Subject: APC WON THE 2004 LOCAL ELECTIONS , WILL WIN 2007 ELECTIONS
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:15:16 07/28/07 ()
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Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
The results of 2004 local elections were a clear message sent by the people of Sierra-Leone in favour of the APC.The slpp did not execute its obligation vested in them,by even providing the basic needs for the population.The up-coming elections has also indicated all out victory for the APC.In the Western or developed nations these prognosis gives confidence to the leading candidate or party but African politics is occupied with violence,immaturity and unfairness,where a potential winner will end up loosing.The APC is confident and sure of a land slide victory but we will work hard on our campaign till the final day

Subject: Re: APC WON THE 2004 LOCAL ELECTIONS , WILL WIN 2007 ELECTIONS
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 14:00:47 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
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Message:
Musa,
It is true that the APC won the Freetown city council and other local councils election in 2004,but the most interesting thing to note is that after two months in the councils, your APC clearly manifested it inability to efficiently superintend the affairs of all the town councils. That is why the people of Sierra Leone will never again give the APC another chance to mess up.

Subject: Re: APC WON THE 2004 LOCAL ELECTIONS , WILL WIN 2007 ELECTIONS
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:35:18 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
Musa, when will you reason and learn from the experiences of what went on in sierra leone during twenty four years of uninterrupted APC rule. Compare that to the ten interrupted years of Kabbah's rule! My brother, please do your country a service and speak the truth about our bad apples. The present APC composition is marred with hungry and greedy elements whose objective is to become rich and bring a lawless society back into our communities.

Please try to explore these two incidents that occurred in the past weeks viz:

1. Qadaffi's rice

2. Alleged assasination attempt

Are these the credible people you really want to support to govern our country?

From the latest incidents, how do you rate the APC?

Don't you think they need proper psychological and rehabilitation therapy. i would not advocate for them to be locked up but to be given the opportunity to see how law abiding citizens thrive.

I am called a blind SLPP apologist; some do not even understand what some sierra leoneans stand for. I am a product of the sufferings created by the APC and clung on to my belief that one day spring will come unto our brighter steps. I travelled all throughout Africa in search of knowledge that could help change my society. I did not allow the reclessness of the APC rule to cloud my mind with uncertainties. I used the sufferring metted on me by the APC to a positive advantage. I would want you to reflect on yourself and ask your self - WHAT IS IN IT FOR MY COUNTRY IF ERNEST COMES TO POWER? AS AN OPPOSITION LEADER, HE FAILED TO INITIATE ANY CONSTRUCTIVE AND PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS THAT WILL SEND A MESSAGE TO THE ALPP THAT - HEY THE TRUE SON HAS COME TO REDEEM US! He did no such thing. Election time, he fabricates, schemes and try old tricks! Is this your leader that you want us to support.

Think again Musa. The clock is ticking. I will remind you that you backed a horse you know nothing about.

Subject: Re: APC WON THE 2004 LOCAL ELECTIONS , WILL WIN 2007 ELECTIONS
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 14:16:02 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
My Compatriot Chez,we are living in the present and thinking about a brighter future, with reflection to the past not to repeat the errors of yesterday.The corrupt elements of the APC during the Siaka Stevens regime are the mainstream players of today's corrupt,failed and evil slpp.Chez who was ruling Sierra-Leone when the nation became the poor of the poorest on earth?who is in power when Freetown became the darkest city on earth?who is in power when Sierra-Leone can only boast of wells not clean tap water.who is in power when the infant mortality rate has exceeded all developing countries?who is in power when Sierra-Leone received the largest amount of aid in the history of our country?Are you in Sierra-Leone now? if not when did you last visit the country?please make your analysis and comparison.Chez,have you got blood in your veins flowing?Have you got feelings for your fellow humanbeings?have you got a human heart?If you have got all the above qualities and you truely love your country not yourselfish ends and your tribal,party or regional affiliation then you wont dream of another single day for a slpp rule.The man you are supporting Berewa is the vp of this failed and corrupt clan.Was the Hon.Earnest Bai Koroma a member of parliament,cabinet minister or held any high government post during the days of Siaka Stevens?My conscious will be clear and I will tell my kids in the future that we supported the APC.Because if the slpp is allowed (either by violence or rigging because is the only option left)to be in government just for another day,then the generation yet unborn will blame us why we allowed it to happen.

Subject: APC RIGGED THE 2004 LOCAL ELECTIONS IN FREETOWN
From: Santigie Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 12:14:05 07/28/07 ()
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Entered From: adsl-68-127-138-41.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net at 68.127.138.41

Message:
APC bribed Freetown polling agents in the 2004 local elections, and they came out victorious. It is shocking that the SLPP government did nothing to ensure that the polling agents were honest and trustworthy citizens. The SLPP government trusted the NEC to do their job and conduct a free and transparent election. It turns out that the former NEC Boss, Davies (who was the head of the civil service under the APC government)is a closet APC who did nothing to investigate suspected corrupt polling agents, and to fire them from the NEC should the allegation be proven correct.
Davies was fired after that election for not performing his duties well. He put his personal agenda ahead of the national interest!

APC HAS NEVER WON A FREE AND FAIR ELECTION!

Subject: Re: APC RIGGED THE 2004 LOCAL ELECTIONS IN FREETOWN
From: In Pursuit of Fairness
To: All
Date Posted: 12:20:22 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
That may well be true, but the APC seems to enjoy a lot of support in Eastern Freetown where the majority of the population of Freetown resides. So I am not really surprised though that they would win a majority in Freetown.
Saidu Tee

Subject: ELECTION YEAR POLITICS: FORUM SLPP ON A ROLL
From: Peeper Neutral
To: All
Date Posted: 10:42:17 07/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ool-44c29146.dyn.optonline.net at 68.194.145.70

Message:
Ernest Koroma and the APC have just been brutally castigated by Saloneman2 and Dr. Musa Sannoh. Where is the forum's APC?????????????????//

Subject: Re: ELECTION YEAR POLITICS: FORUM SLPP ON A ROLL
From: APC
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Date Posted: 11:34:14 07/28/07 ()
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Probably wondering why SLPP followers are so blind. Castigation? You call rumour-mongering castigation?

Be serious, if you want to be taken seriously. APC has no time for unserious people like Sannoh or Saloneman2.

Subject: Patriotic Vanguard Names Tom Nyuma's Girlfriend he slept wit
From: Girlfriend Named
To: All
Date Posted: 10:36:39 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
http://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/article.php3?id_article=1527&var_recherche=nyuma

Subject: Re: Patriotic Vanguard Names Tom Nyuma's Girlfriend he slept wit
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:17:36 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Her name is not lynette! She is not just a gilrfriend, she has a child with Nyuma. just spoke to the brother who was also beaten by the APC thugs. APC has lost it - they need to change their ways to be acepted back into the fold. if they try to cause any havoc, our global partners are willing to help us bring them to justice.

Subject: Re: Patriotic Vanguard Names Tom Nyuma's Girlfriend he slept wit
From: Man Pikin
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Date Posted: 10:47:22 07/28/07 ()
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The two bodyguards to Nyuma were grabbed and severely beaten by bodyguards of Ernest Koroma. They also allegedly rushed to the room were Nyuma was sleeping with his girlfriend, broke down the door and took him out and he too was severely beaten.

Nyuma, according to reports, was passing through Bo from Daru where he had gone to see his relatives for the first time since he was deported back from the USA three weeks ago.

His girlfriend whose name was given as Lynette was also abducted but was later released.
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THIS JONATHAN LEIGH WRITER NOR TRY OH. EE NOR BEHAVE LEKKEH MAN PIKIN.

Subject: Re: Patriotic Vanguard Names Tom Nyuma's Girlfriend he slept wit
From: Sierra Leone
To: All
Date Posted: 13:13:21 07/28/07 ()
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Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253

Message:
That's where we miss cocorioko. They could have looked on both sides. Anyway

Subject: Forum Police to Kabs
From: Forum Police
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Date Posted: 10:34:19 07/28/07 ()
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Entered From: ppp-70-249-138-254.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.249.138.254

Message:
How about suspending both violators for about a week,
and then ban them if they violate a second time?

Subject: Re: Forum Police to Kabs
From: TAMBA JOHN
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Date Posted: 10:37:19 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
WHY DONT YOU GUYS CORRESPOND PRIVATELY?

Subject: Re: Forum Police to Kabs
From: Observer
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Date Posted: 11:00:25 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
D-A-a-a! Tamba, ever heard of transparency?

Subject: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: In Pursuit of Fairness
To: All
Date Posted: 10:30:48 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: saiduTbangura@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-75-53-203-163.dsl.hstntx.sbcglobal.net at 75.53.203.163

Message:
Gentlemen, I have just learned that the APC leader was the chairman of the parliamentary committee that handled the Libya rice donations. If this is the case, then how was Ernest Koroma not aware of what happened to the Libya rice when he was in charge of the selling of the Libya rice?
Saidu Tee

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 10:53:20 07/28/07 ()
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"Gentlemen, I have just learned that the APC leader was the chairman of the parliamentary committee that handled the Libya rice donations"

Was the APC leader also president and head of the government that was responsible for overseeing the handling of the Libyan rice?

We know that the corrupt SLPP leader, Tejan Kabbah, was the one responsible as president and head of government.

So, are you SLPP apologists so blind that you fail to see that obvious truth?

The SLPP government's leader, Kabbah is the only person who bears the most responsibility ultimately for the SLPP's corruption. That is why his corrupt SLPP must be kicked out of power by the victims of their corruption -- the suffering people of sierra Leone.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:00:54 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
Your leader, ernest was chair of the parliamentary committee that was set up to establish NASSIT that benefited from the Libyan rice - that is what your fellow countryman was talking about. Kabbah, demonstrated a united parliament on an issue that was of national importance, ernest headed that committee. if a scandal ensued, would it not have been gentlemanly for ernest to explain to the rumourmongers what actually happened? No he did not! Actually, the whole thing was initiated by them (APC/PMDC). E lef pan dem - babu eye oooh!!

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:07:17 07/28/07 ()
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"Your leader, ernest was chair of the parliamentary committee that was set up to establish NASSIT that benefited from the Libyan rice - that is what your fellow countryman was talking about."

Did Sierra Leone have more than one leader as head of state? Talk sense, man.

Blind as you SLPP apologists are, you can't be so blind that you fail to see that the very corrupt Kabbah has returned to his longstanding habit of stealing Sierra Leone govt. money -- going back more than 40 years to his unpatriotic looting of SLPMB money for which he had been banned from holding public office in SL.

The people of Siera Leone should have listended to Beoku Betts who said of the thief, Kabbah: Once a thief, always a thief. And we all know from his theft of the Libyan rice and other Libyan aidf, that Kabbah proved Beoku Betts right. A thief he was, and a thief he has remained. The SLPP must pay for their impoverishment of the people of Sierra Leone over the past 10 years.

They should be kicked out of power, so the 10-year suffering they have been imposing upon Sierra Leoneans will be brought to an overdue end

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:11:51 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
I try to make sense out of your writing but you refuse to do the same. 'Your leader' of the APC PARTY, was ernest koroma and the moinority leader in parliament.

Do you understand now! Kabbah is the president and was leader of the SLPP at the tim ernest was and is still leader of your APC party.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:15:55 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"Kabbah is the president and was leader of the SLPP at the tim ernest was and is still leader of your APC party."

So, was it Kabbah or Koroma who was president and head of the government of Sierra Leone?

We all know -- not counting blind SLPP apologists that it was corrupt Kabbah. Only a totally blind SLPP apologist would blame Koroma for Kabbah's corruption when it was Kabbah -- not Koroma -- who was president.

Your failure to understand that obvious fact makes a mockery of your statement that you try to make sense out of what you read. You don't.

Nobody can be that dumb, not even blind SLPP apologists.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:24:21 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I have not blamed Ernest for corruption - my bione is that he sat and pretended not to know about an issue that nearly caused the destruction of lives and property. he could have saved his face and won votes if only he was honsest enought to tell the people the whole truth about the matter.

The issue here is not about who to balme and not blame for corruption - Ernest knew of the rice issue but did nothin to curb the mayhem that was coming to engulf us, once again.

Crass dishonesty, my fellow and the people will not forgive ernest for trying to incite them to belieiving that it was Pa kabbah who sold the rice and he knew nothing about it. - That is the issue here.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:27:05 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
"The issue here is not about who to balme and not blame for corruption"

YOU ARE OROVING YOUR MEMBERSHIP OF THE SLPP -- BY FAILING TO UNDERSTAND ANYTHING, NOT JUST WHAT YOU READ.

That is the issue for the people of Sierra Leone. Being the perpetrators of the massive corruption that has made paupers of millions of Sierra Leoneans, it is understandable that the SLPP does not want that to be the issue. But, it is for the people of Siera Leone.

That is why they will kick the most corrupt SLPP cabal out of power come Auguist 11, 2007.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:41:31 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
I speak to the people everyday and they are happy that things have improved in the last four years. I spoke to working partner yesterday in kambia and was well pleased that a lot of our young minds have enrolled to do nursing at the new institute in kambia training nurses. The first of its kind under SLPP. I will admit, more could have been done, but as I was not part of the delivery team, I was unable to see the short falls - we cannot become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious. How prepared are yout to unlock the darkness that now engulfs you?

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:48:54 07/28/07 ()
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"I speak to the people everyday and they are happy that things have improved in the last four years."

Your fellow blind SLPP supporters you speak to everyday are not the people of Sierra Leone who have been the millions of victims of SLPP Kabbah's corruption over the past decade of SLPP misrule.

You will know that the people of SL are not happy when they kick you and your SLPP out of power on August 11.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:01:37 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-163-118.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.163.118

Message:
I like your style! I like steadfast believers! you believe that Ernest can change sierra leone - do you really believe that him and his crew can change things? They cannot and they will breed chaos again. You party needs to put Sierra leone above their selfish interests. i know a lot of your supporters who have spent all the money the amassed in the 24 year rule. now they have not a dime to show for all these years. there only concern now is to get back into our coffers and start the whole process again.

Simply detach yourself from all the hype of the new APC and take a look within the and amongst the socalled 'new saviours' of sierra leone. then come back to me a show me a single character who has done a good deed for the people when in opposition? I'll tell you you will find non.

As always, I would not like to name names but I have taken the wrath of so many of your guys and dolls in trying to protect the image of our nation. I can say the same for some of our SLPP brothers and sisters but the bulk of the selfish characters are in the APC. that does not mean the newly constituted PMDC is free from my claims. the PMDC are a product of the hungry elements that saw barred roads in the SLPP and the APC. They are worse than the two that i have mentioned.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Stop Trying To Change The subject
To: All
Date Posted: 12:08:29 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
"I like your style! I like steadfast believers! you believe that Ernest can change sierra leone - do you really believe that him and his crew can change things?"

The only issue is the SLPP Kabbah's corruption in looting Libyan rice donated to the people of Sierra Leone.

Kabbah must pay for his repeat offense of burglary against the people of Sierra leone. That means that Kabbah and his fellow thief, Berewa and their enabling SLPP blind folowers must be kicked out of power on August 11, 2007.

Whether KOroma, Margai, or whoever then becomes president is immaterial to the key issue: the SLPP must pay for ruining Sierra Leone over the past 10 years.

And that means, to repeat, kicking Kabbah, and his corrupt SLPP leftovers like Berewa, out of power, so that the next government will le4arn that there will be appropriate consequences for corrupt politicians in Sierra leone from now on.

Please try to understand that simple statement.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:37:10 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
The people want Solo B and God is prepared and already acknowleges their desire.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 12:40:19 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
So, having shown that you can't count, you can't see, now you want us to believe that you are, nevertheless, capable of turning the disgust of millions of suffering Sierra Leoneans into "wanting" to contin ue their suffering?

Is there no limit to the blindness of you SLPP apologists?

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Stop Trying to Change The Subject
To: All
Date Posted: 13:00:37 07/28/07 ()
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The only issue under discussion is the repeat burglar of Sierra Leone's money, SLPP Kabbah's looting of the Libyan rice donated to the people of Sierra Leone.

Stop trying to hide from the truth about your corrupt SLPP's unpatriotic record of infamy in Sierra Leone.

The people of Sierra Leone will not be distracted by you and your fellow SLPP blind apologists from their mission to teach Kabbah that crime -- even when repeated against the nation -- does not pay.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:50:35 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
Please give me something that you believe your party can bring back to change our conditions! You have non other than greed to fill your pockets once again. In vain you build a house if you do not first build the man that dwells in it. Your leader has to be disciplined to be able to build us the castles he promises. How can we live in those castles? Look, brother/sister - reason and see that which is lacking in your party and make it right before asking the people for a mandate to run affairs of national concerns.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Stop Trying To Change The Subject
To: All
Date Posted: 13:01:42 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
The only issue under discussion is the repeat burglar of Sierra Leone's money, SLPP Kabbah's looting of the Libyan rice donated to the people of Sierra Leone.

Stop trying to hide from the truth about your corrupt SLPP's unpatriotic record of infamy in Sierra Leone.

The people of Sierra Leone will not be distracted by you and your fellow SLPP blind apologists from their mission to teach Kabbah that crime -- even when repeated against the nation -- does not pay.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 11:22:59 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Ernest Koroma Sold the rice!
You can call people stupid but the fact remains the rice was SOLD BY YOUR LEADER.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: BLIND
To: All
Date Posted: 11:28:06 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
Show us the evidence.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 10:46:19 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
C'est du deja-vu! What a prospective presidential candidate? It was a demonstration of a party running out of capaign tactics and desperate to smear others not thinking that the hole they were digging was not enough to contain the grand perseonnel of the SLPP - so they got buried in it. Whoso ever diggeth a pit, shall fall in it. Ernsest lack that simple sincere honesty. A true statement from him when the rice issue emerged could have scored him points but alas - chunneh get problem - they do not know when to score points!!

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 10:59:23 07/28/07 ()
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"Whoso ever diggeth a pit, shall fall in it."

The person you need to convince of that is the person who has dug the largest number of pits -- those for the millions of victims of SLPP corruption during the past decade of his misrule. That unpatriotic charlattan is the SLPP leader, President Kabbah.

The latest pit that he has dug for the people of Sierra Leone -- annointing his corrupt SLPP vice president, Berewa, to continue inposing suffering upon the people of SL -- will become his own grave when Berewa is buried in a landslide come August 11.

Then, both he and Kabbah will fittingly share the same fate -- in the deep pit they had dug for Sierra Leoneans.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:07:14 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You have misplaced the context of my verse paraphrased from the bible - what I meant was - ernest trying to coin a sheme to cause scandal and mayhem backfired on him as he was the chair of the committee that was charged with formulating policies in the creation of NASSIT from whence commeth the rice issue. He fell in the pit that he dug for us - shame on the dishonest APC presidential candidate - A BIG LIAR!!

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:12:05 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
You have shown that you are a true SLPP apologist: You do not understand what you reaD!

tThe people of Sierra Leone don't care what Koroma or you or any other blind SLPP apolosist say. What they see is that the SLPP thief, Kabbah, was the head of the SLPP government that has caused them to become the poorest people in the world for almost each and every one of the 10 years of corrupt SLPP misrule.

And is is Kabbah that the people opf Sierra Leone properly hold responsbible for their suffering. No one else.

That is why the people will pay back Kabbah fittingly -- by kicking his SLPP thieves led by his crony, Berewa, out of power come August 11.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: In Pursuit of Fairness
To: All
Date Posted: 11:33:19 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: saiduTbangura@hotmail.com
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Message:
Gentlemen, there is no need for the angry name calling. In the spirit of fairness, let us just state the facts of the debate and move on. I think that Ernest Koroma should have demonstrated responsibility by stating the whole truth about the Libya Rice and taking the plaudits for being part of the committee that set up a very viable institution in NASSIT. I wonder why he instead chose to absolve himself of blame rather than tell the Sierra Leonean people the truth about his role. Is this what the NEW APC IS ABOUT - CONTINUE TELLING UNTRUTHS AND PARTIAL TRUTHS TO SIERRA LEONEANS? Does Ernest Koroma believe he made the right choice of words by saying that his new APC will look like the Siaka Stevens and JS Momoh legacies?
Saidu Tee

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Stop Trying to Change The Subject
To: All
Date Posted: 11:37:07 07/28/07 ()
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Message:
The issue under discussion is Kabbah's corruption in the sale of Libyan rice donated to the people of Sierra leone.

Like SLPP said, one can understand that you SLPPers don't wqant that to the issue. But it is.

The people of Sierra Leone wil not be distracted by peiople like you who prefer to remain blind to your SLPP's corruption.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:19:23 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
May the Good Lord give you eyes to see that which your present sightlessness does not see. The people will come out and overwhelmingly vote SLPP for continuity.

The last few weeks have shown our people that the only way forward now is continuity with the SLPP whose projects are nearly ripe to begin harvest.

No thief can come overnight to bulldoze that which has been planted to have a bumper harvest.

In the harvest your skills will be needed and we will not hold it against you because you supported ernest - You are a sierra leonean and the freedom of choice you have to support whomsover you believe to be your best candidate. mine and the people belive it is Berewa.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:24:22 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"No thief can come overnight to bulldoze that which has been planted to have a bumper harvest."

YOU MUST NOT KNOW THE MASSIVELY DESTRUCTIVE THIEF OTHERWISE KNON AS SLPP LEADER KABBAH.

But your ignorance is no excuse for not knowing the destruction that the tsunami thief called Kabbah has wreaked on the people of Sierra leone over the past 10 years of his misrule. So, the people of Sierra Leone will pay his dwestructive SLPP i their own coin come August 11, 2007.

By God's grace, Kabbh the thief anmd Berewa his co-thief will be kicked out of power.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:37:19 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-163-118.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.163.118

Message:
24 years of total collapse of every fabric that held us together will at least take an equivalent of a half of the 24 years to put together again. Is your mind/memory porous or is it self-induced amnesia? Please fellow countrywo/man try and explore reasoning to be able to understand what the Kabbah-led SLPP government was facing. yes there we had so much support from our global partners but have tried checking on what is happening now? Initially, the field was open for our ministers and MPs to take as our partners had trust and belief that we were able to handle donor funds. This prompted some of us to appeal to donor organisations to properly monitor and evaluate the projects. Such appeals lead to donor organisations bringing in a stragey that involved a partnership in the delivery methods of the projects that saw expatriates working in supporting partnerships with our government, making it very difficult for our ministers, MPs and pa kabbah to take it all. So you see, my countrywo/man, the situayion in the last ten years has not been bleak at all.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:46:17 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"24 years of total collapse of every fabric that held us together will at least take an equivalent of a half of the 24 years to put together again."

So now you also can't count, in addition to being blind?

Let me try to help you see clearly and count properly.

1. The SLPP was in power from 1961 to 1967. THAT'S 6 years.

2. The APC was in power from 1968 to 1977. THAT'S 9 years.

3. THE SLPP-APC coalition was in power from 1978 to 1992. THAT'S 14 years.

4. The SLPP has been in power from 1996 to the present time, not coounting 97/98. THAT'S 10 years.

SUMMARY: SLPP has been misruling Sierra Leone for 16 years. The APC has been misruling Sierra leone for 9 years. BOTH the SLPP and the APC misruled Sierra Leone for an additional 14 years.

I hope you have now learned how to see and how to count.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:51:44 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You make me laugh!!
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"THE SLPP-APC coalition was in power from 1978 to 1992. THAT'S 14 years."
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was it really an SLPP-APC coalition?

Let us leave the people to decide!!

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: BLIND
To: All
Date Posted: 12:01:25 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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"was it really an SLPP-APC coalition?"

Well, let's look at the top members of the coalition govertment between 1978 and 1992:

1. President -- Siaka Stevens (APC)
2. Vice President -- Salia Jusu-Sheriff (SLPP)

Later on in another coalition government during the same peiod:

1. President -- Joseph Momoh (APC)
2. Vice President -- Francis Minah (SLPP)

So, you see, when people say you SLPP apologists are blind, they are absolutely right.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:17:51 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-163-118.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.163.118

Message:
Take your mind back to 1971, when Siaka Stevens used a legally questionable legislative scam in order to amend the Sierra Leonean constitution, transforming the parliamentary democracy into a highly centralised presidential republic. Several years later, he held a preposterous referendum to transform it into a one-party state with the APC as the only legal political organisation.

The above was not the worse thing sheki did to Sierra Leone’s political system. The worst was what he did to the economy. Sheki had inherited a sound, if not necessarily rich, economy with a diversified base of diamonds and iron mining as well as agriculture—primarily coffee and cocoa production—that expanded between 1965 and 1973 at the respectable, if not spectacular, annual rate of 4 percent against an annual population growth rate of 1.9 percent, Stevens and his cronies gradually destroyed it all. The annual rate of growth dipped to an average of 0.7 percent between 1980 and 1987 before going into negative figures. Dwindling revenues from the government’s diamond monopolies and agricultural marketing boards, compounded by governmental corruption and profligate spending on nonessential “prestige projects,” only served to accelerate the sharp rate of economic decline.

I say no more - it is too much to bear how we allowed our own people bring us to beg from others that once held us in high esteem.

My father was never silent - he lost his life but he had so many of us that to this day we would not stand and stare whilst bad people cheat the majority.

If you have some compassion, you will be honest and pray that the lot in your party change their attitudes towards the wealth of our nation.

So it was not an 'SLPP-APC' coalition - IT WAS A FORCED ONE PARTY STATE THAT SOME OF US NEVER SUCCUMBED TO.

May God save you guys with your flagrant violation of the principles and ideals of humanity. May God make you understand the richness in being honest and altruistic. May God save you from your misguided principles and ideals. Amen!!

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 12:32:34 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"So it was not an 'SLPP-APC' coalition - IT WAS A FORCED ONE PARTY STATE THAT SOME OF US NEVER SUCCUMBED TO."

Perhaps by answering the folowing easy questions, you will cure yourself of blindness to SLPP corruption:

1. Was the SLPP leader, Salia Jusu-Sheriff, forced to become Vice President in the SLPP-APC coalition?

2. Was the SLPP leader, Salia Jusu-Sheriff, forced to become Minister of Finance in the SLPP-APC coalition?

3. Was another SLPP leader, Francis Minah, forced to become Minister of Finance in the SLPP-APC coalition?

4. Was the same leader, Francis Minah, forced to become Vice President in the SLPP-APC coalition?

You don't have to answer the above questions if you don't want to cured of your blindness to SLPP corruption by claiming that your corrupt leaders were forced to join a coalition.

If you want to see how ridiculous your claim is, then consider the question arising from your following statement: " So it was not an 'SLPP-APC' coalition - IT WAS A FORCED ONE PARTY STATE THAT SOME OF US NEVER SUCCUMBED TO.

QUESTION: If, as you claim, it was a forced one party state, how come some of you never succumbed to it?

Or, does that mean "some" of you were forced, but some others NOT forced? What kind of force applies only to some but not all of the SLPP members? The ANSWER: An imaginary force!

Do you finally see why people say you SLPP apologists are blind to your party's corruption? You will say anything -- no matter how nonsensical -- just to hide from the truth about your SLPP's massive and longstanding corruption that has contributed to the destruction of the standard of living of the people of Sierra Leone THAN ANY OTHER PARTY, including the APC.

That is a fact -- assuming you can now see -- ands count.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:46:51 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-163-118.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.163.118

Message:
What is a ONE-PART STATE? Does a one party state means 'A COALITION GOVERNMENT? That is my answer to the first part of your set of questions.

The other part of your question wants to know why some did not succumb. We did not and became the sacrificial lambs that paved way for a better Sierra leone we are beginning to see. The chaos your party constructed in the 24 years brought about yopur disgrace and made so many lives and property to be lost.

I left Sierra leone during these times and my aim was to be well trained and get rid of the lot of you. however, during my travels, God spoke to me and said that vengence is his and that I should not harbour anger but to pray for change. It was then i decided to empower myself and help other Sierra leoneans to be able to reutrn to develop our lands.

Do you want us to go back to a lwaless society?

may God help you in your thinking!!

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 12:55:15 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"What is a ONE-PART STATE? Does a one party state means 'A COALITION GOVERNMENT? That is my answer to the first part of your set of questions."

When the leaders of the SLPP join the APC in the "one-party" what do you call that -- if not a coalition of SLPP and APC comprising the resulting "one-party?"

You have to be truly blind not to see that. Or, a desperate SLPP apologist.

About your other "answer" as to why you -- but not your SLPP leaders -- did not succumb to the "forced" SLPP-APC coalition, in order to spare you from further embarrassment, the least said about it, the better.

Suffice it to repeat that there could have been no "forced" coalition that would allow some to avoid joining the coalition. Unless you do not understand the meaning of force. Which is very probable. But, like I said, in trhe interest of sparing you further exposure and embarrassment, I will let it go at that.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:55:12 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You make me laugh!!

The long suffering people of SL who have been the victims of your SLPP corruption will have the last laugh.

On August 11, 2007.

That is the day the people of Sierra leone will pay back you and your corrupt SLPP leaders, Kabbah and Berewa, for laughing at the suffering that you have inflicted upon them these past 10 years.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:26:38 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
laughing for me is therapeutic. Your failings in telling us as things are is that which makes me laugh. The people of Sierra Leone will be laughing soon again for fear is in them about possible violence.

We and our global partners have assured them that there will be no tolerance to violence during the elections. Justice wil;l be served on whomsoever tries to wreck havoc upon our people.

Another thing you may want to know. A new maximum prison is been built in the provinces that has industrial facilities. Any of you found guilty of causing an unlawful act will be given a punish that comes with labour. You will pay for you deeds in this modern prison by working in various factories to support our economy. No one will just be put there for free - you have to work and earn a living. After your release you will think twice and be a good citizen - not to exploit your people.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 12:33:44 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"laughing for me is therapeutic."

Kicking the corrupt SLPP out of power will be therapeutic for the milions of Sierra Leonean victims of SLPP corruption.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 12:54:01 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Victims begotten by you in your chaotic constructions during your 24 year reign.

We are helping to cure that which was destroyed by your APC party and it will take another two years for us to be normal again. Any entry by your party into affairs of state will see another long suffering. Do you truly believe the people want that? NO! NO! NO!

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 12:56:44 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"Victims begotten by you in your chaotic constructions during your 24 year reign."

Please set forth the beginning year and ending year of the "24 year reign" you ascribe to me.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:17:44 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-163-118.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.163.118

Message:
1992 - 1968 = 24.

Sheki's rile was restored in 1968 and the APC ruled until 1992 when Strasser and co booted them out. 1971, was when Sheki forced a ONE PARTY STATE.

Think of Sierra leone above all else and you will find peace within yourself.

Subject: Re: ERNEST KOROMA CHAIRED COMMISSION TO SELL LIBYA RICE?
From: LIBYA RICE IS STALE NEWS
To: All
Date Posted: 10:40:27 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: acbd1f86.ipt.aol.com at 172.189.31.134

Message:
This is stale news. You are only hearing it now? Did you not hear that Ernest Koroma even benefitted from the rice money by buying a return air ticket (First Class) to Ghana, collect per diem from the rice money all in the name of going to study the NASSIT program in Ghana? Democrat Newspaper and one local song called the Notice Nor Go Right have long since handled this issue.

Why do you think no one talks of Libya rice anymore?
Because na Ernest sell the rice.
Ee dey make innocent
because ee want power
power wey noto in yone.
24 years we don toe line, ee don kill we. EE DO SO!!!

Subject: NEW MEASURE
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 10:14:23 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253

Message:
Moderator and Forum Police, do not unbind anyone whose IP is blocked until they send you their IP number and we have all investigated and discovered why the person was blocked in the first place.

People have been calling me to suggest that we impose strict rules, like registration. We don;t want the few troublemakers to spoil the fun for the majority. We will not impose registration but anyone who violates the rules flagrantly will have his/her IP blocked. That has been a very effective way to have people comply by the rules .

Subject: Re: NEW MEASURE
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:27:54 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-75-66-114-24.hsd1.tn.comcast.net at 75.66.114.24

Message:
KABS i use dynamic IP address system and sometimes use DUMMY servers or Proxy servers, how will you block my IP?
Just a Question.

Subject: What is not dynamic IP?
From: Researcher
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:03 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-249-138-254.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.249.138.254

Message:
A static IP address is a number (in the form of a dotted quad) that is assigned to a computer by an Internet service provider (ISP) to be its permanent address on the Internet. Computers use IP addresses to locate and talk to each other on the Internet, much the same way people use phone numbers to locate and talk to one another on the telephone.

When you want to visit whatis.com, your computer asks a domain name system (DNS) server (think telephone information operator) for the correct dotted quad number (think phone number) for whatis.com and your computer uses the answer it receives to connect to the whatis.com server.

It would be simple if every computer that connects to the Internet could have its own static IP number, but when the Internet was first conceived, the architects didn't foresee the need for an unlimited number of IP addresses. Consequently, there are not enough IP numbers to go around. To get around that problem, many Internet service providers limit the number of static IP addresses they allocate, and economize on the remaining number of IP addresses they possess by temporarily assigning an IP address to a requesting Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) computer from a pool of IP addresses. The temporary IP address is called a dynamic IP address.

Requesting DHCP computers receive a dynamic IP address (think temporary phone number) for the duration of that Internet session or for some other specified amount of time.

Once the user disconnects from the Internet, their dynamic IP address goes back into the IP address pool so it can be assigned to another user. Even if the user reconnects immediately, odds are they will not be assigned the same IP address from the pool. To keep our telephone telephone analogy going, using a dynamic IP address is similar to using a pay phone. Unless there is a reason to receive a call, the user does not care what number he or she is calling from.

There are times, however, when users who connect to the Internet using dynamic IP wish to allow other computers to locate them. Perhaps they want to use CU-SeeMe or use a VoIP application to make long distance phone calls using their IP connection. In that case, they would need a static IP address. The user has two choices; they can contact their ISP and request a static IP address, or they can use a dynamic DNS service. Either choice will probably involve an additional monthly fee.

Using a dynamic DNS service works as if there was an old-fashioned telephone message service at your computer's disposal. When a user registers with a DNS service and connects to the Internet with a dynamic IP address, the user's computer contacts the DNS service and lets them know what IP address it has been assigned from the pool; the service works with the DNS server to forward the correct address to the requesting DHCP computer. (Think of calling the message service and saying "Hi. I can be reached at 435.44.32.111 right now. Please tell anyone who tries to reach me to call that number.) Using a dynamic DNS service to arrange for computers to find you even though you are using a dynamic IP address is the next-best thing to having a static IP.

IPv6, which has also been called "IPng" (IP Next Generation), lengthens IP addresses from 32 bits to 128 bits and increasesthe number of available IP addressess significantly, making static IP addresses easier and less expensive to obtain and maintain.

Subject: Sierra Leone gets Photographic Academy
From: Munda Rogers
To: All
Date Posted: 08:54:14 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-100-58-125.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 76.100.58.125

Message:
Sierra Leone gets Photographic Academy.
Written by Munda Rogers
Friday, 27 July 2007

Professor Septimus Kaikai, Minister of Information and Broadcasting says youths of this country are not only the future of the country. He says they are part and parcel of the present.

He made this statement on Wednesday at the official opening of the Sierra National Academy for Photographic Technology in Freetown. Professor Kaikai said the photographic Academy would receive some assistance from government.

The Sierra National Academy of Photographic Technology is directed by five board members. It has seven Academic staff members and five Administrative officers. The Academy offers courses in general photography, photo journalism, Journalism, Information Technology, Communication Skills, Community Development Studies and business studies management.

Subject: Re: Sierra Leone gets Photographic Academy
From: james
To: All
Date Posted: 09:06:18 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: james@hotmail.com
Entered From: pool-71-178-231-132.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.231.132

Message:
Posted by Frankly Green on July 26, 2007 at 05:20:27:

APC LEADER SAYS HE IS NOT RULING OUT ASSASSINATION PLOT

The APC leader Ernest Koroma had told cocorioko that Tom Nyuma wanted to assassinate him. He said he can’t rule out that possibility. But no Sierra Leonean with his cognitive apparatus intact would give credit to that assertion. We all know that Ernest Koroma is a liar; he told Sierra Leone and the world community that the APC yesteryears were the best. We don not have reasons to suppose that he will not give us greater lies still.

Now let us examine the APC assassination idea. I believe it was simply stage-managed.
i. Ernest Koroma himself states in the interview that he checked in the hotel between 1.00 and 2.00am and we know now that Nyuma checked in the same hotel several hours before. Besides, he was already in bed with his girl at the time Koroma arrived. This suggests that Nyuma didn’t even know Ernest Koroma will check in at the same hotel. And if he didn’t know Ernest Koroma was checking in at the same hotel, he wouldn’t have planned to kill him there, you will agree with me.

ii. If like Koroma says Nyuma wanted to assassinate him, he (Nyuma) wouldn’t have checked in at the same hotel. Assassins don’t leave their finger prints all over the place. It is only logical that he would have stationed some other where, walk stealthily into the hotel, execute his duty and leave.

iii. Nyuma is a retired lieutenant colonel, who during the war out weighed even the vicious rebels, we all know that. With his kind of a calibre, you would need an entire army to stop him if he had any inclination to kill a single person, particularly if he possessed a .9mm gun with 50 rounds of ammunition like the APC stipulates. It is such a tasteless and fickle-minded supposition. Nyuma is hospitalised with injuries to his head, injuries caused by the APC thugs, including one of his former drivers. It is not difficult to map out personal vendetta and political drunkenness as the driving forces behind this unprovoked and unwarranted brutality.

iv. Thomas Sahr Nyuma, albeit he is retired, still has that old glory. People know him and follow him all about. His popularity alone cannot him to form a hired assassin.

Besides, why would anybody want to kill the APC Ernest Koroma? The APC is not a challenge to the ruling SLPP. Are they therefore running into panic and want to display their old tricks? We have previously had stories of the SLPP wanting to eliminate the PMDC Charles Margai, as if the SLPP has nothing better to do. The Charles Margai assassination cake didn’t sell well, not to say it didn’t sell at all. The APC wouldn’t have used the same strategy; it will not work. In any case, the police is investigating the incident; the culprits will be apprehended and justice will descend on them.

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Subject: Failed Promise - No Bumbuna Electricity
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 07:46:50 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60

Message:
SLPP, please account for your failure to deliver Bumbuna Project as you promised before you make and we listen to another promise. Thank you.

http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_2005108.shtml

18 Months for Bumbuna Hydro
By Theophilus S. Gbenda
Jul 27, 2005, 07:49 Email this article

Minister of Energy and Power, Emmanuel O. Grant, has said in a press interview that appropriate modalities have been put in place to ensure that the Bumbuna Hydro Electric Project is completed within the next eighteen months.

The minister’s statement comes as a result of an agreement signed early this week between the government of Sierra Leone and the Salcost Company Limited.

This agreement, according to the minister, has given a new face to the project, noting that the bulk of the responsibility for the completion of the project now lies squarely on the shoulders of the contractors, and not the government. He explained that the project needs only $91m more to see it through.


http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20052294.shtml


Sierra Leone Bumbuna Hydro-Electric to start full operations August 2007
By Abu Bakarr Munu
Apr 28, 2006, 13:45 Email this article

The Project Engineer for the Bumbuna Hydro-electric Project (BHP), Marco Cruciani past Saturday 22nd April, 2006 said that work on the Bumbuna Hydro-electric Project site would soon come to an end and that by August, 2007 its will start to provide "adequate, reliable and affordable power supply to the Western Area of the country."
The project Engineer made this revelation to Journalists, who were on site visit to the project in order to get first hand information about progress made so far.


Bumbuna Hydro Gets More Boost in Sierra Leone
By Awareness Times
Oct 26, 2005, 13:20 Email this article

If what was shown to a group of journalists yesterday Tuesday, 25th of October, 2005 at the Sierra Leone Ports Authority is anything to go by, then it is certain that by 2007, the problem of electricity in Sierra Leone will be a thing of the past.
According to Mohamed Barrie, the Public Relations Officer of Salini Construction (SALCOST), the contracting firm responsible for the project, the consignment presently being off loaded at the Queen Elizabeth II Quay comprise 88% of heavy duty equipment that would be used for the completion of works around the pricincts of the hydro.
He said the equipment would be used to remove debris and place other auxilliary equipment in positions within the hydro power processing compartments.
Mr. Barrie pointed out that some 16 engineers and 275 Sierra Leoneans of varied expertise are currently at work on the site at Bumbuna.

Subject: Re: Failed Promise - No Bumbuna Electricity
From: In Pursuit of Fairness
To: All
Date Posted: 10:15:19 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: saiduTbangura@hotmail.com
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Message:
Mr. Moinina, I believe you have not understood the news clips you posted. The SLPP government did not set a 2007 deadline; it said that funding has been given and the contractors are being encouraged to work toward that time frame.

Politics has a way of encouraging some people like you to make incorrect statements out of very simple news stories.
Saidu Tee

Subject: Re: Failed Promise - No Bumbuna Electricity
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 11:07:59 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60

Message:
Mr. Fairness,

Over a year ago there were statements by Government officials of completing Bumbuna by July 2007. Most people in fact started asking why the coincidence with the election time. This was not a secret. I am just asking the hard questions and bring our politicians to account. All I care about my brother is the development of the country so that our relatives and friends will stop living at the bottom of the bottom.

I bet, all political parties are making promises. Shouldn't we ask them if they have failed to honour past promises? That is fairness Mr. Fairness.

Subject: Re: Failed Promise - No Bumbuna Electricity
From: E.O.GRANT
To: All
Date Posted: 08:16:53 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-100-58-125.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 76.100.58.125

Message:
IS Emmanuel Grant not the Wester Area chairman of the PMDC? The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Subject: Re: Failed Promise - No Bumbuna Electricity
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 11:09:30 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60

Message:
Mr. Grant is no longer minister. In fact he left that post over a year or two ago. I have no objection to bringing him to account as long as the hard questions are answered.

Subject: Re: Failed Promise - No Bumbuna Electricity
From: Forum Police
To: All
Date Posted: 09:24:48 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-249-138-254.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.249.138.254

Message:
Are you E.O Grant or are you testing our resolve?

Why is it so difficult for the average Sierra Leonean to follow rules?

Subject: Re: Failed Promise - No Bumbuna Electricity
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 09:39:00 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253

Message:
I wanted to ask the same question.These people....Wow.

Subject: Re: Failed Promise - No Bumbuna Electricity
From: FAKE HANDLES
To: All
Date Posted: 09:43:54 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-100-58-125.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 76.100.58.125

Message:
Kabs,

Were you Mariama Massaquoi at Leonenet? Stop the hypocrisy, my man. Are you a REv? Here is a man who used a fake handle, and was busted big time on L-Net. Hypocrisy is a disease.

Subject: Re: Failed Promise - No Bumbuna Electricity
From: SO?
To: All
Date Posted: 09:35:58 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-100-58-125.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 76.100.58.125

Message:
Somebody used Kanji Daramy's name this morning, but you did not do anything. Are you blind? Testing your ressolve my foot. get a life.

Subject: Re: Failed Promise - No Bumbuna Electricity
From: The guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 12:19:34 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-249-220-124.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net at 68.249.220.124

Message:
Help me out lawyers Mr. editor included: Does this fit the doctrine of "seperate but equal"?

Subject: Re: Failed Promise - No Bumbuna Electricity
From: TAMBA JOHN
To: All
Date Posted: 10:22:12 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: acbd1f86.ipt.aol.com at 172.189.31.134

Message:
Cocorioko has a bias against anything Government or SLPP. Its Lawyers are APC Eddie and APC Iscandari.

Subject: The APC is on its parade to victory
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 07:36:26 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.22.236.230

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THE APC IS ON ITS PARADE TO VICTORY
By Alie Formeh Kamara

The APC has come a long way from the doldrums in a short period of time but it took a lot of hard work and dedication.

Imagine the APC party in 1997 with a report card of participation during the first multi-party elections in years. That APC performed abysmally by clinching only 5% of the total votes. This, in all due respect, was a near death valley for the APC. And if the poor performance was not bad enough, the thought of not having APC on the ballot during the runoff’s in the second round of elections was so devastating that it tested the faith and the continued allegiance to the APC even of the hard core 5 Percenters.

Despite the humiliation APC survived because a handful of APC old guards held the fort during those rough times. And as fate would have it, after a protracted battle between Ernest Koroma and the old guardians and savior of the APC, Edward Turay, Serry Kamal and Jengo Stevens the APC reached a milestone by resolving its internal differences and presenting a united front for the forthcoming August 11, 2007 Presidential elections.

In retrospect, perhaps the dissension in the APC was necessary for its comeback. The APC had been projecting the image of newness and which person could better deliver on that caveat than Honorable Ernest Koroma, the young and vibrant new face of the APC.

The struggle for the redemption of the APC took place in various fronts. In cyber space the Cocorioko news forum was a major battle field. Participants knew very well that through their writings online they fed the major news papers in Sierra Leone with ideas. The APC was quick to have representations in the likes of Alieu Iscandri, Alie Formeh Kamara, Yaya Fanusi, Musa Kalawa and others.
Their work was made easy by a government characterized by corruption, mismanagement, and Executive influence over the judiciary.

For the most part, the political gains by the APC to date were primarily due to failures by the SLPP to deliver on its promises to the people of Sierra Leone such as President Kabba’s famous pronouncement that come 2007 no Sierra Leonean would go to bed hungry. Other notorious promises that were never fulfilled include the building of Lungi bridge and the completion of Bunbuna Hydro electric power station. Rampant government corruption, State meddling on local elections, and the choice of Berewa, as the flag bearer of the SLPP party were all numbing aspects of the SLPP administration.

Today, the APC stands toe to toe with the SLPP at every constituency. The number of political parties that are registered to participate in the 2007 Presidential elections are down from 12 to only five or six. Most of the now defunct parties have realigned with the APC.

If 1997 represented the low point in APC’s history of participation in general elections, 2007 is looking very much like the high point. Political pundits are predicting a clean sweep of Kono, Freetown and Bombali, whereas Koinadugu, Moyamba, Kambia, Portloko and Tonkolili favor an APC majority.

The APC is on its parade to victory.

Subject: Re: The APC is on its parade to victory
From: Pa Sorie
To: All
Date Posted: 09:11:35 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-24-168-3-117.si.res.rr.com at 24.168.3.117

Message:
Is not too-early?! SLPP are going to win the election in the 2nd round.The reason been that SLPP are goingt suprise the APC in Kambia and Koinadugu, a lot hue and cry has been made about Kono, but our bellweather areas are the mentiined above. Mark my word.... As for the parliamentary, it is too-close to call, but i will want the opposition to have have a majority, so as to ensure accountability in our young democracy.

Subject: Re: The APC is on its parade to victory
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 08:41:14 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-163-118.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.163.118

Message:
Kambia is green without a shadow of doubt. Dream on AFK!

Subject: Re: The APC is on its parade to victory
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 07:59:51 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-142-41-213.range86-142.btcentralplus.com at 86.142.41.213

Message:
KEEP DREAMING ALIE you will wake up just over two week`s time and see how your party lost miserable in the Elections, then you will start your rigging song to the world
FORREST

Subject: Re: The APC is on its parade to victory
From: Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 08:48:16 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I think the results will be similar to those of the online votes. It was smart to install the polls but it
would have been smarter if the politicians had taken the trends serious.

It's still not late to catch up with Ernest.

Subject: Re: The APC is on its parade to victory
From: In Pursuit of Fairness
To: All
Date Posted: 10:25:38 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: saiduTbangura@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-75-53-203-163.dsl.hstntx.sbcglobal.net at 75.53.203.163

Message:
Gentlemen, I do not think that 267 votes (mainly from people in the diaspora who are not eligible to vote and from possible double/multiple online voting) is representative.

For the PRESIDENCY: From the look of the way the old APC guard in the SLPP have been enthusiastically campaigning, SLPP may just win Tonkolili, split Port Loko (Abass Bundu), split Kambia, split Koinadugu, and win Kono.

FOR PARLIAMENT: I think that there will be more opposition seats this time, and this is excellent for Sierra Leone democracy, although I think the SLPP will get the majority,followed closely by the APC, and possibly the NDA.
Saidu Tee

Subject: Re: The APC is on its parade to victory
From: Joker detector
To: All
Date Posted: 14:04:51 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
followed closely by the APC, and possibly the NDA.

You are a Joker!!!!

Subject: Dennis Bright gets a taste of Kabbah's flip flop tactics
From: flip flop
To: All
Date Posted: 05:46:30 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: flip flop@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 206.216.34.222

Message:
BBC Sports Football
Official backing for SLFA boss
By Mohamed Fajah Barrie
Friday, 27 July 2007

Nahim Khadi is expected to return to his post as the chairman of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) after the country's president ordered his reinstatement.

Khadi and his executives were suspended by sports minister Dr. Dennis Bright last week, accusing them of being inefficient.

But President Tejan Kabbah's says the sports ministry's decision is likely to incur the wrath of Fifa.

"The president has directed that the suspension imposed on the Sierra Leone FA executive committee be lifted immediately," President Kabbah's secretary Sheka Mansaray said.

"We ordered the decision because Fifa is opposed to government interference in the running of national football associations."

Under Fifa rules, national football associations must not be subject to government control.

Dr. Bright was taken aback when BBC Sport told him of the decision to reinstate the executive committee of the SLFA.

"I'm yet to receive the letter and thanks to the BBC for the letting me know about the content of the letter," Dr. Bright said.

"I am surprised at the decision because the president is yet to consult with me on the issue but when I receive the letter I'll reply appropriately.

"I took the decision to suspend the Sierra Leone football association (SLFA) executive committee in the name of accountability, transparency and probity for the good of the game."

Khadi's administration has recently come under intense pressure from the ministry over recent events.

The two bodies have been at loggerheads over the appointment of Leroy Rosenior as the coach of the national team in May.

The ministry is also unhappy that it was not informed of the Leone Stars' friendly against English League One side Leyton Orient two months ago.

Subject: Re: Dennis Bright gets a taste of Kabbah's flip flop tactics
From: 888
To: All
Date Posted: 10:43:05 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: acbd1f86.ipt.aol.com at 172.189.31.134

Message:
Innocent Blood has a way of fighting

Kabbah is confused man

Subject: Re: Dennis Bright gets a taste of Kabbah's flip flop tactics
From: TAMBA JOHN
To: All
Date Posted: 10:19:14 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: acbd1f86.ipt.aol.com at 172.189.31.134

Message:
Ha ha ha

Dog bet dog.

Subject: Re: Dennis Bright gets a taste of Kabbah's flip flop tactics
From: Fact
To: All
Date Posted: 10:22:07 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
I suspect Bright is going to resign soon.

Subject: Re: Dennis Bright gets a taste of Kabbah's flip flop tactics
From: TAMBA JOHN
To: All
Date Posted: 10:23:58 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: acbd1f86.ipt.aol.com at 172.189.31.134

Message:
If I was him, I will surely do so.

But MANY of these people are all dogs. shameless dogs.

Subject: Sierra Leone Postal Services Workers Go Eight Months Without
From: Kanji Daramy
To: All
Date Posted: 04:41:25 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gateway.cyberstar.com at 209.239.66.36

Message:

Workers of the Sierra Leone Postal Services are currently enduring serious financial difficulties to perform their official duties effectively.

According to reports, the workers have gone for eight months now without receiving their salaries. “How can we work when we are not paid for eight months now” questioned one staff who pointed out that the government is not serious about their plights.

Another report also states that work at the parastatal has been in a snail pace as most of the workers have down tools for work until management addresses their situation.

According to the head of the National Commission for Privatization (NCP), Mr. A.R. Turay has maintained that the money generated by the Sierra Leone Postal Services is being used to pay the NCP workers and to run the institution.

However, most of the Salpost workers have expressed dissatisfaction over the way and manner their human rights to work have been violated by the management and the NCP. They have called on the management to intervene.

Subject: Re: Sierra Leone Postal Services Workers Go Eight Months Without
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 09:41:46 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253

Message:
If you are not Kanji Daramy, don't post as Kanji Daramy.How else must we make this clear to you ?

Subject: Re: Sierra Leone Postal Services Workers Go Eight Months Without
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 06:31:29 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60

Message:
Complete surprise!!! I 'NEVER KNEW' a postal system operated by the Government exists. I believe even Somalia 'government' has a postal system, but not Sierra Leone under the SLPP borbor bellehs.

Subject: Re: Sierra Leone Postal Services Workers Go Eight Months Without
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 07:18:46 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-34.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.34

Message:
Albert:

I guess you never sent or received mail from Sierra Leone. Anyway can you enlighten us on the PMDC technocrats' plan to improve Sierra Leone's postal service.

It is easy to criticise while in opposition.

Good day.

Subject: Re: Sierra Leone Postal Services Workers Go Eight Months Without
From: Albert Mionina
To: All
Date Posted: 11:17:04 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60

Message:
Mr. Kamara, I support PMDC and not part of party or either intend to be appointed for even a cleaning job. About 4 months ago I shared my bitter experience with the SALPOST. If PMDC wins, which I expect, I will remain to constructively criticise any failures. I HAVE NO SACRED COWS, EXCEPT SALONE.

Subject: Re: Sierra Leone Postal Services Workers Go Eight Months Without
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 08:39:21 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-163-118.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.163.118

Message:
Did you say in 'opposition'? Who is in opposition? PMDC will not get a single seat in parliament? Which parliament then, will they be in opposition?

Subject: Re: Sierra Leone Postal Services Workers Go Eight Months Without
From: NCP
To: All
Date Posted: 07:28:52 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-100-58-125.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 76.100.58.125

Message:
his article from standard times is misleading. NCP commiioner A.R. Turay issued a press release yesterday describing it as libelous.

He said SALPOST does not generate enough money to take care of their own problems, so they depend on gov't to sunsidize their operations. The entire management is going to be replaced soon with an interim management which will lead to privatization. He said the NCP has paib backlog salaries to the Salpost workers a few months back, and called on Standard times to desist from spreading false rumors.

Subject: WHERE IS MRS NYUMA?
From: John Tamba
To: All
Date Posted: 04:10:28 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: tamba@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 206.216.34.222

Message:
In her article "If SLPP Loses in Sierra Leone on August 11th, It Will Be Because They Mismanaged Information" of Jul 24, 2007, Sylvia Blyden writes of a conversation with John Benjamin:

"Of interest is that he also remarked that he had asked Tom Nyuma to wait for him in Bo so the two of them could drive down to Freetown. He confirmed that Nyuma had already checked in to Country Side Hotel (easily the best hotel in Bo) and he was himself now going to check in. This was shortly before midnight. I asked after Nyuma and he jocularly stated that Nyuma had a female companion with him that he was occupied with".

Is Sylvia not providing facts for a probable divorce suit here?

Subject: Re: WHERE IS MRS NYUMA?
From: TAMBA JOHN
To: All
Date Posted: 10:14:52 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: acbd1f86.ipt.aol.com at 172.189.31.134

Message:
The Police first provided the facts and even named the woman in question to local journalists. She was rescued by Police Officers and a Statement was taken from her.

Subject: THE APC AGENDA AND WHY IT WILL BE REJECTED ON AUGUST 11
From: Dr. Musa Ben SANNOH
To: All
Date Posted: 03:54:32 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: Bensannoh05@yahoo.de
Entered From: dslb-084-061-125-009.pools.arcor-ip.net at 84.61.125.9

Message:
THE APC AGENDA AND WHY IT WILL BE REJECTED ON AUGUST 11.

I have been following developments on the political scenarios in Sierra Leone with vivid interest. I have noted with satisfaction that democracy now has a firm grip on Sierra Leone with all its ramifications. I have also registered keenly that the APC presidential candidate and torchbearer, Ernest Bai Koroma, has been gallivanting the landscape of our country in a bid to garner support. That is his democratic right. But I have, above that, imbibed with a lot of uneasiness the fact that Ernest Koroma is now bent on feeding the Sierra Leone citizenry with falsehood and unqualified and distorted information. That is not a democratic right. Sierra Leone will not hesitate to prohibit Ernest Koroma from selling fairy tales; his APC manifesto and fabricated attempt on his life to its folks, people from all walks of life.

Ernest Koroma insinuates that the APC is at all times good for Sierra Leone. We won’t call it effrontery, outrageous or rancorous. No, not quite yet. But the people are not unaware that such expressions are bogus. The APC leader wants to bring back Sierra Leone to the past days of the APC. To my mind, an assertion of this kind can only emanate from ignorance or is an orchestrated agenda bent on deceit. Whatever is correct, the people of Sierra Leone will reject the APC and Ernest Koroma for wanting to bring them back to the nearly a quarter of a century of APC misrule, to a period characterised by dictatorial intimidation, retrogression, nepotism and favouritism; a period marked by entrenchment of the basic human right, including the right to life. Ernest Koroma’s APC will fail; they won’t bring Sierra Leone back to anarchy and ruination. Soon the masses of the people of the country will give them a certificate of ineptitude. Nemesis is on the mark, ready to set off and nemesis has the bad habit of dropping on designated people. The APC Ernest Koroma and henchmen will come crashing on August 11; they will be defeated not only hands down but heads down too.

The predictions of the APC presidential candidate on our beloved and currently protected Sierra Leone is the clearest indication yet that the APC is still bent on maintaining the vices of their own creation at all times. But the people of Sierra Leone, cognitively sound as ever, do not only intend to permanently forget anything experienced during those dark, terrible, and gruesome APC yesteryears, they are also resolute on putting into force everything they have including their franchise to avert the recurrence of those APC days full of trepidation and tribulation. Freetown today may be dark at night and dirty; Freetown may not have adequate pipe-borne water supply, but there is abundance of freedom and peace, the basis for the development of any state. Was Ernest Koroma well thought before he made those negative-laden, groundbreaking, trunk-crushing statements? Many people may want to doubt it; I will not be an exception.

The contents of the APC manifesto denote a slap on the face of the people, a deceit on the Sierra Leonean citizenry and an insult to the intelligence of all of us. There is no reason to disbelieve that the APC manifesto, put together by design or ignorance, is intended to ridicule the people of Sierra Leone and minimise their age long sufferings under successive APC regimes by all means. The pronouncement of the APC presidential candidate is a move intended to hoax Sierra Leone once more into an undeniably retrogressive and bleak future. It is an orchestrated agenda of deceit. It cannot stand, it will be rebuffed.

Ernest Koroma’s conviction on the achievements of the APC in Sierra Leone is a sham in scope and degree, equal to none its level of ludicrousness and absurdity. His enumerations have no iota of truth. We cannot allow a person or a group to brain wash a nation with malice. They say that you can fool some people some time but you will never ever fool everybody all the time. The APC fooled, well, cowed Sierra Leoneans into accepting whatever they did or said during the time they were in power. They tricked Sierra Leone in order to ascend to power and used the bullet to sustain that power. Ernest Koroma’s APC will not be that lucky this time; the eyes of the people are wide open and they can see beyond the nose.

If the former APC regimes achieved anything in Sierra Leone, like they brag, it is in my opinion economic ruination, as a result of promiscuous embezzlement of public and other funds, coupled with the paraphernalia of indiscipline, immorality, dishonesty etc.; political violence engendering into the obstruction and destruction of the basic human right and disillusionment of the entire society, the consequences of which was the most brutal war the world ever witnessed.

The fabric of any nation, the economy, was crushed into collapse during the APC misrule. Minerals, including diamonds, the mainstay of the economy, were placed in the hands of a few and the SLPMB, responsible for all agricultural products, became a one man, a Musa Suma business. The APC Dr. Siaka Stevens detached the Leone from the Pound Sterling (SDR) so that our currency no longer had the required support. The result was massive devaluation of the Leone, inflation and still more embezzlement. The APC, immediately after gaining power embarked on those things they previous described as an abomination. They rigged elections through maximum violence, introduced the one party system and used the bullet to quieten and force Sierra Leone into accepting their paranoia-driven egoism, kleptomania, dictatorship and tyranny. Simply, they betrayed the nation. They won’t have another opportunity to do that.

Education and the educated elites were reduced to nonentities. A teacher of any class became an object of ridicule; an indecent government minister after stealing public funds was commended. Cutting corners to let ends meet became the APC maxim of destruction. Teachers and other civil servants were not paid for months, whilst APC members of the centre committee had everything they could steal. The free basic health service speedily became a thing of the past with unprecedented consequences. Infrastructure dilapidated; new structures were not put up and those in existence were never maintenanced. Any form of opposition was crushed with the bullet. If you braved it and expressed your opinion, you landed at the maximum security Pademba road prisons. If you were unlucky, you paid an early visit to your grave.

The emergence of the new APC president, a major general, widely believed to have the ability to redeem the nation, brought more chaos than was already present. Major General Joseph Saidu Momoh was himself nothing other than a fiasco. He made education a privilege, certified bribery and corruption and reduced Sierra Leone to an “Ekutay” club.

The country hovered over the precipice of complete decadence during the days of the APC and it finally somersaulted into anarchy with the advent of the rebel war. The APC couldn’t or didn’t, if you like, prosecute the war. The APC president, a major general with his chest full of medals, looked on as the war fell on innocent Sierra Leoneans with brute force. The war gradually engulfed the people of Sierra Leone simply because the APC government failed to produce concepts to counter the virulent rebels, rebels that knew only to maim, rape and murder. During the days of the APC, most people in Sierra Leone didn’t live, they existed. For most people, life became meaningless. There wasn’t a difference between life and death; you were almost always as good as dead. Does Ernest Koroma want to take us back to those times? No, the people of Sierra Leone will deny him. The APC will be given the red card and directed to the opposition bench, may be forever.

The question of whether or not the APC was the direct cause of the rebel war remains to be discussed. However, the APC cannot refuse the responsibility of having set the basics on which the war flourished, even if they choose not to be objective. Besides, the APC government, with President Joseph S. Momoh at the top, a major general at that, didn’t prosecute the war in good faith. The reasons are numerous and heart-breaking. If you remember, it was the SLPP President Kabbah together with Solo B. and James Jonah who went to Lome and contracted peace amidst acrimonies. Today, Sierra Leoneans consummate and regard that peace as the most precious thing ever.

The systematic introduction of bribery and corruption into Sierra Leone and its establishment as a culture brought the country onto the path of disintegrated deterioration. The APC designed bribery and corruption in the country; they perpetrated and perpetuated it. The SLPP government had endeavoured with constraint to cure some of the maladies presented as a result; remember, bribery and corruption is now kind of endemic in Sierra Leone. The culture of bribery and corruption and the relics of the good ten years of rebel war are huge contributing factors to the dirtiness and darkness of the city of Freetown, in addition to the failure in responsibility of the APC led Freetown city council. Mr. Koroma says he would bring light to Freetown and clean the city in a short time if voted president. That is a travesty; he has no concepts other than pretend the APC was good and announce assassination attempt on him. If the APC has the minutest ability to effect positive change in Sierra Leone, they would have delivered on their mandate at the Freetown city council first. Instead, they spend their time blaming it all on the SLPP government. I know that the SLPP government has a general responsible regarding any matter in the country, but duties are allocated in a healthy democracy. The APC led Freetown city council is yet to show what it has done to keep the city clean and illuminated; it is not enough to levy unfounded and mediocre blames on the central government alone. Let the APC led Freetown city council deliver something; let them tell the SLPP government how they wish to clean Freetown and power supply it, if the APC has any good agenda for the country.

The APC government under Dr. Siaka Probyn Stevens was a one man issue, Siaka Stevens himself. He hired and fired his ministers at will; you stayed longer if you were a giant thief or bigger bandit. The disabled parliament became a political stooge, rubberstamping everything. It comprised members who, after maiming or killing their relatives, returned unopposed and waited for ministerial positions, the awarding of which was the reward for keeping Siaka Stevens in power. It was that sad, it was that pathetic. Sierra Leone is happy that the SLPP has brought transparent democracy once more.

During the Major General’s regime, the country was practically ruled by Chief Dura of Binkoro, Bambay Kamara of Binkoro, and Ben Kanu of Binkoro with Momoh (Binkoro) on their side. Sierra Leone was reduced to a Binkoro household matter with an “Ekutay” managerial board. With these constellations, nothing worked; things came to a stand still. The various revolutions Momoh introduced; the economic revolution, the green (agricultural) revolution etc. failed before they could shoot up. Some people maintained he didn’t quite understand those concepts. I think he simply had too many “presidents” pulling him down.

Successive APC regimes of the past brought nothing to the people of Sierra Leone excepting deprivation, hunger and poverty. Is this the era Ernest Koroma intends bringing back? The Sierra Leone community will unhesitatingly say no to the APC; they will not shrink from saying a bigger NO to them for purporting that those despicable times will constitute their benchmarks for Sierra Leone.

If I was close to Ernest Koroma, politically or otherwise, I would advise him to be publicly remorseful for the mayhem, the untold sufferings his APC meted out to the people of Sierra Leone. Above that, he should distance himself from and rebuke those heinous deeds of the APC. He should also apologise to the people of Bo for the uncalled for tension his APC wanted to create in the township. After that, he can beg for forgiveness on behalf of himself and his APC caboodle, whilst promising to flinch from expressions like he would bring back those ignoble days of his party. If he does that, I believe the people would find a place in hearts to show him magnanimity. They even forgave the RUF rebels! If he fails to apologise, the masses of the people of Sierra Leone and posterity will never forgive his APC, and history will have no alternative but to vigorously condemn his party. But I’m not close to him and giving him pieces of advice is not my duty. Sure, at the end of it all, it is the Sierra Leone electorates who will decide by placing their ballot papers, and I am convinced they will prudently place in the SLPP box, WUTETEH.

Musa Ben Sannoh, MD.
SLPP Secretary General, Germany.

Subject: Re: THE APC AGENDA AND WHY IT WILL BE REJECTED ON AUGUST 11
From: Mammy Sweh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:03:03 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: mammysweh@gmail.com
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Let's say for argument's sake that all your accusations of APC are true. Why on earth then would you trade one disaster for another? All those crimes against humanity that you so eloquently catalogued against APC can easily and demonstrably be laid on the SLPP you want us to vote for. I actually believe that APC has a crude and indefensible history in Sierra Leone. Yours truly was brutalized and tear-gassed during many student demonstrations against Bandaylay himself. But I just don't buy the argument that his government was more inept, corrupt or brutal than this present SLPP regime. You know what? We can point fingers at each other until our arms are sore and it won't accomplish a thing. Let's hope that who ever wins will learn from the lessons of the past and start afresh with altruism. Besides, it is not just APC or SLPP. There is PMDC, UNPP and others that we should consider when we choose.

Subject: Re: THE APC AGENDA AND WHY IT WILL BE REJECTED ON AUGUST 11
From: past
To: All
Date Posted: 10:26:42 07/28/07 ()
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stop telling us about the past!!! Tell us about the PRESENT. Tell us about what SLPP has done!!!

Subject: Re: THE APC AGENDA AND WHY IT WILL BE REJECTED ON AUGUST 11
From: Dr. Musa Ben SANNOH
To: All
Date Posted: 10:38:52 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: Bensannoh05@yahoo.de
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Well, when my friend read your suggestion verbatim: stop telling us about the past!!! Tell us about the PRESENT. Tell us about what SLPP has done!!! he commented thus: "there is pleasure sure in being mad, which none but the mad man knows". My dear brother (I call every Siera Leonean a brother or sister), that's my friend's opinion.

Anyway, let me say that I do not need to itemise what the SLPP has done for Sierra Leone. It has been been all over the net, but you may still not accept it. However, ask me sometime in August after the elections, I'll give you a gist.

Subject: Re: THE APC AGENDA AND WHY IT WILL BE REJECTED ON AUGUST 11
From: past
To: All
Date Posted: 10:28:29 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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tell us what the slpp IS DOING!!!

Subject: Re: THE APC AGENDA AND WHY IT WILL BE REJECTED ON AUGUST 11
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 06:25:28 07/28/07 ()
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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Musa,
Ernest Koroma and his APC thugs know very well that there is no way for them to win the next general elections. Ernest can not even win the leadership of his party in accordance with their constitution. That is why they are now turning to violence in order to intimidate our peace loving people.
By the power of the Almighty God, come August,11 they will see the true loving people of Sierra Leone hand over political power to H.E.Solomon Berewa by lawful means.

Subject: Re: THE APC AGENDA AND WHY IT WILL BE REJECTED ON AUGUST 11
From: The guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 12:08:00 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Alpha, for you and others that share your political view in this forum: What is important to you at this time of your life? Is it party allegiance or the individual that has the ability and capacity to lead and render our mother land a prudent economy consequently enhancing the life of Sierra Leonean?

Maybe I am too young, uninformed, and ignorant or simply not educated enough to understand, but I am yet to identify any ideological difference between our political parties beyond the tribal nonsense and party colors. What do they stand for? Many of those in the ruling party today were at one time or the other a part of the opposition and if my intuition is on point, and I'm sure its on point, the rest would have welcome the idea of crossing carpet had the opportunity presented it self.

In the States one can determine a clear distinction of your party affiliation by probing your position on certain issues (Abortion, Gun control, Socialized Healthcare, Welfare reforms, Spending, Taxation, lump sum transfers, and size of gov't.)

However, in our native land we are simply too poor to sense any difference. This does not mean I favor a one party system of Gov’t. In fact, what I am attempting to convey is that our needs at this time are the same 99.9% of the time, our differences account for 1/10th of a percent yet we spend all talents and smarts obsessing about that difference. With that said, we must employ other matrix with which we can determine the leader or party that can make our lives better.

The marginal product of the efforts by the ruling party is increasing, but at a diminishing rate; they simply can not do much more such is life. (What goes up must come down) The presidential candidate of the ruling party has been there for the last seven plus years therefore, he should be running on real accomplishments his mantra should be the accomplishments and those agendas and plans of his beyond an introductory stage, he should be at cruising altitude not telling us what he intends to do, and the changes he will bring forth to say the least one can characterize that as undermining his predecessor.

Enough of who did what in 1967… fine for history, but the worlds condition is not the same as then. In this time of interdependence and globalization taking into account our natural and artificial economic obstacles we ought to be engage in discussing solutions, “what if analysis” and the likes so that we can turn this cradle around. And this can be better achieved if we put our trust in someone whose knowledge can reflect that of our ideas at best, one with a proven ability to manage risk, one with an understanding of markets, the global perspectives and how to maximize leverage in dealing with members of the free market Relatively young reflecting the likes of higher percentage of the population pyramid of S.L tune with, charismatic, tall, dark and handsome… (lol)

On a more serious note let’s look beyond part allegiance and not be ashamed to fallow GOOD where ever it may be. Personally I know it is Mr. E. B. Koroma.

Subject: PROXY VOTING
From: Bock Jah
To: All
Date Posted: 02:59:38 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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There is no doubt that heated political debates have taken place on this forum but my question is what have we done to ensure that we participate in the electoral process given that a good number of Sierra Leoneans now live in the Diaspora?
I think it is well and good to highlight the failings of politicians but to be prevented from participating in the process of electing them amounts to disenfranchisement.I would be delighted if anyone with knowledge about this to enlighten me further.

Subject: PRESIDENT AND MINISTERS
From: Mammy Sweh
To: All
Date Posted: 02:38:17 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: mammysweh@gmail.com
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I don't know who the next president will be, but these are some of the ministers he is going to need if he wants to transform his rhetoric into results. Feel frree to add or make your own list. All the ministers listed should have deputy ministers in all the districts (yes, districts not provinces):

1}Minister of Light and Electricity
2}Minister of Clean Drinking Water
3)Minister of Clean Gutters, Garbage Collection and Street Cleaning
4)Minister of Rice
5)Minister of Tractors, Fertilizer and Farmers Support
6)Minister of Road Construction and Rehabilitation
7)Minister of Railway Infrastructure
8)Minister of Manufacturing Infrastructure
9)Minister of Foreign Aid Transparency
10)Minister of Foreign Investment (Non-Mining)
11)Minister of Prompt Salary Payment.
12)Minister of Education Reform
13)Minister of Mining Reform
14)Minister of Chiefdom Support

Subject: MODERATOR TO KABS
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 00:27:52 07/28/07 ()
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As a follow up, the IP Satellite has been removed to protect privacy and anonymity on the forum.

Cheers!

/Moderator

Subject: Re: MODERATOR TO KABS
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 00:57:51 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Thank you, moderator. We expect to see maturity and appreciation of our efforts to provide a forum where you can be as anonymous as you want as long as you respect the rules.

Subject: please return to normal
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 00:10:30 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Recently , our IP iNDICATOR WAS ACTIVATED TO ENABLE US TO CATCH THOSE POSTING OBSCENE SPAMS INTO THE FORUM. wE GOT THE CULPRITS AND WE DO NOT HAVE THE IP INDICATOR ON ANY LONGER. The IP SATELITTE IS A SEARCH ENGINE THAT YOU TOO CAN USE TO LOCATE THE IPS OF FUTURE SPAMMERS. JUST GET THE IP AND SEARCH FOR IT THROUGH THE SATELITTE SEARCH .IT IS NOT THERE TO INDICATE IPS.

We only know IPs when we deploy the IP indicator and this makes the IPs appearsby the posts as you all have been seeing .We do not have any other means of knowing IPs .

Since the troublemakers have been caught and banned from the forum, please let us return to normal. You can continue to be anonymous as you wish , but just abide by the rules and regulations of the forum. That is all we demand.

Please feel free and have a good time.

Subject: Labomylitis-100 Hospitals for Salone
From: bobobele
To: All
Date Posted: 23:57:03 07/27/07 ()
Email Address: bobobele@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 206.216.34.222

Message:
Lungi Bridge nor build; black out dae kill man dem; 2007 almost don don and man dem still dae sleep hungry; meresin nar cow price; wata nar $2 for 5 gallon; pa kabbah im home town kukuna nor get clinic, now e say 100 Hospitals for Salone.

Man gains with this labomylitis.

Subject: IMC SPEAKS
From: IMC
To: All
Date Posted: 23:45:15 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Independent Media Commission
Written by Fatmata Kargbo
Friday, 27 July 2007

The Independent Media Commission says it is dissatisfied with the way some news editors published stories in their newspapers. The commission says the number of complaints it is receiving from the public are on the increase. Bernadette Cole is the chairperson of the commission.

Speaking on Thursday in a meeting with SLAJ, editors and newspaper proprietors, she said the frequents complaints were a clear massage that journalists had not been observing the media code of practice. She urged journalists, especially editors to abide by the code of practice to ensure peaceful elections. Mrs. Cole condemned some newspapers that published articles reminding people of their bitter experience during the country’s civil war.

Subject: Re: IMC SPEAKS
From: TAMBA JOHN
To: All
Date Posted: 10:18:21 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: acbd1f86.ipt.aol.com at 172.189.31.134

Message:
That Mrs. Cole is one of the reasons why journalism is so backwards in Sierra Leone. She lacks the knack to handle the local journalists. She should simply resign from that position. She is a disgrace to true journalism.

Subject: Forum Traffic Report
From: Forum Statistics
To: All
Date Posted: 19:47:09 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Hits % Country Analysis
3294 36.1% Unresolved Hosts
2766 30.3% Network (Mainly USA)
1827 20.0% Commercial (Mainly USA)
496 5.43% United Kingdom
206 2.25% Netherlands
158 1.73% USA Government
144 1.57% USA Educational
69 0.75% Sweden
55 0.60% Belgium
42 0.46% Non-Profit Making Organizations
29 0.31% New Zealand
13 0.14% International
6 0.06% Finland
3 0.03% Australia
3 0.03% Sierra Leone
3 0.03% Israel
2 0.02% Russian Federation
1 0.01% Brazil
1 0.01% Mexico
1 0.01% Denmark
1 0.01% Portugal
1 0.01% .com Crawler.
22 Total Countries

Subject: Re: Forum Traffic Report
From: Mammy Sweh
To: All
Date Posted: 01:42:15 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: mammysweh@gmail.com
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113

Message:
With this kind of traffic, I hope Astraeus Airlines, British Airlines and so many copanies and clubs doing business in Sierra Leone and the Diaspora are advertising with Cocorioko. I just met a group that is planning a function next week nobody has heard about. I also hope that you have an aggressive proactive advertising department that is chasing down all this business. This media is now big time. Forgive me if I am presumptuous.

Subject: Re: Forum Traffic Report
From: Dreamer
To: All
Date Posted: 08:24:22 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Can you imagine if this could be the place where people come out to give, exchange info and solve problems?
Imagine a place where someone needing help can put out their problem and then get the help they need.

Imagine a place where someone needing a used car or help with buying/selling a home can reach out to people.

Imagine a place where someone has a relative who has passed away can reach out for help.

Imagine a place where people can come out to inform us about a new born or a wedding.

Subject: APC-RUF 'OWAI' 'OSAI': THESE GUYS ARE ALL THE SAME
From: Saloneman2
To: All
Date Posted: 19:11:42 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:

APC ‘owai’, ‘osai’ goes the party’s fighting song -the much maligned song that celebrates the use of thuggery and violence in national politics. But thuggery and violence have always been inextricably linked with the overall modus operandi of the All Peoples Congress (APC). Starting with the immediate post-independence days when the party was still in its embryonic stages, intimidating and brutalizing political opponents became the veritable bottom line of APC political behavior. Instances of this reckless comportment abound in our history. For example, APC thugs with the full approval of the party’s high command carried out the few attempts on the life of first Prime Minister Sir Milton Margai. And after the party’s defeat in the 1962 general elections, Siaka Stevens vowed never to lose any elections again. This meant that Stevens was determined to utilize any means necessary in his quest for supreme political power. Thus, whereas the SLPP approached the general elections of 1967 with the inclinations of a democratic, non-violent transformation, Stevens and the APC approached it against the backdrop of a threat to overrun the country with mercenaries should the APC become the loser again.

After the crisis that followed the 1967 vote, Stevens was sworn in as Prime Minister in 1968. The new Prime Minister wasted no time in mismanaging the economic gains of his predecessors as he shrewedly reconstructed the state into a violent political formation capable of obliterating dissent. Stevens’ dreaded Cuban and Guinean-trained thugs were reconstituted into the paramilitary Internal Security Unit (ISU), which later transformed into the State Security Department (SSD). This death squad was instrumental in eliminating Stevens’ perceived political enemies as was evident in the brutal murders of those gallant sons of Tonkolili – Mohammed Sorie Forna, Ibrahim Taqi, Samuel Bangura, etc.

Next, Stevens allowed into the national army APC criminals who had opted to be on the side of law. This, as we were to see later had very important ramifications as the Armed forces metamorphosed into a full blown criminal enterprise that quickly abdicated its responsibilities to the state once civil war broke out in 1991.

Stevens’ handpicked successor, Joseph Momoh could not command the loyalty of his predecessor’s cronies who had been an integral part of Stevens’ Shadow State. So to consolidate power, Momoh ushered in Ekutay, a violent organization that was commited to perpetuating Limba hegemony in Sierra Leone. Henceforth, to be in Momoh’s good books required that one becomes a member of Ekutay and also accept Limba preponderance in national life. An Ekutay member was also required to participate in regular festivities in Binkolo where it was alleged that the consumption of illegal drugs and the flaunting of extramarital and other lawless and immoral behavior held sway.

Ernest Koroma carries no ideological differences with Stevens and Momoh. Like Stevens and Momoh before him, Koroma is a chronic liar and a violent man. Many now believe that the much-talked about incident in the Bo between Koroma’s dreaded RUF pals and Tom Nyuma was staged by the APC flag bearer to draw national and international sympathy for a campaign that continues to flounder under the yoke of ethnic, cultural and ideological strife. Sources on the ground also intimate that the Bo fiasco represents the concocted act of a weak yet desperate man succumbing under the canopy of imminent political defeat.

The rules of competitive behavior dictate that you take a risk by unleashing a first-strike at an enemy in enemy territory. Koroma knows that Bo had on numerous occasions clashed with and successfully repelled the hated RUF and renegade Sierra Leone Armed forces in the war years. But it was precisely against this backdrop that Koroma stomped into Bo with his large RUF entourage. To him, Bo represented a fertile ground for a much-needed confrontation with the opponent. The objective being to create mayhem whose escalation would have the unfortunate consequence of postponing or canceling the August 11 vote. Such a decision would surely work in Koroma’s favor as he would call for the formation of an interim government thereby giving him time to regroup and restructure his cash-strapped campaign. Remember, it has been alleged that Koroma has been lawlessly selling APC symbols preferably to loaded diasporan candidates. Where is the money, Mr. Koroma?

Ernest Koroma must be stopped come August 11. His utterances have been inflammatory and mind bugling and his close association with the dreaded RUF threatening. Koroma has posited that upon winning the presidency, he will govern the way Stevens and Momoh did. Such words can only come from a man with tyrannical ideations. Such words also mean that Koroma is a wicked man who dreams of taking Sierra Leone back to the days of the Gulag (1968-1992). Furthermore, such words mean that Koroma is a man who believes in totalitarianism and the repression of civil liberties and above all, they depict Koroma as a man who is determined to not only squander the modest post-war economic and political gains but also to reconstruct the state with close ties to international terrorism thereby making Sierra Leone vulnerable to Western preemptive strikes. Why in the world would Ernest Koroma have RUF murderers, rapists and terrorists as bodyguards and close confidantes? Why integrate the much-dreaded RUF into the APC if the “New APC” abhors thuggery and violence as Koroma and his followers claim? No sane Sierra Leonean wants a president who enjoys the company of violent men who in the nation’s darkest days disemboweled pregnant women, massacred children, decimated villages and towns, destroyed the country’s infrastructure and boasted about ties with the dreaded Charles Taylor.

Subject: Re: APC-RUF 'OWAI' 'OSAI': THESE GUYS ARE ALL THE SAME
From: Mammy Sweh
To: All
Date Posted: 00:32:27 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: mammysweh@gmail.com
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113

Message:
Saloneman2, you wrote: "...Koroma is a man who believes in totalitarianism and the repression of civil liberties and above all, they depict Koroma as a man who is determined to not only squander the modest post-war economic and political gains but also to reconstruct the state with close ties to international terrorism thereby making Sierra Leone vulnerable to Western preemptive strikes."
Wow, this really takes the cake. So a vote for Ernest Koroma is now a vote for Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda? And this will cause George Bush to direct General David Petraeus to start bombing Sierra Leone? And maybe some of the troops searching for terrorists in Afghanistan and North Waziristan will now be surged into Freetown because of a certain terror chieftain Ernest Koroma? Saloneman2, do you see how ridiculous this sounds?
And about the modest post-war economic gains, you attribute to the SLPP, can you please list a few? I was in Sierra Leone recently and I looked everywhere but couldn't see any evidence of economic development. I really looked hard. There was none. If you can point to any development worthy of the billions in aid poured in by the international community, I will acknowledge my political astigmatism.

Subject: Re: APC-RUF 'OWAI' 'OSAI': THESE GUYS ARE ALL THE SAME
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:52:29 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25

Message:
Greetings my brothers and sisters. Saloneman2, thank you for your stories. I would hope that we discuss this with democratic practicality, with the interest of Sierra Leone as our pivotal focus.
With that in mind therefore, let me take this opportunity to address some of your information that I find to be annoying to most informed people around the globe particularly, Sierra Leoneans who know the story very well and have the best interest of Sierra Leone at heart. You wonder why most people have not responded huh! Well, let me tell you. Your story is incoherent and slant.
Let me start with the distorted political history you have unassembled with an intent to buy favor.
Let me tell you categorically that your caption: "APC-RUF 'OWAI' 'OSAI': THESE GUYS ARE ALL THE SAME, does not make any rationale reasoning. For the fact that a political organisation, the RUF that has been an ardent S.L.P.P. foundation to bring the A.P.C. down, cannot be the same with the A.P.C. in the sense that you mean it to be. I am confident that you are shaking because this merger. You have learned one or two about the new A.P.C. willingness to forgive and embrace Sierra Leoneans because it is our saying that there is no bad bush to throw a bad child, which the S.L.P.P. vehemently disbelieves in because they did not do what the A.P.C. has done but wish they had done. The fact is that a cross-section of the R.U.F. is a residue of The Ndogboyosoi (or bush devil) that attempted to wage a war against the A.P.C. in 1982. More on that latter.
Also, your claim that: "And after the party’s defeat in the 1962 general elections, Siaka Stevens vowed never to lose any elections again. This meant that Stevens was determined to utilize any means necessary in his quest for supreme political power," is unsavory. More on this latter.
The fact that the Mr. Tom N’yuma incident took place in Bo and received the result that it has, perfect quiet, is alarming to the S.L.P.P. and you would want to distort it, dice it but our people are not buying. We are tired of lies and do nothing malicious propaganda. This is a global change and Sierra Leone is no exception.
Your omission of significant aspects in our history has proven or unveiled incoherence and slanderous intent. You stated that: "after the crisis that followed the 1967 vote, Stevens was sworn in as Prime Minister in 1968." Why didn't you tell your readers what crises you are referring to so as to make thinkers judge your judicious take on issues or the lack of it.
Saloneman2, the war ended in 2000, at which time, if interim government was to be put in place, that would have been the perfect opportunity. This is how it has happened in several countries that emerge from wars, including our neighboring country, Liberia. However, the S.L.P.P. hurriedly, the same way they entered into power in 1996 after they had made several instigations, pushed their way to abolishing the idea of an interim government because then their task or hard work for inflaming Sierra Leoneans against one another, grooming their way to power would have gone in vain had there been an interim government.
Saloneman2, Ladies and gentlemen, this is what transpired in the Sierra Leonean history that Saloneman2 has compiritray bastardized.
Your claim that: "For example, APC thugs with the full approval of the party’s high command carried out the few attempts on the life of first Prime Minister Sir Milton Margai," is unfounded and completely out of character. Will tell you why latter.
Ladies and gentlemen, here is what happened:
Please read bellow to see verifiable evidence, unhampered with, accurate and to the point.
Distinguished people such as like the Hon. Earnest Koroma had instilled in me to love my country first regardless of the outcome. To pay elegance to my country first before self or another individual. It is in that vein, have been neutral all these years in the interest of progress for Sierra Leone, I have now, after careful observation because people change, that I call upon you, including Saloneman2, to join the Hon. Earnest Koroma and the new A.P.C. to rebuild Sierra Leone and put her on the right track; as Presdient Kabba and Hon. Berewa have virtually failed us. I look forward to you casting yes for my the People's President, your President,our President: His Excellency, the Hon. Earnest Bai Koroma President of Sierra Leone.

"Sierra Leone peoples Party (SLPP) was established in April 1951 through the merger of the Peoples Party (PP), the Protectorate Education Progressive Union (PEPU) and the Sierra Leone Organisation Society (SOS). 1951-1961 it held majority in the colonial Legislative Council. It was launched by government advisor Siaka Stevens in response to the merger of the West African Youth League, led by Isaac Wallace-Johnson, and Bankole-Bright's group to form the National Council of the Colony of Sierra Leone, a Krio nationalist party. This situation reflects the tendency of youth movements being among the first groups to bear pressure against the colonial regimes (see also the Sudanese Youth League and the Somali Youth League).
[edit] Early success and independence
SLPP dominated politics in Sierra Leone in the years following World War II. In 1955 and 1956, riots occurred in Sierra Leone, originally sparked by the artisan union's strike over pay, further unrest followed strikes by transport workers. These events led to a growing sense of animosity between the SLPP and Krio parties, especially the Cyril Rogers-Wright led United Sierra Leone Progressive Party established in 1954. The SLPP was able to position itself as the 'the countryman's party,' and notably garnered the support of the tribal chiefs. After elections in 1957, Milton Margai bowed to behind the scenes pressure and stepped down from leadership of the SLPP, with his brother Albert Margai taking his stead. However, in 1958, Albert Margai and Siaka Stevens launched a new party, the People's National Party (PNP), which aimed for greater African involvement in the British colonial government. With the independence of Ghana in 1957, the PNP sought with this police the support of the educated elite as the party to lead a transition to independence. Stevens would later leave this party to form the northern supported All Peoples Congress.
Upon independence in 1961, Milton Margai became premier, and the SLPP became the ruling party. The SLPP, along with almost all Sierra Leonean political parties, signed the constitution at the London constitutional conference, the APC being the main exception. This unity did not extend to national politics, as opposing politicians often faced detainment under SLPP rule.
Milton Margai's death in 1964 left the position of leadership of the SLPP to his brother Albert Margai. Albert's rule was characterised by dissent. Politically, he attempted to strengthen the position of the SLPP elites in relation to the chiefs, who had formed the backbone of the party. Albert's personal extravagance led to further animosity, especially after the country faced an economic downturn in 1966. Albert also reinforced the tendency of the SLPP to be a regional and ethnic party, installing a policy of affirmative action to the advantage of the southern Mende tribes. It was thought by opposing leaders that in light of Margai's declining popularity, Sierra Leone may establish a one-party system. APC victory in the elections in 1967 confirmed that the SLPP would no longer lead the country, and in an attempt to remain in control, Margai convinced the military, under the command of Brigadier Lansan, to stage a coup and declare martial law.

The Ndogboyosoi (or bush devil) war was an episode of political violence that occurred in 1982 between All People's Congress (APC) and Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) supporters. The violence was centered in Pujehun District, especially the Soro-Gbema chiefdom. It was triggered by the ruling APC party’s electoral manipulation and the intervention of a special squad of customs police against supporters of the SLPP candidate.
There was no process of reconciliation following this violent episode. The children of those killed in the fighting, or who died in detention, were among the first to join the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) when they attacked eastern and southern Sierra Leone from Liberia nine years later."

Subject: Re: APC-RUF 'OWAI' 'OSAI': THESE GUYS ARE ALL THE SAME
From: Saloneman2
To: All
Date Posted: 23:32:14 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Bambay, thanks for your response. Below, I address some of the critical issues that you raised.

BAMBAY: “… that I call upon you, including Saloneman2, to join the Hon. Earnest Koroma and the new A.P.C. to rebuild Sierra Leone and put her on the right track; as Presdient Kabba and Hon. Berewa have virtually failed us. I look forward to you casting yes for my the People's President, your President,our President: His Excellency, the Hon. Earnest Bai Koroma President of Sierra Leone.”

SALONEMAN2: Thanks but no thanks. I will never support or vote for a candidate who embraces RUF brutality and romantizes the Shaki and Momoh eras. Siera Leone deserves better than RUF Ernest Koroma.

BAMBAY: “… The fact is that a cross-section of the R.U.F. is a residue of The Ndogboyosoi (or bush devil) that attempted to wage a war against the A.P.C. in 1982…”

SALONEMAN2: There is no historical link between the Ndorgborwusui movement and the RUF. The former was a purely internal Pujehun dynamic that did not have national aspirations. The latter on the contrary was a terrorist movement that embarked on a reign of terror with the ultimate goal of usurping national power in Sierra Leone. By the way Ndorgborwusui does not mean bush devil in Mende.

BAMBAY: “Saloneman2, please understand that my response is in the interest of our beloved country. I do not care who leads Sierra Leone; as long as such a person has the good interest of Sierra Leone at heart, leveraging the opportunity for the people of that country to have peace, progress and tranquility, I am content…”

SALONEMAN2. You are contradicting yourself here. You have earlier called upon me
”to join the Hon. Earnest Koroma and the new A.P.C. to rebuild Sierra Leone…” Bambay, I know you are APC-RUF. I will still consider you my brother but I’m sorry I do not hang around murderers and rapists. That is precisely what your candidate Ernest Koroma is doing. RUF Koroma does not deserve my support.

Subject: Re: APC-RUF 'OWAI' 'OSAI': THESE GUYS ARE ALL THE SAME
From: SLPP tribal and violent
To: All
Date Posted: 05:45:30 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 121-65-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.65.121

Message:
Saloneman2, you SLPP has more RUF memebers than the APC. Do not forget that it was the South Easterners that started rebellion in Sierra Leone. A case in point was the Ndorgborwussu saga and also Maigore Kallon and Hinga Norman withother South Easterners first attempted to overthrow the Siaka Stevens governmnet from Liberia. They formed the Society of the overthrow of Siaak Stevens. Tolbert moved very quickly and arrested Maigore Kallon. History has shown that the SLPP suporters in the South East insitutionalised the party as a tradition. They mixed it with oath and other sacrilegious act to fight those who are not members.
Rememeber that the SLPP memebers in that part of the region are vengeful and do not want any perty to thrive in their region. The APC was formed by a Southerner Siaka Stevens like margai wanted to get rid if tribalism in politics.
The SLPP today still idlize tribalism and does not allow free space for other tribes. The past leadership contests have proved it. Tejan Kabbah, Joe Demby, Solomon Berewa and Mom,odu Koroma, all have their roots with one tribe.
It is very difficult to find other tribe singing praise for a tribal infested party like he SLPP. Siaka Stevens by far was a worthy leader who detested tribalism. Margai has taken his placce now.

Subject: Re: APC-RUF 'OWAI' 'OSAI': THESE GUYS ARE ALL THE SAME
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:44:02 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25

Message:
Saloneman2, please understand that my response is in the interest of our beloved country. I do not care who leads Sierra Leone; as long as such a person has the good interest of Sierra Leone at heart, leveraging the opportunity for the people of that country to have peace, progress and tranquility, I am content.
We would have benefited a lot but the type of politics that operates in Sierra Leone will never make a country progress and war is never far from such a situation. For political power most people can do anything; why? They have something to gain. But the poor in Matru, Sanya, Bonth, Pepel, Gbekor, Sanda Thendarin have never reaped any benefits. After all, they are the ones that have died in their numbers. Have we forgotten so soon? One hundred-twenty thousand (120,000) people died in our senseless war. What more can people do for the want of power?
We expected much from the politicians. I feel sad for that mother in Pujehun who wants her sons and daughters to go school but cannot afford it. I feel sad for that woman in Arlen Town who needs water but has to travel miles to fetch one. I feel sad for that five-year-old kid in Kamakwie who has to carry her or his school bench on her head just to get education. Education whose benefit is uncertain. I feel sad for my friends that had gone to school upto form five level and that are where their sacrifices ended without benefiting a thing out of it. Can you imagine all those sleepless nights from the eight grade (form one) to the twelfth grade (form four) and the only way to get-by is to teach in some small village for the rest of his or her life. People who were determined and vivaciously aspiring for bigger things, just to settle down for esteemed poverty?
Fellow Sierra Leoneans, it is time to wake-up! Enough is enough. Otherwise, we will come back years from now, if we do not make the right choice and allow sentimentalism to sway us, by when we are bound by regret, shame, which would have knitted its grip on us, leaving us no space for self-will but conversely propelled to bereave the will of austerity. We are smatter than that. We can do better than allow our emotions to have the better half of us. Therefore, it is best to calm down, listen carefully because not all here desire to cherish from the will of dubiety, which is evidenced in their words and exemplified by their characters.
In this regard therefore, I request that you take time-out so that you can follow the activities that most of us are reporting to you. Remember, I was quiet in the last election though the candidates remain the same this year. I have taken a judicious stand to support the candidate that I am positive will move Sierra Leone forward and have outlined substantial reasons why I took that stance. I did my research carefully through a thorough observation of the past government, sorry, the out-gone government and have found substantial evidence, some of which I will not post here, that they were only for themselves, bent on repaying the Sierra Leonean people revenge for what has shamed most of them through-out the years. By what these evidences have revealed, we will be mistaking and selling our country cheap should we give them more than abundant chance. It is more than abundant chance base on these evidences. I love my country dearly as all will agree with me. Therefore, I will not compromise her peace, progress and tranquility for anything else not even my beloved mother. I hope you find your time away from the sway of sentimental ignorance to the enlightened personality that you have always bore on your shoulder, to make Sierra Leone peaceful once more, which will definitely usher-in progress. How long shall we be in this constant hesitation as to whether or not we are at peace? Now is the time.
Thank you for listening.
Let us unite. United we stand divided we fall. I love you all, God bless us all.

Subject: Re: APC-RUF 'OWAI' 'OSAI': THESE GUYS ARE ALL THE SAME
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 11:24:46 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25

Message:
And yuou want to be respected with such lack of integrity.
Saloneman2 I responded to your post last night but I feel proud this morning to find out how beautiful and a man of character I am.

Subject: Re: APC-RUF 'OWAI' 'OSAI': THESE GUYS ARE ALL THE SAME
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 01:20:06 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-197-104-25.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.104.25

Message:
SALONEMAN2, I believe we have met, except you have taken someone else’s identity. I have great respect for you and your decisions. You have the right to use your civic duty to raise Sierra Leone to the highest standards whereby, she is respected by all in the International Community, both Heads of States and governments and the govern. The choice is yours. Time will come when the future generation will thank you for doing the right thing or blame you for opting-out. The ball is in your court.
To help you make this rational decision, free from any form of sentiments, I will take my time and respectfully respond to some misunderstandings that you have let me know about.
You stated: "SALONEMAN2: Thanks but no thanks. I will never support or vote for a candidate who embraces RUF brutality and romantizes the Shaki and Momoh eras. Siera Leone deserves better than RUF Ernest Koroma."
My response to that my compatriot, is that I am glad that you have voiced your anger. This is what Free Speech is about, a principle that the Kabba government is hell bent on smothering. We were bitterly offended by the brutality perpetuated during this war. Nonetheless, the present government, together with all opposition parties and the United Nations (International Community,) came to an agreement that in order to bring peace in Sierra Leone, that it is best to sit at the table to address the issues in a give-and-take fashion, and that those that are liable for participating the most in the destruction of our land should be prosecuted. We have begun seeing a semblance of justice for our beloved people. Charles Taylor is in court, sentence has been passed on few other Sierra Leoneans for their active roles in the war. We have seen justice peeping at the corner for the poor Sierra Leoneans. Therefore, why can’t we allow justice through the Rule of Law to operate? Hon. Koroma believing that Separation of Powers is a must, a way of seeing democracy operates properly, will not therefore sideline the works of established courts whose jurisdiction it is to penalize criminals by penalizing people when he is uncertain of their guilt or innocence. He is there to embrace Sierra Leoneans, and that any free person walking the streets of Sierra Leone, who is under law, a legal voter is an interest to every candidate, who would want to welcome these persons to their camps. As evidenced when not too long ago, the Hon. Solomon Berewa, S.L.P.P. Presidential candidate was pleading for the RUF members to join the S.L.P.P. in the failed battle to re-instake him. So I believe, that this should not be much of a deter to you joining with all peace-loving Sierra Leoneans to usher-in real peace and progress for Sierra Leone. Any body can do a better job than the Berewa-Kabba team because their hope is the International Community support; something that is guaranteed to any Sierra Leonnean in leadership. But Mr. Koroma wants to utilize the monies to help Sierra Leoneans embark on their initiatives, their creativity and get us out of the bottom where we already are and have been all these years they have stifled our country for self-aggrandizement.
Many countries including the United States of America fought civil wars, where, especially in the U.S.A, three hundred and sixty thousand people died their Civil War. However, they resolved their indifferences and joined the country together because only that can leverage progress and prosperity for a nation. Had they embarked on bitterness, America would have never been what it is today.
It is the united force of efforts of a people, every one pulling their strings to make a country progressive. Before the rebel war, these rebels were our brothers and sisters. Until death, we will never know the constitution of that group. Some of them, if revealed might be your blood relation. People became members for various reasons. Some though they committed horrendous acts yet, they did so outside their will. Is it fair therefore, to isolate them completely? Most of them were virtually disgruntled. Most of them have been scared for life. Is it not time to give them hope so that they do not revert to their old ways should another leader emerge? This is what the Hon. Earnest Koroma has seen and believes that he can make a difference.
For the sake of clarity, as I would like for bygones-to- be-bygone as my candidate has judiciously demonstrated, I would refer you to the link bellow that will explain the historic ties or what transpired. You stated: "There is no historical link between the Ndorgborwusui movement and the RUF."
Please read in the link bellow; and for the record and as a reminder, let me show that I also stated, in continuation to what you quoted above, that: “We could have benefited a lot but the type of politics that operates in Sierra Leone will never make a country progress and war is never far from such a situation. For political power most people can do anything; why? They have something to gain. But the poor in Matru, Sanya, Bonth, Pepel, Gbekor, Sanda Thendarin have never reaped any benefits. After all, they are the ones that have died in their numbers. Have we forgotten so soon? One hundred-twenty thousand (120,000) people died in our senseless war. What more can people do for the want of power?”
Most importantly, it is worthy to note that all these years when I have constantly defended the S.L.P.P. government, if people might have suggested that I was S.L.P.P. it might have been in whispers but I never heard it. When will we change from this kind of politics? Saloneman2 your stay on the British soil has helped a great deal and I would encourage you not to go back to the destructive soil of politics, where people are not free to speak the truth without being imprisoned or called names. This is why I fervently hope that you will employ what you have learned from other dignified forms of politics into the needed transformation by voting the Hon. Earnest Bai Koroma President as oppose to the outgoing government who have jailed and brutally beaten a Journalist to death, kept rice that is meant for the poor for personal use. Do you know what the Muslims call Jakar? That is what the Kabba-Berewa government has ate. A government that has kept their country men in absolute darkness, no running water in a filthy city is not a government that should continue to rule because it will bring us back to those hostile days.
I know you and I am convinced that you care about the future of your children and the future of Sierra Leone at large. And would therefore take a responsible, nationalistic position in making your decision.
Tom N’yuma was arrested in America for days or months with the knowledge of our embassy; so are other many, many, many Sierra Leoneans. Though the embassy and the government know about these inhuman treatments of their nationals, they have not once done anything about it therefore, the cycle continues on and on and on. It could be you; it can be your children or family members. Would you want such to continue?
If not, now is the time to make a difference and choose some one who will stand for his people regardless and still maintain diplomatic relations with these nations. The government lacks diplomacy. Hon. Koroma will stand for Sierra Leoneans at home and broad as he stood for Mr. Tom N’yuma who would have been killed had it been the Hon. Berewa.
It is not too late to prevent Sierra Leone from the claws of dictatorship. Do this for the sake of your children or the ones to come. I thank you all, may God bless us all.

Subject: Professor Karim's Plan to Industrialize Sierra Leone
From: Delwyn Rotime Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:46:14 07/27/07 ()
Email Address: delsuger@msn.com
Entered From: supplyline.dcwasa.com at 4.21.70.254

Message:
Can Professor Abdul Kadi Karim please elaborate on his plans to industrialize Sierra Leone? This is a great idea but I do believe we will be borrowing for a long time before we reach "industrialized" nation status. There is nothing wrong with borrowing,it all depends on how you utilize the funds, and also on your debt to income ratio.

Subject: Re: Professor Karim's Plan to Industrialize Sierra Leone
From: Non Politician
To: All
Date Posted: 04:48:20 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2

Message:
This sounds like a big joke, like building castle in the air.No electricity, no water, no roads, highest taxes, corrupt system.Does he think, Industrialists have nothing better to do, with their money???

Subject: Governor Clarkson's Prayer for Sierra Leone
From: DR. MICHEL SHO-SAWYER
To: All
Date Posted: 14:49:54 07/27/07 ()
Email Address: michel_sawyer@yahoo.com
Entered From: global.life.edu at 72.16.214.206

Message:
Governor Clarkson's Prayer for Sierra Leone

O Lord, I beseech Thee favorably to hear the prayer of him who wishes to be Thy servant, and pardon him for presuming to address Thee from this sacred place. O God, I know my own infinity and unworthiness, and I know Thine abundant mercies to those who wish to be guided by thy will. Support me. O Lord, with thy heavenly grace, and to enable me to conduct myself through this earthly life that my actions may be consistent with the words I have uttered this day. Thou knowest that I am now about to depart from this place, and to leave the people whom it has pleased Thee to entrust to my care. Guide them, O merciful God, in the paths of truth and let not a few wicked men among us draw down Thy vengeance upon this Colony.

In graft into their hearts a proper sense of duty, and enable them through Thy grace to conduct themselves as Christians, that they may not come to Thy house without that pleasing emotion which every grateful man must feel when paying adoration to the Author of life. But I have a great reason to fear, O Lord, that many who frequent thy church do not approach thy presence as becomes them, and that they may partly be compared to the Scribes. Pharisees, and hypocrites. Pardon, O God, their infirmities, and as thou knowest their weakness from the manner in which they have formerly been treated, and the little opportunity they have had of knowing thy will and getting acquainted with the merits of thy Son, our saviour Jesus Christ look down upon them with an eye of mercy and suffer them not to incur thy displeasure, after they have had an opportunity of being instructed in the ways of thy commandments.

Bless, O Lord, the inhabitants of this vast continent, and incline their hearts towards us that they may more readily listen to our advice and doctrines, and that we may conduct ourselves towards them as to convince them of the happiness we enjoy under thy almighty protection. Banish from this Colony, O Lord all heathenish superstition and let the inhabitants know that thou art the only true Lord in which we live and move and have our being. If these people who protest thy religion will not be assured of thy superior power, convince them. O God, of Thine anger for their profession without their practice, for thou knowest I brought them here in hopes of making them and their families happy, both in this world and to all eternity.

But I fear they may not be governed by my advice, and that they themselves and their children forever by their perverse and general behavior. I entreat thee not to let their evil example ruin the great cause in which we have embarked, but I would rather see that place in ashes and every wicked person destroyed, than that the chance we have now an opportunity of bringing to the light and knowledge of thy holy religion should, from the wickedness of a few individuals will continue in their accustomed darkness and barbarism. They know that I have universally talked of their apparent virtue the goodness, and have praised thy name for having permitted me to be the servant employed in so great and glorious a cause. If I have been deceived, I am sorry for it, and may thy will be done; but I implore thee to accept the sincerity of my intentions and my best endeavours to improve the talent committed to my case. Only pardon the intuity of my nature, and I will trust to thy mercy.

Should any person have a wicked thought in his heart or do anything knowledge to disturb the peace and comfort of our Colony, let him be rooted our O God, from off the face of the earth; but have mercy upon him hereafter.

Were I to utter all that my heart now indicates, no time would be sufficient for any praise and thanksgiving for all the mercies. Thou has vouchsafed to show me, but as thou art acquainted with every secret of my heart, accept my thoughts for thanks. I have no words left to express my gratitude and resignation to thy will. I entreat thee, O God, if nothing I can say will convince these people of thy power and goodness, make use of me in anyway thou pleasest, to make an atonement for their guilt. This is an awful and I fear too presumptuous, a request; yet if it should be thy will that I should lay down my life for the cause I have embarked in, assist me, O Lord with thy support, that I may resign it in such a manner as to convince these unbelieving people that thou art God indeed. May the heart of this Colony, O Lord, imbibe the spirit of meekness, gentleness, and truth; and may they henceforth live in unity and godly love, following as far as the weakness of their mortal natures will admit, that most excellent and faultless pattern which thou hast given us in thy Son our Saviors, Jesus Christ, to whom with thee and the Holy Spirit be all honor and glory, now and forever. Amen.

Subject: Re: Governor Clarkson's Prayer for Sierra Leone
From: Mammy Sweh
To: All
Date Posted: 01:15:01 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: mammysweh@gmail.com
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113

Message:
Behind the godly and benevolent words of Governor Clarkson is a right wing evangelist and a rabid white supremacist who was determined to "save" the inferior natives from themselves. Clarkson and his companions ruled Africa for hundreds of years as their personal property with a policy of divide and rule that we are still paying for dearly as ethnic strife rages across most of Africa. When they left, they did not leave behind a culture of democracy. This is hardly surprising since the British and other colonialists frowned upon democracy and ruled Africans as absolute monarchs. Governor Clarkson may have prayed with the voice of an angel but his actions and those of other agents of the British Empire turned his prayer into a curse. I wonder how many Sierra Leonean "heathens" the godly Clarkson sent to the gallows.

Subject: GOVERNMENT BODY GUARDS FOR TOM N.IF AUTHENTIC WHY?
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 14:48:17 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
Is it part of the constitution to render body guards to private individuals?Is the government abusing our limited financial resources?Who is Tom N to the Republic of Sierra-Leone?What I know about this fellow is that,he is a deportee from the US for domestic violence.Please I need a brief and precise answer.

Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT BODY GUARDS FOR TOM N.IF AUTHENTIC WHY?
From: Govt
To: All
Date Posted: 06:00:34 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2

Message:
We are free to provide Bodyguard to anyone we want, and cannot be questioned.It is only us, who know what Tom did for us in the past, and what he is capable of doing in the future.

Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT BODY GUARDS FOR TOM N.IF AUTHENTIC WHY?
From: CHIEFDOM ELDERS
To: All
Date Posted: 14:55:39 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.24.31.125

Message:
WHY NOT CONTACT THE GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE DIRECTLY...OR IS THE FORUM A REPRESENTATIVE OF THAT GOVERNMENT???????????????????????????????

Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT BODY GUARDS FOR TOM N.IF AUTHENTIC WHY?
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 14:58:45 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
DO you think the government can give an answer?dont be naive boy.

Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT BODY GUARDS FOR TOM N.IF AUTHENTIC WHY?
From: CHIEFDOM ELDERS
To: All
Date Posted: 15:27:54 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.24.31.125

Message:
You asked:

"Is it part of the constitution to render body guards to private individuals?"
My response: the Minister of Justice can answer that question!

You asked:
"Who is Tom N to the Republic of Sierra-Leone?"
My response: Only the current Government of Sierra Leone can adquately answer that.

You finally said:
"What I know about this fellow is that,he is a deportee from the US for domestic violence.Please I need a brief and precise answer."

My response: If you know sooooooooooooooooooo much about this individual, why do you NEED "A BRIEF AND PRECISE ANSWER", LITTLE BOY?

Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT BODY GUARDS FOR TOM N.IF AUTHENTIC WHY?
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:30:23 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4

Message:
Boy,you are here to make fool of yourself.If you cant understand simple question or you are playing the ignorant game,then dont waste my precious time.Allow clever and concerned folks to get into the issue.Discuss matters and not make mockery of yourself

Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT BODY GUARDS FOR TOM N.IF AUTHENTIC WHY?
From: Kekuda
To: All
Date Posted: 07:01:59 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: joeweaves@gmail.com
Entered From: gate02c.medcohealth.com at 167.211.190.2

Message:
This is a complete waste of government resources. Why not provide security for all the former NPRC guys like Strasser, Kindama, Leather boots and the like. I think the SLPP has to answer such questions. I rest my case.

Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT BODY GUARDS FOR TOM N.IF AUTHENTIC WHY?
From: ABDUL IDRISS KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 18:34:26 07/27/07 ()
Email Address: kamaraa@aol.com
Entered From: cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132

Message:
THE ISSUE ABOUT TOM NYUMA GETTING BODYGUARDS IN SIERRA LEONE IS A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION OF THE BACKWARDNESS OF THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE. TOM IS A DEPORTEE, WHY IS HE HAVING ANY SUPPORT FROM THE SLPP? HE IS KNOWN AND WAS DEPORTED FOR HIS VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR. HE SHOULD BE IN PRISON. A WORD FOR A WISE IS QUITE SUFFICIENT.

abdul.

Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT BODY GUARDS FOR TOM N.IF AUTHENTIC WHY?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 08:33:22 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-163-118.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.163.118

Message:
Let us be cpnsiderate and try to understand the workings of the nation for the safety and security of its citizens. I do not have to take the police manual to find out the reason why nyuma is provided with security. It is simply for his safety. Our system is an incarnation of the british system of public safety and security. If a citizen's life is under threat from a hardline group/individual, that citizen must be protected at all cost. Take the case of Salmon Rushdie, protecting him runs into millions of pounds of tax payeers money. It has to be done. Had the hardline group behaved more civilly, your taxes would not be going to protecting another citizen.

Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT BODY GUARDS FOR TOM N.IF AUTHENTIC WHY?
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 03:42:02 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-153-195-139.range81-153.btcentralplus.com at 81.153.195.139

Message:
You people keep talking about Tom`s domestic violence, but I have never heard anybody described what he did, if as someone slightly mentioned he found another man in his bed with his wife and chased the man out is domestic violence, please tell me where you live I want to see if you will cheer me when caught
FORREST

Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT BODY GUARDS FOR TOM N.IF AUTHENTIC WHY?
From: Dickey
To: All
Date Posted: 12:36:53 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
hehehehee I will let you be with my wife but you thingy (dicky) too small sengbe. small dicky mende boy

Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT BODY GUARDS FOR TOM N.IF AUTHENTIC WHY?
From: Kekuda
To: All
Date Posted: 07:04:31 07/28/07 ()
Email Address: joeweaves@gmail.com
Entered From: gate02c.merckmedco.com at 167.211.190.2

Message:
And I believe this is the same wife that called the newspaper to fake tears and support on the air?

Subject: WHAT IS THE APC'S POSITION ON THIS ARTICLE ?
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 12:56:01 07/27/07 ()
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:
APC, Ernest Koroma, & the Rebirth of Ekutay
By Sia Tiyaama of the SLPP
Jul 17, 2007, 20:30 Email this article

It has been argued in various quarters that Ernest Koroma has been dishonest all along when he said the APC party is new and that he is trying to change the image of the party. When Ernest Koroma started his campaign, he preached change and forward looking agenda. Lately, the true color of Ernest Koroma and his APC party is illuminated with such scary brilliance of violence and corruption that even Stevie Wonder could see the dangers lurking around the corner if the people of Sierra Leone make the mistake of voting for him and APC. Why does Ernest Koroma not tell us that he is just a paper tiger with the E.T. Kamaras, Abdulai Contehs, Sanie Sesays, and all the Ekutay cabal waiting in the wings to come finish off Sierra Leone? Ernest Koroma preached unity but the sooner the Temnes fell for his deceit, they realized albeit very late that the Ekutay cabal is once more in control. What are the ramifications of all this? Why all of a sudden is Ernest Koroma telling us he will bring back the rule of Siaka Stevens and Joseph Saidu Momoh? Wake up Sierra Leone, Ernest Koroma is reviving Ekutay right under your noses and the revival of Ekutay would be the closest we get to Fascism. In this piece, we shall examine Ernest Koroma’s audacity to tell us he will take us back to the dark days of APC. We shall also examine what that means for a district like Tonkolili especially in this crucial election wherein a son of the Tonkolili soil is the running mate of SLPP.

What Back to Power Really Means

One of the past APC slogans was "defending champions". The Back to Power slogan now used by APC is loaded with variegated meaning. There have always been internecine struggles in the APC between the Temnes and the Limbas. The Temnes believe they were responsible for the success of the APC by their share numbers. The Limba on the other hand claim ownership of the APC because Siaka Stevens, a Limba, founded the party. According to APC insiders, S.I. Koroma a Temne and C.A. Kamara-Taylor a Limba never got along and never liked each other. They were always trying to out do each other for the benefit of their ethnic group. Such struggle played out in many constituency politics. One case in point was the elections in East III constituency between F. B. Turay a Limba and Issa Jalloh, a Temne-Fullah. The story is that Kamara-Taylor was out of town when S. I. Koroma machinated the defeat of a Limba. These struggles came to a head when Siaka Stevens decided to hand power over to Joseph Saidu Momoh instead of the constitutionally mandated successor S. I. Koroma. Momoh in turn cemented the grip of the Limbas by promoting a tribal organization Ekutay. The creation of Ekutay marginalized and alienated all other ethnic groups in the country. For the first time in the history of Sierra Leone, a sitting government institutionalized a tribal organization. Membership to Ekutay ensured promotion, job security, and criminal impunity. The Limbas in APC in general and Ernest Koroma and the other APC hounds in particular miss the unfettered power they enjoyed. As a result, they want to revive Ekutay if they get back to power. Ekutay is already revived within the APC. As you can tell, Ekutay stalwarts like E. T. Kamara and others are now very active ever since the Temnes like Serry-Kamal and Edie Turay were pushed out. So for Ernest Koroma it is back to power for Ekutay, back to power for corruption, back to power for murder and back to power for hooliganism and violence.

Ernest Koroma’s Audacity?

The more one reads Ernest Koroma’s promise to take Sierra Leone back to the days of APC, the more one is alarmed. How can someone in their right mind tell Sierra Leoneans he would take them back to their nightmare? Is this share audacity or foolhardiness? If it is audacity, then Ernest Koroma must have the lowest respect for the Sierra Leonean’s intelligence. Who ever told Koroma that the majority of Sierra Leoneans long for that past? Who told Ernest Koroma Sierra Leoneans long for the days when his Ekutay cabal would take the only fire engine to Binkolo to wet the roadways while PZ burnt to the ground? Whoever told Ernest Koroma Sierra Leoneans want to go back to the days when APC thugs would attack, vandalize press houses, and brutalize journalists. Whoever told Ernest Koroma Sierra Leoneans want to go back to the days when bright sons of a single district Tonkolili would be marked for elimination? Whoever told Ernest Koroma Sierra Leoneans want Victor Voucher gate Foh back in government? Whoever told Ernest Koroma Sierra Leoneans want to go back to the days of the APC when a Vice President would be falsely implicated in a coup, executed and his position given to the attorney general who prosecuted him? Who ever told Ernest Koroma Sierra Leoneans want to go back to the days when Ginger Hall was burnt down by APC thugs? Who told Ernest Koroma Sierra Leoneans want to go back to the days when APC thugs killed many people in Sanda (that incident was dubbed the Sanda Massacre by Mohammed Sorie Forna) Mr. Ernest Koroma, in case you do not know, no one wants those days. Sierra Leoneans are better off continuing with the present dispensation than have your hungry wolves tear the country apart.

Ramifications of APC coming back to power

The ramifications of APC coming back to power cannot be over emphasized. Sierra Leone would have made the same mistake twice in her short post-independence history. The APC rally was just a preamble of what they have in store for unsuspecting civilians. Reports from Freetown indicate that the true color of APC hooliganism was evident for all to see. According to eyewitnesses, APC hooligans at their rally looked like rabid dogs. They had nothing pleasant to offer the people but violence and threats of violence. This should remind all peace loving Sierra Leoneans about the violence unleashed on innocent civilians during the misrule of the APC. These are the same hooligans the APC will hire to terrorize Sierra Leoneans. Make no mistake; there is nothing new about the APC. Wake up Sierra Leone, back to power means no press freedom; back to power means unleashing the rabid hooligans on the populace; back to power means violence against students; back to power means trumped up charges and subsequent execution of political opponents, just as they did the stars of Tonkolili-Mohammed Sorie Forna and the Taqi brothers; back to power means killing bank governors like Sam Bangura, another star of Tonkolili that was snuffed out. If Sierra Leoneans want all these, then vote for Ernest Koroma and APC. However, if Sierra Leoneans want to live in peace, freedom of the press, appropriate development, then continue with SLPP and vote in Solomon Berewa.

Crucial Elections

Now that Ernest Koroma has let the cat out of the bag that he would take Sierra Leone back to the days of APC, Sierra Leoneans must reject the APC and their lies of reform. If Sierra Leoneans want the days of the APC back, the days that were so bad that we descended into civil war, then by all means vote for Ernest Koroma and the APC. However, if Sierra Leoneans want the efforts such as achieving peace, building democratic institutions, building schools in every chiefdom, rehabilitating and building new hospitals, reconstructing roads, unfettered press freedom, unfettered freedom of association, ethnic balance in national appointments and accountability, then by all means vote for Solomon Berewa and the SLPP.

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Subject: Re: WHAT IS THE APC'S POSITION ON THIS ARTICLE ?
From: Mammy Sweh
To: All
Date Posted: 19:10:06 07/27/07 ()
Email Address: mammysweh@gmail.com
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113

Message:
You don't have to be APC to throw up, with unreserved retching, on the tribal garbage Sia Tiyaama regularly spews in his bombastic articles. His peurile strategy appears to be to cradle Tonkolili, smear the Limbas with the sins of Ekutay and in general create ethnic tension in the North so as to seek an advantage for SLPP. I hope SLPP is as competitive in the North as APC should be in the South East. I personally believe that no party should take any region for granted. My problem with Tiyaama is that by playing the tribal card for short term political gain, he is like a wilful kid playing with matches in a room filled with drums of hoarded petrol. Our country has avoided the horrors of tribal warfare, and in spite of cynical political operatives, tribes in Salone are very tolerant of one another. For example I was conceived in Kono district, born in Port Loko district, went to primary school in Ngelehun Kenema District, secondary school in Bo School and college at FBC. I truly consider myself as a Sierra Leonean who is a child of all these wonderful sums of me. Let's keep the tribal harmony going even in these trying elections

Subject: Re: WHAT IS THE APC'S POSITION ON THIS ARTICLE ?
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:45:05 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.22.236.230

Message:
Good try. But you cannot split the party along tribal lines.

By the way the whole premise is wrong because Ernest is a Temne. It is his mother that is a Limba.

Also, Edie Turay is no Temne. He is actually a Loko.

Let the writer go check the facts.

Subject: Re: WHAT IS THE APC'S POSITION ON THIS ARTICLE ?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 13:40:58 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-1e8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.30

Message:
Sia Tiyaama, you are not a spokesman for the APC, so let the APC speak for itself.
I am not impressed by your spate of articles (perhaps because I have never written one myself, I don’t know what you are about. Well, we all know that you would like to turn minds and hearts away from the APC, but to what?
SO why not leave the APC alone- these few days that you have left to campaign, and dwell on your party programme instead?
And stop dwelling in that past. Yes, we know about some of it – know a more about Nazi Germany, and fascist Italy and about 20, 000,000 Russians lives that were sacrificed during the 2nd World war, and about Mao’s China – same political party in existence in China today, and sometimes I am on the brink of telling someone to SHUT UP.

WE are facing the future. Sometimes it’s like Rome is burning and all you are still yapping about the past.

It’s like Lansana Gberie writing “I chanced to read the report by IFES (the International Foundation for Electoral Systems) on the 2004 local council elections in Sierra Leone. The report revealed widespread irregularities, so widespread and egregious indeed that it has since not been released to the public.”

" It"whatever "it" is, is supposed to be "secret" and then he talks about it - to inflict maximum damage on his enemy,the APC. "Immense plaesure" indeed - the hypocrite.

Oh yeah, “widespread irregularities, so widespread and egregious indeed that it has since not been released to the public.”
Well there are people who are more informed - even about diamonds - who could also write about dossiers of CORRUPTION that have not been revealed to the general public of which he is an ignorant part.

And what does he have to say about that – now – or after the elections?

Well, there are some people who have more self-control than he does. That’s all – and who probably love all of Sierra Leone and Sierra Leoneans - of everywhere, than he does, that is all.

So Mr. or Ms Tiyaama – you may ask questions, answer them, but stop harassing the APC in this way. You too could be harassed and would not be able to reply. In fact you impound only be able to regret – like Tom Nyuma regrets that he had not stayed in a different hotel room with his girlfriend, and that’s why he has a swollen head.

This is 2007.

This is not pre-war Europe and we now have what is called the EU. Do you know about the EU? It is one of the major cash donors to your country.

You know, once upon a time, there was the Ottoman Empire. Professor Jan Hjarpe - with his sociological approach to presenting Islam, in Sweden, would sometimes introduced his subject by telling his audience that up till 1918, Sweden used to pay Jiziya tax to Turkey ( for safe passage on the saes etc) Syria, Palestine etc was all under the jurisdiction of Turkey …. And today it is the same Turkey that wants to be a member of the EU.

So please stop living in the unproductive past. This is the present. BE HERE NOW.

Subject: IS THIS NOT TANTAMOUNT TO LIBEL ?
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:21 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 208-58-72-25.c3-0.fch-ubr2.lnh-fch.md.cable.rcn.com at 208.58.72.25

Message:
Posted by Jamba Haide on July 26, 2007 at 15:08:09:

In Reply to: Re: REFRESHING ALIEU ISCANDRI'S MEMORY: A.P.C. 1968-92 posted by ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA on July 26, 2007 at 08:33:22:

According to the Hon. A.S. Bangura:

"He [Alieu] does not even know that he is not qualified to hold any public office in our country because he has a CRIMINAL RECORD. Alieu was put in JAIL for the POSSESSION OF COCAINE and WEED [jamba](which is a SERIOUS CRIME) in California. He was also checked into a MENTAL HEALTH and DRUGS REHABILITATION CENTER in CA."

Is that the reason he was fired by Mr. Crane at the UN-Special Court - SL? And so easily prone to be VULGAR with no shame or remorse in a public domain? And why he was homeless at one time in his life over there? Is this why he is PIMPING our sisters over there? To buy more of that STUFF? Ee sorry oh!! Aye Papa God do yah help this APC boy yah so.

Subject: Re: IS THIS NOT TANTAMOUNT TO LIBEL ?
From: M. ALIEU ISCANDARI ESQ
To: All
Date Posted: 13:23:00 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
THE REPUBLICATION OF AN OBVIOUSLY LIBELOUS STATEMENT IS ITSELF LIBEL SUBJECTING THE POSTER TO AN ACTION FOR LIBEL.

i WANT TO MAKE CLEAR TO YOU THAT YOU HAVE CONTINUED THE LIBEL AGAINST MY PERSON AND MY REPUTATION. I DO NOT HAVE A CRIMINAL RECORD IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND YOU CONTINUED PUBLICATION OF THESE LIBELOUS STATEMENTS ARE CAUSING GREAT EMOTIONAL DAMAGE TO ME AND MY FAMILY.

I WAS NEVER TERMINATED FOR ANY REASON BY THE SPECIAL COURT AND I WILLINGLY REFUSED TO RENEW MY CONTRACT WITH THE COURT FOR PERSONAL REASONS. I HAVE ALSO NEVER CHECKED IN TO OR BEEN A PATIENT OF ANY MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTION IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. MY RECORDS ARE CLEAR AND AVAILABLE FOR ALL TO SEE. CONVICTED FELONS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PRACTICE LAW IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

I HAVE ALSO NEVER BEEN HOMELESS IN MY LIFE BECAUSE I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A RESPONSIBLE PERSON. YOU CONTINUE TO WRONG ME AND YIOUR ACTIONS ARE NOT APPRECIATED.

I WOULD LIKE TO BRING THIS POST AND OTHERS TO THE ATTENTION OF THE MODERATOR OF THIS FORUM.

Subject: Re: IS THIS NOT TANTAMOUNT TO LIBEL ?
From: Dr. C. CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 13:35:19 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 208-58-72-25.c3-0.fch-ubr2.lnh-fch.md.cable.rcn.com at 208.58.72.25

Message:
My defense is that I was trying to find out whether the article was/is true...Under the constitutional law of the USA (and I am proud to report that I am a citizen of this great country) I have a constitutional right to ask a question which I did.

For OUR education, please refer us to the part of the law that says "reposting" a libelous material is libel. Of course to win agains me you will first have to win against the originator of the article...I WAS MERELY ASKING A QUESTION.

HAVE A SAFR WEEKEND, SIR.

Subject: Bunbuna !!! JULY 2008 IS HERE
From: Albert Mionina
To: All
Date Posted: 12:35:47 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60

Message:
If my recollection is correct, the SLPP Government or some official had stated that the Bunbuna Hydro Power would be completed by JULY 2008.

I kindly ask the SLPP Government to account for the status of this project.

Thank you.

Subject: Re: Bunbuna !!! JULY 2008 IS HERE
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:08:19 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-34.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.34

Message:
OK Slpp failed on their promise on Bumbuna. More important of all is what is PMDC's position on providing electricity to Sierra Leone.

Subject: Re: Bunbuna !!! JULY 2008 IS HERE
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 11:21:34 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60

Message:
I am not the right person to answer your question.You can refer to the Manifesto which outlines the policy on various matters or contact any of the PMDC leaders.

I know for certain the SLPP has failed and have not demonstrated in anyway that they are serious about remedying the situation.

Subject: Re: Bunbuna !!! JULY 2008 IS HERE
From: Amadu koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 14:35:00 07/27/07 ()
Email Address: bigamad2001@yahoo.com
Entered From: ac8f6750.ipt.aol.com at 172.143.103.80

Message:
I believe pa kabba should have resigned before the end of his term. most of the thi gs he promised siera loeneans were a white elephant... no food securuty, no bumbumna, not to mention the lungi bribge

Subject: Re: Bunbuna !!! JULY 2007/8 IS HERE
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 12:38:11 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
You mean 2007? If you mean 08 then Berewa will make good on that promise.

Subject: Re: Bunbuna !!! JULY 2007/8 IS HERE
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 12:43:33 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60

Message:
Thank you for the correction. It is meant to be 2007

Subject: Re: Bunbuna !!! JULY 2007/8 IS HERE
From: The guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 19:51:36 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-249-220-124.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net at 68.249.220.124

Message:
Hold tight my brethrens rumor has it that Col. Gadaffi(Libya) will deliver the bridge before H. E. leaves office.

Subject: COCORIOKO FRONT PAGE GONE BLANK. UPDATE PROBLEM
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 11:10:44 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242

Message:
I checked cocorioko this morning and I find out the front page only carried a picture of the soldiers and when I refreshed it it went blank. They are strongling for updating every time.

Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FRONT PAGE GONE BLANK. UPDATE PROBLEM
From: foday mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 13:08:35 07/27/07 ()
Email Address: fmansaray@ao.com
Entered From: static-host-24-225-231-177.patmedia.net at 24.225.231.177

Message:
Again,we ask for everyone Patience.If we don't update
people complain and when we do, people still bark.

When are we going to get some compliment from real people.What did say your name was? POLITICAL.

Show your love and send some appreciation.

Peace.

Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FRONT PAGE GONE BLANK. UPDATE PROBLEM
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 12:33:52 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 208.115.232.93

Message:
No, we are not struggling to update .Rather, we are updating frequently because we have a deluge of articles .The page is not blank now.

Subject: Re: COCORIOKO FRONT PAGE GONE BLANK. UPDATE PROBLEM
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 17:04:46 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242

Message:
Thanks for your answer.

Subject: Let us pray
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 09:01:48 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-1e8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.30

Message:
I came across this

" i think you should also pray that it does not rain on Aug. 10-12"

THis video ( Bamabay Lans Kamara the open-minded will understand it most) has explained to me what Tribal-ism is not - but wherever there are poeple, there are groupings, and wherever there are persons, people, peoples, groupings, even one country & one people, there are

Subject: Rtd Lt.Col Tom Nyuma and Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma.
From: Bazooka Conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 07:57:57 07/27/07 ()
Email Address: salonedude@hotmail.com
Entered From: at 193.150.228.126

Message:
Sierra Leoneans are now counting the days until the election on August 11.
I know that tremendous effort has gone into preaching tolerance in Sierra Leone,but there are many Sierra Leoneans who are unwilling or perhaps find it hard to walk down this road of tolerance. I know and I understand how it feels for a great many Sierra Leoneans especially in view of our personal experiences during the rebel war. But the only way to get through this is to forgive. And remember that forgiveness is not the same as "excusing and forgetting".
" Forgiveness judges a wrong action as wrong, but does not condemn the wrongdoer,
It cancels but never ignores the debt another owes,
it is not a matter of forgetting painful hurts, but of being freed from the pain of the past. Forgiveness removes only the pain of injury, not the memory of it."
Things are not going too well in Sierra Leone and I am worried by the little incidents of violence in the country. The incident in Bo between rtd Lt.Col Tom Nyuma and the presidential candidate of the APC, Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma, is one such incident that could have blown into chaos; but praise God, grace came into play and the matter subsided.
There are differing accounts of what happened, but before accepting any of them, we need to exercise caution and patience until the police conclude the investigation. What troules me however is the blame heaped on the hotel staff for placing rtd. Lt.Col Nyuma in a room next to Mr. Bai koroma. The two gentlemen men may well belong to different political parties, but they are not enemies. If they, by sheer coincidence or whatever, happen to be on the same hotel floor, they should at best smile at each other or in the very least ignore each other. I know that this is where tolerance begins.
Bazooka Conteh.
Stockholm, Sweden.

Subject: Re: Rtd Lt.Col Tom Nyuma and Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma.
From: Jack Bauer
To: All
Date Posted: 12:19:08 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-58-95-154.hsd1.pa.comcast.net at 71.58.95.154

Message:
Correct for five points!

Subject: BAZOOKA THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT TOM NYUMA FELT
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 11:31:46 07/27/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 24.78.66.241

Message:
i HOPE YOU READ WHAT TOLD THE JONALIST THAT HE TOUGHT THEY OF DIFFERENT PARTIES BUT THEY MIGHT BE FRIENDS.BUT HO APC WITH THERE POWER DRUNK,THEY WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHAT GENTLE MEANS

Subject: The North, Western area and Kono say no to SLPP
From: Salone boy
To: All
Date Posted: 05:04:27 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 121-65-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.65.121

Message:
Forumites, the SLPP is playing a mind game to steal tghe lections. The SLPP has put modalities in place to rig the elctions. The passing out ceremony of newly army recruits is one of the tools Kabbah has manufactured to use to deny the opposition a cleansweep. Opposition supporters must realise that majority of these army recruits are behind the SLPP plan to rig the elctions. Some crack squad in the army helped by Mondeh, Joe Blell and Maada Bio have drawn up a plot to steal the voters ballot papers and give it to the SLPP.
The SLPP has made it clear that they will use every weapon to stifle the people's choice for alternative leadership. As the Police have managed to twist the Ernest Korma's murder plot, they are working secretly to steal the elctions.
IMAT presence is a way for the SLPP to abuse power and they fully known the consequences of people's power. Only fools will give the SLPP a victory. We all know that the APC has got the majority in the North, Western area and Kono. PMDC has made giant strides into SLPP base.
The opposition must ensure that the SLPP does not use their propaganda machinery to show teh world tehy are winning. The people especially the youths are tired of the SLPP thievery acts and victimasation. They are bent on voting the SLPP out of power,. It has to be told to these SLPP violent thugs that their violence will be met by a stiff resistance.
Those of us who want to see the SLPP back will employ civil disoabediance method if the SLPP steals victory. NEC has given SLPP supporters the post of commisioners in three of the regions. This is a ply to thief votes. The opposition should be able to position its supporters across the Country to monitor the steps of the returning officers and the Commisioners including Christiana Thorpe. NEC must be able to be neutral and it is the duty for all the parties to see that IMAT provides the NEC boss with security.
The opposition supporters must ensure that they monitor the elctoral materials that are arriving in the Country now. Steps to be taken that the ballot boxes are sealed after the voting and the opposition aprties need to determine the stage of counting. The SLPP has embezzled milions of dollars so they do not want to leave power in order not to be prosecuted by the governmnet of the day. So the SLPP is using every diabolical method to stay in power. However, their plan will be thwarted. Sierra Leoneans will not agree at all. The same way we kicked the AFRC rule is the same action we will use to get the thievery SLPP out of power. We will only settle for a free and fair elctions. By all indications, the SLPP has no support in the North, Western area and Kono.
Kabbah?berewa killed innocent soldiers including a woman and embezzled donors money meant for the pooor. Sierra Leoneans do not want to contine with a governmnet that purged its army without no jjust cause and given premium to foreign m,ercenaries and allow Yenga to be seized by Guinea. Our poepl are dying from simple and curable diseases and hardly have a square meal.
No amount of intimidation and lies will give the SLPP victory. Two thirds of our people want change and they will surely evict the SLPP come August 11th. Whether Christiana Thorpe or JJ Blood, Maada Bio, Tom Nyuma, Mondeh and others try to steral victory. Our best hope is the people's power.
August 11th is the funeral of the SLPP. A governmnet that has sowed the seed of discord and open the door of confrontation against peace loving Sierra Leoneans. The SLPP sponsored the NPRC to kick the APC after he had connived with the RUF to unleash destruction in the lifes of the poor people. Members of the SLPPclan will go at great length to fight for power and kill their opponents .
August 11th will send a trong message to those who think that evil is the option for power.

Subject: Re: The North, Western area and Kono say no to SLPP
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 07:55:26 07/28/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-154-163-118.range81-154.btcentralplus.com at 81.154.163.118

Message:
"...plot to steal the voters ballot papers and give it to the SLPP."

Which voters' ballot papers? Are they APC or SLPP voters' ballot papers?

Subject: Re: The North, Western area and Kono say no to SLPP
From: WRONG ANALYSIS
To: All
Date Posted: 09:41:32 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-68-80-39-50.hsd1.pa.comcast.net at 68.80.39.50

Message:
So do you mean to say that if slpp come victorious in the election, it means the elections has been rigged? It is very unfortunate that some of you sit down behind you key board and come up with all kinds of bogus conclusions.We are in the 21st century, there is noway anybody can rig elections in Sierra Leone. Irrespective of someone ones party affiliation, let us allow the NEC officials to do the work that has been assigned to them.

Subject: Re: The North, Western area and Kono say no to SLPP
From: you are Naive
To: All
Date Posted: 11:03:04 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
We are in the 21st century, there is noway anybody can rig elections in Sierra Leone.

Subject: CHECK THIS OUT
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
To: All
Date Posted: 01:01:22 07/27/07 ()
Email Address: mendemoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-72-82-173-29.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net at 72.82.173.29

Message:
Check out this website: www.OneSaloneNews.com Lots to read

Subject: Re: CHECK THIS OUT
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:08:23 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-31-34.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.31.34

Message:
Hey Toegondoe:

We have n't had any new SLPP schemes of stealing the election lately. Do not slow down now. What's going on. I was getting my daily entertainment and stress release from your concocted stories and rumors.

Subject: Medical History
From: Nacolepsy
To: All
Date Posted: 22:10:30 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-106-72-144.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.106.72.144

Message:
How important is it for the people of Sierra leone to know the medical history/status of every presidential candidate?

Subject: Re: Medical History
From: not important
To: All
Date Posted: 11:04:39 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.70

Message:
not important

Subject: ALIEU IS THE ONLY LAWYER THAT BELIVE DEN SAY
From: okdok
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Date Posted: 22:19:44 07/26/07 ()
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ARE YOU STILL SURE PA LAWYER THAT TOM IS GUILTY BECAUSE OF WHAT EARNEST KOROMA IS SAYING?BECAREFUL OR ELSE YOU END UP BAD.

Subject: Re: ALIEU IS THE ONLY LAWYER THAT BELIVE DEN SAY
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http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20056115.shtml

Subject: A big mistake to have Iscandri as one of your lawyers
From: Test
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Rev Kanu,
Did I hear you say that Iscandri has consented as serve as one of your lawyers. That will be a big mistake. This guy was thrown out of the Sierra Leone wae crime tribunal because of poor performance. His practice in california is all but dead.Nobody takes him serious among the sierra leone community and beyond. I understand that he was overlooked when a sierra leonean was involved in an immigration case in Sacramento recently.He depends on his wife to survive. Look at the number of times he posts rubbish on this forum. He does not have enough to keep him busy and now wants to throw a dagger into your relatively good work. He is waiting to be appointed as one of his Earnet Koroma's hand bags just in case Earnest wins.Not enough time to review this writting.You get the message?
Please do not take this risk.YOU ARE WARNED!

Subject: Re: A big mistake to have Iscandri as one of your lawyers
From: fmansaray
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Date Posted: 21:54:47 07/26/07 ()
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Merrs Iscandri is a step in the right direction for Cocorioko. We have to stop the pull him down approach ,if we are going to succeed as a group of people. For Merrs Iscandri to be nominated to the International Criminal Tribunal is an Accomplishment by itself. Let support his law practice and see how much Contributions we can get in return.

Please concentrate on the issues and leave this fine International Lawyer Alone.Attempt taking the Bar in any State , then you will give more credit to
Merrs Iscandri.

Subject: Re: A big mistake to have Iscandri as one of your lawyers
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
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Date Posted: 23:41:12 07/26/07 ()
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Mr.Mansaray, If you guys really intend to be fair to all of us in this forum, there is no way you can appoint Alieu Iscandari as one of the lawyers for this newspaper and its forum. You know very well that Alieu is always pulling others down, only because they disagree with him.
Alieu is guilty of all the crimes you guys want to stop in this forum:(1)insulting people(using abusive language) in posting under fake names.(2)Reducing good people in the eyes of the public (by maligning and defaming them).(3)Spreading false information about others.
For your information, Alieu Iscandari was never nominated to no international criminal Tribunal.Please,go cross check your facts.
I advise Rev.W.Kabs-Kanu not to allow you the APC members to corrupt him. Cocorioko is not the propaganda wing of the APC.This newspaper and its forum do not belong the APC.
We need sober minded lawyers that will be FAIR and JUST to everybody.

Subject: Re: A big mistake to have Iscandri as one of your lawyers
From: GBANABOM 91
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Date Posted: 11:34:30 07/27/07 ()
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Look at Saidu talking about APC members and corruption . You don't even know where you belong .You have not been to Freetown for so long to see the corruption your so call SLPP is doing . I even doubt if you are a registered member or maybe you just assume to be a member .Just keep your mouth shut because you don't know what you are talking about . Talking money from people at your so call sara's every sunday is also corruption if you don't know that . Don't worry , after August 11 , your family in Freetown will sleep with a full stomach . Because your SLPP party is so corrupt , this is why your family has not been going to bed with a full stomach . See ya boddy !

Subject: Re: A big mistake to have Iscandri as one of your lawyers
From: alieu sesay
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A nail in the Coffin. Finally accepted the fact that they are the APC- Mouth Piece.
You want to be independent get a non-Partisan Sierra Leonean Lawyer.
We have a lot of them in this country and other countries.

Cocoriocco GET REAL.

Subject: Forum Traffic Report
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Subject: Stealing Elections with Impunity
From: Mammy Sweh
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Date Posted: 18:42:34 07/26/07 ()
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Stick a fork in it. That election turkey is cooked. The SLPP powers-that-be are hellbent on stealing the vote and there is not a damn thing anyone of us can do about it. I used to think that the SLPP wouldn't dare to to pull such a stunt considering our bloody recent past. They know that such a dastardly act can ensure a harvest of thorns for them, but it is a risk Berewa and the SLPP's High Council are willing to take. SLPP is still haunted by the ghost of 1967 when they were booted out of power by the APC and they have taken a blood oath not to allow history to repeat itself. And why wouldn't they think they can get away with robbing the electorate blind? They see other thugs-in-chief of other countries who had gotten away with murder at the ballot booth. Obassanjo: Highway electoral robbery in broad daylight in Nigeria. Consequences? Didley squat!
Uganda's Musseveni: Massive rigging and then prosecuting his main rival of treason for having the nerve to run against him. Consequences? Nada!
Gabon's Omar Bongo, Cameroon's Biya, Guinea's Conteh, Guinea Bissau's Nguema, Zimbabwe's Mugabe? Guns ablaze banditry at the polls and torture and murder of political opponents. Consequences? Being called Your Excellency. Berewa can still deliver a free and fair elections or he can join with the nasty bunch of the apocalypse. If these elections are stolen, I have no doubt at all that we will have another illiterate soldier in Khakis declaring the all too familiar: I DECLARE MARSHA LOH!

Subject: Re: Stealing Elections with Impunity
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 18:44:35 07/26/07 ()
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Bro, this is going to be a clean win. If there is going to be any hanky panky, I will be the first to tell it to the world. The people want continuity and it is only the SLPP that can give such.

Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Chez
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 19:05:10 07/26/07 ()
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"If there is going to be any hanky panky, I will be the first to tell it to the world"

And if it happens to be your party that conducts the hanky panky? would you expose it to the world? Or are you paying lip service to democracy the slpp way?

"The people want continuity"

Do the people really want continuity? or is this really a figment of SLPP over ambition? The people intend to speak loud and clear that they dfo not want any continuity because dem don tire wit nonsense.

Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Chez
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 07:46:56 07/28/07 ()
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Without a shadow of doubt! Thanks - had a wonderful time!

Subject: APC GIVES ‘SLEEPY SOLO’ NOTICE TO QUIT !
From: Peep
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The SLPP has formally been handed a Notice To Quit - which comes due on August 11, 2007.
Tens of thousands of APC supporters danced to a new hit tone ‘Notice’ by Fabulous which now seems to be the APC’s campaign anthem.
“Den wan yar... we dae gie den notice” APC crowds chanted on Wednesday afternoon as they congregated on the National Stadium to welcome their Presidential candidate Ernest Koroma and his running mate Sam Sumana.
The APC gathering far surpasses the Solo The Bomba SLPP rally held Saturday July 7, 2007.
“And we haven’t even brought our supporters from Makeni, Port Loko and Kambia to Freetown as the SLPP brought their people from Bo and Kenema” a jubilant Victor Foh, APC secretary general, told our team of reporters.
Even APC organizers appeared overwhelmed by the size of the crowd.
It appears that this Mass Mobilisation was an clear indication of the mood of the population in the capital.
Both Ibrahim Samura and Bakarr Koroma who were out and about on Wednesday, said the Libyan rice issue is still very much on people’s minds.
“Songs like Borbor Belleh, Two Fut Arata, Pack For Go, Time Don Done etc were sung lustily by the APC crowd which, in some areas, was joined by PMDC stalwarts in a Grand Anti-Corruption Alliance.”
In launching the manifesto, APC leader Ernest Koroma promised ‘a new beginning’ for Sierra Leone.
Meanwhile medical sources have questioned Solomon Berewa’s fitness to rule.
Although our medial sources would not divulged ‘privileged information; we were told the vice president’s habit of dozing off frequently is due to a diabetic condition.
The V.P also smokes five packs of cigarettes a day and has trouble sleeping.

Subject: Re: APC GIVES ‘SLEEPY SOLO’ NOTICE TO QUIT !
From: Amadu Kabbah
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Date Posted: 20:42:18 07/26/07 ()
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If Sierra Leone looks at a man who has been declared not medically fit or who medical personnel are skeptical about and put him the most important office, or if Solo bee himself can chase power to his death, then I wonder what Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sei would write about Solo-Beism theory of poverty eradication. My guess is that he wants a befitting funeral (State Burial). However, I wish him speedy recovery from smoking.

Subject: In Bed with the Devil for Political Power.
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In Bed with the Devil for Political Power.
- Thursday 26 July 2007.
"So, in spite of the honest admission by the Sierra Leone Police that it is not well-equipped to provide security for the August polls, the international community should step in immediately with some urgency so that the state security personnel could provide security for our political leaders rather than by some semi-literate, notorious ex-khaki boys if only to ward off any potential animosity between this crop of hooligans and the regular state security apparatus that would have the potential to undermine the credibility of the much publicized August 11 polls."
Commentary

By Abdulai Bayraytay, Deputy Editor, Toronto.

As both Sierra Leone’s presidential and parliamentary elections slated for August 11 this year get closer, the recent spate of violence in particularly the south-eastern parts of the country are sending worrying signals to the electorate that the essence of democracy through the ballot box seems to be potentially undermined.

Not peculiar to elections in Sierra Leone and other countries in Africa, the concern in Sierra Leone this time comes up because the country is in the process of recovering from a bloody and devastating civil war that left scores of innocent and unsuspecting civilians dead,and thousands of others had their limbs amputated.

However, what seems to send a deadly signal, reminiscent of the pre-1996 elections that ushered in the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) to power was how the then leader of the notorious National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) headed by Julius Maada Bio and his cohorts were hell bent on thwarting the democratic aspirations of the electorate for a change of the political spectrum from rule by the gun to rule through the ballot box.

Indeed, the military was sorely disappointed by the resolve and resilience of the people! People should not forget that Maada Bio and his friends tried to stop the 1996 democratic elections!

But it seems our political leaders (or rather apprentices) have completely forgotten the overzealousness and brutality of a cross-section of the military who would stop at nothing to grab and cling to power, a sure means of accumulating ill-gotten wealth in poor mother Sierra Leone.

This is clearly evident in the roles Maada Bio, Tom Nyuma and ex-junta boys like Idrissa Kamara aka Leatherboot are playing in the new democratic dispensation. If for anything, the gross human rights violations perpetrated by these people including the killing of innocent figures like Salami Coker formerly of Ports Authority and palm wine tappers from Waterloo on what later came out to be trumped-up allegations of a coup plot, through firing squad, committed under the supervision of some of these notorious names during the NPRC junta days should have made them(Bio, Nyuma, Leatherboot, etc) fine candidates for the so-called Special Court for Sierra Leone.

But since this is an illusion, if not a figment of social justice activists, the Bios and the Nyumas roamed the world with impunity until the recent deportation of Nyuma from the United States. These characters, among others, should really thank their stars, to say the least.

Tom Nyuma, who made a name for himself by prosecuting the war against the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) albeit allegations of collusion with the rebels hence the tag of “sobel” (soldier by day, rebel by night)attached to him, his name was particularly tarnished by an incident I witnessed during my days as a cub reporter in 1994.

Coming from covering a story of some university students’ involvement in illegal diamond mining in Tongo in the east of the country, I witnessed Tom Nyuma, then Eastern region strongman under the NPRC tying up some traffic police officers in uniform on allegations of taking petty cash bribes from commuters and drivers at the Hangha checkpoint.

The beatings unleashed on these officers left some with swollen eyes and raw wounds. I had the opportunity to publish the story with the photos of the officers at the now defunct New Breed newspaper. This incident not only made Tom Nyuma a "Son of Satan", it also made him the epitome of the brutal face of the NPRC regime. That is why even though I vehemently condemn any act of violence that has the semblance of undermining the electoral process, the recent beating of Tom Nyuma in Bo made me recall the brutal Sibthorpe street beatings of innocent civilians in broad daylight in central Freetown by the NPRC junta of which Nyuma was a leading figure.

It could also be recalled that part of the reasons advanced by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) coup in 1997 was the marginalization of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Sierra Leone by successive governments. However puerile an excuse this might mean to ordinary Sierra Leoneans, the emergence of the civil defence forces at the height of the war sparked some animosity that later translated into very bad blood.

I could recall a remark made by the late deputy Defence minister Sam Hinga Norman that he felt much safer with the civil kamajor militia guarding him than the regular state security personnel. Norman may have good reasons for saying that but that statement, among others, angered the regular military that later culminated into the deadly rift between the civil militia and the army. Here then is another vindication of the old saying that history teaches us that history teaches nothing!

So, in spite of the honest admission by the Sierra Leone Police that it is not well-equipped to provide security for the August polls, the international community should step in immediately with some urgency so that the state security personnel could provide security for our political leaders rather than by some semi-literate, notorious ex-khaki boys if only to ward off any potential animosity between this crop of hooligans and the regular state security apparatus that would have the potential to undermine the credibility of the much publicized August 11 polls.

Indeed, a cross-section of our politicians will even befriend the devil if only that would ensure their victory. What a Machiavellian way of capturing political power!

Subject: JIMMY KANDEH: ADVICE TO P.M.D.C.: BEREWA WINS BY 75%
From: FARRAH MARRAH
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Date Posted: 18:31:20 07/26/07 ()
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Asking for 5 More Years - an Exclusive Interview With Solomon Berewa

Concord Times (Freetown)
NEWS
26 July 2007
Posted to the web 26 July 2007

By Ibrahim Seibure, Ibrahim Tarawallie and Danny Glenwright
Freetown
Solomon Berewa is relaxed and calm. He slouches on the pale-yellow striped sofa in his Spur Road office and leans his head against it, his eyes half-closed, a Cheshire cat grin forming on his face as he delivers his election prediction.
His party, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), will retain power and win as much as 75 per cent of the country's votes on August 11, he says in his deep, slurred voice.
He wears a two-piece, button-up beige suit and black leather sandals, his reading glasses tucked in his front pocket and his hands folded over his chest. He is not known for being a charismatic person. Indeed, he is better known for his calm, disinterested, mellow persona than he is for loud, boisterous oratory.
But people like him and he pulls it off, seeming always on the verge of nodding off, yet always on scr1pt and in charge.
He has been involved in the government of Sierra Leone since 1996, when President Tejan Kabbah asked him to take on the role of Attorney General, and he has served as Vice President for the past five years.
When critics thought peace was illusive for Sierra Leone, Berewa played a large role in proving them wrong and ensuring the country emerged from the war for good, even negotiating with the rebel groups. But he has also been criticized for this role and for the part he played in the execution of 24 soldiers in 1998.
Before entering politics, he was a successful Freetown lawyer and a partner at a law firm in the city for more than 20 years. "I am a man of the law," he says, when asked how he'll respond if he loses the upcoming election. "If I feel aggrieved I will go to the law.
I will seek redress. I won't say I'll be violent or I will cause havoc on my own people, my own country." He accuses his main political opponents, Charles Margai and Ernest Koroma, of instigating violence and leading a "one-sided show" in the country, claiming his party has the cleanest hands of the group.
Aware of the many ills facing Sierra Leonean's, he thinks growing the economy will be the country's ticket out of poverty. If elected next month, his first priority will be increasing the private sector and rapidly building the economy.
"My priorities are simply to restore the confidence of the people in this country," he says. "We can only develop if we have law and order.
"I would look at the economy and see how we can, as quickly as possible, turn it around....I'm sure we're going to attract a lot of investors." Like President Kabbah before him, he brings up the end of the 11-year civil war as the major achievement of his SLPP government. Education and health improvements are other high points of his government, he says, recognizing there is still far to go to address the many inadequacies in these sectors.
He promises working electricity within a month of the election if he wins it, and laughing, scoffs at comparisons with next-door-neighbour Liberia, where the power has been on in the capitol of Monrovia for some time, even though Liberia's war ended later than this country's.
He said the leaders of Guinea and Liberia are traditional allies of Sierra Leone and, despite recent uprisings in both countries, he'll work with them to solidify peace and stability in the region. As well, he wants to expand international relationships and look to new partners in the world, including Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Canada and the United States, South Africa and parts of Asia.
"I will be a man of my own," he says, defending claims that he will mimic the government of the current President. "Solomon Berewa is not President Kabbah.
I have my own way of taking actions and he has his own." When political stress becomes too extreme, Berewa said he likes to unwind at home, eat traditional foods like rice and listen to music. As a devout Christian and an organist, he is soothed by church music and especially loves Handel's Messiah. Sometimes, if he can't sleep, he wakes in the middle of the night and plays the organ. It calms him, he says.
It is hard to imagine this tranquil, soft-spoken man on the football pitch, but he appears to be a fan of local sports. His eyes opened wide, for the first and only time, when speaking about the Leone Stars, the national football team. "Anytime you go for international matches, we've lost some of our best footballers," he said, lamenting the desire for Sierra Leonean sports stars to play abroad rather than stay at home. "We need to encourage competition." His proudest achievement of the last 11 years in government is the attainment of peace, he says, as he slouches deeper into his sofa, his strength apparently waning. He doesn't appear to have the energy to raise this country out of its economic and political woes, but he's proved critics wrong before.

Subject: Re: JIMMY KANDEH: ADVICE TO P.M.D.C.: BEREWA WINS BY 75%
From: Toegondoe Sagbah
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Date Posted: 00:59:27 07/27/07 ()
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Hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa(LOL. Since when did any one win by that much? That tells you the man is dreaming. When you said his eyes seemed half closed, they were half closed because he just woke up from nodding when you were allowed to go inside and meet him. Hahahaaaaaaaaa.

In the days when even the APC was not as strong as it is now, in the days when there was no PMDC, even in those days, SLPP didn't get 75% Hahahaaaaaaa.
TO

Subject: Re: JIMMY KANDEH: ADVICE TO P.M.D.C.: BEREWA WINS BY 75%
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What was the margin in the last General Elections?
You Bigful for true.....LOL

Subject: Re: JIMMY KANDEH: ADVICE TO P.M.D.C.: BEREWA WINS BY 75%
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:11:35 07/26/07 ()
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We are all in favour of the people’s choice through a free and fair election – one that does not include intimidation from the security apparatus.

“seeming always on the verge of nodding off” is more like the perennial descr1ption of the 69- year old Berewa, who will soon have to give way to what is called “young blood”

Fact is that he sometimes does “nod off” as some of his opponents have been complaining, for quite some time now. Wouldn’t like to have him in the Sierra Leone Airways pilot or navigator’s seat next time you fly to New York, would you – with the risk of him “nodding off” to the peaceful sleep and deeper slumber?

Little short rotund and fat –stomach bulging a little due to lack of exercise and sitting too long at the office – causing this falling asleep during meetings, “he wears a two-piece, button-up beige suit and black leather sandals, his reading glasses tucked in his front pocket and his hands folded over his chest” and says in his “ deep, slurred voice” that “His party, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), will retain power and win as much as 75 per cent of the country's votes on August 11, “ 75% Indeed. Whilst the APC and the PMDC and others together will get 25%? What arrogance! On what demographic basis doe he make such a prediction? How does he break down the voting in the West, East, North and South to tally with this 75% figure when in fact the South has the lowest number of registered voters, the North and West have the most, followed by the East of Sierra Leone.

Even at dollar-a- vote, for those who subsist on less than a dollar-a day just wouldn’t’ work out because some men of conscience might just follow John Leigh’s advice to “take the money and vote for their conscience”. Only problem is that taking the money means that the conscience of some could already be compromised – and then there are the oaths and other culturally based superstitions that instil the fear of evil consequences of taking the money and doing other than they swore on idol or juju, TO DO.

It all fits into the carefully calculated impression that some of his advocates such as Gberie are spinning right in front of our eyes, an impression that the slpp spin doctors would like to give to the outside world, and even to the naïve and gullible among us, although e know better because we know that it’s impossible that he could or will win with a75% showing – unless the election is RIGGED. Perhaps he says so in the belief that “Everyone loves a winner”? False impression. Even Umaru Yara'dua did not win by that margin, and couldn't have said that before the election. And Kabbah wouldn’t even get 65% today. Why should Mr. Continuity?

A Swedish politician could never say, I’ll win with 75% - certainly not as tactic- since it would just have the opposite effect- and if too many people in Sierra Leone believed a word of that boast, then they might just stay at home on a rainy day and let other people do the voting…….

Yes, these kinds of carefully doctored up reports - for outsiders – are presenting false data, to bolster that impression that the SLPP is so vastly popular and the APC and PMDC so vastly unpopular – ( that even the council seats that the APC won – according to Gberie was only through out-rigging the SLPP –in-power in their rigging (when in fact the APC swept all of Freetown and the Western area in that Municipal Council election of 2004 – and this was not a surprise to anybody – indeed Mr. Siaka Stevens the leader of the APC who won the election in 1967, was Mayor of Freetown , and on that occasion too, the APC won all twelve Parliamentary Seats in Freetown and the Western Area.

The SLPP “spinmeisters” are giving the impression of the overwhelming popularity of the SLPP – so that a 75% victory does not come as surprise to the outside world - and I keep on emphasising, THE OUTSIDE WORLD, because the poor and suffering masses in Sierra Leone, and the marginalised and unemployed youths, and all those who still go to bed hungry in Sierra Leone, know that 75% of them are not going to vote for the SLPP.

Now about rigging: we are not to be in the absurd situation in which an incumbent government – any incumbent government in a mostly under-developed African country , should have the impunity to expect that they can rig an election, under the very noses of the local and international observers and then squelch/ suppress/ beat down any protest but people who they would like us to believe are hooligans , hoodlums, thugs and terrorists ( although the later is mostly to be associated with Middle Eastern dynasties and clans).

Savak and the Shah’s Iranian army were doing just that when the Iranian people rose up with Imam Khomeini ( r.a.) but when Imam Khomeini ( r.a.) said “ The Army is the people and the people is the army” It was soon all over. The army got tired of shooting at its own people.
Not that I ever want things to take that turn in Sierra Leone and that’s why we are advocating FREE and fair. When the woman or the people say no, it’s NO – she/they should not be raped. Their choice must be RESPECTED.

Such a situation can be further exacerbated by having a criminal government that has rigged such an election, backed by their police and their military wing of the party (usually the national army) that is there and ready to suppress any protest.

About contesting fraudulent elections, it’s alright for him to say

"I am a man of the law; if I feel aggrieved I will go to the law.” If the Law (the Judiciary and those decorated judges and cronies and the Electoral Agency and the Police and Military is standing to attention and saluting him already.

Well at least he is tentatively assuring the APC, that if the APC trounce the SLPP this year - - 40 years after the last trouncing, that he Berewa, unlike Albert Margai will not call in the army to avert his old age dreams of being Sierra Leone greatest president ever, being CRUSHED until he or Sengbe Konouwah tries again in 1212……by which time Solo Bee will be 74, a year younger than Pa Kabbah is today.

“I will be a man of my own” should be replaced by “I am a man of my own!”

“He accuses his main political opponents, Charles Margai and Ernest Koroma, of instigating violence and leading a "one-sided show" in the country, claiming his party has the cleanest hands of the group.”

He does the accusing, and no one has yet attempted to assassinate him … but I’ll finish off Gberie later ( by which I mean deal with his article – lest he fear an assassination attempt by my typewriter and you never know, there was even a guy who is today known as “ the shoe bomber”:

Well, I’m not one of those…….

Subject: Re: JIMMY KANDEH: ADVICE TO P.M.D.C.: BEREWA WINS BY 75%
From: Mammy Sweh
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Date Posted: 10:54:55 07/27/07 ()
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Yours is an incisive take on thr current political dynamics in the country. I love it. About Berewa's dream of amassing 75% of the vote? FAT CHANCE OF THAT HAPPENING! The only way the SLPP is going to win is by their thugs pulling ski masks over their heads and storming the polling booths with guns blazing. I say this based on the recent trends: a compromised Inspector General of Police, asassination attempts on Charles Margai and Ernest Koroma and crazy spinning to prepare the public for the inevitable rogue election results.

Subject: rejoinder to "Cocorioko is the Best"
From: keke blahima
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Date Posted: 18:28:13 07/26/07 ()
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I would take the excellence of COCORIOKO even further. To say the best is beyond belief. It is the objective, fair and balanced reporting that qualifies this paper as perhaps one if not the best journalistic product owned and operated by a Sierra Leonean.
He has even taken free speech to a whole new layer offering even a podium for the best and the worst, the critics and the illogical minds who swing rumors and innuendoes with malice aforethought, prejudice, love, peace, everything under the sun.
This forum is a lot of fun, but it also reveals o lot of the anger and treachery and the vemon of misinformation that spits in the face of truth and hasty conclusions. That's the only problem that I wrestle with.
Sierra Leone has a greater ratio of intelligent, educated and intellectual byproducts per capita in the continent of Africa. Yet I have seen the worse of it on this forum as well.
I think as much as we have right to debate the issues, I would submit that if we spent all that time and energy coming up with or exchanging ideas about how we can reduce porverty, offer strategies on revamping the economy to cater for the poor majority, it will do a world of good.
Our rage and conflict may have a political object, but it is purely an economic conflict. If Sierra Leone WAS a monarchy with an average of $60,000 GNI per capita, no one would be worried about what government is doing or not doing. But when you have a nation as our with a $220 GNI per capita even the most democratic institution will be subjected to suspicion.
Remember Bill Clinton; "its the economy..."

Subject: Sierra Leone Police sending the wrond signal to the Public
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:25:28 07/26/07 ()
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Read~!

Subject: the people's choice
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 18:23:08 07/26/07 ()
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What happened to what I just posted?

We are all in favour of the people’s choice through a free and fair election – one that does not include intimidation from the security apparatus.

“seeming always on the verge of nodding off” is more like the perennial descr1ption of the 69- year old Berewa, who will soon have to give way to what is called “young blood”

Fact is that he sometimes does “nod off” as some of his opponents have been complaining, for quite some time now. Wouldn’t like to have him in the Sierra Leone Airways pilot or navigator’s seat next time you fly to New York, would you – with the risk of him “nodding off” to the peaceful sleep and deeper slumber?

Little short rotund and fat –stomach bulging a little due to lack of exercise and sitting too long at the office – causing this falling asleep during meetings, “he wears a two-piece, button-up beige suit and black leather sandals, his reading glasses tucked in his front pocket and his hands folded over his chest” and says in his “ deep, slurred voice” that “His party, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), will retain power and win as much as 75 per cent of the country's votes on August 11, “ 75% Indeed. Whilst the APC and the PMDC and others together will get 25%? What arrogance! On what demographic basis doe he make such a prediction? How does he break down the voting in the West, East, North and South to tally with this 75% figure when in fact the South has the lowest number of registered voters, the North and West have the most, followed by the East of Sierra Leone.

Even at dollar-a- vote, for those who subsist on less than a dollar-a day just wouldn’t’ work out because some men of conscience might just follow John Leigh’s advice to “take the money and vote for their conscience”. Only problem is that taking the money means that the conscience of some could already be compromised – and then there are the oaths and other culturally based superstitions that instil the fear of evil consequences of taking the money and doing other than they swore on idol or juju, TO DO.

It all fits into the carefully calculated impression that some of his advocates such as Gberie are spinning right in front of our eyes, an impression that the slpp spin doctors would like to give to the outside world, and even to the naïve and gullible among us, although e know better because we know that it’s impossible that he could or will win with a75% showing – unless the election is RIGGED. Perhaps he says so in the belief that “Everyone loves a winner”? False impression. Even Umaru Yara'dua did not win by that margin, and couldn't have said that before the election. And Kabbah wouldn’t even get 65% today. Why should Mr. Continuity?

A Swedish politician could never say, I’ll win with 75% - certainly not as tactic- since it would just have the opposite effect- and if too many people in Sierra Leone believed a word of that boast, then they might just stay at home on a rainy day and let other people do the voting…….

Yes, these kinds of carefully doctored up reports - for outsiders – are presenting false data, to bolster that impression that the SLPP is so vastly popular and the APC and PMDC so vastly unpopular – ( that even the council seats that the APC won – according to Gberie was only through out-rigging the SLPP –in-power in their rigging (when in fact the APC swept all of Freetown and the Western area in that Municipal Council election of 2004 – and this was not a surprise to anybody – indeed Mr. Siaka Stevens the leader of the APC who won the election in 1967, was Mayor of Freetown , and on that occasion too, the APC won all twelve Parliamentary Seats in Freetown and the Western Area.

The SLPP “spinmeisters” are giving the impression of the overwhelming popularity of the SLPP – so that a 75% victory does not come as surprise to the outside world - and I keep on emphasising, THE OUTSIDE WORLD, because the poor and suffering masses in Sierra Leone, and the marginalised and unemployed youths, and all those who still go to bed hungry in Sierra Leone, know that 75% of them are not going to vote for the SLPP.

Now about rigging: we are not to be in the absurd situation in which an incumbent government – any incumbent government in a mostly under-developed African country , should have the impunity to expect that they can rig an election, under the very noses of the local and international observers and then squelch/ suppress/ beat down any protest but people who they would like us to believe are hooligans , hoodlums, thugs and terrorists ( although the later is mostly to be associated with Middle Eastern dynasties and clans).

Savak and the Shah’s Iranian army were doing just that when the Iranian people rose up with Imam Khomeini ( r.a.) but when Imam Khomeini ( r.a.) said “ The Army is the people and the people is the army” It was soon all over. The army got tired of shooting at its own people.
Not that I ever want things to take that turn in Sierra Leone and that’s why we are advocating FREE and fair. When the woman or the people say no, it’s NO – she/they should not be raped. Their choice must be RESPECTED.

Such a situation can be further exacerbated by having a criminal government that has rigged such an election, backed by their police and their military wing of the party (usually the national army) that is there and ready to suppress any protest.

About contesting fraudulent elections, it’s alright for him to say

"I am a man of the law; if I feel aggrieved I will go to the law.” If the Law (the Judiciary and those decorated judges and cronies and the Electoral Agency and the Police and Military is standing to attention and saluting him already.

Well at least he is tentatively assuring the APC, that if the APC trounce the SLPP this year - - 40 years after the last trouncing, that he Berewa, unlike Albert Margai will not call in the army to avert his old age dreams of being Sierra Leone greatest president ever, being CRUSHED until he or Sengbe Konouwah tries again in 1212……by which time Solo Bee will be 74, a year younger than Pa Kabbah is today.

“I will be a man of my own” should be replaced by “I am a man of my own!”

“He accuses his main political opponents, Charles Margai and Ernest Koroma, of instigating violence and leading a "one-sided show" in the country, claiming his party has the cleanest hands of the group.”

He does the accusing, and no one has yet attempted to assassinate him … but I’ll finish off Gberie later ( by which I mean deal with his article – lest he fear an assassination attempt by my typewriter and you never know, there was even a guy who is today known as “ the shoe bomber”:

Well, I’m not one of those…….

Subject: Re: the people's choice
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 18:33:31 07/26/07 ()
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You are a very experienced man and I believe wisdom has a better portion of experience. Please search within and you will wake up to know that the people want continuity. Any derailment from such will put us back - ten years in misery. The new APC and PMDC are not ready to serve the people - their only concern is their intersts. Their pockets are very empty and would want to steal from us to fill these pockets. To that people like us will say NO! NO! NO! As an old thief is better than a new thief. In logi, an old thief with profound wisdom has a stage in his life that he will reason with himself and make amends to his wrongful past. A new thief will have to reach the stages the old thief has reached before he reasons with himself to make amends to his wrongful past. In effect, better an old thief than a new thief.

Subject: Re: the people's choice
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:32:58 07/26/07 ()
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Young and old.......old and young

Whereas Solo B was born on August 5th

This younger guy was born on

Subject: Re: the people's choice
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:08:34 07/26/07 ()
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Chez, this song is for YOU:

http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/wakeup.html

Your posting is one of the funniest yada yada that I have ever read on this forum.

You wan ambug mi noh more……

SO here’s some yada yada from me to you:

Remember the question that you have for Solo B for the debate on 5th August. What kind of answer do you anticipate from him?

As a defence lawyer for one of those old elite politicians charged with corruption in his public office, or charged with corrupting the youths, is this how you are going to argue your case in court?

In that case, you might be sentenced along with hi for being an accessory and for contempt of Court too…..
Out of respect for Mr. Berewa, I’m not going to savage your propositions, or even ridicule them…. Because you have already done that.

Chez, I don’t feel like talking to a nutter who says stupid things like “Any derailment from such will put us back - ten years in misery.”

Please read what you have written just a few times, and maybe when you wake up, your brain might have processed the “logic” and you’ll have an answer as to whether and old devil like Stan is better than a young an inexperienced one.

And what do you mean by “. An old thief is better than a new thief?
Are you calling Ekuma Berewa “an OLD THIEF”?

Your logic is my psychology.

AS Fela rapped

“ Fool at forty nah fool forever
Nah so di book people dem say –
You noh go tell you brohda like that
Fool nah fool no matter for age….. “ etc

An old thief is a SEASONED THIEF…. Who might be able to take your pants off whilst you are watching the football match and screaming your head off.

A “new thief” – as you say takes time to grow in genius and according to me is not less dangerous ……. A thief is a thief and that’s all. (I am not saying that Mr. Berewa is, but just abiding by your example…..)

You call the overthrowing of corruption through the ballot box DERAILMENT?
Then you believe that we should not even bother to have an election- things should go on – continue till Berewa is 74% in 1212 - and hand over to Alhaji Koroma? Why doesn’t he hand over NOW and

When are you going to put an end to poverty and corruption?

This is all part of the Scare propaganda´- I suppose that you would prefer a one party state with SLPP forever. Reminds me of the same scare propaganda of - do you want Jones to come back - in ANIMAL FARM.

WHO is Jones?

You sound as if should the people throw out the SLPP with he bath water, that will be the beginning of corruption and the end of electricity in Freetown, tap water, and progress in agriculture .

In Sweden we just had a change of government of Social Democratic continuity, for the simple reason that after so many years of it, the Swedish people wanted a CHANGE.

What do you think, that there are only idiots in the opposition parties - or that the majority of people are happy with your country being at the very bottom of the development ladder and ONLY the SLPP can improve things?

And if Solo B decides to retire tomorrow, chez, what are you going to DO?
Does the SLPP depend on one man?
Do you know who will be the next president of the US? Of Israel?

Subject: Hindolo Trye and Others Confirmed: 50 Rounds Ammo
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:23:02 07/26/07 ()
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this week after the incident revealed that about 50 rounds of ammo and a 9 Millimeter riffle (MM) were discovered in Tom Nyuma’s vehicle. This information when cross checked with Former Secretary of State, Mr. Hindolo Sumanguru Tyre, a colleague of ex-Lt.Col. Tom Nyuma of the defunct NPRC confirmed that the evidence was discovered by the police. Mr. Tyre claimed that it was removed from the police by the Finance Minister so that it could not be used against the APC suspect.

When this press further asked Commissioner Buck, he denied, saying that such evidence was never discovered by the police.

Subject: Re: Hindolo Trye and Others Confirmed: 50 Rounds Ammo
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Date Posted: 21:20:21 07/26/07 ()
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You are not credible. No body takes you serious. Find something useful to do.

Subject: We are maintenancing the forum
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 18:17:33 07/26/07 ()
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Please be patient.

Subject: Testing
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Testing

Subject: Hindolo Trye and Others Confirmed: 50 Rounds Ammo
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:04:43 07/26/07 ()
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this week after the incident revealed that about 50 rounds of ammo and a 9 Millimeter riffle (MM) were discovered in Tom Nyuma’s vehicle. This information when cross checked with Former Secretary of State, Mr. Hindolo Sumanguru Tyre, a colleague of ex-Lt.Col. Tom Nyuma of the defunct NPRC confirmed that the evidence was discovered by the police. Mr. Tyre claimed that it was removed from the police by the Finance Minister so that it could not be used against the APC suspect.

When this press further asked Commissioner Buck, he denied, saying that such evidence was never discovered by the police.

Subject: Stealing Elections with Impunity
From: Mammy Sweh
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Date Posted: 17:28:48 07/26/07 ()
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Stick a fork in it. That election turkey is cooked. The SLPP powers-that-be are hellbent on stealing the vote and there is not a damn thing anyone of us can do about it. I used to think that the SLPP wouldn't dare to to pull such a stunt considering our bloody recent past. They know that such a dastardly act can ensure a harvest of thorns for them, but it is a risk Berewa and the SLPP's High Council are willing to take. SLPP is still haunted by the ghost of 1967 when they were booted out of power by the APC and they have taken a blood oath not to allow history to repeat itself. And why wouldn't they think they can get away with robbing the electorate blind? They see other thugs-in-chief of other countries who had gotten away with murder at the ballot booth. Obassanjo: Highway electoral robbery in broad daylight in Nigeria. Consequences? Didley squat!
Uganda's Musseveni: Massive rigging and then prosecuting his main rival of treason for having the nerve to run against him. Consequences? Nada!
Gabon's Omar Bongo, Cameroon's Biya, Guinea's Conteh, Guinea Bissau's Nguema, Zimbabwe's Mugabe? Guns ablaze banditry at the polls and torture and murder of political opponents. Consequences? Being called Your Excellency. Berewa can still deliver a free and fair elections or he can join with the nasty bunch of the apocalypse. If these elections are stolen, I have no doubt at all that we will have another illiterate soldier in Khakis declaring the all too familiar: I DECLARE MARSHA LOH!

Subject: Re: Stealing Elections with Impunity
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 17:35:19 07/26/07 ()
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Bro, this is going to be a clean win. If there is going to be any hanky panky, I will be the first to tell it to the world. The people want continuity and it is only the SLPP that can give such.

Subject: APC GIVES ‘SLEEPY SOLO’ NOTICE TO QUIT !
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Date Posted: 17:08:17 07/26/07 ()
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APC GIVES ‘SLEEPY SOLO’ NOTICE TO QUIT !
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The SLPP has formally been handed a Notice To Quit - which comes due on August 11, 2007.
Tens of thousands of APC supporters danced to a new hit tone ‘Notice’ by Fabulous which now seems to be the APC’s campaign anthem.
“Den wan yar... we dae gie den notice” APC crowds chanted on Wednesday afternoon as they congregated on the National Stadium to welcome their Presidential candidate Ernest Koroma and his running mate Sam Sumana.
The APC gathering far surpasses the Solo The Bomba SLPP rally held Saturday July 7, 2007.
“And we haven’t even brought our supporters from Makeni, Port Loko and Kambia to Freetown as the SLPP brought their people from Bo and Kenema” a jubilant Victor Foh, APC secretary general, told our team of reporters.
Even APC organizers appeared overwhelmed by the size of the crowd.
It appears that this Mass Mobilisation was an clear indication of the mood of the population in the capital.
Both Ibrahim Samura and Bakarr Koroma who were out and about on Wednesday, said the Libyan rice issue is still very much on people’s minds.
“Songs like Borbor Belleh, Two Fut Arata, Pack For Go, Time Don Done etc were sung lustily by the APC crowd which, in some areas, was joined by PMDC stalwarts in a Grand Anti-Corruption Alliance.”
In launching the manifesto, APC leader Ernest Koroma promised ‘a new beginning’ for Sierra Leone.
Meanwhile medical sources have questioned Solomon Berewa’s fitness to rule.
Although our medial sources would not divulged ‘privileged information; we were told the vice president’s habit of dozing off frequently is due to a diabetic condition.
The V.P also smokes five packs of cigarettes a day and has trouble sleeping.

Subject: In Bed with the Devil for Political Power.
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In Bed with the Devil for Political Power.
- Thursday 26 July 2007.
"So, in spite of the honest admission by the Sierra Leone Police that it is not well-equipped to provide security for the August polls, the international community should step in immediately with some urgency so that the state security personnel could provide security for our political leaders rather than by some semi-literate, notorious ex-khaki boys if only to ward off any potential animosity between this crop of hooligans and the regular state security apparatus that would have the potential to undermine the credibility of the much publicized August 11 polls."
Commentary

By Abdulai Bayraytay, Deputy Editor, Toronto.

As both Sierra Leone’s presidential and parliamentary elections slated for August 11 this year get closer, the recent spate of violence in particularly the south-eastern parts of the country are sending worrying signals to the electorate that the essence of democracy through the ballot box seems to be potentially undermined.

Not peculiar to elections in Sierra Leone and other countries in Africa, the concern in Sierra Leone this time comes up because the country is in the process of recovering from a bloody and devastating civil war that left scores of innocent and unsuspecting civilians dead,and thousands of others had their limbs amputated.

However, what seems to send a deadly signal, reminiscent of the pre-1996 elections that ushered in the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) to power was how the then leader of the notorious National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) headed by Julius Maada Bio and his cohorts were hell bent on thwarting the democratic aspirations of the electorate for a change of the political spectrum from rule by the gun to rule through the ballot box.

Indeed, the military was sorely disappointed by the resolve and resilience of the people! People should not forget that Maada Bio and his friends tried to stop the 1996 democratic elections!

But it seems our political leaders (or rather apprentices) have completely forgotten the overzealousness and brutality of a cross-section of the military who would stop at nothing to grab and cling to power, a sure means of accumulating ill-gotten wealth in poor mother Sierra Leone.

This is clearly evident in the roles Maada Bio, Tom Nyuma and ex-junta boys like Idrissa Kamara aka Leatherboot are playing in the new democratic dispensation. If for anything, the gross human rights violations perpetrated by these people including the killing of innocent figures like Salami Coker formerly of Ports Authority and palm wine tappers from Waterloo on what later came out to be trumped-up allegations of a coup plot, through firing squad, committed under the supervision of some of these notorious names during the NPRC junta days should have made them(Bio, Nyuma, Leatherboot, etc) fine candidates for the so-called Special Court for Sierra Leone.

But since this is an illusion, if not a figment of social justice activists, the Bios and the Nyumas roamed the world with impunity until the recent deportation of Nyuma from the United States. These characters, among others, should really thank their stars, to say the least.

Tom Nyuma, who made a name for himself by prosecuting the war against the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) albeit allegations of collusion with the rebels hence the tag of “sobel” (soldier by day, rebel by night)attached to him, his name was particularly tarnished by an incident I witnessed during my days as a cub reporter in 1994.

Coming from covering a story of some university students’ involvement in illegal diamond mining in Tongo in the east of the country, I witnessed Tom Nyuma, then Eastern region strongman under the NPRC tying up some traffic police officers in uniform on allegations of taking petty cash bribes from commuters and drivers at the Hangha checkpoint.

The beatings unleashed on these officers left some with swollen eyes and raw wounds. I had the opportunity to publish the story with the photos of the officers at the now defunct New Breed newspaper. This incident not only made Tom Nyuma a "Son of Satan", it also made him the epitome of the brutal face of the NPRC regime. That is why even though I vehemently condemn any act of violence that has the semblance of undermining the electoral process, the recent beating of Tom Nyuma in Bo made me recall the brutal Sibthorpe street beatings of innocent civilians in broad daylight in central Freetown by the NPRC junta of which Nyuma was a leading figure.

It could also be recalled that part of the reasons advanced by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) coup in 1997 was the marginalization of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Sierra Leone by successive governments. However puerile an excuse this might mean to ordinary Sierra Leoneans, the emergence of the civil defence forces at the height of the war sparked some animosity that later translated into very bad blood.

I could recall a remark made by the late deputy Defence minister Sam Hinga Norman that he felt much safer with the civil kamajor militia guarding him than the regular state security personnel. Norman may have good reasons for saying that but that statement, among others, angered the regular military that later culminated into the deadly rift between the civil militia and the army. Here then is another vindication of the old saying that history teaches us that history teaches nothing!

So, in spite of the honest admission by the Sierra Leone Police that it is not well-equipped to provide security for the August polls, the international community should step in immediately with some urgency so that the state security personnel could provide security for our political leaders rather than by some semi-literate, notorious ex-khaki boys if only to ward off any potential animosity between this crop of hooligans and the regular state security apparatus that would have the potential to undermine the credibility of the much publicized August 11 polls.

Indeed, a cross-section of our politicians will even befriend the devil if only that would ensure their victory. What a Machiavellian way of capturing political power!

Subject: JIMMY KANDEH: ADVICE TO P.M.D.C.: BEREWA WINS BY 75%
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Date Posted: 16:50:09 07/26/07 ()
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Asking for 5 More Years - an Exclusive Interview With Solomon Berewa

Concord Times (Freetown)
NEWS
26 July 2007
Posted to the web 26 July 2007

By Ibrahim Seibure, Ibrahim Tarawallie and Danny Glenwright
Freetown
Solomon Berewa is relaxed and calm. He slouches on the pale-yellow striped sofa in his Spur Road office and leans his head against it, his eyes half-closed, a Cheshire cat grin forming on his face as he delivers his election prediction.
His party, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), will retain power and win as much as 75 per cent of the country's votes on August 11, he says in his deep, slurred voice.
He wears a two-piece, button-up beige suit and black leather sandals, his reading glasses tucked in his front pocket and his hands folded over his chest. He is not known for being a charismatic person. Indeed, he is better known for his calm, disinterested, mellow persona than he is for loud, boisterous oratory.
But people like him and he pulls it off, seeming always on the verge of nodding off, yet always on scr1pt and in charge.
He has been involved in the government of Sierra Leone since 1996, when President Tejan Kabbah asked him to take on the role of Attorney General, and he has served as Vice President for the past five years.
When critics thought peace was illusive for Sierra Leone, Berewa played a large role in proving them wrong and ensuring the country emerged from the war for good, even negotiating with the rebel groups. But he has also been criticized for this role and for the part he played in the execution of 24 soldiers in 1998.
Before entering politics, he was a successful Freetown lawyer and a partner at a law firm in the city for more than 20 years. "I am a man of the law," he says, when asked how he'll respond if he loses the upcoming election. "If I feel aggrieved I will go to the law.
I will seek redress. I won't say I'll be violent or I will cause havoc on my own people, my own country." He accuses his main political opponents, Charles Margai and Ernest Koroma, of instigating violence and leading a "one-sided show" in the country, claiming his party has the cleanest hands of the group.
Aware of the many ills facing Sierra Leonean's, he thinks growing the economy will be the country's ticket out of poverty. If elected next month, his first priority will be increasing the private sector and rapidly building the economy.
"My priorities are simply to restore the confidence of the people in this country," he says. "We can only develop if we have law and order.
"I would look at the economy and see how we can, as quickly as possible, turn it around....I'm sure we're going to attract a lot of investors." Like President Kabbah before him, he brings up the end of the 11-year civil war as the major achievement of his SLPP government. Education and health improvements are other high points of his government, he says, recognizing there is still far to go to address the many inadequacies in these sectors.
He promises working electricity within a month of the election if he wins it, and laughing, scoffs at comparisons with next-door-neighbour Liberia, where the power has been on in the capitol of Monrovia for some time, even though Liberia's war ended later than this country's.
He said the leaders of Guinea and Liberia are traditional allies of Sierra Leone and, despite recent uprisings in both countries, he'll work with them to solidify peace and stability in the region. As well, he wants to expand international relationships and look to new partners in the world, including Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Canada and the United States, South Africa and parts of Asia.
"I will be a man of my own," he says, defending claims that he will mimic the government of the current President. "Solomon Berewa is not President Kabbah.
I have my own way of taking actions and he has his own." When political stress becomes too extreme, Berewa said he likes to unwind at home, eat traditional foods like rice and listen to music. As a devout Christian and an organist, he is soothed by church music and especially loves Handel's Messiah. Sometimes, if he can't sleep, he wakes in the middle of the night and plays the organ. It calms him, he says.
It is hard to imagine this tranquil, soft-spoken man on the football pitch, but he appears to be a fan of local sports. His eyes opened wide, for the first and only time, when speaking about the Leone Stars, the national football team. "Anytime you go for international matches, we've lost some of our best footballers," he said, lamenting the desire for Sierra Leonean sports stars to play abroad rather than stay at home. "We need to encourage competition." His proudest achievement of the last 11 years in government is the attainment of peace, he says, as he slouches deeper into his sofa, his strength apparently waning. He doesn't appear to have the energy to raise this country out of its economic and political woes, but he's proved critics wrong before.

Subject: Re: JIMMY KANDEH: ADVICE TO P.M.D.C.: BEREWA WINS BY 75%
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 18:20:56 07/26/07 ()
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We are all in favour of the people’s choice through a free and fair election – one that does not include intimidation from the security apparatus.

“seeming always on the verge of nodding off” is more like the perennial descr1ption of the 69- year old Berewa, who will soon have to give way to what is called “young blood”

Fact is that he sometimes does “nod off” as some of his opponents have been complaining, for quite some time now. Wouldn’t like to have him in the Sierra Leone Airways pilot or navigator’s seat next time you fly to New York, would you – with the risk of him “nodding off” to the peaceful sleep and deeper slumber?

Little short rotund and fat –stomach bulging a little due to lack of exercise and sitting too long at the office – causing this falling asleep during meetings, “he wears a two-piece, button-up beige suit and black leather sandals, his reading glasses tucked in his front pocket and his hands folded over his chest” and says in his “ deep, slurred voice” that “His party, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), will retain power and win as much as 75 per cent of the country's votes on August 11, “ 75% Indeed. Whilst the APC and the PMDC and others together will get 25%? What arrogance! On what demographic basis doe he make such a prediction? How does he break down the voting in the West, East, North and South to tally with this 75% figure when in fact the South has the lowest number of registered voters, the North and West have the most, followed by the East of Sierra Leone.

Even at dollar-a- vote, for those who subsist on less than a dollar-a day just wouldn’t’ work out because some men of conscience might just follow John Leigh’s advice to “take the money and vote for their conscience”. Only problem is that taking the money means that the conscience of some could already be compromised – and then there are the oaths and other culturally based superstitions that instil the fear of evil consequences of taking the money and doing other than they swore on idol or juju, TO DO.

It all fits into the carefully calculated impression that some of his advocates such as Gberie are spinning right in front of our eyes, an impression that the slpp spin doctors would like to give to the outside world, and even to the naïve and gullible among us, although e know better because we know that it’s impossible that he could or will win with a75% showing – unless the election is RIGGED. Perhaps he says so in the belief that “Everyone loves a winner”? False impression. Even Umaru Yara'dua did not win by that margin, and couldn't have said that before the election. And Kabbah wouldn’t even get 65% today. Why should Mr. Continuity?

A Swedish politician could never say, I’ll win with 75% - certainly not as tactic- since it would just have the opposite effect- and if too many people in Sierra Leone believed a word of that boast, then they might just stay at home on a rainy day and let other people do the voting…….

Yes, these kinds of carefully doctored up reports - for outsiders – are presenting false data, to bolster that impression that the SLPP is so vastly popular and the APC and PMDC so vastly unpopular – ( that even the council seats that the APC won – according to Gberie was only through out-rigging the SLPP –in-power in their rigging (when in fact the APC swept all of Freetown and the Western area in that Municipal Council election of 2004 – and this was not a surprise to anybody – indeed Mr. Siaka Stevens the leader of the APC who won the election in 1967, was Mayor of Freetown , and on that occasion too, the APC won all twelve Parliamentary Seats in Freetown and the Western Area.

The SLPP “spinmeisters” are giving the impression of the overwhelming popularity of the SLPP – so that a 75% victory does not come as surprise to the outside world - and I keep on emphasising, THE OUTSIDE WORLD, because the poor and suffering masses in Sierra Leone, and the marginalised and unemployed youths, and all those who still go to bed hungry in Sierra Leone, know that 75% of them are not going to vote for the SLPP.

Now about rigging: we are not to be in the absurd situation in which an incumbent government – any incumbent government in a mostly under-developed African country , should have the impunity to expect that they can rig an election, under the very noses of the local and international observers and then squelch/ suppress/ beat down any protest but people who they would like us to believe are hooligans , hoodlums, thugs and terrorists ( although the later is mostly to be associated with Middle Eastern dynasties and clans).

Savak and the Shah’s Iranian army were doing just that when the Iranian people rose up with Imam Khomeini ( r.a.) but when Imam Khomeini ( r.a.) said “ The Army is the people and the people is the army” It was soon all over. The army got tired of shooting at its own people.
Not that I ever want things to take that turn in Sierra Leone and that’s why we are advocating FREE and fair. When the woman or the people say no, it’s NO – she/they should not be raped. Their choice must be RESPECTED.

Such a situation can be further exacerbated by having a criminal government that has rigged such an election, backed by their police and their military wing of the party (usually the national army) that is there and ready to suppress any protest.

About contesting fraudulent elections, it’s alright for him to say

"I am a man of the law; if I feel aggrieved I will go to the law.” If the Law (the Judiciary and those decorated judges and cronies and the Electoral Agency and the Police and Military is standing to attention and saluting him already.

Well at least he is tentatively assuring the APC, that if the APC trounce the SLPP this year - - 40 years after the last trouncing, that he Berewa, unlike Albert Margai will not call in the army to avert his old age dreams of being Sierra Leone greatest president ever, being CRUSHED until he or Sengbe Konouwah tries again in 1212……by which time Solo Bee will be 74, a year younger than Pa Kabbah is today.

“I will be a man of my own” should be replaced by “I am a man of my own!”

“He accuses his main political opponents, Charles Margai and Ernest Koroma, of instigating violence and leading a "one-sided show" in the country, claiming his party has the cleanest hands of the group.”

He does the accusing, and no one has yet attempted to assassinate him … but I’ll finish off Gberie later ( by which I mean deal with his article – lest he fear an assassination attempt by my typewriter and you never know, there was even a guy who is today known as “ the shoe bomber”:

Well, I’m not one of those…….

Subject: rejoinder to "Cocorioko is the Best"
From: keke blahima
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Date Posted: 14:53:15 07/26/07 ()
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I would take the excellence of COCORIOKO even further. To say the best is beyond belief. It is the objective, fair and balanced reporting that qualifies this paper as perhaps one if not the best journalistic product owned and operated by a Sierra Leonean.
He has even taken free speech to a whole new layer offering even a podium for the best and the worst, the critics and the illogical minds who swing rumors and innuendoes with malice aforethought, prejudice, love, peace, everything under the sun.
This forum is a lot of fun, but it also reveals o lot of the anger and treachery and the vemon of misinformation that spits in the face of truth and hasty conclusions. That's the only problem that I wrestle with.
Sierra Leone has a greater ratio of intelligent, educated and intellectual byproducts per capita in the continent of Africa. Yet I have seen the worse of it on this forum as well.
I think as much as we have right to debate the issues, I would submit that if we spent all that time and energy coming up with or exchanging ideas about how we can reduce porverty, offer strategies on revamping the economy to cater for the poor majority, it will do a world of good.
Our rage and conflict may have a political object, but it is purely an economic conflict. If Sierra Leone WAS a monarchy with an average of $60,000 GNI per capita, no one would be worried about what government is doing or not doing. But when you have a nation as our with a $220 GNI per capita even the most democratic institution will be subjected to suspicion.
Remember Bill Clinton; "its the economy..."

Subject: Sierra Leone Police sending the wrond signal to the Public
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:48:40 07/26/07 ()
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Read~!

Subject: Hindolo Trye and Others Confirmed: 50 Rounds Ammo
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:44:55 07/26/07 ()
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this week after the incident revealed that about 50 rounds of ammo and a 9 Millimeter riffle (MM) were discovered in Tom Nyuma’s vehicle. This information when cross checked with Former Secretary of State, Mr. Hindolo Sumanguru Tyre, a colleague of ex-Lt.Col. Tom Nyuma of the defunct NPRC confirmed that the evidence was discovered by the police. Mr. Tyre claimed that it was removed from the police by the Finance Minister so that it could not be used against the APC suspect.

When this press further asked Commissioner Buck, he denied, saying that such evidence was never discovered by the police.

Subject: rejoinder to "Cocorioko is the Best"
From: keke blahima
To: All
Date Posted: 14:02:55 07/26/07 ()
Email Address: culturehill@yahoo.com
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I would take the excellence of COCORIOKO even further. To say the best is beyond belief. It is the objective, fair and balanced reporting that qualifies this paper as perhaps one if not the best journalistic product owned and operated by a Sierra Leonean.
He has even taken free speech to a whole new layer offering even a podium for the best and the worst, the critics and the illogical minds who swing rumors and innuendoes with malice aforethought, prejudice, love, peace, everything under the sun.
This forum is a lot of fun, but it also reveals o lot of the anger and treachery and the vemon of misinformation that spits in the face of truth and hasty conclusions. That's the only problem that I wrestle with.
Sierra Leone has a greater ratio of intelligent, educated and intellectual byproducts per capita in the continent of Africa. Yet I have seen the worse of it on this forum as well.
I think as much as we have right to debate the issues, I would submit that if we spent all that time and energy coming up with or exchanging ideas about how we can reduce porverty, offer strategies on revamping the economy to cater for the poor majority, it will do a world of good.
Our rage and conflict may have a political object, but it is purely an economic conflict. If Sierra Leone WAS a monarchy with an average of $60,000 GNI per capita, no one would be worried about what government is doing or not doing. But when you have a nation as our with a $220 GNI per capita even the most democratic institution will be subjected to suspicion.
Remember Bill Clinton; "its the economy..."

Subject: MAINTENANCE OVER
From: MODERATOR
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Date Posted: 13:40:19 07/26/07 ()
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Thanks for your patience.

Subject: Sierra Leone Police sending the wrond signal to the Public
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 13:39:28 07/26/07 ()
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Read~!

Subject: Hindolo Trye and Others Confirmed: 50 Rounds Ammo
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 13:36:56 07/26/07 ()
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this week after the incident revealed that about 50 rounds of ammo and a 9 Millimeter riffle (MM) were discovered in Tom Nyuma’s vehicle. This information when cross checked with Former Secretary of State, Mr. Hindolo Sumanguru Tyre, a colleague of ex-Lt.Col. Tom Nyuma of the defunct NPRC confirmed that the evidence was discovered by the police. Mr. Tyre claimed that it was removed from the police by the Finance Minister so that it could not be used against the APC suspect.

When this press further asked Commissioner Buck, he denied, saying that such evidence was never discovered by the police.

Subject: FORUM MAINTENANCE
From: MODERATOR
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Date Posted: 13:06:20 07/26/07 ()
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Maintenance ongoing. Please try your posts later.

Subject: KABS KANU IP ADDRESS FOR UN IS IN FREETOWN.
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 12:11:42 07/26/07 ()
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Kabs, I was able to trace the IP address 85.159.201.52 which belongs to UN from Freetown. Copy the URL below and past it on your browse. When the page comes up on the left side of the page, there is a zoom thermometer.
Put the handle to the negative (-) to see where the Satelite IP came from. No one can hide from us even with the most sophisticated satelite technology. I hope this will help you in your invetstigation to pinpoint who was the culprit.

http://www.ip-adress.com/details.php?c=OlFUST06VTJGMFpXeHNhWFJsSUZCeWIzWnBaR1Z5OjpPRFV1TVRVNUxqSXdNUzQxTWc9PTpWVTVKVkVWRUlFNUJWRWxQVGxNZ1RFOUhTVk5VU1VOVElFSkJVMFU9Ok1DNHdNREF3Ok1DNHdNREF3OjpSR2xoYkhWdzpWVTVKVkVWRUlFNUJWRWxQVGxNZ1RFOUhTVk5VU1VOVElFSkJVMFU9Ojo6Og==

Subject: DID I HEAR STRASSER WAS CALLED BY BIO/TOM JOIN KILLED ERNEST
From: NOISE
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Date Posted: 11:54:53 07/26/07 ()
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Was it true that Strasser was called by Bio and Tom join the assassination of Ernest but refused, but now under verbal threats because he leaks the secret? Ali, can you expand your accusation for us to get the clear picture on this issue. If what you said is true, this will put to rest all the SLPP cover up attempt.

Subject: Re: DID I HEAR STRASSER WAS CALLED BY BIO/TOM JOIN KILLED ERNEST
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 15:09:50 07/26/07 ()
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I cannot expand any more on the subject other than to tell you that what I got was from a very credible source within the SLPP structure. I will not reveal my source under penalty of pain. It is true.

Subject: WHERE IS THE SO CALLED SIA T. IN ALL THESE.
From: NOISE
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Date Posted: 11:50:01 07/26/07 ()
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He/She was the analytical predator in this elections. She/he has written many controversial articles against both the APC and the PMDC. Now we or I expect him/her to tap into this controversy. I am waiting to see what is her/his take on this assassination attempt bohaahaa.

Subject: Re: WHERE IS THE SO CALLED SIA T. IN ALL THESE.
From: Mammy Sweh
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Date Posted: 16:03:02 07/26/07 ()
Email Address: mammysweh@gmail.com
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The inimitable Sia Tiyaama is probably getting propagandist talking points from his SLPP bosses right now. Don't worry, that master of tribal politics will soon unleash his vitriolic venom against the APC and PMDC. I bet you when he crawls out of his stupor, he is going to try to convince us that ERNEST KOROMA AND THE EVIL APC, ACTUALLY DRUGGED AND KIDNAPPED POOR INNOCENT TOM NYUMA AND SET UP THE WHOLE ASASSINATION PLOT AT THE COUNTRYSIDE HOTEL, JUST TO MAKE THE SLPP LOOK BAD! Think this is ridiculous? Then you brobably haven't read some of Sia Tiyaama's absurd rantings.

Subject: Cornnelisu Speaks to Bere-Berewa /Lansana Gberiewa
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 10:30:51 07/26/07 ()
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We want democracy, peace and prosperity for everybody.

Let’s start with Gberie’s confession that he knows the SLPP (wolf in sheep’s clothing?) to be a BIG RIGGER and that’s why he was so shocked and it was “an eye-opener” for him – as if the Besserwisser didn’t know that already, that the party so well financed and wanting to cling on to power at all costs, is in a better position to rig than anyone else – even with the help of those in and out of uniform.

He writes with his eyes wide open-eye and still in great surprise

“A quick analysis of the findings showed quite clearly that candidates for the opposition APC rigged the elections (using polling agents) in many cases more comprehensively and competently than did candidates for the ruling SLPP. That was, in some ways, an eye-opener - even for me who knows a thing or two about Sierra Leone's post-independence political history.”

Ya man, let me try and make this very clear:

First of all Hon Ernest Bai Koroma, has probably warned of the consequences of the SLPP and the Electoral Commission RIGGING the election. We do not feel that we should just shrug our shoulders and swallow hook line and sinker whatever impossible lumpy gravy they want to shove down our throats. This is true of every true lover of Sierra Leone. A sense of foreboding in those who would like to vote against and overthrow corruption – including the corruption of rigging by which some people want to win each and every election – because they have no respect for the people. Hon Ernest Bai Koroma the leader of the APC has not issued a threat.

If he has, please quote him and ask him what he meant. Just as I now ask, what do you mean by “Oversight” as used in your article?

This was a piece of clear and straightforward writing. Truth said, “Tell it like it is”:
http://www.nai.uu.se/press/newsletter/sierra_leone/

Now concerning the more devious matter of ”much-speculated prospects of widespread violence during the polls.”

I should first of all like to dismiss Gberie’s tendentiousness and propaganda perhaps at the behest of his PP. His excessive use of superlatives and exaggeration can tantamount to his telling vicious untruths, cloaked as “opinions”.

Here he tries to soften the blow – “It is all very well now to state, and this is true, that the Sierra Leonean state now has a reasonable monopoly over armed violence, but the operative word is reasonable. It is not absolute.” Yeah? Reasonable but not absolute? What the hell is he talking about? The uses and abuses of fire power? – Well yes, they have those tanks and surely the have more heavy artillery?

“To its credit, the Sierra Leone government seems very well aware of this.”

Mr. Gberie, of course it’s not only the government that should take this credit - or that is capable of carrying on with its intimidation. There was a war between two sides in which there were people who were morally wrong in both sides, and that’s the way I see it. When government misuses its power and this includes its powers of incumbency, the crime is till under the general category of MISUSE OF POWER. (E.g. Harry Yansaneh’s murderers have still not been brought to Justice – and Charles Margai nearly got assassinated just the other day, to get him out of the way – although you would like us – or the world to believe that he is no threat to the SLPP.

Now Karmor AKB, what’s this geezer going on about “paralysis”? Talking about your favourite bozos the man says that

: “the government has, since the current electoral process began, been cautious to the point paralysis in dealing with evident challenges to the security of the state by some members of the opposition.”

Let me give you a few more examples of gross exaggeration from the same piece:

Here’s one:

“ The PMDC, for all the initial enthusiasm (now almost completely waned) that greeted it, is a very new entity, rather like a new bookstore.”

On which planet is Gberie? Is he still in transit from Canada? The Honourable Charles Francis Margai is a kingmaker: he is more popular now than he was at the inception of the PMDC- and YOU KNOW IT. If you don’t then ask the Rev Alfred Sam Foray among many others, including some heavyweight people (heavier than you) in the UK.

Misleading as always in his posture of Mr. Besserwisser which starts with his saying that

“IFES (the International Foundation for Electoral Systems) on the 2004 local council elections in Sierra Leone. The report revealed widespread irregularities, so widespread and egregious indeed that it has since not been released to the public.”

Thanks for telling us so. Revelation. Now who is going to take your word for it? - Not me. The public would like to see if you are indeed telling the truth. .There are others who would like to question the accuracy of the report – since such a report would set a very bad precedent - that you have the evidence and conceal it – that where the whole process in that case should have been declared null and void, you prefer to concur with fraudulence. On what grounds should it have been concealed from the general public and why should Mr. Gberie in particular be given a privileged view – is it classified information? (You know I can tell you what Mr. Kabbah had for breakfast?)

If Gberie’s allegations are true (I know that they are not) then the onus of proof is on him, and here I am waiting patiently for it, from you, to us. (I got mirrors on my hands)

Dysfunctional is a broad concept as theory - in practice some of what Bo Utas says can contribute to some of that dysfunctionality, as

“the elections will take place at the height of the rainy season. This could reduce participation and limit the presence of election observers, especially in the rural parts of the country where roads are in poor condition and transport is minimal during the rains, making some areas almost inaccessible.”
This limitation, the limiting of the presence of election observers means that unsupervised, RIGGING can take place by those who have the transport means (and walkie –talkies) to be there…… and as far as logistics is concerned, it is feared that not only does the incumbent SLPP government have access to government owned vehicles, but to the same 500 or more that were used in that motorcade when Mr. Berewa‘s SLPP train drove through Freetown to the Stadium…..

Whether it rains or the sun smiles, as long as the last few days leading up to the elections have been free of violence, the campaigning has stopped and there are no campaigners and other electioneering hustlers or would-be intimidators are a reasonable distance away from the polling stations/ booths, the ballot boxes and ballots are there, voters find their names on the registers, when voters have cast their ballots they move away from the area – as not to cause commotion chanting their party slogans or trying to influence the voting, - and finally that the police / military are non-violent in dealing with discrepancies/ irregularities in and around polling stations, if these conditions are met, we should be in for a quite and peaceful election day of the kind that we have always had in Sweden the past seven elections or so.

If the above scenarios are not fulfilled as the order of the day, then from this distance, I can hear the rumble and I intuit a current of ill feeling that may translate into the type of pent up frustration that usually precedes violence and this at its right time, when anticipation and hope is disappointed with as Mr. Gberie puts it “failure to realise such a vote an indication of fraud for which violence must be unleashed on the nation.”

This is a mass feeling, among supporters of APC & the PMDC – it is part of the “emotionalism of “the African personality” the pent up passion will be released and realised and to some extent satisfied through violence, when he, me, and she are cheated of true democracy - of a free and fair election – I too would like to slap somebody - and everybody believes that there will be rigging- that it’s just a matter of the extent and openness of the rigging that is as yet unknown.

Now it is quite natural that Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma, operating in the post-conflict situation of Peace and Reconciliation (and I notice that Gberie does not even mention the TRC once) well, Mr. Koroma is INCLUSIVE, just as the SLPP and the PMDC are vying as to who will get most votes from the Kamajors and so, that is my final comment on this your little paragraph:

“Shortly after Koroma issued his threat, the Revolutionary United Front Party (RUFP), the group that represented the deranged guerrillas who spearheaded Sierra Leone's decade-long carnage, announced that it had joined the APC to help defeat the SLPP in the polls.”

I do suppose that the SLPP does not want any of their enemies to vote for them or the opposition nor even by secret ballot…. And every vote counts… one country, one people, and even he – yes he too is a Sierra Leonean…… (just watch Obama hustling the black vote…..

The meaning here is not too clear to me, after the “immense pleasure” he says

“ So you see, all this sound too desperate, and Koroma should appeal to his better instinct and make a public renunciation of his threat.”

WHAT sounds too desperate? It’s our Sierra Leone or Isrealeone mentality, if you like - it’s supposed to be a deterrent force. This is the ethos of a Sierra Leonean, and I am speaking and writing as one too, the Sierra Leone ethos makes this moral equation: the SLPP police and military say “WE will not accept violence” right? And the Sierra Leone people say – “If you RIG the ELECTIONS, we will not take it lying down like a hussy, the consequence will be VIOLENCE – so don’t rig – even if you have all the guns and the tanks.”

Wouldn’t it be nice if after a rigged election the opposition and the people who have been cheated would just appeal to Miss Christina Thorpe (whose boyfriend is an SLPP stalwart) just appeal to her to hear the plea of the cheated and thus disenfranchised and then she and they would look into the matter and then declare the whole election exercise NULL & VOID?

We would not like to read on the morning of 15th August, surprise - Surprise- the following distinct possibility penned by one Lansana Gberie that writes thus:

“A quick analysis of the findings showed quite clearly that candidates for the SLPP rigged the elections (using polling agents) in many cases more comprehensively and competently than did candidates for the opposition APC that was, in some ways, an eye-opener – even for me who knows a thing or two about Sierra Leone’s post-independence political history. “

To be continued (Less is more)

Subject: Re: Cornnelisu Speaks to Bere-Berewa /Lansana Gberiewa
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 11:30:43 07/26/07 ()
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Re

This was a piece of clear and straightforward writing. Truth said, “Tell it like it is”:

http://www.nai.uu.se/press/newsletter/sierra_leone/

and

in practice some of what Bo Utas says can contribute to some of that dysfunctionality, as

“the elections will take place at the height of the rainy season. This could reduce participation and limit the presence of election observers, especially in the rural parts of the country where roads are in poor condition and transport is minimal during the rains, making some areas almost inaccessible.”

Correction: MATS Utas and not Bo Utas who I am much more familiar with as he is a specialist and the doyen of Iranian studies:

http://www.google.se/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GZHY_enSE232SE232&q=Bo++Utas

Subject: YOU ALL SAW THE CYBER-TERROR , DIDN'T YOU ?
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 09:37:31 07/26/07 ()
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This time , we left the posts for you to see . We have just erased them. But is that the way politics should be played ? Should we resort to terrorizing journalists ? Should we resort to lies and character-assassination to silence journalists .

We have taken appropriate steps to protect the forum from this cyber-terror. These persons blocked will never participate on this forum again.

If anybody writes us to say that they have been banned, we will know that they are the culprits and this time will not remove the ban.

We are going to post the IPs of the people also for all to see.

As for me, I have resolved that journalism is a thankless and dangerous job and will live with it.

None of the parties, for the information of those attacking me, is pleased with me.

SLPP : Oh, you are APC .You only publish APC articles and pictures ( As if I told them not to send me their's for publication )
APC: Oh, you are publishing articles from SLPP supporters that are diminishing us

PMDC: Oh, SLPP has intimidated you to place their own articles on top of our's.

I am under tremendous pressure and I can tell you that I know there are APC people who are not pleased with the interview I conducted with their leader , simply because I did not mention in the interview that Tom Nyuma lied or said at the conclusion that the people will read the two interviews and decide whom to believe. They will want to see something caustic against Nyuma.

It is a shame that we Sierra Leoneans have to play this kind of dirty politics. Liberia had their elections and it went on well. Nigeria had their's but despite the complexities of that country's political dynamism, and some violence, their's did not end in war. But at the rate we are going, only God Almighty will save us.

The only consolaion I have is the post from the brother in Eritrea who said the Sierra Leoneans working for foreign organizations in Eritrea consider COCORIOKO the only newspaper that has been presenting balanced stories of the elections.

If you kill me today, I know 2 things :

1. My name will never die
2.Another Kabs Kanu will emerge

So, go on with your cyber-terror against me.

Subject: Re: YOU ALL SAW THE CYBER-TERROR , DIDN'T YOU ?
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 11:20:29 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242

Message:
Kabs Kanu, these are your culprits. However, the information provided here have more into it than what you see here. What puzzles me is the UN IP Address. Does this means the person who wrote you to protest about one article written on behalf of Victor Angelo might have done that or someone working in the UN is one of the culprit. If you can post the IP address of the person claiming to be Victor Angelo we may have a little clue on this puzzling information. You cannot see the city on the info of this IP because it is a satelite ISP. So let the investigation started.

IP address locat1on & IP address info:
IP address: 208.54.95.1
IP country: United States
IP address state:
IP address city:
IP latitude: 38.000000
IP longitude: -97.000000
ISP: T-MOBILE USA
Organization: T-MOBILE USA
Host: m015f36d0.tmodns.net

IP address locat1on & IP address info:
IP address: 85.159.201.52 (Copy)
IP country: Satellite Provider
IP address state:
IP address city:
IP latitude: 0.000000
IP longitude: 0.000000
ISP: UNITED NATIONS LOGISTICS BASE
Organization: UNITED NATIONS LOGISTICS BASE

IP address locat1on & IP address info:
IP address: 70.21.78.101 (Copy)
IP country: United States
IP address state: District of Columbia
IP address city: Washington
IP latitude: 38.909698
IP longitude: -77.023102
ISP: Verizon Internet Services
Organization: Verizon Internet Services
Host: pool-70-21-78-101.res.east.verizon.net
Local Time: 2007-07-26 12:10

Subject: Re: YOU ALL SAW THE CYBER-TERROR , DIDN'T YOU ?
From: Hit
To: All
Date Posted: 11:51:46 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
UN logistics host all IT operations. There is 99% probability, this person is posting from Salone-UN: Special court, etc, or ERITREA!!!

Subject: Re: YOU ALL SAW THE CYBER-TERROR , DIDN'T YOU ?
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 12:13:01 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.242

Message:
I just bursted him/her. It is from Freetown.

Subject: Re: YOU ALL SAW THE CYBER-TERROR , DIDN'T YOU ?
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:46:31 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
What if they are using dynamic Adress system or using a proxy server? The IP can be anything and from anywhere.
Just a caution!

Subject: Re: THE IPS :YOU ALL SAW THE CYBER-TERROR , DIDN'T YOU ?
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 09:48:54 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 208.115.232.93

Message:
70.21.78.101
208.54.95.1
85.159.201.52

Ladies and gentlemen, these are the IPs of the people who flooded the forum this morning with obscene posts about me .

We ask those of you with IT knowledge to WORK WITH US us identify them. We have also sent the IPs to the FBI .

These are the shameful cyber-terrorists among us.

Subject: Re: THE IPS :YOU ALL SAW THE CYBER-TERROR , DIDN'T YOU ?
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 09:58:52 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
IP address: 70.21.78.101 (Copy)
IP country: United States
IP address state: District of Columbia
IP address city: Washington
IP latitude: 38.909698
IP longitude: -77.023102
ISP: Verizon Internet Services
Organization: Verizon Internet Services
Host: pool-70-21-78-101.res.east.verizon.net
Local Time: 2007-07-26 10:56

Subject: KABS- Cocoriocco and criticism
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:43:58 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
Kabs do not take our criticism of your articles as an act of witch-hunting. We hold this news stand at a higher standard than the others for the simple fact that:
1. You do not need money- can't be bribed
2. Do not need appointment- you get good wok
3. You are not on the ground- do not need security- although
4. You are a man of God- expect you to be fair and righteous.

My reason for staying here and not anywhere else is the fact that you have continued to maintain some form of fairness on the forum, but that fairness is sometimes not extended to the NEWS.

Yet KABS we will continue to criticise you until your paper is back to pre"pre-elections" era.

Those who criticise you are those who seek your interest and hopefully one day be you friends.

Caution--Do not call me an "IDIOT"

Subject: Re: KABS- Cocoriocco and criticism
From: gbalo
To: All
Date Posted: 10:34:38 07/26/07 ()
Email Address: gert@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 79.66.18.202

Message:
Why criticise him for his views. State your own views in an adult manner and you will not be called an idiot. For now, as far as I can see from previous postings you are prtraying yourself as an idiot. I refer you to postings I have read in the past two days where you were advised by a reader to stop behaving like you are from the gutter.

Kabs has a right to his views as you do. If you dont like them, you are free to start your own forum.

Keep it up Kabs, I dont always agree with you but that is what politics and journalism is all about.

God bless

Subject: Morie Mussafa's Lies and Deliberate Distortions
From: Foday M. Daboh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:21:10 07/26/07 ()
Email Address: fmdabo@yahoo.com
Entered From: 63-231-39-9.tukw.qwest.net at 63.231.39.9

Message:
This is a direct response to Morie Mussafa’s piece “REVEALED AND EXPOSED!!! Two Major SLPP Diabolic Plots To Rig The Elections”

It is a shame that at this day and age and on this planet, there are people still gallivanting as homo sapiens when they are actually homo erectus. Unfortunately, the likes of Morie Musaffa fall into this category. I am disturbed that for political gains, Mr. Musaffa has decided to embark on the disingenuous dissemination of false information to create panic and confusion before the August 11th elections. I am not surprised that he belongs to the PMDC because instilling fear into the electorate is their hallmark.

Let me make it clear to Morie and his Peoples Movement to Destroy our Country(PMDC) that the SLPP has no such intentions and does not need to rig any election. It doesn’t make any sense to rig an election that you know you can win freely and fairly by a comfortable margin even in the first round. The real intention of Morie and his cohorts in the PMDC is to spread fear and panic before the elections and if that result to some form of violence, they will say the suffrage was not free and fair. Let me tell you that even the International Community is aware of the achievements of this administration and believes that the majority of Sierra Leoneans want continuity and so will never take your empty cries seriously.

It smacks of laughter to even suggest that a government that has brought Sierra Leone in to the information age to an extent that you can access the worldwide web from almost every part of the country and can make or receive calls from even the remotest village in the country, will turn around to use it as a weapon to win an election. I need to educate you on the premise that Sierra Leone is a free market economy and none of those companies are owned or controlled by government. Besides, election day is one of the days people need communication the most.

The SLPP is clearly not the APC that had used fuel and rice to subjugate Sierra Leoneans in the past. The SLPP has always ensured that these commodities are always available because it is the only party that truly cares for Sierra Leoneans. We are a “ Kombra” party that makes sure our children are fed before we are.

I hope Mr. Mussafa is not one of those Charles Margai fooled into leaving the SLPP because a multitude of those with brains had already come back. Being a “Kombra” party, we are always ready to welcome back the lost flock.

I warn you and your PMDC miscreants that any attempt to disrupt the serenity and tranquility of election day come August 11, will be met with the full reckoning of the law. This is a different Sierra Leone and one that will not condone lawlessness as in the past. If Charles had promised you a job and now you clearly know it is not possible , don’t take your anger out on the innocent people of Sierra Leone. I know you had spent some fortune on Charles’ campaign and it is painful to watch that money go in vain but it is better you if you kept quiet and pray that God destroys Charles for lying to you and your likes of mental dwarfs.

Foday M. Daboh

Seattle, Washington State.

Subject: Re: Morie Mussafa's Lies and Deliberate Distortions
From: Footgoendoe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:28:43 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: red_dog.niehs.nih.gov at 157.98.76.127

Message:
Foday, I think that Morie Mousaffa is on "crack", based on the lies in his on-line articles. The boy sabi lie. Aye bo!

Subject: Re: Morie Mussafa's Lies and Deliberate Distortions
From: Mammy Sweh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:18:59 07/26/07 ()
Email Address: ammysweh@gmail.com
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113

Message:
For someone claiming to criticize Morie Mussafa's "lies and deliberate distortions", you have also done a fair amount of truth twisting yourself. Did you say that SLPP is a "Komra" party where the leaders don't eat until the children eat first? Do you really say that with a straight face? My sides are splitting with laughter! Go to any region in Sierra Leone and see hunger and desperation etched on the faces of millions while the SLPP kakistocrats run around with fat satisfied bellies and oily tooth picks hanging lazily from their greedy lips. You can't feed hungry people a diet of lies and expect them to vote you in to cause more havoc. The only way SLPP wins is by putting on a mask and commiting highway robbery next month. By the way Morie Mussafa has more credibility on his pinky finger than the entire bumbbling SLPP leadership. Go Toegondoe!

Subject: Re: Morie Mussafa's Lies and Deliberate Distortions
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:27:29 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
"I know you had spent some fortune on Charles’ campaign"

Foot-gbondo you bribed Charles for political appointment?
No wonder you put out so much trash about the " people's choice".

Subject: Alpha Saidu escapes
From: Gallileo
To: All
Date Posted: 07:56:14 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: gw1.dc.gov at 164.82.146.3

Message:
Nobody is going to get at Alpha Saidu for any whipping.He already fled to Freetown and is working at an exchange bureau owned by a relative of his. The only thing, he cannot come back.Paper nor day.

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu escapes
From: Detective
To: All
Date Posted: 01:10:22 07/27/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
yes sir he has escaped to northern New Jersey.

Subject: John Leigh now with PMDC?
From: James Karim Kabia
To: All
Date Posted: 06:58:02 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4573708c.dyn.optonline.net at 69.115.112.140

Message:
Is it true that John has secretly joined the PMDC after realizing that he has no stake in SLPP? I just got off the phone with two SLPP stalwarts who confirmed this. Now I am begining to understand why he no longer contributes to this forum.
James

Subject: Re: John Leigh now with PMDC?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 07:16:32 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-2e8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.46

Message:
Wonders never cease!

In that case he does have some spunk after all and it must be that he has a score to settle with his old idols, Berewa (69) & Kabbah(73).

The quesion remains: If Charles kicks him out of PMDC ( for insubordination) will Leigh betake himself to he APC?

Subject: Re: John Leigh now with PMDC?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 15:07:02 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
He is welcome to be a member of the APC I will vote against his inclusion on the grounds that he is a loose lip, and you you know what they a=say about those, "loose lips sink ships"

Subject: Test for democracy in Sierra Leone
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 06:04:05 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-2e8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.46

Message:

Test for democracy in Sierra Leone

By Mats Utas

On August 11 Sierra Leone will vote democratically for the second time since the end of the decade long civil war that raged between 1991 and 2002. Many international observers believe that this election is an important test for democracy in Sierra Leone. Many Sierra Leoneans call democracy “dem-are-crazy” and politics “politrix”.

Voters for hire? Freetown, April 2007. Photo by Mats Utas.
The 2007 contestants
In August there are basically three political parties that people will vote for. The two political dragons: All People’s Congress (APC) and Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), and the newcomer People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC). During its two periods in power, SLPP has secured a lot of funds for campaigning, yet improved little on the ground and thus not gained any popularity – instead there is a growing nostalgia for the APC years (1968–92) in power. Politically, APC also appears much stronger in this election. A long-standing schism within the party leadership appears to be temporarily bridged. It is clear that APC will take most of the northern part of the country (their traditional power base) and Freetown. SLPP remains strong in the south, although PMDC, a SLPP splinter party, to an equal degreee has the south as its stronghold and will win at least some constituencies there. The diamond-rich east will be a key district where the outcome remains uncertain.

One party must win 55% of the votes on August 11, or else there will be a second round of votes. In the case of a second round, it is highly feasible that most PMDC voters will back SLPP. This is based on the assumption of free and fair elections. The security situation remains stable although some trouble within the army remains. Certainly some of the earlier militias will be on stand-by. One concern raised by observers, especially those in opposition to the ruling party, is that the elections will take place at the height of the rainy season. This could reduce participation and limit the presence of election observers, especially in the rural parts of the country where roads are in poor condition and transport is minimal during the rains, making some areas almost inaccessible.

The democratic process has remained at a low level in Sierra Leone in spite of general elections having already been held in 1962. Patron-client politics is still of utmost importance throughout the country even though some changes can be observed in the bigger cities. Currently in Freetown, hordes of people line up outside the party headquarters and more so at the party leaders’ mansions in order to receive their mandatory money in exchange for promising their votes. This has been going on at least since April, when I last visited the country. Popular musicians sing against this kind of campaigning and people state that they are fed up with the ways of the politrix and manipulated democracy, but in the end they succumb to the political game, knowing just how fragile their lives are and how important patrons can be for their future. Money counts, or as a popular saying goes Money in the hand – back to the ground. Striking poverty and social insecurity are the main reasons for this kind of popular real politics.

Brief political background
Sierra Leone became independent in 1961. Its post-colonial political history shows a dominance of two political parties: Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) which ruled between 1961 and 1967, and 1996 until the present, and All People’s Congress (APC) which ruled between 1968 and 1992, with the interception of three military governments (1967–1968, 1992–1996, 1997–1998). Siaka Stevens, APC leader and president between 1968 and 1985, turned Sierra Leone into a one-party state and reigned in typical cold-war style with internationally “accepted” institutionalized forms of state/civilian violence and mismanagement of government funds. APC’s abuse of power eventually paved the way for both the rurally based Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel force and two “urban” military governments during the 1990s. The widespread blaming of APC for leading Sierra Leone into decline and civil war was an important reason for SLPP’s return to state power in the 1996 elections.
For more information
Mats Utas is a researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute with a research project: Youth and Marginality in Urban Sierra Leone. Utas is currently researching youth activities during the election campaigning in a project called “Elections 2007. Youth, Politics and Technical Mobilisation”. Mats Utas will be in Sierra Leone (6–16 August) during the elections.

Contact:
E-mail: mats.utas@nai.uu.se
Mobile: +232-33775805

Subject: Re: Test for democracy in Sierra Leone
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 06:45:33 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-2e8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.46

Message:
July 26th and Sierra Leone still not centre stage here in

Subject: Independent voice
From: Culled news
To: All
Date Posted: 05:46:12 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 121-65-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.65.121

Message:
Test for democracy in Sierra Leone
By Mats Utas
On August 11 Sierra Leone will vote democratically for the second time since the end of the decade long civil war that raged between 1991 and 2002. Many international observers believe that this election is an important test for democracy in Sierra Leone. Many Sierra Leoneans call democracy “dem-are-crazy” and politics “politrix”.

Voters for hire? Freetown, April 2007. Photo by Mats Utas.

The 2007 contestants
In August there are basically three political parties that people will vote for. The two political dragons: All People’s Congress (APC) and Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), and the newcomer People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC). During its two periods in power, SLPP has secured a lot of funds for campaigning, yet improved little on the ground and thus not gained any popularity – instead there is a growing nostalgia for the APC years (1968–92) in power. Politically, APC also appears much stronger in this election. A long-standing schism within the party leadership appears to be temporarily bridged. It is clear that APC will take most of the northern part of the country (their traditional power base) and Freetown. SLPP remains strong in the south, although PMDC, a SLPP splinter party, to an equal degreee has the south as its stronghold and will win at least some constituencies there. The diamond-rich east will be a key district where the outcome remains uncertain.

One party must win 55% of the votes on August 11, or else there will be a second round of votes. In the case of a second round, it is highly feasible that most PMDC voters will back SLPP. This is based on the assumption of free and fair elections. The security situation remains stable although some trouble within the army remains. Certainly some of the earlier militias will be on stand-by. One concern raised by observers, especially those in opposition to the ruling party, is that the elections will take place at the height of the rainy season. This could reduce participation and limit the presence of election observers, especially in the rural parts of the country where roads are in poor condition and transport is minimal during the rains, making some areas almost inaccessible.

The democratic process has remained at a low level in Sierra Leone in spite of general elections having already been held in 1962. Patron-client politics is still of utmost importance throughout the country even though some changes can be observed in the bigger cities. Currently in Freetown, hordes of people line up outside the party headquarters and more so at the party leaders’ mansions in order to receive their mandatory money in exchange for promising their votes. This has been going on at least since April, when I last visited the country. Popular musicians sing against this kind of campaigning and people state that they are fed up with the ways of the politrix and manipulated democracy, but in the end they succumb to the political game, knowing just how fragile their lives are and how important patrons can be for their future. Money counts, or as a popular saying goes Money in the hand – back to the ground. Striking poverty and social insecurity are the main reasons for this kind of popular real politics.

Brief political background
Sierra Leone became independent in 1961. Its post-colonial political history shows a dominance of two political parties: Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) which ruled between 1961 and 1967, and 1996 until the present, and All People’s Congress (APC) which ruled between 1968 and 1992, with the interception of three military governments (1967–1968, 1992–1996, 1997–1998). Siaka Stevens, APC leader and president between 1968 and 1985, turned Sierra Leone into a one-party state and reigned in typical cold-war style with internationally “accepted” institutionalized forms of state/civilian violence and mismanagement of government funds. APC’s abuse of power eventually paved the way for both the rurally based Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel force and two “urban” military governments during the 1990s. The widespread blaming of APC for leading Sierra Leone into decline and civil war was an important reason for SLPP’s return to state power in the 1996 elections.

For more information
Mats Utas is a researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute with a research project: Youth and Marginality in Urban Sierra Leone. Utas is currently researching youth activities during the election campaigning in a project called “Elections 2007. Youth, Politics and Technical Mobilisation”. Mats Utas will be in Sierra Leone (6–16 August) during the elections.

Subject: Gberie or Bere or Gberiewa ? Re – Lansana Gberie Speaks.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 05:30:35 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-2e8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.46

Message:
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/34330.html

Gberie is profoundly SLPP and is probably Southerner - although that may have absolutely nothing to do with it.

Everyday, I read dozens of articles from around the world in this mega site:

http://israpundit.com/2006/

In trying to get to know myself better, I must answer this question: WHY did I get so irritated reading bra Gberiewa’s article?

I think that to begin with, it’s because the man is so full of – of himself. The very intrusive super-ego, gets in the way, it takes centre stage and replaces some of the arguments or elucidation it is trying to present. Not that opinions or arguments have to be de-tribalised, in MY Fathers’ House.

Evidence of this is here: - and as we can see he is in quite a different league altogether as he repeatedly makes clear to us his unmistakable closeness to officialdom ( & power). I cannot for a moment imagine the unending interest with which all our ears would pop up and stay tuned to listen to kongosah with president Kabbah or vice president Berewa telling us about some of those meetings – and persons that they do meet – we would have Berewa kick-starting one of his campaign talks with words like “ Just the other day, as I was saying to His Holiness the Pope” and of course we’d have Kabbah with “ As I was saying to my buddy, Muammar al-Qadhafi, about that first shipment of rice ” etc etc and on the issue of violence? Well, the toothless chimpanzee as we see is not always so toothless or lacking in integrity and he is now protecting some of his own endangered species within Sierra Leone territory.

Mr. Lansana Gberie may FEEL what he wants to convey to us, to assure us: he may feel very much at home with his Muzungus/ Oyibos and for all we know he may even be one of them or a coconut ( Mr.Obai a photo please of a coconut – not from your palm tree, but one with a human touch, because it’s what some London blacks and Yardies call a black man who joins the London Metropolitan Police Force :” Coconut “ – i.e. brown outside and white inside ) – but it’s the narrative style that is not so smooth - in replacing his original self by the image of his master

(Robinson Crusoe) –

He starts with an innocuous enough casual introduction, and here he is bristling with his usual self-importance:

“Over lunch the other day at Chatham House in London with some old friends there, I was asked – apropos of something that I had recently published in that venerable Think Tank’s magazine World Today on Sierra Leone’s forthcoming elections in August”

And the buck doesn’t stop there – it’s a strain that runs through the piece:

“Now to the point I made at the Chatham House lunch. In the course of researching and writing a large report on the elections for an international organisation recently, I chanced to read the report by IFES (the International Foundation for Electoral Systems) on the 2004 local council elections in Sierra Leone.”

” During a meeting with Koroma over a year ago in the course of work I was doing for the British government, Koroma mentioned that he would be traveling to London the following week. That visit would coincide with the launch of my book at Chatham House.” etc.

“. I met Margai last year with an American colleague. We were staying at the Cabenda Hotel, owned by Femi Hebron, founding member of the PMDC. My colleague and I – on assignment for the UK government – expressed an interest, to Hebron, in talking to Margai. Margai dropped by the next morning for a chat.”

And now let’s deal with honesty or the lack of it - and then it’s called dishonesty – (although this dishonesty could also be forgetfulness or even innocence, the flip side of “Songs of Experience”
For now I’ll deal with the following three points, and take up other important points - all about election violence to follow in my next instalment :

1. Gberie writes that

(Margai) “found that the party was no longer good enough for him. This is, of course, his right; and he may be well correct in denouncing the leadership process as rigged “

Yes, and for Mr. Margai, that incorrectness and other factors meant that he could no longer honourably continue to be a member of a party that had rigged the election of its own leader. John Ernest Leigh complained more bitterly, more extensively and even more eloquently, about this. The difference between Charles Margai and Leigh, is that Leigh continued in the party even after the ConBention – and not only that, Leigh who had previously condemned Mr. Berewa as unfit for the presidency under any circumstances whatsoever, sobered up and hoping for a reward, then started supporting Mr. Berewa, most passionately - until - it s said that it dawned on him (Leigh) that in no circumstances whatsoever was Berewa going to appoint him as his running mate. From that point onwards Leigh dried up and has ceased to be His Master’s Voice, wrestling in the mud with all and sundry in the Cocorioko political theatre.

2 Gberie writes:

“The fact that Margai was Minister of Internal Affairs, in charge of the Police that so brutally arrested Norman, makes no impression on the man!”

Doesn’t Gberie the “Internationally Acclaimed”, know and understand that Chief Samuel Hinga Norman himself was then the minister of the Interior and that it was Chief Samuel Hinga Norman himself who as minister of the Interior was in charge of the Police who stormed into his office and arrested him on that fateful morning of the 10th of March , 2003? Of course he knows that and so does everybody else. So, why does Gberie go out of his way to LIE on Charles Francis Margai, the honourable leader of the PMDC, that it was Charles who “was Minister of Internal Affairs, in charge of the Police that so brutally arrested Norman”?
WHY?

3. And Gberie writes:

“Someone should tell Margai that it is simply not realistic for him to expect his PMDC to make significant electoral gains, let alone win the Presidency, in so short a time since its inception …………… This Presidential election, someone must tell Margai, is really a contest between Solomon Berewa and Ernest Koroma…”

Now why does Gberie who knows better, end his article with those words? Sierra Leonean political scientists have given election analyses in which CHARLES MARGAI’s role is first and foremost that of a spoiler. If indeed it is ultimately between APC and SLPP, then PMDC is going to take votes from SLPP. As everybody knows. Someone – was it Jimmy Kandeh ( says that in a second round between APC and PMDC, all the SLPP people like Gberie himself would prefer to vote for the PMDC - and elect Margai as next president.

Otherwise I do enjoy some of Mr. Lanasana’s profundities and he certainly has a carefully worded fund of such kind (of) words.

He wrote:

“In every human endeavour the line between ambition and impatience, commitment and desperation, determination and over-zealousness, can be very thin, and it demands enormous good sense and nobility of purpose to maintain a fine balance. For an important politician in a situation like ours, maintaining that balance can make all the difference in the world. “

Indeed the line can be very thin, and Mr. Gberie should take heed and take a large portion of his own advice.

PS:

Mr. Gberie wrote, “Sierra Leone has conducted two successful elections since its war ended in 2002.”

Successful, yes ( last night I phoned an APC friend in London and as we discussed the forthcoming elections he assured me told me that it was John Karefa –Smart who had actually won that 2002 election.!! Well, well, well…talk about loyalty and belief…..

About those successful elections of 2002 of Mr. Gberie, here is what the US state Department has on that election and I take their word for it:

“The elections were marked by irregularities and allegations of fraud, but not to a degree to significantly affect the outcome.”

Not so much can happen between now and August 7th.

Subject: KABS DID NOT ROCK MY WORLD
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 05:26:06 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m015f36d0.tmodns.net at 208.54.95.1

Message:
he disappointed me.

Subject: Re: KABS DID NOT ROCK MY WORLD
From: hasaba bundu
To: All
Date Posted: 07:29:11 07/26/07 ()
Email Address: hasaba@verizon.net
Entered From: pool-70-21-78-101.res.east.verizon.net at 70.21.78.101

Message:
Kabs Kanu is an APC thug dressed in journalist robes.
I do agree with sylvia Blyden, he is a big disappintment to Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora who are looking for unbiased reporting on events unfolding in our motherland. Just imagine this guy will never post the picture of the other candidates days on end like he did for the APC leader.

You are going to fail. Your propaganda machine feed tires will break down on you soon because there will be nothing more to say except to wait for another five years. You feed the unsuspecting public with the lies of the APC and PMDC with gusto. No wonder the APC leader thanks you for a good job done.

Subject: KABS IS NOT A REAL MAN
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 05:25:30 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m015f36d0.tmodns.net at 208.54.95.1

Message:
he is a little big belly man.

Subject: KABS WANTED TO SCREW ME AGAIN
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 05:25:01 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m015f36d0.tmodns.net at 208.54.95.1

Message:
I said no.

Subject: KABS WAS MY WORST BOYFRIEND
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 05:24:32 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m015f36d0.tmodns.net at 208.54.95.1

Message:
He was too emotional for me

Subject: KABS SENT ME EMAILS ASKING FOR SOME
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 05:24:06 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m015f36d0.tmodns.net at 208.54.95.1

Message:
He was always asking for some.

Subject: Re: KABS SENT ME EMAILS ASKING FOR SOME
From: mr dick
To: All
Date Posted: 08:32:12 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 85.159.201.52

Message:
you may give him or come to a young dynamic man like me

Subject: KABS IS NOT A REAL MAN
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 05:23:14 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m015f36d0.tmodns.net at 208.54.95.1

Message:
he disappointed me in bed.

Subject: Re: KABS IS NOT A REAL MAN
From: mr dick
To: All
Date Posted: 08:33:52 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 85.159.201.52

Message:
is he having a little dick or the belly is so big?

Subject: kABS SCREWED ME
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 05:22:49 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m015f36d0.tmodns.net at 208.54.95.1

Message:
He lasted for a minute.

Subject: Re: kABS SCREWED ME
From: mr dick
To: All
Date Posted: 08:35:05 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 85.159.201.52

Message:
come to me i will help u for an hour.

Subject: KABS PROPOSED TO ME
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 05:22:18 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m015f36d0.tmodns.net at 208.54.95.1

Message:
He wanted to marry me.

Subject: KABS HAD SEX WITH ME
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 05:21:53 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m015f36d0.tmodns.net at 208.54.95.1

Message:
We did it three times a day.

Subject: Re: KABS HAD SEX WITH ME
From: mr dick
To: All
Date Posted: 08:37:56 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 85.159.201.52

Message:
i know you did not enjoy it that why u are complaining please look 4 me in town 4 a proper and double fcuk.

Subject: KABS IS A SMALL MAN
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 05:21:29 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m015f36d0.tmodns.net at 208.54.95.1

Message:
he did not satisfy me.

Subject: Re: KABS IS A SMALL MAN
From: mr dick
To: All
Date Posted: 08:40:38 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 85.159.201.52

Message:
look 4 me i will satisfy u leave the reverend alone and come to me.stop

Subject: KABS CHEATED ON HIS WIFE
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 05:21:04 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m015f36d0.tmodns.net at 208.54.95.1

Message:
he cheated on his wife with me.

Subject: KABS WAS MY BOYFRIEND
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 05:20:40 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m015f36d0.tmodns.net at 208.54.95.1

Message:
One minute man, I love you.

Subject: Re: KABS WAS MY BOYFRIEND
From: mr dick
To: All
Date Posted: 08:42:55 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 85.159.201.52

Message:
where was your husband whiles you were fcuking Kabs?

Subject: I LOVE MY KABS
From: SYLVIA BLYDEN
To: All
Date Posted: 05:19:49 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: m015f36d0.tmodns.net at 208.54.95.1

Message:
Kabs, I miss you so much. I want to make love to you.

Subject: APC LEADER SAYS HE IS NOT RULING OUT ASSASSINATION PLOT
From: Frankly Green
To: All
Date Posted: 04:00:43 07/26/07 ()
Email Address: Frankly_green@yahoo.com
Entered From: dslb-084-060-124-181.pools.arcor-ip.net at 84.60.124.181

Message:
APC LEADER SAYS HE IS NOT RULING OUT ASSASSINATION PLOT

The APC leader Ernest Koroma had told cocorioko that Tom Nyuma wanted to assassinate him. He said he can’t rule out that possibility. But no Sierra Leonean with his cognitive apparatus intact would give credit to that assertion. We all know that Ernest Koroma is a liar; he told Sierra Leone and the world community that the APC yesteryears were the best. We do not have reasons to suppose that he will not give us greater lies still.

Now let us examine the APC assassination idea. I believe it was simply stage-managed.
i. Ernest Koroma himself states in the interview that he checked in the hotel between 1.00 and 2.00am and we know now that Nyuma checked in the same hotel several hours before. Besides, he was already in bed with his girl at the time Koroma arrived. This suggests that Nyuma didn’t even know Ernest Koroma will check in at the same hotel. And if he didn’t know Ernest Koroma was checking in at the same hotel, he wouldn’t have planned to kill him there, you will agree with me.

ii. If like Koroma says Nyuma wanted to assassinate him, he (Nyuma) wouldn’t have checked in at the same hotel. Assassins don’t leave their finger prints all over the place. It is only logical that he would have stationed some other where, walk stealthily into the hotel, execute his duty and leave.

iii. Nyuma is a retired lieutenant colonel, who during the war out-weighed even the vicious rebels, we all know that. With his kind of a calibre, you would need an entire army to stop him if he had any inclination to kill a single person, particularly if he possessed a .9mm gun with 50 rounds of ammunition like the APC stipulates. It is such a tasteless and fickle-minded supposition. Nyuma is hospitalised with injuries to his head, injuries caused by the APC thugs, including one of his former drivers. It is not difficult to map out personal vendetta and political drunkenness as the driving forces behind this unprovoked and unwarranted brutality.

iv. Thomas Sahr Nyuma, albeit he is retired, still has that old glory. People know him and follow him all about. His popularity alone cannot him to form a hired assassin.

Besides, why would anybody want to kill the APC Ernest Koroma anyway? The APC is not a challenge to the ruling SLPP. Are they therefore running into panic and want to display their old tricks? We have previously had stories of the SLPP wanting to eliminate the PMDC Charles Margai, as if the SLPP has nothing better to do. The Charles Margai assassination cake didn’t sell well, not to say it didn’t sell at all. The APC wouldn’t have used the same strategy; it will not work. In any case, the police is investigating the incident; the culprits will be apprehended and justice will descend on them.

Subject: Re: APC LEADER SAYS HE IS NOT RULING OUT ASSASSINATION PLOT
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 15:45:45 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
"Nyuma is a retired lieutenant colonel"

Self promioted Lieutenant colonels are of no consequence. Did Nyuma earn his Lt Col buttons? Give us a break and lets focus on the up coming elections which you are about to lose.

Subject: Re: APC LEADER SAYS HE IS NOT RULING OUT ASSASSINATION PLOT
From: Mammwy Sweh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:28:12 07/26/07 ()
Email Address: mammysweh@gmail.com
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113

Message:
Just because Nyumah checked into the hotel ahead of Ernest Koroma shouldn't preclude the possibiliy of an asassination attempt. Matter of fact, that is the classic example of an ambush: Lay in waiting for your unsuspecting prey bfore pouncing. I am not saying that Nyumah is guilty, but damn! He looks as guilty as a cat in a chicken coop with a feather sticking from his grinning mouth.
Oh about Nyumah's supposed military bravery, I believe this image was carefully nurtured by Tom himself during his NPRC years. Let's not forget that the RUF made significant strategic advances inthe east during Tom Nyumah's watch.

Subject: Re: APC LEADER SAYS HE IS NOT RULING OUT ASSASSINATION PLOT
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:47:08 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157

Message:
Are you still on this "AMBUSH" thing?
No one is buying that anymore. We are looking at the cover-up by the APC and their leader. That in itself is a crime.

Subject: Kabbah gives one month amnesty to Chimpanzee owners
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 02:21:30 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-2e8472d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.114.132.46

Message:
“'T’was in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
when blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form
” Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

(Bob Dylan: Shelter from the Storm)

Kabbah gets tough as

Sierra Leone passes tough law to protect chimps:

Sierra Leone gives one-month amnesty to hand chimpanzees over
To possess, capture, or kill a chimpanzee results in $1,000 fine or jail
Number down sharply since '70s from hunting; habitat loss; trade in research

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (Reuters) -- Sierra Leone outlawed the capture and killing of chimpanzees on Wednesday, declaring a one-month amnesty for anyone keeping a chimp to hand it over to authorities.
A statement from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Marine Resources read on national radio said anyone violating the new regulations would face a fine of up to $1,000 or jail.
"It is now illegal by law to possess, capture, kill or keep chimpanzees," said the statement.
"To provide the public sufficient time to surrender chimps in their possession a month's notice is hereby given for chimps to be handed over to the authorities."
The government of the war-ravaged West African nation has established a refuge at Charlotte on the outskirts of the coastal capital Freetown to take in chimps from the public.
Ecologists say Sierra Leone's wild chimpanzee population has declined dramatically from around 20,000 in the 1970s as a result of hunting, incursions on their territory and the trade in pets and animals for scientific research.
Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war, during which drug-fuelled rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) hacked limbs off civilians, drove many of its 6 million inhabitants from the countryside.
Conservationists say that wildlife populations, including chimpanzees, recovered as a result of rural depopulation caused by the war, but the return of villagers after a 2002 peace deal has resulted in the destruction of habitat, more hunting, and trapping of rare animals for sale overseas.
Copyright 2007 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/07/25/sierraleone.chimps.reut/index.html

Subject: Cocorioko is really the best
From: Reason Man
To: All
Date Posted: 01:19:18 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 208.115.232.93

Message:
One thing that this Tom Nyuma issue brought out is that Cocorioko is really the best newspaper we have. Cocorioko was the only newspaper that provided the views of Tom Nyuma and APC Presidential candidate Ernest Koroma, giving us the opportunity to decide whom to believe. I want Kabs Kanu to publish this in his newspaper. Cocorioko also interviewed Tom Nyuma's wife and his mother . Bravo , Cocorioko .

Subject: Re: Cocorioko is really the best
From: keke blahima
To: All
Date Posted: 13:56:38 07/26/07 ()
Email Address: culturehill@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-67-173-181-21.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 67.173.181.21

Message:
I would take the excellence of COCORIOKO even further. To say the best is beyond belief. It is the objective, fair and balanced reporting that qualifies this paper as perhaps one if not the best journalistic product owned and operated by a Sierra Leonean.
He has even taken free speech to a whole new layer offering even a podium for the best and the worst, the critics and the illogical minds who swing rumors and innuendoes with malice aforethought, prejudice, love, peace, everything under the sun.
This forum is a lot of fun, but it also reveals o lot of the anger and treachery and the vemon of misinformation that spits in the face of truth and hasty conclusions. That's the only problem that I wrestle with.
Sierra Leone has a greater ratio of intelligent, educated and intellectual byproducts per capita in the continent of Africa. Yet I have seen the worse of it on this forum as well.
I think as much as we have right to debate the issues, I would submit that if we spent all that time and energy coming up with or exchanging ideas about how we can reduce porverty, offer strategies on revamping the economy to cater for the poor majority, it will do a world of good.
Our rage and conflict may have a political object, but it is purely an economic conflict. If Sierra Leone WAS a monarchy with an average of $60,000 GNI per capita, no one would be worried about what government is doing or not doing. But when you have a nation as our with a $220 GNI per capita even the most democratic institution will be subjected to suspicion.
Remember Bill Clinton; "its the economy..."

Subject: Re: Cocorioko is really the best
From: SoMoi
To: All
Date Posted: 05:10:09 07/26/07 ()
Email Address: kipomoi@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 193.220.2.141

Message:
Are you surprised that they are the best?? At least very good things come out of Sierra Leone too. I'm an Eritrean born of Sierra Leonean mother and I have met so many Sierra Leoneans here working with the peace mission and performing execllently well.
What is more interesting is that 80% of the ladies and gentlement that I'm referring to are between the ages of 35 - 45 years. That is a plus for Salone and meaning very good things can and will continue to happen if you give chance to young people to perfom.
Cocorioko is the only paper that has followed and reported positively on the election process in Salone. I hope every right thinking Sierra Leonean will put the past behind and begin to look at Salone first rather than self.
Thank you Cocorioko and may God Almighty bless the good work of your team. Do keep us informed and updated.

Subject: politics 101
From: keke blahima
To: All
Date Posted: 01:00:27 07/26/07 ()
Email Address: culturehill@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-67-173-181-21.hsd1.il.comcast.net at 67.173.181.21

Message:
assassination attempt remains unproven

Subject: Maada Bio beats Stevens
From: Researcher
To: All
Date Posted: 00:46:45 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-249-138-254.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.249.138.254

Message:
(Culled from Standard Times)

Former Head of State Beats Up Finance Minister’s Guard Carts Away US$500 And Mobile Phone
Posted by Santigie Kamara on Jul 25, 2007, 02:40

The former Head of State and Chairman of the National Provisional Ruling Council NPRC Rtd. Brigadier Maada Bio, a personal security guard to the SLPP leader and Presidential aspirant Vice President Solomon Berewa is still perpetrating violence against his fellow Sierra Leoneans with impunity.

His latest prey this time was a security attached to the Minister of Finance John Benjamin Rtd Lt. Christopher Stevens. The victim explained that he was in the company of the Finance Minister last Saturday on their way to Swegbwema when a row broke out between him and Maada Bio at a place commonly called ‘Limba Corner’ in Masiaka.

“I greeted him and told him that we are now working towards the same goal despite the fact that you led a coup plot that sent Strasser in oblivion,” narrated Stevens who added that his utterances infuriated Maada Bio by hitting him (Stevens) on the chest also snatched his (Stevens) mobile phone and five hundred United States Dollars from his (Stevens) pocket.

“I was seriously beaten by Maada Bio and his guards,” complained Stevens.

Stevens said that he was rescued by his Boss; Finance Minister Mr. Benjamin provided him (Stevens) money for fare to discontinue the journey and prevented more chaos.

Subject: Thank you Charles Margai!
From: Mammy Sweh
To: All
Date Posted: 00:42:09 07/26/07 ()
Email Address: mammysweh@gmail.com
Entered From: ool-44c6d571.dyn.optonline.net at 68.198.213.113

Message:
I just realized the role of Charles Margai in making democracy a reality in Sierra Leone. In the last elections, the schizophrenic nature of Salone politics became brutally clear with multi party pluralism in the North and West, and One Party SLPP rule in the South and East. This sad state of affairs would have continued in perpetuity had it not been for the bold move by Charles Margai, SLPP royalty himself, to create an alternative voice, PMDC, not only for the South-East, but for Sierra Leone. What ever his motivation was, Margai has done a great service to SaLone by prising the South and East from the totalitarian grip of one party rule and opening it up for vibrant political competition. No one will ever take any region of Sierra Leone for granted again. More immportantly, he has effectively debunked the illiterate arithmetic that Temne = APC and MENDE = SLPP. Charles Margai's move will hopefully liberate some of us from the tribal, political cages designed for us by cynical politicians. So whether you become president or not, you are already a winner in my book, Charles Margai.

Subject: Re: Thank you Charles Margai!
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 10:39:17 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: static-70-20-197-79.phil.east.verizon.net at 70.20.197.79

Message:
This article is wonderful...excellent, this is the best you have produced so far. Keep it up. Good things indeed, do come out of SL; that is , provided we want to.

Subject: Re: Thank you Charles Margai!
From: Albert Moinina
To: All
Date Posted: 08:59:31 07/26/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 213.42.21.60

Message:
Well said, I could not agree more.

Subject: TOM NYUMA DID NOT DO ANYTHING WRONG.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 23:17:13 07/25/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-68-34-12-96.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 68.34.12.96

Message:
According to police sources in Bo, Tom Nyuma was a guest at the Countryside Inn Hotel. He came to the reception desk, and a group of APC thugs and vandals led by Ernest Koroma's chief bodyguard attacked him. Tom was severely beaten and seriously wounded, he was rushed to the nearest hospital.
The action of the APC thugs clearly justified what Ernest Koroma assured the people of Sierra Leone in one of him recent public statements. Ernest said that if he wins(may God forbid),he will take our country back to the days of Siaka Stevens and Joe Momoh.
Let us dont forget that during the days of Stevens and Momoh, elections were dominated by thuggery and violence.
I assure the APC that since Sierra Leone is a country of laws, all the wrong doers will be prosecuted and put in jail.
I also remind the APC that our election laws clearly states that if members of a political party are caught in acts of violence for and on behalf of their party, the party will be disqualified from taken part in the elections.
OUR COUNTRY NOW HAS A ZERO TOLERANCE FOR THUGGERY AND VIOLENCE.

Subject: Re: TOM NYUMA DID NOT DO ANYTHING WRONG.
From: ABDUL KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 18:42:36 07/26/07 ()
Email Address: kamaraa@aol.com
Entered From: 82-69-113-227.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk at 82.69.113.227

Message:
I WANT TO BEG PERMISSION TO DENY YOU THAT TOM DID NOT DO WRONG. I AM EQUALLY A SIERRA LEONEAN LIKE YOU, BUT ONE WHO PRAYS AND WISH SIERRA LEONE TO GO FORWARD. THE PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE HAVE LIVED IN SELF-CREATED POVERTY FOR A LONG TIME RUNNING. WE ALL KNOW THE RESERVED NATURAL RESOURCES INVESTED BY ALLAH IN THAT SMALL COUNTRY. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, WHAT HAS THE SLPP DONE IN ELEVEN YEARS TO DEVELOP POOR SIERRA LEONE? ARE YOU ASKING THAT THE SAME SLPP HAS THE RIGHT TO ENCOURAGE TOM NYUMA, A DEPORTEE FROM THE USA TO BE CARRYING 50 ROUNDS OF BULLETS AND A GUN AGAINST DEFENSELESS POLITICIANS LIKE MR. KOROMA AND OTHERS? WHAT TYPE OF COINCIDENCE ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HERE? TOM WAS IN THAT HOTEL PREMEDITATEDLY TO KILL. HE WANTED TO KILL. HE HAS KILLED MANY WITHOUT REGRETS. HE IS JUST AN ANIMAL THAT HAS NO REMORSE AND NO MILK OF MANKIND. WHAT SIERRA LEONEAN ARE YOU TO HAIL TOM, A LIVING REBEL? ALL THE DIAMONDS HE STOLE FROM SIERRA LEONE WERE STOLEN FROM HIM BY A NIGERIAN WOMAN. DO YOU HAVE A CLUE? ASK HIM. I WAS AROUND WHEN THE WOMAN WAS MAKING PLANS TO CIVILISE HIM.

COME ON! WE ALL KNOW TOM AS A SEASONED REBEL. HE SHOULD BE IN REMAND AS A DEPORTEE. HE HAS NO RIGHT TO WALK THE STREETS OF SIERRA LEONE FREE FOR THE NEXT ONE YEAR. WHY SHOULD BEREWA GRANT HIM SOLACE AND AMMUNITION TO GO AND MAKE AN ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF A FINE MAN LIKE KOROMA? DO YOU WANT TO CREATE A WAR BETWEEN THE TEMNES AND THE MENDES? WE ARE NOT READY FOR THIS, WE DON'T NEED THAT.

THINK AGAIN. WE ARE TIRED OF CRYING FOR LOST ONES. WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE A REPEAT EXPERIENC OF TEN YEARS OF FIGHTING IN THAT SMALL COUNTRY.

TOM DID THE GREATEST WRONG THROUGH BEREWA TO TO HAVE ACQUIRED AMMUNITIONS. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, TOM IS NOW AN ORDINARY CIVILIAN THAT HAS NO RIGHT TO ARMS.

AS A SIERRA LEONEAN, I RECOMMEND TOM TO BE PUT IN PRISON FOR UNLAWFUL POSSESION OF ARMS.