUMAN RIGHTS
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Haim+H.+Cohn+%E2%80%9CHuman+Rights+in+the+Bible+and+Talmud.
Subject: Re: Chez winakabs ( corrected - as an act of self-respect"
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 08:52:07 08/14/07 ()
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Cornelius, a visit to your domicile will help me undrstand you better you are right in theat. So for now, I will wait for the moment I make a trip to your world. Stay happy and enjoy the beauty of your surrounding.
Subject: Re: Chez winakabs ( I'm here, talking to you
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 11:24:02 08/14/07 ()
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Yes Winston Kabia, as you say, you are “not on this forum to proclaim tigritudes” and neither is Professor Wole Soyinka or any of his disciples – as an honourable Yoruba man, I’d much rather pounce, but tigers don’t chase rats, or other low vermin , for breakfast.
This also reminds me of the Torah portion for this last Sabbath, Parashat Reeh
http://www.google.se/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLJ_en-GBSE234SE234&q=Parashat+Reeh
Deuteronomy 15:12-18 is about the release of slaves.
From the source of moral values, here is an explicatory note:
“” A man’s misfortune may be so overwhelming that he could not save himself by a loan. To avoid destitution, a Hebrew might sell himself temporarily; i.e. become a member of another’s household, and earn his food and shelter by his labour. The “slavery” of the Bible was in no way identical with what was understood by that term in Greece and Rome. The master had many obligations towards the bondman, and the infliction of bodily injury by the master secured the bondman his immediate freedom.
In the seventh year of service the bondman goes free, and his master is required at the time of the emancipation liberally to supply the new freedman with equipment that shall enable him to begin life again with some confidence for the future. This provision is characteristic of the humaneness and philanthropy of the Torah in regard to the bondman.” (Page 813 – “The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, 2nd edition 1967, Edited by Dr. J.H. Hertz, C.H.)
Page 537: “The system of slavery which is tolerated in the Torah was fundamentally different from the cruel systems of the ancient world, and even of Western countries down to the middle of the last century. The code of Hammurabi has penalties only for the master who destroys the tooth or eye of ANOTHER Man’s SLAVE. It orders that a slave’s ear be cut off, if he desires his freedom; while to harbour a runaway slave was considered a capital offence. AS to Greece, a slave was deemed “an animated tool” and he could claim no more rights to his master than a beast of burden. Agricultural labourers were chained. If at any time it was thought that there were too many slaves, they were exterminated, as wild beast would be. Athens was an important slave market, and the state profited from it by a tax on sales.. So much for the glory that was Greece.” The “grandeur that was Rome” was even more detestable. The slave was denied all Human Rights, and sentenced to horrible mutilation and even crucifixion at the whim of his master. Sick slaves were exposed to die of starvation, and there was a CORPORATE responsibility for slaves: Tacitus records that as late as the Empire, the 4000 slaves of one household where they had been under their master’s roof when he was murdered…….”
I should like to quote from the beginning of chapter one, from “Human Rights in the Bible and Talmud” by Haim H. Cohn: “It is difficult to speak about “human rights” in the Jewish legal tradition, for the simple reason that this tradition is a religious law, i .e as it states about itself, it is a Divine Law. Such a law by its nature does not grant rights but imposes obligations. The law that God gives is composed of “commandments”; the laws determine the obligations. The laws that the Jews accepted at Mount Sinai, which was in the category of “we will observe and we will hear” (i.e., which was based on blind obedience,) was and remains a law that imposes obligations……………. (Skipping several sentences, to “From the prohibition of “you shall not murder”, the implication is that a person has a right to live, and in order for his right to live not to be violated, one is forbidden to murder him. When I am told, “you shall not steal”, it implies (even though this is not stated in the Torah) that my fellow has the right to won his own property. If I am commanded to return a lost object, it is clear that the thing I found does not belong to me but to the person who lost it, and that person has the “right” to that object…. It follows from this that we can only deduce human rights” in religious and divine law by means of negation.” (Perhaps you would like to read this book, so that when you want to debate and knock out the rabbi, you will at least have the minimum of grounding on what he is talking about. Mr. Winikabs this is also good for you: to educate yourself some more, because when I asked about the 24 who were executed although the whole world asked Mr. Kabbah for mercy, all you said was that you has been a member of Amnesty International for over 25 years and that you are now 40 years of age. It should have been a most opportune time for you to “find joy in exploratively reasoning with” Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah – perhaps on Islamic terms in which I have qualified myself to reason as Shia, with Sunni.
You are in beautiful England. That is where I went to school and spent my childhood from the age of six.
There was no Sierra Leonean at my last birthday party. I tried to get hold of Desmond Dumbuya. And Alieu Kamara. Deen-Sie has never crossed my doorway – Hamid Taqi – Ibrahim Taqi’s brother has.
My best friend from Sierra Leone Kassim Kamara, 100% Limba, lives in the South. I talk to him almost everyday - and FM in London too and Michael Kamara and wife Cassandra (PMDC) would have been most welcome.
There were persons from Sweden, Jamaica, South Africa, Libya, Israel, United States of America, Germany, and St. Vincent.
Another presumption that you should not entertain: that I will be at the airport to meet you or any of your uncles. I choose my own friends and when I was in Sierra Leone, it was not every Tom Dick and Harry that was my friend.
It would be most unfortunate if you or the one who has been posting under different handles to insult me and my wife, should be received with an open heart and he should insult her in my presence. It would simply be a case for the undertaker, as he would most probably die of a heart attack.
The coroner would confirm that I had nothing to do with it. Supernatural ain’t it? I’d just show him the mirror and he’ll take one look into it – see what he sees, LIGHT - after which I’ll call the undertaker to take his mortal remains to its destiny.
The last person that I was hell bent in meeting – for clarity’s sake and clarifications, was chief prosecutor DAVID CRANE. Just for a very cordial and civilised public discussion - at which Rev. Alfred Sam Foray himself would not have been disappointed in me – although I doubt that I was going to take up exactly what he would say. – his way. And more importantly to meet Mr. Crane AFTER the public meeting, to say some more not so public things. After all I get along with Americans best, followed by Englishmen. You are obviously way down the line – because of your language and cultural difficulties. Anyway, Mr. Crane had probably heard that some of the savages were going to get violent and therefore he wasn’t meeting anybody – although he had met the Sierra Leone general public in Holland. I think that they said that Security could not guarantee his safety – as if we are not of the same anti –terrorist squad.
But in a public meeting, there were one or two questions that I would have liked to have taken up, on behalf of the late Chief Hinga Norman. Mind you I was well prepared in my brief – I had consulted Human Rights lawyers - about the matter, including people ( lawyers and Judges) with experience from the Rwanda Tribunal - including more than one Swedish lawyer engaged with Rwanda ( Karamoh Kabba in trying to take on Pierre Lightfoot Boston, doesn’t understand that that too was ethnic.) and you – ought to know that we have not read the English and American and Indian and Iranian and some of the Greek and Roman , Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, German, ( some other European) African and Arabic classics for nothing. I know that you are a great public speaker – perhaps even an orator in Themne – but before I open my mouth in public, I have rehearsed my song very well – that’s why I can – almost - replace Popolipo, Nene Tshakou, Caen Madoka, Diblo Dibala, Fi Carré Mwamba, Dally and others of the Soukous cream - to do any of the things that they have done in the studio – if I resist the impulse to be myself - I’d say, note perfect. Also Franco and Nico of course, Abdul Tee-Jay, some Bembeya, Zoumana Diarra, Habib Koite and his kind ( the things that he has done and that I like – mostly from the MAYA album). Don’t forget Ghana (Pa Joe) South Africa (quite a few) Zimbabwe (Jonah Moyo). Don’t forget the soulful brothers from USA, Jamaica, Haiti, South and Central America and India.
You have “pride” – I can be more arrogant or snobbish than you could dream - that is my weakness – that is what I have shunned and hated most about Creoldom, and I see you creeping that way. Don’t you try to impress with your “uncles in great position all around the world”. I know some who are not uncles – whether it is the Republicans or Democrats in power, whether it is Labour or the Conservatives messing around in Sherwood Forest –or sending a naval attaché to Freetown.
What you should be listening most attentively to, is what I do not say. If you have a trained ear (not just for musical notes) you will hear what’s missing - even before they declare their assets.
Not that the government in exile “sent you $25, 000 to help you with your august publications – and your "turn down" – of the offer (“I received the sum of $ 25,000.00 for an advertorial from the my government in Exile to help with my costs.” Did you send it back after you had received it?
But I would be more impressed if your pride (which you say goes before a fall (Others say before DESTRUCTION) and threw away that modicum of modesty and you said, “I Winston Kabia am worth so Much and fill in this blank cheque: £ -, 000, 000 ………. Some of them will shut up (rude) or be quiet(less so, their lighters ablaze to light your cigar even before you can kind your own lighter, all you have to do is to put that cigar in your mouth ---- who knows Mr. Berewa or Alhaji Momodou Koroma might even offer you to be his running mate in 2012 - if you could manifest that kind of material as opposed to theoretical cash in support of the SLPP cause.
Reeh
http://www.google.se/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLJ_en-GBSE234SE234&q=Parashat+Reeh
Subject: Re: Chez winakabs ( I'm here, talking to you
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 12:43:46 08/14/07 ()
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I pray not to ever insult someone and their family. i have nothing against you to warrant insults. I had a grangfather, edward abu kabia (Good Bo School Boy), he was 79 then. I will bring up topics that makes him angry . he knew I was learning. You are a teacher on this forum but you do not know that. I learn a lot from my opponents by knowing and capturing their moments of anger. it is something that strengthens me. Now you know my ways, please do not be upset. Now look:
I would not want to come to your house - what for. i will be too scared. look at your attitude towarsds my person on the forum. things that I say outside the main focus of the moment is to make us look at the main focus.
Subject: Re: Chez winakabs in Europe, are you there?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 08:31:03 08/14/07 ()
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YOu don't know me. You don't know the iceberg either.
I am still being very kind.
“ i do not insult you, you have always insulted yourself.”
“ Like I said before, you are a wonderful character with misplaced iobjectives that if channellled in the right direction and for the right purposes is a gem for our nation.”
How presumptuous!
Is that you Kabia Europe ? Do you know me that well to be passing such judgment on me? Could you stand in my shoes from 1963 till today and say that? You know what my objectives are? You know what the purpose of life is? You better ask your pastor what I just asked you.
Boss, you know what a minion is? (Ask your dictionary) And what in the Gambia, we call “boy boy”?
Always talking about president Kabbah, Mr. Berewa your leader, he said this and that. Him leading you here and there and you following him to Calvary….or the Fullahtong mosque as a fisher of not men but votes.
And your philsophy of ” your fortune of years “ you sound like you are coming from the seventeenth century – and your idea chronological age theory about being older and wiser than most of us…….I have no argument for that – even if you perish in the dust as the last or first of your generation - for me, continuity means from generation to generation….. holding fast. And restoring any broken link in the chain, from Mt. Sinai. You can go on leading your flock. I already have a leader and a teacher that I don’t have to vote for – because he has already been elected by the Almighty. Get that straight.
I read this last night, “Each educated person must know not only where he is going but where he comes from” (Haim H. Cohn “Human Rights in the Bible and Talmud.”)
Just because we meet on this Forum , you assume a lot of things.Your assunptions obviously start in your imagination.
When you are not casually boasting about oyur ” profound knowldge” you are now
” exploratively reasoning” with your “ detractors”. Who are you idols? Berewa? Kabbah? Heidegger? Wittgenstein? Paul Holbach?
Have you tried reasoning with them?
You should know who you are talking to. You are not talking to Pa Kabbah or Mr. Berewa.
Perhaps it is the Engslih langauge that we have in common, but there are more diverse ways of using that langauge than you are dreaming of in the world of inter-personalrelationship – and this caries from one culture to another, where many varities of the spoken word are not as deregoatry as you imagine , unless you ahve a permanent chip on your shoulder or suffer froma crippling inferiority complxe , which sometimes wnats to lead or to surpass others – and has a tendency for kinds of crude homiletics that you persist with, on this forum wanting to teach me how to talk , how to not talk and whose asss to kick or not kick in your fight against or with your terrorists.
I reapat: I have my own teachers. Cocoriko is ameeting place for people with common decency and people with diverse cultural backgrounds and experince.
Indeed you ” find joy in exploratively reasoning with such detractors”
Yes, I can hear you singing this
“"I have no name;
I am but two days old."
What shall I call thee?
"I happy am,
Joy is my name."
Sweet joy befall thee!
Pretty joy!
Sweet joy, but two days old.
Sweet Joy I call thee:
Thou dost smile,
I sing the while;
Sweet joy befall thee!
For our more literary minded Forunites:
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/blake02.html
This is your playgroiund, your podium and our pulpit. Your reana for your intellecual and moral discourse, this si where you make ends meet. At lesat this is where you meet me and start asssuming alot of things.
You sitaute yourself on the pinnacle of arrogance from which you want to ” to mellow you down” by appointing me “ceremonial head” of some organisation or the other which you want to boss? Kindly appoint one of your more qualified folk as ceremonial head – as I’ve told you before, I’m not interested in being a ceremonial or any other head. Give it to someone on the same plane, someone with whom you see eye to eye, someone more like you and less like me. Someone that corresponds more to the type of being that you are, someone who understands what you say and what you mean, someone other than me.
Pinnacle of deceit: “ mr. Cornelius, i do not have to tell you who i know”. Well, who do you know? That’s what Mr. Theodor Katz asked me when he met me at the synagogue library in 1995. “Who do you know?” he asked me, and I said , “I don’t know anybody,” and then he gave me the address to Lady Sonya , and that is where I met the one who was to be my best friend for many many years, Dr. Mikhail Tunkel.
Didn’t you write, “have had uncles in great position all around the world and have offered to help me” Is that all?
You wrote this: “I received the sum of $25,000.00 for an advertorial from the my government in Exile to help with my costs. I turned it down and publish their advertorial for free as it was in the interest of the country and of objectivity as we had done an advertorial on Johnny Paul Koroma. I cannot be bought.”
You received the sum - to help with the costs” “and then you “turned it down”. All this is just empty talk and a large some of money, relatively speaking, considering that it could have provided Tom Nyuma just the right amount to tot up what he required from your “government in Exile” for his military endeavours in your fatherland whilst Pa Kabbah was sitting tentatively in Conakry.
You condone and have condoned vilification – by your tacit agreement, by your silence when it occurs. In the culture of what is permissible in friendly discussion ( you call it debate) there are expressions , emotions that fall within the ambit of what is permissible , at least in the civilised English speaking word – where to you the expression “ don’t be daft – of which you are often most deserving causes you such great offence, that you call it derogatory - and your English is not so prim and proper either – indeed ,” manners maketh man” and despite your broken headed preachments, that does not seem to be one of your strong points lacking as you often are in simple decorum. A Krioman like me should expect better from a Temne boy like you, but I had better cease to entertain such great expectations the saying is that “empty buckets make most noise:” SO I had better learn to be a little more circumspect and more quiet.
You “suggested” the “ceremonial head” to “mellow” me “.down” You sound like you were the owner and proprietor of Bill Gate’s MICROSOFT and doing me a favour. That’s how they reportedly taunted Jesus on the cross: “Others he saved, himself he cannot save.” Now Mr. Big shot director, why don’t you do yourselves a favour “in the interest of social justice” offer the ceremonial heads (of whatever it is) to those who as you say, “in some ways, incapable of helping themselves”?
“mr. Cornelius, i do not have to tell you who i know - it does not make me a better person - what makes me a better person is my reactions and treatment towards a detractor.”
Yes, we have yet to see your tender touch as you treat those your detractors who chop off your hands and legs, your tongue and those eras with which you sometimes fail to hear , or listen to the music or that nose that will not wake up and SMELL THE COFFEE!
HUMAN RIGHTS
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Haim+H.+Cohn+%E2%80%9CHuman+Rights+in+the+Bible+and+Talmud.
Subject: Re: Chez winakabs, understand this: it's in simple English
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 06:49:30 08/14/07 ()
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Remember what the Almighty says about our teacher Moses:
"the most humble person on the face of the earth?" (Numbers 12:3)
We are not, are we?
This is what I wrote and the beginning of the thread:
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/37664.html
and
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/37666.html
Now, Chez winakabs Europe, just in case you were referring to me when you said this ”Do not mind our friend. I saw his post with a covert message that - next time I will insult your mother - such a man is not a mouth piece for Charles please refrain from getting into a cyber altercation with him. manners maketh man (not a Bo School boy but it is a worthy motto)."
Perhaps you just found out that the world is round. Let me put it this way: I am not a Bo Boy either; I am not anybody's boy. You are one out of 5,000,000 Sierra Leone people, and I am also one out of five million.
Now this " manners maketh man" and other such things that you were taught, are things that were inculcated and became a part of me before I was eleven and that’s an area in which you can never excel me, no matter how many finishing schools you go to – at your late age - as my Yoruba professor has told me more than once, it's not the monkey using a knife and fork or chopsticks, that makes him the equivalent of Sir Winston Churchill.
Now your sitting there somewhere in Merry England and appointing me a "ceremonial head" of some organisation that you are cooking up at long last , is something that interests me in no way whatsoever - " let the high office and the honour go to one that would do thus."
Finally let me tell you this: I am in direct contact with people who are in direct contact with Hon. Charles Francis Margai, on a daily basis and I am not that vain, that I should want to waste his time by being in personal contact with him, or writing him personal or flattering letters – since I am no sycophant and do not look up to him for my present or future daily bread. I could be in more direct contact – and have open avenues for that, directly to any of your idols in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Lansana Conté in Guinea, to name a few.
I resisted the very strong impulse to reply to the Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma’s very moving personal letter to all of us - in 1967 I dictated and sent off a congratulatory message to Mr. Siaka P. Stevens after he had won the election and been appointed prime minister of Sierra Leone, by Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston - my mother was at the statehouse the whole of that day - and I know. I sent that telegram in the name of the principal of FBC – with his permission and on my advice. I sent off another one in my own name. I have never seen Siaka P. Stevens with my own eyes, although I lived opposite the Cotton Tree with the Sierra Leone Museum opposite me and the USIS directly behind me - not even when he was mayor of Freetown. Pa Ashwood I saw almost every day, Lucien Genet, the Frenchman who was mayor of Freetown I saw, Mr. I.T.A. Wallace – Johnson I saw many many times, but Pa Shaki, as fate would have it, I have never seen…. Let’s leave Sir Milton, Sir Albert and Brigadier David Lansana out of it – I’ve seen a lot of them and some others too.
From the early seventies I learned from Idries Shah, to “resist the impulse to teach” - to want to teach and that’s why you don’t find me writing articles in any of your papers (like the omniscient type of articles that flood our papers) and only forward personal opinions here. I do not say, “Come follow me.” Or vote for this or that party. You should look - with your eyes open, and decide for yourself/ yourselves…..
In this egalitarian forum I meet all those who come here on an equal footing but that does not mean that I am here to take ideological or spiritual directions from the likes of Chez Winkabs or John Ernest Leigh – you are not the light of our moral compass.
So you may feel like Lord Mountjoy and there we were talking about Sierra Leone matters – your Berewa , Koroma and Margai – not how much they are worth, how many legal £sterling they have in the bank or diamonds in the vault , because they have not declared their assets, or the quality and character of their love or sexual relationships, but I have traced (h153n2fls33o89.telia.com at 213.64.102.153) your ardent supporter (pretending to be in Freetown) – the toothless old hypocrite who sent this message, to this forum under an anonymous name :
“cornelius, you welfare parasite, instead of disparaging others why don't you do yourself a favor and get yourself a job, and lay off welfare? With your big mouth, you should be down here in Freetown helping to develop our country. Instead, all you've ever done is to live on Swedish people's taxes and that old hag I hear you are shagging.” Etc
I notice that you did not object to his thoughts and language…..but Justice is on its way moving in a very mysterious way…..nothing to cry about…..and let me tell you, if I want I can tell you all about you ……or your idols, .but I am not curious about either…..I am here for a purpose……and not wasting my precious time……you may be here or there for reasons that are very different from mine.
If you knew what I know you would be laughing a little less than you do now. Now please try to respect yourselves and don’t be flippant or mess with me, indeed manners maketh man – and even a Temne man like you should try to restrain himself in himself-exhalation- you don’t look that big to me.
Sir Winston Churchill
http://www.google.se/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLJ_en-GBSE234SE234&q=Sir+Winston+Churchill
Subject: Re: Chez winakabs, understand this: it's in simple English
From: Chez winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 07:27:25 08/14/07 ()
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Mr. Cornelius, I do not have any negative feelings about you nor anyone on this forum for not seeing what I see. it is your choice to see what you see.
Regards to :
“cornelius, you welfare parasite, instead of disparaging others why don't you do yourself a favor and get yourself a job, and lay off welfare? With your big mouth, you should be down here in Freetown helping to develop our country. Instead, all you've ever done is to live on Swedish people's taxes and that old hag I hear you are shagging.” Etc
I would not pay any attention to such as the greatest of the greatest at some point in Europe have had to receive support from the wlefare state as a result of many factors. For instance, between 2002 and 2004, I was in a battle with the Her majesty's Inland Revunue for non payment of £1,406,000.00 over a period of six years. The matter was taken to court by them. I had lost my business during these periods and was not earning any income. The judge asked me if I was on welfare - I told him that I was not and he further asked - how I was surviving. I told him that I receive gifts from people I have helped before. he instructed that I had to receive welfare support so as to be accountable for statistics purposes. if I do refuse to do so, I have to provide on a regular basis my means of income. i went on the DOLE'. the case lasted for 18 m months and it was discharged. i did not have to pay a cent of the sums alleged by the plaintiff - HM Inland Revenue. I lost all because of trying to learn the hard way and I have being using these experiences to uplift myself again. Whilst doing that I have to abide by the authorities in showing every income I receive and should have access to welfsare assistance if such income is nil.
There is no wrong in being on the 'Dole' what is wrong is being trapped and forget your purpose of progressing the self.
I do not subscribe to what he said but it should not bother you.
Please understand that, I have respect for your fortune of years and that is why i am always among elders - they listen to me and I listen to them. I have benefitted from you in directly on this forum and elsewhere - i may not always have to tell you this. I am a man hungry for knowledge as I believe it is through wisdom, knowledge and understanding that a man attains altruism - a thing I so crave for.
I am a very simple person when it comes to mannerisms. My previous problems were with our police force in the UK. In every society there are others who do not conform to discipline enshrined in their code of conduct. I was a target by certain elements in the South east London met police service until after loosing so many cases against me that they rested.
Let us learn to be polite and push our points acrss without negative confrontations.
I tend to look into a sentence not as it seems but what I make of it - the same way I write. My teacher at the Albert Academy always criticised me for doing that. Stay happy - our win will not affect your rights and the govt responsibilities to you. Under Berewa, things will change - a big lesson has been learnt.
Subject: Why cussing Cocorioko? read here
From: news
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Date Posted: 04:01:35 08/14/07 ()
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More Results Expected from Sierra Leon’s Elections
By Peter Clottey
Washington, D.C.
14 August 2007
Clottey Interview With Kevin Lewis
Listen to Clottey Interview With Kevin Lewis
Sierra Leone’s Independent Electoral Commission is expected to release more results today (Tuesday) from Saturday’s presidential and parliamentary elections. Preliminary results released Monday by the commission showed the opposition All People’s Congress Party leading with incumbent Vice President Solomon Berewa trailing in second place. The elections have been declared free, fair and credible by both local and international observers. Meanwhile full results are expected to take several days. If no presidential candidate wins more than 55 percent, a runoff will be held in September.
VOA’s Kevin Lewis in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown tells reporter Peter Clottey more about the first preliminary results released last night.
“The chief electoral commissioner Christiana Thorpe released for the first time a set of official results. And in the results, the All People’s Congress Party led by Ernest Bai Koroma was in the lead followed by the ruling Sierra Leon People’s Party led by Vice President Solomon Berewa, who was scoring something like a distant 33,000 votes and Ernest Koroma, was leading by 102,000 votes. The third leading party was that of Charles Badaya who is way behind with about 15,000 votes,” Lewis said.
He described a gunfire in the capital Monday as an isolated incident.
“The gun shot happened at the hotel just before a press conference which was supposed to be organized by the European Commission observers and the hall where the press conference was supposed to take place was where the bullet hit one of the glasses. It was retrieved and the chief of the Criminal Investigation Department has said that they are still investigating, but no arrest has been made,” he pointed out.
Lewis said the international election observers were impressed with the organization of the elections, but complained about an alleged vote-buying scheme perpetuated by one of the presidential contestants.
“The election observers most specifically, it was the chairman of the European parliamentary delegation, Martin Kalaran who is an MP (Member of Parliament) from the United Kingdom. He made the statement that the election officers were both surprised and concerned that crowds of people have been seen outside the house of the vice president, and they had investigated and found out that the vice president was not only dishing out election materials. But he has also been dishing out money to the crowds of people. And they said that was both surprising and regrettable,” Lewis said.
Subject: SLPP found wanting
From: Boli
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Date Posted: 03:26:44 08/14/07 ()
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This is quite amazing. The ruling party calling the EU monitors biased? Wonders never seize. Away with lazy and corrupt beaurocrats.
One warning for the APC, if you win and don't deliver on your promises, the same fate awaits you in five years time.
http://www.dispatch.co.za/2007/08/14/Foreign/apoll.html
Subject: Re: SLPP found wanting
From: Salia Koroma
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Date Posted: 04:05:49 08/14/07 ()
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is this really a story? Is that not what the democrats and republicans do when they give their supporters free rides on buses to the polls as well as tees or hats?
Subject: Re: SLPP found wanting
From: Poor advocate
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Date Posted: 03:49:58 08/14/07 ()
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Absoloutely, we will use the same straw against the APC if it attepts to bring nepotism and tribalism in governmnet circle. Our pen is mightier than the sword and in this century where good triumps over evil, we will left no stone unturned in our quest to see ordinary Sierra Leoneans regain their past glory.
Me and others who are profoundly patriotic will fan the flame of fire if the new governmnet tries to turn back the hand of the clock.
Out consituent is the people of Sierra Leone especially the poor who have nobody to defend them.
APC, your founding fathers abhor tribalism. Althoigh it did not help you, be cause many turn coat ended up as water melon politicians.
Hope the real winner will help Sierra Leone poor.
Subject: Thank God for Closing APC Radio Rwanda
From: IsatuK
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Date Posted: 02:22:22 08/14/07 ()
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I have been watching patiently to see if any patriotic minded Sierra Leoenean or friend of Sierra Leone will warn the general poblic about the immenese dangers the APC radio was causing. I know SLPP wanted to show their democratic nature as they have allowed virtually all kinds of free speech down to even the most popular campaign songs against them that would have never even been a dream under an APC government, but that was doubly irresponsible. This station is the most irresponsible in the entire hostroy of our country in terms of its content, and could very well lead Sierra Leone into that unfavored "W" we all hate to hear. It plays on the minds of poor people not to vote for their rights, but instigates cvivl war through violence, and intimidation. In case we do not know the consequences of this check Radio Rwanada and the "cockroaches". This is what inspired so many illiterates in Rwanda to kill innocently with glory other peacefule cititzens including children creating Africa's genocide catastophe. We as Sierra Leoneans must stand against this, as up to the time votes were being casted, this station was airing terrible things against opposition candidates, and instigating violence.
This decision was a bit too late, but please let us not allow this kind of democracy, our country has suffered too much to allow insitgators like this. My party PMDC d.d not win, but APC has just pushed me over with their continuos threat of violence if they don't win, sending people in taxis and poda paods to threaten others, and acute abuse of media privilliges granted to them. This was a lost opportunity for APC, and this station had we had one like this might have helped us even further to create a legitimate third force.
APC, please stop this violence thing, you are alienating some of us who would not want to see our beloved country destroyed. Democatric power must not come by force. We need the stability now to attract investors. We know SLPP may have some advantages as an incumbent, but you also have one as an opposition, play to those, if you cannot convince on the issues, then you are not a worthy opponent. Long Live sierra Leone, and hope we wait and get the total and final results soon and stop this dangerous game of who has won and who has not.
Subject: Re: Thank God for Closing APC Radio Rwanda
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 03:03:49 08/14/07 ()
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It's my understanding that the APC radio was closed because it was giving out umauthorised election projections that were favourable to the APC. Yours is the first time I've heard anyone liken this exercise to a Rwanda-style Radio Interahamwe! I suspect the closure has everything to do with government's desire to control information and more importantly suppress unflattering reports. Typical politician problem. Democracy is a messy creature but we shouldn't be afraid of it.
Subject: Re: Thank God for Closing APC Radio Rwanda
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Date Posted: 03:27:43 08/14/07 ()
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Mammy blseeing,
This was the last straw that could lead us into such situations, and the government or whosoever is in charge has to take a responsible decision in the interest of the nation. The best time for the government to have stopped this if it was for a flattering exercise would have been before the election. I see it as little reason even though that does merit a point. The reality for those of us having been on the ground saw this as a dangerous practice and irresponsbile use of a medium like radio and it's reach. I likened this to some of the hate radio stations you have in other parts of the world. They prey on poor and illitetrates, and do nothing for them other than use them to get elected. Their behaviour in public instigation is no less of how the Radio Rwanada's started, and we should not allow to see the full tyrant of such tolerance no matter how democratic we want to be.
APC cannot use the threat of violence to get into power, for those of you cloes to them, they will woefully loose in the second rounds if they cannot provide a stable forum for people to vote on. Despite all the economic growth we want, it is impossible to fathom without a stable environment, and right now no one can convinece that APC is doing that using mediums as it's radio station. I am freightened of an repeat of the "w" hence I will not be clamouring for an APC regime come second rounds. We will still keep a watchful eye over SLPP who has not faired much better than APC, but has at least managed a stable envirnment for businesses to come in, and hopefully getting the message the people of Sierra Leone is sending them.
Subject: Re: Thank God for Closing APC Radio Rwanda
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Date Posted: 05:17:00 08/14/07 ()
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"This was the last straw that could lead us into such situations, and the government or whosoever is in charge has to take a responsible decision in the interest of the nation."
The lie in your bogius statement is easy to spot. Fact is the SLPP government has NEVER acted "in the interest of the nation." Check out its treasonous record: No light, no water, no food, no jobs, no hope.
Only a traitor SLPP apologist would see the shameless SLPP acting to promote its own interest in hiding the truth from the people of Salone by closing the APC radio illegally, and call it acting in the people's interest.
You SLPP despots and anti-democracy dictators want to return Salone to your 1996 election-rigging ways. The people will not stand for it this time. They have given your criminal SLPP leaders notice to vacate. And if the SLPP refuses to vacate, the people will evict them.
Subject: Re: Thank God for Closing APC Radio Rwanda
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Date Posted: 03:26:10 08/14/07 ()
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SLPP is planning to close COCORIOKO too. just watch.
Subject: Re: Thank God for Closing APC Radio Rwanda
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Date Posted: 04:22:57 08/14/07 ()
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FOR GOD AND HEAVEN SAKE ISATU IS 100 PERCENT CORRECT PERHAPS YOU DID NOT KNOW THE ROLE THE RWANDA RADIO PLAYED IN THE MASSACRE IN THAT COUNTRY.
ISATU WELL SAID SISTER
FORREST
Subject: Re: Thank God for Closing APC Radio Rwanda
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Date Posted: 05:11:20 08/14/07 ()
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SLPP HAS ALREADY MASSACRED MANY MILLIONS OF SIERRA LEONEANS' HOPE FOR A DECENT LIVING. THAT IS WORSE THAN ANY RADIO COULD DO.
STOP YOUR CORRUPTION. STOP YOUR TRIBALISM. LEARN TO LOVE YOUR COUNTRY ABOVE YOUR UNDEMOCRATIC, RADIO-CLOSING, FAILED, THIEVING SLPP. LONTA
Subject: Re: Thank God for Closing APC Radio Rwanda
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Date Posted: 05:27:45 08/14/07 ()
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Why is it that everyone who supports the SLPP is CORRUPT and a TRIBALIST. For someone living in a civilised world I cant believe you are saying these things, perhaps it should not surprise me seeing the APC and RUF are now one, waiting to finish the job the RUF started. Rwanda`s massacre started with what your APC`s radio was doing
FORREST
Subject: Re: Thank God for Closing APC Radio Rwanda
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Date Posted: 05:56:27 08/14/07 ()
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"Why is it that everyone who supports the SLPP is CORRUPT and a TRIBALIST."
Because the SLPP is a corrupt and tribalistic party.
Subject: Re: Thank God for Closing APC Radio Rwanda
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Date Posted: 10:46:12 08/14/07 ()
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they may be corrupt is in comparison to APC, but tribalism may be of the old SLPP, I am lloking at their candidates, and this is the most diverse they have ever gotten. They actually had primaries and from what I gather it was free and fair, APC sold their symbol to the highest bidder, or one that came from the tribes they favor.
Subject: Kabbah and the SLPP are digging their grave
From: new APC fan
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Date Posted: 00:42:47 08/14/07 ()
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The people have spoken that enough is enough. No more SLPP. The people want new leaders who they will test to lead them into a greater pinnacle. Kanbbah has failed to read the writing on the wall. Today,his term as President will be expired. Npw he is calling the POlice to mess p with the volatile political situation. Mark my word, when the heat is higher, Kabbah will have no hiding place.
He must not follow his instinct. The deays of the devil are near and the people will march to take power as they have voted enthusiastically for a change.
Kabbah stop your thievery attitude.
Subject: Re: Kabbah and the SLPP are digging their grave
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 02:10:06 08/14/07 ()
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You are the cause of our problems. How can you give out results that are not official and expect calm in the country. Now you want to blame Kabba. SLPP will win and you cannot do anything about. A attempt of chaos will see you all punish with hard labour in the new maximum prison.
Mistakes have happened but we are not in for a joke.
Subject: Re: Kabbah and the SLPP are digging their grave
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 01:47:50 08/14/07 ()
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If you win, win fairly. If you lose, lose graciously. But if you rig the elections, that fraud will be as terrible a betrayal as Foday Sankoh's terror. It will be a nasty prank to have poor, hungry people stand in line for hours only for the government to jump from behind a corner and say "Babu Yai O". The results of this vote will tell us whether we have a democracy or just another patch of hell in Africa's miserable real estate.
Subject: Re: Kabbah and the SLPP are digging their grave
From: Sheku Turay
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Date Posted: 00:58:02 08/14/07 ()
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Mr. Do you think this is your chemistry class where you experiment? Some of you just say words because you have a hole in your head you call mouth without even thinking. Some of you should be arrested for such bogus statements - "SLPP are digging their grave". This is really unfortunate that even at this initial stage of our democracy, people still have this "careless talk" mentality that has destroyed the country for so long. Mr. the elections have been declared as free and fair by international observers so we would do ourselves as great favor if we could let NEC do their job. Stop spreading these falacies and making false aspersions.
Subject: Re: Kabbah and the SLPP are digging their grave
From: saloneboy
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Date Posted: 01:12:11 08/14/07 ()
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Who has ordered the security to be on high al3rt? Who has stuffed fictitious ballot papers in the boxes?
You are disingeneous to your self and your thievery class. Talking about arrest, you are living under Kabbah tutelage. Your arrest is imminent that is why you are trying to falsify the results.
I dare you to resist the people's call for a change. Me and you are apart because I seek the love of ordinary Sierra Leoneans.Unlike, you who will lose your daily bread in the case of an SLPP defeat.
I am saying it again that Kabbah and the SLPP are digging their own grave. Any stupid action by Kabbah paid thugs will be met with stiffresistance.
Subject: Re: Kabbah and the SLPP are digging their grave
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 02:22:29 08/14/07 ()
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We have only received 12+% of the total results. And these results from the stronghold of APC. Wait and listen for the total results. We know we are doing well and that we are going to win. Your supporters have spoken and we have more supporters than you - therefore the majority is the voice of the people.
Subject: USAID Builds Bridge, School and Road in Kabala Town
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 00:38:44 08/14/07 ()
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In a similar community-donor partnership, USAID funds made it possible for the children of Katombo to move out of the makeshift structure made of bush sticks and palm fronds that until recently served as their classroom. There, Ambassador Chaveas and USAID employee Julie Koenen-Grant were greeted by a procession of grateful boys and girls who began their studies in the new classrooms in September 2002. A tour of the new structure reveals high-quality craftsmanship inside and out - complete with paved floors, windows, and staff quarters. In his remarks to the people of Katombo, the Ambassador stressed the importance to social and economic development of ensuring that girls as well as boys receive an education.
The small, but important, sum of $8,500 provided through the STEG program for the Katombo school went toward the purchase of building materials, tools and furniture. This was complemented by the community's contribution of labor, the teacher's stipend and meals for the teacher.
The U.S. Ambassador concluded his visit with an expression of thanks to all NGOs that are operating in Sierra Leone. "NGOs such as CCF, CARE, Africare, and WorldVision, are providing vital services that otherwise would not be available to local communities at this time. They are vital to Sierra Leone's recovery."
USAID Builds Bridge, School and Road in Kabala Town
U.S. Ambassador Peter R. Chaveas cuts the ribbon for the opening of a new bridge, school and road in Kabala, in northeastern Sierra Leone.
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"This community has taken an important step in a long journey," said Alie Kargbo, Program Manager of Christian Children's Funds, at the July 23, 2002 opening ceremony of three recently completed infrastructure projects in the village of Kabala, in a beautiful and remote corner of northern Sierra Leone. Indeed, life has taken a step in a positive direction for many communities in Koinadugu, Bombali and Tonkolili through some 53 public infrastructure rehabilitation projects completed through the USAID-funded Skills Training and Employment Generation (STEG) program.
At the ceremony, the U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone Peter R. Chaveas expressed his satisfaction that assistance is reaching such a needy area of the country. "We believe in the future of Sierra Leone and are committed to rebuilding the country." The Ambassador expressed particular thanks to the ex-combatants--CDF and RUF alike--who provided the labor for the public infrastructure projects: "That you have found it possible to work together is welcome. Sierra Leone must never again know the destruction it has seen over the past decade."
The bridge, school and road projects were financed by USAID and implemented by Christian Childrens Fund through the Skills Training and Employment Generation (STEG) project. Another non-governmental organization,World Vision, implements a similar program in wartorn districts of Kono and Kailahun. Both NGOs work with local communities to provide skills training, rehabilitation and micro-credit to the areas of Sierra Leone that were hardest hit by the 11-year conflict.
In Nyafrandor, just outside of Kabala, the STEG program provided the tools and other resources necessary to rehabilitate five miles of road and a bridge that serve as an important trade route connecting Koinadugu with Kono District and Guinea. The villages served by the road and bridge provided the necessary labor, including that of ex-combatants. To round out the collaborative effort, the UNDP provided supplies and cash for the project, and Catholic Relief Services provided U.S.-supplied food for the local workforce.
The United States of America is the largest humanitarian donor in Sierra Leone. In 2002, over $60 million in disaster, food, and development assistance will be provided to the country through the combined efforts of USAID (including Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and Food For Peace) and the U.S. State Department's Bureau for Population, Refugees and Migration.
Subject: A GROWING CONCERN OVER RESULT DELAYS
From: THE CONCERN NOW
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Date Posted: 00:01:13 08/14/07 ()
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Sierra Leoneans are started to be wary and deeply concern about the delays of the presidential and parliamentary results. The word that is going around town is why NEC is so slow in announcing the election. Tensions are mounting high as Tejan Kabbah other the security forces to be al3rt. What is going on ladies and gentlemen. Why Kabbah is al3rting the security forces? Does he has any secret that he knows will cause violence in the streets? Please Kabbah do not slide this country into chaos again. In your recent interview you said you do not have any regret for what happened in the war until the interviewer forced you to change your statement. The people are stronger than the security forces.
Subject: Re: A GROWING CONCERN OVER RESULT DELAYS
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 01:28:08 08/14/07 ()
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This delay in releasing the results only breeds sinister rumours, especially in one of the most corrupt countries in the world, Sierra Leone. Maybe we have been too hasty to congratulate Ms. Thorpe for doing a swell job? Maybe the Terrible Ones have finally applied Obassanjo's Principles of Political Success:
1) Choose the electoral commissioner carefully. Make sure she has something in her past she wishes to hide. Then make her an offer she can't refuse.
2) 80% of Africans are illiterate and will believe anything they hear. So make sure it is your message they hear only. Opposition radio and pesky newspaper editors? Shut them up and throw them in jail for-oh this is funny oga-inciting unrest!
3) Election monitors from the U.N, U.S.A, European Union, Madagascar, Timbuctu? Let them in. Let them in at the polling stations. Let them bring in their cameras and computers and what not. They will eat up that stuff and write glowing reports about credible elections and so forth. But don't worry, sooner or later, no matter how many Red Bulls they drink, Mr. Monitor go take a nap O. Dat nar de time we go switch ballot quick, quick. To paraphrase James Carville, It's not the voting, stupid. It is what you report. Heh! Heh!
Subject: Sierra Leone on high alert as results delayed
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 23:31:44 08/13/07 ()
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Sierra Leone on high al3rt as results delayed
August 14, 2007, 06:00
Sierra Leone's outgoing leader, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, has ordered security forces to remain al3rt in the wake of delayed poll results. He made the statement on state radio as voters' patience appeared to wane.
The order also followed a claim by the opposition All People's Congress that it had won Saturday's closely-contested presidential and legislative elections.
The national electoral commission has released less than one percent of results and full results are expected to take several days.
The elections were billed as a test of the West African country's stability after an 11-year-civil war.
Subject: U.S. congratulates Sierra Leone for peaceful election
From: Bamaby Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 23:26:27 08/13/07 ()
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U.S. congratulates Sierra Leone for peaceful election and urges continued respect for democratic rule
The Associated Press Published: August 13, 2007
WASHINGTON: The United States congratulated Sierra Leone on Monday for its peaceful and successful elections and urged continued respect for the constitutional rule in the West African country.
International observers said Saturday's presidential elections were fair, free and open. Ballot-counting was continuing Monday to determine whether one of the seven candidates who ran to succeed President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah would receive the required 55 percent majority to avoid a runoff election.
In congratulating the nation, U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said, "The independent National Electoral Commission and the Sierra Leone police in particular are to be commended, as well as the general electorate, who voted in record numbers."
Subject: ELECTORAL CHART
From: MODERATOR
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Date Posted: 22:57:36 08/13/07 ()
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Election updates - 13 Aug 2007: 15:00 from NEC
Subject: Re: ELECTORAL CHART
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 06:45:36 08/14/07 ()
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I had assumed the other chart was more reader-friendly, why was it not used?
Subject: Re: ELECTORAL CHART
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Date Posted: 08:10:45 08/14/07 ()
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Thanks for the input, chez. It's a working progress yet to be brought under control. I'll put Kono in and work towards retrieveing the format you approved. Cheers!
/Mod
Subject: Re: ELECTORAL CHART
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Date Posted: 02:44:17 08/14/07 ()
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your chart is flawed. where is Kono on your chart?
Subject: ELECTORAL CHART
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Date Posted: 22:46:54 08/13/07 ()
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CHART
Subject: APC is leading, but results so far still ambiguous
From: Shembu
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Date Posted: 22:12:59 08/13/07 ()
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Good job on the results published so far. It is very clear that APC and Ernest Koroma are leading. However, to me the results still do not mean much. For one reason, only a handful of districts have been reported and the majority still nothing is mentioned. Is Ms. Thorpe trying to play games with us by announcing results from the former stronghold of the SLPP in the last minute and miraculously have their numbers inflated? Just a thought.
I also wonder why NEC did not make a statement regarding the unilateral decision by the dying SLPP of closing down the APC radio station. To my SLPP supporters, don't you think that closing down an opposition's radio station for apparently falsifying preliminary results is wrong? I mean only the APC can get hurt by misinforming their supporters as everyone knows that the only acceptable source of information regarding election results is that from NEC. But I guess the dying SLPP is flexing its last muscle as "arata mus shake tail before ei die".
Subject: CHARLES MARGAI: WHAT NEXT?
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 22:05:20 08/13/07 ()
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We, the PMDC, may not have won the election this year but I think the final tally will show that we did pretty good for such a young party. There will be a big push by the runoff parties for Margai's endorsement. They will be throwing all sorts of goodies: cabinet slots, pork barrel projects, veto power, etc. Margai should firmly reject these entreaties and instead opt for being a responsible opposition party. The PMDC must build on our impressive gains this year. If we join a coalition now, we will be swallowed up by the established parties and will never establish an identity of our own. As a responsible opposition, we will be able to support good government policy and hold the ruling party's feet to fire when they misbehave financially or threaten democracy. If we work hard enough and cover the bases, we will be in a very strong position in 5 years time. If I were Charles, I will release my supporters to vote their conscience, hopes and aspirations while remaining true to the BANGA BUNCH. Wait till 2012! Long live DEMOCRACY!
Subject: Re: CHARLES MARGAI: WHAT NEXT?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 02:32:44 08/14/07 ()
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Brilliantly put forward! The words of a man with nobility and honour. I highly commend you for these statement. That is how one builds strength. Any sign of greed and lack of foresight may put your party in the dark again and very soon into oblivion. You've demonstrated profound wisdom and if you are listened to - you party might do well next time round. I really love your words - a truely decent.
Subject: Re: CHARLES MARGAI: WHAT NEXT?
From: Kama
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Date Posted: 23:22:50 08/13/07 ()
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Why did n't Margai just wait till 2012 in the first place, instead being a spoiler. He knew he was not going win the Presidency in the first place. I am sure if a lot of his supporters from the South are left to vote their conscience in the second round, they are definitely not going to vote APC.
I understand his resentment towards SLPP as he was treated rather shuddily. I would respect him more if he formed has party to genuinely bring a third force and create democracy in Sierra Leone. But his was done out of revenge to SLPP and a quest for power.
Unfortunately, Sierra Leone is a two party country,. ALL PMDC will do is to take votes from SLPP and enhance an APC victory. They do not have enough regional appeal to win elections.
Good luck in 2012.
Subject: Re: CHARLES MARGAI: WHAT NEXT?
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 00:41:00 08/14/07 ()
Email Address: mammysweh@gmail.com
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Believe me, Margai did not run because of some childish tantrum to avenge the Infamy at Makeni. He simply is a more formidable strategic visionary than those politicians who support the crude and cynical paradigm that SLPP=SouthEast=Mende; APC=North=Temne. Margai was not a spoiler who took votes from SLPP. If "san-san" was thrown into the SLPP's garri, it has less to do with Charles and everything to do with:
a) Wretched policies full of bluster and bombast signifying nothing.
b) No visible infrastructure; not even an inch of tar or a glimmer of electricity.
c) Venomous corruption and the insidious dismantling of the rule of law without learning anything from our recent bloody history.
d) The unpardonable treachery by Berewa and Co against one of the greatest Sierra Leoneans ever, Chief Hingha Norman. This current SLPP leadership sat around and did nothing as this brave man who saved us from that devil Foday Sankoh was villified as a cannibal and an arch tribalist. I am "Thaimneh Som Ki Thaima" (Deep Temne) and I throw up whenever I think about how Pa Norman's name was dragged through the mud just to get him out of the way and give Berewa a clear shot at the presidency. Until the SLPP apologises and rehabilitates the name of this good man, not even my cat will vote for them.
Subject: Re: CHARLES MARGAI: WHAT NEXT?
From: Lady J
To: All
Date Posted: 07:52:06 08/14/07 ()
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Message:
" (d) The unpardonable treachery by Berewa and Co against one of the greatest Sierra Leoneans ever, Chief Hingha Norman. This current SLPP leadership sat around and did nothing as this brave man who saved us from that devil Foday Sankoh was villified as a cannibal and an arch tribalist. I am "Thaimneh Som Ki Thaima" (Deep Temne) and I throw up whenever I think about how Pa Norman's name was dragged through the mud just to get him out of the way and give Berewa a clear shot at the presidency. Until the SLPP apologises and rehabilitates the name of this good man, not even my cat will vote for them."
Mammy Blessing (Tell God tenki Lovey Dovey convince u for change u name. Ar bin want for konk u hade) ..
Well said .... I don't know if they have it in their sick bones, to apologise and rehabilitate that great man's name.
Peace and Blessings
Subject: FYI
From: ELECTORAL WATCHDOG
To: All
Date Posted: 20:54:55 08/13/07 ()
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http://cocoriokoarchive1.tripod.com/poll.htm
Subject: ATTENTION KABS - RESULTS NEC
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 20:47:44 08/13/07 ()
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Message:
I have scanned and uploaded the pdf doc. Here's the latest:
Subject: Re: ATTENTION KABS - RESULTS NEC
From: PK
To: All
Date Posted: 21:24:15 08/13/07 ()
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Entered From: c-76-18-243-125.hsd1.fl.comcast.net at 76.18.243.125
Message:
What happen with those dreaming and unrealitic fellahs?Show me where is the SLPP leading
Subject: Sweh John Leigh
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 19:46:52 08/13/07 ()
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Entered From: c-76-106-80-14.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.106.80.14
Message:
The moment of truth is here but were is John Leigh . He threw so many insults on Charles D Great. John Leigh will be the SLPP scapegoat after second round, if there is any.
Subject: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
From: COCORIOKO
To: All
Date Posted: 19:44:28 08/13/07 ()
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Message:
20070813_1500_NationaProgressivelResultsByPSP2v2_1_.pdf
Subject: 2007 Elections
From: Mohamed Tayyib-Bah
To: All
Date Posted: 19:10:27 08/13/07 ()
Email Address: tayyibbah@btinternet.com
Entered From: host81-129-164-145.range81-129.btcentralplus.com at 81.129.164.145
Message:
The way things are going now remind me of 1967. And if we aren't watchful, history will repeat itself.
In 2004 the ruling SLPP lost, like in 1964, the Freetown City Council to the opposition APC.
In 1967, the SLPP dragged its feet, as it now doing in 2007, in releasing the election results which the APC was winning but which in the end was declared a 32-32 tie. The stalemate ended in a military intervention.
Now whatever is causing the very slow trickle of the election results is difficult to pinpoint, especially after ruling out NEC boss Christiana Thorpe for the delays. She has proved her neutrality by her stance in the Kailahun election fraud.
Is the SLPP thinking of ways tampering with the results? Why must the Government be bothered by the opposition APC releasing 'false' results of APC gains? Afterall if APC lies for its supporters, is it not the latter that should take their party publicity organ to task?
Ladies and Gentlemen, fellow Sierra Leoneans, I am appealing to the ruling SLPP not to provoke a situation it cannot handle.
I especially appeal to President Kabbah to use 1967 as his guiding light in any decision or judgement relating to these elections.
God have mercy on poor Sierra Leoneans!!!
Subject: Re: 2007 Elections
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 21:19:10 08/13/07 ()
Email Address: mammysweh@gmail.com
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Cockroaches come out to play games in the dark. Ms Thorpe has done a commendable job in conducting the elections. I hope the game of screw-the-vote is not indulged in by the political mafiosi in the weekend darkness. The irrational decision by the government to shut down a radio station for not making government-sanctioned noises is an ominous start to this new chapter of our democracy. Our politicians need not look at elections as a blood sport of rig-or-die. if you lose an election today, try again in five years! We at the PMDC are still licking our wounds from this election. If the results are not fraudulent, we will accept it and support Charles Margai again in 2012. The SLPP leadership and supporters should realize that any political chicanery that thwarts the will of the people will be disastrous for the nation but more so the SLPP who will end up harvesting a crop of thorns in the political wilderness. Thanks El-Tayyib for sounding that wise piece of advice.
Subject: Re: 2007 Elections
From: COCORIOKO FANATIC
To: All
Date Posted: 21:40:21 08/13/07 ()
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Message:
Thank COCORIOKO who brought it to you.
Subject: Re: 2007 Elections
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 22:12:09 08/13/07 ()
Email Address: mammysweh@gmail.com
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
You are right. Where are my manners? Thanks COCORIOKO.
Subject: Re: 2007 Elections
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 05:44:00 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
MAMMEY SWEH YOU NOR GET ANY
FORREST
Subject: Hey, a general has been---; You shut your m---! Where was I?
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:51:54 08/13/07 ()
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Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25
Message:
July 18, 2005
Defence tries General for N35m fraud; CBN, Defence officials summoned
A General Court Martial (GCM) constituted by the Chief of Defence Staff, General Alexander Ogomudia, will today begin to unravel the alleged embezzlement of N35 million meant for troops in Siera Leone.
By Chris Agbambu
Deputy Bureau Chief, Abuja
At the centre of the storm is Director of Peace Keeping Operations, at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Brigadier General Joseph Abdulahi.
The court, headed by Major General Atembi, DHQ Director of Communications, will investigate how he allegedly received a DHQ letter with which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) raised a cheque for the amount, meant for troops’ rotation after their assignment..
A Defence source disclosed at the weekend that Abdullahi allegedly used the cheque to open an account with a commercial bank from where he disbursed the money.
He said some officials of the CBN and the bank have been summoned to the court martial today.
It is alleged that Abdullahi initially withdrew N25 million cash which he took to the director of finance, Army Headquarters – without any accompanying letter – but it was rejected on the grounds that the department does not collect huge amounts in that manner.
He allegedly took back the money and raised a cheque for the amount with the connivance of the accomplices and returned to the Army Headquarters with a letter that the money was meant for troops in Sierria Leone.
The lid was blown up following complaints that Abdullahi no longer reports for work, and that his life style has changed, buying cars and building homes.
Ogomudia summoned him to explain his sudden wealth; he could not. Ogomodia immediately set up a Board of Inquiry (BOI) to probe him.
The report indicted him and Ogomudia passed it to President Olusegun Obasanjo who in turn approved the setting up of the court.
During the BOI, Abdullahi alleged that he gave N4 million to a retired general, but the man denied it.
Abdulahi is now under house arrest at Mogadishu Barracks.
A number of officers have been lined up to testify for the prosecution. They include Abdullahi’s assistant, Group Captain Akpofore, who signed cheques to withdraw money from the bank.
The driver of the accused is also expected to testify.
Subject: DOUBLE STANDARD NEVER END IN SLPP CIRCLE
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 18:16:48 08/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.243
Message:
Yesterday when I reported that Mile 91 has been CAPTURED by APC an SLPP appologist attacked the way I used the word attack instead of won and trying to invoke the past civil war to make things look fearful. Here is a report that has just surfaced that SLPP shutdown the APC radio station by force. This is the type of things this holigan should condemn if he is sincere. A physical violence has occurred here and he has not said a thing about that. I first heard this news from Alieu Sesay and other SLPP supporters and I was waiting for the reaction of the guy who want to show us the implication of spoken words, but has not said a thing. DOUBLE STANDARD eh?
Subject: Re: DOUBLE STANDARD NEVER END IN SLPP CIRCLE
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 19:43:36 08/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Political,
The person that confornted you about the use of the word "captured" is Bra E and he is not a hooligan nor is he an SLPP apologist. He is a member of the PMDC and a very fine and opinionated gentleman if you would like to know. I sopeak to him many times a week and even though we have our differences we almost always have common ground.
Subject: Re: DOUBLE STANDARD NEVER END IN SLPP CIRCLE
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 20:18:31 08/13/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Alphaa Alieu, Kabor.
Apparently, brother POLITICAL
is on a roll. Dee bra jus
dae fire fitti-fatta lek Bursting-Loose.
I will buzz you during the weekend, Alphaa.
Subject: Re: DOUBLE STANDARD NEVER END IN SLPP CIRCLE
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 22:12:32 08/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
Well bra we are in the same pot. Sorry bra I thought those thoughtless SLPP attackers that attacked me, but failed to condemn the SLPP violent action in closing down the APC radio station.
Bra Eviable are you going to condemn the SLPP action? It's tantamount to provocation. What do you say about that bra?
Subject: Re: DOUBLE STANDARD NEVER END IN SLPP CIRCLE
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 23:11:14 08/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sprint-65-160-229-33.smf.ragingwire.net at 65.160.229.33
Message:
Friendly fire... Una try dae
Subject: Re: DOUBLE STANDARD NEVER END IN SLPP CIRCLE
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 05:51:35 08/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-153-199-173.range81-153.btcentralplus.com at 81.153.199.173
Message:
E Pass friendly FIRE sef, dem go begin fet den sef gisnor, wait nor mor
FORREST
Subject: INTERVIEW WITH OUTGOING PREZ
From: Researcher
To: All
Date Posted: 18:13:13 08/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-243-209-171.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.243.209.171
Message:
Check this:
Subject: Re: Thank you for your Election Update
From: Andrew
To: All
Date Posted: 17:52:40 08/13/07 ()
Email Address: englishmuffin152000@hotmail.com
Entered From: udp018606uds.ucsf.edu at 128.218.228.230
Message:
Mr Kanu,
I want to thank you and your newspaper for updating us Sierra Leoneans overseas on the recent election held in our beloved country. All the other newspapers we have in that country were unable to do us justice. I am very pleased and continue the good work, regardless of what people with ill intent are saying.
I am proud of you.
Subject: Re: Thank you for your Election Update
From: Jack Bauer
To: All
Date Posted: 17:54:41 08/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-169-119-247.altnpa.eas