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Subject: FROM REBEL,KAMAJOR,SLPP PARTY TO THE TRASHJL
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:31:18 05/01/07 ()
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Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

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Mr JL,are you justifying the hideous act of cannibalism by the kamajors? for you, is it normal for a human beign to eat his fellow beign?Therefore, it is of no surprise to me for your justification of your incompetent hench men who have taken our nation and people 50 years backwards.Their days in office are numbered.You said the second administration of kabbah is corrupt and Berewa is part of that administration,could you explain?since you are his town cryer and propagander agent.


Subject: Re: FROM REBEL,KAMAJOR,SLPP PARTY TO THE TRASHJL
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 19:01:29 05/01/07 ()
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Entered From: new-5000.cadence.com at 158.140.1.25

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Musa Karama or whatever you call yourself,
I am now convinced that you are a CANNIBAL. Stop pointing your Cannibalistic hand at the Kamajors. They did nothing wrong. You should be thanking them for defending the motherland. Without them we would not have the democracy we are enjoying today.

Abi notto all man dae pan cannibalism lek you.
Go sidom sarful en lef we alone. I don decide for call Dr Nahim for prescribe another merecine for you. Ee look lek say the wan way you dae take now nor dae wok pan you...Infact if the doctar been know say you nar cannibal, he nor for gee you da merecine dae. Another one dae for dae wok pan cannibal dem.


Subject: Re: LAWYER CANNIBAL DOMBOLO
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 17:42:40 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Atty. MUSA KAMARA:

I see you are still on this cannibal thing! What, are you a recovering cannibal wanting to get back into the thing? I have already told you that I know nothing about any cannibal election issue.

I will thus no longer respond to any of your postings dealing with the cannibal issue unless it becomes an election issue. What does your party manifesto say about any purported cannibal problem? If cannibalism is in your party's manifesto, I'd like to review it with a view to possibly debate it.

As for the Kabbah Administration I have said repeatedly that I am not its spokesperson. I am just an ordinary SLeonean trying to educate our voters.

As for corruption, show me where and when I said the second Admin of President Kabbah is corrupt and Berewa is part of it. It is proper to evaluate issues within their proper context. Even so, Berewa is far more superior to all other candidates including peggy boy. Thank you. - JL


Subject: PURPLE HEART FOR JOHN LEIGH
From: political Observer
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Date Posted: 16:02:16 05/01/07 ()
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After a succesful counter attack by the erudite, eloquent and powerful former Ambassador, of his adversary, I hearby award His excellency John E Leigh a PURPLE HEART for Gallantry and Bravery.
Good job Soldier.


Subject: Re: PURPLE HEART FOR JOHN LEIGH
From: PURPUPLE HEART MY FOOT
To: All
Date Posted: 16:30:33 05/01/07 ()
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Give Leigh a purpple heart for corruption, noise-making for a job and typical political hypocrisy. That's what he is known for.


Subject: Re: PURPLE HEART FOR JOHN LEIGH
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 18:54:27 05/01/07 ()
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Entered From: new-5000.cadence.com at 158.140.1.25

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Bo go sidom sarful now. You nor dae tire???
The man don knock you out. You get shaame or better yet, you nor get other tin for do????
We don tire with you rubbish. Ah bo....


Subject: JL HIRED FOOT SOLDIERS FOR DEFENCE IN THE FORUM.
From: QUESTION
To: All
Date Posted: 15:40:24 05/01/07 ()
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Interesting to see foot soldiers gallantly defending JL. I think JL once said he is capable of defending himself without the support of others. Did this change? Why people are so focus on JL? Is he making himself the focal point of attraction or just a malice by some people? JL, are you happy by the way people bounce on you? What should you do to change such attacks?


Subject: Re: JL HIRED FOOT SOLDIERS FOR DEFENCE IN THE FORUM.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 17:49:08 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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I have hired no one to defend me and I coordinate my counters with no one. But I am most grateful to see fellow SLeoneans come mightily to my aid in the public interest.

Ladies and gentlemen of the defence, I genuinely appreciate your tirelessness, your skill, your determination and your success in doing justice in this forum. I will forever be grateful. Thank you very much. - JL


Subject: Re: JL HIRED FOOT SOLDIERS FOR DEFENCE IN THE FORUM.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 16:35:29 05/01/07 ()
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Entered From: c-0c8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.12

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You are making the man blush with satisfaction for a job don done. I wonder why he was not included in Mr. Kabbah's National Awards as a Parthian shot to one of his once trusted lieutenants.


Subject: JL HIRED FOOT SOLDIERS FOR DEFENCE IN THE FORUM.
From: QUESTION
To: All
Date Posted: 15:34:21 05/01/07 ()
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Interesting to see foot soldiers gallantly defending JL. I think JL once said he is capable of defending himself without the support of others. Did this change? Why people are so focus on JL? Is he making himself the focal point of attraction or just a malice by some people? JL, are you happy by the way people bounce on you? What should you do to change such attacks?


Subject: Re: JL HIRED FOOT SOLDIERS FOR DEFENCE IN THE FORUM.
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 15:42:31 05/01/07 ()
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Yes JL can and is highly capable of defending himself. but the issue here is not JL. It is the fact that this man with multiple monikers is using JL as a Vehicle for indirect atack at the SLPP. And that my friend is the issue.
JL has stood firm and he will continue to stand and defend himself no doubt.
Peace!


Subject: John Leigh
From: Free and Fair
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Date Posted: 12:04:55 05/01/07 ()
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I am not very fond of John Leigh, but what is unfair to him is, that every now and then he is accused of bribing SLPP.
He did not bribe SLPP,but simply donated USD10,000 to the Party fund.Most of the SLPP members did it(perhaps smaller amounts), and likewise the members of APC and other Parties will do.


Subject: Re: John Leigh
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:03:58 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Free and Fair:

The more mumbo-tombos-dumbos rely on labeling a campaign donation that was made to the party executive committee - way, way before the relevant elections took place and at a time when my party was down and its prospects dubious - the more likely they are discrediting themselves and increasing the likelihood that the general public will evaluate them as foolumunku dombolo peggy-boys.

They are free to continue as long as they please. They are so primitive, they think political giving is crazy and criminal. They are wrong and very backward.

Let them continue to wallow in flunkeyism! Thank you. - JL


Subject: Re: John Leigh
From: Michael
To: All
Date Posted: 16:49:08 05/01/07 ()
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Entered From: at 208.41.8.154

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Then why are you asking for it back if you think it is not "crazy and criminal. Man you are the Jack Abrahamorf of Sierra Leone. you bribe to get positionsa, and whenyou are refused you cry foul and request it. Now tell us why you lied to the American people about Sierra Leone's economic growth. I will continue to post your rants and raves. I know you were very happy for the war in Sierra leone, because it gave you the ample opportunity to steal on behalf of our country. I remember when you went to Pittsburgh in 2000/2001 and lied to the people of Pittsburgh. I was there.
Michael


Subject: Re: John Leigh
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 12:07:25 05/01/07 ()
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Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

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And he is proud of helping his party win the elections. Now some of them will associate with a Party only after elections. Thats is if that Party wins.
Please for Posterity sake, stand for something.


Subject: Re: John Leigh
From: The Forum Hijacked
To: All
Date Posted: 13:33:51 05/01/07 ()
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Entered From: f298781.ga.unc.edu at 152.4.31.217

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There is no longer any reliable information on the forum; it's been hijacked by individuals who has made John Leigh their focus of attention. The thread on John Leigh is so long that you could puke while unfolding the thread.


Subject: Re: John Leigh
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 14:15:52 05/01/07 ()
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They( He) made it their/his business to attack JL. We made it our business to counter. Until they/he stop(s) we will not rest.
Bringup the same silly, baseless and bogus accusation over and over about JL will be met with stiff resistance. we have made it our primary motive to fight back and we are succeeding.


Subject: Re: John Leigh
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:54:42 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
The focus on one individual is too much and unhealthy. After months of campaigning to drag him down, opposition detractors are yet to exit Square One.

Now there are many issues we could debate. Such is far more sensible than fucusing on one man. Here are a few point for discussion. Or add your own. Thank you. - JL
===============================================================================

APC’S RECORD & PMDC’S PERFORMANCE EVALUATED

With its record of mass marginalization, mass poverty spreading; mass unemployment, mass company closings, catastrophic railway closing, mass capital flight, mass European flight, mass missionary flight, ruinous stangflation; SLPMB ruination, catastrophic foreign exchange abuses, deep currency degradation, continuous frivolous frolickings amidst mass breeze-sucking and continuous darkness, AFRC war and destruction - few people are behind the APC other than hegemonistic tribesmen and the direct and indirect beneficiaries of marginalization, favoritism, nepotism and outright corruption.

As for the PMDC, the fraudulent misuse of Makeni, their secretive, one-manic ownership for dynastic benefits, flunkeyism, principal-slapping, Third Force double-cross attempted theft-without-a-single-paragraph; widespread, repeated discrimination against citizens of Fullah, Mandingo and Soso ancestry; “ar go do dis, ar go do dat” yap-yap talk; “you go be dis, you go be dat wenn ar ween” empty boasts; arrogance grounded on flunkeyism, haughtiness grounded in stupidity; alphabet-soup political opportunism grounded in president-at-all-cost; tiff-tiff Bangucrooks lawyers grounded in margo-margoism and opportunism; foolumunkuism; fahlahmahkahtahism; loyal Northern Muslim double-cross compounded by Fullah pandering by one-manic flunkey leadership produced a loud and fatal dombolo impulsion.

The two above groups – hegemonistic APC and flunkey PMDC, led by peggy boy and flunkey dombolo respectively - are going nowhere - DISCUSS.


Subject: Re: John Leigh
From: Michael
To: All
Date Posted: 16:50:51 05/01/07 ()
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No, we will continue to debate you. Because you have too much skeleton in your closet.


Subject: The chickens come home to roost : Britain denies Stars visas
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 11:07:53 05/01/07 ()
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Entered From: at 71.250.218.196

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15 Leone Stars players and Coach Jeboh Sherrington have been denied visas by the British , putting the Sa.Leone/Leyton Orient match in doubt.

When we used to say that the habit of sportsmen hiding and not returning with contigents will come back to haunt the country , people did not believe us .

If Sierra Leone qualifies for any World Cup now, home-based players are out of it. They will not get visas.

Poor Jeboh..Who says he would have loved to remain in Britain ? The guy is "set" in Sierra Leone. But that is the result of the things we do.

CURSES , LIKE CHICKENS, COME HOME TO ROOST.


Subject: Re: The BBC report : Britain denies Stars visas
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 11:10:48 05/01/07 ()
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Entered From: at 71.250.218.196

Message:
Rosenior gets Sierra Leone chance

Rosenior was sacked as Brentford manager in November 2006
Leroy Rosenior is to take charge of the Sierra Leone national side for a friendly against English League One side Leyton Orient on Monday, 7 May.
The 43-year-old former Brentford and Torquay manager won one cap for the Leone Stars as a player in 1994.

The match at Brisbane Road will be their first game on English soil.

The secretary general of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) Alimu Bah confirmed the move but insisted it was just for the Leyton Orient match.

"Leroy Rosenior will be with Sierra Leone for the game and the team will possibly stay stay in London for a while to train under him as they prepare for the Togo match," Bah told BBC Sport.

However Sierra Leone's preparations for the Leyton Orient game have hit problems after the British High Commission refused visa applications from 15 of the members due to travel to London.

Only two of the 9 players and one of the 10 officials who applied for visas were issued with the necessary documents to travel.

One of the officials refused a visa is the Leone Stars coach Jebbor Sherrington.

The SLFA will now have to rely on the foreign-based players that they have invited for the game.

The Leone Stars play Togo in a 2008 African Cup of Nations qualifier on the first weekend in June.

Rosenior was appointed as Brentford boss last summer, but was sacked in November following a disappointing start to their League One season.

He has also had spells on the coaching staff at Bristol City and Shrewsbury and hinted in 2005 - when he was in charge of Torquay - that he would like to manage Sierra Leone.




Subject: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 10:34:44 05/01/07 ()
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"Despite what his detractors think, John Leigh was, is and will always be a fighter. He stoodup for the masses when most people turn their backs, he pleaded our case while some people aided the RUF, He stood firm in the face of adversity".
Simply brilliant.


Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: SLPP
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Date Posted: 11:08:43 05/01/07 ()
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Message:
The only adversity John Leigh stood firm against is the loss of his bribe money to the SLPP when President Kabbah fired him for his undiplomatic behavior at the Salone embsassy.


Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 10:56:28 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb11dc1-26-222.dynamic.mts.net at 207.161.26.222

Message:
Thanks for your compliment for JL but truely my friend many Sierra Leoneans will say the truth about people because the PARTY they belong .John Leigh spent his own money to free our country during the worst time in history.{AFRC}


Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:17:19 05/01/07 ()
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John leigh did not spend his money "to free our country during the worst time in history.{AFRC}"

The fact is that JOhn Leigh increased his bribes to the SLPP durring the AFRC period for the purely selfish goal of protecting his earlier bribe money he had paid to be appointed ambassador by the SLPP's Kabbah.

So, how could John Leigh's entirely selfish action to benefit himself and protect his job he had bribed for be an act to "free" our countr during the worst time?

The worst time for most Sierra Leoneans has been the 10-year unprecedented suffering that the corruopt and incompetent SLPP regime of Kabbah and Berewa inflictwed upon then. Do you see Leigh spending his money to free Sierra Leoneans from THAT worst period worst in our country's history -- worst infant mortality in the world, worst life expectancy, worst, electricty, worst medical facilities, no jobs, no hope?

Not at all! Instead, the unpatriotic John Leigh is agains busy spending his money to spread poverty through Berewa's SLPP, just like he did for Kabbah's suffering-spreading SLPP!

Why? Because he again wants to be appointed into an SLPP job in exchange for his bribes. that is what is known as a traitor to the people of Sierra Leone. And that's John Leigh for you.


Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: QUESTION
To: All
Date Posted: 12:03:04 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
"John leigh did not spend his money "to free our country during the worst time in history.{AFRC}"".

You dispute what someone has done for our country.

Where were you when the rebels were maiming our women and children? Where were you when the rebels were burning our tatch houses, where were you when the rebels decleared " OPERATION NO LIVING THING"?
What did you do? MR landlord Lawyer.
History will Judge all of us and it will judge us accordingly. Those of you who had means and refused to provide your services to your fellow sierra leoneans because of Political disagreement will answer when the time comes.
Atleast John Leigh played his own part and he played it well but for some of you.....we will not say likewise.


Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 15:22:02 05/01/07 ()
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You see what ignorance can do? You sit here making assumptions about someone whom you do not know!

Like someone said, you SLPP apologists will say anything to hide your party's and your faces from the truth!

For your information, I was part of the patriotic resistance that stayed behind when the coward, President Kabbah, fled to Lungi and then to to Guinea to avoid rag tag sobels. I sacrificed for my country. And my people paid the ultimate price in many cases.

That is why it nauseates me to see self-serving chrlatans like John Leigh ascribing to themselves motives which were far removed from the reality of their utter selfishness and opportunism.


Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 15:43:40 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
"I was part of the patriotic resistance that stayed behind".
You are right. Every Jack and Jill is claiming to be part of the resistance.
And what specifically is the name of that resistance? What was/were it/they/you doing to bring back constitutional rule?
Or your resistance was the resistance against the will of the people of Sierra Leone?
BTW sorry to hear about your relatives.


Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: Well Put
To: All
Date Posted: 14:31:50 05/01/07 ()
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Entered From: c-68-81-246-114.hsd1.pa.comcast.net at 68.81.246.114

Message:
Well put my brother. Let us give praise where praise is due. The man did all in his power and in his capacity as our ambassador to put Sierra Leone on the spot light. And yet because of political differeneces some of our countrymen who sat in the comfort of their homes in US during those trying moments, and could not even send a single dollar for their relatives are now insulting ambassador Leigh on a public forum. Once an ambassador always an ambassador. Thank you ambassador Leigh for what you did for our country in those trying times in the history of our country, God Almighty will surely reward you. Some of us are aware of your good works and we will never forget. Like the former writer said, history will surely judge all of us.


Subject: THE FRAUDULENT JOHN LEIGH EXPOSED
From: FAN
To: All
Date Posted: 10:19:00 05/01/07 ()
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In Reply to: Re: MR JOHN L,BE MATURED AND STOP LYING posted by John E. Leigh on May 01, 2007 at 09:27:56:

Mr. Leigh, you are the last person who should be asking people for proof of their statements on this forum. Was it not you who came here and alleged that Charles Margai failed in form 4?

Where is your proof?

Was it not you, JOhn Leigh, who claimed that Marghai was a bully whose father helped himobtain a pass at schoo?

Where is your proof?

Was it not you who alleged in this forum that Margai is a "flunky" lawyer?

Where is your proof?

How come you are now asking for proof (copying the trademark approach of a well-known forumite), when YOU never provided proof for your many self-serving allegations that many have called blatant lies you told in an attempt to recover your bribes you had paid to the SLPP?


Subject: Re: THE STUPID FLUNKEYS EXPOSED
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:24:01 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14

Message:
Dumbo-Tombo Multiple Moniker Abuser:

How come it took you nearly a whole year to raise the questions you saw fit to raise in your herewith posting only today? Are you a slow-thinking dunce-flunkey munku?

Why do you have to follow my lead before you can do anything? Are you a stupid alphabet soup, fahlahmahkahtah, foolumunku, bangucrooks idiot?

I have repeatedly said that my junior brother was a classmate/deskmate of your school dropout, secretive, one-manic, PMDC dynastic alphabet soup owner of your party for remedial dombolos. And when double-cross dumbo found out that Fred and I were related, Fred said flunkey dunce nearly passed out. Fred met your man in Form Four, flogged him in class and left him behind. You man dropped out never to return to CKC form Five.

Every body senior in SLPP knows this story in Freetown, Bo, Kenema, Moyamba, Bonthe, etc. Dumbo-tombo. Look, I got to go, you FAN of Morons. - JL

"The words of my mouth and the meditation of ........... now and forever more. You mombo-tombo-dumbo munku babgucrooks foolunumku dombol. Man you are slow and stupid like a typical PMDC flunkey-dunce.
- JL


Subject: HERE IS YOUR PROOF
From: CHIEFDOM POLICE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:45:48 05/01/07 ()
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IF ELECTED WILL CHARLES MARGAI BE AS CORRUPT AS HIS FATHER?
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Posted by CHIEF IN EXILE on April 29, 2007 at 11:58:55:

"Thereafter Parliament increasingly squandered its opportunities to curb
executive excesses. It failed to block Prime Minister Albert Margai’s misuse of
Government funds for personal gain because it hardly bothered to monitor
public income and expenditure. For example, the opposition APC newspaper
“We Yone” alleged that Sir Albert had used huge sums of money to buy
buildings in Washington and London, which he then rented to the Sierra Leone
Missions in those countries for private gain. Parliament failed to investigate
these allegations, despite the need to transmit a clear message of
accountability to the general public. This lapse precipitated a sense of
resignation among Sierra Leoneans that corruption was an inevitable
indulgence of government, in which Parliament was far more likely to acquiesce
than to find fault or demand sanction.
(Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission)
report)
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From the aforementioned the logical questions are :

(1) DID CHARLES MARGAI INHERIT THE PROCEEDS FROM HIS FATHER'S CORRUPTION?

(2) DID CHARLES MARGAI GREW UP (if you will) IN CORRUPTION ?

(3) WAS CHARLES MARGAI'S FATHER A FORERUNNER OF CORRUPT PRACTICES IS SIERRA LEONE.



Subject: Re: HERE IS YOUR PROOF
From: FAN
To: All
Date Posted: 11:03:24 05/01/07 ()
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Message:
Chief, kindly allow Leigh to address the relevant questions about Charles -- not Albert -- MaRGAI, in the event he ever ceases to be a coward who runs away from the truth.


Subject: Re: THE FRAUDULENT JOHN LEIGH EXPOSED
From: THE PROGRESSIVE ONE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:41:58 05/01/07 ()
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Posted by Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS on May 01, 2007 at 09:58:30:

RECONSTRUCTING SIERRA LEONE

Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Africa
Committee on International Relations
Rep. Edward R. Royce, California, Chairman
United States House of Representatives
June 11, 1998

By

John Ernest Leigh
Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the United States
Embassy of Sierra Leone
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 202 929-9261 Fax: 202 483-1793

Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Members of the Subcommittee on Africa, I am John Leigh, the Ambassador of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the United States. Thank you for inviting me to testify before you this afternoon on a matter of utmost urgency to the people of my country, i.e. the reconstruction of Sierra Leone after approximately three decades of misrule, corruption, military coups, civil war, plunder, carnage, mayhem, the collapse of civil society and, finally, the restoration of the duly-elected government and parliament of Sierra Leone back to their rightful positions of authority, amidst continuing atrocities by the evicted junta.

Mr. Chairman, unknown to most Americans, Sierra Leoneans, of all Africans, have the longest business relationship with North Americans beginning with the first transportation, in 1565, of African people from the area around Africa’s largest natural harbor in what is now our capital, Freetown, to St. Augustine in present-day Florida by Spanish empire-builders. In 1619, the slave trade in English-speaking America began with the delivery of 20 slaves from Sierra Leone to Jamestown, Virginia. Since that time, and continuing through the 1800s, our people were brought to these shores to help develop the American economy, now the World’s richest.

Mr. Chairman, a look at the Human Development Index, published annually by the United Nations, will show that Sierra Leone is among the least developed countries, if not the least developed country, in the World. This has caused some commentators to refer to Sierra Leone as one of the World’s poorest countries, if not the World’s poorest country. This characterization is incorrect.

Sierra Leone is a richly endowed country. Our country is endowed with ample reserves of high-value minerals such as gold, diamonds, platinum and titanium. Other minerals include bauxite, chrome and iron ore. Indeed, if the slave traders who ravaged Sierra Leone knew what was underground, they would have left our people alone.

Sierra Leone also sits atop the richest portion of the East Atlantic Continental shelf, one of the world’s richest fisheries. The coastline of Sierra Leone and its river system are the principal spurning grounds for a whole lot of tropical fish inhabiting the continental shelf.

The country is well-watered, with a nine-major-river system with the capacity to furnish the country and its neighbors with all the inexpensive electricity they would ever require in the foreseeable future. Further, the country has enough naturally-well-watered land to produce an abundance of our staple food crop, rice, for home consumption as well as for export. Coffee and Cocoa grow well in Sierra Leone as are a whole host of tropical crops, fruits, flowers, food and medicinal plants. Oil and gas are rumored to be in the Southern Delta area of the country.

A large number of Sierra Leoneans are well-educated at home and in universities around the world. The first 4-year, accredited, English-Language college with a Western-style curriculum and standards in Africa is in Sierra Leone where it was established in 1827 by the Church Missionary Society of England. Sierra Leoneans still retain their reverence for education.

Despite all of the above, Mr. Chairman, Sierra Leone and its government are poverty stricken and the country racked by violence, disease and chronic instability. Why?

The reason is quite simple: for nearly thirty years - from 1967 to 1996 - the country was badly mismanaged by a corrupt and brutal political-military elite, led at various times by the likes of Siaka Stevens; General Joseph Momoh; Captain Valentine Strasser, a 27-year-old puny boy dictator; "Brigadier" Maada Bio, a 26-years old high school graduate who promoted himself by gun law from 2nd. lieutenant to brigadier in three years; and "Major" JP Koroma, a high school drop-out who was expelled from parochial school during 10th Grade for habitual criminality.

This group of kleptocrats: (a) executed or imprisoned dissidents and rivals; (b) looted and squandered public funds and foreign aid; © plundered our natural resources and (d) refused to provide public services to the people. The consequences are still with us: (i) a massive flight of capital and the expulsion of tax-paying corporations; (ii) the destruction of the national economy; (iii) the most catastrophic brain drain in the history of nations with fully 85% of our middle class out of the country; (iv) the importation of fly-by-night business people and smugglers of our natural resources (who bribe officials, pay slave wages and pay no taxes) and the giveaway of our fisheries at fire sale prices; (v) extreme government & civil society poverty; and (vi) the degradation of our national currency, the Leone (Le) - from Le1.00 = $1.50 in 1967 to $1.00 = Le1,700 in 1998. Thus, during the 30-year rule of the kleptocrats, they degraded the value of the Leone from $1.50 to less than six-tenths of one American cent today.

In March 1991, a civil war involving rural rebels and backed by Charles Taylor of Liberia, erupted in Eastern Sierra Leone, purportedly to compel proper reform. In the process, towns and villages were destroyed, as were schools and public facilities. Children were pressed into military service, either as soldiers or as sex slaves. Addictive drugs were used to keep rebel troops motivated and under control. Tens of thousands of our innocent citizens were killed, maimed or injured and private property destroyed or stolen. Whole villages were wiped out. Elements in the Sierra Leone military secretly connived with the rebels to despoil the countryside and these soon became known as Sobels, i.e. soldiers by day and rebels at night.

Mr. Chairman, in 1995, the people of Sierra Leone, led by females, rose up and demanded a say in the governance of our country. After stiff resistance by the corrupt and morally-bankruptcy civilian-military elite, and after much international intervention - especially from the United Kingdom and the United States, free and fair elections were held in Sierra Leone in early 1996. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and a 5-party Parliament were elected. Rebels known as the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) were invited to participate in the elections but declined.

President Kabbah’s Administration immediately began a long and difficult process of finally bringing peace and economic progress to Sierra Leone. Leaders of the defunct military regime were granted amnesty, given golden parachutes and United States or British visas. A peace agreement, known as the Abidjan Accord, was entered into with the RUF. During President Kabbah’s first year in office, the economy grew from an annualized contraction rate of 10% to a positive growth rate of 5%. The annual inflation rate was cut from 65% to 5%. the Leone appreciated by nearly 32%. Sierra Leone fully cooperated with the IMF’s restructuring program, including strict fiscal discipline; trade liberalization and the privatization of public enterprises. Poverty alleviation programs were being put in place.

Unfortunately, those individuals and groups who caused the destruction of Sierra Leone were still in the system and determined to continue business as usual, such as: bribe-taking; extortion; the provision of little or no public service to the people; the plunder and the sale of our national resources at fire sale prices; the abuse of children and rural destruction for the purpose of the plunder of private property. When the elected government made it clear that such practices were unacceptable, profiteering military elements, aided by their civilian collaborators, staged yet another coup on May 25, 1997. They formed a junta - the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council - invited the RUF to join them and suspended the country’s Constitution.

Thus began the Reign of Terror that lasted approximately nine months of , looting, beatings, jailing, killings, maiming, wounding, kidnappings, abuse of children, and starvation of civilians; the plunder of public funds and natural resources; gun-running; arson; lying; destruction of public records; destruction of private property, intimidation, sanction-busting, illicit mining, and nation-wrecking. The people of Sierra Leone never supported the Koroma coup despite their deprivations and the repeated, gross violations of their civil rights. In fact, national civil disobedience against the junta was complete. It was quite clear to me, from day one, that this coup was unacceptable and must be reversed, peacefully or otherwise.

Despite numerous regional and international attempts to peacefully restore the Constitution and the elected officials of Sierra Leone to their rightful positions of authority, the junta refused to cooperate, using various foolish ruses. Beginning in mid-February, as the junta’s reign of terror continued unabated, and with Liberian soldiers supporting the junta; the Military Observer Group (ECOMOG) of the Economic Community of (16) West African States (ECOWAS), led by Nigeria, evicted the junta from Freetown and have since routed them from all but the most remote areas of the country. Our President, Parliament and Judiciary returned to Sierra Leone on March 10 and Sierra Leone is today a functioning constitutional democracy. Sierra Leoneans are still in a state of jubilation from their liberation by ECOMOG on February 15.

Junta/rebel remnants, however, continue to kill, maim and humiliate peasants in remote areas of the country. Most of the continuing junta atrocities are being imposed on our people by heavily drugged Liberian soldiers of President Charles Taylor’s so-called National Patriotic Liberation Front (NPLF). Many of these NPLF criminals have been captured and held by ECOMOG. The junta leadership is still at large and are believed to be under the protection of the Liberian authorities. These include junta Foreign Minister, Paolo Bangura; junta Defense Minister, M. T. Kamara; and RUF Deputy Leader, Samuel Bockarie, the Butcher of Kenema.

President Kabbah understands the need for lasting peace and economic progress and would very much like the United States to assist in rebuilding his country in the following areas:

1. INTERNAL SECURITY. Junta mayhem is almost at an end but pockets of atrocities exist. ECOMOG needs more soldiers and supplies to secure the peace. A number of ECOWAS countries, other than Nigeria, have offered troops but cannot transport them to Sierra Leone. The United States could assist here by providing troop transport and supplies for additional ECOMOG troops.

Additionally, a professional military that understands its role in a democratic society has to be created. The civilian police and civil defense forces must be rebuilt and equipped. Help from the United States in these areas would be much appreciated.

2. STRENGTHEN UN ACTIVITIES IN SIERRA LEONE. The United Nations Organization has a small peace-observer group in Sierra Leone. This tiny group is wholly inadequate to cope with the situation there. The US should support additional UN involvement in the country as continued UN involvement in Sierra Leone can only strengthen civil society.

3. SUPPORT RECONCILIATION AND THE RULE OF LAW

Reconciliation is the steadfast pursuit of justice. Wrongdoing should be punished. Genuine rehabilitation can take place only after the determination of culpability, just punishment and atonement. Without trial, punishment and atonement, there can be no genuine forgiveness.

59 junta members and their collaborators are presently on trial under the rules of the common law. Additional defenders will be tried later. All accused are charged - or will be charged - only for conduct that was known as criminal as at the time the conduct were alleged to have been committed. All those found guilty will be punished only according to the punishment specified in the applicable laws. The constitutional authorities in Sierra Leone will see to it that the law is allowed to take its usual course without interference from any source.

In November 1996, the RUF and the Government of Sierra Leone signed the Abidjan Peace Accord. The provisions of that agreement will be strictly enforced as they provide a negotiated basis, supported by the regional and international communities, to bring peace to our country. Crimes committed subsequent to that agreement will be prosecuted to the full extend of the law.

President Kabbah would appreciated United States backing for these policies.

4. HELP REBUILD CIVIL SOCIETY

Many Sierra Leonean civilians have nothing left. Virtually everything they ever owned have either been stolen from them or destroyed or degraded - their families, homes, farms, jobs, schools, colleges, hospitals; their health, justice, etc. Most educated and technically skilled Sierra Leoneans - doctors, engineers, lawyers, economists, teachers, college professors, nurses, entrepreneurs - have long emigrated, mostly to the industrial democracies. Here micro-credit, technical expertise, resettlement assistance schemes, outright grants or soft loans for the rebuilding of infrastructure, the eradication of disease, the provision of clean drinking water, rural electricity and the encouragement of reverse migration, are desperately needed.

Moreover, Sierra Leoneans have demonstrated their commitment to a democratic system of government by; (i) pressing for elections, (ii) voting in the face of violence, (iii) resisting a most savage coup and (iv) standing firmly behind their elected officials. Thus the foundation for building a strong democratic civil society has been demonstrated to exist in Sierra Leone.

An independent judiciary is an integral part of the genuine democratic system of government and is essential to national economic prosperity and political stability. The constitutional authorities will do all in their power to realize this objective with support from the international community.

5. SUPPORT SIERRA LEONE’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

President Kabbah is aware that without adequate public revenues and private sector economic growth, peace cannot be durable and educated Sierra Leoneans will continue to emigrate. Sierra Leone, however, needs technical help in creating appropriate systems that will properly harness revenues and other benefits from our substantial natural resources. Sierra Leone is interested in opening up its economy to legitimate American businesses that will take a long term view of the country, provide gainful employment for its citizens and pay their fair share of taxes. President Kabbah has no interest in fly-by-night operations. Sierra Leone supports the AFRICA GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT presently before the US Senate and would welcome measures that would further American investments in Sierra Leone such as investment credits and insurance. Sierra Leone will set up Enterprise Zones and provide valuable incentives to attract legitimate foreign capital.

6. SUPPORT US-SIERRA LEONE CULTURAL LINKAGES. The United States Park Service had been working on developing the Bunce Island Slave Fort site as part of the cultural heritage linking Sierra Leone with the United States. Several slave fort sites from whence many African-Americans originated dot the Sierra Leone coastline. Collaboration between the Sierra Leone Medical School and that in Charleston, SC in conducting research to isolate the gene that cause diabetes was being explored when military coups interrupted valuable work. President Kabbah hopes that projects such as these would be revived so that the true cultural connections between Sierra Leone and the United States can be fully explored.

7. NIGERIA AND LIBERIA

Nigeria is a positive force in Sierra Leone. The citizens of Sierra Leone cannot thank the government and people of Nigeria enough for liberating them from the reign of terror unleashed upon them by the brutal, unreasonable, savage regime of AFRC/RUF killer-thugs.

Nigeria’s role in ECOMOG in Sierra Leone is identical to the role of the United States in the restoration of President Aristide in Haiti. Nigeria’s conduct can be best described as an act of liberation. It was not a counter-coup at all.

Today, Sierra Leoneans are in deep mourning over the sudden death of President Abacha of Nigeria, who they consider their savior and protector from brutal savages. The Untied States may not have approved of President Abacha’s role in Nigeria, but in Sierra Leone Gen. Abacha will forever remain their hero. Finally, ECOMOG’s activities in Sierra Leone and Liberia are in complete harmony with United States interests in the area. United States should, therefore, continue to support Nigeria’s peacekeeping and stability-generating role in the area.

President Charles Taylor’s Liberia is an unmitigated disaster for Sierra Leone. Taylor not only nurtured the RUF and sent it to Sierra Leone as punishment for Sierra Leone allowing its territory to be used as the initial ECOMOG base for ending Taylor’s war, he sent NPLF soldiers into Sierra Leone to support the AFRC/RUF junta during the coup. NPLF soldiers continue to infiltrate into Sierra Leone and today are committing unspeakable atrocities against innocent peasant villagers in the Sierra Leone countryside. Moreover, Liberia has provided illegal sanctuary to the junta-rebel leadership and is believed to be the source of the cocaine used to motivate and control the drugged junta-rebel soldiers raping and amputating civilians.

Thousands of ex-NPLF soldiers remain idle in Liberia with little or no economic prospects for the future. Sending them to Sierra Leone is one way for Taylor to avoid his responsibility for providing them with gainful employment. The United States should reign in on Taylor to compel him to stop interfering in Sierra Leonean affairs. The United States should assist Liberia so that Liberia can put the energies of NPLF fighters into productive use.

The security of Sierra Leone is inexorably linked to the security of Liberia. Assisting one country but not the other would amount to a complete waste of limited resources. Viewing Sierra Leone as a ‘British responsibility’ and Liberia as ‘American’ is a totally wrong policy.

Mr. Chairman, as I stated earlier, of all African nations, the Republic of Sierra Leone has had the longest continuous contact with America, pre-dating the establishment of the United States, beginning in St. Augustine in 1565 and Jamestown, Colony of Virginia in 1619.

During the 1700s. American business interests led by Col. Henry Laurens of Charleston, South Carolina, later President of the United States Continental Congress, working in partnership with British entrepreneurs, led by Lord Richard Oswald of the House of Lords in London, made a specialty of importing technically-sophisticated Sierra Leonean rice farmers to introduce and develop the rice industry in the Carolina and Georgian low country and Sea Islands. The production which our people contributed over several centuries helped lay the economic foundation for the American super state. Today, the Gullah people of the Atlantic low country - South Carolina & Georgia - retain many aspects of Sierra Leonean language and culture.

Sierra Leone’s contribution to the power and prosperity of the United States is not limited to the economic area. Our forefathers and mothers helped the American people understand the concept that human rights should apply equally to all humankind and not just for the benefit only a particular group or class or race of people. Although the first nation-wide, American slave revolt of 1776-77 was put down by Gen. George Washington, some of our forefathers and mothers escaped from their bondage and found their way back to freedom in Sierra Leone.

In 1839, another group of Sierra Leoneans, led by Sengbeh Pieh of Tiama, Southern Province of Sierra Leone, staged the only successful slave revolt in the 400-year history of the Atlantic slave trade aboard the slave ship, La Amistad. The Sierra Leone captives were subsequently put on trial in Connecticut at a time when the United States Government, as well as 90% of the American people, believed that slavery was good for America. The fight of Sengbeh Pieh (known to Americans as Joseph Cinque) and his fellow Sierra Leone captives for their natural right to freedom, not only helped strengthen the independence of the American judiciary vis-a-vis the executive, it educated the American public about the gross violations of human rights inherent in the then American institution of slavery and thus set in motion forces that ultimately produced the Emancipation Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln.

The dramatic story of how my ancestors sensitized the American people to the need for universal human rights as well as their fight for freedom helped strengthen the independence of the system of justice in this country are amply documented in Prof. Howard Jones book: Mutiny on the Amistad and in Stephen Spielberg’s 1997 move: Amistad.

Clearly, the contributions which people from Sierra Leone made to the development of the United States over the centuries have been substantial. While the United States has rendered aid to us since our national independence in 1961, and while the people and government of Sierra Leone very much appreciate the assistance we’ve received so far from the United States, we desperately need substantial American help of the productive kind set forth above so that we could rebuild our shattered country and create and maintain an economy that would underpin a progressive democratic for all times, and for all the people.

Respectfully submitted

John E. Leigh, Ambassador Extra-ordinary & Plenipotentiary.



Subject: Re: THE FRAUDULENT JOHN LEIGH EXPOSED
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JL.Continues to a fighter. Do not stop.


Subject: WHO IS JOHN LEIGH---FOR THOSE WHO THINK THEY KNOW
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JOHN IS A TRUE SIERRA LEONEAN UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE.


Subject: Re: WHO IS JOHN LEIGH---FOR THOSE WHO THINK THEY KNOW
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"JOHN IS A TRUE SIERRA LEONEAN UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE. "

ARE YOU SAYING THAT "TRUE" SIERRA LEONEANS ARE SO CORRUPT THAT THEY BRIBE TO RECEIVE JOBS?

THAT THEY ARE TRIBALISTIC LIKE JOHN LEIGH?

THAT THEY ARE RUDE TO PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH THEIR VIEWS, BY CALLING THEM BANGUCROOKS, FLUNKEYS, ETC?


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"ARE YOU SAYING THAT "TRUE" SIERRA LEONEANS ARE SO CORRUPT THAT THEY BRIBE TO RECEIVE JOBS?"
DID I SAY THAT? I DON'T RECALL... TRUE SIERRA LEONEANS USE WHATEVER THEY HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSAL TO HELP THEIR COUNTRYMEN AT TIME OF NEED. AND JOHN LEIGH DID EXACTLY THAT WHEN HE WAS OUR AMB. IN WASHINGTON.
SORRY FOR THE CAPS.


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"AND JOHN LEIGH DID EXACTLY THAT WHEN HE WAS OUR AMB. IN WASHINGTON."

That is the LIE Leigh has been spreading just like his corrupt SLPP has been spreading poverty. Here is the TRUTH:


Posted by SLPP on May 01, 2007 at 11:17:19:

In Reply to: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY posted by ok dok on May 01, 2007 at 10:56:28:

John leigh did not spend his money "to free our country during the worst time in history.{AFRC}"

The fact is that JOhn Leigh increased his bribes to the SLPP durring the AFRC period for the purely selfish goal of protecting his earlier bribe money he had paid to be appointed ambassador by the SLPP's Kabbah.

So, how could John Leigh's entirely selfish action to benefit himself and protect his job he had bribed for be an act to "free" our countr during the worst time?

The worst time for most Sierra Leoneans has been the 10-year unprecedented suffering that the corruopt and incompetent SLPP regime of Kabbah and Berewa inflictwed upon then. Do you see Leigh spending his money to free Sierra Leoneans from THAT worst period worst in our country's history -- worst infant mortality in the world, worst life expectancy, worst, electricty, worst medical facilities, no jobs, no hope?

Not at all! Instead, the unpatriotic John Leigh is agains busy spending his money to spread poverty through Berewa's SLPP, just like he did for Kabbah's suffering-spreading SLPP!

Why? Because he again wants to be appointed into an SLPP job in exchange for his bribes. that is what is known as a traitor to the people of Sierra Leone. And that's John Leigh for you.


Subject: Re: WHO IS JOHN LEIGH---FOR THOSE WHO THINK THEY KNOW
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Damn.. You ran out of monikers and have decided to use mine. Your next one will be your real name...
Boy you don craise for true. JL you have gotten to this dude.


Subject: Re: WHO IS JOHN LEIGH---FOR THOSE WHO THINK THEY KNOW
From: John E. Leigh
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Dear Mr. APC:

Everyone knows that the 'APC' handle belongs to you.

Please don't mind the crude, crazy jokers. But you are right. we've grabed their pubic hairs.

They have thus gone mad to the point of repeating trash talk only, inventing rubbish and throwing wild, baseless allegations all over the place and also stealing monikers and impersonating innocent forumites.

You see, we SLPPers are used to internal debate. So no matter how tough the going gets, we stay and fight to completion and we are skilled enough to fight them at their game and and at their place and beat them every time.

My own plan in dealing with mumbo-tombo-dumbo bangucrooks foolumunks using flunkey dunce argumentation is simple: as soon as I hit a point of diminishing returns I cut them off with a goodbye.

Crazy jokers are simply not entitled to mix with us sane debaters after they have deliberately showed the true ingredients of their mental make-up.

It is a fact of life that one cannot reason with the insane!

In conclusion, please accept my appreciation for all your help and kindness in this rough forum. Thank you again. - JL


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Mr. Leigh, please behave yourself. Your inability to rebut the arguments of your antagonists does not entitle you to relase into the vulgar language for which you are notorious.

Please understand that this is a decent forum where respect for the rules of decorum is mandatory, not optional as is the case for your corrupt SLPP gatherings.


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"The worst time for most Sierra Leoneans has been the 10-year unprecedented suffering that the corruopt and incompetent SLPP regime of Kabbah and Berewa inflictwed upon theM.".
So whatever happen to the two and half decades of APC misrule? Oh i see you were not in Sierra Leone. And your people were incharge of the country.So those years are irrelevant to your history of sierra leone politics and the suffering of the masses.
You are really dishonest and blind.


Subject: Re: WHO IS JOHN LEIGH---FOR THOSE WHO THINK THEY KNOW
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"You are really dishonest and blind."

Is the SLPP now describing itself? As someone said, you traitorous blind SLPP supporters will say anything to avoid the truth about your worst-in-Salone history party.

During the APC reign there was all of the things that the corrupt SLPP have disappeared from Salone -- electricity, food, water, medicines, jobs, hope. That is a fact. Just ask the millions of Salone children born in the past 10 years of SLPP rule who have never seen a lighted electric bulb in salone.


Subject: Re: WHO IS JOHN LEIGH---FOR THOSE WHO THINK THEY KNOW
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QUIT USING MY HANDLE. YOU LOOSER.


Subject: Re: WHO IS JOHN LEIGH---FOR THOSE WHO THINK THEY KNOW
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"During the APC reign there was all of the things that the corrupt SLPP have disappeared from Salone -- electricity, food, water, medicines, jobs, hope."
Where? In your dreams? Get off whatever medication you are taking--DRUGS i Mean.
the amount of distruction by the APC sent Salone 50 yrs back in development.
Now i can clearly say: "You are the one that is Blind".


Subject: Re: WHO IS JOHN LEIGH---FOR THOSE WHO THINK THEY KNOW
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As people have said: yopu blind SLPP apologists will say anything to shield you and your corrupt SLPP from facing the truth about your destruction of the lives of the people of Sierra leone.


Subject: THE PATRIOTIC JOHN LEIGH CAN LEAD US TO HIGHER HEIGHTS!
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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RECONSTRUCTING SIERRA LEONE

Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Africa
Committee on International Relations
Rep. Edward R. Royce, California, Chairman
United States House of Representatives
June 11, 1998

By

John Ernest Leigh
Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the United States
Embassy of Sierra Leone
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 202 929-9261 Fax: 202 483-1793

Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Members of the Subcommittee on Africa, I am John Leigh, the Ambassador of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the United States. Thank you for inviting me to testify before you this afternoon on a matter of utmost urgency to the people of my country, i.e. the reconstruction of Sierra Leone after approximately three decades of misrule, corruption, military coups, civil war, plunder, carnage, mayhem, the collapse of civil society and, finally, the restoration of the duly-elected government and parliament of Sierra Leone back to their rightful positions of authority, amidst continuing atrocities by the evicted junta.

Mr. Chairman, unknown to most Americans, Sierra Leoneans, of all Africans, have the longest business relationship with North Americans beginning with the first transportation, in 1565, of African people from the area around Africa’s largest natural harbor in what is now our capital, Freetown, to St. Augustine in present-day Florida by Spanish empire-builders. In 1619, the slave trade in English-speaking America began with the delivery of 20 slaves from Sierra Leone to Jamestown, Virginia. Since that time, and continuing through the 1800s, our people were brought to these shores to help develop the American economy, now the World’s richest.

Mr. Chairman, a look at the Human Development Index, published annually by the United Nations, will show that Sierra Leone is among the least developed countries, if not the least developed country, in the World. This has caused some commentators to refer to Sierra Leone as one of the World’s poorest countries, if not the World’s poorest country. This characterization is incorrect.

Sierra Leone is a richly endowed country. Our country is endowed with ample reserves of high-value minerals such as gold, diamonds, platinum and titanium. Other minerals include bauxite, chrome and iron ore. Indeed, if the slave traders who ravaged Sierra Leone knew what was underground, they would have left our people alone.

Sierra Leone also sits atop the richest portion of the East Atlantic Continental shelf, one of the world’s richest fisheries. The coastline of Sierra Leone and its river system are the principal spurning grounds for a whole lot of tropical fish inhabiting the continental shelf.

The country is well-watered, with a nine-major-river system with the capacity to furnish the country and its neighbors with all the inexpensive electricity they would ever require in the foreseeable future. Further, the country has enough naturally-well-watered land to produce an abundance of our staple food crop, rice, for home consumption as well as for export. Coffee and Cocoa grow well in Sierra Leone as are a whole host of tropical crops, fruits, flowers, food and medicinal plants. Oil and gas are rumored to be in the Southern Delta area of the country.

A large number of Sierra Leoneans are well-educated at home and in universities around the world. The first 4-year, accredited, English-Language college with a Western-style curriculum and standards in Africa is in Sierra Leone where it was established in 1827 by the Church Missionary Society of England. Sierra Leoneans still retain their reverence for education.

Despite all of the above, Mr. Chairman, Sierra Leone and its government are poverty stricken and the country racked by violence, disease and chronic instability. Why?

The reason is quite simple: for nearly thirty years - from 1967 to 1996 - the country was badly mismanaged by a corrupt and brutal political-military elite, led at various times by the likes of Siaka Stevens; General Joseph Momoh; Captain Valentine Strasser, a 27-year-old puny boy dictator; "Brigadier" Maada Bio, a 26-years old high school graduate who promoted himself by gun law from 2nd. lieutenant to brigadier in three years; and "Major" JP Koroma, a high school drop-out who was expelled from parochial school during 10th Grade for habitual criminality.

This group of kleptocrats: (a) executed or imprisoned dissidents and rivals; (b) looted and squandered public funds and foreign aid; © plundered our natural resources and (d) refused to provide public services to the people. The consequences are still with us: (i) a massive flight of capital and the expulsion of tax-paying corporations; (ii) the destruction of the national economy; (iii) the most catastrophic brain drain in the history of nations with fully 85% of our middle class out of the country; (iv) the importation of fly-by-night business people and smugglers of our natural resources (who bribe officials, pay slave wages and pay no taxes) and the giveaway of our fisheries at fire sale prices; (v) extreme government & civil society poverty; and (vi) the degradation of our national currency, the Leone (Le) - from Le1.00 = $1.50 in 1967 to $1.00 = Le1,700 in 1998. Thus, during the 30-year rule of the kleptocrats, they degraded the value of the Leone from $1.50 to less than six-tenths of one American cent today.

In March 1991, a civil war involving rural rebels and backed by Charles Taylor of Liberia, erupted in Eastern Sierra Leone, purportedly to compel proper reform. In the process, towns and villages were destroyed, as were schools and public facilities. Children were pressed into military service, either as soldiers or as sex slaves. Addictive drugs were used to keep rebel troops motivated and under control. Tens of thousands of our innocent citizens were killed, maimed or injured and private property destroyed or stolen. Whole villages were wiped out. Elements in the Sierra Leone military secretly connived with the rebels to despoil the countryside and these soon became known as Sobels, i.e. soldiers by day and rebels at night.

Mr. Chairman, in 1995, the people of Sierra Leone, led by females, rose up and demanded a say in the governance of our country. After stiff resistance by the corrupt and morally-bankruptcy civilian-military elite, and after much international intervention - especially from the United Kingdom and the United States, free and fair elections were held in Sierra Leone in early 1996. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and a 5-party Parliament were elected. Rebels known as the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) were invited to participate in the elections but declined.

President Kabbah’s Administration immediately began a long and difficult process of finally bringing peace and economic progress to Sierra Leone. Leaders of the defunct military regime were granted amnesty, given golden parachutes and United States or British visas. A peace agreement, known as the Abidjan Accord, was entered into with the RUF. During President Kabbah’s first year in office, the economy grew from an annualized contraction rate of 10% to a positive growth rate of 5%. The annual inflation rate was cut from 65% to 5%. the Leone appreciated by nearly 32%. Sierra Leone fully cooperated with the IMF’s restructuring program, including strict fiscal discipline; trade liberalization and the privatization of public enterprises. Poverty alleviation programs were being put in place.

Unfortunately, those individuals and groups who caused the destruction of Sierra Leone were still in the system and determined to continue business as usual, such as: bribe-taking; extortion; the provision of little or no public service to the people; the plunder and the sale of our national resources at fire sale prices; the abuse of children and rural destruction for the purpose of the plunder of private property. When the elected government made it clear that such practices were unacceptable, profiteering military elements, aided by their civilian collaborators, staged yet another coup on May 25, 1997. They formed a junta - the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council - invited the RUF to join them and suspended the country’s Constitution.

Thus began the Reign of Terror that lasted approximately nine months of , looting, beatings, jailing, killings, maiming, wounding, kidnappings, abuse of children, and starvation of civilians; the plunder of public funds and natural resources; gun-running; arson; lying; destruction of public records; destruction of private property, intimidation, sanction-busting, illicit mining, and nation-wrecking. The people of Sierra Leone never supported the Koroma coup despite their deprivations and the repeated, gross violations of their civil rights. In fact, national civil disobedience against the junta was complete. It was quite clear to me, from day one, that this coup was unacceptable and must be reversed, peacefully or otherwise.

Despite numerous regional and international attempts to peacefully restore the Constitution and the elected officials of Sierra Leone to their rightful positions of authority, the junta refused to cooperate, using various foolish ruses. Beginning in mid-February, as the junta’s reign of terror continued unabated, and with Liberian soldiers supporting the junta; the Military Observer Group (ECOMOG) of the Economic Community of (16) West African States (ECOWAS), led by Nigeria, evicted the junta from Freetown and have since routed them from all but the most remote areas of the country. Our President, Parliament and Judiciary returned to Sierra Leone on March 10 and Sierra Leone is today a functioning constitutional democracy. Sierra Leoneans are still in a state of jubilation from their liberation by ECOMOG on February 15.

Junta/rebel remnants, however, continue to kill, maim and humiliate peasants in remote areas of the country. Most of the continuing junta atrocities are being imposed on our people by heavily drugged Liberian soldiers of President Charles Taylor’s so-called National Patriotic Liberation Front (NPLF). Many of these NPLF criminals have been captured and held by ECOMOG. The junta leadership is still at large and are believed to be under the protection of the Liberian authorities. These include junta Foreign Minister, Paolo Bangura; junta Defense Minister, M. T. Kamara; and RUF Deputy Leader, Samuel Bockarie, the Butcher of Kenema.

President Kabbah understands the need for lasting peace and economic progress and would very much like the United States to assist in rebuilding his country in the following areas:

1. INTERNAL SECURITY. Junta mayhem is almost at an end but pockets of atrocities exist. ECOMOG needs more soldiers and supplies to secure the peace. A number of ECOWAS countries, other than Nigeria, have offered troops but cannot transport them to Sierra Leone. The United States could assist here by providing troop transport and supplies for additional ECOMOG troops.

Additionally, a professional military that understands its role in a democratic society has to be created. The civilian police and civil defense forces must be rebuilt and equipped. Help from the United States in these areas would be much appreciated.

2. STRENGTHEN UN ACTIVITIES IN SIERRA LEONE. The United Nations Organization has a small peace-observer group in Sierra Leone. This tiny group is wholly inadequate to cope with the situation there. The US should support additional UN involvement in the country as continued UN involvement in Sierra Leone can only strengthen civil society.

3. SUPPORT RECONCILIATION AND THE RULE OF LAW

Reconciliation is the steadfast pursuit of justice. Wrongdoing should be punished. Genuine rehabilitation can take place only after the determination of culpability, just punishment and atonement. Without trial, punishment and atonement, there can be no genuine forgiveness.

59 junta members and their collaborators are presently on trial under the rules of the common law. Additional defenders will be tried later. All accused are charged - or will be charged - only for conduct that was known as criminal as at the time the conduct were alleged to have been committed. All those found guilty will be punished only according to the punishment specified in the applicable laws. The constitutional authorities in Sierra Leone will see to it that the law is allowed to take its usual course without interference from any source.

In November 1996, the RUF and the Government of Sierra Leone signed the Abidjan Peace Accord. The provisions of that agreement will be strictly enforced as they provide a negotiated basis, supported by the regional and international communities, to bring peace to our country. Crimes committed subsequent to that agreement will be prosecuted to the full extend of the law.

President Kabbah would appreciated United States backing for these policies.

4. HELP REBUILD CIVIL SOCIETY

Many Sierra Leonean civilians have nothing left. Virtually everything they ever owned have either been stolen from them or destroyed or degraded - their families, homes, farms, jobs, schools, colleges, hospitals; their health, justice, etc. Most educated and technically skilled Sierra Leoneans - doctors, engineers, lawyers, economists, teachers, college professors, nurses, entrepreneurs - have long emigrated, mostly to the industrial democracies. Here micro-credit, technical expertise, resettlement assistance schemes, outright grants or soft loans for the rebuilding of infrastructure, the eradication of disease, the provision of clean drinking water, rural electricity and the encouragement of reverse migration, are desperately needed.

Moreover, Sierra Leoneans have demonstrated their commitment to a democratic system of government by; (i) pressing for elections, (ii) voting in the face of violence, (iii) resisting a most savage coup and (iv) standing firmly behind their elected officials. Thus the foundation for building a strong democratic civil society has been demonstrated to exist in Sierra Leone.

An independent judiciary is an integral part of the genuine democratic system of government and is essential to national economic prosperity and political stability. The constitutional authorities will do all in their power to realize this objective with support from the international community.

5. SUPPORT SIERRA LEONE’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

President Kabbah is aware that without adequate public revenues and private sector economic growth, peace cannot be durable and educated Sierra Leoneans will continue to emigrate. Sierra Leone, however, needs technical help in creating appropriate systems that will properly harness revenues and other benefits from our substantial natural resources. Sierra Leone is interested in opening up its economy to legitimate American businesses that will take a long term view of the country, provide gainful employment for its citizens and pay their fair share of taxes. President Kabbah has no interest in fly-by-night operations. Sierra Leone supports the AFRICA GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT presently before the US Senate and would welcome measures that would further American investments in Sierra Leone such as investment credits and insurance. Sierra Leone will set up Enterprise Zones and provide valuable incentives to attract legitimate foreign capital.

6. SUPPORT US-SIERRA LEONE CULTURAL LINKAGES. The United States Park Service had been working on developing the Bunce Island Slave Fort site as part of the cultural heritage linking Sierra Leone with the United States. Several slave fort sites from whence many African-Americans originated dot the Sierra Leone coastline. Collaboration between the Sierra Leone Medical School and that in Charleston, SC in conducting research to isolate the gene that cause diabetes was being explored when military coups interrupted valuable work. President Kabbah hopes that projects such as these would be revived so that the true cultural connections between Sierra Leone and the United States can be fully explored.

7. NIGERIA AND LIBERIA

Nigeria is a positive force in Sierra Leone. The citizens of Sierra Leone cannot thank the government and people of Nigeria enough for liberating them from the reign of terror unleashed upon them by the brutal, unreasonable, savage regime of AFRC/RUF killer-thugs.

Nigeria’s role in ECOMOG in Sierra Leone is identical to the role of the United States in the restoration of President Aristide in Haiti. Nigeria’s conduct can be best described as an act of liberation. It was not a counter-coup at all.

Today, Sierra Leoneans are in deep mourning over the sudden death of President Abacha of Nigeria, who they consider their savior and protector from brutal savages. The Untied States may not have approved of President Abacha’s role in Nigeria, but in Sierra Leone Gen. Abacha will forever remain their hero. Finally, ECOMOG’s activities in Sierra Leone and Liberia are in complete harmony with United States interests in the area. United States should, therefore, continue to support Nigeria’s peacekeeping and stability-generating role in the area.

President Charles Taylor’s Liberia is an unmitigated disaster for Sierra Leone. Taylor not only nurtured the RUF and sent it to Sierra Leone as punishment for Sierra Leone allowing its territory to be used as the initial ECOMOG base for ending Taylor’s war, he sent NPLF soldiers into Sierra Leone to support the AFRC/RUF junta during the coup. NPLF soldiers continue to infiltrate into Sierra Leone and today are committing unspeakable atrocities against innocent peasant villagers in the Sierra Leone countryside. Moreover, Liberia has provided illegal sanctuary to the junta-rebel leadership and is believed to be the source of the cocaine used to motivate and control the drugged junta-rebel soldiers raping and amputating civilians.

Thousands of ex-NPLF soldiers remain idle in Liberia with little or no economic prospects for the future. Sending them to Sierra Leone is one way for Taylor to avoid his responsibility for providing them with gainful employment. The United States should reign in on Taylor to compel him to stop interfering in Sierra Leonean affairs. The United States should assist Liberia so that Liberia can put the energies of NPLF fighters into productive use.

The security of Sierra Leone is inexorably linked to the security of Liberia. Assisting one country but not the other would amount to a complete waste of limited resources. Viewing Sierra Leone as a ‘British responsibility’ and Liberia as ‘American’ is a totally wrong policy.

Mr. Chairman, as I stated earlier, of all African nations, the Republic of Sierra Leone has had the longest continuous contact with America, pre-dating the establishment of the United States, beginning in St. Augustine in 1565 and Jamestown, Colony of Virginia in 1619.

During the 1700s. American business interests led by Col. Henry Laurens of Charleston, South Carolina, later President of the United States Continental Congress, working in partnership with British entrepreneurs, led by Lord Richard Oswald of the House of Lords in London, made a specialty of importing technically-sophisticated Sierra Leonean rice farmers to introduce and develop the rice industry in the Carolina and Georgian low country and Sea Islands. The production which our people contributed over several centuries helped lay the economic foundation for the American super state. Today, the Gullah people of the Atlantic low country - South Carolina & Georgia - retain many aspects of Sierra Leonean language and culture.

Sierra Leone’s contribution to the power and prosperity of the United States is not limited to the economic area. Our forefathers and mothers helped the American people understand the concept that human rights should apply equally to all humankind and not just for the benefit only a particular group or class or race of people. Although the first nation-wide, American slave revolt of 1776-77 was put down by Gen. George Washington, some of our forefathers and mothers escaped from their bondage and found their way back to freedom in Sierra Leone.

In 1839, another group of Sierra Leoneans, led by Sengbeh Pieh of Tiama, Southern Province of Sierra Leone, staged the only successful slave revolt in the 400-year history of the Atlantic slave trade aboard the slave ship, La Amistad. The Sierra Leone captives were subsequently put on trial in Connecticut at a time when the United States Government, as well as 90% of the American people, believed that slavery was good for America. The fight of Sengbeh Pieh (known to Americans as Joseph Cinque) and his fellow Sierra Leone captives for their natural right to freedom, not only helped strengthen the independence of the American judiciary vis-a-vis the executive, it educated the American public about the gross violations of human rights inherent in the then American institution of slavery and thus set in motion forces that ultimately produced the Emancipation Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln.

The dramatic story of how my ancestors sensitized the American people to the need for universal human rights as well as their fight for freedom helped strengthen the independence of the system of justice in this country are amply documented in Prof. Howard Jones book: Mutiny on the Amistad and in Stephen Spielberg’s 1997 move: Amistad.

Clearly, the contributions which people from Sierra Leone made to the development of the United States over the centuries have been substantial. While the United States has rendered aid to us since our national independence in 1961, and while the people and government of Sierra Leone very much appreciate the assistance we’ve received so far from the United States, we desperately need substantial American help of the productive kind set forth above so that we could rebuild our shattered country and create and maintain an economy that would underpin a progressive democratic for all times, and for all the people.

Respectfully submitted

John E. Leigh, Ambassador Extra-ordinary & Plenipotentiary.


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Thanks for giving the opportunity to the DUMBOS on this forum to see the other side, the true side, the achievements and the experience of JOHN LEIGH.

A definite Foreign Minister material, you must agree.


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Sierra Leone's former Ambassador John Leigh goes insane overseas
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Disgraced aspirant for the SLPP leadership in the just concluded national delegates convention in Makeni, John Ernest Leigh, has fled to the United States of America with his tail between his legs, brooding over the thousands of US Dollars he wasted in his failed bid to influence delegates to vote for him as party leader and flagbearer for the ruling SLPP. From his Massachussets home in the United States, Mr. Leigh seems to have gone completely insane as evidenced by his writings on the Internet.

Leigh is giving the impression to the outside world that he was cheated during the convention, when he woefully failed to secure none of the delegates to even nominate him, not to talk about having someone to second his candidature.

He is even denying the true pictures of events as dramatised by himself, his Campaign Manager, Rev. Hindolo S.B. Butcher and a lady, Ms. Susan French, who claimed to be his niece as she loudly wailed. Leigh now disowns Susan French completely and he wrote on the Internet that he has absolutely no connection with Ms. French either by ‘blood’ or by ‘marriage’. Leigh writes like he does not even know who she is or why she was wailing on that day her accusations about how much money, the failed aspirant wasted.

Mr. Leigh is also giving the impression that the press especially the print media are all against him and that all reports on the print media including that of the Awareness Times, were all ‘rubbish’.

In an e-mail sent to Sierra Leoneans living abroad in answer to one Ahmed Koroma on 15/9/05, Mr. Leigh insinuated that newspaper reports on the outcome of his humiliation and the shameful scenery he created as he was helped out of the convention centre by security personnel, were mere fabrications.

Ahmed Koroma had written on the Internet that, "If this report (of Awareness Times online) is true, then there is something really hilarious about Salone politics."

Mr. John Leigh immediately responded to Ahmed Koroma by stating that he was no longer in Sierra Leone but safely inside his house in Massachusetts, USA.Continuing his confused writing, Mr. Leigh stated that Susan was not the only one who wailed as a result of his horrible public disgrace but according to Leigh, "Dozens shed tears out of concern for what the future holds for Sierra Leone given the illegalities brazenly committed in Makeni during the nomination process."

Mr. Leigh started appearing on the Internet shortly after the Makeni Convention and all his writings clearly revealed a very confused and distraught person. He gathered a few hanger-ons who rallied around him and tried to coax him. However, instead of becoming more composed, Mr. Leigh has increasingly become even more confused as his emails and Internet writings reveal. In light of the true picture of events since Leigh started disgracing himself over FM 98.1 with his lack of command over the Krio language, it is difficult to understand clearly what he is trying to pass across to unwitting Internetters and the outside world.

What is however clear and what came out on that Mr. Leigh’s fateful day is that his non-nomination was first greated with silence and when the nominations were closed, it was greeted with an outburst of laughter and then comments filled with disdain for John Leigh, such as, "Wo dat go vote for dis kind man" and "Leh ee go learn for talk Krio first"

Nobody in the form of supporters, followed the dejected Mr. Leigh out of the hall. He was by himself except for Ms. French who was wailing above the loudspeakers the following words: ‘Wose kind disgrace dis? Na Butcher dem all plan dis. Butcher wan kill me uncle. Ee wan kill me uncle."


Red-eyed and weeping like a cry-baby with his throat tied with a red necktie like a goat bound for sacrifice


At this stage journalists had flooded around Leigh as he sweated profusely in his black coat and his throat tied with a red tie like a goat bound for sacrifice. It was Alhaji I.B. Kargbo, the President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists, who intervened later by asking his colleagues to give him chance…"allow him to get air." At the insistence of journalists, John Leigh accepted to make a statement. He started off by being his usual vulgar and rude self. He even verbally attacked one delegate calling the person a "bastard" for what reason, no-one knew.

Indeed, John Leigh made the headlines again in Freetown that week. Awareness Times is reproducing some of the headlines and comments from the various newspapers which covered John Leigh at the convention.

*Concord Times, September 5, 2005: "John Leigh almost went into coma."

*New Vision, September 5, 2005 ‘Berewa wins landslide." It commented: "The legal minded strongman and former Ambassador to the United States of America John Leigh together with Dr. Lansana Nyallay of Tegloma fame were left in the cold during nomination period for the position as leader and flagbearer of the SLPP…"

*Independent Observer: September 5, 2005 commented "Former Sierra Leone Ambassador to the United States of America, John Leigh and Amerca based Lansana Nyallay did not contest since they were not nominated during the convention. Leigh later addressed the press that he was cheated."

The Exclusive, September 5, 2005: "Berewa’s brooms sweeps clean." It wrote "… He was said to have summoned an immediate press conference during which he disclosed to press men that he spent fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) on the campaign for the party’s leadership."

The Awoko newspaper, September 5, 2005: "Solo B in clean sweep victory." It wrote: "Mr. John Leigh one of the six contestants for the position of party leader and presidential aspirant was sighted crying like a baby after he was not nominated."

The Focus newspaper, September 5, 2005: "Clean sweep victory for Solo B." It wrote "…. all the contestants unanimously accepted the results of the election. Earlier during nomination time Mr. John Leigh one of the six contestants for the position of party leader and presidential aspirant was sighted crying like a baby after he was not nominated."

The New Tempo newspaper, September 7, 2005: "Butcher Butchers John Leigh." It wrote.

"The biggest casualty of this year’s SLPP convention is leadership aspirant, John Leigh… campaign manager for the Leigh camp, Hindolo S.B Butcher, said the people who were supposed to nominate Mr. Leigh "failed to do so despite assurances up to the eleventh hour of the convention…. It was alleged that Mr. Leigh, through Butcher, paid two delegates from Gbangbatoke constituency about $5000 to get him nominated and seconded…However, a niece of Leigh, Susan French, accused Butcher of conspiracy with the others to pocket the money… Susan burst into tears and cried throughout the conference."

Salone Times newspaper, September, 8, 2005: "John Leigh in bad mood." A picture story with the following caption: "Presidential aspirant and former Ambassador to US, John Leigh leaving the Makeni polytechnic campus, accompanied by police and journalists, after the close of nomination… Mr. Leigh who failed to be nominated left the convention hall in a despondent mood and was later whisked from the scene into a police vehicle which drove away."

Can John Leigh deny all these factual reportages to mean all Sierra Leonean newspapers are ‘rubbish’?

Observers are already commenting that John Leigh ate his cake before it was baked and that prior to the convention, he had already bitten more than what he could chew. In an exclusive interview with this press about two weeks to the Makeni convention, John Leigh had urged delegates to "Eat their money and vote their conscience," insinuating therein that his rivals were bribing the delegates money. An observer at the Makeni convention commented on this, "well he has been paid in own coin. Who will tell me that someone will go into politics without spending money? perhaps, Mr.Leigh was doing his own discreetly so therefore he gained nothing out of it."

Awareness Times gave John Leigh extensive coverage during his campaign period. We covered him every time he called on us to give him coverage. We gave all his silly comments prominence. His silly comments wherein he attacked other decent people with names like "Swegbehs" were all carried by Awareness Times in our stated bid to give full coverage to all the candidates seeing that we are an independent newspaper.

John Leigh was so grateful to Awareness Times after one interview we did for him, that he called us up to say thanks with the following words:

"Thank you Awareness Times. Thank you so much for all what you have done and have been doing to give me such coverage. I truly appreciate your wonderful newspaper. My wife, children and friends call me all the time from America to say that they have been reading your news reports about me. You have never taken a single penny from me nor have you ever asked me for any money. I am truly indebted to you people. You are professionals of the highest order unlike some of your colleagues who always want money for any little coverage."

Now, that John Leigh has been shamed and disgraced and independent newspapers covered his national shame and his national disgrace, he has turned around to say that newspapers are writing "rubbish".

As one email to Awareness Times stated, "John Leigh has lost his mind. It is important that people know that his writings are from a mentally unbalanced person."

© Copyright by Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown, Sierra Leone.


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Bogus news:

Yours is another reharsh long taken of in Cocorioko and in my WE WAS ROBBED PIECE. Your reharsh was not written by San San Pehpeh Injection Doctor, Sayoh Kamara, at all but by his boss, Mrs. RUF Sylbana Sankoh Gongorlee Wohwoh Harlot who ownes the RUF Lie-Lie Ninjas Times.

She had been burning to get even with me since I helped to destroy the RUF, the AFRC, the Ninjas and Charles Taylor and after I rebuffed her attempted seduction of me in Freetown.

From all that experience, Rev. Kabs Kanu coined the phrase "Gongorlee Journalism".

Below is my reply to your reharsh trash.

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NOW COMES MS. SYVIA BLYDEN PUBLISHING TRASH FOR CROOKS

Accordingly, I am not at all surprised by the recent spate of vile personal attacks directed at me by Ms. Sylvia Blyden’s Awareness Times (“AT”), a Sierra Leone rag sheet with total in-country circulation of probably about 500 copies per issue. From her contrived news reports, it seems that some people do not care about repeating the same misdeeds of our pre-war years so long as they gain some personal benefits.

Blyden’s crude attacks on me are based on falsities and unwarranted rudeness. Her crude attacks are thus not really just about the crookedness brazenly perpetrated in Makeni. Her attacks are also about the 2007 General Elections and reflect a determination to eliminate or weaken possible competition via repeated character assassination attempts.

Incidentally, Ms. Blyden is well known in many circles as a poisonous viper that was originally with RUF’S Foday Sankoh. Later she teamed up with Major Johnny Paul Koroma to promote his junta. As we all know, Koroma’s junta held our people in bondage during the Reign of Terror that was the nearly year-long interregnum which commenced with their violent coup in late May 1997. Blyden then continued as one of the internet ‘Ninjas’ that loyally and shamelessly made propaganda for the bloody AFRC/RUF junta while they recouped to invade the Western Area in January 1999 and slaughtered innocent people on a massive scale.

NOTORIETY

The internet is bulging with responses to Ms. Blyden’s vile and relentless but baseless attacks on innocent people. Below are a few printable samples from www.cocorioko.com. Others are far more vitriolic and are thus unprintable here.

“SYLVIA BLYDEN IS NOTHING BUT AN OPPORTUNIST
Sylvia Blyden likes to tell people that they are not fit to wipe her shoes. [Yet she is] somebody with a track record of having relations with rebel leader Foday Sankoh and [AFRC] Junta leader Johnny Paul [Koroma]? She must be sick to think that she is better than other people. She is the one who is unfit to wipe other people's shoes. And this is the woman who says she wants to be President making such stupid public assertions?

Sylvia Blyden's character is incongruent with the office of President. But then, trust me, nobody will take her seriously. - Alimamy”

“SYLVIA BLYDEN IS A VERY DANGEROUS SIERRA LEONEAN
I have followed up the opinions and activities of INIP since I came to this net. She is a very dangerous Sierra Leonean. She has no principles. She moves with the wind. She supported people who were trying to harm our country. LEONENETTER”

Posted by Progress (80.229.45.21) on May 06, 2005 at 07:47:28:

In Reply to: WHAT IS JUNTA INIP 'S POLITICAL ORIENTATION? posted by Nation on May 05, 2005 at 22:24:23:

“1N1P [Blyden] supported the RUF and the AFRC to gain recognition so that she can further her selfish interests. She has succeeded in doing this. She is now a government contractor and robs shoulders with the politicians and walks the corridors of powers…. This is typical of Sierra Leoneans. They shout not to better the lot of ordinary citizens but to better themselves. The examples are many for all to see.”

BLYDEN’S HIMALAYAS OF LIES & INSULTS

As stated above, this viper woman has now unceremoniously switched sides but continues to deposit her Himalayas of lies, insults and venom all over the place on more innocent people. She is today supplicating to the bosses she virulently opposed on behalf of Foday Sankoh and Johnny Paul Koroma. Her new bosses are the very people that turned Makeni into a metaphor for crass political crookedness regardless of the consequences to their Party, people and country.

With her record of poisonous opportunism well known to me during the interregnum, I politely distanced myself from the request she reportedly sent to me in early May through a political associate that she would like to be introduced to me as she is dying to meet me. I had enough problems then than to waste my time with a sick and rude individual.

The tactics employed by Ms. Blyden – a lady known in some quarters as ‘Gongorlee Face’ because of her unique combination of stunning ugliness and her devilish disposition - are outrageous lies, gross distortions and false propaganda dished out with reckless abandon. Her attacks are designed to libel, humiliate and obfuscate rather than educate and persuade. She heaps insults and lies upon insults and lies rather than weave facts with logic in a systematic manner to make a coherent case. Her nihilistic approach might one day cease since it continues to provoke lawlessness against her and her staff.

DISGRACE AND SHAME LAY WITH THE CONDUCT OF THE CROOKS

Accordingly, one could reasonably ask Ms. Blyden: where do the ‘shame and disgrace’ of Makeni that you furiously mouthed lay: with a fearless insurgent or with her shameless, crooked new bosses? The disgrace and shame obviously lay with Blyden’s crooked bosses and their jungle tactics for it is their tactics, their corruption and their conBention that will destroy our party, our people and our country rather than anything I said or did.

The robbery of our civil rights in Makeni is the type of violation that can, in time, cause a society to catastrophically implode. It has happen before. It could happen again. Let us all work to prevent another disaster. Time is of the essence as the condition precedents are already with us.

Accordingly, added to the disgrace and shame of the crude and crooked conduct perpetrated in Makeni by unreasonable bosses who have failed the nation, are the disgrace and shame of deep poverty; the disgrace and shame of international disrespect; the disgrace and shame of chronic blackouts; the disgrace and shame of heaps of garbage in public thoroughfares; the disgrace and shame of massive unemployment; the disgrace and shame of massive brain drain; the disgrace and shame of extensive infant mortality; the disgrace and shame and pain of large numbers of our mothers dying during childbirth; the disgrace and shame of frequent deaths of young adults; the disgrace and shame and pain of the daily transportation of large numbers of corpses from the Western Area to provincial communities for burial; the disgrace and shame of food insecurity; the disgrace and shame of penniless pockets, wallets and bank accounts; the disgrace and shame of constant high and increasing prices; the disgrace and shame of victimization by those in power; the disgrace and shame of mounting external debts; the disgrace and shame of the abject absence of opportunities in our country for individual development and self-fulfillment; the disgrace and shame of the stubbornness of bosses’ unfairness and ingratitude; the disgrace and shame of over-exploiting females and oppressing them; the disgrace and shame of primitive, subsistence agriculture and provincial suffering; the disgrace and shame of widespread prostitution in our country, and so on and on and on.

WHO IS INSANE?

Next, Ms. Blyden recklessly published that I have gone insane overseas because I wrote as follows in the internet shortly after I returned to Massachusetts on September 13th:

“Dear Mr. Koroma:
I am back in Massachusetts and will be writing a true story of what happened at Makeni. Suffice it to say that the newspaper (AT) report below is rubbish. The radio rebroadcasts of my statements were quite accurate.

Ms. Susan French & I are not related by blood or marriage. I gave no one $2,000 to do anything on my behalf at anytime. No one wanted to kill me.

Rev. Butcher did nothing wrong. He is an honest man who was suspected by a few for no valid reason.

Susan was not the only one who "wailed". Dozens shed tears out of concern for what the future holds for SLeone given the illegalities brazenly committed in Makeni re the presidential nomination process. Will tell you all the fuller story soon. Stay tuned. -JL”

From my above straightforward writing, Ms. Blyden invented a number of falsities for false propaganda purposes as follows:

ALLEGATION 1: Ms. Blyden described my above note to Mr. Koroma as ‘evidence’ that I “have gone completely insane”, that I have “fled to the United States of America with” my “ tail between [my] legs brooding over thousands of dollars wasted”. She continued: “Mr. Leigh has become more confused as his emails and internet writings reveal”, etc.

REBUTTAL: Nothing in the above writing constitutes proof, let alone evidence, that my writing is the product of an insane or confused mind. Perhaps, it is Blyden who is insane.

Further, I did not flee Sierra Leone at any time. Why should I? I departed openly when I wanted to on September 12, the fourth time this year, by prior arrangement.

I booked my return passage out of Lungi for September 12 before traveling to Sierra Leone on September 1. I departed as planned – one week after the convention with my chin held high and with disappointed citizens crowding around me wherever I went to urge me on. When Hon. Mr. Ansu Kaikai and VP Berewa telephoned me on Thursday, September 8 to renew contact, I told them not only of my departure date but my intention to promptly return to Sierra Leone.

I returned to the United States because that’s where my home is and that’s where my employment and support system are. Had there been opportunities for personal development and self-fulfillment in our abused country, instead of chronic blackouts, heaps of garbage populated by rats, dirty-box chickens and okuru dogs, not to mention massive national unemployment, etc., I would gladly have stayed in Sierra Leone with my family.

For your information, I will be returning to SL shortly – the fifth time in 2005 - to continue where I left off. I do not intend to walk away from my commitment to help bring civilization back to Sierra Leone despite the orchestrated crookedness in Makeni and the trash rude opportunists like Blyden are busy peddling.

Next, I do not have a tail and if I did, it would not be between my legs. It would be way out there, waging proudly non-stop.

I never brooded during my return trip nor at any time prior or since or over anything. I never wasted at any time. My campaign compelled crooked bosses to use crookedness to gain office. Their secret is out – our people do not want them. On the other hand, my campaign has increased my status within the party and among the people in-country. My increased acceptance has driven Ms. Blyden to insane tantrums. Finally, I know the interior of my country much better now and I have first-hand evidence of the deep suffering of our abused people. I will keep on pressing ahead fearlessly.

For your information, political competition has never meant life or death or money for me. To me, public office is solely to advance the public good. I do not have Blyden’s slavish mentality about money.

ALLEGATION 2: “Leigh has now disowned Susan French completely”. “Leigh writes likes he does not even know who she is or why she was wailing on that day her accusations about how much money, the failed aspirant wasted”

REBUTTAL 2: Blyden’s allegation above is pure rubbish. I have reproduced above the writing Blyden is misrepresenting, misinterpreting and distorting for her false propaganda purposes. Please compare my words with Ms. Blyden excessive allegations here.

My above writing shows that I never disowned Ms. Susan French at any time. Because of Blyden’s earlier published misrepresentations, I merely clarified my relationship with Susan and made it known that she is not my niece and nor I am her uncle by blood or marriage. If Susan referred to me as her uncle, she must have meant it in the usual colloquial way common in Sierra Leone. Ms. Blyden had no right to distort that into Susan becoming my “niece” because “niece” is not in colloquial usage in our country. A niece in Sierra Leone is a genuine relative and not a notional one.

Further, my clarifying this matter does not mean I disowned Susan at any time or in any way, shape or form. Ms. Blyden seems to be surfeited with shameless lies and devilish distortions. Obviously, jumping to erroneous conclusions for false propaganda purposes is one of her disgraceful trademarks.

ALLEGATION 3: Ms. Blyden’s additional false propaganda claimed that: “What is however clear and what came out on that Mr. Leigh’s fateful day is that his non-nomination was at first greeted with silence and when the nominations closed, it was greeted with an outburst of laughter and then comments filled with disdain for John Leigh.”

REBUTTAL 3: Ms. Blyden the viper is a damn liar and not very logical. If there were laughter and merriment as she falsely claimed, why did the police intervene as she also reported? Why was there a huge clamor to get my side of the story?

The facts are as follows: after nominations closed without my name being forwarded, there was widespread shock, disappointment, followed by disgruntlement. Public comments were heavily against the conference organizers and very supportive of my campaign. The tension was palpable in the atmosphere. There was some talk of violence against the cabal. People were in a state of disbelief given the ascendancy of my candidature over the short time I had the privilege to campaign.

As tension rose, the police asked me to help reduce the tension by briefly leaving the premises so none of my admirers would take the law into their hands to impress me. They then drove me around town for 25-30 minutes or so. This worked. Upon my return, I held a very orderly press conference and a series of interviews with individual members of the press representing radios.

Contrary to Blyden’s lies and false propaganda, I was very polite and calm throughout. I was never rude to anyone and I spoke in a calm, measured manner on every occasion. I never called any delegate or anyone “bastard” or used any word of insult at any time as Ms. Blyden falsely published. I was in my diplomatic best throughout my entire campaign!

Our viper lady is a poisonous crook, maliciously inserting invented fictitious words in my remarks. My entire press conference was tape-recorded. Radio 98.1, Sky Radio, Talking Drum Studios, etc. broadcast my statements at the press conference that evening and subsequently in their entirety to rave reviews. Not a single cuss word was ever used by me at anytime. In fact, I was repeatedly praised for my exemplary calm demeanor, given the massive crookedness just perpetrated upon our civil rights.

ALLEGATION 4: Ms. Blyden then published that I “sweated profusely” in my “black coat” and my “throat tied with a red tie like a goat bound for sacrifice”.

REBUTTAL 4: I never wore a black coat or a totally red tie at any time while in Sierra Leone. However, the place was hot and devoid of air conditioning. In fact, Makeni has neither electricity or pipe-borne water.

The suit I had on September 4 was a dark brown Brooks Brother suit with thin blue plaid- design lines. My tie was red silk with numerous blue squares all over. It was the same tie shown on my campaign T-shirt and on the front cover of my campaign biography. I wore that necktie to unite my campaign pictures with myself.

I am not surprised at all that Blyden is seeking to equate a silk necktie with the tying of a sacrificial goat for a primitive ritual. I, on the other hand, associate a classy necktie with civilization. I am told that Ms. Blyden is full of fetishes and is a highly superstitious person who believes in juju, the power of sehbeh and animal sacrifice. If such is true, that’s her business, not mine. As for me, I practice the purest form of my religion and I engage in no heathen practices of any kind whatsoever.

ALLEGATION 5 & REBUTTAL. Blyden pathetic claims that I wept or cried or shed tears and that I said I spent $50,000 dollars on my campaign are all lies. I never cried, etc. at any time and I do not discuss private money matters with strangers.

I never spent up to $50,000 during my entire campaign, nor have I ever mentioned the dollar amount cost of my campaign to anyone anywhere in Sierra Leone, not even to my campaign manager. Blyden is a stupid liar who knows nothing about my personal culture but makes things up against me for false propaganda purposes.

Meanwhile, local newspapers have been filled with erroneous reports that I gave someone $5,000 (Standard Times) or $2,000 or Le500, 000 to this or that delegate to nominate me. These are all lies and bogus allegations. I gave no such amounts to any one at any time to nominate me.

ALLEGATION 6 & REBUTTAL. Ms. Blyden then goes on to boast about the quality of her so-called photo journalism. But the photos she published of my staff and I, are in fact, substandard, badly focused shots that are cloudy and missed the mark. Nevertheless, she did not hesitate to provide her own self-serving bogus interpretations for false propaganda purposes.

Contrary to her claim that I was distressed, distraught, etc., I was merely tired in a very hot climate after several days and nights without sleep and after two long inter-continental flights in 7 days. Of course, I was disappointed at the crookedness in Makeni but I was never distraught or distressed at any time.

Here is the sequence of events leading to my press conference on Sunday, September 4.

I returned to Massachusetts on Saturday, August 27 after the indefinite postponement of the convention on account of the Chief Hinga Norman case. On Wednesday, August 31 I first received notification from my campaign that the Makeni Convention has been suddenly rescheduled for September 3 and 4 – three days hence. I was told that the crooked organizers hope I will not be able to reach Makeni on time and would give up.

Instead, I then and there began a furious search for plane reservations to Sierra Leone. I departed my residence at 3:00pm the next day for Sierra Leone via Newark, NJ International Airport to Gatwick Airport in London and thence to Lungi, clearing customs there at about 11:30pm on Friday, September 2.

From Lungi, my entourage drove me via Port Loko and Rogbere to Magburaka via Makeni arriving at 3:30am. We immediately had meetings with my Tonkolili supporters. The meetings progressed until 7:00am. We then showered, ate breakfast and drove to the convention site in Makeni, 15 miles away. We were there the entire day lobbying, listening to speeches, etc. I was the main magnet for attention. We then visited a number of delegates in town. At 8:00pm we headed to the home of a supporter and campaign worker who was having a party for delegates supporting me. At 2:00am, we drove to Magburaka where we held more meetings, retiring at 4:30am. We were up at 6:30am so we could arrive in Makeni in time before the gates to the convention campus are closed, as was widely rumored.

We showered and had breakfast, then headed for the convention site in Makeni. We then lobbied around the campus and entered the convention hall at about 10:00am. I stayed inside until nomination closed.

Who would not be exhausted after such grueling regimen? That my exhaustion could have been confused with ‘distress’, distraught, etc. is not surprising, but to falsely claim that I ‘wept’, ‘shed tears’ or ‘cried like a baby’ is to write trash and rubbish for false propaganda purposes.

ALLEGATION 7. Ms. Blyden claims that I do not know how to speak Krio. This, she proclaims, is a huge disgrace.

RUBUTTAL 7: Once again Blyden is wrongheaded and publishing trash. As between Krio and English, the disgrace is in not being educated enough to speak proper English for even pre-literates speak excellent Krio. As between speaking Krio and solving national problems, the disgrace is in speaking good Krio but making the lives of our people miserable through corruption, maladministration, crooked politrics, etc. as is the sad history imposed on our country by good Krio-speaking but crooked leaders.

The fact is I speak perfect Krio having grown up in Freetown in my Creole father’s household from babyhood. During the radio presidential debate cited by Blyden, I was the only aspirant who addressed national concerns and proposed reasonable solutions. I am told by someone at the radio station that a prominent but unpopular woman with close connection to the lodge brought up the Krio-speaking issue because my radio performance was stunningly perfect otherwise and crooked political bosses were seeking to invent criticisms of my presentation to exploit willy-nilly.

All over the country, people laughed at her stupid Krio question saying it was a zero, a non-issue. Small wonder, therefore, that the ordinary people of Sierra Leone are excited about my candidacy throughout my campaign to Makeni and beyond. If at times I slipped into English when speaking Krio, it is simply because of the force of habit because English became my first language years and years ago and not because I cannot speak Krio as Ms. Blyden is alleging for false propaganda purposes.

KINGPIN OF THE GOVERNMENT

Lastly, if the presidential debates produced any disgraceful incident, it must be the one where an aspirant - close to Blyden and the non-Krio lodge woman - proudly referred to himself as the ‘KINGPIN’ of the Sierra Leone Government. Now we all know that a kingpin is the boss of a criminal organization such as the Mafia. I really am not sure why this particular aspirant termed himself as ‘the kingpin’. Perhaps, it was a Freudian slip or, perhaps and more likely, it was ordinary ignorance!

NO CREDIBILITY

Additionally, Blyden seeks to generate some credibility for her paper by alleging that I once complimented her rag sheet of a newspaper for an article it published about my campaign. Her claim is disingenuous. The fact that I may have told a reporter that the quotes from me AT published were substantially accurate does not mean that each and everything AT ever published about me and my campaign and/or others then or since are accurate. AT could have faked the whole arrangement in their ploy to use my name to first garner credibility and profitable publicity before attacking me with lies and insults for false propaganda purposes. In fact, that is exactly what I believe they did.

MS. BLYDEN IS UNFAIR & UNREASONABLE

Finally, not only is Ms. Blyden a known lair, she is an unfair person as pointed out by Mr. Alex Mansaray of New Jersey in an extensive posting in www.cocorioko.com. Ms. Blyden supremely enjoys lying and insulting others but when her lies and insults are rebutted she goes out of her way to prevent the public from reading them by employing such low-down tricks as erasing forum entries and saturating a critical website with disgusting pornography.

Blyden also ostensibly invites critics to send in their comments to her own website but then prevents these same invited critics from submitting their comments by blocking access to her forum to the same invitees. This hard and rude unreasonable woman is full of satanic tricks, temper tantrums and other foul habits for false propaganda purposes.

CONCLUSION

Having brought my information about the Makeni Convention and subsequent developments to your attention, let’s hope that proper rules and regulations will be crafted and standards of decency established for the good governance of our Party now that the Party’s Delegate System has been thoroughly savaged. While I am favorably disposed to some of the officers in the newly elected National Executive Council, I remain skeptical that the top of the ticket is going to produce the leadership necessary to put the Party on sound footings. Time and developments will tell.

As for Ms. Blyden, I stand ever ready to respond point-for-point to everyone of her fresh falsities and rudeness. JEL – 9/25/05


Subject: Re: THE UPATRIOTIC JOHN LEIGH CAN'T LEAD EVEN HIMSELF!
From: Evidence equals Proof
To: All
Date Posted: 15:29:02 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
"Your reharsh was not written by San San Pehpeh Injection Doctor, Sayoh Kamara, at all but by his boss, Mrs. RUF Sylbana Sankoh Gongorlee Wohwoh Harlot who ownes the RUF Lie-Lie Ninjas Times."

John Leigh the reckless liar, please show us the proof purportedly supporting your so far baseless diatribe.


Subject: THE PENINSULA R HIGHWAY
From: PHOTO OF THE DAY
To: All
Date Posted: 09:39:48 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50

Message:
Photo of the Day: The peninsular highway, outside of Freetown [April 2007]


Subject: Re: THE PENINSULA R HIGHWAY
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 13:31:39 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: new-5000.cadence.com at 158.140.1.25

Message:
Have you noticed that the nay sayers and doom and gloom crowd have said nothing about this road?
What a bunch of haters.......


Subject: Re: THE PENINSULA R HIGHWAY
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:15:27 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14

Message:
"Have you noticed that the nay sayers and doom and gloom crowd have said nothing about this road?
What a bunch of haters......." -Independent Man


I will go much further, I-MAN. SLPP detractors are blinded by greed for power to the point where they have become blinded to reason, logic and fair play.

They have no good point to argue. So they go way back and retrieve old washed-out attack articles and repost them for the sole purpose of promoting personal attacks lacking in merit against one single individul. They never juxtapose such articles with the counters. They have a one-track mind, presenting only one side in every dispute - just like the Freetown print media.

One old article has now been posted three or four times already in this forum alone without the counter.

Some jokers steal the monikers of others.

Some wrongfully impersonate those they cannot intellectually defeat. They are shameless.

Accordingly, these malicious time-wasters and defrauders are nothing but munkus, funkus, dunkus, hunkus, junkus, nunkus, sunkus, zunkus mombo-tombo-dumbo, foolumunkus, bangucrooks, dombolos, peggy boys flunkey idiots.

They must now come up with relevant issues to be discussed politely without the abuse of monikers.

They should also show respect for TWO fundamental rule of democracy, substantial justice and fair play:

1. "GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE".

2. "DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD OTHERS DO UNTO YOU."

Stop the Lie-Lie, the fraud; stop the cuss, trash talk, insults, vulgarisms; wild, baseless allegations and above all the flunkey dunce argumentation! Thank you. - JL


Subject: Re: THE PENINSULA R HIGHWAY
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 11:00:21 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb11dc1-26-222.dynamic.mts.net at 207.161.26.222

Message:
Proof of Govt. HARDWORK.Is this why some people want SLPP out?


Subject: IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT COCORIOKO LEADS AND OTHERS FOLLOW
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:23:17 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: RNMDTWO@YAHOO.COM
Entered From: at 198.24.31.125

Message:
80."The Commission calls on the members of the media in Sierra Leone to carry out thorough investigations before publishing stories. Newspapers should be offering informed comment on matters of national and international concern. Some newspapers are in danger of becoming little more than scandal sheets, relying on provocative and, at times,dishonest headlines to promote sales. Reports that are inaccurate or even untrue seriously undermine the cause of freedom of expression.Journalists who take bribes and allow their newspapers to be used for party political ends or for the settling of personal scores abuse the freedom of the press. Such journalists are not fit to be members of the independent press".

81. "The Commission calls on the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists and the Media Commission to be more proactive in monitoring standards of journalism practiced in Sierra Leone and to establish mechanisms for effective self-regulation. These organisations can do much to advance a culture of human rights in Sierra Leone".

(Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report)


Subject: lest you take the heading out of context
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:42:12 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: RNMDTWO@YAHHO.COM
Entered From: at 198.24.31.125

Message:
it is apparent on this forum that people do not understand simple English. The heading of this article means that "COCORIOKO IS SETTING THE EXAMPLE OF NOT ENGAGING IN PRACTICES NOT IN LINE WITH SOUND JOURNALISM..."AND IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT COCORIOKO LEADS AND OTHERS FOLLOW".

HOPE I MADE MYSELF CLEAR!


Subject: Re: IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT COCORIOKO LEADS AND OTHERS FOLLOW
From: charles
To: All
Date Posted: 09:28:14 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
"Journalists who take bribes and allow their newspapers to be used for party political ends or for the settling of personal scores abuse the freedom of the press. Such journalists are not fit to be members of the independent press"".
Hmmm thats like all of them sve one....Cocorioco...God bless you KABBS KANU.


Subject: Re: IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT COCORIOKO LEADS AND OTHERS FOLLOW
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 10:33:12 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.250.218.196

Message:
Chief and others,

Thanks for your encouraging sentiments. We need them at this time when the job is becoming too demanding, but to make sure that the Sierra Leonean people get the information they need, we have to keep going.


Subject: Re: IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT COCORIOKO LEADS AND OTHERS FOLLOW
From: concerned
To: All
Date Posted: 18:24:58 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-75-66-114-24.hsd1.tn.comcast.net at 75.66.114.24

Message:
Good job KABS stay on top and above the rest god will surely Bless you Sir.


Subject: lest you take the heading out of context
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:46:41 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.24.31.125

Message:
Posted by charles on May 01, 2007 at 09:28:14:

In Reply to: IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT COCORIOKO LEADS AND OTHERS FOLLOW posted by CHIEF IN EXILE on May 01, 2007 at 09:23:17:

"Journalists who take bribes and allow their newspapers to be used for party political ends or for the settling of personal scores abuse the freedom of the press. Such journalists are not fit to be members of the independent press"".
Hmmm thats like all of them sve one....Cocorioco...God bless you KABBS KANU.

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Posted by CHIEF IN EXILE on May 01, 2007 at 09:42:12:

In Reply to: IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT COCORIOKO LEADS AND OTHERS FOLLOW posted by CHIEF IN EXILE on May 01, 2007 at 09:23:17:


it is apparent on this forum that people do not understand simple English. The heading of this article means that "COCORIOKO IS SETTING THE EXAMPLE OF NOT ENGAGING IN PRACTICES NOT IN LINE WITH SOUND JOURNALISM..."AND IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT COCORIOKO LEADS AND OTHERS FOLLOW".

HOPE I MADE MYSELF CLEAR!



Subject: KABBAH--JESSE JACKSON AND THE AMERICANS FORCED ME
From: concerned
To: All
Date Posted: 09:04:54 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
"Sierra Leone ambassador John Ernest Leigh just shakes his head at the thought of rebel leader Foday Sankoh in charge of the diamond mines. "How can you put a cat to guard a mouse?" he says. "People who should be put in jail were put in the Cabinet. That's precisely what Taylor wanted."".

JL god bless you.


Subject: Could this happen in Sierra Leone
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 08:43:22 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-0c8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.12

Message:
on a grander or a smaller scale. What's done is done and then what?


Subject: Cocorioko Editorial
From: Critical Thinker
To: All
Date Posted: 08:31:21 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: sph16-204.harvard.edu at 128.103.16.204

Message:
Kabs, your editorial titled "Should we trust the international community" was very poignant. My fear is that is that as long as there is no bloodshed and the 'winner' has or appears to have the backing of the military, the international community will allow the status quo to prevail. This is good news for incumbent governments but bad news for opposition parties.


Subject: ALIEU SESAY,REBEL,KAMAJOR,SLPP
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 08:01:05 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
Alieu,do you know that the kamajors are cannibals?besides,feeding on snakes,frogs etc is also common to them


Subject: For Bella Barrie-It is English
From: Bella wants to distort my statement
To: All
Date Posted: 05:22:49 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 95-66-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.66.95

Message:
Tendency, direction, trend, drift refer to inclination or line of action or movement. A tendency is an inclination toward a certain line of action (whether or not the action follows), and is often the result of inherent qualities, nature, or habit: a tendency to procrastinate. Direction is the line along which an object or course of action moves, often toward some set point or intended goal: The change is in the direction of improvement. Trend emphasizes simultaneous movement in a certain direction of a number of factors, although the course or goal may not be clear for any single feature: Business indicators showed a downward trend. Drift emphasizes gradual development as well as direction: the drift of his argument. 2. proclivity, leaning.


Subject: Re: For News Read and Understand
From: Bella Barrie
To: All
Date Posted: 07:31:07 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-wan-217-154-29-181.mistral.co.uk at 217.154.29.181

Message:
For News - stop using different names, why don’t you use your real name so people will know who you are.
BTW, you said it yourself ‘Tendency, direction, trend, drift refer to inclination or line of action or movement. A tendency is an inclination toward a certain line of action’.
Let me help you – Tendency - a way that somebody or something typically behaves or is likely to react or behave - a character or quality that makes it likely that something will happen.
Now all I wanted is for you to explain these (Tendency) qualities which you think SLPP have, according to you ‘Britain and the US must note that the SLPP has a tendency to do business with Al Qaida’. CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN THESE QUALITIES TO THE FORUM (I hope you now understand).
This is not about SLPP or APC this is about tarnishing the character of Sierra Leoneans including your self Mr. News.
BTW have you tried these APC + PMDC if you are to stand any chance at all (Just a word of advice)?


Subject: "People are dying in the country like files from preventable
From: Copy paste
To: All
Date Posted: 05:13:30 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 95-66-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.66.95

Message:
Sierra Leone: Opposition Leader Accuses Ruling Party of Neglecting Health Sector


[Report by Abdul Karin Koroma: "SLPP is Turning Salone to a Graveyard"]

The publicity secretary of the People's Democratic Movement for Democratic Change [PMDC], Mohammed Bangura alleged on 18 April that the Sierra Leone People's Party [SLPP] government is slowly turning Sierra Leone into a graveyard as the health situation in the country continues to deteriorate.

Mr Bangura who made this allegation during a news conference at the PMDC office at Hannah Benka-Coker Street in Freetown said Sierra Leone has the highest infant mortality rate in the world.

"People are dying in the country like files from preventable diseases. There are insufficient drugs in the hospitals and the SLPP has not put mechanisms in place in order to save the lives of thousands of Sierra Leoneans" he claimed.

He explained that refurbishing hospitals will not cure sick persons and noted that if the PMDC form the next government they will ensure that the hospitals do not look like carcasses.

"Eighty per cent of the doctors who graduate from the college of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences [COMHAS] are fleeing the country in search of greener pastures in the diaspora because the government is paying them exploitative wages", he stated.

According to him, his party has a sound medical policy for the people of Sierra Leone adding even the international community has noticed that the country's health problem is a crisis.


Subject: Great awareness in Freetown. No yuki yuki for SLPP
From: dream on
To: All
Date Posted: 05:10:50 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 95-66-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.66.95

Message:
SLPP looses ‘debul contest’…” Dont politicise popular masquerades”
For Di People newspaper writes: - “One of the oldest and popular masquerade society in Freetown , ‘Civilli’ or ‘Back to civilian rule’ last Saturday destroyed the SLPP counter offensive of a mass ‘debul’ following by ensuring that they (Civilli) overwhelmingly dominated the parade. Back to Civilian Rule’s dominant leader known as ‘Banki’ (Bankole Koroma) had to relegate his position after he had wanted to transform the occasion to an SLPP campaign spree and attempted to distribute hundreds of the ruling SLPP party vests but met stiff resistance from the members. Already anticipating the intrigues of ‘Banki’ and the SLPP, the massive supporters of the ‘Back to Civilian Rule’ openly decry any attempt to dress the occasion in a new political garb.” The friction within the camp and the loud rejection by the crowd to masquerade as an SLPP ‘Debul’ forced ‘Banki’ who was allegedly bribed to do the propaganda work of the party out. In a related development Concord Times newspaper reports of a similar incident in the Eastern Kenema city where followers of the Kenema Eastern Paddle refused to chant the ruling SLPP party slogan, maintaining that the occasion was for all Sierra Leoneans and “not SLPP members.”

All new Yahoo! Mail -


Subject: Alieu Sesay,Rebel,Kamajor then SLPP
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 04:52:23 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
I will try to locate your credentials,you keep on diguising yourself.Do you speak your native language well?what about writing it?can you also read it well?Shame on you if you cant,but if you can then try to improve it.Instead of being a champion of a colonial and slavery language you cant even speak or write well.Do you know that the kamajors are cannibals?Because feeding on snakes,frogs and other creatures is common for them.


Subject: Re: LETS DEBATE ISSUES, Kamajors
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:49:40 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14

Message:
Mr. MUSA KAMARA:

The Kamajors are not an election issue. Ex-Kamajors are beneficiaries of a blanket amnesty and pardon. The issue is dead!

As for eating snakes, etc., please note that chioce/variety of foods eaten is a cultural thing. For example, Snakes are a major delicacy in many parts of Asia - as are dog pupies. So what? If you grew up from babyhood eating such things, they become part of you.

Lets focus on discussing relevant issues. You are a lawyer. So you ought to know the importance of relevance in any debate.

Below is a summary of debateable issues for starters (and feel free to add your own). Thank you. - JL
=========================================================================================

A. HEGEMONISTIC APC’S RECORD OF NATION-WRECKING

With its record:

of mass marginalization, mass poverty spreading; mass unemployment, mass company closings, catastrophic railway closing, mass capital flight, mass European flight, mass missionary flight, ruinous stangflation; SLPMB ruination, catastrophic foreign exchange abuses, deep currency degradation, continuous frivolous frolickings amidst mass breeze-sucking and continuous darkness, AFRC war and destruction

- few people are behind the APC other than hegemonistic tribesmen and the direct and indirect beneficiaries of marginalization, favoritism, nepotism and outright corruption.

Would you want your next president to have been Sahid Jamil's peggy boy? Did you man not seek higher education in a neighboring country?

B. FLUNKEY PMDC'S HIP-HOP, FLIM-FLAM PERFORMANCE

As for the POMPOUS MAGGAI'S DEFEATED CHICKENS,

- the fraudulent misuse of Makeni, their secretive, one-manic ownership for dynastic benefits, flunkeyism, principal-slapping, Third Force double-cross attempted theft-without-a-single-paragraph; widespread, repeated discrimination against citizens of Fullah, Mandingo and Soso ancestry; “ar go do dis, ar go do dat” yap-yap talk; “you go be dis, you go be dat wenn ar ween” empty boasts; arrogance grounded on flunkeyism, haughtiness grounded in stupidity; alphabet-soup political opportunism grounded in president-at-all-cost; tiff-tiff Bangucrooks lawyers grounded in margo-margoism and opportunism; foolumunkuism; fahlahmahkahtahism; loyal Northern Muslim double-cross compounded by Fullah pandering by one-manic flunkey leadership

- produced a loud and fatal dombolo impulsion.


Subject: Re: Alieu Sesay,Rebel,Kamajor then SLPP
From: concerned
To: All
Date Posted: 07:43:53 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
"Do you know that the kamajors are cannibals?Because feeding on snakes,frogs and other creatures is common for them"
Are you really sure of the above statement? If so, then you are a cannibal. Why? you have atleast once in your life eating frog, or snake or other creatures- which can be monkeys, chicken, etc...
Just using your reasononing Bra. Nor "cuss" me doyah.


Subject: MR JOHN L,BE MATURED AND STOP LYING
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 04:27:49 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
You have discredited Mr Earnest Koroma and Mr Marggai by fabricating rubbish.This is the outcome of immaturity, despite your age.ignorancy,hopelessness,greed,corruption, desperation for power hatred combined with your tribalistic apt.I wonder if you have ever seen Mr Earnest Koroma in person.Let me just brief you in some of my questions.First and foremost Slpp will loose the elections despite their present effort of rigging it.Some of the rebels,who transformed themselves to kamajors then later to full fledged slpp patronage,will attempt to cause trouble but would be met by a swift reaction from the Sierra-Leone people.Later,you will try to pave your way into the ruling party either the APC or PMDC but you will be left in the cold,because Sierra-Leone is tired of vultures and hypocrites like you.The person of Berewa you are now adoring was the worst,most corrupt etc months ago from your own mouth.Mr JL what has happened that you have changed your stand point?Now I want a genuine answer,is it true that the KAMAJORS are cannibals?


Subject: Re: MR JOHN L,BE MATURED AND STOP LYING
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:27:56 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14

Message:
Mr. MUSA KAMARA:

I am trying to help increase the public understanding of the issues so voters are able to make sound choices come July 28. In this connection, while making my own comments, I would like some clarifications from you regarding certain of your allegations as follows:

1. "You have discredited Mr Earnest Koroma and Mr Marggai by fabricating rubbish.This is the outcome of immaturity, despite your age.ignorancy,hopelessness,greed,corruption, desperation for power hatred combined with your tribalistic apt."

REQUEST: Please give me an example. What you have alleged and described here sounds like raw BS.

2. "I wonder if you have ever seen Mr Earnest Koroma in person."

COMMENT: I don't need to see anyone in person to understand his bachground. Have you seen Shakespeare in person? Have you seen Allah in person or in spirit?

3. "Let me just brief you in some of my questions.First and foremost Slpp will loose the elections despite their present effort of rigging it."

COMMENT: No problem. You are lawfully entitled to your own optimistic forecasts. Forecasts, however, are not facts. Even so, you have a point.

4. "Some of the rebels,who transformed themselves to kamajors then later to full fledged slpp patronage,will attempt to cause trouble but would be met by a swift reaction from the Sierra-Leone people."

QUESTION: Where is your proof?

5. "Later,you will try to pave your way into the ruling party either the APC or PMDC but you will be left in the cold,because Sierra-Leone is tired of vultures and hypocrites like you."

QUESTION: Where is your proof? Be assured in the meantime that you will never catch me hip-hopping, flip-flopping alphabet soup-style.

6. "The person of Berewa you are now adoring .......'

COMMENT: I do not adore Berewa at all. I support his candidacy to be our next president because he is far superior to each and everyone of his rivals. You do
not need adoration for such.

7. "......was the worst,most corrupt etc months ago from your own mouth."

QUESTION: Where is your proof?

8. "Mr JL what has happened that you have changed your stand point?"

COMMENT: I have not changed my stand at all, not even one single iota or one speck. Berewa with all his alleged faults is far, far superior to all his idiot, peggy boy, foolumunku dombolo rivals.

9. "Now I want a genuine answer,is it true that the KAMAJORS are cannibals?"

COMMENT: First, you are in no position to demand anything. Second, there are no kamajors any more. Lastly, ex-kamajors are not cannibals.

All of the above sound like some APC loyalist I know. My advice is please calm down. "You have not seen nothing yet." Thank you. - JL


Subject: Re: MR JOHN L,BE MATURED AND STOP LYING
From: JUDGE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:17:30 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
Mr. Leigh, you are the last person who should be asking people for proof of their statements on this forum. Was it not you who came here and alleged that Charles Margai failed in form 4?

Where is your proof?

Was it not you, JOhn Leigh, who claimed that Marghai was a bully whose father helped himobtain a pass at schoo?

Where is your proof?

Was it not you who alleged in this forum that Margai is a "flunky" lawyer?

Where is your proof?

How come you are now asking for proof (copying the trademark approach of a well-known forumite), when YOU never provided proof for your many self-serving allegations that many have called blatant lies you told in an attempt to recover your bribes you had paid to the SLPP?


Subject: Re: MR JOHN L,BE MATURED AND STOP LYING
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 07:53:39 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-0c8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.12

Message:
Mr. Kamara,


Has he also been “fabricating rubbish”/ “ kaka“ about Hon Ernest Bai Koroma , also ?


Subject: Re: MR JOHN L,BE MATURED AND STOP LYING
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 08:07:11 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
Yes Mr Hamelberg,he has been fabricating kaka rubbish about his leadership.This man Mr JL needs help


Subject: Re: MR JOHN L,BE MATURED AND STOP LYING
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:37 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-0c8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.12

Message:
I don't know, but if he comes after me, ah go trifoot am den ah bazz bazz am......


Subject: Re: MR JOHN L,BE MATURED AND STOP LYING
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 12:03:32 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-0c8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.12

Message:
It's a Legal Consultations firm.
Solicitor and advocate,
Johnny Liar ( not Tony Blair )
Makeni Chambers


Subject: Re: MR JOHN L,BE MATURED AND STOP LYING
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 11:57:38 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-0c8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.12

Message:
Yes, it's Johnny Lie and Tony B-liar


Subject: Re: MR JOHN L,BE MATURED AND STOP LYING
From: concerned
To: All
Date Posted: 08:12:33 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
I did not know JL was a kamajor. Address the question to Alieu and Dr Fanusie. You will get the answer to that cannibalizm issue.


Subject: Re: MR JOHN L,BE MATURED AND STOP LYING
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 13:04:02 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-0c8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.12

Message:
Yaya is an experienced guerilla combatant. He should ambush and demolish the tailend of the monster's argument.


Subject: Re: MR JOHN L,BE MATURED AND STOP LYING
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 13:22:37 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-0c8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.12

Message:
Attack and he will tend to defend. And spin, explain and bluster, but he can not justify wrong-doing too loudly and not be cast overboard. Election time is not the time to talk too loudly about such things, he thinks.
To keep on braying on behalf of his robbers is one way of staying alive and in focus - as relevant and as paying tribute to his exemplar, hopefully not to be rewarded by a new defeat of that particular ambition.



Subject: we are tired to be ruled by a corrupt SLPP cabal
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 03:04:18 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 229-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.229

Message:
This is a cry from all the poor houses in Sierra Leone. Our people who have suffered throughout four decades are tired to live in peenury and will not allow the SLPP to steal victory.
The san san boys and low graders are in the majority and we will not give our votes to a party that has cursed and abused our rights to survive.
If the SLPP apologists and its gongorlee newspaper say that Freetown streets are covered woth green, it is just a gimmick. Everyone knows that to survive you must pretend to be an SLPP suppoter.
There is no true support for the SLPP across the Country. People are coming out with green in an effort to eat and to get influence in governmnet circle.
Unlike, Nigeria, the people of Sierra Leone are prepared to lose everything to ensure that 2007 brings change in their areas.
No attempt of lies, victorian style language or kickback will change the determination of the average Sierra Leonean to kick the kleptomaniac SLPP.
Our message to the West is this; we the ordinary people in Sierra Leone wants a future that is not tied to corruption with a vicious leadership at the helm.
The present SLPP finds haven in IRan, Libya and Cuba.
Because the SLPP has reaped and sucked all the donors fund from the west, its leadership turn to those Countries to milk and ensure its ignominous rule. Britain and the US must note that the SLPP has atendency to do business with Al Qaida.
We are watching closely to thwart any iabolical plan by the SLPP to cheat.
Those that are walking in the corridor of power now must take this message to the SLPP crooks, that Sierra Leoneans from all spheres will wrestle till they see their Country free from the hands of the SLPP


Subject: Re: we are tired to be ruled by a corrupt SLPP cabal
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 12:21:52 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-0c8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.12

Message:
“------will not allow the SLPP to steal victory” =we will prevent slpp steal-ing the elections too.

“Unlike, Nigeria, the people of Sierra Leone are prepared to lose everything to ensure that 2007 brings change in their areas.”

The people of Nigeria have taken recourse to the Law Courts.


Wa Benzies


Subject: Re: we are tired to be ruled by a corrupt SLPP cabal
From: Bella Barrie
To: All
Date Posted: 03:45:28 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-wan-217-154-29-181.mistral.co.uk at 217.154.29.181

Message:
News said:

'Britain and the US must note that the SLPP has a tendency to do business with Al Qaida'.

Do you have any evidence to support your claim, if so can you share this TENDENCY with this forum.

You are not only accusing SLPP but the people of Sierra Leone. As a Sierra Leonean who is taken a neutral stand in this election I am very much concern about this comment.


Subject: Re: we are tired to be ruled by a corrupt SLPP cabal
From: Iran tops list of state terror sponsors
To: All
Date Posted: 06:02:06 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 95-66-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.66.95

Message:
Iran tops list of state terror sponsors

By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer 23 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The State Department has once again designated
Iran as the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, accusing the Islamic Republic of aiding extremists throughout the Middle East, particularly in
Iraq.
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Although the designation is not new, the release of the department's annual global survey of terrorism comes at a delicate moment — just days ahead of a possible meeting between Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice and Iran's top diplomat.

Rice could meet Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki when they both attend a weekend conference of Iraq's neighbors aimed at boosting stability in a nation where the report says terrorist attacks, some backed by Iran, killed more than 13,000 civilians in 2006.

"Should the foreign minister of Iran bump into Condi Rice, Condi won't be rude,"
President Bush said Monday. "She's not a rude person. I'm sure she'll be polite."

Such a meeting on the sidelines of the conference in Egypt would be the highest-level contact between Iran and the United States since 2004.

The Bush administration in the past has resisted engaging Iran diplomatically on Iraq because of the stalemate over Tehran's uranium enrichment program, its long-standing support for anti-
Israel groups and what the U.S. characterizes as a growing role in fueling the Iraqi insurgency.

But, in recent days, the administration has signaled more flexibility and Bush said if Rice meets Mottaki she will "be firm in reminding the representative of the Iranian government that there's a better way forward for the Iranian people than isolation."

Bush called Iran "a significant threat to world peace" and apart from its nuclear ambitions, which Washington believes includes attempts to construct an atomic bomb, Monday's terrorism report detailed alleged Iranian misbehavior.

Iran was singled out for criticism in a year that saw a surge of more than 25 percent in terrorist attacks that killed 40 percent more people than in 2005. Much of the increase was in Iraq where extremists used chemical weapons and suicide bombers to target crowds.

The State Department's Country Reports on Terrorism 2006 says Iran is the "most active state sponsor" of terrorism with elements of its government — notably the Revolutionary Guards and intelligence ministry — supporting many extremist groups in Iraq and elsewhere.

The two "were directly involved in the planning and support of terrorist acts and continued to exhort a variety of groups, especially Palestinian groups with leadership cadres in
Syria and Lebanese Hezbollah, to use terrorism in pursuit of their goals," the report said.

The Revolutionary Guard has been "linked to armor-piercing explosives that resulted in the deaths of coalition forces" and has helped, along with Lebanon's radical Hezbollah movement, train Iraqi Shiite extremists to build bombs, it said.

At the same time, "Iran maintained a high-profile role in encouraging anti-Israeli activity, rhetorically, operationally and financially," the report said, adding Iran has yet to identify, try or turn over senior al-Qaida members it detained in 2003.

Of the total 14,338 attacks that took place in 2006, 6,630 were in Iraq as were 13,340 of the 20,498 deaths from terrorist strikes.

Attacks also soared in
Afghanistan, where 749 were recorded in 2006, a 50 percent rise from 2005 when 491 attacks were tallied, the report said.

___


Subject: Bella: what is a tendency; learn here!
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 05:24:36 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 95-66-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.66.95

Message:
a natural or prevailing disposition to move, proceed, or act in some direction or toward some point, end, or result: the tendency of falling bodies toward the earth.


Subject: Re: News ; learn here!!!!!!!!!
From: Bella Barrie
To: All
Date Posted: 07:42:05 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-wan-217-154-29-181.mistral.co.uk at 217.154.29.181

Message:
A gradual but steady progress, development, or shift of opinion in a particular direction.

According to you (Mr. News) ‘Britain and the US must note that the SLPP has a TENDENCY to do business with Al Qaida’. Can you explain these directions?


Subject: Re: we are tired to be ruled by a corrupt SLPP cabal
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 05:02:20 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 95-66-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.66.95

Message:
You must have got a sub standard education for you to misunderstand my written statement. I would not surprise some of you memorised to pass exams.
The SLPP has got massive support from Iran. Today, we have just heard that the Iran is a big big sponsorer of those who preach hate and intolerance.
To pitcch tenmt with Ahmedinajabad is synonymous with working with terrorists.
Go back to your classroom and learn simple english and stop be a hypocrites or an Al Qaida sympathiser.


Subject: Re: we are tired to be ruled by a corrupt SLPP cabal
From: Bella Barrie
To: All
Date Posted: 07:47:37 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-wan-217-154-29-181.mistral.co.uk at 217.154.29.181

Message:
What about this APC + PMDC = X

Can you find the value of X?


Subject: Re: we are tired to be ruled by a corrupt SLPP cabal
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 07:51:54 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
APC + PMDC =P PAC more like pegga pac.
Or MAD and PCP which is a bad combination. Bunch of crackheads


Subject: SLPP setting the stage for discord
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 02:48:07 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 229-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.229

Message:
Sierra Leone: Fear Grips Terrorize Bo, Pujehun, Bonthe



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Concord Times (Freetown)

April 30, 2007
Posted to the web April 30, 2007

Freetown

Ibrahim Seibure (Just from the South) Residents of Bo, Pujehun and Bonthe districts are presently living in fear as they are now faced with continuous threat by a youth group that claims to be supporters of both the Sierra Leone peoples Party (SLPP) and the Peoples Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC).

This youth group has transformed into a guerilla movement disrupting the social and economic life of innocent civilians.
Africa 2007

Eyewitness report told this medium over the weekend that for the past one month, these youths have resorted to guerilla tactics, harassing innocent civilians by burning down their properties on the pretext that they were sent by the SLPP and the PMDC to create fear among the populace so that they cannot exercise their franchise in the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for July 28, 2007.

In Madina, the chiefdom headquarter town of Bum, Bonthe district, a teenage boy after being apprehended by some youths in that area was reported to have stated that they are an organized group set up by highly placed politicians in the country to terrorize people so that they would not cast their votes.

When contacted on this ugly development, Acting Speaker of Bum chiefdom, Tom Foday stated that they are very disturbed as the people now spend sleepless nights guiding their communities so that the hoodlums will not infiltrate their area.

"This little boy you see sitting here was apprehended two days ago. He confirmed that he is part of the group that is presently in the bush. I am taking him to higher authorities in Bo for further investigations," he told Concord Times.
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Inspector Ambrose R Nabieu in charge of the Sumbuya police station Friday confirmed that they have received reports that four houses have been reportedly burnt down in Gbobu and Kpetema in the Lugbu chiefdom, Bo district.

"We also have a report whereby one Joe allegedly killed one Mohamed Lamin in Momajo town also in the Bo district. The situation is now a security threat.

Therefore we are appealing for a reinforcement of more security personnel to arrest the situation," Inspector Nabieu stated.


Subject: SLPP charlatans are in for a shock in July
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 02:44:02 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 229-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.229

Message:
Sierra Leone: Paddle Dancers Snub SLPP Chairman



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Concord Times (Freetown)

April 30, 2007
Posted to the web April 30, 2007

Mohamed Vandi in Kenema
Freetown

Thousands of 'Paddle' dancers celebrating the 46th Independence Anniversary along the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) office on Hangha Road in Kenema Friday snubbed its eastern region chairman, Mohamed Sandy after they refused his order to chant in support of SLPP.

Sandy was heard shouting the party's slogan vigorously hoping that the Paddle dancers would reciprocate positively but the crowd turned him down; a development he later referred to as a disappointment.
Africa 2007

Some of the dancers remarked, "We are not here for any politics but to see the Paddle out of the party's office." One James Koroma who was among the crowd said, "We have been deceived by the organizers of the Paddle dance. They have turned the eastern Paddle into an SLPP campaign tool. In fact there is no need for the eastern Paddle we used to know to come from the SLPP office. Paddle should have supporters of the opposition All Peoples Congress and Peoples Movement for Democratic Change dance with it.

He said if such an attitude by the SLPP continues the public may stop paddle dance in the township.

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Subject: John Leigh lied to the American People
From: Michael
To: All
Date Posted: 23:16:28 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4573708c.dyn.optonline.net at 69.115.112.140

Message:
Quoting John Leigh to the US Congress in 1998 "...During President Kabbah’s first year in office, the economy grew from an annualized contraction rate of 10% to a positive growth rate of 5%. The annual inflation rate was cut from 65% to 5%. the Leone appreciated by nearly 32..."

This is absolutely untrue. I was in Sierra Leone during this time and I didnt witness this economic growth. I am not sure whether John Leigh got his figures from or where he learnt his economics from. Pathetic


Subject: Re: Chicken Michael lied to the American People
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:53:07 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleig@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14

Message:
As I cannot debate with a chicken moniker, when you produce your true ID to my complete satisfaction, I will respond. So goodbye defrauder. - JL


Subject: Re: John Leigh lied to the American People
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 10:03:56 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
Mr. Leigh, you have been accused of lying to the American people. Please address that accusation, rather than trying to change the subject by asking for someone's identitty on a forum that is expressly designed for anonymous postings.

In short, please stop running away from your record of corruption and lies tomthe Ameerican people while you were a bribery-appointed ambassador of Sierra Leone to the U.S.

So, go on Mr. Leigh, answer the question.


Subject: Independent Observer -Unknown Host.
From: kroobaymom
To: All
Date Posted: 22:59:39 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: kroobaymom@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
JL,

Is this the listing for your newspaper? How come we cannot gain access to it? Are your monthly bills for hosting current?

Independent Observers
29 Rawdon Street
Freetown
Phone: (076) 362128 / (033) 362128
jadleigh@yahoo.com
www.slogg.org
Business Type: News Services and Newspaper Publishers
Error 500 'www.slogg.org' Unknown Host.


Subject: Re: SIERRALEONE PEOPLESPRESS IS IT!
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:49:19 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14

Message:
Ms. kroobaymom:

You may reach Sierraleone Peoplespres (SP) as follows:

E-Mail: SLPEOPLESPRESS@yahoo.com

Tel: 033 605 941; 076 605 941; 077 605 941

The Acting Editor used to be reached at 033 519 663 but his phone got missing the other day. He is working on a replacement.

Thanks for the inquiry. -JL


Subject: Re: SIERRALEONE PEOPLESPRESS IS IT!
From: peeper
To: All
Date Posted: 11:22:22 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: abj@hotmail.com
Entered From: at 195.54.227.249

Message:
just testing


Subject: Re: Independent Observer -Unknown Host.
From: WRONG
To: All
Date Posted: 23:21:58 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50

Message:
You are talking about Jonathan Leigh of Independent Observer in Freetown. Jonathan Leigh is not John Leigh. Jonathan Leigh has been the editor of Independent Observer and a journalist in Freetown for close to two decades now.


Subject: LEIGH BLASTS MED SESAY - NO 2
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 22:04:13 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
This is the third time or so that the "Med Sesay Blasts John Leigh" piece of Wednesday 14 June 2006 is being reposted in this forum, for what reason I know not.

Maybe it represents nothing but intellectual bankruptcy.

Nor is the one doing the reposting tell the public that I replied in full measure to Med Sesay's rubbish allegations in the same Cocorioko.

This deliberate omission may indicate how intellectually dishonest the moniker Michael poster is:

Med Sesay wrote twice with false allegations. On each occasion I responded point-for-point.

The one thing common with my detractors is they have to be dishonest, either by commission or omission. If they tell the truth, they won't have anything against me - and they know it. So they lie.

Here is my counter No 2.
==================================================================================

MR. MOHAMED SESAY IS FULL OF PMDC MALICIOUS LIBEL

A local rag sheet of a newspaper and published by Mrs. RUF Sylvia Foday Sankoh Gongorleeness continues to publish her series of libel against me. In her most recent libel, she published untrue and malicious statements authored by one Mr. Mohamed Sesay of Philadelphia and the apparent PMDC leader in the area.

I am told that Mr. Sesay had his libelous statements published in Mrs. Sankoh’s rag sheet because he knows that I do not read that trashy paper as I have so stated on a number of occasions. He thus believes that I may not be aware of his false accusations against me. However, friends have brought his article to my attention.

I now write to rebut the principal falsehoods written by this Mr. PMDC Sesay as published in Mrs. RUF Sankoh’s rag sheet – a tiny circulation newspaper in Freetown that is widely referred to in my circle as the RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times.

Mr. Sesay’s piece in is full of self-serving lies; wild, baseless allegations and trashy statements by a man who was kicked out of his home by the very RUF he now writes for.

First, Mr. Sesay falsely wrote that I denounced my supposed “American citizenship for a diplomatic assignment” and so I am “currently wallowing in the sad state of unemployment that I find myself”.
My response to this falsehood is as follows: (i) I was never an American citizen at any time. (ii) I have never denounced my citizenship anywhere at anytime. I retain the Sierra Leone citizenship I obtained at birth.
Further, the Kabbah Administration is not the only employer in the world. I am fully employed as an attorney at law and living it up nicely in New England in my own home. I am also very busy managing my investments.

Finally, I am not a citizenship harlot of the type familiar to Mr. Sesay who would opportunistically renounce an acquired citizenship and revert to his original citizenship for cheap employment purposes in his old country. Such shameful opportunistic harlot conduct invites disrespect and contempt for all Sierra Leoneans abroad. The civilized way to behave is once acquired by choice any new citizenship should be for keeps - forever.

Second, Mr. Sesay then goes on to falsely allege that I once conceded that government vehicles, drivers and petrol are used by VP Berewa for his political campaigning.

This Sesay man is lying for I never "conceded" any such thing at any time any where. I made it known in response to public questioning that when I traveled with VP Berewa in Port Loko and Kono Districts in May, he made it known in every town or village he went that he was on government business to open Health Clinics, Markets and Schools and to take and answer questions from the assembled public on government activities and plans. In fact, contrary to Mr. Sesay’s bogus claim in that RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times, I repeatedly argued that Mr. Berewa’s use of government vehicles for government business was legitimate.

Third, Mr. Sesay continued with his reckless lies by claiming that I immigrated to the United States due to my inability, unlike him, to compete for admission to the “prestigious” Fourah Bay College. This Sesay man is famous for allowing his mouth to run recklessly all over the place without his knowing the facts. He is a lying fool.

Here are the facts. I initially went to the USA for further studies on a student visa. I did not immigrate then. Upon the completion of my studies, I returned home only to be disappointed by backward leadership. I returned to the USA eighteen months later.

During my secondary school days, Fourah Bay College was definitely prestigious but I was never interested in attending Fourah Bay College at any time or even going to a country like Britain for further studies. This was because I wanted to study – and I did study - Banking and Finance. Such sophisticated subjects weren't thought at FBC and there were no plans to introduce the teaching of such subjects anywhere in Sierra Leone.

And even if Banking and Finance were taught then at FBC, I wanted more than a mere college education and in a dull environment such as FBC. I wanted the excitement to be in a rich dynamic country full of practicing financiers and bankers whom I could learn from instead of learning from lecturers whose education is mostly from textbooks and with no practical real life experiences in a world class market economy. The education I wanted is exactly the education I got!

Moreover, I was over-qualified for admission to Fourah Bay College at the time. For your information, I came to America with seven subjects at School/”O” Level Certificate and three "A" Levels - each obtained in a single sitting. Furthermore, I was armed with an unassailable USA SAT (college admissions) scorecard.

Finally, let’s face it, FBC was once prestigious but it has seen far better days. Our task now is to correct the injustices and fiscal abuses heaped on FBC, etc.

Any body who today believes that FBC was still a prestigious place of learning at the time Mohamed Sesay became a student there during the 1980s, needs his head screwed on correctly. Ever since the students' strikes in the late 1970s, Siaka Stevens retaliated by slashing FBC's budgets. And given the continued erosion of the exchange value of the national currency, the Leone plus the damage done to staffing by the RUF war of plunder and destruction - among other things - FBC has ever since headed steeper down hill.

Fourth, Mr. Sesay’s next wild and erroneous claim is that I never returned home to actually live and work towards nation building. Mr. Sesay writes flippantly.
After obtaining an MBA degree and after a twelve-month internship at the Chase Manhattan Bank, I returned home to a position at the Bank of Sierra Leone. A co-worker of mine at the Bank was Alhaji U.N.S. Jah, current SLPP Chair. I served as a Senior Research Officer at the Bank of Sierra Leone. I quit after eighteen months or so because I saw poverty-expanding policies (exchange control, anti-foreign investment, SLPMB’s incompetent export monopoly, corruption, favoritism & tribalism, etc.) being put in place by the SL authorities. I argued against such policies to no avail and also to my peril.

Even so, I told my bosses that those policies will lead the country to failure and widespread poverty. I boldly predicted that if they persist in pursuing those selfish policies, poverty will be so endemic that many highly educated people won't be able to write a check for even a $100 in time to come. And that is exactly what has happened. Today, poverty and the daily hardship are most profound in our country.

I quit the Bank of Sierra Leone because I wanted my own children to have an equal or better education than myself and I felt that if I stayed behind, I won't be able to pull off such but would instead be pulled down by selfish and wicked national leadership.

Fifth, Mr. Sesay has a lame excuse for abandoning Sierra Leone and immigrating to Philadelphia. He self-servingly claimed that he migrated to the United States by a “push factor – the war”. He boasted that prior to his migration he put in “ten years of inputs as a civil servant and continue to work for Sierra Leone everyday." Actually, Mr. Sesay was working for himself.

The "push factor" as Mr. Sesay puts it was not the war at all. The war was merely the end product of years and years of terrible, poverty-expanding, corrupt, incompetent, unfair and rubbish governance (with a few exceptions here and there, of course).

Mr. Sesay was in the middle of all this willful maladministration of our country for ten full years by his own reckoning but he had no clue at all of the egregious abuses heaped upon our people by our pre-war governments. He cared nothing about public suffering as long as he was comfortable and prosperous with his government sinecure.

Some in the civil service oppressed others, taking gross advantage of the poor people of Sierra Leone like some lawyers that practiced Open-Call law. The tax-paying, high-employment international sector in SL was expelled by wrongheaded policies and corrupt practices. Those were the heydays of foolish politicians, so dense that they killed the goose that laid the golden egg without giving it further thought.
From the way Mr. Sesay argues, one can tell that he might have contributed to the decay of our country or was so shallow he did not even know about the massive wrongdoing flying before his face or suspected the coming catastrophe that would devastate our country. In fact, he was completely blind to the on-coming catastrophe that kicked him out of his home and country.

After having departed SL because of the violence to come, I was not going to return to a worsen situation. So, I made a nice life for myself and my family in both Nigeria and the USA. Hence, I have been a self-made, independent man for over thirty years. This benefited ungrateful wretches like Mr. Sesay and his kind. Because of my personal economic situation – and

I say this in all humility - I (with help from others) was able to keep the SL Embassy functioning at full capacity during the AFRC/RUF interregnum and to successfully checkmate Johnny Paul, Foday Sankoh, Charles Taylor and a whole host of coupligans, their patrons and lackeys.

We also negotiated USA TPS immigration benefits so that ungrateful wretches like Sesay could stay in America without being deported back to his brutal foolumunku coup mongers and his ‘push factor’ traumatized homes and places of business.

Sixth, Mr. Sesay claims as “fact” that “the SLPP government to which John Leigh is now struggling for belonging has failed the nation". Mr. Sesay is lying again as regards my intention. I am not like him.

The fact is I am not struggling to belong to any government for I am a heavy and effective critic of the government. But this cannot be interpreted, as was obviously done by some flunkies and remedials, that I automatically must quit SLPP and join their immature political grouping of tribal dunces.

Seventh, Mr. Sankoh boasted ventriloquently that "the government lacks accountability as evident in the utilization of public funds and logistics like fuel and vehicles for private and personal aggrandizement as encapsulated in John Leigh’s statement."

Clearly, the current SLPP government is not perfect. I have criticized them heavily in the past. They have done some things poorly. They‘ve also done a number of things properly; nor did any of my statements ‘encapsulate’ allegations of private and personal aggrandizement of “logistics like fuel and vehicles”. Mr. Sesay is not truthful. He sounds like an opportunistic political harlot hack.

All things considered, I prefer to work with my party than switch to another party, especially one full of flunkies, drop outs, tribalists and remedial dunces. Again, all things considered, Berewa is my choice as our next president to succeed Tejan Kabbah.

After having responded as above, it is clear that people like Mr. Sesay rely for 99% of your news from rogue newspapers such as the RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times. Such people are naive types who accept at face value whatever rubbish is published by our local press.

But people like Sesay and the RUF rag sheet must understand that when neighbors perceive that the people of a country are willingly led by dunces, flunkies, tribalists and remedials, some of those neighbors like Charles Taylor may invade to plunder and dismember the weakly led country.

There are diplomats and visitors in Freetown from foreign countries who know the difference between what is happening in the country and the trash that is published by rag sheets. So be careful. Do not take newspapers at face value for you will be misled.

Eight, Mr. Sesay boasts that he writes the Queens English while I include Krio in my writings. Mr. Sesay should stop his unwarranted boasting. If he truly understands proper English he would have understood what I meant by “someone who operates within the Sierra Leone Philadelphia ghetto” instead of boasting about his shabby degrees and his cheap, non-ghetto residence.

Finally, Mr. Sesay like others before him, made much about my recall from Washington as ambassador because he has absolutely nothing else negative to say about my public record. He might in time get to know the true reasons why I do not belong to the current administration. Suffice it to say that he should recognize that many excellent public servants in Africa are done away with for no good reason.

Does Mr. Sesay know how many good people were sacked, jailed or killed by Messrs. Charles Taylor, Idi Amin and Mobutu, etc.?

Does Mr. Sesay know how many no-good people were appointed, promoted and favored by Messrs. Charles Taylor, Idi Amin and Mobutu, etc.? Now you know why several African countries are extremely backward and poverty stricken, full of disease, sickness violence and death and susceptible to plunder and destruction.

My point is simple: those sacked, jailed and killed are not necessarily evil people. Those appointed, promoted and favored do not necessarily act in the public interest. The sackers might be the very evil beings keeping you and your people in backwardness and poverty.

Thank you for your attention. – JL 6/21/06


Subject: MRU MEETING
From: MRU
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Date Posted: 21:57:32 04/30/07 ()
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By Saliou Samb

Conakry - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone sought to put a decade of civil wars behind them on Monday by reviving a regional bloc which has been stymied by frontier disputes between the west African neighbours.

At a meeting in the Guinean capital Conakry, Guinean Prime Minister Lansana Kouyate urged the heads of state of the Mano River Union (MRU) to resolve problems dividing the three-nation group. It takes its name from a river which starts in Guinea and forms the boundary between Liberia and Sierra Leone,

"The Mano River Union, which has just undergone a turbulent period of more than a decade, is today embarked on a process of revitalisation which will benefit the development of our countries," Kouyate said in his opening speech.


Gbagbo also attended as an observer
High on the list of problems facing the three nations is a territorial dispute between Guinea and Sierra Leone over a patch of land alongside the Makona river, occupied by Guinean troops during Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war and claimed by both countries.

"None of our countries can achieve its development aims unless all of us work together," Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said in a speech before going into a closed-door meeting with her Guinean counterpart Lansana Conte and Sierra Leone's Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.

Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo also attended as an observer.

Founded in 1973 to encourage economic cooperation between Liberia and Sierra Leone, the Mano River Union was expanded seven years later with the addition of Guinea. It was abandoned due to the civil wars in Liberia, from 1989 to 2003, and Sierra Leone, which pitted the nations against one another.

Liberia's then-president Charles Taylor accused Guinean leader Conte of backing the LURD rebels in his country, while Kabbah said Taylor was funding and arming Sierra Leone's RUF insurgents, notorious for their child soldiers who hacked limbs off civilians.

The Mano River Union was reactivated at a summit in 2004 but has since been undermined by ongoing border disputes.


Subject: LEIGH BLASTS MED SESAY - No. 1
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 21:55:48 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernesleigh@yahoo.com
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This is the third time or so that the "Med Sesay Blasts John Leigh" piece of Wednesday 14 June 2006 is being reposted in this forum, for what reason I know not.

Maybe is represents nothing but intellectual bankruptcy. The poster has nothing new to say.

Nor is the one doing the reposting tell the public that I replied in full measure to Med Sesay's rubbish allegations in the same Cocorioko.

This deliberate omission may indicate how intellectually dishonest the moniker Michael poster is:

Med Sesay wrote twice with false allegations. On each occasion I responded point-for-point.

Here now is one of my counters.
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MR. MOHAMED SESAY STOP YOUR LIES, OMISSIONS AND BOGUS CONCLUSIONS.

By John E. Leigh

In his opinion piece on the June 9th edition of Cocorioko International Front Page and titled: HOW CORRUPT IS SOLOMON BEREWA? one Mr. Mohamed Sesay, said to be a regular writer for Cocorioko Online News, quoted the following baseless allegation against me:

"He [John Leigh] however conceded that government vehicles and drivers paid by the government are used [for private campaigning by VP Berewa in Port Loko and Kono Districts]. Petrol is also bought with money from government coffers".

Mr. Sesay claimed that he got my exact words from the Patriotic Vanguard, also an online newspaper specializing in Sierra Leone news, regarding statements that I allegedly made about what I observed during Mr. Berewa’s recent tour. As a result of these my so-called exact words, Mr. Sesay recklessly concluded that “the corruption and desperation of the present SLPP government could not be overemphasized” and so on.

No one knows exactly what weed Mr. Sesay might have been smoking when he lied about my statement and jumped to his erroneous conclusion. Or why Mr. Sesay deliberately refused to disclose that I had reported that Mr. Berewa made it very clear at each stop during his entire tour that he was touring on government business as evidenced by his inaugurating government-built clinics, markets and schools and explaining government’s policies, practices and plans to his audience.

Having said this, I now declare that I never uttered the words ascribed to me and quoted above by Mr. Sesay. Further, I never spoke to anyone at the so-called Patriotic Vanguard about my travels with VP Berewa and I have not seen or heard of that news medium for about a year. Lastly, what I said about my travels with Mr. Berewa cannot be interpreted as proving that the government is either corrupt or desperate let alone both corrupt and desperate.

Please note that after my May 22 endorsement of Solomon Berewa for the office of president of Sierra Leone in succession to President Tejan Kabbah, certain disappointed political opportunists became aggressive towards me, relying on bogus allegations, fictitious quotations and unintelligible argumentation to smear my public record.

As usual, I replied point-for-point to each and every major attack on me, including writing a detailed report of my tour of Port Loko and Kono Districts in Mr. Berewa’s entourage. Following publication of this my report in Cocorioko, I received a very legitimate inquiry, via Cocorioko Online Forum, from a reader concerning who was picking up the expenses of the Berewa tour of Port Loko and Kono Districts. The enquirer identified himself/herself as “Botkidi”. I duly responded. Set forth below are the relevant portions of the Botkidi-Leigh correspondence.
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(1) FROM BOTKIDI, DATED JUNE 03, 2006:
“Mr. Leigh,
I have carefully read your narrative on the recent SLPP tour and your participation in it. My questions are: Who was paying for all the food and drink of all those people as they gallivanted around the country? Was the money taken from the national treasury or from SLPP party funds? Were the vehicles used by those people government vehicles or private vehicles? Who paid for the petrol or gas? Would like to hear from you. Thanks.”

(2) REPLY FROM JOHN E. LEIGH, DATED JUNE 04, 2006
“Mr. Botkidi:
Thanks for your very legitimate questions.
I did not inquire about who picked up the expenses for the Port Loko/Kono tour at all. But this is what I overheard from a top party official: SLPP head office in Freetown paid for the food [and drinks]. Volunteers prepared it. SLPP no longer expects hosts to foot the bill for bigwigs visiting from Freetown!

As for the vehicles, they appear to be government-owned. Entourage vehicles came with petrol and drivers.

But get this: it was made clear by VP Berewa that the tour was in respect of government business.
This claim has merit because everywhere Mr. Berewa went he opened a clinic, a market or a school; responded to complaints about governance failures and answered quarries on behalf of the government.
And also, everybody in his entourage was a government office holder except for me and a few party officials...…..”
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I believe that it is the above correspondence that Mr. Sesay corrupted with his deliberate lies and omissions for the purpose of making unwarranted conclusions against the SLPP & VP Berewa about misuse of public funds for party political purposes. If Mr. Sesay was a professional-quality correspondent, he would have used the correct facts in my report and my response to Mr. Botkidi’s inquiry which Cocorioko carried in its Forum.

If Mr. Sesay wishes to be genuinely helpful to our country, to which I suspect is what he might be aspiring, I respectfully recommend that he decamps from the notorious Sierra Leone ghetto community of political flunkies in Philadelphia and move on into the American mainstream for a more positive and productive professional exposure. Otherwise, his writings will never reach professional standards and his narrow-mindedness that is based on bogus write-ups, fake quotations, lies, omissions and flunky argumentation will only continue to hold him back.

Thank you. *JL*


Subject: John E. Leigh, Ambassador Extra-ordinary & Plenipotentiary
From: Gbawurru Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:25:03 04/30/07 ()
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Despite what his detractors think, John Leigh was, is and will always be a fighter. He stoodup for the masses when most people turn their backs, he pleaded our case while some people aided the RUF, He stood firm in the face of adversity.
You can say what you want about him, but to those that matter, he is their HERO.


Subject: Re: John E. Leigh, Ambassador Extra-ordinary & Plenipotentiary
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 22:39:34 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Mr. Gbawurru Kamara:

Thank you very much. The US Congress was very supportive of SLeone during my time in DC. They pushed President Clinton to change from being pro-Liberia to pro-Sierra Leone - and he did! That is how the US came to back 17,500 UN Peacekeeping troops in SLeone. Thanks again. - JL


Subject: Re: John E. Leigh, Ambassador Extra-ordinary & Plenipotentiary
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 06:32:42 05/01/07 ()
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Entered From: c-0c8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.12

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Hear hear


Subject: Re: John E. Leigh, Ambassador Extra-ordinary & Plenipotentiary
From: Govt Official
To: All
Date Posted: 04:34:08 05/01/07 ()
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Wait, wait.
The Peacekeeping Mission is a direct result of Kabbah's personal good relations with Kofi Annan, and Tony Blair, and the motion was pioneered by Jeremy Greenstock(UK Ambassador to UN), and not ny US Ambassador to UN.


Subject: Re: John E. Leigh, Ambassador Extra-ordinary & Plenipotentiary
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:38:53 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Rubbbish! Nothing at the UN is done merely on the basis of good relations between the S-G and a Head of a Member State. The UN is not a jungle republic were decisions are done on a whimsical or on a favoritism basis.

The UN is governed by the Security Council and the General Assembly. The S-G implements.

A project like UN Peacekeeping in a particular country must be approved by the UN Security Council expressly - and not just what the S-G likes or dislikes.

True Tony Blair, Prez Kabbah, Annan and others worked on making the SL Peacekeeping happen. The UK was particularly helpful and President Kabbah was unbeatable. But until the UN Security Council got the appropriations go-ahead from the US Congress, they all could no do much.

Although UK Amb. Greenstock was involved at the UN, the UK Embassy in DC worked with the SL Embassy day-in, day-out to get US backing for the project and it was Congressional Republicans who pushed Clinton to do the right thing. Democrats, led by the black caucus of US Rep. Donald Payne, supported Charles Taylor.

Also on SLeone's side was US UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. He helped convinced Clinton that right was on the side of the people of Sierra Leone.

The people of Sierra Leone should forever thank US Rep. Vernon Elhers, Republican of Grand Rapids, Michigan who was our front man in Congress. He did wonders for peace in Sierra Leone. His church - the Christian REform Church - has a mission in Kabala, Koinadugu District - Christian Extension Service (CES) ministering to our people. He had had it set it up as a young man in the Church's Foreign Missions Dept.

And it all began when the CES Sierra Leone-based missionaries - Paul & Mary K - called to see me on one of their trips home after seeing me repeatedly on CNN and hearing my analyses and pleas on BBC, VOA etc.

My wife and I took them out for dinner.

Next day, they took me to see their Congressman, Rep Elhers. From that simple beginning on the Republican side, the entire US swung over to SL from Liberia.

Again, President Kabbah, UN S-G Annan, UK Tony Blair, etc. did work excellently on the project. But the basic decision was based on policy choices by the UN Security Council and not on personal contacts. Thank you. - JL


Subject: Re: John E. Leigh, Ambassador Extra-ordinary & Plenipotentiary
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 09:59:28 05/01/07 ()
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"Rubbbish! Nothing at the UN is done merely on the basis of good relations between the S-G and a Head of a Member State. The UN is not a jungle republic were decisions are done on a whimsical or on a favoritism basis.

Leigh, you are demonstrating a familiar deficiency shared by many SLPP apologists -- an inability to understand even the simplest sentences they read.

It is astounding for a man who has aged beyond kindergarten to say, as you did, that "the basic decision was based on policy choices by the UN Security Council and not on personal contacts."

You were appointed anbassador to the US by Kabbah because of your (immoral) personal contact with him -- bribing him $10,000 in exchange for his promise to appoint you.

Personal contacts drive decisions everywhere,though not always with the blatant immorality that characterized your own dealings with the SLPP leaders.

So, stop your moribund attempt to hide your true character by posturing as asomeone other than the corrupt, abusive individual who was notorious at the Salone embassay in Washington DC.

And now you have conitnued your chronic anti-social habits here in this forum where ou are notorious for your rudeness, and your lies. You have also shown a wilingness to betray the interest of Saloneans in obtaining a good government in 2007 for your relatively insignificant interest in recovering your bribe money from the SLPP.


Subject: Re: John E. Leigh, Ambassador Extra-ordinary & Plenipotentiary
From: concerned
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Date Posted: 07:31:31 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Hope this is typographical error,if it not then, Where did anyone make mention of a UN ambassador?


Subject: Article on John Leigh - Former Ambassador the US
From: Michael
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Date Posted: 20:35:19 04/30/07 ()
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Med Sesay Blasts John Leigh
- Wednesday 14 June 2006.
As a decent citizen, I refuse to condescend to John Leigh’s current lows and therefore has no intention of using vulgarities, slang, and krio in this piece since I am better educated than John Leigh and more comfortable in the Queen’s language than this self proclaimed educated AMERICAN or lest I forget, he denounced it for diplomatic assignment and currently wallowing in the state of unemployment, precipitated by the traumatic consequences of his untimely, and seemingly hasty sacking by the Kabbah Government. Since the Makeni convention where John Leigh’s disgraceful disappointment was symbolized by his infamous picture displayed like a tottering façade, on the front pages of most tabloids in Sierra Leone, this academic midget as depicted in his writings full of krio and slangy slurs, portrays all the trappings of a person struggling for survival and would stop at nothing to satisfy his selfish ends even if that means cursing people and bungling in obscenities with people young enough to be his children.

The source of my piece titled “How corrupt is Solomon Berewa”? Published in the Cocorioko of June 9th 2006, was unambiguously referenced. My caption was not a statement but a question but Leigh is too uneducated to know these simple grammatical rules of writing. Needless to waste time here on semantics and syntax or else Leigh will submerge into oblivion. His feelings of grandiosity since the onset of his campaign have been rendered useless by the realities of Sierra Leonean politics. In his seemingly arrogant stature, characterized by hasty and illogical conclusions about others, especially on matters of politics and education, Leigh takes everybody for granted and believes with poignant anxiety that he is better educated than anybody else. Leigh’s claim to academic sophistication is pointless. Who knows who? However, the cliché, empty vessels make the most noise comes into play when one reads John Leigh’s statements.

In the interest of readers, I reproduce verbatim the source of my article from the Patriotic Vanguard. The quote which John Leigh is now denying, reads “He however conceded that government vehicles and drivers paid by the government are used during the tours. Petrol is also bought with money from government coffers”... (Patriotic Vanguard online June 8, 2006).

The language in this quote is unambiguous and I implore readers who follow the news to check the source for that is what intellectuals do. The statement itself is a disgrace to the current SLPP government seeking re-election in 2007.In a typical election year in America or any democratic country, this statement is so important that it should be investigated to bring the government to book for unethical practices in the use of public funds. The fact of the matter is that the SLPP government to which John Leigh is now struggling for belonging has failed the nation. The government lacks accountability as evident in the utilization of public funds and logistics like fuel and vehicles for private and personal aggrandizement as encapsulated in John Leigh’s statement.

The quote could have come as a surprise to Solomon Berewa, who must be thinking twice now about the viability if any, of having a political miscreant like John Leigh, whose immaturity in the game of politics has reduced him to the level of a delinquent whirlwind since the Makeni fiasco. The desperation in his reaction to my piece on Berewa is a testimony to the fact that he was touched by the facts which I never manufactured as he alleges, but got those facts from a source as reliable as the Patriotic Vanguard. The fact that the statement was in quotes makes it clear that it was from another source, not a figment of imagination or fabrication as Leigh makes the case. Leigh’s nakedness in this discourse is self-perpetuating and contradictory, the very image of a man under pressure ‘from above’ to debunk, rebuff or withdraw the statement or save-face a party that is crumbling under the yoke of corruption and ineptitude.

Leigh states “No one knows exactly what weed Mr. Sesay might have been smoking when he lied about my statement and jumped to his erroneous conclusion. Or why Mr. Sesay deliberately refused to disclose that I had reported that Mr. Berewa made it very clear at each stop during his entire tour that he was touring on government business as evidenced by his inaugurating government-built clinics, markets and schools and explaining government’s policies, practices and plans to his audience. Having said this, I now declare that I never uttered the words ascribed to me and quoted above by Mr.Sesay”

This is desperation and spin at its best. Leigh’s contempt for his compatriots is self evident. Readers could clearly infer from this quote from the Concord times that John Leigh made a political blunder in the first place by making these statements. As promised among others, I cannot react to Leigh’s vacuous statement about weed as I do not even smoke. About why I did not comment on the positive allusions he made to his master, Leigh should realize that readers hate to be bored and a brief , pointed, and well researched article as mine published in cocorioko makes more interesting reading than the lengthy and defensive grammatically bankrupt reactions of John Leigh. One fact that Leigh cannot understand is that nobody hates him not least the writer for his political conviction. Every Sierra Leonean has the right to freedom of association although civil servants are intimidated by Leigh’s bosses. Since his defeat at the SLPP convention in Makeni, Leigh has been on the defensive within and without Sierra Leone. He has been effectively put on a defensive corner by the dynamism of young Sierra Leoneans in and out of the country that one only needs to read the archives of Cocorioko, Awareness times( Leigh’s first enemy after Makeni), Patriotic Vanguard, Concord times, to name a few, to see the litany of obscenities written by the previously misplaced Ambassador. If Kabbah was effective in any decision throughout his tenure as President of Sierra Leone, then that decision was the recall of John Leigh. The appointment as I can discern now from Leigh’s misguided statements and hullabaloos was a misplacement.

Leigh also states “If Mr. Sesay wishes to be genuinely helpful to our country, to which I suspect is what he might be aspiring, I respectfully recommend that he decamps from the notorious Sierra Leone ghetto community of political flunkies in Philadelphia and move on into the American mainstream for a more positive and productive professional exposure. Otherwise, his writings will never reach professional standards and his narrow-mindedness that is based on bogus write-ups, fake quotations, lies, omissions and flunky argumentation will only continue to hold him back”.

I could definitely excuse you on this Mr. Leigh, because the statement is conditional and therefore iffy. For the records, I have always aspired to the progress of Sierra Leone and I will always remain to aspire and render those services that would raise the image of Sierra Leone not for the self but for others. Unlike you who migrated due to the lack of your ability to compete for admission to the prestigious Fourah Bay College, and has never returned home to actually live and work towards nation building, I migrated to the United States by a push factor-the war. Prior to migration, I had made ten years of input as a civil servant and continue to work for Sierra Leone everyday.

Fourah Bay College and Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA/USA) educated, there is no reason for me to be in the ghetto and I know of no ghettos here of the Sierra Leonean community. Sierra Leoneans here are mostly highly educated and gainfully employed in very decent jobs. I entered the American mainstream two months after I arrived in the United States by virtue of my employment status and strong academic background from the citadel of learning (FBC). By American standards, I could conveniently locate myself in the American middle class and by Sierra Leonean standards Upper class. For my age Mr. Leigh, I have already served and will continue to serve Sierra Leone. This explains why our generation will continue to bring your generation-one that is replete with failures into disrepute and come 2007; your octogenarian, hegemonic party will crumble under the canopy and prowess of the new wave of rising Sierra Leoneans like us.

Photo: John Leigh, under attack.


Subject: Re: Article on John Leigh - Former Ambassador the US
From: Poda Poda Driver
To: All
Date Posted: 23:06:26 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69

Message:
Med Sesay:
You probably are better educated than John Leigh but your sentences will cost me more miles per gallon.


Subject: Re: Article on John Leigh - Former Ambassador the US
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 21:51:13 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
I responses are posted on two new sites above. - JL


Subject: 1 in 6 babies dies at birth; 2 in every 1,000 mothers die
From: kroobaymom
To: All
Date Posted: 15:45:02 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: kroobayMom@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2

Message:

FREETOWN, 30 April 2007 (IRIN) - Dr Ibrahim Thorle, gynecologist and medical
director of Sierra Leone's biggest maternity hospital, talks about the difficulties he encounters trying to save the lives of pregnant women in a country with little medicine, few doctors and ageing equipment.

"I am facing a difficult and challenging period of my medical career. When I started working at this hospital in 1984 upon the completion of my studies, things actually worked well at this Princess Christian Maternity Hospital. We had sufficient medical supplies and drugs and I was happy doing my job, but now things have turned the opposite. There are not enough medical supplies to work with and our patients mostly Complain. I have to provide an alternative source of medicine [bought in private pharmacies] and I have to remain and comfort them. That is the work of a doctor in dealing with patients."

"Now, salaries are not enough and cannot even match the high cost of living.
I hope and pray that one day things will get better for the doctors, where
there would be a political will on the part of the government to scale the
salaries up and provide sufficient supplies for the hospitals. When this
happens the issues of high infant and maternal mortality in our country
would be a matter of the past."


Subject: Re: 1 in 6 babies dies at birth; 2 in every 1,000 mothers die
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 17:16:07 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
Dr. Ibrahim Thorle - if he exists at all - is right, the medical situation in Sierra Leone needs substantial improvements. The war was catastrophic.

The APC Surrogates, Foot of State Johnny Paul's AFRC and Sankoh's RUF rebels used PCMH as a hotel, cockery and brothel during their occupation of Freetown East and brutally ousted all the patients and raped others and all females and children who came their way. Women could be heard screeming from hospital premises during the AFRC/RUF rape regime and occupation.

They also smashed up furniture to use as fire wood. It was terrible.

The hospital was renovated and refurnished by the SLPP government but better management is need to help increase the efficient use of available medical supplies and medicines. Theft of supplies are just to high.

Infant mortality is much too high and the death of mothers at childbirth is intolerably high. These are part medical and cultural aspects to these problems that only mature leader can address successfully.

Thus the types of serious problems PCMH faces make it all the more sensible for us Sierra Leoneans to select an experienced and mature individual to lead rather than put our trust on untested marginalizers and flunkeys who have achieved little during his entire life. These problems are not within the demonstrated ability level of Sahid Jamil's peggy boy to solve. He can't cut it! And flunkey boy's 'ar go do dis ar go do dat' yap-yap talk does not extend to such complex problems. Thank you. - JL


Subject: Re: 1 in 6 babies dies at birth; 2 in every 1,000 mothers die
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 18:20:30 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-aa14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.116.18

Message:
"Infant mortality is much too high and the death of mothers at childbirth is intolerably high."

That is why those SLPP leaders who took bribes to put square pegs in round holes like JOhn Leigh shoukd be kicked out and patriotic leaders take their place.

The SLPP is the most corrupt govt, in Salone history.


Subject: Drugs do not reach the sick and needy-JL how do you react?
From: krrobaymom
To: All
Date Posted: 19:57:58 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: kroobaymom@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-72-75-28-118.washdc.east.verizon.net at 72.75.28.118

Message:
Press Release
18 July 2006

"Take a stand against corruption" Benn tells Sierra Leone

The UK’s International Development Secretary, Hilary Benn today called for the Government and people of Sierra Leone to take greater action against corruption as he backed a governance and accountability pact during a visit to the country.

As Sierra Leone looks ahead to next year’s elections, Benn stressed the urgency of improving governance and accountability, and also of citizens taking a stand against corruption. He said:

‘’Sierra Leone has made progress towards tackling corruption. Four years ago almost all pharmaceutical drugs bought by the Ministry of Health never reached the sick and needy; now that has fallen to a quarter due to better expenditure tracking. It’s a step in the right direction, but it shouldn’t happen at all. That’s why some of the UK’s aid is now linked to further progress in dealing with this problem.

‘’Leaders and citizens must take a stand to fight corruption together. Public accountability, and strong and effective institutions are key to fighting poverty. The public, often bearing the brunt of corruption, must expose wrong doing and leaders must listen. And wrongdoers must be brought to the courts, supported by a strong police force and legal system.


Subject: Re: Drugs do not reach the sick and needy-JL how do you react?
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 21:28:07 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
Ms. krrobaymom:

Corruption is a painful problem for poor people but you can see that things have improved from a 100% loss to only 25% loss. Our changed culture is part of the problem protecting corruption.

When I was growing up in Sierra Leone, it was proper anf highly diserable to report wrongdoers to the authorities. No more. You are supposed to cover them up.

Nowadays, if you punish wrongdoers you are considered evil. If you report wrongdoing you are considered bad. Just listen to all the flack I got for cleaning up the crookedness at the DC embassy. Jokers felt I was doing evil by stopping their crookish ways!

As long as evil people are protected, backwardness and hardship will reign supreme in our country.


Subject: Re: Drugs do not reach the sick and needy-JL how do you react?
From: Ed Jones
To: All
Date Posted: 09:00:30 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
"When I was growing up in Sierra Leone, it was proper anf highly diserable to report wrongdoers to the authorities. No more. You are supposed to cover them up."

John, is that why you covered up your many acts of corruption and wrong-doing at the Salone embassy, and failed to report your wrongdoing to President Kabbah? Instead, it was the staff you abused by locking them out in the cold who reported you to the foreign minister, Shirley Gbujama, after which you were dsiciplined.

When you were caiught harboring a concubine on Salone govt. property, after you had gonbe on CNN to abuse a whole triber (Limbas), that was the last straw. You were fired right after the 2002 elections by Kabbah, thanks to the fact that there were still Saloneans who would report wrongdoers like you to the authorities (in your case to your boss at the time, Ms. Gbujama).


Subject: Re: Drugs do not reach the sick and needy-JL how do you react?
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:41:20 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14

Message:
Lie as you please, dombolo. That's the only thing you have going for you. Goodbye. - JL


Subject: Re: Drugs do not reach the sick and needy-JL how do you react?
From: DFID
To: All
Date Posted: 21:34:39 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50

Message:
JL,

The recent DFID report stated that things improved in 2006 in the Health ministry and up to 90% of drugs were accounted for in the recent survey. We have a long way to go, but we have at least made some progress.


Subject: Re: Drugs do not reach the sick and needy-JL how do you react?
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:45:34 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14

Message:
DFID, I truly appreciate the up-date and I am sure all decent people in this forum do likewise. Thank you very much. Barbarians dragged us down using extreme violence and unspeakable savagery but we are on the rebound. Thanks again. - JL


Subject: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:14:17 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
.......................................................
....I with xxxxxxx, xxxxxxx , xxxxxxxx met xxxxxxx on the 28th at the SLPParty office to watch the SLPP devil Masquarade. The crowd was so overwhelming from Up-Gun to Clock Tower, to Campbell St, Mountain Cut, etc, that the APC/PMDC got discouraged and started fighting and stoning. You just can't imagine the support the SLPP had. In fact most people say that that crowd was just a top of the iceberg and that come the real rally after campaigning has been opened, old and young will come out in full force to show the whole world what they should expect on the 30th of July so that nobody will say that the election was rigged in favour of the SLPP.

The PMDC of course is dying very fast even in Bo and other places.

I hear that Emanuel Grant wants to come back to SLPP but he wants people to come and beg him because he will be ashamed to just come back. …………………………
Regards,
xxxxxxxxxxx


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 19:17:44 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: FMANSARAY@AOL.COM
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74

Message:
Mr Leigh, I did ask a question last week. I think it in your best interest to answer for your good concious and for those people who think other wise.My question was what do you think about the president and James Jona. Both gentle serves in top position even were contenders for the Sec. Generalship of the UN. yet sierra leone under there watch saw the worst leadership failure since Independence.How did they manage to dragged us deeper into a war that definatley was avoidable all in the name of power and glory.


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 21:18:48 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
Mr. FODAY MANSARAY:

I must again tell you with regrets that I cannot speak for either Dr. James Jonah or President Kabbah. I would also venture to say that President Kabbah's first term was a most successful one and both Jonah and I served in the first term but not in the current term.

Lastly, President Kabbah's second term is by no means what you've called the greatest failure of leadership since Independence. He has made a lot of progress as VP Berewa has been explaining. Certainly there have been far worst government leadership in our country.

Please check with Jonah's & Kabbah's spokespersons for more information. I can't really help you here. - JL


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: Patriot
To: All
Date Posted: 09:09:45 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
Kabbah's first term was most sucessful at corruption, mismanagement, and tribalism. His second term has built on the wretched record of his first and plunged Sierra Leone into the position of the worst place on earth to live -- infant mortality is the worst, life expectancy is the worst, electricity, water, and food security are all the worst they have ever been in our country's history.

So, Kabbah's tenure has been most successful at ruining Sierra Leone, but blind apologists for SLPP corrupotion and incompetence will never see that.

Those traitors of the people are busy trying to shield the SLPP's corrupt and incompetent leadership and their blind supporters from the consequences of their destruction of the quality of life for many millions of Sie4rra leoneans over the past 10 years.


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: Politician
To: All
Date Posted: 04:44:42 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2

Message:
Kabbah's first term was more successful, because JL was the Ambassador in USA.


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 20:25:08 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.111.162.74

Message:
"....the worst leadership failure since independence"

Hmmmmmm......, now that is downright dishonest!!!!!!


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: Reseacher
To: All
Date Posted: 09:13:28 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
"....the worst leadership failure since independence"

Hmmmmmm......, now that is downright dishonest!!!!!!

You are being dishinest for denying the fact that under Kabbah's leadership, Salone has remained at the bottom of the ladder of countries in the world in most aspects of development. It is because Kabbah's miismanagement occured during the period when his govt received more money than any other govt. that makes Kabbah's SLPP's regime by far the worst in Salone's history.

And that's a proven fact.


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 10:44:51 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.16

Message:
HOW CLEVER OF YOU.....BECAUSE YOU SO CONVINIENTLY FORGOT THAT SLPP CAME TO POWER AFTER THE REBEL WAR...DO YOU THINK THAT THE SMALL MATTER OF THE CIVIL WAR MAY JUST HAVE HAD A BEARING ON THE COUNTRY'S DIFFICULTIES? REASONABLE PEOPLE WILL SAY YES.


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: Researcher
To: All
Date Posted: 11:23:24 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
THE NPRC HAD THE SAME WAR -- BUT THEY PROVED TO BE FAR MORE COMPETENT THAN THE CORRUPT SLPP


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 10:00:36 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: new-5000.cadence.com at 158.140.1.25

Message:
"....and thats proven fact"

Hmmmmmmm....,another downright dishonest member of the forum.
Blast Kabbah all you want. But to call his tenure the worst is inaccurate and downright dishonest.


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: Researcher
To: All
Date Posted: 11:24:44 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
" But to call his tenure the worst is inaccurate and downright dishonest. "

Proving that you are as dishonest as your coirrupt SLPP leadershipo and your fellow SLPP apologists.


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 15:40:06 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-0c8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.12

Message:
come back baby, come back!


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: Hateem
To: All
Date Posted: 14:55:09 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-42-143.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.42.143

Message:
"The crowd was so "overwhelming" from Up-Gun to Clock Tower, to Campbell St, Mountain Cut, etc, that the APC/PMDC got discouraged and started fighting and stoning."

This is the same overwhelming crowd that you termed as "raray boy" who would jump at any opportunity to relieve their misery.
If party XYZ were to hold a masked devil parade today this is the same "overwhelming" crowd that would be clad in a different color.Is this the same "overwhelming" crowd that were wearing red in another masquarade a few weeks back.

This is the same "overwhelming"crowd who after they had drunk their totapak and smoked their herb would still go to bed hungry in a hot,lamp-lit,mosquito infested room and when they wake up in the morning would have to walk half a mile to the newly Berewa-commissioned borehole so that they can fetch some water to take a bath and if fortunate cook a high carb meal.

This is the same "overwhelming" crowd that has been used,misused and abused by successive Governments for the past 46 years.

This is the same "overwhelming" crowd that would go to the polls come July and in August would start grumbling "Man dem nor gladdy oh".

This is the same "overwhelming crowd" that consist of your so-called "san san boys"and "kalonkos" who have been deprived by "watermelon politicians","papaya politicians","borbor bellehs","high grade crystal boys",of their basic rights for the past 46 years.


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:47:26 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-aa14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.116.18

Message:
The E-mail in my earlier posting and reproduced below is from Freetown and unsolicited. It came in today from a most reliable source.

Opposition supporters should not lose their cool and start talking trash in cyberspace. Such won't help their party. Rather, they may wish to seek independent confirmation or condemnation from their own reliable contacts back home and, if the facts herein are confirmed, find out how best they could to assist their parties. Thank you. - JL

".......................................................
....I with xxxxxxx, xxxxxxx , xxxxxxxx met xxxxxxx on the 28th at the SLPParty office to watch the SLPP devil Masquarade. The crowd was so overwhelming from Up-Gun to Clock Tower, to Campbell St, Mountain Cut, etc, that the APC/PMDC got discouraged and started fighting and stoning. You just can't imagine the support the SLPP had. In fact most people say that that crowd was just a top of the iceberg and that come the real rally after campaigning has been opened, old and young will come out in full force to show the whole world what they should expect on the 30th of July so that nobody will say that the election was rigged in favour of the SLPP.

"The PMDC of course is dying very fast even in Bo and other places.

"I hear that Emanuel Grant wants to come back to SLPP but he wants people to come and beg him because he will be ashamed to just come back. …………………………
Regards,"
xxxxxxxxxxx


Subject: Re: MORE OPPOSITION BAD NEWS via E-MAIL
From: Michael
To: All
Date Posted: 20:30:02 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4573708c.dyn.optonline.net at 69.115.112.140

Message:
This was anemail I received from my brother yesterday who is a very strong SLPP supporter


___________________________________________

Dear XXX

I was in freetown yesterday and witnessed another stage-managed SLPP propaganda rally. The pictures you see on SLPP websites were actually poor and hungry people who just wanted to eat..Infact I also got ten SLPP T-shirts from XXX who as you know is the SLPP publicity secretary in XXX. Those T-shirts were the passport to several free meals. Man, as a SLPP supporter, I fear very much for our party, as the support continues to wane at an alarming rate. Freetown is absolutely taken by PMDC and APC were the election conducted today Bo and Kenema are absolute PMDC strong holds, not to talk of Kailuhun and Pujehun. The north is going to be a split between PMDC and SLPP. I understand that several ministers including XXX are now with PMDC but merely protecting their jobs. If SLPP gets one third of the votes, I will call it a remarkable achievement.
Man people are fed-up and you can tell. I will give you more updates. Hope things are going out well.

XXXXXX


Subject: Re: MILKING THE SAME WRITING OVER & OVER
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 22:54:39 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
Below are the articles I wrote in response to Med Sesay which you never tell forumites about when you post your own article as if mine does not exist.

Its not right! You can milk the same article forever -JL
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(1) MR. MOHAMED SESAY STOP YOUR LIES, OMISSIONS AND BOGUS CONCLUSIONS.

By John E. Leigh

In his opinion piece on the June 9th edition of Cocorioko International Front Page and titled: HOW CORRUPT IS SOLOMON BEREWA? one Mr. Mohamed Sesay, said to be a regular writer for Cocorioko Online News, quoted the following baseless allegation against me:

"He [John Leigh] however conceded that government vehicles and drivers paid by the government are used [for private campaigning by VP Berewa in Port Loko and Kono Districts]. Petrol is also bought with money from government coffers".

Mr. Sesay claimed that he got my exact words from the Patriotic Vanguard, also an online newspaper specializing in Sierra Leone news, regarding statements that I allegedly made about what I observed during Mr. Berewa’s recent tour. As a result of these my so-called exact words, Mr. Sesay recklessly concluded that “the corruption and desperation of the present SLPP government could not be overemphasized” and so on.

No one knows exactly what weed Mr. Sesay might have been smoking when he lied about my statement and jumped to his erroneous conclusion. Or why Mr. Sesay deliberately refused to disclose that I had reported that Mr. Berewa made it very clear at each stop during his entire tour that he was touring on government business as evidenced by his inaugurating government-built clinics, markets and schools and explaining government’s policies, practices and plans to his audience.

Having said this, I now declare that I never uttered the words ascribed to me and quoted above by Mr. Sesay. Further, I never spoke to anyone at the so-called Patriotic Vanguard about my travels with VP Berewa and I have not seen or heard of that news medium for about a year. Lastly, what I said about my travels with Mr. Berewa cannot be interpreted as proving that the government is either corrupt or desperate let alone both corrupt and desperate.

Please note that after my May 22 endorsement of Solomon Berewa for the office of president of Sierra Leone in succession to President Tejan Kabbah, certain disappointed political opportunists became aggressive towards me, relying on bogus allegations, fictitious quotations and unintelligible argumentation to smear my public record.

As usual, I replied point-for-point to each and every major attack on me, including writing a detailed report of my tour of Port Loko and Kono Districts in Mr. Berewa’s entourage. Following publication of this my report in Cocorioko, I received a very legitimate inquiry, via Cocorioko Online Forum, from a reader concerning who was picking up the expenses of the Berewa tour of Port Loko and Kono Districts. The enquirer identified himself/herself as “Botkidi”. I duly responded. Set forth below are the relevant portions of the Botkidi-Leigh correspondence.
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(1) FROM BOTKIDI, DATED JUNE 03, 2006:
“Mr. Leigh,
I have carefully read your narrative on the recent SLPP tour and your participation in it. My questions are: Who was paying for all the food and drink of all those people as they gallivanted around the country? Was the money taken from the national treasury or from SLPP party funds? Were the vehicles used by those people government vehicles or private vehicles? Who paid for the petrol or gas? Would like to hear from you. Thanks.”

(2) REPLY FROM JOHN E. LEIGH, DATED JUNE 04, 2006
“Mr. Botkidi:
Thanks for your very legitimate questions.
I did not inquire about who picked up the expenses for the Port Loko/Kono tour at all. But this is what I overheard from a top party official: SLPP head office in Freetown paid for the food [and drinks]. Volunteers prepared it. SLPP no longer expects hosts to foot the bill for bigwigs visiting from Freetown!
As for the vehicles, they appear to be government-owned. Entourage vehicles came with petrol and drivers.

But get this: it was made clear by VP Berewa that the tour was in respect of government business.
This claim has merit because everywhere Mr. Berewa went he opened a clinic, a market or a school; responded to complaints about governance failures and answered quarries on behalf of the government.
And also, everybody in his entourage was a government office holder except for me and a few party officials...…..”
===================================================
I believe that it is the above correspondence that Mr. Sesay corrupted with his deliberate lies and omissions for the purpose of making unwarranted conclusions against the SLPP & VP Berewa about misuse of public funds for party political purposes. If Mr. Sesay was a professional-quality correspondent, he would have used the correct facts in my report and my response to Mr. Botkidi’s inquiry which Cocorioko carried in its Forum.

If Mr. Sesay wishes to be genuinely helpful to our country, to which I suspect is what he might be aspiring, I respectfully recommend that he decamps from the notorious Sierra Leone ghetto community of political flunkies in Philadelphia and move on into the American mainstream for a more positive and productive professional exposure. Otherwise, his writings will never reach professional standards and his narrow-mindedness that is based on bogus write-ups, fake quotations, lies, omissions and flunky argumentation will only continue to hold him back.

Thank you. *JL*



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(2) MR. MOHAMED SESAY IS FULL OF PMDC MALICIOUS LIBEL

A local rag sheet of a newspaper and published by Mrs. RUF Sylvia Foday Sankoh Gongorleeness continues to publish her series of libel against me. In her most recent libel, she published untrue and malicious statements authored by one Mr. Mohamed Sesay of Philadelphia and the apparent PMDC leader in the area.

I am told that Mr. Sesay had his libelous statements published in Mrs. Sankoh’s rag sheet because he knows that I do not read that trashy paper as I have so stated on a number of occasions. He thus believes that I may not be aware of his false accusations against me. However, friends have brought his article to my attention.

I now write to rebut the principal falsehoods written by this Mr. PMDC Sesay as published in Mrs. RUF Sankoh’s rag sheet – a tiny circulation newspaper in Freetown that is widely referred to in my circle as the RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times.

Mr. Sesay’s piece in is full of self-serving lies; wild, baseless allegations and trashy statements by a man who was kicked out of his home by the very RUF he now writes for.

First, Mr. Sesay falsely wrote that I denounced my supposed “American citizenship for a diplomatic assignment” and so I am “currently wallowing in the sad state of unemployment that I find myself”.
My response to this falsehood is as follows: (i) I was never an American citizen at any time. (ii) I have never denounced my citizenship anywhere at anytime. I retain the Sierra Leone citizenship I obtained at birth.

Further, the Kabbah Administration is not the only employer in the world. I am fully employed as an attorney at law and living it up nicely in New England in my own home. I am also very busy managing my investments.

Finally, I am not a citizenship harlot of the type familiar to Mr. Sesay who would opportunistically renounce an acquired citizenship and revert to his original citizenship for cheap employment purposes in his old country. Such shameful opportunistic harlot conduct invites disrespect and contempt for all Sierra Leoneans abroad. The civilized way to behave is once acquired by choice any new citizenship should be for keeps - forever.

Second, Mr. Sesay then goes on to falsely allege that I once conceded that government vehicles, drivers and petrol are used by VP Berewa for his political campaigning.

This Sesay man is lying for I never "conceded" any such thing at any time any where. I made it known in response to public questioning that when I traveled with VP Berewa in Port Loko and Kono Districts in May, he made it known in every town or village he went that he was on government business to open Health Clinics, Markets and Schools and to take and answer questions from the assembled public on government activities and plans. In fact, contrary to Mr. Sesay’s bogus claim in that RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times, I repeatedly argued that Mr. Berewa’s use of government vehicles for government business was legitimate.

Third, Mr. Sesay continued with his reckless lies by claiming that I immigrated to the United States due to my inability, unlike him, to compete for admission to the “prestigious” Fourah Bay College. This Sesay man is famous for allowing his mouth to run recklessly all over the place without his knowing the facts. He is a lying fool.

Here are the facts. I initially went to the USA for further studies on a student visa. I did not immigrate then. Upon the completion of my studies, I returned home only to be disappointed by backward leadership. I returned to the USA eighteen months later.

During my secondary school days, Fourah Bay College was definitely prestigious but I was never interested in attending Fourah Bay College at any time or even going to a country like Britain for further studies. This was because I wanted to study – and I did study - Banking and Finance. Such sophisticated subjects weren't thought at FBC and there were no plans to introduce the teaching of such subjects anywhere in Sierra Leone.

And even if Banking and Finance were taught then at FBC, I wanted more than a mere college education and in a dull environment such as FBC. I wanted the excitement to be in a rich dynamic country full of practicing financiers and bankers whom I could learn from instead of learning from lecturers whose education is mostly from textbooks and with no practical real life experiences in a world class market economy. The education I wanted is exactly the education I got!

Moreover, I was over-qualified for admission to Fourah Bay College at the time. For your information, I came to America with seven subjects at School/”O” Level Certificate and three "A" Levels - each obtained in a single sitting. Furthermore, I was armed with an unassailable USA SAT (college admissions) scorecard.

Finally, let’s face it, FBC was once prestigious but it has seen far better days. Our task now is to correct the injustices and fiscal abuses heaped on FBC, etc.

Any body who today believes that FBC was still a prestigious place of learning at the time Mohamed Sesay became a student there during the 1980s, needs his head screwed on correctly. Ever since the students' strikes in the late 1970s, Siaka Stevens retaliated by slashing FBC's budgets. And given the continued erosion of the exchange value of the national currency, the Leone plus the damage done to staffing by the RUF war of plunder and destruction - among other things - FBC has ever since headed steeper down hill.

Fourth, Mr. Sesay’s next wild and erroneous claim is that I never returned home to actually live and work towards nation building. Mr. Sesay writes flippantly.
After obtaining an MBA degree and after a twelve-month internship at the Chase Manhattan Bank, I returned home to a position at the Bank of Sierra Leone. A co-worker of mine at the Bank was Alhaji U.N.S. Jah, current SLPP Chair. I served as a Senior Research Officer at the Bank of Sierra Leone. I quit after eighteen months or so because I saw poverty-expanding policies (exchange control, anti-foreign investment, SLPMB’s incompetent export monopoly, corruption, favoritism & tribalism, etc.) being put in place by the SL authorities. I argued against such policies to no avail and also to my peril.

Even so, I told my bosses that those policies will lead the country to failure and widespread poverty. I boldly predicted that if they persist in pursuing those selfish policies, poverty will be so endemic that many highly educated people won't be able to write a check for even a $100 in time to come. And that is exactly what has happened. Today, poverty and the daily hardship are most profound in our country.

I quit the Bank of Sierra Leone because I wanted my own children to have an equal or better education than myself and I felt that if I stayed behind, I won't be able to pull off such but would instead be pulled down by selfish and wicked national leadership.

Fifth, Mr. Sesay has a lame excuse for abandoning Sierra Leone and immigrating to Philadelphia. He self-servingly claimed that he migrated to the United States by a “push factor – the war”. He boasted that prior to his migration he put in “ten years of inputs as a civil servant and continue to work for Sierra Leone everyday." Actually, Mr. Sesay was working for himself.

The "push factor" as Mr. Sesay puts it was not the war at all. The war was merely the end product of years and years of terrible, poverty-expanding, corrupt, incompetent, unfair and rubbish governance (with a few exceptions here and there, of course).

Mr. Sesay was in the middle of all this willful maladministration of our country for ten full years by his own reckoning but he had no clue at all of the egregious abuses heaped upon our people by our pre-war governments. He cared nothing about public suffering as long as he was comfortable and prosperous with his government sinecure.

Some in the civil service oppressed others, taking gross advantage of the poor people of Sierra Leone like some lawyers that practiced Open-Call law. The tax-paying, high-employment international sector in SL was expelled by wrongheaded policies and corrupt practices. Those were the heydays of foolish politicians, so dense that they killed the goose that laid the golden egg without giving it further thought.
From the way Mr. Sesay argues, one can tell that he might have contributed to the decay of our country or was so shallow he did not even know about the massive wrongdoing flying before his face or suspected the coming catastrophe that would devastate our country.

In fact, he was completely blind to the on-coming catastrophe that kicked him out of his home and country.

After having departed SL because of the violence to come, I was not going to return to a worsen situation. So, I made a nice life for myself and my family in both Nigeria and the USA. Hence, I have been a self-made, independent man for over thirty years. This benefited ungrateful wretches like Mr. Sesay and his kind. Because of my personal economic situation – and I say this in all humility - I (with help from others) was able to keep the SL Embassy functioning at full capacity during the AFRC/RUF interregnum and to successfully checkmate Johnny Paul, Foday Sankoh, Charles Taylor and a whole host of coupligans, their patrons and lackeys.

We also negotiated USA TPS immigration benefits so that ungrateful wretches like Sesay could stay in America without being deported back to his brutal foolumunku coup mongers and his ‘push factor’ traumatized homes and places of business.
Sixth, Mr. Sesay claims as “fact” that “the SLPP government to which John Leigh is now struggling for belonging has failed the nation". Mr. Sesay is lying again as regards my intention. I am not like him.

The fact is I am not struggling to belong to any government for I am a heavy and effective critic of the government. But this cannot be interpreted, as was obviously done by some flunkies and remedials, that I automatically must quit SLPP and join their immature political grouping of tribal dunces.

Seventh, Mr. Sankoh boasted ventriloquently that "the government lacks accountability as evident in the utilization of public funds and logistics like fuel and vehicles for private and personal aggrandizement as encapsulated in John Leigh’s statement."

Clearly, the current SLPP government is not perfect. I have criticized them heavily in the past. They have done some things poorly. They‘ve also done a number of things properly; nor did any of my statements ‘encapsulate’ allegations of private and personal aggrandizement of “logistics like fuel and vehicles”. Mr. Sesay is not truthful. He sounds like an opportunistic political harlot hack.

All things considered, I prefer to work with my party than switch to another party, especially one full of flunkies, drop outs, tribalists and remedial dunces. Again, all things considered, Berewa is my choice as our next president to succeed Tejan Kabbah.
After having responded as above, it is clear that people like Mr. Sesay rely for 99% of your news from rogue newspapers such as the RUF Rubbish Lie-Lie Times. Such people are naive types who accept at face value whatever rubbish is published by our local press.

But people like Sesay and the RUF rag sheet must understand that when neighbors perceive that the people of a country are willingly led by dunces, flunkies, tribalists and remedials, some of those neighbors like Charles Taylor may invade to plunder and dismember the weakly led country.

There are diplomats and visitors in Freetown from foreign countries who know the difference between what is happening in the country and the trash that is published by rag sheets. So be careful. Do not take newspapers at face value for you will be misled.

Eight, Mr. Sesay boasts that he writes the Queens English while I include Krio in my writings. Mr. Sesay should stop his unwarranted boasting. If he truly understands proper English he would have understood what I meant by “someone who operates within the Sierra Leone Philadelphia ghetto” instead of boasting about his shabby degrees and his cheap, non-ghetto residence.

Finally, Mr. Sesay like others before him, made much about my recall from Washington as ambassador because he has absolutely nothing else negative to say about my public record. He might in time get to know the true reasons why I do not belong to the current administration. Suffice it to say that he should recognize that many excellent public servants in Africa are done away with for no good reason.

Does Mr. Sesay know how many good people were sacked, jailed or killed by Messrs. Charles Taylor, Idi Amin and Mobutu, etc.?

Does Mr. Sesay know how many no-good people were appointed, promoted and favored by Messrs. Charles Taylor, Idi Amin and Mobutu, etc.? Now you know why several African countries are extremely backward and poverty stricken, full of disease, sickness violence and death and susceptible to plunder and destruction.

My point is simple: those sacked, jailed and killed are not necessarily evil people. Those appointed, promoted and favored do not necessarily act in the public interest. The sackers might be the very evil beings keeping you and your people in backwardness and poverty.

Thank you for your attention. – JL 6/21/06


Subject: Re: MILKING THE SAME WRITING OVER & OVER
From: Michael
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Date Posted: 16:53:37 05/01/07 ()
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Your article is not reader-friendly. What is "Botkidi"? Now you see why only fulumunku press Inc. will publish your memoir? Who is going to read unreadable languages? Tell me.
Michael


Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH THE FALSE PROPHET
From: Prophet
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Date Posted: 14:21:23 04/30/07 ()
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Is this the same prophet, Joh Leigh, who predicted that he will win the nomination for SLPP presidential candidate?

You have no credibility, Mr. Leigh. YOur present condition as a hanger-on to Berewa proves it.


Subject: IQ Test
From: Onliner
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Date Posted: 12:28:40 04/30/07 ()
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Subject: IQ test

One-Question IQ Test. Here's a one-question IQ Test to help you decide how you should spend the rest of your day......

There is a mute who wants to buy a toothbrush.
By imitating the action of brushing one's teeth, he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done.

Now, if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of sunglasses, how should he express himself?
(Lol)


Subject: Re: IQ Test
From: Njai
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Date Posted: 15:31:55 04/30/07 ()
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If the blind man is not mute all he has to do is tell the shopkeeper that he needs sunglasses and I'll assume , of course, that the shopkeeper is not deaf, blind or mute. Anyway, I hope the blind man is buying the sunglasses as a gift for someone else or is it just to cover the eyes area?


Subject: Re: IQ Test
From: Chiefdom class one pupil
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Date Posted: 12:31:35 04/30/07 ()
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The blind man is not a mute is he?


Subject: Re: IQ Test
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 13:05:51 04/30/07 ()
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Hush hush Charles Taylor


Subject: THE ROLE OF THE BIO FAMILY IN THE REBEL WAR
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
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Date Posted: 11:52:46 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: RNMDTWO@YAHOO.COM
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140. "One characteristic of the conflict was the familial connection between prominent actors on both sides of the conflict. One notable family was the Bio family of Tihun,Bonthe district. A prominent member of the family, Steve Bio, was a reputed supplier of arms and ammunition to the RUF and the AFRC. His nephew Julius Maada Bio was the mastermind of the April 29th 1992 coup that brought the NPRC to power. An in law of the Bio’s, Ibrahim Deen Jalloh was a teacher at the Bunumbu Teachers College in 1993 when the RUF attacked the college and abducted him and his wife, Agnes. Subsequently, he was converted into a believer in the RUF cause. All through the conflict however, his wife was detained and compelled to provide sexual services to Foday Sankoh as a means of keeping her husband in check. After the AFRC was kicked out of Freetown, Steve Bio was arrested and detained at the Pademba Road prison. Steve Bio was inprison with Gibril Massaquoi and other associates of the RUF and AFRC including former President Joseph Momoh and Alex Minty. They all attempted to escape from Freetown following the January 6 1999 attack. Hiding around the Guma Valley premises in the days after the attack and looking for a safe exit from Freetown, Steve Bio was killed by an ECOMOG shell. Gibril Massaquoi subsequently took Steve Bio’s wife Edna under his wings to offer solace and protection and made her his “wife”.Because of the involvement of the Bio family with the different factions during the conflict, Brigadier Maada Bio was accused of colluding with the RUF. The Commission’s investigations demonstrate that this was not the case. When Maada Bio became Head of State, he sent photographs of his sister Agnes to all military formations to try and track her as they launched attacks on RUF positions. A witness reported to the Commission how he broke down and wept uncontrollably when he was finally reunited with his sister. Tihun, their home town,was attacked in January 1996 because Maada Bio was the Head of State.That attack has entered the conflict folklore as the ‘Tihun Massacre’.Several members of the family including Josepo Bio were killed in the attack. It is to the credit of Julius Maada Bio that he did not allow family tragedy to cloud his pursuit of peace with the RUF".
(Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report)


Subject: IS CANNIBALISM A TRIBAL OR A REGIONAL PHENOMENON?
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 11:39:34 04/30/07 ()
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2. Forced cannibalism:

42. Throughout the conflict, various factions forced their captives to eat the flesh and body parts of human corpses, cooked and uncooked. The Commission defines forced cannibalism as the act of forcing a person to eat human flesh, body parts or drink human blood by threat,intimidation, force or violence. This particular violation also manifested itself in the forced drinking of (one’s own or another’s)blood, and the forced chewing of body parts, especially parts of one’s ears. The Commission recorded 19 forced cannibalism violations in its data base. While this number may seem small in relation to the total number of violations in the Commission’s database, the extraordinary character of the violation and the purpose it served warrant a closer look at the circumstances under which it was perpetrated. The Commission recognises that many more cases of forced cannibalism and other violations may not have been recorded during the statement taking exercises and hopes that further inquiries into the war will unearth the full plenitude of violations committed against the people of Sierra Leone.

43. Forced cannibalism was a means of inflicting psychological torture on the victims, who were often relatives or neighbours of the person they were forced to eat. Cecilia Caulker’s son was murdered by the RUF in 1992 in Bonthe:

“They cut my son in pieces alive. I was under gun point and all actors were in uniform and caps [which] were very low over their eyes, I did not detect anybody.They cut him in pieces with a knife and when they opened his chest,they took out his heart and cut a piece of it and pushed it into my mouth, saying you first eat of it, but then when they have cut his head, they laid it in my hand saying go and breast feed your son and they started dancing.”


44. These acts were also perpetrated on children. The following account was given to the Commission by a girl who was 8 years old at the time of the events:


“On the 6th of January 1999 RUF/SLA rebels attacked my house at 3 Kissy Road Mental Hospital. The rebels captured me and my sister and they put my sister on the top of my head and they told her they were going to kill her if she did not give them money. My sister was not able to meet their demands and the rebels stood by their words and they shot at my sister on the top of her head and all her blood spilled over my body. I hadw anted to cry but they told me that if I do they will kill me also. The rebels further gave me human flesh to eat. After they killed my sister they cut off her head and they told me to dance and laugh.”


45.On many occasions, victims were forced to eat parts of their own body,or drink their own blood. This was a means to humiliate the victims.The two following victims were forced to dink their own blood:


“Corporal Blood came with a dagger and a block and cut off one of my finger, butthe remaining one he did not cut of, he only cut them half way, he cutoff my right ear and gave me my blood to drink. Whilst he was doing this exercise one of his comrades was pointing a torchlight for him.They also cut the hands and ears of the other six people.”



Subject: Re: IS CANNIBALISM A TRIBAL OR A REGIONAL PHENOMENON?
From: KLA
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Date Posted: 14:09:37 04/30/07 ()
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Chief as grotesque as some of these statements are under oath, is it possible that some of these BLOOD THIRSTY HOODLUMS have escaped justice?

By any standard of human decency,the perpetrators of such acts of brutality must be identified,if they are still around.

The question of negotiated immunity from prosecution should not prevent the execution of true justice, so advised prominent members of an ANTI GENOCIDE movement.

TSTM
XX

TSTM
XX


Subject: Re: IS CANNIBALISM A TRIBAL OR A REGIONAL PHENOMENON?
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
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Date Posted: 14:19:07 04/30/07 ()
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I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU. BECAUSE OF "SCAPEGOATING", A LOT OF PEOPLE ESCAPED THE LAW.


Subject: Re: IS CANNIBALISM A TRIBAL OR A REGIONAL PHENOMENON?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 12:48:01 04/30/07 ()
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An unsavoury and indecent posting by you and you should know better.


Subject: you shoul direct your comment to the SLTRC
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
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Date Posted: 12:58:32 04/30/07 ()
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YOU SHOULD DIRECT YOUR COMMENTS TO THE SIERRA LEONE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION.

YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER!


Subject: Re: IS CANNIBALISM A TRIBAL OR A REGIONAL PHENOMENON?
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 11:57:05 04/30/07 ()
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Chief,
The answer is in the question, or the Devil is in the details....Para 4:2 states...'Various Faction....' This seems very clear to me,various factions does not mean a 'particular faction' or region, they were all at it irrespective of the region.


Subject: Re: IS CANNIBALISM A TRIBAL OR A REGIONAL PHENOMENON?
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 12:17:49 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The "various factions" would include (1) the Kamajors which had tribe from the south and East of Sierra Leone which means that they were...(no, I did not say it) and (2)the RUF which had a combination of tribes. The logical question then is: since Creole is not considered a tribe where they also involved in cannibalism?


Subject: APC'S RECORD & PMDC'S PERFORMANCE EVALUATED
From: John E. LEIGH
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Date Posted: 11:25:38 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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APC'S RECORD

With its record of mass marginalization, mass poverty spreading; mass unemployment, mass company closings, catastrophic railway closing, mass capital flight, mass European flight, mass missionary flight, ruinous stangflation; SLPMB ruination, catastrophic foreign exchange abuses, deep currency degradation, continuous frivolous frolickings amidst mass breeze-sucking and continuous darkness, AFRC war and destruction - few people are behind the APC other than hegemonistic tribesmen and the direct and indirect beneficiaries of marginalization, favoritism, nepotism and outright corruption.

PMDC'S PERFORMANCE AS A NEW DYNASTIC PARTY

As for the PMDC, the fraudulent misuse of Makeni, their secretive, one-manic ownership for dynastic benefits, flunkeyism, principal-slapping, Third Force double-cross attempted theft-without-a-single-paragraph; widespread, repeated discrimination against citizens of Fullah, Mandingo and Soso ancestry; “ar go do dis, ar go do dat” yap-yap talk; “you go be dis, you go be dat wenn ar ween” empty boasts; arrogance grounded on flunkeyism, haughtiness grounded in stupidity; alphabet-soup political opportunism grounded in president-at-all-cost; tiff-tiff Bangucrooks lawyers grounded in margo-margoism and opportunism; foolumunkuism; fahlahmahkahtahism; loyal Northern Muslim double-cross compounded by Fullah pandering by one-manic flunkey leadership produced a loud and fatal dombolo impulsion.

These two groups – hegemonistic APC and flunkey PMDC - are going nowhere.



Subject: Re: APC'S RECORD & PMDC'S PERFORMANCE EVALUATED
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:53:33 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Anyone who wishes to debate me or want me to answer questions in this forum of moniker abusers, must first show all of us their IDs through Forum Administration.

This condition is based on the fact that abuse of monikers is now out of control.

I deeply believe that if one is debating under his true ID he is bound to be far more responsible than the reckless trash I see in false ID postings.

I am man enough to debate in my name, why can't others?
- JL


Subject: Re: APC'S RECORD & PMDC'S PERFORMANCE EVALUATED
From: Abu Kamara
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Date Posted: 11:57:33 04/30/07 ()
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"I am man enough to debate in my name, ...?"

John, but you are not man enough to admit your corruption at the Sierra Leone embassy? Or that you bribed President Kabbah for the ambassador job?


Subject: Re: APC'S RECORD & PMDC'S PERFORMANCE EVALUATED
From: ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
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Date Posted: 11:28:17 04/30/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh:

The question you have conveniently failed to answer is WHO disgraced the "democratic system at the Makeni conbention?

If and when you answer that question correctly, you should then see hoqw utterly ridiculous is your defence of the primary beneficiary of that disgrace of democracy -- your new-found hero, the very corrupt and incompetent SOLOMON BEREWA.

Moreover, there is a simple question that should help you see (if a blind SLPP apologist can see) that Berewa is implicated in the corruption and disgrace at the SLPP conbention. That questionis:

If Berewa, the sole beneficiary of the disgraceful betrayal of democracy was not part and parcel of that corruption, why then did he accept the result of that corrupt convention?


Subject: A MUST READ -- JOHN LEIGH EXPOSED
From: News
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Date Posted: 10:59:38 04/30/07 ()
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Posted by James Kanneh on April 30, 2007 at 10:55:21:

In Reply to: Re: SLPP responsible for Sierra Leone's backward condition posted by John E. Leigh on April 30, 2007 at 10:10:41:

"It was the democratic system that was disgraced in Makeni and it led to widespread disaffection within party ranks and others and which disaffection was misused as a pretext to split the party."

Mr. Leigh:

The question you have conveniently failed to answer is WHO disgraced the "democratic system at the Makeni conbention?

If and when you answer that question correctly, you should then see hoqw utterly ridiculous is your defence of the primary beneficiary of that disgrace of democracy -- your new-found hero, the very corrupt and incompetent SOLOMON BEREWA.

Moreover, there is a simple question that should help you see (if a blind SLPP apologist can see) that Berewa is implicated in the corruption and disgrace at the SLPP conbention. That questionis:

If Berewa, the sole beneficiary of the disgraceful betrayal of democracy was not part and parcel of that corruption, why then did he accept the result of that corrupt convention?

The answer is obvious: Because he was part and parcel of the corruption! Your self-selving denial of that fact makes you a blind, SLPP apologist, as many here have told you.

Your other lies about the NPRC are now notorious. There were sobels under the NPRC. And there were sobels under the succeeeding SLPP. Yet the NOPRC provided electricty to the people, while the incpompetent and corrupt SLPP failed to do so. Clearly, the war which BOTH regimes inherited does not explain the difference between the NPRC's rel;ative competence and the SLPP's blatant incompetence. Your attempt to lie to the contrary provides cummulative evidence that you are a blind, SLPP apologist who is part of the unpatriotic SLPP.

You all are true enemies of the people of Salone.


Subject: Re: A MUST READ -- JOHN LEIGH EXPOSED
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:56 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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NEWS,
Sorry but I cannot let this opprobrious attack on Solo B goes without a reply,
You say Solo B is incompetent, I think you are joking surely, Solo B may be many things but incompetent he is not. Anyone who knows him as a Lawyer, and especially his role in negotiating peace for our Country which won him many fans are able tp testify that he is the most competent pollitical leader we have in Sa lone currently.

The fact is that Berewa was not implicated nor was he involved in any so called 'corruption' in Makeni. ( As a matter of fact,there was no corruption in Makeni, to put the record staight)...The system at Makeni may have been flawed in some ways,SLPP has noted the short comings, and we will put it right next time.....we don't all run away to form a new party just because we dont get our way. we dont throw the toys out of the pram, we are grown-up in SLPP..we work to improve the party we belong to and love.

If Berewa had inadvertently benefited from a flawed procedure in Makeni, that does not indicate without evidence that he participated in the flawed procedure.

SLPP is not perfect, we note our mistakes and we work to change them to adapt to a changing world...
JL has every right to raise his concerns, that is called Democracy, that is what we do in the SLPP, unlike others.


Subject: Re: FOOLUMUNKU EXPOSED
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:55:41 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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CADMUS:

We have people who want to create their own set of facts and lay them on others. Such people are used to dealing with Simple Simeons. They are learning that we SLPPers are different.

Makeni was a political process, not a legal one. Those who ran it were all voted out. Reformers were elected to replace them. That's a good beginning.

Compare that to APC's legalistic approach. After five years of hearings and legal briefs and hundreds of millions of leones wasted in expenses, the judge told them he can't do anything for them; that they must negotiate! That is what I have done on my own.

My own position is simple: even if the whole thing had been completely flawless and squeaky clean, Berewa would have still won. Besides, the rank and file remember their bitter experiences under the APC and the propensity of the other fellow to show fickle-mindedness via hip-hopping and flip-flopping all over the political spectrum.

Further, not every person interested in the public affairs of our country is fickle-minded. Just because an individual was not happy with the events in Makeni does not mean that PMDC or APC is the answer. They are not.

Like you said, there is ample room in the SLPP for people to air out their grievances and seek correction from within. That is the road I chose. Others have taken other routes. It's their right just as my decision is my right. I do not belong to another political body.

Thus, if poor-thinking flunkies misjudged me and thought they could successfully exploit my then plight, they have been proven sadly wrong.

But please help me to let the word go forth that no one should tell mature, non-fickle people that just because arrangements for the presidential part of Makeni was not perfect, we should exploit the situation, disown the leader chosen and switch sides to worse discredited alternatives.

We are political animals, not lawyers or fickle-minded dombolos! Period. Thank you. - JL



Subject: Re: FOOLUMUNKU EXPOSED
From: News
To: All
Date Posted: 13:01:37 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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"My own position is simple: even if the whole thing had been completely flawless and squeaky clean, Berewa would have still won."

Mr. Leigh, please give us the evidence for your "own position."

Then tell us why you called Berewa corrupt and a thief.


Subject: Re: FOOLUMUNKU EXPOSED
From: JOHN LEIGH THE FOOLOOO LAWYER
To: All
Date Posted: 12:58:56 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"Makeni was a political process, not a legal one."

John Leigh, are you saying that a political process is not covered by the law?

Man, Leigh, you are ignorant of the law almost as much as you are ifnorant of politics.


Subject: Re: A MUST READ -- JOHN LEIGH EXPOSED
From: News
To: All
Date Posted: 12:12:22 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"If Berewa had inadvertently benefited from a flawed procedure in Makeni, that does not indicate without evidence that he participated in the flawed procedure."

CADMUS:

SO, if you, Cadmus, receives stolen goods from a thief, you are not guilty of a crime under the law?

Man, I can see why you awere told that you do no know the law!

Berewa is as guilty of fraud as the other perpetrators of the fraud which John Leigh described in his WE WAS ROBBED eyewitness report.

Just ask any good lawyer to explain to you the menaing of accessory AFTER the fact.

Speaking of good lawyers, only a blind SLPP apologist like you would call the person who gave away Sierra Leone's national interest at the LOme negotiations anything but an incompetent dunce. Man, Berewa was out-foxed by Foday Sankoh becaue of his stupidity. For example, Berewa agreed to offer Sankoh the positionn of VP -- in contravention of the Salone constitution which clearly provides for one and only vice president. So, you want us to tell us that Berewa was such a "good" lawyer he did not even know the provisions of his own country's constituion?

Take a look at the Special Court that Berewa and his fellow fool of a lwyer, Kabbah, agreed to. It has now led to the death, at Berewa's and Kabbah's blood-stained hands, of the very Hinga Norman who they sent to fight to reinstate the corriupt SLPP>

And you call such a clod as Berewa a good lawyer? No wonder people call you and John Leigh and the rest of your caboodle blind SLPP apologists.

SLPP is not perfect, we note our mistakes and we work to change them to adapt to a changing world...


Subject: Re: A MUST READ -- JOHN LEIGH EXPOSED
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:17 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.16

Message:
NEWS,
Sorry but I cannot let this opprobrious attack on Solo B goes without a reply,
You say Solo B is incompetent, I think you are joking surely, Solo B may be many things but incompetent he is not. Anyone who knows him as a Lawyer, and especially his role in negotiating peace for our Country which won him many fans are able tp testify that he is the most competent pollitical leader we have in Sa lone currently.

The fact is that Berewa was not implicated nor was he involved in any so called 'corruption' in Makeni. ( As a matter of fact,there was no corruption in Makeni, to put the record staight)...The system at Makeni may have been flawed in some ways,SLPP has noted the short comings, and we will put it right next time.....we don't all run away to form a new party just because we dont get our way. we dont throw the toys out of the pram, we are grown-up in SLPP..we work to improve the party we belong to and love.

If Berewa had inadvertently benefited from a flawed procedure in Makeni, that does not indicate without evidence that he participated in the flawed procedure.

SLPP is not perfect, we note our mistakes and we work to change them to adapt to a changing world...


Subject: Re: A MUST READ -- JOHN LEIGH EXPOSED
From: News
To: All
Date Posted: 12:49:14 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14

Message:
"If Berewa had inadvertently benefited from a flawed procedure in Makeni, that does not indicate without evidence that he participated in the flawed procedure."

CADMUS:

SO, if you, Cadmus, receives stolen goods from a thief, you are not guilty of a crime under the law?

Man, I can see why you awere told that you do no know the law!

Berewa is as guilty of fraud as the other perpetrators of the fraud which John Leigh described in his WE WAS ROBBED eyewitness report.

Just ask any good lawyer to explain to you the menaing of accessory AFTER the fact.

Speaking of good lawyers, only a blind SLPP apologist like you would call the person who gave away Sierra Leone's national interest at the LOme negotiations anything but an incompetent dunce. Man, Berewa was out-foxed by Foday Sankoh becaue of his stupidity. For example, Berewa agreed to offer Sankoh the positionn of VP -- in contravention of the Salone constitution which clearly provides for one and only vice president. So, you want us to tell us that Berewa was such a "good" lawyer he did not even know the provisions of his own country's constituion?

Take a look at the Special Court that Berewa and his fellow fool of a lwyer, Kabbah, agreed to. It has now led to the death, at Berewa's and Kabbah's blood-stained hands, of the very Hinga Norman who they sent to fight to reinstate the corriupt SLPP>

And you call such a clod as Berewa a good lawyer? No wonder people call you and John Leigh and the rest of your caboodle blind SLPP apologists.


Subject: Re: A MUST READ -- JOHN LEIGH EXPOSED
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 10:35:15 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.16

Message:
News who ever you are,

According to Section 22 of the theft Act 1968,..'A person handles stolen goods , (if Otherwise than in the course of stealing) knowingly or believing them to be stolen goods he dishonestly receives the goods.......'

This is the law relating to stolen goods my friend...You have to supply evidence, and I mean conclusive evidence not speculation, densay, or congo sarr (which is the alternative Sa lone legal system) But proper evidence that (1) Solo B Knew of the theft (2) that he was dishonest in receving the votes....In the absence of any conclusive evidence, your case fails.You should avoid getting involved in the law since it is obvious you know very little about it.I am tired of teaching and correcting people on Law on this forum, I do hope you can stick to politics.

Something you should be addressing as I said, is politics. It appears that you know even less about Politics, but in a democratic Sa Lone, all shades of political openions are accepted, you are free to say what you like, as long as you don't defame somebody.

That is the freedon SLPP is fighting so hard to protect in Sa Lone today...It is a far cry from yester-year under the other lot when you did not have any such freedom. be grateful to the SLPP.

It will be even better when John Leigh become Foreign Minister.


Subject: Re: A MUST READ -- JOHN LEIGH EXPOSED
From: News
To: All
Date Posted: 11:00:50 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"I am tired of teaching and correcting people on Law on this forum, I do hope you can stick to politics. "

So, CADMUS, you are now impersonating your patient teacher, JUDGE, who has not only been teaching you the law as it relates to torts, but also English grammar, in particular, the meaning of the word misrepresents?

No wonder people say you SLPP apologists will say anything to try to escape the truth about both your personal corruption and that of your party.

Your irrelevant statement in foolish defense of the corrupt Solomon Berewa proves that you like many, many of your fellow SLPP apologists, you do not understand what you read.

You said Berewa can not be liable unless it is shown that "Solo B Knew of the theft (2) that he was dishonest in receving the votes.... "

Let me ask you CADMUS: Did you not understand your fellow SLPP apologist's ADMISSION that the SLPP conbention was a disgrace to democracy? That means that it was fraudulent. In other words, criminal.

Therefore, Berewa accepted the nomination rwsulting from a criminal enterprise. That is sufficient to convict him as an accessory after the fact, at least, of the crime of fraud. Of course, being a blind SLPP apologist, Berewa would probably claim that he did not see any fraud.

In that case, he would have to explain how his fellow SLPP supporter saw a disgrace of democracy, even though he is just as blind as Berewa.

So, you see, CADMUS, once you understand what Leigh wrote, you would not be specculating about a known fact -- that BErewa knew or should have known that the conbvention was fraudulent. In fact, it was so blatantl;y fraudulent that the normally blind SLPP apologist, John Leigh, even clearly saw it!


Subject: Re: A MUST READ -- JOHN LEIGH EXPOSED
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 11:29:27 04/30/07 ()
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It would be interesting if Leigh will take up your challenge and answer your questions truthfully.


Subject: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: FAN
To: All
Date Posted: 09:48:38 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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"John listen, we are not interested in pursuing you, as much as everyone knows that you are part of this whole mess. We know you stole tax-paer's money, sold Sierra Leone's diplomatic passports to terrorists, embezzeled visa fees, and defrauded the GOSL by selling our properties aboroad. But, the least you could do is to admit what others in your party have done, if you cannot admit yours."


Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 23:10:18 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
LOW GRADE SAN SAN FAN, "your handle is ironically metaphoric of the ingredients comprising the components of your mental constitution, and your contribution reminiscent of the altitude upon which the bearings of mediocre minds operate." FORUM ADMINISTRATION


Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: NO FAN OF DWARF LEIGH
To: All
Date Posted: 10:03:27 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This opportunist and political noise maker has no shame. After being dumped by Kabbah, his next trick is to come online and make dishonest noises for more attention. John was part of the mess, and his little ugly self knows it. It's because of people like him that we are in such a mess. What a shameless little man with a big lying mouth!


Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 23:12:29 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
LOW GRADE SAN SAN NO FAN OF DWARF LEIGH, "your handle is ironically metaphoric of the ingredients comprising the components of your mental constitution, and your contribution reminiscent of the altitude upon which the bearings of mediocre minds operate." - Forum Administration.


Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: True
To: All
Date Posted: 10:31:00 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
There is no doubt that Leigh likes attention. He also wants to recoup his bribes to the SLPP. That is why he tells so many lies about Berewa being competent and clean after he had said the same Berewqa was corrupt.

Unfortunately for John Leigh, he misjudged the patience of Sierra leoneans on this forum. Like someone told him, his blatant lies have now had the unintended effect of galvanizing many patriotic Sierra Leoneans to swiftly and massively oppose his numerous lies.


Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 23:14:16 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
LOW GRADE SAN SAN LIE-LIE, "your handle is ironically metaphoric of the ingredients comprising the components of your mental constitution, and your contribution reminiscent of the altitude upon which the bearings of mediocre minds operate." - Forum Administration


Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: Teacher
To: All
Date Posted: 09:02:53 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Hey, John Leih, did you mean to write sensibly? if you did, you failed because your bombastic writing makes no sense, not even to you, I suspect.


Subject: xxxxx
From: ccccc
To: All
Date Posted: 09:14:20 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-457836a6.dyn.optonline.net at 69.120.54.166

Message:
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Subject: IF SLPP DEFEATED WHAT WOULD YOU DO-JL
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 05:58:22 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
What are your next plans if your party slpp looses the election?which is obvious.Are you going to wage another war?or form a second battalion of kamajors,the cannibals?Do you know Mr Earnest Koroma very well as a person,have you ever worked with him?As for Mr. Marggai,I think you have personal grievance against him.I think his perfomance in school has nothing to do with leadership.Sierra-Leone has produced numerous PhDS and tell me where are we today?the bottom of the undp development index.Mr JL try to be reasonable.


Subject: Re: IF SLPP DEFEATED WHAT WOULD YOU DO-JL
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:26:12 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
Mr. MUSA KAMARA:

SLPP will win the July 28, 2007 poll - 1st round presidential victory and majority in parliament.

After SLPP wins, my plan is to lay low for 12 months and follow public events back home from afar. After this 12-month honeymoon period, I will decide if and how to proceed with public commentary.

You went ahead and asked a number of questions and presented a number of statements which I now answer in a Q & A format as follows:

Q: Are you going to wage another war?

A: No. Never waged one before!

Q: or form a second battalion of kamajors,the cannibals?

A: NO. I have not yet formed my first battalion of Kamajors or cannibals.

Q: Do you know Mr Earnest Koroma very well as a person,have you ever worked with him?

A: No, I don't know Mr. Koroma very well as a person. And No, I have never worked with him.

Q: As for Mr. Marggai,I think you have personal grievance against him.

A: You are wrong but you are entitled to your opinion.

Q: I think his perfomance in school has nothing to do with leadership.

A: You are wrong again but you are entitled to your opinion.

Q: Sierra-Leone has produced numerous PhDS and tell me where are we today?

A: We are near last place because we do not yet have a merit system in place. Besides, we do not have enough genuinely educated people with the requisite cultural underpinning to be productive.

Q: [We are at]the bottom of the undp development index

A: Yes.

Thank you. - JL


Subject: Re: IF SLPP DEFEATED WHAT WOULD YOU DO-JL
From: LIAR
To: All
Date Posted: 09:33:23 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
": As for Mr. Marggai,I think you have personal grievance against him.

A: You are wrong but you are entitled to your opinion."

John Leigh, stop lying! Someone has already proved that you have a grave grievance against Charles nargai because he refused to let you hijack the PMDC he had formed.

You had just been rejected as leader at the SLPP conbention by the SLPP leaders you had bribed. Then, you went to the PMDC and demnaded that you be made leader. Margai refused. So, still thinking about recovering your bribe money, you licked your spit and went grovelling to the man you had openly called corrupt and a thief who had stolen the SLPP prsidential nomination at the SLPP conbention -- your overnight hero, Solomon Berewa.

Those are not opinions but facts. Someone has already told you the difference between the two. Please show that you undersanbd what you read by stopping to call facts opinions. Lonta.


Subject: Re: IF SLPP DEFEATED WHAT WOULD YOU DO-JL
From: JL
To: All
Date Posted: 10:59:14 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 80-44-164-160.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 80.44.164.160

Message:
This is not true. All I want is for SLPP to win so I will get my deposit back. These people set me up. They made sure that my campaign manager was against me. I did not get 10 votes. How could that happen? Please leave me alone


Subject: Re: FOR REV. KABS KANU
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:36:19 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14

Message:
Dear Rev. Kabs Kanu:

Some people have resorted again to impersonate me using my JL signature and writing in their postings as if it is the true JL writing.

Another moniker user below has used the same JL signature, pretending to be me.

If abusers cannot attrack attention to their postings, please encourage them to try progressive approaches, not retrogressive ones. After all, these are the ones who want to clean up SLeone. Please Rev. Kanu, have forumites first clean up their acts in this forum before they seek to clean other places. Thank you. - JL


Subject: Re: FOR REV. KABS KANU
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 13:17:38 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
JL it looks like resume manipulator and the Unaccredited school lawyer.


Subject: Re: FOR Mr. APC
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 22:33:07 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.8

Message:
Mr. APC:

These people have no shame. They lie, invent rubbish, think-up wild, baseless allegations, digress into irrelevancies and do all kinds of shameful evil, etc. Yet they say they want to clean up our country. How can they? They have no integrity, liars! No wonder that people do not believe them. - Thank you. - JL


Subject: Re: FOR Mr. APC
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 08:54:21 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"These people have no shame. They lie, invent rubbish, think-up wild, baseless allegations, digress into irrelevancies and do all kinds of shameful evil, etc."

John Leigh, are you finally confessing to your sins and those of your fellow enemies of Sierra Leone, the corrupt and incompetent SLPP?


Subject: Re: FOR Mr. APC
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:51:54 05/01/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-rtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com at 152.163.101.14

Message:
Pass-AH-Die APC:

Stealing another's handle is the lowest of low. Why not get yours for free? Why are you so upset? This is an ordinary chartroom. Its not a war zone. Relax! - JL


Subject: Re: FOR Mr. APC
From: Real APC
To: All
Date Posted: 10:38:51 05/01/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
Multi-moniker abuser. USE another handle. Stop using my Handle. We all know you are APC but someone already has that handle so get anoth one. If i should make a sugestion: I will prefer you use KDDA, EKUTAY and if possible: Passadie. They are all synonimous to APC( the Party).


Subject: IS THE OPPOSITION FULL OF INTOLERANT PEOPLE????
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 22:35:39 04/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.111.162.74

Message:
SLPP, APC TRADE BARBS AFTER STONE-THROWING AT SLPP MARCH
Source: Cocorioko News (4/29/07)

Hooligans attempted to disrupt the Sierra Leone People's Party Million Man's March in Freetown yesterday, but a spokesman for the opposition All People's Congress ( APC) has denied suggestions that the party was behind the chaos. Mr .Victor Reider, the Spokesman for the SLPP , claimed that APC and People's Movement For Democratic Change ( PMDC) supporters triggered the confusion which occured at the junction of the East End Police Station and Kissy Road.

The troublemakers threw stones at the marchers, accosted some of them for a fight and poured obscenities on the mother of the Vice-President and SLPP Presidential candidate, Hon. Solomon Berewa. .According to our reporter, the confrontation was fierce and some marchers and the attackers went into grips , but the problem was quelled by the Police and the march continued.

APC Organizing Secretary, Mr.Foday Kalokoh, denied Reider's suggestions and said APC members were not involved. He said that the allegations were designed to besmear the name of the APC. There has been no official rebuttal so far from the PMDC , but a supporter told our reporters that the SLPP was unpopular in Freetown and the attack may have been a backlash from people dissatisfied with the party.

Some eyewitnesses told COCORIOKO that the incident did not augur well for this year's General Elections , scheduled for July 28. According to them, rival supporters have shown that when tension reaches breaking point during the electioneering campaign, there is the danger that attacks and counter-attacks might be carried out by party supporters.

The Police has launched an investigation into the incident.


Subject: Re: IS THE OPPOSITION FULL OF INTOLERANT PEOPLE????
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 00:47:19 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: futatoro@gmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-166-128-124.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.166.128.124

Message:
Independent Man,
Thank you for the postings. It should be made clear to people in Sierra Leone that every political party has the right for politacal assembly and also to have legal and lawful processions. It would be necessary for the citizen
to be educated to exhibit proper respect for the rights of the governing party. The SLPP is trash but that trash is protected by the Constitution of Sierra Leone so every one should make sure the slpp party's rights are protected.
Yaya Fanusie


Subject: Re: IS THE OPPOSITION FULL OF INTOLERANT PEOPLE????
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 06:46:04 04/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.16

Message:
Mr Yaya Fanusie,

You say SLPP is trash, can you please explain what you mean by that, in terms of context and reality viz a viz sa Lone in the last 10 years, and Sa Lone for 25 years under the APC.


Subject: Re: IS THE OPPOSITION FULL OF INTOLERANT PEOPLE????
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 14:21:06 04/30/07 ()
Email Address: futatoro@gmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-166-128-124.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.166.128.124

Message:
My noble opponent:
That is my opinion and I exercise under my freedom expression section of the Salone constitution. There is no section of the constitution which says I have to explain to any one why I state an opinion. Therefore, I am not abusing your rights by refusing to answer your question.
The New APC members are of a high political sophistication.
Yaya Fanusie


Subject: Liberia: No Immunity for Gyude Bryant-
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 19:25:40 04/29/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 65.117.246.251

Message:
Liberia: No Immunity for Gyude Bryant



The Analyst (Monrovia)

April 25, 2007
Posted to the web April 25, 2007

George J. Borteh


Final arguments between state and defense lawyers into the writ of prohibition filed to the Supreme Court of Liberia by lawyers representing ex-Transitional Chairman Charles Gyude Bryant has ended with the nation's highest court reserving ruling on the matter.

Mr. Bryant has been indicted by the Liberian government for allegedly stealing over US$1M from state coffers during the two-year transition when he served as Chairman of the defunct NTGL.


But defense lawyers, led by Cllr. Theophilus Gould, argued that Mr. Bryant is a former Liberian leader therefore, he should not be prosecuted.

Arguing for a two hour period provided by the court for either side, Cllr. Gould maintained that Mr. Bryant played his role as 'President' of the Republic of Liberia so he is entitled to immunity as contained in Article 61 of the Liberian Constitution.

According to Article 61 of the Constitution, "The President shall be immune from any suits, actions or proceedings judicial or otherwise, and from arrest, detention or other actions on account of any act done by him while President of Liberia pursuant to any provision of this Constitution or any other laws of the Republic.

The President shall not, however, be immune from prosecution upon removal from office for the commission of any criminal act done while President".

"Chairman Bryant acted as President or played the role of a President and so he is entitled to immunity and this is his immunity", argued Cllr. Gould.

He told the Supreme Court bench that the former NTGL Chairman did everything an elected President could have done at the time such as signing treaties, agreements, making appointments in government, among other functions.

Cllr. Gould, former Solicitor General of the Republic of Liberia, argued that the Comprehensive Peace Accord which gave birth to the defunct NTGL, which empowered Mr. Bryant to provide security protection and basic social services to the citizenry, and that political parties as well as civil society groups which make up about 90% of the population were also part of the transitional government, adding, the three branches of the government were in agreement with the CPA.

He dismissed state lawyers' arguments that the Liberian Constitution was then set aside to allow the CPA to function as stated in Article 35 of the accord, and prayed the complete Bench of the Supreme Court to grant the writ of prohibition.

However, state lawyers, led by Solicitor General Cllr. Tiawon Gongloe, told the highest court that if the CPA had provided immunity for the former NTGL, the entire country would have been left without money, and impunity would have taken over the society.

Cllr. Gongloe argued that Article 35 of the CPA suspended most articles of the Liberian Constitution of 1986 including the three branches of government, noting Chairman Bryant was answerable to the warring factions that were chief architects for the formation of the NTGL.

"Though the Constitution was suspended, the criminal laws of the land or penal laws were not suspended; meaning that this provides the grounds for the former NTGL Chairman to be tried", said the Solicitor General.

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He said with the lapses of the CPA, the elected government has the right and duty as provided in the Constitution Article 61 to prosecute any criminal act committed by the former NTGL Chairman or past leaders after their tenures had ended.

Cllr. Gongloe, who is representing the state, prayed the court to dismiss the entire writ of prohibition on grounds that Mr. Bryant was never elected as President by the Liberian people but rather selected by few Liberians in Ghana for a specific period.

Meanwhile, ruling of the Supreme Court into the matter has been reserved for a later date.


Subject: Re: Liberia: No Immunity for Gyude Bryant-
From: JOINDALIST
To: All
Date Posted: 20:52:20 04/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-050.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.50

Message:
I find the headline very misleading. The court has not ruled yet on the matter.


Subject: Re: Liberia: No Immunity for Gyude Bryant-
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 20:59:17 04/29/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 65.117.246.251

Message:
You may need to contact the editor himself. The proceedings may be relevant to Sierra Leone.


Subject: Kabs, congrats , bra, and where is Cadmus ?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 17:16:06 04/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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The dynamic Cocoroko news team is doing well.I must say I am amazed at how well Kabs is getting us all these pictures and information before other papers.Now where is Cadmus ? Were these pictures doctored too ?


Subject: Re: Kabs, congrats , bra, and where is Cadmus ?
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 06:55:15 04/30/07 ()
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SLPP
I must join in congratulating The Rev Kabs Kanu for a Job well done. I give credit where credit is due.Kabs and the team are doing a VERY GOOD JOB right now..we must continue to encourage them to continue to maintain such a high standard.
The Rev knows I admire high standards. I am in his good books at the moment, so please don't be a mischief maker.


Subject: Re: Kabs, congrats , bra, and where is Cadmus ?
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 07:36:23 04/30/07 ()
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BRA/NGOR/ORLANGBA,
I know you are a lawyer,but please answer the question directly.
"Were these pictures doctored too?"


Subject: Re: Kabs, congrats , bra, and where is Cadmus ?
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 11:18:19 04/30/07 ()
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BUFORD HWY,
My brother, I can say for sure that the picture were not doctored. They reflect the mood in Sa Lone today......you know the saying.....'EVERY PICTURE TELL A STORY.....'The story is Sa Lone is GREEN.


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