Subject: Mende man I am
From: Ndomawa Vandebla
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Date Posted: 11:04:20 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
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I am a Memde Man
I came from Southwest
I attended one of the fulumunku school in Southwest Some called it Kayamba.
I am a full fledge SLPP since birth
But seeing the Picture at Cocorioko this morning, I will tell my people to keep their vote. Giving it to APC is not so OK even though I will not complain so much. Keeping their vote for the next election is the best thing.
A woseh bondensia election va.
Subject: For Alieu and your incompetent SLPP government..culled from
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 10:55:14 08/30/07 ()
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In total Sierra Leone receives over $300m per year - although its population is just five million people.
But the country has few roads, little running water and less than 10% have access to electricity.
According to a British assessment Sierra Leone is unlikely to meet any of its Millennium Development Goals.
Life expectancy is 41 years, the 8th worst in the world, and Sierra Leone has the highest maternal mortality ratio and child mortality rates
Life expectancy
The statistics are grim. In 2005 Sierra Leone was ranked 176 out of 177 countries in the UN Human Development Index (HDI). Life expectancy is currently 41 years, the 8th worst in the world, and Sierra Leone has the highest maternal mortality ratio and child mortality rates in the world.
Unable to afford medical treatment, many turn to witch doctors
The healthcare system was largely destroyed in the war along with much of the other vital infrastructure. Now the Sierra Leone government is struggling to improve facilities - many of which were burnt down or destroyed.
In some areas there is a skeletal system in place, heavily subsidised by foreign aid, and supplemented by healthcare charities and aid agencies. Foreign non-governmental organisations supply 60% of the Ministry of Health's budget, and spend almost double the amount the government spends on healthcare.
But the system the Government has developed is largely privatised - meaning that patients are charged a fee for treatment they receive. When 70% of the population live below the poverty line, and 26% live in extreme poverty the costs are all too often seen as an unaffordable luxury. Children, pregnant women and the elderly are all supposed to receive free treatment but in practice that doesn't always happen.
Witch doctors
So for many people in Sierra Leone other forms of care have become the norm.
I was taken to visit a local witch doctor, Pa Bassi, on the outskirts of Freetown. The two hour journey to get to his mud built house is regularly undertaken by those who come to visit him. On the day I visited he told me that he had 10 patients waiting to see him. He specialised in the treatment of mental disturbances.
It has been estimated that up to 40% of the population of Sierra Leone have been traumatised by the effects of the war and require psychiatric help. But the country has only one psychiatrist, and only one mental hospital. Only the very disturbed are admitted - so for the many people suffering from less severe mental illness, there is no-where else to go.
Stigma
Pa Bassi claims putting perfume in people's eyes is "good for the brain"
Pa Bassi offered to show me one of his standard treatments. It was perfume.
At the side of his house his patients waited. Because they were mentally disturbed, many of them had been restrained - chained to heavy objects to prevent them from running away.
Pa Bassi demonstrated - pouring perfume in the eyes of two of the boys waiting to be seen. This, despite their screams, he claimed was good for the brain - as it cleared out the system.
So great is the stigma of mental illness, that people leave their relatives with him, and sometimes never return. My translator told me that Pa Bassi was a humanitarian because he saw patients without charge. A woman I spoke to had paid for treatment by giving vegetables in return.
In a country which is so desperately poor it is little surprise that such forms of health care flourish. People I met in Sierra Leone wonder when life is going to get better. With so much foreign money being committed here one can only hope it is soon.
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Subject: THE APC/AFRC/RUF PLAN TO USE TRIBALISM IN SECOND ROUND
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 10:50:17 08/30/07 ()
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NEW APC' VALORIZES AFRC'S JOHNNY PAUL KOROMA
SAIDU DAPHAY SESAY
WASHINGTON D.C , AUGUST 30, 2007.
SPECIAL REPORT
WASHINGTON D.C.
The North America branch of the APC is working on a home-made video documentary that will soon be released. It is part of the propaganda war that the APC executive is financing, and the Washington DC branch of the APC is hoping to send copies of the said documentary to Freetown on September 4.
The video is centered on the Sandline affair in which it is alleged the government-in-exile of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah made an arms deal with a Canadian Businessman in order to arm mercenaries of the Executive Outcomes and Kamajor militia fighters to overthrow the military junta of Johnny Paul Koroma.
ANTI-KAMAJOR SENTIMENTS
The video is especially nuanced to show Kamajor fighters as predominantly Mende killers who targeted only Temne people in Freetown. The video further presents Johnny Paul Koroma as a popular hero who foresaw the persecution of northerners under the current SLPP government in 1997 and wanted to stop it.
The video starts with clips from Sorious Samura's Cry Freetown that show Kamajor fighters arresting an alleged rebel. the narrator announces that the alleged rebel is being arrested because he is a northerner. The irony is that Sorious Samura's documentary was recorded during the AFRC-RUF assault on Freetown and not during the overthrow of the AFRC.
The video's narrator announces that the kamajors were used to overthrow the AFRC just because the AFRC was seen as a northern junta. At several points, the narrator states that because Kamajors allegedly killed AFRC junta fighters, the APC must arrest and try all Kamajor leaders and known former fighters including all SLPP leaders and chiefs who are known to jave supported the CDF.
The video also mentions that all northern chiefs who were associated with Kaprs, Gbethis, and Tamaboro, and all Kono leaders associated with the Donsus will be arrested, stripped of their chieftaincy, tried, and executed.
PREPARING THE WAY FOR "NECKLACE" KILLINGS
The APC North America executive is doing this with the full knowledge of Ernest Koroma, whose speech appears at the end of the video urging northerners to vote for the APC. He is also aware that his rival for the presidency, Solomon Berewa is presented in the video as the chief persecutor of the AFRC, and as being personally responsible for killing northerners. He is declared the number one target, and the narrator does not stop himself from saying that Solomon Berewa must be publicly lynched as soon as the elections are over.
In an e-mail memorandum leaked to this press, the APC officials urge the national executive to show this video on campaign tours in the north of the country and in the eastern parts of Freetown. They also urge the collection of old tires which should be used to burn SLPP leaders to death on the streets of Freetown. In the same e-mail, the APC executive official asked that as soon as the September 8 run-off results are announced, APC should close all airports, sea ports, and land routes in order to prevent any SLPP leader from leaving the country. The e-mail also asks that Brima Acha Kamara, the Police chief, is a traitor to the northern cause and he must therefore be placed under arrest.
JOHNNY PAUL KOROMA TO BE DECLARED A NATIONAL HERO
The video shows several public and television speeches by Johnny Paul Koroma and members of his junta. The narrator calls for a declaration of Johnny Paul Koroma as a national hero who should be granted immediate reprieve by any incoming APC government.
THE AFRC AGENDA OF THE "NEW APC"
As troubling as this development is, it simply highlights the agenda of the "new APC." It points out that the people behind sponsoring and driving the "new APC" have their agenda of ethnic baiting and violence. It is known whether the international community is aware of this development.
The makers of the video plan to release and show the videos 2-3 dys before the elections in particular areas of the country, and to deny the ruling SLPP any time to counteract the propaganda.
Subject: TEJAN KABBAH AND SOLOMON BEREWA SHOULD BE PUT ON TRIAL
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 10:28:07 08/30/07 ()
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How can anyone look at the eyesore that is Freetown and explain that Sierra Leone has been absorbing millions of dollars of foreign largesse over the past ten years? Accepted, foreign aid alone can never serve as a country's developmental mainstay. However, the injection of huge amounts of foreign aid in a country can at least soften the pangs of underdevelopment by showing minor indications of national reconstruction.
Although Sierra Leone did not receive an unconditional Marshall Plan, the chunks of aid pumped into the country by donors should have turned Freetown from a filthy pigsty to a shanty town with the barest comforts of life.
Tejan Kabbah and Solomon Berewa may be Sierra Leoneans, but their unfeeling attitudes toward this unfortunate West African country is so criminal that these men should be put on trial for treasonable negligence. I have said this over and over, and will say it again. A country can only change its national course when criminal politicians are held accountable for inflicting punishing politics on their people.
Sierra Leone can surely attempt to renounce criminal politics by setting an example that puts Tejan Kabbah and Solomon Berewa on trial for criminally neglecting a country they swore to serve.
Clips of Freetown shown on CNN during the elections were so repellent that Sierra Leoneans cannot afford to pretentious. Ours is a criminally failed nation. Any Sierra Leonean capable of putting NATION over TRIBE will agree that Tejan Kabbah and Solomon Berewa recently served as sworn enemies of the state they pledged to love. Putting these men on trial for theft and treasonable negligence will serve our barely-birthed democracy well. After all, democracy without responsible politics is a mere concept that takes hungry citizens to the polls without wanting to restore their human dignity.
Subject: SLPP'S CORRUPTION EXPOSED TO THE WORLD
From: Fan
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Date Posted: 09:59:20 08/30/07 ()
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Posted by SLPP on August 30, 2007 at 07:46:04:
In Reply to: Re: The SLPP mess: Milton Margai is spinning in his grave! posted by kamara on August 30, 2007 at 06:47:41:
"If you APC fanatics want to be treated seriously then, Scan the documents and the donor publications that stated the govt stole the funds. or else it is just APC propaganda. Just because Fan says so does not mean it is so."
Edmund Koker, you are again unwittingly demonstrating that you do not understand what you read. The fact that the SLPP govt. of President Tejan Kabbah and Vice President Solomon Berewa is thoroughly corrupt does not come from the fact that "Fan says so,' as you stated in proof of your inability to understand what you read. The kleptomaniac SLPP leadership's corruption is documented in various publications such as IRIN.
Furthermore, scanning the publications containing the condemnation of the SLPP's Kabba-Berewa government for their globally notorious corruption is not the ONLY means available to you to acquaint yourself with those facts. Assuming you know what the Internet is, you can easily obtain the same information yourself from it.
Your failure to do so does not obligate serious people to divert their time to unserious activities by spoon-feeding you publicly available information about SLPP corruption.
Here are the facts you will find if you ever acquire the ability to be serious:
1. The U.N. Secretary General, in a report to the U.N. Security Council in May, 2006, stated that massive corruption by the SLPP regime of President Kabbah (and Vice President Solomon Berewa) was endangering the stability of Salone.
2. In 2005, the G8 denied Salone's request for debt relief because of institutional corruption practiced by the SLPP govt. of President Kabbah and VP Berewa.
3. In 2005, the European Union endorsed the G8 finding that the SLPP govt. of President Kabbah and VP Berewa was so corrupt that the otherwise deserving people of Salone should be denied debt relief.
Of course, you would not understand that the above condemnations of the kleptomaniac SLPP regime of Kabbah and Berewa are facts -- since you never understand anything you read. Hence your reference to facts attesting to the SLPP's globally notorious massive corruption as "APC propaganda." Clearly, your lack of understanding of the English language extends to your inability to distinguish among the letters of the alphabet -- hence your confusing the letters U.N. for APC.
You also do not understand the meaning of the word you used ("partizan"), since someone who does would not regard the G8, the U.N. and the EU as partisans in Salone
Subject: Re: SLPP'S CORRUPTION EXPOSED TO THE WORLD
From: OUCH
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Date Posted: 10:32:36 08/30/07 ()
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Fan, Kudos to you! you sure tell it like it is, without fear or favor.
Subject: Re: SLPP'S CORRUPTION EXPOSED TO THE WORLD
From: Critical Observer
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Date Posted: 10:51:57 08/30/07 ()
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What strikes me is how this writer clinically dissects Sengbe Koker's pro-SLPP argument and slices it up into small pieces before shredding it into smitherens.
Fan, do yar sorry for am now. we pipul dem kin say, if you falla Babu for een worwor, you go kill am wit beat.
Subject: EUROPEAN UNIONS ALLOCATION TO SALONE.
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 10:17:21 08/30/07 ()
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Man, you full of shite..
http://ec.europa.eu/development/Geographical/RegionsCountries/Countries/Sierra%20Leone.htm#mdp
Click on this and see where the money goes and who it goes to..
Financing instrument / Budget line Period covered Indicative commitment (M€)
------------------------------------------------
ECHO – Humanitarian Relief (implemented via UN agencies and specialised NGOs) 2003 9.0
Food Security (implemented via specialised NGOs) 2002-2004 3.7
EIDHR – European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights (implemented via local institutions and specialised NGOs) 2002-2004 6.0
Co-financing with NGOs 2002-2005 1.7
Subject: Re: EUROPEAN UNIONS ALLOCATION TO SALONE.
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 10:28:29 08/30/07 ()
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This is where the piper said to spent the money..
Should we be crying when our government had minimal control in how EU allocat1ons are spent..?
http://ec.europa.eu/development/Geographical/RegionsCountries/EUAfrica_en.cfm
So, what is the EU Strategy for Africa all about?
The overarching goals of the Strategy are to support Africa’s efforts to reach the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and make Europe's partnership with Africa more efficient.
The Strategy is built around the following pillars:
Without Good governance and peace and security, no lasting progress is possible. The EU will therefore support both the African Union and individual African countries to make progress. For example, the EU is financing the Africa Peace Facility, which is the main source of financing for the peacekeeping operations undertaken by the African Union.
Trade, regional integration and interconnectivity are necessary factors to promote economic growth. And without economic growth, it is not possible to beat poverty. The EU will therefore make efforts to conclude trade agreements with African regions and will support Africa in building regional markets.
A new Europe-Africa Infrastructure Partnership has been proposed, to improve transport, energy, water and ICT networks on the African continent. Also, the first ever EU-Africa Business Forum will take place in November 2006.
More support is needed in areas that increase the living standards directly, such as health, education, and a safe environment. Most of the actions in these fields need to be taken close to the people will therefore be part of the country-specific programmes. At the continental level, the EU will for example support the African Union in setting up the Nyerere Programme, a student exchange scheme for improving higher education.
Subject: Re: EUROPEAN UNIONS ALLOCATION TO SALONE.
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 11:04:46 08/30/07 ()
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Fool it is still under your watch!! When the piper says jump fools like the SLPP should not say how high!! That is because it is us who have the stone in our shoes. But because man dem wan chap they dance and then jump! Stupid Fulumunku SLPP cant even provide light! And in the year 2007 put on four street lights for four days!!Ha HA HA HA HA I should be crying for my county but some times man has to cry till he laughs!
Man dem you na tell dem Green dunces their incompetenses.
Subject: APC NORTH AMERICA BANS BUFORD HWY
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 09:52:08 08/30/07 ()
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After a disastrous showing yesterday on this forum, the Moniker Buford Hwy is no more...
Reliable sources( CocorioAPCO)informed me that Buford is on suspension and under investigation for AWOL from his station in Freetown.
In an exclusive interview with APC's KABS KANU in New Jersey, Mr Kanu was very upset that BUFORD will disgrace the party in such a manner and in a FORUM considered the "BACKYARD" of APC.
In his own WORDS, KABS says " This Dude Phacked us up, he has being misleading us all along, and you know i have never Banned any APCer on this FORUM but BUFORD will be the first".....
The forum awaits your new moniker....
Subject: Re: APC NORTH AMERICA BANS BUFORD HWY
From: FORUM POLICE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:20:34 08/30/07 ()
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Dear Independant Observer,
Kabbs Kanu has told me he does not know you nor has he disscussed anthing with you.Kabbs Kanu warned you last nite to desist from postings delebrately false Stories.
You have violated the rules of the forum and admistrative action will be taken against you for quoting somebody who never spoke to you.
This forun was set-up to disscuss serious matters affecting Sierra Leone and we are not going to allow you to destroy the authenticity of the forum with false stories about people.
Thank you for indulgence
Forum Police
Subject: Re: APC NORTH AMERICA BANS BUFORD HWY
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 10:24:07 08/30/07 ()
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Message:
Well will you please, please show me where i did that..?
For you information.. Independent Observer is my only more knicker.
No need for me to change more knickers..
I can handle you all and stand my ground.
So ban if you want...
I hope you have an IP log..
Subject: Re: APC NORTH AMERICA BANS BUFORD HWY
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 10:23:47 08/30/07 ()
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"Dear Independant Observer,"
You are posting to the wrong person you fool
Subject: Re: APC NORTH AMERICA BANS BUFORD HWY
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 09:59:57 08/30/07 ()
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Man i love that word..
More knickers..
HEHEHEHEHEH..
Subject: I know the SLPP is corrupt bUT Berewa did not....kamara(SLPP
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 09:23:20 08/30/07 ()
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kamara you fool(I notice you never use a capital K)the billions went missing under Kabba and Berewa's watch. What does that make them? You better come up with convincing answers before I do!!
Subject: Re: I know the SLPP is corrupt bUT Berewa did not....kamara(SLPP
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 09:39:37 08/30/07 ()
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Basco! If you do not provide the evidence here on this forum... Ar shame for you...
You used to be a heavy hitter on this forum, but with passage of time, you have become an EFULUFU.....
What is happening?
Subject: Re: I know the SLPP is corrupt bUT Berewa did not....kamara(SLPP
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 11:12:07 08/30/07 ()
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Alieu your answer
Culled from NewsNight BBC NEWS
In total Sierra Leone receives over $300m per year - although its population is just five million people.
But the country has few roads, little running water and less than 10% have access to electricity.
According to a British assessment Sierra Leone is unlikely to meet any of its Millennium Development Goals.
Life expectancy is 41 years, the 8th worst in the world, and Sierra Leone has the highest maternal mortality ratio and child mortality rates
Life expectancy
The statistics are grim. In 2005 Sierra Leone was ranked 176 out of 177 countries in the UN Human Development Index (HDI). Life expectancy is currently 41 years, the 8th worst in the world, and Sierra Leone has the highest maternal mortality ratio and child mortality rates in the world.
Unable to afford medical treatment, many turn to witch doctors
The healthcare system was largely destroyed in the war along with much of the other vital infrastructure. Now the Sierra Leone government is struggling to improve facilities - many of which were burnt down or destroyed.
In some areas there is a skeletal system in place, heavily subsidised by foreign aid, and supplemented by healthcare charities and aid agencies. Foreign non-governmental organisations supply 60% of the Ministry of Health's budget, and spend almost double the amount the government spends on healthcare.
But the system the Government has developed is largely privatised - meaning that patients are charged a fee for treatment they receive. When 70% of the population live below the poverty line, and 26% live in extreme poverty the costs are all too often seen as an unaffordable luxury. Children, pregnant women and the elderly are all supposed to receive free treatment but in practice that doesn't always happen.
Witch doctors
So for many people in Sierra Leone other forms of care have become the norm.
I was taken to visit a local witch doctor, Pa Bassi, on the outskirts of Freetown. The two hour journey to get to his mud built house is regularly undertaken by those who come to visit him. On the day I visited he told me that he had 10 patients waiting to see him. He specialised in the treatment of mental disturbances.
It has been estimated that up to 40% of the population of Sierra Leone have been traumatised by the effects of the war and require psychiatric help. But the country has only one psychiatrist, and only one mental hospital. Only the very disturbed are admitted - so for the many people suffering from less severe mental illness, there is no-where else to go.
Stigma
Pa Bassi claims putting perfume in people's eyes is "good for the brain"
Pa Bassi offered to show me one of his standard treatments. It was perfume.
At the side of his house his patients waited. Because they were mentally disturbed, many of them had been restrained - chained to heavy objects to prevent them from running away.
Pa Bassi demonstrated - pouring perfume in the eyes of two of the boys waiting to be seen. This, despite their screams, he claimed was good for the brain - as it cleared out the system.
So great is the stigma of mental illness, that people leave their relatives with him, and sometimes never return. My translator told me that Pa Bassi was a humanitarian because he saw patients without charge. A woman I spoke to had paid for treatment by giving vegetables in return.
In a country which is so desperately poor it is little surprise that such forms of health care flourish. People I met in Sierra Leone wonder when life is going to get better. With so much foreign money being committed here one can only hope it is soon.
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Subject: Re: I know the SLPP is corrupt bUT Berewa did not....kamara(SLPP
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 09:53:02 08/30/07 ()
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Alieu you have still not answered my questions about Chistiana Thorpe' rejection of ballots in Kailahun. You think I have forgotten. If you come out and accept that it was an attrocious deed I will answer to your posts!!
Subject: Re: I know the SLPP is corrupt bUT Berewa did not....kamara(SLPP
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 09:56:18 08/30/07 ()
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Message:
And you keep dodging my question on How many fake ballots were discovered in the NORTH?
Your assertion that the SLPP mismanaged 2 Billion dollars has being discredited.
Any more LIES from DESPERADOS?
Subject: Re: I know the SLPP is corrupt bUT Berewa did not....kamara(SLPP
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 09:27:10 08/30/07 ()
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Well about you Basco coming up with convincing evidence for this allegation..
the billions went missing under Kabba and Berewa's watch. What does that make them?
Or what does that make you?
A lier maybe..?
Subject: Re: I know the SLPP is corrupt bUT Berewa did not....kamara(SLPP
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 09:48:27 08/30/07 ()
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Look you fool, we know Kabba has form with rats eating a whole warehouse of rice including the bags in '67. It is a disgrace for a nation to be given aid to the tune of billions and have nothing to show for it. Imagine you wanker, sending home thousands of dollars to your dad, for a house to be built for you and when you go home your dad says I did not steal the money it was the workers that did not perform? What would be your reply? The problem with you so called educated greeners is that you have endorse berewa' ineptitude. So what should be my reply after going home and not be able to see where one billion has made an effect in the country.
You guys have no sympathy for the common man. Even though Berewa has done nothing to improve the future of your relatives you would prefer him to continue building the house I used as an example. Or are you one of this semi illiterates who feel proud of having to send money home every month to your relatives who have become depressed over these past ten years.
Incompetent is what Kabba and Berewa are!! And what makes it worse is the they both have got a western style of higher education.
Subject: Re: I know the SLPP is corrupt bUT Berewa did not....kamara(SLPP
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 09:56:59 08/30/07 ()
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Ok.. well let me produce one link..
This is the EU's on master plan for Sierra Leone span the years...2002-2007
Almost all the funds allocated are administered by them or affiliated entities..
And the EU is our biggest donor..
I would expect almost all programs designed as aid to follow this same blueprint..
Would you agree..?
http://ec.europa.eu/development/Geographical/RegionsCountries/Countries/Sierra%20Leone.htm#mdp
And i hope for the sake of your credibility you can produce some information to back your allegation..
Subject: Re: I know the SLPP is corrupt bUT Berewa did not....kamara(SLPP
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 11:08:02 08/30/07 ()
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Message:
See 'For Alieu and you incompetent SLPP Govt'
Subject: PETITION TO THE SIERRA LEONE ELECTORAL COMMISSIONER, DR CHRI
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 09:20:56 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196
Message:
This is laughable.So why don't you petition the Commisioner herself.She is the 'wife' of an SLPP heavyweight-Mr Sam Maligie.
There is no documentary/hard evidence to support your claims.What impropriety was committed by this?Do you realise that you are trampling on the rights of these officers?So if my Wife is APC and I am a polling agent,should I leave my matrimonial home for the duration of the Elections?Man you guys need to get a life!!!
Kabs,its acase of he who pays the piper calls the tune.Man you are one Sorry man of God!!!!
Aloow the people to have their final say without let or hinderance.And for those jumping on the bangwagon of 'Berewa must concede',these are demagogues who have no respect for our Laws.
regards
Tamba
Subject: REVEREND - ARE YOU A CARD CARRYING APC MEMBER
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 08:51:29 08/30/07 ()
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Honest question.
As a man of God i hope you can answer with full faith..
If you dont carry a card.. can you describe your political inclination..?
What way you lean.. when it comes to salone national politics..
And don't come back with Independent..Or you would not encourage been questioned this way..
You owe it to me and your countless readers..Even the international community..and you concience.
So please.... let us all know today.. once and for all...
Is REVEREND KABS KANU of Somerset, New Jersey.
A member of the APC machinery..?
Subject: Re: REVEREND - ARE YOU A CARD CARRYING APC MEMBER
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 09:13:10 08/30/07 ()
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Is it a crime for Reverends to talk politics of development?
Wea light nor day , water nor day, meresin nor day, na we nor mor dae suffer? Reverend sef dae suffer.
So who are you to ask reverend wether he has a party card berfore he starts talking about national issues.
If you have your SLPP card that's your bread and butter.
We are talking about development not membership cards. All I know is that Reverend is a holder of a Sierra Leonean Passport- the ultimate tool of Sierra Leonean identity.
Babu yie----ohhhhhh.
Subject: Re: REVEREND - ARE YOU A CARD CARRYING APC MEMBER
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 09:17:54 08/30/07 ()
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Oh.. dont get me wrong..
Reverend can grunble like we all..Join any like we all..
But sine his pen and his axe are been a bit bias..and hasty against me..
I just want to know if i should watch my steps when in the APC igballeh.
In salone maskita nor dey differenciate pastor from pagan..
We all carry the green book my brother..
I just want to know so i can file REBEREND as an APC man .. and done with that..
You know.. the now i know folder is empty..
Subject: Re: REVEREND - ARE YOU A CARD CARRYING APC MEMBER
From: kd kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:03:06 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: kkay@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache03.vgs.untd.com at 64.136.26.227
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It is true i want to know also why a REV would play such kind of a role. Political underminer, he should be neutral period.
Subject: Re: REVEREND - ARE YOU A CARD CARRYING APC MEMBER
From: kd kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:01:57 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: kkay@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache03.vgs.untd.com at 64.136.26.227
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It is true i want to know also why a REV would such kind of a role political underminer. he should be neutral period.
Subject: ERNEST KOROMA TRANSLATES HIS WORDS INTO ACTION.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 06:52:18 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96
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In an address during the campaign, Ernest Koroma said that If he wins the elections, he will take our country back to the days of his Godfathers/mentors, Siaka Stevens and J.S.Momoh. Days in which elections were characterised with thuggery and violence. We will once again see a break down in law and order and the fundamental human rights of our people would be taken from them.
Acting in accordance with his words Ernest Koroma has instructed his blind supporters, vandals and hopeless 'Raray boys" to wage a war against all those who do not support his APC.
APC members are now busy harassing peaceful citizens in the country.
Thanks to president Tejan Kabba for assuring our people that he will ensure that they are safe and promised to jail anybody who act like a terrorist.
THE PEACE LOVING PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE HAS A ZERO TOLERANCE FOR THUGGERY AND VIOLENCE.
Since the SLPP took over power in our country, we have conducted peaceful free and fair elections.
WE WILL NOT ALLOW SATANIC PEOPLE TO BRING ANOTHER CIVIL WAR IN OUR COUNTRY.
Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA TRANSLATES HIS WORDS INTO ACTION.
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 08:19:57 08/30/07 ()
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Where is your evidence that Ernest has instruct 'raray' boys to wage war?
Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA TRANSLATES HIS WORDS INTO ACTION.
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 08:12:28 08/30/07 ()
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Alpha,
I am not suprised by the way you vent out your venom against a peacful sierra leonean like Ernest Koroma.
In the first place, who stabbed and nearly killed an APc support- SLPP. Do you know how many people suffered in the hand of Kabbah and his bunch of unfortunate Kamarjors? Who was caught with arms and amunition at makeni yesterday- SLPP minister.
Please If you are suffering from "SOLOCRATISIS" which is always a symptom for mental road block, I want to tell you that your cheap propaganda can only be swallowed by you and you alone as a pill to cure your "solocratisis" and mental backwardness. Stay tuned for more medication.
Long live the APC.
Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA TRANSLATES HIS WORDS INTO ACTION.
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 08:05:04 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
I wonder if you can read and absorb properly,go back to the archives and school your mind.The late Siaka Stevens government was 1000000 times better than the good for nothing feeble-minded bandit slpp of corruption,poverty spreading,tribalism,nepotism,backwardness,anti-development,no water supply,no electricity and no staple food.Dont forget,the corrupt APC bandits of yesterday are the present core cabals of your failed slpp.Can you indicate at least one physical infrastructural development during the 10 or more years of your evil clan slpp?In your common sense if you have one,is it logic for a winner to initiate mayhem?
Subject: FBI is Watching this Site
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 04:28:59 08/30/07 ()
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Entered From: at 213.42.21.60
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For those of you posting malicious statements as well as TERRORIZING our PEOPLE. Becareful, you will be on the list of TERRORISTS. You better join Bin Laden in his Toro Bora Palace.
Subject: Re: FBI is Watching this Site
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 07:44:43 08/30/07 ()
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I think the FBI's jurisdiction have extended to Sierra Leone. Even I you say GOD is watching this site. We will only caution in saying the wrongs things. But for the right things against the SLPP,we shall continue to say the economic crimes againts humanity that the SLPP has committed against the people of sierra leone.
So FBI my foot!
Subject: Re: FBI is Watching this Site
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 08:10:56 08/30/07 ()
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My warning is to those inciting voilence and spreading rumours to incite chaos. They will not go free. If it is for criticising corrupt and incomptent SLPP, I will be number one on the FBI's list.
Subject: Re: FBI is Watching this Site
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 10:00:48 08/30/07 ()
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Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
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FBI is not APC/Cocoriocco... They do not believe in selective justice and one sidedness....
Secondly, why should the FBI want any part of whats going on in Sierra Leone?
Well again, the only thing they will do is CLOSE DOWN THIS FORUM THAT IS PREACHING TRIBALISM, TERRORISM, AND VIOLENCE.
Subject: Re: FBI is Watching this Site
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 10:47:26 08/30/07 ()
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Oh! OOOOOhooo!, Now I see why you solocrates haver abandoned yourv forum for Cocorioko's so that you will post tribalistic and nepotistic sentiments in this forum. But I say "Babu yie!". This forum has not done the worst like the SLPP in Sierra Leone. So hold your peace, the forum is here to educate all of us with facts and not fiction. Solocrates! you have been warned.
Subject: SLPP Minister arrest with gun and released
From: Culled from Standard Times. Police neutrality?
To: All
Date Posted: 03:59:25 08/30/07 ()
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Entered From: 175-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.175
Message:
NEWS
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Presidential Affairs Minister Arrested in Makeni…2 Rifles,4 Magazines and Others Discovered
Posted by on Aug 30, 2007, 02:35
Dr. Shekou Sesay, one time Minister in the APC government of the late president Joseph Saidu Momoh, and current Minister of Presidential Affairs in the SLPP government with office at the Presidential lodge was arrested and later released in Makeni yesterday while heading for his home town, Kabala in the Koinadugu District.
According to the Local Unit Commander, Mr. Christopher John, the police received intelligence report which they acted on immediately Dr. Shekou Sesay emerged at Makeni, but ended up saying that nothing of police interest was discovered. “We found nothing of police interest so we released him to proceed with his journey” LUC John emphasized.
However, the explanation of the LUC appears to be different from eye witness account. Dr. Sesay was traveling with two military officers, a staff sergeant by the name of Conteh. B.S attached to the Wilberforce Battalion and private Conteh Ballah,and a civilian called Farrah Kamara with four political party’s T-shirt. The civilian Farrah Kamara claimed to be a student of the Milton Margai College of Education when he was apprehended.
When the vehicle was searched by police officers two riffles were discovered, SLRA6222 and SLRA 38794 with four magazines containing twenty bullets each with an addition of two empty magazines.
A UNDP vehicle with registration plate ADG 330 different from the license of the vehicle ACU 041 registered on the 31st January, 2007.
Mr. Kasho Cole, an employee of the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) in Makeni who learnt about the incident and the items discovered in the vehicle with fraudulent registration number plate expressed grave concern, saying that why should military officers be in the company of the Minister of Presidential Affairs contrary to the political party code of conduct.
As if the concern raised by the PPRC staff was not enough to instill fear into the youths at Makeni, journalists and youth organizations in the provincial town of Makeni and its environs are becoming very jittery with the prevailing situation and have equally expressed similar concerns.
When this press crosschecked with the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Brima Acha, he confirmed both the arrest and release of Dr. Sesay, stating that the military officers were provided to him by the Chief of Defense Staff, Brigadier Sam M,boma. When our reporter contacted the Chief of Defence Staff for comment one of his aides said he was at a meeting, but would return the call which he failed to do up to press time.
Mr. Acha Kamara said that the police are responsible to provide security for all Government Ministers and dignitaries “I don’t know why he was provided with military officers instead of police officers” Acha queried.
According to reporter Mbanga, when the arrest of Dr. Sesay was made yesterday afternoon, several telephone calls were made from state house by senior government officials urging his immediate release, but could not tell which of the government official made the calls. He however cited the telephone call from the office of the Inspector General of Police instructing junior police officers to release the government Minister. It is not known why the Presidential Affairs Minister was using vehicle with fake registration number plate and why the UNDP released one of its numerous vehicle to him.
Subject: KABS KANU'S RAG BAG NOT A REGISTERED NEWSPAPER
From: STUPID DUMBO
To: All
Date Posted: 03:21:43 08/30/07 ()
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The fact is that Kabs kanu's pro-APC internet rag bag is NOT registered with the Independent Media Commission of Sierra Leone.
Check for yourself: http://www.imc-sl.org/facts.htm
The New people is about to be registered and recognized http://www.thenewpeople.com
So which is more credible?
Give me The New people of Awareness Times any day because they are recognized and more credible.
Subject: AWARENESS TIMES ACCUSING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
From: TRUE SAY TOK ME
To: All
Date Posted: 01:43:07 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: stepsaheadalie@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 5ac175c7.bb.sky.com at 90.193.117.199
Message:
I am appalled by articles by Awareness Times Newspaper accussing International Community of swaying public opinion against the ruling SLPP. Where did Sylvia Blyden practice her journalism? Is it the UN, EEC or other international bodies that have poured millions and millions of hard currency in aid, thjat was unaccounted for by the SLPP administration, that walked to polling stations and marked ballot papers in favour of the candidate of their choice.
Where ever Slvia Blyden have practiced her journalism, i from this day onwards doubted her professionalism. I am encouraging all Sierra Leoneans not to read the usual rubbish she publishes on her Awareness Times Newspaper.
I believe she is so low minded to accuse the international community, especially the UN representative to Sierra Leone OF FOWL PLAY IN THE LAST CONCLUDED ELECTIONS.
As a Sierra Leonean i wonder what planet Sylvia Blyden lives on, as the very people that have been pouring countless of unaccounted aid to Sierra Leone for our benefit and interest are accused of fowl play.
Are they they very people that are responsible for appalling state of our roads, hospitals, schools and the filth in our country. Do you think the people of Sierra Leone are not aware of the failings of the SLPP government. I bet if the APC if elected to office and follow on the trend of the SLPP, will suffer the same fate comes 2012. The people of Sierra Leone are not blind and ignorant of any failings of any government they elect.
Subject: VICTOR ANGELO, THE WHOLE NATION IS PROUD OF YOU , SIR
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 01:20:57 08/30/07 ()
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We will bring you an editorial on Friday, revealing how much respect the Sierra Leonean people have for Mr. Victor Angelo and his UNIOSIL employees for their valiant fight to give Sierra Leone her first ever credible General Elections. The EU, USA, Britain all deserve praise. Nobody will be able to damage their names. Watch out for the Editorial on Friday.
Subject: Re: VICTOR ANGELO, THE WHOLE NATION IS PROUD OF YOU , SIR
From: FORREST GUMP
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Date Posted: 03:44:05 08/30/07 ()
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KABS the whole APC would be proud of him because of the way he has fiddled the ballot papers for APC don't worry he is been exposed as a cheat
FORREST
Subject: Re: VICTOR ANGELO, THE WHOLE NATION IS PROUD OF YOU , SIR
From: Brima Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 08:31:26 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.om
Entered From: at 202.52.243.122
Message:
Na for lef den people ya.
De pipul of Salone gee dem 11 yrs for do sontin. In de end natin den nor do. Now wae den don audit dem en realise say den nor do for burnt offering nor for sacrifice, en de pipul dem reject dem, na innocent pipul dem den wan for gee badname. God go pay dem all. Insha Allah
Subject: Warning to Independent Observer
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 23:39:56 08/29/07 ()
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Message:
Much as this is a free forum and we want everybody to enjoy freedom of expression here, we will not allow our forum to be used for deliberate lies and mischievious articles that damage the character of others unnecessarily.
You know that your post about NEC Chairlady Christiana Thorpe once being in love with Ernest Koroma is false and libellious.
If we continue to encourage anybody to just defame people how they want , the form will lose its seriousness and relevance.
All are warned to desist from deliberate falsehood and mischief .Failure to obey will lead to administrative action .
You can write and cuss me and COCORIOKO all you want but leave the integrity of innocent persons alone. Take this as the only warning you will receive on this matter.
Subject: Re: Warning to Independent Observer
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 08:33:27 08/30/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Reverend and all...
That was a bait.
You fell for it HOOK..LINE AND STINKER...
I ust wanted to exposed you trigger happy partisan fingers.. and i think i did..
Yesterday... YOU OF ALL PEOPLE posted this nonsense as a read on your online newspaper..
http://cocorioko.net/WednesdayAugust292007p3.html..
""Some political activists in the diaspora on Monday said they had heard rumours that Mr. Jalloh had been heavily bribed by the SLPP Leader , Mr. Solomon Berewa, to change his decision. They said that a similar attempt was made to sway the PMDC Leader., Charles Margai . Ministers of the government, a retired Archbishop , Paramount Chiefs and high-ranking officials were allegedly sent to beg Margai to declare for the SLPP instead of the APC. Figures of a hefty sum offered were quoted to the press .However ,Margai turned down the SLPP and quickly moved to endorse the APC. Mr. Jalloh is entitled to his decision and we at COCORIOKO also wish him the best. .At least, we are relieved about one thing : COCORIOKO and STANDARD TIMES , who reported Mr. Jalloh's declaration of support for the APC did not make up the story .As a matter of fact, we at COCORIOKO crosscheck whatever news we receive before we publish it. ""
And thats where i got the idea of the Dr thorpe teaser..
See the link..? Rumor has it..diaspora.. Reliable sources etc.. are alll words i copied verbatim from your article..
PLUS.....
I HAVE SEEN COUNTLESS articles postings here about Morseray Fadika, a private citizen..Blatant lies..
You never brought your AXE down did you?
REVEREND is it a cross you carry on your shoulder? Or is it an executioners AXE that you only bring down at the bequest of your political leaning..?
The ball is in your court..
Subject: Re: Warning to Independent Observer
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 07:13:11 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96
Message:
Kabs, once again I advise you not to play into the hands of yours enemies in the APC. If you do you will lose your credibility.
Many times on this forum you have seen APC members disrespect innocent people, you never took out their nasty posts, but when non APC members post true stories about the APC, you quick remove them.
Don't let me believe what Alex Mansaray of the APC told me a long time ago. He said that you work for the APC therefore, you will always do what they the satanic people want you to do.
I still respect you and I don't believe that you hate the SLPP but please, please be careful and be fair to everybody in this forum.
Subject: Re: Warning to Independent Observer
From: Concerned Forumite
To: All
Date Posted: 23:52:35 08/29/07 ()
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Message:
Rev. this is merely double standard.
If you can allow all the allegations about the Berewa, Benjamins, Karimus, Nyaleys and others to go undeleted, why would you delete an entry that is allegedly false and untrue about Christiana Thorpe?
You encourage all the APC supporters to say what they want about all those listed above and more, why all of a sudden are you getting on your soapbox about something that is false. The best thing would be to rebut the allegation.
Everyone that knows the lady can certainly vouch for her public character, and that alone should stand up to any public scrutiny without the need to delete anything false about her. It is also public knowledge that she is someone else's girlfriend..who I'm not going to say..
Subject: Re: Warning to Independent Observer
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 07:02:35 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
Entered From: 000-006-993.area3.spcsdns.net at 68.244.27.55
Message:
Why is it that whenever Awaresness Times report on a particular issue you became gittery? You will not rest unless you come up with something to defend those individuals and most of the time all you could say is, I got it from reliable sources. Time and time again your reliable sources turn out to be wrong. Why don't you delete postings full of profanities against Dr. Sylvia Blyden, your sister in journarlism ? Why don't you go against the wicked lies STANDARD TIMES are putting out there? Please respect Dr. Blyden, for what she is, stop being petty. I believe you can do better than that. How about some respect for ALHAJI AMADU JALLOH, an elder statesman. Did you try to reach him to get his own side of the story before publishing "From the horse's mouth .......". I don't think so, for the mere fact that the man is wise enough to consult with his people to do the right thing win or lose. I believe you are now attempting to put a dent to his sterling character for daring to support the SLPP. But you will not succeed with people like us that know him. So my friend REV.KABS-KANU, don't lecture us on fairness, you are far from it. But I can understand, you are human. You do have your prejudices. LONTA.
Subject: Re: Warning to Independent Observer
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 01:07:37 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Does everything have to be about politics? Miss Thorpe, a respected nonpartisan's reputation is being besmirched by a disgruntled SLPPselfishcrat and you think it is fair game? The Berewas, Karimus, Nyalays, Koromas and Margais are partisan politicians who are fair game for practitioners of attack politics. Dr. Thorpe really does not deserve the salacious innuendoes of the crazies in the SLPP camp. I know many palm tree huggers are not thrilled with the lady for not making a mockery of the elections but that is no excuse for latrine rumors. Tsktsk.
Subject: Re: Warning to Independent Observer
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 01:15:22 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
We have credible stories of how people tried to bribe her with pajero, millions of leones, houses and other things but she turned them down. We will bring this out after the runoffs. They are still behind her but the International Community, especially Victor Angelo and the EU are watching the elections closely.
Subject: Re: Warning to Independent Observer
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 08:39:29 08/30/07 ()
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Message:
Cocorioko.....
Is this journalism?
http://cocorioko.net/ThursdayAugust302007p8.html
""Apart from the alleged ritual murder of a young virgin that Kabbah sanctioned in Lungi to ensure their coming back to power after the military coup that ousted them (a story that journalist Lokobie Johnson reported in the press but was hush-hushed by Berewa to avoid public attention to it), there are only two ‘open secrets’ that Kabbah would never want to acknowledge or want anyone else to talk about.""
Subject: Re: Warning to Independent Observer
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 00:57:29 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-147-108.patmedia.net at 24.225.147.108
Message:
Firstly, this will show you that I am a fair person. Remember that my criticism of Christiana Thorpe two years ago overhauled the online dynamics with that ugly quarrel at SIERRANET, the birth of the COCORIOKO FORUM (Which however had to endure weeks of flooding with porn before it survived) , and the creation of AWARENESS TIMES etc.etc. etc. My name was defamed for simply saying that because Kabbah had given Thorpe a national award, for him to turn around and appoint her Electoral Commissioner was a conflict of interests, though Dr.Thorpe has stood her own to refuse bribes, arm-twistings and all enticements by the corrupt incumbents , FOR WHICH I AM PREPARING SPECIAL ARTICLES IN HER HONOR IF SHE PULLS OFF HER PROMISE OF A CREDIBLE RUNOFF). By me stopping Independent Observer from defaming Dr. Thorpe UNNECESSARILY on this forum, it shows that I never had any ulterior motive to have criticised her two years ago.Any patriotic person would have raised that same concern, and many responsible forumites then like Hatim Bash, Abdul Daboh, Saidu Daphay Turay, Bob Jusu , Joseph Sherman, Alex Mansaray, Alimany etc agreed with me.
Secondly, you named other persons but any reasonable individual will tell you that the circumstances are different. Some of the persons you named have acquired notoriety , though in many cases, I have also deleted deliberately false articles written against them.
Thirdly, I am myself being defamed myself on this forum but did I crack down on anybody for that ? What about the allegations being made against my buddy, Foday Mansaray, by Alpha Saidu ? Did I even delete them ? What about Apha Saidu's often vitriolic attacks on Allieu Iscandri ? What about the malicious attacks on my other buddy, M'OM ALLIE by Sengbe and John Mannah? People like M'OM are precious to me, you know. I therefore do not understand your rantings about doublle standards.
Subject: Re: Warning to Independent Observer
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 00:27:43 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
with all due respect, you fail to see the gravamen of Kabs Kanus position. The people that you mentioned, Berewah et al, are political figures, their record is fair game. Ms. Thorpe is a public servant and any comments made by the writer which are patently untrue and question her chastity and or moral values without just cause, and which as is here the case, patently defamatory, will not be allowed. I need not educate you about what defamation is but you must know that the first element of it is that it is untrue.
stay blessed
Subject: Re: Warning to Independent Observer
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 05:03:33 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-57-15.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.57.15
Message:
Now KABS lawyer speaks, Alieu I have seem you CHAKRA people you don't like on this forum who are public servant, and you now come up with this. This is not the first time that this story has been on this forum, now that she is working for the APC you think otherwise IT IS STILL CALLED DOUBLE STANDARD
FORREST
Subject: What if Earnest Koroma dies of a heart attack tomorrow
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 23:22:52 08/29/07 ()
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Message:
Are we to settle for President SAM SAMUNA?
Aye you mofo's serious..?
Subject: Re: What if Earnest Koroma dies of a heart attack tomorrow
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 03:41:18 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 175-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.175
Message:
This man calling himself Independent Observer is a cannibal by all indications. His postings are crude and evil.
Hope the ills and lies he wishes for others will spread in his house and to the corridor of his childrens children!!.
Subject: Re: What if Earnest Koroma dies of a heart attack tomorrow
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 08:37:01 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
You got to be kidding me..
Did you forget your medication..?
Sam Samuna a better president than a would be Berewa presidency..?
Man, ever if you hate SLPP.. well at least love Sierra Leone a bit..
That is the most un-patriotic thing i have read on this forum.
Subject: Re: What if Earnest Koroma dies of a heart attack tomorrow
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 01:22:09 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
A President Sam Sumana is a far, far better deal for Salone than a thieving, lying, incompetent, senile and idea-bereft President Solomon Berewa.
And if Ernest Koroma dies of a heart attack tomorrow, I hope he haunts you and scares the crap out of you till you stop using the word "mofo"!
Subject: Re: What if Earnest Koroma dies of a heart attack tomorrow
From: Mohamed Bunduka
To: All
Date Posted: 00:43:04 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
keep wishing Ill for others and see what God may have in store for you.
Subject: Christiana Thorpe is ONE OF Earnest Koroma's Girlfriend
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 23:19:23 08/29/07 ()
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Message:
According to rumors circulating in the diaspora indicates that the opposition leader and APC front man has been romantically involved with the NEC chairlady Miss (or is it Mrs) Christiana Thorpe.
Reliable insiders in the APC party hierchy has confirmed that there used to be a romantic relationship but doubt if it is ungoing.
Our Crack team of reporters in Freetown are following this story and how this plays into Sierra Leones monumental election and its subsequest run off.
Subject: We are Dishonest, Shameless, Selfish and Unpatriotic
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:23:53 08/29/07 ()
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We are Dishonest, Shameless, Selfish and Unpatriotic
Posted by Idrissa Salam Conteh (Atomic Pen) on Aug 29, 2007, 03:24
The outcome of the election results in the just concluded presidential and parliamentary elections, have demonstrated the irrevocable desire of the people for a radical political change. Had the defeat of the ruling party at the first round of the polls been in a western country, one could have heard political leaders making analytical statements about the circumstances that led to their rejection by the people. But since we, Sierra Leoneans, are shameless, dishonest, selfish and unpatriotic, nobody in the ruling party will ever attribute the election results the current state of bad governance, rampant corruption and mismanagement that has put Sierra Leone at the tail of the UN Human Development Index five times in a row.
In 2005, donors refused to grant Sierra Leone debt relief because of its monumental corruption, while countries like Nigeria benefited immensely for its demonstrated actions to fight corruption. Sierra Leone has been treated very badly by the political elites. It is the only the country in the world that cannot boast of any sphere of development. It has been shattered by corruption to a point of disrepair and depends entirely on the donor community for handouts for its survival.
We Sierra Leoneans working here in the DRC for the UN have always spoken about our country with deep emotions in our regular gatherings. Most of us who have travelled to many parts of Africa have realised that there is no country in the Continent that resembles ours in terms of economic development, infrastructure and political administration. Sierra Leone is the only country in the world where nothing works. The whole country has been eaten up by darkness and garbage - living the entire citizenry at the mercy of mosquitoes and water borne diseases that claim human lives every year like flies.
It is hard to believe that we are still not able to provide our people with safe drinking water starting from Freetown to the interior. Our people still queue for water for long hours in Freetown while those in the countryside depend of running streams, wells, rain water and rivers. According to the UN Human Development Index Report of 2006, 70% of Sierra Leoneans live below one US dollar; without jobs and have no access to safe drinking water.
The fact of the matter is that the mind of the Sierra Leonean politician does not go beyond money, women and alcohol. Sierra Leoneans made great sacrifices during the notorious rebel war to resist rebel and junta forces in order to restore democracy. Sadly though, the blood of the martyrs was still fresh on the ground when the reinstated authorities plunged back into corruption – the very nefarious act that sparked-off the rebel war in the first place. The government set up the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) not out of any genuine desire to curb corruption, but in fulfilment of the pre-conditions imposed by donors for the granting of loans. This therefore explains why the ACC is nothing but a toothless bulldog hurriedly created by the SLPP-led administration to camouflage the international community.
But how will the SLLP bow its head in shame and concede defeat when the Sierra Leonean politician is a shameless being? How would they know that they are being shown the red card by the people when their thinking faculties do not go beyond personal gains, women and alcohol? If I were in the SLPP, I would
But how will the SLLP bow its head in shame and concede defeat when the Sierra Leonean politician is a shameless being? How would they know that they are being shown the red card by the people when their thinking faculties do not go beyond personal gains, women and alcohol? If I were in the SLPP, I would bow my head in shame while walking through the streets of Freetown where Solocrats are being booed in every corner. I heard VP Berewa on the BBC Focus on Africa programme of Monday 27 August, say that the people of the south had dissociated themselves from Lawyer Charles Margai but did not advance any reasons as to why the people have decided disown their own candidate at the eleventh hour. How would the VP realise that by voting for the PMDC in the so-called SLPP strongholds, the people were rejecting the ruling party altogether? The spokesman for the SLPP Hon. Victor Raider had earlier attributed the bad performance of the party to foul plays at the polls which he said they were investigating.
Like Prof. Jimmy Kande mentioned in his article, the people have spoken: the SLPP has no alternative but to pack and go. The voice of the people is the voice of God. The days of the SLPP are numbered. Come what, come may, there exit is as sure as nightfall. A beckon for the wise is quite sufficient.
Idrissa Salam Conteh
Officer-in-Charge
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA)
Bunia
Ituri District
Subject: Sierra Leone: Seven Days Working With CNN
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:02:25 08/29/07 ()
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Concord Times (Freetown)
COLUMN
28 August 2007
Posted to the web 28 August 2007
Tanu Jalloh
Freetown
Before I got to swot and comprehend that aspect of my notes on News Writing for my second semester exams, I knew very little about satellite news gathering otherwise referred to as SNG. SNG, according to my notes, is basically the use of mobile communications equipment for the purpose of worldwide newscasting.
Actually, I have had a short but comparatively successful stint as a print journalist but with a very limited idea about broadcasting - TV or radio.
Therefore, it was certainly going to prove a bit difficult for me to relate while I worked with the crew of three CNN journalists, Kim, Chevan and Betty, who flew into Sierra Leone to cover the August 11 polls.
CNN is available in most of the world, distributed via satellite and cable. Its international reach is more than 200 million households and hotel rooms in over 200 countries. For most viewers it is free-to-air.
However, some pay TV companies include it in their pay TV bouquets, or issue a virtual channel to the FTA version gone the same satellite. It is considered to be the second largest news channel on the globe after BBC World.
The bargain, which saw me working as part of the crew, was done on my behalf by Umaru Fofana, a colleague stringer for BCC in Freetown.
On August 7, 2007 I left to collect the crew at the Lungi International Airport. Immediately after I saw Kim it became obvious I would have to do everything almost at once if we could get to Freetown on time that evening.
The crew, it seemed, was visiting the country for the very first time and so one could imagine the feelings, and or impressions, about a country where the most recent story was apparently limited to the Blood Diamond movie; a fact later confirmed after the first story we filed for CNN.
Even before we left the Mahera Beach on board a hovercraft to Aberdeen, Kim was kind of asking a torrent of prying questions, making incredible requests of me. According to him nothing was impossible in the west, especially with CNN. Yes, I've never been so inundated with queries in my whole life.
I must confess that that was the first journalistic tendency he succeeded to have instilled me.
Work started immediately after we reached Freetown.
The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists, SLAJ was holding its presidential debate at the Lagoonda Complex on Aberdeen - the first event to have been covered by the crew while I sorted out its luggage at the Hotel Barmoi; a nearby resort where they were going to put up.
I have always wished to work with established media like the British Broadcasting Service or the Cable News Network, commonly referred to by its acronym CNN.
I've had some interviews with the former before but for the elections I would not have had the opportunity to work with CNN, a 24-hour major American based cable television network founded in 1980.
From broadcasting live, shooting political rallies, taking poverty shots, profiling the amputees who go to vote to reporting the diamonds in Kono, we worked throughout the seven days. Very aggressive for news, no matter what it took us or where it was, Kim, who was head of the team, would be up and running all day long exploring story angles. So were Chevan and Betty who would never complain, not even when they felt queasy in the course of their work.
Apparently trying to help me live up to the rules of engagement in the field, Kim would tell me in a rather sobering Danish tone: "Look Tanu, rule number one is that a member of this TV crew shouldn't complain; and secondly we all stay behind the camera." Being part of the crew, at least while it lasted, I would return home after each day's job, very tired and sleepy. Meanwhile they would still be up with their lap tops writing scr1pts and editing stories to catch up with any pending session on CNN. Even more incredible was the fact that after eleven hours of a bumpy ride to Kono and back, Kim could still send me a text at 3am - after a two-hour break - telling me what to do in the next four hours.
Occasionally sending reports through FTP from wherever we were with short notice for broadcasting purposes, we had highly portable or transportable uplink earth station equipment operating in the framework of the fixed satellite service.
And whenever we were doing lives with Betty reporting, signals would be beaming between the geostationary satellite and where we were, and apparently between the satellite and the control room at CNN. We had also used the most advanced system, Internet Protocol (IP) to send stories through FTP.
We reported directly from events as they happened. For instance we did a couple of lives in Freetown, precisely from Aberdeen polling station where a violently sick single-legged amputee had gone to vote.
Sahr Tarawallie was diagnosed with cholera and hospitalised for days, but reportedly left his sick bed to cast his vote. It was very pathetic a spectacle. But that could just be one way by which Sierra Leone could have demonstrated her quest for change. The rush to vote was also thrilling and was good too. And I'm sure Chevan captured some shots of that scene.
The experience was worth it. Certainly the whole exercise, an intensive practical course it was, could be equated to, or is even more educative than, most workshops journalists have had in recent years. The only difference was that I didn't receive a certificate to certify my completion of seven days intensive practical course with CNN.
However, I look forward to receiving my certificate when the crew comes back for the run-off scheduled to be held on September 8, 2007. Till then I've returned to my office as the Features Editor I was before the seven days break.
Subject: Bambay Fanatic
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:21:29 08/29/07 ()
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Bambay Fanatic, let me first and foremost apologise for the late response, I have been extremely busy and will be for a long time.
Let me continue to thank you for the response and question.
You wrote: "Jeeze Bambay, is it true that Janet has the hots for you?
On a more serious note what do you think about Kabbah threatening to declare a state of emergency? I await your usual deep thinking and wonderful analysis. Hope you had a great day in school today.
Your biggest fan,
Bambay Fanatic!"
In response, let me say that Janet worked for what she has. She has fulfilled her American Dream, probably, and has a man she loves, who loves her dearly. Is unfortunate that “because of her” the world went hey-wild and I got caught in the middle.
Nonetheless, as Sierra Leone is my major concern because had things been o.k. there none of us could have left therefore nor could this sad chapter in history could have taken place, let me respond briefly in that I am busy.
You asked: "what do you think about Kabbah threatening to declare a state of emergency?"
In response let me say he is President of Sierra Leone and until a new President is sworn-in, he has the mandate, under the constitution to declare a state of emergency should there be any significant violence or problems. He is Commander in Chief of the armed forces therefore; he has the right to do so under the constitution.
What is missing is our responsibility to maintain the respect and admiration the International Community has gained for us by not getting ourselves involved in any misconduct.
Subject: Re: Bambay Fanatic
From: Bambay Fanatic
To: All
Date Posted: 22:09:32 08/29/07 ()
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Message:
As usual, you cut through the thicket of elephant grass and hit the nail on the head. While the whippersnappers on the forum have been shouting about the state of emergency, you just brought out the constitution and cleared up the mess. Gosh Bambay, you are so smart!
I am hereby calling on all Sierra Leonean who appreciate the unique and Einsteinic brilliance of Bambay Lans Kamara to join the fan club of this great Sierra Leonean. Note: Jealous forumites with no fan clubs of their own need not apply!
I hope that you continue to do well in your studies Bambay. When you finish your studies, I hope you consider running for President of Sierra Leone someday. Your great and frightening intellect is going to frighten the country's problems away. Only great man can accomplish such a feat. Please don't dismiss this out of hand, O Great One. In five years, some of us, your most loyal fans, are ready to recruit you. Your country needs you!
Have a wonderful day in school tomorrow. Astound those professors.
Fanatically,
Bambay Fanatic!
President,
Bambay Lans Kamara Worldwide Fan Club.
Subject: BREAKING NEWS !!!
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 19:46:34 08/29/07 ()
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It has been reliably learnt from highly credible souces that family members close to the VP have almost convinced him to call it quits, citing health and other personal concerns. However, some other Party members, the Moseray Fadikas and the Allie Banguras with high stakes are pressing for the Old man to stay course. More to follow. Stay tuned.
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS !!!
From: BIG MAMA
To: All
Date Posted: 20:22:26 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: lfrandall@bellsouth.net
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Oh how you wish this was true. This is absolutely 100% unequivocally untrue. I am very close to the Berewa family and know first hand this is a blatant lie. This is another Cocorioko/APC-PMDC propaganda tactic. Just like all the others, this one will not work. Please by all that is holy and sacred, stop spreading lies. There will be a run-off and it will be closely monitored by the NEC. Which ever candidate receives the most votes will be the winner.
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS !!!
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 22:05:01 08/29/07 ()
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Politics is making you people to become really idiotic. What has COCORIOKO to do with this ? Anyway, your attacks on COCORIOKO have made us soldify our image as the most widely-read newspaper from Sierra Leone online. The more attacks on us, the more popular we are becoming. I checked the statistics tonight and we have over 10,000 daily visitors now since the elections fever cranked up. My telephone is ringing off the hook.Even the International community now regards us as the most reliable source of critical assessment of the situation in Sierra Leone. I wish you guys know how much we are growing.
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS !!!
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 23:11:19 08/29/07 ()
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Message:
HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH.
Reverend...I will not say a man of the cloth dey lie..
But you are stretching the truth a bit...
Papa God forgive me..I just had to say it...
When i read this ""most reliable source of critical assessment of the situation"".. i knew the good reverend was on a budget with the truth
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS !!! AND WE ARE PROUD OF THIS
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 22:19:17 08/29/07 ()
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How much people think about us is epitomised by this interesting entry into our guest book from somebody in Britain .I am delighted. READ :
Brima Allan Kamara (TYT) Wednesday, 8/29/07, 9:37 AM
I have all this while been struggling to get succinct and credible information about my country. I became desperate during the August general elections because I am not in my country to cast my democratic vote or see what is happening. Your site was given to me by my brother in Freetown and since then I am glued to it. Is it not high time Sierra Leone talks about quality which you represent? It should not always be "when a dog is thin and dirty they call it an African dog but when it is clean and fat they say it is an English dog" This time "Cocorioko" is the best and it is a world class website run not by white but by black africans. Please keep up the good work and maintain your reporting ethics. Thank you.
From: Milton Keynes -United Kingdom
Email: ijkadbra@aol.com
And don't propagate lies that I wrote it because the good brother gave his e-mail address ---A paid -for e-mail account, for that.
Your guys better start appreciating what comes out of your country.
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS !!!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:56:35 08/29/07 ()
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Stop spreading rumors. The man will
quit gracefully if he is beaten in the runoff. He does not have to resort to violence which is the modus operandi of certain people.
Unfortunately for you, it does not look like he is going to be beaten. Keep dreaming , he aint quitting for you to grab power which you have lusted for 15 years
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS !!!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 20:29:18 08/29/07 ()
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I hope Berewa goes through the runoffs. That way our people, who have for too long been abused by Berewa and his fellow mafiosi will get some measure of satisfaction by slapping them again again at the polls. This peccant SLPP administration, the paragon of leadership by the SLPPselfishcrats, will hopefully then go away without any more dombolo.
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS !!!
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 20:20:14 08/29/07 ()
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Berewa has already been beaten at the Auigust 8 polls. Please try to understand what you read, Edmund Koker. It is always easy to tell when you write because no matter the topic you will never understand it.
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS !!!
From: LIE-MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 07:59:13 08/30/07 ()
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"Berewa has already been beaten at the Auigust 8 polls"...
It seems you are the one that needs to undersatnd what you read before replying...
Subject: For M. Alieu Iscandri Esq.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:40:07 08/29/07 ()
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I am trying to reach you but for some reason your e-mail has been deleted form my e-mail. I am trying ti find your phone number. When I do, I will contact you.
Subject: Re: For M. Alieu Iscandri Esq.
From: M. Alieu iscandari esq
To: All
Date Posted: 20:47:44 08/29/07 ()
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aiscandari@aol.com
Subject: So Sidique Janneh was also bribed ? Shame, SLPP
From: Nationaist
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Date Posted: 18:52:58 08/29/07 ()
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"On the issue of Sedique Janneh the party's suspended Financial Secretary, he (mARGAI) claimed that Janneh received Le 100 million, pathfinder jeep and a revolver from the SLPP." concord times
A party that has to keep bribing people to gain their support is good for nothing.
Subject: Re: So Sidique Janneh was also bribed ? Shame, SLPP
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 08:04:47 08/30/07 ()
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"A party that has to keep bribing people to gain their support is good for nothing."
And this is coming from somebody who does not know the difference between a Parliament and a Cabinet....
Bo go lap with you fool sef....
Subject: Re: So Sidique Janneh was also bribed ? Shame, SLPP
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 20:05:03 08/29/07 ()
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By the time Berewa finishes bribing his way into infamy, there won't be a single peny left in the treasury.
Subject: The SLPP mess: Milton Margai is spinning in his grave!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 18:39:49 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Only SLPPselfishcrats are applauding the crappy record of Berewa and Kabba. True SLPP patriots, rooted in the proudly inclusive and over-achieving tradition of the late Sir Milton Margai, are despondent about the party's pedestrian status today.
They understand that the beating the party received in the elections is the people's repudiation of the hoggish greed of ministers, rampant corruption, the selling of Kono's Kimberlite diamonds to shady criminal characters from Romania (please research the characters who control Kono Holdings), the salting of hundreds of millions of dollars of aid money in overseas bank accounts, the stubborn refusal to build or repair even a patch of infrastructure, the fuelling of tribal animosity as an election strategy etc; etc.
These true SLPP patriots, as opposed to the zombie SLPPselfishcrat applauders, are very worried that unless the party goes back to its core values, the
venerable SLPP is on course to becoming the WORST party in Africa.
The whirring you are hearing right now? That is Sir Milton Margai spinning in his grave.
God Bless the Old SLPP of Progress, Unity and Peace.
Subject: Re: The SLPP mess: Milton Margai is spinning in his grave!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:46:03 08/29/07 ()
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You are right true Slpp patriots are not applauding the record of Berewa and Kabba and know that they have not solved sierra leone's pressing problems. They also know that it takes time to develop a nation that was raped by thugs and kleptomaniacs for 24 years. Development will take time , it starts by giving it 's citizens democracy and the ability to boot a govt out.
SLPP with all it's failure was able to meet the criteria for debt relief which many nations did not meet. This would save the nation millions which it could divert to development.
Finally, the true SLPP patriots are wise enough not to vote for an alliance consisting of individuals who make decisions on vindictiveness or the quest for power and who have a history of violence and thuggery
Subject: Re: The SLPP mess: Milton Margai is spinning in his grave!
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 20:29:23 08/29/07 ()
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The worst kleptomaniacs in the history of Salone are Tejan Kabbah and Solomob Berewa, leaders of the SLPP. Together, they have looted more money than any other politicians in the shitory of Salone. Check out the figures posted by Fan to verify this fact.
Subject: Re: The SLPP mess: Milton Margai is spinning in his grave!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:42:45 08/29/07 ()
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I have checked fan's piece . the figures are misleading and can not be substantiated. I can quote any without number out of the blue, without substantiation, they are meaningless. no donor is going give total control of $ 2 billion of tax payers money to any govt of sierra leone.
I know you guys are lusting for power but try and be a little objective. You cant swallow everything that is posted on the internet.
If Berewa stole so much money , Will he dress the way he does.
Subject: Re: The SLPP mess: Milton Margai is spinning in his grave!
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 04:40:25 08/30/07 ()
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If you want to taken seriously, you must first act like a serious person. Offering your opinion as fact is an example of unserious behavior. In order to give you a chance to redeem yourself from your current public display of a lack of seriousness, I ask you to:
1. Please tell us how you "checked fan's piece".
2. Tell us how AND why you think Fan's figures "are misleading."
3. Tell us why you think Fan's figures "can not be substantiated."
4. Tell us the basis of your unsubstantiated opinion that "no donor is going give total control of $ 2 billion of tax payers money to any govt of sierra leone."
Subject: Re: The SLPP mess: Milton Margai is spinning in his grave!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:47:41 08/30/07 ()
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Message:
If you APC fanatics want to be treated seriously then, Scan the documents and the donor publications that stated the govt stole the funds. or else it is just APC propaganda. Just because Fan says so does not mean it is so.
I can regurgitate what the new people website says , i choose not to as it is partizan. I reviewd fan's piece which was misleading.He inferred that SLPP had access to the 1.5 billion debt relief which is untrue.
he further corrected this in second post.
I know APC are just used to spreading propanganda without challenge. If fan has this evidence of massive theft send it to the international court so kabba and berewa can be prosecuted or embarassed .
Why not send copies of the evidence to the Sierra Leonean and international newspapers.This willend SLPP
Why , because you do not have the documents to fully substantiate your claims. Continue with your lies, you will lose the runoff mainly because of wonderboy charles margai
Subject: Re: The SLPP mess: Milton Margai is spinning in his grave!
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 07:46:04 08/30/07 ()
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"If you APC fanatics want to be treated seriously then, Scan the documents and the donor publications that stated the govt stole the funds. or else it is just APC propaganda. Just because Fan says so does not mean it is so."
Edmund Koker, you are again unwittingly demonstrating that you do not understand what you read. The fact that the SLPP govt. of President Tejan Kabbah and Vice President Solomon Berewa is thoroughly corrupt does not come from the fact that "Fan says so,' as you stated in proof of your inability to understand what you read. The kleptomaniac SLPP leadership's corruption is documented in various publications such as IRIN.
Furthermore, scanning the publications containing the condemnation of the SLPP's Kabba-Berewa government for their globally notorious corruption is not the ONLY means available to you to acquaint yourself with those facts. Assuming you know what the Internet is, you can easily obtain the same information yourself from it.
Your failure to do so does not obligate serious people to divert their time to unserious activities by spoon-feeding you publicly available information about SLPP corruption.
Here are the facts you will find if you ever acquire the ability to be serious:
1. The U.N. Secretary General, in a report to the U.N. Security Council in May, 2006, stated that massive corruption by the SLPP regime of President Kabbah (and Vice President Solomon Berewa) was endangering the stability of Salone.
2. In 2005, the G8 denied Salone's request for debt relief because of institutional corruption practiced by the SLPP govt. of President Kabbah and VP Berewa.
3. In 2005, the European Union endorsed the G8 finding that the SLPP govt. of President Kabbah and VP Berewa was so corrupt that the otherwise deserving people of Salone should be denied debt relief.
Of course, you would not understand that the above condemnations of the kleptomaniac SLPP regime of Kabbah and Berewa are facts -- since you never understand anything you read. Hence your reference to facts attesting to the SLPP's globally notorious massive corruption as "APC propaganda." Clearly, your lack of understanding of the English language extends to your inability to distinguish among the letters of the alphabet -- hence your confusing the letters U.N. for APC.
You also do not understand the meaning of the word you used ("partizan"), since someone who does would not regard the G8, the U.N. and the EU as partisans in Salone.
Subject: Re: The SLPP mess: Milton Margai is spinning in his grave!
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Date Posted: 20:37:57 08/29/07 ()
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SLPP, I like the way you played with the word HISTORY after it has been corrupted by the KabbaBerewa corruptocracy. Our history has indeed become SHITORY! (Sorry Kabs, this is too juicy to pass on).
Subject: Re: The SLPP mess: Milton Margai is spinning in his grave!
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Mammy Blessing, I salute your demonstrated prowess as a wordsmith in the patriotic service4 of our country as we chase the historically unmatched kleptomania of the SLPP's Tejan Kabbah and SOlomon Berewa towards restitution in a court of law after they have been booted from power on Sept. 8.
To add to your colorful repertoire of SLPP's defilement of our once proud country's history, please allow me to suggest a related complement to Kabbah and Berewa's SHITORY.
I offer you: KABBAHLARIA (a gastro-intestinal condition characterized mainly by freuqent trips to the bathroom similar in symptoms to diarhea).
Subject: Re: The SLPP mess: Milton Margai is spinning in his grave!
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My Brothers,
Are you aware of the new disease? "SOLOCRATISIS" characterised by frequent sleeping, frequent mouth discharge ect.
medication: THA-BA-KA (alias SNUF)
Please prescribe to all solocrates!
Subject: Re: The SLPP mess: Milton Margai is spinning in his grave!
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My Brothers,
Are you aware of the new disease? "SOLOCRATISIS" characterised by frequent sleeping, frequent mouth discharge ect.
medication: THA-BA-KA (alias SNUF)
Please prescribe to all solocrates!
Subject: Why did Berewa Lock Bewarenesstimes Mum up?
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 17:09:46 08/29/07 ()
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I heard she is not pleased with her jumping into the sack with her oppressors!
Subject: Berewa is over!!!!
From: news
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Date Posted: 17:08:53 08/29/07 ()
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Berewa knows that by alligning with Cuba, Iran and Libya, he can defraud and go scot free. With the West, here is no longer a free for all money to enrich himself and his SLPP crooks. Through his protege, Momodu Koroma, they received substantial money from those Countries and now they want to mortgage the Country's resources to the Mullahs in Iran.
This is the reason why Berewa and his rogues are using every underhand tactic to sit at State house to continue their thievery activity.
Kabbah managed to get Edward Nyallay, Hindowa Momoh and Massaquoi all SLPP supporters through NEC and provides an easy access to State funds to help the SLPP rig the elctions. The only stumbling block is the resillience of Sierra Leoneans especially the youths that are thwarting all their attempt to rig the elections. It took Edward Nyallay and Hindowa Momoh a great deal of support given to them by John Benjamin,John Karimu and Kabbah to rig the votes in the South East.
The opposition strong base in Freetwon where SLPP bad policies expose the people to filth and squalor did not fall to their broad day light robbery at the polls. Every step they made was monitored and in the run-off they will be surprised to find out that our people are constant in their act as the Northern Star!!!.
No amount of intimidation and guns will scare our poor people from evicting the rogue SLPP politicians.
We gave you twelve years to fix the mess in our house. After twelve years from feasting in hundreds of millions of dollars and you come up with an excuse that you inherited a bad State from an APC your sons overthrown to put you in power.
Kabbah/Berewa we will not mortgage Sierra Leone to the miners at Koidu holdings neither will few people that are connected with Kabbah/Berewa can decide the future of millions of Sierra Leonean voters.
The SLPP wants us to believe that the people in Bo, Kailaihun, Bonthe, Moyamba, Kenema and Kailaihun would not follow Charles Margai to the APC. Well, we can say loudly that the people in thsoe areas are waiting for September 8th to give the verdict.
The SLPP has stored more fake ballot papers. One thing they do not know that there is a device that will distinguish a genuine ballot paper to the false ones. The logistic Officer at NEC, Massaquoi will try to give some of the authentic papers to the SLPP thieves, but we are watching closely and trust me we will expose these crooks.
One weapon we have is the ballot paper and no threat of a State of emergency will stop our people from voting for a change.
Has Berewa failed to know when enough is enough or is he has something up his sleeve to regenerate warfare in Sierra Leone in the case he loses the elections.
If he goes that part, the manner at which he prosecuted others to face the Special Court will also be used to nail him. We are gathering evidence of incitment and naked attacks on poor market women in Freetown to prosecute anyone who is responsible for bringing anarchy in our beloved land.
The idea of winning at all cost is primitive and uncivilised. Berewa must know that we are not living in a jungle.
The first round should have taught him a great lesson to respect our people. Because he stored many ballot papers , he was dreaming of winning seventy five percent of the votes. Now he is still going around lying that the poor he has impoverished in Kenema, Bo, Kailaihun, Freetown, Magburuka, Port Loko, Kenema, Moyamba, Kambia, Port Loko, Kono and Kabala will give him the crown to head the World's poorest Country, Sierra Leone.
We say no to a leader that has blood on his hand. we say no to a tribalistic party, SLPP that killed Kula Samba and twenty four military Officers and the same Berewa gave Victor Reider, Gibril Massaquoi, Eldred Collins prominent roles and killed our gallant soldiers who fought to save Mother Sierra Leone.
The blood of the victims will not rest till their compatriots kick out Berewa and the SLPP to honour their bodies which Kabbah/Berewa and their Nigerian surrogates bloated with acid.
May the souls of these gallant Men and woman rest in peace and may their ghosts haunt Berewa
Subject: N'GOBOI QUESTIONS ANGELO
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N’Goboi Questions Angelo
By Soko N’goboi
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As promised last week, I am presenting you Part 2 of the international conspiracy to defraud Sierra Leoneans as orchestrated by their proxies. Whatever the color of their representation, the fact is that they all have a common agenda and hate for the SLPP under the leadership of President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. The reason simply being that Kabbah has gone too far and too close with the Arabs and is also very close with the Islamic Republic of Iran. These are states that are perceived by the west as either terrorist or of supporting terrorism against the west and all their interests.
Do you people remember the early days of Kabbah when he was advised by the US Ambassador to Sierra Leone against going to Iran? Do you also recall Kabbah’s response? He had told the world that Sierra Leone is a sovereign state that should be able to determine its foreign policy!! Have you ever in your quiet moments paused and asked yourself why the special interest of the west in Sierra Leone going to Iran or not? Is there a grand plan of installing puppet regimes that will promote and protect western interests in Sub Saharan Africa? This, they believe cannot be pursued to its ultimate with an SLPP government in power particularly with the Campaign slogan of ‘continuity’. They see ‘continuity’ as romancing with the Arabs, Iranians and over and above all, the Chinese which latter are seen as economic rivals to Western interests.
With that background, I will now take you to the focus of today’s theme, which is a close look at the role of the UNDP under Victor Angelo in the just concluded elections process in Sierra Leone. Though I am disappointed with the Press Release from the Government commending Angelo and his ilk, I must assure you, Sierra Leoneans, that I’ll do my best to bring out facts that will expose the clandestine activities engaged in by our ‘friends’. To save Awareness Times who has agreed to publish my piece, from being intimidated by the Government and officials of UN System in Sierra Leone, I will this time around pose the under mentioned questions to Victor Angelo. As a proponent of freedom of the press and freedom of information, I await his honest answers:
1. Why was it that you created an office space for Christiana Thorpe at the UNDP instead of her working from her office where her colleague Commissioners and the Executive Secretary of her Commission work? Was it to keep the others, whom you are not sure of, from your operational plan?
2. Why did you advise that four million ballot papers be printed when the number of registered voters was less than three million? What happened with the extras? Perhaps Christiana could be of help here, isn’t it?
3. Why did you ask one of the Sierra Leonean UNDP officers who was the Desk Officer for NEC to refrain from all elections and related activities and hands-off that schedule? Again, was it because he could not have been the ‘right man’ for ‘Operation Regime Change’?
4. How did you recruit Mr ‘Fix-it’ Carlos Valenzuela? Was it done by ‘Sole Sourcing’ or was it by International Competitive Bidding processes as set out by the UN System?
5. Is it true also that a substantial sum to the tune of Eighty Million Leones was doled out to the candidate of your choice? If yes, did you extend same to other political parties?
6. Is it also true that after my publication last week, you were so physically and emotionally shaken that you had to cancel all meetings scheduled for that day, Thursday, 23rd August 2007, at the UNDP?
7. Is it also true that you had to make several calls to officials at the Foreign Ministry to the point were you used blackmail tactics to have them make a Press Release that will exonerate you and your ‘international community’ from the contents of that piece?
Ladies and gentlemen, I am sure that answers to these questions will provide us a sound basis for an objective appraisal of Victor Angelo and other donors to the National Electoral Commission Vis-a-vis the Foreign Affairs Press Release. I will stop at this point today but will shortly continue my efforts at publicising the international conspiracy to oust SLPP by giving you a cursory look at DfID and IMATT and how the various advises they provided might have undermined Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: N'GOBOI QUESTIONS ANGELO
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 19:38:25 08/29/07 ()
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Your ngoboi is useless. There is no tune to the rhythm. Victor Angelo is a busy man and cannot engage in petty foolish toks.
Subject: Re: N'GOBOI QUESTIONS ANGELO
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I agree with you . The international community does not have time to waste in Sierra Leone.There are more crucial geopolotical issues to worry about. Mr Angelo will not destroy his credibility in Sierra Leone.
SLPP needs to concentrate on the campaigning.
Subject: Re: N'GOBOI QUESTIONS ANGELO
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The shoe will be on the other foot soon then we will see the difference
FORREST
Subject: Re: N'GOBOI QUESTIONS ANGELO
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Date Posted: 18:27:11 08/29/07 ()
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When the Mende devil GOBOI picks up his pen and accuses the International community of seeking to "fix" the elections then we really know their level of desperation.
I would like to ask Goboi a question where were you and your better half NAFALAY when the world bank according to BEWARENESS TIMES was "praising" the good works of the SLPP.
My advice to you is that next time before you pick up your pen to spew incitement,please confer with NAFALAY,maybe she would have a beter point of view.
Subject: important corrections - Cecil Blake's letter to us
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 16:28:23 08/29/07 ()
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Most important correction:
My personal view is that by all means the run-off should take place – but in a free and fair atmosphere and that Mr. Berewa can make a major contribution to that much better atmosphere or gain the whole world (his world) and suffer the loss of his soul. What we all want is good government and he certainly does not have a monopoly on that although it’s up to him to boast – if he can - that his government has been good or of EXCELLENCE (a national value)
The letter to his compatriots is not a decree although a provocation to some of the losers. I should kindly request that you read Cecil Blake’s letter to us his compatriots once again. It speaks for itself and I am not speaking for it or trying to replace his unique words by mine. It’s his “I have a dream” at the moment when the sensitives ( those who feel) sense that a national crisis is imminent – and the suffering under the last days of SLPP misrule could be unbearable, since it is the SLPP who are still “in charge” and have been since 1996 – minus ten months…..
http://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/article.php3?id_article=1693
Observe how politely this started and there’s nothing that I’m going to be apologising about.
The feeling of outrage about what Dr. Blake suggested is yours, not mine. But time will tell, whether the suggestion is not all for the good of the country and her people.
Right after the war was brought to an end (not by Berewa or Kabbah) a unity, power-sharing government that was part of the Lomé deal would have built sufficient reconciliation through APC & SLPP, the political wing of the RUF ( like the political wing of Sinn Fein) and other factions working together in a unity/coalition government. Too ideal? Perhaps for the capu- capu greed, kleptocracy, winner takes all mentality - in all negotiations compromise is usually an element of conciliation – among compatriots. So you rig a 55% victory and the 45% remains polarised and mired in poverty? How can there be any peace in Sierra Leone if the APC is cheated of victory? Berewa would be in for a very bad time – and that’s what is happening right now, he is buying votes, openly and spending massive sums of money – that had better be spent on country building. He wouldn’t need to buy votes if the SLPP performance in office these past ten years had been appreciated by the majority of the people of SIERRA LEONE.
Sheku Kallon who likes to ask questions, should ask Mr. Berewa how much he has spent on getting himself elected - since before the Makeni ConBention time , and where is all that money coming from? Sheku, ask him. Promises to miners? Dealers ? What else? Well Alhaji Amadu Jalloh knew that he would be approached from both sides and could he snub the highest bidder? When Toegondoe Sagbah complains that Mr. Berewa is using the national treasury as his campaign bank, neither Berewa himself nor his best friends on this forum take issue with him about the matter. Why don’t they scream libel! Slander! Defamation! You want the assassination of Mr. Berewa’s character (such as it is)?
All Cecil is saying is “Wouldn’t it be nice/ideal if it could be like this?” Instead of the literal tooth and nail fighting, arson and murder that could be the second round of the last Sierra Leone Civil war - since the SLPP government according to ALL the international agencies, has not addressed the root causes of the first Civil war – namely poverty, the inequality in the distribution of benefits from resources and loans and donations = injustice with Sierra Leone five years after the war ended being the second poorest country in the world – a position that Sierra Leone never held in the years of APC governance but a position that Sierra Leone has occupied these past eleven years of the corrupt SLPP receiving massive foreign aid, donations, loans, NGOs, 90% debt relief, and trips to Libya, Iran, Cuba, Bangladesh, Malaysia, of course China ( big diamond market) and all over looking for the dollar.
The first scenario is a mature option available to Mr. Berewa. The option of not contesting the run-off, (thus) giving Ernest Bai Koroma the opportunity to govern.” (Al-hajji Momodou Koroma who is Mr. Berewa’s running mate would probably like to hang him if he said that – and that would not bring the Alhaji to within a hair’s breadth of the presidency either……
But, Mr. Berewa has after all said in his more optimistic days, in February:” Having a run-off is unnecessary. You know what it means for the resources of Sierra Leone? So why all the distress when Cecil suggests exactly the same?
This is the ground on which the country is standing at the moment, and who can deny the tensions/reality of Cecil Blake’s second scenario:
“The second scenario runs thus: The campaign continues. Tension heightens. Supporters of the APC and other sympathizers are convinced that Mr. Berewa, as he had stated in the past, believes he would win at any cost. The statement is interpreted by many, as an intention to rig the run-off elections to ensure victory. The tension results in widespread violence. A state of emergency is declared. The elections are postponed and a political vacuum is created. I leave the resultant society up to your imagination.”
Power sweet eh?
Patriotism? Can I have some of it? What’s the exact Mende expression for patriotism? I ask because I would like to use that word – it should be introduced in the SEVEN NATIONAL VALUES – in all the Sierra Leone languages – along with the National Anthem and the Country’s pledge.
““You got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules”
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=+Patriotism
I suppose that this matter ( Cecil Blake’s letter to his compatriots is simultaneously being discussed in what the professor AKB calls the "tumbu-net" I’m curious but have no access to what they are doing there. I’ll phone Cecil after I post this.
Yes, Cecil Blake, a man of diverse experience and here he is smiling, not singing:
http://www.pitt.edu/~bjgrier/blake.htm
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Cecil+Blake
Having lost the Parliamentary elections the SLPP apologists and clients are desperate. Not about increasing their salaries, but by hook or by crook, holding on to POWER. Mr. Keili can therefore write, “Electing an SLPP President to govern with an APC controlled Parliament would therefore conclusively prove that Sierra Leone's nascent democracy is maturing well. It significantly reduces the chances of retrogressive hubris and corruption which has led to the country's underdevelopment and, which comes from a single party enjoying unchecked power.” If the SLPP had won the parliamentary elections Zoker, Keili and Smith would not be advocating the same. They would be crowing “SLPP ALL THE WAY!”
My impression is that SLPP apologists are not really talking to us, but beyond us to the International Community of donor influence and trying to mislead them, to give the impression that they the most corrupt of the SLPP are holy palm tree men whilst the APC are sinners. They would like their scare propaganda to succeed on the innocent but the innocent international community of the East the West and Middle East know more about the most corrupt SLPP ever, than Zoker & Smith could dream of. They know about financial transactions, cash and barter, permits and licences, properties and monies in all kinds of investments and banks. (Sani Abacha – Mr. Kabbah’s best friend had 45 billion Swedish crowns in a Swedish bank (with his account number etc) did you know that?) And they also know what is happening in Sierra Leone, before and after the first round. They know and I can tell you this : they are disgusted about the corruption. I don’t think that the polite Hilary Benn was ever happy with it. The majority of Sierra Leoneans are also disgusted with the CORRUPTION:
Cecil Blake’s letter of appeal to Sierra Leoneans went straight home – to me - and I’m sure not only to me. Those most distressed by his “line of reasoning” are Ed Smith, David Keili, and Sam Joker of the die-hard SLPP tribe.
First of all although I’m sure that he is the best person to explain, I would like to explain what I understand Cecil to have meant by
“. Spare me the constitution as we go through these scenarios as they are centered on the survivability (or not) of our motherland”
He did not mean that the scared constitution is of no consequence – the constitution is a permanent background, it is the constant regulator - indeed there would be no president - or legal police without a strict adherence to that constitution. Cecil as former minister of communications in Kabbah’s government is absolutely aware of this, and hopefully so are the rest of us.
In effect this understanding that Cecil does not mean “ throw the constitution into the dustbin” negates all the false assumptions on which Keili so tediously ( and unctuously) erects his first four paragraphs which are hereby rendered, utterly irrelevant and therefore null and void – because Cecil Blake didn’t say that. Even an ignoramus like me wouldn’t say that, think it or believe it.
The whole of David Keili’s posting of seven paragraphs predicated on the inexcusable presumption that Cecil “wants us to throw away the Sierra Leone Constitution.” thus de-bunked, what remains as an issue? Subsidiary to David Keili’s main theme is the next thing that Cecil did say and suggest, and it’s what Keili and any right thinking African would easily deduce – that an African President whose party does not enjoy a majority in the legislature could have difficulties – and in democratic and more united Israel for example such difficulties that would render the process of government unworkable/ unmanageable would inevitably lead to a crisis of confidence - and a motion to topple such a government and call for early an election - yes another one. (N. B: Israel is more of a parliamentary democracy (Westminster style – Prime minister usually commanding a majority in Parliament and the president is merely ceremonial - it’s the PM that’s called “he who decides.”)
Cecil was not being prescr1ptive – Sierra Leone is at the crossroads and here is talking about the two possible scenarios (I have myself thought along exactly those lines of reason:
Blake said: “The first scenario is this: Mr. Berewa and the SLPP conclude that the people of Sierra Leone overwhelmingly want a change. They recognize that the majority party in parliament, the APC will work in close collaboration with the PMDC. They reason that even if Mr. Berewa wins the election, the majority party in parliament is going to be so strong that it would be a Herculean if not impossible task for him to govern. The national call for change as reflected in the voting pattern of the recently concluded general elections demonstrates that in some parts of the East and the South, the SLPP stronghold, Mr. Berewa and the SLPP suffered defeat at the hands of the PMDC. He lost the North and the Western area completely, notwithstanding the investments made in the North”
First of all lets clear off Zoker’s shameful discrediting of Cecil’s compassionate appeal, by branding him in such an ugly stream of thought: “Dr. Blake's ridiculous plea for what it is: an opportunistic self-promotion to APC veiled in phoney patriotism.”
Is it possible that Mister Zoker thinks there’s some bad blood between Professor Blake and Alhaji Kabbah and that Blake is therefore fair game – no holds barred attacks as long as he is not a 100% diehard slpp – which suggest to them that he is therefore APC ( such thinking got professor Abdul Karim Bangura to take the unprecedented step of imploring that the wrath of Allah be upon him if he was indeed a covert member of the APC - not that being an APC or SLPP adherent is intrinsically HARAM in the eyes of Islam – there being an abundance of Al-hajjis in both the SLPP and the APC and indeed none of the three leading presidential candidates are Muslim. But, let’s not go astray:
Not that Cecil’s patriotism should be in doubt or his line of reason and consideration for his own people that informs every line of his appeal can be read and misunderstood or mis-taken by any other than those who belong to the Smith-Zoker–Keili clan. Indeed as Dr. Bob Dylan says and I quote him: “They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings” - and so Zokey would like to pass him off as a real patriot whilst Blakey is “phoney”.
In a long letter that Ceil wrote to me, dated 19 September 2003, this part of which contains an unexpected litany of deceased friends other emigrations: “I am sad to inform you that Julian died nearly thirty - yes thirty years ago. Pedro died about four years ago. Marsh is also dead. Stef (Stephanopoulos) and Amara are in London. Ekoh, Macfoy and P.B. Johnson are in the Washington DC area….”
But let me quote what is relevant about his incontestable patriotism here: “When he (Kabbah) made the surprise call inviting me to serve the country, I told him categorically that I could not serve for more than six months. I had to take leave WITHOUT PAY in order to serve the nation. I received no special treatment from Kabbah in terms of remuneration – nothing extra. My salary as a minister was equivalent to my monthly phone bills on several occasions in the United States. As the sixth month was approaching and the elections definitely not going to be held, I had to request another six months of leave WITHOUT PAY to see the election process through. I reminded Kabbah ten days before the elections that I would be leaving the country immediately after the votes were counted. I did just that and was back in my office and the classroom in the United States a few days after he and the SLPP were declared winners.”
Scenario 2 is AFTER THE ELECTIONS which Berewa after spending all that he can possibly spend and promise, loses - perhaps by a margin no wider than the skin on my teeth. Time for Berewa to consider whether he should foment discord – escalate it to the point of complete disruption of the electoral process, having rendered the country not only ungovernable but unfit to conduct an election. Time to consider and Professor Blake also knows what Berewa with his 75% dreams knows, that it cannot be the corrupt SLPP forever. Messers Keili, Zoker and Smith, the emphasis here is on CORRUPT. (That’s where by first HEAVY blow is going to land – for a count of nine. If you (plural) get up after that – I’ll dance with you one more round, and then, THE END.
SO he kindly asks Mr. Ekuma Berewa to consider whether it is his personal ambition no matter how incorruptible and competent and energetic and excellent, honest, resourceful and great the self esteem, or the national self-esteem of the people’s choice which weighs heavier.
Bear in mind that Mr. Berewa it was who said when asked about a run-off, that there was not going to be one. In the Concord interview with Olusegun Ogundeji Israel on 14/2/2007
Question : - People say you are not charismatic and difficult to market?
Berewa: ” I can't say anything about that. Let the people decide. Let's wait for the election, yah…. I can't talk about how beautiful or ugly I am, let the people decide yah… but my impression is that, I don't think there is any politician as popular today as I am. I can tell you that from my tour of this country, there is no politician who is near as popular as I am at the moment. Let nobody fool you.”
Question: - You mentioned your role in ending the war but many people think that the international community ended the war and that your government was a passive spectator
Berewa : -They are very stupid. How can the international community end the war? How can they? They are very stupid. They don't even know how it functions. The international community cannot end wars, otherwise they could have ended the war in Abidjan and they would have ended the war in Darfur . They cannot end wars. Peacekeepers only come when you have gotten peace; they keep the peace that the government has got. If you don't have peace they won't come. If there is a wrong person in this country they all run away and leave it to us to solve it. International communities do not end wars in countries. They won't even be there. You remember January 6 th , when they knew it was coming; all of them went away and left it to us to solve it. In the conference during the talk, they sat in the background and watch. Ah it is difficult for people to understand. They don't interfere”
Question: -People are hungry; there is unemployment, do you think public officers in air-conditioned offices actually feel the pulse of grassroots population?
Berewa- ” People are hungry like in every country. There is unemployment like in every country. Sierra Leone is much better than many countries. We have food. The good things that are in this country are not in other countries. There is unemployment of course. A country that has just come from war with infrastructures destroyed. So we are just bringing them back. Government officers that are seen in air-conditioned offices is to enable them work well, to think well, to have a proper environment to work for the people. They are not sitting there for pleasure. They had to be in a good working environment to think well. If you were sitting on the floor doing this interview, will you write a good article? You have a fan in your office, you have to have cool chair to be a good editor more so when you are working for people, you are appealing for their future you are planning for them the progress and development are you to sit in the field on the stone to do that? ”
Question: - Tell us something about the next elections. Can you honestly win?
Berewa- I am going to win clearly by a wide margin from all indications.
Question: - Let's play the devils advocate here: There is this calculation that Margi will split SLPP vote in the South- East. Ernest Koroma may have the head way in the North. Freetown will be the battle ground for all parties. What do you say about this?
Berewa- I don't see anything in that. Margai knows he cannot split the SLPP. The euphoria about Margai has faded away. Few days ago, over two hundred PMDC boys came to surrender to the SLPP in my office. You know they had PMDC euphoria initially. You know young people like new things. But they now know who Margai is. When he began to say certain things, they knew he wants to be a dictator. I have been in government for nearly ten years. Margai cannot achieve all that.
Question: - Sir, are you scared of run-off?
Berewa-: ”How can I be scared? Having a run-off is unnecessary. You know what it means for the resources of Sierra Leone ? Why should I be scared of a run-off when it cost a lot of money? Let me tell you, my majority will be so massive.”
Question: -People are hungry; there is unemployment, do you think public officers in air-conditioned offices actually feel the pulse of grassroots population?
Berewa: ” People are hungry like in every country. There is unemployment like in every country. Sierra Leone is much better than many countries. We have food. The good things that are in this country are not in other countries. There is unemployment of course. A country that has just come from war with infrastructures destroyed. So we are just bringing them back. Government officers that are seen in air-conditioned offices is to enable them work well, to think well, to have a proper environment to work for the people. They are not sitting there for pleasure. They had to be in a good working environment to think well. If you were sitting on the floor doing this interview, will you write a good article? You have a fan in your office, you have to have cool chair to be a good editor more so when you are working for people, you are appealing for their future you are planning for them the progress and development are you to sit in the field on the stone to do that?”
So here is Cecil Blake’s vision – not prescr1ption. He’s saying wouldn’t it be nice if Berewa had the testicular fortitude to view the scenery thus – and so he would, in an ideal world:
“ Mr. Berewa, therefore, consults with his party and argues that the country is over and above his ambition to become president; that he is opting to be seen at this time in his life, as a great statesman who wishes the nation to succeed; and that the only way success can be achieved under the present circumstances is to respect what has clearly emerged in the nation as a desire for change. He concludes that indeed he wishes to behave as an elder statesman and patriot, and as an active participant in the process of change and, therefore, wishes to for a meeting with Ernest Bai Koroma and Charles Margai, together with their respective teams. They agree to lift our nation up high. At the end of the meeting Mr. Berewa declares that in line with the atmosphere for change and the imperative of patriotism, he is not going to contest in the run-off, giving Ernest Bai Koroma the opportunity to govern.
He commits himself to supporting programmes to get Sierra Leone moving, and building upon some of the positive contributions of his former administration and working towards the creation of programs for infrastructural development of the country and the welfare and advancement of its huge youth pop! ulation. He would rather do that than to spend five years fighting a futile battle with parliament and in the process, failing to achieve any success. They all declare at the end of the meeting: "Our nation first and foremost! All hands on deck!" The nation jubilates! There is a two-day celebration of statesmanship and patriotism, with all colors in line. The nation begins its operations to move the country forward. Mr. Berewa becomes the symbol of elder statesmanship and patriotism.”
Subject: Some opinions about Cecil Blake's letter to his compatriots
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 16:07:44 08/29/07 ()
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My personal view is that by all means the run-off should take place – but in a free and fair atmosphere and that Mr. Berewa can make a major contribution to that much better atmosphere or gain the whole world (his world) and suffer the loss of his soul. What we all want is good government and he certainly does not have a monopoly on that although it’s up to him to boast – if he can - that his government has been good or of EXCELLENCE (a national value)
The letter to his compatriots is not a decree although a provocation to some of the losers. I should kindly request that you read Cecil Blake’s letter to us his compatriots once again. It speaks for itself and I am not speaking for it or trying to replace his unique words by mine. It’s his “I have a dream” at the moment when the sensitives ( those who feel) sense that a national crisis is imminent – and the suffering under the last days of SLPP misrule could be unbearable, since it is the SLPP who are still “in charge” and have been since 1996 – minus ten months…..
http://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/article.php3?id_article=1693
Observe how politely this started and there’s nothing that I’m going to be apologising about.
The feeling of outrage about what Dr. Blake suggested is yours, not mine. But time will tell, whether the suggestion is not all for the good of the country and her people.
Right after the war was brought to an end (not by Berewa or Kabbah) a unity, power-sharing government that was part of the Lomé deal would have built sufficient reconciliation through APC & SLPP, the political wing of the RUF ( like the political wing of Sinn Fein) and other factions working together in a unity/coalition government. Too ideal? Perhaps for the capu- capu greed, kleptocracy, winner takes all mentality - in all negotiations compromise is usually an element of conciliation – among compatriots. So you rig a 55% victory and the 45% remains polarised and mired in poverty? How can there be any peace in Sierra Leone if the APC is cheated of victory? Berewa would be in for a very bad time – and that’s what is happening right now, he is buying votes, openly and spending massive sums of money – that had better be spent on country building. He wouldn’t need to buy votes if the SLPP performance in office these past ten years had been appreciated by the majority of the people of SIERRA LEONE.
Sheku Kallon who likes to ask questions, should ask Mr. Berewa how much he has spent on getting himself elected - since before the Makeni ConBention time , and where is all that money coming from? Sheku, ask him. Promises to miners? Dealers ? What else? Well Alhaji Amadu Jalloh knew that he would be approached from both sides and could he snub the highest bidder? When Toegondoe Sagbah says that Mr. Berewa is not using the national treasury, neither Berewa himself nor his best friends on this forum take issue with him about the matter. Why don’t they scream libel! Slander! Defamation! You want the assassination of Mr. Berewa’s character (such as it is)?
All Cecil is saying is “Wouldn’t it be nice/ideal if it could be like this?” Instead of the literal tooth and nail fighting, arson and murder that could be the second round of the last Sierra Leone Civil war - since the SLPP government according to ALL the international agencies, has not addressed the root causes of the first Civil war – namely poverty, the inequality in the distribution of benefits from resources and loans and donations = injustice with Sierra Leone five years after the war ended being the second poorest country in the world – a position that Sierra Leone never held in the years of APC governance but a position that Sierra Leone has occupied these past eleven years of the corrupt SLPP receiving massive foreign aid, donations, loans, NGOs, 90% debt relief, and trips to Libya, Iran, Cuba, Bangladesh, Malaysia, of course China ( big diamond market) and all over looking for the dollar.
The first scenario is a mature option available to Mr. Berewa. The option of not contesting the run-off, (thus) giving Ernest Bai Koroma the opportunity to govern.” (Al-hajji Momodou Koroma who is Mr. Berewa’s running mate would probably like to hang him if he said that – and that would not bring the Alhaji to within a hair’s breadth of the presidency either……
But, Mr. Berewa has after all said in his more optimistic days, in February:” Having a run-off is unnecessary. You know what it means for the resources of Sierra Leone? So why all the distress when Cecil suggests exactly the same?
This is the ground on which the country is standing at the moment, and who can deny the tensions/reality of Cecil Blake’s second scenario:
“The second scenario runs thus: The campaign continues. Tension heightens. Supporters of the APC and other sympathizers are convinced that Mr. Berewa, as he had stated in the past, believes he would win at any cost. The statement is interpreted by many, as an intention to rig the run-off elections to ensure victory. The tension results in widespread violence. A state of emergency is declared. The elections are postponed and a political vacuum is created. I leave the resultant society up to your imagination.”
Power sweet eh?
Patriotism? Can I have some of it? What’s the exact Mende expression for patriotism? I ask because I would like to use that word – it should be introduced in the SEVEN NATIONAL VALUES – in all the Sierra Leone languages – along with the National Anthem and the Country’s pledge.
““You got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules”
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=+Patriotism
I suppose that this matter ( Cecil Blake’s letter to his compatriots is simultaneously being discussed in what the professor AKB calls the "tumbu-net" I’m curious but have no access to what they are doing there. I’ll phone Cecil after I post this.
Yes, Cecil Blake, a man of diverse experience and here he is smiling, not singing:
http://www.pitt.edu/~bjgrier/blake.htm
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Cecil+Blake
Having lost the Parliamentary elections the SLPP apologists and clients are desperate. Not about increasing their salaries, but by hook or by crook, holding on to POWER. Mr. Keili can therefore write, “Electing an SLPP President to govern with an APC controlled Parliament would therefore conclusively prove that Sierra Leone's nascent democracy is maturing well. It significantly reduces the chances of retrogressive hubris and corruption which has led to the country's underdevelopment and, which comes from a single party enjoying unchecked power.” If the SLPP had won the parliamentary elections Zoker, Keili and Smith would not be advocating the same. They would be crowing “SLPP ALL THE WAY!”
My impression is that SLPP apologists are not really talking to us, but beyond us to the International Community of donor influence and trying to mislead them, to give the impression that they the most corrupt of the SLPP are holy palm tree men whilst the APC are sinners. They would like their scare propaganda to succeed on the innocent but the innocent international community of the East the West and Middle East know more about the most corrupt SLPP ever, than Zoker & Smith could dream of. They know about financial transactions, cash and barter, permits and licences, properties and monies in all kinds of investments and banks. (Sani Abacha – Mr. Kabbah’s best friend had 45 billion Swedish crowns in a Swedish bank (with his account number etc) did you know that?) And they also know what is happening in Sierra Leone, before and after the first round. They know and I can tell you this : they are disgusted about the corruption. I don’t think that the polite Hilary Benn was ever happy with it. The majority of Sierra Leoneans are also disgusted with the CORRUPTION:
Cecil Blake’s letter of appeal to Sierra Leoneans went straight home – to me - and I’m sure not only to me. Those most distressed by his “line of reasoning” are Ed Smith, David Keili, and Sam Joker of the die-hard SLPP tribe.
First of all although I’m sure that he is the best person to explain, I would like to explain what I understand Cecil to have meant by
“. Spare me the constitution as we go through these scenarios as they are centered on the survivability (or not) of our motherland”
He did not mean that the scared constitution is of no consequence – the constitution is a permanent background, it is the constant regulator - indeed there would be no president - or legal police without a strict adherence to that constitution. Cecil as former minister of communications in Kabbah’s government is absolutely aware of this, and hopefully so are the rest of us.
In effect this understanding that Cecil does not mean “ throw the constitution into the dustbin” negates all the false assumptions on which Keili so tediously ( and unctuously) erects his first four paragraphs which are hereby rendered, utterly irrelevant and therefore null and void – because Cecil Blake didn’t say that. Even an ignoramus like me wouldn’t say that, think it or believe it.
The whole of David Keili’s posting of seven paragraphs predicated on the inexcusable presumption that Cecil “wants us to throw away the Sierra Leone Constitution.” thus de-bunked, what remains as an issue? Subsidiary to David Keili’s main theme is the next thing that Cecil did say and suggest, and it’s what Keili and any right thinking African would easily deduce – that an African President whose party does not enjoy a majority in the legislature could have difficulties – and in democratic and more united Israel for example such difficulties that would render the process of government unworkable/ unmanageable would inevitably lead to a crisis of confidence - and a motion to topple such a government and call for early an election - yes another one. (N. B: Israel is more of a parliamentary democracy (Westminster style – Prime minister usually commanding a majority in Parliament and the president is merely ceremonial - it’s the PM that’s called “he who decides.”)
Cecil was not being prescr1ptive – Sierra Leone is at the crossroads and here is talking about the two possible scenarios (I have myself thought along exactly those lines of reason:
Blake said: “The first scenario is this: Mr. Berewa and the SLPP conclude that the people of Sierra Leone overwhelmingly want a change. They recognize that the majority party in parliament, the APC will work in close collaboration with the PMDC. They reason that even if Mr. Berewa wins the election, the majority party in parliament is going to be so strong that it would be a Herculean if not impossible task for him to govern. The national call for change as reflected in the voting pattern of the recently concluded general elections demonstrates that in some parts of the East and the South, the SLPP stronghold, Mr. Berewa and the SLPP suffered defeat at the hands of the PMDC. He lost the North and the Western area completely, notwithstanding the investments made in the North”
First of all lets clear off Zoker’s shameful discrediting of Cecil’s compassionate appeal, by branding him in such an ugly stream of thought: “Dr. Blake's ridiculous plea for what it is: an opportunistic self-promotion to APC veiled in phoney patriotism.”
Is it possible that Mister Zoker thinks there’s some bad blood between Professor Blake and Alhaji Kabbah and that Blake is therefore fair game – no holds barred attacks as long as he is not a 100% diehard slpp – which suggest to them that he is therefore APC ( such thinking got professor Abdul Karim Bangura to take the unprecedented step of imploring that the wrath of Allah be upon him if he was indeed a covert member of the APC - not that being an APC or SLPP adherent is intrinsically HARAM in the eyes of Islam – there being an abundance of Al-hajjis in both the SLPP and the APC and indeed none of the three leading presidential candidates are Muslim. But, let’s not go astray:
Not that Cecil’s patriotism should be in doubt or his line of reason and consideration for his own people that informs every line of his appeal can be read and misunderstood or mis-taken by any other than those who belong to the Smith-Zoker–Keili clan. Indeed as Dr. Bob Dylan says and I quote him: “They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings” - and so Zokey would like to pass him off as a real patriot whilst Blakey is “phoney”.
In a long letter that Ceil wrote to me, dated 19 September 2003, this part of which contains an unexpected litany of deceased friends other emigrations: “I am sad to inform you that Julian died nearly thirty - yes thirty years ago. Pedro died about four years ago. Marsh is also dead. Stef (Stephanopoulos) and Amara are in London. Ekoh, Macfoy and P.B. Johnson are in the Washington DC area….”
But let me quote what is relevant about his incontestable patriotism here: “When he (Kabbah) made the surprise call inviting me to serve the country, I told him categorically that I could not serve for more than six months. I had to take leave WITHOUT PAY in order to serve the nation. I received no special treatment from Kabbah in terms of remuneration – nothing extra. My salary as a minister was equivalent to my monthly phone bills on several occasions in the United States. As the sixth month was approaching and the elections definitely not going to be held, I had to request another six months of leave WITHOUT PAY to see the election process through. I reminded Kabbah ten days before the elections that I would be leaving the country immediately after the votes were counted. I did just that and was back in my office and the classroom in the United States a few days after he and the SLPP were declared winners.”
Scenario 2 is AFTER THE ELECTIONS which Berewa after spending all that he can possibly spend and promise, loses - perhaps by a margin no wider than the skin on my teeth. Time for Berewa to consider whether he should foment discord – escalate it to the point of complete disruption of the electoral process, having rendered the country not only ungovernable but unfit to conduct an election. Time to consider and Professor Blake also knows what Berewa with his 75% dreams knows, that it cannot be the corrupt SLPP forever. Messers Keili, Zoker and Smith, the emphasis here is on CORRUPT. (That’s where by first HEAVY blow is going to land – for a count of nine. If you (plural) get up after that – I’ll dance with you one more round, and then, THE END.
SO he kindly asks Mr. Ekuma Berewa to consider whether it is his personal ambition no matter how incorruptible and competent and energetic and excellent, honest, resourceful and great the self esteem, or the national self-esteem of the people’s choice which weighs heavier.
Bear in mind that Mr. Berewa it was who said when asked about a run-off, that there was not going to be one. In the Concord interview with Olusegun Ogundeji Israel on 14/2/2007
Question : - People say you are not charismatic and difficult to market?
Berewa: ” I can't say anything about that. Let the people decide. Let's wait for the election, yah…. I can't talk about how beautiful or ugly I am, let the people decide yah… but my impression is that, I don't think there is any politician as popular today as I am. I can tell you that from my tour of this country, there is no politician who is near as popular as I am at the moment. Let nobody fool you.”
Question: - You mentioned your role in ending the war but many people think that the international community ended the war and that your government was a passive spectator.
Berewa : -They are very stupid. How can the international community end the war? How can they? They are very stupid. They don't even know how it functions. The international community cannot end wars, otherwise they could have ended the war in Abidjan and they would have ended the war in Darfur . They cannot end wars. Peacekeepers only come when you have gotten peace; they keep the peace that the government has got. If you don't have peace they won't come. If there is a wrong person in this country they all run away and leave it to us to solve it. International communities do not end wars in countries. They won't even be there. You remember January 6 th , when they knew it was coming; all of them went away and left it to us to solve it. In the conference during the talk, they sat in the background and watch. Ah it is difficult for people to understand. They don't interfere”
Question: -People are hungry; there is unemployment, do you think public officers in air-conditioned offices actually feel the pulse of grassroots population?
Berewa- ” People are hungry like in every country. There is unemployment like in every country. Sierra Leone is much better than many countries. We have food. The good things that are in this country are not in other countries. There is unemployment of course. A country that has just come from war with infrastructures destroyed. So we are just bringing them back. Government officers that are seen in air-conditioned offices is to enable them work well, to think well, to have a proper environment to work for the people. They are not sitting there for pleasure. They had to be in a good working environment to think well. If you were sitting on the floor doing this interview, will you write a good article? You have a fan in your office, you have to have cool chair to be a good editor more so when you are working for people, you are appealing for their future you are planning for them the progress and development are you to sit in the field on the stone to do that? ”
Question: - Tell us something about the next elections. Can you honestly win?
Berewa- I am going to win clearly by a wide margin from all indications.
Question: - Let's play the devils advocate here: There is this calculation that Margi will split SLPP vote in the South- East. Ernest Koroma may have the head way in the North. Freetown will be the battle ground for all parties. What do you say about this?
Berewa- I don't see anything in that. Margai knows he cannot split the SLPP. The euphoria about Margai has faded away. Few days ago, over two hundred PMDC boys came to surrender to the SLPP in my office. You know they had PMDC euphoria initially. You know young people like new things. But they now know who Margai is. When he began to say certain things, they knew he wants to be a dictator. I have been in government for nearly ten years. Margai cannot achieve all that.
Question: - Sir, are you scared of run-off?
Berewa-: ”How can I be scared? Having a run-off is unnecessary. You know what it means for the resources of Sierra Leone ? Why should I be scared of a run-off when it cost a lot of money? Let me tell you, my majority will be so massive.”
Question: -People are hungry; there is unemployment, do you think public officers in air-conditioned offices actually feel the pulse of grassroots population?
Berewa: ” People are hungry like in every country. There is unemployment like in every country. Sierra Leone is much better than many countries. We have food. The good things that are in this country are not in other countries. There is unemployment of course. A country that has just come from war with infrastructures destroyed. So we are just bringing them back. Government officers that are seen in air-conditioned offices is to enable them work well, to think well, to have a proper environment to work for the people. They are not sitting there for pleasure. They had to be in a good working environment to think well. If you were sitting on the floor doing this interview, will you write a good article? You have a fan in your office, you have to have cool chair to be a good editor more so when you are working for people, you are appealing for their future you are planning for them the progress and development are you to sit in the field on the stone to do that?”
So here is Cecil Blake’s vision – not prescr1ption. He’s saying wouldn’t it be nice if Berewa had the testicular fortitude to view the scenery thus – and so he would, in an ideal world:
“ Mr. Berewa, therefore, consults with his party and argues that the country is over and above his ambition to become president; that he is opting to be seen at this time in his life, as a great statesman who wishes the nation to succeed; and that the only way success can be achieved under the present circumstances is to respect what has clearly emerged in the nation as a desire for change. He concludes that indeed he wishes to behave as an elder statesman and patriot, and as an active participant in the process of change and, therefore, wishes to for a meeting with Ernest Bai Koroma and Charles Margai, together with their respective teams. They agree to lift our nation up high. At the end of the meeting Mr. Berewa declares that in line with the atmosphere for change and the imperative of patriotism, he is not going to contest in the run-off, giving Ernest Bai Koroma the opportunity to govern.
He commits himself to supporting programmes to get Sierra Leone moving, and building upon some of the positive contributions of his former administration and working towards the creation of programs for infrastructural development of the country and the welfare and advancement of its huge youth pop! ulation. He would rather do that than to spend five years fighting a futile battle with parliament and in the process, failing to achieve any success. They all declare at the end of the meeting: "Our nation first and foremost! All hands on deck!" The nation jubilates! There is a two-day celebration of statesmanship and patriotism, with all colors in line. The nation begins its operations to move the country forward. Mr. Berewa becomes the symbol of elder statesmanship and patriotism.”
http://www.nigeriaworld.com/
Subject: POST OF THE CENTURY---IS HE A LEPER WHO SHOULD BE IN A JAR?
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 16:06:34 08/29/07 ()
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Posted by Independent Observer on August 28, 2007 at 14:06:50:
In Reply to: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism posted by Joker on August 28, 2007 at 13:52:47:
An if i was not Mende, or not even from Sierra Leone, but lived there and went to school because my dad was posted there?
Does that make your father sleeping with his sister ok..
Now i know why you where born with 3 toes.. en cross yeye..
One of the reasons cross breeding conduct is banned. Me think your family is case in point..
You should be in a jar.. at some university..
Listen fella's..i give as much as you all can dish..
I am no Jehovahs witness.. If you want to be civil i will..
If you jab...i will hook.
Subject: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: Fan
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Date Posted: 15:31:10 08/29/07 ()
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Posted by DUMMY on August 29, 2007 at 15:29:03:
In Reply to: Re: Horse's own mouth posted by Sengbe on August 29, 2007 at 13:49:28:
Hey, Edmund Koker, it is true what they say that you dont ever understand anything you read. Now, it turns out you don't know anything about Sa Lon. On top of that you want to insult your betters when they talk about SLPP's corruption.
Here are the facts you don't know:
1. Britain alone has given $500 million in direct budgetary support to the kleptomaniac SLPP govt. of Kabbah and Berewa between 2002 and 2007.
2. The G* countries, the IMF, the World Bank , the Paris Club together gave the kleptomaniac SLPp looters of Kabbah and Berewa $1.5 BILLION in debt relief in 2006/7.
I don't know if you can count in English, Koker. Judging by the fact that you can't understand English, it is possible mthat you also are innumerate. But take it from me, if you add up the $500 million and $1.5 BILLION, you would realize how stpid you are to question the FACT that your thieving SLPP traitors of Kabbah and Berewa have been givcen at least $1.7 BILLION in the past 5 years of their corrupt misrule of Sa Lon.
Kabbah's and Berewa's massisve looting of Sa Lon people's money can be inferred from the fact that they have nothing to show for the majority of the monies given to them. In addition, they have been caught looting British budgetary support money by DFID. On top of that, they have ben caught looting by every one of their international donors who have said so PUBLICLY -- e.g., the U.N. (in 2006), the G8 (2005), the European Union (2005.
Of course, you have to be able to understand what you read in order to understand all the above FActs.
Which, of course, explains your ignorance of them.
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 19:17:16 08/29/07 ()
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Fan, I think you need to review the facts more carefully, You seem to misunderstand them. Just because the G8 gave Sierra Leone $1.5 billion debt relief does not mean that SLPP had immediate acess to 1.5 billion to loot. THus you are wrong in inferring they looted the funds. They will benefit from not having to pay the interest and principal on the debt.
The least you could do is give SLPP credit as many nations did not meet the debt relief criteria.The next govt will benefit because they would not be buoyed by debt. Besides must of the debt was obtained by APC looters from the previous govts.
Sierra Leone received $500 million dollars over five years. Big deal. That is $100 per capita over five years I was in Freetown in July $100 can barely last you two days. So what improvement can you expect the Govt to acheive with this chicken change.
If these white people were interested in real development in Sierra Leone. They will give us billions of dollars that is what we need to build the infrastructure that will attract foreign investors. If not, let them stop wasting our time.
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: Fan
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Date Posted: 20:16:04 08/29/07 ()
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Your problem is a suspiciously familiar one -- you didn't understand what I posted.
Foreign aid is not "sarah" that is shared out to every man, woman and child in Salone. So, your statement that $500 million is $100 per capita confirms that you do not understand the economics of foreign aid.
Second, British budgetary support of $500 milion is only a fraction of the total aid squandered by the kleptomaniac SLPP regime of Kabbah and Berewa. The same Berewa announced with glee in 2005 the agreement to provide $800 million in cash to the SLPP government over the next two years as part of the PRSP. Add to that more than $100 million given to the looting SLPP by the European Union.
So, just from the British budgetary support, the PRSP and the EU, the SLPP kleptomaniacs,. Kabbah and Berewa, received $1.5 BILLION IN CASH. That is the money that they looted, not the debt relief money. They looted the debt relief money by diverting the annual interest and debt repayments that they no longer had to repay -- between $80 milion and $100 MILLION a year for two years.
So, the SLPP looters Kabbah and Berewa looted potentially nearly $2 BILLION just in the five years of their corrupt administration. Just to help you understand the magnitude of Kabbah and Berewa's theft of Salone people's money, that $2 billion they looted is more than the entire debt of all previous governments in the history of Salone!
I hope you can now see the gall involved underlying your Colonial Mentality statement that white people should reward such SLPP criminals by giving them even more "billions" to develop Salone. Such a mentality is expected from corrupt incompetents like the SLPP Kleptomaniacs, Berewa and Kabbah. That is why the people of Salone gave them notice on August 11.
What is left now is to put Kabbah and Berewa on trial for their massive looting of billions of dolars belonging to the people of Salone. That will happen shortly after Sept. 8, Gid willing.
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 21:32:12 08/29/07 ()
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you need to clarify your facts and stop misinforming the public. Why mention the $1.5 billion debt relief, if you know that the SLPP did not have acess to whole money ,and only has acess to the $ 80 million savings .That is if they paid it regularly.
I showed the aid on a per capita basis to show how insignificant it was .$ 100 per capita over 5 years big deal. What can $1oo per capita acheive in terms of development.If you really know internatinal economics which you assert, you will know that per
capita measurements are
used in many of its calculation. How much did the previous APC kleptomaniacs embezzle
in their 24 years.
Please show us the proof the Govt embezzled these funds or whether they had direct control of these funds. Based on the record of Sierra Leone, I doubt donors are going to give sierra Leonean officials direct control of these funds. They could have spent
it on donor controlled activities and expenditures Military, security and expatriate workers.
Whether you like it or not White nations control the world econony. They have funds to help our nations develop. I do not see any forthcoming funds from Ghana or Nigeria. So , If they are serious about bringing serious investment to Sierra Leone , Stop wasting our time on $500 million over 5 years
If you can provide the evidence that Kabba and Berewa stole $2 billion. Take it to the international court
and evoke a citizen's arrest. Circulate the copies of
the proof to newspapers in Sierra LEone.Why wait,this
will surely cause the defeat of Berewa. Instead you make allegations with no substantiated evidence.
Bring out the documents, Former president Ahidjo had to face a citizen's arrest while in exile.
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: Fan
To: All
Date Posted: 05:54:22 08/30/07 ()
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Edmund Koker, it is obvious that you don't understand economics. More sadly, even when you errors are pointed out to you, you still fail to understand them because you do not understand what you read.
The saad conclusion is that your multi-faceted failings create an insurmountable barrier to curing you of your chronic ignorance.
Still, in the hope that there is some one who can speak a language which you may be capable of compreending, let him repeat that it is nonsensical to call the British government's direct budgetary of $500 million IN CASH paid to the kleptomaniac SLPP regime of Kabbah and Berewa "no big deal."
Only some one like you who does not understand that $500 million is enough money to fund the ENTIRE annual budget of Salone for nearly two YEARS would utter such a nonsensical statement as you did. Of course, given your notorious incomprehension debility, it is probable that you do not even understand what the expression "no big deal" means.
You again displayed y6our plumbless ignorance by making the following nonsensical statement: " showed the aid on a per capita basis to show how insignificant it was .$ 100 per capita over 5 years big deal. What can $1oo per capita acheive in terms of development.If you really know internatinal economics which you assert, you will know that per capita measurements are used in many of its calculation."
Look, DUMBO, per capita aid figures are used by economists for COMPARATIVE purposes to evaluate aid received by several countries. Economists do not use them to absolutely determine the adequacy of aid. So, it is complete nonsense to state as you did: "I showed the aid on a per capita basis to show how insignificant it was .$ 100 per capita over 5 years"
But of course, no one expects you to know that, Edmund Koker, because you are incapable of understanding anything you read.
As to the proof of Berewa's and Kabbah's corruption, have someone explain to you in Mende what the UN, G8, the EU and others published about Kabbah's and Berewwa's corruption that caused Salone to be rejected at itvsfoirst eattempt for debt relief in 2005.
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 07:05:39 08/30/07 ()
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Look antimende tribalist, Please control your hatred for mende for a while. It is not about mende its about the false APC Propanganda. Show me the evidence that Kabba and Berewa stole $2 billion, If you are a true Sierra LEonean patriot. Show the evidence Please.
I know the SLPP is corrupt bUT Berewa
and Kabba did not Steal $ 2 billion. You can insult me as much as you like which is part of the APC culture of thuggery, it will not stop me from asking for evidence.
SHOW THE EVIDENCE AND STO P BEING AN APC HACK.
WE ALL WANT A GOOD GOVT IN SIERRA LEONE AND the PEOPLE ARE SMART ENOUGH TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION, BE IT SLPP OR APC.
By the way. I am neither Edmund Koker nor Mende. I am mostly probably more related to APC than you, If thats possible
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: Fan
To: All
Date Posted: 10:29:37 08/30/07 ()
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"Look antimende tribalist, Please control your hatred for mende for a while."
Aagain, you are displaying your chronic inability to underrstand what you read, Edmund Koker.
To say that you should have someone translate the simple English sentences you have repeatedly failed to understand into Mende for your hopefull comprehension is NOT evidence of the the helful person being an "antmende tribalist."
Such a conclusion can only come from your failure to understand what you read. Had you been capable of understanding what you read, you would have easily understood that the point of the pointe offer -- to increaee the chance that you would understand what you read by having a Good Samaritan translate it into your native language of Mende.
Of course, I don't expect you to understand what I just wrote. Which, again obliges me to suggest that you have a ende -speaker at your appropriate level of incomprehension, trnslate it for you. That is not an insult, even though, of course, you wouldn't understand that. It is a helpful suggestion intended to help you overcome your inability to understand written English.
Hopefully, you will get the statement immediately above translated for you into your Mende native language.
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 20:56:47 08/29/07 ()
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Fan,
You are not a fan. You, Sir, are a true superstar. You just made me a fan with the intellectual smackdown you smashingly delivered on the SLPPselfishcrat, Kamara. The thing these guys don't understand is that you just can't spray deodorant on toilet stink and come up roses. So keep countering their coarse propaganda with hard facts bro. I doff my economic hat to you. 10 more days to liberation. God bless!
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 16:39:23 08/29/07 ()
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Fan,
Thank you for exposing the SLPP TIFFY TIFFY crimes in sobbering black and white. Decent people will usually bow their head in remorse, but not these hardened SLPP criminals. I am sure that decent SLPP folks are nauseated by the thieving ways of their leaders. They just need to have the courage to take a breather from politics and condemn these incorrigible thieves.
Those hundreds of millions of dollars that have been salted away in foreign banks could have built factories, brought piped water, electricity and hope to the people of Segbwema, Panguma, Njailahun as well as Masiaka, Mafoifi and Bumpeh
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: Fan
To: All
Date Posted: 17:17:02 08/29/07 ()
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Mammy Blessing:
You are a true Patriot. Let me thank you too for showinfg the courage to openly identify these SLPP criminals for the despicable looters of tens of millions of money belonging to the people of Sa Lon.
The prayer of the people of Sa Lon is that come Se[pt 8, after we have a new government , these traitorous criminals would be charged with economic crimes and, upon conviction, be made to disgorge every penny of the tens of millions of dollars they have looted from the victims of their unquenchabel greed.
No more impunity in Sa Lon, come Sept 8.
AND THE PEOPLE OF SA LON shall answer to this fervent prayer: In the name of Christ, Our Lord, Amen. Insh'allha!
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: TRIBALIST
To: All
Date Posted: 16:06:50 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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He misunderstands everything he reads. He wrote his usual blah blah blah when talking to honorable Enviable and repeated the same when talking about the posting for which he just received a knock out blow. Some people need to go back to school and take the GCE O'Level.
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: Objective Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 16:18:35 08/29/07 ()
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"He misunderstands everything he reads."
That has been Koker's most fundamental problem. Because of that critical failure, he is incapable of rational response to an opponent's argument.
When the opponent points it out, Koker then retreats to his other unfortunate failing -- a failure to obtain a proper upbringing. So, he lets loose with very rude, crude, churlsih rants.
It is indeed a sdad spectacle made all the more reprehensible because Edmund Koker has an additional failing: He is a Mende tribalist.
Acting together, Koker's multiple and multifarious defects of character have produced in this forum the most depraved display of rudeness and tribalism on tghe part of Edmund Koker. It is truly pathetic that such a old guy has gone through most of his life without ever realizing the depth of his sociopathic debilities, or, much less, taken the first step to get help to make him evenn a marginally better person.
Truly pathetic.
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: OUCH!
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Date Posted: 15:52:05 08/29/07 ()
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now that is what i would call a true, clean knock out punch of an opponent
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 16:49:50 08/29/07 ()
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Boxing licence revoked!! RBS can fight no more!!
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: Kamajor
To: All
Date Posted: 17:11:06 08/29/07 ()
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Basco, the Nevada Boxing Commissioner, I salute you sir for stopping the unequal bout.
No doubt you have in mind the real possibility of Edmund Koker aka Sengbe (and all the other false names the False Prophet has unwittingly exposed himself as having been abusing)doing a Mike Tyson: biting his opponent's ears.
Truth be told, that is a much more real possibility because the SL truth and Reconciliation Commission documented evidence showing that Koker's Kannibal Kind (get it, KKK) likes eating their human opponents!
of Bo
Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE YEAR
From: Magic Bullet
To: All
Date Posted: 16:26:51 08/29/07 ()
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It sure knocked out one opponent -- Edmund Koker. But let me tell you the blow was felt by many of his false names he abuses in this website, like False Prophet, alieu sesay, Independent Man, baby sista, Kamara, etc.
I guess that makes the knowck out punck of Edmund Koker comparable to the magic bullet that allegedly killed President Kennedyin Dallas on November 22, 1963 -- and then proceeded to hit Gov. Connally, his wfe afterwards.
Subject: CARLOS VALENZUELA
From: X
To: All
Date Posted: 15:27:07 08/29/07 ()
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As Consiparacy To Defraud Sierra Leoneans Mounts, Carlos Valenzuela Exposed!!!
By Soko N’goboi
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Fellow Sierra Leoneans let us praise ourselves for the manner in which we conducted ourselves during and after the just concluded general elections. All the praises we have received from the international community are just confirmation of how serious these people take our commitment to peace in our beloved country. However, what the international community does not know is the magnitude of our commitment to guard our hard won peace against any internal/external manipulations. I say this because all attempts by them to have a Regime Change by clandestinely undertaking nefarious actions against the SLPP government have failed to steer popular uprising that would have plunged this country into anarchy.
Carlos Valenzuela
I am sure as you read this piece you might be tempted to allude that "here is another propaganda by an SLPP zealot", but alas countrymen! this piece is far from that. It is an attempt to show you the average Sierra Leonean how vicious the international community could be when they are pursuing an agenda of having puppet regimes in post conflict countries or emerging democracies like Sierra Leone.
This article is the first in a series that is aimed at exposing the international community’s role in undermining the SLPP government. I shall in future series look into how the Special Court has been manipulated to influence the results of the general elections by (a) giving verdict on the eve of elections and (b) present moves to pass judgement before the run-off elections; the advice of IMATT in the "restructuring" of the military by asking for a 2,500 redundancy in the military just three weeks to elections; stoppage of budgetary support to the government since January 2007; and the planting of an alleged "election-fixer" in the person of CARLOS VALENZUELA, as CHIEF TECHNICAL ADVISER, Electoral Advisory Team at the National Electoral Commission.
After all subterfuge measures to bring down the SLPP government have failed, certain unscrupulous members of the international community, including the almighty Victor Angelo, believe that the only option left in their hands was to "fix" our election results in favour of the candidate of their choice as they had done elsewhere. This could only be achieved with a person who has a wealth of experience in the circumstance Sierra Leone finds itself. The name that came up after much consultation in and outside the West Africa sub-region was CARLOS VALENZUELA. Carlos Valenzuela, you may want to know, had worked in Afghanistan, Iraq and East Timor where he performed "excellently" to the peril of the people of these countries. I cannot, because of time, tell you some of what the people of these countries are going through even after the so-called democratic elections that were conducted. Iraq? Hundreds of people are being killed on a daily basis. Afghanistan? Ask the British what they are facing there. East Timor, just listen to your radio and you’ll know exactly what this impish Carlos is capable of doing.
Fellow Sierra Leoneans, as I write this piece, the so called ‘good wishers" are making frantic moves in aborting our democracy by negotiating with some unscrupulous politicians for a "National Unity Government" on the pretext of saving money!!! What a shame to you Victor Angelo!!! And to you Andrea Reidy of the British High Commission. Is that why on Monday 13 August you surreptitiously found yourself at the APC Communication Room to advise as to what message should be aired out to the people of Sierra Leone?
Information reaching us in Sierra Leone has shown that it was during your tour of work in Iraq that you met Carlos where you both work closely to fix that country’s election. And you Mr World Bank Douglas Addison, is that why as early as this year you changed putting up at Cape Sierra Hotel for Cabenda Hotel owned by the PMDC Treasurer, Femi Hebron? We are very much aware of your active role in strangling this government by advising against budgetary support in order to foment popular uprising against the government after the latter would have not been able to pay salaries to workers. But to your dismay the government continued till now. Thanks to the hard work of our own NRA, Sierra Leonean led and managed. Shame on you!!!
I am very sorry for straying away from the subject of this piece, "Mr Fix-it" Carlos Valenzuela. This man, I want you all to know, is now set for the run-off, which has been part of the big game plan for the regime change. He is set to manipulate the data entry and processing system at the NEC HQ. Let me warn you Carlos, Sierra Leone is neither Afghanistan nor Iraq where you have your Sponsors having thousands of troops on the ground to protect their protégés. I must also assure you that Sierra Leoneans are not stupid but very intelligent notwithstanding what we are going through. We SHALL overcome all the hurdles you put on our way, but not with your prescr1ption!!!
To you Victor Angelo, if Sierra Leone successfully had a run-off election in 1996 when we were uncertain of peace, why should we not have one now that the people are ready to speak out? Mind you, our memories are still afresh about that bogus report you sent to the Security Council and when you were challenged, you claimed oversight in reading its contents before being dispatched!! You were spared by the Government then, but we the people of Sierra Leone will neither forgive nor forget you if you continue to meddle into our domestic politics.
Angelo, we are aware also that your arrival in Sierra Leone has killed UNDP as the only job it now does is managing the Elections Basket Fund. You have extended the contracts of UN-TST District staff to support your covert manipulation of the elections. We are also aware of you remote controlling of Madam Chair of NEC, working with her to split the commission which hardly works in harmony. Yes, this is the Almighty Victor Angelo. We know, and you know that you want to leave a puppet regime behind when you retire in December. Some say you even might be thinking of returning in January 2008 as Political Advisor to the Presidential Candidate of your choice. It will not happen. Not in Sierra Leone!
Subject: Re: CARLOS VALENZUELA
From: Question
To: All
Date Posted: 02:04:20 08/30/07 ()
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Message:
Who is Soko N'goboi???
Subject: AN ARMY OF SHEEP or AN ARMY OF LIONS
From: Strategist
To: All
Date Posted: 15:05:28 08/29/07 ()
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An army of sheep led by a lion; an army of lions led by a sheep; an army of sheep led by a sheep or an army of lions led by a lion: which of these organization/leadership types best describes the APC, SLPP and PMDC?
No insults, please.
Subject: RESPONSE TO SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: X
To: All
Date Posted: 14:47:32 08/29/07 ()
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Posted by Sylvester Johnny on August 29, 2007 at 13:03:40:
In Reply to: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME posted by JAN on August 29, 2007 at 12:39:40:
Jan,
Thanks for your excellent piece. People have to understand what is at stake here. The APC supporters label anyone who supports the SLPP as tribalistic. It is good that you brought to light some of the benefits derived from SLPP rule by other tribes. In fact some South- Easterners voted for the PMDC because they thought that the northerners were enjoying more than them but we the liberals believe in sharing the national pot. Is Edmund Koroma of NASSIT also not from the north?.Is the Accountant General not from Western Area?
The deputy Accountant general is a close friend of mine. I spent some valuable time with him when I was in Freetown in March 2007.
Stay cool, my dear sister!
Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: P-Man
To: All
Date Posted: 15:40:25 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Momodu Koroma is also from the north.Ha!Ha!Ha!
Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: X
To: All
Date Posted: 15:32:42 08/29/07 ()
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Kanja Sesay Commissioner of NACSA is also from the North.
Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:35:13 08/29/07 ()
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Message:
Justin Bangura is alos from the North.
Alpha Timbo is also from teh North....
If i was not part temne, I bin for don dae CUSS dem lampay yah so...
Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: ace
To: All
Date Posted: 20:59:30 08/29/07 ()
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Message:
So what part of you is Themene? Your mande arse? LOL
Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:40 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I will tell you after am done with your -----...
Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: ABK
To: All
Date Posted: 15:05:43 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Is Edmund Koroma of NASSIT also not from the north?.
Wrong.Edmund Koroma is a typical mende man.He taught me Quantitative Methods at FBC and he hung out with other lecturers from the Southeast at the time.He speaks fluent mende.
Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 15:16:58 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.134.73.219
Message:
You are a liar. He taught me MATHS FOR ECONOMISTS (Prelim), STATISTICS (Inter), Macro or Micro Economics (Qualif). This was when economics department was really what it should be. He was a good friend of Steve Swaray. This was before he went to UK to study and later at the ministry of finance. Please check your facts. We were the first set of students who completed a 5 years honours degree course in that department. He is a TEMNE from Lunsar.
I better stop wasting my time on you.
Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 15:16:28 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.134.73.219
Message:
You are a liar. He taught me MATHS FOR ECONOMISTS (Prelim), STATISTICS (Inter)Marcro or Micro Economics (Qualif). This was when economics department was really what it should be. He was a good friend of Steve Swaray. This was before he went to UK to study and later at the ministry of finance. Please check your facts. We were the first set of students who completed a 5 years honours degree course in that department. He is a TEMNE from Lunsar.
I better stop wasting my time on you.
Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 17:01:25 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Edmund actually hails from Makeni. This just confirms that the hyenas feeding off the bloodied carcass that is Sierra Leone come from all tribes and regions. Edmund Koroma and Kanja Sesay who head the SLPP piggy banks NASSIT and NACSA are some of the thieving bureaucrats who have damaged our country.
Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 15:15:18 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.134.73.219
Message:
You are a liar. He taught me MATHS FOR ECONOMISTS (Prelim), STATISTICS (Inter)Marcro or Micro Economics (Qualif). This was when economics department was really what it should be. He was a good friend of Steve Swaray. This was before he went to UK to study and later at the ministry of finance. Please check your facts. We were the first set of students who completed a 5 years honours degree course in that department.
Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: warwor
To: All
Date Posted: 14:52:05 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
So What?
Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: X
To: All
Date Posted: 15:35:09 08/29/07 ()
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Message:
Typical APC response.
Subject: HOW THE APC GOT COCORIOCCO TO BELIEVE THEY BAGGED THE ELECTI
From: modiboh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:38:39 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
By listening to BUFORD HWY's calculations....
And here is the calculation:
""42+42+13+5=102
102-100=2"
U SEE WAE U DON LOOK LEK FOOL MAN.U NOR NEED PHd FOR KNOW SAY +/- 5% ERROR RATE NAR DIS CALCULATION EE WRONG.".
Subject: Re: HOW THE APC GOT COCORIOCCO TO BELIEVE THEY BAGGED THE ELECTI
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 15:21:32 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Some of you need some additional schooling. 42% +/ means anything between 47% and 37% is considered statistically accurate.
Subject: Re: HOW THE APC GOT COCORIOCCO TO BELIEVE THEY BAGGED THE ELECTI
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:28:35 08/29/07 ()
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Thanks for explaining the 5% statiscal error to the APC fanatics. These are people that are critcise SLPP management.
Statistical error does not mean 42+42+13+5
Do nt these listen post election commentaries in Europe and the States
APC 42 44
SLPP 42 38
PMDC 13 14
Others 3 4
Call what you want , the lady's projections were accurate
Subject: Re: HOW THE APC GOT COCORIOCCO TO BELIEVE THEY BAGGED THE ELECTI
From: RBS Coker
To: All
Date Posted: 15:42:05 08/29/07 ()
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This guy Edmund Koker needs more than additional schooling. He already tried that when he repeatedly tried and failed to pass GCE O Level English.
What he needs is a complete remaking of his tribalistic, crude, rude and ungrateful character deficiencies. Then it ay be possible to start him on the very long and probably impossible road to leasrning to understand English.
Subject: Sam Sumana Gave 2 Million to APC to be running mate
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 14:30:24 08/29/07 ()
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Word is that Sam Sumana from Minnesota paid Ernest Koroma and APC 2 Million dollars to be the running mate and bankroll the APC's effort to win elections in Sierra Leone. APC took the money, gave him the position and used it to bribe NEC officers, polling agents and a lot more people in their election bid.
Can anyone in APC's leadership deny that they received this money from Sam Sumana? Where are all the other people that wanted to be running mate and got sidelined? Come out and speak. The money they gave to you will not last forever.
There is proof and it will be revealed after the runoffs....but then again this is the "new APC" and they wouldn't do something like that..the people will know
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Gave 2 Million to APC to be running mate
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 17:15:04 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sam Sumana bribes Ernest with two million dollars? Is this the kind of propaganda you SLPPselfishcrats peddle in your tragic online newspaper? Hey, if this is what gets your freak on....
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Gave 2 Million to APC to be running mate
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 19:27:14 08/29/07 ()
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Message:
Hey, if this is what gets your freak on....
Is that how they getr there FREAK on? ROTFLMMFAO
man you are tooo too BAAAD
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Gave 2 Million to APC to be running mate
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 17:17:26 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This means he is a rich man who will not come and clean out the dregs SLPP have left behind!!
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Gave 2 Million to APC to be running mate
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 15:53:29 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: FMANSARAY@AOL.COM
Entered From: static-host-24-225-231-177.patmedia.net at 24.225.231.177
Message:
When you want to make a strong allegation like this you must give your real name.Disguising yourself in the name of propaganda is a cheap characteristic of
a looser .Don't worry about what Sam gave to the APC Party.At the very list SLPP is using government funds and property to campaign.look at the elections laws of sierra leone. You will agree with me that if all of these is true ,it will amount to election fraud. The penalties carry severe fines and up to 5 years in prison.Let me give you a genuine story.When Leader was in lungi the people pull themselves together to show support. I mean poor people .They raised 3 million leones on the spot and said to leader. This is our contributions and the leader said no and the people said please take it. We need this money but we need to change sierra leone.This has been the sentiment here in the USA,Mainland Europe,Canada, Australia and the rest of the world.Is it also true that Berewa forcefully took in excess on 1 billion leones in exchange for NASSIT taking over AOU Village? How about the bribing in exchange for votes.Is that legal according to our constitution? Sam is a young man that has done well and will continue to do great things for sierra leone in the coming years.
This SLPP government brought 1000 delaid tactics for this elections to take place in the middle of the raining season.Look what the Almighty has did. The final campaigning day for SLPP what happened?And what happened when APC and PMDC hosted their last day.Sunshine exceeding 85 degrees and a chance to jubilate like you can't believe.Elections day was the samething.
It is good to support an endeavour that you passionate believe in but when its goes against everyday fundamental rules of the people, you must be very careful.I love APC but I cannot sell my soul promoting false prophecy or the wrong agenda..I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEAT FACE TO FACE WITH THE LEADER AND I AM CONVINCED BEYOND A DOUBT THAT HE WILL DO MORE FOR SIERRA LEONE THAN SOLOMON BEREWA. We need to support him to achive this goal.Even Within our mist if we have Enemy of progress, we need to support him to root these culprit so we can finally commence planning for the next 100 years.He cannot do it alone, we the People need to stand on his side shoulder to shoulder pound for pound before all of this can trickle down.
May Allah give all of us the strength and Iman to see through these change takes place on september 8th
Say Amen.
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Gave 2 Million to APC to be running mate
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 00:01:18 08/30/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96
Message:
Foday, I am happy you pointed out that people who do not post with their real names are losers and agents of Satan, please, tell your friends in the APC.
Most of your friends are cowards. I want them to come out with real names( I know them but If I go after them now, they will deny it) because they are afraid of me. But at the end of this political season, I will expose them in this forum and I will also take the fight to their door steps and trust me when I finish with them you will feel sorry for them.
I believe in myself therefore I will never lose a fight with any man in this world.
It is also true that Sam Sumana bought the position of running mate. We know that but it is good, because its helps the whole world to assess Ernest Koroma.
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Gave 2 Million to APC to be running mate
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 22:29:45 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-227-75-238.hsd1.mi.comcast.net at 71.227.75.238
Message:
Mr. Mansaray you miss the point. APC has the right to accept whatever money they can to fund their election bid. The point is that the APC will take money from Sam Sumana and make him the running mate.
If they can take money for such an important position in their campaign, imagine what they would give to other people with money if they get elected to office. This just shows the type of party that the APC is and will become if they get their way and bribe their way into presidential office.
My name is not important. The substance of what I'm saying is what matters. There is something as anonymous sources in the journalistic profession. You should be aware as you play one in addition to your newly designated APC PRO role.
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Gave 2 Million to APC to be running mate
From: The guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 19:43:40 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-166-145.patmedia.net at 24.225.166.145
Message:
Well said, thank you! for the sensitization commander Foday Morli Mansaray (PRO)
Subject: Re: Sam Sumana Gave 2 Million to APC to be running mate
From: warwor
To: All
Date Posted: 14:41:40 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
I don't know about you but if I have $2M, I will not waist it to for Sierra Leone Politic. I will just buy the Country from Kabba and Solo B and ask them to move to Guinea. I will then use the change to clean the city and pave Sewa road.
This means your statement is not true. But of cause you are a SLPP where 1+1=4 with a towel tie around their butt.
Ke tamia
Subject: APC QUOTE OF THE DAY-- BY BUFORD HWY
From: LIE-MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 14:21:45 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
"42+42+13+5=102
102-100=2
U SEE WAE U DON LOOK LEK FOOL MAN.U NOR NEED PHd FOR KNOW SAY +/- 5% ERROR RATE NAR DIS CALCULATION EE WRONG".
Buford is this how you conduct/calculate exit polls?
kekekekeekehehe
ROTFLMAFAPIMP
Subject: Re: APC QUOTE OF THE DAY-- BY BUFORD HWY
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 17:20:44 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
ROTFLMAFAPIMP, What does it mean please?
Subject: Re: APC QUOTE OF THE DAY-- BY BUFORD HWY
From: LIE-MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 07:34:45 08/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A-- Off And Peeing In My Pants...
Subject: Re: APC QUOTE OF THE DAY-- BY BUFORD HWY
From: Yapo Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:23:50 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Nar Silvy Blyden im sweh nar im dae catch dem one by one.....
Subject: Re: APC QUOTE OF THE DAY-- BY BUFORD HWY
From: warwor
To: All
Date Posted: 14:29:15 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Wo Yo! some body don halaki.
ke tamia
Subject: Memde APCs
From: warwor
To: All
Date Posted: 14:11:00 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
All of us that are memde APC please let the rest of our people know that they are not voting because they are memdes but that they are voting becasue they want to see the country move forward. I don't like the other guys but not all of the temenehs are running. The main one who is running for the presidency is the better one. Don't get itimedated by these unprogressive memde women abuser, talk talk, empty stomach, canibalized gbegbe eaters and more.
Ke tamia
Subject: Re: Memde APCs
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 14:15:21 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
BoBs, yeri "ENGLIS"?.. This nar PURE TEMNE.. Walaihi Gbin ka kuru..
Subject: Re: Memde APCs
From: Warwor
To: All
Date Posted: 14:25:12 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
You lie. Be ya gor. gi gwa matta gelema. Be memde mor gbameh.
Do you want more
Subject: Re: Memde APCs
From: Poro
To: All
Date Posted: 14:54:19 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.134.73.219
Message:
SPEAKING MENDE DOES NOT MAKE YOU MENDE.STOP TRYING. WE HAVE WAY TOO MANY TEMNES IN THE SOUTH AND EAST WHO SPEAK MENDE VERY WELL
Subject: Re: Memde APCs
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 23:35:26 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
That is the main problem with some of the mendes like your type. Why do you accuse everyone not being mende enough. What constitute a pure mende?
Subject: Re: Memde APCs
From: Warwor
To: All
Date Posted: 14:59:44 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Please do not associate me with those worrors, low life, petty traders type of people. I am who I am
kor Bimbi nani.
Subject: Re: Memde APCs
From: Poro
To: All
Date Posted: 15:05:23 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.134.73.219
Message:
Please respect them inspite of what they do for a living.
Subject: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: JAN
To: All
Date Posted: 12:44:51 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-138-24-230.range86-138.btcentralplus.com at 86.138.24.230
Message:
The APC governance of twenty-four years left Sierra Leone with nothing but massive debts. The SLPP as the “saving grace” has successfully negotiated the discharge of about 90% of the said debts. What an achievement for a party who took over at a time when the country was experiencing years of instability due to war.
Let us not forget that the APC was responsible for the devaluation of the leone, which made all imports to Sierra Leone more expensive than revenue received from the country’s exports. Sierra Leone was left very weak in terms of World Trade despite the fact that diamonds were the country’s number one export.
The APC proudly introduced the slogan “OOH SAI DEN TYE COW, NAR DE E GO EAT”. This was the root of bribery and corruption. Northerners headed prominent positions thus marginalizing mainly the Creoles, Southerners & Easterners. The lack of freedom of speech made it difficult for the people to have challenged these corrupt heads instead, the people were left with no choice but to accept their actions and pretend as if nothing was happening. The SLPP should take credit for introducing freedom of speech which now enables our people to express their views without the fear of been reprimanded or intimidated by the authorities.
The Bumbuna waterfalls, which were to be constructed to a water dam so as to provide the country with electricity power, sounds like history, although the SLPP is working on it. I have been hearing about this since I was a child and in the period of 24 years of governance by the APC, they failed to bring the water dam project to a conclusion. After 24 years in power, the country became unstable. Why the instability? This was because, enough was enough and the people became so disgruntled that, the APC was finally booted out of power by a military regime. Fortunately for Sierra Leoneans after the long instability, the SLPP took over and gradually brought stability to Sierra Leone. This is what Sierra Leoneans are enjoying today.
It is the very APC who now wants to destabilised the country and its economy by their aggressive and tribalistic views. I say this because the APC executives could not make public statements which will educate their supporters to understand the essence of a constitution and the fact that a run-off should be held where a party failed to secure 55% of the overall votes.
To say that the SLPP is a party for the mendes is an overstatement. The SLPP party in my opinion is a fair party to all Sierra Leoneans who want to help develop Sierra Leone. The SLPP, unlike the APC allocated prominent positions to people from various regions. When APC was in power, the then Commissioner of Police, Mr Bambay Kamara and the second in Command Mr PMB Johson and several other senior officers were limbas and northerners. This is not the case with the SLPP. The impartiality of the supposed “Mende Party” led to a limba northerner to head as Inspector General of the Police and also limba northerner as Deputy Accountant General. IS THIS A PARTY WHO CARES ONLY FOR THE MENDES? The answer is clearly no.
Subject: Re: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: warwor
To: All
Date Posted: 14:02:19 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Jan or whatever your real name is. Stop all this non-sense that you are talking about. Did'nt you go to school? are you still behaving like a school? if so them talk about the old APC if not then look for abrighter future. Lets give the man a chance if he wins. His government has five years to inprove or else he will be out with a bang.
ke tamia
Mende APC if you care to know
Subject: Re: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 13:55:52 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.240.101.157
Message:
Where did you get this information from? you moron you're just calling figures as they pop out of your head I bet you don't know what is 90% US$35.00.
It was a decision by the G8 countries to relieve the third world debts. Sierra Leone is one of the beneficiaries.
The SLPP government plunged the country into serious debts which if demanded to be paid would only reduce the people into complete scavengers. Have you visited Freetown recently? if yes, then you should be ashamed of yourself for having the odacity to advocate SLPP whose intention is to create a MENDEDOM.
The SLPP government is the largest recipient of foreign aid in the whole histry of our country US$1.7 billion. This money is enough to provide 24/7 power supply in the whole country, enough to clear all the filth in the capital city, enough to generate employment by way of subsidizing agriculture, marine resources, enough to install national workshops to enhance people's creativity, enough to cover the potholes in Freetown.
Where's all this money now? or is it being used to bribe Paramount chiefs and voters?.
Surely, this money was never used for it purpose and don't tell me its been incoporated into the so-called NASSIT which has no plausible reason for it's formation.
Subject: Re: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 12:54:53 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.115.21
Message:
Please understand that politics is a matter of how you can put your logical thinking to win the minds and hearts of the masses. That is why the SLPP continues to suffer this psychological pain that will only heal while they are in their restless graves. It is better for the SLPP membership to sit quietly in their corners and lit a candle , (because there is no power) turn the pages of the election results and try to "if possible" come to terms with the stalk reality that the masses have spoken this time round. I can understand the frustration behind the author's remarks because I believe that by the time he was frustratingly writing this mail the NEC boss was systematically reading the results in favour of the APC.
Stop day dreaming my brother “Solocrats”. Stop cultivating your campaign on “FOOLISH CONFIDENCE”.
Herein lies the difference between winners (APC) and losers (SLPP). The APC approach everyday with faith in their ideas and faith in their abilities and this is always a conscious and radical choice. The SLPP approach every other day with confusion, disillusionment, blame sharing and disappointment.
Ladies and Gentlemen, before the elections, the almighty SLPP were bragging in every corner of this country with the now defunct slogan "NO SECOND ROUND" When the table turned the other way round the frustrated SLPP are again very much inundated with the seriousness of loosing all constituency seats in the entire western area. This is the “writing on the wall” which the SLPP is failing to read. The SLPP should bow their heads in shame. This is the result of a party that dresses in the borrowed robe of success that has created a boomerang situation on their false claims of having developed a country. A country that is still ranked the world’s second poorest in the world despite the huge sums of money we have received from the international community. Stop dreaming my brothers in the SLPP! ah! ah! ah!! . I know you are trembling in anger! Hold your peace- your redemption is here with APC.
Humanity and maturity is not measured by how many years your have taken in the corridors of power, rather humanity and maturity are measured by your ability to manage bad situations and make them good for the benefit of humanity. If the SLPP thought that the APC of the 80’s was so inept that they went into the bush to create a forceful change of government (which they succeeded in doing) and that they should be given the green light to run the country again then they are surely dreaming because the people of this country have said “NO” to the SLPP as evident in the last polls.
The SLPP needs a lot of political psychiatrists to repair the political damage they have suffered from the past elections.
We know that good thinking members of the SLPP have seen the writing on the wall long before electorates went to the polls. That is why even the campainge chaiman Dr. Alfred Bobson Sesay (alias Brok Ous) has now been viewed as the scape goat that is responsible for the demise of the SLPP. For him the writing on the wall was so clear to him that he could read even without his glasses. The people of this country have made a very careful study of both SOLO D BOMBER and ERNEST D WINNER and have chosen ERNEST BAI KOROMA in order to cope with scarcity of leadership they have experienced for thirteen good years. The evil that the SLPP has done is not only leaving after they had gone but will follow them in their graves.
Don’t forget that the generation of voters has no business in the events of the 70’s when it comes to the survival and basic living of today. The SLPP spends a very large chunk of their political campaign time talking history; which had won them no additional votes. For God’s sake I was born in the 70’s educated in the 80’s and 90’s but only started paying taxes in the 000’s. If I am not getting basic water supply, electricity, a good road to walk on, should I blame my grand father who died in the 80’s for not giving me water supply even when I have not paid any thing to him? SLPP folks should grow from oblivion to the world of reality and stop digging for the spoils of history without the appropriate tools.
If the author is claiming that the APC is full of thugs I think it has been very difficult for him to understand that these same people whom you accuse of thugry are the same people who braved the political tides in 2002 and gave Pa kabba a 70% win. The young girls who paraded the streets of Freetown calling themselves “kolonkos” for Pa Kabba are the same people who the SLPP is now castigating as unserious, illiterate and prostitutes. What rank would any rational thinking Sierra Leonean classify this level of ungratefulness and misuse of peoples’ rights.
Ladies and Gentlemen, please tighten your seat belt, sit back and relax as we are in the safe hands of APC’s flight pilot ERNEST BAI KOROMA. Take off time: 8th September 2007, 7:00am prompt. Take off point: Wupepeh Berewa Airport with no electricity to light the runway not to talk of a fire engine in the event of a fire. Destination: THE LAND THAT WE LOVE OUR SIERRA LEONE.
Today the SLPP is still retrogressing in terms of development. With all the experience SOLO “B” has gathered during his ten years in governance, he can only boast of the following:
-Reducing Freetown to a city of boreholes.
-Slamming the knife on the throats of 24 Sierra Leoneans
-Increase in the cases or armed robbery because unemployment reached its highest figures in Sierra Leone
-Flooded street even with the slightest drops of rain
-Increase in slum dwelling as the living standards of Sierra Leoneans plummeted due to high cost of living.
So! What has the almighty experience of SOLO “B” done for this country? EXPERIENCE MY FOOT!
My fellow solocrats friends, please give your conscience a breathing space. History has thought us that even Cambridge Universty cannot be a better place to manufacture leaders like SOLO B and the London School of Economics has not proven this either. Ernest Bai Koroma’s leadership qualities are ordained by the almighty GOD and not manufactured by the friends of SOLO “B” in a makeshift industry at kroo bay. Except if you have become so defiant to the extent that you have now resorted to disobeying the commandment of the almighty GOD. I hope you are a GOD fearing people and would render your powerful vote for the All Peoples Congress Ernest Bai Koroma. LONG LIVE THE APC, LONG LIVE ERNEST BAI KOROMA, LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE.
Subject: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: JAN
To: All
Date Posted: 12:39:40 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-138-24-230.range86-138.btcentralplus.com at 86.138.24.230
Message:
The APC governance of twenty-four years left Sierra Leone with nothing but massive debts. The SLPP as the “saving grace” has successfully negotiated the discharge of about 90% of the said debts. What an achievement for a party who took over at a time when the country was experiencing years of instability due to war.
Let us not forget that the APC was responsible for the devaluation of the leone, which made all imports to Sierra Leone more expensive than revenue received from the country’s exports. Sierra Leone was left very weak in terms of World Trade despite the fact that diamonds were the country’s number one export.
The APC proudly introduced the slogan “OOH SAI DEN TYE COW, NAR DE E GO EAT”. This was the root of bribery and corruption. Northerners headed prominent positions thus marginalizing mainly the Creoles, Southerners & Easterners. The lack of freedom of speech made it difficult for the people to have challenged these corrupt heads instead, the people were left with no choice but to accept their actions and pretend as if nothing was happening. The SLPP should take credit for introducing freedom of speech which now enables our people to express their views without the fear of been reprimanded or intimidated by the authorities.
The Bumbuna waterfalls, which were to be constructed to a water dam so as to provide the country with electricity power, sounds like history, although the SLPP is working on it. I have been hearing about this since I was a child and in the period of 24 years of governance by the APC, they failed to bring the water dam project to a conclusion. After 24 years in power, the country became unstable. Why the instability? This was because, enough was enough and the people became so disgruntled that, the APC was finally booted out of power by a military regime. Fortunately for Sierra Leoneans after the long instability, the SLPP took over and gradually brought stability to Sierra Leone. This is what Sierra Leoneans are enjoying today.
It is the very APC who now wants to destabilised the country and its economy by their aggressive and tribalistic views. I say this because the APC executives could not make public statements which will educate their supporters to understand the essence of a constitution and the fact that a run-off should be held where a party failed to secure 55% of the overall votes.
To say that the SLPP is a party for the mendes is an overstatement. This SLPP party in my opinion is a fair party to all Sierra Leoneans who want to help develop Sierra Leone. The SLPP, unlike the APC allocated prominent positions to people from various regions. When APC was in power, the then Commissioner of Police, Mr Bambay Kamara and the second in Command Mr PMB Johson and several other senior officers were limbas and northerners. This is not the case with the SLPP. The impartiality of the supposed “Mende Party” led to a limba northerner to head as Inspector General of the Police and also limba northerner as Deputy Accountant General. IS THIS A PARTY WHO CARES ONLY FOR THE MENDES? The answer is clearly no.
Subject: Re: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 13:03:40 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.134.73.219
Message:
Jan,
Thanks for your excellent piece. People have to understand what is at stake here. The APC supporters label anyone who supports the SLPP as tribalistic. It is good that you brought to light some of the benefits derived from SLPP rule by other tribes. In fact some South- Easterners voted for the PMDC because they thought that the northerners were enjoying more than them but we the liberals believe in sharing the national pot. Is Edmund Koroma of NASSIT also not from the north?.Is the Accountant General not from Western Area?
The deputy Accountant general is a close friend of mine. I spent some valuable time with him when I was in Freetown in March 2007.
Stay cool, my dear sister!
Subject: Re: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Alim
To: All
Date Posted: 13:07:34 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.115.21
Message:
Syl,
For a moment please! Why have you abandoned the SLPP forum?
Quick answer please.
Subject: Re: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Worwor
To: All
Date Posted: 13:03:20 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_!@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
yes! they should take all the blame. The APC you are aluding to is the APC of the Old. The new APC is going to be different if they win. For example the old SLPP best economy was to reduce the population not by introducing birth control, but by eating humans. At that time one school of thought was that by eating humans, you are being a Humanitarian. The new SLPP doen,t do that. Although I may say they still capitalized on women and money. In memde thy are called money meh.
ke tamia ma ya loh
Subject: Re: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Worwor
To: All
Date Posted: 12:55:00 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Yes they should take the blame. The APC you are talking about is the APC of the old. The new APC is different. The SLPP of the old were canibals. The aim was to eat reduce the population be comsuming human which I call gross economics. The new SLPP doen't do that. Stop comparing the old vs the new.
Subject: Re: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Jan
To: All
Date Posted: 13:11:09 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-138-24-230.range86-138.btcentralplus.com at 86.138.24.230
Message:
The truth hurts but I'm sorry it is the truth. I will not bring myself down to your level. LONG LIVE SLPP.
Subject: Re: SLPP SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL THE BLAME
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 13:22:40 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.115.21
Message:
Don't Give up my sister.
You cannot run away in the midst of a tense battle of ideas like this. If you a experiencing a scarcity of ideas about the SLPP i think the APC guys are in a better position to "SOLOCRATISE" you ever than before. So!...come into the ring.............don't back out.
Subject: The Demise of "the SOLOCRATS"
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 12:32:30 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: aakelman@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 83.229.115.21
Message:
Where are the mighty solocrats when Ernest and charles margai visited BO today? Undergroiund?
Please resurface at the SLPP forum couaces you seem to have abandoned your forum. Come...on....guys! Wake up ... the battle is still raging.
Subject: Re: The Demise of "the SOLOCRATS"
From: JA
To: All
Date Posted: 12:34:28 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-138-24-230.range86-138.btcentralplus.com at 86.138.24.230
Message:
You are referred to thenewpeople.com
Subject: Re: The Demise of "the SOLOCRATS"
From: Isata Jabbie
To: All
Date Posted: 12:49:39 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.105.36.243.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.105.36.243
Message:
SO LOW BEERS detest their own forum and prefer to be here where they are constantly manhandled.
Now, is there a forum at your new people? What happened to the AT forum?
You keep critisizing this forum but it looks like you can't live without it.
Talk about confused irony!
Subject: Re: The Demise of "the SOLOCRATS"
From: Alimamy kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 13:03:45 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.115.21
Message:
Guys! I have been reliably informed that the SLPP forum dreamt of Charles Margai's visit to BO and so have to suspend the forum and travel to BO to catch some dissapointment. I know they will be back by the weekend. Let them continue to spy. It is only when you don't understand that you can spy.
SO......LOOOOOOOOOOOOO...CRATS..........THE BOMBERS!!!
Subject: Re: The Demise of "the SOLOCRATS"
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 12:44:35 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.115.21
Message:
This is why the solocrates continue to fail in governance and in other areas li the SLPP forum. How can you abandone an unfinished job to start a new one?
Go back to your forum because at least you have a lot of mentors in that forum to teach the solocrates what they don't know.
Go.............back.....Guys .....GO BACK!
Subject: Re: The Demise of "the SOLOCRATS"
From: STUPID DUMBO
To: All
Date Posted: 13:55:15 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: nat1-whar.wcjc.cc.tx.us at 207.80.112.1
Message:
Jimmy Kandeh is a frustrated opportunist who has nothing to live for in America. His life is falling apart and that's why he can go so low as lick APC a****** to be considered.
Subject: Re: The Demise of "the SOLOCRATS"
From: Alimamy
To: All
Date Posted: 07:24:46 08/30/07 ()
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Message:
Solocrats,
You tag every body that objectively speaks for the APC as a failure.
You guys should redeem your selves from this mental slavery. It is time to think as if you have some brains in your skulls.
I tell you, all SLPP supporters just need to have spinal cords. The APC has got some brains to dish out to you. So look out!!!!!
Subject: Message from USA- A Response from a Tegloma member
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 12:12:52 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.134.73.219
Message:
WE REFUSE TO BE CONFUSED
My friend, Sierra Leoneans deserve better and they desire recognition and respect for their numbers than any projection of demeaning values; which is an obliteration of justice to them. Your conditional assumption against their pride is tantamount to committing an unforgiveable crime. "If the recent elections in Sierra Leone were based on simple majority...." is an act of allusion to the "old/new APC unopposed preferred system of winning political opponents" I guess you may not have been old enough to internalize the trauma it beared on me and those of my age. One thing I would love to express kindly but I find myself limited by the reality of its occurence is the adage: real historic events took place at the time when pundits of today were still in the scrotums of their fathers, therefore, sad enough to have been alienated. So the people of Sierra Leone asked me to tell you that they are happy with the run-off to elect into office a government that carries their total/overwhelming majority.
SLPP ONE SOURCE STRING-TIE CHECK VS OLD APC DOZEN SOURCES STRING FREE CHECKS
My friend, do you remember the indigeous hard earned checks the people of Sierra Leone were denied in the days of the old APC: diamond source, Sierra Leone marketing board source, Sierra Rutile source, Sieromco source, Monkaji bauxite source, Kenema Forestry industries source, Kenema chromite mines source, Sierra Railway source and the sources are without end. Why does a political honey bee send a message from the USA and fail to put things in their right perspectives?? Before I forget to mention, the one check to the SLPP from donors was meant to rebuild and reconstruct the APC destruction and now the APC is saintous...wow!
SLPP TORMENTOR VS APC ABRASIVE KILLER
My friend, a tormentor causes you annoyance but an abrasive killer, APC goes for nothing other than your soul or your entity. This was why I believe your initial political choice of governance in Sierra Leone fell on PMDC. Why the sudden metarmorphoses, the likes of political butterflies of Abass Bundu, Sama Banya etc. Does political thurgery ring a bell to you? What about arrest for "careless talk"? Think about politicizing the basic necessities of life to the people of Sierra Leone: rice for Hajas, hoarding petrol to creat artificial scarcity, ticketing military recruitment and the styles of abrasive killings continue. My friend, refuse marginalizing your marginal prudency.
TEGLOMA ETHNIC GROUP MEDDLING INTO POLITICS
My friend, your myopic perspective on Tegloma and what Tegloma stands for urges me to recommend a dire therapeutic intervention for exhibiting symptoms of cultural dialysis syndrome. I would have love to expand your knowledge about Tegloma but alas time constraint, but please, if you are so interested on knowing what Tegloma stands for, I would ask that you request from Ngor Cilaty, Denise and Kenie Sam Foray to provide you with a copy of the Federal constitution, which is truely our living bible or Qu'ran, as SLPP does with the Sierra Leone constitution. No ill feelings my friend but just a kind way to discovering virtues and the truth; and remeber it is only the TRUTH that can let us FREE. However, I decline to speak for Dr. Nyallay, the subject of your vilification. But to me a true loving Sierra Leonean is one closed to his people in times of need and not those that stand by the grave side of their loved one and wish him/her good on the journey to eternity. Also correct your imaginary vision about Tegloma; that your humble self is allowed to Tegloma with open hands. Tegloma does not segregate, lonta!!
PMDC/OLD & NEW APC COALITION:
It is not surprising to note your allegiance in the so called coalition because I noticed your pendulum tendencies at the announcement of the name of the running mate to Charles Margai; if it is not your choice it is totally woeful. Those who were starved of wisdom begged you to stay the cause but not me, definitely not. As I don't beg at an expense of an academic excellence so do I reject subduing to egoism and vague arrogation of the virtue of peace with the blemished. My friend, cowards die many times before their timely death.
A WORD OF WISDOM
My friend, you are a prolific writer but writing to save the soul is far redeemable than for simplistic recognition. A wise man had this to say: one can never tell the "blackness of his/her friend's back of the palm until you sit to eat from the same dish with him/her". Now I know you my friend!!!
Joe-Blow- Northern Calif.
Subject: Re: Message from USA- A Response from a Tegloma member
From: NEED 2 KNOW
To: All
Date Posted: 23:43:54 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
Sylvester, can you tell us what tegloma stand for based on your federal constitution which you regarded as a bible or quran or what ever? Did you revised the federal constitution which clearly spells out the tribal trend for the past 30 years of existence? I am looking forward to know something different about tegloma.
Subject: Re: Message from USA- A Response from a Tegloma member
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 20:03:34 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-106-80-14.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.106.80.14
Message:
Sylveter Johny their is nothing to read on your scribblings. You all in that slpp keep talking the same old nonsense,blaming past regimes. You have nothing to stand on. Why then did you take the job of governing 10 years ago? For your information, do you know Eddie Nyallay has been very instrumental in rigging Tegloma Presidential elections in Washington Chapter? Theis guy cannot do anything straight.
Subject: Re: Message from USA- A Response from a Tegloma member
From: FACT
To: All
Date Posted: 13:55:55 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
I never knew that the Nyalley who contested against solo for the leadership of the slpp is now a NEC commissioner. How can christiana thorpe allow such a thing? what's wrong with this woman?
Subject: Re: Message from USA- A Response from a Tegloma member
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 15:03:10 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.134.73.219
Message:
Just FYI.
The man who contested for SLPP leadership with Berewah and others is called LANSANA NYALLAY. The commissioner is called EDWARD NYALLY.I am not sure if they are related.
Subject: Re: Message from USA- A Response from a Tegloma member
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 15:02:36 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.134.73.219
Message:
Just FYI.
The man who contested for SLPP leadership with Berewah is called LANSANA NYALLAY. The commissioner is called EDWARD NYALLY.I am not sure if they are related.
Subject: Re: Message from USA- A Response from a Tegloma member
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 14:57:10 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.134.73.219
Message:
They are completely different. Misinformation as usual.
Subject: Re: Message from USA- A Response from a Tegloma member
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 14:09:01 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Christiana Thorpe does not hire commissioners....They were appointed by Kabbah, so Christiana has not hands in who becomes commissioner of south, west, east or north.....
So fen other person for attack..
Subject: Re: Message from USA- A Response from a Tegloma member
From: Jan
To: All
Date Posted: 12:55:25 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-138-24-230.range86-138.btcentralplus.com at 86.138.24.230
Message:
Very educative. I must admit I have learnt quite a lot from your postings.
Subject: Re: Message from USA- A Response from a Tegloma member
From: Sister Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 12:40:05 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: sista_truth@yahoo.com
Entered From: adsl-146-222-222.mcn.bellsouth.net at 72.146.222.222
Message:
As usual, you have made a very educated and informed post. Your honesty is to be commended. It's such a shame that weak minded people can not realize how helpful your postings can be to them.
Subject: Re: Message from USA- A Response from a Tegloma member
From: Bigot Indentifier
To: All
Date Posted: 12:16:37 08/29/07 ()
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Entered From: 66-195-8-6.static.twtelecom.net at 66.195.8.6
Message:
Good Response. Karamoh Kabba is a bigot who does not know his own pedigree. Today he is Kono tomorrow he is Madingo the next day he is Soso.
Subject: OBNOXIOUS LIES: AWARENESS ANALYSIS
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 11:32:22 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: smtpgateway.azdes.gov at 207.108.136.241
Message:
I have seen a bunch of unfounded analysis by awareness times which continually exposing Sylvia as a pathological manipulator and liar. During the just concluded election Sylvia said she dispatched a team of volunteers all over sierra leone and her exit poll indicated that both APC and SLPP will at the end has 42% each. This article was written five(5) days after the election. During that time NEC has released almost all the results.
Do you see how easy to catch a liar?
Read her article below....
EDITORIALS
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Sierra Leone Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
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Our Exit Polls indicated
that the SLPP and APC will be neck to neck at 42% each.
The Editorial Board of the Awareness Times sent a team of volunteers all over Sierra Leone to conduct Exit Polls during last Saturday’s General Elections in Sierra Leone. The results indicate very clearly that the SLPP and the APC will end up having, at the end of the vote count, a tie of 42% each whilst the PMDC will have 13% of the votes and the remaining 5% will be shared by the other Presidential Candidates.
Subject: APC
From: Shasha Buyah
To: All
Date Posted: 11:13:40 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-host-24-225-231-177.patmedia.net at 24.225.231.177
Message:
Stop talking about the past. Lets talk about the present. All Polls in all North and Freetown are in favor 4 to 1 APC.In East and Southern Province APC is favored 3 to 1.If all of this holds true till elections day ,it will be a clean sweep for APC.The people would have sent a strong message for change.
Subject: Re: APC
From: Loverman
To: All
Date Posted: 11:38:57 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pslux.cec.eu.int at 158.169.9.14
Message:
your analysis is correct my sister, you know women are very good performers, that is exactly the situation. even if SLPP go to the polls 10 times with the APC they will be defeated 10 times and each time the margin will increase showing that the people want change mark my words.
Subject: Re: APC
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 12:57:07 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-142-212-114.range86-142.btcentralplus.com at 86.142.212.114
Message:
Why then is your Party afraid of a run-off?
FORREST
Subject: BRA ENVIABLEE
From: Former PMDC
To: All
Date Posted: 11:02:27 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c29146.dyn.optonline.net at 68.194.145.70
Message:
Enviable,
Your post-elections analysis have so far been great save the last one, entitled "This is what Solomon Berewa Should do". Do you believe in constitutional governement??? I hope you are not gradually falling for the naked APC propaganda in cocorioko.
You write: "Solomon Berewa should look at the August 11 presidential and parliamentary results as a resounding vote of no-confidence calling on him to resign."
In the first place there was a vote of no-confidence on no one because none of the candidates reached the 55% threshold established in the CONSTITUTION. Second, Berewa was not running for vice-president so he has nothing to resign from.
The rules of the game were clearly established and agreed upon before the game commenced. You cannot turn around and call for a change of these sacred rules when the game is in progress. It is wrong and unconstitutional, Mr. Enviable.
Let us leave our police and other internal forces to contain the present internal skirmishes taking place. These skirmishes are characteristic of election period politics in Africa. In the specificity of Sierra Leone, the APC is trying to win over gullible minds like yours by setting its usual gbos gbos in its bid to trample on our constitution. Honorable Enviable, let us respect constitutional government for without it we risk unleashing chaos and anarchy on our republic.
Subject: Re: BRA ENVIABLEE
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 11:50:20 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Great post..
May allah give you plenty offsprings so they can all be forthright and undeniably truthful as you.
I enjoyed that rebuttal totally.
Subject: SLPP IT IS TIME TO GIVE UP
From: Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:45 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 41.222.70.195
Message:
It is time to give up.Things are not working anymore for this party:Margai left them,the international community has snubbed them, Gaddafi exposed them and the people of Sierra Leone not only rejected them but also severely punished them in the elections.Dakay it is over for you run-off or not.
Subject: SLPP decieved by Awareness Times
From: Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:59:50 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 41.222.70.195
Message:
Posted by bwise on August 29, 2007 at 02:13:22:
OPEN LETTER TO AWARENESS TIMES AND SLPP
Prior to the just conluded parliamentary and presidential elections in Sierra Leone, i relied on AWARENESS TIMES online news portal for an independent credible reporting and analysis on the elections. Based on your reporting and analysis i would have bet my on life that the ruling SLPP and Vice president Solomon Berewa would have emerged victorious with no run-off.Infact you guys were also reporting that the APC and the PMDC were nothing to contend with.
I was shocked when the opposite happened, my question now is, What went wrong with your analysis and reporting? was it deliberately flawed or hampered by poor coverage?
Whatever led to your colosal misinformation needs to be addressed asap if you guys want to be a force to be reckoned with in cyberspace journalism.
Please be wise and always report the fact irespective of what party you belong to.
Subject: THIS IS WHAT SOLOMON BEREWA SHOULD DO
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:46:55 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
This will stir a beehive of attacks within the SLPP camp, but during tense national moments, the integral safety of the nation should be every citizen's aim. Solomon Berewa should look at the August 11 presidential and parliamentary results as a resounding vote of no-confidence calling on him to resign.
The reported clashes between SLPP supporters and their opposite numbers in parts of the country can unfortunately be curtain-raisers to nastier scenes ahead. The most honourable thing Solomon Berewa can do for Sierra Leone now is either concede defeat, or resign in response to the shocking suddenness with which the APC almost elbowed out the SLPP on August 11.
Stepping down will prevent a lot of needless deaths and obviate the need for a state of emergency. A state of emergency can imperil a new democracy because rather than impose constraints on government, it enables the state to rollback the very constitutional provisions needed to safeguard against tyranny.
A honourable man with an appreciable amount of integrity will resign after a vote of no-confidence has been delivered against him. Berewa can do us a favor by resigning to save Sierra Leone from jumping over the abyss of civil strife.
Subject: Re: THIS IS WHAT SOLOMON BEREWA SHOULD DO
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:09:36 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.85.62.16
Message:
Silly proposal!!!
A candidate only concedes defeat after he/she has been defeated, or when it appears that he/she is on the verge of losing the election. This does not appear to be the case with Bra Solo B.
Solo B garnered 38% of the votes to Koroma's 44%. Neither of them came close to the constitutionally avowed/mandated magic number of 55%, so how can you ask Bra Solo B to concede defeat as per your quoted statement below:
"...The most honourable thing Solomon Berewa can do for Sierra Leone now is either concede defeat, or resign in response to the shocking suddenness with which the APC almost elbowed out the SLPP on August 11..."
I am quite sure that he will concede defeat on September 11, if he loses to Koroma. And only then.
May be it is Koroma who should be advised to concede defeat on 9/11/07 when he would have lost [overwhelmingly] the presidential elections in Bra Solo's favour.
Who really knows at this time?
The motivation for making this request is quite honourable, but the intent is not. Afterall, we all know who, or what political party started the thuggery, violence, and intimidation during these elections [APC]. The "new" acting like the "old", and lying about it akarta-style.
Do you want me to elaborate on this topic?
Subject: Re: THIS IS WHAT SOLOMON BEREWA SHOULD DO
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 19:31:38 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-106-80-14.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.106.80.14
Message:
Your slpp should stop the blame game of who started what. They need to tell and show the people what they have achieved in the past 10 years or "pak en go". You understand ?We did not vote them to power to start pointing fingers after 10 years. Do not even try to say they ended the war. They were all in their coocoons in neighbouring Guinea while the late chief Norman was slugging it out with the RUF.What a shame!!
Subject: Re: THIS IS WHAT SOLOMON BEREWA SHOULD DO
From: Correction
To: All
Date Posted: 15:35:09 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
"A candidate only concedes defeat after he/she has been defeated, or when it appears that he/she is on the verge of losing the election. This does not appear to be the case with Bra Solo B."
Nonsense. No wonder people tell you you don't understand what you read. Berewa has already been defeated in the August 11 presidential election.
Try to understand what you read, man. You are just too dumb beyond belief!
Subject: Re: THIS IS WHAT SOLOMON BEREWA SHOULD DO
From: I Concor
To: All
Date Posted: 09:53:23 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Ѕωικω
I pursue, forgetting the things that are past looking forward to the future, we press on.
Sierra Leonean are very wick people, see what they did to their own people. I do not want to select a particular group or tribesman but they know who they are. They are very power hungry and would want to cling on to power at all cost, if Berewa had his people at heart, he would have conceded the election, which would have being very noble of him and retire as an elderly statesman. But no, he wants power, even though he is old, unfit and inadequate to lead the country, he want to shove down the throats of his citizen, draconian measure and wickedness. Due to tribal sentiment, his brothers are supportive of him blindly, and do not have Sierra Leone at heart, but consider more their selfish needs. It pains me to see that some tribesmen are not speaking for the rest of the country, but for themselves. The people have spoken, what do they understand by that, look at the way some medias house are propagation friction, after such a gruesome war, can we as people realize our mistake and move on to a better plain. If we are not wicked, then what do young call this, stupid ness or bad heart. Come on folks, please let peace prevail, Berewa you have lost, it will be chaotic if you win or become SL president, it will surely be a repeat of the civil war and this time you will be caught in the mayhem and will not escape easily to Guinea. Remember how you guys came to power, it was a bloodless coup that saw President Momoh flee to guinea and SLPP under the guise of NPRC taking over, and after that President Momoh and others wound up in Pademba Road, this time most SLPP clinger to power politician will not be so lucky, it will be a repeated of the Liberian saga. For me I am an arm chair politician, but the people have spoken, and in case you guys do not realize, Sierra Leoneans are not the same people as they were twenty years ago, they have become hardened and more wicked and I am sure if the wrong person occupies the position as commanding chief, the seat will be very hot and unbearable, so listen to the people. They in the western area that sees and know what is going on have spoken, the people in the province are easily bribed with cows or couple dollars and are ignorant as to what is necessary for a change, and due to tribal sentiment they are handicap in voting procedures and who they should elect. I was at a farm right hear in USA and I encounter strong SLPP supporter and what I got from their conversation , was more to do with retaliative moves, rather than the logic of who they should support in the interest of productivity and development of our beloved country. So you see, you do not even have to be up line to be stupid, it is happen right here in the United State.
Vote for change and betterment, not they same old recycled politician, who have not done absolutely anything for the country.
Subject: Everything about SLPP is FALSE
From: Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:43:16 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 41.222.70.195
Message:
The text below was copied on slpp website few minutes ago.
http://www.slpp.ws/browse.asp?page=435
SLPP supporters throughout Sierra Leone and in the Diaspora must hold their nerves, and not be swayed by propaganda coming from opposition news outlets. Unofficially at the moment the parties stand as: SLPP – 52%, APC – 38%, PMDC – 3%, Other Parties – 7%.
Subject: Open Letter to President Kabba
From: Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:35 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 41.222.70.195
Message:
If Kabba, whom was respected as a Statesman, had any love for Sierra Leone, in order to quench any potentially flammabe situation, he should call Berewa to order. Berewa firstly, has no majority parliament to support him, it will be difficult to govern. Secondly, he lost in his own town, that is an indication of a lack of grassroot support. This is an uphill task for Berewa, just to win this election in spite of his obvious unpopularity, by which time, he would have been enervated and deflated, no energy or dynamism with which to rule, and the Sierra Leonean people will suffer again. Let us stop this mess now and reconcile for the common good of the common man.
Subject: Re: Open Letter to President Kabba
From: sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:32:19 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 41.222.70.195
Message:
It is rumoured that President Kabba has told Berewa to take it easy and accept defeat for the sake of peace
Subject: Re: Open Letter to President Kabba
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 13:04:40 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-142-212-114.range86-142.btcentralplus.com at 86.142.212.114
Message:
HAB HOPE
FORREST
Subject: Is Kabba,whose term has expired declare a sate of Emergency
From: Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:19:25 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 41.222.70.195
Message:
Is Kabba, whose Presidential term has expired, declare a State of Emergency?
Subject: Re: Is Kabba,whose term has expired declare a sate of Emergency
From: speedo
To: All
Date Posted: 14:01:28 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
if kabbah declares a state of emergency the people will chase him back to guinea.
Subject: Re: Is Kabba,whose term has expired declare a sate of Emergency
From: Yomi
To: All
Date Posted: 09:36:01 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 41.222.70.195
Message:
I don't think so, His mandate has expired the more reason he need to think twice about his threat
Subject: Re: Is Kabba,whose term has expired declare a sate of Emergency
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 13:08:23 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-142-212-114.range86-142.btcentralplus.com at 86.142.212.114
Message:
Who do you think is running the country, It is still President KABBA if you don't know
FORREST
Subject: Is Kabba whose ter has expired declare a state of Emergency
From: Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:14:38 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 41.222.70.195
Message:
Is Kabba, whose Presidential term has expired, declare a State of Emergency?
Subject: A CALL FOR REASON
From: Researcher
To: All
Date Posted: 09:14:18 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-91-33-198.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.33.198
Message:
Letter to Sierra Leoneans from Dr. Cecil Blake
- Wednesday 29 August 2007.
Dear Compatriots:
As I write, tension is evident in our motherland as politicians begin their campaign for the run-off presidential elections. We are already experiencing violent eruptions in some areas. Mr. Kabba responded to the growing tension in the nation by warning citizens that a state of emergency could be imposed if violence continues to spread as the campaign progresses. I have two scenarios in mind for our motherland. Spare me the constitution as we go through these scenarios as they are centered on the survivability(or not) of our motherland.
The first scenario is this: Mr. Berewa and the SLPP conclude that the people of Sierra Leone overwhelmingly want a change. They recognize that the majority party in parliament, the APC will work in close collaboration with the PMDC. They reason that even if Mr. Berewa wins the election, the majority party in parliament is going to be so strong that it would be a Herculean if not impossible task for him to govern. The national call for change as reflected in the voting pattern of the recently concluded general elections demonstrates that in some parts of the East and the South, the SLPP stronghold, Mr. Berewa and the SLPP suffered defeat at the hands of the PMDC. He lost the North and the Western area completely, notwithstanding the investments made in the North.
Mr. Berewa, therefore, consults with his party and argues that the country is over and above his ambition to become president; that he is opting to be seen at this time in his life, as a great statesman who wishes the nation to succeed; and that the only way success can be achieved under the present circumstances is to respect what has clearly emerged in the nation as a desire for change. He concludes that indeed he wishes to behave as an elder statesman and patriot, and as an active participant in the process of change and, therefore, wishes to for a meeting with Ernest Bai Koroma and Charles Margai, together with their respective teams. They agree to lift our nation up high. At the end of the meeting Mr. Berewa declares that in line with the atmosphere for change and the imperative of patriotism, he is not going to contest in the run-off, giving Ernest Bai Koroma the opportunity to govern.
He commits himself to supporting programmes to get Sierra Leone moving, and building upon some of the positive contributions of his former administration and working towards the creation of programs for infrastructural development of the country and the welfare and advancement of its huge youth pop! ulation. He would rather do that than to spend five years fighting a futile battle with parliament and in the process, failing to achieve any success. They all declare at the end of the meeting: "Our nation first and foremost! All hands on deck!" The nation jubilates! There is a two-day celebration of statesmanship and patriotism, with all colors in line. The nation begins its operations to move the country forward. Mr. Berewa becomes the symbol of elder statesmanship and patriotism.
The second scenario runs thus: The campaign continues. Tension heightens. Supporters of the APC and other sympathizers are convinced that Mr. Berewa, as he had stated in the past, believes he would win at any cost. The statement is interpreted by many, as an intention to rig the run-off elections to ensure victory. The tension results in widespread violence. A state of emergency is declared. The elections are postponed and a political vacuum is created. I leave the resultant society up to your imagination.
Some may have scenarios of the resultant society that would emerge. Let us read about them if you desire. But there is a constant that cannot be compromised: Patriotism coupled with statesmanship. God bless and save our motherland!
Regards,
Cecil Blake.
* Dr. Blake(photo) once served as Information minister in the Kabbah administration.
Subject: Re: A CALL FOR REASON
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 14:08:38 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-70-20-197-79.phil.east.verizon.net at 70.20.197.79
Message:
It would have been interesting if Dr. Blake had considered a third scenario wherein, as it is going be, APC controls the legistative and SLPP controls the executive with the judiciary interpreting the laws. This way there will not an automatic rubber stamp in parliament.And guess who will benefit... The PEOPLE.
Subject: Re: A CALL FOR REASON
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 11:43:38 08/29/07 ()
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Dr. Blake, your analysis is head on. This is the best scenario that would save our land from further division and most likely anarchy. If Berewa do exactly what you described in you article, he will be respected by every man in the nation and put in a place of the patriots and history books. But I doubt if Berewa even care about what is happening in the country in this present situation. Berewa cannot govern effectively even if the most unlikely happens (wins the run-offs). He is already rejected by the nation. If he insist he will die disgracefully.
Subject: Re: A CALL FOR REASON
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 12:01:25 08/29/07 ()
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Political! Dr Blake is another Dr Kandeh.. Do you know why?
They are both opportunists....
Subject: Re: A CALL FOR REASON
From: Gbata
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Date Posted: 12:11:01 08/29/07 ()
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Political or whatever your name,
Why can't we start removing ourselves from this syndrome of endless critisms for others and instead debate serious issue? Dr. Blake has taken his time to draw up two hypothetical scenarios, if you wish. Why don't you critic his message and leave him and Dr. Kandeh out of this? Dragging people's names through the mud ain't gonna do us good, brother. Lets grow up and be mature citizens and debate the issues at hand.
Subject: Is Kabba, whose Presidential term has expired, declare a Sta
From: Conteh
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Date Posted: 09:12:36 08/29/07 ()
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Is Kabba, whose Presidential term has expired, declare a State of Emergency?
Subject: Where is John Leigh
From: One eye dog
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Date Posted: 08:41:46 08/29/07 ()
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Where is John Leigh? Is he looking for the san san boys, uneducated to vote his party way or he is with sleeping Solo B trying to write is exit speach? I am just checking.
Chairperson NDA Party
MaryLand Branch
Subject: Re: Where is John Leigh
From: Sylvester Johnny
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Date Posted: 13:25:17 08/29/07 ()
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John Leigh is not here but he is well represented.
Subject: Re: Where is John Leigh
From: Ha ha ha
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Date Posted: 15:57:00 08/29/07 ()
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So true -- the forum is full of SLPPers (soos, as in fool lek soos). Hahahahahahaha
Subject: Re: Where is John Leigh
From: LIE-MAN
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Date Posted: 16:01:48 08/29/07 ()
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We know what we are talking about unlike the APCers.... Just ask Buford Hwy....
Kekekekekeee hehehehe
Subject: Re: Where is John Leigh
From: Ha ha ha
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Date Posted: 18:07:15 08/29/07 ()
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Actualluy, you SLPPers THINK you know what you are talking about because you never understand anything. We who do KNOW thaty you don't know what you are talking about. Hahahahaha KabbahahahahahahBeleleleleleleleWAR
Subject: Horse's own mouth
From: not a journalist
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Date Posted: 08:24:42 08/29/07 ()
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My comments at the end of the article.
FROM THE HORSE'S OWN MOUTH ...NDA LEADER GAVE APC HIS WORD , THEN CHANGED HIS DECISION
COCORIOKO specifically sought the truth yesterday from All People's Congress Leader, Ernest Bai Koroma about the mystery surrounding the declaration of support from the Leader of the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA) , Mr. Amadu Jalloh , who later gave his support to the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP ) over the weekend.
In an exclusive interview with COCORIOKO as his motorcade headed for Bo yesterday, Mr. Koroma exonerated journalists who had reported last week that the NDA Leader had pledged his support for the APC in the runoffs . Mr. Jalloh, indeed, did give Mr.Koroma his word before APC stalwarts at the APC Headquarters ."Infact", went on Koroma, "Mr. Jalloh had already invited us and requested our presence in a press conference where he was to announce to the nation that he had declared for the APC... The next thing we heard he had declared for the SLPP ".
Mr. Koroma however told COCORIOKO that "The least said about the matter, the better". He wished Mr. Jalloh all the best of luck and stated that did not begrudge Jalloh's decision at all. He said that the APC will still win the elections without Jalloh, because the party had the solid support of the nation. .
When the AWARENESS TIMES newspaper broke the stunning story on Monday, backed by pictures, that Mr. Jalloh has infact declared for the SLPP, COCORIOKO smelt a rat, because our reporter , Joseph Kamanda, was present at the APC Headquarters when Mr. Jalloh declared for the APC and he even sent pictures of the APC Leader later addressing partisans of the APC and the NDA after the announcement
Some political activists in the diaspora on Monday said they had heard rumours that Mr. Jalloh had been heavily bribed by the SLPP Leader , Mr. Solomon Berewa, to change his decision. They said that a similar attempt was made to sway the PMDC Leader., Charles Margai . Ministers of the government, a retired Archbishop , Paramount Chiefs and high-ranking officials were allegedly sent to beg Margai to declare for the SLPP instead of the APC. Figures of a hefty sum offered were quoted to the press .However ,Margai turned down the SLPP and quickly moved to endorse the APC. Mr. Jalloh is entitled to his decision and we at COCORIOKO also wish him the best. .At least, we are relieved about one thing : COCORIOKO and STANDARD TIMES , who reported Mr. Jalloh's declaration of support for the APC did not make up the story .As a matter of fact, we at COCORIOKO crosscheck whatever news we receive before we publish it. From Cocorioko.
I am not a journalist but I guess you could have easily told us you tried to get Mr. Jalloh but to no avail.All I get so far you, your rep, and Mr. Koroma's side which I consider to be the same side.
Another thing, the idea of reporting rumours is ....
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: STUPID DUMBO
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Date Posted: 11:32:52 08/29/07 ()
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THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT KABS KANU LIED TO HIS READING PUBLIC.
INSTEAD OF TRYING TO CHANGE THE STORY AROUND LIKE THE PRO-APC OOL HE IS MAKING HIMSELF OUT TO BE, HE JUST NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE TO US AND CONTINUE DOING THE GOOD WORK HE HAS ALWYAS DONE FOR SIERRA LEONE.
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 08:46:37 08/29/07 ()
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Ah bi..
""Some political activists in the diaspora heard rumors""..
This rag typed up in a basement of somerset county just tickles me with fascination..
And those rumors.. are propagated.. without fear or favor i bet...
The days Sierra Leone slides back into anarchy.. lets not forget....we played our part.. did we not..?
""Some political activists in the diaspora heard rumors"".
Aye bo..
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Solomon
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Date Posted: 09:18:02 08/29/07 ()
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"This rag typed up in a basement of somerset county just tickles me with fascination.. "
No doubt you -- the product of a different type of basement in Mende land -- would be familiar with rags thrown away like some illegitimate offspring.
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 09:26:38 08/29/07 ()
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Issues people...
Lets discuss issues..
Yes yes.. i know.. i was born out of wedlock..
hehehehehe... well me en jesus..
But thats not the issue..
What i want to know is..
Why do you lot think Hounorable Earnest Earnests has the Midas touch..
If you can convince me.. i might just vote APC.
For me.. its country first..
I am still not convinced that our ills will be solved in the next 5 years.. Its too too compounded.. and this election retoric i am not buying.....
Thats all i am here for..
Lets leave the fact that my mother was a prostitute.. she dregged at the beach.. or katacombay out of this..
Thats fammily issues.. lets talk country..
After the elections.. We can discuss how your dad nor go baytee.. how he infected your mother with veneral deaseases.. how your sister turned trick at kankalay.
All that..lets save for later...
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 12:38:08 08/29/07 ()
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"Why do you lot think Hounorable Earnest Earnests has the Midas touch..
If you can convince me.. i might just vote APC.
For me.. its country first..
I am still not convinced that our ills will be solved in the next 5 years.. Its too too compounded.. and this election retoric i am not buying....."
Bra,
Even though I know for sure you will never vote for the APC party for reasons best known to you,but not for the betterment of Salone,Ernest Koroma has never told anybody that he will solve the problems of our country in 5yrs.With the present deterioration of our country,only a fool would believe either Pa Berewa or Ernest Koroma to wipe our economy wounds overnite.
The arguement here is the SLPP had 10yrs with $1.7billion to eleviate our economy to a MINIMAL STANDARD,but they failed to do so,only for the LEADERS of the that party to take our monies and pocketed them in different accounts around the world.
If you listen to Ernest Koroma's speeches,you will find out that there is a call FOR HELP from Sierra Leoneans in Sierra Leone and the Diaspora.I am not asking for your vote here,but if you are advocating for the benefit of Salone,then my questions to you are whom will you choose:
1)Solomon Berewa and the SLPP party which recieved $1.7billions from the International Communty to revitalise our country and squandered everthing only for our Mama Salone to stay as the DARKEST NATION in the world,Corruption,Nepotism and TIFF TIFF at a all time high? Or
2)Ernest Koroma with the PMDC party WHO will try to eliminate CORRUPTION,NEPOTISM and TRIBALISM,and An honest gentleman with a proving track record of GOOD LEADERSHIP SKILLS with no corruption what so ever?
Please no cussing
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:49:28 08/29/07 ()
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"...1)Solomon Berewa and the SLPP party which recieved $1.7billions from the International Communty to revitalise our country and squandered everthing only for our Mama Salone to stay as the DARKEST NATION in the world,Corruption,Nepotism and TIFF TIFF at a all time high? Or
2)Ernest Koroma with the PMDC party WHO will try to eliminate CORRUPTION,NEPOTISM and TRIBALISM,and An honest gentleman with a proving track record of GOOD LEADERSHIP SKILLS with no corruption what so ever?
Please no cussing..."
I wholeheartedly agree with your last sentiment about "please, no cussing".
Without invoking the wrath of the Almighty God through naked lies, please tell us how you came up with the $1.7 billion figure in aid monies to our mother country from the International Community for the economic resuscitation of this country. Were any strings attached to these monies, and how was this huge sum of money disbursed, and by whom, or what organ?
Do you have prima facie evidence to prove this statement of yours:
"...The arguement here is the SLPP had 10yrs with $1.7billion to eleviate our economy to a MINIMAL STANDARD,but they failed to do so,only for the LEADERS of the that party to take our monies and pocketed them in different accounts around the world..."
Please tell us more about these "different accounts", and where they are being held. If you can provide us with the paperwork necessary to prove our case in a reputable court of law, we could retrieve this huge sum from the illegal accounts, and use the proceeds for developing the nation. In the absence of these so-called paperwork / documents, you are merely repeating the LIES that are embedded in the apc propaganda machinery. And we won't buy into those lies.
Please, in the interest of TRUTH, HONESTY, and personal INTEGRITY, let us refrain from embarking on LIES and DISTORTIONs in order to try to score political points.
What makes you think that, after all these years in the political arena in Sa Lon, Margai and Koroma have the ability to ELIMINATE "CORRUPTION, NEPOTISM and TRIBALISM"?
They have not done so in the 30-, or more years they have been at the forefront, and all of a sudden with the wave of the magic wand you have installed in their hands, they have the ability to "eliminate" these ills in our society and culture? Please be realistic to understand that ALL the politicians vying for elected office: THEY ARE ALL IN THE SAME SOUP. They are not civil servants, but evil in the service they ought to provide to the taxpayers (do they pay taxes over there?). That is what they are.
Of these folks, I still believe in my heart of hearts that Solo B is the least of those evil-minded politricians, and so he will win during the run-off election.
Statements that cannot be backed by facts are LIES.
Don't tell lies in the future! Please!!
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 17:11:32 08/29/07 ()
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Dakea,where have you been all this time?
"Statements that cannot be backed by facts are LIES."
Check DUMMY'S answers to your biase questions,except if you can understand what you read,then I can drive to NC to help you out for FREE.
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Class One
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Date Posted: 18:01:07 08/29/07 ()
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Check DUMMY'S answers to your biase questions,except if you can understand what you read,then I can drive to NC to help you out for FREE. -- BUFFORD HIGHWAY
Bufford, please make sure you can speak in the most ELEMENTARY Mende sentences because the NC community college instructor who calls himself professor (because he can't understand the words he uses) has a low intellgence even in his native language.
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 17:09:30 08/29/07 ()
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Dakea,where have you been all this time?
"Statements that cannot be backed by facts are LIES."
Check DUMMY'S answers to your biase questions.
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: DUMMY
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Date Posted: 15:29:03 08/29/07 ()
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Hey, Edmund Koker, it is true what they say that you dont ever understand anything you read. Now, it turns out you don't know anything about Sa Lon. On top of that you want to insult your betters when they talk about SLPP's corruption.
Here are the facts you don't know:
1. Britain alone has given $500 million in direct budgetary support to the kleptomaniac SLPP govt. of Kabbah and Berewa between 2002 and 2007.
2. The G* countries, the IMF, the World Bank , the Paris Club together gave the kleptomaniac SLPp looters of Kabbah and Berewa $1.5 BILLION in debt relief in 2006/7.
I don't know if you can count in English, Koker. Judging by the fact that you can't understand English, it is possible mthat you also are innumerate. But take it from me, if you add up the $500 million and $1.5 BILLION, you would realize how stpid you are to question the FACT that your thieving SLPP traitors of Kabbah and Berewa have been givcen at least $1.7 BILLION in the past 5 years of their corrupt misrule of Sa Lon.
Kabbah's and Berewa's massisve looting of Sa Lon people's money can be inferred from the fact that they have nothing to show for the majority of the monies given to them. In addition, they have been caught looting British budgetary support money by DFID. On top of that, they have ben caught looting by every one of their international donors who have said so PUBLICLY -- e.g., the U.N. (in 2006), the G8 (2005), the European Union (2005.
Of course, you have to be able to understand what you read in order to understand all the above FActs.
Which, of course, explains your ignorance of them.
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Professor Peep
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Date Posted: 11:22:54 08/29/07 ()
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retoric
err did you mean RHETORIC. Dumb SLPP mende boy
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 11:42:34 08/29/07 ()
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Ah.. the APC brigade i see is out in full force.
Can't understand how so many people with so many different monikers are been so negative to me..
More Knickers.. hehehehe..
Thats a funny word for this context..
It was a spelling error..
Shit happens.. bite me..
How about yours..
mende (should be Mende).
The sentence should have a stop (.).
So we all have our days.. and moments..
But i am not Mende, and i am not of the SLPP..
Independent. Don't believe the APC is the answer and way forward..thats all.. that does not automatically defaults me to SLPP.. does it..?
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Correction
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Date Posted: 12:38:10 08/29/07 ()
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" that does not automatically defaults me to SLPP.. "
That is not English. Mende, maybe. You really should go back to Form One.
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Mbalu
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Date Posted: 17:44:08 08/29/07 ()
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very petty! discuss issues please.
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Pharissee
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Date Posted: 17:56:47 08/29/07 ()
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Very partial.
Where were you with your "very petty" hypocritical advice when your like-minded surrogate made the following "very petty" statements. You SLPPers have no morals.
Posted by Independent Observer on August 29, 2007 at 11:42:34:
In Reply to: Re: Horse's own mouth posted by Professor Peep on August 29, 2007 at 11:22:54:
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mende (should be Mende).
The sentence should have a stop (.).
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 11:07:41 08/29/07 ()
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Man, you cannot vote because you did not register. Oh sorry, we have invalid votes. My bad.......
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Forum Veteran
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Date Posted: 10:21:10 08/29/07 ()
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Solomon, why do you bother with this untrained mongrel? You are genuinely trying to help the unbrought up child and what does he repay you with? With more of the rudeness he learnt from his mother.
If I were you, I will leave him to wallow in his well-deserved gutter. You can't save everyone, especially not from themeselves. Leave the reprobate to himself, ar dae baig you.
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 10:34:43 08/29/07 ()
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See..
There we go again...
Everything has to be one sided..
Its either your way.. or i should take the highway..
Why dont you help..My salvation and your path to heaven might just be in your hands..
This is from a mongrel and reprobate.. to a brother..
Yes BROTHER.. Same mama wey nor gee me training.. it seems did not give you any either.. Enty we comot nah the same belleh..
En we suck the same borby BROTHER.
Heheheheh.. ah suck you mama im borby.. thats funny..
This reprobate is seeking candid counsel..I need Jesus.
Can you help?
If you want to come back and curse.. and call me evil, SLPP, Trabalists..satans step pikin etc ..etc OR my mother this.. or that..
I will curse you right back. And wait for your silly nany hide behen dem mama lappah invertebrates of the same ilk to come out in your support.
I am not afraid to exchange ideas.. be it vulgar.. silly.. productive.. progressive.. or any otherwise.
Its up to how i am approached..
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 10:54:23 08/29/07 ()
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OK. You guys stop fighting.
Now let us go back to the issue at hand. Was the article "journalisticly" credible?
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: JOINDALIST
To: All
Date Posted: 11:26:06 08/29/07 ()
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The article did not go SLPP's way so it is not credible.
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Forum Veteran
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Date Posted: 10:45:36 08/29/07 ()
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Even though you won't understand it, you are beyond help. The fact that you have remined rude into your old age proves that.
This forum is not a place to reform rude people. People caome here to gain ideas. You clearly do not belong among civilized people. Which is why I advised Solomon to let you sink to your natural level.
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 10:59:51 08/29/07 ()
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And a comment as yours.. as negative and insulting as it is ..belongs among civil people..?
I dont know if anyone gained anything from it..
I know i DID NOT gain squat from this..
"" Solomon, why do you bother with this untrained mongrel? You are genuinely trying to help the unbrought up child and what does he repay you with? With more of the rudeness he learnt from his mother.
If I were you, I will leave him to wallow in his well-deserved gutter. You can't save everyone, especially not from themeselves. Leave the reprobate to himself, ar dae baig you.""
Don't you have any shame calling me kettle.. ?
Subject: KABS KANU LIED TO HIS READERSHIP
From: STUPID DUMBO
To: All
Date Posted: 11:34:47 08/29/07 ()
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THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT KABS KANU LIED TO HIS READING PUBLIC THAT NDA HAD GIVEN ITS SUPPORT TO THE APC.
INSTEAD OF TRYING TO CHANGE THE STORY AROUND LIKE THE PRO-APC OOL HE IS MAKING HIMSELF OUT TO BE, HE JUST NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE TO US AND CONTINUE DOING THE GOOD WORK HE HAS ALWYAS DONE FOR SIERRA LEONE.
Subject: Re: KABS KANU LIED TO HIS READERSHIP
From: foday mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 16:04:02 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
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Was it kabs kanu who fabricated the story? It was first reported by standard times and other news paper in freetown after mr Jalloh declared for the opposition APC. If Mr jalloh went and got bribed by Berewa to change,how can you say somebody fabricated a story?
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Forum Veteran
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Date Posted: 11:04:36 08/29/07 ()
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You obviously learnt from it what you are. It remains to be seen whether you can overcome your lifelong addiction to rudeness.
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 11:46:48 08/29/07 ()
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I might have..
Did you..?
I know your kind..
Muslim.. But you dey push the hog foot nah corner en eat the soup.. Then call prayer.. en say those that eat hog foot are satanee..
Thats your kind..
I am only been crude to those that did to me..
I am not one for turning the other cheek.
Subject: Re: Horse's own mouth
From: Forum Veteran
To: All
Date Posted: 12:50:33 08/29/07 ()
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This may escape your low comprehension but it describes your predicament: There's none so blind as he who knows not that he is blind.
Subject: Run off
From: Election monitor
To: All
Date Posted: 06:29:31 08/29/07 ()
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The most important factor at the run off will be, whether Charles Margai is able to convince all his supporters- 14%!!, to vote for APC.If yes, then AOC is a winner, beyond doubts.However, if Charles MArgai fails, then SLPP will have a good chance to win.Let us wait and watch,
Subject: Re: Run off
From: Fenthi
To: All
Date Posted: 07:41:36 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: fenthi@hotmail.com
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What about if the thousands in the western Area, north, and elsewhere, who voted SLPP with no ethnicity as motivation, decide then as a reply to the then apparent tribal afront, to vote against the mende SLPP, will the SLPP still win ? Please check the voters statistics of the parliamentry elections. You will convince your self that Berewa has no chance of winning a run off.
Subject: Re: Run off
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 08:18:34 08/29/07 ()
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If the Northerners( temne)vote APC will we call the APC Temne Party?
Subject: Re: Run off
From: STUPID DUMBO
To: All
Date Posted: 11:20:02 08/29/07 ()
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But according to the NEC figures for the August 11 elections, the majority of Port Loko, Bombali, and Tonkolili (the majority Themne districts) all voted for the APC. So does that make the APC a Themne party if we follow your line of reasoning?
Subject: Re: Run off
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 11:56:39 08/29/07 ()
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Yes! That makes the APC a Temne Party..
Subject: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
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Sierra Leone Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
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Our Exit Polls indicated
that the SLPP and APC will be neck to neck at 42% each.
The Editorial Board of the Awareness Times sent a team of volunteers all over Sierra Leone to conduct Exit Polls during last Saturday’s General Elections in Sierra Leone. The results indicate very clearly that the SLPP and the APC will end up having, at the end of the vote count, a tie of 42% each whilst the PMDC will have 13% of the votes and the remaining 5% will be shared by the other Presidential Candidates.
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Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 06:12:16 08/29/07 ()
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What's your point Madingo man. Most polls have + or - 5% error rate. The lady was on target. The same way she was correct about the NDA support for SLPP but you APC zealots chastised her. Call her opportunist but she knows how to play the kissass game.
Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 07:35:57 08/29/07 ()
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ORKAMA,
It is too early in the morning to start CUSSING.Now let's check our ARITHMETIC.Assuming the polls are +/-5% error rate,where did she get the EXTRA 2%?
Subject: Berewa resign Now
From: bigamad
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Date Posted: 14:50:29 08/29/07 ()
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If Berewa would have the courage to concede defeat and avoid the embarrassment of another drabbing in the Run-off then at least the people will see him as an honourable man. That how it operate in the west. Leaders of parties take responsibility of a poor showing in an election , resign and give chance for the party to move on.
I am sure Berewa will not resign. He will carry on as the bigmouth political zealot around him will continue to raise his hope so that they will continue to suck mama Sa Lone of its remaining juices. But I respect the courage of people to again vote in the numbers to eradicate this political worms and put them into oblivion
Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: LIE-MAN
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Date Posted: 08:15:55 08/29/07 ()
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Bo comot nar yah ... where did you get 2%?
38.4 to 44%
Lies squarely within her prediction..
Always trying to discredit others...
Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 08:47:54 08/29/07 ()
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42+42+13+5=102
102-100=2
U SEE WAE U DON LOOK LEK FOOL MAN.U NOR NEED PHd FOR KNOW SAY +/- 5% ERROR RATE NAR DIS CALCULATION EE WRONG.
Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: LIE-MAN
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Date Posted: 09:08:07 08/29/07 ()
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Buford Please please please.. .. nor disgrace you sef so again... Do yah....
What the heck was that? I hope you are not on CRACK
Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: Disgraceful BUFORD
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Date Posted: 09:02:01 08/29/07 ()
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+/- 5 has nothing to do with your addition. It is just room left for error. Your addition can be wrong but your room for error calculation can still be correct. Ernest Koroma polled 44% which is well within +/-5 of what AT predicted. Berewa polled 38% again within the margin of error. AT nailed Margai's votes. So the over estimation of the others notwithstanding, AT's statistics so far proved to be the most accurate. I can't say that for Cocorioko's APC polls.
Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 09:10:24 08/29/07 ()
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BUFORD HWY... Completely messed up....ROTFLOLPIMP.. hehehehe.. The man TUPIT
Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 09:31:58 08/29/07 ()
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EARLY MORNING KNOCK-OUT.
Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 09:46:32 08/29/07 ()
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So BUFORD here is an advice......
Take a statistics book and check the chapters on probability Distribution and deviation....This will help you make an informed decision and help you in academic discussions....
Nor make da man gee you another upper-cut next tem
Just Brotherly advice.....Nar me two cents dat...hehehehe
Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 10:20:03 08/29/07 ()
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Don't need a book in statistics inorder for me to make an informed decision on Probability,distribution and deviation.It's just that my calculations were wrong and I stand corrected as any HUMBLE and HONEST HUMAN should do,but as for you and your party,well AR LEF OONA WITH DEN YOUTHS DEM NAR SALONE.
Will be on your side of town this weekend (MEMPHIS)TN.
Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 10:23:45 08/29/07 ()
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owai osai
Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 11:37:29 08/29/07 ()
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BACK TO POWER!!!!!!!
SO LOW BEE ...........TO HIBERNATION
Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 11:58:15 08/29/07 ()
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The only way you can come back to power is by learning that SIMPLE STATISTICS.....hehehehe
Subject: Re: Awareness Times Exit Polls show APC-SLPP % at 42 - 42
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 17:14:38 08/29/07 ()
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WAIT TIL SEPT 8TH.
Subject: THE BEGINNING OF THE END
From: Frankly Green
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Date Posted: 05:24:44 08/29/07 ()
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THE BEGINNING OD THE END OF THE APC AND CHARLES MARGAI UNHOLY MARRIAGE!
The APC-PMDC combination will never stand. It is preprogrammed for failure. Read below.
News Stories - August 27
PMDC'S WOMEN'S LEADER DEFECTS TO THE SLPP AND SLAMS CHARLES MARGAI'S SINGLE-MINDED PURSUIT OF POWER
SORIE FOFANAH
FREETOWN, AUGUST 27, 2007.
SYNDICATED REPORT FROM THE NEW VISION
PMDC Women’s Leader Defects
….Joins SLPP
(By Sorie Fofana)
Cracks within the top hierarchy of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (the third largest political party in the country), are beginning to show, following the weekend defection of the National Women’s Leader from the party.
Mrs. Rebecca Mbalu Conteh’s desertion from the PMDC is seen as a major blow to Mr. Charles Margai’s unilateral decision to form an alliance with the APC.
Family sources told the “New Vision” last night that the decision was purely personal as Mrs. Conteh had become fed-up with Mr. Margai’s propensity to do things without consulting the party.
Mrs. Conteh who, together with Charles Margai, left the SLPP after the Makeni Convention in October 2005 to form the PMDC, is seen as a formidable force in the Tonkolili district, where she hails from.
In 1996, she entered the House of Parliament on an SLPP ticket but failed to secure enough support in 2002 to return to the same Parliament.
A former primary school teacher, Mrs. Conteh is a well-known figure in Tonkolili. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority (SLRTA).
Her decision to return to the SLPP has been described by a top SLPP official as a move in the right direction.
On Saturday, she was spotted at Vice President Solomon Berewa’s Spur Road office where she was due to attend a meeting of Northerner politicians.
Mrs. Conteh refused to take questions from the press when she was ambushed along Spur Road at the weekend.
She is the second most influential executive member of the PMDC to defect. Another high –ranking defector, Mr. Sidikie Janneh, the party’s National Financial Secretary had left a week ago to join the SLPP. He has already started campaigning vigorously for the SLPP in the Southern Region, especially in Bo and its surrounding environs.
Subject: Re: THE BEGINNING OF THE END
From: Kapr FENTHI
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Date Posted: 06:56:00 08/29/07 ()
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Our Sister Rebecca hails from Gbonkolenken, where the SLPP has just received a good licking in the first Round of the Elections. And this was despite the fact that Dr.Bobson Sesay, due to his good work there, enjoys respect and popularity. Infact well over 50% of those that voted SLPP and PMDC in Gbonkolenken will surely give their votes this time to Hon. Koroma and Charles Margai, for obvious reasons: Sierra Leone needs a change in political direction. Most Sierra leoneans both at home and abroad, have long comprehended this salient fact. Sierra leone`s problems, that are influencing these elections, are global in the sierra leone context and not regional or ethnic as our SLPP brothers and sisters continue to imply through their actions. As for now, the best opportunity that has offered itself for the realization of such a positive change is the alliance between Ernest and Charles. There were times in our short but traumatic history as a nation, when such alliances never raised a single question : Sir Milton Margai/Dr.John Karefa-Smart, Sir Albert Margai/Kandeh Bureh/M.S.Mustapha, Thaimu Bangura/Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. I started praying for such a merger as far back as over one year ago. At first, some of my SLPP friends(I am APC)laught at me, calling me a day dreamer. But God nor day sleep-oh ! NOW, please don`t give much importance to Sister Rebecca`s action, as this is very insignificant. Rebecca is at the moment an unknown political quantity with little or no political influence whatsoever.
Subject: Re: The begining of the end for a light weight?
From: news from the ground
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Date Posted: 05:41:29 08/29/07 ()
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She is a light weight and she does not have any political constituent. It was the propotional representation that gave her a seatat the Parliament.
Rebecca u turn to the SLPP has no effect whatsoever within the PMDC circle.
Shmae she has become a notorious chameleon. From SLPP to PMDC and back to her wrecthed party, SLPP.
bye bye aubty Rebecca.
Subject: Killer Berawapi cant give up!
From: news
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Date Posted: 02:39:21 08/29/07 ()
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Berewa knows that by alligning with Cuba, Iran and Libya, he can defraud and go scot free. With the West, here is no longer a free for all money to enrich himself and his SLPP crooks. Through his protege, Momodu Koroma, they received substantial money from those Countries and now they want to mortgage the Country's resources to the Mullahs in Iran.
This is the reason why Berewa and his rogues are using every underhand tactic to sit at State house to continue their thievery activity.
Kabbah managed to get Edward Nyallay, Hindowa Momoh and Massaquoi all SLPP supporters through NEC and provides an easy access to State funds to help the SLPP rig the elctions. The only stumbling block is the resillience of Sierra Leoneans especially the youths that are thwarting all their attempt to rig the elections. It took Edward Nyallay and Hindowa Momoh a great deal of support given to them by John Benjamin,John Karimu and Kabbah to rig the votes in the South East.
The opposition strong base in Freetwon where SLPP bad policies expose the people to filth and squalor did not fall to their broad day light robbery at the polls. Every step they made was monitored and in the run-off they will be surprised to find out that our people are constant in their act as the Northern Star!!!.
No amount of intimidation and guns will scare our poor people from evicting the rogue SLPP politicians.
We gave you twelve years to fix the mess in our house. After twelve years from feasting in hundreds of millions of dollars and you come up with an excuse that you inherited a bad State from an APC your sons overthrown to put you in power.
Kabbah/Berewa we will not mortgage Sierra Leone to the miners at Koidu holdings neither will few people that are connected with Kabbah/Berewa can decide the future of millions of Sierra Leonean voters.
The SLPP wants us to believe that the people in Bo, Kailaihun, Bonthe, Moyamba, Kenema and Kailaihun would not follow Charles Margai to the APC. Well, we can say loudly that the people in thsoe areas are waiting for September 8th to give the verdict.
The SLPP has stored more fake ballot papers. One thing they do not know that there is a device that will distinguish a genuine ballot paper to the false ones. The logistic Officer at NEC, Massaquoi will try to give some of the authentic papers to the SLPP thieves, but we are watching closely and trust me we will expose these crooks.
One weapon we have is the ballot paper and no threat of a State of emergency will stop our people from voting for a change.
Has Berewa failed to know when enough is enough or is he has something up his sleeve to regenerate warfare in Sierra Leone in the case he loses the elections.
If he goes that part, the manner at which he prosecuted others to face the Special Court will also be used to nail him. We are gathering evidence of incitment and naked attacks on poor market women in Freetown to prosecute anyone who is responsible for bringing anarchy in our beloved land.
The idea of winning at all cost is primitive and uncivilised. Berewa must know that we are not living in a jungle.
The first round should have taught him a great lesson to respect our people. Because he stored many ballot papers , he was dreaming of winning seventy five percent of the votes. Now he is still going around lying that the poor he has impoverished in Kenema, Bo, Kailaihun, Freetown, Magburuka, Port Loko, Kenema, Moyamba, Kambia, Port Loko, Kono and Kabala will give him the crown to head the World's poorest Country, Sierra Leone.
We say no to a leader that has blood on his hand. we say no to a tribalistic party, SLPP that killed Kula Samba and twenty four military Officers and the same Berewa gave Victor Reider, Gibril Massaquoi, Eldred Collins prominent roles and killed our gallant soldiers who fought to save Mother Sierra Leone.
The blood of the victims will not rest till their compatriots kick out Berewa and the SLPP to honour their bodies which Kabbah/Berewa and their Nigerian surrogates bloated with acid.
May the souls of these gallant Men and woman rest in peace and may their ghosts haunt Berewa.
Subject: Re: Killer Berawapi cant give up!
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 06:46:24 08/29/07 ()
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Stop spreading false rumors about Berewa planning to rig the elections. Sierra Leone has changed now . It is not the same Sierra Leone under the APC dictatorship where thugs intimidated voters and the oposition had no chance.
The people in sierra leone are vocal and will not tolerate any party imposing their will on them. Berewa could not rig the elections even if he wanted to. If the elections were rigged why accept the APC parliamentary victory and not rerun the whole elections as APC candidates were cheated. There have been counterclaims of APC stuffing ballots in FReetown and the North but I cannot accept them until we have definitive proof.
I can tell you the ghosts of Sam bangura, Mohammed Forna , Bash Taqi , Francis Minah, Paul Kamara are hovering hoping that the old APC mentality does not attain power in Sierra Leone especially the Ekutay Cabal.
May the best man win on September 8. No need for the hatred. Sierra Leone is a small country. Famillies traverse party lines.
Subject: Re: Killer Berawapi cant give up!
From: nyanda diamoh
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Date Posted: 08:27:06 08/29/07 ()
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Thanks
Subject: Tribalistic Tegloma Nyallay uses fraud for his SLPP
From: Concern
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Date Posted: 01:04:55 08/29/07 ()
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It is a shame that some Sierra Leoneans always blasted the Ekutay and never one will draw attention to the naked tribal organisation, Tegloma who has been in the thorn of Sierra Leone's politics this past decade.
Edward Nyallay is a divisive member of NEC. He is a staunch member of the tribal group Tegloma and Christiana Thorpe does not care to take any measure against this miscreant.
What a shame for blasting Ekutay when we all know that Tegloma is a tribal organisation fighting for a particular region and group. NEC is losing its credibility by retaining the service of Nyallay.
Subject: Re: Tribalistic Tegloma Nyallay uses fraud for his SLPP
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Date Posted: 05:10:57 08/29/07 ()
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HeheheheheheheHahahahahaha. APC don don.
Subject: THE CALL FOR CHANGE - LOOK AT ANGOLA
From: Salakoh Maxwell
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Date Posted: 21:19:29 08/28/07 ()
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YOUR TIME IS HERE SA LONE - RUN! RUN! RUN!
äéþêù - pronounced Dioko
Definition:
to run after
to press on: figuratively of one who in a race runs swiftly to reach the goal
to pursue (in a hostile manner)
to seek after eagerly, earnestly endeavour to acquire
Subject: Re: THE CALL FOR CHANGE - LOOK AT ANGOLA
From: #1029;#969;#953;#954;#969;
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Date Posted: 09:47:30 08/29/07 ()
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I pursue, forgetting the things that are past looking forward to the future, we press on.
Sierra Leonean are very wick people, see what they did to their own people. I do not want to select a particular group or tribesman but they know who they are. They are very power hungry and would want to cling on to power at all cost, if Berewa had his people at heart, he would have conceded the election, which would have being very noble of him and retire as an elderly statesman. But no, he wants power, even though he is old, unfit and inadequate to lead the country, he want to shove down the throats of his citizen, draconian measure and wickedness. Due to tribal sentiment, his brothers are supportive of him blindly, and do not have Sierra Leone at heart, but consider more their selfish needs. It pains me to see that some tribesmen are not speaking for the rest of the country, but for themselves. The people have spoken, what do they understand by that, look at the way some medias house are propagation friction, after such a gruesome war, can we as people realize our mistake and move on to a better plain. If we are not wicked, then what do young call this, stupid ness or bad heart. Come on folks, please let peace prevail, Berewa you have lost, it will be chaotic if you win or become SL president, it will surely be a repeat of the civil war and this time you will be caught in the mayhem and will not escape easily to Guinea. Remember how you guys came to power, it was a bloodless coup that saw President Momoh flee to guinea and SLPP under the guise of NPRC taking over, and after that President Momoh and others wound up in Pademba Road, this time most SLPP clinger to power politician will not be so lucky, it will be a repeated of the Liberian saga. For me I am an arm chair politician, but the people have spoken, and in case you guys do not realize, Sierra Leoneans are not the same people as they were twenty years ago, they have become hardened and more wicked and I am sure if the wrong person occupies the position as commanding chief, the seat will be very hot and unbearable, so listen to the people. They in the western area that sees and know what is going on have spoken, the people in the province are easily bribed with cows or couple dollars and are ignorant as to what is necessary for a change, and due to tribal sentiment they are handicap in voting procedures and who they should elect. I was at a farm right hear in USA and I encounter strong SLPP supporter and what I got from their conversation , was more to do with retaliative moves, rather than the logic of who they should support in the interest of productivity and development of our beloved country. So you see, you do not even have to be up line to be stupid, it is happen right here in the United State.
Vote for change and betterment, not they same old recycled politician, who have not done absolutely anything for the country.
Subject: Re: THE CALL FOR CHANGE - LOOK AT ANGOLA
From: Brima Kamara
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Date Posted: 05:59:22 08/29/07 ()
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I bet my life the author of this is a Regentonian, i.e a former student of the Sierr Leone Grammar School. Keep it up Regentonians. Live for Ever, Sundered Never, Regentonians True. God Bless our Grammar School and Mother SIERRA LEONE
Subject: SLPP TIFF GRANNAT WOMAN MONEY
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 21:07:06 08/28/07 ()
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‘Is There A No-go Area In Freetown?' - Trader Asks
The groundnut seller who referred to herself as Adama lamented to the New Citizen that she was not aware of the fact that Wallace Johnson Street was a no-go area and that no one warned her to leave the area or face the consequences.
She went on, “I was passing in front of the SLPP office on Wallace Johnson Street when some youths rushed at me, removed the groundnut tray on my head and threw it on the ground. I protested against their action by asking them to pay for my groundnuts to which they aggressively told me to vacate the area or regret my stubbornness. I stood my ground and refused to go for which they started beating me”
Adama also reported that during the attack on her person she lost money amounting to Le.5, 200 recalling that it was an elderly passerby who rescued her from the hands of the assailants and later escorted her to the Central Police Station but that she did not make a formal report to the police arguing that as the breadwinner she left her two children at home unattended for which she needed to return with minimum delay rather than seek justice which she was not sure of getting.
She underscored, “first of all, I have no reliable witnesses and no time to pursue an assault case in court that may last forever, an exercise that will make it impossible for me to fend for myself and my children.”
Asked what she intends to do next, she shrugged her shoulders and replied, “I leave my case to God.”
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Subject: Re: SLPP TIFF GRANNAT WOMAN MONEY
From: babs
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Date Posted: 06:52:24 08/29/07 ()
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This is the most STUPID posting ever. What is your point??
Subject: Re: SLPP TIFF GRANNAT WOMAN MONEY
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 07:22:22 08/29/07 ()
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You SLPP apologists are so BLIND that you can never be able to see how CORRUPT and TIFF TIFF you and your party are.I will suggest you go back and READ the posting,then try to UNDERSTAND what you read before answering to this thread.
Subject: Re: SLPP TIFF GRANNAT WOMAN MONEY
From: modiboh
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Date Posted: 08:21:40 08/29/07 ()
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The Article is stupid... What has that got to do with SLPP?
Subject: Re: SLPP TIFF GRANNAT WOMAN MONEY
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 09:16:22 08/29/07 ()
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It is stupid,because you guys are prone to TIFF TIFF and CORRUPTION.If your party can not PROTECT ADAMA a groundnut woman in front of your HEADQUARTER,how would you be able to protect the STATE?
"She went on, “I was passing in front of the SLPP office on Wallace Johnson Street when some youths rushed at me, removed the groundnut tray on my head and threw it on the ground. I protested against their action by asking them to pay for my groundnuts to which they aggressively told me to vacate the area or regret my stubbornness. I stood my ground and refused to go for which they started beating me”
Adama also reported that during the attack on her person she lost money amounting to Le.5, 200 recalling that it was an elderly passerby who rescued her from the hands of the assailants and later escorted her to the Central Police Station but that she did not make a formal report to the police arguing that as the breadwinner she left her two children at home unattended for which she needed to return with minimum delay rather than seek justice which she was not sure of getting."
Subject: A Message from USA
From: Karamoh Kabba
To: All
Date Posted: 20:43:47 08/28/07 ()
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A Message from USA
By Karamoh Kabba
If the recent elections in Sierra Leone were based on a simple majority,
we would have concluded that the people have rejected a party that
gave them a non-sufficient funds check for eleven years even though
the donor nations replenished the post-war reconstruction accounts
with sufficient funds.
But the constitution demands that they go back to the polls to clarify
the rejection of their long time tormentor—the Sierra Leone People’s
Party (SLPP), because the All People’s Congress (APC) fell short of the
needed 55% threshold to win the presidential election. And this
constitutional demand has further placed a fledgling democracy in
Sierra Leone on shaky ground.
Meanwhile, we [PMDC/APC coalition for 2007 runoff election] are
determined to see a peaceful and transparent presidential runoff
election on September 8, 2007. We are ready for any outcome of a free
and fair process. What we will not do is to sit back and look at a
looming trampling on the democratic process. This is why we are
taking the first step of avoidance of voter disenfranchisement.
The purpose of this message is to identify a possible problem that may
pockmark our newfound democracy with voter disenfranchisement.
Tegloma, a supposed ethnic organization, immensely influenced the
outcome of the past two post-war elections in Sierra Leone on behalf
of the SLPP. The outright repeat of Tegloma meddling with national
elections was by default rendered impossible in the recent elections
because of its divided leadership between the PMDC and the SLPP.
PMDC members of Tegloma stopped the organization in its tracks of
bankrolling the SLPP electioneering this time.
Nevertheless, we know that Tegloma, under the Nyallay leadership, like
the Akutay of the old APC, has been unable to adopt a hands-off policy
in national politics. Tegloma seems to be not just an ethnic non-profit
organization, but also an arm of the SLPP. Tegloma is now the only
ethnic organization whose activities remain prominently visible in party
politics. And it was this same low-minded parochial and paternalistic
indulgence in the Akutay by the old APC that became the recipe for the
decade-long war.
It is, however, important to note that the new APC leadership has
adhered to this great reprimand and admonishment of the past against
the encroachment of such a mini brand of apartheid on our multi-party
democracy, and we truly hardly heard of Akutay in all three elections
we have conducted so far, save for the relentless recollection of its
past activities under Siaka Stevens and JS Momoh. If we fail to stop
Tegloma from meddling with our democracy, we will refuse to learn
from history and history will surely repeat itself through a more
powerful Akutay kind of organization in Tegloma.
Our leadership has called the attention of NEC and the International
Community to a serious problem that is developing in Mr. Nyallay’s
polling districts. Like James Jonah in 1996, Nyallay’s actions seem to
indicate a determination to derail democracy in Sierra Leone. Mr.
Nyallay seems to have an undue deep-seated passion for an SLPP
victory in the runoff at any cost. Looking at the final election results,
Mr. Nyallay’s districts returned the most number of invalid votes. We
are calling your attention to the fact that it was not by chance that the
same individual returned the most invalid votes from Kenema, Kono
and Kailahun districts – Mr. Nyallay seems like a strong Tegloma
Mende chauvinist with a determination to build a Mendedom in Sierra
Leone.
In 1996, the citizenry had the courage to put country first amidst
widespread allegations of outright rigging of the elections by James
Jonah. The situation may be quite different this time, we want to warn
you. We cannot be devoted to “order” alone this time and create a
“negative peace” like we did in 1996, only for President Kabbah to be
overthrown one year later, an action that derailed the peace process for
another five years.
The best possible solution for us is a moral and just solution that will
bring us what Dr. Martin Luther King called a “positive peace.” It was
such high-level hypocrisy Dr. King described from his Birmingham jail
“like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must
be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light,
injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to
the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion, before it
can be cured.”
Speculations are rife that the outgoing president, Ahmed Tejan
Kabbah, does not seems to mind the increased level of pre-elections
violence in the country to prolong the SLPP’s stay in power through
agents of Tegloma. SLPP and Tegloma know very well that they will
lose the run-off election. Their only hope seems to lie in the hands of
such agents as Mr. Edward Nyallay and others we have identified to
cause chaos and extend their stay in power. That is why they are
instigating unrest in the eastern region, especially in the Kono district,
blaming it on the opposition and threatening to impose a state of
emergency.
The National Electoral Commission and the international community
have the duty to protect democracy in Sierra Leone. For NEC, it is a
patriotic duty to deliver free and fair elections. And for the
international community, it is not only for its wallet, but also for the
truism that democracy under threat in Sierra Leone is democracy under
threat everywhere in the world.
Let us put speculations aside and examine the facts. There is a pattern
here: Mr. Nyallay turned out the most invalid votes count and his
districts are much more prone to violence. These are concerns that
must not be ignored.
Calling for the removal of Mr. Edward Nyallay and others, as stated in a
recent press release from our leaders, may be too much, especially at
this eleventh hour. Replacing Mr. Nyallay and others may cause much
difficulty for NEC. Therefore, we are willing to negotiate. We are asking
in the name of peace and transparency that NEC, at least, double the
police presence, the poll workers presence and observers presence in
the eastern region to keep an eye on Mr. Nyallay. We are not asking for
too much. We have identified a possible problem, we have
recommended a solution and we are also willing to negotiate our
position based on the possible hardship it may cause an institution
that has promised us nothing less than free and fair elections.
Meanwhile, the people, on their part, have been busy demystifying
their minds off an aristocrat/commoner relationship of the past. They
have upgraded their state of mind to what Dr. Ibrahim Abdullah
recently referred to as a landlord/tenant relationship between them
and those that occupy their State House and Parliament. As a result of
that chastened political awareness, they have given their tormentors
the first ejectment notice that has affected only the parliamentarians so
far. They are now ready for the second ejectment notice and final
eviction, all in peace and in good faith without hard feelings.
We know that the judiciary must be on the side of the landlord in such
a process of peaceful and lawful eviction of notorious tenants for
giving their landlords a bad check year after year, if we must prevent
the landlords from taking the law into their own hands.
The new weapons the people have now to become masters of their own
destiny were given to them by the SLPP with the help of the
international community. Together, these two entities removed AK-47s
and machetes from the hands of the people and replaced them with
freedom of speech and freedom to vote, which turned out to be
weapons that are even more potent. Thanks to the SLPP for such
tolerance of unintended and unanticipated outcome. Now, it is
incumbent on the law and order system to support the people in
upholding the noble path they have adopted in place of violence.
Now is not the time to win elections that the SLPP failed to win in
eleven years. The SLPP was very inattentive when the people started the
process of demystifying their minds through pop culture. Before that,
their world of sight was restricted within the boundaries of Sierra
Leone, and the SLPP was the sun until the upward trust of their
intellectual soul through pop culture.
The APC/PMDC coalition leaders know too well that they are taking
advantage of a job that had been done by the people – Ernest Koroma
knows very well that such will be his fate if he refuses to meet the
expectations of the landlords. Ernest Koroma knows too well that the
filth in Sierra Leone is way beyond the visible mounds of garbage in the
city street corners.
No electricity and pipe borne water in any city has to be the greatest
filthiness there is. Six months of uninterrupted electricity and water
supply under APC, the rest will be history – it will cease all
procrastinations by talented and skilled workers of going back home.
Those who have seen the light beyond the borders of Sierra Leone
know too well that no electricity and water means filth.
And the massive demand for electricity and water in a nation cannot be
the responsibility of individuals: The demand for electricity and
running water is beyond individual citizens’ responsibility. That
responsibility rests squarely on an effective government. Jobs, we will
create jobs! There are jobs in the private sector more than any
government could ever dream of creating, but the investors must have
electricity and water first, to invest and create jobs.
Poverty reduction strategy is only a temporary solution to our
problems. It is only good for countries without the readiness for capital
capacity building strategy – poverty reduction is only a handout, we
need to build our own capitalists and a strong market economy. With
APC in power, the true sun will shine on the people with all too new
rays this time to complement the newfound higher intellectual capacity
of a people under the sun.
This is why Ernest Koroma demonstrates in words and actions that he
is a leader of a new APC. When it was time to choose a running mate,
he chose a man from a minority ethnic group whose name had not
been heard of in politics. It shows Mr. Ernest Koroma’s readiness for a
well-integrated society and a well-run government by competent
people. In any case, per head count, there are more old school APC
members in the SLPP than in the new APC. That is why the paternalistic
Tegloma ideology is flourishing under the SLPP today – about what else
is there to talk?
Subject: Re: A Message from USA
From: babs
To: All
Date Posted: 06:57:47 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: delaw80@hotmail.com
Entered From: host81-152-205-168.range81-152.btcentralplus.com at 81.152.205.168
Message:
KARAMOH KABBA with all due respect please leave Tegloma out of this rubbish ok. Tegloma is a respectful organization that is working for its people so please take your rubbish power thirst some where else. Tegloma donot care if you are APC/PMDC or useless blok. get a life and stop your reckless writing.
Subject: Re: A Message from USA
From: Former PMDC Man
To: All
Date Posted: 05:09:01 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c29146.dyn.optonline.net at 68.194.145.70
Message:
Karamoh Kabba - APC's emerging face of overt tribalism should leave Tegloma out of his nonsense. If Karamoh Kabba has the right to become APC's new town crier and fund solicitor, then Tegloma has the right to support SLPP.
Subject: Ban all campaign activities now
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 20:16:10 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
Does NEC have the power to ban all campaign activities leading to the run off ? That is one of the ways of preventing violence. Sierra Leoneans got their minds made up. Not much can be achieved within the next two weeks in terms of gaining votes but as long as there are trucks loaded with singing supporters moving around then violence becomes inevitable and the elections, inconclusive.Instead of getting at each others throat, forumites should be brainstorming as to how we can prevent our violent history from reccurence. We have done very well up to this point and the world is still watching. we do not need to stretch our security forces thin before the real day(September 8). My view is ban campaign exercises and saturate the country with rapid response teams on the day we go to the polls. If tension keep mounting at this pace I am afraid we may not have a government after September. What do you think ?For some people the exit from power is a matter of life and death.
Subject: Re: Ban all campaign activities now
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 22:55:58 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Should campaigning be banned right now, what will the restless energy of unemployed and hungry youths turn to? Will they stay at home and twiddle their thumbs?
Chez Winakabba how should they channel their volatile energy – away from you…?
Where - for just a few dollars more (on which side) are Johnny Paul’s young men right now - those who are neither unemployed nor hungry (some one has surely employed some
The SLPP should accord humanity to the APC - it's not as if the people who elected 59 APC candidates to represent them in parliament, are bad people. Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma is a good person – he has struggled all these years as leader of the opposition – and it’s obvious that the APC could not have won 59 seats and the SLPP with all their power and paraphernalia only got 43 seats after using all they’ve got, and by now the SLPP campaign bank must be emptying fast more and more being taken from less and less……and promises of replenishment, of course from the source…..
About violence? We are against - about unholy war, we are against that too, about a state of emergency - it should not be necessary for ex-president Kabbah to make such a declaration - even if he should be dreaming of continuing his presidency through a surrogate younger man called Berewa...
Have you heard the song”With God on our Side"?
There are of course others who are on God's side. Is Kabbah? Berewa? The ACC? The prison guard? The man who dishes out money to purchase both the poor man’s conscience and his vote?
Hasn’t Mr. Kabbah preached to the nation about
• Resourcefulness
• Excellence
• Tolerance
• Good neighbourliness
• Generosity
• Honesty
• Self-esteem
Lets hope that the SLPP leadership will weigh all the unpleasant alternatives and give Cecil Blake’s letter due consideration. It’s possible that Mr. Kabbah imposed Berewa on the SLPP. That’s an internal SLPP affair, but Mr. Kabbah cannot IMPOSE BEREWA on all of us against the will of the majority as has been democratically expressed thus far – and as will be democratically confirmed on 8th September 2007.
After all, knocking at the gates of heaven and being asked “WHO Is there?” Who is going to answer with pride “ It’s me the ex-president of Sierra Leone, open up!”?
“With God on our side”
http://www.rightwingbob.com/godonour.htm
Subject: President John Mohamed Kamara..The Dreamer
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 18:11:14 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: at 134.74.74.34
Message:
The President I love the best is he who:
*Thinks about the lowest class of Sierra Leoneans first (Sir Miltom Margai)
*Does not allow himself to drown in corruption including bigamy or common-law cocubines (Andrew Juxon-Smith)
*Walks high above etho-linguistic/regional politics (Siaka Stevens)
*Knows that there is life after his Presidential Term plus considers the effect of his actions on generations after him (Justice C.O.E. Cole)
*Does not get his family involved in politics (Ahmad Tejan-Kabbah)
*Does not dictate all the way (Joseph Momoh)
*Has the energy to drive change of attitudes on issues like health/sanitation (Valentine Strasser)
Subject: Re: President John Mohamed Kamara..The Dreamer
From: Dehunge
To: All
Date Posted: 19:24:36 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-70-108-53-249.washdc.east.verizon.net at 70.108.53.249
Message:
Man stop posting this silly stuff!
Subject: Re: President John Mohamed Kamara..The Dreamer
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 19:32:36 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: at 134.74.74.34
Message:
What makes you think its silly stuff?
Subject: TRIVIA
From: Emile
To: All
Date Posted: 18:10:33 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-39-159.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.39.159
Message:
Question:
What do you call a bee whose wings have been weakened due to exposure to the sun and is flying so low that it is afraid it would never reach the nectar again?
Answer:
SOLO BEE.
Subject: Re: TRIVIA
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 18:29:43 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Whoops! Since the bee is low flying maybe it should be:
SO LOW BEE!
Watch out Emile, those humorless SLPPselfishers are going to frown on this funny joke with a jaundiced eye. Smile guys. God loves ya!
Subject: Re: TRIVIA
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:11:47 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
You can crack all the jokes folks but after the runoff
results the joke will be on APC/PMDC as so low bee will flying above the heads of PMDC/APC
Subject: Re: TRIVIA
From: Ganda
To: All
Date Posted: 01:59:06 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Is that a threat from a known Mende tribalist?
Subject: Re: TRIVIA
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 18:20:57 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
I could not resist! A SOLO BEE!!
Subject: I am enjoying SLPPers wriggling around in torment
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 18:08:25 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
As if den put salt pan bilolo!! They cannot campaign about their good works, cannot defend bribing and rigging, cannot have their own forum and have been met toe to toe when ever they try any intimidation both in Sierra Leone and on the Net.
I feel their conscience is whipping them. They are so stupid as to laud three votes from PLP and the other non entity. We wish them well. We sleep well at night. But the blasphemer and his lot will never sleep! Good night!
Subject: Re: I am enjoying SLPPers wriggling around in torment
From: The end
To: All
Date Posted: 20:04:14 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c5e19c.dyn.optonline.net at 68.197.225.156
Message:
Maybe Emerson was right after all ' the end of two-fut arata".
Subject: Re: What's up Awareness TimesRe:
From: Kekuda
To: All
Date Posted: 17:41:51 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gate02c.merckmedco.com at 167.211.190.2
Message:
Can someone please enlighten us on the motive of Sylvia Blyden. Why is that all of her headlines potray everything negative about the APC.. APC plans on using matchetes, all negative vibes about the party. What does she have against the APC. She is prolific sycophant.
Subject: Re: What's up Awareness TimesRe:
From: Kohtoh Kamal
To: All
Date Posted: 21:47:01 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: kamal@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-24-127-53-17.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 24.127.53.17
Message:
Is that not what Cocoriocko is doing for APC and always negative against the SLPP except for very FEW marginal low level articles?
Subject: Can't say God did not bless.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:25:35 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccinstr194101.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.194.101
Message:
Favorably!
You've got to understand what is said in the following musc. True, very true.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_Z8Evyj6sOo
Subject: Re: Can't say God did not bless.
From: Bambay Fanatic!
To: All
Date Posted: 18:17:32 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Jeeze Bambay, is it true that Janet has the hots for you?
On a more serious note what do you think about Kabbah threatening to declare a state of emergency? I await your usual deep thinking and wonderful analysis. Hope you had a great day in school today.
Your biggest fan,
Bambay Fanatic!
Subject: Selective Banning by Kabs Kanu?
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 17:05:28 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-33-141-108.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.33.141.108
Message:
Kabs, what are the criteria for banning forum participants? Please provide any reasons to those who request it. We hope it is not selective.
Subject: KABBA WANT "STATE OF CONFUSION" IN SIERRA LEONE.
From: CONFUSION
To: All
Date Posted: 16:54:28 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
Kabbah is desperate and confused. He wanted to impose state of emergency so that he will clamp down on his opponent. That sound great for the SLPPers. Kabbah's best friends are Ghadafi and Iran. He told Berewa yesterday before his announcement he can use sharia laws in sierra leone to bully the opposition. The SLPP is forcing itself to rule the people of sierra leone. The best way now is to implement state of emergency. Kabbah needs medical attention.
Subject: SLPP IS BOASTING OF PLP/NDA DECLARATION.
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 16:44:16 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
SLPP has been celebrating gallantly for the declaration of the NDA and PLP. Some supporters in this forum have being clamouring over this issues for days now. I went back to NEC website and tried to seen the impact of these two parties for the SLPP. I am deeply disappointed to find out that the NDA total votes are 17,748 and the PLP has 10,556. The total votes combined is 28,304. I went to the remaining two parties that went red (APC). That is CPP, UNPP and I find out that the CPP had 28,610 votes, while the UNPP had 7,260. The total votes combined is 35,870. The amazing thing here is the APC supporters in this forum never beat that drum even though the CPP alone had far more votes than the NDA/PLP combine. I concluded that it's all a matter of desperation to boost the camp's moral. This type of desperation is too much for my brothers in the SLPP.
Subject: Re: SLPP IS BOASTING OF PLP/NDA DECLARATION.
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:32:14 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
The support of NDA and PLP is a moral booster for SLPP. They do not need their party votes to win as they going to obtain 70% of the PMDC votes from the first round that is 175,000 votes.PMDC vote was a protest vote, they voted against SLPP not for an alliance with APC.
SLPP is not desperate as they know will win a free and fair runoff, the issue is whether the thugs in APC will accept a loss.
Subject: Re: SLPP IS BOASTING OF PLP/NDA DECLARATION.
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 22:31:40 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
Is it the 70% Berewa promised the last election or another 70%
Subject: Re: SLPP IS BOASTING OF PLP/NDA DECLARATION.
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:24:22 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-93.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.93
Message:
Look Berewa would not have won the first round even PMDC and Margai were not in the race. In the runoff SLPP will get those PMDC voters based on Charle's alliance with APC.
I thank Charles Margai for his move ,if he had remained neutral Berewa would not have had a chance of winning the runoff.
I can put a freindly wager on this result.
Subject: Re: SLPP IS BOASTING OF PLP/NDA DECLARATION.
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 18:41:47 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
It is embarassing, isn't it? Berewa and the SLPPselfishcrats know it's all over but the screaming. These are desperate times in SLPP land my friend.
Subject: DO SLPP WANT CHANGE?
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 16:24:31 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
The problem with the e-sell-pipul that they do not agree the country is in bad shape and needs change. Secondly, if they agree that the country is in bad shape, they refuse to change. So in any case they are the loosers in the elections because the pipul don sweh say dem wan change.
Subject: For Bambay Fanatic
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:21:34 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sccinstr194101.scc.losrios.edu at 165.196.194.101
Message:
Bambay Fanatic! on August 27, 2007 at 11:21:45: you stated:
In Reply to: Re: Fool lek lass Bread to Kottoh! posted by Bambay Lans Kamara on August 27, 2007 at 01:22:10:
"Please don't be upset when I call you Bambay the Great! I know you are a modest man but believe me you are one of the greatest Sierra Leoneans alive. Your writings are so super intelligent that, mere mortal that I am, I get completely confused and discombobulated by your superior logic! You are the best Bambay. I hope you astound them in school as you do us, on this forum, everyday. Stay blessed and productive.
Your superduper fan,
Bambay Fanatic!
President of the Bambay Lans Kamara Worldwide Fan Club."
I wish to let you know that I am not offended at all. Before thanking you for your kind words, let me first and foremost, apologise should there be any misconception about my refusal to be considered great. This comes from the humility with which I was brought-up, compelled by a religious belief that I should be a servant and bestowing all Greatness to God. I fervently believe in my God and in everyone haven a unique characteristics that makes them outstanding in their respective capacities. This is why I find it difficult to indulge myself in acknowledging such a commendation.
Nonetheless, I would tell you from the bottom of my heart that I appreciate your kind words and will do all I could to improve on the qualities you have so finely mentioned, thank you. Please keep the Bambay Fan Club alive (smile.)
I am in school, getting ready for work therefore, will not spend much time debating. I love you and keep-up the good work.
Your humble servant,
Bambay Lansana Kamara.
Subject: Re: For Bambay Fanatic
From: Bambay Fanatic!
To: All
Date Posted: 18:57:50 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Thank you for your encouragement. My hope in forming the Bambay Worldwide Fan Club is to let the forumites and the world at large recognize the awesome brainiac and powerful contributions you make to the intellectual growth of Sierra Leone. Whenever I read your postings, I literally cry, such is the power of your frightening logic! As you get busy with school, please don't forget to astound us with your powerful postings. Good Luck.
Fanatically,
Bambay Fanatic!,
President,
Bambay Worldwide Fan Club.
Subject: I NEED SIMPLE AND PRECISE ANSWER
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:36:29 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
It is clear Berewa is an ailing old oak with a pile of old age related diseases(sleeping sickness etc),corrupt,incompetent,a vp in a government on records to be the worst in the history of our nation,placed our country at the bottom of the un-human development index-put it straight the poorest country on earth,dictorial and not law abiding in nature,lost parliament to the opposition,lost the first round to the oppositon candidate,lost the largest regions including the capital Freetown,he has lost the mandate of the nation and people.What is Berewa fighting for at this stage?Is it a battle for himself,his party or for the nation?A credible,peace loving,patriot and moral integrity person would have conceeded.Your comments
Subject: Re: I NEED SIMPLE AND PRECISE ANSWER
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 06:56:41 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-142-212-114.range86-142.btcentralplus.com at 86.142.212.114
Message:
Musa, why on Earth are you people afraid of a run-off,perhaps you wont get another chance to CHEAT AT THE POLLS.
FORREST
Subject: Re: I NEED SIMPLE AND PRECISE ANSWER
From: Keke Blahima
To: All
Date Posted: 19:08:47 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbaill@mail.com
Entered From: c-24-15-212-63.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.15.212.63
Message:
Here is an honest, perhaps more judicious answer to your question. Believe this or not but because I am a sympathizer of the SLPP,I think all Berewa wants his a name in the history books.
I hate to see him as the next President but want the SLPP to win. Like many of contemporary younger Sierra Leoneans, we are caught at the crossroads of rendering a decision based on productive results to show for support, or tribal affiliation. Productive result from Berewa is far fetched, but who knows, he might just have got a lesson from the mood of the electorate.
A buffoon under Kabbah...a legacy etched in history as a former President...a protective sheild for Kabbah or perhaps a transition to Momodu Koroma...or a complete turnaround from the Kabbahnomics.
Subject: Re: I NEED SIMPLE AND PRECISE ANSWER
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 17:02:31 08/28/07 ()
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SLPP are fighting a losing battle, they know it. But as always they still want to plunge the country into a more deplorable state so their successors would have an almost impossible chance of turning the situation immediately.
All those SLPP fanatics are inhumane, unpatriotic and completely selfish in their thinking. They know quiet well that, the continued cling onto power by their power maniac Solomon Borbor Belleh Berewa would bring nothing but misery to all of us and their family. But they'll be purnished by the Almighty.
These people have no shame, they should atleast consider the state of our capital and if any of them have a little interest of their country they would stop.
Before a government leader takes up office, he/she swear to oath to uphold the values and interest of their country, with SLPP, they have no respect for that convenant. But with the blood of the people of Sierra Leone on their hands, they will perish.
Subject: Re: I NEED SIMPLE AND PRECISE ANSWER
From: LahiLa
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Date Posted: 15:46:52 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_@yahoo.com
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Half of the stuff you wrote I don't understant but to answer your question, it is his constitutional right to do so. It is a run-off. No body got the 55% needed to win. Next time go according to the constitution.
Thanx
PMDCian
Subject: Re: I NEED SIMPLE AND PRECISE ANSWER
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 16:04:45 08/28/07 ()
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Did you finish your high school?what was troubling you in the content?This is just an indication of your blindness over the state affairs.INCOMPENTENT-INCOMPETENT-INCOMPETENT
Subject: Re: I NEED SIMPLE AND PRECISE ANSWER
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 16:03:35 08/28/07 ()
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Did you finish your high school?what was troubling you in the content?This is just an indication of your blindness over the state affairs.
Subject: No To State Of Emergency
From: Emile
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Date Posted: 14:56:23 08/28/07 ()
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If Kabbah declares a state of emergency.I implore Ernest Koroma to go ahead and set up a parallel Government and we would see on whose part the International Community is on.
He forgot that his Government is a beggar Govt.that cannot function without the International Community.
Kabbah,if you or your surrogates are reading this-go ahead and declare a state of emergency and see what happens.We the people of Sierra Leone are no longer sleeping.This is not 1996 or 2002.If you and your fellow SLPPers are sleeping,let me remind you that this is 2007.
WE YAI OPIN LEK MOUNTAIN FATFOOT.WE SAY NO TO VIOLENCE!NO TO RIGGING AND NO TO YOUR CORRUPT GOVERNMENT!
BEHAVIOR OH BEHAVIOR.
Subject: Re: No To State Of Emergency
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 19:25:05 08/28/07 ()
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Wonderful words from an equally wonderful friend - from waaaaaaaaaay back
Subject: This makes SENSE : "APC is winning, cannot be violent"----
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 16:05:01 08/28/07 ()
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It's like " The new people" talking about making the country ungovernable.
The APC has the majority in parliament and it is this power that can govern - not the bullet.
It is the SLPP that lacks a majority in parliament - and if it were the Westminster model - OF COURSE HON. ERNSET BAI KOROMA WOULD HAVE BEEN PRIME MINISTER since the results were declared.
The SINAT CHINAM of SLPP should avoid causing more hatred for themselves: Berewa and Kabbah shall soon pass away and leave the SLPP behind....
What is more important the SLPP or the country? Berewa or the country?
The APC spokesman makes the unclear CLEAR ( for those who can understand ):
"APC is winning, cannot be violent"----Spokesman
- Tuesday 28 August 2007.
William Smith, the spokesman for Sierra Leone’s main opposition party and winner of the just concluded parliamentary election has told the Vanguard in a telephone conversation that there is no need for his party’s supporters to create confusion and violence since it’s already about to take power.
"Only a fool would destroy what he had worked hard to achieve, and we are not fools," he said.
He blamed SLPP supporters for the violence at Lumpa, outside Freetown and in Kono, in the east of the country.
For the Lumpa incident he said SLPP supporters were coming from a meeting when they were booed at and taunted by onlookers(not necessarily APC supporters). That angered the SLPP supporters and led to scuffles.
"Anybody can be taunted in this country. Siaka Stevens, Momoh, Strasser, even Kabbah have been booed at in this country. It’s not a big deal," he said.
With regards to Kono, the APC spokesman said the whole problem was caused by a woman called Isata Jabbie, said to have very close personal links with president Kabbah. He said IJ, as she is commonly called, with the support of local chiefs, organized some SLPP thugs to intimidate and attack the homes of APC leaders in the area, which led to a response from the APC supporters.The government has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in Kono.
"We don’t want violence, we don’t need violence. We are winning," Smith emphasized.
The SLPP secretariat in Freetown has however blamed the violence on the APC which it said has a history of violence. President Kabbah of the ruling SLPP whose term expired recently, has meanwhile threatened to declare a state of emergency in a radio and television broadcast Monday evening. He warned the two leading parties to restrain their supporters or face the consequences in the event of any more violence.
The APC’s William Smith says the SLPP knows they cannot win this time and are planning to cause confusion, declare a state of emergency, and buy more time to come back to power.
"Den faint late. We knew of their plan a long time ago. It will not work," Smith said and laughed.
Asked about the alliance between the SLPP and two smaller parties, the NDA and the PLP,Smith roared with laughter and said:
"The NDA man walked into our office, we never called him, and declared for the APC. He is supposed to come back yesterday to make it official but never came back. As for the PLP man, bo da man dey na ard up man, he is broke, what do you expect? He was not even elected in his hometown, he came last in everything. What do expect?"
NDA leader Amadu Jalloh and PLP leader Kandeh Barbah Conteh said they aligned themselves with the SLPP because they wanted national cohesion,development and a balance of power.
Meanwhile APC leader Ernest Koroma(photo) and PMDC leader Charles Margai have embarked on a nationwide tour and are currently in the northern province from where they will head for the south and east.Reports say Ernest and Charles received a huge welcome from the people of Makeni and Magburaka.
Sierra Leoneans are scheduled to vote for a president in a run off election on Saturday September 8. None of the candidates could poll the required 55% of the vote to clinch the
Subject: Re: This makes SENSE : "APC is winning, cannot be violent"----
From: Med
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Date Posted: 16:31:03 08/28/07 ()
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I think working towards conquering an overwhelming majority votes during the runoff will make a better sense. SLPP made an outstanding blunder, APC should take advantage of it, learn from it and never preempt in politics.
Politics, since creation is full of surprises, especially in Africa where nothing is impossible, it would rather make sense to prepare our minds, effectively attract more votes, work towards building better political images as we approach the runoff, again nothing is impossible in Africa and with politics.
Subject: Re: This makes SENSE : "APC is winning, cannot be violent"----
From: Emile
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Date Posted: 16:22:36 08/28/07 ()
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Bra Cornie,don't mind them,talk is cheap,they can say whatever they want to satisfy their mind.How can they make the country ungovernable when they don't even control Parliament.Perhaps they know something that we don't know.Would they resurrect their tribal militia if they lose?Would they make a good pot roast out people who are not their kinsmen?Would they attempt to declare an independent region out of the cacao farmlands in the Southeast?Who knows,maybe that's how they can make the country ungovernable.
I assure you that good amongst them and there are a lot of good folks amongst them would not let that happen.
Let them try to go against the will of the peopleSierra Leone.
Subject: Re: This makes SENSE : "APC is winning, cannot be violent"----
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 19:09:06 08/28/07 ()
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THis topic is also being discussed at Leonenet.
“Sierra Leone may not be on the radar for anti-Americanism but when a RAND Corporation (global policy think tank) national security paper recommends that policymakers begin to examine: how the diamond industry has long been a source of revenue for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and more recently AL-Qaeda; endemic corruption at all levels of society, especially at the governmental level; and government’s collusion with a British national wanted in the UK for alleged involvement with AL-Qaeda, I'd wager Sierra Leone is on the global terrorism map.”
There’s enough evidence in your first paragraph to make some of Mr. Kabbah's best friends keep him at arms length when his immunity comes to an end.....
That being the case he should go quietly when the people have voted him out of office. He is not bigger than the people nor is little Berewa bigger than, e.g. the Rand Corporation.
Alhaji Kabbah sometimes reminds me of Sir Winston Churchill. I can hear Professor the Dr. AKB guffawing... Kabbah - CHURCHILL, well here's what I mean:
Mr. Kabbah was promoted as the hero who brought peace to Sierra Leone. (Professor the AK- would say that he was the guy who hopped into the first hell-copter when he heard the whiz of the first bullet. And back from Guinea he brayed - it was his personal sense of betrayal that the whole population had not arisen and stood firm in civil disobedience.
The SLPP has variously compared the APC to despotism, falling short of calling more offensive names........ Where does Churchill come in?
After winning the war, Churchill in the first post -war election of ”Churchill’s attempts to compare a future Labour government with Nazi Germany backfired and Attlee won a landslide victory."
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWchurchill.htm
The fact is that Churchill at that point encountered difficulties: Jobs... it was also a time for reconstruction...in 1952, when I arrived in London. I didn't know anything about the 2nd world war, but I soon learned a little...there was Edith a refugee from Germany who lived next door at 144 Sinclair Road........
There is such primitive thinking and emotion (primitive) making those war clouds above the Nimini Hills…..
( of course the Sierra Leone Civil war was not fought between the APC and the SLPP ( Yaya could help us here) and in the post conflict situation of Truth and Reconciliation, a unity government - even a coalition could have been good for the process ( the reconciliation process.)
I’ve read this document more than three times:
http://www.sierra-leone.org/ernestbaikoroma080503.html
It (good military word) CAPTURES the honesty and integrity of Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma……..
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Ehud+Goldwasser%2C++Eldad+Regev%2C+Shalit+Gilead
An American ex-military man lectured me on the word “captured” when I protested about the kidnapping (theft) of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, by Hezbollah.
NO Sir- he shouted at me, you don’t kidnap an enemy soldier, you CAPTURE him or ABDUCT him…….. Ok ok, so I agreed, he they were abducted by some Islamists
Subject: This makes SENSE :"APC is winning, cannot be violent"----
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 16:03:08 08/28/07 ()
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It's like " The new people" talking about making the country ungovernable.
The APC has the majority in parliament and it is this power that can govern - not the bullet.
It is the SLPP that lacks a majority in parliament - and if it were the Westminster model - OF COURSE HON. ERNSET BAI KOROMA WOULD HAVE BEEN PRIME MINISTER since the results were declared.
The SINAT CHINAM of SLPP should avoid causing more hatred for themselves: Berewa and Kabbah shall soon pass away and leave the SLPP behind....
What is more important the SLPP or the country? Berewa or the country?
Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma makes the unclear CLEAR:
"APC is winning, cannot be violent"----Spokesman
- Tuesday 28 August 2007.
William Smith, the spokesman for Sierra Leone’s main opposition party and winner of the just concluded parliamentary election has told the Vanguard in a telephone conversation that there is no need for his party’s supporters to create confusion and violence since it’s already about to take power.
"Only a fool would destroy what he had worked hard to achieve, and we are not fools," he said.
He blamed SLPP supporters for the violence at Lumpa, outside Freetown and in Kono, in the east of the country.
For the Lumpa incident he said SLPP supporters were coming from a meeting when they were booed at and taunted by onlookers(not necessarily APC supporters). That angered the SLPP supporters and led to scuffles.
"Anybody can be taunted in this country. Siaka Stevens, Momoh, Strasser, even Kabbah have been booed at in this country. It’s not a big deal," he said.
With regards to Kono, the APC spokesman said the whole problem was caused by a woman called Isata Jabbie, said to have very close personal links with president Kabbah. He said IJ, as she is commonly called, with the support of local chiefs, organized some SLPP thugs to intimidate and attack the homes of APC leaders in the area, which led to a response from the APC supporters.The government has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in Kono.
"We don’t want violence, we don’t need violence. We are winning," Smith emphasized.
The SLPP secretariat in Freetown has however blamed the violence on the APC which it said has a history of violence. President Kabbah of the ruling SLPP whose term expired recently, has meanwhile threatened to declare a state of emergency in a radio and television broadcast Monday evening. He warned the two leading parties to restrain their supporters or face the consequences in the event of any more violence.
The APC’s William Smith says the SLPP knows they cannot win this time and are planning to cause confusion, declare a state of emergency, and buy more time to come back to power.
"Den faint late. We knew of their plan a long time ago. It will not work," Smith said and laughed.
Asked about the alliance between the SLPP and two smaller parties, the NDA and the PLP,Smith roared with laughter and said:
"The NDA man walked into our office, we never called him, and declared for the APC. He is supposed to come back yesterday to make it official but never came back. As for the PLP man, bo da man dey na ard up man, he is broke, what do you expect? He was not even elected in his hometown, he came last in everything. What do expect?"
NDA leader Amadu Jalloh and PLP leader Kandeh Barbah Conteh said they aligned themselves with the SLPP because they wanted national cohesion,development and a balance of power.
Meanwhile APC leader Ernest Koroma(photo) and PMDC leader Charles Margai have embarked on a nationwide tour and are currently in the northern province from where they will head for the south and east.Reports say Ernest and Charles received a huge welcome from the people of Makeni and Magburaka.
Sierra Leoneans are scheduled to vote for a president in a run off election on Saturday September 8. None of the candidates could poll the required 55% of the vote to clinch the
Subject: This makes SENSE
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 15:58:28 08/28/07 ()
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It's like " The new people" talking about ungovernable
the APC has the majority in parliament and it is this pwoer that can govern - not the bullet.
The SINAT CHINAM of SLPP should avoid causing more hatred for themselves: Berewa and Kabbah shall soon pass away and leave the SLPP behind....
Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma makes the unclear CLEAR:
"APC is winning, cannot be violent"----Spokesman
- Tuesday 28 August 2007.
William Smith, the spokesman for Sierra Leone’s main opposition party and winner of the just concluded parliamentary election has told the Vanguard in a telephone conversation that there is no need for his party’s supporters to create confusion and violence since it’s already about to take power.
"Only a fool would destroy what he had worked hard to achieve, and we are not fools," he said.
He blamed SLPP supporters for the violence at Lumpa, outside Freetown and in Kono, in the east of the country.
For the Lumpa incident he said SLPP supporters were coming from a meeting when they were booed at and taunted by onlookers(not necessarily APC supporters). That angered the SLPP supporters and led to scuffles.
"Anybody can be taunted in this country. Siaka Stevens, Momoh, Strasser, even Kabbah have been booed at in this country. It’s not a big deal," he said.
With regards to Kono, the APC spokesman said the whole problem was caused by a woman called Isata Jabbie, said to have very close personal links with president Kabbah. He said IJ, as she is commonly called, with the support of local chiefs, organized some SLPP thugs to intimidate and attack the homes of APC leaders in the area, which led to a response from the APC supporters.The government has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in Kono.
"We don’t want violence, we don’t need violence. We are winning," Smith emphasized.
The SLPP secretariat in Freetown has however blamed the violence on the APC which it said has a history of violence. President Kabbah of the ruling SLPP whose term expired recently, has meanwhile threatened to declare a state of emergency in a radio and television broadcast Monday evening. He warned the two leading parties to restrain their supporters or face the consequences in the event of any more violence.
The APC’s William Smith says the SLPP knows they cannot win this time and are planning to cause confusion, declare a state of emergency, and buy more time to come back to power.
"Den faint late. We knew of their plan a long time ago. It will not work," Smith said and laughed.
Asked about the alliance between the SLPP and two smaller parties, the NDA and the PLP,Smith roared with laughter and said:
"The NDA man walked into our office, we never called him, and declared for the APC. He is supposed to come back yesterday to make it official but never came back. As for the PLP man, bo da man dey na ard up man, he is broke, what do you expect? He was not even elected in his hometown, he came last in everything. What do expect?"
NDA leader Amadu Jalloh and PLP leader Kandeh Barbah Conteh said they aligned themselves with the SLPP because they wanted national cohesion,development and a balance of power.
Meanwhile APC leader Ernest Koroma(photo) and PMDC leader Charles Margai have embarked on a nationwide tour and are currently in the northern province from where they will head for the south and east.Reports say Ernest and Charles received a huge welcome from the people of Makeni and Magburaka.
Sierra Leoneans are scheduled to vote for a president in a run off election on Saturday September 8. None of the candidates could poll the required 55% of the vote to clinch the
Subject: Re: No To State Of Emergency
From: Med
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Date Posted: 15:53:46 08/28/07 ()
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Cool down man, these rumors of a state of emergency could be wrong. Lets learn to validate our postings before disseminating. Kabba is a caretaker president and his term, constitutionally ended with the expiry of his tenure in office, though he has a responsibility to regulate the affairs of the state through constitutional means, i.e. the law enforcement agencies etc, the responsibility to initiate one, constitutionally is broader than easily stated, mind you any such decision with the consequence will be a sole executive responsibility, Parliament is dissolved.
Sierra Leoneans are aware, that’s fine to hear and such awareness attracts greater responsibility which includes restraining ourselves from any act that might intimidate or provoke violence during and after the final results of the runoff. Lets consciously keep our cool.
Subject: Re: No To State Of Emergency
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 15:13:19 08/28/07 ()
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Hon Ernest Koroma should certainly do no such thing.
WE are not there yet. The International community is aware that Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma commands an impressive majority in Parliament and if he wins on 8th September he CAN GOVERN - although Mr. Kabbah might not like it.
I wrote and posted what's below, to the True Leonenet five minutes ago:
( TRUE LEONENET= http://umbc7.umbc.edu/~leoneadm/
The stages to declaring a state of emergency…..according to the estimation of Mr. Kabbah, the commander-in-chief.
It would seem that it’s much more complicated than that. It’s not just a matter of minor skirmishes in the bush motivating US travel restrictions on their beleaguered citizens. Beleaguered by terrorism and anti-Americanism in certain parts of the world. Sierra Leone is not in that part of the world. It’s more complicated than that – and you know better than I do. Our man in Washington Dr. Bangura says that if certain conditions are not met then " all hell will break lose"
The old militias are taking sides (their sides) where their interests lie. The dormant combatants are stirring back to live, are taking sides or re-grouping and might soon be in action. Not overt action but ACTION if attacked by SLPP thugs.
Rev. Alfred Sam Foray’s Kamajor are entering the SLPP camp in droves , perhaps because “money doesn’t talk, it swears” and in the ”THEM and US” , Berewa can say – as he did in that Concord chat that, Chief Hinga Norman ” didn't support our party alone, he fought for the country.” -
http://www.concordtimessl.com/bintumani.htm
And that was before he joined the PMDC and before the PMDC allied with Berewa’s personal enemy the APC. It was also before the Special Court judgments passed on senior members of the chief’s staff – before the elections…. Imagine if Chief Hinga had been freed or found guilty of any charges before these elections! The REPERCUSSIONS! Mr. Berewa is smiling with a sigh of relief, but it ain’t over yet Mr. Berewa. It ain't over till it’s all OVER!
For now Mr. Kabbah is reported to have said what’s quoted atop the APC Manifesto:
http://apcparty.org/
“I prefer to die now than lose the elections to the APC” (Kabbah)
Well, he was only expressing a preference. He would have preferred that the SLPP should win the parliamentary elections but they lost. He “would prefer to die now”, but he’s still alive, perhaps he looked at death squarely in the face after quoting one of Judge Bankole Thompson’s favourite passages “Death be not proud”
http://209.10.134.179/105/72.html
and when the time came changed his mind and preferred to live. (John Donne himself called for the priest when the time came.....the time was up and he departed in peace.
Of course there are other famous statements - more famous than Pa Kabbah’s:
” I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.” (Mahatma Gandhi) and Alhaji Kabbah could not have spoken thus even in his deep sleep dreams.
Ngoh Nelson Mandela said:
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/mandela.htm
and Patrick Henry’s:
http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/henry-liberty.html
Now Mr. Kabbah having said that, we understand the length that he’s prepared to go to avoid SLPP’s final defeat which – as he has indicated might lead to his own funeral.
It’s o.k. for Johnny E in his moral paradise to say ” Take the money but vote fro your conscience” but when that conscience has been bonded by a n oath or by water and coal nut, how do you resist not superstition but defilement of personal honour according to that local code of give and take?
Subject: Re: No To State Of Emergency
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 15:04:31 08/28/07 ()
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If he sets up a parallel government...we will lock his a-- up for ever.
So tell him to do such OK...
Let the APC try...
Subject: Re: No To State Of Emergency
From: Emile
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Date Posted: 15:21:10 08/28/07 ()
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Talking about locking his ass up....with all the state machinery at your disposal,you cannot even muster 40% in the first round.
You should consider locking Berewa's ass up after he loses in September.
You can even lock the arses of all those who have been lying to Berewa that he commands considerable support in the run up to the elections.
...or you should lock the arses of all your propangandist who wanted the world to believe that PMDC was inconsequential.
Subject: Re: No To State Of Emergency
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 15:22:41 08/28/07 ()
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make your case for two governments in salone and see what we will do to him....
Subject: Re: No To State Of Emergency
From: Emile
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Date Posted: 15:31:52 08/28/07 ()
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Tell you buffon President to declare a state of emergency and see what happens.
Subject: THE KNOCK-OUT PUNCH BY INDPENDENT OBSERVER
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 14:39:35 08/28/07 ()
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Posted by Independent Observer on August 28, 2007 at 14:06:50:
"In Reply to: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism posted by Joker on August 28, 2007 at 13:52:47:
An if i was not Mende, or not even from Sierra Leone, but lived there and went to school because my dad was posted there?
Does that make your father sleeping with his sister ok..
Now i know why you where born with 3 toes.. en cross yeye..
One of the reasons cross breeding conduct is banned. Me think your family is case in point..
You should be in a jar.. at some university..
Listen fella's..i give as much as you all can dish..
I am no Jehovahs witness.. If you want to be civil i will..
If you jab...i will hook."
Boy did that Blow mess up his burn teeth...
Sorry for am now do yah
Subject: Re: THE TRUE KNOCK-OUT OF COKER
From: Joker
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Date Posted: 20:14:40 08/28/07 ()
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Posted by Joker on August 28, 2007 at 17:11:46:
In Reply to: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism posted by Independent Observer on August 28, 2007 at 14:06:50:
Like I said, you are rude becos you had no father to teach how to behave. Your rudeness continues to this day.
Go on, display it. We expect it. As christians, we expect people like you to dirty our surroundings until your punishment hour arrives, when it would too late for you to repent.
Follow Ups
Subject: Re: THE TRUE KNOCK-OUT OF COKER
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 21:13:58 08/28/07 ()
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Joker...
If only you knew me.
If i have no father..(I dont, he died 20 plus years ago)
You dont have an aunty...well you do.. but you also call her mummy, dont you?
I have never insulted anyone in my life..
Well, until i met you..
So kiss my black....rear end...and suck for some gravy.
Subject: Re: THE TRUE KNOCK-OUT OF COKER
From: Really Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 01:55:35 08/29/07 ()
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Message:
As a really independent observer, I have to tell you that you are lying. A person who was brought up properly as a child does not start abusing people in his old age, as you have done.
So, I agree with the person calling you a joker that you are rude -- in fact very rude --because you grew up in a dysfunctional home. My advice to you is to spare us the decent people in this place the fruits of your parent's shameful failure to instill good home training in you. Because of that, you have shown us that you are nothing but a rude, unbrought up, crude, crass, and totally tribalistic and ignorant sociopath.
Subject: Re: THE TRUE KNOCK-OUT OF COKER
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 08:29:28 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Ah..
The old old adage..
Take the high road..
Act like you are brought up..
But in the process.. Show your own pettyness by been rude and unbrought up.
Hypocricy 1-0-1.
Play the saint while eating human flesh for dinner...
Dr Jekyll and borbor Hyde..
Is it possible that you are bi-polar and do not even realise it..?
In this forum.. i expected nothing less..
And it seems..well i am been proven right..
Subject: Re: THE TRUE KNOCK-OUT OF COKER
From: Ganda
To: All
Date Posted: 09:13:13 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Like many people have told you numberless times in this website, you don't understand anything you read.
As a result, you throw around words which you do not understand, thinking in the bliss that comes from plumbless ignorance, that you are making sense. Yet, as everyone but you knows, you are not.
But no one expects you to ever understand that. Which, of course, brings us to where we started your diagonsis-- your chronic inability to understand what you read or write.
Let me add my own two cents worth of advice to the chorus of Good Samaritans whom you have, of course, rewarded with your unique and pervasive brand of rudeness on this website: Try to enroll in a remedial English comprehension course. It just might cure you of your seemingly pathological inability to understanding what you read or write.
Subject: Re: THE TRUE KNOCK-OUT OF COKER
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 09:18:54 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Don't forget your medication..
As a good samaritan..(Where the hell in samaria you came from.. only you know. Black lek mangro monkey tumba but you think you are a semite?).
I would expect you to point your brother in the right direction.. instead of repeatedly pointing out my failings..
So... please.. please... do your komaneh a favor..
Show me the way.
Subject: Re: THE TRUE KNOCK-OUT OF COKER
From: Ganda
To: All
Date Posted: 09:23:20 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
In order for you to be pointed in the right direction, as you belatedly request, you must first demonstrate a wilingness to learn from your copious mistakes.
So, first, forswear rudeness. Then, I will start your remedial education, including teaching you the difference between the words, Good Samaritan and Samaria.
The ball is in your cour (if you know what that means).
Subject: Re: THE TRUE KNOCK-OUT OF COKER
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 09:36:02 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
I will hold my rude tongue if everyone else does..
I will strike with all my might and call on the heavens to help smite mine enemy if that favor is not reciprocated.
So help me god.
Ok..
Please.. please.. uncle.. teach me and show me the path of the righteous.
Oh.. Did you mean court..? Yeah.. i know what you mean..
Subject: Re: THE KNOCK-OUT PUNCH BY INDPENDENT OBSERVER
From: modiboh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:51:17 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Ar nor know watin ar do am? But nar so e be.. e do me bad..
The man know say me nar leper, e dae make fun of me..
I will go into hiding for now and return with a new moniker....
Subject: Re: THE KNOCK-OUT PUNCH BY INDPENDENT OBSERVER
From: Kpanah
To: All
Date Posted: 14:55:07 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Classic A-- Whoopping...
Subject: Re: THE KNOCK-OUT PUNCH BY INDPENDENT OBSERVER
From: Ndakeh Gbegbe
To: All
Date Posted: 20:21:09 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Wae u see u don begin talk to yousef, nar crase dar woman don mek u begin crase so.
Plus, u nor sabi english. Try for write Mende.
Subject: Why is Berewa afraid of Ernest?
From: Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:31:37 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.166.237.254
Message:
Why is Berewa afraid of Ernest?
Subject: Re: Why is the APC afraid of a RUN-OFF?
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 14:41:27 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Do you see the writing on the wall?
Why are you crying? Spoilt BRATS...
Subject: Re: Why is the APC afraid of a RUN-OFF?
From: Hashim
To: All
Date Posted: 15:03:31 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: Gboyama@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: at 82.152.159.13
Message:
Well , the spate of violence across the lenght and breath of Sa.Lone is no surprise to realist who're privy to APC terror tactics . As someone stated at the @vanguard' ,the party's philosphy is power by terror .For them playing by the book is sheepish and this election they 'must win ' . And do you where the intimidation is too common ,in all areas they genuinely believed they'll not pull enough votes to layout our massacre and imprisonment . So mark it out ,the South-eastern and the Western areas will remain hotbeds for their targeted acts of violence till those thugs may get what they want- power.
The false rumours about rigging is just one of the rubbish 99 tactics the party is using to get at target . So even if they APC genuinely loses the run-off ,the foregone conclusion of rigging should stand and then what ? So the cry here and there is no accident ,but a normal APC philosphy . Well leather boot can do anything he wants and no one is talking about his group of terror - what a mumu government.
Subject: Did APC lie about NDA support?
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 14:13:12 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.134.73.219
Message:
NDA and PLP Declare Support for the SLPP - Freetown. The NDA and PLP Leaders have anounced that after extensive consultation with their supporters and advisers, they have been urged to support the SLPP standard bearer for the presidential runoffs.
He also announced that the APC had disingeniously displayed a pre-election photograph on the internet as proof of his declaration of support for the APC. The photograph has been carried by pro-APC online papers Cocorioko, Patriotic Vanguard, and Standard Times.
He stated unambiguously that the NDA has never and will never support the APC and called on all supporters to vote for the SLPP. His pledge means that all the other minor political parties have pledged to support the SLPP.
See additional details at http://www.thenewpeople.com/
(BBC's Umaru Fofana: PLP and NDA Declare for the SLPP - Focus )
Subject: Re: Did APC lie about NDA support?
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 21:33:45 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96
Message:
Syl, surely the APC lied about the NDA'S support. By now you should know that the only thing the APC enjoys is lying because they are all agents of Satan.
Subject: Re: Did APC lie about NDA support?
From: Alpha Bah
To: All
Date Posted: 01:50:30 08/29/07 ()
Email Address: bahalpha@bellsouth.net
Entered From: adsl-072-148-108-228.sip.chs.bellsouth.net at 72.148.108.228
Message:
Alpha Saidu, Alhaji bargains very hard, the APC can not offer my brother much. Besides, APC is not that desparate to bribe a man who failed to make a good number in his own District. Alpha Saidu, did you remember the Alhaji who claimed the rats eat thousands bags of rice? SLPP get all the gron pigs. You are big liers with highest degree of corruption. The people of SL have spoken. OOna go slee for the next five years. Alhaji Amadu Jalloh's support is insignificant. Alpha Bah
Subject: Re: Did APC lie about NDA support?
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 16:19:56 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
Why are you guys lack shame in your minds? If I were you I will not make NDA/PLP declaration a public discussion because it further expose the SLPP lack of shame. If you believe what you said that votes count is true, please welcome these guys because they want to pinch the Le 10.000 Berewa was given away (Wae me yone), but do not put it in a discussion domain. The guy did not even win his own town. I think there were 7 parties contested the election? Where are the other two? Trust me they are with the APC, but it is not a public discussion. You know why? I guess you know the answer.
Subject: Re: Did APC lie about NDA support?
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 14:44:23 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Congrats Sylvester Johnny. Congrats SLPP. You see some of us are not wishing death and pestilence on the leaders of the PLP and the NDA with their combined 4% for supportng SLPP. WE are not calling these leaders traitorous dogs as you and your SLPP compadres have villified Charles Margai.
I hope you tell your leaders at SLPP headquarters to chill out on the tribal code words and just get on with the runoffs. Win, lose or draw, I hope we all understand that losing this year's election is not a kiss of death. Thwarting the people's mandate is however high treason.
Subject: Re: Did APC lie about NDA support?
From: Emile
To: All
Date Posted: 14:50:37 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-39-159.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.39.159
Message:
Mammy Blessing,you forgot to mention that we are not crying that SLPP has formed an alliance with a sobel party-PLP-whose leader is an International fugitive.It's all good for democracy,they have the right to choose whatever alliance they want,thats why,we applauded our leader Charles whe he joined hands with progressive forces.
Subject: Re: Did APC lie about NDA support?
From: Sorbeh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:52:58 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
And you joined forces with RUF..the notorious killers and human rights violators....
Bo bear yah....
Subject: Re: Did APC lie about NDA support?
From: MARABOUT CRASEMAN
To: All
Date Posted: 14:57:33 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
joined forces with RUF..the notorious killers and human rights violators....
yOU OBVIOUSLY DO NOT KNOW THAT ALHAJI JALLOH TOOK RUF AND ARC TO FOULAH MOSQUE. AND FOR THAT HE WAS JAILED BY KABBA. HOW FUNNY IT IS WHEN AT FIRST WE, OUT OF IGNORANCE, POINT FINGERS.
Subject: Re: NOT SO FAST MY BROTHER
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 14:46:13 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
This is what a Prominent APCer wrote few mins ago:
Posted by MUSA KAMARA on August 28, 2007 at 14:37:27:
In Reply to: Did APC lie about NDA support? posted by Sylvester Johnny on August 28, 2007 at 14:13:12:
"They can go into alliance with any party of their choice.It doesnot concern the APC and PMDC.Mind you some parties or group of people are just opportunists and their alliance is purely on idividual,greedy interests and not for a change for the betterment of our nation".
Follow Ups:
Subject: Re: NOT SO FAST MY BROTHER
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 14:55:37 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Exactly my point. Many politicians form alliances for self-serving reasons. What Musa Kamara said is true. This does not compare with the villification campaign the SLPP launched against Charles Margai for "betraying the Southeast". I hope we all embrace democracy and stay away from the tribal garbage some of your buddies have been shamelessly peddling
Subject: Re: Did APC lie about NDA support?
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 14:37:27 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
They can go into alliance with any party of their choice.It doesnot concern the APC and PMDC.Mind you some parties or group of people are just opportunists and their alliance is purely on idividual,greedy interests and not for a change for the betterment of our nation.
Subject: Re: Did APC lie about NDA support?
From: Almamy Razak Tun Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 14:28:34 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: at 199.219.160.30
Message:
NDA's Alhaji Amadu Jalloh can change his mind but that doesn't mean most Fullahs would follow him. APC and SLPP are one and the same in the eyes of Fullahs.
The first pronounced Fullah (I mean not disguised as other tribe) in parliament was SLPP though there were disguised Fullahs.
Alhaji AMB Jalloh was APC's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and he took RUF/AFRC to Fullah Central Mosque in Freetown (that cost him Pademba Road when Pa Kabbah returned)..now if he makes up with SLPP then his change maybe a good think for his personal relationship (Should in case SLPP wins)...
Subject: Re: Did APC lie about NDA support?
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:58:43 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
Entered From: 000-129-300.area3.spcsdns.net at 68.245.247.30
Message:
Alhaji Amadu Jalloh, is an elder stateman in the SL. Fullah community. And believe it or you leave it, his pitchiing tent with the SLPP will make a lot of Fullah votes available to that party. You really don't know how a typical Fullah thinks. We believe in our elders and leaders. So my brother I respectfully disagree with you.
Subject: Re: Did APC lie about NDA support?
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 16:18:21 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
You guys are still insulting Sierra Leoneans. Most of our countrymen these days do not follow politicians sheepishly like they use to in the days of sheki. "When I move you move just like that"- those days are gone and now the youths are very much enlightened.If you do not believe ask Pa berewa. With all The massive crowd that use to congregate at his residence just chopped his money and gave him basket to carry water. So your statement that any political party can easily drag its supporters(FULAS)to the decaying slpp is a wetdream, buddy.
Subject: Re: Did APC lie about NDA support?
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 16:16:07 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3
Message:
You guys are still insulting Sierra Leoneans. Most of our countrymen these days do not follow politicians sheepishly like they use to in the days of sheki. "When I move you move just like that"- those days are gone now the youths are very much enlightened.If you do not believe ask Pa berewa. With all The massive crowd that use to congregate at his residence just chopped his money and gave him basket to carry water. So your statement that any political party can easily drag its supporters(FULAS)to the decaying slpp is a wetdream, buddy.
Subject: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: Independent contributor
To: All
Date Posted: 13:39:36 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-117-111.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.117.111
Message:
Dr Blyden, the brain behind journalism in Sierra Leone.
You are a darling to the nation. The lady who men are struggling to compete wtih. Well educated, honest and practices first class journalism. We need more journalists like Dr Blyden.
As a top female journalist you have proved to the world that there is nothing a man can do that a woman cannot. You are bound to face pesonal attack as a result of jealousy. What has your personal life got to do with journalism and why the constant reference to your personal life? This is just one of their tactics in silencing you. Unfortunately for them, you are such a strong lady who could not be silenced or defeated.
The work you do and produced demonstates clearly that you are one of the top journalists in Sierra Leone. It is only right for your work to be recognised with the view to recommending you for an award.
You are untouchable. What God has blessed no man can touch. You are a blessed child. The people love you and they would like you to continue publishing your articles objectively. You should know by now that all those who pass negative comments about you are doing so out of jealousy.
My friends and family will stay tuned.
LONG LIVE DR BLYDEN
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 18:18:40 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
Well could you tell me why Sylvias mom was locked up by your government?
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 14:24:31 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Independent Contributor, What's up with all the praises for my ultimate crush, Sylvia? I challenge you to a duel for the love of my most fair Lady Sylvia. Why, she is the best-est, fairest, smartest, most god-awesome journalist in the whole wide world. Plus, she has this unique talent of changing white to black and turning red to green. Even when she hallucinates in her ramblings-for-Berewa, you can just see her beautiful baldness shine through those traffic-stopping wigs. And when she tells those sweet, little malicious untruths, ooooo....she's smoking hot!
So back off, Independent contributor, the lady is spoken for.
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: independent contributor
To: All
Date Posted: 14:43:12 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-118-86.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.118.86
Message:
I respect your views but my opinion of Dr Blyden stands.
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 14:52:10 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Granted..
And mine the same..
Not here to defend anyone.. Dont even know who she is..
Just the obvious that if she is not a journalists as claimed.
Is the good reverend..?
Or is this playground bullying cyber style..?
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 14:42:23 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
To each his own..
You try dey..
Just pointing out the one sidedness of the discuss around here..
I reminds me of growing up..
If we borku.. en get plenty battow man dem...
We where not afriad to take on anyone..
I see the same here.. this site is filled with Pro APCness..and no voice of reasoning..in the discuss or exchange..
In short.. Degeneration..
So.. if we are dicussion Journalists (or pseudo's) on this thread..
Why not them all..
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 15:17:14 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Respect, my brother, respect. I however disagree with your rather simplistic assertion that this forum is filled with "Pro APCness". I look at this forum more as a clash of ideas and ideologies. There are so many stout and boisterous SLPP polemists on this forum that you can't take a partisan pot shot at Berewa without getting slapped hard.
Every thread has equal numbers of APC and SLPP brawlers. Please don't insult SLPP contributors like Alieu Sesay, Chez, Sylvester Johnny, Alpha Saidu and many other worthy albeit misguided pro-Berewa polemists.
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 15:22:35 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
"I however disagree with your rather simplistic assertion that this forum is filled with "Pro APCness"
Glass half filled.. can still be classified as an unfilled glass?
Might be plenty pro SLPP.. PMDC.. APC..
Majority of the discuss.. and leaning is Anti SLPP..
Hence my assertion.
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: Orkaibah
To: All
Date Posted: 14:05:57 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
By whose standards? It is because of people like you Salone will always be static in all fronts.If you think Sylvia Worworliwoh is a top journalist may the Lord have mercy on you.You have removed all doubts that your taste in writing leaves much to be desired.
Seems you can't see beyond bootlicking Worworliwoh.Don't you think having your tongue on the soles of her shoes 24/7 is the most horrible thing to do?
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 14:12:50 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Ok Ok OK ....
Possibly she is a bit bais..
leans to one side..
But would it not be hypocritical to single her out for this crime.. (if its a crime to lean to one side of the spectrum than the other)?
Here we are...in the bossom of Cocorioko.
APC grade A propaganda...and we are discussing the looks of Dr Blyden..
I think this is derailing the central argument.
Does owning a media house make you are journalist?
Does the good reverend qualify?
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL Yellow JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 13:57:39 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 130-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.130
Message:
Sylvia journalism, in short, is biased opinion masquerading as objective fact. Unfact her type of yellow journalism involved sensationalism, distorted stories, and misleading images for the sole purpose of boot-licking the corrupt SLPP and pleased her mates.
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: Choosy
To: All
Date Posted: 13:55:11 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
"You are untouchable. "
Tha's because no man worth the name would touch a woman so ugly in face, figure and behaviour as Silvia Blieden.
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: journo
To: All
Date Posted: 13:45:40 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
where did she study journalism? or who taught her on-the-job journalism? bo lef.
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: Foo Foo Eater
To: All
Date Posted: 15:05:57 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
I know where!
Foday Sankoh High school in gbokoleken. She graduated with straight As. She later went to Fourah Bay College and study medicine but did not like it very much because she did not pass her Medical Board in the U.S. She was then invited by the principle Dr Foday Sankon, the Bush general to write on their behalf. There you have it. If you have any more questions please do not hesitate to ask.
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 15:14:49 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
This person is trying to provoke a situation for our forum to be flooded with porn . Can we really avoid commenting on these scurrilous posts ?
Subject: Re: DARLING OF ALL JOURNALISTS- DR BLYDEN
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 15:17:49 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Reverend Kanu..
Did you study journalism?
Honest question.
Subject: SLPP website calls for fighting and war
From: Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 13:26:55 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 130-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.130
Message:
This staement below should be used at any International criminal court to prosecute Kabbah and Berewa if fighting erupts after the run-off when Ernest Koroma will be crowbed leader.
The SLPP also accused the APC and "so-called independent newspapers" of blaming it for starting violence. The APC, the statement said, "should... not be given the impression that any one of the candidates will be the next President irrespective of the outcome of the result. We all must, as a matter of duty, stop those who are threatening the state with brutal and murderous war and genocide."
Subject: Re: SLPP website calls for fighting and war
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 13:53:40 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
My problem with some of these SLPP zealots is that they have conjured up a doomsday scenario should the APC win. This ridiculous logic that it is democracy if SLPP wins and dictatorship and genocide if APC wins is totally wacky.You can't have your Mampama and drink it!
The SLPP is playing a highly irresponsible game with the threats of a state of emergency, the hired guns to stoke political violence and other shenanigans. Pa Berewa, it is not wise to play with matches if you have hoarded petrol in your house.
Subject: The world is watching Kabbah!!!
From: Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 13:20:18 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 130-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.130
Message:
Johannesburg-based International Security Studies researcher, Issaka Souare, says President Kabbah's announcement that a state of emergency could be called is worrisome.
"He has threatened to bring in emergency legislation. That might not be the best solution because the campaigning is going on and if you have emergency legislation people are not going to be able to go out and campaign," said Souare.
Subject: Even the world knows SLPP wants to be dirty
From: Culled from the BBC
To: All
Date Posted: 13:04:17 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Our reporter says suspicions of foul play are inevitable given the closeness of the elections and those who believe the APC candidate is a shoe in for the presidency are suspicious that the governing party would not be willing to give up power.
President Kabbah's speech and threat to declare a state of emergency has increased some people's suspicion, he adds.
Subject: I would recommend reading the Blogs at AWOKO
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:41 08/28/07 ()
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I would recommend reading the blogs on Awako's website. Click on the features link. You would find the blogs of Mike Carter a US intern who spent two month with the paper.
Subject: State Of Emergency: Mondeh to come into Play!!
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 12:16:15 08/28/07 ()
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I will bet anyone on this site the dastardly Brig. Mondeh will take charge in the state of emergency. He was recently promoted for this purpose. However It would go one of two ways. Either the rest of the senior officers stand by and let him carry on. Or he would be intercepted in the process as officers themselves have their families out there in the public.
This will be the crux of the matter. I think history will repeat its self.IN '67 LASANA INSTIGATED THE COUP BUT IT WAS SNATCHED FROM HIM BECAUSE OF THE SAME SLPP INFLUENCE.
MARK MY WORDs!!
Subject: Re: State Of Emergency: Mondeh to come into Play!!
From: JAGAT PAL
To: All
Date Posted: 12:42:57 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: jagbondal@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: host86-144-13-80.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.13.80
Message:
Basco,or what ever your name is ,you are not doing justice to this forum with your negative contributions.You always talk about tribe and violence which is not good .It now comes to my mind that you want to seek asylum.
Subject: Re: State Of Emergency: Mondeh to come into Play!!
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 12:59:56 08/28/07 ()
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Very amusing! I am very serious with the above. You must be a light weight if you do not see the writing on the wall. I will go as far as to stake my reputation on what I have writting. If a state of emergency is declared in Sierra Leone, Brigadier Mondeh will be the star of the show. Mark my words! I normally joke around with Alieu and syl but this time I am deadly serious. The SLPP find themselves in a tight corner.From now on they will come uot fighting?
Subject: Re: State Of Emergency: Mondeh to come into Play!!
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:18:27 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
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The slpp is the one playing the tribal card,despites its failures still formulating tricks to stay on rather than relinguishing power to those who deserve it.
Subject: Re: State Of Emergency: Mondeh to come into Play!!
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 13:15:18 08/28/07 ()
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I see You are trying to put an innocent man in a tight spot..
By dessimating information like this before the facts..
Mr Mondehs.. Life.. and liberty is been jeopardised by your callous writings..
And if it was you.. or your relative my mondeh does this to...?
The golden rule..it seems has gone out the window..with the accendancy of party politics.
Do unto others.. ?
Subject: Re: State Of Emergency: Mondeh to come into Play!!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 13:27:38 08/28/07 ()
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Lets wait and see! The cards are in Kabba's hands.
Subject: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Sylvester Johnny
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Date Posted: 11:56:39 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: at 66.134.73.219
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Go see for yourself. What a difference
http://www.thenewpeople.com/
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:59:43 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
KUDOS to you guys for an excellent site...
Those of us who know what web design is, know a good design when we see one....
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: SellPeople
To: All
Date Posted: 13:06:28 08/28/07 ()
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What good is web design when the content is rotten?
You SLPPers never will leave your tribalism behind.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 12:22:26 08/28/07 ()
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Alieu, a business man never criticize his own product. You know this is a cheap advertisement. Tell your guys to design that site in a professional way period. If it meet professional standard I am the first to praise it. Remember, at one time I criticized cocorioko because of the inconsitency of the pages when ever they update the site. If what you said about the site is true, it is an alternative to cocorioko right? Well, if your answer is yes, then you've lost the battle in the first round. Go back and redesign your site. You have a long way to go. Don't get me wrong even cocorioko has not yet met the requirement of a professional site but better than yours. So think about it. Except you want to repeat history again. When the SLPP came to power, they claimed to be the alternative to APC, but they end up doing worst than the APC. This is why you see them struggling today to retain power because they refused to accept that they need to change. Their strategies are not working. This is what Sylvester and the others are doing right now for the site.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 12:12:58 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
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Isnt that the fact...
Class 3 pikin sef nah mexico..
Can do a better job than Cocorioko.
This is the baddest designest site i have ever seen online.
From fonts.. to layout..to style sheet..
to HTML..
Kabs kanu comes last.................
Independent Observer
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Orkaibah
To: All
Date Posted: 12:41:45 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
Then SILLY-WILLY what the hell are doing in a poorly-designed site? Please don't make yourself an academic ass by assuming you can't decipher a bad product.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 12:50:33 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Oh god help us..Orkaibah
When stupid.. inconsiderate..nonsense people like you have a say.. we are doomed.
Piece of hog snort..
So for the gray matter you tote on your big head you call a drain (It would not be classed a brain).
There can exists any gray areas..
Its either black.. or white?
No one can comment on the BADDDDDDDDDDDD design of the site without reading..?
Ah sorry for you.
No wonder your wife left you. STUPID.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 12:53:54 08/28/07 ()
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So is that your website going to do? To silent people you perceived stupid? We are doomed if that is your intention, but thank God you are going to fail.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 13:04:32 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
You wan Join?
Bote tactics..?
The idiot came out with a jab.. i gave him a upper cut.
Now you wan fet for you cousin?
Well Step up mother....ker.
Why would i fail..if i independently observed that Cocorioko is the worse salone news site.......by design..?
Tell me nor.. cerebllum deficient..
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 13:14:05 08/28/07 ()
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It shows how little your brain is. Goodbye.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 13:24:56 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
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Thats all you got..?
I bet my brain is small..
Its not swell with grandiose delusions and delirium ...
Its a lean mean calculating and processing machine.
And yours..?
Betteh wey you run go under you sister in skirt..
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:36:16 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Why are you so rude?so-called independent.Cant you discuss issues without insults as a normal and civilized creature?
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Joker
To: All
Date Posted: 13:52:47 08/28/07 ()
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Musa, the rude Mende tribalist joker is rude becos he grew up without his father who only visited his mother at night when her husband was sleeping.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 14:06:50 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
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An if i was not Mende, or not even from Sierra Leone, but lived there and went to school because my dad was posted there?
Does that make your father sleeping with his sister ok..
Now i know why you where born with 3 toes.. en cross yeye..
One of the reasons cross breeding conduct is banned. Me think your family is case in point..
You should be in a jar.. at some university..
Listen fella's..i give as much as you all can dish..
I am no Jehovahs witness.. If you want to be civil i will..
If you jab...i will hook.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Joker
To: All
Date Posted: 17:11:46 08/28/07 ()
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Like I said, you are rude becos you had no father to teach how to behave. Your rudeness continues to this day.
Go on, display it. We expect it. As christians, we expect people like you to dirty our surroundings until your punishment hour arrives, when it would too late for you to repent.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 08:35:01 08/29/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
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If you would be described as a christian..
Then i am the Oba femi of sokoto..
Why start something you cannot continue..
Your hour of reconing, same as mine.. will end up with worms.. and fly maggot.. same as all organic beings..
Repentance or not..
Religion is so for small minded people...
Tell me.. why should Bishop Ganda drink in a gold cup and have servants.. and not i?
Because he is ordained..?
Am i not a child of god..?
Bo lef me with you littleness..
""As christians""..What a sacrilege..
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Joker
To: All
Date Posted: 11:06:31 08/29/07 ()
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"If you would be described as a christian..
Then i am the Oba femi of sokoto.. "
Which just goes to show what we already know -- that you will never understand anything you read.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 14:06:22 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
test ban
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 13:39:15 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
I take you back to
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/41600.html
Thats where it started..
I said the site is the worse in design of all salone online papers..
slugs.. and termites came out of the woodwork.. for me stating a bold face fact.
So i fight fire with fire..
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 14:11:03 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
I was following the discussion,your rhetoric was not in the framework of a normal exchange of ideas.Guys,we should worry and discuss issues of the state.A few greedy and evil men have hijacked our sweet and rich country.If we do nothing,these guys will make me and you to be persons of no land and our people back home will remain under subjection and misery.I hope you guys are tired of patrolling and residing in a foreign land,where your presence is not regarded.For the interest of our people,please let us discuss issues and withold from personal attacks
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 14:19:24 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Ah...Mr Kamara
A man of my kind..
Party affiliates.. hegemones and tribalists..has always been..and will always be the bane of our young society.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 14:26:05 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
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That should not be the case-Mr Independent,else we will remain static and retrogressive.We should grow above such an akward ideology.Thaimu Bangura and Charles Margai paved the way.Sierra-Leone belongs to all tribes.This is the time to endorse politicians who are for development and not on tribval grounds as you are preaching.Are you happy with the present status of the nation?
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 14:37:14 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Now now..
Lets not retrogress as you said in this 2 minutes old conversation..
I did not indicate any tribal preaching..
Please ppoint out..source for this unreasonable comment..
"This is the time to endorse politicians who are for development and not on tribval grounds as you are preaching"
As for this question..
"Are you happy with the present status of the nation?"
Not happy.. but doubt if APC has the answers to the growing owes of our society.
I doubt if they can fullfill any of the promises they have made about abundant electricity and clean drinking water and good roads.
So for me.. same ole same ole..
Change peter for paul..is not solving our issues..
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 14:46:05 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Independent,I assume you are a man of high calibra.Berewa was in a government that drained the state to total deficiency over ten years.Hon Earnest Bai Koroma is a new and viable man without a political stain.Who will you give a chance to lead the nation?I hope you will be genuine in yourself and your country.No tribal or regional sentiments.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 15:15:17 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
State was NOT drained when berewa got there..
It was at 0. Its was Sumaliased..
Talk rational man....
Berewah .. did not cause the ills of salone..
Albeit. he did not make maximum efforts to fix every broken piece.. but these guys at IMF reporting gains.. qualifying for dept forgiveness.. Growth of 7%. Stable currency..foreing reserves increase..Export increase..
Is what i look at and render my support...
Those gains do not come lightly...
As an economist.. i would know..
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Blama
To: All
Date Posted: 17:16:33 08/28/07 ()
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"As an economist.. i would know.. "
You would -- if you knew the meaning of the word economist, which you don't, obviously.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 08:39:22 08/29/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Blama...
And thats all you have as input for this lovely thread..?
What a shame..?
Its either you agree.. or you counter..
Which one..?
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:43:15 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
You are wrong,it is under kabba and berewa we are classified to be the poorest on earth.Be honest and that is the only way forward for our nation.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 16:03:31 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
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I doubt if that is true and like you asked.. I am been honest..
But even it it was.. Its the compounding effect and reachedcritical around the time Kabbah took over office..
But that has been mitigated and is on the reverse.. 1 rung of the ladder at a time..
And i think that is about to be unravelled..
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:07:45 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
How long does it take to give electricity and water supply to your people 11 years?10000years?let alone food
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 16:15:09 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Well giving people people electricity who in turn fails to pay for it..
I would say...Never..
In Sierra Leone..The issue is not production..
As can be seen around christmas time and i hear election time..
The electricity can be produced..
Last time i was there.. there was light from wellington to goderich.. hills to sea.
But its not sustained because.. when that utility (NPA) spends 250 thousand dollars in just fuel to run those generators..
They do not collect 150 thousand dollars back.
Have to wait for another cycle of governement subsidies.. And that only happens close to holidays.. or when the governement want man dem for gladi..
But the problem is not production to answer you question..
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:30:48 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
This is just to demonstrate how lame and incompetent those bunch of your evil slpp are.I need not to continue this discussion,since you are in support of no electricity and water supply to the people,because your slpp clan was unable to come up with policies to meet the needs of the people.We still have a lot of Sierra-Leoneans out there who have got the country at heart.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 21:05:45 08/28/07 ()
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Message:
I guess you just want to discuss this with yourself.
You asked a question, i responded..
And i got called evil slpp names..
This has nothing to do with SLPP..
Its simple economics.
The salone economy as it is.. without marginal private sector growth cannot support an APC/SLPP or any other party's economic agenda.
If bra Earnest tells you otherwise and you ate it..
Well faceeeeeeee. E lef pan you.
When governement is the primary employer in any country. Services and economic elevation suffers.
That is as basic an economic principle as newton's law is physics.
The average Sierra Leonean wants services and goods they cannot afford to pay for. And dont consider how these services are produced.
Is electricity generation free?
Is water purification free?
Ants, bees and termites are much more civic in thier short life span than an average Sierra Leonean will be his whole life, if he even lives past the median age of 45.
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: DUMB
To: All
Date Posted: 11:31:54 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"The salone economy as it is.. without marginal private sector growth cannot support an APC/SLPP or any other party's economic agenda."
Do you EVER understand ANY of the words you use?
Subject: Re: Breath of fresh air in online journalism
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 12:05:00 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Try me..
Or come up with a rebutal.
Instead of a one liner..
Maybe the word "marginal" confused you?
Subject: DON'T CRY FOR ME SIERRA LEONE
From: SUBWANALAI
To: All
Date Posted: 11:50:57 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 194.32.41.72
Message:
Some of us are shocked, but not suprised by Tejan Kabbah's threat to announce a state of emergency. This is the hallmark of desperados, who won't give up power without having a kick on the backside. Yet, this is a clear indication that Kabbah cares less about Sierra Leoneans. You can kill scores of Sierra Leoneans, and he won't budge. You can brutalise the poor people and he won't raise a voice. He would only flex his muscles if your action directly affects him.
Today, he is putting the interest of his concubine, Isata Jabbie (I-Jay)above that of thousands of Sierra Leoneans who have sacrificed their lives for the democratic atmosphere he currently enjoys. How else could he convince the electorates that his contemplation of a state of emergency is justified. The picture is clear. I-Jay, like any other Sierra Leonean is involved in a quarrel, the next thing we hear is a wanning president thinking aloud. But we have seen this before. Don't cross Kabbah's path where power is concerned. In 1997, he did not think twice about giving Victor Mallu the go ahead to use the sledge hammer, regardless of the casualties, as long as he was reinstated. Now, he owes it to his handpicked candidate and the likes of I-Jay to do whatever is in his power, to prevent the opposition from taking over.
This time round, you would be stoutly rebuffed, Sur!
Subject: Re: DON'T CRY FOR ME SIERRA LEONE
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 12:58:38 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
That man,by the name of kabba is a .......I will restrain not to use a harsh or severe adjective.I need not to tarnish my morals or dignity for such a failure,but the clock is ticking.He has insulted the people of Sierra-Leone many a times with his greedy slpp devils.The nation this time around will be saved by the Almighty-God.
Subject: Re: DON'T CRY FOR ME SIERRA LEONE
From: NAR U SABI
To: All
Date Posted: 12:03:58 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host217-44-229-9.range217-44.btcentralplus.com at 217.44.229.9
Message:
NAR USABI
Subject: Re: DON'T CRY FOR ME SIERRA LEONE
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 12:05:59 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
U Go Sabi!! Wait till Sept 8. You Coco go roose!
Subject: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 11:38:25 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
The alliance of the SLPPers in this forum is cracking down. Alieu sesay is not so much comfortable with the rhetoric of Sylvester (liar) Johnny, false(waste) prophet and a bunch of others, especially their tribal fanaticisms. The problem is, even though Alieu lean more on the SLPP, but the fact remains according to him he is half mende and half temne. This put him in an awkward position. If you could remember before and during the election, Alieu postings were so pro-mende that every forumites took notice of his desperation. Compared to now, he has soften his stance because the other guys in the alliance are insulting his mother's tribe too much. Good job Alieu and I am again inviting you since we are all in the same situation to remedy an alternative to soften the fundamentalism of our mende brothers.
Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 12:43:14 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
Political,Basco,this fellow Alieu is more of Mende than a kid with dual make up sighting back his postings.I have to quest his alleged Temne kindred.Please get me correct if I am wrong.
Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 12:55:32 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
Well, I was quoting his own words. He claims to have family linkage to the temnes.
Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:04:14 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Message:
No need to trust Alieu,infact masking himself under numerous identities on this forum,can buttress my doubt about his tribal roots.
Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 13:01:13 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
The right Rev can attest to that.. He has had a very frank discussion with an associate...And now knows exactly who i am...
For MUSA/AL-MUSA, i am what i am....
I will not stand idly by and allow Temnes attack mendes, just like will not tolerate any unwarranted attack on Temne people..
I am a sierra leonean...
Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:11:58 08/28/07 ()
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Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
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You have always sided the Mendes despite their wrong doings.You are not objective and you have the traits of a corrupt person-Pa-Alieu.Your foolish support for Berewa is purely on Mendeism.If Berewa was a limba,would you have supported him?
Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 13:22:05 08/28/07 ()
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I supported KABBA... I do not care what tribe you are, as long as you are not APC... I will support you..
My support for BEREWA has nothing to do with tribal affiliation...
I am a sierra leonean and that's what is important to me...
Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 13:32:46 08/28/07 ()
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The failure Kabba is half-Mende and that alone have given you the go ahead.Give me one reason for supporting Berewa.Please dont mention his tribe,that is clear.I know you can even support a dog as long as he carries the slpp tag.Why should you hate your country pa -Alieu?You are not hurting Hon.Earnest Bai Koroma,Hon Charles Francis Margai,APC or PMDC,you are just a blind tribalist with narrow and shallow mental horizon.Do you know that,it was the north that enhanced the Presidency of Kabba after the first round in 1996,thinking that he will improve the lives of the people
Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: BASCO
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Date Posted: 13:44:28 08/28/07 ()
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Bra, they are both blind and ungrateful.
Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 11:47:57 08/28/07 ()
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E sweety for Alieu. SLPP elders will look down on him and call him a half tribe/caste. Pa Kabba has suffered this all his tenure. Ditto to MOmodu. I am not sure if Alieu went to Bo school. If he did not he is an outsider to the party!!!
Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 12:02:33 08/28/07 ()
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Good question. Alieu, answer the question. Did you attend Bo school? And if not how about the argument that you are an out sider due to your dual tribes? Sorry man, I suffered the same thing from these guys. You know they've called me all sort of names and even forgone me because I have dual tribe on my label. These guys are fanatics. Anything that is not purely mendeism is called KWAMUI. You know as well as I know that this is the most discriminative words used by these fanatics. Stop a minute and think about this. We are the liberators of this tribe. They are lapsing far behind other tribes. Let's wake up and save this tribe. God do everything for a reason. We are the hope of the tribe to bring it back to the modern world.
Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 11:57:56 08/28/07 ()
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I am an OBBA dude... my number starts 49--.. I was in Bo school when we had Joseph Battie, Joseph Koroma, Gilbert Nabay as SP..But that is not the case.. I am an SLPP true and true.. And have never had an unfair treatment in the Party because of my Tribal Composition...
Now!same can not be said of the APC....
Ask them..
Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 12:10:29 08/28/07 ()
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I was born during the APC and if I can remember most of our people in the south/east attained to higher positions during that time. They were all APC ministers and members of parliament. Some even killed for the APC. You know that. By the time I finish my school and involved in the main stream politics, I realized that it is not the party that is the problem, but the people in the party. The samething with the SLPP today. SLPP is a fine party, but the fanatics who have turned this universal(national) political party into a wundey society that has destroyed it.
Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY'S TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES
From: Bacso
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Date Posted: 12:03:33 08/28/07 ()
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Then Alieu what say you of the insults traded against the Themnes by the SLPP? I hear you are half Mende? But the Bo school clannishness is there. It follows what we have been saying on this website for you not to see the backwardness in the country you have the be Mende and have had to go to Bo School. You fulfill 80% of the allegation.
Subject: SLPP now reverts to 'LOK GRUN'
From: Basco
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Date Posted: 11:23:09 08/28/07 ()
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Pa Berwa has shaken the cup of dices and has ordered the famous Malian Marabout Ishmel LIEOH to predict his upcomming landslide run-off! My sources tell me bag was passed around the diaspora for the gentlemans fee. Those that contributed are Chez, False Rass, Alieu Sesay,Sister Truth/Lie, Sylvester, Missing in action Cadmus,Sengbe,Ok Doc, Self appointed Alpha Saidu, and a lot of other Greeners.
Berewa say Ismeal Lieoh will erect a green flag on top of FBC and whilst it is blowing the anti-SLPP factions will be divided.
It is said Ismael Lieoh had a big smile as he entered the VP lodge. He has just been released from a Liberian jail for money doubling!!
Subject: Forging National Essence
From: Weasel
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Date Posted: 11:05:08 08/28/07 ()
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Why do you have the name Sesay? It's most likely because of your affiliation with the Mande clan, Sesay. You are a Mende by 'tribe' right? yet you are of a Mande clan, as do Themnes, Limbas, Sherbros, or other Sierra Leoneans who may or may not be Mende by 'tribe' yet have the name Sesay. By some conincidence, it happens that the French-Ivorian football Gibril Cisse (spelling variation of the same name)also belongs to the same Mande clan group as you do, yet he is not a Sierra Leonean. Almost all persons from northern 'tribes' in Sierra Leone belong to a Mande clan as identified in their name.It's really amazing how the majority of Sierra Leoneans share Mande clan names despite belong to different 'tribes', isn't, names shared with the majority of nationals from Mali, Guinea, Gambia, Bissau and large portions of Burkina Faso, Liberia, Senegal and Ivory Coast?
Yet this bond of kinship that transcends our 'tribes' that we insist we identify ourselves as, has rarely ever been used as a unifying factor. It's partly due to ignorance, yet awareness of ethno-cultural homogenity in western West Africa is latent. It's a paradoxical state in which people know about it, yet don't know about it, if you know what I mean. When evidence is presented to them as I do so now, they'll admit to it and find it very hard to admit.
What I've just written should be used as a means by which Sierra Leoneans can foster national unity. We are kinspeople as evidenced by the MANDE in us. Beyond the rational statement of the need to get along because it's a better alternative to chaos, this common ethno-cultural state provides an essence and arguably THE ESSENCE of forging our nationhood. It's time our politicians talk about it, so that it no longer remains latent in our conciousness, but vibrant. Along with it, it will be essentail for the teaching of indegenous langauges beyond one's first language from primary school. For example, people in Pujehun learn how to speak Temne and or Limba from primary school, and people in Bombali do vice versa.
Subject: Re: Forging National Essence
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 11:25:17 08/28/07 ()
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The above piece is brilliant, yet you sound like my dear friend Connie-man. If you are not, then my bad..
Others have preached(Religiously) on this forum, on so many occasions, against tribalism. But the fact remains that there are those who will always use tribal sentiments to fire-up GBOS GBOS..That includes a lot of the APC FORUMITES
About your suggestion that indigenous languages be taught, is already happening in schools all over salone...That is part of the 6334 school system.
By the way my name is very important to me.. Do not use it as a HEADLINE...
Subject: The indegenous languages are not taught in the curricula fro
From: Weasel
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Date Posted: 12:38:55 08/28/07 ()
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The indegenous languages are not taught in the curricula from primary level, and at the secondary level where they are taughten, they are very optional. So many people choose Krio, or otherwise only their first languages. This should change. From Class 1, there should be instruction in indegenous languages, and I do not mean just Krio (debateable if it is indegenous or not). And persons should also be taught in languages that are not their first language and not the official language and not Krio. That is to say, in Bombali, it should be compulsory to learn Sherbro or Mende etc, or in Kenema to learn Temne or Susu etc.
Subject: Re: Forging National Essence
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 11:28:09 08/28/07 ()
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Alieu, you are one of the most funny(comedian) in this forum. What is gbos-gboss again?
Subject: Re: Forging National Essence
From: Special Cut
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Date Posted: 11:38:33 08/28/07 ()
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Gbos gbos, dombolo, case wam, hala hala, kulala, kombolo are all synonyms
Subject: Re: Forging National Essence
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 12:00:30 08/28/07 ()
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Nor men Political.. ar know watin e dae bring up...
Subject: Alieu Sesay why the name?
From: Weasel
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Date Posted: 10:50:26 08/28/07 ()
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Why do you have the name Sesay? It's most likely because of your affiliation with the Mande clan, Sesay. You are a Mende by 'tribe' right? yet you are of a Mande clan, as do Themnes, Limbas, Sherbros, or other Sierra Leoneans who may or may not be Mende by 'tribe' yet have the name Sesay. By some conincidence, it happens that the French-Ivorian football Gibril Cisse (spelling variation of the same name)also belongs to the same Mande clan group as you do, yet he is not a Sierra Leonean. Almost all persons from northern 'tribes' in Sierra Leone belong to a Mande clan as identified in their name.It's really amazing how the majority of Sierra Leoneans share Mande clan names despite belong to different 'tribes', isn't, names shared with the majority of nationals from Mali, Guinea, Gambia, Bissau and large portions of Burkina Faso, Liberia, Senegal and Ivory Coast?
Yet this bond of kinship that transcends our 'tribes' that we insist we identify ourselves as, has rarely ever been used as a unifying factor. It's partly due to ignorance, yet awareness of ethno-cultural homogenity in western West Africa is latent. It's a paradoxical state in which people know about it, yet don't know about it, if you know what I mean. When evidence is presented to them as I do so now, they'll admit to it and find it very hard to admit.
What I've just written should be used as a means by which Sierra Leoneans can foster national unity. We are kinspeople as evidenced by the MANDE in us. Beyond the rational statement of the need to get along because it's a better alternative to chaos, this common ethno-cultural state provides an essence and arguably THE ESSENCE of forging our nationhood. It's time our politicians talk about it, so that it no longer remains latent in our conciousness, but vibrant. Along with it, it will be essentail for the teaching of indegenous langauges beyond one's first language from primary school. For example, people in Pujehun learn how to speak Temne and or Limba from primary school, and people in Bombali do vice versa.
Subject: Warning against a State of Emergency
From: Special Cut
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Date Posted: 09:45:00 08/28/07 ()
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Some of us had predicted that the SLPP will try to stir a situation that will justify a State of Emergency and eventually an indefinite postponement of the run off. This they feel, will enable SLPP to buy time, go back to the drawing board and restructure its game plan. The SLPP has no more time outs left and we are right at the one yard line come september 8.The worse Kabba/NEC can do is to ban all campaigning.This being one of the solutions against violence will be disadvantageous to the SLPP which unlike the APC has a lot of ground to cover before september 8. Kabba knows it.
Subject: Re: Warning against a State of Emergency
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 10:19:20 08/28/07 ()
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Thank you Special Cut for shining a light on the shenanigans of the KabbahBerewa mafia. This talk of a state of emergecy is nothing more than a trial balloon floated by the Great Incompetency to test public opinion. Sierra Leoneans should shoot it down decisively. Berewa still does not grasp the total disgust and contempt the people have for him. No state of emergency, thugs, hired assassins or organized chaos will save Berewa's hide. Right now, Berewa can't even get himself elected dog-catcher in Bumpeh. My advice to Berewa? Get on with the runoffs, concede now or get the hell out of the way!
Subject: Re: Warning against a State of Emergency
From: Weasel
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Date Posted: 10:10:00 08/28/07 ()
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Yes, everyside predicted victories in the first round of the election, yet, that did not happen. The same ilk of so many Sierra Leoneans whatever their persuasions: The opposition are demons and we are angels...our record is clean, theirs is tarnished.
But in fact they are equally culpable.
Subject: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: Fan
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Date Posted: 08:22:17 08/28/07 ()
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Posted by alieu Ceesay on August 27, 2007 at 15:34:25:
In Reply to: Re: SLPP THUGS AGAIN posted by STUPID DUMBO on August 27, 2007 at 15:09:35:
Seld-admiited STUPID DUMBO alieu sesay aka False Prophet, listen up:
When the British say your SLPP leaders are corrupt, you say they are biased against your corrupt govt. Now, wonder upon wonders, suddenly the British media are your authhority on the truth! Are we to conclude that you are corrupt becos the British say you are?
Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 08:49:50 08/28/07 ()
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Don't mind the false prophet.
Corrupt government is corrupt and by law should have been investigated by Henry Joko-Smart and his ACC.
There is an SLPP fear that they will be investigated by the APC, and although they intend to plead "not guilty", false prophet knows that without mercy, they will burn in hell.
First act: The SLPP should disarm their thugs and militias. Having done that, they are then in a position to talk about reciprocity, since they have the army and police to back them up, just in case things really get out of hand.
Present problem is if the state of emergency is declared - and this was foreseeable before round one, will round 2 of September take place at all or only in certain places.
State of emergency is not the atmosphere in which free and fair elections can be conducted.
Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: Ha ha ha
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Date Posted: 09:02:55 08/28/07 ()
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Bra Cornie, false prophet is not the unthinking man's name. It only describes his rabid rants. His real name rhymes with joker. That truly describes him both in name and in action. Hahahahahahahah
Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: NO ANSWER
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Date Posted: 08:46:45 08/28/07 ()
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The British Media is not the British Government.. fool man..
Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: DUMBER THAN A SLPPer (SOOS)
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Date Posted: 08:59:01 08/28/07 ()
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You are displaying your chronic failing -- you never understand anything you read.
Here, Dumb Man, take this to a Good Samaritan for translation into Mende in the slim hope you will finally understand it:
When the news report of the British govt.'s DFID's disgust with SLPP corruption was posted here a few months ago, your fellow SLPP apologist stated here that it was only the opinion of the journalist. You never objected to your fellow DUMB man's display of incomprehension.
Fast forward a few months and now you come here and cite a British newspaper report as speaking the truth about the new APC.
Had you been capable of understanding English, you would not have "understood" that the two references to the British media means that "The British Media is not the British Government"
Why are you SLPPers so dumb?
Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 09:35:06 08/28/07 ()
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Your last question is far too difficult for even choir boy Chez to answer, since to begin with he thinks that being what he sometimes is ( daft) is an obscenity.
The implausible SLPP good APC not good ALPHA SOKO SESAY writes in his usual one-sided, over-generalised SLPP-sycophantic manner for the so called “The New People” :
”It is now a known fact that when ever the APC wants to carry out an unholy act, they first attribute it to the SLPP. This is a diversion to enable them carry out their vicious acts. Some of the so-called independent newspapers have taken upon themselves to drum up the false alarm of SLPP intention to carry out violence during the Presidential run-off election in league with the APC. This is not an accident. It is part of the APC’s grand plan to prepare the ground for rendering the State ungovernable. To effect this they should be able to justify that is was the SLPP that started the violence. The APC has maintained that they will accept noting short of an announcement that the APC has won the election. ”
The bb-clatch.
It would be more plausible and more sensible( it would make sense) if he wrote thus:
”It is now a known fact that whenever the SLPP wants to carry out an unholy act, they first attribute it to the APC. This is a diversion to enable them carry out their vicious acts. Some of the so-called independent newspapers have taken upon themselves to drum up the false alarm of the APC’s intention to carry out violence during the Presidential run-off election. This is not an accident. It is part of the SLPP’s grand plan to prepare the ground for rendering the State ungovernable. To effect this they should be able to justify that is was the APC that started the violence. The SLPP knows that the APC has a majority in parliament and should be thus able to govern. This has made the SLPP very unhappy and they therefore dread the Day of Judgment that could announce, “Citizens of Sierra Leone, our next president is Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma!”
Their (SLPP) fear is based on their underdeveloped democratic instincts and an underdeveloped sense of justice. Those of us who live in more democratic parts of the world accept the people’s verdict even if Mr. Koroma were to win by a margin of 100 votes.
Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: DUMBER THAN A SLPPer (SOOS)
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Date Posted: 10:42:34 08/28/07 ()
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"”It is now a known fact that when ever the APC wants to carry out an unholy act, they first attribute it to the SLPP."
Cornie, only an SLPP apologist would mistake a lie for a fact. As many people have stated, these SLPP traitors not only don't understand what they are talking about, they also appear to be blind.
Subject: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 08:21:20 08/28/07 ()
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The New People is also the name of a monthly on-line Publication by the Thomas Merton Society. ( To me) this suggests that some of the CKCers and old Edwardians who we are to assume are the founders of the SLPP paper are under the influence of Thomas Merton’s ideals and will endeavour to abide by ideals of fairness in reporting and debating.
“As a publication of the Thomas Merton Center, the paper reports on the issues of war, poverty, racism and oppression, raising the moral questions involved in the non-violent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world.”
We may be hasty in judging the quality of the maiden issue, but later come to realise that such were the humble beginnings of an important organ of the SLPP – and in the absence of the presidential website which is down for the time being, along with the official SLPP website “the New People” is now assuming the role of voice of the SLPP people. This updated issue has many interesting news and views features and is therefore a contribution to the diversity of media sources that reflect the political spectrum that is Sierra Leone. We could also say, “that reflects the political ethnic and tribal spectrum” and would still be inclusive, wouldn’t we? Don’t leave anybody, not even the lunatics (from the moon) out.
If there is this fascination with tradition, and with the old SLPP (of Sir Milton) and of the idea of “continuity”, then we must be wondering, why they call themselves the “new” people. No doubt some of them are “born again” but I think that it’s part of normal Sierra Leonean consciousness to be aware of the old and the new. The old SLPP (corruption and unbridled nepotism under Sir Albert Margai) and the new SLPP (in which “corruption blooms like grass” and has been spreading like wildfire since the SLPP took office some eleven years ago. It is those eleven years that are under the microscope and the people of Sierra Leone have been examining their conscience as to whether the SLPP should continue with the same “Continuity” as Alhaji Kabbah and his crown prince the 69-year old Ekuma Berewa call it.
NEW? Even old Berewa would like to be NEW! Or should like to renew……
The people of Sierra Leone – at least in the parliamentary elections have decided that the NEW APC has an overwhelming majority of seats in the Sierra Leone parliament, and even in the unlikely event of Mr. Berewa winning the run-off, there will be no rubber-stamping of bills that he may introduce in parliament, for approval – and this includes the appointment of some dignitaries that he must have in mind, for appointment, should his dreams and prayers come true. At 69 years of age, most people – at least in Sweden, have gone into retirement, and some into deep sleep. In Sierra Leone of course – there is the deadliest/ highest child mortality in the world and the average lifespan for men being 37 and for women 39, Berewa and Kabbah are indeed living on extra time, even though they do not look forward to an early retirement in the grave.
I have looked through the latest edition of the SLPP paper:
http://www.thenewpeople.com/
You could also be encouraged to read through AND engage those spurious views and other contestable assertions of theirs. The ensuing public media debates and discussions are all an essential part of democracy. In yesterdays DN (Dagens Nyheter) morning newspaper, in the DEBATE section the Swedish minister of Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson had a page wide article on the new Swedish policy on development cooperation / partnership.
Here is the article:
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=572&a=685219
I was at the SIDA headquarters yesterday between 16.30 and 19.45…. and left the premises with a comely UNDP official who hopefully will be in West Africa soon….
The Social Democrats are unhappy about the downsizing of aid and the downsizing of the number of recipients/ partners/ co-operators:
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1042&a=685550
Also in today’s DN in the Political Section there are two pages of print, words, map and diagrams which SIDA spokespeople devoted to supporting the government’s new policy of development aid and co-operation: here is the on –line version :
: http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=147&a=685399
SLPP presidential running Hon. Alhaji Momodou Koroma, the able Foreign Minister and Minister of International co-operation must be quite pleased with the inclusion of Sierra Leone – since Sierra Leone has not had any bi-lateral ties with Sweden prior to now, and so we must congratulate him too.
One of the features of the new Swedish policy is that it will be more transparent and accountable; this means that money, materials, manpower and labour will not be frittered away without much to show for it. Sweden has very valuable experience and has been a major contributor to countries like Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, , Bolivia, Mali, Vietnam , China ( There are many Chinese students studying in Sweden ( of course in order to return home to contribute to the progress of their great country.
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/3102/a/57203;jsessionid=aJa_tymtf_j4
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:51:32 08/28/07 ()
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Cornie.. Stop calling someone in your age bracket old.
Leave that to us the young ones..
You Mr Man retired 10 yrs ago. So you are not a young man. You are probably older than BEREWA.
Do not give me the sermon about how you retired at the age of 30.. nar lie..
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 10:59:33 08/28/07 ()
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You noh get betteh ting for do pass for dae ambug me?
Colonel Qadhafi’s Sheikh Speare (Shakespeare) is not old. Me older than Charles Margai, who was born before me?
Senor Dr. Abdulai Conteh is also my bigger and older brother you know.
Physically emotionally and spiritually, it depends on how you live and your relations with your fellow man - and woman........
AS mentioned before, you Alieu Sesay who are afraid to say your real name would be afraid to talk to some of the people I shake hands with, let alone talk to the women who could get your piece of wood to go haywire, like a sea-say
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: Alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:26:58 08/28/07 ()
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Cornie if Mammy cornie see me sef e go FALL for me...
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 11:32:08 08/28/07 ()
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You could appear to " Mammy Cornie" in a dream.....
Just as Charles Margai appeared to me......I wrote about it in Leonenet........and you will soon see the rest of it ......
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 11:38:09 08/28/07 ()
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And from that time - a few years ago now, I know - in my heart and with certainty that Charles Margai is the most innocent of all Sierra Leone's politicians.........nothing to do with religion you know..... so the man is a good soul.
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: Registrar
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Date Posted: 09:06:56 08/28/07 ()
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You, Koker, are much older than Hamelberg. You wouldn't know that becos you never had a birth certificate at birth like Hamelberg did because he was born in a city.
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 11:29:19 08/28/07 ()
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Our feet are on earth.
Exactly. Some of these refined upline SLPP chappies like this one who is still confused and unsure about which name to use was probably born the same year as Berewa, in Bumpeh in the year of the Earth Tiger and share his characteristics. Beware……
I was born at fifteen minutes past noon on the 15th of Tammuz on a full moon day ---- the year will tell you that the Jewish calendar is the same one that Jesus used.
I do not make the year available for you astrological imprecations which may do more harm than good to you.
Talking about astrology (I am most familiar with the Hindu systems) I just got to thinking of some other African politicians who not satisfied with the locally available Juju, travelled to India in search of that elections good luck charm or in search of Lakshmi.
What do they know – truly know about Sarawasti?
108 poems would not do but more would be too much.
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 11:43:29 08/28/07 ()
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YOU ARE OLDER THAN BEREWA so quit calling him old PA..
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 13:16:59 08/28/07 ()
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And you who can’t even tell us what your name is but like to talk about others, you are a liar like the old man himself and there is no truth in you.
You probably belong to OBBA or you are on old CKC boy...and the old CKC "boys" are fond of talking about the old man (the devil) and the new people.
Never mind me (no grey hair yet)
The unexpurgated New American Bible records the following from John Chapter 8, verses 41-44:
41
You are doing the works of your father!" (So) they said to him, "We are not illegitimate. We have one Father, God."
42
Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and am here; I did not come on my own, but he sent me.
43
Why do you not understand what I am saying? Because you cannot bear to hear my word.
44
You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: alieu Ceesay
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Date Posted: 13:08:50 08/28/07 ()
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You are proving that you never understand anything you read. In short: A typical SLPPer (fool lek soos).
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 13:33:57 08/28/07 ()
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SHUT UP..Nobody mentioned your stinking BURN teeth in this discussion.. so go sidom sarful....
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: RBS Coker
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Date Posted: 13:59:46 08/28/07 ()
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"Son," please stop disgracing your family with your rudeness. I know you used to call me Burn teeth in front of your mother when you wanted me to be mad at her for going to your father behind my back.
It is that papa sweh that has caused you to become an alrki pekin among my real children.
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 09:32:10 08/28/07 ()
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Hope Koker kick your A-- for thinking i am him.. you are soo obsessed with Koker...Aye BRA you nor go BLOW.
You are making a fool of your self Jalloh...
Mek e nor be say you en Koker meet pan ooman en he had the upper hand oh..
Subject: Re: the SLPP New People paper and what it's worth
From: Adviser
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Date Posted: 10:23:42 08/28/07 ()
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Koker, stop talking to yourself, man of many false names. And stop bringing the names of people you don't know into your chronic display of never understanding what you read. Can't you read, also?
It's true what they say: You SLPPers are dumb.
Subject: Kabbah's Threat to A Impose State of Emergency: SLPP Plan B
From: Med Deen
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Date Posted: 07:43:08 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: meddeen250@hotmail.co.uk
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President Kabbah's latest threat to declare a "State of Emergency" is nothing but a mere strategy to aid the SLPP party in their desperate struggle to hold on to power. Imposing a "State of Emergency" will not only create more tension, but it will also create the perfect platform for trouble makers to take advantage of an already volatile situation.
Taking a closer look at the current political situation in Freetown, it is absolutely clear that majority of the residents in Freetown and the country at large no longer want the SLPP government in power.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that a "State of Emergecy" will give the current SLPP government the powers to postpone the run-off or even ban campaigning of all political parties. This will give an already desperate SLPP party the opportunity to regroup and come out with another strategy of winning the elections. Let us face reality, the chances of SLPP winning the run-off look increasingly slim.
Firstly, losing the first round to the APC was a major blow to the SLPP party. Secondly, the PMDC's decision to form an alliance with the APC appears to have have put the final nail in the SLPP's coffin. As a pary on the verge of drowning, the SLPP attempt to cling to the only straw available, which is to impose a "State of Emergency" and buy themselves more time.
My only concern is that the majority of Sierra Leoneans will not accept this desperate move and as we are all aware, not all Sierra Leoneans are peaceful. Some people will inevitably resort to violence which will not be good for a country that is still recovering from a decade of fighting.
I urge president Kabbah to do the decent thing by ensuring that the run-off passes without major incidents. Do not impose a "State of Emergency" as the violence has already started. A declaration of a "State of Emergency" will be more useful to the SLPP party and that will be unfair on the other parties. Deploying more police on the streets will be a wise move. God bless Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Kabbah's Threat to A Impose State of Emergency: SLPP Plan B
From: Emile
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Date Posted: 14:45:45 08/28/07 ()
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If Kabah declares a state of emergency.I implore Ernest Koroma to go ahead and set up a parallel Government and we would see on whose part the International Community is on.
He forgot that his Government is a beggar Govt.that cannot function without the International Community.
Kabbah,if you or your surrogates are reading this-go ahead and declare a state of emergency and see what happens.We the people of Sierra Leone are no longer sleeping.This is not 1996 or 2002.If you and your fellow SLPPers are sleeping,let me remind you that this is 2007.
WE YAI OPIN LEK MOUNTAIN FATFOOT.WE SAY NO TO VIOLENCE!NO TO RIGGING AND NO TO YOUR CORRUPT GOVERNMENT!
BEHAVIOR OH BEHAVIOR.
Subject: Re: Kabbah's Threat to A Impose State of Emergency: SLPP Plan B
From: Med Deen
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Date Posted: 19:22:47 08/29/07 ()
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@Emile. Looking at the issue of Kabbah imposing a "State of Emergency", I believe Kabbah is a worried man. Not only is he worried about his party being thrown out of power, but he is also worried about the future. What will happen to him and his cronies should the APC win the run-off? Remember that Kabbah has numerous enemies ranging from the relatives of those he executed to the numerous people sympathetic to the plight of Sam Hinga Norman. Kabbah is caught between a rock and a very hard place right now.
Subject: Re: Kabbah's Threat to A Impose State of Emergency: SLPP Plan B
From: Mammy Blessing
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Date Posted: 09:42:34 08/28/07 ()
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Med Deen,
Talk of a state of emergency is, as you correctly observed, a trick by the KabbahBerewa mafia to subvert the democratic will of the people. The SLPP knows it cannot win an election for dog catcher right now in Sa Lone and so they have come up with this stupid scheme. The country is not in a state of emergency. It is the decrepit SLPP that is in one!
Subject: Re: Kabbah's Threat to A Impose State of Emergency: SLPP Plan B
From: Med Deen
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Date Posted: 12:54:40 08/28/07 ()
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@Mammy Blessing. I'm worried that supporters of the other parties will not accept such a ridiculous attempt to prevent the APC from winning run-off. Kabbah should quietly find the exit door after his unsuccessful stay in power.
Subject: Avoid the Rwanda scenario now !1
From: Special Cut
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Date Posted: 07:33:42 08/28/07 ()
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Is it constitutional for Berewa to concede defeat and save the nation from sliping back into war ? The run off is clearly a recipe for instant and uncontrollable kiosk.
With the APC and SLPP radio stations already in place I hate to say Rwanda is round the conner. All it takes is for one sick individual to assasinate a presidential candidate as they tour the country within the next few days. The retaliation may be so rapid, massive and will spread like a wildfire wherein even the security forces will run for shelter. This is the time we need some input from the International community, before its too late.
Subject: Re: Avoid the Rwanda scenario now !1
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 11:49:55 08/28/07 ()
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Analytically, if the SLPP accept defeat at this time, it will be a big advantage for them in the next election because that will be an indication that they love the country more than they love the party. It will be a big weapon for them in the next election. This is why I hail Charles' decision to go with the APC because charles will be better of in the next election to gain a lot of support from all over the country due to his stands now. Today is a vivid example when charles and Ernest went to makeni. He is a smart animal, politically incline than most of the other candidates and no doubt has shown sierra leoneans of all tribes that the country is in his heart more than anything else.
The bad news is that the slpp will not concede defeat due to their selfish tendencies. Secondly, some of them have something to hide and they rather prefer to dig it on until their intentions are no more tenable before they concede in disgrace.
Subject: Re: Avoid the Rwanda scenario now !1
From: Med Deen
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Date Posted: 07:54:23 08/28/07 ()
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Accepting defeat will be a wise move for the SLPP Party as it will inevitably save the country from degenerating into a state of anarchy and chaos. But the problem is that our politicians are selfish and power-hungry. In order for Berewa to accept defeat now which will prevent a run-off, he might seek some kind deal with the APC and that may include the possibility of a power sharing government. What are the chances of the APC and PMDC sharing power with the SLPP? This brings to mind the point I made about our politicians being selfish and power-hungry. They don't have the interest of the nation at heart.
By the way, I agree with you. We don't want the kind of genocide and ethnic clensing that took place in Rwanda to ever happen in Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Avoid the Rwanda scenario now !1
From: Weasel
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Date Posted: 08:55:01 08/28/07 ()
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Berewa will conceed defeat if the 2nd round of voting tallies indicate that he lost.
Subject: Re: Avoid the Rwanda scenario now !1
From: FORREST GUMP
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Date Posted: 08:04:39 08/28/07 ()
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Did you know that a provision was made for a Run-off if no one gets 55% of the votes Why now do you SOLO B to back down now. Do you remember how the Liberia Presidency was won
FORREST
Subject: Re: Avoid the Rwanda scenario now !1
From: Brima Kamara
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Date Posted: 08:54:32 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
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Continue dreaming. For your information, this is not Liberia but SIERRA LEONE where the people have a history of teaching non-performing political parties and individuals very good lessons. Ask the APC, NPRC and AFRC. It is now the turn of the SLPP. Maybe next time when given the chance they will perform better.
Subject: APC VIOLENCE
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 07:27:19 08/28/07 ()
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From Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown
Politics
Press Statement by the SLPP on the recent incidences of violence by APC supporters in Sierra Leone
By Sierra Leone People's Party
Aug 27, 2007, 21:27
The political situation in Sierra Leone is getting grave. On Sunday August 26, 2007, at about 5pm some SLPP supporters on their way home from a meeting at the Party’s Office were attacked by some women traders along Sani Abacha Street known to be supporters of the APC. The SLPP supporters were brutally assaulted by their assailants. The banner of the SLPP Leader was torn down by opposing APC supporters at PZ round about. The SLPP supporters withdrew to the Party’s Headquarters and called in the Police who were able to quell the situation after much effort. Arrests of some APC supporters were made.
Later, when we thought that everything was under control, thugs of the APC led by Idrissa Kamara (alias Leather Boot) materialized at the scene with six vehicles loaded with thugs to fiercely attack the security personnel guarding the SLPP office. They were stoutly resisted and in the process two of the thugs were captured and handed over to the Police who currently have them in custody. Also a gray BMW vehicle with registration number ACY 085 was also seized as an exhibit of the violent attack that members of the SLPP suffered yesterday night at the hands of APC thugs who are bent on wreaking havoc on members of the SLPP and its Leadership.
As of the time of this press briefing, the APC’s Rising Sun radio has been announcing that Kamajohs have been brought into several locat1ons in Freetown to disrupt the peace and quiet of the city. This is not only a blatant lie put out by the APC to create panic to our people but it is also one of the APC’s ploys to divert the attention of the public from their desperate activities.
In a separate incident, it is now known that at least two members of the SLPP living in Waterloo arrived this afternoon at the party’s office with serious stab wounds all over their heads as a result of an assault by APC hoodlums.
It is now a known fact that when ever the APC wants to carry out an unholy act, they first attribute it to the SLPP. This is a diversion to enable them carry out their vicious acts. Some of the so-called independent newspapers have taken upon themselves to drum up the false alarm of SLPP intention to carry out violence during the Presidential run-off election in league with the APC. This is not an accident. It is part of the APC’s grand plan to prepare the ground for rendering the State ungovernable. To effect this they should be able to justify that is was the SLPP that started the violence. The APC has maintained that they will accept noting short of an announcement that the APC has won the election.
In addition, there are reports reaching us that SLPP supporters in Kono are currently being attacked and scores of them being hospitalized.
We are again reiterating that Politics is not war but a contest between forces that must of necessity have the same objective to develop the State and her People. We therefore condemn every act of violence so far perpetrated by the APC and call upon the Leadership to warn its supporters to desist from using violence as a means by which they can attain Power.
It will be proper for the APC to educate its supporters that the run-off is a constitutional provision and that the outcome must be respected. They should therefore not be given the impression that any one of the candidates will be the next President irrespective of the outcome of the result. We all must, as a matter of duty, stop those who are threatening the state with brutal and murderous war and genocide
© Copyright 2005, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: APC VIOLENCE
From: Dehunge
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Date Posted: 09:06:41 08/28/07 ()
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Be real here man, do you think women traders will attack SLPP thugs? When are you going to stop using Sylvia's propaganda as fact?
Subject: Re: APC VIOLENCE
From: Weasel
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Date Posted: 08:59:03 08/28/07 ()
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It takes two to tango, Alieu. I support the SLPP in this election, but reports from Inspector Charlie are far less biased than what is written here.
Subject: WHY DOES THE APC/COCORIOKO NOT WANT A RUN-OFF????
From: Really Concerned
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Date Posted: 08:09:22 08/28/07 ()
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FROM COCORIOKO:
With victims of the last bloody civil war still hurting and a colony of amuputated citizens all over the place, Sierra Leone is steadily slipping into anarchy once again. The fears of people contending that there should not have been a runoff in the interest of peace are coming to reality as supporters of the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP) and the All People's Congress ( APC ) have been involved in bloody clashes over the past few days in Freetown, the rural areas and Kono District
SLPP PRESS RELEASE:
It will be proper for the APC to educate its supporters that the run-off is a constitutional provision and that the outcome must be respected. They should therefore not be given the impression that any one of the candidates will be the next President irrespective of the outcome of the result. We all must, as a matter of duty, stop those who are threatening the state with brutal and murderous war and genocide
Subject: Re: WHY DOES THE APC/COCORIOKO NOT WANT A RUN-OFF????
From: The Answer
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Date Posted: 08:11:21 08/28/07 ()
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NEWS : Politics
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"Take all of Berewa's Votes up North, add them to Ernest Koroma's Votes; Koroma will still not get 50%"
By SGK
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A supporter of the SLPP Presidential Candidate, Hon. Solomon Berewa has claimed that "massive and unprecedented rigging" occured in the last Elections in Sierra Leone.
According to this supporter who says that the SLPP has already petitioned the last Elections Results (especially those of the Northern Province), most of the votes that the APC bagged in the Western Area and up North were as a result of a Voters' Register inflated with Ghost Voters and multiple voting in the names of these Ghost Voters with pre-obtained ballot papers sold to the APC by unscrupulous Elections Office staffers.
However, despite all the rigging that occured, the Berewa supporter says that even if all the votes for Berewa up North were minused from Berewa and freely given to Ernest Koroma, Koroma will still not get even 50% of the votes cast.
"You see why the APC is so jittery and are trying to stop any run-off? he asked.
"They know we are now on to their game so they want to create violence and force a cancellation of the run-off. No way!" he affirmed.
Meanwhile, reports from the SLPP Party Headquarters state that in one Constituency up North, total number of registered voters was 19,000 but by some yet-to-be-explained strange occurrence, 31,000 people voted for the APC in that Constituency without NEC noticing the anomaly. The SLPP has promised to hold a Press Conference detailing some of the alleged rigging anomalities.
Awareness Times will get on to NEC for their reaction to these claims of massive rigging.
© Copyright by Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Subject: Re: WHY DOES THE APC/COCORIOKO NOT WANT A RUN-OFF????
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 11:07:40 08/28/07 ()
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How shameful the SLPP is as a government in power who appointed NEC chairlady, certified the voters registration and now all of a sudden they are claiming ghost voters in the registration. Are they started seeing ghosts in the city? Oh oh, I get it. Those ghosts were the victims of the kabbah reinstatement war. As we all remember, when Kabbah and the SLPP returned from exile, they were burning people live and killing innocent people as a revenge. Those people are back from the dead to revenge. Those are the people that the SLPPers are seeing roaming around the city. Sorry, it's too late guys. The return of the dead. Do you know that movie?
Subject: Re: WHY DOES THE APC/COCORIOKO NOT WANT A RUN-OFF????
From: Brima Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 08:48:08 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
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Everybody wants a run-off. It was the SLPP presidential candidate, a guy called Solomon Berewa who stated that a run-off will be detrimental to the economy of the state because at that time he thought he will win the elections by 70%. Now he is the one clamouring for the run-off because the people taught him a lesson that votes cannot be bought by empty boasting and Le10,000.
Subject: Re: WHY DOES THE APC/COCORIOKO NOT WANT A RUN-OFF????
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 08:54:03 08/28/07 ()
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When did BEREWA say that? Provide us the link, the site, the evidence of him saying that a run-off will be detrimental to the ECONOMY..
APC propaganda..
Subject: Re: WHY DOES THE APC/COCORIOKO NOT WANT A RUN-OFF????
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 11:10:45 08/28/07 ()
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Actually the slpp does not know how to use a website in their statement. So check the archives of the SLBS. The station you've turned as an SLPP property.
Subject: Re: WHY DOES THE APC/COCORIOKO NOT WANT A RUN-OFF????
From: Brima Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:23 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
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Solomon Berewa was interviewed by a reporter for Concord Times called Olusegun Ogundi Israel on 14 February 2007. When asked if he is scared of a run off between him and the opposition, his exact word were and I quote "How can I be scared? Having a run-off is unnecessary. You know what it means for the resources of Sierra Leone ? Why should I be scared of a run-off when it cost a lot of money? Let me tell you, my majority will be so massive".End of quote.
You can go to Concord Times online newspaper to get that. If you are a blind follower who does not even know about the utterances of your Leader, AR SORRY FOR YOU.
Subject: Re: WHY DOES THE APC/COCORIOKO NOT WANT A RUN-OFF????
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 09:34:58 08/28/07 ()
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You are a lier... period. You have seen that there is noway the APC can win a runoff so you are crying for NO-RUN-OFF...
Subject: Re: WHY DOES THE APC/COCORIOKO NOT WANT A RUN-OFF????
From: Brima Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:46:45 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
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I will not waste words or time on you. A bushman like you will always remain to be a bushman. I doubt you can read because I gave you what you ask for and you came up with this trash. Sorry
Subject: Re: WHY DOES THE APC/COCORIOKO NOT WANT A RUN-OFF????
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 10:02:03 08/28/07 ()
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That's because there is nothing of that sort. You lied.. Name calling will not help you but send you deeper in to backwardness.
Subject: Re: WHY DOES THE APC/COCORIOKO NOT WANT A RUN-OFF????
From: Brima Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:10:30 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
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There is more than enough proof to that. He was interviewed by Concord times Newspaper just before the elections and that was when he stated that. I can even send you a transcr1pt of the interview if you want. I am not a member of the APC neither am I part of their propaganda machinery but I dont need to explain to you because people like you have a way of classing people whenever their ideas are different from yours. Do you remember in 1997 when the SLPP use to classify everybody who refused to go to Guinea or was against an invasion of Freetown as COLLABORATORS. MY FRIEND, THOSE DAYS ARE GONE
Subject: Re: WHY DOES THE APC/COCORIOKO NOT WANT A RUN-OFF????
From: Borbor- Leon
To: All
Date Posted: 10:11:18 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: s.l.bangs@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: 88-105-173-29.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 88.105.173.29
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I think who ever said 'What' and who didn't say doesn't matter much in the on- going political debates. What is important in this case is how beneficial is this debate to the best interest of Sierra Leone but not APC's Ernest Koroma or SLPP's Solomon Berewa.
I think the constitution and the article(s) in it that clearly stipulates a run-off when a 55% vote is not achieved should be adapted to meet the need of our fragile democracy- majority carries the votes. Some of the key questions we should be asking ourselves is whether we really need a run- off. Have we got the funds and other resources to meet the challenges posed by such run- off? Are we thinking just about ourselves more than our country?
It doesn't matter who wins, the fact of the matter is whether the winner(s) have the capability to discard their self-interest and think about the nation as a whole.
Solomon Berewa was given a 5 year opprtunity to have proved to Sierra Leoneans that he was capable. I'm angry because he disappointed most Sierra Leoneans. Is it time to try others as well?
As a reminder to all Sierra Leoneans both living in the country or somewhere in the universe, our country deserves the best like all other countries in the world. There are foundamental issues in the lives of Sierra Leoneans that need debating about- tackling corruption,unemployment, better education, improved infrastructure- electricity, roads etc and to desist from unproductive debates that doesn't take the country anywhere.
Regardless from what part of Sierra Leone I was born or to what tribal grouping I belong to have very little relevance to some key issues that are affecting Sierra Leone today. I don't affiliate myself with any party because all registered parties have failed to convince me about the goods they've got to deliver to Sierra Leone- in term policy and strategy. I think we should all start thinking that Sierra Leone belongs to all Sierra Leoneans regardless of where you came from.
Subject: Reflections, No surprise.
From: Weasel
To: All
Date Posted: 05:30:47 08/28/07 ()
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The verbal sniping, many baseless accusations, and propaganda being perpetrated by supporters of different sides on this forum is an accurate reflection of Sierra Leone and Sierra Leoneans in general. As such it is no surprise to me that recent events have unfolded as they have.
Regardless of who wins the election, the same fundamental state of values or lack of Sierra Leones will remain: lack of altruism, lack of magnanimity, negligence, little will and dedication in performing collectively beneficial endeavours, lack of developmental aspirations.
These societal flaws are the reasons why Sierra Leone and even black Africa by extention remains in so dire a state. Our societies chiefly judge a persons status on what such a person materially possesses and not on how well one performs in ones responsibilities in jobs etc.
Subject: Why is the SLPP not campaigning with their RECORD?
From: Madingo Man
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Date Posted: 05:27:49 08/28/07 ()
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Anyway I 've noticed that the SLPP supporters have been given a memo about what to say about Charles Magai.
The main attack line from the memo is that Charles is an OPPORTUNIST....to say the least "So are we all"..and so was Thaimu Bangura and Osman Kamara....when they pitched tent with the SLPP in 1996.
When it is in the favor of the SLPP, it is "NATIONAL UNITY" against the SLPP it is "SELL OUT and OPPORTUNISM"
My country men, tell the people what you intend to do for them so that they would vote for you...telling them how bad the other guy is doesn't win votes...
Campaign on your record..but it seem the SLPP can't articulate what they have done..then .HIRE somebody to do it.(don't use THUGS!)
Subject: Re: Why is the SLPP not campaigning with their RECORD?
From: Med Deen
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Date Posted: 08:03:15 08/28/07 ()
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This is part of the selfishness of our politicians. They know they have failed the nation. Therefore, they have decided to tarnish the image of rival candidates and other parties.
With regards to Thaimu Bangura and Osman Kamara, you are correct. Those guys made significant contributions towards the SLPP winning the elections in 1996. Judging by the SLPP's definition of an opportunist, those guys are part of the biggest opportunists in Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Why is the SLPP not campaigning with their RECORD?
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 06:42:34 08/28/07 ()
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Is nt cocorioko calling Amadu Jalloh and Kande Baba opportunists . Is that the memo given to APC supporters. You are right SLPP should have campaigned on their record but they were too complacent and overconfident.Eventhough they have not solved the infrastructure problems in sierra leone there have been positive signs ,rapid development in the communications sector , freedom of speech, new health clinics and schhols. This may not be much to average man when he is hungry.But it is astart
Unfotunately party record is not goin g mean anything when people have decided to vote on tribal lines. By the way what is the APC going to do new beside criticising SLPP.
Subject: The reasons why
From: Weasel
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Date Posted: 05:59:16 08/28/07 ()
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That's the nature of politics in Sierra Leone. Issues take the back seat. People vote based on regional sentiments. Most people cannot grasp socio-economic concepts. And there's pervasive ignorance about facts. Facts of history and economic performance require one to be capable of reading and analysis or otherwise making an analysis based on one's experience in times past and extrapolating with respect to recent and present situations.
Some campaigning has been done by the SLPP based on issues facts. It's mostly been based on comparing socio-economic conditions during the last 5 years to those at the end of the APC era, especially on points as educational enrollment and the greater proliferation of clinics and the relative freedom of association and speech existing during its present era of governance.
While those who are abrest with facts and objective will genuinely conceed some points, there are still many things for which the SLPP can be indicted for. Infrastructure and utilities in the country remain dire, as they were at the end of the APC era. There's also a lot of corruption. In the former case the SLPP strategists and many supporters excessively blamed the war and many still do. They talk about lack of foreign investment or investment by Sierra Leonean nationals, as do people of other and no persuasion. A seriously flawed strategem without a doubt. When one is in power, one must not complain about the attitudes of one's citizens and the flaws one inherited from an earlier regime. One must solve them. DO SOMETHING!
Foreign investors won't invest when utilities and infrastructure are so poor that operational costs will be unrecoverable. Sierra Leoneans do not invest themselves for a multitude of reasons, among which are a lack of entrepreneurial acumen(even buying and selling is almost confined to street stalls or hawking not supermarkets and department stores!) and the lack of access to capital. Let me explain more about the latter. Banks do not lend money for capital intensive ventures in manufacturing and mining prepared by Sierra Leoneans, what little prepared that is. The main criteria for loan giving is collateral, almost exclusively. But what co-lateral do Sierra Leoneans have for such ventures? The criteria should be well prepared business plans, and checks are possible to ensure that money withdrawn is sent for the mandated purchases. If the government established an industrial policy and carried out research into capital and technological acquisitions for various industries in tandem with groups such as Universities or Chambers of Industry, it could also influence a change in the lending criteria.
I could go on and on...
Subject: Sylvia Blyden incites violence
From: Concern
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Date Posted: 03:39:41 08/28/07 ()
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Sylvia Blyden who is notorious to be a supporter where honey is flowing has taken the task of spreading alarming news that will usher the Rwandan style killing in Sierra Leone. She has vowed to work with tghe SLPP to paint the APC as a thuggery and violent party. Her next move is to report that the APC is killing a particular gropu of people in a certain area. This news will immidiately open the way for revenge attacks. Sylvia Blyden needs to be forewarned by Bernadette Cole and Christo, both people are strong menbers of the Media Coucil.
They are watching Sylvia playing with fire and nobody is chastising her. The sad part is many people will lose their life in the case of a tribal warfare. Sylvia said taht she has Americab green card and in the event of any confusion she has where he can go. Well, Sylvia Blyden we are forwarding your news stories to the US State department and homeland security so that when the time comes for you to reside in the Sattes, you will not live in peace. Ask Tom yuma and Komba Kambo.
As you are spoiling our home and you think thay you have a new home in America, well we will expose you to a number of Journalists organsations so that they will know your true self.
The best you can do now, is to stop your naked lies and incitement before you regret. You are also blindly leading Saio Kamara to an unknown place where you will alll be held responsible for your crime agaist our poor people. You know that you are quick to call ordinary and poor Sierra Leoneans illiterate.
Sylvia BLyden, stop your incitment now before it is too late.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden incites violence
From: Torkpoi
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Date Posted: 08:03:23 08/28/07 ()
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Kabs Kanu and his Cocorioko have a lot to learn from Sylvia Blyden's Awareness Times. Thank God for Sylvia or we will be swimming in a sea of wild propaganda from the APC's newspapers like Cocorioko, Standard Times and New Citizen.
Subject: GOD BLESS SYLVIA BLYDEN
From: Really Concerned
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Date Posted: 08:06:02 08/28/07 ()
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GOD BLESS AND PROTECT SYLVIA BLYDEN FOR HER SERVICE TO THE NATION
Subject: Re: GOD BLESS SYLVIA BLYDEN
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 11:18:48 08/28/07 ()
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Man quit this cheap propaganda. Sylvia is not serving the nation. She is serving the SLPP and her multiple husbands in the slpp.
Subject: Re: GOD BLESS SYLVIA BLYDEN
From: False Prophet
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Date Posted: 11:45:42 08/28/07 ()
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Multiple Husbands? The only person having multiple anything is the APC Lawyer....
Subject: Re: GOD BLESS SYLVIA BLYDEN
From: babs
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Date Posted: 09:30:18 08/28/07 ()
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So Sylvia has a DR degree and that alone is a scarry title for useless men who made nothibg out of education. I see the hate and name calling directed towards this lady, poor thing. Keep fighting baby u are a soldier in the struggle. By the way Rev Kabs Kanu went to theology school? What post secondary education does he carry??
Subject: Re: GOD BLESS SYLVIA BLYDEN
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 11:31:24 08/28/07 ()
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Could this be Worworliwor's sister Babs fighting for her sister? How could you lot back the government that locked your mother up? What has she to say about this? Is this the reason she refuses to see Sylvia when she comes to london?
Subject: Re: GOD BLESS SYLVIA BLYDEN
From: FORREST GUMP
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Date Posted: 08:17:00 08/29/07 ()
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LYING GIT
Subject: NO STATE OF EMERGENCY : RESIST SLPP'S SATANIC PLAN
From: Nationalist
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Date Posted: 03:14:39 08/28/07 ()
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President Kabbah is about to declare a State of Emergency in Sierra Leone as a ploy to rig the elections. Please prepare for massive demonstrations in New York and Washington DC to al3rt the International Community about our desire not to alow the Kabbah clique to steal this election.
Please be on the al3rt and await information on this forum and the online newspapers. This time, SLPP will not cheat us.We want a change in Sierra Leone through the ballot box.
Subject: Re: NO STATE OF EMERGENCY : RESIST SLPP'S SATANIC PLAN
From: Saloneboy
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Date Posted: 03:19:43 08/28/07 ()
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This will be a simultaneous demostration that will take place inleading European capitals as well. Please, let us coordinate this venture and work in unison to see that these miscreants and blood seekers do not succeed in their plan to thwart the wishes of the people.
Please, let us start the protest program now. When others wake up, they will come with their own views that we will use to engage the International Communiy of the SLPP plan to massacre Sierra Leoneans.
This time, we will sacrifice our life to see that every Sierra Leonean live in peace.
Subject: Re: NO STATE OF EMERGENCY : RESIST SLPP'S SATANIC PLAN
From: Brima Kamara
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Date Posted: 07:30:41 08/28/07 ()
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Na dat den kin say history dae always repeat insef. De last tem in 1967, na been Martial Law. Now na State of Emergency. Make dem nor worry. Whatever den do, at de end of de day den go comot na power. God nor dae sleep.
Subject: Re: NO STATE OF EMERGENCY : RESIST SLPP'S SATANIC PLAN
From: FORREST GUMP
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Date Posted: 07:45:08 08/28/07 ()
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ARE YOU PEOPLE AFRAID OF A PRESIDENTIAL RUN-OFF?, WHY ARE YOU ALL RUNNING SCARED?, IF YOU KNOW YOU CAN WIN FAIRLY WHY THE VIOLENCE,WAIT FOR THE RESULT OR IS THE BALLOT PAPERS YOUR PARTY STOLE HAS RUN OUT
FORREST.
Subject: Re: NO STATE OF EMERGENCY : RESIST SLPP'S SATANIC PLAN
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 04:19:01 08/28/07 ()
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Stop inflaming the situation , It is not in SLPP's interest to do anything that will tarnish the runoff which they will win. APC did well in the elections but they did not win. It was 44% to 38% hardly a victory. If it were not for the poor campaigning of SLPP and the PMDC protest votes,We will be talking something diffrent today.
Refrain from inflaming the situation because you are sounding like Sylvia Blyden which you all detest. The people in Sierra Leone will handle the situation. They gave an opposition party a parliamentary victory which isusually unheard of in Africa.
Subject: Re: NO STATE OF EMERGENCY : RESIST SLPP'S SATANIC PLAN
From: Political Analyst
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Date Posted: 05:22:55 08/28/07 ()
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That is true.As far as I am concerned, between SLPP and APC, they have 70% of votes, and rest of the votes were for other parties and ofcourse void votes.In the run off, both the parties will chose these 30% loose votes.
If a party leader asks his supporters to vote for a particular party, only 20-30% people may follow him blindly.
Subject: SLPP supporters ilast ditch attemp to rule through violence
From: Concerned Sierra leonean
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Date Posted: 03:00:06 08/28/07 ()
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Nobody will believe that a politcal party that has won the majority of parliamentary seats will be engaged in violence.
The SLPP is desperate to retain power at all costs. The simple reason is that its entire membership in governmnet has defrauded the state and will not have any leeway to enjoy the fruits of office. So, there only straw is to engage in violence and this will pave a way for a State of emergency which will prolong their days in office. If the AFRC did not succedd in its adventure to rule the people , I see no reason why the SLPP will succeed with its diabolical plan to deny the people the changes they crave for.
The SLPP is using violence and trying to paint the APC through Sylvia Blyden paper as a thuggery party. But, sober minded people wll know that a winning entity is always joyful and happy . It means that a winner is not a depressing or streesful person. A winner is full of joy and happiness and there is no way a winner wll use violence. Losers are violent prone and depressed. The action of any loser is abominable in defeat especially in politics. Berewa is a desperate man who delight to kill the innocent. If he can killed Kula Samba and twenty four innocent military Officers, he will go at any length to destroy others who do not ascribe to his side. 'Berewa has involved in the killing of ordinary Sierra Leoneans from the day he entered politics. He will not stop at anything to achieve his dream. The entire APC membership must be wise enough not to react to the SLPP provocation.
My gut feeling is telling me that Berewa wants to cause mayhem and terrible acts in the Countrty so that the elctions will be suspended and paving the way for him to continue to be a member of governmnet using heavy hand to kill other Sierra Leoneans. A man who blasphemed will not mind to bring damnation and destruction any where. Beware, Sierra Leoneans. The idiocy of the SLPP is blowing.
Subject: SIERR LEONE / DRY OUR TEARS/ REMEMBER
From: MADSAN
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Date Posted: 03:02:55 08/28/07 ()
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Fiction
Harvest of Hate — Mary's Saga
Roland Bankole Marke, August 11, 2006
"Harvest of Hate: Stories and Essays 'Fuel for the Soul'" (PublishAmerica, 2006) by Roland Bankole Marke.
My name is Mary Bangura, although I was born and baptized Mary Talabi James, at Saint John's Maroon Church in Freetown, Sierra Leone: to a middle class Creole family of Liberated African roots, forty-seven years ago. This was the period when Sierra Leone was at the crossroads of British imperialism and a self-determination struggle for emancipation. I emerged from a warm, enchanted culture, where men desired tailcoats and top hats, and women gracefully wore long, flowing, decked kabaslot and kotoku, a unique hybrid of Western and African cultures. I'm a diamond in the rough; who had no college education, but only a sound secondary education.
Growing up in post independence Sierra Leone, life seemed rosy. Exchange rate of our currency, the Leone was 85 cents to the dollar. We chose which supermarket the family could shop in for our weekly grocery. There was Choithram, Challeram, Chanrai, and many more. Ah! But this was virtually short lived: A one party democracy that degenerated into dictatorial regimes followed this era of prosperity. The middle class status that I once enjoyed diminished entirely over the years. As a single mother, my upbringing had prepared me for the difficult challenges that were to come. But, in 1998, as most middle class families, my three children and I were further reduced into destitution by poor leadership under a military leader turned politician.
On Jan. 6, 1999, I was taken by storm. Feared Revolutionary United Front (R.U.F.) rebels had invaded most of Sierra Leone and were approaching Freetown maliciously. But our government discounted the validity of any imminent threat, and called them rabble-rousers. Warnings, fused anxiety, vicariously climaxed my despair, as denial, panic, and tardiness emboldened them to accessible intrusion, to which my beloved country would fall. Originally, my country was very peaceful, especially as we sailed through a bloodless transition from colonial rule to independence. Its reputation as the home of higher learning in West Africa had earned the accolade, "The Athens of West Africa." I recall those good memories of my secondary school teacher, a demagogue, who would brag as he tapped the desk with a rattan. He was proud of the high reputation Fourah Bay College had built in the world of academia. "Sierra Leone's premier college is the Athens of West Africa and a citadel of learning." He spoke proudly of its educational acclamation and continued a disdainful discussion on Sierra Leone being discovered by a Portuguese explorer called Pedro Da Cintra in 1462, who is believed to have named it Sierra Lyoa (Lion Mountain). He would argue vehemently, "But others were here before him and how could he have discovered our country?" And this would amuse me then. I knew that my ancestors were not indigenous inhabitants, but freed slaves who once settled in Freetown.
On this chilling, somber, awful dawn, the rebels reached Freetown at last, an episode in which Sierra Leone would witness its freedom, pride, and dignity usurped by ruthless, ragtag boys. Its central and eastern perimeters were doomed, besieged, and shredded. R.U.F. attacks hushed the city with terror, violent rage, and weird brutality. Innocent and helpless civilians like me were spectators, watching our lives ruined and property looted or destroyed. Dangerous-boys branded child-soldiers and under the influence of cocaine, LSD, and marijuana saturated the city. They launched the notorious Operation No Mercy; attacking unarmed and poverty-stricken civilians. Normally, wars are between soldiers of opposing sides, but this one was unique. We succumbed coldly to brutal stings and the horror of heartless and insane youths. Violent looting and plunder briskly germinated, adorned in carved arsons, carnages, rapes, and cruel amputations. Harmless as we were, we yielded to bizarre ragging rebels or gasoline fury flames.
Bandits were thrilled and entertained, while I was only meat ready to roast like an Easter pig or Ramadan sacrifice. The massacre seemed organized to its minute detail, while the boys went uninterrupted from house to house, in a reign of amputating, raping, and roasting the helpless with detestation. Anarchy's reign began to blossom. Our legally elected government took to flight as a hunted chicken for its precarious safety, planting a dire state of pandemonium. Forcefully, they recruited and dragged me into the massacre of my homeland and my own people. I developed disdain, my house at 55 Cassell Farm at Kissy, became a rebel sanctuary. Vitriolic-infested hooligans who adopted lethal intimidation confiscated the entire merchandise of the petty trading I did to sustain my kids and myself. My personal belongings, including my watch, chain, earrings, easily switched ownership at the dawn of this nightmare. They brutally seized my only cash and even my Holy Bible. This was a traumatic experience that remains rooted in my active memory. "Jesus! Oh! Jesus," I screamed with married might and breath. The animation of viewing a thriller movie at the renowned Globe crossed my mind. It was amid the chaos that I sneaked away to a neighbor's house, to dissolve my state of panic. The interval dispelled my traumatic experience married to dementia.
On return, they reprimanded me never to leave for any reason. Brutally hard, I followed orders to safeguard my precious doomed-life. Before the advent of the rebels, fourteen people occupied my inherited home that the rebels had now possessed. We were led like sheep to the slaughter, under gunpoint. Viciously, they dragged me upstairs, while they sprayed the structure with gasoline. I shouted profusely in protest. "Lord have mercy oh, Lord save me, Jesus help me." But this only infuriated them. But, as a long, firm believer of Christ, my faith was fused with hope. Before the doors were shut and torched, a swift transformation evolved. My fate was at stake. Believing any rescue was realistic sounded irrational. I clung to hope as my last straw, while the incredible dawned.
My hope rejuvenated when an ex-soldier named Sorie appeared, who just got out of prison when a band of rebels broke into the central prisons. His presence altered the trend of events. He heard so many desperate, distressed screams for rescue. It was so severe that even someone without feelings would have offered swift help. Otherwise, I would have perished in the blaze. Mine was a scary homecoming. Sorie and his men saved my life. The other ten, were not so lucky. They perished in the ignited fire. After this daring rescue, through instinct, I was suddenly hooked to him eyeball to eyeball.
Sorie emerged as a lion that had killed an elephant, and was awaiting coronation. He is my hero, for saving my life, but he would become more than a hero to me. He was now practically my husband. I had no choice caught up in this limbo of disdain, from the brutal actions of the rebels and a determination to stay alive. And between a rock and a hard place, I gave in to become his wife without any proposal. Subsequently, I got protection from two of his guards. I had nothing to repay him in this building, since I was indebted for his kindness, except my womanhood and loyalty to his cause. I began to follow orders or face the trauma of amputation or death. I had no choice, for life did not guarantee me a duplicate copy.
Later, they moved me to St. Patrick's Hill at Kissy, opposite the mental hospital, where I spent five days in a confiscated and looted house. I had no food for two days. Evidently, they were not fully equipped with food supply, when they attacked the city. And I saw routine and ruthless plunders on civilians, practically every tangible along with civilians' food using threat or lethal force. It was now obvious that I needed the strong connection I had established with Sorie, if I should survive the ongoing carnage. My religion taught me "Thou shalt not steal." But I was forced to violate this strong religious belief, by aiding and accepting stolen goods, especially food.
In captivity, the rule of thumb became the law of the jungle, and serving as an accomplice was a means to survival. My conscience was at war with itself. Life in the jungle was utter destitution; change of clothes was the least basic human need that I was concerned about. All I could say then, "I'm lucky to be alive." But my gloom and human weaknesses were hardly concealed or embedded.
From Kissy, a suburb of Freetown, we hiked for two days in disguised darkness and dense forest to outwit our enemies. We dashed under brushes and laid flat behind trunks of huge trees at every sound or suspicion. Fear had us rushing into the bush away from baboons, cobras, and monkeys. It was then I began to learn the guerilla warfare in order to be safe. But the desecration of folks for noncompliance or ignorance was no big deal. It was a trivial issue to accept and then move on.
It was disturbing to watch the horrible manner young girls were killed for their body parts, to aid rituals. The rebels believed that their body parts, especially their genitals made the best charm that provided supernatural power for the exploit. Girls' genitals were removed, while they were still alive. And my heart pounded in disgust, as these demon-style executions were carried out in the most atrocious way. They struggled for their lives in such a pathetic way that I had not seen during my tenure with the rebels, as they gruesomely gave up the ghost. Surely, these events hardened my heart throughout the ordeal. Often, I witnessed these occurrences, because there was a high demand for girls' genitalia for the preparation of potent diabolical voodoo-charms. Nevertheless, my passionate, motherly instinct would hunt me painfully, and made me sob in solitude amid the heartbreaking persecutions.
Surprisingly, I saw a dove peeping down on us from its position, perching on a tree. Since I was a Christian, I translated this to mean that God witnessed the act of committing atrocities. And certainly, He saw us conducting endless monstrous crimes. Indeed this was not welcomed, but an intrusive song that ruined the serenity of the ritual. But we also trespassed on the silence, as we sang a monotonous ritual chant and dirge overshadowing the dove's song, so soothing to me. My spirit climaxed its mysticism as I looked above to glance at the impressive soloist. Unconsciously, tears streamed down my face. My conscience was undergoing purgatory. The bitter truth had hit my mental radar.
Arriving at Grafton, I was weak and exhausted. I moaned, shedding bloody tears. At this point, I demanded that they take me to Kissy. They told me it is either death or "do what they told me." If I had no kids, I would have given up. The thought of dying and leaving my three helpless kids, goaded me to cleave on to life.
Despite my predicament, I became enchanted with nature in the countryside that I was now being exposed to, for the first time. We had just arrived at the bank of a crystalline stream and drinkable mountain ground water for the first time, since my ordeal. The water galloped over rocky boulders, formed a miniature-waterfall, and produced a melodious sound. The branches of trees and other impurities bubbled and dived, and later seen down stream was a soul enhancing experience. The stream flowed as vibrant ripples of hope. It was flanked by dense wild nature and the charming beauty of the Creator's exquisite artistry. A sudden chill ran down my spine and the hair on my body stood briskly on end. Fear of the extraterrestrial overwhelmed me, as I gazed at the beautiful rock formation, and carefully formed rows of forest trees, whose roots were deeply entrenched on granite, beside the stream.
Everyone else scrambled around me for a gulp of water. Some squirted, stretched their arms out toward the stream with watertight leaves. These were made into makeshift funnels to gulp water down our throats, as if this was our maiden drink of water. Indeed, it was about time. We were all dead thirsty. I took a bath after my refreshing drink of water, but without a change of my clothes.
We began our second leg of the journey from Waterloo to Masiaka, a distance of about forty-seven miles from Freetown. We could not travel on a straight route, paved road, or street. My captors had perfect knowledge of the jungle. They knew that Guinean-led foreign peacekeeping troops (ECOMOG) controlled the area. Our jungle experts pioneered the safest route away from detection. At Masiaka, homes were vandalized, plundered, or ruined. Practically, we plundered every village we traveled through. It amazed me that eminent folks were in the jungle with us too. Rebel sympathizers included top gun politicians and businessmen. I almost had a cardiac arrest, when I saw former ministers and powerful government officials visiting us in the bush. Some took part in the rituals to help them regain power or recognition. But their identities were preserved with the utmost secrecy.
Spinning cowries and magical talisman emboldened the tycoons and boosted the rebels' notoriety. Visitors came with a wish list. A preview of mysticism was demonstrated by spinning an odd number of cowries; if they exhibited more heads than tails, it meant that a desired wish would come to fruition. New converts like us, who were first-time witnesses of these supernatural powers, were shocked in admiration. These included dominant people for power, wealth, fear, or respect. Our rebellion had answers to their endless demands. But I never stopped wondering; why would folks with such mystic prowess be in the bush, living in futility and wretchedness? It only harped the good old saying, "One can take a man from the bush, but not the bush from the man." I watched the blind dragging folks down damnation's hopeless lagoon. Lust for power was absolutely venomous and deadly amongst the rank-and-file. Yet, we pursued many selfish or violent agenda at the expense of others.
My life with the rebels was complex, but the survival concept was simple; they had a passion for power, and I had a passion for survival no matter what the proximate cost. The craving for both power and survival for us became insatiable. "Could knowledge alter any heinous persona?" I thought. But it did not reform dubious lives, for we had become dangerous, ruthless, brutal, and vicious people. On board were foreign officials from Russia, Burkina Faso, and powerful men who seemed to be sponsors. We captured an official from World Vision, but released him after consultation with R.U.F. leadership. Periodically, we received correspondence from abroad, and I followed through with them. Mails were picked up or delivered by helicopter or stolen fishermen's canoes.
Finally, I was appointed the head woman, with a titular position, "Mammy Queen." My letter of appointment was prepared abroad. A picture identity card had been prepared for me earlier for this purpose. I presided over all women, and resolved petty disputes, ranging from jealousy to infidelity. I executed my duties with shrewd expertise.
My new status gave me the privilege to change my clothes. In fact, I had the preference to help myself to a consignment of cargo that had been shipped to us. Nights were infectiously romantic. Tropical breeze trickled through the shady monkey-bread trees. One night, a child-soldier sneaked up on me. I heard his footsteps from rattling leaves. I recognized people by instinct. "Who are you?" I asked. I shouted a few names. I had just finished taking a bath, and was reaching for my clothes when a 13-year-old child-soldier named Born Trouble intruded into my space, which was hardly private to me. He fumbled with my breast and buttocks. I lashed, "You pekin you mama nor train you?" And I gave him the spanking of his life. My screams woke up senior rebels with my piercing invective. I was about to be raped, which was a common practice of boys his age. These homegrown cubs were now exhibiting the traits of animals. Though I was old enough to be his mother, was not enough reason to deter him. But the ordeal came to a temporary closure when he was tied and executed without a tribunal. I was now left toiling with my conscience for causing his death.
Being the culprit for his death still weighs heavily on my conscience. He was a menace and a threat though, for his name depicted these traits. But while a child-soldier was killed for attempting to rape his commander's wife, I witnessed molestation, mutilation, and rape of teen girls by rebels with impunity. I could not even show sympathy or alarm, because my life could be jeopardized. They expected me to be comfortable with the routine of taking lives, though we were angels of death. Probably, that is what the people thought when we reached their towns and villages. I never became comfortable with this culture as they expected, but I was forced to participate. And I invented a bottled up strategy to every novel emotion.
Being a "Creole," the rebels, including my husband, could not pronounce my name. I corrected him several times, without success until he became angry and declared that my name is henceforth Mary Bangura. It signified an official declaration of our marriage. In the ranks, we also had spiritual leaders; imams and sorcerers who provided fetish prophesy and direction. In fact, they blessed our marriage. Sessions were held, demonic rites, cultural shows and dances also took place when a man declared a name change. Though my husband of convenience Sorie would caress, cuddle, and protect me. He is six feet tall, creative, a sensuous lover boy and a sex machine; intriguing, endearing prowess that kept me up all night. He loved to chew bitter kola, a natural stimulant that is deemed to enhance sexual performance. I was his passionate treasure. And I was referred to by all as his wife. But accepting him without qualms was a survival wit. The attempted rape incident had unnerved him and he even cautioned me about the insanity of child soldiers on a daily basis. His nature depicted his warm and enchanting spirit.
Drugs were in abundant supply, especially marijuana. However, I tried earnestly to avoid it. The very first time they passed a joint to me I coughed so hard, Sorie thought I was going to pass out, and conceded it was not for me. In the same way, I managed to stay away from cigarettes.
We traveled for two days on foot from Masiaka to Lunsar, with scarcely any time to rest. These dangerous journeys seemed almost like eternity. We trod, crossed the Bambray River at night. Luckily, the water level had gone down after the rains had ceased for a couple of days. But it was scary because it was neck deep at the deepest part, even for the tallest among us. And Sorie had to carry me on his back at this point. In fact, a drugged child-soldier drowned in the dark still water. We only found out after we crossed the river, and did a roll call. That was not a big deal, as we moved on and finally stormed Lunsar at last, despite the hurdle.
The sorcerer strangled a red cock about 5:30 a.m. Its blood was quickly added to a concoction of herbs and palm oil, which our commanders drank for super power. All the women were commanded to urinate into containers, which the sorcerer brewed into a drink with nut oil, herbs, spices, and honey. This potent mixture was believed to boost our men's boldness. Among us were girls between 10 and 17 years old, who were full-fledged rebel wives. Their screams while being raped initially, were disturbing. I had lapses of intermittent nightmares when I recalled those heartbreaking memories. Many babies were born in the jungle from these relationships, and often thrown into the bush. There was little time or patience for crying babies, deemed a viable setback. Shrilling cries, images of ghosts, haunted us and entrenched our shallow minds. Those who were accused of violence against female officers, were tried, found guilty and executed in the most ruthless manner in broad daylight. Often, these killings were authorized from above, but the manner in which the messages were sent back and forth remained a lifetime secret. Unconsciously, I had perfected the genius of a professional flatterer; this went a great distance to massage the egos of rebel commandos.
We had heroes in our selfish and mundane world. At Lunsar, we organized ourselves into administrative strata. We had three jungle warfare offices: G5, MIB, and MP. As the "Mammy Queen" in charge of settling disputes, I managed the MP office. My duty stretched into dealing with civilian affairs, which included liaison between local chiefs and rebel commandos. I proved to be a woman of mettle, and was further promoted commando for women affairs. I attended meetings and became a prominent voice in decision-making. Our meetings were attended by officials from Freetown, including prominent chiefs. How they traveled to attend these meetings assaulted my imagination and disbelief.
We had little tolerance for ill health. The sick were a burden to us, and were left to die without much attention. It was against policy to authorize their freedom, due to ill health for fear they would give away our strategies and position.
Sometimes R.U.F. boys, now with us, would harass and taunt me. "Creole girl, we are now equal," one said. "Only rain made the sheep and goat to be sheltered in the same shed," I retorted to their jokes. "You can't even understand," I added. I could get away with these remarks, because of my rank. But the other girls dare not say such things or resist sexual advances. It was their job to offer sexual pleasure to the fighters. Sex, alcohol, and drugs were common rewards for gallantry. It was a crime to resist a sex hungry rebel fighter, once assigned to him. In such cases, the girls were shot through their genitals and slaughtered. These were traumatic occurrences, which left me with heartthrob pain. But I dare not show any emotion or sympathy. Nothing would erase these terrible nightmares because of what I witnessed, while with the R.U.F. It is so difficult to tolerate endless atrocities, brutality, and senseless destruction of life. Humanity's intrinsic value was reduced to rubble. Many lacked conscience, respect for life, or empathy. But their sanity had evaporated without conscious knowledge. Others were planning a more devious, intriguing attack on Freetown. Such agenda would inflict a catastrophic assault on life. The ingenious projection to eliminate any memory of Freetown formed a secret plan named, "Operation No Living Thing," which did not materialize. British paratroopers made a daring raid that bombarded our positions, when we held captive five unarmed British soldiers.
Efforts to secure their safety were frustrated. Armed with air power and superior ground logistics, a daring raid of endless bombardment, and a ground assault on our positions also launched. The Brits crushed and demoralized our fighters entirely. They also rescued the captives in a battle in which two British soldiers died in a friendly fire. In the wake of a well-organized assault, rebels were left to bleed in rage and thrown into disarray. There was no hiding place; Judgment Day had finally dawned on us.
The intervention of United Nations forces and British troops thwarted an intriguing scheme. They were instrumental in supervising peace talks between rebel factions and government troops. The outcome, the signing of an initial peace treaty, was negotiated and stamped, led to my freedom. After the treaty was signed, the U.N. dispatched buses from the provinces to transport captives and rebels to Freetown. Earlier, the disarmament contingent toured many rebel strongholds, disarming rebels in exchange for money. This incentive helped to get guns out of the hands of rebels in disarray, to prevent them from terrorizing civilians with AK-47's. Combatants received about $100 to $500 based on the availability of funds. This incentive helped us to restart life. And with the job training skills offered, we could invest on a new career and start a peaceful livelihood. This was our most rational choice. But those with a personal vendetta decided to keep their weapons, their only source of terror or defense. I just could not squander this chance to switch allegiance from the R.U.F. to the United Nations. I asked, "Is freedom a farce?" It was real. Even though the R.U.F. attempted to thwart the efforts of the peacekeepers, increased U.N. forces facilitated a road map to peace.
Excited with bubbling emotions, reminiscences of home, I joined the line to get a seat in an old, cross-country bus. I had acquired a new education, while living in the bush. A novel education possessed me, called discipline. But it did not exist in the bush. I recall dad's strict discipline and nurture, as a child growing up. My education is now balanced: One at home, in school and most recently in the jungle. I had unconsciously updated my resume. After a long wait, I secured a seat in the bus next to a U.N. soldier. I felt human again. Major Kakata was an elegant, polite, respectable, disciplined soldier and role model. "What is your name?" he asked me." Mary Bangura," I answered. A friendly conversation cautiously ignited. I was concealing my real name. Too ashamed of myself, I was careful about the information I made public. I asked him about the fate of Freetown, my pending safety, and freedom. His reply was very diplomatic but honest. "Freetown is recovering from the ruins and aftermath of warfare. The disarmament process is earnestly in progress," he said. I did not ask him about my house or community. Specific or sensitive information could be hurtful; the truth might just break me down. It was a long and soul-searching ride. My body and soul seemed journeying to the grotesque and inevitable. I was not psychologically ready for this eventuality. But faith and love for freedom goaded me tenaciously.
I longed for my children Julia, Juliet, and Sony. Are they still alive? I had no guarantee my house would be still standing. I knew that most of Kissy had been destroyed and the wreckage demolished. Is my home also among them? No one offered me straight answers. I needed true answers. But I had no guarantee: reality hurts. Do I have to reinvent my life all over again? As the bus made stops, children were shouting, "We want peace!" My heart was bleeding, viewing angry, destitute kids demanding a future. I can't refute the truth with my life now in disarray. I'm a party to the demise. I developed courage and strength as my journey of faith climaxed a crescendo.
Despite regaining my freedom, I will never reinvent myself easily. My identity is completely lost, my self-image ruined. In due course, the tangible assets I have lost may be recovered. But my emotional, spiritual, and psychological facets have suffered a permanent decay. I express gratitude to God for his unchanging love, grace, and protection. "To Him be all glory." His strength, courage, and wisdom helped me to bear my abomination.
As I struggle to rebuild my life, pertinent questions incessantly permeate my mind. "Who am I, why me, will I regain my identity?" Indefinitely, I will be searching for answers. Why blame God when bad things happen to good people? Today, evil dominates the world. He's still omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. It is now time for my people to embrace unity. Too long, we endured the absence of good leadership. We still need a rallying factor to merge and educate our vulnerable nation, seemingly fragmented into units of discord. We can't survive in times of crisis. The road towards tangible peace seems extremely fragile and superficial. The emblem of our national flag clearly reads, "Unity, Freedom and Justice." Why should we depend on the United Nations to solve our basic problems?
Frankly, a revolutionary thinking, is the ingredient my potentially gifted, naturally rich nation yearns for. War is no recipe for change, peace, and unity. I began to sing fearlessly, loudly, as in a transfiguration, a freedom chant:
"Oh … oh freedom, oh … oh freedom,
Oh … oh … freedom over me …
And before I become a slave, I'll be buried in my grave,
And go home to my Lord and be free …"
At the ungodly hour of 4:30 a.m., frogs were croaking, as a shrilling cock blasted "cokorioko … cokorioko …" Dogs barked with austere, mystic overture and gradually resurrected the child in me. I grew terribly frozen as phobia in emptiness. The melody in the freedom song grew so infectious; a drawn choir joined a wild-spirited jubilation. A frenzied, electrifying atmosphere seized my bleeding soul and spirit. My internal lacerated name of shame and pain developed a bleeding ulcer that grew nagging and tormenting. Where do I turn to for therapy? How could I be cured of my septic name and pain? Probably, my name has even changed forever. Over a decade, Sierra Leone had nurtured a fertile soil, where seeds of hate had been planted. These wild seeds had blossomed into scary thorns, out of proportion. The time was ripe to practically reap this Harvest of Hate.
From "Harvest of Hate: Stories and Essays 'Fuel for the Soul'" (PublishAmerica, 2006) by Roland Bankole Marke.
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Subject: Culled from bbc.co.uk: SLPP's game plan 1
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 02:55:12 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Emergency threat in Sierra Leone
Voters showed great enthusiasm for the poll
Sierra Leone President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has threatened to impose a state of emergency if election violence between rival parties does not stop.
Two days of clashes have marred campaigning for the second round of Sierra Leone's presidential elections.
President Kabbah said in a TV address the country - which suffered a brutal civil war - had suffered too much to see chaos and civil unrest again.
He urged the two rival candidates to call for calm among their supporters.
Police have stepped up their patrols around the capital, Freetown.
They have also declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the eastern district of Kono.
The first round of landmark elections, which are intended to move the country past the legacy of the recent civil war, was considered free and fair by observers.
The opposition APC candidate, Ernest Bai Koroma, took 44% of the vote in the first round, and the ruling SLPP candidate and Vice-President Solomon Berewa, polled 38%.
Subject: State of Emergency Part of the Grand Plan
From: Mohamed J. Kutubu (The nemesis of the Tribalists)
To: All
Date Posted: 02:50:38 08/28/07 ()
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We in the APC always knew who was more prone to violence. We knew that the SLPP and its supporters were prone to violence much more than any other group in the country. We also knew that what they would do is forment violent encounters and then cliam that there is a state of emergency. The only state of emergency is that created by the SLPP itself to protect itself. This time around its not going to be a coup although that cannot be ruled out according to my sources.
The SLPP has a paid group of agent saboteurs who are ready to forment trouble. While the APC and its supporters stand ready to defend themselves in the face of any slpp attacks, they must use restraint and walk away if they could do so without causing any injury to them selves.
The APC will be campaigning in Kono and theres NOTHING that the violence unleashed in Kono by the SLPP, will do to stop them from doing so. So Mr. President the state of Emergency was not unexpected but we are ready for it and would look forward to it.
Bring whatever you have on because this is going to be your last hurrah
Subject: Re: State of Emergency Part of the Grand Plan
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 07:19:14 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
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Mohamed, It is clear that you do not know the history of the APC, therefore I encourage you to go find it out.
Thuggery and violence is the middle name of your party.
For your information, the Sierra Leone Peoples party was formed to bring all the peoples of our country together in peace and unity. We will never depart from that.
Subject: Re: State of Emergency Part of the Grand Plan
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 08:45:15 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Saidu what POSITION do hold in Maryland?
"For your information, the Sierra Leone Peoples party was formed to bring all the peoples of our country together in peace and unity. We will never depart from that."
Sometimes I wonder if you have stop taken your PROZAC medication.Which party is trying to DIVIDE the country through it TRIBALISTIC preachings? SLPP and her BLIND APOLOGIST.
When SORBEH which you were a member pitched tent with the SLPP in 1996,did the APC OR Pa Karefa cried THAIMU BANGURA down? NO!!!!! Now look at what your CORRUPT TIFF TIFF party is doing to CHARLES THE GREAT MARGAI after he and the PMDC party decided to join with a NORTHWESTERN party.Your TIFF TIFF party should face the FACT of LIFE,instead of your DIVIDE and CONQUERE campaign.I wil advise you to CHECK yourself before you RECK yourself,and stop talking your usaul NONESENSE.
Subject: Re: State of Emergency Part of the Grand Plan
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 08:20:02 08/28/07 ()
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"For your information, the Sierra Leone Peoples party was formed to bring all the peoples of our country together in peace and unity."
But since those laudable beginnings, the SLPP has been hijacked by Mende tribalist for 30 years and Madingo tribalist for the last 10. Now, Mende tribalists have taken over again. The people say: ENOUGH. NO MORE TRIBALISM. JOIN THE APC -- THE PARTY OF ALL SALONEANS.
Subject: Advice to APC supporters
From: Observer
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Date Posted: 02:28:21 08/28/07 ()
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The SLPP is ahead to bring chaos in the Country. It is incumbent upon APC supporters not to reiterate as the SLPP is bent on denying them an electoral victory.They know the announcement of a Stae of Emergency will affect the electoral result and stymied the session of Parliament. Kabbah will not respect the constitution and he will go solo to announce a state of emergency!
So Ernest Koroma and other APC top guns must not react to SLPP provocation.
There has to be a neutralPolice force to counter any threat by provocators and violent prone group the SLPP has scattered in different parts of the Country. Solomon Berewa as Chairman of the Police Council is heavily powered to twist the arm of the opposition. This is a blatant abuse of state power and the people must be bold enough to challenge any spurious State of emergency law.
I hope the APC will annouce on their radio to ask their supporters to keep the peace and report any provocation or threat to their life to the Police Force.
Subject: Network Africa
From: SLPP threatens iron clad measures
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Date Posted: 02:20:13 08/28/07 ()
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/networkafrica/news/story/2005/11/051121_top-story.shtml
Subject: Kabbah is about to announce state of emergency!!!
From: SLPP plans to disrupt peace
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Date Posted: 01:59:27 08/28/07 ()
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Political violence in Sierra Leone - the president threatens to impose a state of emergency
Yesterday, I talked about John Benjamin thugs on the rampage in Freetown. Literally, I was not mentioning that he stated it on the network of Africa program. But, the violent prone SLPP members came as usual with their cussing nature to damn me.
Well, go back to the Network Africa and you will noticve that Kabbah is ahead to announce a State of Emergency.
The SLPP will wage violence from now onwards and Kabbah in the next few days will announce a State of emergency.
The SLPP is all over the plece to bring violence again. When the dust will settle, Kabbah and Berewa , Mondeh, Nyuma , John Benjamin, John Karimu will be held responsible for the spate of violence they have master minded in the Country.
If the International Community fails to come to the rescue of the poor people, there is a possibility that a Rwanda style killing will take place in Sierra Leone. The signs are there now for that to happen. Kabbah and berewa are determined to change the wishes of the people.
Subject: Re: Kabbah is about to announce state of emergency!!!
From: Weasel
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Date Posted: 09:06:51 08/28/07 ()
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No one is Saintly in Sierra Leone or anywhere else, and your accusations are widely speculative.
Subject: APC watch out! Mondeh/Bio.Nyuma vow to stage coup
From: SLPP plans violence
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Date Posted: 01:19:50 08/28/07 ()
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The SLPP is on it all over again. There has been meetings in different locat1ons in the Country to disrupt the polls through violence and in the event of that, Kabbah will declare a state o emergency.
Mondeh, Bio and Nyuman have vowed to teach Sierra Leoneans who voted for the APC a bitter lesson. The violence that started last week end is part of their stragtegy to continue violence in the Country. The APC executive needs to write the head of the IMAT battalion and the UN to reign on Berewa and Kabbah to stop their wicked plan for the Country. Sylvia Blyden has also assured John Benjamin that she will use her newspaper to incite and open the door for violence. Those who looking at this situation must realised that Sierra Leone is in a powder keg as the SLPP is determined to use violence and every dangerous game to usurp the elction result.
The bad SLPP bad guys have recruited ex fighters to start their terror.
Subject: I AM NOT IN LOVE WITH SI- L-VIA BLUNDY
From: ACCUSER
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Date Posted: 23:34:37 08/27/07 ()
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Message:
Fellow sierra leoneans, I did not have any sexual intercourse with that woman even though she wanted me to.
Subject: BREAKING NEWS
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 23:31:43 08/27/07 ()
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Message:
Johnny liar syl(vexer) may urge designer of the kiss my ass website to change it design. True? Alieu sesay is not happy today with the web master for premature announcement and false prophet is on a marabu expedition trip to kailahun. What a joke.
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 23:37:05 08/27/07 ()
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Message:
Go to bed.. will chat with you in the Morning... You nor go blow
Subject: FODAY MANSARAY WAS UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED P.R.O. OF THE APC.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 23:05:04 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
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Message:
I have been informed that the chairman of the APC in North America appointed Foday Mansaray as his PRO, USA.
This action of the chairman was wrong because it is outside the party's constitution. At a national delegates conference held in Washington, DC, all executive members for the region were elected.
My boyhood friend, Mr. Ahmed Conteh of Georgia, was duly elected PRO of the USA branch . I am sure that Mr. Conteh did not do anything wrong for him to be removed from his elected office.
Once again the APC chairman has acted outside his official mandate. But the entire membership condoned his incorrect behavior.
THESE ARE THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO WANT TO RUN OUR COUNTRY. PEOPLE WHO CAN NOT OBEY THEIR LAWS.
I am not surprised, because their leader Ernest Koroma was not elected in-accordance with their 1995 constitution. That was why the rightful owners of the APC took him to court.
The APC is nursing monsters , by the grace God, there will come a day that they will not be able to control the monsters, then the APC WILL FALL FOREVER.AMIN.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY WAS UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED P.R.O. OF THE APC.
From: foday mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 12:29:07 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
Entered From: static-host-24-225-231-177.patmedia.net at 24.225.231.177
Message:
I hate to say this but Ahmed Conteh is not you friend or brother and lets leave it at that. As for APC north America,we are doing fine.Don't worry about us.As a Muslim I will continue to pray for you to wake up before it is too late.,
Thanks to all my Comarades Forummites for their support to towards me Our party and the struggle to redirect sierra leone to its glorious days.APC is winning and lets concentrate on that goal.SLPP is just a bad government that has out lived its usefulness just like Solo Berewa .At 85 no wisdom or credible experience to boost of to become the next president of sierra leone.
He has resulted in to bribery,exturtion and use of goverment vechicles which are a gross violation of our elections laws.The people of sierra leone has voted and for the record THE APC Leader votes surpass all Candidates in all constituencies that contested under APC.The puzzling question is, each constituency is approximately 44,000 votes and if APC candidates got less votes THEN THE LEADER and Won 59 seats why the leader should not get 55% IF more people voted for the leader.
These proportionalities of the constituencies are tied into the 44,000 for each constituencies.These percentage should proportionally show up in leaders votes.
Lots of evidence has come up to confirmed that Mr Mohamed Allie Kossay actuallly won his constituent.
Gross violation of voters fraud and surpression of ballot because this is the area where Tejan kabba claimed he came from.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY WAS UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED P.R.O. OF THE APC.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 22:01:15 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96
Message:
Foday, I am sure that Ahmed Conteh never told you that he is not my boyhood friend, therefore I will not even ask him. My point is simple: Ahmed Conteh was elected for a term, if he went to Freetown, that does not give your chairman the right to appoint you as the substantive holder of that position.
I know that Ahmed Conteh never resigned his position, and you were appointed by your chairman(your personal friend) even before Mr.Conteh went to Freetown.
I know that a large number of your members do not understand how a political party should operate, that is why I am doing your party a civil duty by bringing out the wrong things that are going on.
HOW DO YOU FEEL HOLDING A POSITION BY UNLAWFUL MEANS.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY WAS UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED P.R.O. OF THE APC.
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 07:11:50 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Saidu,stop being STUPID.You don't even know how your so call party's constitution works.Why show your STUPIDITY to the World as usual?
RESIGN and TRAVELLING TO FREETOWN TO HELP DESTROY YOUR SLPP PROPAGANDA MACHINE are two different word and statement.
Let me make this clear for you in KRIO so that you can understand with all that PROZAC that is in your body.
AHMED DAE NAR TOWN FOR HELP WITH THE CAMPAIGN AND FODAY DAE NAR AMERICA FOR CONTINUE THE GOOD WOK OF NATIONAL PUBLICITY NAR AMERICA.UNLIKE OONA TIFF TIFF CORRUPT SLPP PARTY WAE NOR KNOW WATIN NAR TEAM WOK,DE NEW APC DAE WOK AS ONE BODY.SO NOW WAE AR DON EXPLAIN DIS TO YOU,WHO DAT LOOK STUPID NOW?
Saidu,we told you several times when you were in the ATL that,you may had got away with ASSASSINATING or BLACKMAILING others in Metro DC and NJ,but when it comes to APC Georgia,the BUCK stops here.I have just came from Freetown,and I spoke to MAMA FINNY your mother and ALHAJI ISCANDRI believe it or not Saidu,you need to call them and ask for FORGIVENESS,because your MOM is really MAD at you,and as for Alhaji the FATHER FIGURE who took CARE of you,he said MAY THE LORD DECIDE his CASE.I did not know you took the REBELS to the HOUSE you were brought up,so that they (REBELS) can KILL the man who took care of you.MAN U NEED FOR MEK DEN PRAY FOR U.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY WAS UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED P.R.O. OF THE APC.
From: READ A BOOK
To: All
Date Posted: 14:57:53 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"The puzzling question is, each constituency is approximately 44,000 votes and if APC candidates got less votes THEN THE LEADER and Won 59 seats why the leader should not get 55% IF more people voted for the leader"
READ A BOOK!
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY WAS UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED P.R.O. OF THE APC.
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 07:46:58 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-074-228-219-218.sip.asm.bellsouth.net at 74.228.219.218
Message:
Saidu,
Ahmed Conteh is not your boyhood friend and this is a known fact to everybody,so stop your LIE LIIE.LEF FOR FOSE!!!
Saidu you are so DUMB that you could not even UNDERSTAND what you wrote.You said Foday was APPOINTED by our ABLE CHAIRMAN who has just WON his PARLIAMENTARY SEAT in constituency 97,but what you failed to tell the forumites is Ahmed Conteh was not FIRED,and he recommended Foday to our Chairman,because he is in Freetown DESTROYING your TIFF TIFF CORRUPT SLPP party's propaganda.I know you have been calling the ATL to find out who is giving out your SECRETS,but GOOD LUCK in your calls.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY WAS UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED P.R.O. OF THE APC.
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 23:22:22 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Go to sleep Mr. Bangura, go to sleep. I am sure your nemesis Foday Mansaray is sleeping like a baby this late hour while you prance around, wringing your hands and obsessing over him like a denizen of the dark.
Besides, what do you care about what's popping at APC North America? Shouldn't you be thinking of a way to salvage the diminishing fortunes of your party? Sleep over it bro...it's way past bedtime. Nighty night.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY WAS UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED P.R.O. OF THE APC.
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 23:20:06 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.156
Message:
Alpha,
Leave APC internal business to APC members. This type of politics does not help your SLPP. If Foday acts outside his official mandate and there is nothing illegal about such acts, it is up to APC to denounce or do something about it. But your attempt to trump such things gives an impression that you are desperate. Just a word of suggestion.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY WAS UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED P.R.O. OF THE APC.
From: PROZAC
To: All
Date Posted: 00:31:38 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
HIS DESPERATION COMES FROM THE FACT THAT HE IS ON PROZAC
Subject: SLPP New People is a rag-tag newspaper
From: Nationalist
To: All
Date Posted: 22:34:37 08/27/07 ()
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Message:
After all the big boast of SLPPers, their new online website is a ragtag newspaper .I am not exaggerating .Go there and see. The design is dreadful. You can't access the itemized news links . And where are the high-level articles they promised us ? It is one thing to try to challenge a well-established newspaper like Cocorioko but quite another to provide an alternative. I am very disappointed .The layout and design are terrible , like the few articles you can access.
Subject: Re: SLPP New People is a rag-tag newspaper
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 06:34:57 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
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The New People is also the name of a monthly on line Publication by the Thomas Merton Society. ( To me) this suggests that some of the CKCers and old Edwardians who we are to assume are the founders of the SLPP paper are under the influence of Thomas Merton’s ideals and will endeavour to abide by ideals of fairness in reporting and debating. “As a publication of the Thomas Merton Center, the paper reports on the issues of war, poverty, racism and oppression, raising the moral questions involved in the non-violent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world.”
http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/The_New_People/
You may be hasty in judging the quality of the maiden issue, but later cone to realise that such were the humble beginning of an important organ of the SLPP – and in the absence of the presidential website which is down for the time being, along with the official SLPP website “the New People” is now assuming the role of voice of the SLPP people. This updated issue has many interesting news and views features and is there fore a contribution to the diversity of media sources that reflect the political spectrum that is Sierra Leone. WE could also say, “that reflects the political ethnic and tribal spectrum” and would still be inclusive, wouldn’t we? Don’t leave anybody, not even the lunatics (from the moon) out.
If there is this fascination with tradition, and with the old SLPP (of Sir Milton) and of the idea of “continuity”, then we must be wondering, why they call themselves the “new” people. No doubt some of them are “born again” but I think that it’s part of normal Sierra Leonean consciousness to be aware of the old and the new. The old SLPP (corruption and unbridled nepotism under Sir Albert Margai) and the new SLPP (in which “corruption blooms like grass “and has been spreading like wildfire since the SLPP took office some eleven years ago. It is those eleven years that are under the microscope and the people of Sierra Leone have been examining their conscience as to whether the SLPP should continue with the same “Continuity” as Alhaji Kabbah and his crown prince the 69-year old Ekuma Berewa call it.
NEW? Even old Berewa would like to be NEW! Or should like to renew……
The people of Sierra Leone – at least in the parliamentary elections have decided that the NEW APC has an overwhelming majority of seats in the Sierra Leone parliament, and even in the unlikely event of Mr. Berewa winning the run-off, there will be no rubber-stamping of bills that he may introduce in parliament, for approval – and this includes the appointment of some dignitaries that he must have in mind, for appointment, should his dreams and prayers come true. At 69 years of age, most people – at least in Sweden have gone into retirement, and some into deep sleep. In Sierra Leone of course – there is the deadliest child mortality in the world and the average life span for men being 37 and for women 39, Berewa and Kabbah are indeed living on extra time, and do not look forward to a nearly retirement in the grave.
I have looked through the latest edition of the SLPP paper:
http://www.thenewpeople.com/
You could also be encouraged to read through AND engage those spurious views and other contestable assertions of theirs. The ensuing public media debates and discussions are all an essential part of democracy. In yesterdays DN (Dagens Nyheter) morning newspaper, in the DEBATE section the Swedish minister of Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson had a page wide article on the new Swedish policy on development cooperation / partnership.
Here is the article:
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=572&a=685219
I was at the SIDA headquarters yesterday between 16.30 and 19.45…. and left the premises with a young UNDP official who hopefully will be in Sierra Leone soon….
The Social Democrats are unhappy about the downsizing of aid and the downsizing of the number of recipients/ partners/ co-operators:
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1042&a=685550
Also in today’s DN in the Political Section there are two pages of print , words, map and diagrams which SIDA spokespeople devoted to supporting the government’s new policy of development aid and co-operation: here is the on –line version :
: http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=147&a=685399
Hon Momodou Koroma, the able Foreign Minister and Minister of International co-operation must be quite pleased with the inclusion of Sierra Leone – since Sierra Leone has not had any bi-lateral ties with Sweden prior to now, and so we must congratulate him too.
One of the features of the new Swedish policy is that it will be more transparent and accountable; this means that money, materials, manpower and labour will not be frittered away without much to show for it. Sweden has very valuable experience and has been a major contributor to countries like Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, , Bolivia, Mali, Vietnam , China ( There are many Chinese students studying in Sweden ( of course in order to return home to contribute to the progress of their great country.
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/3102/a/57203;jsessionid=aJa_tymtf_j4
Subject: Re: SLPP New People is a rag-tag newspaper
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 23:05:57 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
You are absolutely right, bro. It is the most unstimulating bunch of crap I have ever waded through, even worse than Sylvia's little monster, Awareness Times. Even es el pee pee crazies are going to be offended by the stale propaganda they peddle over there. I literally had to down a Red Bull to resuscitate myself after I dumbed my way through that Alaki slum of a newspaper. Politics aside, there is no intellectual stimulation. It really is that dreadful and totally bereft of ideas, like their naked emperor, Solo B (B for bombed out of ideas). I don't think Kabs Kanu is going to lose sleep over this latest rabbit to come from the SLPP's hat. I am willing to give the amateurs at Berewa's newest mouthpiece one more chance to get their act together before I write them off. C'mon guys, this is not amateur hour.
Subject: Re: SLPP New People is a rag-tag newspaper
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 23:33:03 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-147-108.patmedia.net at 24.225.147.108
Message:
I never lose sleep when Sierra Leonean charlatans come out to challenge me in journalism. The reason is not that I consider myself the best.No, the Lord forbid it .It is left with the world to decide that .But one thing I know and that has always worked for me.You have to have passion for anything , not only to last in it but do a great job in the final analysis. Remember when Awareness Times too did the same 2 years ago.During the first anniversary of the paper, the publisher was not even ashamed to write that she set up the paper because of me ? Has she excelled me ? It is left with you to decide.
And I am not doing this job full time ! ! ! I am a school teacher with lots of work.I also have a weekend job that takes most of my time. I only do all this in my free time. If God ever helps me to devote myself only to this work, you can just imagine what God will help me accomplish.
Another thing that makes me not to lose sleep is my faith in God. The Lord knows that I am doing this work faithfully without any ulterior motive or hope for a reward .I just want to be of service.
Long after these charlatans would have gone, God providing life, I will still be in this job, because I LOVE IT .
Please stop condemning their newspaper before these chicken brains start saying that I am the one doing it with different monikers.
Subject: Re: SLPP New People is a rag-tag newspaper
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 23:52:21 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Again, I doff my hat to you sir. As one educator to another, you get an A plus. The others....well, it's too late for summer school.
I will heed your admonition and stop slapping their paper. I will just titter in private. Stay blessed, Rev and thanks for giving us a home away from home.
Subject: Re: SLPP New People is a rag-tag newspaper
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 23:42:56 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
KABS KANU, this forum is democratic and everyone has the right to criticize these little bums. They are ungrateful and desperate. Do you remember sometimes ago when I criticize you for using manual update that distort the feel and look of your site? That shows you that some of us who are in this field criticize for professonal reasons and not political. I think if these guys want to improve, they will listen to our criticisms and make some changes, but trust me they will not accept defeat, I wonder how they will accept professional criticisms. This is because they think they are the best in everything even though they are destroying themselves.
Subject: Re: SLPP New People is a rag-tag newspaper
From: Ishmael Yillah
To: All
Date Posted: 23:40:48 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-191-0-118.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.191.0.118
Message:
God will surely bless you Rev. and do not mind your detractors because even Jesus was detracted and even persecuted for his good deeds.
Stay bless my brother!
thanks,
Ishmael Yillah
Subject: Re: SLPP New People is a rag-tag newspaper
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 22:53:57 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
I said it earlier, but some mischivous slppers attacked me. I just ignored them because most of them are like a ship that is steadily sinking in a big ocean. All the crews will want o hold on anything on their way to safety. Actually, that website should not have been announced by this time until they thoroughly design it in a professional way. I hope they are willing to change the look and feel. I once criticized cocorioko for the way they do things manually. That changes the look and feel of the website every time they update it because they have to create a whole new page and in the process distort the look of the site. However, cocorioko is far better than the so called new my ass site. Your designer need mre work on the site. I waas told more website are in the making. Good for sierra leone.
Subject: Re: SLPP New People is a rag-tag newspaper
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 23:40:08 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sprint-65-160-229-33.smf.ragingwire.net at 65.160.229.33
Message:
NICO.. Why do you have to wait until midnight to attack the SLPP? Una Dae fraid dem during the day?
Subject: I was impressed by Ernest Koroma
From: independent youth
To: All
Date Posted: 22:27:41 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 67-150-255-152.oak.mdsg-pacwest.com at 67.150.255.152
Message:
listened to the Mr Koroma's interview today on VOA and I must say he was very eloquent in stating his vision for s/l. VOA promised to have an interview with Mr Berewa. Looking forward to it.
If I were to vote my decision will be based on which party I think will deliver the goods not which party leader is Mende, Temne, Limba, e.t.c. I have been reading some of the posts and it looks like some have vendettas they want to settle and their intentions have nothing to do with the development of s/l. The sad thing about the situation is these same people make up the majority of both major parties.
Hopefully, Young dynamic, untainted individuals will come along. individuals who instead of calling each other names, they are more concerned with providing universal medical coverage, good roads, food, etc for the people of s/l
Subject: Is this journalism ?
From: Nationalist
To: All
Date Posted: 22:02:44 08/27/07 ()
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Message:
Can somebody tell me what category of journalism the article below ( Culled from Awareness Times) belongs ? A surprised non-Sierra Leonean called me this evening to bring this article to my attention. Where is the media code of ethics that the PPRC and the IMC asked journalists to go by ? What is even surprising is the deafening silence of the wolf pack of SLPP supporters who have been jumping on other papers for unfavourable articles against the SLPP. I have not read this kind of editorialised so-called news item in amy of the newspapers the SLPP supporters are bashing. This is the worst example of one-sided reporting I have even seen. The silence of SLPP supporters over this "news item " shows how dishonest and unprincipled they are.
NEWS : Breaking News
APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally announce their support for the SLPP in Sierra Leone
By Awareness Times
Aug 27, 2007, 19:57 Email this article
Stay tuned for the full report on the announcement today by the Leader of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Amadu Jalloh, who has over the weekend pledged the NDA's support for the Sierra Leone People's Party Candidate Solomon Berewa. NDA Executive has denounced the Internet publication of Photographs taken of Margai, Koroma and the NDA Leader that was taken BEFORE the elections at a Presidential debate. Also, stay tuned for loads of other news including the unimaginable thuggery that the All People's Congress has embarked on after seeing the support that has been building up for Solomon Berewa. Yesterday, Sunday August 26th 2007, thugs wielding shiny, sharp cutlasses attacked Awareness Times staff right inside our offices. Today, in Kono, APC thugs have attacked the close friend of President Kabbah, Madam Isata Jabbie (aka I.J.) right inside the house where she was staying. Her cousins in the house were left with broken bones and missing teeth whilst she barely escaped with her life in Kono. Stay tuned for the unfolding events in Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Is this journalism ?
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 22:41:25 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Sylvie Baby is not really a journalist. She is a medical doctor who can't help doctoring the truth. I know she has the morals of a skunk and practices slimeball journalism but I truly love her. I don't care what you guys think. I just have this thing for bald, skunkish, slimeball divas who incorrigibly doctor the truth. Why do I still love her? I don't know. To me it's like one of those absolutely disgusting, but very necessary functions we are forced to endure periodically. So you go, Sylvia. Skunk away!
Subject: Re: Is this journalism ?
From: Nationalist
To: All
Date Posted: 22:45:13 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I learnt that she is not even a medical doctor.She is fake,I learnt.
Subject: Caution Alpha Saidu
From: The guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 21:54:57 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Alpha Saidu, it is quiet apparent from your posts previous and current that you are deliberately short-changing you self of gratis information. Information is power, and as it stands, you appear to be as feeble as a tapeworm.
A word to the wise: Please refrain from making unsubstantiated utterances. You are ardently against any and all APC affiliation. “Words once let out can not be taken back”. We saw that with Trent Lott (Senate majority leader), Don Imus (Television personality), George Allen (Senator) Mel Gibbs (Actor) just to name a few. These men compromised their realization of self-actualization by saying the wrong words at the wrong time in the wrong place. Their words came back to hunt them.
Please tell me different, but it is clear that your interest is with the SLPP party at all cost, regardless of its inability to deliver on its mandate. With that attitude you will never lead. Your reputation will precede you and that will render you much less than what you bargain for. Watch your mouth brother, a word to the wise is… Question: what is your/the fundamental ideological difference between the APC and the SLPP? Awaiting your response thank you.
Subject: Re: Where is Tom Nyuma and Maada Bio
From: Kekuda
To: All
Date Posted: 21:48:02 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-69-218-212-54.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net at 69.218.212.54
Message:
I thought they were the new kingmakers in the country's politics. The people have spoken loudly and no more rebels will be tolerated. What happened to Sia Tiyama and the rest. Tom will be too sorry now. Na now i go know say deportation bad. I heard that Maada asked the SLPP to allow him to unleash vengeance but Berewa rihgtfully declined. How the mighty has fallen. The blood of the Salami Coker et al lives on.
Subject: Re: Where is Tom Nyuma and Maada Bio
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 22:20:28 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
Probably imploring Berewa not to allow APC to come to power, democracy be damned. "Pa Berewa, if U allow de runoff for take place, U don kill we all! We Ranger den doh ready for set katakata and declare U president, pa. Nar di only way O."
Don't be surprised be if those two maggots were behind some of the recent skirmishes in Freetown and Kono
Subject: Re: Where is Tom Nyuma and Maada Bio
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 22:09:27 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 65.78.170.125
Message:
Tom and Maada are reconsidering as to whether they would not ask for forgivenes. They are regreting their entire life.
The mighty have really fallen. They came to enjoy; that was what they told us when they took power in 1992 and they passed it over to their Kinsmen who also said it was time for them to enjoy in 1996, as if rulership were something to enjoy.
In any case they did what they said they came to do--to ENJOY. Now the tides are not in their favor. What will they do? They forgot about the people for enjoyment, so we will pay them finally on the 8th for enjoying so selfishly and foolishly. ONE PEOPLE ONE POCKET!
Subject: IF I WERE SOLO BEE!
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 21:47:01 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 65.78.170.125
Message:
If I were so-low Bee, I would conceded to save my country of the much needed money for development. I would be the first African politician to set that pace. I would be called a Pace-setter, former Vice President and former Attorney General. That would go into the history books around the world. I would go back to my law office and start defending my old clients.
Subject: Re: IF I WERE SOLO BEE!
From: kekuda
To: All
Date Posted: 21:49:20 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-69-218-212-54.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net at 69.218.212.54
Message:
the man too worwor for realize that. Bra nor waste you time.
Subject: Re: IF I WERE SOLO BEE!
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 21:58:12 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 65.78.170.125
Message:
E not jess worwor, e nor compitent.
Subject: Re: IF I WERE SOLO BEE!
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 22:33:10 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
Entered From: 000-060-046.area3.spcsdns.net at 68.244.233.166
Message:
I wonder why the folks at COCORIOKO, will allow you people to insult a man who throughout his life time had served our country in various capacities to the best of his knowledge. But when one out of control forumite used profanities against the APC, he was banned. But oh! God, we live in a world of favouritism. Can we just respect each other. This forum should be a place where we exchange ideas not insults especially when it is been headed by A MAN OF GOD. The atmosphere here should be that of civil exchanges not profanities against our leaders. If Hon. Ernest Koroma, emerges as the winner or not he will be always respected by decent folks like us although we do not admire his political party. Remember,if you want to be respected, you should be respectful.
Subject: Re: IF I WERE SOLO BEE!
From: Kekuda
To: All
Date Posted: 09:35:32 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gate02c.merckmedco.com at 167.211.190.2
Message:
I crave your indulgence brother and applaud your moral stance however; I don't think a moral line was crossed here. There are no profanities involved in say that SOLO B is incompetent and not good looking. Are you rebutting the fact that he's ugly? In as much as good looks is only a minute percentile in a candidate's marketability but please agree that it sells to the populace. Solo B does not look trustworthy. He has to prove us wrong and so far he hasn't done that.
Subject: Awareness Times is trying to incite war in Sierra Leone
From: Kanforie Sorie Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 19:17:28 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-147-108.patmedia.net at 24.225.147.108
Message:
I am blindly APC, but I dont consider the SLPP enemy.I will argue with an SLPP person, but fight ? Nah. However, because of the presence of evil people like Sylvia, we will soon start another war in Sierra Leone. Sylvia Blyden's articles are downright inflammatory and divisive. You can report on elections violence without intruding into the story with your hate tone. If I were SLPP, the article on Awareness Times today would have incited me to hate APC supporters and feel like getting my own bac on them. If journalists like Sylvia Blyden are not spoken to,they will bring war in Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Awareness Times is trying to incite war in Sierra Leone
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 23:00:09 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
Trust me sylvia's time is up. She will soon realize that it is better to be with the people than against them.
Subject: Beware of Sylvia Blyden's propaganda
From: Christo Bull
To: All
Date Posted: 18:58:51 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Anything Sylvia does stinks. You remember when she ran the Ninjas website.It was full of lies and confusing information.
Subject: Why did SLPP jail Bewarenesstimes Mother?
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 18:55:32 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
Could some Slpper with a slick keyboard let me know? Because to jail ones Mother then brainwash the daughter is an amazing feat!!! Or does it say something about the daughter? Good night!
By the way day three has gone by without a SLPPer defending the rigging at Kailahun. I will now rest my case. Guilty as charged!!
Subject: Re: Why did SLPP jail Bewarenesstimes Mother?
From: ANSWER
To: All
Date Posted: 19:41:35 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I hear say it was because Bewareness times daughter cursed the SLPP's kabbah and Berewa during the rebel invasion and then ran away before Belewa could railroad her into prison or Kula-Samba-like execution.
So, Belewah turned to the readily available Bewareness Times mama to make her take the place of her Bewareness daughter at the cell at Pa Demba's mansion for anti-SLPPers that Belewah had prepared for Bewareness Times daughter.
Subject: Re: Why did SLPP jail Bewarenesstimes Mother?
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 08:52:46 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
In other words Fullah for Fullah!
Subject: Re: Why did SLPP jail Bewarenesstimes Mother?
From: ANSWER
To: All
Date Posted: 09:22:25 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
No, Basco, mon ami, tha's not what happened in this case. In this case, it was Creole for Creole. Or more to the true point of desperate SLPP Belewah's bestiality: Mother for Daughter.
Or, as the Bible did state it in inverse order: The sins of the (mother) would be visited upon (the first) generations (of daughters).
Subject: Re: Why did SLPP jail Bewarenesstimes Mother?
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 13:19:57 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
I am on the floor in stiches!! man you crack me up!!
Subject: The Phrase SLPPers hate to hear
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 18:46:45 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
Man den nor Gladi Oh.
But how can one be Happy when there is no........etc etc! The problems are to many you will have to fill in the gaps!
Subject: Cocorioko remains the best
From: Ahmed Sillah
To: All
Date Posted: 18:29:30 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-147-108.patmedia.net at 24.225.147.108
Message:
Awareness Times failed to accomplish its goal, which was to surpass the excellence of Cocorioko. Now another paper has come to challenge Cocorioko. Let's see how far they can go. Blama,Blama, the truc is here now.As for me, I will always love CocoriOKO.You now why ? It is alwaysthe best.
Subject: For the record Political
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:17:14 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I DO NOT HAVE TO FALSIFY ANYTHING. I DID NOT STATE THAT PAUL WAS MY BROTHER. PLEASE READ MY STATEMENT CAREFULLY, I SAID COUSIN. FOR THE RECORD PAUL'S FATHER WAS LATE ABBAS KAMARA AND HIS MOTHER WAS MABINTY BANGURA FROM PORT LOKO BOTH PARENTS WERE CHILDREN OF CHIEFS. EVENTHOUGH I AM A SLPP SUPPORTER, I HAD STRONG FAMILY CONNECTIONS IN THE APC THAT YOU ARE PRAISING. MY LATE COUSIN WAS A VICE PRESIDENT IN THE APC WHO CHALLENGED SI.
I DO NOT HAVE TO LIE OR SPREAD RUMORS. THAT IS THE MODUS OPERANDI OF APC. I WANT THE BEST FOR SIERRA LEONE. SIERRA LEONE IS BIGGER THAN ANY PERSON OR PARTY. SLPP MADE THEIR MISTAKES. BUT I JUST DO NOT THINK ERNEST IS THE BEST PERSON TO RUN SIERRA LEONE AT THIS TIME, THE CURRENT APC MORE HAS MORE
QUALIFIED PEOPLE THAN ERNEST.
THINK BE RUSH TO CRUSH ALL SLPP SUPPORTERS. I AM AN SLPP SUPPORTER WITH SANITY
Subject: Re: For the record Political
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 21:56:07 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
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IF ERNEST IS NOT AS QUALIFIED AS SOME OTHER APC PEOPLE, ARE THERE NOT PEOPLE IN THE SLPP THAT ARE MORE QUALIFIED THAN KABBAH AND BEREWA PUT TOGETHER? ARE THEY NOT THE OUT-GOING PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT? WHAT QUALIFICATION SHOULD SOMEBODY GET TO RULE SIERRA LEONE? BUT THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN AND WILL HAVE TO SPEAK LOUDER ON THE 8TH. THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT ERNEST IS EVEN OVER-QUALIFIED TO RULE THE COUNTRY AT THIS TIME.
Subject: Re: For the record Political
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 03:56:15 08/28/07 ()
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unfortunately, it boils down to who has the money to finance the campaign. of cause there are were better people in SLPP than Berewa and Kabba but they did not have the funds. Hence the Charles Margai saga. If he had money, it would have been a different story from 1996.
Subject: Growing pains
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:13:19 08/27/07 ()
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Sierra Leone is experiencing growing pains. The defaet of the SLPP in the first round of elections comes totally unexpected and is a bitter pill to swallow.
The SLPP's ace was in rigging the elections but unfortunately they could not pull it from under their sleeves.
They thought that if Nigeria could do it why not Sierra Leone. The public outcry would last for only a short time and things would be back to normal.
Such is the calculation of Military coup leaders. But the international environment is becomming increasingly less tolerant and coup plotters are becomming gittery.
The hidden ace in their sleeves (rigging) explains the arrogance of Berewa not to debate the opposition to make his case to the Sierra Leone public. It also explains why they never paid mind to the splitting of the SLPP by Charles Margai even though they saw that the APC was eager to mending fences and build bridges with former supporters of the APC and with Charles Margai.
The SLPP was intent on denying the electorate the right to decide freely and fairly who should govern Sierra Leone in the next five years,
But as fate would have it, their strategy failed and Sierra Leone won. But it is not over yet. They may still try their game in the runoff's.
My fear is that the runoffs, unlike the first round is going to be bloody.
God bless Sierra Leone
Subject: Re: Growing pains
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:26:10 08/27/07 ()
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ALIE NO NEED TO FEAR. EVEN IF ANY PARTY HAD THE INTENTION TO RIG THE ELECTIONS, THEY COULD NOT. SIERRA LEONEANS HAVE CHANGED, THEY ARE NOT GOING STAND FOR IT. THE PEOPLE ARE VOCAL AND REBELLIOUS.
IF SLPP COULD RIG THE ELECTIONS, WOULD N'T THEY HAVE DONE IT THE FIRST ROUND. BEREWA WAS TALKING ABOUT WINNING BY 75% RIGHT.
OUR ONLY FEAR IS THE BATTLE AFTER THE RUNOFF, I DO NOT SEE EITHER PARTY ACCEPTING THE RESULTS AS IT IS GOING TO BE CLOSE.
ONLY A COALITION GOVT WILL WORK.
HOW IS ALBANY & COLONIE . I USED TO DO AUDITS AT ST ANNE INSTITUTE.
Subject: Re: Growing pains
From: Absolutely!
To: All
Date Posted: 18:19:16 08/27/07 ()
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The SLPP's ACe up their sleave now is MONDEH. Mark my words.
Subject: WE WANT TO STAY IN THE BARRAKS
From: concerned soldier
To: All
Date Posted: 18:09:29 08/27/07 ()
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I am writing as a soldier to condemn some of the writers who are saying that we the military will interfere with the govanment. We are professional soldiers who have sweared to respect civilian politisians who are democratically elected. We are not hooligans. As long as there is democracy, we will defen the constituton. We however love our country too much to see us slide into disorder and unlawfulness. Many of my friends are very concerned about the fighting and disorder betwien the parties. We hope politisians will get rid of dangerous tribalism. We are neutral but we wlll not allow our nation to collapse. We are watcheng events unfold abd we wont allow things to slide to the bad years. We warn the politisians to keep democracy strong becaus our duty is to a democratic govanment, not to a thugs or undemocratic govanment. Please sort this matter in a fair ballot and don't drag us from the barraks to politics please. Long live the military. Long live Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: WE WANT TO STAY IN THE BARRAKS
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 18:16:05 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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You sound like a SLPPER with a finger on the trigger and ready to rig! You are not a concerned soldier. These are the bad old days. Who has put Kamajor above the army? Who has refused to pay army wives that have lost their men in war? And why did the barracks vote to a man to get rid of the SLPP?
Subject: THE NEW PEOPLE IS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
From: Vandi Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 16:55:13 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I like the layout of the paper, the intellectual arguments wherein and the opportunity to look at Salone from a different perspective. I was going to vote for Ernest Koroma but after perusing the New People I have started having a change of heart.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE IS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:36:00 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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The New People is welcome, and even in this season of jungle propaganda, the editor has to ensure that he cuts out much of the libel and slander, that his enthusaitic writers think amount to correct political speech or satire... He should also make sure that his paper does not foment an ugly tribal war/ tribal wars between the rival tribes
I've looked through the whole paper this morning. It ceratinly would not get me to vote for Mr.Berewa from darknesss to light the next five years.
Of course Mr. Berewa would like everybody to love him.
It's very easy: all he has to do is to be loving.....that's all.
This means that I am not Vandi Koroma who might want to reach into the Freetown darkness for the reassuring
hand of his leader elder Berewa, to lead him through the darkness.......
The Clash of Civilisations takes place on the international stage (the globe). Locally there is a clash within that little crucible of a civilisation in a certain country (Sierra Leone) that is shared by the APC and the PMDC who are also fighting for our rights, there’s also the SLPP and other tribes……..
We are now on the low ground, 176/177, Sierra Leone level:
At least the maiden issue of “the New People” has David Keili’s painstaking analysis of the first round to recommend it.
And now perhaps you now understand why Bob Dylan sang,
“ Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.”
The rumour mongering and omniscient lies of IBRAHIM ISHAKA BAH’s does not auger well for the SLPP, because even under Mr. Albert Margai, the SLPP was more observant of the laws that govern journalism, and not as touchy as Mr. Kabbah or Mr. Kabbah & Berewa about that Libyan rice, of selling which they stand accused as the good doctor has stated in a nutshell, “Karmor ( - - ) was the man who helped Kabbahlaria sell the rice and other goodies that Libya gave to the people of Sierra Leone.”
Interestingly enough, the new people quote Philip Neville as saying that he “lied about the Libyan rice” Now, when everybody is asking questions about de rice, who should be punished?
Seldom is it that we read on a departing president’s epitaph ““To be continued”.
Not even our own toothless Ozymandias’ is going to have that on his gravestone.
The article “Tradition and Continuity” sounds like an introduction to the saga of Alhaji Kabbah’s knight in shining armor, Prince Ekuma Berewa.
When it comes to Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma we would be talking about renewal and redoubling of efforts to serve the PEOPLE.
“Tradition and Change” would apply to the dynamic and outward-going Sir Charles or Sir Margai III, as he is now sometimes respectfully called.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE IS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 17:37:15 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-34-26-113.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.26.113
Message:
Vandi, you are one of the votes Ernest Koroma does not need to become
the next president. I guess you are a tif tif Pa Kabba follower.....join the
sinking ship of sleepy Berewa.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE IS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 17:16:21 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I never heard of Vandy by koroma. Oh Slpp cheap propaganda. We will know you all after the election because will start expossing your real names.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE IS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
From: mohamed
To: All
Date Posted: 18:17:01 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: dyn252-03.cod.edu at 192.203.136.252
Message:
How naive and unsierra leoneane you sound. No wonder you never put your name, to be identified as either sierra Leonean or otherwise. First of all, let me ask YOU a simplple question, did you attend both elementary school and secondary school in Sierra Leone during the APC regime? If yes, then you were one of the most domant student in the class especially in social studies. If no, then you need to go back to your social studies book dated back in the 80sor 90s you will find out that one of the paramount chief in pujehun was Koroma. to be precise MOJOI KOROMA. You see when it is politics in Sierra Leone you see and hear from all the evil narrow minded individual.As you HAVE forgetting you SOCIAL STUDIES note so you have forgetting the power of the SOUTHERNAN AND EASTERNAN. WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF THE SOUND OF THE MARKET. We believe in action rather than the voice of an evil nightingale. PEACE AND LOVE BE TO EVERY PEACELOVING SIERRA LEONEAN
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE IS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 23:11:45 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
And your point is? I dont understand the words that are coming from your mouth. I am talking of Vandy and you are talking moijo. Give me a break.
Subject: Charles Margai Calls Press Conference; PMDC issues Press Rel
From: AWARENESS NEWS
To: All
Date Posted: 16:46:51 08/27/07 ()
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NEWS : Politics
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Charles Margai Calls Press Conference; PMDC issues Press Release
By Ansu Lansana (PMDC Secretary General)
Aug 24, 2007, 22:00 Email this article
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The National Executive Council of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) sincerely thanks the International Community, the National Electoral Commission, the Sierra Leone Army and Police and all others who in diverse ways contributed to the current success of the 2007 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. Special thanks and appreciation also go to the numerous PMDC members and supporters without whose invaluable support the PMDC could not have performed so remarkably at the polls.
Now that the final results are about to be certified and published by the National Electoral Commission, the obvious next stage of the electoral process is a run-off between the All People’s Congress (APC) and the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP). In that regard, approaches have been made by both the APC and the SLPP soliciting support from the PMDC.
In an earlier Press Release, dated 14th August 2007, the PMDC had indicated that in the event of a decision to lend support to any of these two parties, that decision shall not be influence by tribal or regional sentiments. This position was taken so as to address the polarized voting pattern of the electorate in the just concluded first round of voting. The North and West voted predominantly for the APC whilst the South and East voted predominantly for PMDC and SLPP respectively. Any decision by the PMDC to form alliances based on tribal or regional considerations would further divide and disunite Sierra Leoneans.
In our nationwide consultations and deliberations considerable consideration has been given to our party’s espousal of Positive Change, the performance record of the SLPP and their avowal of continuity and the undertaking by the APC to make a clean break from their past.
The PMDC had always extolled Positive Change from anything negative to everything positive in the governance of Sierra Leone and the well being of the citizenry. We still look forward to a day in history when Sierra Leoneans would give us the mandate to make this ideal a reality.
After the 1996 general elections the people voted in the SLPP on the high expectations that a Tejan Kabbah administration would redeem them from misery and poverty. They had high hopes that the government would provide social services and the basic necessities of life. The SLPP woefully failed to meet these expectations, blaming their failure on the war. They were therefore given another second five-year opportunity in 2002. They failed the people again due to corruption and mismanagement of the economy. Their sub-standard performance at the 2007 polls is no doubt indicative of the low level of confidence the people have in them.
Another important concern that has influenced us in our deliberations is the welfare and protection of our members. The spate of intimidations and harassment of our members by elders and traditional rulers had reached alarming proportions during the campaign period. As such, there is no guarantee that should the PMDC lend support to the SLPP, these intimidations and harassment would stop. The SLPP has a poor track record of keeping promises. .
Another consideration has been the performance of the APC at the polls. That performance reflects the desire of the people for a change in governance. This is coupled with the fact that Ernest Bai Koroma had earnestly declared a departure from the APC of the past and promised to usher in a new APC governance style.
It is the view of the majority of members and supporters of PMDC that this time around it is Ernest Bai Koroma who should be given the opportunity the SLPP had twice been given and twice misused. By reason of the premise the PMDC hereby declares support for Ernest Bai Koroma in the upcoming presidential run-off and hereby calls on all its members and supporters to come on board and support Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma’s APC in the interest of national unity and development.
One for all
All for One
Long live PMDC
God Bless Sierra Leone
Done this 24th day of August, 2007
ANSU B. LANSANA - NATIONAL SECRETARY GENERAL
© Copyright by Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Subject: The fruits of peace: Good news for Sierra Leone
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 16:25:49 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The first phase of the Sierra Leone elections has demonstrated a Sierra Leone capability for seriousness and for peace. Love, true love among and between us can come a little later......so lets be patient......
Press release 27 August 2007
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
The new development policy :
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/7952/a/86595
True, Sweden has no previous bilateral ties with Sierra Leone and Sweden has downsized the number of countries that receive development aid, from 70 countries to 30 countries.
The good news for Sierra Leone is that SIERRA LEONE is included in the lucky 30.
In the first category of countries with which Sweden has long-term development partnerships are Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Bolivia.
In the second category of post-conflict countries or areas with which Sweden will now pursue development co-operation: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, SIERRA LEONE, Somalia, Sudan Afghanistan, East Timor, Irak, “The West Bank”, Gaza, Colombia and Guatemala. “Special and flexible programmes that will contribute to the eradication of poverty, and to sustaining peace and working with reconstruction!
IN the third category are countries/ areas of Eastern Europe with whom Sweden is carrying on REFORM work -/ cooperation: Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldavia, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine.
Also this:
Gunilla Carlsson, Sweden‘s new minister for International development co-operation.
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/7954/a/74236
Subject: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 16:00:34 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
Report has just reached me that there was a heavy fighting in waterloo town this evening Sierra Leone time between some SLPP supporters and APC residents in waterloo. My friend who was travelling from Bo to Freetown came to the scene and called me immediately to report the incident. I was fortunate to have a phone card at the time I was able to talk to him right in waterloo and I heard a lot of noise in the background. The waterloo people were saying the SLPP can kill them but they cannot stop them from voting for APC. I told my friend to let me talk to one of the residents and he passed the phone to one Amadu Turay who told me that there was a van full of SLPP supporters who came from Freetown singing with the slogan no SOLO B, no government. Upon hearing that according to Amadu, some APC supporters who were in the street (lorry park) started singing two ships full of rice are enough for SLPP, in reponse to the SLPP supporters who were dressed in SLPP T-shirts. Insults and counter insults ensued and two SLPP supporters with alcohols bottles in their hands jumps from the van and broke the bottles, started stabbing the two APC supporters. One died on the scene and the other later died in the hospital. The SLPP supporters sped off as the residents started coming out with machettes and other farming tools to revenge. The police later came to the scene. Waterloo was very tense due to this incidence.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: Jimmy Kandeh
To: All
Date Posted: 18:29:50 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: jkandeh@richmond.edu
Entered From: ppp065039.richmond.edu at 141.166.65.39
Message:
Political:
My sources in FNA confirm your account of what is going on. SLPP cannot win this election and are prepared to take our country down with them. Only the SLPP has the incentive to resort to violence in these elections. Kabba and Berewa will be chased out of FNA if they refuse to accept the verdict of voters. I understand they don't want to leave because of what they have done to despoil our country but they cannot stay either - their time is up and they should realize that the people who want them out by far outnumber those who want them to stay.
Kabba should learn from Rawlings, whose presidential candidate (John Atta-Mills) was defeated by Kuffour in a violence-free election. Rawlings accepted the outcome and still lives in Ghana. But then Kabba is no Rawlings - the latter left his country in a much better state than it was when he took over.
Rigging and blatant tribalism has so far not worked, so the SLPP is now perpetrating violence to stay in power. God help our country and people. Jimmy
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: Amadu Kabbah
To: All
Date Posted: 21:32:41 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: amadutkabbah@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 65.78.170.125
Message:
Times are changing, so also are the people. It sounds so strange to hear SLPP thugs. We used to hear APC thugs. But under the new leadership, the APC has made the nation and the world to know that it is a reformed political party that means good for the nation. You can clearly see that the present SLPP is the blend of the old APC; they were the thugs; they have the tactics and training, so that they would want to deny democracy. But den faint late. They are doing just what they used to do when they messed up the old APC and flipped over to the SLPP in 1996.
I am not surprised that SLPP would resort to thugery. Do you think they would accept to go hororably? They would rather wreck the country than decide to go quietly and honorably. But whether they decide to go quietly or any other way, they will have to go. On their departure they should NOT leave bad prints on the people's minds like they have done already.
The new APC has men and women who have their heads on their necks. They have vision and passion for the country, and are determined to take it to the point where SLPP would say IF WE BIN KNOW.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 23:23:16 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: Saigobe@lanset.com
Entered From: pool-71-179-7-225.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net at 71.179.7.225
Message:
We should avoid making things out that are not there. I believe it is just a bunch of irresponsible fellows out to cause problems. I am certain that the behavior is not approved by the SLPP.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 18:41:58 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65-78-54-33.c3-0.upd-ubr7.trpr-upd.pa.cable.rcn.com at 65.78.54.33
Message:
Its a pity how low our so called interlectuals can go.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: Jimmy Kandeh
To: All
Date Posted: 19:28:13 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: jkandeh@richmond.edu
Entered From: ppp065039.richmond.edu at 141.166.65.39
Message:
Your pity, Sir, should be directed at the SLPP. The degenerate leaders of that party can use your pity, especially after the voters kick them out of office. The greater pity is that you cannot even spell intellectual. No need to engage your ilk.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 19:37:35 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You just proved my point. I know you will come down that low. Shame on you. We go continue for hit you osie you nor go bear. Damn opportunist. E lef pan you.Babu yie oh.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 16:31:48 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
SLPP thugs should stop killing poor APC people.
I don't think that this statement needs to be repeated.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: LAJILA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:35 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The opposite happened. SLPP Party Office has displayed all the innodent wounded SLPP supporters attacked by the APC in Waterloo this evening. APC is desperate. Their rigging has been exposed. Imagine they register 19,000 people in one constituency and 31,000 people voted. Lajila!!!!
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: KEKEMIA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:31:46 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Can you show us the wounded SLPP displayed by the party? The two that were killed were SLPP or APC supporters? ES-SEL-PIPEE is going down and they can do anything to cause havoc.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 16:03:16 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Another lie incident by Alieu iscandri? You lost the Kono propaganda... Now you are bringing us a waterloo incident..
Where is your credibility? Where is the Alieu that we knew before the elections?
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 18:16:14 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
tell me if I could post the last item under my own name why would I be so afraid to post this one with my own name. Please give me a break
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 16:28:41 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Tell me whose ballots did Christiana Thorpe kick out? No SLPPer will answer the question posed.
Does anyone remember the rest of the words to a seventies song that went 'A shame Oh, A shame oh...
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: LIE-MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 17:45:18 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sprint-65-160-229-33.smf.ragingwire.net at 65.160.229.33
Message:
There were more ballots thrown out from APC strong holds than the SLPP.
So continue with your usual tif en lie.. Check the NEC website and calculate..
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 17:53:57 08/27/07 ()
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Message:
Read you fool! From Christiana
The Chief Electoral Commissioner Christiana Thorpe however announced that in their final tally they had to recount for a few stations in 10 of the 14 districts.
Consequently four ballot boxes were invalidated because the results “were suspicious and the Commission was not satisfied that the results are completely credible.”
In three of the four cases, in polling stations 1078, 1168 and 1084 all in the Kailahun district, “the polling centers recorded a higher number of votes cast than registered voters.”
In the fourth case involving polling center 8197 in the Tonkolili district, “the polling station recorded exactly 600 votes and it was apparent that one person had marked a significant number of ballots.”
These four ballot boxes were invalidated.
LIeLie true to your name. Ting don trong for you nar. As a bin tell Nar U Sabi... U go sabi! Ah Shame Oh!!
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 16:08:15 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
I think you really hate Alieu Iscandri eh? I am not Alieu Iscandri my brother. I am your ngor POLITICAL. Trust me this incident just happened today and I talked to one Amadu Turay who confirm that to me. Some one or some news paper will soon publish that and that the time you will believe Ngor false prophet. Alieu Iscandri has nothing to do with my handle.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: babs
To: All
Date Posted: 16:25:12 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: delaw80@hotmail.com
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POLITICAL, u are a useless bastard, who ever gave u the info is equally guilty of the same useless propaganda. u and ur APC will rotten in hell. stupid fool
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 16:33:59 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
I take your rudeness as a compliment for the SLPP. Thank you for you cuss cuss. There is nothing more to say, but cuss-cuss. That's the symptoms of nervous breakdown and desperation.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: babs
To: All
Date Posted: 17:48:35 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: delaw80@hotmail.com
Entered From: host81-152-54-242.range81-152.btcentralplus.com at 81.152.54.242
Message:
When a reckless fool like u "POLITICAL" decide to spread malacious propaganda to tanish the good name of the SLPP and well-meaning Sierra Leoneans, the best therapy for u is to sink the rottenness in u. Idiot try to learn to say my name and the truth.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 23:19:51 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
If I reply you in the same way, then I am no better than you. This is why I will leave you in your unbrought up mist. I think my postings are read by tens of thousands of people and it is better to be respectful. I cannot engage in mammy cuss-cuss.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: babs
To: All
Date Posted: 06:18:17 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: delaw80@hotmail.com
Entered From: host86-151-40-196.range86-151.btcentralplus.com at 86.151.40.196
Message:
How can u POLITICAL, u just had your brain implanted with some sense of sanity. looooooooooooooser like your dad Ernest KOROMA.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS KILLED TWO APC SUPPORTERS IN WATERLOO
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 17:55:32 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
bab see bab Babs runna way!! Ha Ha Ha Ha !
Subject: Tired of all of you
From: BiKekeh Mia
To: All
Date Posted: 15:42:00 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: Sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
Faux
I am tired of all these so call SLPP of my origin that are trying to bluff about what Solo B is going to do next.
Look! I am an SLPP from the Root up but that man has not done a good job to remain in power. It is may be because he is too old to govern or just don't care about the country. Even if he wins now, Guess what? He cannot govern because APC owns the Paliament. All of the good minister like John Bejamin (I don't how much money he pocketed) will not retain his post because he might not be approve by the Paliamant.
He ran a bad campain lets face it. Let give power to whoever deserves it. But for Solo B. He can go back and sleep some more. Did you get it? Haaaaaaaaaaaa Me na PMDC O.
Subject: Re: Tired of all of you
From: PORROT
To: All
Date Posted: 15:51:12 08/27/07 ()
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Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
It don't matter for we will use executive power to appoint him anyways.....john Ben will be in the next Cabinet.
Subject: Re: Tired of all of you
From: Bikekeh Mai
To: All
Date Posted: 16:01:56 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: sorba_1@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 209.116.81.187
Message:
I don't how that works but I still feel he has to be approve by majority in the house. Correct me if I am wrong
Subject: Re: Tired of all of you
From: PORROT
To: All
Date Posted: 16:05:13 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
you are right.. Thats why if he is not.. we will wait for a recess and appoint him...
Its simple.. And it does work.. nar dat we go do...
The man has being in my view the best Finance Minister yet in salone .
Subject: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP join SLPP
From: The Independent Awareness Times
To: All
Date Posted: 15:13:33 08/27/07 ()
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Message:
NEWS : Breaking News
APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally announce their support for the SLPP in Sierra Leone
Stay tuned for the full report on the announcement today by the Leader of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Amadu Jalloh, who has over the weekend pledged the NDA's support for the Sierra Leone People's Party Candidate Solomon Berewa. NDA Executive has denounced the Internet publication of Photographs taken of Margai, Koroma and the NDA Leader that was taken BEFORE the elections at a Presidential debate. Also, stay tuned for loads of other news including the unimaginable thuggery that the All People's Congress has embarked on after seeing the support that has been building up for Solomon Berewa. Yesterday, Sunday August 26th 2007, thugs wielding shiny, sharp cutlasses attacked Awareness Times staff right inside out offices. Today, in Kono, APC thugs have attacked the close friend of President Kabbah, Madam Isata Jabbie (aka I.J.) right inside the house where she was staying. Her cousins in the house were left with broken bones and missing teeth whilst she barely escaped with her life in Kono. Stay tuned for the unfolding events in Sierra Leone.
Aug 27, 2007, 19:57
Subject: Re:BEWARENESS TIMES HAWK DESPERATE SLPP LIES
From: bEwaRE
To: All
Date Posted: 15:41:16 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
SLPP must be running really desperate about the new APC's victory on Sept. 8. How do we know? Now they tout the lies of the BEWAREness Times as if they are not aware that they should beware of a pathological liar like the publisher of Bewareness Times.
Wait a minute. Was this not the same woman who sore vengeance against SLPP Belewah for jailing her mama? Why should be believe her now when she praises the "dog child" she had cursed for jailing her mother a few yeaRS AGO/
Subject: Re:BEWARENESS TIMES HAWK DESPERATE SLPP LIES
From: Fan of the Great AWT
To: All
Date Posted: 16:10:41 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-216-226-231-132.wdb.ses-americom.net at 216.226.231.132
Message:
One thing I know is that Sylvia is one of the finest Sierra Leoneans of this generation. A brave woman who stands tall for the truth. I 100% believe her report that the NDA has declared for SLPP against what the pro-APC Cocorioko and anti-SLPP Standard Times is peddling. Sylvia, please ignore the detractors. Your newspaper is standing tall. I can't wait for the full reports.
Subject: Who emerged triumphant out of the NPRC Coup?
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 13:51:09 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
To name a few, Tejan Kabba, Berewa, John Ben, John Karimu. Need I say more?
Subject: Re: Who emerged triumphant out of the NPRC Coup?
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 17:45:45 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-34-26-113.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.26.113
Message:
What do you expect? SLPP = NPRC
Subject: Re: Who emerged triumphant out of the NPRC Coup?
From: Notice
To: All
Date Posted: 13:59:04 08/27/07 ()
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Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
in other words, the present SLPP leaderrs benefitted more than any one from the NPRC coup.
Now they want to use the NPRC coup makers to make another coup to defraud the people of Salone. We nor go gree. The people have spoken: NO to SLPP backwardness and no light, no water, ho good for the people. GO. SLPP korkor, go.
Subject: Re: Who emerged triumphant out of the NPRC Coup?
From: basco
To: All
Date Posted: 14:44:04 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
You wan say dem get KORKOR?
Subject: Hands UP ALL those Going to Oldpeoples site
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 13:47:20 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
This would be the way to flush out all the SLPPers.
I won't.
Subject: NewPeople? Are you joking!!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 13:29:03 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
Could all SLPPers remove themselves from this site and go to sylvies site. Birds of a feather ....
Subject: Re: NewPeople? Are you people joking?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 18:39:35 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
People, more people, new people, the new people....
ethnic groups: Mende 35%; Tenme 32%; Limba 8%; Kono 5%; Bullom-Sherbro 4%; Fulani 4%; Kuranko 3,5%; Yalunka 3,5%; Kissi 2%; other 3,4%
languages: English (official); Creole, Mende, Limba, Tenme, Krio
religious affiliation: Sunnî Muslim 39 - 60%; traditional beliefs 30 - 51%; Christian 10% (> 5% Protestant)
In 1970 the population of Sierra Leone was below 3 million.
The population in 2007 is above 5 million
Below is an account of how this population increased:
” I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population. ”
( The Vicar of Wakefield – by Oliver Goldsmith.)
Yes, that's what they have been doing, making
More new people,
The beautiful people the wonderful people, the suffering people
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/sierra_leone_ethnic_1969.jpg
Subject: Re: NewPeople? Are you joking!!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 15:30:14 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
New
Subject: Re: NewPeople? Are you joking!!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 15:29:59 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: lneuilly-152-22-86-119.w193-251.abo.wanadoo.fr at 193.251.27.119
Message:
You wan dreb we? Not a good thing to do as we are all part of the whole that separates us in the interest of natural justice.
Subject: Re: NewPeople? Are you joking!!
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 15:22:11 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-65.covad.com at 66.134.72.65
Message:
Is this how the APC hope to rule Sierra Leone? Please be respectful. Asking people to remove themselves from this forum is not how we treat others. We agree to disagree but remain professional and friendly.
Subject: Re: NewPeople? Are you joking!!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 16:35:15 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
Bird of a feather flock together. How come Bewarenesstimes forum is not attractive to you SLPPers? Cant people of the green persuasion discuss amongst themselves? I wonder if they could have a discussion about light, water, roads, health,teachers pay and the ship load of burma.
Subject: Re: NewPeople? Are you joking!!
From: STUPID TOEGONDOE
To: All
Date Posted: 15:04:27 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-75-53-199-205.dsl.hstntx.sbcglobal.net at 75.53.199.205
Message:
I belong to the PMDC and support Charles Margai, but I do not believe that Cocorioko is better than Thenewpeople in terms of design, and objectivity. The Cocorioko web site is badly designed, full of pro-APC diatribe, and focuses too much on badly written opinions/rants by APC operatives in the Diaspora.
The New People is a breath of fresh air that will give balance to the presentation of news in the Diaspora.
http://www.thenewpeople.com/
Subject: Re: NewPeople? Are you joking!!
From: SHAME
To: All
Date Posted: 22:23:11 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-147-108.patmedia.net at 24.225.147.108
Message:
I have just tried to access the New People and none of the links are working .The website is very badly designed.News items are bundled under one link and when you click the link, something else comes up. It is the worst designed Sierra Leone website. And you idiots had the guts to compare it to COCORIOKO ? What is wrong with you ?
Subject: Re: NewPeople? Are you joking!!
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 16:05:00 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
Yes, you are right!!!! New with Alieu Sesay, Johnny liar, old popay chez and a bunch of dry bone slppers.
Subject: Re: NewPeople? Are you joking!!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 16:40:08 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
I concur!! Must of us are not APC card carrying members but we are definately anti- no light,pipe borne water,anti-corruption and anti SLPP. And so are the Majority of Sierra Leoneans as the first rounds have proved.
Subject: SLPP THUGS AGAIN
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 13:27:47 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
I have been made to understand that yesterday trhere was fighting at PZ and waterloo and as I write this, SLPP thugs are on the rampage in Kono destroying everything red includiong the personal vehicles of innocent citizens.
Please stay tuned for more information.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS AGAIN
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 15:34:39 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: lneuilly-152-22-86-119.w193-251.abo.wanadoo.fr at 193.251.27.119
Message:
The greatest and highest of all propangadist. I am really afraid now that SLPP are now into thuggery, an act synonimous with APC antics.
Yes agba ookini - very classic - await more!
Subject: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally ann
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 15:18:14 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-65.covad.com at 66.134.72.65
Message:
How can you contrast this with your story?
CULLED FROM AWARENESS TIMES
Stay tuned for the full report on the announcement today by the Leader of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Amadu Jalloh, who has over the weekend pledged the NDA's support for the Sierra Leone People's Party Candidate Solomon Berewa. NDA Executive has denounced the Internet publication of Photographs taken of Margai, Koroma and the NDA Leader that was taken BEFORE the elections at a Presidential debate. Also, stay tuned for loads of other news including the unimaginable thuggery that the All People's Congress has embarked on after seeing the support that has been building up for Solomon Berewa. Yesterday, Sunday August 26th 2007, thugs wielding shiny, sharp cutlasses attacked Awareness Times staff right inside our offices. Today, in Kono, APC thugs have attacked the close friend of President Kabbah, Madam Isata Jabbie (aka I.J.) right inside the house where she was staying. Her cousins in the house were left with broken bones and missing teeth whilst she barely escaped with her life in Kono. Stay tuned for the unfolding events in Sierra Leone.
Aug 27, 2007, 19:57
Subject: Re: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally ann
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 07:05:49 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96
Message:
We know that the name APC is synonymous to thuggery and violence because that is all they know. They can not win free and fair elections.
Subject: Re: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally ann
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 16:24:30 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
This crap should be on the Oldslpppeoples site
Subject: Re: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally ann
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:43 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
The guy cannot even carry his own village let alone changing any dynamics in the run-off. It is hard times for the SLPP because they are ready to hold on to anything that will make them survive from drowning. It is a shame for the SLPP to make the NDA declaration a breaking news. This shows the desperation in their camp.
Subject: Re: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally ann
From: Dumb APC
To: All
Date Posted: 16:24:43 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-216-226-231-132.wdb.ses-americom.net at 216.226.231.132
Message:
You miss the angle of the title. BECAUSE APC SEES NDA AND OTHERS LEANING TOWARDS SLPP, THEY EMBARK ON THUGGERY. THAT IS THE BREAKING NEWS YOU DUMB APC ASSHOLE!!!
Subject: Re: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally ann
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 18:04:07 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-147-108.patmedia.net at 24.225.147.108
Message:
O.K, BECAUSE you have used profanities during an ninnocent argument, you are gone.I had allowed you to mae multiple postings under different monikers from that Internet cafe, but I cannot allow you to bring profanities here.
Bye.
Subject: Re: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally ann
From: babs
To: All
Date Posted: 18:18:10 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: delaw80@hotmail.com
Entered From: host81-152-54-242.range81-152.btcentralplus.com at 81.152.54.242
Message:
Kabs Kanu how about the other APC thugs that have been abusing people all over this forum? are they gonna be expelled as well? Is this a dictatorial forum with Rev Kabs babs carrying the magic touch. Oh APC Kabs please una gee we freedom ah beg.
Subject: Re: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally ann
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 08:10:04 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-074-228-219-218.sip.asm.bellsouth.net at 74.228.219.218
Message:
Because you SLPP TIFF TIFF CORRUPT guys can not hold a dissent debate of IDEAS,we will advise you to STAY at that of your FURSTRATED,DESPERATE for PROGRESSIVE IDEAS FORUM.Until you guy LEARN how to hold a dissent debate,please leave the PROGRESSIVES FORUM alone.
Subject: Re: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally ann
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 18:23:54 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
Bab ses bab Babs runna Way!! Go to newpimpul site.
Subject: Re: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally ann
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 16:47:23 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
Why do you guys are engaging in cuss-cuss. No one talks about your old SLPP assholds that are about to be kicked the APC. Stop this desperate behavior.
Subject: Re: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally ann
From: Loser APC
To: All
Date Posted: 16:16:31 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-216-226-231-132.wdb.ses-americom.net at 216.226.231.132
Message:
It was not a shame for the APC to make it a breaking news??????? ha ha ha
What about the 19,000 registered and 31,000 who voted in that constituency up North???? ha ha ha
APC bet dog na Cline Town. Yuna wait.
Subject: Re: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally ann
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 16:44:55 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
John Karimu you nor di shame for show you sef nar dis forum after di rouge way you na rouge na Kailahun. You feel say Christiana nor sabi cont? Nar you nar six day nar Kailahun but you nar return 14,000 votes.
A shame oh?
Subject: Re: APC goes ballistic with violence as NDA and PLP formally ann
From: APC RIGGED ELECTIONS
To: All
Date Posted: 15:31:51 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-216-226-231-132.wdb.ses-americom.net at 216.226.231.132
Message:
How can you contrast Amadu jalloh damning the APC as demonical liars who used his picture without his permission to spread their LIES?
APC is full of 99 tactics. They rigged the last elections thinking they will win 55% but now the chips are down and no more rigging will take place.
Christiana Thorpe is just a white elephant.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS AGAIN
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 13:28:56 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Those are the APC THUGS.... But wait this time we will teach y'all a lesson you will never forget...
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS AGAIN
From: alieu Ceesay
To: All
Date Posted: 13:47:23 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Wrong, Edmund Koker aka alieu sesay, they are SLPP thugs. Iscandari has credibility. you don't.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS AGAIN
From: STUPID DUMBO
To: All
Date Posted: 15:09:35 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-75-53-199-205.dsl.hstntx.sbcglobal.net at 75.53.199.205
Message:
No Alieu Ceesay (alias Morris Foday Ceesay). Alieu Iscandri has not credibility. Listen to the BBC Network Africa program and then the interview with AIG Charley. Also, listen to BBC's newshour, and listen to RFI too. They all give the same account. APC women started singing and throwing stones at the SLPP party activists. The activists reacted (as they should in self-defence) and the rest is history.
Subject: Re: SLPP THUGS AGAIN
From: alieu Ceesay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:34:25 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Seld-admiited STUPID DUMBO alieu sesay aka False Prophet, listen up:
When the British say your SLPP leaders are corrupt, you say they are biased against your corrupt govt. Now, wonder upon wonders, suddenly the British media are your authhority on the truth! Are we to conclude that you are corrupt becos the British say you are?
Subject: Sierra Leone's visionary opposition leader extols Ernest
From: culled from Awoko
To: All
Date Posted: 12:58:20 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 130-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.130
Message:
Charles Margai extols Ernest Koroma
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The leader of the People's Movement for Democratic Change(PMDC), Charles Francis Margai
Declaring his support for the All People’s Congress (APC), the leader of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC), Charles Francis Margai, has praised Ernest Bai Koroma as a man of “sincerity, dedication, commitment and above all integrity which I cannot attribute to Mr Solomon Berewa.”
Making his statement at their party’s headquarters in Freetown over the weekend, the PMDC leader said their stance to “defend and to align ourselves with Ernest Bai Koroma is in the national interest as we are thinking of the future of our children”.
Explaining about the declaration for the APC Mr Margai stated that, “as I said sometime ago that the PMDC was born out of the desire of the people of Sierra Leone to bring about change… positive change in the political history of our beloved country “
And as the presidential run off, between the APC and SLPP, has been slated for September 8, “so we as a party have decided without any reservation to lend support to Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma leader of the APC in this run off.”
Support, he said, “doesn’t mean dissolution of the PMDC, the identity of the party remains distinct we are determined to lend our support to Ernest”.
The people of the country, the PMDC leader went on, had spoken that they wanted change “and Ernest Bai Koroma stands for change.”
Stressing further Mr Margai said, “during the presidential debate I noted that Sierra Leone had gone through a lot of unnecessarily harm. APC no doubt under Siaka Steven and Momoh did a number of harmful things but I dear say that the APC under Ernest Bai Korma is a different type of APC. I can without any hesitation compare Ernest’s APC to that of Tony Blaire’s New Labour”.
Continuing he maintained that, “I am placing my political life and career as from this moment on the vice that with Ernest Bai Koroma as the next president of this republic. We would all say hosanna. I for one would not stand idly by and see him fail this nation.”
Mr Margai urged all Sierra Leoneans to “put tribalism, sectionalism and regionalism behind us and this is what urged me to appeal to the membership of the PMDC to lend support to APC”.
Adding that, “never again will the North-South/ Eastern divide raise its ugly head in this Republic of Sierra Leone for as long as I live and even long before my death which will be soon.”
The PMDC leader then asked their party’s secretary general, Mr Ansu Lansana, to read a press release which sealed their alliance with the APC.
In the release, it was stated that another reason for the party to declare support for the APC was the spate of intimidations and harassment of their members by elders and traditional rulers which was alarming during the campaign period and as such, “there is no guarantee that should the PMDC lend support to the SLPP, these intimidations and harassment would stop as the SLPP has a poor track record of keeping promises”
Another consideration, the release noted, had been the performance of the APC at the polls as the performance reflected the desire of the people for a change in governance.
During that joint press conference on Saturday, the PMDC’s national publicity secretary, Mohamed Bangura, explained that after a closer look at the other political parties, “we came to the realization that the APC under the leadership of Ernest Bai Koroma together with us we can usher in the positive change that the PMDC is ready to enforce.”
Setting the record straight Mr Bangura explained that, “the PMDC is not a divided party as it is being rumored.
We are calling on all our supporters to come out and support the APC under the vibrant leadership of Ernest Bai Koroma”.
The PMDC national publicity secretary cautioned PMDC members that, “we as a party would like to inform our membership that the PMDC still remains the PMDC”.
In addition, the APC’s secretary general Victor Bockarie Foh started his speech by congratulating the NEC chairperson, staff of the commission and Sierra Leonean who exercised their democratic right during the elections.
Responding to questions posed to him by media practioners about measures put in place to educate people on how to vote, he said this time round APC would do any thing possible to make sure void votes were minimized. Also when asked how prepared they were for the run-off, he emphasized that he had confident that the APC would win even if they went into ten run-offs.
The secretary general appealed to the Sierra Leone Police Force to be non-partisan and allowed people to exercise their rights on voting day.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone's visionary opposition leader extols Ernest
From: STUPID DUMBO
To: All
Date Posted: 15:06:11 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-75-53-199-205.dsl.hstntx.sbcglobal.net at 75.53.199.205
Message:
Typical political arse-licking by Charles Margai. That is what he does before he starts undermining and destroying his bosses. Ask stupid Tejan kabbah for details.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone's visionary opposition leader extols Ernest
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 13:15:34 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-34-26-113.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.26.113
Message:
The late Thaimu Bangura said the same about SLPP and tif tif Pa Kabba.
The late Thaimu died with disappointment. APC and Ernest will not
disappoint Charles Margai and the people of Sierra Leone.
Subject: THE NEW PEOPLE
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 12:19:44 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-65.covad.com at 66.134.72.65
Message:
Sierra Leone is blessed with brains who always rise to the occasion. Please visit the link below for addition insight into events unfolding in Sieera Leone.
http://www.thenewpeople.com/
Sylvester Johnny
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 16:54:01 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
Are you campaigning? You should go to Sierra Leone to campaign for the SLPP. Your site sucks.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE
From: STUPID DUMBO
To: All
Date Posted: 19:58:45 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-75-53-199-205.dsl.hstntx.sbcglobal.net at 75.53.199.205
Message:
Political, the site is better than the Cocorioko web site in everything: design of the web site, quality of contributors, quality of the editorials, quality of the news stories reported.
I wonder what else you're using to assess the quality of the web site.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 13:18:58 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-34-26-113.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.26.113
Message:
Another propaganda machine!!! DO NOT RUN AWAY FROM THE HEAT of
the truth. This forum is objective and a venue for all progressive Sierra
Leoneans.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE
From: Orkaibah
To: All
Date Posted: 13:13:11 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: master-02.brg.sgsnet.se at 193.11.202.74
Message:
This site is even worse than the awarenesstimes site.No intellectual will like to part of such a site!
Sylie boy it is too too late for your propaganda machine to gain ground.Being a Solo Bee bootlicker, you should have done this two years go but alas your bootlicking made you so stupid that the idea is coming only now.I mean no offense.
The best thing to do now is advise Solo Bee to be a good boy and hang his boots for 2012.
Subject: LAKUM DEENU KUM WAL-YADEEN
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 12:41:14 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-074-228-219-218.sip.asm.bellsouth.net at 74.228.219.218
Message:
Listen man,why try to recruit us to your TRIBALISTIC SITE? We are tire of you and your ilk trying to use your MENDENESS to win the run-off.Why don't you tell us what your failed party has done for Mama Salone in the past 10yrs,and what you intend to do to give us our $1.7billion that your party has stolen from our coffer?Inviting us to your tribalistic forum is not the answer to the problems of MAMA SALONE.So please stay at your tribalistic forum and we will continue with our PROGRESSIVE THINKING FORUM.As the title said in the quran "FOR YOU YOUR RELIGION,FOR ME MINE"
Subject: Re: LAKUM DEENU KUM WAL-YADEEN
From: Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 13:17:11 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-191-151.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.191.151
Message:
I am just fed up with how you keep on attacking people rudely. This brings me to question whether you actually live abroad or in some remote areas of the jungle. Sylvester Jonny has a democratic right to introduce his online newspaper. Why don't you play healthy politics? Even if you do not agree with other people's views you can agree to disagree without any disrespect. This is what healthy politics is all about. People like you are bringing disrepute to the cocorioko forum. I would like to think that all parties will agree with me on this. The poor guy did not even made mention about tribe or anything but because you are so fixed in your ways you did not even allow yourself time to think and respond to his contribution coherently. We all want the best for our country but people like you are the ones preaching violence and I should say tribalisim as well. This is the reason why there is this myth that the northerners are agrressive when infact they are not with the few exceptions like yourself. It is equally your democratic right to criticise but please show some respect for others and stop making derogatory statements about other people. Do unto others as you would expect others to do unto you. May God Bles you for taking this advice. By the way I am a northerner and I am proud to be one.
Subject: Re: LAKUM DEENU KUM WAL-YADEEN
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 17:32:50 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-204-124-192.hsd1.ga.comcast.net at 71.204.124.192
Message:
Being a Northerner does not make any different as to what I said,if only you could have taken your time to read and understand the message of my thread,but you as a SLPP apologist,it is hard for you and your party members to grasp anything that is good for Mama Salone.You guys are so NAIVE that when someone shouts the word 'THIEF',I bet you a $1 you will start running,because of what our people call GUILTY CONCIOUS.I bet you a $1 to prove me wrong if there is any member on this forum who is a northerner,and was born and raised in a SLPP family,but decided to pitch tent with the opposition? So before making any assumption about things you don't know about,take your time to understand what you read.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:29:36 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: lneuilly-152-22-86-119.w193-251.abo.wanadoo.fr at 193.251.27.119
Message:
I see notjing wrong with the site. A Brilliant job. Every political party should have the privilege to have an organ of communication. Whatever detractors may come up with - it was long overdue - thank God for it. God Bless you guys.
My plea is for us to engage in a constructive and responsible reporting.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE UNSERIOUS E-RAG TAG
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 12:21:45 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 130-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.130
Message:
It is a drack site and its dilation clearly represents its creators image. Its hypothetical harangue can only be found in a site controlled by a group of tribal maggots.
We are in the age of technology but certainly quality and objectivity must be maintained at all costs. The uncouth texts you accomodate in your website say all about your naked move to give a helping hand to a dying serpent.
It is serious online newspapers like Cocorioko, Standard times, Patriotic Vanguard, New Citizen, Awoko that readers will look at. Jalloh, we are not a nation that wants to live in squalor and dirt that your SLPP fancies. Some of you are missing the opportunityy to take Sierra Leone to another height where love and unity abound for everyone. "If wishes are horses, beggars would have ride".The only news in your newspaper is a desperation of few tainted educated guys who want to do the dirty work for their Master. Expose yourself and drag your image on the mud. Good for you all.
Wae truckey young, e nor get waist nar wae e old e go get waist?.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE UNSERIOUS E-RAG TAG
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 12:36:52 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-65.covad.com at 66.134.72.65
Message:
Thw orst thing about the election is that it has brought to light some innate feellings about your fellow country men. I am not going to engage you in tribal discussions since my thinking power is far above that. To say that the paper is controlled by "tainted" educated guys is a misrepresentation. People like have no plans to take up a job in Sierra Leone. I am more than comfortable here. I honestly believe that the APC is not the answer to the country's current problems. If you could come up with issues to debate, I may respond. Otherwise, I have better things to spend my valuable time on.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE UNSERIOUS E-RAG TAG
From: JAY
To: All
Date Posted: 13:22:38 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-191-151.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.191.151
Message:
Well said.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE UNSERIOUS E-RAG TAG
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 12:47:46 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 130-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.130
Message:
You hold me to task to say that the creators of the SLPP online site are tainted. Well, tell me why the APC is not the answer to the current crisis in ou Country?
Please, leave behind fabrications and allegations of South easterners got murdered by the APC, when you fully known that the Minah, Gendehmenh, Sama Banya, Joe Jackson, Joe Amara Bangali, Jusu Sheriff, Man Kpaka, Moiwo koiji, Ndomahina, Jamiru, Pujeh, SS Banja, and many, many more were part of the APC.
I want you to state honest facts and credible evidence when you give an answer.I am not an APC supporter. Nut because, my leader Charles Margai has thrown his support behind the APC, I am also behind the APC.
So when you relate all the dismal performance of the APC, I will come to you with my observation.
Thanks
I honestly believe that the APC is not the answer to the country's current problems.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE UNSERIOUS E-RAG TAG
From: Gbata
To: All
Date Posted: 12:59:30 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy3.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.13
Message:
Syl,
If you can not even spell "not" please go sit down and stop writing. You spelt it as "nut".
There is a spell check available for bad spellers like you. Also, do not be too hasty is a political debate. Be genuine and take your time. The top folks in your SLPP do not even know you exist.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE UNSERIOUS E-RAG TAG
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 13:19:04 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-65.covad.com at 66.134.72.65
Message:
You are looking for an opportunity to attack my personality and I am not going to fall for that. I would refer you to your APC educated folks. They may tell you that I am a school drop out. I am not in this fight because someone in the SLPP knows that I exist. I am going to live you in your state and condition.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE UNSERIOUS E-RAG TAG
From: Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 13:26:17 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-191-151.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.191.151
Message:
Well done.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE UNSERIOUS E-RAG TAG
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:36:11 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: lneuilly-152-22-86-119.w193-251.abo.wanadoo.fr at 193.251.27.119
Message:
Take it or leave it - the truth is that it is an organ of communication for the SLPP! Is there anything wrong in journalism that believes in a course and embraces such so as to show the world entire about the inadequacies of some individuals in the opposition (APC) party that are attempting to take us back to the days when young boys will abandon Sierra Leone in search of peace and better education. I will not pray for such an era for the young minds of tomorrow's sierra leone.
Bravo to The New People and The Spectator News!!
Long Live Sierra Leone! Long Live SLPP! Long Live Solomon Berewa!
Subject: Skirmishes in Freetown!
From: Mammy Blessing
To: All
Date Posted: 12:12:42 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
I hear that tension in Freetown is very high as marauding gangs of APC and the SLPP supporters confront each other.
I hope that the nefarious politicians pulling the strings in the shadows stop playing with fire before it singes them badly. I know a lot of these SOBs don't give a damn about the country and will go to every despicable length to thwart the electoral mandate.
If the runoff election is disrupted as a result of thuggery, and blood flows in the city, I have no doubt at all that the military will stage a military coup and set us back donkey years.
I am appealing to all patriots- SLPP, APC and PMDC- to appeal to the politicians to give peace and democracy a chance. Bow now to the people's will and try again in 5 years or play games and get banished to the political wilderness for a generation. Please let's save our country from the impending doom of a coup. We need to save these politicians from themselves.
Please, please, please keep the soldiers in the barracks and away from State House! Let's have clean elections. Losing the vote is not a shame. It is a badge of honor that should be worn proudly when you try again in another five years. An imperfect democracy is better than a military dictatorship.
Subject: Re: Skirmishes in Freetown!
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 17:12:00 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
All we need is peace, but the SLPP want to give us pieces.
Subject: Re: Skirmishes in Freetown!
From: Sorbeh
To: All
Date Posted: 17:25:40 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65-78-54-33.c3-0.upd-ubr7.trpr-upd.pa.cable.rcn.com at 65.78.54.33
Message:
We lef ge' you Johnny. E go take care of you.
Subject: STOP FANNING THIS POTENTIAL FIRE
From: IsatuK
To: All
Date Posted: 11:07:31 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 203.109.86.241
Message:
My Dearest fellow Sierra Leoneans,
I am kindly apealing to those on this forum or elsewhere to not use this or any other time as the best time to pick out our tribal differences.
Don't fall for it!!! We ALL NAR WAN. APC, PMDC, SLPP, CPP whatever party, we are all one.
DO not be such political despots, that you resort to such tactics.
This country needs stability more than anything else right now to continue. Everyone has the right to vote for any party on the basis of the paltform they showcase, and it's your choice, but live out bigotted ideas that divide us. Please talk on the issues, as to why APC is better or why SLPP is better etc., it will help us more. If another radio station wants to pick up on this, then I say I condemn them as in my previous postings.
LET PEACE REIGN!!!!!!!
Subject: Re: STOP FANNING THIS POTENTIAL FIRE
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 13:02:59 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-34-26-113.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.26.113
Message:
Peace will also reign under the APC banner. It is so ironic to imply that we
are a big family when we agree to the SLPP talking points and "STOP
FANNING THIS POTENTIAL FIRE" when we disagree. IsatuK, participants in
this medium are mature and capable of making informed decisions for the
advancement of Sierra Leone. Thanks for the lecture and may I remind
you, we can read between lines and comprehend more than you can
imagine. We are talking about the issues and any form to thwart then is
anti democratic. LET PEACE REIGN under the APC banner.
Subject: Chez no mention of SLPP vote rigging?
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 09:00:21 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
Chez you SL:pp guys will never accept the truth even if it was rammed up you. Your leaders john ben and karimu tried to rig the elections in Kailahun. Not one of you shameless fools have mentioned it.Thank god for Christians Thorpe!
The youths are standing by for you guys to make the same move,that is stuffing boxes with illegal ballots.
Subject: Re: Chez no mention of SLPP vote rigging?
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 12:24:24 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-66-134-72-65.covad.com at 66.134.72.65
Message:
Basco,
I know you were missing some of us. I have been busy working on another project but I am back with vengence.
Subject: Re: Chez no mention of SLPP vote rigging?
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 13:30:22 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
Syl ,talk about the disgraceful rigging. are you not ashamed?
Subject: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Brima Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 08:28:08 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 202.161.146.131
Message:
It has just come to my notice that all the NPRC guys who came back and presently in the country are all in the SLPP. That just shows that the SLPP were in fact the people behind the unconstitutional overthrow of the APC. They then handed over to their political fathers. Now they are using them to threaten people.
Please, I want to ssure every Sierra Leonean to be rest assured that the SLPP cannot use the military to cause any problem in the country. In fact the military hated the SLPP more than the rest of the country. Dont forget 2002 when it was the military that voted against the SLPP en-mass. In fact it was the military that showed the people of this country that the SLPP were a good for nothing bunch of opportunists. The army will never do anything unconstitutional for them. Of that I am 100% sure. Tom Myuma and others have no following in the military because the NPRC failed to do eanything for the army. Even to give them good conditions of service was a problem. They dont even have the guts to enter any military barracks let alone use soldiers. I know exactly what I am saying. If you dont believe it then go to the barracks and see how soldiers are jubilating and praying for the end of "Den two fut arata dem ya".
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 14:05:01 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: at 66.99.61.254
Message:
.....point of correction......
No sir NPRC was not SLPP in disguise.
If so was the RUF facilitating the return of the SLPP? ....I don't think so.
If so why did the NPRC appoint Hassan Conteh who was President Momoh's ADC as Chief of Defence Staff?
If so why was Dr. Abbas Bundu an APC veteran asked to serve as foreign Minister?
Why was Momoh's right hand boy...Brigadier Kelly Conteh appointed Army Chief of Staff under the NPRC?
Did you know there were more Kono natives in the NPRC than Mendes?
Did you know that the US ambassador under the NPRC was a key APC figure?
There are more educated Mendes in Sierra Leone today than any other tribe, does that make every Mende an SLPP supporter?
Does that make the SLPP the party with the most educated elites?
Go check your facts.The composition of the NPRC was a statistical coincidence.
Reconstruct your analysis or deconstruct your impish fallacy.
Dig me up...I am an ex-soldier, a Mende, and wholly anti Kabbah since 1996.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: ABK
To: All
Date Posted: 14:12:48 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-39-159.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.39.159
Message:
"There are more educated Mendes in Sierra Leone today than any other tribe, does that make every Mende an SLPP supporter?"
I beg to differ from your above statement-Don't you think that there are more educated krios than anyother tribe in Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 19:09:08 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: at 66.99.61.254
Message:
Check the graduation records of the University of Sierra Leone.For three years in a row, the data shows that Njala,FBC and MMTC had more matriculating students than any other nationality. That excludes supplementary figures from the diaspora.
It was not an approrpiate statement to make. I apologise, but I have been collecting sensitive data on everything Sierra Leone. To prove this point here is another data worth sharing- Students of Temne descent also outnumber Krios.
Lebanese population in Sierra Leone has increased 22% since 1994.
Let's watch them folks.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: ABK
To: All
Date Posted: 19:23:00 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-39-159.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.39.159
Message:
Are you coputing your data as a percentage of the total population of an ethnic group or are you just looking at whole numbers.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise ( ATTN: JACKAL)I
From: KOKIE MORBA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:36:16 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip4da2899b.direct-adsl.nl at 77.162.137.155
Message:
I'm pleased to learn that you are an ex-GI. Meet your colleague.... i'm braced... sit me easy! Please submit some tips on your wartime unit/ops/AOR to substantiate claim.
Standing-bye !!!!!!
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise ( ATTN: JACKAL)I
From: ABK
To: All
Date Posted: 16:15:14 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-39-159.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.39.159
Message:
How do you know that I am an ex-GI.What unit were you, battle.I am infantry.Airbone lead the way.HOAAH.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:13:39 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
AFRC WERE APC IN DISGUISE. By their brutish and violent behavior
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: JAGAT PAL
To: All
Date Posted: 10:41:37 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: jagbondal@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: host86-144-13-80.range86-144.btcentralplus.com at 86.144.13.80
Message:
Man,it seems like you are strange to the politics in sierra leone.who destroy our well respected forces?[Police and Military].Who use these institutions to compensate thugs after elections or for their concubines?I don't want to use the word ignorant,it may sound abusive which I don't want to be involve in.Those days in Sierra Leone if you do not have APC connection you will not be recruited in to the arm forces.Who were the AFRC?Can you please tell this forum.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 11:24:57 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
If you look at the military structure during the APC, for sure you will not so biased to say that the Military was choosen by "who they know" or have connection. Look at the promotions of army officers during tht APC. One of the strongest barracks during APC rule was the kailahun district where we come from and if you know what I am talking about most of the folks there were south/easterners. The Nyuma, Bios,SAJ and a bunch of those folks were recruited during the APC. So don't fan lies in this topic.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 11:33:58 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Do you know the strength of our ARMY in the APC days?
Do you know the constitution of the ARMY during their RULE?
You mentioned few BOYS/Names and that's it..
Tell us here on this forum the Highest Ranking SOUTHERNER/EASTERNER in the ARMY under the APC Government?
You do not want us whose parents were Jumped over for promotion because they were not from the North to spill beans my FRIEND. Do not push your LUCK.
Your APC fucked up the ARMY big time.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 13:35:44 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
Then the SLPP finished of the Army. that is why you fools do not have the backing of the army. Make Mondeh stagger Sept 8. Watin we do NPRC election day go small!
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 13:52:30 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Bo lef brag... There is nothing you can do... pass put han nar ade en cry you eye balls out.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Indepemdent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 14:04:40 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
He is not like you. Don't assume he would do what you always do -- 'put han nar ade en cry you eye balls out.'
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: NO CUSSING
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:43 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
use polite language. there arte decent people here, you know.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Historian
To: All
Date Posted: 11:20:18 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
"who destroy our well respected forces?[Police and Military]."
The Sell Salone People Party (SLPP) did it in 1967 by preaching tribalism to Brig. David Lansana and Himga Norman to cause them to misuse the "previously well-respected forces [Police and Military]."
"Who use these institutions to compensate thugs after elections or for their concubines?"
Again, the SLPP did it between 1961 and 1967. That is how they were abole to geth two of those thughs, Lansana and Norman to drag the respect of the armed forces into the gutter of Mende tribalistic politics.
What you don't know or want to admit because it is painful for you is that "Those days in Sierra Leone if you do not have [SLPP] connection you will not be recruited in to the arm forces."
Very true starting from Salone's independence to the SLPP's introduction of military coups in our law-abiding Salone in 1967, just so that its tribalistic leaders acould defy the will of the people anf remain in power.
Just like the same SLPP's tribalistics leaders are now trying to do 40 years later. Monkey noh ba leff een black han. That's SELL SALONE PEOPLE PARTY (SLPP) for you. TOTALLY UNPATRIOTIC AND SHAMELESS. AND CRIMINAL.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise - CALLING ON JACKAL
From: KOKIE MORBA
To: All
Date Posted: 10:52:32 08/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip4da2899b.direct-adsl.nl at 77.162.137.155
Message:
Hello Jackal, this is Kokie Morba, how do you read me ? Over !!!!!!
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise - CALLING ON JACKAL
From: jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 19:18:44 08/28/07 ()
Email Address: dollarbill@gmail.com
Entered From: c-24-15-212-63.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 24.15.212.63
Message:
Loud and clear. kokie morba this is jackal 5 you copy?
APPUA
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise - CALLING ON JACKAL
From: KOKIE MORBA
To: All
Date Posted: 11:39:44 08/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip4da2899b.direct-adsl.nl at 77.162.137.155
Message:
ROGER WELL COPY .....OVER !!!!
APPUA DADA !!!!
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 11:28:07 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Who used the ARMY as a storage for their thuggish children? The APC.
Who used the ARMY as a place for their dumb kids? The APC
Who used the ARMY for their out of wedlock kids? The APC
Who used the ARMY to terrorize the people of salone? The APC
When did we start having Quota from Parliamentarians to enter the ARMY? The APC days
Today under the SLPP we can brag about having a Professional Army in Salone.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 13:36:58 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
False Rass,an army that does not back you!
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Soldier
To: All
Date Posted: 17:40:39 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65-78-54-33.c3-0.upd-ubr7.trpr-upd.pa.cable.rcn.com at 65.78.54.33
Message:
The SLPP do not need the army to back them. The army should and will stay neutral. Way to go SLPP. No more quota in the army. You qualify, you like the army, and space available... there you go. Me Uncle na APC MP ..me RAS.. so are they go army...My foot.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Historian
To: All
Date Posted: 11:32:39 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
alieu sesay, please stop trying to hide behind false names like False Prophet. As soon as you start displaying that trademark of yours -- never understanding what you read -- you give yourself away.
Go back and try to understand the correct answers to your questions I gave you. Then come back and show us that you have understood them. As the Home Depot people would confirm for you: 'You can do it. We (your teachers) can help). LOL
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:29 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Try again.. Call me shengbe next time.....
Who messed up the ARMY? Hanh
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Historian
To: All
Date Posted: 11:37:42 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Go get someone to show you the answer in my first reply to your question. Then, have the person explain it to you. Hopefully, you will understand it then.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: LIE-MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 11:48:15 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
What can you say about the IDIOT called MOMOH breezing through the Ranks under te APC?
Under the APC 90% of promotions were given to the Northerners while Westerners, easterners and southerners were left to suffer..
So blow sarful with your lie-man history. Mohamed Jalloh...
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Historian
To: All
Date Posted: 12:00:14 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Same thing you can 'say about the IDIOT called [BEREWA] breezing through' BETTER QUALIFIED candidates like Charles margai and John Leigh under the SLPP's direction of the Makeni conbention.
I see you have added blindness to your list of personal woes. It could also be that you can't distinguish the letters of the alphabet (so when you see H you think you see J, you see I, you think it is A). In that case, may i reccommend you go to "Our Eyes" for help with your eyesight? LOL
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: LIE-MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 12:05:07 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Quit dodging the issue....
Answer the question with whatever honesty you have left in you.
WHO MESSED UP THE ARMY?
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Historian
To: All
Date Posted: 12:10:50 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
As I I already told you, but you don't understand yet, the answer is:
The SLPP messed up the army when it introduced coup-making to Salone in 1967 rather than obey the law by accepting the will of the people who rejected SLPP rule.
it is the same party that has which messed up the rest of the country's institutions during the past 10 years of its leaders'Guinness Book of World Records corruption -- the SLPP.
If you still don't understand that fact, please forgive me for not being to translate it into Mende to try to help you understand it.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: LIE-MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 13:26:11 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Translate into whatever its nonesense.
Your "bottrehmah", you are a lying old man...
The APC messed up the ARMY and you are not man enough to admit....
You fake historian....
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: RBS Coker
To: All
Date Posted: 13:41:04 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Edmund Koker, there is no need to exhibit rudeness in this christian forum. If you can't understand what you read, try to return to Form One to try to remedy your failings in English comprehension. There is no shame in doing so.
But it is shameful for you to revert to type and start calling people you don't know names. That is uncouth, especially because you are much older than the person you are debating. Trust me, I know your age and I know hers.
Stick to the issues of SLLP's history of lawlessness and introduction of coups to the politics of Salone raised by your opponent. We don't want to listen to your SLPP tribalism or your unbrought up language. rudeness.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Mohamed J Kutubu
To: All
Date Posted: 18:10:46 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Is this the chief himself? RBS? I notice that you use the krio spelling of the name? Have you become krio down there in hell? Remember me? I replaced your thieving ass at the SLPMB. I am gladf you have arisen so to speak, to caution this very rude son of yours. As a matter of fact, since your death it has become clearer that his behaviour does not reflect the way you raised all of your other children,. which has led those of us inthe general public to come to only one conclusion which is "DIS SOB NAR SWEETHART PEKIN"
dIS ELEKSHION TEM IF EE NOR TAKE TEM DEM GO BOSS IM BOSTAR PEKIN LASS.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: LIE-MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 13:56:40 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
This is a christian forum? hahaha..
You jus dae fen Sengbe im plaba... But that is between you and him.
The ammount of Kafri dem we dae nar dis forum, if god says he wants to repay the APC for the bad things that they did to salone, he will need to come here....
Christian forum MY A__
When have you discussed anything christian or have any article related to relegion as a whole?
Go into the archieves and let us all see.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: RBS Coker
To: All
Date Posted: 14:02:47 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Koker, be warned, we christians we don't abide sinners who mock God. You are an example of what happens when unrepentant sinners challenge their maker by constantly displaying rudensss, tribalism:
They become dumb, blind and onm top of all that, they are condemned to be SLPPers fit only for walking upon.
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: NAR U SABI
To: All
Date Posted: 08:48:02 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-63-75.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.63.75
Message:
NAR U SABI
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: NAR U RUN BELLEH
To: All
Date Posted: 10:19:43 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113
Message:
NAR U RUN BELLEH
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 09:15:46 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
Message:
Nar U sabi you day? Well you go sabi! Ha Ha ha ha Ha
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Ha ha
To: All
Date Posted: 09:30:55 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
U don know we moomoo fren him merecine -- wae ee tell you say Nar U Sabi, jes tell am back say, U go Sabi. Hahahahaha
Subject: Re: NPRC were SLPP in disguise
From: Brima Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:58:06 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 202.161.146.131
Message:
Ee know say na true ar dae tok. Soja den ready for celebrate for de end of de two foot arata. Even Joe Blell way na dem Minister sef know dat, na im make ee tell da efulufu Sam M'boma for warn soja dem make den nor glady
Subject: FODAY MANSARAY IS STEPPING OVER THE LINE.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 07:34:32 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96
Message:
It will be best for Foday Mansaray( the self appointed PRO of the APC) to understand that he does not have the right call for the removal of an electoral commissioner only because he thinks that the commissioner is not supporting his APC.
The appointment and removal of an electoral commissioner is a constitutional matter. I know that member of the APC do not believe in following our laws but we will ensure that we teach them how to be law abiding people. Sierra Leone is a country of laws.
Thank God both the local and international observers pointed out that the entire electoral commission did a good job by conducting a free and fair(also free from fear) elections.
I know that the APC does not know how to conduct elections by democratic principles .
Foday, if you have a problem with any commissioner please, take it to the supreme courts.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY IS STEPPING OVER THE LINE.
From: Brima Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:04:41 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: brimakam@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 202.161.146.131
Message:
Are you sure of what you are saying? Was it not the SLPP paper that claimed that the SRSG aws involved in malpractices during the election and that he used his position to deny the SLPP victory? Did they not say that a guy( Cant remember the name) was changing the number of votes in favour of the APC. What are you people up to? Please tell us because in one minute you claim one thing and in another you are saying the opposite.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY IS STEPPING OVER THE LINE.
From: Idrissa Kabia, Mabolo
To: All
Date Posted: 10:55:48 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-host-24-225-231-177.patmedia.net at 24.225.231.177
Message:
Please pay attention to this train.The only time it will stop is when the train is on track heading west and to stop on elections day september 8th 2007 with Ernest Koroma as the newly elected president of sierra leone.
Foday is a duly Appointed PRO by the APC Chairman
Alimamy Kargbo and the National Executive.So far, it is the best Appointment in North America.What is your position in the SLPP?.Relax,Saidu there is a place for you in the new Administration of Ernest Bai Koroma come sept 8th 20007. APC will tolarate every Tom ,Dick and Harry that wants to help Sierra Leone.I am sure you are not a terrible guy ,you are only fighting for survival.
No offense but these 3 jokers needs to be taught a lesson and Mr Mansaray is just doing the right thing for Sierra Leoneans.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY IS STEPPING OVER THE LINE.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:41:24 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: pool-71-252-7-222.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.252.7.222
Message:
Idrissa,
I will never join the APC. Only people of like minds will get along in any group.
The APC is made up of satanic people and I am a devout muslim, I will never get along with them.
The first verse in the quran says:
OH ALLAH I SEEK YOUR PROTECTION AGAINST SATAN(THE ENEMY OF MANKIND).
Since the good God surrounds me with his protection, I will never join ungodly people.
Please, do me a favor, ask your friends in the APC to only attack me with their full names. So that I will go after on this forum and also in public places.
It is my determination to weed out the wrong people among us.If they know that the things they are saying about me are true, let them come out of their shells.
I ONLY REPLY TO MEN/WOMEN NOT TO CHICKENS AND COWARDS.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY IS STEPPING OVER THE LINE.
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 18:00:44 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-204-124-192.hsd1.ga.comcast.net at 71.204.124.192
Message:
Saidu what SURAH are you quoting from,because each surah has 1 or more verses.Please tell us which surah?
Surah AL-FATIHA says "MASTER OF THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT." Translate that and you will find out that accussing other that they are SATANIC PEOPLE is wrong,because you are not the CHERISHER and SUSTAINER of the world.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY IS STEPPING OVER THE LINE.
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 12:18:10 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-074-228-219-218.sip.asm.bellsouth.net at 74.228.219.218
Message:
"Relax,Saidu there is a place for you in the new Administration of Ernest Bai Koroma come sept 8th 20007. APC will tolarate every Tom ,Dick and Harry that wants to help Sierra Leone.I am sure you are not a terrible guy ,you are only fighting for survival."
BRA U HADE DAE? Why would the NEW APC tolerant the likes of SAIDU PISSA BADE BANGURA in our mist?This guy is so courrupt that even Pa Berewa would be called an ANGEL among his likes.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY IS STEPPING OVER THE LINE.
From: False Prophet
To: All
Date Posted: 13:27:56 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
Why don't you stop talking to yourself?
Why did you run back to US?
is there something to your RUNAWAY BOY thing?
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY IS STEPPING OVER THE LINE.
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 21:49:10 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-204-124-192.hsd1.ga.comcast.net at 71.204.124.192
Message:
False Prophet,
I am not who you think I am.I am the longest road in Georgia,so you have to deal with it.I am here to put some truth into your mouth piece and your TIFF TIFF SLPP party member.
"Why did you run back to US?"
Why are you still in the US? Ask your mouth piece why has he not taking care of his MAMA FINNY?
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY IS STEPPING OVER THE LINE.
From: TRUTH
To: All
Date Posted: 12:10:51 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
FODAY IS JUST ANOTHER APC HACK WHO JUST WANTS TO CHOP SIERRA LEONE AFTER AS HIS BUSINESSES ARE not SUCcESSFUL. ERNEST KOROMA AINT GOING TO WIN ANYTHING EVEN WITH YOUR THUGGISH BEHAVIOR.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY IS STEPPING OVER THE LINE.
From: NAR LIE YOU LIE
To: All
Date Posted: 11:00:10 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Saidu there is a place for you in the new Administration of Ernest Bai Koroma come sept 8th 20007. APC will tolarate every Tom ,Dick and Harry that wants to help Sierra Leone.I am sure you are not a terrible guy ,you are only fighting for survival.
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF. SAIDU AND THE LIKE OF HIM WOULD NEVER BE ACCEPTED INTO THE APC. WE DONT NEED NO CORRUPT INFLUENCE OR SATANIC INFLUENCE IN THE APC. SAIDU MADE HIS BED NOW LET HIM LIE ON IT. HE INSULTED THE BIRTH OF OUR LEADER IN THIS FORUM. TO HELL WITH SAIDU.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY IS STEPPING OVER THE LINE.
From: Idrissa Kabia,Mabolo
To: All
Date Posted: 11:37:02 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-host-24-225-231-177.patmedia.net at 24.225.231.177
Message:
Well Saidu ,as you can see my people don't need guys like you in the party. I will continue to press on to help save your neck.continue to pray harder maybe guys like me can assit the others to convice them that you are a good guy just somehow misguided with this very corrupt SLPP government.Shame to see you get wasted.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY IS STEPPING OVER THE LINE.
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 12:26:05 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-074-228-219-218.sip.asm.bellsouth.net at 74.228.219.218
Message:
Bra,
SAIDU DAE PASS EN FAKKU (BOT DEVIL)NAR ANY MARRADE WAE DEM GET NAR WASHINGTON DC SO DAT EE GO GET EE HOSE RENT.AFTER EE DON FAKKU,DEN EE GO SIDOM NAR MATTA EN START FOR LIE LIE PAN DE QURAN.
Subject: Re: FODAY MANSARAY IS STEPPING OVER THE LINE.
From: NAR LIE YOU LIE
To: All
Date Posted: 11:47:59 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
NO WAY WILL WE ACCEPT SAIDU IN THE APC. HIM AND HIS ILK ARE A DANGER TO SIERRA LEONE AND THE APC AND FOR THAT MATTER ANY OARTY THAT HE BELONGS TO
Subject: Corruption News: Opposition sweeps Sierra Leone elections
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 07:01:23 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-208472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.32
Message:
Hopefully with the help of the new broom, corruption will be swept away.......Chez, what you say to dat?
Subject: THE NEW PEOPLE ONLINE NEWSPAPER
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:47:03 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
Entered From: 000-030-775.area3.spcsdns.net at 68.244.119.193
Message:
I want to thank the beloved sons of Sierra Leone , like John Mannah, Sylvester Johnny and Alfred Yarjah just to name a few,who came up with the laudable idea of establishing a new online newspaper known as thenewpeople.com which is openly pro-slpp, no doubt about it. Now we are blessed to have fair and balanced reporting of events back home and the diaspora. All you need to do is visit COCORIOKO for APC news and THE NEW PEOPLE for the SLPP side of things.No more domination by one side. Some of us had been advocating for such fairness when we were targeted as enemies. I am so impressed by the design of the THE NEW PEOPLE and it's content that I will encourage every fair minded Sierra leonean to visit it regularly regardless of your political orientation. There are always two sides to a story that you should listen to and make an informed decision.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE ONLINE NEWSPAPER
From: Gbata
To: All
Date Posted: 12:48:46 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: eduproxy3.k12.de.us at 167.21.254.13
Message:
The new people? How long do they plan on being online? I know all those folks that created that online forum are just opportunists that are pissed they are gonna miss their chances if SLPP is booted out now. Just wait and see how long they will stay active past september 8 2007 after their party's demise.
Mr Jalloh, donot be ungreatful to Cocorioko, the only site that has provided you information about S/L all these years. I know you are unfoundedly bitter that Cocorioko is pro APC, but your pro SLPP online site better survive the test of time. you know your sister, sylvia's site has hiccups every other day.....so now all of a sudden we have newpeople.com.
Good luck to newpeople, but remember that any venture born out of "badheart" is bound to fail. I see the failure of new people as eminent as that of their masters, the SLPP.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE ONLINE NEWSPAPER
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 11:56:05 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 130-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.130
Message:
It is a drack site and its dilation clearly represents its creators image. Its hypothetical harangue can only be found in a site controlled by a group of tribal maggots.
We are in the age of technology but certainly quality and objectivity must be maintained at all costs. The uncouth texts you accomodate in your website say all about your naked move to give a helping hand to a dying serpent.
It is serious online newspapers like Cocorioko, Standard times, Patriotic Vanguard, New Citizen, Awoko that readers will look at. Jalloh, we are not a nation that wants to live in squalor and dirt that your SLPP fancies. Some of you are missing the opportunityy to take Sierra Leone to another height where love and unity abound for everyone. "If wishes are horses, beggars would have ride".The only news in your newspaper is a desperation of few tainted educated guys who want to do the dirty work for their Master. Expose yourself and drag your image on the mud. Good for you all.
Wae truckey young, e nor get waist nar wae e old e go get waist?.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE ONLINE NEWSPAPER
From: Sorbeh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:01:01 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 65.107.153.146.ptr.us.xo.net at 65.107.153.146
Message:
"It is serious online newspapers like Cocorioko"
You make ar laugh.. you MR man know from the bottom of your heart, thatthe above from you is bolony.
KABS wae dae cry say the website nar crap?
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE ONLINE NEWSPAPER
From: KABS ANU
To: All
Date Posted: 18:09:43 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-24-225-147-108.patmedia.net at 24.225.147.108
Message:
You must be joing.Because of COCORIOKO, 2 newspapers have emerged.First, COCORIOKO caused the birth of GONGOLI TIMES .Now it is the NEW PEOPLE. Do you now how proud I am ?
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE ONLINE NEWSPAPER
From: abubakarr jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 19:02:33 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@yahoo.com
Entered From: 000-060-046.area3.spcsdns.net at 68.244.233.166
Message:
Kabs, I am happy you feel that way. Actually monopoly is a disease that a budding Democracy should fight against. If because of you, as you stated, other online newspapers are cropping up, then it's a blessing. All what most of us wanted is fairness. Both the major political parties do have their successes and failures. In that vein, it's good to inform the public of both instead of favouring one over the other. Keep up the good work. THE FOLKS AT THE NEW PEOPLE ARE EQUALLY DEDICATED AND INTELIGENT AND I BELIEVE THEY WILL DO THEIR PART IN A PROFESSIONAL WAY, IF ALLAH WILL. Thanks to all that responded to my welcome statement about THE NEW PEOPLE.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE ONLINE NEWSPAPER
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 11:16:41 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242
Message:
Please Mr. Jalloh please help us here to understand what you are actually trying to tell us by your statement "The New People" website. Are the SLPPers now terming the themselves as new people? What new about that? Secondly, the website is a bunch of crap. When you click a news link it takes you to diamondintelligence.com. This indicate the looting of our diamond resources by the SLPP. So you want us to see such ill-fated activities of the SLPP? Please give us a break and go redesign your flunky site.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE ONLINE NEWSPAPER
From: UNFAIR and UNBALANCED
To: All
Date Posted: 11:31:45 08/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: f298781.ga.unc.edu at 152.4.31.217
Message:
There is certainly one thing correct about your paper. It is unfair and unbalanced. It is, like it is: none constructive - full of unfounded bogus craps.
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE ONLINE NEWSPAPER
From: reality
To: All
Date Posted: 12:23:58 08/27/07 ()
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Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
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are you telling me kebi kanu's cocorioko is fair and balanced. it is an APC mouthpiece masqerading as free and fair jounalism. Please do not make me laugh.
Nothing wrong with being partisan . just don't try and fool yourself and others
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE ONLINE NEWSPAPER
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 18:11:52 08/27/07 ()
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Entered From: host-24-225-147-108.patmedia.net at 24.225.147.108
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My name is Kabbie, not Kebi. You can'even get names of people straight ?
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE ONLINE NEWSPAPER
From: babs
To: All
Date Posted: 18:24:51 08/27/07 ()
Email Address: delaw80@hotmail.com
Entered From: host81-152-54-242.range81-152.btcentralplus.com at 81.152.54.242
Message:
How about spell check mr Kabbie? "you can'even get names of people straight". ( maybe u meant cant correct......???) hahahahahahahahaha
Subject: Re: THE NEW PEOPLE ONLINE NEWSPAPER
From: Bab see bab Babs runna way!!
To: All
Date Posted: 18:29:59 08/27/07 ()
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Entered From: 77-96-89-146.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 77.96.89.146
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You guys have got no other site to go to.