Subject: Now we can take the test.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 21:12:51 07/10/07 ()
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As we have read about Maslow and Sigmond Freud, it is time we take the test.
I am so lonely; OVER!

Subject: Who owbns the diamonds in sierra Leone?
From: M. Alieu iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 14:35:53 07/10/07 ()
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http://www.sierraleonediamond.co.uk/exploration/mineral_rights.htm

Subject: Inferiority complex (The ones who know are watching.)
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 13:23:04 07/10/07 ()
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An inferiority complex, in the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis, is a feeling that one is inferior to others in some way. Such feelings can arise from an imagined or actual inferiority in the afflicted person. It is often subconscious, and is thought to drive afflicted individuals to overcompensate, resulting either in spectacular achievement or extreme antisocial behavior, or both. Unlike a normal feeling of inferiority, which can act as an incentive for achievement, an inferiority complex is an advanced state of discouragement, often resulting in a retreat from difficulties.

Early work in this field was pioneered by Alfred Adler, who used the example of Napoleon complexes to illustrate his theory. Some sociologists have proposed that an inferiority complex can also exist at a wider level, affecting entire cultures. This theory, which is controversial, is known as cultural cringe.

Classical Adlerian psychology makes a distinction between primary and secondary inferiority feelings. A primary inferiority feeling is said to be rooted in the young child's original experience of weakness, helplessness and dependency. It can then be intensified by comparisons to older siblings and adults. A secondary inferiority feeling relates to an adult's experience of being unable to reach an unconscious, fictional final goal of subjective security and success to compensate for the inferiority feelings. The perceived distance from that goal would lead to a "minus" feeling that could then prompt the recall of the original inferiority feeling; this composite of inferiority feelings could be experienced as overwhelming. That the goal invented to relieve the original, primary feeling of inferiority, actually causes the secondary feeling of inferiority is the "catch-22" of this dilemma. This vicious circle is common in neurotic lifestyles.

Subject: Esteem needs
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 13:18:31 07/10/07 ()
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Esteem needs
According to Maslow, all humans have a need to be respected, to have self-respect, and to respect others. People need to engage themselves to gain recognition and have an activity or activities that give the person a sense of contribution, to feel accepted and self-valued, be it in a profession or hobby. Imbalances at this level can result in low self-esteem, inferiority complexes, an inflated sense of self-importance or snobbishness. There are two levels to Esteem needs. The lower of the levels relates to elements like fame, respect, and glory. The higher level is contingent to concepts like confidence, competence, and achievement. The lower level is generally considered less advanced and more external; it is dependent upon other people. Someone in this level needs to be reassured because of lower esteem. People with low esteem need respect from others. They may seek fame or glory, which again are dependent on others. However confidence, competence and achievement only need one person and everyone else is inconsequential to one's own success. It may be noted, however, that many people with low self-esteem will not be able to improve their view of themselves simply by receiving fame, respect, and glory externally, but must first accept themselves internally. Psychological imbalances such as depression can also prevent one from obtaining self-esteem on both levels.

[edit] Cognitive needs
Maslow believed that humans have the need to increase their intelligence and thereby chase knowledge. Cognitive needs is the expression of the natural human need to learn, explore, discover and create to get a better understanding of the world around them.

Subject: Abraham Maslow!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 13:14:44 07/10/07 ()
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is a theory in psychology that Abraham Maslow proposed in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation, which he subsequently extended to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theory contended that as humans meet 'basic needs', they seek to satisfy successively 'higher needs' that occupy a set hierarchy. Maslow studied exemplary people such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass rather than mentally ill or neurotic people, writing that "the study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy."[1] Maslow also studied one percent of the healthiest college student population. While Maslow's theory was regarded as an improvement over previous theories of personality and motivation, it had its detractors. For example, in their extensive review of research that is dependent on Maslow's theory, Wabha and Bridwell (1976) found little evidence for the ranking of needs that Maslow described, or even for the existence of a definite hierarchy at all.

Subject: Re: Abraham Maslow!
From: CHIEFDOM ELDERS
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Date Posted: 14:24:17 07/10/07 ()
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Bambay Lans Kamara:
Thanks for your efforts in spreading the concept of "growth and development". Hope you are well and doing fine. Are you still in California?

Subject: Re: Abraham Maslow!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 20:34:52 07/10/07 ()
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CHIEFDOM ELDERS thanks for asking. I am well and kicking.

Subject: WAS THE ARTICLE BY JOURNALIST, PHILIP NEVILLE, TRUE?
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 13:06:04 07/10/07 ()
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78. The Commission recommends that criminal sanctions in the sphere of expression should be avoided. The civil law, which permits the issue of injunctions restraining the publication of defamatory material and actions for damages arising from defamatory publication, is sufficientto protect individuals from unfounded allegations.

79. The Commission recommends that the laws creating the offences of seditious and criminal libel should be repealed. Conduct aimed at inciting violence or lawless conduct is dealt with elsewhere in the criminal laws of Sierra Leone. Until the laws are repealed, the Commission recommends a moratorium on all existing or pending prosecutions for sedition and criminal libel. These recommendations are imperative.

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SIERRA LEONEANS CALL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF JOURNALIST PHILIP NEVILLE

Many Sierra Leoneans have written to COCORIOKO to condemn the arrest on Thursday of STANDARD TIMES Editor, Philip Neville , by the Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP) government headed by President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.

According to information made available to this newspaper, Mr. Neville , who is also Vice-Chairman of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists ( SLAJ) , was picked up by Police officers , following a report in his newspaper , headlined :" Bombshell : Gaddaffi exposes President Kabbah " .In the article, the paper stated that while addressing Sierra Leoneans at the National Stadium on Tuesday, Libyan Leader , Col Muammer Ghaddaffi said that he had sent shiploads of rice and millions of dollars , about which the government did not inform the Sierra Leonean people.

The government took offence and made a public statement in which it said , among other things : "Government wishes the public to know that there is absolutely no iota of truth in the publication. Colonel Ghaddafi never made such a statement nor did he make any reference to donations made to Sierra Leone. On the contrary, it was President Kabbah who, in welcoming the Libyan Leader once again reminded the public about the various items Libya has donated to Sierra Leone."


"It will be recalled that on every occasion when donations have been made, the President has always informed the public either through press releases as in the case of the Libyan rice, when that rice was publicly sold and proceeds used as seed money to launch National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) or as in the case of the tractors, a public ceremony was held at the Youyi Building at which the President presented the forty tractors to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security. So also in the case of the twenty buses, skip trucks and water bowsers a special ceremony was held at the National Stadium at which representatives of the Libyan Government were specially flown from Libya to Freetown to take part in the presentation. All these presentations were given the widest publicity on the radio, television and in the newspapers.Apart from the public presentations President Kabbah has on numerous occasions all over the country referred to these gifts in his public speeches."

Sierra Leoneans however want the Editor released because his arrest does not augur well for democracy in the country, or President Kanbbah's legacy. One of the writers, Malcolm Sesay, said in his letter that President Kabbah was very close to the end of the chapter on his rule and it was not the time for him to create the impression that he was undemocratic and dictatorial. Another writer noted that the elections were just around the corner and it was the wrong time for the government to create disaffection over the arrest of a journalist.

ALSO calling for the release of journalist is the Sierra Leone Democratic League headed by Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh. In a statement sent to COCORIOKO and signed by its Secretary For Foreign Affairs and Solidarity, Amadu Bailor Bah , the organization wrote :

This public release statement is in reaction to
comments hired by the leader of the People’s Movement
for Democratic Change (PMDC), Mr. Charles Margai on
the recent visit to Sierra Leone by Libyan leader and
revolutionary Guide, Brother Muammar Al-Qathafi.

Much as we, of the Sierra Leone People’s Democratic
League (PDL) are concerned, Brother Qathafi’s visit to
Sierra Leone was a blessing for a country pauperised
by centuries of brutal colonialism, domestic misrule
and despair. We do note the fact that the visit came
at a time when there is no legitimate government in
the country.

While we respect opinions of other peoples, we condemn
strongly attempts by PMDC leader Charles Margai to
demonise the Libyan leader’s visit to Sierra Leone as
hollow as cypher. We do understand the frustration and
traumas PMDC leader wanted to vent out against the
moribund SLPP. We would equally want to advise Brother
Margai to either occupy himself with finding solutions
to the very issues that are threatening the peace and
stability of Sierra Leone, than hiding behind the
façade of Political Party flag bearer to settle scores
with former boss.

The issues that are threatening the peace and
stability of Sierra Leone include SLPP disregard and
emasculation of the Constitution of Sierra Leone; the
dictator Tejan Kabbah’s murderous activities; the
ongoing arson attacks and violent activities around
the country side; the illegal occupation of eastern
Sierra Leone by Guinean forces of aggression and
terror; the presence on the Sierra Leonean soil of one
of US secret prisons around the world; the secret
deployment of Nigerian dogs of war in Freetown; the
prostitution of the country’s electoral laws and
disenfranchisement of the Sierra Leonean people; the
absence of a legitimate government to steer to affairs
of the country; the SLPP unending hatreds for the
Sierra Leonean Army; etc.

On the issue of Libya’s assistance to Sierra Leone,
the Sierra Leone People’s Democratic League regards
SLPP defensive statements to media coverage on
Qathafi’s visit as reckless, irresponsible and far
from the truth. There is just no way can the SLPP bury
the truth. We all know, and as a matter of fact, the
PDL is living evidence and is ready to prove wrong the
SLPP games. We know that in 1998, Libya shipped two
ships of rice meant for our war traumatised
population. But that the said rice was diverted and
sold to business men in neighbouring Guinea and
proceeds spent on maintaining the former Kamajoor
militia killers inside Sierra Leone. The hundred
million dollar question now is, are these SLPP
brigands waging war for freedom or pauperisation of
the nation?

The SLPP claims that it sold the two ships rice and
spent the money on creating the NaCSA is lie. The SLPP
must tell Sierra Leoneans when they receive the rice
and when did NaCSA established. These are two events
that took place in two far different periods. We
challenge the SLPP to tell the Sierra Leonean people
the truth about their rice.

From abundant evidences at our disposal, and
especially the one from the ‘horse mouth’, we are
shocked that the SLPP still leaning on dirty politics
to blind fool our people. The SLPP has also embarked
on a criminal campaign intended to muzzle the
independent media and journalists for re-echoing what
Muammar Qathafi told the Sierra Leonean people during
his visit to the country. We therefore condemn in no
uncertain terms the arbitrary arrest and detention of
the editor of the Standard Times Newspaper, Mr. Philip
Neville and demand for his immediate and unconditional
release to continue his patriotic work to the nation.

Three things which came out of the saga on the Libyan
leader’s visit to Sierra Leone, and these are: First,
the SLPP forgot that it is no more a legitimate
government and therefore no longer represents the very
interests of the Sierra Leonean people. Second,
Brother Qathafi’s speech in Freetown further exposed
SLPP hatreds for the Sierra Leonean people. Thirdly,
the arrest and detention of Standard Times editor
Philip Neville is not only criminal, but also an
attempt to kill the free Press in Sierra Leone, and a
declaration of war against the people.

We call upon the international community to exert
pressure on the dictator Tejan Kabbah in Freetown to
end its murderous threats to peace, stability,
security, democracy and human rights and freedoms in
Sierra Leone. The danger in Sierra Leone today is the
silence by the international community, particularly
the United Nations on the dictator Tejan kabbah’s
arrogance despotism in the country. The PDL wants the
world to understand that the people of Sierra Leone
are tired of the mess created in their country by
Tejan Kabbah and we warn that any attempt to
dehumanise our people in whatever form is
unacceptable.

Sierra Leone wants peace and not pieces. We want
decent politics and not mafia rule.

By this statement, we call all Sierra Leoneans, ah
home and abroad to standby ready for the second and
final liberation of the motherland from the hands of
the cabal of rogues and political prostitutes in
Sierra Leone.

Sender: Amadu Bailor Bah

PDL Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Solidarity.

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Subject: Re: WAS THE ARTICLE BY JOURNALIST, PHILIP NEVILLE, TRUE?
From: Med
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Date Posted: 14:06:26 07/10/07 ()
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The court will decide Neville’s faith. However, there are budgetary procedures in any democratic Government; there should be a policy on finance, subject to approval by a competent body representing the interest of THE PEOPLE [it could be parliament etc] . The circumstances remain dark, as to what extend and whose decision was it to sell the rice and make use of such huge [billions]proceeds as claimed. The SLPP led government has still not made their position clear enough, which has continued to give rise to widespread suspicions and the need for ACC to intervene, as to throw light on this very dark issue.

The ACC is under oath to perform:-
(1) The object for which the Commission is established is to investigate instances of alleged or suspected corruption referred to it by any person or authority or which has come to its attention, whether by complaint or otherwise and to take such steps as may be necessary for the eradication or suppression of corrupt practices.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), it shall be the function of the Commission—
a. to examine the practices and procedures of Government Ministries, departments and other public bodies, in order to secure a revision of those practices and procedures which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, may lead to corrupt practices, and to advise the heads of such Ministries, departments and other public bodies thereon;
b. to instruct, advise and assist any person or authority on ways in which corrupt practices may be reduced or eliminated;
c. to educate the public against the evils of corruption; and
d. to enlist and foster public support in combating corruption.

ACC wakeup and justify your fat wages!!!!!

Subject: Re: WAS THE ARTICLE BY JOURNALIST, PHILIP NEVILLE, TRUE?
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 14:15:12 07/10/07 ()
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Med:
Please accept my standing ovation for such a brilliant response to the above article. You are my kind of guy ! THANKS, AGAIN.

Subject: Re: WAS THE ARTICLE BY JOURNALIST, PHILIP NEVILLE, TRUE?
From: Med
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Date Posted: 15:33:50 07/10/07 ()
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Doc, you sound level headed. Honestly, it is disheartening, African nations do not need to suffer!! We suffer simply because of GREED; manifestation of this cancerous symptom is evident in this forum. This same factor selfishly, grievously took us [ancestors] through the slave trade and colonial era as victims. In addition, Sierra Leone has suffered a decade long senseless rebel war, the scars are still evident!!!! It is shameful, despicable that no lesson was learnt. As a matter of fact, since independence ALL the leaders that were literally forced on the people of Sierra Leone are not COMPETENT [I can lengthily justify this; perhaps you can do it better.]!!!

What should be the solution!!! we have a forum, constructively utilize it [Thanks to the host], start from hear, no bootlicking, consciously support a cause, I will suggest that ‘we put aside partisan politics, cultivate patriotisms, cry foul when you smell shit and help build a better nation for our children yet unborn. The entire Freetown is nothing less than a village; you just read that, there is allot to be done…SPEAK OUT!!!!!

Subject: Sierra Leone: The fragile case for interventionism
From: Dr. Michel Sho-Sawyer
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Date Posted: 13:04:02 07/10/07 ()
Email Address: michel_sawyer@yahoo.com
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Sierra Leone: The fragile case for interventionism
4 June 2007
The recent civil war in Sierra Leone sparked the beginning of the Blair government's lasting commitment to interventionism. The rapid success of the UK force created the template and justification for future Blair foreign policy decisions.

However, as Tony Blair returns from his last prime ministerial visit to Africa, the underlying causes of the Sierra Leone conflict - patronage networks, youth unemployment and corruption - are worsening, putting the initial success of the Blair government's intervention in serious jeopardy.

In a wide-ranging report published by Chatham House the author, Brian Thomson, assesses the degree to which the underlying causes of the recent civil war have been tackled. The report concludes that without tackling these underlying causes further Sierra Leone will become increasingly vulnerable to instability and violence as the country approaches the August elections.

Sierra Leone: Reform or Relapse? Conflict and Governance Reform

Sam Hardy
Chatham House Press Office
+44 (0) 20 7957 5739
+44 (0) 7946 642 205

Brian Thomson
Chatham House Africa Programme
+44 (0) 7740 944 503

Advance Notice:
Report on the Role of Business in Africa

On Thursday 7 June, as G8 members meet in Germany to discuss African development, Chatham House will publish a report entitled Growth and Responsibility: A Review of Business Action for Africa between the UK and German G8 Presidencies 2005-7.

The report examines one of the more significant UK initiatives to arise from the British Presidency of the G8 in 2005, Business Action for Africa (BAA). BAA is a network of 145 Businesses. The group's aims are to present a clear African and international business voice; to promote growth and poverty reduction to promote more balanced, positive perceptions of Africa; and to develop and showcase good business practice.

The report argues that BAA has the potential to be a major positive force in encouraging greater and more responsible foreign direct investment into Africa, and the international trade policies to encourage this, but that it must transcend its UK origins if it is to fulfil its promise at an international level.

ENDS

Subject: WORLD BANK FIASCO
From: DR. MICHEL SHO-SAWYER
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Date Posted: 12:58:06 07/10/07 ()
Email Address: michel_sawyer@yahoo.com
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CNN's Fionnuala Sweeney talks to former World Bank president James Wolfensohn about the best way to get aid to people in war torn countries.

How to fix the World Bank
Advice for the new chief: Roll up your sleeves and plant some seeds. What hungry Africa needs is action, not ideology, says Fortune's guest columnist Jeffrey Sachs. 06-26-07

By Jeffrey Sachs, Fortune Magazine guest columnist
June 26 2007: 6:03 AM EDT
NEW YORK (Fortune Magazine) -- The scandal-ridden departure of Paul Wolfowitz from the World Bank doesn't end its crisis. The trouble runs deeper.
It goes to the core of the bank's mission to cut extreme poverty, hunger, and disease. In the earth's poverty hot spot, sub-Saharan Africa, the bank's approach is failing.
Just when the world has ramped up its verbal commitments to fight Africa's misery, the world's confidence in the bank is at low ebb. Despite endless talk, countless "missions" by bank staffers, and expensive studies, the bank has accomplished little in Africa for 20 years.
Africans know it, and so do the bank's financial backers in the U.S. and Europe.
Africa will be the bank's test under incoming President Robert Zoellick. If it fails there, not only Africa but the bank will be in mortal peril.
World leaders have given Zoellick and his team a clear assignment: to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, a set of targets for cutting poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015.
The World Bank claims on its Web site that "our work focuses on achievement" of the goals, which "provide us with targets and yardsticks for measuring results."
Yet the bank's managers have not been held accountable. Senior bank officials actually whisper to African leaders not to dream about achieving the goals, since the managers don't want to be responsible for ambitious targets. They hope that the goals will just fade away.
Part of the problem has been that Wolfowitz had no background in African development and no coherent approach to it. Based on his perceptions rather than evidence, Wolfowitz decided that the best path was a campaign against corruption among the bank staff and Africa's governments.
American conservatives cheered, as this crusade played to their prejudices about the bank and about Africa. Yet the bank's problem has not been staff corruption but rather weak leadership and accountability.
And the core problem in Africa is not corruption but the lack of basic infrastructure and services. Like all poor regions (and rich nations like the U.S.), Africa has its corruption problems, but they do not explain its distinctively poor economic performance.
The causes are obvious to anyone who has spent a few days in African villages. There are almost no roads, electricity, doctors, nurses, fertilizers, high-yield seeds, and all the other things that constitute the first step out of extreme poverty.
These villages live at subsistence or below, trying to eke out survival on soils depleted of nutrients, with children dying of malaria and mothers and fathers dying of AIDS, and without the most rudimentary help of technology.
When poor American farmers lacked electricity, the U.S. established the Rural Electrification Administration in 1935 to provide low-cost credits to bring electricity to the countryside.
When India needed a Green Revolution in the 1960s, the Rockefeller Foundation brought high-yield seeds, and the U.S. government shipped massive amounts of fertilizer.
When China's countryside needed roads and electricity, the Chinese government, not the private market, did the job, and the World Bank helped with financing.
Yet when it comes to Africa, according to Washington's free-market ideologues, all those wonderful things are supposed to spring up by themselves, with markets coming to the rescue. And when those things don't arrive, since there is no way to pay for them, African governments are blamed for corruption.
As any junior IMF staffer could tell the bank in a heartbeat, the African governments do not have the fiscal means to invest in what's needed, and that would be true even if Mother Teresa were running the local treasury.
New bank chief Zoellick needs to tell his staff that their jobs depend on meeting the goals in Africa. Here are four areas where the bank can have a quick and dramatic success:
• It can help Africa raise food production at least 50 percent by 2010. Malawi introduced a voucher scheme to ensure that every farmer could obtain fertilizer and high-yield seed. This program could be implemented Africa-wide within two years. African governments are ready, and the Gates and Rockefeller foundations will provide valuable support.
• The bank can help Africa defeat malaria. By 2010 every sleeping site in malaria-transmission regions can be protected with a long-lasting bed net, and every village can be protected with first-line medicine. More than one million lives per year can be saved, with massive add-on effects on schooling and harvests.
• It can help Africa achieve electrification by 2015. It is a cruel myth that development without electricity is possible in the 21st century. Rather than helping countries ship their oil abroad and then remain dependent on wood for energy, the bank should be helping Africa develop its hydrocarbons to support regional power grids.
• The bank urgently needs to help Africa finance roads and rail upgrading, starting with a major highway (rather than a two-lane, broken- down road) linking the port of Mombasa in Kenya with Nairobi and Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern Congo. A road and rail network would enormously expand trade between Africa and the world.
Seasoned practitioners not held back by ideology and posturing know how rapidly results can be achieved. The philanthropy Millennium Promise, which I helped start, has raised over $100 million in private funds for Millennium Villages. This demonstrates how rural life can be improved dramatically from one season to the next.
Zoellick's success will depend little on his Bush administration connections and not at all on a simplistic free-market ideology. What will count are his management skills.
The goals for Africa can be achieved, but only through action, not through more talk or studies. Time is running out for the goals - and for the World Bank.
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Healing World Bank won't be easy: Zoellick
In the aftermath of an ethics scandal, the World Bank's likely next president, Robert Zoellick, says repairing the institution will be difficult.
June 18 2007: 6:20 PM EDT

BRASILIA (Reuters) -- Healing the wounds and conflicts at the World Bank will be a difficult task in the aftermath of an ethics scandal, Robert Zoellick, the bank's likely next president, said on Monday.
"My role as a potential CEO is to try to heal this institution, overcome some of the conflicts, the bruises, the wounding, the frustrations," Zoellick told a news conference in the Brazilian capital at the end of a two-week tour through Africa, Europe and Latin America.
"It's not going to be easy," he said. "There's a lot of build-up here."
Zoellick has been nominated by the United States to lead the bank after Paul Wolfowitz was forced to resign last month over a high-paying promotion for his companion that exposed deep unhappiness among bank staff.
The bank's board is expected to confirm Zoellick in the post this week as a deadline for nominations expired last Friday, leaving him as the only candidate.
He would take over with the World Bank in the throes of raising funds for its lending programs and needing broad support from donor countries, notably in Europe.
There was special concern within the bank that European nations might withhold funding for development projects during Wolfowitz's controversial tenure.
Several member countries, including Brazil, have also demanded more transparency in the long-standing practice of the United States picking the head of the bank and Europe choosing the leader of the International Monetary Fund.
Zoellick, a former State Department official, met on Monday with Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and four cabinet members, including Finance Minister Guido Mantega.
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Subject: MANY EDUCATED PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TRIBALISM
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 12:57:46 07/10/07 ()
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It is no secret that the deepening politcal tribalism in our society (Sierra Leone) today has been fanned, if not caused by those who we called educationists. Looking at the current political trend in the country between parties (SLPP,APC,PMDC), you will realize that the country is in a cross road. A disaster is awaiting (may God forbid it) to be exploaded once more if these so called educationists, both at home and abroad do not change their attitudes against their brothers and sisters who they perceived as enemies because of tribal differences.

When I was in Sierra Leone, I was dumb to believe that the kind of tribalism that is Plaguing our country was due to lack of education. I became aware that I was wrong with that type of perception and in fact those who are not educated or partially educated(semi illiterate) are nothing but vitctims of the devises of our top educated brasses.
When I came to the United States, I expected our brothers and sisters who are here before us have a changed attitude about tribalism and has adapted a unique sense of patriotism in which nationalism triumph tribalism. This is not the case to many of them. In fact it a reversal in which the people back home, after the war are becoming more aware that it is time to put that colonial mentality behind and work for the benefit of the country while many in the diaspora are stuck with the same attitude they left in the 60s and 70. A situation in which the temnes and the mendes see each other as enemies and the other tribes are caught in the middle. Each of these tribes uses a subversive, chronic, and disrespectful native languages against the other. For those who does not know these two languages, let me give you a hint on two words that meant bad for the other.

In Mende when ever you come across a mende group and you hear one of them says "Kuwamui" (KU-WA-MUI). This is a tribalistic word used by Mendes against non mendes meaning a lot of things. It could mean someone far away, someone that is not among us, it also mean an enemy or alien etc, depending the tone and intention of the speaker. The mendes also believe the temnes are war-like and very troublesome people. This was evidenced by the tribal war in Bo in the 70s. In the early days after colonialism, mendes believed they were more educated and therfore more superior to rule than any other tribe. This was an accusation made by the temnes against the mendes not mine. They also believe in secrecy while the temnes are lousy and want who ever they deal with should be open minded.

In temne, when you come across a group of temnes and you hear one of them says "Aratha" (AN - RA - THA). This is another word devised purposely to describe a mende man. However, it is isolated only to mendes. It could mean a backbiter, congosa, a hypocrit etc. This word comes from a descr1ption of an animal called "cutting grass" in krio. As we all know the cutting grass is always in other people's farm destroying their crops and undermining farmers effort for a better crop production in the season etc.
The temne believe that the mendes are not faithful with them and are always engaged on character assassination or undermining attitude against non mendes.
The tension between these two groups started far back during the "Hut Tax War" when the British demanded that the natives should pay taxes for their huts. According to the temnes the war was not only about the taxes, but an initial resistance to the very nature of colonialism as the then governor reported to the Queen. A lot of consultations took place in the hinterland between the chiefs of these two groups(Mendes and Temnes) to resist the British intention and prepare for a war against the British.
The Mendes did not do as plan until few months later after they saw successive attacks against the British by the temne (Bai Bureh's groups). The temnes were disappointed to the slow involvement of the mendes to the war. They believe "if we are agreed to die let us die together, but not wait to see how I'm going to die before you die".

The mendes always has splinter groups within group. These are the typical mendes who always hold secret meetings to undermine the decision of non mendes within a particular group or association. For instance, if there is a Sierra Leonean association in New Jersey comprises of all Sierra Leoneans irrespective of tribe, two or more mendes in that association can definitely form a splinter group within the association either to undermine non memde decisions or protect their brother mendes' decision. In other words, they are power hungry people and they always like to lead. Either them or no other person.

However, in any group there are both bad and good people. My accusation against the educated Sierra Leoneans for blowing the tribal trumpet does not summed up to all educated people. There are a good number of educated people who are strongly against tribalism and fighting to stop it in both sides of the isle. But there are still people in the educated platform especially within these two tribes here in the US who are intentionally or unitentionally fanning this dangerous ideology. I will not name names, but it is clear to many people even in this forum, the way people post their opinions could clearly demonstrate tribalism.

Subject: ...DOES THIS MEAN THE APC WILL AGAIN RESORT TO THUGGERY?
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:30 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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"The Revolutionary United Front Party can not contest ... the presidential and
parliamentary elections," interim party leader Gbassay Kanu told reporters
outside the locked door of the party's deserted office in the capital Freetown.

"While we continued to keep the party going all these years, we finally
discovered that we are not getting any financial support from government or the
international community to keep our party going, so we have gone bankrupt,"
Kanu added.

He said the RUFP's entire membership had joined the opposition All Peoples
Congress Party, which will participate in the presidential and parliamentary
elections on August 11.

Subject: China Executes for Corruption
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:03:12 07/10/07 ()
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Message:
China Executes Ex-Food and Drug Chief
By ALEXA OLESEN,AP
Posted: 2007-07-10 11:45:05
Filed Under: Health, World
BEIJING (July 10) - China executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog on Tuesday for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash, the strongest signal yet from Beijing that it is serious about tackling its product safety crisis.

Photo Gallery: China's Product Safety Crisis
EyePress / AP Zheng Xiaoyu, the former director of China's State Food and Drug Administration, was executed Tuesday for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash. His actions lead to the deaths of at least 10 people.
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The execution of former State Food and Drug Administration director Zheng Xiaoyu was confirmed by state television and the official Xinhua News Agency.

During Zheng's tenure from 1998 to 2005, his agency approved six medicines that turned out to be fake, and the drug -makers used falsified documents to apply for approvals, according to previous state media reports. One antibiotic caused the deaths of at least 10 people.

"The few corrupt officials of the SFDA are the shame of the whole system and their scandals have revealed some very serious problems," agency spokeswoman Yan Jiangying said at a news conference held to highlight efforts to improve China 's track record on food and drug safety.

Yan was asked to comment on Zheng's sentence and that of his subordinate, Cao Wenzhuang, a former director of SFDA's drug registration department who was last week sentenced to death for accepting bribes and dereliction of duty. Cao was given a two-year reprieve, a ruling which is usually commuted to life in prison if the convict is deemed to have reformed.

"We should seriously reflect and learn lessons from these cases. We should step up our efforts to ensure food and drug safety, which is what we are doing now and what we will do in the future," Yan said.

Zheng, 63, was convicted of taking cash and gifts worth $832,000 when he was in charge of the State Food and Drug Administration.

His death sentence was unusually heavy even for China , believed to carry out more court-ordered executions than all other nations combined, and indicates the leadership's determination to confront the country's dire product safety record.

Fears abroad over Chinese-made products were sparked last year by the deaths of dozens of people in Panama who took medicine contaminated with diethylene glycol imported from China . It was passed off as harmless glycerin.

Yan said she did not have any information about whether the Chinese manufacturer, Taixing Glycerin Factory, and the Chinese distributor, CNSC Fortune Way, had been punished.

"We will try to get more information from the department concerned and we will release it to you," Yan said. She wouldn't elaborate.

China admitted last month that it was the source of the deadly chemical that ended up in cough syrup and other treatments but insists the chemical was originally labeled as for industrial use only. Beijing blames the Panama traders who eventually bought the shipment for fraudulently relabeling it as medical-grade glycerin.

In North America earlier this year, pet food containing Chinese wheat gluten tainted with the chemical melamine was blamed for the deaths of dogs and cats.

Since then, U.S. authorities have turned away or recalled toxic fish, juice containing unsafe color additives and popular toy trains decorated with lead paint.

Yan said the food and drug administration was working to tighten its safety procedures and create a more transparent operating environment. The administration has already announced a series of measures to tighten safety controls and closed factories where illegal chemicals or other problems were found.

But Yan acknowledged that her agency's supervision of food and drug safety remains unsatisfactory and that it has been slow to tackle the problem.

" China is a developing country and our supervision of food and drugs started quite late and our foundation for this work is weak, so we are not optimistic about the current food and drug safety situation," Yan said.

Chinese officials have already said the country faces social unrest and a further tarnished image abroad unless it improves the quality and safety of its food and medicine.

The government has faced increasing pressure from its international trading partners to improve quality controls after a series of health scares attributed to substandard or tainted Chinese food and drug exports.

The list of food scares within China over the past year includes drug -tainted fish, banned Sudan dye used to color egg yolks red, and pork tainted with clenbuterol, a banned feed additive.

China has also stepped up its inspections of imported products and said some U.S. products are not safe.

In the latest case, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday that a shipment of sugar-free drink mix from the United States had been rejected for having too much red dye.

Last week, China 's food safety watchdog said almost 20 percent of products made for consumption within China were found to be substandard in the first half of 2007. Canned and preserved fruit and dried fish were the most problematic, primarily because of excessive bacteria and additives, the agency said.

Subject: REST IN TURMOIL (RIT) FOR THE RUF
From: Knice
To: All
Date Posted: 10:48:53 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Ex-rebel RUF party bows out of Sierra Leone polls
By Christo Johnson
421 words
9 July 2007
14:37
Reuters News
English
(c) 2007 Reuters Limited

FREETOWN, July 9 (Reuters) - The political party born out of Sierra Leone's
Revolutionary United Front (RUF), whose rebels hacked off civilians' limbs
during a brutal civil war, disbanded on Monday admitting it could not fight
next month's elections.

The RUF took up arms against the Freetown government in 1991 under the
leadership of the charismatic Corporal Foday Sankoh, and at its height
controlled much of the West African country, including rich diamond fields
whose gems it used to buy guns.

"The Revolutionary United Front Party can not contest ... the presidential and
parliamentary elections," interim party leader Gbassay Kanu told reporters
outside the locked door of the party's deserted office in the capital Freetown.

"While we continued to keep the party going all these years, we finally
discovered that we are not getting any financial support from government or the
international community to keep our party going, so we have gone bankrupt,"
Kanu added.

He said the RUFP's entire membership had joined the opposition All Peoples
Congress Party, which will participate in the presidential and parliamentary
elections on August 11.

Sankoh died in 2003 in captivity while awaiting trial before a U.N.-backed war
crimes court that is currently trying his one-time ally Charles Taylor,
ex-warlord and former president of neighbouring Liberia, for his part in Sierra
Leone's war.

THE LION

Sankoh, known to some as "The Lion", launched the RUF as a political party
after a 1999 peace deal with the words "War is over and now we are talking
politics".

Months later his fighters disavowed the peace deal and took hostage hundreds of
soldiers serving with a nascent U.N. peacekeeping force, prompting a
high-profile military intervention by former colonial power Britain.

President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah finally declared the war "Dun dun" ('over' in Krio
dialect) in January 2002 and was re-elected four months afterwards with a huge
majority.

Sankoh, already behind bars, was barred from standing as president in those
elections, and the RUFP failed to garner a single parliamentary seat.

Kabbah, barred by the constitution from seeking a third elected term in next
month's vote, has thrown his weight behind his deputy, Solomon Berewa, who will
contest the elections for the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party.

Subject: Re: REST IN TURMOIL (RIT) FOR THE RUF
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:08:30 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
He said the RUFP's entire membership had joined the opposition All Peoples Congress Party, which will participate in the presidential and parliamentary
elections on August 11.

This is the saddest part that they claim to have their "entire membership" joining the APC. Frankly the APC does not need their type and I would advocate strongly against their inclusion in the APC. They shoukld be sent back to the SLPP that is where they belong and that is the party that formed the RUF, nurtured it and used it to reign pain on my people.

To hell with the RUF(P)

Subject: Re: REST IN TURMOIL (RIT) FOR THE RUF
From: Gibril Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 11:40:18 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c29146.dyn.optonline.net at 68.194.145.70

Message:
My friend the RUF is coming home. The APC is where they belong. It is the prodigal son returning home. There is nothing you can do about that because you are not counted in the APC.

Subject: Re: REST IN TURMOIL (RIT) FOR THE RUF
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 11:22:20 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.2

Message:
Alieu,
Is this a sign of things to come? RUF/APC team.

The fact is that the RUF feels at home with the APC, that is why they decided to Join your Party.

They are not known in the SLPP and have nothing in common with SLPP....They know what they are doing believe. They made the right choice....them go pull wuna waice nar doh.

Subject: Re: REST IN TURMOIL (RIT) FOR THE RUF
From: M. Alieu Iscandari
To: All
Date Posted: 13:05:30 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
MY FRIEND THERE ARE MANY MORE ruf IN THE slpp THAN THERE WOULD EVER BE IN THE APC. JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE SLPP HEIRACHY DO A POLL AND ASSK EACH ONE WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE WITH THE RUF. YOU DONT NEED TO SHOW THE NAMES AND THE ANSWERS THEY GIVE JUST TELL US THE RESULTS OF THE POLLS AND BE HONEST ABOUT IT.

Subject: Re: REST IN TURMOIL (RIT) FOR THE RUF
From: EDITOR
To: All
Date Posted: 13:32:36 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
crying over spilt milk.
APC created the RUF because they were against Multi-party democracy. Your intention was to make a case for martial law so there would be no elections, but your plan did not work.

Who are the crux of the RUFP? They are all top Ex-Rebel commanders.

Since they are now in the APC why don't you check them and make it known to this BODY?

By the way here is an excerpt from the SLPP manifesto: In the words of Tejan Kabba:
"I have looked at the Manifesto and I am satisfied that when implemented, it will take this country firmly away from the poverty trap of the past. I therefore leave with the comfort that all the trials we have survived through, and all we have achieved as a nation, will now yield the results that we have all dreamed of for our future".

Subject: Sia Tiyaama is SICk in his Head
From: Bassie Amara
To: All
Date Posted: 08:11:19 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-82-4-60.hsd1.de.comcast.net at 68.82.4.60

Message:
Sia Tiyaama, who does not even have the guts to reveal his identity is one of those seriously dangerous tribalistic sycophants who every one must be aware of. I am asking readers of Cocorioko to not take the so-called Sia with seriousness. If he believes the nonsense he is splashing all over the place about the Honorable Ernest Koroma, then let him be a man first and write under his true name. After all education should serve every individual right by at least relieving people of whatever insecurities they may have. The so-called Sia is an educated man who teaches at a higher institution of learning in the U.S. If he did buy his credentials from some bogus online institution, then he must go by his identity if he must be treated with any seriousness.

There is a good reason though why this tribalistic black sheep keeps fouling the cyberspace with his malicious venom. He is on Berewa and JJ Blood's payroll and he has been been promised a position should the SLPP win. This is dirty politics is its highest. It is disgusting, and very alarming that some of our younger and educated folks who should be genuine enough to analyse our country's predicament without bias are the same ones who embelish sycophancy, tribalism, corruption, and blind support for a rotten system for the sake of gaining access and hence continue the wanton rape of mother Sierra Leone.

If the so-called Sia continues his one sided disrespect and hateful articles against the Honorable Bai Koroma, then I will make it a point of duty to fully reveal his identity and establish his link to JJ Blood and others in the weeks leading up to elections. The JJ blood camp's tactic is to use insecure sycophants like the so-called Sia to propagate false information about the stronger opponent so as to attempt to change the minds of undecided voters. This evil machinery will not work. I am an independent voter and I will make it my duty to dismantle any fake information been circulated by Sia and others like him.

Thank you

Subject: Re: Sia Tiyaama is SICk in his Head
From: TRUCK DRIVER
To: All
Date Posted: 09:13:48 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Where is Bra Enviable when we need him to handle Sia Tiyaama?

Subject: Re: Sia Tiyaama is SICk in his Head
From: ?? Sir
To: All
Date Posted: 08:18:19 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
"I am an independent voter...."
How? When you are bent on revealing his identity for the sake of Bai Koroma.
The above ranting does not pass the litmus test of an independent voter. it looks more like a ranting of a tribalist and an APC fanatic.
You, like SIA are one and the same Bro. He or she is using fake handle, and you are using fake handle.

Subject: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Sahid
To: All
Date Posted: 05:12:04 07/10/07 ()
Email Address: Sahidkanu@aol.com
Entered From: 87-194-70-82.bethere.co.uk at 87.194.70.82

Message:
This confirms it! The people of Sierra Leone are the most idiotic people in the world. While they are singing and dancing for their various political parties, have any of them considered to ask them selves the following questions:

What are the proposals and costed plans for sustained long term economic growth?
What pare the proposals to solving the power and water crisis?
What is the future inflation target for Sierra Leone?
What are the proposals to stop Sierra Leone’s dependence on foreign aid?
What are the proposals to cut the infant and maternal mortality rate?
What are the proposals to increase heath care provision for the population?
What are the proposals to raise life expectancy in Sierra Leone?
What are the proposals to stabilise and strengthen the Leone?
What are the proposals to increase the adult literacy rate?

These are just a few basic questions that they should be asking themselves, instead of singing and dancing like imbeciles, for a government that has;

Failed to increase employment,
Failed to improve health care provision,
Failed to provide universal access to clean pipe borne water,
Failed to provide regular electricity supply,
Failed to provide a stable currency,
Failed to provide better roads,
Failed to increase life expectancy,
Failed to reduce infant and maternal mortality
Failed to increase adult literacy

Sierra Leonean politics is the politics of the play ground where personality cults take centre stage but there are no discussions on policy or manifestos. None of the so called political parties in Sierra Leone have provided even the semblance of a creditable manifesto, Instead they are focused on building their personality cults, bribing the population with childish trinkets such a tea shirts, drums and a few Leones, so that they come out to sing and dance and hail one as the messiah! How sad!

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 11:39:43 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.2

Message:
Sahid,

By simple logic, you are an IMBECILE too, since you are also a Sierra Leonean.Right?

However, some of us have been doing things on this forum and else where for our Country for a very long time. We have been debating issues, and dfending policies of our various political parties.

You are new here so you would not know about the polcy discussions that have been taking place here on this wonderful cocrioko forum over the past year or so.

If you stick around you will soon discover that their are Sierra leoneans who care about what is going on in in our country and are willing to debate the issues, discuss matters , and take a stand.

Shame you can only mention, the difficulties, and not the successess of the SLPP Government. Do you want me to do that for you?. No government will ever have 100% success, not in England, and certaily not the USA, but considering the conditions and the state of the country when SLPP took over, you should be celebrating my friend, believe me.

Now there is more to come, just FIVE MORE YEARS, that is all we ask for.

Subject: CADMUS
From: Sahid
To: All
Date Posted: 17:15:55 07/10/07 ()
Email Address: sahidkanu@aol.com
Entered From: cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132

Message:
CADMUS, I am still waiting for the list of SLPP advances after 12 years in power. Please note I am neither APC, SLPP, RUF, PMDC nor any other sub standard party in Salone! They are all of the same ilk. The same political prostitutes moving from place to place, so long as you are willing to pay them!

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Sahid
To: All
Date Posted: 14:00:33 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I have been reading this forum for some time and am yet to see any proper debate. You show me one SLPP success?
SLPP record;
Unemployment up or at pre war levels, The Leone at almost Le 6000 to the pound, Pipe borne Water supply, sporadic at best, dirty and unfit for human consumption, electricity supply non existent, Life expectancy: 39 years (men), 42 years (women) (UN), adult illiteracy at 70%. In the last 18 months I have been to Sierra Leone 5 times and each time the county has deteriorated a bit.

Please tell me what a government is for if it cannot provide these basic things. By the way I was not born in sierra Leone, yet I went there opened 2 business, employed over 20 people, what have you done to assist sierra Leone?

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:42:37 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sahid, it makes no difference if you were born in Sierra leone. The parents that had you are from there and to show your love for them - you turned towards helping in the progress of your ancestral land - Sierra leone. I know your narrative is influenced by bitter experiences in the business ventures you embarked on. Rome was not built in a day. have you ever been to Rome or the areas along the Alps? see wonders of man and it took some - more than one hundred years. i am not advocating that you wait for hundred years to yield returns on your ventures - my analogy is that you can still do it if you will adopt the virtuous principle - PATIENCE. just out of curiosity, what business were you engaged in? have hope, my good fellow - time will give you the returns you desire if you sow well.

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 16:05:57 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3

Message:
Chez you should not have ran away.You should have stayed in Sierra Leone preaching to people to be patient in the face of all the National odds Sahid just mentioned

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Chez winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 16:29:17 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-198-105.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.198.105

Message:
I left Sierra leone to prepare myself for a show down in a bloodless war for change. No school was ready to accept me and i needed to advance in my education. At madina i was able to take my GCE O'levels and got the best grade to seek admission at my former school - AA. During my first two weeks at the AA, i requested a refund of my fees as the standard had fallen causing a rift between self and the administration. I eventually got my fees less my registration fee.

I came back after a year and saw the worst. it was then i decided that my presence in Sierra leone will get me locked up and perish like my poor late man. i left with no money and passport, but my heart stayed with the young minds wherever i went. Sierra leone will have spring under our brighter steps - I am sure to see this happen during my life time. i will never run away - it is sometimes wise to tactically withdraw - we should learn to fight from positions of advantage.

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 16:32:26 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
" came back after a year and saw the worst. it was then i decided that my presence in Sierra leone will get me locked up and perish like my poor late man. i left with no money and passport, but my heart stayed with the young minds wherever i went. Sierra leone will have spring under our brighter ste"

NO WONDER YOU WANT OTHERS TO STAY. BUT YOU, YOU RAN AWAY FROM THE SLPP'S PARADISE IN SALONE!

You slpp have no shame. You wish for othert Sierra Leoneans what you don't wish for yourselves!

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 17:07:42 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-198-105.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.198.105

Message:
You are too swift to jump to conclusions. I left Sierra leone under the APC regime headed by Momoh. I have lived in Europe for 20 years and have tried to help my people throughout these years. This was a time - despair is all you see in every young mind in sierra leone. i never lost hope and was always prepared to challenge them - letting them know that their days were numbered and that they will not live forever. i remeber telling Abdul karim that someday when chaos comes, he will be the first to be visited - this came to pass. I am a temne and would love to see my tribe flourish in line with the others to make of for a beautiful and colourful mix of cultures in one nation.

next time ask me when i left Sierra leone and you will not be taken aback.

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 17:04:40 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3

Message:
Chez,I guess the late man was SLPP, right?

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Chez Winakabs europe
To: All
Date Posted: 17:16:06 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-198-105.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.198.105

Message:
My father was not a 'party politician' - he stood for all that meant Sierra Leone. he never got mixed up in party politics. he was happy bring to light the ills affecting the people without fear - it cost him his life but enlightened his children to believe in hard work and not to see evil in everyones eyes. What he also nurtured in us was the art to exploratively reason with whomsoever to see where you can all meet - COMPLEMENTARITY.

most of my paternal members are not party politicians. Only a handful have been involved in party politics. My lineage has always tried to serve the people to the best of their abilities.

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Emmanuel Jarrett
To: All
Date Posted: 21:19:38 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-024-211-220-232.nc.res.rr.com at 24.211.220.232

Message:
You stated the reasons why you "ran away". Regardless of what political party was in power, other less furtunate folks are still their in SL. We get too carried away and forget very easily the suffering of the masses that we have left behind. After 20 yrs, what have you done for the country other than hang out here at this furum and write crap whiles the true SLeoneans have been on the ground through Wars, abuse, and stupid government cannot provide the vry basic necessity of it's citizens. Shame on all of them and I pray that even though the people on the ground will not use issues to choose the correct leader, but that God will open their eyes right at the polling booth that day....What have you done to change the life of the ordinary SLeonean other than your own peeps. It's a shame....be quite whoever you are. I don't know you and I am not interested inknowing you but don't continue writing rubbish here like we are all idiot...

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 12:26:07 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-074-228-219-218.sip.asm.bellsouth.net at 74.228.219.218

Message:
BRA/NGOR/ORLANGBA,
"Shame you can only mention, the difficulties, and not the successess of the SLPP Government. Do you want me to do that for you?"

You finally give a good response,but now that you have decided to tell us the succeses of your FAILED SLPP PARTY,why don't you go ahead and outline them in whatever sequence that you feel may help your failed SLPP party.

"Now there is more to come, just FIVE MORE YEARS, that is all we ask for."

Bra CADMUS if WE give your FAILED SLPP PARTY five more years,don't you think the LORD would put a BIG CURSE on our country? After 12yrs of MISMANAGEMENT,CORRUPTION,NEPOTISM and REGIONALISM,why would any sane person even think of giving your SLPP party another chance? Please Bra have sympathic for your country.

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Belleful
To: All
Date Posted: 05:30:04 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.206.223.12

Message:
Question the people, where rate of illiteracy is 70%???
Half the population is rebel!!

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: sahid
To: All
Date Posted: 05:57:50 07/10/07 ()
Email Address: Sahidkanu@aol.com
Entered From: 87-194-70-82.bethere.co.uk at 87.194.70.82

Message:
It’s pathetic how the population of Sierra Leone, despite all the failures of their so called leaders and the political elite, can behave in this way. There is a saying that the people get the leadership they deserve. From what I have seen, no one can complain when they go to bed hungry or their wife or girlfriend dies because of inadequate medical care during child birth, or they have no employment or prospect of employment. If they can sing and dance for these substandard political parties they deserve what they get!

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:19:30 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
sahid, it is sad to read your generalisations on issues that not all Sierra leoneans have been silent about. i was very active at a very young age and to this day pray for solutions to our insurmountable self-inflicted problems. I am not too happy with individuals who criticise without cogent remedial alternatives. The points highlighted are the thrust of our current ills and I believe the whole world knows that. A way forward is to present the past and map out a way out of our messy quagmire. Have you been very silent towards the ills you've highlighted? What, in god's name, have you done to address the issues you've raised. we cannot always depend a handful of people as the government. we are the government! Not all Sierra leoneans are supportive of what is happening. Some of us lost our parents as a consequence of not staying silent to the ills that engulf our nation. Solutions should be presented in line with acute criticisms. You are correct about the issues you highlighted but please note that we are all not supportive of the ills created by our own very few. I still have hope if only a large number of us can pool resources to support economically and mutually beneficial projects within and outside Sierra leone. As to our leaders, the begining of the end of 'substandard' politics is near. The Berewa Administration will do their utmost to strengthen party politics irerespective of ones ideology. It is sometimes sad to have a nation that cares less for the other, forgetting that a bad yield in my neighbour's farm will indeirectly affect mine.

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 07:32:25 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3

Message:
Sierra leoneans are sardines without no brains. Watch them dance in the street while ushering thier new phase of suffering. This is how they've been abused since the days of our political history.This is the best way to manipulate a nation. keep them uneducated and hungry.Den sorry.

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Sahid
To: All
Date Posted: 10:49:40 07/10/07 ()
Email Address: Sahidkanu@aol.com
Entered From: 87-194-70-82.bethere.co.uk at 87.194.70.82

Message:
Very true! The behaviour of Sierra leonians both at home an abroad has astonished me! No debate about policies, no solutions offered, only attacks on personalities. Even on this very board, not once have I seen what I would consider a proper political debate on the policies of each party. All I have seen is childish attacks on other posters. If this is the level of politics and political debate, we engage in, no wonder we are the laughing stock of the world. Very sad. I was not born in Sierra Leone, but my parents were, I used to feel for the people, but having attempted to do business in Sierra Leone, having encountered the attitude of the average person in Freetown, and witnessing this spectacle, they deserve what they get.

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:32:16 07/10/07 ()
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I am still not happy with your 'tone' - "they deserve what they get". You may have "encountered the attitude of the average person in Freetown" - we do not know the whole story about your business venture to qualify me to disagree with your narrative. Do not believe that we "deserve what they get". When you were doing business in Sierra leone did you pay your guides/aides or they were following you around doing your own thing to make you quick buck? Whilst i await your answer, may i say that a lot of business people go to Sierra leone and use the resources of our desperate people giving them pittance. If you choose a knowledgeable person and agree on a wage/salary - i will bet you, you will succeed in doing proper business in Sierra leone - this applies every where. You cannot expect any good from an unpaid or badly paid workman.

I pray you live long to see changes in what you believe will never happen. Sierra leone will always stay and the bad people and their offsprings will disappear. Good has always overcome evil. They shall perish and be wiped out of the face of our land that we so love - SIERRA LEONE.

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Sahid
To: All
Date Posted: 15:32:38 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I have given up on Salone, I have put some of my capital to a better use and now trade Spot Forex on money markets. I will only visit from now on!

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Neneh
To: All
Date Posted: 17:21:18 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sahid

you're not to blame for your baseless outburst. I hold only the likes of S Stevens, JS Momoh & the APC culpable for your ungrateful rants. Surely if you where in Lebanon you'll be speaking a different language... Alas, the then APC government (with inferiority complex) held the likes of you to HIGHer esteem whilst you use, abuse & vandalised our people/economy like vultures.

Be rest assured the pride & dignity of Sa Lone shall be restored under the leadership of Berewa/Koroma. Also true Sierra Leoneans (regardless of colour, cred or ethnicity) will see that leeches like yourself never return to Sa Lone again!

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Sahid
To: All
Date Posted: 17:38:36 07/10/07 ()
Email Address: sahidkanu@aol.com
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Message:
Have you read the above posts? If you had maybe you would grasp the rather simple facts that I have outlined! Please tell me what the ordinary man in Sierra Leone today has to sing and dance about as they did in Freetown a few days ago. Only yesterday I had a conversation with a cousin in Freetown, who works as a civil servant, who has not been paid in months and requested my financial assistance. Another cousin has never worked and wants me to assist him to come to Europe. The biggest industry in Sierra Leone today is how to leave Sierra Leone. So bad is the situation, sierra leoneans are now going to Iraq to find work as cleaners and cooks for the US army.
I am saying that the population, do not seem to grasp the concept of democracy, as if they had, how on earth can they sing and dance for any of the parties when these same parties have failed so miserably since independence. No water, no light, no work, no heath care and early death for all! What is there to sing and dance about? If the situation were not so desperate it would be funny! SLPP, APC, PMDC, RUF or any other sub standard party you care to name should all be swept into the political dustbin. There must be better than this!

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 18:04:43 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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You seem to be laterally intelligent. tell me something Sahid, if you sweep away the parties into the "political dustbin", what will you have in place to replace it? There are forces in Sierra leone that could have changed the way the "sub-standard parties" operate. Take Steven's era, there were hardline pressure groups - th Sierra Leone labour Congress (SLLC)was a very effective group then. Although Stevens succeeded in dismantling its fabrics, we had some sense of someone other than party politics helping the people. i heard about Zainab Bangura (campaign for Good Governance)- she went on to become an emplyed with a UN agency; the new SLLC- what are they doing to help the parties and the government; and other non-governmental organisations - what are they doing? Every government on this earth has to have a grand design to be able to at best meet the needs of its people. they are sometimes lame and need the people to tell them what is needed. if weare all yesmen to our parties - we will have no progress. An iron-fisted leader like Berewa needs a conscious citizenry to help him carry us forward.

I expect much constructive reasoning from you - the negative is always good to make a positive change. Show us some ways to help the 'pathetic' situation we find our nation. let me give you a scenerio - imagine sierra leone to be your child and you continue to call that child stupid and other derogatory words. What will become of that child?

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Sahid
To: All
Date Posted: 18:25:53 07/10/07 ()
Email Address: sahidkanu@aol.com
Entered From: cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132

Message:
Berewa is bereft of idea’s an iron fist is one thing, but an iron fist that has no new idea’s is useless. Whether SLPP, APC or PMDC win, they will prescribe the same old tired, outdated and failed policies of the past. If you see some of my posts on the Awareness time’s forum, you will see the radical thinking I am calling for. In my opinion, new, younger untainted and more radical political elite needs to take control of the above parties. People, who have lived their lives outside of politics, people who have an idea about the real needs of the people. Go to some of the slums in Freetown, see the poverty. When I am in Freetown, I hate to stay in the east end as everyday you see funeral after funeral going to Kissy Road, Kennedy Street or Circular Road burial grounds. Always it seems the dead are in their early 20s. To me the political elites of Sierra Leone are failures and another 5 years of SLPP, APC or PMDC will compound and worsen the struggles of the ordinary man!

Subject: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 18:43:15 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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With what shall we replace these parties? I do respect your 'radical' thinking - an ideolgy needs to find a pragmatic base. What is your short tern remedy for the problem we have? How about the long term? I am appalled by the death rate as well. I have buried over six relatives within the last two months. last year was worse. We need to embrace the better of the evils. It is better to be within and attempt to influence change than outside.

Subject: He Finally Woke Up? THE SKY WILL WEEP ON 11 AUG
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 04:23:13 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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When did this sleeping VP woke up to declare that he will tackle poverty as reported in Cocorioko? THE SKY WILL WEEP FOR SLPP that failed the people on August 11, it may even last for a week.

BEREWA PROMISES TO TACKLE POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IF ELECTED PRESIDENT

The National Electoral Commsiion ( NEC) last Saturday confirmed the Presidetial candidate of the governing SLPP , former Vice President Solomon Berewa and his Vice Presidential candidate Alhaji Momodu Koroma at the headquarterS of the National Elections Commission ( NEC), Wellington, east of Freetpwn. Making a confirmation statement, NEC Chariman Dr. Christian Thrope, said that READ MORE

Subject: Re: He Finally Woke Up? THE SKY WILL WEEP ON 11 AUG
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 13:03:12 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This is all what she said? READ MORE?

Subject: ‘NEC completely disqualify [or ban] a candidate’
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 03:38:33 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.74.98

Message:

The functions vested in the NEC by the 1991 Constitution include:
• The conduct of all public elections and referenda;
• The registration of voters;
• The demarcation of constituencies with the approval of Parliament; and,
• Making regulations for the efficient performance of its functions.

The Constitution further guarantees the independence of the Commission in the performance of its functions by stating that it "shall not be subject to the direction or control of any person or authority."
Reading the front-page article in/of http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20055946.shtml captioned ‘Big Blow for APC in Kabala: NEYA Parliamentary Aspirant Gets Disqualified’
Particularly raises concern as to the jurisdiction of NEC, assuming they have such ‘authority’, is that complete without a judicial concurrence of the subject matter???? What’s your answer????? Mine is ‘It is a big NO, NO, NO’!!!!! [Feel free to challenge the motion]
Recent developments in Nigeria left such directive of their INEC reversed by the High Court orders, despite what seems to be an enforcement of similar eligibility clauses of constitutional requirements. I personally think that members of the electoral commissions should have received professional training. This requirement will decrease cases of unawareness and ignorance performed by commission members.
To: NEC, please respect the rule of law.

Subject: Hon. Charles Margai at Chatham House in December, 2006
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 01:48:11 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Levelling the playing field - Sure his chief detractor Johnny Leigh was never invited and would not be invited to deliver a speech there because he is nobody........but here's boy pikin

Subject: Re: Hon. Charles Margai at Chatham House in December, 2006
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 16:21:19 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Margai said, "There have been a lot of
problems between the city councils and central government because the latter have
been complaining about lack of funds to affect their responsibility."
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I am kind of confused - who is the 'latter' complaining? I my mind remembers correctly it was the 'City Councils' that were "complaining about the lack of funds to affect their responsibility" and not the central government. can you please help clarify margai's statement!

Subject: Re: Hon. Charles Margai at Chatham House in December, 2006
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 02:49:50 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This is an independent

Subject: Some kind of organisation (organization.)
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:47:48 07/09/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25

Message:
Some kind of organisation (organization.)

Subject: WHERE IS THE COCK?
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 23:29:18 07/09/07 ()
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Message:
Kabs where the cock goes?

Subject: Re: WHERE IS THE COCK?
From: RUBBER DUCK
To: All
Date Posted: 05:32:13 07/10/07 ()
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Message:
The APC thugs have taken it down killed it and you know what they did DEM PULL AM SARA

Subject: What will it be like on 11th August 2007? Rain or Shine?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 02:26:20 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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The first two weeks in August bring some of the heaviest of torrential showers.... Fat chance of a "clean sweeet" if the downpour and wind is like 2004`'s

Subject: Re: What will it be like on 11th August 2007? Rain or Shine?
From: Special Cut
To: All
Date Posted: 07:43:23 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3

Message:
On 8-11-07 Sierra leoneans will stand by the shores watching the SLPP CRUISE SHIP sink at the horizons.When this time comes it has been reliably learnt that the SLPP wing of the SL Army will step in with a flimsy excuse, declaring the elections null and void. Special warnings to Komba Mondeh, Ex Maada Bio and Ex Tom Nyuma.There will be no place to hide if they let thier emotions violate human rights.Tom you should know by now that the world is a small place.

Subject: 11th August 2007 Rain or Shine? ( Re-done for Special Cut)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 09:57:05 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
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Speaking from experience, the whole exercise should be approached with some caution. Incumbent governments, no matter how honest, usually have their emergency strategies or exit plans – and the desperation is understandable considering that if they lose “power” they are liable to face Commissions of inquiry and their as yet undeclared assets investigated
(even if in the names of their nearest and dearest) and they are unlikely to be indulged or treated with protective leniency and tender mercies that they presently enjoy at the hands of their own people in the ACC.
Should it ever come to the SLPP that we know losing an election to the APC and PMDC that we do not yet know, and then the mature assurances of the statesman Chez Winakabs Europe will probably come into force:
“As a fervent believer in democracy and the reformed SLPP, I believe we will accept any results believing it is the people's wish. Let the winners (hold fervent to be the SLPP) know that it is not about winners takes it all. The APC and the PMDC are our brothers and sisters. Let differences in political affiliations and ideology not alienate them. we have to come together after the elections to work out a NATIONAL AGENDA to help our rites of passage to political maturity.”
Of course in the immediate aftermath of what is now still called the post-conflict situation, in my view Chez Winakabs advice should have been the starting ground of re-conciliation: A NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT.
Should Special Cut's Scenario ever come to pass, then they had better heed Special Cut’s advice. However my intuition is that even should the SLPP boat, "The Ray of Good Hope" as you say flounder and sink just off Deep Water Quay, before the storm at sea makes them sure that all is lost, the army would have long before then come to the rescue in the covert form of taking action to quell pockets of violence on election day - and then on those grounds( those areas of violence which could get out of hand and spread)either declare a state of Emergency or declare the results in those contested areas NULL and VOID.
It’s not very difficult to orchestrate violence. All you need is a few hooligans, dressed as SLPP thugs enter an APC area and start causing trouble because they think that the Police and military is on their side and they can therefore get away with anything.
The wearing of party colours on Election Day is likely to generate some trouble. Red, Green and Orange might harmonise in the rainbow but not in Bo. Party colours also identifies people and makes preferential treatment possible (Treatment of whatever kind). And when the crowds are awash in colour- different colours- colours can clash and there is something called a mêlée…..
This is likely to happen in APC strongholds. There are no given PMDC strongholds. The PMDC have the same turf as the SLPP (sayeth I, sitting at my desk in Stockholm)
The Nigerian Military – whatever their role is should be neutral and the Sierra Leone law enforcement should also be neutral.
Furthermore we do not want to see the abduction or disappearance of ballot boxes into which voters have cast their ballots, nor do we want to see any lights going out during the voting count.
As said before, the potential rigging of an election in Africa begins with A... The Census and continues with B. Voter registration. 3. The printing of the Ballot papers. Where? And the water-tight security during their every phase of transportation to the various voting centres.
WE do not want the ballot papers etc to be housed for safekeeping in the Bank of Sierra Leone (the neutrality of which place is in doubt)
WE expect utter vigilance on the part of all the parties concerned………. There’s much much more to the bag of dirty tricks ( things I have seen with my own eyes) but let me not start giving anyone any bad ideas, and let me not promote distrust or alarm, all I say is that very few politicians are angels, so we should all be at highest al3rt and VIGILANCE is the word…. But if you see something suspicious, who are you going to report it to?
I still don’t know the relationship between the paramount chiefs and their subjects don’t know to what extent they influence their subjects to vote for one party or the other.
In Sweden there are Chiefs called “landshövdningar” in all the main districts, but they are functionally and ceremonially and politically dissimilar to Sierra Leone Paramount Chiefs and they do not campaign on behalf of either government or opposition parties.
In Sweden, everyone has a unique ID which consists in the birth date plus a four-digit number after that. You turn up at the polling booth, as my wife and I did in mid-September last year; we were duly identified and placed out choice of party and candidate in the envelopes. It took less than minute to be identified and to vote. It was a very peaceful day indeed – in my area, mostly families pushing prams, the polling station was a children’s kindergarten school and within an hour of the end of voting, the results started pouring in. By midnight the opposition was in jubilation……
When are we going to be as civilised?
I should like to add that my greatest concern if for people who have registered to vote, turning up to vote and being told that their names cannot be found on the register. There may be sporadic cases like that here and there, but these isolated incidents can add up to quite significant numbers
We the people should be the people's choice. The people’s choice has to be respected even if politics is the most lucrative profession in the country……
The Sierra Leone Elections of 2007

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=the+Sierra+Leone+Elections+of+2007&ei=utf-8&fr=b2ie7

Subject: Re: What will it be like on 11th August 2007? Rain or Shine?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:40 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-318472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.49

Message:
Speaking from experience, the whole exercise should be approached with some caution. Incumbent governments, no matter how honest, usually have their emergency strategies or exit plans – and the desperation is understandable considering that if they lose “power” they are liable to face Commissions of inquiry and their as yet undeclared assets investigated
(even if in the names of their nearest and dearest) and they are unlikely to be indulged or treated with protective leniency that they presently get from their own people in the ACC.

Should it ever come to the SLPP that we know losing an election to the APC and PMDC that we do not yet know, and then the mature assurances of the statesman Chez Winakabs Europe will probably come into force:

“As a fervent believer in democracy and the reformed SLPP, I believe we will accept any results believing it is the people's wish. Let the winners (hold fervent to be the SLPP) know that it is not about winners takes it all. The APC and the PMDC are our brothers and sisters. Let differences in political affiliations and ideology not alienate them. we have to come together after the elections to work out a NATIONAL AGENDA to help our rites of passage to political maturity.”

Of course in the immediate aftermath of what is now still called the post-conflict situation, in my view Chez Winakabs advice should have been the starting ground of re-conciliation: A NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT.

Should Special Cut's Scenario ever come to pass, they had they had better heed Special Cut’s advice. however my intuition is that even should the SLPP boat, "The Ray of Good Hope" as you say flounder and sink just off Deep Water Quay, before the storm at sea makes them sure that all is lost, the army would have long before then come to the rescue in the covert form of taking action to quell pockets of violence on election day - and then on those grounds( those areas of violence which could get out of hand and spread)either declare a state of Emergency or declare the results in those contested areas NULL and VOID.

It’s not very difficult to orchestrate violence. All you need is a few hooligans, dressed as SLPP thugs enter an APC area and start causing trouble because they think that the Police and military is on their side and they can therefore get away with anything.

This is likely to happen in APC strongholds.
The Nigerian Military – whatever their role is should be neutral and the Sierra Leone law enforcement should also be neutral.
Furthermore we do not want to see the abduction or disappearance of ballot boxes into which voters have cast their ballots, nor do we want to see any lights going out during the voting count.

As said before, the potential rigging of an election in Africa begins with A... The Census and continues with B. Voter registration. 3. The printing of the Ballot papers. Where? And the water-tight security during their every phase of transportation to the various voting centres.

WE do not want the ballot papers etc to be housed for safekeeping in the Bank of Sierra Leone (the neutrality of which place is in doubt)

WE expect utter vigilance on the part of all the parties concerned………. There’s much much more to the bag of dirty tricks ( things I have seen with my own eyes) but let me not start giving anyone any bad ideas, and let me not promote distrust or alarm, all I say is that very few politicians are angels, so we should all be at highest al3rt and VIGILANCE is the word…. But if you see something suspicious, who are you going to report it to?

I still don’t know the relationship between the paramount chiefs and their subjects don’t know to what extent they influence their subjects to vote for one party or the other.
In Sweden there are Chiefs called “landshövdningar” in all the main districts, but they are functionally and ceremonially and politically dissimilar to Sierra Leone Paramount Chiefs and they do not campaign on behalf of either government or opposition parties.
In Sweden, everyone has a unique ID which consists in the birth date plus a four-digit number after that. You turn up at the polling booth, as my wife and I did in Mid September last year; we were identified and placed out choice of party or candidate in the envelopes. It took less than minute to be identified and to vote. It was a very peaceful day indeed – in my area, mostly families pushing prams, the polling station was children’s kindergarten school and in within an hour of the end of voting, the results started pouring in. By midnight the opposition was in jubilation……

When are we going to be as civilised?

We the people should be the people's choice

Subject: Re: What will it be like on 11th August 2007? Rain or Shine?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 03:03:46 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Ballots are

Subject: WHEN WILL LAWYER ALIEU ISCANDARI DEFEND HIMSELF?
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 15:59:29 07/09/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 35b-172.umd.edu at 129.2.18.172

Message:
Posted by ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA on July 08, 2007 at 18:11:09:

In Reply to: ALLIEU ISCANDARI PASSED OVER FOR VP SPOT posted by Santigie Koroma on July 07, 2007 at 17:47:59:

Santigie,I know that Ernest Koroma is always doing dumb things but I also know that he will never think of appointing Alieu to such an important office.Because I have given him Alieu Iscandari's ugly and shameful public and private records.
If the APC appoints Alieu to any public office, I ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA will ensure that the APC faces the worst embarrassment in its whole life.To save itself from that high form of embarrassment it will withdraw Alieu's appointment quickly with an apology.
Appointing Alieu Iscandari to any public office will be an insult to all the good people of our beloved country,SIERRA LEONE.

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What a powerful statement. I wonder if Lawyer Alieu Iscandari will respond to this?

Subject: Re: WHEN WILL LAWYER ALIEU ISCANDARI DEFEND HIMSELF?
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 11:14:43 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
CHIEF IN EXILE,

You should be ashamed of yourself. I am about to lose all respect for you....You know how sensitive this 'Family' dispute is,this is private and personal, we are not interested in it, so why bring it up again.

This is mischief making pure and simple. for a man in your position you should hang your head in shame.

you will lose your chiefdom support if you are not careful.

There is enough to discuss about Sa lone and politics, let us do that.

Subject: Re: WHEN WILL LAWYER ALIEU ISCANDARI DEFEND HIMSELF?
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 12:56:12 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.24.31.125

Message:
THANK YOU, SIR!

Subject: Re: WHEN WILL LAWYER ALIEU ISCANDARI DEFEND HIMSELF?
From: Ya Alimamy Gbom
To: All
Date Posted: 19:58:05 07/09/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
chief in exile, cant you tell that this is a personal attack unprovoked by alieu and that has been the case all this while. why do you give it further credence? This man is going crazy right in fornt of our eyes and we are all laughing.

Yesterday he was talking about how Berewah has a sore now he is attacking Alieu cant you see the trend. Does anyone want to compatre Alieu's life conditions to the life conditions of a man who sleeps in his car, steals money from his friends, pees in bed even as an adult, has no place to stay for himself, has no decent job or no job at all, was the house boy to the berewah family in Atlanta, would be willing to sell his own mother for a pittance, lies without bounds that he is a journalist, turns around and sends an article to Cocorioko newspaper which was later pulled off the newspaper because of its outright lies and falshoods?

I would hope that Alieu does not defend against that which is so palpably fictitious as to subject the writer to Ridicule and disgrace. Many of you dont know saidu. We know his whole family even before he went to live with the Iscandaris.

SAIDU NAR NMAN WAY NOR GET MAMA BLESSING EN NAR ALAKI EE DAY ALAKI SO NAR AMERICA

Subject: Re: WHEN WILL LAWYER ALIEU ISCANDARI DEFEND HIMSELF?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 19:44:03 07/09/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
Chief there is an African saying that he who dances to the drum beat of a crazy man is himself crazy. I have nothing to defend my self about. I will only defend myself against charges that have some air of credibility. The writer is a non entity in my books and is looking for attention which he is not about to gert from me. It is sad that you dont know me in person and if you did you would similarly ignore the rantings that you have managed to give some credibility to by reposting it.

Stay Blessed

Subject: Re: WHEN WILL LAWYER ALIEU ISCANDARI DEFEND HIMSELF?
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 16:09:29 07/09/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
Entered From: at 74.8.30.110

Message:
Saidu, think of where you are going if you dont know where you came from.Think of all the good things Alieu did for you to be here in the USA.Even if you live for 100 years that is not enough for you to disrespect him like that.This is the reason I said use your head and not your emotions.

May the almighty have mercy on uys.

Subject: Re: WHEN WILL LAWYER ALIEU ISCANDARI DEFEND HIMSELF?
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 22:27:41 07/09/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96

Message:
Foday, Alieu Iscandari did not play any role in my coming to this country.The Almighty Allah is my witness to that.When I came to this country,I lived comfortably with my sister(who bought a ticket for me)in New York.After a few months with my beloved and blessed sister, Alieu mom's kindly ask me to come live with them in Aleiu's house because of the many good things I did for them when they were suffering in Sierra Leone. At that time I had a blind love for them. As a show of respect for his mom, I went to Alieu and while I was there, I paid rent.
I ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA DO NOT OWE ANYBODY IN THE ABDUL ISCANDARI FAMILY ANYTHING. IF THEY ARE NOT UNGRATEFUL PEOPLE,THEY WILL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL TO ME.

Finally, Foday Mansaray,to avoid the punishment of the Almighty God, please, do not believe any lie that comes from ALIEU ISCANDARI'S mouth.

Subject: Re: WHEN WILL LAWYER ALIEU ISCANDARI DEFEND HIMSELF?
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 23:48:46 07/09/07 ()
Email Address: futatoro@gmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-179-7-225.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net at 71.179.7.225

Message:
Mr. Bangura,
Here is a great advice: If you want to be somebody go construct an effigy of yourself and then trash it.
Yaya Fanusie

Subject: Re: WHEN WILL LAWYER ALIEU ISCANDARI DEFEND HIMSELF?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 17:12:03 07/10/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-318472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.49

Message:
Coz Yaya,

Tomorrow is the 11th of August!

Subject: Re: WHEN WILL LAWYER ALIEU ISCANDARI DEFEND HIMSELF?
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 07:38:52 07/10/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96