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Subject: Sierra Leone: Nigerian Consul Rebuffs 'We Yone' Newspaper Cl
From: WE YONE
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Date Posted: 12:05:07 07/16/07 ()
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Sierra Leone: Nigerian Consul Rebuffs 'We Yone' Newspaper Claim



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Concord Times (Freetown)

16 July 2007
Posted to the web 16 July 2007

Sahr Morris Jr.
Freetown

The Nigerian Consul in Sierra Leone, Mr. Kola Balogun, Friday denied 'We Yone' newspaper's claim in its Monday July 9th 2007 edition that Nigerians were spotted in Vice President Berewa's convoy, saying such allegations could be dangerous to the peaceful co-existence of citizens of the two nations.

"The Nigerian High Commission in Sierra Leone wishes to advise gentlemen of the press to always verify information before they rush to publish stories because such attitude could be dangerous to the peaceful co-existence between the people of the two nations-Sierra Leone and Nigeria," Balogun appealed.


He made this assertion at the Nigeria House while explaining his authority's stance on the newspaper report after verifying that the story was untrue.

"We have done our investigations and confirmed that the said Sunday Ade that was purportedly spotted in VP Berewa's convoy was not a Nigerian. His real name is Sunday Olu Williams, born to one Pa Olu Williams who lived and died in Kenema. Pa Williams owns a house and even a street in Kenema. Sunday Williams cannot, in any way, be related to Nigeria. He was born and schooled in Kenema. He doesn't speak any Nigerian language," he explained.

Balogun pointed out that a complaint has been lodged to necessary authorities here in Sierra Leone and Nigeria and that the publisher of We Yone newspaper, the All Peoples Congress (APC) party, will be informed to refrain from publishing stories that may jeopardize the well-being of Nigerians in Sierra Leone.


Subject: Re: THE BIGGEST SA LONE ONLINE MEDIA MERGER
From: NOISE
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Date Posted: 12:03:38 07/16/07 ()
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Kabs, I decided to bring this issue up again to rectify few things that might be misunderstood. I did not intend to intentionally criticize your site or claim. I have seen few Sierra Leonean news online sites and when I always hear you or you cos say COCORIOKO is the biggest Sa lone news online and never see a proof, that made me to question your claim. You know technology has made the world to be global village where everything is in the open. So if you make a claim, be ready to prove it.
Secondly, I respectfully D-I-S-A-G-R-E-E with Sylvia if she said hit does not matter it is just a graphic, but the visitors. This is absolutely not true. Let me back my words. Hit is the aggregate or sum of the number of visitors to a site. The site cannot record any hit if someone does not visit that site. What happen is when someone type your domain name (eg www.cocorioko.net), it create a SESSION either annonymous or logged In. This session is transmitted to the hit function and inform it that some one has visited the site. Then the hit count function adds a one(1) to it total number of visitors to the site. Very important to know that there is only one hit per session. It has nothing to do with the number of pages you visited in a site. That is another discussion. So you might either misunderstood Sylvia or she is absolutely wrong.
Thirdly, if the proof you gave us (Visits: 2348) is correct, then cocorioko is one of the least popular Sa leone sites. Please go to other sites and see their visitors' hit and compare it with the number you gave us. In fact some non-news site beat yours in number of visitors. Sometimes it is hard but important to ask the hard question and when answered correctly as you did, it shed light to many doubts. Thanks for your sincerity in answering this question.


Subject: Re: THE BIGGEST SA LONE ONLINE MEDIA MERGER
From: Statistician
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Date Posted: 12:38:47 07/16/07 ()
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I have made a research for Kabs and provided the statistics below.The man did not even now that his newspaper was the most visited Sierra Leonean sight .Everyone goes through Sierra Leone Web to visit other papers, so Sierra Leone Web is first , but COCORIOKO ,statistically, is the leader. Kabs was absolutely wrong to say only 2,000 people visited his sight. That is just a fraction. I have provided the real number

Go to GOOGLE
Type in COCORIOKO
SCROLL DOWN TO ITEM NO.24
ALEXA WEB INFORMATION STATISTICS

From the statistics provided there, you can see that even the Rev. does not now that he has the "biggest and the most widely read Sierra Leonean newspapers " as he has been saying.


Subject: The KABBS Situation. Let him be.
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 11:43:15 07/16/07 ()
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The Rev Kabbs Kanu has made this forum truly successful. He has worked very hard to continue to provide us with first class information and news on this forum, all free of charge...we should be grateful for that.

Kabbs does not have to like SLPP. He is a Sierra Leonean andin a democracy, he is free to take an independent political stance.

The SLPP supporters on this Forum have been able to hold their own in discussions, and will continue to do so. It has nothing to do with Kabbs. We have to fight for our party..no one is going to hand anything on a plate to us.

To blame Kabbs is to blame the messanger..which is wrong. If you are a true SLPP, then be honest, sincere, and be fair. Apart from politics, SLPP is a God Party. Kabbs is doing a great Job.

The campaign is in full flow, help defend the party, answer questions and reply to damaging allegations. The other parties are getting desperate, they are all ready talking about rigging, they seem to want to throw the towell in already...but don't be fooled. keep on believing in SLPP, it is the only one nation Party in Sa Lone.

And be grateful to kabbs for job well done.


Subject: Re: The KABBS Situation. Let him be.
From: Alieu Sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:58:29 07/16/07 ()
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Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

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You are right. He has done a very good job so far.
But the fact that he keeps making Togbondo-PMDC's trash the crux of Coco news is worrisome and we have a right to make it known to him(Kabbs).
In these few days, a cocriocco board member is parading on this forum as an APC mouth-piece.
in other for his widely visited site and read news to continue maintaining such a distinction, he needs to check what news to publish.
That's all we are asking...
We will continue to defend our party and our ideals.


Subject: Re: The KABBS Situation. Let him be.
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 12:53:22 07/16/07 ()
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Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

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"We will continue to defend our party and our ideals"But not the country.Your ideals of backwardness.Rev.Kabs,you are a patriotic Sierra-Leonean.KEEP IT UP.You have done an outstanding job..Please give deaf ears to the slpp clan of corruption.Oncemore,slpp will only hang on power by rigging the votes,because all sane Sierra-Leoneans are praying for the day to come 11 August 2007 to remove the clan from the sit of government.


Subject: Yikes, COCORIOKO the most visited site after Sa.Leone Web
From: Statistician
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Date Posted: 11:13:57 07/16/07 ()
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Kabs, what is wrong with your fucking forum ? It won't let me post this good news I found for you and Foday Mansaray from ALEXA, the Web Information Company.It keeps being rejected. It would not accept the link or anything.

I will post my original message to the moderator to post for me.But read this and start rejoicing.

Most Popular In Sierra Leone
The most visited sites in all 'Sierra Leone' categories.


1. Sierra Leone Web
www.sierra-leone.org - Site info

2. Cocorioko
www.cocorioko.net - Site info

3. Wikipedia - Sierra Leone
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone - Site info

4. Visit Sierra Leone
www.visitsierraleone.org - Site info

5. AllAfrica.com - Sierra Leone
allafrica.com/sierraleone - Site info

6. Development Assistance Coordination Office (DACO) of Sierra...
www.daco-sl.org - Site info

7. The Republic of Sierra Leone State House Online
www.statehouse-sl.org - Site info

8. Sierra Leonean Writers Series
www.sl-writers-series.org - Site info

9. Sierra Leone Live
www.salonelive.com - Site info

10. The Country Lodge Complex
www.countrylodgesl


Subject: Re: Yikes, COCORIOKO the most visited site after Sa.Leone Web
From: Researcher
To: All
Date Posted: 11:23:57 07/16/07 ()
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My friend, this is stale news. Haven't you seen it before ?

GO to GOOGLE.
TYPE IN COCORIOKO
SCROLL TO NO.24 on the list of items
you will see item that says : ALEXA -Site information statistics.It shows the most visited sites , the statistics, the home address and home phone etc.

COCORIOKO is the most visited site after Sierra Leone Web. The Rev. was right all along to say his newspaper is the most widely-read.


Subject: Re: Yikes, COCORIOKO the most visited site after Sa.Leone Web
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 11:17:22 07/16/07 ()
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Post the link to the forum. If you can post your text to the forum then there is no reason you should not post the link. May be you are the problem not the site.


Subject: BONTHE HOLIDAY VILLAGE
From: BONTHE CHILD
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Date Posted: 09:14:19 07/16/07 ()
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Entered From: box.suffolkcountyny.gov at 204.126.240.6

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CHECK US OUT.


Subject: SHOULD MEMBERS OF NPRC CAN BE REABSORBED INTO THE MILITARY?
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 07:59:19 07/16/07 ()
Email Address: RNMDTWO@YAHOO.COM
Entered From: 208-58-72-25.c3-0.fch-ubr2.lnh-fch.md.cable.rcn.com at 208.58.72.25

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Armed Tom Nyuma in the rampage
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Posted by SLPP uses arms to silence opponents on July 16, 2007 at 06:38:32:

Tom Nyuma who was deported from the US last week has been armed by Berewa and it is believed that he has been re-instated in the army to cause mayhem during the elctions.
What a shmae for other soldiers Kabbah/Berewa sacked. There is a law against soldiers from the north and a special treatment fo Soldiers from the South East who answer to the SLPP war machinery.
This news has to be relayed in every area that Sierra Leone is sliding to an all out war between the forces of positive change and those with a continuity agenda.
The World must not shy away from its responsibility to maintain good governance and democracy in Sietrra Leone.A potential war criminal Tom Nyuma is out in the open with arms.
Take not Mr Ambassadors from the US and the United Kingdom. The SLPP is taking Sierra Leone into another war!!!!


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If the aforementioned report is true, my question is: is it NOT dangerous to reenlist former members of the NPRC into the current military given the fact that the NPRC handed power to the SLPP ? OR... is the SLPP setting the stage for:

The 1967 Elections and their Aftermath.

"The elections of 1967 were scarred by bitter power struggles based on ethnicity, personality and party affiliation. Although the APC won the most seats, the leadership of the SLPP stoutly refused to concede defeat. The resultant standoff signalled a watershed in the political fortunes of the country and ultimately led to the destruction of the multi-party system. The head of the Army sabotaged the swearing-in ofthe APC Prime Minister and declared martial law. When it became apparent that this move was engineered to favour the SLPP leadership,junior-ranking soldiers staged a coup. The consequent period of military rule served to narrow the political space in Sierra Leone and compelled others to seek alternative routes to power that did not depend on free and fair elections. It set the scene for multiplefurther coup attempts in the following decades".(STRCR)


Subject: Re: SHOULD MEMBERS OF NPRC CAN BE REABSORBED INTO THE MILITARY?
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 10:17:37 07/16/07 ()
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If this guy resigned from the military in addition to his deportation from USA, hie entire being dose not constitute a military material. Firstly, he should be in a jail, because, that is if his deportation was influenced by his role during the war and tenure as NPRC member, which should be assumed criminal in nature poses a big question, secondly, the dilemma is even more distressing or should I say frustrating for the gallant men and women of the military who were forced to resign. Thirdly, this honourable gentleman according to records is not the best example for present day military, in conclusion, the slpp government attempt in enlisting this gentleman will portray a very bad image to the international community, from my view, it’s a big blunder, disrespect for human rights, depicts no consideration to ethical democratic governance, it’s a preferential treatment and the if there is any interest or a pay back by slpp it should be done properly. The entire military should withstand such move rationally.


Subject: Re: SHOULD MEMBERS OF NPRC CAN BE REABSORBED INTO THE MILITARY?
From: Alieu Sesay
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Date Posted: 10:22:49 07/16/07 ()
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Hope it is not true. But even if it is, the sierra leoneans know him better than the Americans( International) folks.
Secondly, he was deported for immigration violation not fro his role in human-rights violation.


Subject: Re: SHOULD MEMBERS OF NPRC CAN BE REABSORBED INTO THE MILITARY?
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 11:05:54 07/16/07 ()
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Thanks and good to know that his deportation was not directly connected with his activities as a NPRC member, if his deportation was influence by domestic violence, then we are driving at the same point human rights violation, or bullying….GBV or gender base violence has been perceived as the need for power and control, it’s a form of tyranny and such characteristic is legally traceable, I mean evidence about his character [past or present] may have nailed him for real. I still insist that he is not a military material and the best example for our gallant soldiers.


Subject: Re: SHOULD MEMBERS OF NPRC CAN BE REABSORBED INTO THE MILITARY?
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 11:05:28 07/16/07 ()
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Entered From: at 82.114.74.98

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Thanks and good to know that his deportation was not directly connected with his activities as a NPRC member, if his deportation was influence by domestic violence, then we are driving at the same point human rights violation, or bullying….GBV or gender base violence has been perceived as the need for power and control, it’s a form of tyranny and such characteristic is legally traceable, I mean evidence about his character [past or present] may have nailed him for real. I still insist that he is not a military material and the best example for our gallant soldiers.


Subject: Re: SHOULD MEMBERS OF NPRC CAN BE REABSORBED INTO THE MILITARY?
From: Alieu Sesay
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Date Posted: 11:10:59 07/16/07 ()
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" still insist that he is not a military material and the best example for our gallant soldiers".
That also is highly debatable.
He never retired from the ARMY, he was sent according to the UN package on study-leave to the USA. He is in my view still a member of the sierra Leone ARMY.
For him been a military material, i will dis-agree with you. He is highly popular amongst his fellow soldiers, he is like by most sierra leonenans, and above all, he is educated, which is what is lacking in the sierra leone army.


Subject: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA TAKES THE STAND IN HIS OWN DEFENSE !
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 07:03:14 07/16/07 ()
Email Address: RNMDTWO@YAHOO.COM
Entered From: 208-58-72-25.c3-0.fch-ubr2.lnh-fch.md.cable.rcn.com at 208.58.72.25

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Posted by ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA on July 15, 2007 at 23:55:26:

In Reply to: Re: H.E.SOLOMON BEREWA'S RECORD IN PUBLIC OFFICE. posted by Ya Alimamy Fakunya on July 15, 2007 at 17:01:58:

Ya Alimamy, you sound very much like Alieu Iscandari. Let me make the following points to you:

(1)I am a journalist and a politician(trained and qualified). I can read and write with a degree of proficiency sufficient enough to enable me discharge any duty vested in the office. That is what our constitution requires of me to hold any political office in Sierra Leone.

(2)You don't know me, therefore all what you said about me are things that your subconscious mind revealed to you. If you want to know my educational level, please, go to the Prince Of Wales School and Fourah Bay College. The records are public documents.
I am not Alieu Iscandari who went to two primary schools and four secondary schools. He was kicked out of all the schools for either drugs or gambling.

(3)In my professional training I was properly taught how to speak in public. That is why sober minded people, all over this nation give me public speaking engagements. Whenever I finish my job, people are happy and they thank me for a job well done. All sober minded people will agree with me that if I was not doing it well ,nobody will ask me to do it. If you send me your address, I will send you copies of many, many recent videos/Cd's to prove my point.

(4)Hon.Solomon Berewa will not give me a political office, I don't want it. The people of the town in which I was born and raised, will properly check my past records in public service and they will give me a political position in 2012. Please, ask your double Alieu Iscandari to contest with me. I assure him that after the elections he will buy a cane and flog himself for making another dumb mistake in his life.

(5)I will never hide in this country. I am a man proper and not a chicken.
In all the years I lived in my country, I never suffered any discomfort and I will never punish for any thing in my life, because I have the blessings and direction of the ALMIGHTY ALLAH.



Subject: Re: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA TAKES THE STAND IN HIS OWN DEFENSE !
From: Thorlu Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 08:42:29 07/16/07 ()
Email Address: kathorlu@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2

Message:
SARA BOMBER ALL WAN GO PARLIAMENT UNDER SLPP! AH SALONE!!


Subject: Re: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA TAKES THE STAND IN HIS OWN DEFENSE !
From: Discomfort
To: All
Date Posted: 08:58:02 07/16/07 ()
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In all the years I lived in my country, I never suffered any discomfort and I will never punish for any thing in my life, because I have the blessings and direction of the ALMIGHTY ALLAH.

I would consider sleeping in your car aftyer having been kicked out of the home you shared with your supposed wife to be a life of discomfort.

I would consider that staying with other people and stealing their money while they gave you a roof over your head as living a life of discomfort.

Bo Saidu lef people dem ya wit you foolishness. Cam nor en call me sef alieu iscandari. Saidu we know you, know you foolish con man papa, you raray con ooman mama, you tiff tiff uncle way dem sack nar bank for tiff, en everybody way day nar una ose nar mountain cut. Every day you mama day complain to any body way geh yase for yerri say you nor daty sen natin for am. you natr bor bor way nor geh blessing.

nar crase you day crase so nar america. You compin rebel Tom Nyuma dem don deport am cam sa sa lone now we all day suck ear nar de freetong. Wen dem go deport you, nar kaka you go rub nar you skin as penitent. You sabi you nor know. You goose day cook right now nar america. We all go braket wan day nar de donkey.


Subject: Alpha Saidu Bangura receives a punishing UPPERCUT!
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 11:12:17 07/16/07 ()
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Entered From: 208-58-72-25.c3-0.fch-ubr2.lnh-fch.md.cable.rcn.com at 208.58.72.25

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Bo Saidu lef people dem ya wit you foolishness. Cam nor en call me sef alieu iscandari. Saidu we know you, know you foolish con man papa, you raray con ooman mama, you tiff tiff uncle way dem sack nar bank for tiff, en everybody way day nar una ose nar mountain cut. Every day you mama day complain to any body way geh yase for yerri say you nor daty sen natin for am. you natr bor bor way nor geh blessing.

nar crase you day crase so nar america. You compin rebel Tom Nyuma dem don deport am cam sa sa lone now we all day suck ear nar de freetong. Wen dem go deport you, nar kaka you go rub nar you skin as penitent. You sabi you nor know. You goose day cook right now nar america. We all go braket wan day nar de donkey.


Subject: Re: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA TAKES THE STAND IN HIS OWN DEFENSE !
From: Ya Alimamy Fakunia
To: All
Date Posted: 08:42:20 07/16/07 ()
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Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

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I may sound like Alieu iscandari but am I? Saidu there are many of us on this forum who know you and your family very well. Alieu Iscandari does not have to respond to you. You went to Fourah bay college for SIX MONTHS and was unabale to complete the program which was a certificate in journalism. How do I know that? because I was at the same college in the same class with you dummy. Lets talk about POW. You were disciplined at POW many times for STEALING How do I know that? Because my twin brother was in the class next to yours and in the same stream as you. Then I was at St Edwards. You were EXPELLED from POW and you found your way to some other school I believe that it was collegiate. You had a record so bad that not even Independence school which was under the principalship of Pa Komeh, the man you mother had a son for and tried to break up his marital home, would accept you at his school.

You sin when you talk about Alieu Iscandari because many of us know you even better.

Added on Date: 08:41:37 07/16/07


Subject: Armed Tom Nyuma in the rampage
From: SLPP uses arms to silence opponents
To: All
Date Posted: 06:38:32 07/16/07 ()
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Entered From: 125-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.125

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Tom Nyuma who was deported from the US last week has been armed by Berewa and it is believed that he has been re-instated in the army to cause mayhem during the elctions.
What a shmae for other soldiers Kabbah/Berewa sacked. There is a law against soldiers from the north and a special treatment fo Soldiers from the South East who answer to the SLPP war machinery.
This news has to be relayed in every area that Sierra Leone is sliding to an all out war between the forces of positive change and those with a continuity agenda.
The World must not shy away from its responsibility to maintain good governance and democracy in Sietrra Leone.A potential war criminal Tom Nyuma is out in the open with arms.
Take not Mr Ambassadors from the US and the United Kingdom. The SLPP is taking Sierra Leone into another war!!!!


Subject: Re: Armed Tom Nyuma in the rampage
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 06:53:30 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-157-221-55.range81-157.btcentralplus.com at 81.157.221.55

Message:
You see what desperation can do It makes you imagine things Now you are seeing Tom Nyuma with a gun running rampant in Sierra Leone. What a sap
FORREST


Subject: Charles Margai escapes SLPP murder attempt
From: SLPP attempts on Charles Margai fails
To: All
Date Posted: 06:04:21 07/16/07 ()
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Entered From: 125-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.125

Message:
Yes, Tom Nyuma has joined the SLPP bandits in town to engage in the killings of innocent people. The SLPP evil plan for Sierra Leone has started.
But God is on the side of Charles Margai as he was violently attacked by SLPP armed supporters in Kailaihun home to the NPRC financier John Benjamin, John Karimu. Literally, Kabbah/Berewa team will stop at nothing to eliminate Charles Margai.
The SLPP bandits and ex RUF fighters came so close to kill Charles Margai as they ambused his convoy in Kailaihun. The iNternational Community MUSt come to the aid of the PMDC leader as Kabbah/Berewa are prpeparing to kill Chalres Margai.
The SLPP will eat their vomit when this happens. The whole of Sierra Leone will go after Tom Nyuma, Maadao Bio and others will know that are working round the clock to kill political opponents.
The security apparatus need to guarantee the safety of all opposition supporters before it is too late.
The attempt on Charles Margai's life is not achild's play,. Britain has invested massively t maintain peace in the Country and what the SLPP war mongers are doing now is to bring back civil war in Sierra Leone. e do not want to rum from our homes again to be treated like dogs outside the shores of Sierra Leone. So this time, we will die to safeguard our rights at home. No attempt by the Berewa bandits and mercenaries will force us to abandon out sacred objective to vote out a wicked SLPP governmnet.
This is the time for real democrats to cry loud about the seed of discord the SLPP is sowing in our beloved Sierra Leone.


Subject: Re: Charles Margai escapes SLPP murder attempt
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 11:05:44 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.73

Message:
Mr fake SLPP,

To assist clear my mind, can you please tell me how many 'innocent people' SLPP has killed in Sa Lone?

This is a simple question based on your statement above...so please answer the question.


Subject: Re: Charles Margai escapes SLPP murder attempt
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 08:02:57 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
Nobody will spend precious time and resources on a failure. SLPP does not have to kill Charles Maggai, we will let his actions do it for us.
Secondly, if he continues using THUGS as personal bodyguards, and these THUGS are busy harrassing peacefull citizens, our position as a government of the people is to protect them and we will protect the SIERRA LEONEAN PEOPLE.
I do not have to elaborate. Just tell him to control his Massive entourage and THUGS.



Subject: Cocorioko is the best
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 04:56:17 07/16/07 ()
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Entered From: 125-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.125

Message:
SLPP supporters are crying wolf now after a plat to rig the elctions has been unearthby the PMDC. This Satanic League of Parasitic People are using their evil schemes to damn everyone who dares question their wickedness and thievery attitude.
Rev. Kabs-Kanu has proved that he is above party politics. Only a charlatan and an imbecile will accuse him of taking sides. The man is above reproach when it comes to publishing stories about the APC, PMDC and the thievery SLPP outfit.
We are ready to boot you out from power at all cost and those of you who are lying that you will win seat in Freetown and the North including Kono are day dreaming.
Why we will vote for an SLPP that allows Guineans to occupy Yenga and you have left Freetown in a filthy state and used hundreds of millions of dollars to enrich your children and proteges.
The large number of people the SLPP killed wetre from the North and Western area. We will not vote for the SLPP and we will sacrifice our ifes if the SLPP rig the elections. We know that August 11th will bring the long awaited change and we will not aloow SLPP to take the victory through rigging.
The INternational crisi group has made an alarm about rigging and it will be fool-hardy for the SLPP to resort to electoral fraud. Woe betide Berewa and his team to choose the rigging path.We will resist the SLPP the same way we say no to the AFRC rule./ The presence of TOm Nyuma. Mondeh and Maada Bio will not make any difference.
We are totally ready to face the SLPP and its civil defence force bullets and mortar.
August 11th is the only hope we have to show the SLPP that their continuity agenda is against the interest of the poor.
COCORIOKO team, please continue your good work. The serious minded knows that you are doing an excellent job.
Braco to Kabs Kanu and his team


Subject: Re: Cocorioko is the best
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 05:55:22 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-157-221-55.range81-157.btcentralplus.com at 81.157.221.55

Message:
RIGGED RIGGED RIGGED you losers have been saying this even before the govt took the Country to the nation. YOU KNOW YOU WILL LOOSE BIG TIME TO THE SLPP, so you have started your face saving song
FORREST


Subject: Re: Cocorioko is the best
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 06:15:28 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 125-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.125

Message:
FOrrest Gump, you will be gulping with your usual rantings. Your SLPP is the loser. How will you discern an election where the SLPP has lost ground in Freetown, Port Loko, Makeni, Tonkolili, Kono, Kambia, and parts of the South East?
The SLPP has no support in those areas. So we are astounded to hear you boastinmg that the SLPP will win. It is not true that the SLPP will win. You want to rig the elections and this will be met by stiff resistance.
We are raising the alarm now for you to know that we will fight tooth and nail to see the party with a majority vote in a free and fair elections occupy Stae House.
We are yeearning to maintain close ties with Cpuntries in the West not with Iran, Cuba and Libya where your leaders have signed memorandum of understanding to cart away Sierra Leone's wealth.
No threat or attempt in the life of Charles Margai will give SLPP victory.
The only chnace the SLPP has is to rig and we will follow that with intense protest and a civil disobedience campaign.
A word to the wise is quite sufficient. We want anew leader at State House. It sould be between Charles Margai and Ernest Koroma.
We who do not want an SPP victory are in the majority and we will use our clout to forestall any attemts to prolong the SLPP rule.
Lonta


Subject: Re: Cocorioko is the best
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 06:39:48 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-157-221-55.range81-157.btcentralplus.com at 81.157.221.55

Message:
I can hear and feel how desperate you are becoming.Look after the SLPP victory we are going to invite you all to come and help BUILD the Country. How about that for fairness
FORREST


Subject: Sierra Leone: EU Launches Election Observer Mission
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 01:47:43 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25

Message:
Concord Times (Freetown)

12 July 2007
Posted to the web 12 July 2007

Ibrahim Tarawallie
Freetown

The European Union (EU) Wednesday launched its Election Observation Mission (EOM) for the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone scheduled to take place on August 11.

The ceremony took place at the Bintumani Hotel, Aberdeen in Freetown.


The mission's mandate is to assess the elections based on international and regional standards.

Head of the Mission, Marie Anne Isler Beguin stated that there work is to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the electoral process and to offer an impartial, balanced and informed analysis of the elections adding that the observers will be deployed across the country.

"This observation work is an important component of the European Union's policy of promoting human rights and democratization throughout the world," she said, adding that they have a core team of seven experts and teams of long term and short term observers.

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She noted that the 28 long term observers will shortly be deployed throughout the country to observe key aspects of the electioneering process.

"A further deployment of 42 short term observers will join the core team and the long term observers for the period immediately prior to, including polling day to observe the voting and counting process," Isler Beguin said, adding that "elections are a fundamental part of the social and political life of a democratic country.

It is important that citizens exercise their right to vote freely and candidates are able to campaign in an environment where there is a level playing field." She said.


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Subject: Thanks to Kabs Kanu - Ignore SLPP Thugs
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 23:28:58 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.151

Message:
Kabs,

You have done a marvelous job. I believe, as always, you would ignore thugs coming at you with 'matchetes and hoes'. I thought such behavior was characteristics of "APC"? So after all it is not just an APC thing but a way of life or culture for some amongst us. Very unfortunate.

We await August 11 to 'exile' this SLPP thugs into the Siberia of Sierra Leone. Oops!!! did I mean to say "APC thug"?


Subject: IS TOO LATE KANU
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 00:35:58 07/16/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb11dc1-19-79.dynamic.mts.net at 207.161.19.79

Message:
Kabs Kanu, soon you will forget about politics for another 4 years .SLPP is far above you all


Subject: Re: IS TOO LATE KANU
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 02:42:35 07/16/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-72-82-162-157.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 72.82.162.157

Message:
SLPP far above who? Is that why they are banking on rigging as the only way out? Hahahaaaaaaaaa, drink red pepper juice to cool you off.

Toegondoe


Subject: Re: IS TOO LATE KANU
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 07:55:59 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
Try winning the seat in gbangbatoke-the home town/village of Charles maggai..and then talk about winning elections.
Your party will be in GUINESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS by next year after Charles Maggai disband his PMDC.


Subject: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Exposure
To: All
Date Posted: 16:37:47 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-74-67-48-13.nycap.res.rr.com at 74.67.48.13

Message:
Kabs-Kanu cannot hide his hatred for SLPP. He publishes any trash from Toe as long as it is anti-SLPP. Other articles condemning the APC are always sent to him but he refuses to publish them. Is that why he is orgainzing a fund raiser for APC? Kabs you have lost your credibility


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 07:41:57 07/16/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96

Message:
I don't believe that Kabs hates the SLPP. He is always fair to all the political parties. Many times APC officials, ALEX MANSARAY AND FODAY MANSARAY had made attempts to stop me from publishing true stories about their APC, but KABS did not allow them. He has said to me that the APC does not own COCORIOKO and nobody can stop another person from publishing in this newspaper. Kabs is one of the few people I trust and respect in this forum.


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Exposed Exposed
To: All
Date Posted: 23:19:50 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.151

Message:
GO START YOUR OWN RUBBISH SLPP MOUTHPIECE.


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed...Try And Investigate Before Talking
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 02:22:43 07/16/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-72-82-162-157.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 72.82.162.157

Message:
This is a typical example of the way many noise makers jump on stories without investigations. I have at some point in the past even nicknamed the individual who may have started making this irrelevant noise for always jumping at stories without fully understanding them or finding out what really may have happened.

If anyone of you have had Front page articles without first being asked permission to publish it as "frontpage" then you either have been darn lucky or may be Kabs was only applying that tio me, or perhaps because he is more of a professional than anyone of you noise makers can ever be.

1. This is not the first time Kabs Kanu had al3rted me of going frontpage with my article and requesting my clearance. Waht you read was merely my response for clearance.

2. Did anyone of you tried to find how many telephone interactions had ensued before that email because of technical problems that had arisen due to incompatibility issues in software between my Microsoft 2007 Office/Word generated article under my "Business Vista operating system"? No! because most of you are specialists at noise making but not at technical capability.

3. Has any of you read anything recently in Cocorioko regarding technical issues Kabs Kanu's system has been encountering lately? No! most of you are too busy gossiping or tearing down other people's work than caring for the medium that is giving you the facility to make noise.

4. Did you ever find out whether Kabs Kanu had initially asked if I can allow this article to be frontpage since frontpage articles are often very important in journalism.

5. Did anyone of you tried to find out why I submitted my answer in that email together with the article agreeing to what had transpired earlier? No because apparently none of you are professional enough like the man.

IF YOU ARE FUND OF MAKING NOISE THEN PLEASE LEAVE THE MAN ALONE AND TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. AND BY THE WAY, THE WORD "Please" IS NOT EXACTLY A DIRECTIVE AS SOME OF YOU HAVE CLAIMED. IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE A PLEADING. BUT IN FACT, IT WAS A TACIT APPROVAL TO A REQUEST.

BUT THEN, HOW MANY OF THESE NOISE MAKERS REALLY UNDERSTAND ENGLISH. LEAVE THE MAN ALONE, HE IS DOING A VERY FINE JOB AND A GREAT SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY. IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH BRAVADO THEN AIM YOUR AK-47s AT ME AND LET'S SEE HOW MUCH YOU CAN STAND THE STRAIN.

Morie Mussaffa (The one and only Toegondoe Sagbah)


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed...Try And Investigate Before Talking
From: ADVICE
To: All
Date Posted: 08:10:57 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
"HOW MANY OF THESE NOISE MAKERS REALLY UNDERSTAND ENGLISH"....
We don't sir., Especially the one that you write.(2)

Secondly, what has your laundry list got to do with the fact that your trash is front page on cocorioco?

You like the Pro-Chancellor are one and the same....


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Sorry SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 18:31:37 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253

Message:
The fact that Kabs allows you to make these stupid comments against him on his forum without quarrelling with you or deleting your posts shows that he is independent and neutral. Can you do the same in Awareness Forum ? Anybody who publishes stories that go against you is pro-APC. unu sorry .


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Chwez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 16:50:48 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 86.156.236.63

Message:
exactly what i ewanted to bring to light. let Cocorioko stop playing games with us. I have known for long that Cocorioko is not an independent medium. Coco rioko will publish any propaganda from the two oppositions without fiding out about what the other side has to say. I do not think kabs has to loose his credibility for this, some of us come here because we want to challenge the other views. he still has his self-acclaimed integrity intact but to some of us we hold him with a pinch of salt. We do not need kabs to support the SLPP, we are happyu that we have opposing views and that makes it a brilliant concourse.

The difference between the APC guys and our older 'dumb' SLPP guys is that the apc HAS ESTABLISHED outfits like Cocorioko and the SLPP cannot invest in none - what a shame for our dear beloved party - I still thinkl things will change and are far better than those that can provide a forum like this.

Cocorioko is pro- PMDC?APC - it will not hurt our feelings - we are still brothers - no dicing!!!


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Foday Mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 18:12:11 07/15/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74

Message:
Once again, I will reiterate NO media out fit have strived 24/7 to bring news to Sierra Leonean at his expenses at this magnitude. Call Kabbs any name you want, even me as Chairman of the Board cannot tell anyone of our reporters or deputy editors what to upload on the Websites. Cocorioko is unique because it has worked it way up the media ladder to become a force to recond with. Rev Kanu is by far the best in the bussiness. Those who knew Rev. Kanu knows that he cannot be cornered around someone's Agenda. SLPP guys believed that it is there way or the highway. There is no need to disguise yourself when presenting an objection. Come forward and present your opposition to the Board and rest assured we will be very fair and balanced in our decision process.

We supported Democracy when kabba was overthrown. We brought Buses load of people to United Nations to show our support for Democracy. Where was all these SLPP Opportunist to fight for Justice in Sierra Leone? We now know that SLPP was behind the brutal killings of almost 150,000.00 people .during the 12 years civil war. If we have Sierra Leone at heart lets contribute constructively in our Approached to enable Sierra Leone to ultimately benefit from all of these writings.

Please live the Reverenced alone .He is doing a terrific Job. Journalism is a discretionary profession that cannot be subjective or manipulative to achieve certain outcome, especially in a young Democracy such as Sierra Leone.

Le de tik for Dom de way them cut tam. SLPP have seen and noticed that the wind is blowing the opposite direction.Stop the complaining and join the winning Team befor it is too late.Please lets sing along.
Na now the case dom warm, again,
the first time dem tif we diamond
the second time them use violence
and the third time sell we rice and
na now the case dom warm corus over and over again.

LUNTA.


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:49:27 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-34.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.34

Message:
Foday:

I do not know Kabs kanu and I do not have any proof to say that he is anti SLPP. Most journalists try to be independent and impartial as possible. I cannot recklessly state that his paper is anti SLPP. The fact is, that the majority of people on the forum are anti SLPP. There is nothing wrong with this, this is democracy. We want to hear divergent views. This is a far cry from the APC Govts of Siaka Stevens and Momoh. I would not want to be on a forum that praises SLPP all day. That will be boring.
SLPP needs the criticisms and challenge at this time as they too overconfident of winning.

You have made some serious mistatements.
1)SLPP opportunists were not available during the time you were sending buses to protest the return of democracy to Sierra Leone.
2) SLPP was behind the brutal killing of 150,000 in the brutal civil war.

First of all the protest for return to democracy was non partizan. I was impressed that Sierra Leoneans had put aside party affiliations aside in the interest of restoring democracy to Sierra Leone. There was no SLPP, APC or UNPP. We were Sierra Leoneans quenching for the return for democracy.
The following people were instrumental in concerned citizens. Cecil Samba, Obai Taylor-Kamara, Ismail Taylor-Kamara, Khalil Yilla , Shamshudeen Cole

What party are following people affiiated with.

You have accused the the SLPP of being involved in the murder of 150,000. Please provide your proof.
If the Apc govts had provided the army with the proper military hardware and training instead of weakening it and corupting it in to govt in order preventing coups,the rebel movement would have been stopped in its track.

Please think before ,you make some accusatory statements. I know you want APC to win, please be objective.


Thanks


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: foday Mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 21:56:35 07/15/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74

Message:
Lets go back to the Benchmark of 1967.I am sure you know Chief Hinga Norma, You also know Corporal Foday Sankoh.and a host of a long list down to the counter coup of Valentine Strasser to finally install the almighty Tejan Kabba.TO answer your questions why is the SLPP responsible for the mass killing of innocent sierra Leonean. The Actors listed above died in prison whilst awaiting trial for war crimes . These were partners of Kabba and Berewa.How is it possible to charge the Deputy Defense Minister and bypass the Defense Minister. The original Traditional Hunters wear SLPP GEAR TO FIGHT in koribondo and beyond.Look there are soldiers who fought along side this
SLPP liberation fighters (so they claimed)who are now speaking out opening saying SLPP are powers mongers.They believes that was wrong then and is wrong to stand on the sideline and watch SLPP walk allover the people of sierra leone all in the name of power and glory.

It is a shame we supported Democracy under false pretence because the military boys refuse to hand over power. If all these information available to us today was available in 1991 /1992 no one will Parade the street of NY. Right there I SAY SHAME TO SLPP for using and abusing us just as they did to Sierra Leone the last 22 years. The decision to hire Sanline Mercenaries to come to Sierra Leone and massacre innocent Sierra Leoneans to restore Kabb's Govt was a War Crime by itself. Better yet, we are still indebted to these Economic Mercenaries to Wreck our country. I can write a whole book on this subject.For now look at this.


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 05:41:48 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-34.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.34

Message:
Foday:

If you are so certain that the SLPP Govt is responsible for the murder of brutal murder of 150,000
innocent people. Why don't you take this evidence to the State Department, Amnesty international, world court, European Union, and the British Govt. Campaign to end any donor aid to any future SLPP Govt if they win the elections, if not call for the arrest of Berewa and Kabba.

I will support you in this endeavor, if you have this proof. We all want democracy in Sierra Leone, We cannot allow our country retract to the dictatorial rule of Siaka Stevens.
Various traditional fighters were gallantly involved in the war against the rebels. Some were the mende, Koranko and from your limba tribe as well. They did their best eventhough they were underfunded by the callous govts.

You do not have to spend time writing a book.Just bring your evidence of the SLPP's responsibility for the murder of 150,000 innocent people to international forum.

Have a good day.


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 17:07:12 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
Mr. Kabia,

Giod does not like ugly. This forum has had very able lieutenants of the slpp in attendance. Everyone does not have to be SLPP and you guys should learn to take it on the cheek now and again.

Kabbs presents all ideas with the clear exception of those that are clearly defamatory and full of LIES and INNUENDOES posted by some of the horses rear amongst your number


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Horse Rear Detector
To: All
Date Posted: 19:25:23 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-216-226-231-134.wdb.ses-americom.net at 216.226.231.134

Message:
Is Sylvia Blyden not supposed to be your cousin?

Will you refer to the constant trash Kabs Kanu publishes against her as worthy of a good outlet?

Horse Rear? Many of them around this place.

with cousins like you.


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 19:36:38 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
I am at a loss for words and for the dear life of me I do not know why Ms. Blydens name has popped up in this conversation. To the best of my knowledge Ms. Blyden does not post on the cocorioko forum and even if she did I wouldnt know. So why are you bringing her name up in this issue???


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Forum Wise Man
To: All
Date Posted: 21:03:23 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253

Message:
Some of these guys are dumb, Allieu. Just ignore them.Kabs Kanu is the best, as Foday Mansaray just told us, so let them just continue making a fool of themselves


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Patriot
To: All
Date Posted: 17:27:34 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-149-64-195.range86-149.btcentralplus.com at 86.149.64.195

Message:
WHY not go to AWARENESS TIMES Chez Winkabs Europe where your lady will publish anything for SLPP


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 17:37:12 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 86.156.236.63

Message:
You make me laugh! I am a different kettle of fish. I do not have to go to awareness times to publish matters pertaining my party. I am comfy with co corioko, i have never contributed to Awareness Times, I find it plausible to be loyal.


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 17:23:08 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 86.156.236.63

Message:
My good brother, read the lead article on Cocorioko and tell me what a just medium would have done. I have no problem with opponents - i believe that we cannot all be the same and agree with each other on the same issues. We will no doubt win the elections and embrace our sierra leonean brothers and sisters to make the whole vibrant.


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 19:17:37 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
Chz I read the lead story and my response is SO WHAT. If the slpp wants the world to see how transparent it could be why dont they place a video camera or an objective observer with the ballot boxes from the moment the begin theoir journey for the polling polaces to the moment they are counted and the votes are tallied.

tell me if you were in the opposition would you be similarly concerned about the possibility of rigging? The answer is an unequivocal yes. I there fore urge you to speak to those in your party who have the clout, to do all they can to make the process very TRANSPARENT. Speak only to those who can make a difference not to any of the bags of hot air purporting to be members of your party. To the latter I say give them some KABOOM to drink.


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Chez Help
To: All
Date Posted: 13:12:32 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: red_dog.niehs.nih.gov at 157.98.76.127

Message:
"...If the slpp wants the world to see how transparent it could be why dont they place a video camera or an objective observer with the ballot boxes from the moment the begin theoir journey for the polling polaces to the moment they are counted and the votes are tallied..."

Bra Chez Winakabs Europe, tell that fool that the NEC runs the elections, NOT the SLPP.

Let him tell that to the NEC, and NOT the SLPP.


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu Exposed
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 03:06:23 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 86.156.236.63

Message:
The opposition has the right to get paniky but not crying wolf where non exists. Such tricks can cause serious consequencies - our people are not too enlightenen as your days saw education going back to the west. until we bring education back, we should be responsible and careful of what we say for the listening ears of people.


Subject: WHERE ARE THE VOTERS REGISTERS?
From: DALINDA STRONG
To: All
Date Posted: 15:46:55 07/15/07 ()
Email Address: dal@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 206.216.34.251

Message:
A few questions for SL NEC:

1.How come you have still not displayed the voter's registers?
2.How many registrations were nullified and what types of inaccuracies did NEC uncover.
3.Why are you not utilizing the power of he NEC website to infrm the public about what is going on. ABI NAR FURNITURE?


Subject: BLYDEN IN THE NEWS
From: INTERNATIONAL PRESS
To: All
Date Posted: 09:53:04 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-025.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.25

Message:
LONDON MAIL AND GUARDIAN


Freetown's window to the world


One of Sierra Leone's few Internet cafes provides patrons a chance to escape life in the world's second poorest country JENNIFER HOLLETT Special to Globe and Mail Update July 11, 2007 at 9:26 AM EDT


Central Freetown is kaleidoscope of activity. Here in the capital of Sierra Leone, young women balance baskets of peanuts on their head, street vendors sell used clothing or knock-off electronics and amputees beg for coins. In the midst of the day's ordinary chaos, the odd passerby ducks into a grimy cream-coloured building that juts out on the corner of Rawdon St. Up on the second floor is a popular cyber café called Sylvia Blyden. Named after its Sierra Leonean owner, the business offers round-the-clock Internet service -- and a place where locals can connect with the outside world.


As one of the few cyber cafes in the country, the place is usually packed. Customers grab a number and wait in a queue of plastic chairs lining a dimly lit hallway. Signs instruct visitors to ask for time before logging on, as well as warning people not to charge their mobile phones while they wait. Power is an issue in Sierra Leone, ranked the second poorest country in the world by the United Nations' Human Development Index. The country has been without reliable electricity since the 1980s and as a result, everything from TV stations to computers run on generators.


The cyber café itself is a simple,with a large fan placed on the top of the roof. Blyden is also the proprietress of a 24 hours cyber cafe in the western part of Freetown. There are thirty working computers. Some of the Samsung screens are tinted — yellow, purple, blue. On a rainy Tuesday -- and despite the numbingly slow connection -- they are in high demand. When the computers crash or users are unable to connect to the Internet, support staff come to the rescue armed with a bag of trix. One of them uses a pair of scissors to reboot a computer, jabbing them into a small hole that used to be a power button.

Enlarge Image Visitors at one of Freetown's few cyber cafes pay about a dollar an hour to surf the Internet


Brima Conteh waits patiently for his computer to be fixed. Before it shut off unexpectedly, he was glued to the Manchester United homepage. "I love sports," he says. Although Conteh spends most of his time online following Man U, his web use isn't limited to football. "I use it to learn more about news around the world."


The café operator, Mohamed Cybakamara, explains that the people here use the computers for a variety of reasons. "Documents, assignments, research, sending e-mails, communication. Some come and browse for finding friends."


One might suspect that cyber cafes in Africa have at least one person "finding friends" via e-mail scams. This could be the case, but more common is the young man in the corner browsing his hi5 page. West Africa has joined Web 2.0. Internet centres started popping up in Sierra Leone in 2001. At present, there is a handful across Freetown. Three of them even make the Lonely Planet. The facilities range from a computer shop with CNN and an ice cream machine, to random, run-down rooms. Sylvia Blyden is mid range. One hour of Internet use during the day costs about a dollar.


From midnight to 7 a.m., it's even less. Flash drives are also for sale. A 128 MB stick goes for about $30. Since the vast majority of Sierra Leoneans don't have computers, memory sticks take the place of PDAs or laptops. Men here often wear the sticks around their neck. Yahoo.com is the homepage at most Freetown cyber cafes, as well as the most popular webmail service across West Africa. Philomima Turay is checking her Yahoo account.


"Trying to get some funds," she says. Turay, 39, is looking at a Masters program in Peace and Conflict Studies at Coventry University in England. It is a competitive program, so Turay is online exploring scholarships and grants. Not all users are so forthcoming. When asked what he does online, Abdul Barrie replies, "chat with friends, doing my business." Barrie, 25, provides few details but says he's a sales manager in the lucrative diamond business. He spends time online emailing his business partner in Chicago and maintains that he goes through the proper channels with the government.

From football to email, bling to social networking, Sierra Leoneans are logging on. And for a buck an hour to see the world, it's the best deal around. Jennifer Hollett is a broadcast journalist and freelance writer working in Freetown with Journalists for Human Rights.


Subject: Re: BLYDEN IN THE NEWS
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN DOT COM
To: All
Date Posted: 19:57:27 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
She is contributing her quota to national development even though you idle people jealous her all the time here with your nonsense talk. mr kabs kanu is not a reverend. his heart is bad. black and bad with hate.

but sylvia blyden is the bomb. top of the world, creating jobs for us the poor youths. offering selfless service to sierra leone. all over this land, we love her. god richly bless our boss. all those who hate her will have to watch as those who jah bless, you can only watch them fly sky high.

that is all for now. you can continue your idle malice.


Subject: EXPOSED! New SLPP Plot To Rig Elections
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 08:52:19 07/15/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
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There is a strong report from credible sources that the SLPP has organized a plot to rig the elections. FIRST: To sabotage the telephone system in the country on election day
SECOND: To create a fictitious FUEL SHORTAGE one week before election day.

Read all about it on this new website: www.OneSaloneNews.com


Subject: Re: EXPOSED! New SLPP Plot To Rig Elections
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:45:49 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

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I have indicated and warned many times in my postings.The slpp knows already the outcome of the elections.Therefore,the only option for them to hang on and continuing wrecking our nation is by rigging the elections.All sane and patriotic Sierra-Leoneans are prepared to cast their votes to remove the incompetent clan.Sierra-Leoneans and the international observing mission should be on the al3rt and watchful.The elections should be free and fair.


Subject: Re: EXPOSED! New SLPP Plot To Rig Elections
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:34:12 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

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I have said that on several postings.The slpp already knows the outcome of the elections.The only option for them to hang on and continuing wrecking the nation is by rigging the elections.All sane Sierra-Leoneans are prepared to cast their votes on the 11 August to remove the incompentent and failed clan.All patriotic Sierra-Leoneans and the International observers should be on the al3rt and watchful.


Subject: Re: EXPOSED! New SLPP Plot To Rig Elections
From: Footgondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 13:48:37 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-025.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.25

Message:
Can you believe that this old fool is close to 60 years of age. What a shame. Na nursing home you go die nar NJ.


Subject: Re: EXPOSED! New SLPP Plot To Rig Elections
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 02:36:00 07/16/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-72-82-162-157.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 72.82.162.157

Message:
Where will you die? In the gutters of Freetown loaded with excrements and filth? I would rather die in a Nursing home as you claim.

Toegondoe


Subject: Re: EXPOSED! New SLPP Plot To Rig Elections
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 10:48:12 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 86.156.236.63

Message:
Oh! PMDC propaganda. If you guys lack the resources to mount a proper election campaign, why not make a tactical withdrawal to fight another. You have lost the election already by your latest alarm over plans by SLPP to 'rig' the elctions. This is crying wolf where non exists. On a jovial note, I wonder whether the alarm isn't a ruse by PMDC merely to induce the people and international community into increasing interests and making the matter a bigger concern.


Subject: Re: EXPOSED! New SLPP Plot To Rig Elections
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 02:50:25 07/16/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-72-82-162-157.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 72.82.162.157

Message:
This is real buddy, it is. Have you heard the news of the Margai visit in Kenema and Kailahun? SLPP has been evicerated already. They have no more money to spread out to buy votes. Now its time to talk and you know who does that best.\

Toegondoe Sagbah


Subject: Re: EXPOSED! New SLPP Plot To Rig Elections
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 10:42:53 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
What a perfect set of ideas MR Morie.
Keep dreaming. Is the PMDC still a political party in salone?


Subject: Re: EXPOSED! New SLPP Plot To Rig Elections
From: Anthony Kawa
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Date Posted: 12:35:22 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
PMDC leaders and followers are all somnambulists. There is this deranged thinking running through their ranks.

Morie, please stop distracting sober slpp thinkers with your asides.


Subject: H.E.SOLOMON BEREWA'S RECORD IN PUBLIC OFFICE.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 04:06:48 07/15/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96

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After getting his first degree from Fourah Bay College, Hon. Solomon Berewa taught at the CKC school, Bo, for a few years.
He then went to England where he studied law. After he was gracefully called to the bar in England, he came back home.
He worked for the Law officers Dept. with distinction for many years. When the APC started interfering with the judiciary, Hon.Solomon Berewa resigned as a senior state counsel and went into private practice.
While in private practice, he represented(for free) a lot of innocent citizens that were jailed by the APC only because they objectively opposed the corrupt practices of APC politicians.
When Hon.N.D.Tejan-Cole retired as the Director of Public Prosecution, then president Momoh asked Mr.Berewa to serve in that position. But Hon.Solomon Berewa told president Momoh that he can not serve a corrupt APC administration. Therefore he declined that high position.
In 1992, the NPRC in partnership with the UNDP formed the National Advisory Council and Hon.Solomon Bewera was appointed by his colleagues at Sierra Leone Bar Association to represent them in the council. Because of the respect members of the council had for him, they elected him vice-chairman. While in the Advisory council, Hon. Berewa was very instrumental in bringing democracy to Sierra Leone and its people.
After the 1996 elections, it pleased H.E.Ahmad Tejen Kabba to appoint Hon.Solomon Berewa, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice. As Attorney-General(the chief law enforcement officer), Hon.Solomon Berewa discharged his duties without any favor or ill-will.
While he served as Attorney-General, he used his superb negotiating and conflict resolution skills to design a peace accord with the RUF. That peace accord brought lasting peace to our beloved country.
After the 2002 elections, president Kabba appointed Hon.Berewa as his vice-president.
As vice-president, he has been very instrumental in the rebuilding process. He championed a lot of development projects including schools and hospitals in every part of the country.He also ensured that the fundamental rights of the people are respected.
I am sure that with his wonderful experience and outstanding record in public office, the good people of Sierra Leone will elect him as their next PRESIDENT.


Subject: Re: H.E.SOLOMON BEREWA'S RECORD IN PUBLIC OFFICE.
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:49:22 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
What a distinguished gentleman-pa. Now can they say like-wise for "thank you jamil" or for "the latin guy".


Subject: Re: H.E.SOLOMON BEREWA'S RECORD IN PUBLIC OFFICE.
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 08:50:48 07/15/07 ()
Email Address: FMANSARAY@AOL.COM
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74

Message:
The only reason this fragile peace is holding is because the SLPP in not the opposition.When we take over sierra leone rest assured all the n'dagbowusu and
faction of the the so called tribal groups will go the bush.Trust me kaka to falla fat when that happens.Sieera leone will be govern by the will of the people.No coups and rebel organization will be entertained.

Lunta


Subject: Re: H.E.SOLOMON BEREWA'S RECORD IN PUBLIC OFFICE.
From: Ibrahim
To: All
Date Posted: 08:22:32 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-156-170-35.range81-156.btcentralplus.com at 81.156.170.35

Message:
Bra saidu, you have done a wonderful job in projecting the good image of our leader and the slpp party in cyber space. thank you for a job well done. i think you deserve a position in the next government. once more congratulations and please continue the good work.


Subject: Re: H.E.SOLOMON BEREWA'S RECORD IN PUBLIC OFFICE.
From: Ya Alimamy Fakunya
To: All
Date Posted: 17:01:58 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
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What kind of job is this imbecile qualified for Ibrahim? He is not even educated to have a Night soil mans job. This man has been known for so many acts of dishonesty that putting him in any capacity in any government is a risky move. Besides he cant shut up. Every where he goes, mostly uninvited, he gran=bs the mike to speak and he couldnt even speak proper english. I was surprised when I was tyold that he went to Prince of Walees school. But I was not surprised when I learnt that he had been driven out of the school and he ended up at some odd school.

I understand that the INS is looking for him and that he is lying low for right now. When he surfaces he is going to be so surprised, because he is going to be deported to the nightsoil man job awaiting him


Subject: Re: H.E.SOLOMON BEREWA'S RECORD IN PUBLIC OFFICE.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 23:55:26 07/15/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96

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Ya Alimamy, you sound very much like Alieu Iscandari. Let me make the following points to you:
(1)I am a journalist and a politician(trained and qualified). I can read and write with a degree of proficiency sufficient enough to enable me discharge any duty vested in the office. That is what our constitution requires of me to hold any political office in Sierra Leone.
(2)You don't know me, therefore all what you said about me are things that your subconscious mind revealed to you. If you want to know my educational level, please, go to the Prince Of Wales School and Fourah Bay College. The records are public documents.
I am not Alieu Iscandari who went to two primary schools and four secondary schools. He was kicked out of all the schools for either drugs or gambling.
(3)In my professional training I was properly taught how to speak in public. That is why sober minded people, all over this nation give me public speaking engagements. Whenever I finish my job, people are happy and they thank me for a job well done. All sober minded people will agree with me that if I was not doing it well ,nobody will ask me to do it. If you send me your address, I will send you copies of many, many recent videos/Cd's to prove my point.
(4)Hon.Solomon Berewa will not give me a political office, I don't want it. The people of the town in which I was born and raised, will properly check my past records in public service and they will give me a political position in 2012. Please, ask your double Alieu Iscandari to contest with me. I assure him that after the elections he will buy a cane and flog himself for making another dumb mistake in his life.
(5)I will never hide in this country. I am a man proper and not a chicken.
In all the years I lived in my country, I never suffered any discomfort and I will never punish for any thing in my life, because I have the blessings and direction of the ALMIGHTY ALLAH.


Subject: Re: H.E.SOLOMON BEREWA'S RECORD IN PUBLIC OFFICE.
From: DISCOMFORT
To: All
Date Posted: 08:57:26 07/16/07 ()
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In all the years I lived in my country, I never suffered any discomfort and I will never punish for any thing in my life, because I have the blessings and direction of the ALMIGHTY ALLAH.

I would consider sleeping in your car aftyer having been kicked out of the home you shared with your supposed wife to be a life of discomfort.

I would consider that staying with other people and stealing their money while they gave you a roof over your head as living a life of discomfort.

Bo Saidu lef people dem ya wit you foolishness. Cam nor en call me sef alieu iscandari. Saidu we know you, know you foolish con man papa, you raray con ooman mama, you tiff tiff uncle way dem sack nar bank for tiff, en everybody way day nar una ose nar mountain cut. Every day you mama day complain to any body way geh yase for yerri say you nor daty sen natin for am. you natr bor bor way nor geh blessing.

nar crase you day crase so nar america. You compin rebel Tom Nyuma dem don deport am cam sa sa lone now we all day suck ear nar de freetong. Wen dem go deport you, nar kaka you go rub nar you skin as penitent. You sabi you nor know. You goose day cook right now nar america. We all go braket wan day nar de donkey.


Subject: Re: H.E.SOLOMON BEREWA'S RECORD IN PUBLIC OFFICE.
From: Ya Alimamy fakunia
To: All
Date Posted: 08:41:37 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
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I may sound like Alieu iscandari but am I? Saidu there are many of us on this forum who know you and your family very well. Alieu Iscandari does not have to respond to you. You went to Fourah bay college for SIX MONTHS and was unabale to complete the program which was a certificate in journalism. How do I know that? because I was at the same college in the same class with you dummy. Lets talk about POW. You were disciplined at POW many times for STEALING How do I know that? Because my twin brother was in the class next to yours and in the same stream as you. Then I was at St Edwards. You were EXPELLED from POW and you found your way to some other school I believe that it was collegiate. You had a record so bad that not even Independence school which was under the principalship of Pa Komeh, the man you mother had a son for and tried to break up his marital home, would accept you at his school.

You sin when you talk about Alieu Iscandari because many of us know you even better.


Subject: Re: H.E.SOLOMON BEREWA'S RECORD IN PUBLIC OFFICE.
From: Sheikh Abdullah Karim
To: All
Date Posted: 06:05:24 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
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I say "Insha'allah". When the wise Solomon becomes president by August 12 after the counting of votes, he shall form a solid government to address the most urgent needs of mama salone.

We are only now counting the days before he ascends that lofty pedestal at State House. Solo B has campaigned very well while his opponents relied on abusing decent people and even intimidating them. But the end will justify everything.

I know that many of us have been subjected to insults and 'assaults' by people whose understanding and appreciation of democracy is only skin-deep. They believe in violence and intimidation.


Subject: Re: H.E.SOLOMON BEREWA'S RECORD IN PUBLIC OFFICE.
From: Kabiru Sawaneh
To: All
Date Posted: 15:38:05 07/15/07 ()
Email Address: Sawaneh@hotmail.com
Entered From: at 206.216.34.251

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With all the SLPP strategies to rig the forthcoming elections, the opposition have one final card that will never fail Sierra Leone and that ius GOD'S ABIDING FAITH AND LOVE FOR OUR COUNTRY.

BEREWA WILL NEVER RULE SIERRA LEONE. MARK MY WORDS.


Subject: EDUCATION WAS RICH DURING APC RULE
From: ERNEST BAI KOROMA
To: All
Date Posted: 18:03:10 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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"--He said education during APC rule was rich “as compared to this waterfront education provided by the ruling government”.

He added that school feeding programmes were other success stories of his party and that the programme was not only restricted to primary schools but also extended to university students.

Highlighting some of their other success stories in education, he pointed out that “majority of our professionals today benefited from overseas scholarships provided by our party”.---AWOKO NEWS


Subject: CHANGING TIMES
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 19:03:05 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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BUT THAT WAS THEN MR. KOROMA; THIS IS NOW!


Subject: Re- WHO owns the diamonds in Sierra Leone?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:45:22 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Re- WHO owns the diamonds in Sierra Leone?

http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/33035.html

Please excuse ignorance asking here, but who is it that grants mining permits and permits/certificates to export?

SLDC

http://www.sierraleonediamond.co.uk/financial/Sierra%20Leone%20Dec%2031%202004%20MDA%20-%20Final.pdf



Subject: Re: Re- WHO owns the diamonds in Sierra Leone?
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 04:54:40 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
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Cornelius:
The person who is willing to risk his capital in mining diamond in an insecure place like Sierra Leone owns the diamonds. If youre willing to invest your 5 million kroners, you will own diamonds in Sierra Leone. Diamonds are no use in the ground, if there is no capital to exploit it. Instead of sierra Leoneans complaining about foreign companies owning diamonds.Let them put their money together form their own companies and exploit the diamonds. These foreigners are not more educated than Sierra Leoneans;they have acess to financing.


Subject: Re: Re- WHO owns the diamonds in Sierra Leone?
From: investor
To: All
Date Posted: 15:32:45 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 164.82.84.3

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The Ministry of Mines must reach out to potential Sierra lEONEAN INVESTORS.

Mining laws must be explained in lay person terms.


Subject: Re: Re- WHO owns the diamonds in Sierra Leone?
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:54:42 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Should n't Sierra Leoneans go and research the mining laws, If they are really interested in the development of their country. Foreigners are travelling from all over the world famialiarizing themselves with the regulations whilst Sierra Leoneans are complaining about unfairness.


Subject: No Nonsense
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:47:03 07/14/07 ()
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S Leone army backs police in face of pre-poll violence
Fri Jul 13, 10:53 AM

FREETOWN (AFP) - The military in war-ravaged Sierra Leone on Friday vowed to back police against rising violence at the start of campaigning for next month's elections.
Police in the west Africa country have expressed alarm at the upsurge in violence ahead of the presidential and legislative elections on August 11.
The polls are seen as a test of the country's commitment to peace after a decade-long civil war that ended in 2001.
"We are ready to give full support to the police to ensure a free, credible and fair presidential and parliamentary elections without any violence or intimidation," an army spokesman, Brigadier General Nelson Williams, told reporters.
He said the soldiers would perform their duties without seeking to "meddle in politics".
They would notably secure vulnerable installations such as the capital's water supply dam, hospitals, oil installations and ammunition points, he said.
Friday the police issued a public notice warning it will embark on "a zero tolerance approach against indiscipline in the ongoing political campaign."
It stressed a non-partisan approach "to uphold the law without fear or favour in order that Sierra Leone can once again be counted among the civilised nations of the world."
Official campaigning kicked off on Tuesday. A day later, clashes broke out between supporters of the opposition People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) and the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP).
Police also said Thursday they had been unable to break up an unauthorised street march by the main opposition All People's Congress (APC) because the huge numbers of people involved risked creating "an ugly confrontation."
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Subject: NEW APC SHOULD RETHINK THEIR STRATEGIC COMMENTS
From: SHAKI MOMOH
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Date Posted: 17:44:13 07/14/07 ()
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FIRST THEY INVITE THE RUF TO JOIN THEM AND THEN THEY SAY THEY WILL TAKE SIERRA LEONE BACK TO THE TYPE OF SHAKI AND MOMOH DAYS WHICH CAUSED THE FORMATION OF THE RUF.

WHO IS ADVISING THIS "NEW" APC? SOUNDS LIKE THE NEW APC HAS FOOT IN THE MOUTH DISEASE. READ THE LATEST BOMBSHELL FROM THE "NEW" APC/RUFP MANIFESTO:

NEWS : Politics

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Ernest Koroma Confirms that he will rule Sierra Leone just like Stevens & Momoh did

By Awareness Times Reporters

Jul 12, 2007, 12:40

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The All People’s Congress (APC) Party Manifesto launched yesterday by the Leader and Presidential flagbearer Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma, has informed that the APC, if voted into power, will follow in the established tradition of the twenty four years of rule of late President Siaka Stevens and late President Joseph Saidu Momoh.


Ernest Koroma's Photo sandwiched in by those of the two men whose leadership he says he is going to emulate


According to the APC Manifesto, which repeatedly presents the APC in what was termed as "honesty and humility", the APC Party in their words has, "a clear track record which is visible for all to see and acknowledge."

It will be recalled that several historical renditions have described those twenty four years of Stevens and Momoh as years of misrule and bad governance which led to civil unrest and a brutal war of a magnitude little seen ever in this world.

However, according to Koroma’s manifesto, the APC period led by Stevens and Momoh was a rosy affair and those reports of bad governance were the handiwork of people whom Ernest Koroma terms as traitors and saboteurs who were against the APC’s "image".

One section of the Manifesto goes thus: "in spite of the treachery of those who in the past tried to sabotage our image and denigrate our achievements, we have remained true to ourselves as a people’s party, capturing the imagination and admiration of the vast majority of Sierra Leoneans all across this nation."

Furthermore, Ernest Koroma, who wrote the preface to the Manifesto, described the Stevens and Momoh years in Sierra Leone as "a period of remarkable social and infrastructural development" which development he stated were the result of "carefully calculated" APC "prudent policies" underlined by the "wise counsel, visionary leadership and good knowledge" of Siaka Stevens and Joseph Momoh who both ruled Sierra Leone in succession during the twenty four years period under review.

Ernest Koroma ends his preface to the Manifesto thus: "It is on this well established tradition that the All People’s Congress Party presents itself for the 2007 elections as your next government".

Meanwhile, yesterday at the Sierra Leone Bank Complex, Kingtom in Freetown, tens of thousands of supporters of the APC including party stalwarts stormed the National Stadium in an hitherto unprecedented political rally. The number of APC supporters who streamed through the streets of Freetown was of a magnitude reportedly never before seen in Sierra Leone.

Of particular note was that most of the revelers in the rally were teenagers or very young adults who would have no idea what it was like to live in the Stevens or Momoh years. Many of the APC supporters were seen enthusiastically shouting out the popular APC slogan of "APC! Back to Power! APC! Back to Power" but it was clear from their youthful ages that they would have no idea what an APC Government in power had been like.


The Must - Read APC Manifesto


Addressing the jam packed crowd, the APC Leader officially launched his Party’s national campaign for the presidential and parliamentary general elections slated for August 11, 2007. He gave thanks to the Almighty God and then proceeded to thank all present for taking time off their busy schedules to grace the ceremony. He said that the massive turn out of supporters was a manifestation to show how determined they are to take over governance in Sierra Leone from the ruling SLPP Government come August 11, because according to him, the people of Sierra Leone believe that the ruling SLPP government has already failed the nation and so the people wanted to go back to the APC years under his rule which will follow in the tradition of Joseph Momoh and Siaka Stevens.

The leader Hon. Koroma went on to state that come August 11 when the people of Sierra Leone will have to decide who is going to lead them, he was pretty sure the vast majority will choose the APC Party, with him Ernest Bai Koroma as the next President who will rule Sierra Leone in the traditional APC manner.

He therefore called on all Sierra Leonean not to make any mistake to vote in the SLPP because according to him the SLPP is full of corrupt politicians who allow people to live in abject poverty with no electricity and lack of other social amenities in the country.

He therefore assured them of a new, young and dynamic leadership team, which he said, will within 36 months in governance, turn around the country with massive development and thereby restore the lost image and dignity of the people of Sierra Leone.

"The people of Sierra Leone will see a turning of the country after 36 months of my presidency" Ernest Koroma asserted, and therefore called on all present to take the "message of hope and vision nationwide for the development of our beloved country Sierra Leone".

Meanwhile, reports reaching this presshouse late last night indicate that a meeting of top APC stalwarts together with certain diplomats one of whom was using a vehicle with registration number 10 CD 3 was conducted at a popular Guesthouse in Lumley. It is not clear which country’s diplomat was using that vehicle but it has been interpreted by those who witnessed the arrival of the diplomats and the APC hierarchy as a sign that certain members of the local diplomatic corps might also want to take Sierra Leone back to the days of traditional APC rule.

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Subject: Re: NEW APC SHOULD RETHINK THEIR STRATEGIC COMMENTS
From: foday mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 19:33:40 07/14/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74

Message:
Any man, groups or Organization that want to secure the future must definately look at the past and identify what was right and what was wrong. The speech about the Front Runner Presidential candidate Ernest Koroma said openly that he will provide scholarships, provide good drinking water, repair and continued to maintained our infrastructures, such as road , electricty,education and many ,many more provided by the then APC.lets don't forget that SLPP have been running sierra leone for close to 22 years indirectly.

They dragged us into war for 12 years. We now have facts that the people deployed to fight in areas of koribondo, Pujenhum had underneath T-SHIRT bearing on then SLPP with the normal SLPP LOGAN.All these wasted years and maneuverability to overthrow 5 government and installed kabba including hiring mercenaries to kill and hack off arms and limb, just in the name of installing the SLPP in power. Now for 10 long years we cannot identify one infrastructural development accomplished as a direct effort originated by the SLPP.Even the military governments sabotaged by Kabba and Berewa did accomplished more in 9 months then they did in 11 years of Kabba and Berewa's rule.
The only reason the international community is showing up in Sierra Leone is because they cannot leave themselves hanging. They invested more than $50 billions in Sierra Leone direct loans, project and grants. One has to wonder if Kabba worked for the United Nations. People always bragged about Berewa's record and Education. Where is the record? Please lets look at the fact that 24 people were summarily executed without the due process of the law.Berewa eliminated all of the people who assisted him to get to the attorney general position. What kind of President will become has been evidence in his ability as Attorney General and vice president. Why has he not defended his human rights record? Why has he not explained why we have not completed any Massive Progress and development despite the well documented funding from the International Community? Why has he not defended his record on our present revenus in diamond? Why has he not defended his record on tribalism? Please don’t tell me this Guy should be president of Sierra Leone. Based on the options presented to us the most qualified person to rule Sierra Leone is the current front runner his excellence Ernest Bai Koroma. Let continue to pray for him and let’s continue to pray for Sierra Leone.


Subject: Re: NEW APC SHOULD RETHINK THEIR STRATEGIC COMMENTS
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 00:50:31 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Keepon dreaming young fella.. The SLPP will win this elections no doubt.
As for you calling Ernest "thank you sahid" Koroma, front-runner, you nor well.
Any ways off to the provinces for serious bizness- campaigning.


Subject: WHY THE SLPP WILL LOOSE THE UP-COMING ELECTIONS
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:26:39 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
This is simple,the APC has control of the north,the west and some parts in the southeast especially kono.The south will be a tug of war between the slpp and the pmdc,eventually they will share the votes.Also,the tribal card that is played in the leadership of the slpp is another stumble block for them.Kabbah was purported to be a northerner from Kambia with a mende mother.Albert Demby also a mende was then the vp then later Berewa also a mende and now Momodu Koroma is said to be a Temne with a Mende mother.This is clear,if you aspire to climb the ladder in the slpp,then you have to be affiliated with the mende or the south.Which is quite different in the APC and PMDC ranks,where diversity is the norm of the day.Take for instance,the APC running mate Mr Sam Sumana,he is from the southeast and a Kono.The same thing applies to the running mate of the PMDC,he is not from the south and neither a Mende.The above indicated factors coupled with others will definitely kick slpp out from power on 11 August 2007.The only option or remedy remaining for the slpp is rigging the ballot.


Subject: Re: WHY THE SLPP WILL LOOSE THE UP-COMING ELECTIONS
From: LOOSE/LOSE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:46:02 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac202-025.resnet.stonybrook.edu at 130.245.202.25

Message:
Indeed, SLPP will loose the elections. After the SLPP "loose" the elections, the APC will definitely lose the elections.


Subject: Re: WHY THE SLPP WILL LOOSE THE UP-COMING ELECTIONS
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 05:24:11 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-34.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.34

Message:
Musa:

SLPP would have won this election easily but made technical errors due to arrogance and over confidence. The bottom line is Sierra Leoneans are greedy, the party that gives the most money to people has the advantage.

The Temnes will decide the election. Who ever they decide to vote for will win. Ernest Koroma has alienated the temne by not picking one as a vice president.APC is viewed as a Limba party. SLPP missed an opportunity by not nominating somebody who was unquetionably Temne.

Charles Margai is not going to be factor. his party will win a few seats in south and may be Freetown but has no effect outside those regions.

APC has not got a lock in the North. No way. The election will be exciting and close. APC might just squeeze through, If SLPP does campaign agressively and question Ernest Koroma's credentials and his lack of experience in Govt management.


Subject: Re: WHY THE SLPP WILL LOOSE THE UP-COMING ELECTIONS
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:33:39 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
Kamara,you have said it all.The slpp will loose the elections, and as you have indicated, the north as a deciding factor will vote APC.The Slpp has always been hostile to the north especially to the Temnes.They denied the Temnes the leadership of the party and the country,when DR Karefa Smart was by-pass for someone else.The Temnes are not alienated in the APC,they are the mainstream of the APC without them it wont persevere.Well,there are mixed information to the tribal background of the Hon.Earnest Bai Koroma.Some are saying that,the father was a Temne and the mother a Limba,but others are saying the reverse.Anyway,tribe is of less signifance in the Apc because the party is promoting diversity.Oncemore,Hon.Earnest Bai Koroma and Mr Sam Sumana are leaders of a new generation without any political stain.They were engaged in management and commerce.Unlike,Mr Solomon Berewa and Mr Momodu Koroma who are members of the present regime that has wreck our nation in all aspects of human development.Also,most members of the present slpp, were former corrupt politicians,moving from one party to another.Infact,a great deal of them were engaged in corruption during the Siaka Stevens and Momoh days.How can you entrust the destiny of our nation again to these individuals?We have to love and put the nation ahead of greed,corruption and nepotism.It is well known that,corrupt policians always use money to corrupt and buy votes of the needy and desperate people,but Sierra-Leoneans are gaining awareness.


Subject: Re: WHY THE SLPP WILL LOOSE THE UP-COMING ELECTIONS
From: Habop
To: All
Date Posted: 00:58:04 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-75-179-167-214.woh.res.rr.com at 75.179.167.214

Message:
APC has control of nothing and nowhere. Not even binkolo where they spent millions of dollars building vacation mansions( Homes). All those houses are vacant and our money foolishly spent.
As you can see, thats why you are what you are today.


Subject: Re: WHY THE SLPP WILL LOOSE THE UP-COMING ELECTIONS
From: NOR MEN AM
To: All
Date Posted: 01:00:16 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-75-179-167-214.woh.res.rr.com at 75.179.167.214

Message:
Musa is a stupid fool. Needs serious ADULT EDUCATION LESSONS.


Subject: Re: WHY THE SLPP WILL LOOSE THE UP-COMING ELECTIONS
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 09:29:12 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
We still have backward,foolish,primitive,ill-educated and enemies of our nation on this forum.I hope is not Alieu sesay,who is notorious of using multiple ids.Kamara and the other fellow were constructive and talked on issues affecting the nation,but you preferred to use abusive language as a tool of defence.It is a shame to have such people amidst us.You are sub-human and you have just verified it.Therefore,I wont waste my time to be discussing with a fool and idiot as you are.


Subject: Re: WHY THE SLPP WILL LOOSE THE UP-COMING ELECTIONS
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:45:20 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-75-179-167-214.woh.res.rr.com at 75.179.167.214

Message:
MUSA i have three weeks to election day and do not have time talking about nonsensical issues on a forum full of IDLERS.
Currently in Salone campaigning for my party and my ideology.


Subject: Re: WHY THE SLPP WILL LOOSE THE UP-COMING ELECTIONS
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 12:22:16 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
I wish you a peaceful stay in Sierra-Leone.Unfortunately for you,slpp will loose the elections.


Subject: Detergent used by Nigerians to produce fake Guinness stout!
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 15:51:37 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.66.82

Message:
I just saw it live on the NTA news.......

http://www.ngex.com/news/public/newsinfo.php?nid=4319

After the discovery of an illegal small scale brewery producing adulterated Guinness Foreign Extra Stout in Abuja, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has summoned Guinness Nigeria Plc over adulteration of its products and its inability to protect its trade mark and product packaging paraphernalia.

The brewery,was operated by two men who said they were into the business of beer adulteration, because of hardship, the wide price disparity in the price of Guinness Stout as opposed to other brands, and the prospects of making extra income through re-packaging.

Items found in the factory included a locally fabricated cocking machine, bukets full of water, a pack of detergent, a small drum filled with well water, crates of Guinness Extra Stout, Legend Extra Stout and Wilfort Dark Ale.

The suspects confessed that the main ingredients of their trade were empty Guinness Extra Stout bottles with fresh labels and original crown cocks bearing the company’s trade mark.

These were ususally smuggled out by employees of Guinness and sold to persons who specialise in adulteration of the company’s product.

"Our investigations have shown that Guinness has not been careful enough to control its packging materials, that is why it is readily available for people to carry out this adulteration. It is really unfortunate, because anybody who consumes such adulterated product is not consuming the real product, but another product produced under very unhygienic conditions," NAFDAC said.

.........................................
These guys should be regulated in Sierra Leone, I even wonder who is/are representing SL at the ECOWAS secretariat, I’m deeply concern about the borderless region issue; there is progress already by ECOWAS, as the Heads of State on 15th June 2007 adopted the ECOWAS Strategic Vision, with the aim of a borderless region.

These people don’t think, I mean our leaders, it’s sad to say that in a country like Sierra Leone, they government have failed to enhance the economic circumstances of the less than five million people, the government has failed to feed them, failed to secure better health and educational services, failed to provide electricity, road networks are a in the worst state, people can hardly survive in a society that is endemic with corrupt practices and here is our leaders again talking about borderless regions, whose advantage would such a vision benefit, Sierra Leoneans, NO, they cannot survive in Nigeria, as a matter of fact no West African would survive better in Lagos or Abuja if you are not a Nigerian. Guess what the Nigerians government has already started distributing ECOWAS passports, simply because they want their citizens to leave for countries like Sierra Leone [which they normally refer to as virgin ground].

I tell you the truth, this was Nigeria’s initiative, you can easily figure out the reason and this project will inflict more suffering on the ordinary West African than the lapses of independence……its time we the people start talking questioning these vague projects. If it’s about EU’s borderless region, then they should READ more, because to start with EU has a standard, having fulfilled those laid down procedures or standards, which will be monitored, then perhaps you’re considered which is not automatic and newer members normally have travel restriction. Here is a case, our leaders just woke up one morning, after a cup of tea and say lets have a borderless boundary, it will fail, it will fail and smaller countries will suffer more and more……



Subject: RE: GET THE LATEST OF SLMTV Live Oudio.
From: MUSA KALAWA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:18:47 07/14/07 ()
Email Address: muskalawa@yahoo.com
Entered From: adsl-69-230-189-221.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.230.189.221

Message:
Commending our musicians from home and the diasporas.

For your listening view, Click on link Below.

Enjoy all you can.....and Support their cause.


Subject: FREETOWN, KONO, BO KENEMA HAVE SPOKEN: clean sweep for slpp
From: N'fa Sorie Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 14:57:34 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 65.91.143.20

Message:
From Freetown to Kono, Bo and Kenema the people of salone have spoken in unison! The crowds got bigger and bigger with each city, town, village and settlement visited by Solo B and his team turned into into a miracle of excited and jubilant party enthusiasts and new converts.

Under the circumstance there is no way the slpp cannot win the August presidential and parliamentary elections!! The numerical strength of the slpp is multiplying in every part of Salone.

In the north of the country, traditionally considered to be apc's stronghold, the combined strengths and resources and popularity of northern party chairman, YD Kamara,national campaign chair - Bobson Sesay, Okere Adams, Dr Kadie Sesay, Dr Sheku Sesay, Dr Abass Bundu, Kanji Daramy, Mohamed M.A. Jalloh, Alhaji Sanu Barrie, Dr Alusine Fofanah, Dr (Ambassador) Sheku Saccoh, Dr (Ambassador)Samura, Justin Bangura, Sheka Mansaray and many others will deliver the north to the slpp with the greatest ease.

Sumana has not been able to carry the konos as stalwarts like Fillie Faboe, Aiah M'bayo, Dr Mondeh and many other kono notables have remained solidly with the slpp.

In the Kailahun and Kenema districts the slpp is as strong as ever with John Benjamin, JB Dauda, John Karimu and many other sons and daughters of the soil making sure their districts are watertight.

In the southern districts of Bo, Pujehun, Moyamba and Bonthe the slpp fortress is manned by stalwarts like Sidikie Brima, Daramy Rogers, Elizabeth Lavalie, Dr Yillah, Dr Joe Jackson,Abass Collier, Kanja Sesay, Rado, and many others too numerous to name.

It is now alleged that Charles Margai, sure to be defeated, is attempting to train fighters to cause trouble. But Brigadier Maado Bio and others will take care of any threats.

The scenarios are clear. Numerically the slpp will win. 'Bonically', the slpp will thrash any rebelliousness from any alleged fighters, be they of Charles'or any other person's urging.

August 11 and 12 will be celebration time for the SLPP, "the only way forward, the only out, the only way through and power to the people". Who are the PEOPLE? Of course, the registered sierra leonean voters in sierra leone. Is Iscandari reading and absorbing?????

Ernest Koroma has taken your money and contributions for nothing! He will eat it wutehteh and the SLPP will win Woopeppeh!!!!!


Subject: Re: FREETOWN, KONO, BO KENEMA HAVE SPOKEN: clean sweep for slpp
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 16:11:49 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.66.82

Message:
‘But Brigadier Maado Bio and others will take care of any threats.’ Did I just read that name? Some body called Sierra Leoneans imbeciles; I am still trying to figure out why this adjective. If Maada Bio and Berewa can join forces then these people [politicians] are fooling the entire Sierra Leone….. NPRC requested for immunity, Kabba SLPP is also requesting the impunity. The abuse the nation with impunity and we hear of jubilation, let God deliver this nation oooo. This was exactly what Berewa said, read it and ask him …


13 Sept 1996. Justice Minister Solomon Berewa said Friday that the government has enough evidence to convict former military rulers Captain Valentine Strasser and Brigadier Julius Maada Bio for defrauding the state of $982,000 on the sale of Sierra Leoneans passports to Hong Kong. Berewa said that a Chinese business man who had coordinated the sales in Hong Kong has agreed to testify. "We have enough evidence now to convict Captain Strasser and Brigadier Bio on this matter. Strasser and Bio deposited the money they received illegally in banks in Switzerland, the Channel Islands, and Ghana. The government now has copies of the accounts." The Chinese businessman allegedly paid Strasser and Bio in person and by wire transfer to the bank accounts. Shortly before the NPRC handed over power to the civilian government, military leaders passed a decree giving themselves immunity from prosecution. That decree is no come up before parliament shortly, and Berewa said there is a strong possibility that it will be scrapped. If so, the government will request Strasser and Bio's extradition. Both are thought to be in the United Kingdom. Berewa said charges against former Foreign Minister Abass Bundu have been dropped after he repaid on Friday the $210,000 he received from passport sales.


Subject: Re: FREETOWN, KONO, BO KENEMA HAVE SPOKEN: clean sweep for slpp
From: BALANSAMAH MRRAH
To: All
Date Posted: 15:22:11 07/14/07 ()
Email Address: BALA@YAHOO.COM
Entered From: at 65.117.246.251

Message:
The SLPP is day dreaming. Cant they hear the message clearly that they should hang their boots and go back to ndorgboh? They might get 10% of the vites in Freetown; win a few seats in kenema, bo and Pujehun; some more in Bonthe and Kailahun districts; some seats in kabala and Kambia. On the whole I forsee SLPP getting 25% of the seats in Parliament.

Kabala is out. We did not benefit with Sheku Sesay or Kanji so dont evn mention their names.

The Presidential elections are out of the question.


Subject: SLPP WAS NOT WELCOME IN KONO YESTERDAY
From: foday mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 16:32:19 07/14/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74

Message:
It is ok to enjoy the feel good factor.It is also the reality of things that the chiefs were not welcoming Berewa and SLPP to kono period..With the exception of the motorcade and convoy they quickly retreated.Report reaching us yesterday comfirmed that the Chiefs have conceived that there is no way they can support Berewa instead of Son of the soil.SLPP support even among the Maturies constituent has falllen to almost Zero.

Despite the heavy rain the Mob crowd showed up in thousans to welcome the presidential front runner and next President of Sierra Leone. Diana Kondomina explained with Joy and jubilation via phone from kono that the Kono people will deliver the votes and set precident for generations yet unborn to know that SLPP will never be welcome to kono because their Leaders are all full of Balony.They have not kept their promise to the Kono People or the country at large.She commented on the all invitable attempts by the SLPP to rig the elections will be met with stiff resistance before and after if necessary.She warn that all stakeholders to start monitoring activities of all parties to ensure all political parties kept an open book policy to ensure a free and fair elections.SLPP supporters as far as califonia have conceived that they are not going to hand over power just like that even if its mean getting Madaa to step in as he indicated publicly couple of years ago


Subject: YES,YOU CAN PUT THIS ON MY TOMBSTONE
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:18 07/14/07 ()
Email Address: rnmdtwo@yahoo.com
Entered From: 208-58-72-25.c3-0.fch-ubr2.lnh-fch.md.cable.rcn.com at 208.58.72.25

Message:
How good and pleasant it is when brothers (human beings) live together in unity". (Psalm 133:1)
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My thought for today is centered on BEING HUMAN and LIVING WELL. But what exactly does this mean ? Here is my take on being human and, beyond that, living well.

It is the nature of being human that we make mistakes, that we occasionally offend one another, AND THAT WE SOMETIMES FAIL IN OUR EFFORTS TO LIVE WELL. Genetics, temperament, environment, and habit may each play a role in our clumsy behaviors. Nothing, however, exceeds the fact that we are, first of all, human beings. Fundamentally, being human is what we are designed for. It is our GENERIC SELF, much like the automobile we drive away when we pay ONLY THE BASE PRICE.

For a human being to live well, however, requires something more. It implies physical, emotional, social, and spiritual health, none of which carries a particularly high price tag. It has to do with our desire to rise above generic living and above our ability to SIMPLY EXIST. It implies at least a measure of physical fitness. It involves emotionally healthy relationships, intimacy, and GENUINE FORGIVENESS. It involves connecting with a God who says: "Here I am. TRUST ME. WE NEED EACH OTHER. I HOPE YOU'LL ACCEPT ME AND LET ME BE A PART OF YOUR LIFE."

A wise and loving God created within us the gifts TO SUCCEED AND THE ABILITY TO FAIL. As human beings, we do plenty of both. Out of the balance of success and failure, however, we derive CHARACTER, HUMILITY, INTEGRITY OF MIND AND SPIRIT, AND WE EXPERIENCE BOTH JOY AND GRIEF. Living well is not so much about success or achievement (did I hear you say "all is vanity"?), nor is it about the absence of HUMILIATION or SADNESS; trust me, we need all of those experiences. Living well physically, socially, emotionally and spiritually IS ALL ABOUT PROCESS ! If you become privy to playing golf, you will get to know the saying : "it is not how you drive (Rev., excuse me) your balls, it is how you arrive". The process between the tee and the green is what matters.

Living well is about CORRECTING MISTAKES while trying to avoid THEIR REPETITION. Living well is about APOLOGIZING to those we offend while trying to AVOID REPEATED OFFENSES. Living well is about making choices that reduce the MAGNITUDE, FREQUENCY, AND CONSEQUENCES OF OUR FAILURES !

Living well is to VIEW, TO BEHAVE, AND TO RESPECT ALL OTHERS AS WE WOULD HAVE THEM VIEW US, BEHAVE TOWARD US, AND RESPECT US ! This is the plain and simple golden rule of A HUMAN BEING'S LIFE WELL LIVED.

Living well is tantamount TO CHRIST'S LIFE REFLECTED IN OUR LIVES. YES, YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION, YOU CAN PUT THIS ON MY TOMBSTONE !



Subject: Re: YES,YOU CAN PUT THIS ON MY TOMBSTONE
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 12:14:55 07/14/07 ()
Email Address: FMANSARAY@AOL.COM
Entered From: pool-72-90-139-156.nwrknj.east.verizon.net at 72.90.139.156

Message:
YES ,WELL SAID DOCTOR. ALSO WISH YOU SEE 100 YEARS OR BETTER. AS LONG AS THE REV AND MYSELF IS ALIVE, IT WILL BE IMPRINTED ON YOUR TUMBSTONE.

BETTER YET, LET PUT IT RIGHT ON YOUR WILL SO NO ONE FORGET.THANKS FOR REMINDING US , WE ARE ALL HUMAN.


Subject: Thanks for the very kind sentiments expressed, Mr. Mansaray!
From: Dr. C. CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 07:18:18 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 208-58-72-25.c3-0.fch-ubr2.lnh-fch.md.cable.rcn.com at 208.58.72.25

Message:
THANKS FOR THE SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED.


Subject: Presidential Debate - Kabs Kanu & Co.
From: Bassie Amara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:10:25 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-68-163-19-166.phil.east.verizon.net at 68.163.19.166

Message:
Brother Leeroy,

I have a great idea. After this hectic weekend of completing your merger with the African radio station and the lunching ceremony in ATL, can we talk about organising a possible presidential debate for our various aspirants online. We can use the format used by Youtube for the American Presidential debate or some other innovative method. It will be absolutely interesting to have these folks talk to Sierra Leoneans all over with the opportunity to pose questions to them for their immediate reactions.

I am willing to contribute anything, financial, time etc. Contact me via e-mail: bassieamara@yahoo.com.

Thank you and God Bless.


Subject: Re: Presidential Debate - Kabs Kanu & Co.
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 11:26:14 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.74.98

Message:
Sounds like a wake call, you have my vote. We need to constructively engage these guys primarily on domestic affairs. If this media house or any patriot can draft a proposal, in addition to respective voluntary contributions, I am convinced that NEC or the SLPP government could finance such, otherwise the honourable VP’s philanthropic daughter will.


Subject: Re: Presidential Debate - Kabs Kanu & Co.
From: foday mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 12:18:25 07/14/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
Entered From: pool-72-90-139-156.nwrknj.east.verizon.net at 72.90.139.156

Message:
We are currently working on this. We will get back to you.Thank very much for you concern and contribution.We need more sierra leoneans like you.


Subject: Re: Presidential Debate - Kabs Kanu & Co.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:22:01 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25

Message:
Greetings my brothers and sisters. I just came from a gulf tournament at the Lincoln Hills Gulf Course, organized by my Church: the Christian Calvary Church. I mean, it was thrilling. My team was so good in fact, the captain of the team was given a trophy to encourage him to try another sports because playing gulf is to try to get the ball in a whole not the gulf Club.) It was fun Driving gulf carts, missing balls, was especially fun. We had six teams. My team came first. That is going ati-clockwise. (6) On a whole, I have gained more interest in playing gulf. Tiger, watch-out!
On the subject of inviting candidates to discuss with us is a very interesting idea. In fact, it will push democracy in Sierra Leone to a higher height should things run as is expected. However, I am skeptical about what fruits will be achieved from such an endeavor. Where is the maturity to engage these gentlemen in a healthy debate? Most might be offended by such a question but the forum archive will shed light on the fact that the more mature ones will be sidelined by the carefree, whose misinterpretation of Free speech will cause dismay should these gentlemen consent to debate each other, and engage us in a dialouge.
History has it to say, the archive can confirm and I can tell as I worked at State House, at the President's Office, President Joseph Saidu Momoh that is, for four years starting 1987 after graduating from the Milton Margai Teachers College to 1991 when I departed for America; after coming to America, I have witnessed how politicians have been disrespected in many Sierra Leonean quarters in the Diaspora. When they meet with their supporters they are respected but when they meet with others that do not support their candidacy or leadership, there have been unforeseen circumstances. That, my friend, can serve as a stumbling block to their participation here, yutube or on any Sierra Leonean forum. I can guarantee you that most of them have been contributing on these forums, under concealed names but will be reluctant to do so for fear that nothing significant will be achieved. The others might think they such endeavors are beneath their caliber, though that is not true because most of us here are Doctors Lawyers to name a few. But who says things cannot change and time has not changed? At any rate, we have seen how you guys mishandle each other, flagrantly indulging in Ad hominem. Therefore then, what is to be achieved will remain a disgrace for the mental concept-ability of all, even those most respected in our midst for their expose of maturity, sincerity, credibility, moral endowment and sophistication. In a notch shell, the educated. Because education is the ability to know what is right or wrong, bad or good, just and unjust, moral and immoral, ethical or unethical, that is what education actually is and that is what is called conscience. Therefore, those who have lived by quality expression of their views will be disrespected.
Nonetheless, I do believe that human being have conscience and can learn and adapt to civilized requirement. That my friend, gives me hope though sceptically that the change can be abrupt.


Subject: ORGANISED CRIME TO ROB SIERRA LEONE
From: Anupam Mishra
To: All
Date Posted: 06:28:10 07/14/07 ()
Email Address: anupam.mishra2@gmail.com
Entered From: at 220.226.73.182

Message:
THIS IS WHAT I HAVE TO SAY.
I have tried all my best to bring this scandal before the top leadership of Sierra Leone.
Some people (influential) are trying to cheat the counrty with the help of some top people.

It is for the Citizens of Sierra Leone to decide who they are
This is also for the world bank and other lending institutions giving money to the country. Pls check these people.

THE TRANscr1pt OF THE EMAIL POSTED PLS READY IT CAREFULLY

To

Mr. LLOYD A DURING

Hon`ble Minister of Energy and Power

Government of The Republic of Sierra Leone

Sir,

I refer to our tele conversation today. I am thankful to you for giving time to discuss this very important issue.

Further to our conversation, I am forwarding you the email that I wrote to the Hon`ble Minister of Presidential Affairs.

Further to this e-mail below, I would like to apprise you that the intention of Ms. Daphne Tejan-Sie is very suspicious (conversation recorded). On our second talk to her (when we confronted with the documents) she has tried to lure us to hand over all the documents (that Phil Callen and others associated have provided). in connection with herself and His Excellency, The President These documents I think could be false as well. We have also tried to contact the
High Commissioner of your country in UK to forward the documents, but we were unable to talk to him and we do not want these documents to go in wrong hands.

As you will see from the e-mail below, this company is involved in illegitimate business and they have used the name of your country and the President to grab contracts and raise funds.

Thank You

Best Regards

Anupam Mishra
(ADDRESS WITHHELD)




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From: "WITHHELD"
To: shekousesay@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: RE: ALTERNATIVE USE PLC (pls ref to telecon of
20/02/2007)
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:53:55 +0530



To

Dr. SHEKU SESAY

Hon`ble Minister of Presidential Affairs

Government of The Republic of Sierra Leone



RE: Alternative Use PLC



Sir,



We are thankful to your kind self for giving audience to our tele call of 20/02/2007 on our concern raised regarding this particular company named Alternative Use PLC of The United Kingdom.



We were consultant to this company and represented it in India till recently. We terminated our contract with the company on 02/02/2007 after we got supecious about the activities of this company.



This all started when they forwarded a letter
on 02/01/2007, issued by your office dated 15/12/2006 (please ref to e-mail forwarded, sub: Sierra Leone) and requested us to search for people who would be interested to invest in the project in Sierra Leone. They further mentioned in writing that on 6th of September, 2004 the company has entered into an agreement with the Government of Sierra Leone to take up this Energy From Waste project in the country. You may refer to their website. (www.alternativeuse.com). On getting apprehensive about their request, we got in touch with Ms. Daphne Tejan-Sie (who is related to His Excellency, The President as stated by Mr. Philip Callen and Mr. Nicholas Paul Adams) who was one of the directors of Alternative Use PLC. It was to our surprise when she clearly stated that she was totally unaware of this whole thing and further stated that she has resigned from the company almost a year back and has nothing to do with
their activities. Though, we would like to mention here that as per the report of 15/02/2007, Ms. Daphne Tejan-Sie was on board as a director alongwith Alternative Use PLC in one company (Energy From Waste (West Africa) Ltd that was formed last year immediately after she resigned from Alternative Use PLC. She has completely denied having knowledge of this, though on confronting her with the proof she has claimed that the people of Alternative Use PLC has made the director without here knowledge. Please refer to her e-mail we have forwarded (Re:FW: Sierra Leone (FORWARDING FROM ANUPAM MISHRA)



This very request of the company, to talk to funders, raised doubts as the documents they had submitted in writing boasts about their financial capabilities, clearly stating that they lead a consortium of 10 equipment manufactures with a net asset base in excess of US$58 billion. In all the proposal documents they had
submitted to our government they had boasted of this strength. They had submitted a list, with names of their consortium members to this effect. On verifying their claims with those companies, we were surprised with the replies, as till date 4 of the companies has written back to us that they are in no way associated with this company and they are not part of the consortium (please refer to the email we have forwared (RE: Alternative Use PLC).



The second and the final reason that raised doubts about the activities and motives of this company was when Mr. Philip Callen (GM of Alternative Use PLC) tried to lure us with very handsome rewards (refer to the email forwared sub: ) and boasted about the heavy profits we will make providing their relations with His Excellency, The President, their proximity to him, giving supporting reasons that are defamatory and total unbelievable. You would be surprised to know that
when we humbly refused to participate in their deed, they tried to offer heavy amount (ref to the e-mail forwarded RE:FW) to remain silent.



We are writing this to you to apprise you and your government about the activities of this company. They have also tried to tarnish the image of His Excellency, The President, with their remarks that are completely defamatory and unbelievable. We are totally against such unethical practice in business. We have already written to the government body of our country to cancel their proposal (those already approved) as the documents they had submitted are incorrect and misleading.



We are also forwarding the 4 emails for reference.



Thank You



Faithfully



Anupam Mishra

(ADDRESS WITHHELD)

SECOND EMAIL:

From: shekou sesay
To: WITHLELD@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: ALTERNATIVE USE PLC (pls ref to telecon of 20/02/2007)
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 19:24:56 +0100 (BST)

Dear Mr Mishra,

Please refer to your below email of 20 Feb for which we thank you. Kindly reforward the four emails mentioned in the penultimate paragraph of your letter for our records. Please treat as urgent.

Best regards

Dr Shekou Sesay


Subject: Re: ORGANISED CRIME TO ROB SIERRA LEONE
From: Lawyer
To: All
Date Posted: 06:04:41 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2

Message:
They offered you money, and you turned it down!Hmmmm.That is very unlike an Indian.Knowing some Indians,I want to believe, when you found out about their dubious activity, you tried to blackmail them, and they sacked you.SO now, you are trying to expose them.


Subject: Re: ORGANISED CRIME TO ROB SIERRA LEONE
From: Anupam Mishra
To: All
Date Posted: 05:25:22 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 220.226.50.86

Message:
Further, The fact that I didn't get a authentic name is a proof who is right and genuine.
Their is nothing personal so I wonder, why you are getting so.


Subject: Re: ORGANISED CRIME TO ROB SIERRA LEONE
From: Anupam Mishra
To: All
Date Posted: 05:13:51 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 220.226.50.86

Message:
I pity on this. But at the same time I have no comments as you seem to be over reactive. But, before this, you should not forget that the aligation is backed by proof which you dont have.
Moreover, what will you do if someone offers you money to be part of crime??
The bottom line is that if you are from this country then rather than accusing, try to stop them.


Subject: Re: ORGANISED CRIME TO ROB SIERRA LEONE
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 11:02:20 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.74.98

Message:
Anupam Mishra, every sierra Leonean is aware of the endemic corruption at senior governance level, unfortunately. I have come to the realization that the problems of Sierra Leone lies with the ordinary citizen, this is primarily due to a very large number of illiterates and secondly they sell their votes for cheap, [nar me fambule or nar me brother], actually what successive governments have done is to worsen their situations, oppress them, keep the people uninformed, do their shady business and as an exit strategy seek constitutional protection [immunity for life]. We already have alot of nuts to crack, so please save us your own trouble. Because you just said it all…….
‘We were consultant to this company and represented it in India till recently. We terminated our contract with the company on 02/02/2007 after we got suspicious about the activities of this company’.
‘You would be surprised to know that
when we humbly refused to participate in their deed, they tried to offer heavy amount (ref to the e-mail forwarded RE: FW) to remain silent’.
Sounds like an accessory. Your second letter to: shekousesay@yahoo.co.uk
with the subject titled: RE: ALTERNATIVE USE PLC (pls ref to telecon of
20/02/2007) is dated: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:53:55 +0530, exactly the same time you claimed to have demised business with these bad guys. The truth, if you are interested, is that you have done all the spadework; which does not exempt you from liability, meaning that you’re as guilty as hell. Since you are a prime witness, I would advise that you make report to the following address and help them with the investigation:
THE SIERRA LEONE ANTI CORRUPTION COMMISSION
3 Gloucester Street, Freetown Sierra Leone.
14a Lightfoot Boston Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
37 Kissy Town Road, Bo, Southern Province, Sierra Leone
Independence Square, Rogbaneh Road, Makeni, Sierra Leone (operational in Jan. 2005)
Telephone: +232-22-229984 or +232-22-227100 or +232-22-221701
Fax Number: +232-22-221900
Email: acc@sierratel.sl and info@anticorruption.sl
www.anticorruption.sl a------nd www.anticorruptionsl.org


Subject: Re: ORGANISED CRIME TO ROB SIERRA LEONE
From: Anupam Mishra
To: All
Date Posted: 01:40:22 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 220.226.7.170

Message:
MED
Thanks that you took interest to go through the entire Eamil.
Firstly, I would like to state that I represented this company in a legal manner and with all paper work. I was representing them in India, not in Sierra Leone. I started my investigation on their business only after the papers (endorsed by the Ministry of Sierra Leone arrived to me) looked fake and after verification from Authorities was found to be so.
Moreover,I can understand the assumptions you derieved as I have not given the details and it is not possible either as it is of more than 200 pages.

Thanks for your suggestion but to your disappointment, I have already informed the said Commission twice, but I never got any response from them.

I guess, now you understand, why I posted this for the public.


Subject: Re: ORGANISED CRIME TO ROB SIERRA LEONE
From: Na boff case?
To: All
Date Posted: 14:21:01 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
I suggest you contact a good lawyer in Sierra Leone(Jenkins-Johnston?) to go after them for you.


Subject: Re: ORGANISED CRIME TO ROB SIERRA LEONE
From: Anupam Mishra
To: All
Date Posted: 05:16:32 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 220.226.50.86

Message:
Thanks.
If they want to then I will support them for sure.


Subject: Re: ORGANISED CRIME TO ROB SIERRA LEONE
From: Saloneman
To: All
Date Posted: 05:57:42 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2

Message:
I have a suspicion, that you have fallen out with your employers, and you just want to harm them.This is typical of Indians.


Subject: Re: ORGANISED CRIME TO ROB SIERRA LEONE
From: Anupam Mishra
To: All
Date Posted: 05:18:55 07/16/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 220.226.50.86

Message:
Thanks. No comments as you make me believe that you are similar to them.


Subject: Political Parties Do Not Offer Real Policy Choices, BBC Surv
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 02:18:32 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25

Message:
Sierra Leone: Political Parties Do Not Offer Real Policy Choices, BBC Survey Reveals
Concord Times (Freetown)

13 July 2007
Posted to the web 13 July 2007

Mariama Kandeh
Freetown

A Comprehensive Baseline Study of Knowledge, Priorities and Trust conducted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Search for Common Ground in June 2007 funded by the British Department for International Development (DfID) programme of work on Promoting Information and Voice for Transparency on Elections (PIVOT) titled 'Sierra Leone Elections 2007', has revealed that many Sierra Leoneans believed that Political Parties do not offer real policy choices.

48% of respondents felt strongly that political parties in Sierra Leone do not offer real policy choices.The proportions being particularly high in Kono District (74%), Western Rural Area (63%), and Western Urban Area (58%). Only 26% of respondents felt that their views are reflected in political discussions with the proportion being particularly low in Bombali (9%) and Bo (13%). It is much higher in Kono (53%) and Pujehun (40%). Men are slightly more likely than women to feel strongly that their views are represented in political discussions, and that their views are represented by political parties.


The research further disclosed that 30% of all respondents think that there are no differences between political parties, with the proportion being particularly high in Kono (55%), Western Rural Area (47%), and Pujehun (47%). In six out of eight sample Districts/Areas, less than 25% of the people felt strongly that their views were represented by political parties with Western Rural Area (13%), Western Urban Area (15%), and Bo District (15%), being particularly low. The proportions are much higher in Kono (53%) and Pujehun (38%), than elsewhere.

The report also exhibited a low level of trust in the police by Sierra Leoneans. Respondents were asked to rate the level of trust they have in the police and the legal system in Sierra Leone.

The levels of trust in police are generally low, with only one district (Bombali) with over 40% of respondents reporting a high level of trust. Trust is particularly low in the eastern Districts of Kono and Kailahun, with over 50% of respondents reporting low level of trust in the police.

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The survey shows that many women do not even know the date for the elections. 80% of men compared with only 65% of women reportedly know the date for August 11 elections.

The proportion of female listeners who know the date of the next election is particularly low in Kono, Pujehun and Bo, declining to 60%, 52% and 43% respectively. Only 25% of women reported having a high level of knowledge about the electoral process, compared with 36% of men.

Women are less likely than men to be able to name any of the political parties in Sierra Leone.


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Subject: THE BIGGEST SA LONE ONLINE MEDIA MERGER
From: NOISE
To: All
Date Posted: 02:11:49 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106

Message:
When I visited cocorioko the first things I saw is a scroll Marquee text that reads: "Breaking News: the biggest Sierra Leone media merger has been completed......" Some times ago, I also read on the same site that Cocorioko is the largest online news media for the country. What makes it the biggest online media?
Kabs Kanu can you give us your prove that Cocorioko is the largest online news media for Sa Lone?

Where did you get that statistics?
For us to believe that can you activate your hit count on your site so that visitor can see how many hit per day like other sites? Did you know how many hit the other sites have per day?


Subject: Re: THE BIGGEST SA LONE ONLINE MEDIA MERGER
From: Frued
To: All
Date Posted: 10:05:59 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-249-138-254.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.249.138.254

Message:
The average Sa Lone mind rotates along the axis of mediocrity - a mental routine that generates what has been diagnosed as PHD (pull him/her down) syndrome.

Side effects include the misperception of reality and the incomprehension of things beyond moderate levels of apprehension.

Some are born mediocre, some achieve mediocrity, and some have mediocrity thrust upon them.

"Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious" Friedrich Nietzsche

Simply put, "U sabi but you now know."

Keep up the good work. Just do it, Kabs.


Subject: Re: THE BIGGEST SA LONE ONLINE MEDIA MERGER
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:31 07/14/07 ()
Email Address: FMANSARAY@AOL.COM
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74

Message:
Noise,Thanks for this important questions.We are not here to make any noise like your name imply, rather
but to bring real news to where ever sierra leoneans
are world wide.Wise us well and do your Research

Say Amen my brother.


Subject: Re: THE BIGGEST SA LONE ONLINE MEDIA MERGER
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 06:55:29 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253

Message:
And by the way as one Sylvia Blyden once told us, hits mean nothing. It depends on the graphics on your front page. What matters is visits.

When we had Cocorioko.Com, we were having over 2, 500 readers visits daily.Check this link :http://www.mediatico.com/en/goto.asp?url=10167

That was 2 years ago. Now with cocorioko.net, our readership has doubled. So you are talking in the 5,000s now. We have our own internal indicator too.


Subject: Re: THE BIGGEST SA LONE ONLINE MEDIA MERGER
From: BAD MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 20:08:20 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-216-226-231-134.wdb.ses-americom.net at 216.226.231.134

Message:
you have bad heart for Sylvia bLyden. you are not a good man. you are not a reverend.


Subject: Re: THE BIGGEST SA LONE ONLINE MEDIA MERGER
From: Gibs
To: All
Date Posted: 11:13:28 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
Congratulations, Kabs, on your merger. As somebody said, just do it. That's my style. Good luck.


Subject: Re: THE BIGGEST SA LONE ONLINE MEDIA MERGER
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 06:44:13 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253

Message:
The man is just plain jealous. Name any other online newspaper that has merged with a big radio station and we will withdraw our comment. Jealousy, that's all it is.

COCORIOKO is now the biggest online Sierra Leone media because
1. It is the only paper with a popular forum that draws thousands of readers daily
2. It is the only online newspaper from Sierra Leone with a radio station that is going to be huge as AFRICAN RADIO ONLINE plans to be.

Only a moron cannot put these facts together and conclude like we did. When others accomplish these same feats, we will listen to your meaningless rants.

How e hart you, ba ? You aint seen nothing yet.


Subject: Re: THE BIGGEST SA LONE ONLINE MEDIA MERGER
From: Liko
To: All
Date Posted: 07:26:59 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.84.81.88

Message:
Rev. just keep on keeping on. Belated congratulation on your merger.


Subject: Re: THE BIGGEST SA LONE ONLINE MEDIA MERGER
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 03:15:50 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.114.66.82

Message:
Sounds like a provocative reaction. I don’t not know cocorioko’s index on your claims! But it is obvious that folks like you are free to make speculative allegations on this same online media in question, marks a plus! On the other hand I would advise you to post your points with appropriate facts [next time] that a reasonable mind might accept, adequate enough to support a conclusion otherwise you just provoking our intelligence, chill man!!!.


Subject: Re: THE BIGGEST SA LONE ONLINE MEDIA MERGER
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 02:36:00 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25

Message:
Greetings my brothers and sisters.
Marketing, advertising, Communication (persuation.)
My aple is better than your aple. Eat yours let me eat mine and let us both be happy. When I need yours, I will let you know. Conceptualization.
"You listen to the noise of the market, you won't buy a thing." "Live and lets live."
"If on every bad mouth a padlock is hung, there will be the greatest peace on earth."
Original version of the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr.
"Niebuhr seems to have written the prayer for use in a sermon, perhaps as early as 1934 (the date given in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edn., ed. Justin Kaplan, 1992, p. 684), perhaps in the early 1940s.

Elisabeth Sifton's book The Serenity Prayer (2003) quotes this version as the authentic original:

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
If it is not broken, don't fix it. Their claims will not hinder the progress of the forum nor Sierra Leone but God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.


Subject: Re: THE BIGGEST SA LONE ONLINE MEDIA MERGER
From: Gorboi
To: All
Date Posted: 12:15:59 07/16/07 ()
Email Address: gbow@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-66-19-110.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.19.110

Message:
Stop babbling, go take your medication. If you lived in London, you would be Sectioned under The Mental Health Act.


Subject: Deputy Chief of Defence Staff Wants Army Officer Investigate
From: Soja
To: All
Date Posted: 00:17:28 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gateway.cyberstar.com at 209.239.66.36

Message:
Over SLPP Television Commercial....Deputy Chief of Defence Staff Wants Army Officer Investigated


The Deputy Chief of Defence Staff and spokesman for the Ministry of Defence Brigadier Nelson Williams on Thursday 12 th July 2007 disclosed at a press conference held at the Ministry of Defence headquarters in Freetown that they are demanding explanation over a political television commercial in which the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) used the background of a soldier of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces dressed in full military gears. Brig. Nelson Williams stated that the television commercial totally undermined their neutrality in the election process and stressed that as a responsible force, they condemned the TV commercial and demand full investigations into the production of the advert. “We want to know the identity of the army officer featured in the television campaign commercial so that we’ll take necessary actions.” He said.

Brig. Williams maintained that the RSLAF is a responsible and disciplined force that is non partisan. Rather their role in the forth coming elections is to give full security support to the Sierra Leone Police where and when necessary in order to carry out the maintenance of peace and security during and after the elections and to help the National Electoral Commission achieve a successful conduct of the polls that will produce a fair outcome. What they will primarily do, he said, is to assist in the transportation of logistics from one center to another.

The army boss further noted that the involvement of military officers in political campaigns is against the law and is totally unacceptable. He warned that any military officer caught in political campaigning in military uniforms will be dealt with in full accordance with the law.

Brig. Nelson Williams called on the public particularly the media to help them in exposing military men participating in open political campaigns while in uniform by either taking their photos as evidence and report to the defence headquarters for disciplinary action. He also lay to rest reports that some foreign troops especially from Nigeria are in the country for security coverage for the elections Brig. Nelson Williams assured that the RSLAF has the professional capability to handle any security threat in the country during and after the elections. Therefore there is no need for foreign troops. He appealed to the general public to have confidence in the army in their readiness to defend the people of Sierra Leone


Subject: Re: Deputy Chief of Defence Staff Wants Army Officer Investigate
From: what?
To: All
Date Posted: 06:36:52 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
you are deputy army chief and you are asking us to tell you the name of one of your officers who appeared in an slpp commercial? are you telling us you dont know your men? or do you have foreigners wearing your uniforms? bo nelson lef.


Subject: Re: Deputy Chief of Defence Staff Wants Army Officer Investigate
From: Oboe detector
To: All
Date Posted: 06:49:09 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ad10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.204

Message:
Nor men de oboe. That should not be difficult to find out. Start an army Investigation into the matter, supena the makers of the commercial aske questions and you will get answers, we dont want to hear any more hot air from nelson williams. Who is he fooling


Subject: Re: Deputy Chief of Defence Staff Wants Army Officer Investigate
From: Foolman Detector
To: All
Date Posted: 09:27:08 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-68-163-19-166.phil.east.verizon.net at 68.163.19.166

Message:
You claim to be "oboe" detector and fail to address the important issue at stake. How about me acting as the "foolman" detector and refer you to use a dictionary and get your spellings and basic understanding correct. The word is "subpoena" not supena. Your spelling and contextual use of this word clearly tells that you are near-illitrate and probably a blind SLPP supporter.


Subject: Re: Deputy Chief of Defence Staff Wants Army Officer Investigate
From: OBOE DETECTOR
To: All
Date Posted: 17:01:09 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
Me keh? Blind SLPP supporter? I would rather have you paste chicken excrement all over my body rather than carry the document (SLPP membership card) of my countrys shame. SLPP or I, I or they, for They and I shall not lead sierra leone together. See how unintelligent I can be. besides the word supena was spelt in the manner it was for ease of pronounciation for the not so sophisticated.


Subject: What's is going on at Bethel United African Church?
From: Michael McDona
To: All
Date Posted: 19:24:41 07/13/07 ()
Email Address: juliusrome@verizon.net
Entered From: pool-72-90-150-225.nwrknj.east.verizon.net at 72.90.150.225

Message:
People can't get along at Church? I heard about the problems with pastors. I will say this all the pastors can't be wrong. So maybe people need to look at the common denominator! Why does Mr. Victor Fakondo not speak for himself. Is Ms. Susan Bona more man than Fakondo? She speaks for herself. Mr. Victor speaks through proxies? He is playing politics! That way he can disavow any statements made, as long as they do not come directly from him...


Subject: Re: What's is going on at Bethel United African Church?
From: John Johnson
To: All
Date Posted: 22:00:57 07/15/07 ()
Email Address: freetownjoejohnson@yahoo.com
Entered From: ool-44c5911e.dyn.optonline.net at 68.197.145.30

Message:
I am sure Mr. Victor Fakondo dont want to go low with Susan Bona's and the Editor's level. Reading the articles, he seems like he is responsible and with a sober caliber. Highly intelectual, community oriented, who wants to keep his reputation intact. The reason why he is not responding to their mess.
How ungrateful is Susan Bona, perhaps Mr. Victor might have written that letter as a support to help her get out of trouble, but now feels thank you is not the way to go,but use as an escape mechanism. No wonder, folks dont want to even associate with Sierra Leoneans, or even help them in crisis.
Folks I know Boyabei, I was one time member of his church, very corrupt, money monger, power conscious, and I am sure he has tried to implement his little tricks on the folks in New Jersey, and I am sure they have rejected his tactics, and have slowly resulted to create trouble, in fighting and factions.
My advice is to him, Please Boyabei, leave in peace and let the church stays intact.
I commend Fakondo, for standing up with these corrupt pastors, they are fake, and cunning always playing on the brains of their congregation to give them money.
Boyabei, is more of a politician than pastor. He was part of the Kamajor bush movement. How could some body function well as a pastor, mixing the evil spirit and the holy spirit. People of New Jersey, be selective of your next pastor. Do a thorough search and find out their character and background, so as to avoid further crisis.
Mr.Fakondu, keep the momentum going for these pastors, and stop all their tricks on the people.
Thank you.


Subject: Re: What's is going on at Bethel United African Church?
From: Michael McDona
To: All
Date Posted: 07:38:27 07/16/07 ()
Email Address: juliusrome@verizon.net
Entered From: pool-72-90-150-225.nwrknj.east.verizon.net at 72.90.150.225

Message:
How many pastors are bad? How many? Or is it the other way around? Who is the common denominator in this story? Is it wrong to want accountability? What happen to the church grant, did not the church pay the chairman to apply for it? Has there ever been an audit? How much church money is in the bank, where is the statements that will show the deposits and withdrawals? The chairman reputation is what it should be. Questionable at best! These are the questions Boyabei wants answered? The question is why are they being ignored?


Subject: Re: What's is going on at Bethel United African Church?
From: Michael McDona
To: All
Date Posted: 07:33:04 07/16/07 ()
Email Address: juliusrome@verizon.net
Entered From: pool-72-90-150-225.nwrknj.east.verizon.net at 72.90.150.225

Message:
How many pastors are bad? How many? Or is it the other way around? Who is the common denominator in this story? Is it wrong to want accountability? What happen to the church grant, did not the church pay the chairman to apply for it? Has there ever been an audit? How much church money is in the bank, where is the statements that will show the deposits and withdrawals? The chairman reputation is what it should be. Questionable at best! These are the questions Boyabei wants answered? The question is why are they being ignored?


Subject: Re: What's is going on at Bethel United African Church?
From: Marcus Huston
To: All
Date Posted: 19:30:02 07/13/07 ()
Email Address: immmarcus@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-72-90-150-225.nwrknj.east.verizon.net at 72.90.150.225

Message:
Many people supported Mr. Victor prior to this, maybe even some of the people who are now against him. My question is this, his opponents knew his character and still supported him for years, if they know he is wrong now, they also knew he was wrong back then, so why is he so wrong now, unless some information given in confidence, was told and persons felt betrayed? Maybe its not a matter of right and wrong in this story, maybe its more about who side are you on?


Subject: Sylvia Blyden is a liar
From: Vendor
To: All
Date Posted: 15:37:22 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
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They did not tell Ms. Sylvia Blyden that her paper sells most .Where do you leave Awoo, Concord Times, Standard Times, Democrat, pEEP ? Infact,Ms.Sylvia sells her paper the different route.Vendors buy papers fix rate from newspaper offices , put 3-4 together , ask you to buy the bunch.That how we sell to you.But Miss Sylvia byepased that route and sell the paper cheap to the vendors, undermining other newspapers. It is a lie to say AWARENESS TIMES is the best-selling paper.Where do you leave peep and Awoo /


Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is a liar
From: Med
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Date Posted: 16:46:57 07/13/07 ()
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Vendor, what are you implying!!!! Was that article insulting the intelligence of her readers? Is this another slander, mind you, you’re talking here about a lady whose meaningfully contribution to the development of our country Sierra Leone was recently recognized and honuored by the highest order!!?????!! Are you saying that she might be kidding herself or perhaps it has to do with her self-esteem; could it be a low one too?!! If indeed her publication was false, then it should be retracted, other media houses should induce her.

On a second thought, only on the grounds that this vendor guy is right, then this lady of the order of rokel needs approval or she just wanted to make herself look good, it’s ok we all try to look good, but don’t make others look stupid


Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is a liar
From: Freetown
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Date Posted: 17:46:10 07/13/07 ()
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i agree with the vendor. there is no way awareness times can be the best selling newspaper.As the vendor asked, where do you leave newspapers like Peep, Awoko, S, tandard Times, concord times ? it is hard for one paper to get up and say that they are the best selling .This lady is full of crap and self-promotion.


Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is a liar
From: Sylvia's Boyfriend
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Date Posted: 09:39:01 07/14/07 ()
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Vendor and Freetown,
Sylvia has the right to claim the biggest sales just the same way the Honorable Reverend can claim the biggest online media merger, period! We all know that Sierra Leoneans like to blow their horns rather than wait for an independent entity to do it for them. This is one of the reasons why our governments are corrupt.

Please note though that Sylvia did not get her Order of the Rokel for contributions she made to the development of our nation. What contribution? She got the award for performing excellent "blow-jobs" on Kabba, Berewa, UNS Jah and others.


Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is a liar
From: Priest
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Date Posted: 10:10:21 07/14/07 ()
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Whatever enimosity, you may have with Miss Blyden, but to rope in elderly and respectable people like Kabbah and Berewa!!!Bo una nor de fred God.


Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is a liar
From: Sylvia's Boyfriend
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Date Posted: 18:54:28 07/15/07 ()
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What elderly people Mr. Naiveity?

Do you know that Kabba's current live-in cumcubine is only a kid that he snatched from a young guy. I am talking about I.J.. Do you think these shameless guys care about age difference or about any morals? Keep sleeping Priest (hopefully this is not Hassan Priest - or I will be greatly disappointed.


Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is a liar
From: Sylvia's Boyfriend
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Date Posted: 18:04:08 07/15/07 ()
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What elderly people Mr. Naiveity?

Do you know that Kabba's current live-in cumcubine is only a kid that he snatched from a young guy. I am talking about I.J.. Do you think these shameless guys care about age difference or about any morals? Keep sleeping Priest (hopefully this is not Hassan Priest - or I will be greatly disappointed.


Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is a liar
From: How
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Date Posted: 09:10:23 07/16/07 ()
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How old is IJ?
She graduated from FBC in mid to late 90s, at an age of twenty-four/five( average age college graduates in salone). That is atleast eight years ago. She is in her 30s.
You call her a KID?
You must be old king KONG.
Bo una too lie...


Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is a liar
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 02:05:51 07/14/07 ()
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Chapter 16: Methods of Persuasion
Chapter Objectives
(See related pages)

Chapter Objectives
After reading this chapter, students should be able to:
1. Explain the role of speaker credibility in persuasive speaking.
2. Define the differences among initial credibility, derived credibility, and terminal credibility.
3. Discuss three ways a speaker can enhance her or his credibility during a persuasive speech.
4. Explain why it is important for persuasive speakers to use evidence in their speeches.
5. Discuss the four tips presented in the chapter for using evidence in persuasive speeches.
6. Define reasoning from specific instances and explain the guidelines given in the chapter for using this method of reasoning.
7. Define reasoning from principle and explain the guidelines a speaker should follow when employing reasoning from principle.
8. Define causal reasoning and explain the two common errors speakers need to avoid when using causal reasoning.
9. Define analogical reasoning and explain how to judge the validity of an analogy.
10. Identify the red herring, ad hominem, either-or, bandwagon, and slippery slope fallacies.
11. Explain the role of emotional appeal in persuasive speaking and discuss when it is ethical for a speaker to employ emotional appeal.
12. Identify three methods a speaker can use to generate emotional appeal when speaking to persuade.

(1) : Causal Reasoning
Definition: reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effect.
(2) Initial Credibility:
Definition: The credibility of a speaker before she or he starts speaking.
(3) Red Herring:
Definition: A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
(4) Invalid analogy:
Definition: An analogy in which the two cases compared are not essentially alike.
(5) Analogical reasoning:
Definition: Reasoning in which the speaker compares two similar cases and infers that what is true for the first case is also true for the second.
(6) Credibility:
Definition: An audiences perception of whether the speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
(7) Either-or:
Definition: A fallacy that forces the audience to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives do exist.
(8) Fallacy:
Definition: An error in reasoning.
(9) False Cause:
Definition: A causal event in reasoning in which the speaker assumes that because one event follows another therefore, the first event is the cause of the second. The error is often know by it’s Latin name meaning after this, therefore, because of this.
(10) Reasoning:
Definition: A process of drawing conclusion on the bases of evidence.
(11) Slippery Slope:
Definition: A fallacy that assumes that taking the first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevent.
(12) Reasoning from specific instances:
Definition: Reasoning that moves from specific facts to general conclusion.
(13) Creating common ground:
Definition: A technique by which a speaker connects himself or herself to the values, attitudes and experiences of the audience.
(14) Derived credibility:
Definition: A credibility of a speaker derived from everything she or he says and does during the speech.
(15) Pathos:
Definition: A name used by Aristotle for what modern Communications students refer to as ‘emotional appeal.”
(16) Logos:
Definition: A name used by Aristotle for the logical appeal of a speaker. The major elements of logos are evidence and Reasoning.
(17) Bandwagon:
Definition: A fallacy that assumes that because something is popular it is therefore good, correct and desirable.
(18) Reasoning from principles:
Definition: Reasoning that moves from a general principle to specific conclusion.
(19) Ad hominem:
Definition: A fallacy that attacks with the person rather than dealing with real issue in dispute.
(20) Evidence:
Definition: Supporting material used to prove or disprove something.
(21) Ethos:
Definition: A name used by Aristotle for what modern Communications students refer to as credibility.
(22) Evidence: Hasty Generalization:
Definition: An error in reasoning from specific instances, in which the speaker jumps into general conclusions on the basis of insufficient evidence.
(23) Terminal Credibility:
Definition: The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.

Chapter Summary
(See related pages)


People have been studying the methods of persuasion since the days of the ancient Greeks. They have found that listeners accept a speaker's ideas for one or more of four reasons--because they perceive the speaker as having high credibility, because they are won over by the speaker's evidence, because they are convinced by the speaker's reasoning, or because they are moved by the speaker's emotional appeals.
Credibility is affected by many factors, but the two most important are competence and character. The more favorably listeners view a speaker's competence and character, the more likely they are to accept her or his ideas. Although credibility is partly a matter of reputation, you can enhance your credibility during the speech by establishing common ground with your listeners and by letting them know why you are qualified to speak on the topic. You can also build your credibility by presenting your speeches fluently and expressively.
If you hope to be persuasive, you must also support your views with evidence--examples, statistics, and testimony used to prove or disprove something. As you prepare your speech, try at each point to imagine how your audience will react. Anticipate their doubts and answer them with evidence. Regardless of what kind of evidence you use, it will be more persuasive if it is new to the audience, if it is stated in specific rather than general terms, and if it is from credible sources. Your evidence will also be more persuasive if you state explicitly the point it is supposed to prove.
No matter how strong your evidence, you will not be very persuasive unless listeners agree with your reasoning. In reasoning from specific instances, you move from a number of particular facts to a general conclusion. Reasoning from principle is the reverse--you move from a general principle to a particular conclusion. When you use causal reasoning, you try to establish a relationship between causes and effects. In analogical reasoning, you compare two cases and infer that what is true for one is also true for the other. Whatever kind of reasoning you use, you want to make sure that you avoid fallacies such as hasty generalization, false cause, and invalid analogy. As both a speaker and listener, you should also be on guard against the red herring, ad hominem, either-or, bandwagon, and slippery slope fallacies.
Finally, you can persuade your listeners by appealing to their emotions--fear, anger, pity, pride, sorrow, and so forth. One way to generate emotional appeal is by using emotion-laden language. Another is to develop vivid, richly textured examples that personalize your ideas and draw listeners into the speech emotionally. Neither, however, will be effective unless you feel the emotion yourself and communicate it by speaking with sincerity and conviction.
As with other methods of persuasion, your use of emotional appeal should be guided by a firm ethical rudder. Although emotional appeals are usually inappropriate in speeches on questions of fact, they are legitimate--and often necessary--in speeches that seek immediate action on questions of policy. Even when trying to move listeners to action, however, you should never substitute emotional appeals for evidence and reasoning. You need to build a good case based on facts and logic in addition to kindling the emotions of your audience.



Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is a liar
From: tony
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Date Posted: 12:30:07 07/16/07 ()
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What is all this rambling you have posted? Are you for real? Please be careful as I think you might be losing your mind....go see a shrink


Subject: Salone Youths are not Idlers Says FBC’s University Lecturer
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 13:27:05 07/13/07 ()
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A researcher and lecturer at the Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone who also works in partnership with the World Bank in Sierra Leone, Mohamed Gibril Sesay has categorically denied the long time negative perception by some people who have classified the youths of Sierra Leone as idlers who have no focus for their future in the country.

Sesay was speaking at a conference organised by the World Bank concerning Youth and Unemployment.

The Conference aimed at improving opportunities for sustainable youth employment in Sierra Leone and was held at the Hotel Cabenda, Signal Hill off Congo Cross in Freetown.

According to Mr. Sesay’s research, the youth of Sierra Leone know what they want, that would enable them not only to participate but also to contribute to the general development of the country. After a careful research with the World Bank to look at the issue of youth and unemployment, the out come was that through out the country no youth wants to remain idle or dependent on someone particularly so when they are in their active part of their lives. Most of the youth interviewed during the research expressed disgust in just sitting idle whilst they referenced that the concept of idleness was perceived by those in positions of authority and not by the youths themselves.

"This is not true as we can see that many of the youth are engaged in undertakings like petty trading, farming, security, doing odd jobs like street cleaning and so on" said Mohamed Sesay.

Some youth he said already had their own children and would thus never want to be spoon fed as long as the means was there for them to handle any emerging situation.

Sesay further informed that his reserach showed that the youth of Sierra Leone appreciate a stable government which could further create an environment for developmental activities and skills training that would make them marketable in the society.

The lecturer Mr. Sesay therefore called on the governments and those in authority to help the youth as they are determined to see Sierra Leone become a developed nation like the Western World.

"This is possible because we have the resources and the ability to work," he said.

© Copyright by Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Examples are better than precepts.


Subject: MAY I HAVE THE EMAIL ADDRESS OF JIA KANGBAI, PLEASE?
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
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Date Posted: 12:51:00 07/13/07 ()
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I WANT TO GET IN TOUCH WITH HIM.


Subject: Sierra Leone: Political Parties Do Not Offer Real Policy Cho
From: Mariama Kandeh
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Date Posted: 12:47:18 07/13/07 ()
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A Comprehensive Baseline Study of Knowledge, Priorities and Trust conducted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Search for Common Ground in June 2007 funded by the British Department for International Development (DfID) programme of work on Promoting Information and Voice for Transparency on Elections (PIVOT) titled 'Sierra Leone Elections 2007', has revealed that many Sierra Leoneans believed that Political Parties do not offer real policy choices.

48% of respondents felt strongly that political parties in Sierra Leone do not offer real policy choices.The proportions being particularly high in Kono District (74%), Western Rural Area (63%), and Western Urban Area (58%). Only 26% of respondents felt that their views are reflected in political discussions with the proportion being particularly low in Bombali (9%) and Bo (13%). It is much higher in Kono (53%) and Pujehun (40%). Men are slightly more likely than women to feel strongly that their views are represented in political discussions, and that their views are represented by political parties


The research further disclosed that 30% of all respondents think that there are no differences between political parties, with the proportion being particularly high in Kono (55%), Western Rural Area (47%), and Pujehun (47%). In six out of eight sample Districts/Areas, less than 25% of the people felt strongly that their views were represented by political parties with Western Rural Area (13%), Western Urban Area (15%), and Bo District (15%), being particularly low. The proportions are much higher in Kono (53%) and Pujehun (38%), than elsewhere.

The report also exhibited a low level of trust in the police by Sierra Leoneans. Respondents were asked to rate the level of trust they have in the police and the legal system in Sierra Leone.

The levels of trust in police are generally low, with only one district (Bombali) with over 40% of respondents reporting a high level of trust. Trust is particularly low in the eastern Districts of Kono and Kailahun, with over 50% of respondents reporting low level of trust in the police.

The survey shows that many women do not even know the date for the elections. 80% of men compared with only 65% of women reportedly know the date for August 11 elections.

The proportion of female listeners who know the date of the next election is particularly low in Kono, Pujehun and Bo, declining to 60%, 52% and 43% respectively. Only 25% of women reported having a high level of knowledge about the electoral process, compared with 36% of men.

Women are less likely than men to be able to name any of the political parties in Sierra Leone.







Subject: THIS WILL ONLY HAPPEN IN SALONE WHEN JESUS CHRIST RETURNS !
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 12:34:15 07/13/07 ()
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Disclosure of Assets

271. A government that is serious about accountability and combating corruption will be serious about transparency. In particular those in government holding positions of responsibility will be transparent about their own dealings, both public and private. Such leaders will have nothing to hide.

272. Sierra Leoneans have become accustomed to those in authority using their positions and information entrusted to them to enrich themselves. The Commission is persuaded that the best way to stamp out this malevolent tradition is to put in place monitoring mechanisms and to take action when self-enrichment occurs.

273. Those in powerful public positions should be required to register their financial interests, when assuming office.They should also disclose their financial interests acquired after their assumption of office, including those of their spouses and dependents. This must be done on an annual basis. Most of this information should be open to the public. Those who should be subject to this requirement include all members of cabinet, Parliament, judges,heads of parastatals, general managers in the civil service and parastatals and members of District and City Councils.

274. Clear and strict penalties should be imposed for failure to comply with the duty to disclose. These should include: suspension from office,forfeiture of part or the whole of remuneration, public reprimand, and dismissal from office.

275. A constituted body (or bodies)with capacity must maintain registers of financial interests. Such an organisation must be able to verify the disclosures and check for any potential or actual conflict of interests.

276. These recommendations are imperative.

(Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report)


Subject: IS THE SIERRA LEONE BAR ASSOCIATION A "TOOTHLESS BULLDOG"?
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 12:21:44 07/13/07 ()
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Legal Activism and the Sierra Leone Bar Association

170. Lack of courage on the part of lawyers and judges over the years paved the way for the desecration of the constitution, the perpetuation of injustice and the pillaging of the country’s wealth.

171. The organised bar is in a good position to be a powerful watchdog and should add its voice in protest, when human rights are abused and the rule of law is threatened. The Commission calls upon lawyers to standup to injustice.


174. The Commission calls upon the Sierra Leone Bar Association to become the guardians of the protection of the Rule of Law and the human rights of Sierra Leoneans. The Bar Association should require that its members receive mandatory continuing education in human rights law and related subjects.

(Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report)


Subject: Re: IS THE SIERRA LEONE BAR ASSOCIATION A "TOOTHLESS BULLDOG"?
From: CHIEFDOM ELDERS
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Date Posted: 12:43:57 07/13/07 ()
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Posted by JOINDALIST on July 12, 2007 at 10:41:18:

AWOKO NEWS

Defence says Standard Times has made correction

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The defence team representing the Managing Editor of the Standard Times newspaper Philip Neville in the matter against the state, yesterday said before Magistrate Bankole Shyllon of court no3 that the paper has made corrections of the error which appeared in the June 27 publication surrounding the Libyan donated rice.
Lead counsel James Blyden Jenkins Johnston informed the court that the Standard Times publication attributed the statement about the gift from Libya to President Gadaffi of Libya instead of to President Kabbah.

He said the defence has sent to the office of the Attorney General copies of the papers retraction for the 2nd of July and Friday 6th July and the defence now awaits the actions of the Attorney General (AG) to both newspapers and letters.
He hoped by the next adjourned date they would have received a positive response so that the matter will be laid to rest finally.

Representing the Attorney General in court, Gerald J .Soyei said during previous hearings the defence team representing Phillip Neville undertook to provide draft copies of the retraction by the accused for the AG’s perusal before yesterday’s hearing.
State Counsel Soyei reported to the court that the AG did not receive the draft copies to enable him make up his mind up to the time he left the office for the proceedings.
In those circumstances he requested two weeks adjournment in readiness for a prescribed retraction and consequential action.


The defence said that they did not give an undertaken.
Lawyer Jenkins Johnston explained that what transpired between the accused and the prosecution was that they agreed that the retraction should be in the interest of all parties for the matter to be settled quietly without going into a full scale trial.
State Counsel Soyei responded that the prosecution appreciated the endeavour of the defence and that their expectation will vary directly with the satisfaction of the Attorney General and above all President Kabbah.


He also said the retraction itself should be submitted accordingly because of its seditious overtone.
The matter was adjourned to Wednesday 25



Subject: Re: IS THE SIERRA LEONE BAR ASSOCIATION A "TOOTHLESS BULLDOG"?
From: .....AND MED SAID
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Date Posted: 12:47:19 07/13/07 ()
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In Reply to: STANDARD TIMES RETRACTS LIBYAN STORY posted by JOINDALIST on July 12, 2007 at 10:41:18:

There is an offense here, I mean a crime. Tempering is taking place, some entity is tampering with a legal proceeding or witness in a prosecution. Philip Neville is an accused, allegedly charged with crime against the state, there is an ongoing legal proceeding that involves the AG and I hear of retracting, ah lef …..lef ooooo!!!

Sierra Leoneans are interested in justice, we want to know how the entire rice episode was handle and if Neville is found culpable, let justice take it course…….


Subject: SLPP demise is imminent
From: Reuters news
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Date Posted: 12:06:42 07/13/07 ()
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June 12 (Reuters) - Sierra Leone has a chance to turn its back on its 1991-2002 civil war at elections next month, but anger over corruption and poverty could bubble over into violence if the polls are not fair, said a report on Thursday.

The study by think-tank International Crisis Group (ICG) entitled "Sierra Leone: The Election Opportunity" said that many of the conditions that sparked the West African country's diamond-fuelled civil war were still present despite national elections in 2002 and local polls in 2004.

A lasting peace in the former British colony is impossible unless August's presidential and parliamentary polls are transparent and the new government swiftly tackles graft and inequality, Crisis Group said.

"The 2007 elections are a crucial opportunity for Sierra Leone to definitively turn its back on conflict," said Carolyn Norris, Crisis Group's West Africa Project Director.

"But if the new administration does not start with a strong reform program, the population's tolerance of bad governance and uneven economic development is unlikely to last much longer, and a return to conflict would be a real possibility."

Funded by the sale of illegally-traded "blood diamonds", Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war killed an estimated 50,000 people, devastated the heavily-jungled country's infrastructure and drove hundreds of thousands from their homes.

Sierra Leone ranks second from bottom of the United Nations Human Development Index.

The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels, led by ex-army Corporal Foday Sankoh, became notorious when their drug-fuelled child soldiers hacked the limbs off women and children.

Outgoing President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, re-elected by a landslide in 2002 on a wave of post-war euphoria, has divided his ruling Sierra Leone's People's Party (SLPP) by anointing a successor, Vice-President Soloman Berewa.

The formation of a breakaway People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) led by Charles Margai led to clashes and house burning in some traditional SLPP fiefdoms this year.

The opposition All People's Congress (APC), which made gains in 2004 local elections, is seeking to exploit this division.

Confrontation could also be encouraged by a return to a constituency-based model, which enhances the authority of traditional tribal rulers, known as Paramount Chiefs, who may seek to capitalise on their new-found political leverage.

With youth unemployment rampant, there is no shortage of willing political agitators, the Crisis Group said, calling on all parties to publicly appeal for a non-violent campaign.

The think-tank also recommended the National Electoral Commission should prepare voters for the shortcomings of the electoral system, so as not to spark unfounded fears of rigging, and sensitise chiefs on the importance of fairness.


Subject: Disappointed man
From: THE NYUMA ODEAL - WHAT NEXT?
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Date Posted: 11:41:51 07/13/07 ()
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The rebel war in Sierra Leone has brought a lot of mixed emotions for the people of Sierra Leone especially during the NPRC rule. There are people who see Tom Nyuma as a hero for fighting the rebels and hold duely respect for him up to this day. On the other hand, there are also those who believe Tom Nyuma was one of the first SOBEL (Soldier Rebel) in the country that was playing double standard. Please note that this was an alleged accusation, but never proven. After he emigrated to the US Mr. Nyuma has been relatively silent until a year ago when he was arrested for domestic violence and some immigration problems. He has since been a prison battling his deportation. If it is true that he has been deported to Sierra Leone as the Awareness Times wrote, what next for the Colonel?


Subject: Re: Disappointed man
From: Shembu
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Date Posted: 09:48:11 07/14/07 ()
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Tom will have to figure out whats next for him. We are no baby-sitters for him. He is an adult who had all the chances in the world. Whatever he did for the country during the war; his deeds shall follow him.

A friend in Freetown told me that he was among jubilant SLPP supporters during the SLPP nomination rally last saturday.


Subject: for Cornelieus, Alieu Iscandri and Foday Mansaray.
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 11:28:16 07/13/07 ()
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Gentlemen,
I do hope you have had sight of the greatest document published in recent times in Sa Lone.I mean ofcourse The 'SLPP MANIFESTO'
Do I need to post a copy here?...It is a case of follow that, my friends.
I know it is Sabbath for Cornelieus today so I will let him off, and Alieu must have finished Friday Prayers by now...so why no response?


Subject: Re: for Cornelieus, Alieu Iscandri and Foday Mansaray.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:51:36 07/14/07 ()
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We ought to be discussing the good ideas in the APC, SLPP and PMDC Manifestoes.

It’s not that we are wholly APC or SLPP or PMDC; what we all want is a better standard of life for Sierra Leoneans, for the youth to be given an important role to play in Sierra Leone’s future.

No doubt all three parties would like to achieve that and have very capable people who would like to dedicate their lives to achieving just that.

The party Manifestoes are therefore an indication of where the parties want to take us.

And here is a quotation that John Lansana Musa should find handy:

"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence
in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the
Constitution."

-- Thomas Jefferson (fair copy of the drafts of the Kentucky
Resolutions of 1798, 1798)



Subject: Re: for Cornelieus, Alieu Iscandri and Foday Mansaray.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 14:12:10 07/13/07 ()
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Cadmus,
After reading it they will refuse to understand it.Instead,they will condemn it without proof of whatever they would have to say.
Regardless of all the good works of the SLPP. The APC and PMDC members still hate us.
We rely on the good people of Sierra Leone. On election,they will surely vote us in.


Subject: Re: for Cornelieus, Alieu Iscandri and Foday Mansaray.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
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Date Posted: 12:21:05 07/13/07 ()
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Cadmus my brother its still 10:00 am in Beautiful california. I have not had the opportuinty to read the SLPP manifesto and would not mind reading it in my spare time. I have heard a lotta ktalk about it but mostly from my SLPP friends who basically have absolutely noy patriotic fibre in them and had they they would not be supporting such a palpably failed entity.

Please feel free to send it to me at my e mail address. No Viruses Please cause one cannot you trust you SLPP types. LOL


Subject: Re: for Cornelieus, Alieu Iscandri and Foday Mansaray.
From: foday mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 21:35:17 07/13/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74

Message:
APC MANIFESTO IS THE ROAD MAP TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM , SECURITY, STABILITY AND LASTING PEACE.WE ARE NOT TRYING TO REWRITE THE HOLY QURAN OR BIBLE BUT DEFINATELY POINTING OUT THAT THIS DOCUMENT WILL LEAVE UP TO ITS TRUE COLOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS FROM NOW BECAUSE OF THE MESSENGER & PRESIDENTIAL FRONT RUNNER
ERNEST KOROMA.

MAY THE ALMIGHTY GUIDE AND PROTECT HIM THROUGHOUT THIS ODEAL SO WE MAY BE ABLE TO BUILD A BETTER SIERRA LEONE FOR ALL SIERRA LEONEANS.


Subject: How did SLPP Margai build that
From: LADIPO
To: All
Date Posted: 10:39:55 07/13/07 ()
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Message:
6 storey building at the top of Hill Cut RD in the 60's. WAs that the original 'fus chap'. I will ask this question again and may be the Cadmus', Sengbe' and other SLPP swegbes might provide an answer.
When the British handed over power in 61,they left a clean slate. Minimal or no corruption,electricity, Water from Guma, a budding industry at wellington, a world class port etc. Then what happened? Did SLPP start the decline with their tribalism?
I have seen with my own eyes how Cadmus and Sengbe have defended the SLPP on this Forum even though their relatives back home are suffering. Is it because they are in the West and are comfortable? Imaging these guys were in power, Mugabe would be a saint. I have seen Chez become a turn coat because he has had promises from Berewa.
I read in Worwohliwoh' website that the APC crowd was full of youngsters how do not remember APC's rule. How right she is!!! Who in their right mind (apart from blind SLPP economic and anti-human rights terrorists) would vote for SLPP if for the past ten years you have lived under Kabba's rule.
APC might not be a perfect alternative but would you blame anyone voting APC?
Are Cadmus and Sengbe stuck in America and cant go home to see for themselves.
SLPP of Kabba and Berewa have made Pa Siaki a saint. Stadium, Freetown waterloo rd, Congo cross bridge,Bo's hydro dam etc.


Subject: Re: How did SLPP Margai build that
From: Sir Albert Of Africa
To: All
Date Posted: 06:35:24 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
6 storey building at the top of Hill Cut RD in the 60's. WAs that the original 'fus chap'

Albert's dad SMS Margai was one of the richest Businessmen in his days in Sa.Lone. Sir Albert of Africa as he was popular known was the first BARRISTER from the protectorate. As a lawyer, he was well liked by people for the free of charge legal services that he was rendering to Sierra Leoneans irrespective of tribe and status. Some of them gave him gifts such as houses, DIAMOND, cattle, rice, gold for nothing. Chief Kai-samba in Kenema even gave him a house in Kenema for nothing. A northern chief once gave him a dozen cows when Albert jokingly told him that he was interested in cattle rearing. Julars or Maraka diamond dealers were giving him diamonds in appreciation for his legal services. Put it this way Sir Albert nar bin "FAIR MAN" His only problem was that he liked to do things big. You go to his home town Gbangbantok and see the PALACE he built there. Go to Bo and ask for his house. And whilst you are there just ask for his son Charles's house at Shellmingo, which he built before becoming a minister. Then, you will see what i meant, when i said that Sir Albert liked doing this BIG. He loved his food, cars, Houses and as a typical African king he was a bit of a "CORKS" Man. Albert had money before he entered into politics.So putting up a twelve story house should not have been a problem for a man like him. Unlike Shaki, Sir Albert did not have to "CHAP" to survive. I can tell you for real that when Shaki first started the politics of confiscating peoples properties, he even wanted to seize Sir Milton's house at signal hill that was rented by the American Embassy for their staff. And that house was built from a loan that he Sir Milton took from the bank.So your answerer is NO. The Margais never made the "FUS CHAP" or any CHAP to build a house. And I am still waiting to see any evidence to prove me wrong. Oh, by the way Sir Milton has another house in Moyamba which he left for one of his daughters. The only original CHAPMAN I KNOW OF IS TEJAN KABBA FORMER PERM SEC.

Take Care


Subject: Re: How did SLPP Margai build that
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 11:20:52 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.80

Message:
LADIPO,

You are right about the state of Sa Lone when the British handed over...Following on, the country continued in that properous state through the rule of the first SLPP government under Sir Milton.That government, I am told was very representative of all tribes and people of the Country. That is how SLPP has continued to this day,One Country one people Party and that is why we are the only safe bet for security in our Country today.

Sierra leoneans will not forget the work Berewa did to bring peace to the Country. They are not that fickle minded.

Sa Lone started finding itself in the condition you so rightly discribed above only when the APC took over under Stevens.

APC brought tribalism to Sa Lone Politics, and that was the start of our great decline until the boys in khaki got involved an unceremoniously kicked them out.

NB:

About the 6 storey Building, I honestly have no idea....may be you can ask Charles Margai the leader of the PMDC he might be able to help you.


Subject: Re: How did SLPP Margai build that
From: M. Alieu Iscandari
To: All
Date Posted: 12:37:30 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"APC brought tribalism to Sa Lone Politics"

Cadmus you are under OATH to speak the truth. I want to give you an opportunity to rewind and come again on this not as my Jamaican friend would say " Come again Selecta"

The truth is that in fatc the very act of the 1967 coup by david lansana in support of the SLPP was an act based in Tribalism.


Subject: Re: How did SLPP Margai build that
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 07:54:33 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 86.157.190.89

Message:
Alieu,
I am trying to be honesy here. I can only say what I know and that is SLPP has always had a multi-tribal cabinet setup in Sa lone. In previous times most of the senior SLPP members were from either the north or the Western area. people like Pa Yumkella, R G O King, M S Mustapha, Kandeh Bureh and so on.

Since I am under oath, I must also admit that the later years of the APC did see some intergration. Mende men like J B Dauda were elevated to higher position,but by only been members of EKUTEY not the APC itself, my own cousin was a minister in Momoh's last APC Government(He is now a PMDC candidate,a case of from the frying pan to the fire)

To my mind and to the best of my knowledge, SLPP has never delibtately pursued a policity calculated to amount to Tribalism, some consequencies may have been so...

Finally , before Berewa, no MENDE man/woman has ever led the SLPP...and here we are with a Mende Leader and a deputy from the Northern province.

Alieu, you must agree with me that this is progress, you are now under oath to reply hohestly.


Subject: Re: How did SLPP Margai build that
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 12:36:23 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
"I must also admit that the later years of the APC did see some intergration"

This admission then belies your earlier meritless assertion that the APC fostered tribalism in any manner whatsoeever. JB Dauda, the mende man that you mentioned, is an opportunist and you in the SLPP should be wary of an unprincpled political charlattan whose only political ambition is to darken the doors of power without contributing anything to its furtherance. But JB Dauda is only one person in the long line of Men and women who were mende or claimed to be mende, who were leaders and high ranking officials in the APC governments under Siaka Stevens and Momoh.

There is the quintessential politcal cameleon Sama Banya who has managed to be a member of every government since independence with the possible exception of the NRC and ACRM governments. There is Salia Jusu Sherriff, There was Mohammed Sanusi Mustapha, FM Minah, Sam Ndomaina, Shirley Gbujama, and many others who I cannot now recall of the top of my head. many of these people served in the APC and in top positions such as Vice President. On the other hand, The SLPP can point to no one within its heirachy that does not have some link to mendedom either by marriage or birth or the tribal affinity of one parent, or growing up environment. Which brings me to the point about the ethnicity of the SLPP vice presidential candidate Momodu Koroma.

As much as you guys in the SLPP accuse others of being anti mende, tribalistic, you fail to see that your most oft used argument for the selection of Momodu Koroma as VP, is in fact making a case for Tribalism. It appears that the SLPP argument is that the VP candidate must come from the north and thus create a tribal balance of some sort. This however begs the question of whther or not the issue is competence or tribe. Was Momodu Koroma the most competent candidate or was his appointment meant to fulfill some "tribal Quota".

The fact is that Momodu Koroma was born in the south, grew up in the south, obtained his primary and secondary education in the south, speaks the mende language which is the dominant language of the south east a dn for all intents and purposes is a south easterner. The fact that his paternity is from the North, notwithstanding. Cadmus it is often noted by anthropologists and those engaged in the study of the human race in all its manifestations that man is a creature of his environment. It is for the same reason that our children born and reared and schooled in the west, are more inclined to think, behave, adopt societal norms of Westerners that they are to act sierra leonean or African. Your argument thus that Momodu Koroma is a "Northerner" fails for lack of proper environmental authentication. In fact what you have been able to do, is that you have shown us that the SLPP ticket is Mende and like you so aptly put it, " SLPP has never delibtately pursued a policity calculated to amount to Tribalism, some consequencies may have been so... "

If you call this so called team of a northerner and a southeasterner "progress" then I wonder what you would call the dynamic duo of Ernest Bai Koroma and Sam Sumana ("SUPER PROGRESS").

"before Berewa, no MENDE man/woman has ever led the SLPP...and here we are with a Mende Leader and a deputy from the Northern province"

Again you are going to be forced to chew your words because this is untrue. The Margais were mendes and those of you in the slpp heirachy who would now tell us that they were not are the true tribalists. the margais are what I have described as " authenticated mendes" They speak the language on a daily basis, they were born in the mende environment, were raised in the environment, schooled in the environment, grew up and lived in the environment and were thus mendes for all intents and purposes. Except of course I was informed by my Grandma who was from Kissy, that Sir Milton was of the Tuboku Metzger stock, looks like them, was raised by them and it was they that sent him to study medicine. See My Grandma is dead now and although I had promised never to let this little piece of family history out, I am only telling you this because you are my brother and may have also known about it and that is why you are saying that there have never been a mende leader of the slpp. On that note, with regards to Sir Milton you may be right, err.... well partially right because he still carried the name MARGAI from Gbangbatoke.

Again the other issue here may have to do with Berewahs ethnicity, are you sure that he is mende? I have heard stories that claim that he is Foulah with the name sulemani, there are others who also claim that he is LIMBA and that his name was actually BRIWA. Which of course is the name of a branch of the Limba nation. Boy politicians they think that they can fool allo of the people all of the time.

My reply? Honestly? Do you really believe that we buy that crap that Ngor Momodu Koroma is Northerner? Hehehehehehehehehehe .....hohohohoho......hahhahahahahaha. Nor kill me wit laugh ya


Subject: Who is fooling who in Sierra Leone
From: Hasaba Bundu
To: All
Date Posted: 10:35:21 07/13/07 ()
Email Address: lahasaba@verizon.net
Entered From: 000-083-886.area3.spcsdns.net at 68.245.70.105

Message:
I read with amusement most of the articles you post online for the past six months. I can now safely say, you are contributing to the circulation of misinformation to the youths in particular and the people of sierra Leone at large. For every five articles of APC propagand , you will post one or two articles of the SLPP. Sometimes, i wonder if you are one of those that benefitted directly from the twenty-seven years of APC misrule.

I am not a big fan of the now dissolved SLPP government, but if asked to choose between the two for lack of a powerful third force, i will choose the SLPP. I just came from Sierra Leone, i am somewhat impressed with some of the programs introduced by the aforesaid government such as NACSA and NASSIT to name a few.Such programs will benefit our generation and generations yet to come, with time.

What is seriously laughable is the Victor Foh, article of you carried with a bold caption yesterday. You really got to be kidding me. Victor Foh, the PHD. holder in the vouchergate discipline calling the SLPP presidential candidate a criminal. My fellow Sierra leoneans, the likes of Victor Foh, are afraid of VP. Berewa, for the mere fact that he will not hesitate to apply the law of the land when necessary. If he had being Attorney general at the time of victor Foh's vouchergate racketeering,he will throw him to jail as the law permits.All Berewa, did at the trial of the twenty-four military men was to interpret the law.He should it be blamed for doing his job deligently. It is not fair to him.

In conclusion, you can fool some but not all of us. We will not buy your propaganda. The youths of Sierra Leone have suffered too long to be misused by one political party to another.For the lack of a powerful third force,I will say the SLPP is the better of two evils because they are not turning our youths to thugs. Don't let our State House be transformed to a brothel again like during the Momoh era.


Subject: Re: Who is fooling who in Sierra Leone
From: Very True
To: All
Date Posted: 12:18:18 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Yes na true. He is coming across now like an anti-SLPP


Subject: Re: Who is fooling who in Sierra Leone
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 14:28:01 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
Who turned the youths of Sierra-Leone to rebels-kamajors?Who turned Sierra-Leone to be the poorest nation on earth?who turned the nation into a gabbage?You said you just came from Freetown,can you compare the state of the present Freetown to the days of the APC or even the NPRC?SLPP dashed the hope of the ordinary Sierra-Leonean but APC will bring it back to the people.SLPP is the worst government in the history of our nation.They will definately loose the elections,their only remedy is rigging.


Subject: Re: Who is fooling who in Sierra Leone
From: Shembu
To: All
Date Posted: 09:56:41 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I have to agree with Musa on this one. The now defunct SLPP government reversed all the gains of the NPRC government. To answer Musa's Questions:
i). Nar SLPP turn Freetown to garbage dump (Burmeh)
ii) Nar SLPP put Salone nar the bottom of the UN index pan mortalman development
iii) Nar SLPP mek all man hungry before dem go to bed nar the year of we Lord, 2007.

Nar God go pay SLPP with failure, losses, and disgrace. Ameena.


Subject: PRO-CHANCELLOR IS MOHAMED A. JALLOH
From: Intelligence Service
To: All
Date Posted: 09:58:27 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-44c29146.dyn.optonline.net at 68.194.145.70

Message:
Idle Jalloh does not know the diffrence between a certificate and a transcr1pt. Too bad.


Subject: KABBAH'S LEAVING CERTIFICATE
From: Pro- Chancellor
To: All
Date Posted: 07:15:48 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 86.156.236.63

Message:
Sierra Leone 's Presidential Office Leaving Certificate

______________________________________________________
Name of Student: Ahmed Tejan Kabbah
Class: Presidency
Year of Graduation: 2007
______________________________________________________
Subject Score Grade
Selling Out True Patriots 200 A+
Licking Oyinbo/Muzungu Boots A+
Subordinating S/L Institutions A+
Women Affairs 200 A+
Globe Trotting 200 A+
Helicopter Presidency 100 A+
Human Rights Abuse 100 A
Fuel Price Hike 100 A
Energy 10 F+
Agriculture 10 F+
Education 15 F+
Credible Elections 15 F+
Poverty Eradication 14 F+
Transparency 14 F+
Potable Water 5 F+
Fighting Corruption 0 F+
Accountability 0 F+
Getting Yenga From Guinea 0 F+
Reforms 0 F+
Crime Fighting 0 F+
______________________________________________________

Performance: Epitome of Outstanding Failure, Gross Incompetence, Gross Impotence, and Gross Idiocy

Teacher's Remark: Promoted to Bormeh Cleaning Crew

Signed: Sierra Leoneans at Home and Abroad


Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEAVING CERTIFICATE
From: NAR U SABI
To: All
Date Posted: 02:37:46 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-153-195-55.range81-153.btcentralplus.com at 81.153.195.55

Message:
NAR U SABI


Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEAVING CERTIFICATE
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:09:09 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
Kabbah and his lieutenant Berewa are sinners and total failures and any decent,God fearing Sierra-Leonean and patriot should condemn and not extol such individuals.Unfortunately,we still have Sierra-Leoneans out there who are carried away by tribal,self interest and regional sentiments and not love for the nation.


Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEAVING CERTIFICATE
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 02:41:28 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-153-195-55.range81-153.btcentralplus.com at 81.153.195.55

Message:
MUSA YOU ARE THE BIGGEST TRIBALIST ON THIS FORUM. WHY? YOU ARE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT IT
FORREST


Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEAVING CERTIFICATE
From: GOLA FOREST
To: All
Date Posted: 06:59:26 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ad10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.204

Message:
IN WHAT WAY IS MUSA A TRIBALIST


Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEAVING CERTIFICATE
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:49:07 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-153-198-163.range81-153.btcentralplus.com at 81.153.198.163

Message:
HAVE YOU NOT READ IN HIS EVERY POSTING HE CALLS ANYBODY WHO IS SLPP A TRIBALIST.
FORREST.


Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEAVING CERTIFICATE
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:30:22 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
The so call forest G.Can you read properly and comprehend?I have some doubts.Please go to the archives and try to put something resonable in your brain.It may help you.We in the north and in the APC talk on issues concerning the country,tribe is of less significance in our programme,unlike the slpp clan.


Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEAVING CERTIFICATE
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:06:58 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
Kabbah and his lieutenant Berewa are sinners and total failures and any decent,God fearing Sierra-Leonean and patriot should condemn and not exol such individuals.Unfortunately,we still have Sierra-Leoneans out there who are carried away by tribal,self interest and regional sentiments and not love for the nation.


Subject: LEAVING CERTIFICATE OR TRANSCRIPT?
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 08:51:08 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
more like a transcr1pt to me than a certificate. But again, there are a lot of idle PRO-Chancellors.
Get a life. Go out there and search for clients.

You will die of heart failure after the results of the elections are all in.


Subject: Re: LEAVING CERTIFICATE OR TRANSCRIPT?
From: NGOLALA
To: All
Date Posted: 07:01:51 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ad10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.204

Message:
what kinda of cleints does he need to search for?


Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEAVING CERTIFICATE
From: NAR U SABI
To: All
Date Posted: 08:26:20 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-56-147.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.56.147

Message:
NAR U SABI


Subject: legacy to the people of Sierra Leone of APC & SLPP rule
From: Sahid
To: All
Date Posted: 04:50:54 07/13/07 ()
Email Address: Sahidkanu@aol.com
Entered From: 87-194-70-82.bethere.co.uk at 87.194.70.82

Message:
Full name: Republic of Sierra Leone
Life expectancy:39 years(men),42 years(women) (UN)
GNI per capita: US $220 (World Bank, 2006)

Rank Country Human Development index.
163 Benin 0.428
164 Ivory Coast 0.421
165 Zambia 0.407
166 Malawi 0.400
167 Democratic Republic of the Congo[4] 0.391
168 Mozambique 0.390
169 Burundi 0.384
170 Ethiopia 0.371
171 Chad 0.368
172 Central African Republic 0.353
173 Guinea-Bissau 0.349
174 Burkina Faso 0.342
175 Mali 0.338
176 Sierra Leone 0.335
177 Niger 0.311

List of countries by literacy rate, as included in the United Nations Development Programme Report 2005

172 Sierra Leone 29.6
173 Chad 25.5
174 Mali 19.0
175 Niger 14.4
176 Burkina Faso 12.8

5 more years! 5 more years! 5 more years!


Subject: RE: Tom Nyuma Deported from the United States/ True Or False
From: GBANGBANI
To: All
Date Posted: 02:27:32 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-69-230-189-221.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net at 69.230.189.221

Message:
True or not....., Is he really deported?


Subject: Re: RE: Tom Nyuma Deported from the United States/ True Or False
From: Saloneman
To: All
Date Posted: 12:08:43 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2

Message:
Who cares!


Subject: The lady said she can not eat anything but red herring.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 01:18:10 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25

Message:
Sierra Leone.


Subject: Ernest Koroma Confirms that he will rule Sierra Leone just l
From: Back to Power!
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Date Posted: 00:49:50 07/13/07 ()
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Entered From: host-216-226-231-134.wdb.ses-americom.net at 216.226.231.134

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Ernest Koroma Confirms that he will rule Sierra Leone just like Stevens & Momoh did
By Awareness Times Reporters
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The All People’s Congress (APC) Party Manifesto launched yesterday by the Leader and Presidential flagbearer Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma, has informed that the APC, if voted into power, will follow in the established tradition of the twenty four years of rule of late President Siaka Stevens and late President Joseph Saidu Momoh.


Ernest Koroma's Photo sandwiched in by those of the two men whose leadership he says he is going to emulate


According to the APC Manifesto, which repeatedly presents the APC in what was termed as "honesty and humility", the APC Party in their words has, "a clear track record which is visible for all to see and acknowledge."

It will be recalled that several historical renditions have described those twenty four years of Stevens and Momoh as years of misrule and bad governance which led to civil unrest and a brutal war of a magnitude little seen ever in this world.

However, according to Koroma’s manifesto, the APC period led by Stevens and Momoh was a rosy affair and those reports of bad governance were the handiwork of people whom Ernest Koroma terms as traitors and saboteurs who were against the APC’s "image".

One section of the Manifesto goes thus: "in spite of the treachery of those who in the past tried to sabotage our image and denigrate our achievements, we have remained true to ourselves as a people’s party, capturing the imagination and admiration of the vast majority of Sierra Leoneans all across this nation."

Furthermore, Ernest Koroma, who wrote the preface to the Manifesto, described the Stevens and Momoh years in Sierra Leone as "a period of remarkable social and infrastructural development" which development he stated were the result of "carefully calculated" APC "prudent policies" underlined by the "wise counsel, visionary leadership and good knowledge" of Siaka Stevens and Joseph Momoh who both ruled Sierra Leone in succession during the twenty four years period under review.

Ernest Koroma ends his preface to the Manifesto thus: "It is on this well established tradition that the All People’s Congress Party presents itself for the 2007 elections as your next government".

Meanwhile, yesterday at the Sierra Leone Bank Complex, Kingtom in Freetown, tens of thousands of supporters of the APC including party stalwarts stormed the National Stadium in an hitherto unprecedented political rally. The number of APC supporters who streamed through the streets of Freetown was of a magnitude reportedly never before seen in Sierra Leone.

Of particular note was that most of the revelers in the rally were teenagers or very young adults who would have no idea what it was like to live in the Stevens or Momoh years. Many of the APC supporters were seen enthusiastically shouting out the popular APC slogan of "APC! Back to Power! APC! Back to Power" but it was clear from their youthful ages that they would have no idea what an APC Government in power had been like.


The Must - Read APC Manifesto


Addressing the jam packed crowd, the APC Leader officially launched his Party’s national campaign for the presidential and parliamentary general elections slated for August 11, 2007. He gave thanks to the Almighty God and then proceeded to thank all present for taking time off their busy schedules to grace the ceremony. He said that the massive turn out of supporters was a manifestation to show how determined they are to take over governance in Sierra Leone from the ruling SLPP Government come August 11, because according to him, the people of Sierra Leone believe that the ruling SLPP government has already failed the nation and so the people wanted to go back to the APC years under his rule which will follow in the tradition of Joseph Momoh and Siaka Stevens.

The leader Hon. Koroma went on to state that come August 11 when the people of Sierra Leone will have to decide who is going to lead them, he was pretty sure the vast majority will choose the APC Party, with him Ernest Bai Koroma as the next President who will rule Sierra Leone in the traditional APC manner.

He therefore called on all Sierra Leonean not to make any mistake to vote in the SLPP because according to him the SLPP is full of corrupt politicians who allow people to live in abject poverty with no electricity and lack of other social amenities in the country.

He therefore assured them of a new, young and dynamic leadership team, which he said, will within 36 months in governance, turn around the country with massive development and thereby restore the lost image and dignity of the people of Sierra Leone.

"The people of Sierra Leone will see a turning of the country after 36 months of my presidency" Ernest Koroma asserted, and therefore called on all present to take the "message of hope and vision nationwide for the development of our beloved country Sierra Leone".

Meanwhile, reports reaching this presshouse late last night indicate that a meeting of top APC stalwarts together with certain diplomats one of whom was using a vehicle with registration number 10 CD 3 was conducted at a popular Guesthouse in Lumley. It is not clear which country’s diplomat was using that vehicle but it has been interpreted by those who witnessed the arrival of the diplomats and the APC hierarchy as a sign that certain members of the local diplomatic corps might also wanted to take Sierra Leone back to the days of traditional APC rule.

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

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Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma Confirms that he will rule Sierra Leone just l
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 19:05:16 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-348472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.52

Message:
“Working for, and introducing multi party democracy was Momoh's ultimate effort in trying to bring peace and stability to our nations.” ( Hon. Enets Bai koroma at the TRC)

http://www.sierra-leone.org/ernestbaikoroma080503.html


Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma ( Cadmus &Sengbe, tie trossis tight oh!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 08:36:59 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-348472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.52

Message:

Whichever anonymous idiot or “Awareness Times Reporters” wrote that headline must think that he/ she /they are addressing like-minded idiots, in her constituency of idiots, which we do not have present here in this Cocorioko Forum.

Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma is fully aware of mistakes that people like the One-Party-minded Albert Margai and others have made in the past , and so it is not credible that even Mr. Berewa would chant or Hon. Momodou Koroma would concur that their duo would ”rule” Sierra Leone the way the Akpata, Albert Margai did. That being the case any SLPP ignoramus or apologist should likewise try to become more aware and avoid making silly statements or writing misleading headlines like the above idiot reporters of “Awareness Times”

We all learn from our mistakes and the saying is “Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
Yet here’s a little matter of some concern:
http://standardtimespress.net/cgi-bin/artman/publish/article_1121.shtml

I have also looked through the big book, a substantiated testimony entitled “SIERRA LEONE: 12 Years of Economic Achievement and Political Consolidation under APC and Dr. Siaka Stevens, 1968-1980.” – This refers to a period during which the people of Sierra Leone were not recipients of the massive packages of International Aid that the Kabbah government was blessed with and some of which critics, including all of the donors in question lament has been frittered away, some of it unaccounted for…………and someone no less than Mr. President Kabbah is the chief town crier about all pervasive corruption in the country. If we are to take his tears seriously (like the ones shed for Chief Hinga Norman in the reckoning for the Day of Judgment) then we are surely talking about crocodile tears, if we consider his toothless chimpanzee war - war he calls it, against corruption.

We know that the beginning of Economic problems during the phase when the APC was in power in Sierra Leone, coincides with the massive loans that they took in order to stage the OAU ( Organisation of Africa Unity) Summit which was held in Freetown Sierra Leone in 1980 – that the government of that day bit off more than they could chew – this was not the day of generous aid from the EU, the World Bank, the IMF, from the ministry of Overseas development under the benevolent eye of Hilary Benn, from China, Japan, Germany, Bangladesh, Malaysia, the Arab development Bank and the Africa Development Bank, from many many other sources, or the day of most regular sadaka from Colonel Muammar- al- Qadhafi although I have EXACT details of the sadaka that was in the pipeline then (1979) – and so does the Hon. Dr. Abdulai Conteh who can readily confirm that it was not like two shiploads of rice, and an unspeakable number of petro-dollars, tractors, buses, garbage clearance trucks etc – nor was Dr. Stevens as regular a visitor to Libya , as is Dr. Kabbah who has made countless visits to Libya the past five years ( one of them lasting ELEVEN DAYS) and none of those visits has been a fruitless journey and that’s why he’s always in Libya or praying with the Colonel in Timbuktu and it’s no surprise that Colonel al-Qadhafi, a true friend of Sierra Leone was awarded the highest honours that the country has to offer, during his last visit.

There are a number of issues which Pierre Boston has taken up previously in two notices written by him, and which I should like to comment on more liberally in the ensuing days ahead.
I look forward to the one who calls himself CADMUS (who has great contacts in the UK) and Professor Sengbe ( hopefully well armed with FACTS) and well informed others of the Palm Tree persuasion preparing themselves for reality discussions……..


Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma ( Cadmus &Sengbe, tie trossis tight oh!
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 09:45:00 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.80

Message:
Cornelius,

There really is not a lot to discuss here. The facts are simply this.

Sir Albert Margai, wanted to introduce a one party System in Sa lone, as a true Democrat he decided to consult the people, the people said 'NO'. In a true Demeocratic fashion he abondoned the idea.

Now compare and contrast that with Dr Siake Stevens. He did not even bother to consult, he imposed the one party system on the country.

Slpp did not make those sort of silly mistakes.

Berewa and Momodu will deliver for Sa lone. They have the experience, and they are committed to fairness and demeocracy and hence accountabilty,And above all they are fair and resolute.

APC made all the mistake, so they have a lot to prove to the Sa Lone people.

SLPP will again win on the 11 of August and will continue to deliver.


Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma ( Cadmus &Sengbe, tie trossis tight oh!
From: YEAH YEAH E YEAH NAR WAN PARTY OOO!!!!
To: All
Date Posted: 10:53:56 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-158-197-12.range81-158.btcentralplus.com at 81.158.197.12

Message:
"Now compare and contrast that with Dr Siake Stevens. He did not even bother to consult, he imposed the one party system on the country"

CADMUS WERE YOU IN SA.LONE IN 1978?


Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma ( Cadmus &Sengbe, tie trossis tight oh!
From: M. Alieru Iscandari Esq.
To: All
Date Posted: 06:56:38 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ad10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.116.204

Message:
He did not even bother to consult, he imposed the one party system on the country.


Cadmus this is clearly not true.


Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma ( Cadmus &Sengbe, tie trossis tight oh!
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:42:43 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
There are clear indications that,APC will emerge victorious in the up-coming elections.We have got the north,west and some parts in the souteast especially kono.Slpp will share Bo with PMDC.The only remedy for the SLPP is by rigging.Please dont deceive yourself.Let us give chance to people with vision and for the good of our beloved land,12 years was too painful for our nation and people under graft and poverty.The people are hungry for a swift change.


Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma ( Cadmus &Sengbe, tie trossis tight oh!
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 03:04:29 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-153-195-55.range81-153.btcentralplus.com at 81.153.195.55

Message:
If you talk about rigging again ARE GO PA TA YOU. you think everybody is as crooked as you and your APC The people of Sierra Leone want more of the SLPP that's why the SLPP will be returned to power after the elections.
FORREST


Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma ( Cadmus &Sengbe, tie trossis tight oh!
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:21:01 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
It is just to verify how violence,blood thirst and power thirst you and your party are.We in the APC,talk on issues relevant to the development of the country and the well being of our people.Oncemore,the slpp has no slightest chance to win the up-coming elections.The only option or remedy for the slpp is to rely on RIGGING.


Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma ( Cadmus &Sengbe, tie trossis tight oh!
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 08:09:15 07/15/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-58-40.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.58.40

Message:
RIGGING RIGGING RIGGING. is this your first class face saving song WE in the SLPP can hear and feel the desperation in your voices because you know well you are going to loose the elections BIG TIME
FORREST


Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma ( Cadmus &Sengbe, tie trossis tight oh!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 14:29:12 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-348472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.52

Message:
Fair enough.

"...he decided to consult the people, the people said 'NO'" yet - had Albert Margai not lost the 1967 elections, there is no telling how he could have been bouyed up by such a victory and perhaps could had gone for a referendum on the idea.

Continue to be fair in argument and we may become the best of friends after all.

Have a nice weekend.

Cornelius


Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma Confirms that he will rule Sierra Leone
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 08:27:47 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-348472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.52

Message:

Whichever anonymous idiot or “Awareness Times Reporters” wrote that headline must think that he/ she /they are addressing like-minded idiots, in her constituency of idiots, which we do not have present here in this Cocorioko Forum.

Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma is fully aware of mistakes that people like the One-Party-minded Albert Margai and others have made in the past , and so it is not credible that even Mr. Berewa would chant or Hon. Momodou Koroma would concur that their duo would ”rule” Sierra Leone the way the Akpata, Albert Margai did. That being the case any SLPP ignoramus or apologist should likewise try to become more aware and avoid making silly statements or writing misleading headlines like the above idiot reporters of “Awareness Times”

We all learn from our mistakes and the saying is “Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
Yet here’s a little matter of some concern:
http://standardtimespress.net/cgi-bin/artman/publish/article_1121.shtml

I have also looked through the big book, a substantiated testimony entitled “SIERRA LEONE: 12 Years of Economic Achievement and Political Consolidation under APC and Dr. Siaka Stevens, 1968-1980.” – This refers to a period during which the people of Sierra Leone were not recipients of the massive packages of International Aid that the Kabbah government was blessed with and some of which critics, including all of the donors in question lament has been frittered away, some of it unaccounted for…………and someone no less than Mr. President Kabbah is the chief town crier about all pervasive corruption in the country. If we are to take his tears seriously (like the ones shed for Chief Hinga Norman in the reckoning for the Day of Judgment) then we are surely talking about crocodile tears, if we consider his toothless chimpanzee war - war he calls it, against corruption.

We know that the beginning of Economic problems during the phase when the APC was in power in Sierra Leone, coincides with the massive loans that they took in order to stage the OAU ( Organisation of Africa Unity) Summit which was held in Freetown Sierra Leone in 1980 – that the government of that day bit off more than they could chew – this was not the day of generous aid from the EU, the World Bank, the IMF, from the ministry of Overseas development under the benevolent eye of Hilary Benn, from China, Japan, Germany, Bangladesh, Malaysia, the Arab development Bank and the Africa Development Bank, from many many other sources, or the day of most regular sadaka from Colonel Muammar- al- Qadhafi although I have EXACT details of the sadaka that was in the pipeline then (1979) – and so does the Hon. Dr. Abdulai Conteh who can readily confirm that it was not like two shiploads of rice, and an unspeakable number of petro-dollars, tractors, buses, garbage clearance trucks etc – nor was Dr. Stevens as regular a visitor to Libya , as is Dr. Kabbah who has made countless visits to Libya the past five years ( one of them lasting ELEVEN DAYS) and none of those visits has been a fruitless journey and that’s why he’s always in Libya or praying with the Colonel in Timbuktu and it’s no surprise that Colonel al-Qadhafi, a true friend of Sierra Leone was awarded the highest honours that the country has to offer, during his last visit.

There are a number of issues which Pierre Boston has taken up previously in two notices written by him, and which I should like to comment on more liberally in the ensuring days ahead.

I look forward to the one who calls himself CADMUS( who has great contacts in the UK) and Professor Sengbe and others preparing themsleves for reality discussions


Subject: Re: Ernest Koroma Confirms that he will rule Sierra Leone just l
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 07:52:01 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-348472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.52

Message:

Whichever anonymous idiot or “Awareness Times Reporters” wrote that headline must think that he/ she /they are addressing like-minded idiots, in her constituency of idiots, which we do not have present here in this Cocorioko Forum.

Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma is fully aware of mistakes that people like the One-Party-minded Albert Margai and others have made in the past , and so it is not credible that even Mr. Berewa would chant or Hon. Momodou Koroma would concur that their duo would ”rule” Sierra Leone the way the Akpata, Albert Margai did. That being the case any SLPP ignoramus or apologist should likewise try to become more aware and avoid making silly statements or writing misleading headlines like the above idiot reporters of “Awareness Times”

We all learn form our mistakes and the saying is “Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Yet here’s a little matter of some concern:
http://standardtimespress.net/cgi-bin/artman/publish/article_1121.shtml

I have also looked through the big book, a substantiated testimony entitled “SIERRA LEONE: 12 Years of Economic Achievement and Political Consolidation under APC and Dr. Siaka Stevens, 1968-1980.” – This refers to a period during which the people of Sierra Leone were not recipients of the massive packages of International Aid that the Kabbah government was blessed with and some of which critics, including all of the donors in question lament has been frittered away, some of it unaccounted for…………and someone no less than Mr. Kabbah is the chief crier about all pervasive corruption in the country. If we are to take his tears seriously (like the ones shed for Chief Hinga Norman in the reckoning for the Day of Judgment) then we are surely talking about crocodile tears, if we consider his toothless chimpanzee war - war he calls it, against corruption.

We know that the beginning of Economic problems during the phase when the APC was in power in Sierra Leone, coincides with the massive loans that they took in order to stage the OAU ( Organisation of Africa Unity) Summit which was held in Freetown Sierra Leone in 1979 – that the government of that day bit off more than they could chew – this was not the day of generous aid from the EU, the World Bank, the IMF, from the ministry of Overseas development under the benevolent eye of Hilary Benn, from China, Japan, Germany, Bangladesh, Malaysia, the Arab development Bank and the Africa Development Bank, from many many other sources, or the day of most regular sadaka from Colonel Muammar- al- Qadhafi although I have EXACT details of the sadaka that was in the pipeline then (1979) – and so does the Hon. Dr. Abdulai Conteh who can readily confirm that it was not like two shiploads of rice, and an unspeakable number of petro-dollars, tractors, buses, garbage clearance trucks etc – nor was Dr. Stevens as regular a visitor to Libya , as is Dr. Kabbah who has made countless visits to Libya the past five years ( one of them lasting ELEVEN DAYS) and none of those visits has been a fruitless journey and that’s why he’s always in Libya or praying with the Colonel in Timbuktu and it’s no surprise that Colonel al-Qadhafi, a true friend of Sierra Leone was awarded the highest honours that the country has to offer, during his last visit.



Subject: Very Dissapointed in the Moderator
From: Santigie Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 22:37:26 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-71-138-129-161.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net at 71.138.129.161

Message:
The Moderator of this forum has banned me from posting (from my "home" computer) for no just cause and without and any prior warning. I have sent him several emails asking why he banned me, but have not heard from him. It is very hypocritical for someone who is screaming from roof tops on hehalf of Philip Neville's right to Freedom of Speech, to trample on my own right to Freedom of Speech

SHAME ON YOU MR. MODERATOR
YOU ARE A BIG HYPOCRITE!!!!

Santigie Koroma
Proud Member of the CDF
Proud SLPP Supporter
One Country, One People!!!!!


Subject: Re: Copy of Moderator's email
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 07:19:25 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-249-138-254.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.249.138.254

Message:
(A a copy of moderator's email to Mr. Santigie Koroma)

I don't remember banning you. Please look up your IP using the link provided, and give me a heads
up of what your IP number is. Here' the link: http://www.ipaddressworld.com/

Contributors are not banned for what they think on this forum. They are only banned when they go
against forum rules, which include and not limited to, nuisance conduct or the use of abusive language.
Ref. disclaimer for the rest.

Ours is a non-aligned forum, where a few people have sacrificed their money and precious time to provide
Sierra Leoneans with a free venue to confer and exchange ideas.

In reply to some of your rants, I personally don't care if you are ABC, DEF or GHI. I won't waste time
with the rest because I don't see you as a debate material.

Looking forward to receiving your IP nr. Cheers!

/Moderator

P.s

We work as a team in administering the forum, and your
issue has not been discussed as of yet.


Subject: Re: Re Alpha Saidu Bangura the Nuisance
From: FOR THE MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 09:14:02 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
Please delete this post from some nuisance on this forum
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/33186.html
Thanks


Subject: Re: Very Dissapointed in the Moderator
From: Kpandehgutu
To: All
Date Posted: 02:54:44 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 208.115.234.141

Message:
SANTIGIE,

Your priviledges will be restored IF you appeal to KABS AND THE MODERATOR. Only Kabs Kanu and the moderator can decide.Do not listen to that UNDEMOCRATIC statement that you will be restored on August 12, 2007. I am sure kABS is a democrat and a fair person . Dont mind that thug. I dont believe he is talking for COCORIOKO.


Subject: Re: Very Dissapointed in the Moderator
From: foday mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 09:56:19 07/13/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@aol.com
Entered From: at 74.8.30.110

Message:
Thanks for the compliment


Subject: Re: Very Dissapointed in the Moderator
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 23:35:57 07/12/07 ()
Email Address: FMANSARAY@AOL.COM
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74

Message:
YOU CAN PETITION TO REINSTATE YOUR PREVILEDGE ON AUGUST 12 TH 2007 AT WHICH TIME THE BOARD WILL CONSIDER
LIFTING YOUR BAN.


Subject: Re: Very Dissapointed in the Moderator
From: SLPP Spy
To: All
Date Posted: 23:56:32 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-216-226-231-134.wdb.ses-americom.net at 216.226.231.134

Message:
What is the reason for the ban?


Subject: Re: Very Dissapointed in the Moderator
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 00:42:16 07/13/07 ()
Email Address: FMANSARAY@AOL.COM
Entered From: host-24-225-160-74.patmedia.net at 24.225.160.74

Message:
A WORD TO A WISE IS QUITE SUFFICIENT.WE ARE STILL IN A SOCIETY WHERE THE YOUNG WILL RESPECT THE OLD AND THE OLD WILL CARE FOR THE YOUNG. IF WE DON'T PUT SAFETY STANDARD IN PLACE OUR FUTURE IS DEFINATELY UP TO CHANCES YOU AND I IS NOT QUITE SURE ABOUT.


Subject: A gross human rights violation
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 17:47:46 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 43-66-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.66.43

Message:
SLA 415 Lt. Cmdr. L.D. Howard, to kill Lawrence,in the group of so many good people will haunt Solomon Ekuma Berewa throughout his life. The posting by APC Victor Foe on the Cocorioko front page sent me to a great shock of mind.
Lawrence Howard was a humble and modest Man. His Mum limited nursing job helped to see him climb up to Fourah Bay College with flying colours in the eighties. He came frrom a humble background. It is education that helped the late Man to journey in life with contentment and self confident. Lately, my mind strayed to him. To read that he was murdered by the action of Solomon Berewa sent me into a shock state.
May his soul rest in Peace.


Subject: Re: A gross human rights violation
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 18:21:50 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
The blood of the innocent will haunt Kabbah and Berewa till the end of their days.Take note the manner in which Norman and Sankoh perished.You guys will have to bear the consequences for your inhuman acts.I trust in God.


Subject: Any Sierra Leonean Lawyers in Virginia?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 15:50:22 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
Any Sierra leonean lawyers in Virginia? Please contact
M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
Iscandari & Associates
Attorneys at Law
7901 Oakport Street ste 4900
Oakland CA 94621
510 615 6000 Office

Possible referral.


Subject: Re: Any Sierra Leonean Lawyers in Virginia?
From: ABDUL LONG TONE.
To: All
Date Posted: 23:31:09 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96

Message:
I advise all sober minded Sierra Leonean lawyers in the USA not to take any case referred to them by ALIEU KAKA BAT. It will definitely be a case to defend one of his drug dealers. If a reputable lawyer takes such a case, that lawyer will erode his or her moral standing in the community.


Subject: Re: Any Sierra Leonean Lawyers in Virginia?
From: WAA
To: All
Date Posted: 09:22:09 07/13/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
blow bo. da man nar professional you nar NATIN. blow bo you don passmark. Is it true that you have been passing news around that Berewah has AIDS and that he is on AZT.

Saidu mark dis day you nar bornor way nor go live ling en you go die bad


Subject: Re: Any Sierra Leonean Lawyers in Virginia?
From: nasiru deen
To: All
Date Posted: 10:03:03 07/14/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-138-88-85-165.res.east.verizon.net at 138.88.85.165

Message:
Alieu Kaka Bat,
Knowning Alpha Saidu well as I do,he will never say such things about his leader Pa Berewa.Alpha Saidu is a very loyal and faithful person to the SLPP and pa Berewa.
Alpha Saidu said to us that he believes your father, Pa Iscandari has AIDS because he has being going around sleeping with many,many low grade women.


Subject: Re: Any Sierra Leonean Lawyers in Virginia?
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 20:13:15 07/14/07 ()
Email Address: futatoro@gmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-179-7-225.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net at 71.179.7.225

Message:
"Nasiru Deen",
Names such as Deen, Margai, Iscandari, Wurie, Suma are Brands; that is, they are not generic. Those names are of high quality because those who came from those heritage have to maintain the integrity of those brands/names.
Brah you nah kaka so go fen another name for use when you
wan for post your shit. Noh plell the Deens dem name.
Yaya Fanusie


Subject: HOUSING- JUDGE THE PARTY ON ITS RECORD AND NOT THE BLUEPRINT
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 15:34:27 07/12/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2

Message:


During the past 10 years of SLPP rule their leaders never paid much attention to affordable-housing issues. Homes of low and middle income families were bulldozed, making way for the “noveau riche”. IDPS were given a few packets of nails and iron sheets and left on their own to rebuild their lives in war-torn communities. Even the housing project for paramount chiefs could not be satisfactorily completed. Our brothers from the village are returning to the big cities and the number of slums are increasing. In neighborhoods from Regent to Goderich to Lumpa, it is tough enough for a family to find an affordable place to live, and even when they do, they are being pushed out because of market forces or government policies. The number of families displaced as a result of the “broke ose” strategy is unprecedented in the country’s housing history.

At the same time, we witnessed public resources been used for putting up gated mansions. It is unclear why His Excellency Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah chose to issue an Executive Order to expropriate land and real estate resources intended for mixed income housing development, vested in the Sierra Leone Housing Corporation by the SALHOC Act of 1982 and release them for the purpose of developing high income housing. One would conclude here that either the President was ill advised by the Attorney General on the legality of such an action, or that the case for possible alternative courses of action that would satisfy the intent of the Act were not succinctly made by the SALHOC Board of Directors and the Ministries of Lands and Housing.

It would be recalled that in 1982, the government of Sierra Leone established the Sierra Leone Housing Corporation in an effort to improve the living standards of the people. A list of assets as stated in the schedule of the Act and in subsequent amendments thereto were vested in the corporation for the execution of its duties “provided that more than ten percentum of the resources of the corporation, shall be for high income families and no more than thirty percentum for middle income families, sixty percentum being used solely for low income families”.

The President by Executive Order released hundreds of acres of land vested by law and meant for the production of low and middle and high income housing units in representative proportions for the exclusive development of high income gated communities for the “noveau riche”. While applauding NASSIT for its initiative and drive, the end does not justify the means.

If our laws are anything to go by, the president can only alter the laws of Sierra Leone subject to ratification by Parliament either by an enactment of Parliament, or by a resolution supported by the votes of not less than one-half of the Members of Parliament. Sec 40 (4) of the Sierra Leone Constitution 1991. Thus this transfer of assets ordered by the President was not ratified by the out-going parliament and will need to come to the new Parliament when it convenes later this year

Secondly, the original intention of the vesting Act (serving the interest of the majority of Sierra Leoneans) has been compromised by the President’s unilateral action. The project at Goderich, when completed will contain 200 executive houses in a mixed use gated community. Single family houses are priced from $250,000 to $335,000. Payment requirements include 40% on application; 40% when the house is at roof level, and 20% at closing. If these units were to be sold on a mortgage basis, monthly repayments, (PI only) principal and interest only over 30 years at 8% rate of interest (with no down payment) will range from $1,834 to $2,458. Taxes and insurance will see loan repayments ranging from $2,300 to $3,000 per month. Assuming a 30% affordability coefficient, then only households with incomes ranging from $91,200 to $120,000 per year can afford these houses.

Can our teachers/nurses/doctors/civil servants/traders afford the mortgage payments? Why should a government use public lands to subsidize high income housing, or use public resources to generate private sector profit for shareholders. Why the preferential/presidential treatment for the Regiemanual project? We are confident and assured that NASSIT is looking for viable investments and appropriate returns, as well as protecting public money, and just out of curiosity, it would be interesting to know who the local shareholders of Regiemanuel SL.Ltd are!

Thirdly, when housing developments are undertaken for an exclusive income group, they have the effect, if not the express intention of drawing lines of segregation. It is like saying, “teachers, drivers, police officers, nurses, can teach our kids, drive us to our offices; or nurse our ailing parents, but they are not fit to be our neighbors. We will use all the state lands now to build our mansions and will find some cheap land in far away places, 20 or 30 miles away from their work places to house them when we have the money”.

The big question in the heat of the elections, is whether the SLPP leaders are really committed to change as stated in their party’s 2007 manifesto, or whether they're just making political statements. The manifesto lays a lot of emphasis on private sector reform, hoping that economic growth and privatization will provide the opportunities for all Sierra Leoneans to realize the dream of a decent home at a price they can afford. Why should Sierra Leoneans trust the SLPP now after been ignored for 10 years, when grant funding and the international goodwill was available to help develop the institutional capacity and the signature programs (slum upgrading; sites and services core housing; micro-finance for housing; public/private sector partnerships) for national shelter delivery. Why should the people’s interest take second position? Why only now?


Subject: Harsh breech of constitutional fidelity??????????
From: Med
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Date Posted: 12:34:30 07/12/07 ()
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SIERRA VLEONE CONSTITUTION - CHAPTER III — THE RECOGNITION AND PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
Protection of right to life.
16. (1) No person shall be deprived of his life intentionally except in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence under the laws of Sierra Leone, of which he has been convicted.

‘Amnesty pointed out that President Kabbah had signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 1996, which stipulates that "Anyone sentenced to death shall have the right to appeal to a court of higher jurisdiction," and that steps should be taken to ensure that such appeals shall become mandatory’.

On October 19, 1998, 24 of the 34 soldiers condemned to death by a military tribunal on October 12 were publicly executed by firing squad at Goderich Beach in Freetown at 4:30 on Monday morning. President Kabbah commuted the sentences of 10 others to life imprisonment. Heavily armed ECOMOG troops sealed off the execution grounds as the condemned soldiers were brought in, all of them dressed in black and heard chanting "I have faith in God" and "I have surrendered to Jesus." As described to the BBC by Foday Bankolay Fofanah of the Punch newspaper, the prisoners were then bound to execution posts and hooded. Firing squad members, their faces coloured with charcoal and masked with green leaves, took up their positions facing the convicts. After some brief instructions, they opened fire "and they were just shooting at random." BBC correspondent Winston Ojukutu-Macaulay described the execution. "They were sort of bunched together, and they were just sort of firing continuously at the bodies, as the soldiers were sort of directing them on one or two occasions one or two of the officers from where I was standing would shout that that person is still alive, and then they would just go, and just hear this continuous firing again." Ojukutu-Macaulay said that as officials left in a motorcade.

In defense:
Minister of Justice and Attorney-General Solomon Berewa defended a military court's decision to impose the death sentence on 34 military officers Monday, saying that the death penalty was part of Sierra Leone's colonial heritage. "Exactly 100 years ago this year, the colonial masters in 1898 executed 96 people for refusing to pay the hut tax of 26 pence...So the capital sentence is not new to Sierra Leone. It is part of our history and a legacy from colonialism," Berewa said.

Now, given that the loss of life is irreparable, was this act by the Kabba administration in accordance with the laws applicable to the court martial proceedings, as a matter of fact, is the court martial’s jurisdiction questionable, was the trial and subsequent execution, I mean deprivation of life of the 24 Sierra Leonean, intentional, could SLPP administration justify their act, was it carried out in the confines of the constitutional provisions, was there any breach of international law, was Kabba too powerful to disregard the fundamental human rights of already condemned men and women, what was the level of the ECOMOG troops involvements, why was slpp recalcitrant, determined to killed, was it another witch hunt, carried out in malice, despite the several appeals from the international community mentioned below…………

The African Commission on Human and People's Rights said in Banjul, Gambia that it will appeal to President Kabbah to halt the executions in Sierra Leone. "The commission decided to send commissioner Ben Salem to Sierra Leone to meet President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah so as to ask him not to proceed with further execution of those sentenced to death," the Commission said in a statement at the conclusion of its 24th session.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan unsuccessfully appealed to the Sierra Leone government on Monday for a stay of execution of the 24 military officers. His appeal was published in a report to the United Nations Security Council after the 24 were executed earlier in the day. Annan expressed concern that those sentenced to death had no legal right of appeal.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said he "regrets" Monday's execution of 24 military officers condemned to death last week in connection with last year's military coup. "He hopes that the government of Sierra Leone ensures the due process in further trials," a spokeswoman for Annan said. "The secretary-general regrets the executions of 24 military officers in Sierra Leone on October 19, despite his appeal to the government to consider, at a minimum, a stay of execution pending review of the proceedings before relevant international monitoring bodies."

The European Union (EU) has also condemned the Monday's executions. "The EU condemns the execution of 24 soldiers by firing squad, which took place on October 19, 1998 in Sierra Leone," said a statement issued by the current Austrian EU presidency. While the EU recognized that the former military junta had committed "appalling atrocities" upon the civilian population and that those responsible should be brought to justice, it pointed out that the condemned soldiers had not been accorded the right of appeal to a higher court.

The British government has condemned Monday's execution of 24 military officers. Foreign Office Minister of State for Africa Tony Lloyd said President Kabbah had rejected his personal telephone appeals for clemency. "I regret that 24 executions have been carried out in Sierra Leone following military courts martial," Lloyd said in a statement.

Labour MP Andrew Mackinlay, who is a member of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee investigating the Sandline "Arms to Africa Affair", called the executions "deeply worrying." He called for a full Foreign Office statement on when the government knew the sentences were to be carried out and what representations had been made on behalf of the condemned. "This is deplorable. We were we assured that President Kabbah -- who has received support from Britain and was endorsed by Tony Blair who actually said `the good guys won' -- ran a democratic government," he said. "It raises grave questions as to the government's claim to be a democracy."


The international human rights monitoring group Human Rights Watch expressed "outrage" over the execution of 24 soldiers, which were carried out only three days after the group had appealed to President Kabbah to commute the sentences. "The decision to carry out the death sentences without the basic right to appeal is extremely disappointing," said Peter
Were the killing of the 24 men and women of our country refused the due process of law.

The London-based human rights organization Amnesty International, which opposes the death penalty in all cases and without exception, expressed concern Monday that the execution of the 34 condemned military officers could be imminent, and appealed to President Kabbah to grant them clemency. "We have repeatedly urged the government to establish a judicial appeal procedure against sentences passed by the court martial,"

WHAT DO YOU THNIK, did the Kabba/Berewa lead administration displayed excessive use of power or more than our constitution requires, meaning was there any constitutional breech, are they above the law, as a Sierra Leonean are you aware of your civic responsibility, do you have a right to uphold constitutional principles, is there any compulsion for advocacy are you aware of the consequences of constitutional breech, have you ever faced charges of any kind, do you think authorities should face trails for breach of the constitution, should there be a deterrent to abuse of power………………….. WHAT DO YOU THIN!!!!

You can find detailed and more relevant reports from - http://www.sierra-leone.org/slnews1098.html


Subject: Re: Harsh breech of constitutional fidelity??????????
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 13:51:09 07/12/07 ()
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Some of those who want to receive some mercy have shown


Subject: Sierra Leone: The Election Opportunity
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 12:03:24 07/12/07 ()
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The International Crisis Group

Sierra Leone: The Election Opportunity

Dakar/Brussels, 12 July 2007: Heightened political tensions could lead to Sierra Leone’s destabilisation if elections next month are not free and fair.
Sierra Leone: The Election Opportunity,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the strains emerging prior to presidential and legislative elections and the impact they will have on the country’s delicate peace-building. Sierra Leone is still a fragile state in which peace will not be consolidated unless the new authorities tackle sources of popular discontent such as corruption, chiefs’ abuse of power and youth unemployment.
“The 2007 elections are a crucial opportunity for Sierra Leone to definitively turn its back on conflict,” says Carolyn Norris, Crisis Group’s West Africa Project Director. “But if the new administration does not start with a strong reform program, the population’s tolerance of bad governance and uneven economic development is unlikely to last much longer, and a return to conflict would be a real possibility.”
The ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has split over the attempt of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, who won a landslide victory in 2002, to anoint his successor. This has heightened tensions in the party’s strongholds. Recent house burnings attributed to the division have not resulted in convictions, undermining confidence in the re-establishment of the rule of law.
While Sierra Leone is no longer a failed state, youth unemployment and disillusionment are serious threats, and core institutions remain untested. A customary law system in parallel to statutory law and the details of the electoral system leave traditional “Paramount Chiefs” with powers that are frequently abused in the countryside. Corruption in public services is extensive, and the security and justice sectors still require several years of external oversight in order to become self-sustaining.
The new National Electoral Commission has started well and broadly inspires confidence, but allegations of fraud or malpractice must be adjudicated promptly and fairly. Coordination with the national police is needed to allow prompt reaction to security incidents. All political parties should instruct their officials that violence, and calls to violence, will be investigated and appropriately punished, and they should commit to a comprehensive post-election reform program. International partners, including the UK and the UN Peacebuilding Commission, will have to engage immediately with the new administration to make clear that tackling corruption is a prerequisite to long-term support.
“There are healthy signs of generational change within political parties,” says François Grignon, Crisis Group’s Director of Africa Program. “But whoever wins must commit to substantial government reforms to win back the population’s trust in the future of the country.”
________________________________________
Contacts: Andrew Stroehlein (Brussels) +32 (0) 2 541 1635
Kimberly Abbott (Washington) +1 202 785 1601
To contact Crisis Group media please click here
*Read the full Crisis Group report on our website: http://www.crisisgroup.org
________________________________________


Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: The Election Opportunity (2 )
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 12:15:57 07/12/07 ()
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There is also an


Subject: IS IT SAFE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 11:52:43 07/12/07 ()
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i have been getting conflicting reports from Sierra leone in repect of the August 2007 elctions. Some beleive that there is going to be an all out conflict during the elctions. others beleive that certain elements wan to seize power, taking advantage of the conflicts during the elctions. Relatives, friends and beneficiaries are requesting travel money to go to safe places as Freetown is becoming dangerous to live during the election campaign.

How safe will Sierra leone be during this process?


Subject: Re: IS IT SAFE?
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 18:32:34 07/12/07 ()
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The Slpp and their hench men,the rebels,kamajors etc.are quite aware of loosing the elections,therefore,they will go back to their old methods of mass slaughter and intimidation to hang on power.This power and blood thirst bandits will be reprehended this time without fear by the people of Sierra-Leone.


Subject: Any letters from home or Diaspora?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 11:24:45 07/12/07 ()
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Planning to live abroad ?


Subject: STANDARD TIMES RETRACTS LIBYAN STORY
From: JOINDALIST
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Date Posted: 10:41:18 07/12/07 ()
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AWOKO NEWS

Defence says Standard Times has made correction

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The defence team representing the Managing Editor of the Standard Times newspaper Philip Neville in the matter against the state, yesterday said before Magistrate Bankole Shyllon of court no3 that the paper has made corrections of the error which appeared in the June 27 publication surrounding the Libyan donated rice.
Lead counsel James Blyden Jenkins Johnston informed the court that the Standard Times publication attributed the statement about the gift from Libya to President Gadaffi of Libya instead of to President Kabbah.



He said the defence has sent to the office of the Attorney General copies of the papers retraction for the 2nd of July and Friday 6th July and the defence now awaits the actions of the Attorney General (AG) to both newspapers and letters.
He hoped by the next adjourned date they would have received a positive response so that the matter will be laid to rest finally.



Representing the Attorney General in court, Gerald J .Soyei said during previous hearings the defence team representing Phillip Neville undertook to provide draft copies of the retraction by the accused for the AG’s perusal before yesterday’s hearing.
State Counsel Soyei reported to the court that the AG did not receive the draft copies to enable him make up his mind up to the time he left the office for the proceedings.
In those circumstances he requested two weeks adjournment in readiness for a prescribed retraction and consequential action.


The defence said that they did not give an undertaken.
Lawyer Jenkins Johnston explained that what transpired between the accused and the prosecution was that they agreed that the retraction should be in the interest of all parties for the matter to be settled quietly without going into a full scale trial.
State Counsel Soyei responded that the prosecution appreciated the endeavour of the defence and that their expectation will vary directly with the satisfaction of the Attorney General and above all President Kabbah.


He also said the retraction itself should be submitted accordingly because of its seditious overtone.
The matter was adjourned to Wednesday 25


Subject: Re: STANDARD TIMES RETRACTS LIBYAN STORY
From: Med
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Date Posted: 15:52:59 07/12/07 ()
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There is an offense here, I mean a crime. Tempering is taking place, some entity is tampering with a legal proceeding or witness in a prosecution. Philip Neville is an accused, allegedly charged with crime against the state, there is an ongoing legal proceeding that involves the AG and I hear of retracting, ah lef …..lef ooooo!!!

Sierra Leoneans are interested in justice, we want to know how the entire rice episode was handle and if Neville is found culpable, let justice take it course…….


Subject: SAHID give me a tip
From: Ronny
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Date Posted: 09:44:29 07/12/07 ()
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Dear Sir , You profess to be doing well trading forex, could you give me an indication where the dollar is going from time to time.


Subject: Re: SAHID give me a tip
From: Sahid
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Date Posted: 05:49:08 07/13/07 ()
Email Address: Sahidkanu@aol.com
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Due you trade forex regularly? Which indicators do you use to make your decisions? I use the Relative Strength Index (RSI), and Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD), with a 20 day slow and 10 day fast Exponential Moving Average of days close, to determine the direction I feel the market is moving. I also use Fibonacci Retrenchment Levels and Bollinger Bands to determine my entry and exit prices, so far this month I am up 90 pips and climbing.
In my opinion, the dollar will fall to 2.07 against the pound, by the end of the month and then move towards 2.10 against the pound by the end of the year. Much depends on the US: Producer Price Index, US:ICSC-UBS Store Sales, and US: Industrial Production figures which will be released on 17.07.07 and Jobless Claims figures due out on 19.07.07, these will give the clearest indication of the Fed’s next rate move. If these figures are bad and all indications are they will be, the we can expect the Fed to keep rates the same or a cut of 250 basis points, this will mean that the current divergence between UK and US interest rates will widen, and weaken the dollar’s attractiveness as a carry currency as compared to the pound. Another factor weaking the dollar is the likely rate rise in Japanese interest rates, as this will mean that dollar denominated carry trades will reverse and seek higher returns in the pound, thus weaking the dollar further. Before the end of the year we could see a GBP/USD rate of 2.10 to 2.20 against the pound in my humble opinion.


Subject: Re: SAHID give me a tip
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 10:57:34 07/15/07 ()
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This is more like it - using your talent to help others. it is better than making blanket criticisms. Congratulations!!!


Subject: Chez Winakabs Europe
From: Sahid
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Date Posted: 04:52:28 07/16/07 ()
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Dear Chez Winakabs Europe, thank you for your comments. My headline was deliberately provocative, and was designed to get people thinking about the signals, Sierra Leonean are sending to their leadership. By coming out in such numbers to celebrate, what in my opinion are failed politicians, they are condoning their period of failures. I failed to understand how people can sing and dance for people, who have failed to provide, jobs, water or electricity.

Instead the people should have stayed away to signal that while they will vote for them in the election, they are doing so reluctantly and without enthusiasm. My headline was designed to provoke a debate at the actions of the supporters of all the main parties in Sierra Leone. What has shocked me was that the debate here quickly deteriorated to personal attacks. As I have said previously I have no vested interest as to who wins the elections in sierra Leone, I have concluded that me and my wife’s future lies in Europe not sierra Leone, I have no interest in dual nationality thus my interest in sierra Leone poorly based on human sympathy, as I feel for the people and believe they deserve better.

I am British by birth and upbringing, but consider Sierra Leone the land of my forefathers, but I will always be a foreigner in Sierra Leone. In my opinion the SLPP should win, even though they have a very, very poor record, given the support they have had from the international community and the people. Much could have been done with the goodwill of the people and the international community, but nothing has improved. But given the given the alternative of the APC who began the rot in the first place and by all indications have offered no apology for their years of miss rule and who still appear unrepentant as to their part in the national decline, and the fact that the PMDC is made up purely of political prostitutes, I think the SLPP is the best of a bad lot. By the way the GBP/USD as just exceeded $2.0380, a bit late as per my Friday prediction, I am long at the moment on GBP/ISD but my entry price this morning was $2.0368, as I spent too long trying to gage which direction the market would move, So away to go before I close my position, but expect GBP/USD to hit $2.04 this afternoon and push up from there, my luck is holding!


Subject: Re: SAHID give me a tip
From: Sahid
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Date Posted: 05:53:59 07/13/07 ()
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sorry thats 25 basis points, not 250.


Subject: Re: SAHID give me a tip
From: Sahid
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Date Posted: 05:00:20 07/13/07 ()
Email Address: Sahidkanu@aol.com
Entered From: 87-194-70-82.bethere.co.uk at 87.194.70.82

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GBP/USD pair should hit 2.0380 today, so go long on GBP/USD today. Place stop at 2.0250,and take profits at 2.0380.


Subject: Re: SAHID give me a tip
From: Ronny
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Date Posted: 07:13:50 07/13/07 ()
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Say I had 10k today at your suggested trade,how much would I have made? $120?


Subject: Re: SAHID give me a tip
From: Sahid
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Date Posted: 08:40:45 07/13/07 ()
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Depends on your entry price, I entered a long trade on cable (GBP/USD) at 2.0310, price at moment 2.0345, but hit 2.0365 an hour back. Forex is margin trading so assuming you used all $10000 as margin, which you should never do, as you should never commit more than 1/20 of your total margin for any one trade, which is the way trade, you would have made 35 pips at my entry price, which would be $3500 US dollars profit at the moment, as $1000 is the margin requirement for a full contract and allows your to buy or sell $100000 against the pound. A pip is equal to 0.001 and has a value of $10. Thus the potential for gain is high but if a position goes against you so is the potential for loss, which is why I suggested a stop of 70 pips, which means if your trade is going against you, at 70 pips down, close your position, have a cigarette and think again. 4 weeks ago I lost $1000 on one trade, in the space of 2 hours, because the market had been bidding the pound against the dollar in anticipation of Uk rate rise, that did not happen at that time, I was long on the pound, so was hit, before I closed the position. This is risky stuff. I consider my self a position trader and take profits at 30-40 pips, with stops of 60 -70 pips just in case the position goes against me. So far, I am having luck.


Subject: Re: SAHID give me a tip
From: Sahid
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Date Posted: 08:48:47 07/13/07 ()
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P.S

35 pips X 10 =$350 profit per contract X 10 full contracts as assuming you used all $10000 as margin. You Would have bought 10 full contracts.


Subject: Re: SAHID give me a tip
From: RUBBER DUCK
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Date Posted: 03:09:25 07/14/07 ()
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Sahid what are PIPS


Subject: Re: SAHID give me a tip
From: Sahid
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Date Posted: 05:59:06 07/14/07 ()
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A pip is just a forex term that means point; other traders also call pips, tics. A pip/tick/point is the minimum move allowed in spot forex is 0.001. If you want to know more go to the following website;

http://www.piptrader.com/forex_education/default.asp

Once again I warn you this is very, very risky stuff, do not trade unless you can afford to lose all of your money. If you are interested, study hard, do your research, after which open a mini account that will give you a taster for forex. I am lucky in that I studied economics and International financial analysis at university and traded stocks since I was 18, so I have always had a feel for markets, but even I take big hits relative to my capital.

Forex is very risky, and is hard work, you spend hours a day looking at charts, tweaking your indicators to fine tune your signals, reading news feeds, digesting information and trying to figure out how all these things will move the market. At times I suffer from information overload where there are so many conflicting bits of information coming in that my mind just goes blank. But with hard work and a bit of luck you can make money. I am a disciplined trader in that if a position goes against me, I will not wait for it to reverse, but close it and think again I always set a stop loss of 70 pips and take profit of 40 pips.

I am usually correct about 65% of the time so for every 100 trades I do 35 is losses, and 65 are good. For example if you have stops of 70 you will lose 2450 pips on the 35 bad trades, and gain 2600 pips on the 65 good trades, if like me you set a take profit at 40 pips. Thus out of every 100 trades with a 65% success rate you end up with about 150-pips net profit per contract traded.

Forex is not easy, very few will become wealthy doing it, but you can make a living at it. Since I got back into forex after a year or so spent on my failed ventures in Sierra Leone, I have been averaging about 300 pips a month. Yesterday although the GPB/USD did not hit my predicted $2.0380, although it got close a couple of times, I closed out my position at 2.0350, a profit of 40 pips. Because I never use more than 1/20 of my capital on any one trade I only had 2 full contracts, still a nice profit. By only committing 1/20 of my capital on any one trade, I avoid the dreaded margin call. Goggle spot forex and it will bring up a number of useful links.


Subject: Now at $2.0353 and on the up!
From: Sahid
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Date Posted: 08:50:54 07/13/07 ()
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Should hit 2.0380 today,they settle back down!


Subject: Grand Strategy for a Corrupt Sierra Leone
From: Kenday S. Kamara
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Date Posted: 09:24:29 07/12/07 ()
Email Address: kkama002@waldenu.edu
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Message:

Read full analysis at www.worldpress.org


Subject: Re: Grand Strategy for a Corrupt Sierra Leone
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 16:50:43 07/12/07 ()
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Good work Ken. Stay blessed and may god's guidance continue.


Subject: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA
From: ALIE KAMARA
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Date Posted: 04:28:31 07/12/07 ()
Email Address: stepsaheadalie@yahoo.co.uk
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Any Sierra Leonean who believes Solo B in his manifesto is either blind or does not have the country at heart.
Let face it African politicians are so stupid the normally take their electors for granted. It is a joke that Solo B want to rule Sierra Leone, and i mean a complete joke. All these funds that he is currently lavishing to buy votes, why did'nt he used it over the last five years by providing better living conditions to the general populace. But he could not do that because they always take people for granted.
I am a frequent visitor to Sierra Leone and virtually Solo B have been in charge of Sierra Leone for the past four years as even president Kabbah is not visible to the entire country. Why have Solo B not put measures in place that would have surge his approval rating all this while, and in the process he would have saved himself all this campaign stress as his good deeds would have been there for all his opponents to see. But again he do take people for granted.
All this years, if Solo B would have facilitated Eletricity, water, good roads, better health facilities and education for the children of poor Sierra Leoneans, he would have had less headache campaigning. People like Margai and Ernest would have even be ashamed to lead opposition parties to challenge his good record. Let face it Sierra Leone politicians take people for granted. Let the people look at the track record of this government, which Solo B has virtually been heading as i never see road blockades for pa Kabbah, but so many road blockades for Solo B that have cost countless of casualties as a result of the police blocking especially kissy new road. Sometimes he will be passing by 4.00pm in the evening and they will block the only highway leading to the provinces, from about 8.00am thereby bringing chaos to the very ordinary man going about their business. I personally have witnessed over ten accidents on such occaissions and the people were so poor they cant afford medical treatment. I have personally paid medical bills for several of those people, for the doctors always refuse to treat them. I am doing that as a man who love my country. My vision about Sierra Leone is a Sierra Leone where everyone regardless of ethnic origin and political affiliation can live in peace and harmony and always put the country first even among family and friends.
So Solo B you had your chances and in the process you have over abused your position and bring mass suffering to the lives of the masses. So relax and allow for a change you brought it to yourself.


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:15 07/12/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
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Alie,
Do you in your right mind believe that Ernest Koroma or Charles Margai will be a suitable replacement to the SLPP? With respect I ask you to produce the records of both Ernest and Charles for the general Sierra Leonean public to see and judge them.
I always demand the records of people who are aspiring for public offices because the past actions of people is surely an evidence of their future actions.
Once again I remind all APC and PMDC members that if someone is aspiring for a public office, that person must be willing to give him or her self up to the public for a critical examination of his/her character and past performances.
IF YOU CAN NOT STAND THE SMOKE, STAY OUT OF THE KITCHEN.


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA
From: ALIE KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:07:45 07/13/07 ()
Email Address: stepsaheadalie@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 5ac175e9.bb.sky.com at 90.193.117.233

Message:
Alpha Saidu Bangura people like you are opportunists, who have no sympathy for the sufferings of the masses in Sierra Leone. To put the record straight i am not supporting any political party. Then in your quest to prove your loyalty to the SLPP party you fail to notice how balance my article was. I was making a point that have Solo B have put the right policies in place during his tenure as VP, he would have saved himself the stress of campaigning, if their current policies were geared towards giving the people they are governing their basic needs. The way you are taking it, if i have my own way if i am face with a choice of Solo B, Margai and Ernest i will difintely go for the last two choices as they have not had a go at the very top. Berewa have had his chances and he and his immediate boss Pa kabbah have messed the country up big time. You are either blind or you are part of what a white friend of mine on a visit to Sieera Leone once reffered to the organised crime syndicate of Sierra Leone politicians.
Unless people like you change your attitude and put the country before friends and family, our politicians will continue to rule recklessly and with impunity. People like you are giving them the scope to not answerable for their actions as you making them to feel that everything is okay.
Rest assured i am not a politician and i dont support any party in particular. All the people that knows me will tell you that i am a businessman that have made enormous contribution to the development of Sierra Leone. Any party that have the interest of the people of Sierra Leone have my support.


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA
From: Gbanabom 91
To: All
Date Posted: 15:18:58 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: annex.melwood.com at 68.163.81.34

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I think Alpha Saidu does not know what he is talking about . I will advise him to go back and check the record of his precious Berewa . His Berewa was the minister of justice that condemned innocent soldiers to death because they stood for right of the country .What is Alpha Saidu talking about ? Let him tell us the record that his man has . His man is using the NACSA projects as his gains . Let Alpha Saidu tell us what good in terms development his man has done since he came to office . The city hall building is directly in front of his party headquarters . He sees it each time he goes to the SLPP headquarters but he has nothing to rebuild since it was destroyed during the war . It has been eleven years and his man has been in office for five years . Let me tell Alpha saidu that the city hall building standing directly infront of the SLPP office will be one of the very first things the APC will deal with when they take control of the country .


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA/ Dummy Boy
From: GBANGBANI
To: All
Date Posted: 14:25:47 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Saidu, With respect to trust wordiness Ernest is far ahead in queue when referring to honesty. I will whole heartedly give you a hoe to dig out the facts on these three candidates. Not a single bump of dishonesty will you find on Ernest. However, I have limited knowledge with regards to Charles Margai so I can't comment on his side. You know very well Berewa's Hands are unclean...ranging from the death penalty on to the execution of innocent Sierra Leoneans the self motivated reasons of the Kabba government and SLPP. You know very well Berewa is desperate for power. You Saidu can also assert that he is corrupt one way or the other.

Do you think the cloudy locust surrendering Kabba’s unexplained ship load of rice, Berewa may be innocent of it? Wait after August 12th when the new Government which will be headed by the APC will bring them into questioning of their dubious and unscrupulous acts against the people of Sierra Leone.


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA/ Dummy Boy
From: Gbanabom 91
To: All
Date Posted: 15:23:05 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: annex.melwood.com at 68.163.81.34

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Saidu is blind folded . He needs someone to guide him on to the right path .


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA/ Dummy Boy
From: PENDAHUN
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Date Posted: 14:41:44 07/12/07 ()
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SAIDU ONCE TOLD ME IN PRIVATE THAT VEREWAH HAS A SORE THAT DOES NOT HEAL AND THAT IS WHY HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO VISIT HIM IN HIS HOTEL ROOM IN ATLANTA WHEN HE ARRIVED THERE. SAIDU ALSO TOLD ME THAT BEREWAH WAS A VERY WICKED AND VINDICTIVE MAN. ASK HIM TO DENY THAT.

WE IN ATLANTA KNOW YOU VERY WELL SAIDU AND YOU ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED. YOU HAVE SAID SO MANY THINGS ABOUT THE BEREWAH CHILDREN THAT IF I WERE THEM I WOULD BE AFRAID VERY AFRAID OF YOU.


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA/ Dummy Boy
From: Gbanabom 91
To: All
Date Posted: 15:50:45 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: annex.melwood.com at 68.163.81.34

Message:
Saidu is a pathetic lier . One should be very becareful with him . Now he showing a good face because he thinks Berewa will win the elections so that he could give him a post . Shame on you Saidu .


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA/ Dummy Boy
From: WAA
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Date Posted: 20:01:10 07/12/07 ()
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Give him a post? What is he qualified to do? Whats his educational level? The man is a nonentity and a bag of hot stinking slpp gas. WAA IS THAT HE IS SLEEPING IN HIS CAR AGAIN. Wait till winter time comes and you will see


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 10:40:34 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
My heart bleeds reading the above. yes Solo B should have done more to make our place a better place in his stead as the VP with access to so much resources. Alie, i am not familiar with the operations of Solo b but kabbah, who was and still is our leader. kabbah was controlling all that was happening in the country. solo carried out what he wanted and he has done so much to us that we should just wait until Solo b comes in. Whatever pact kabbah has made with solo b will be rescinded. it is very difficult when you are not the number one. take the case of Uk. Blair wanted to go to war, gordon |brown, his chancellor was not too keen on the idea but had to go along. had he not done so - Blair would have devised a way to make his position untenable.

What do you think, an ordinary Solo b would have done to kabbah and the likes of him that want to use the constitution to further their greedy projects. kabbah, saw the world embraced the rule of law and democratic principles - these he has and still using to have control. the situation will change when solo b becomes the fountain of justice. i trust solo b with the absolute power to govern us will not allow the likes of kabbah to continue meddling in the affairs of state.

i cannot see myself trusting ernest or margai. Ernest is simply not in control of his party. margai has not the integrity or the support of credible Sierra leoneans to govern us. berewa's tact should not be seen by us as a dangerous thing. we should utilise his tact to get rid of the kabbahs and offer them therapies change their social and mental thinking.

Let us give berewa the chance - he cannot continue the treachery of kabbah - he has to change to see his hopes of living a noble and honourable legacy becomes a presence. as for kabbah, i stopped having hope in him after the first 90 days of his return to sierra leone after our party was kicked by the AFRC. I begged him and all around him that by giving us a better economy would make them memorably good names in the history of Sierra leone. my cries were never heard. Berewa, with the new SLPP agenda will think much better than kabbah.

let us give Solo b the chance to continue finish the building blocks that fell out of the reconstruction process. he can give us a turnaround economy and we will all be pleased. Please pour some thought on my rubbish - he is far capable than the two other hungry giants we have. they mean no good but to create a divisive society which will into turn become chaos that we would not want to see again. Even the silent international community believes that continuity is a necessary good for sierra leone and it is only throught the present political climate that this good will become evident.


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 13:53:52 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
To all slpp apologists

It is widely believed that, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree o, or should I say from the frying pan into the fire!!! I am not interested in your political gimmicks, EXCUSE ME! I am talking about principles here, these were people charged with a democratic responsibility to DELIVER….If you are ever given a in chance in life rise to the occasion, it will help save your breath and writings of long, vague episodes. If slpp wins the forth coming election, that’s your cup of tea!!!!!, its ok with man, I am not interested in any political party, I am not even recognized in their cartel.
No body is talking about our people out there suffering, they have endured the heat of the 10 years rebel war, suffered beyond imagination, some raped, maimed, had to sleep in the forest, under adverse circumstances which includes starvation, going without food for days and faced with the rain and heat of the sun, had to sleep with corps [bodies of love ones] in the same room or house for days, with the fear of being killed, those that were unfortunate, may God guide their souls. Jan 2002, the war officially ended, those of us that survived it are still suffering, the overall economic situation has not improved and yet people like you with a computer ask for continuity, I wonder if indeed you have a relative [dependant] in Freetown, whose sustenance depends on you, I am sure you won’t be proud of your party ‘who uses donor money meant to better the lives of people to purchase jeeps for election agitations and beg donors to improve the transport network, electricity and health sectors, whilst they use their children to help propagate their selfish interests and fry people with their oils [by illegally disbursing government funds] what a shame………………..


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:28:05 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Med, we are all aware of the abysmal failures by the all-inclusive SLPP. kabbah came to the helm as a result of lack of potential candidates with experience to run our affairs. The elders who made this mistake of thinking and belieiving kabbah will deliver us from the deteriorating years died lamentably regreting what they did to us. I am unahappy like the rest of the people in the homeland. There is now no alternative but to try out berewa whom i believe will be much more detached from the 'old guard' once he assumes the seat of power. I trust his regime to invest in the young minds of Sierra leone so as not to have the political participatory vacuum we have now. As you rightly said the 'old guards' only invested in their children and denied the ordinary Sierra leonean from gaining higher heights. What became of those children they placed so high above all - nothing. The selection of Momodu koroma, from a lowly beginning, as a running mate to berewa is a clear signal that berewa will not take lightly the issues pertaining to empowering the young minds of today's sierra leone to be the best minds of tomorrow's sierra leone. there is no comfort for anyone now as the harm by these 'despicable lot' has be done. what we should learn from their actions towards us is that our silence and lack of constructive thinking has caused us the loss of our years - these will never come back. we can save our children by collectively starting to build the blocks that are needed for peaceful changes. An enlightenment process need to take over our apolitical minds. you cannot stay out of politics when it is that same politics that shapes our future. We just cannot stay silent to see these lacklustre monsters trample all over us.

I have relatives in Sierra leone and I do from time to time offer a lot of help to so many of them, even outside my kin. med, our situation in Sierra leone is pathetic and sometimes becomes so complex making one not knowing where to start to find a solution. i am in the SLPP because i believe in our founding fathers' ideology in coming together to form a party for the people. I am not happy with the way things have gone under the leadership of kabbah. however, i have a consolation - that our new leader will not engage in the denial of opportunities for the average Sierra leonean.


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA
From: Med
To: All
Date Posted: 15:16:39 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Chez, I love your express loyalty!! The question remains how sincere is your cause, not necessarily you; I mean the entire slpp leadership. A personal advise, always stand for a just cause.
The ancient Greek philosopher Isocrates once said that the greatest loyalty an adviser could give a leader is by being frank and candid. It is more helpful to the leader, Isocrates averred, to surround him - or her-self with those who disagree with him or her than it is to rely on those who mimic his or her point of view. Isocrates noted that: “frankness is a virtue in a counselor who must risk the ire of the (leader) foolish enough to be offended when contradicted.”
We need leaders of security, leaders who are secured intellectually and psychologically, such qualities prepare them to value disagreements. Not that one gains pleasure in writing about people’s lapses, but there is an instinct, compulsion, its natural, national, we have suffered allot, it takes you and me to help the bulk of uneducated folks, we have a responsibility, otherwise, ‘this generation will judge us callously’
My question in conclusion, ‘How prepared is ‘your leadership’ or the respective presidential candidates?

Tired of hearing of journalist incarcerated!!!


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 16:45:56 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-202-156.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.202.156

Message:
med, your reasoning makes me believe we have more of your character. i have known the berewa family since i was 13 and believe that they are hardworking people with the dogged determination to succeed. i have had no direct dealings with them simply because I do like to be 'frank' in my judgement of others. indirectly, i have had dealings and priviledged to have sent messages about my concern. Three years ago I happened to come into contact with very close supporters of berewa and pleaded with them for him, Berewa, to use his influence on kabbah to give us a turnaround. we suggested proposals to help create light industries in the country to help in the training and employment of our people. A year later nothing was done. this angered me and confronted them again and it was then i learnt that berewa was on the verge of loosing his job as he was becoming too 'big for his shoes'. i decided to talk to a few Sierra leoneans in Europe, US and wgambia to see how best we could form a political movement to send a clear message to these people. As you know it is not a child's play to bring us together to agree on financial decisions - our planned was abandoned.

I feel have more anger against our leaders because i have seen countries survive with minimum resources making their people moderately contented.

My concern about national unity. There are those who thrive on the divisions amongst us. until we eliminate these divisions or some how put them under control, before we can have the relative peace we all hope for. berewa, with all the alleged 'vindictive' character is the only person who will be capable of transforming our country amongst the present contestants. My intention after he wins is to create my virtual watchdog to monitor and evaluate his promises. I may not be able to fight from inside Sierra leone but being part of the global partnership will help me influence others who would want to see a just and progressive Sierra leone. It takes sacrifice and i have always sacrificed myself for the good of my people. it is not an easy task to instill nationalism or patriotism into confused minds. The bulk of our people are confused - many are capable of learning - the demotivation syndrome makes them to look gloomy at life. I believe we should not give up and with constructive thoughts, we can get others to join in the fight for a just and progressive Sierra leone.

I believe berewa is now prepared; his preparedness will be evident the day he takes the presidency. the so-called pact with kabbah people talk about will be cancelled. Some will want kabbah to face an equiry - that is fine - i just think people like Kabbah should be made to exist alongside the transformations he so blindly neglected. tell me something, where on earth do you think the resources appropriated by kabbah and his cronies will be safely spent? I do not believe they will ever live to enjoy their loot. Happiness gives success; these people wanted success by abusing the basic principles and ideals of humanity. we cannot kill them but will want them to see how others of the same flesh and blood handle these same basic principles and ideals they rejected. These are our songs to berewa to enable him remember them and nelieve that there is nothing greater than honour and nobility, a legacy he dreams to leave when he departs from power. kabbah's recklessness will always haunt him - the same is happening to the likes of Abass Bundu, Abdulai Conteh, and many more of 'them'.

Berewa will want to leave a mark as the world watches the little nation of Sierra leone.

tanding for us. O before i got upset and decided that the only


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA
From: Salone Ally
To: All
Date Posted: 10:20:37 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-174-127-233.bstnma.east.verizon.net at 71.174.127.233

Message:
I feel your pain. The question is will Ernest or Charles do better than Berewa will do.


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:47:58 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Should we trust Ernest Koroma who has no Govt experience.Can you tell me what he's done at reliance insurance company? How sucessful has the company being since he was thrust upon them by Sheki.


Thank you.


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA
From: Med
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Date Posted: 06:31:27 07/12/07 ()
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Minister of Justice and Attorney-General Solomon Berewa defended a military court's decision to impose the death sentence on 34 military officers Monday, saying that the death penalty was part of Sierra Leone's colonial heritage. "Exactly 100 years ago this year, the colonial masters in 1898 executed 96 people for refusing to pay the hut tax of 26 pence...So the capital sentence is not new to Sierra Leone. It is part of our history and a legacy from colonialism," Berewa said.

It is despicable that a legally minded AG, can say such, at a time when the whole wide world abhors anything which has to do colonial rule and its effects on Africa. I am beginning to wonder, if the execution was indeed a fair judicial process.
Unfortunately, this gentle man aspires for the number one leadership position. I Pity my motherland…


Subject: Re: DO NOT TRUST SOLOMON BEREWA
From: Sahid
To: All
Date Posted: 05:22:17 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I concur! If this is the calibre of candidates on offer, then the future dose not bode well!


Subject: No to Kabbah continuity!!!!!
From: Salone boy
To: All
Date Posted: 03:48:25 07/12/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 218-64-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.64.218

Message:
When I read Prof. Peters salient article, a feeling of resistance boiled over me. Kabbbah has set himself and the SLPP against voices of reason and conscience. Tejan Kabbah has alreadt set the stage for fraud and rigging during the elections. Only fools will allow Kabbah to preside over the elctions after all the badthings he has done to perpetuate thievery in the Country.
While, Prof. Peters is looking forward to work with civil society groups to forestall any inimical and diabolical action of the SLPP, I want to endorse my support towards his holistic and moralistic approach to see that sanity prevails in Sierra Leone. Sadly, Christiana Thorp is playing with fire if she goes with the agenda of the Kabbah/Berewa team.
The end game of this our enterprise is to honour the constitution and not to allow anyone to usurp it. This is why conscious Sierra Leoneans must stand in the way of Kabbah to prolong his rule after twelve years of socio-economic strangulation.
abbah does not deserve to be at State House now. There has to be an independenmt body to oversee the elctions because Kabbah mandate is up.
Sierra Leoneans from all shades of opinion must come out and form a body that will guarantee a free and fair elctions. People's power is massive and no guns, tear gas or intimidation will defeat the power of the people. It is very important to convey a message of awarenesss ion the minds of our poor folks. Kabbah should now give way for an independent body to supervise the elctions. Failure to do it, will send a wrong message that Kabbah/Berewa are gearing to rig the elctions. The elections have already been rigged. Because after six weeks, before Christiana Thorpe will declare a winner. Where will the ballot boxex being kept during that period and who will provide security at that time. Opposition parties must know that during that period Kabbah/Berewa backed by Christiana Thorpe will change the original result.
It is therefore necessary to nip this in the bud by calling for a national conference that will determine the outcome of the elctions. Sierra Leoneans , please, let us employ civility and consciousness now before it we allow few people to take us backward.
God bless Prof. eters for his singular commitment.


Subject: fundraising
From: SONNY MOSES
To: All
Date Posted: 22:59:29 07/11/07 ()
Email Address: moses1212419@yahoo.com
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A massive meeting was held last sunday,at the home of Mr Tejan kallay.Organized by the friends of Sam Sumana (FOSS)the elected running mate for the APC.The meeting was attended by mostly professionals,like doctor,building engineer,lawyer,dentist,structural engineer,homeland security expert,and including members of all walks of life.The purpose for the meeting was fundraising for the dynamic VP to be.Mr Sam Sumana spoke to members via satellite from his home in murray town.


Subject: fundraising
From: SONNY MOSES
To: All
Date Posted: 22:54:29 07/11/07 ()
Email Address: moses1212419@yahoo.com
Entered From: ip-207-145-43-5.iad.megapath.net at 207.145.43.5

Message:
A massive meeting was held last sunday,at the home of Mr Tejan kallay.Organized by the friends of Sam Sumana (FOSS)the elected running mate for the APC.The meeting was attended by mostly professionals,like doctor,building engineer,lawyer,dentist,structural engineer,homeland security expert,and including members of all walks of life.The purpose for the meeting was fundraising for the dynamic VP to be.Mr Sam sumana spoke to members via satellite from his home in murray town.


Subject: APC
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 19:41:06 07/11/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The


Subject: Re: APC
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 05:57:02 07/12/07 ()
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Message:
the people


Subject: Re: APC
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 06:01:24 07/12/07 ()
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Message:
Down there things are hotting up as


Subject: APC supporters on Foot Patrol paint Freetown RED!!
From: Bassie amara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:58:58 07/11/07 ()
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Message:
Unlike the ruling party which uses governement vehicles and money to truck in supporters during their rally, the APC supporters today demonstrated their loyalty by walking on foot from Kalaba town to the national stadium. Talk about a true crowd, the city of Freetown was at a virtual standstill at midday today. The crowd, a true Freetown crowd, was enough to refute all claims by the blind SLPP appologists of a strong support base in the capital.

Now that the campaign is open for all, SLPP can continue to use governement vehicles and money and, of course, feed their supporters with Gadafi's rice while the other parties can truely invest in a honest campaign to redeem Sierra Leone of the backwardness that this rotten Kabba/Berewa government continues to hold our people to. It is easy to tell that this outgoing administration did not do much for Sierra Leone, just check the darkness of Freetown at night and tell me if they deserve another term. I mean how long should it take for a serious goverment to provide a constant supply of electricity in the capital city. What about the SLPP manifesto of 2002, which clearly stated that they will complete the Bumbuna hydro. Hey, may be some one should tell Sia Tiyaama that a political party does not need a thousand pages on their manifesto to deliver the goods to the people. Too much talk and nothing to show for it. And remember, this administration has received more money and foreign aid package during its tenure than all previous governments combined. Where is all the money?

Please vote someone else this time. Be it Margai, Koroma, Jalloh or any other presidential aspirant but not the sleeping dwarf.


Subject: Re: APC supporters on Foot Patrol paint Freetown RED!!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 19:29:39 07/11/07 ()
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In Makeni it's August 11 or never:


Subject: Sec Gen says it all
From: Med
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Date Posted: 14:20:55 07/11/07 ()
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The briefing by the National Sec-Gen Mr. Jacob Jusu Saffa. Read for yourself at: http://www.slpp.ws/browse.asp?page=464
Otherwise see a categorized summary of his piece, he sounds familiar with the problems affecting the country and I believe under the new manifesto theme “A Platform for Peace Consolidation and Prosperity" more will be achieved
He wrote ………………..…
Most importantly on corruption:
‘In the area of corruption, some of the efforts include establishment of an independent Audit Service, strengthening of Anti-Corruption Commission, and enactments of financial and procurement laws’. Lonta.
On Kabba
President Kabbah in his wisdom had topmost on his agenda, bringing the war to an end, promoting peace, reconciliation and unity. He embraced every well meaning Sierra Leoneans and made deliberate efforts to bring into the Party notable Sierra Leoneans, particularly from the North.
On Berewa
Hon. Solomon Berewa, as Party Leader and Presidential Nominee for the 2007 presidential elections. Prior to his election, Solo B as he is fondly called was a successful Lawyer and Attorney General and Minister of Justice (1996-2002). In his latter capacity, he successful brokered the Lome Peace Accord which formed a formidable basis for peace in Sierra Leone. Currently, he is the Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone.
Notable economic gains
Since the end of the war in 2002, the government has since embarked on massive reconstruction of state infrastructure, restoration of social services and rebuilding of state institutions. Notable gains in recent years are economic and political stability
Challenges
Consolidating the peace process and improving governance, promoting pro-poor growth and creating jobs, particularly for the army of unemployed youths, infrastructure development, food security and human development are the key development challenges
Initiatives
Several initiatives are underway to rebuild the poor infrastructure including electricity in Freetown and other big towns and trunk roads linking large settlements. Policies and laws that affect investment flows are being reviewed to make them investment-friendly
Transition
As we moved from emergency to recovery, our development activities were largely in the areas of security, basic livelihood support in the form of food aid and input supply for small-scale agriculture, rebuilding of social and economic infrastructures and restoration of basic social services.
Conclusively
I therefore appeal to all Sierra Leoneans to vote SLPP for continuity of good policies and programmes.
I thank you all.

One Country One People.

National Secretary-General, SLPP


Subject: Re: Sec Gen says it all
From: Bassie Amara
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Date Posted: 17:18:45 07/11/07 ()
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Too late JJ-Blood. You guys had two terms and a lot of foreign money plus our own very diamonds and gold, you did nothing. You guys even suceeded in corrupting a self proclaimed perfectionist in the name of Joko Smart. For those of us who knew Prof. Joko Smart during our FBC days, it is beyond belief that he himself can not catch a single cockroach (as Emmerson rightfully said) since he became anti-corruption commisioner. Who do you think will do a better job than Joko Smart, another Boboh Belleh?

Lets do it like civilized nations do, rotate the power. Obviously SLPP has no clue how to move a country forward but can write all sorts of "boto bata" in the name of a manifesto. Manifesto my foot.


Subject: Re: Sec Gen says it all
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 16:22:48 07/11/07 ()
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Soothing banalities and more visionary promises of continuity. After more than six years after the Anti Corruption was empowered and commissioned to pursue the criminals, and when the gladiator crowd is talking about him ( the leader) taking his gloves off to fight corruption, at this late date all Mr. Jaffa is saying is “In the area of corruption, some of the efforts include establishment of an independent Audit Service, strengthening of Anti-Corruption Commission, and enactments of financial and procurement laws’. Lonta.

Come rain or the APC-red sun on August 11th, the next leader of Sierra Leone will be stepping into Alhaji Kabbah’s shoes and if the indictment below is true, he will have to grapple with what Kenday Kamara will so forcefully persuade us is a management gap which will have to be filled- by the next leader.

Back to February 7th, 2007

http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/2627.cfm


Subject: Re: Sec Gen says it all
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 16:32:06 07/11/07 ()
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If it rains on August 11th den some of fen yuba dem go soak ( as we say in Nigeria) well well, and some of the others might find shelter up in the treetops


Subject: Re: Sec Gen says it all
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:30:37 07/11/07 ()
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What about “A Platform for Peace Consolidation and Prosperity for Everybody! " ?


Subject: Bethel Church
From: Amara Gbellu Luckay
To: All
Date Posted: 13:45:39 07/11/07 ()
Email Address: gbellu2000@yahoo.com
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This church has become the laughing stock of the New Jersey community because the of constant in-fighting. As a past member of that church, I think the only way forward is a complete overhaul of the so-called administration. A few members have appointed and annointed themsleves to certain positions. They use this positions to force their will on the membership of the church. This bond and their subsequent hold on the church needs to be broken before any settlment could be reached.
I believe some members do not really want to serve God, but engage in self promotion in the name of serving God, this will not urger well for a church. So my advice is that whoever is going to look into the issue in the church should look at the root course of the problem otherwise another pastor will bite the dust and members will be left scratching their heads for answers.
One cannot just go in to try to solve the present problem and expect things to go back to normal. this surgery should be one of total masectomy, otherwise the cancer will return with a vengence sooner rather than later.
Thnaks
Amara G. Luckay
New Jersey


Subject: Excess Baggages
From: Weight Checker
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Date Posted: 12:16:59 07/11/07 ()
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When Pa Kabbah is gone, what will happen to his excess baggages, like
Sheku Taralwallie,Shekou Sesay,Francis Gabbidon, Kanji Daramy,Morikeh Fofanah,JB Dauda,Ramadan Dumbuya. All of these people have some redundant position in the present Government.
If SLPP wins, would Berewa like to carry these excess baggages??
It is obvious that if anyone else wins the elections, the incoming President would not to hear these names.


Subject: Re: Excess Baggages
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 12:48:53 07/11/07 ()
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As Pa Sheki of the APC once said, "we are all endowed with certain talents, no one is indispensable...". berewa weill have to look at those capable of working with him in his transforamtion of our lives whilst not forgetting to provide appropriate therapies for the bad apples and the malcontents in our society. we have to reach out to those incapable of understanding civility and progress for the collective whole.


Subject: President Kabbah Commissions Pharmaceutical Quality Control
From: POLITICS
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Date Posted: 12:01:24 07/11/07 ()
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President Kabbah Commissions Pharmaceutical Quality Control Laboratory.
Jul 6, 2007, 16:00


Freetown, Jul. 6, 07 (MOHS) – The President, Dr. Ahamad Tejan Kabbah has officially commissioned the newly established “State-of-the art” Pharmaceutical Quality Control Laboratory at the Jenner-Wright Under Fives’ Clinic at Ross Road in Freetown.



From Right: The President, Dr. Ahamad Tejan Kabbah Delivering His Speech.


Administered by the National Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone and the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, the laboratory is intended to provide state of the art scientific means that would expose those engaged in working against the health of the state for personal gains.


Subject: Re: President Kabbah Commissions Pharmaceutical Quality Control
From: POLITICS
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Date Posted: 12:07:55 07/11/07 ()
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LINK FOR THE ARTICLE


Subject: George Weah, Educational Achievements, and Leadership
From: Ideas
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Date Posted: 11:18:24 07/11/07 ()
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George Weah returns to classroom
Former world footballer of the year, George Weah, has gone back to school to boost his chances of winning Liberia's next presidential elections in 2012.
Critics said Mr Weah, who contested and narrowly lost the 2005 polls, was not well-enough educated to run the West African country.

He said he has now finished high school and has gone on to college.

"Now I'm not playing no more and I have the opportunity to go back to the classroom," he told the BBC.

"Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... if you don't pedal you don't go forward," he said.

"It's never enough - even the people who have PhDs are going back to school."

Voters' hearts

Mr Weah dropped out of school in his final year before going on to become - arguably - Africa's best ever footballer.

He was Fifa's World Player of the Year in 1995.

While his school score card did not hinder his career on the pitch, he said it seemed to matter to voters.

"The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people," he told the BBC's Network Africa programme.

He said he had recently finished high school and was currently studying at a US college in Florida.

"For now I'm doing business administration and criminal justice, starting from there and then political science in the future," he said.

Mr Weah was beaten to the Liberian presidency by highly educated Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a former World Bank economist.


Subject: Re: George Weah, Educational Achievements, and Leadership
From: Pa Sorie
To: All
Date Posted: 19:37:21 07/11/07 ()
Email Address: dejabz2@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: cpe-24-168-60-146.si.res.rr.com at 24.168.60.146

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Will people please post original article for discussion. This article was culled from the BBC verbatim, with no credit to them...please some originality will helps us all....or simply give credit where it is due...


Subject: Re: George Weah, Educational Achievements, and Leadership
From: boli
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Date Posted: 11:33:34 07/11/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-66-122-65.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.122.65

Message:
Why not send this to a Liberian forum. I am really not interested in Goerge Weah or his lack of education. If you feel aggrieved by my posting, please tell me how this affects the people of Sierra Leone


Subject: Re: George Weah, Educational Achievements, and Leadership
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 12:17:10 07/11/07 ()
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They are our Good neighbours and what affects them spilled over to us - vice versa. it is humane to seek the interests of your fellow human being, especially a situation as that of weah. He magnaninously accepted defeat and now he has gone to the classroom to correct the area he was not adequately strong. it is a lesson that no one is ever too old to lear - a continious process. i hope my response makes sense.


Subject: Re: George Weah, Educational Achievements, and Leadership
From: boli
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Date Posted: 12:35:38 07/11/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
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Message:
I have respect for you and will not disagree with you. But still feel Liberian matters should be discussed in their own forum.

Let's agree to disagree.

Sorry bro


Subject: Re: George Weah, Educational Achievements, and Leadership
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 12:59:20 07/11/07 ()
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Thanks boli, i also have respect for you. I guess the writer was attempting to bring to our notice what George weah has done so far to advance himself to feel more confident in serving his people. Remember how there war spilled over to us - what affects them will directly or indirectly affect us. We share similar cultures. During our childhood days we had more Sierra Leoneans in liberia than were liberians in Sierra leone. most of their great people today shooled in our institutions or were tutored by our able teachers. Liberia is a sister country to us and do sooner we realised that, the better it is in advancing our bilateral relations. There is more to what i have just explained - we should embrace them with all our hearts and might. let us move on from the past to a more progressive platform.


Subject: WORSENING HARDSHIP
From: THE ANALYST
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Date Posted: 10:46:17 07/11/07 ()
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THE ANALYST NEWSPAPER

WORSENING HARDSHIP

Basic Commodities Wear Coat-Suits, Transport Fares, US$ Rate Soaring
Has Govt. Lost Grip in Anti-Poverty Fight?

One reason why the 2005 presidential and legislative elections saw much firework, with more than twenty political groupings and scores of competitors in action, was because of the enormous interest the people have in providing remedies to the diverse debilitating problems that have kept the oldest African republic backward in spite of its rich natural endorsements.

Many platforms and vows were made, but the majority of Liberians selected the Unity Party, which featured then Standard-bearer Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, an acclaimed international civil servant.

At Inauguration, the new President reiterated the Unity Party’s vows and strategy to liberate the predominantly dispossessed people of Liberia from the shackles of poverty and its accomplices: hunger, illiteracy and disease.


• Hardship has reached an alarming rate in Liberia today


Running into the second year, it seems liberation is far-fetched and things are getting messier as Our Staff Writer reports.

Despite policy pronouncements and strides visibly being made by the Johnson-Sirleaf administration to combat hardship, particularly amongst the ordinary people of Liberia, living conditions continue to take downward path.

Shortly after the inauguration, the government announced the widely publicized “150-Day Action Plan,” an accelerated national recovery strategy not merely intended to bridge the fiscal space between the transitional period and the elected administration, but also to catapult the socioeconomic conditions of a people who were nursing fresh wounds of a marathon civil strife.

Besides enunciating macroeconomic and security policy actions, the 150-Day Action Plan, or also called 150-Day Deliverables, described the new government’s first shots in the war against poverty.

The Plan, amongst other things, set out in a qualitative and quantitive way, fast-track remedial actions critical to the need of the ordinary Liberian, principally in the area of social services.

The 150-Day Deliverables was followed by what is now called the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy (iPRS), which rather theoretically advanced Liberia’s post-conflict recovery and development to a more sustained layer.

IPRS, which is engraved into the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 national budgets, places enormous emphasis on the alleviation of hardship, using various economic measures.

Sadly, the theoretical expression of the fledgling government’s political intended to reduce hardship and improve the living standards of Liberians is yet to get on par with empirical and concrete change in the lives of the people.

“Things are getting harder and harder by the day as if this government which is obviously seemed working around the clock to improve our situation is doing nothing,” said Joe T. Mehsen, a civil servant.

“The President is restless, going all out pleading and pleading for our devastated country and people. Even at home every top official is spending sleepless nights to ensure that things get better. But what we see is the opposite of results expected, as if the nation needs to consult an oracle.”

The price of every commodity that is essential, and directly tied to the life and pleasure of the average Liberian, is rising. Rice, the nation’s staple, is leading the parade; it is on the move that analysts say is unusual, even during the days of the worst regimes in the past.

In the wake of the galloping price of the staple, the government through the Ministry of Commerce has made a shocking pronouncement readying the people to expect higher tag of the commodity or adjust their taste for Butter Rice, which is widely preferred by most ordinary Liberians.

The Commerce Ministry has been justifying the twisting choice for Butter Rice on international market forces which, accordingly, have left the rice of the commodity on the loose.

The Ministry’s pronouncement has unsurprisingly triggered outrage amongst most citizens, particularly the underprivileged, for whom food, mainly rice, is a matter of death or life.

A pro-democracy group, the Movement for the Revival of the Liberian Society (MORLS), has been speaking against both the high price of rice and plan to change Butter Rice for another grade of rice.

The group described the high price of price as unreasonable and unrealistic, and called on President Johnson-Sirleaf to remember her campaign promise to stabilize the price of the nation’s staple.

Rice is popularly regarded a political commodity. Political activists used attempted hike of the price of the staple to fan anti-establishmentarian dissent; a dissent that never plummeted until the 133 year-old settler oligarchy was dethroned in 1980.

Rice is not the only critical commodity on the rise in Liberia. From merchandised goods to local produce, the situation is the same: hiked prices have stretched beyond the reach of most Liberians who are either not gainfully employed or whose take-home pay is simply dehumanizing.

Underpinning the rampant rise of prices is gasoline and fuel which rose from US$2.75 and US$2.85 to US$3.30 and US$3.60 respectively.

The rise of this essential commodity has impacted on transport fares around the country, inhibiting movement of people and goods, and offsetting the prices of local commodities and fares.

Even imported commodities have had their own shares from the rise in gasoline and fuel prices, as entrepreneurs, most of them expatriates, embed the cost of private electricity into their goods and other services.

Economic analysts here say the upsurge of prices has taken cue from the instability of the foreign exchange regime of the country, particularly the parity between the Liberian and United States Dollars.

While the parity rose to and remained US$1 to L$60 in the last couple of months, it has in recent days leaped to 1-63, in some places 1-64.

The element of surprise, according to many analysts, is that both the un-diminishing pace of the prices for essential commodities, including the wide gap between Liberian and US Dollars, is untypical even during the worst days of the past, during the regime of Charles Taylor branded as the most mischievous and autocratic leader of Liberia.

“I don’t understand how this kind of thing is happening; prices of goods and services were relatively better and stable during the war days, when leaders outlawed and demonized were in power than during this regime which has got enormous international goodwill and enjoying every element of peace and stability,” said a district superintendent from the Central Region of Liberia who asked not to be named in print for fear he may be queried by his bosses.

“If there was anything that gives me nostalgia about the war years, particularly during Charles Taylor’s regime, it is the way prices of rice and other commodities were kept stable even as bullets were flying.

What more does an ordinary Liberian want from politicians than making the cost of rice and transportation affordable? Contemporary politicians must ask why William V. S. Tubman, however cunning and despotic, ruled Liberia for 27 unbroken years without incident.”

While some analysts believe that it is too soon to dismiss the efforts of the Johnson-Sirleaf administration and that it is just a matter of time for the economic programs of the regime to bear sustainable fruits.

Others say 18 months in lifespan of an administration manned by a consortium of well-schooled and patriotic Liberians working in an environment of relative peace and international goodwill is sufficient to make gains capable of relieving a long desolated people from the stings of poverty and hardship.

“Even assuming that the government is using the first few months of its existence to overhaul the system and set the pace for sustained recovery, we don’t except that it justifies the worsening state of things for the ordinary people,” the Western Region-based district superintendent said.

“If we who have taken over state power are doing other things that rob us the time and focus to alleviate hardship which was brought forward in this dispensation, it would be more patriotic enough to ensure that whatever difficult condition inherited remains as it had been in the past than to let it get worse in our times that are relatively peaceful and blessed.”

Meanwhile, Liberians are seemingly coping with the rising tide of acute hardship without obvious popular dissent. In a situation where the political space exists between public patience and concrete reality, some analysts say, the option is nothing but deliberate revolutionary policy actions.

A student activist, J. Sylvester Panto, 29, opines: “There should be no need for prolonged complacency and cooling off period, because you cannot tell when that vital space can evaporate into thin air or run into political entanglement.

President Johnson-Sirleaf could regain her dwindling political stature if she starts to take radical actions that will directly impact on the welfare of the ordinary.

And such actions should include, but not limited to, issuing Executive Orders by substantially reducing, if not erasing tariffs and other taxes that have underpinned the persistent upward mobility of prices of essential goods.

And it should not only be a matter of announcing policies, but enforcing them. In fact, how heroic and applausive it would be for President Johnson-Sirleaf and her tenure if she causes government to pay subsidies on rice, gasoline, cement and other basic commodities if freezing tariffs does not make them affordable to ordinary Liberia.”

The young student activist says unless such deliberate pro-people economic measures are taken by the government, not only would hardship incessantly bite and ruin Liberians, the paradox of hailing the past and condemning the present would continue even during this regime in spite of the President’s vow to make a fundamental break with the past.”


Subject: SLPP TRAITORS TELL SALONE PEOPLE-- DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO!
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:48 07/11/07 ()
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Posted by SLPP on July 11, 2007 at 09:59:51:

In Reply to: Re: The people of Sierra Leone are imbeciles! posted by Chez Winakabs Europe on July 10, 2007 at 17:07:42:

You miss the point. It don't mater when yousaid you left salone. What matters is that you left and ran away and left your peopel to suffer under the govt. tidday of SLPP.

You tell them to vote for the party which has left them with no water, no light, no food, no hope, while you keep hiding abroad in comfort.

Hypocrite! Typical SLPP traitor to your own people.


Subject: Re: SLPP TRAITORS TELL SALONE PEOPLE-- DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO!
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:25:34 07/11/07 ()
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Why are my bothering to reply to your false statement, misquoting me? i am human and have tolerance for your type. I first left Sierra leone on the 17 February 1987. returned to Siera leone on the 5 September 1988 and left again on the 9 septemebr 1988. Who was in power during these times? SLPP, it is wise to be serious when quoting someone. go and read my post in reply to your assertion that i ran away from Sierra leone and that was under the SLPP regime. I did not run away from my country. i am free to go there any day. personal reasons makes one tend to stay away for a while.


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