Subject: TUMBA DANCE
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Date Posted: 16:25:38 05/17/07 ()
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SHAKE IT. SHAKE IT
Subject: QUOTE FOR A SUNNY AFTERNOON
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:12:48 05/17/07 ()
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"The large numbers in Bo last weekend in honor of VP Berewa is causing the once hopeful beneficiaries of support from uninfluential low grade loud noisemakers to tremble in their burglar-proof cages. Thank you. - JL"
Subject: Re: QUOTE FOR A SUNNY AFTERNOON
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Date Posted: 16:39:54 05/17/07 ()
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Njepeh londo--as mende man say.
Leh de bellah dem cuff now nor.
Subject: TOLERANCE AND DEMOCRACY IN SALONE
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Date Posted: 15:40:04 05/17/07 ()
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"Ernest Koroma thanked the police for “demonstrating neutrality” and praised the chief, saying there had been no report of chiefs disallowing his party supporters from manifesting their support. He encouraged the authorities to continue “such tolerance”.----AWOKO NEWSPAPER
Subject: Million Man March in Bo
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Date Posted: 15:31:37 05/17/07 ()
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Why are there claims that there was million-man march in Bo recently when according to census estimates, there are only 464,000 people in the whole district?
Just thinking…
Subject: Re: Million Man March in Bo
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 15:54:14 05/17/07 ()
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Dear Critical Thinker:
Please permit me to respond here. Thank you.
The rubric: "Million Man March" is intended to evoke genuine popular support for the party and its power to excite a whole group of mankind.
The whole thing was borrowed from the US (Farakan's Million Man March To DC)and reflects aspirations and hopes.
Although the march was held in Bo it was intended to be fully participatory to all of Southern Province communities of which Bo is the capital. Even so, the top estimate of the numbers that actually participated was 500,000 people and even there people came in from nearby Northern areas (Yilleh, Matotoka, Makali, etc.), Freetown and Kenema.
The large numbers in Bo last weekend in honor of VP Berewa is causing the once hepeful beneficiaries of support from uninfluential low grade loud noisemakers to tremble in their burglar-proof cages. Thank you. - JL
Subject: BREAKING NEWS FROM FREETOWN
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Date Posted: 13:48:44 05/17/07 ()
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Britain blasts SLeone's anti-graft watchdog
Agence France Presse
FREETOWN, May 15, 2007 (AFP) -
Britain, the external backer of Sierra Leone's drive against corruption on Tuesday slammed the west African's country's anti-graft watchdog for performing below expectations.
British high commission spokesman in Freetown, Robert Collett, said that while the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) had prosecuted some cases, it had not measured up to anticipated levels.
"Although there have been some successes, the people of Sierra Leone and the UK government expected more from the Anti-Corruption Commission than has been delivered," Collett told UN Radio in Freetown.
The British Department for International Development (DFID) has underwritten the project to the tune of five million pounds sterling (7.3 billion euros, 9.9 billion dollars) since 2001.
"It has been doing some work but also you have to measure that with what was expected of the commission and what it signed up to achieve," said Collett.
"And when you compare those two things, you'll realise that the progress has been very disappointing," he added.
Britain's complaints came days after the global rights group Amnesty International accused Sierra Leone's government of institutionalising corruption and of not doing enough to root out the practice.
The British diplomat said "the number of cases which have been successfully prosecuted has been slow and we have not seen any high profile cases successfully prosecuted and that's why mainly the ACC was established."
"There have been high-profile investigations but no successful high-profile prosecution," he said.
In its latest report on the war-shattered west African country, Amnesty alleged "official corruption in the various segments of governance."
Amnesty said since the creation of the country's anti-corruption body in July, 2000, 54 of the 560 cases investigated had been taken to court, and 29 resulted in convictions.
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS FROM FREETOWN
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Date Posted: 13:52:45 05/17/07 ()
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You posted this piece more than five times yesterday. What do you want? Stop posting the same piece over and over agin.
Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS FROM FREETOWN
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 15:22:11 05/17/07 ()
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These are not straightforward forum participants but people who are used to kalo-kalo tricks throughout their adult lives. Their dubious behavior in this forum such as repeat postings, flip-flopping abuse of multiple monikers for self-praise, cussing, rudeness, lies and endless, disruptive flunkey dunce argumentation is clearly a case of “monkey nor go left imm black hand behen.”
These crookish upstarts don’t understand. They think they can fool all their own people all the time for individual selfish advantages and get way with such every time. No more!
Sierra Leone is changing - and changing fast - because our people have suffered enough and they want betterments in their daily lives. We Sierra Leoneans are desperate for advancement. We understand many things going on that our crookish, double-crossing politicians do not want to believe that their people fully understand.
SLPP may not be 100% efficient or corruption free today, but it is far more credible and better organized than all its competitors combined and Solo B. is far superior in character, intelligence and work ethics than both his main competitors.
Sierra Leoneans in cities, towns and villagers across our land remember the hardships, marginalization, gangsterism, deterioration, and the senseless frolicking Ekutay poverty spreaders enjoyed in Binkolo while ordinary people unconnected to political power sucked breeze for dinner and lived in utter darkness for months and months a time.
People are still suffering from the mass unemployment inflicted on Sierra Leoneans via the constructive expulsion of dozens of European business that provided good employment for our people across the country, brought in management technology and paid their fair share of taxes to the government. They are familiar with the non-tax-paying replacements who do not hire our people at senior levels at all and who tend to export their profits instead of reinvesting.
Sahid Jamil is well-remembered for his DIMINCO activities and his one-time helper has yet to inspire mass confidence to support his presidential ambitions.
People know that the PMDC was born via the double-cross of true SLPP reformers and the misuse of their names (Jonah, Norman & Leigh) to trick some disappointed people into backing and/or supporting their new slpitter party.
Further, PMDC seems to people as being under the tight self-serving control of an irrelevant under-achiever with an arrogant, haughty, dynastic, selfish, alphabet-soup history in politics; embarrassingly lacking in intellectual vigor and who has surrounded himself with crookish cabals of opportunists and dubious characters - including a double-disbarred, disrobed and defrocked lawyer who stole money from his client and such characters like foolumunku bangucrooks and low grade idiots.
Again, SLPP is not 100% fantastic but it is for us reformers to help to get it there. And SLPP has the infrastructure to reform. It is collegial in nature and neither secretive-one-manic or dynastically-owned, nor entirely hegemonistic.
Many Mende hegemonists have fled to the PMDC or some other tiny faction.
Moreover, SLPP is organized nation-wide, unlike the others. Hence, free debate is possible and frequently occurs across different ethnic groupings.
So, if we begin to see a continuation of the stampede to the SLPP that I spoke about in a press conference in Freetown in August 2006, I am not surprised at all. No amount of self-praise, cussing, rudeness, bombastic lies or disruptive flunkey dunce argumentation will mislead ordinary Sierra Leoneans - including the famous uninfluential san-san boys, bike drivers, Shell Mingo carwash workers, etc. I spoke about in early March 2006 – to support any flunkey political groupings this 2007.
Thank you. - JL
Subject: DEFECTIONS: LATEST E-MAIL FROM FREETOWN
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 13:22:08 05/17/07 ()
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Subject: Re: More Defections To SLPP
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:43:24 +0000
Dear Ernest,
It was on Radio UNAMSIL that 900(returnees) former PMDC supporters returned to SLPP and pledged their royalty to Solo B at Kenema , also some 75 NDA supporters and that 500 Ex PMDC will do the same today at Syke street and another 300 Ex PMDC from Beaconsfield. Time is up.
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Subject: Sierra Leone: The Dawn of Boreholes
From: Ndilei Swarray
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Sierra Leone: The Dawn of Boreholes
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OPINION
17 May 2007
Posted to the web 17 May 2007
Ndilei Swarray
Freetown
Sierra Leone boasted of reliable and affordable pipe borne water supply system in the late 50s and early 70s, which gradually collapsed after this period due to factors such as population growth, political instability, long civil conflicts, and obviously corruption.
And these affected the whole economic development of this nation. As a result, rich people turned to alternative service providers such as tank (water bowsers) supply services as well as bottle vendors that are of high quality but very expensive too. Those who cannot afford it turned to other alternative sources of potable water supply such as unprotected springs and streams flowing from beneath the hills.
Protection of springs, rain water harvesting and the abstraction and development of the ground water resources are some of the alternative sources of water supply. It is quite true that our country has huge surface and ground water resources that could be harnessed to alleviate this acute water problem in the city.
Ground water is not only in huge supply as compared to surface water but also has certain advantages and attributes such as its sustainability and reliability as a source of water supply. This is because it is less vulnerable to pollution and usually free of pathogenic organisms. This means it needs little or no treatment before use. This is a big health advantage.
It also has low vulnerability to drought.
Congruently, the cost of development of this huge surface water resources of Sierra Leone, especially treatment and disinfection are very expensive than that of a borehole. This means we can turn to our groundwater resources for adequate, affordable, sustainable and immediate water supply services. In fact one sound ways of best management practice of our water resources is by conjunctive use of both our surface and groundwater. This simply means using developed surface water in the rainy season and groundwater in the dry season.
Groundwater can be accessed or abstracted by digging or drilling into the ground to produce wells. There are three main types of wells: the traditional hand dug wells (open wells), hand drilled wells (large diameter wells) and boreholes. The first and second types are quite expensive in monetary terms but can be affected by droughts and seasonal declines, as most times they are outside the aquifer (water bearing stratum) zone (that is tapping perched water table).
Also both are highly susceptible to health hazards as they are easily polluted. The third one, which is the borehole, may be expensive but is the safest source of water supply.
Boreholes are drilled with rigs that can drill at depths over three hundred metres. They have the advantages of speed, precision, hygiene and sustainability. Some boreholes have lasted for over two hundred years supplying affordable and quality water. All that it will need is constant re-development.
Boreholes are widely used all over the world. For instance, Libya is getting about eighty percent of its water supply from boreholes developed in the Saharan deserts. Water Utilities in the UK such as Severn Trent, Anglia Waters, Thames Valley, etc use boreholes to provide water services to metro cities like London, Kent, Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester, etc.
Boreholes provide quality and affordable water supply services in most urban cities in Africa and other developing nations of the world. West Africa for instance, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, The Gambia and Nigeria get much of their pipe borne water supply services from boreholes.
Also, when yields (water produce from the borehole) are high, boreholes can be developed into pipe borne water supply services. The newly commissioned boreholes (water wells) by the government in the eastern part of Freetown were of low yields and therefore installed with hand pumps. On the contrary, the other government boreholes in Grafton are of quite substantial yield that will be installed with electrical submersible pumps which can then be developed into pipe borne water supply system of over ten miles radius.
In the absence of good water supply services in the city, it is the duty of the Government to provide alternative water supply service that is adequate, affordable, robust and of high quality for its people.
If this has happened, I do not see it as a retrogression or backwardness, but rather the government must be commended at least for such development drive.
In fact this type of ground water exploitation is not well known in Sierra Leone. However, it has been welcomed by many industries, non-governmental agencies and even the average Sierra Leonean. It has the potential to relieve the city of this acute water shortage if more investment is made into it and if properly managed.
Therefore, it sounds very naive for somebody to term this venture of providing quality and affordable water supply for the city by developing boreholes as retrogression and non-development.
Subject: TODAY'S E-MAIL FROM KENEMA
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Date Posted: 10:59:38 05/17/07 ()
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Message: VICE PRESIDENT WINNING UP P.M.D.C, N.D.A AND OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES CONVERTED TO SLPP WITH PEACE MATCH. {Members of) Other political parties converted to SLPP yesterday 16th may 2007 with a Peace match pass on the main streets of Hangha Road, Mission Road, Combema Road Subject: Re: TODAY'S E-MAIL FROM KENEMA Message: What a nice way to beg a political sorry hart for some loose change. nor worry John the SCRUFFY LOOKING PENDA POLICE (SLPP)go wire ee yone berrin tomara wae u go go pick up nar der same hanga rd. Subject: Re: TODAY'S E-MAIL FROM KENEMA Message: Subject: Re: TODAY'S E-MAIL FROM KENEMA Message: I got similar tidings from Bo yesterday regarding the Million Man Match last weekend. I was told it was a sight to behold - with the young, the old and the truly infirm in green backing the palm tree but with a few disappointed sourgrapes throwing stones and mammi-cuss/vulgarisms from behind cages with burglar-proofing in their compound! Some school-dropout flunkeys do crazy things just to eat having blown their education opportunities fiti-fatah but lacking the privileges of others. On the Thursday before the Saturday match, Berewa spoke to all SLPP parliamentary aspirants and let them know that the allocat1on of party symbols will be fair and truly democratic on the bais of merit. But that since not every aspirant will be able to gain one, those who fail in this attempt should remain in the party to help and not runaway to foolumunkudom. And as for those who win, not only must they be gracious in victory but they must live up to the high ideas of the founders of their party. As for parliament, my own humble estimation is that SLPP should win in the South and East while sharing the North and the West with the APC and possibly Kono as well. Even so, the lion's share of seats in those three latter areas will go to the SLPP. I am beginning to see an SLPP parliamentary delegation majority in excess of two-thirds. Whether detractors like it or not, the pro-SLPP shift is looking more and more every day like something of seismic proportions! On the other hand lets face it, we can't be over-confident. "It e-in't over until its over!" We must thus be vigilant untill the last vote is counted. With this said, please expect in this forum an abundance of cuss, rudeness, lies, bombastic allegations, flunkey dunce argumentation from flip-flopping/hip-hopping foolumunku moniker abusers working as a team and from individual mombo-tombo-dumbo dombolos. Please pay no attention - no-never-mind. Thank you. "You done good!" - JL Subject: Re: TODAY'S E-MAIL FROM KENEMA Message: Oh dear ! oh dear, the SCRUFFY LOOKING PENDA POLICE (SLPP) is at it again. Great men like Kai Baluma of Kenema and Kpokeyboh of Bo are all smiling in heaven. Why? Because 1967 was a very GOOD YEAR for those unelectable vomit licking sycophants who were hoping to get jobs in the Sir Albert administration. So scruffy snuff eating Leigh the old fool in diapers, dream on. Subject: A Bad Copy From the Past Message: When President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf took office more than a year ago one of the initial projects that was seen as a flagship enterprise for her Administration was a number of Housing Projects financed by the Liberian Charitable Gift Fund. The source of the Fund is US$2 million given to the government by Prince Alwaleed of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It was decided that the amount would serve as initial investments for low cost housing for rural dwellers in the country and for education. Two housing projects have been undertaken: one in the interior and the other in Margibi County on the Robertsfield Highway, conspicuously carrying the signboard, “Prince Alwaleed Housing Project, Mambahn Kabbah District, Robertsfield Highway, Margibi County.” Having heard that some of the units had been completed and occupied, our reporter took an inspection tour of the area this week; sadly and disappointingly enough, his report has left us crestfallen. The units, he wrote, to say the least, are “substandard and already leaking.” The units have no bathroom or toilet facilities; the only water supply is a well fifteen minute walk away, and no community hut, etc. When asked to comment on existing conditions, Mr. Harry Greaves, chairperson of the Fund said the units have not yet been completed, adding that the housing complex was a “very low-cost” undertaking. What is a “very low-cost undertaking?” we ask. Should the undertaking be so 'low-cost” to leak upon occupancy and for the walls to crack when there are lightning and thunder? No mater how “very low-cost,” these projects were to serve as models for President Sirleaf's administration. Now, it looks like another kind of model which reminds us: More than 20 years ago after Samuel Doe and his 17 collaborators toppled the Tolbert Government for alleged corruption, Head of State Doe appointed Jacob Dougbe to head the National Housing Authority (NHA). The new administration inherited the construction of the New Georgia Estate which was still on the drawing board. The new NHA officials immediately undertook the project and commenced building the houses for New Georgia. After one or more units had been constructed, Doe went on an inspection tour and was amazed to discover how substandard the “low-cost” units were. He immediately dismissed Dougbe charging him with “doing the same thing we got rid of those people for.” Are we today still “doing the same thing?” Are we still being insensitive to the needs of our people? Certainly the Units reflected in the story are not the type of low cost housing units President Sirleaf has had in mind. After long years of war, of running, of deprivation and discomfort, our people deserve better. Any low cost housing unit under the umbrella of the Liberian Charitable Gift Fund should have the barest minimum of comfort, convenience and security. If these are lacking at the Units on Robertsfield Highway, then government needs to look into the matter; some correction ought to be made to bring the entire area up to acceptable standard and this has nothing to do with sensationalism, as anyone can take a look and judge for him or herself. Subject: While I was away Message: On another note, I noticed that I had been chosen as on of the most admired forumites by some and was also chosen as one of those that people would like to slap. Wel someone should please tell my uncle Yayah that if he attempts to slap me, my response would be quick and decisive and it would be termed a 'BITCH SLAP IN RETURN" Missed some of you but I was in Freetown reviewing the political situation and I will bring you more of that in later posts. Suffice it to say that I have allegedly been maligned by John Leigh and if these allegations prove to be true, I will use the same medium to respond and this time around JL " Dun Bock im kaktoe nar peper bag". I know that he had been attacked many times by those who he has rightfully pissed off and he thinks that it is me. John has known me long enough to know that I do not need to use someoneelses name to speak "my truth". To do so would be counter productive because how else would he know that what was said was "Alieus truth". Still researching the archives. And yes as posted below by those who were not asked to do so I am having a birthday party in Oakland CA on memorial day weekend. It will be an all weekend long party with a guest list of about 600 people. To those whose names are not on the invite list I dare say, your ommision was INTENTIONAL. Subject: Re: While I was away Message: Although we do not know each other personally, please tell the people at the door to allow me to gate crash. 600 hundred people? Boy, this is going to be the bashment of the millennium. Parties like this only come once in a life time so I am going to invite myself to this one whether you like it or not.[Laugh] BTW I was one of those who choose you as a jolly good fella. nar nak haid ar bin dae try for nak haid you for invite me but oosai e lef pan me. All the same have a very wonderful one, you deserve it. Bless Subject: Elections Message: Constitutional Crisis Looms in Sierra Leone By Prof. Jonathan Peters, Maryland, USA. I have had premonitions of impending problems as I did in the early to mid 1990s but this time I wrote about them as a creative writer so as not to get embroiled in the political maelstrom while I stayed in the US to revise the business plan for the prefab homes project you have read about on this forum and present an application to NASSIT for majority funding so that Sierra Leone would be the first launching ground for the dynamic homes to be manufactured outside the control of the developer. I will suspend discussion of this matter for now as the things that touch us nearest must be last served but readers can get details in the meantime from our company website at tidesinc.com/main and, for our associate, at canadianrockport.com. My apprehension has come from the fact that, as I projected into the future beyond July 28, 2007 in my unique way, I did not see emerge a winner in the form of any of the three leading candidates of the ruling SLPP, the APC and the recently emerged PMDC. The announcement by the NEC that elections were to be postponed till August 11, 2007 gave me some relief that my failure to foresee any election did not mean that there would be turmoil, but only for a brief while. What is emerging in Sierra Leone is probably nothing short of a constitutional crisis, depending on the actions of the major players. These include, GOSL, the (National Electoral Commission (NEC), the political parties, the populace that includes hundreds of thousands of a restive youth, the army, Sierra Leoneans abroad and the international community. Ominously, a constitutional crisis may turn out to be the least frightening of many of the possible outcomes of the unfolding Sierra Leonean drama. The cauldron containing the ingredients that could end up as a witches’ brew creating not just a constitutional crisis but also potentially civil strife was the original decision by GOSL to hold the elections on July 28, 2007, well into the rainy season. It is a well known fact worldwide, that the hosting of elections during periods of inclement weather always favours the government in power. Some observers were disconcerted that the announcement came from the ruling party instead of the electoral commission. Major political parties, including the opposition APC and the then emerging PMDC raised objections. Both GOSL and the NEC made reassuring noises. Almost a year later, with the announcement of the two-week postponement, speculation is rife as to whether the announcement of the July 28, 2007 election was a decision by the NEC or came from GOSL as a fait accompli over possible objections by the NEC because of the huge logistical problems involved in conducting elections in the rainy season. If the decision was by a government jittery about a possible loss of power at the polls then the NEC’s failure to raise public objections at the time may see it emerging, in the perception of many, as an extension of GOSL instead of as a separate and independent body. The mild mannered PMDC was one of the first key players to raise objections to the date, but government officials did what they could to allay its fears. It is no credit at all to the SLPP governance that it took the urging of Britain’s International Development Secretary Hilary Benn and what he called ‘our other principal budget support partners (the African Development Bank, the World Bank and European Commission)’ and their year-long July 18 agreement with GOSL on a ‘Governance and Accountability Pact’ (GAP) to prod President Kabbah into announcing July 28 as the date certain for the 2007 elections on August 3, 2007. Those developments, it now seems, provided the impetus for the fire to be lit and the cauldron to develop a slow simmer. Kabbah chose a date pretty much at the end of the 12-month period that was an expedient rather than sound judgement or concern for the electorate. There was speculation at the time that GOSL was going to try to drag on and hold the elections as late as possible in the year, probably in December, instead of April or May. Since the donor group provides up to 60 percent of the government’s budget the Kabbah government could not ignore the call to hold the elections within twelve months from July 18, 2006. It is highly significant that Kabbah, not NEC, announced the election date, one of a number of instances in which Kabbah(photo) and his government have tried to or have actually usurped part of the function of the NEC or try to have their way with NEC. Did GOSL know that it was risking the political cauldron boiling over if it did so? Hardly. The government majority in Parliament is too huge for it to need to worry about any opposition from that body and the general citizenry is too passive for them to expect outrage from their quarter. That is, unless one or more of the stakeholders plays an unexpected wild card. Why is there a crisis looming and why the presumption that it may well be a constitutional crisis? The list of issues that follows provides a number of reasons, some of them potentially dangerous ingredients that could turn the heat up on the political cauldron to yield a witches’ brew. The holding of the elections for the first time away from the historical period of April to May, that is, during the dry season. The unsuitability of July 28 as election day because it is already well into the rainy season such that campaigning may be difficult or impossible during the final weeks. Potential beneficiary: the SLPP candidate with all the perks of incumbency and logistics to overcome most if not all of the inclement weather challenges. The postponement of the elections from July 28 to August 11 which worsens the preparations for the elections especially by the less well heeled, experienced or well known parties, constituting all of the parties except the SLPP and the APC. The tacit implication of a vacuum of power by the NEC statement that results will not be available until August 23, that is, several days after the Kabbah mandate ends on August 15: Sierra Leone will be without a government and head of state before the results are announced. The strong possibility that the presidential election may not be decided on the first ballot, necessitating a run off probably in September with election results announced as late as October, thus extending the inter regnum. The erosion or even total loss of faith in the NEC as an impartial body in the light of its own conduct, e.g., postponing the election date without fully consulting the political parties evidenced by objections beginning to be aired forcefully by the political stakeholders and not being ready for elections announced almost a year prior. In view of the tacit gerrymandering of the elections by setting them in the middle of the rainy season, the possibility that any outcome that sees a continuation of the SLPP in power may be rejected by broad sections of the public, including a restive and volatile youth population many of whose members have had no jobs for years even though they have diplomas and degrees that should enable them to find work in a viable economy. The potential for scaring away investors that GOSL had started cultivating with its Sierra Leone Investment Forum in March 2006 because of any stalemate that may occur. The holdover from a previous election, the 1996 elections with its runoff when so many people believed that the results were skewed towards Kabbah and a burgeoning fear of the potential that the SLPP may be engineering its own win because of the first serious challenge to its leadership at the end of the Kabbah era. Add one more ingredient, a combination of the corruption that the current government has been charged with resulting in part with the GAP and, hence, the potential that so many stakeholders and observers may see the development, from announcing the election in the rainy season to pushing it farther into that season as a way to predetermine the outcome of the 2007 presidential election in favour of Mr Berewa. These issues describe scenarios on a social agenda. They do not address the legal issues surrounding the constitution that could help turn a looming political crisis into a constitutional one. Still, it is possible for all these events to take place and for the SLPP to emerge a winner and continue in power despite all objections made. In that event, the people of Sierra Leone will be fed the brew from the Kabbah government’s stew pot of a mismanaged Sierra Leone polity. With the war over in January 2002, it is a government that has not been able in the last few years to claim a continuing war as the bogey man for every failure of which there have been several. In the course of a series of commentaries over the next few weeks, I will engage issues such as the 7 stakeholders mentioned above, elements that would create a constitutional crisis, a third force for SL, Bintumani 3 as the way to resolve the impending crisis, why it is economic issues, not political ones, that will eventually remove Sierra Leone from its two-decade quagmire. These will be conversational more than researched pieces because, in a very short space of time, I want to deal with broad issues that most readers will readily absorb rather than lectures from academe-which, as you know, I have left in order to pursue what I consider to be projects that will help make a difference for the masses in Sierra Leone. Subject: SATAN AND HIS AGENTS MEET IN CA,ON MEMORIAL WEEKEND. Message: Subject: Re: THE UNINVITED SOUR GRAPES Message: WE KINDLY ASK THAT THOSE WITHOUT INVITATION STAY AWAY FROM CALIFORNIA FOR THE WEEKEND SO THAT THEIR FUNKY ATTITUDE DOES NOT RAIN ON THE ERUDITE ONES PARADE. FIND A PAYING JOB AND DO SOMETHING POSITIVE FOR YOUR SELF RATHER THAN WRITING NONESENSE ALL THE TIME ON THIS FORUM. REMEMBER THAT YOU MAY BE A MEMBER OF THE FULLAH TOWN JAMMAT BUT YOU ARE NOT AKU AND WHEN YOU DIE, HOPE THAT YOU HAVE MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO BE BURIED SOMEWHERE ELSE OTHER THAN AT AKU MOHAMMEDAN AT KENNEDY STREET. SOMEWHERE WHERE WE CAN REACH YOU REAL QUICK ON BEHALF OF OUR MASTER ANABI SHAYTON, WHOSE SLAVE YOU HAVE BECOME OVER THE YEARS. WE AL KNOW THAT IT IS YOU WHO WALKS AROUND WITH LONG GOWNS AT SAHARAS IN THE MD AREA LOOKING FOR FOOD. YOU NAR SORRY BORBOR Subject: Re: SATAN AND HIS AGENTS MEET IN CA,ON MEMORIAL WEEKEND. Message: Subject: Re: SATAN AND HIS AGENTS MEET IN CA,ON MEMORIAL WEEKEND. Message: The plan would create a temporary worker program to bring new arrivals to the U.S. A separate program would cover agricultural workers. New high-tech enforcement measures also would be instituted to verify that workers are here legally. The compromise came after weeks of painstaking closed-door negotiations that brought the most liberal Democrats and the most conservative Republicans together with President Bush's Cabinet officers to produce a highly complex measure that carries heavy political consequences. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said he expects Bush to endorse the agreement. The accord sets the stage for what promises to be a bruising battle next week in the Senate on one of Bush's top non-war priorities. The key breakthrough came when negotiators struck a bargain on a so-called "point system" that would for the first time prioritize immigrants' education and skill level over family connections in deciding how to award green cards. The draft bill "gives a path out of the shadows and toward legal status for those who are currently here" illegally, said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. A spokesman for Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., one of his party's key players in the talks, confirmed that the group had reached agreement. The proposed agreement would allow illegal immigrants to come forward and obtain a "Z visa" and -- after paying fees and a $5,000 fine -- ultimately get on track for permanent residency, which could take between eight and 13 years. Heads of household would have to return to their home countries first. They could come forward right away to claim a probationary card that would let them live and work legally in the U.S., but could not begin the path to permanent residency or citizenship until border security improvements and the high-tech worker identification program were completed. A new temporary guest worker program would also have to wait until those so-called "triggers" had been activated. Those workers would have to return home after work stints of two years, with little opportunity to gain permanent legal status or ever become U.S. citizens. They could renew their guest worker visas twice, but would be required to leave for a year in between each time. Democrats had pressed instead for guest workers to be permitted to stay and work indefinitely in the U.S. In perhaps the most hotly debated change, the proposed plan would shift from an immigration system primarily weighted toward family ties toward one with preferences for people with advanced degrees and sophisticated skills. Republicans have long sought such revisions, which they say are needed to end "chain migration" that harms the economy, while some Democrats and liberal groups say it's an unfair system that rips families apart. Family connections alone would no longer be enough to qualify for a green card -- except for spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens. New limits would apply to U.S. citizens seeking to bring foreign-born parents into the country. Leonenet Web Site: http://www.leonenet.net Subject: Re: SATAN AND HIS AGENTS MEET IN CA,ON MEMORIAL WEEKEND. Message: If we were on good terms that person would have been invited to the three day weekend long party, but he went out of his way to make statements about me that were untrue. Now he wants to find a way to come back into the good graces of the only family that has shown him love and theres no way because everyone except a few have kept him off and are treating him with the derision he deserves. A Joker in the pack? Maybe. Relax bra life goes on without those TOXIC relationships. Subject: Re: SATAN AND HIS AGENTS MEET IN CA,ON MEMORIAL WEEKEND. Message: Subject: FOULAH TOWN JAMAAT FOR GOOD Message: Subject: Re: FOULAH TOWN JAMAAT FOR GOOD Message: Subject: WOLFOWITZ TO QUIT???????? Message: The White House has concluded that he cannot serve anymore, administration sources familiar with the discussions told CNN's Ed Henry. "We want it over, one way or the other," said a senior administration official, who added that the White House was merely reacting to the "reality" of Wolfowitz's shriveling support on the bank board. "If you can't win, you can't win." (Watch how Wolfowitz is criticized in an internal World Bank report ) "Deliberations" would continue Thursday morning, the bank's executive directors said in a statement. Under a proposed agreement, Wolfowitz would leave voluntarily, but the World Bank would admit some culpability in the handling of his girlfriend's transfer to a State Department job and hefty pay raise, administration officials said. The talks are centering on the wording of a statement, which the Board need to come up with in the next few days or risk losing credibility with the staff, a senior bank official told CNN. "The staff is very agitated over this," the senior bank official said. "The board knows it risks becoming the target of the staff's wrath in this." Wolfowitz attorney Bob Bennett left the door open for departure if he isn't found the be the only one responsible. "He will not resign under this cloud and that remains his position," Bennett said. "We have presented an overpowering case to the full board. If we win that case to the full board, then things may work out." Earlier, he called talk about Wolfowitz's departure as "premature." One holdup in the talks is U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, who continues to support the World Bank president. The board rejected an earlier U.S. plan under which the U.S. would discuss Wolfowitz's resignation only if the Board of ethics violations exonerated him, a member of the bank board told CNN. The board has enough votes to fire Wolfowitz but is trying to avoid a full vote, which would leave the United States isolated in its support for Wolfowitz, the official said. "They want to give Wolfowitz and the U.S. a way out," the source said. "They are telling (U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry) Paulson if needed, they will vote him out, but they don't want to break up the board. They want the United States to be part of the consensus in finding a solution." The United States has "already lost a great deal of prestige on the board," the official added. Wolfowitz's expected resignation would likely lead to an "open discussion about whether the U.S. should be able to pick his successor." Should the Ethics Committee admit some culpability, staff firings are not expected, because most of the committee members who dealt with Wolfowitz on the matter have since left the bank, the official said. Wolfowitz was supposed to travel to Slovenia Wednesday night on World Bank business but a World Bank official told CNN that the trip is on hold. Copyright 2007 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report. Subject: The Power of Working together Message: http://www.suoitumedia3.net/Video/thousandhandguanyin.wmv Subject: Re: The Power of Working together Message: Subject: Detention Facilities Below Standards in Liberia, UNMIL Right Message: The Bella Yalla prison However, the report states that Liberia has undertaken to uphold the human rights of all individuals, including those deprived of their liberty and thus must continue to work to achieve the minimum detention conditions as soon as possible. The report states that the Liberian prison system faces numerous challenges, including the lack of adequate facilities, logistics and trained personnel, which can only be met with the steady investment of human and financial resources over time. “In some counties legal detention facilities do not exist. In Gbarpolu County, no detention facility was in existence by the end of January. I River Gee County, the Fishtown police station, itself located inside a dilapidated private building, possessed the only makeshift holding cell of the county. In Grand Gedeh County, the Central prison has not yet been renovated, while in Bomi County there is no Central prison, thus pretrial detainees and sentenced prisoners have been held at the Zwedru and Tubmanburg police stations, respectively, since the restoration of peace in 2003. The Robertsport Central Prison, Grand Cape Mount County, is located in a building owned by the Liberian Electricity Company and renovated by the Ministry of Justice in 2006,” the report states. The report noted that in some locat1ons, the absence of authorized detention facilities has prompted some officials to construct or use private buildings as illegal holding cells which lead to problems associated with the absence of trained and qualified personnel and the failure to meet minimum detention conditions. “In other cases, suspects had to be released on bail due to the absence of facilities,” the report states. RECOMMENDATION UNMIL rights repoprt The report cites examples. “At the Monrovia Central Prison, in January, juveniles slept in separate cells but were permitted to mix with adults during the day when they were held together in an outside enclosure. “A 14-year old boy was held in the same cell as adults in Saniquellie Central Prison, Nimba County between December 2006 and February 2007. Although separate cells were provided for juvenile and female detainees following renovation of the prison during this time, the boy was held with adult detainees due to over-crowding. The boy told Human Right Officers that the older detainees used him as a worker to draw water for them, sweep the floor or wash their clothes and that they gave him drugs and alcohol,” the quarterly report documented. The biggest single challenge to detention conditions at present is the overcrowding of facilities. In November, the nation’s largest prison, Monrovia Central Prison, held 562 inmates, more than three times its intended operational capacity. The overwhelming majority of inmates were on remand awaiting trial. Overall the criminal justice system is hard pressed to cope with the backlog of cases. The effective implementation of the law against rape continued to face many hurdles, which are detailed in the report. Recommendations have been provided in the report with the intention of assisting the Government and Liberian civil society in their efforts to promote, protect and respect the human rights of all individuals. Among them, Government should take concrete steps to complete the ratification process in relation to all human rights treaties which it has already signed and to fulfill its reporting obligations. Civil society organizations should provide input and develop parallel reports. The GOL should also consider the establishment of an independent oversight mechanism to monitor and report on detention conditions in all places of detention. They suggest that such a body should include representatives of civil society and the Government. This body must have powers to make recommendations to the Ministry of Justice, Chief Justice and the Independent National Commission on Human Rights. The GOL should, as far as possible, expedite the building or renovation of detention facilities in line with a comprehensive national corrections policy, to end the practice of holding police suspects and court detainees in the same facilities, among others. UNMIL says it will continue to work with the Government and civil society organizations to improve the human rights situation in Liberia including in prisons. Action to address the overcrowding of prisons is underway with assistance from UNMIL and the United States government, which are providing support to extend the facilities at Monrovia Central Prison and to open the Palace of Corrections in Zwedru as well to improve conditions at other prisons around the country. In addition, UNMIL says it is providing assistance to the Ministry of Justice to conduct a review of the cases of all pre-trial detainees held in Liberia’s prisons. This initiative is aimed at relieving both the backlog of cases in the criminal justice system and the overcrowding problem. Subject: Gambian President's Claims of AIDS Cure Refuted Message: Early this year, Gambian leader, President Yahyah Jammeh announced to the world that he has found a cure for AIDS. President Jammeh said his AIDS cure was derived from a herbal concoction which he personally administered to sufferers of HIV/AIDS at the Gambian Presidential Palace. The Gambian leader said his medicine is administered only on Thursdays. He gave no reasons why. President Jammeh’s efforts were supported by the Department of State for Health and Social Welfare. Ten patients who were earlier on anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment were made to stop their treatments in-favor of the president’s new found herbal therapy. Blood samples of the patients were sent to Professor Souleymane Mboup of the University of Darkar , Senegal . Professor Mboup is the former Regional Representative for Africa on the International AIDS Society (IAS) Governing Council, a member of the Executive Committee for the Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA), and the Chair for the next International Council for AIDS and Sexually transmitted infections in Africa (ICASA) slated for 2008. The office of the Gambian president issued a public statement indicating that tests conducted by Professor Mboup showed undetectable levels of HIV in the blood samples submitted to Professor Mboup. But in response, Professor Souleymane Mboup said, “ the interpretation by the Gambian authorities of results of HIV antibody and viral load testing on blood samples sent to my laboratory is incorrect, and that the results were received under false pretense…” The professor said, 66.66 % of those samples that were HIV positive, none could be described as cured. “There is no known cure for AIDS; under no circumstances may the tests conducted in my laboratory be used as proof of an alleged cure for AIDS”, the professor said. Cautioning, IAS president Dr. Pedro Cahn added: “pharmaceutical and traditional medicine have benefited many people with various medical conditions across the world. All products that show promise in the treatment or eradication of HIV should be rigorously studied”. But President Jammeh fiercely reacted and described his critics as anti-African. Meantime, the IAS is urging its worldwide membership to hold their governments accountable for unproven claims of AIDS cure. It can be recalled several years back, Liberia ’s health minister Dr. Peter Coleman scolded a Liberian-Indian trained aryurvedic therapist, Dr. Trueh Anderson, who claimed he had cure for AIDS. Subject: PMDC Rants Message: Subject: Re: PMDC Rants Message: Subject: mende governor dies having sex with a mad woman Message: The Mende Governor in the Port City of Buchanan, Governor Augustine Kroma over the weekend died while having sexual intercourse with a crazy woman believed to be in her late 30s. The body of the late Mende Governor has been deposited at a local private funeral home but eye witnesses told our reporter in the city of Buchanan that Governor Kroma and the Crazy Woman were having sexual affairs in an unfinished school building when he met his untimely death. Some of the eyewitnesses and family members of the late Mende Governor narrating the circumstances that led to his death indicated that when the crazy woman observed that Governor Kroma had unconsciously fallen on her, and could no longer breathe, she rushed outside from the unfinished school building, shouting and crying and calling on people within the community to come to the immediate rescue of her boyfriend. Another eye witness identified as mother Martha Bayogar who claimed to have known the late Mende Governor over the years, said when the police and some concerned hurriedly rushed on the scene, the body of the Governor was lying on the ground as if he was sleeping and was completely naked. According to Mother Martha Bayogar and some of the officers, when Governor Kroma was taken to the hospital doctors there pronounced him dead from hypertension commonly referred to as heart blood pressure. Some people, who upon hearing the news about the untimely demise of the Governor told our reporter that Augustine Kroma was not just Governor of the Mende community, but also the only dependable Geography and Economics teacher in Buchanan City, who was teaching nearly all of the five high schools including the Bassa High School. Several students in Buchanan who the late Governor Kroma once taught and others said the death his is a major blow to the county’s Educational System stressing that to replace him would be very difficult since Buchanan was suffering from professional and knowledgeable teachers. “We could not wish that our teacher, Mr. Kroma could end his journey on earth in this shameful manner” some of the students remarked. Subject: KABBAH'S LEGACY TO THE ARMED FORCES Message: "Sierra Leone’s armed forces continue to suffer from a serious lack of logistical support, equipment and accommodation. Some 55 per cent of the military personnel and their families are housed in substandard conditions, which impacts negatively on the morale of the troops. The main barracks in Freetown are overcrowded, with some families living in stores and armories, with no access to safe drinking water or proper sanitation. Similar unacceptable conditions exist in the military barracks in the provinces. In addition, military salaries have remained static, while the cost of living has risen. These issues were discussed on 5 April, during a special meeting between President Kabbah and the command of Sierra Leone’s Armed Forces". Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEGACY TO THE ARMED FORCES Message: A. Implementation of the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 41. Sierra Leone made further progress in implementing the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, particularly those related to the creation of the National Human Rights Commission; the broadening of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission, the adoption of a binding code of conduct for judges and magistrates; and the passage of the Human Trafficking Bill. While a considerable number of important recommendations have yet to be implemented, efforts are in progress to repeal statutory and customary laws discriminating against women. The Government also took steps to implement a reparations programme for the victims of the conflict, as recommended by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and identified an implementing agency. In addition, a trust fund for war victims will be established soon. 42. I am particularly pleased to note the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission with the support of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and UNIOSIL. Both OHCHR and UNIOSIL provided technical assistance for the drafting of the relevant law, and the nomination and appointment of the Commissioners. OHCHR also contracted the services of a member of the Uganda Human Rights Commission, who has worked with the Government and the Commission for five months. In March, in order to build and strengthen the capacity of the Commission, UNIOSIL, in partnership with OHCHR, organized a comprehensive training programme for the Commission’s personnel and facilitated logistical support for its start-up operations. B. Rule of law 43. Progress in the justice sector remains slow. A series of consultations were held among key stakeholders to formulate a justice sector development strategy, which has since been approved by the Steering Committee of the United Kingdom-led Justice Sector Development Programme. It focuses on strengthening the rule of law, access to justice, institutional capacity-building and safe communities. Through the advocacy of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the National Child Justice Strategy, which provides an overall framework to protect the rights of children in the criminal justice system, was launched in December 2006. 44. Notwithstanding these positive developments, several problems still need to be urgently addressed, including prolonged pre-trial detentions and excessive remand and adjournment of cases; structural inadequacies of the local courts; and the weak response and enforcement mechanism related to gender-based violence. 45. To facilitate the judicial reform, UNIOSIL has embarked upon a more structured engagement with all key partners in the justice sector. A Justice Sector Coordination Committee was established in February, comprising the Justice Sector Development Programme, UNIOSIL, UNDP, UNICEF, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the World Bank, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and Irish Aid. This forum will coordinate activities in the justice sector to prevent overlapping and encourage the streamlining of various interventions and initiatives. X. Action plan for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security 46. UNIOSIL continues to coordinate the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) under the action plan prepared by the United Nations system in Sierra Leone. A joint UNIFEM/Peacebuilding Support Office gender assessment mission was conducted in Sierra Leone in January 2007. The assessment facilitated the development of a road map for the implementation of the United Nations action plan. 47. To promote gender equality through advocacy of women’s empowerment, the United Nations country team focuses on encouraging greater participation by women in the electoral process; promoting the rights of women, including through legislation to address sexual and gender-based violence; supporting the enforcement of legislation; building the capacity of the Family Support Unit of the Sierra Leone Police; and promoting women’s economic empowerment. 48. UNIOSIL has been advocating women’s involvement, including as candidates, at all stages of the electoral process. During the voter registration exercise, UNIOSIL worked closely with the National Electoral Commission to deliver specific messages targeting women. United Nations Radio collaborates with community radios to enhance women’s confidence and capacity to participate in the political process. The challenge now is how to translate those initiatives into greater numbers of women candidates. In this regard, the United Nations is working closely with the Political Parties Registration Commission. 49. The Political Parties Registration Commission, with UNIOSIL assistance, organized three regional workshops, which helped formulate a comprehensive strategy on increasing women’s representation in key governance institutions, including in Parliament and local councils. In addition, these efforts resulted in the announcement by President Kabbah that he would issue a "certificate of urgency" for the speedy passage of three bills relating to domestic violence, the devolution of estate succession and the registration of customary marriages and divorces that are being considered by the Parliament. UNIOSIL and the United Nations country team are working with the Government and Parliament to ensure the early adoption of these important bills. 50. In my report of 28 November 2006 (S/2006/922), I indicated that the effective implementation of the action plan would require the establishment of a full-time post of gender adviser in UNIOSIL. A gender adviser has now been recruited. Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEGACY TO THE ARMED FORCES Message: 22. The National Electoral Commission, supported by UNIOSIL and UNDP, continued to make steady progress in the preparation for the July elections. On 30 November 2006, the Sierra Leone Parliament approved the constituency boundary delimitation proposal, which had been prepared by the National Electoral Commission. This proposal established new constituency boundaries that take into account the considerable movement by the population throughout the country since the end of the conflict. The July elections will be the first constituency-based elections to be held in more than two decades. The general elections held in 2002 were based on proportional representation. 23. The Commission further consolidated its operational base by recruiting and training additional staff. In particular, it engaged 270 registration supervisors, who provided training to some 12,000 registration staff who were temporarily recruited for the voter registration exercise. In addition, the National Electoral Commission used electronic and print media, town criers in the rural areas and musical jingles to educate voters on the registration exercise. 24. During the period under review, the United Nations electoral advisory team was considerably reinforced and reached its full strength by early January. There are now 19 advisers to the National Electoral Commission headquarters, of whom 14 are technical advisers and five are United Nations Volunteers. In addition, there are 28 United Nations Volunteers deployed throughout the country to support local electoral offices. UNDP has also assigned a full-time technical adviser to assist the Political Parties Registration Commission. 25. On 28 December 2006, the European Commission signed an agreement with UNDP to provide a grant of 8 million euros (€) for the UNDP-run basket fund for the elections. Japan contributed 2.8 million United States dollars ($) on 16 March, while Denmark provided some 5 million Danish kroner on 21 March. Other contributions came from the Government of Ireland, which provided some €1 million in mid-January, and the United Kingdom, which provided 2.5 million pounds sterling (£) in November 2006. These contributions helped to alleviate the shortfall in electoral funding and to expedite the completion of preparations for voter registration. I would like to thank those Member States and international partners that generously provided funds to support the elections. B. Further electoral preparations 26. In the meantime, the National Electoral Commission commenced the drafting of election petition rules. This legislative measure is required, as there are no provisions in the 1991 Constitution or the Electoral Act of 2002 under which a parliamentary election could be challenged. 27. It should be recalled that the elections are scheduled at the peak of the rainy season and that this poses considerable logistical challenges. There will be additional pressure on the National Electoral Commission to ensure the timely delivery and distribution of election materials, particularly in parts of the country that are difficult to access. As a result, it will be necessary to ensure the availability of appropriate means of transportation, including boats and air assets. C. Political Parties Registration Commission 28. The new Chairman of the Political Parties Registration Commission, Justice Sydney Warne, assumed office on 12 February, after being approved by the Sierra Leone Parliament. In the meantime, the Commission still faces an acute shortage of operational assets and funds. UNIOSIL, UNDP and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have provided technical and financial assistance to the Commission. They also encourage the Government to honour its financial obligations towards the budget of this important body. 29. Currently, the Commission is focused on monitoring the implementation of the Political Parties Code of Conduct, mediating disputes between political actors, sensitizing paramount chiefs on their role in ensuring the credibility of the elections and working with political parties to encourage them to promote women’s participation in the elections. 30. Following the adoption of the Political Parties Code of Conduct in January, the Commission established a Code-Monitoring Committee to promote compliance with the Code of Conduct. The Committee comprises representatives from each of the registered parties, civil society and the Sierra Leone Police. The Commission also established district subcommittees. With the support of UNIOSIL and UNDP, all Committee personnel have received training in mediation of disputes and conflict mitigation. 31. The United Nations supported the Commission’s efforts to sensitize paramount chiefs to the importance of allowing political parties to conduct electoral campaigning in their chiefdoms without hindrance. Additionally, the Commission invited paramount chiefs to work with the electoral institutions in addressing political intolerance, which has become a major political problem in some chiefdoms Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEGACY TO THE ARMED FORCES Message: 2. Sierra Leone continued to make progress in the peace consolidation process. The capacity of the national institutions responsible for conducting the July 2007 presidential and parliamentarian elections and that of the security sector was further enhanced. Nonetheless, the Government still faces serious capacity constraints and continues to require external assistance. The socio-economic situation in Sierra Leone remains difficult. Poverty and unemployment, particularly among the young, continue to be widespread, while the Government’s ability to deliver basic services to the population remains weak. 3. The registration of voters for the elections commenced on 26 February and was completed on 18 March 2007. Within the framework of its assistance programme for the National Electoral Commission, the United Nations provided the Commission with considerable policy, technical and financial support. In spite of the logistical complexity of the voter registration exercise and the Commission’s limited operational capacity, the registration was a success. Some 2.6 million, or 91 per cent, of the eligible voters have registered, with women accounting for 48 per cent of the registered voters and youth below the age of 32 accounting for 56 per cent of those registered. 4. The high voter registration turnout was largely due to the country-wide campaign of civic education carried out by the National Electoral Commission, mobilization of the electorate by political parties and non-governmental organizations and the active involvement of the media, including United Nations Radio. In spite of some complaints, the main political parties expressed satisfaction with the conduct and outcome of the registration exercise. This success has contributed to the reinforcing of the credibility of the overall electoral process. 5. Over the past few months, political parties have stepped up their electoral campaigning activities. In this regard, it is encouraging to note that campaigning has been characterized by an increased spirit of tolerance and civic responsibility. This is also due to the intensive civic education campaign and capacity-building efforts conducted by the National Electoral Commission and the Political Parties Registration Commission. In addition, UNIOSIL and the United Nations country team provided senior officials of the major political parties with training in conflict mitigation and dispute prevention. 6. On 23 November 2006, the Political Parties Registration Commission, with UNIOSIL support, developed a Political Parties Code of Conduct for the elections. All major political parties, including the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party, the All People’s Congress and the People’s Movement for Democratic Change, have agreed to comply with the Code. This was an important development, as the Code provides for a monitoring and enforcement mechanism to address irregularities and complaints in campaigning. Also, on 17 March, the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists, with the assistance of UNIOSIL and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), concluded a Media Code of Conduct. Under this Code, major national media institutions have agreed to exercise self-restraint and accepted monitoring of their performance by an independent panel. This positive development will help ensure more objective and professional media coverage of the elections. 7. Following the 12 December 2006 country-specific meeting of the Peacebuilding Commission on Sierra Leone, the country’s engagement with the Commission has intensified. In January 2007, the Commission adopted a six-month workplan for Sierra Leone and agreed to develop an integrated peacebuilding compact with the Government of Sierra Leone. This compact is expected to provide a framework for the mutual commitments of the Government and the international community, assist the Government in addressing its peacebuilding priorities, as endorsed by the Commission, and help ensure a coherent and coordinated approach in addressing gaps in critical peacebuilding areas. 8. In February 2007, the Peacebuilding Support Office fielded a technical mission to Sierra Leone to assist the Government and key stakeholders in finalizing Sierra Leone’s priority plan for the Peacebuilding Fund. Subsequently, on 1 March, I approved a country envelope of $35 million from the Peacebuilding Fund to support Sierra Leone’s priority peacebuilding projects. The implementation of these projects is expected to commence in May. 9. Representatives of the Peacebuilding Commission also visited Sierra Leone from 20 to 25 March to assess progress and the remaining challenges in the peace consolidation process. During the visit, the Commission and the Government agreed to work together to complete the integrated peacebuilding compact by June, so that it could be endorsed by the new Government, following the July elections. In order to assist the Government in developing the compact, a multidisciplinary technical mission, comprising the Peacebuilding Support Office, UNDP, and the Department of Political Affairs, visited Sierra Leone in the second half of April. 10. During the reporting period, the potential impact of the political crisis in Guinea on the fragile stability of Sierra Leone was a source of serious concern. To help stabilize the situation, on 20 February, Presidents Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia visited Conakry and discussed ways of resolving the crisis with President Lansana Conté of Guinea. This visit was an important demonstration of the commitment by the leaders of the Mano River Union countries to maintaining peace and stability in the subregion. 11. On 30 April, a meeting of the Heads of State of the Mano River Union was held in Conakry to discuss the disputed area of Yenga at the border between Guinea and Sierra Leone. The summit confirmed the need to continue close consultations among the regional leaders in order to resolve the issue as soon as possible Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEGACY TO THE ARMED FORCES Message: 15. From November 2006 to February 2007, UNIOSIL, the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Sierra Leone Police jointly developed a national security plan for the voter registration exercise, which was successfully implemented. A similar plan is being developed for the July elections. 16. During the reporting period, the Sierra Leone Police, with the assistance of UNIOSIL and the Department for International Development, provided training to some 2,200 police personnel in crowd control and public order management. The trained police personnel will be deployed in high-threat urban areas. 17. From 29 to 30 March, UNIOSIL, in cooperation with UNDP and the United Kingdom-led Justice Sector Development Programme, organized a conference for the Sierra Leone Police on community policing, aimed at enhancing the cooperation between the police and the population, in particular during the July elections. 18. Although the Sierra Leone Police has received training in crowd control techniques, it continued to experience difficulties in fulfilling its duties due to the lack of logistical support. In addition, police personnel are still lacking the basic equipment needed to effectively perform their duties Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEGACY TO THE ARMED FORCES Message: 20. The Government of Sierra Leone has indicated to the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations its willingness to participate in peacekeeping activities. A few Sierra Leone military observers have been trained and deployed in United Nations peace operations; one is deployed in Timor-Leste and another two in Nepal. Five United Nations Military Observers in Sierra Leone are being considered for deployment in the Sudan. Subject: Re: KABBAH'S LEGACY TO THE ARMED FORCES Message: Subject: SLPP time is up! Message: Subject: Re: SLPP time is up! Message: Subject: Re: SLPP time is up! Message: Subject: Re: SLPP time is up! Message: You missed on all fronts. Seems you are describing yourself. You will also blow up come August 23. Subject: Re: SLPP time is up! Message: Subject: QUOTE OF THE WEEK Message: Subject: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Yet still, the same Beckley usue Standard Times newspapeer to accuse other people. Where is Dr. Nahim when we need him? Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Giving you your medications, of course. Subject: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Housing director embezzles funds FREETOWN, August 01 -- The Country Director of the African Housing Fund (AHF)- Sierra Leone, Mr. Patrick Olu Beckley is reported to have fled the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, for an undisclosed locat1on in the United States of America following alleged embezzlement of thousands of dollars from the organisation's funds. Standard Times gathered that the Kenyan authorities have confiscated Patrick Beckley's assets including his house, cars and some personal effects. The African Housing Fund (AHF), a Pan African organisation with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, started operations in Sierra Leone in April 1986 in the Kambia, Bo and Pujehun districts respectively, specializing in rebuilding and refurbishing houses vandalised during the rebel war and also giving out micro credit to small scale enterprises. It is understood that the sacked director, Patrick O. Beckley, was operating the organisation as a one man's employer, serving as Accountant, Project Manager and Purchasing Officer. In addition, all external transactions were directly under his tight control until when it became quite evident that the organisation was virtually collapsing that the Ministry of Lands, Housing, Country Planning and the Environment decided to step in in order to salvage the situation. The ministry signed series of memoranda of understanding with the Nairobi office under successive ministers, including, Alhaji Samura, Capt. (Rtd.) Abdul Rahman Kamara, Haja Hafsatu Kabbah and Dr. John Karimu but with little success as the Kenyan headquarters had already dissolved the entire organisation's operations in Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. With the collapse of the former management, an interim management committee under the supervision of Shelter Afrique was set up in Nairobi to oversee the activities of the AHF programme and Mr. Patrick Beckley was again appointed Deputy Director leaving behind several hundreds of Sierra Leonean employees jobless and dejected. Meanwhile, when Standard Times contacted the Director of Housing in the ministry, Mr. Murana to comment on certain allegations levied against him by some aggrieved workers alleging that he had received huge sums of money on their behalf from Kenyan, he stated out that the allegations are untrue, adding that he was on leave during the year in question, that is, between May 1998 and November 1999 and that he had no knowledge of any transaction that may have taken place in his absence. This press also gathered that in 1999 during the term of office of former Minister of Lands, Haja Hafsatu Kabbah, the sum of $15,000 was sent to the AHF office in Sierra Leone which was reportedly received by Nazralla Kamara, Yusuf Kamara, Mr. Samura and Mr. Sheriff who failed to account to the other members of the organisation which led to a bitter quarrel, causing the minister to expel them from their Youyi Building 3rd floor office. Documentary evidence presently available to this press confirmed that the Minister of Lands and Housing, Dr. Alfred Bobson Sesay and his Director, Mr. Murana are making frantic efforts to retrieve funds from AHF headquarters in Nairobi to pay their redundant workers in Sierra Leone. In a letter written to a Mr. L. R. Oluanji of the interim management committee of Shelter Afrique on the subject matter of "Staff Benefit and Liabilities, AHF programme Sierra Leone". The letter read in part: "I refer to the subject which is of serious concern to the government of Sierra Leone and the ministry in particular. As you are aware, a number of outstanding issues are yet to be addressed since the cessation of the AHF operations in Sierra Leone, principal among these are that of the payment of benefits owed to staff and settlement of liabilities incurred on behalf of AHF. "As you are aware Sierra Leone has gone through a disastrous ten-year war which has distressed and traumatized a large percentage of the population. In such circumstances the government is anxious to avoid any situation that would cause discontent and ignite social unrest. I thus take this opportunity to prevail upon you to use your good offices to conclusively address the growing agitation among your staff for their benefits to be paid". To bring the matter to a close, some disgruntled workers have called upon the Anti-corruption to invite the sacked AHF Director from the states to come to Sierra Leone and face the commission, adding that Mr. Beckley's statement is unbelievable, stating that 80% of the houses constructed by his organisation have broken down. Ministry of Lands officials say they have no official dealings with AHF as all transactions were carried out by their boss, Mr. Beckley when things were going on pretty well and now that the table has turned around they've falsely maligning ministry officials to pay them some money. Editor's note: Read in our subsequent editions the present financial position of AHF, Present assets and liabilities in Sierra Leone and the invitation of the Anti-Corruption to probe the past activities of the sacked director, Patrick O. Beckley. Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Shelter Afrique and the African Housing Fund are Pan African organizations comprising of almost 40 African Governments, of which Sierra Leone is a member represented by the Hon. Minister of Housing. Why has it taken the proponets of that article so long to prove their allegations? It is no suprise that Standard Times press is getting into so much trouble for printing libellous statements. “When our personal safety is threatened, the courage to speak out and do so from another place can become the force of change”. Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: WHO DAT EH HOSE COMPUTER TEM WAY U DAE USE,BECOS EVERY BODI KNOW SAY U NOR GET SID FOR SLEEP,PAS U SLEEP NAR U SMALL MAZDA CAR WAY U NOR ABLE FOR PAY U INSURANCE EXCEPT AMADU JABBIE HELP U. Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Alieu Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Typical slpp, they Will discourage decent and dedicated civil servant like Mr. Beckley and send him on exile by calling him a junta collaborator but keep sycophants like Paul Mcavory to help run the SABABU rubbish so that he can channel the money to them through his financial contribution to the party. They will kick Val Collier out but bring in Joko the Joker to protect thieves like Justin Musa because he is in the same Knight of St. John Carbudu with Berewa and Joko. They will kick Cecil Williams a honest and dedicated civil servant with over twenty years wealth of experience in tourism but keep shifting Okere Adams from one ministry to another because NAR TO DEN EE GEH FOR GO KONANI WAE EE TIFF. OH LORD ! SA. LONE FULL OF SWEGBEHS FOR TRUE. NO WONDER DER KONTRY ALAKI. Mr Beckley, we who know you will always see you as a decent and dedicated civil servant. Thank you for your service to your country Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: If the Standard Times has evidence, let it present it. Otherwise, it's all malicious hot air, courtesy of Beckley's cowardly detractors. The latter include the SLPP crooks and their blind apologists in this forum who think by levelling unsubstantiated allegations, they can intimidate Beckley into keeping quiet about the SLPP's corruption. Me say: It won't work. We know who is corrupt in Salone -- it is the SLPP. Don't take my word for it. Listen to those foreign donors whose billions of Leones the SLPP crooks have stolen. Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: On the contrary, Beckley is using numbers (billions of dollars worth of contract money, names of alleged perpetrators, and dates on the alleged theft) which have been admitted by the accused SLPP government. There is a big difference between Beckley's substantiated argument and the Standard Times baseless and empty innuendo. Don't let your blind support of the corrupt SLPP lead you to argue illogically. Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: By contrast, the same Standard Times provided copius information on the SLPP corruption which Beckley used to criticize the corrupt SLPP. Whether Beckley is using another moniker, as you may be doing is irrelevant to the issue. Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: If OLU really thinks he is not what standardtimes says he is, then he sould have sued them for character assasination. But No. Instead he is using the same standard times to tell us what the Govnment is doing. Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Koker, your chronic problem keeps getting larger and larger! Suing a newspaper is not the only remedy open to a defamed person! Boy, Koker, you will die NEVER understanding anything you read -- or write! Fiitingly, you will be buried as a blind SLPP apologist. Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Predictably, Koker, it is still you who is clearly the dim bulb. Of course you said so -- by stating that if Beckley was serious he would have sued Standard Times. If you get someone to translate the meaning of the word "implication" into whatever language you believ y6ou can understand, you may just understand the utter nonsense in your denial that you did not state, by implication, that suing Standard Times was Beckley's only course, if he serious. Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: 2. Rose through the ranks from Estate Officer to general manager in 13 years. 3. Implemented the first of its kind lottery system for the selction of tenants at Kissy Low Cost estate; 4. Designed the very first Tenant/Purchase agreement that has enabled over 500 residents of the Kissy Low Cost Housing Estate own their own homes. 5. Enabled a substantial number of SALHOC staff own their own homes; 6. Commenced with the construction of a sewage borne toilet system at Kissy low cost. I dont know if the project was completed after I resigned. 7. Designed the very first mortgage system for the sale of the 218 units at Goderich which never took off the grounds. It later became a military barracks under the Strasser regime. 8. Designed the recapitalization project that would have transformed SALHOC from a property management organization to a property development institution. This would have been achieved by utilizing the proceeds from the sale of the OAU villas and the payment for the 218 housing units at Goderich. 9. Established the first local building materials production center in Freetown and a second one in Bo. 10. Trained over 400 local artisans in building materials production and construction technology. 11. Was Housing Finance expert and part of the team that put together Sierra Leone's first National Housing Policy 12.Designed and implemented the first project for reonstruction after the war in Kambia, Bo and Pujehun districts. The Barmoi Luma, and hundreds of homes built give me a lot of satisfication Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: Re: Housing director embezzles funds Message: Subject: SLPP liars read this Message: Tue May 15, 3:55 PM ET FREETOWN (AFP) - Britain, the external backer of Sierra Leone's drive against corruption on Tuesday slammed the west African's country's anti-graft watchdog for performing below expectations. British high commission spokesman in Freetown, Robert Collett, said that while the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) had prosecuted some cases, it had not measured up to anticipated levels. "Although there have been some successes, the people of Sierra Leone and the UK government expected more from the Anti-Corruption Commission than has been delivered," Collett told UN Radio in Freetown. The Department for International Development (DFID) has underwritten the project to the tune of five million pounds sterling (7.3 billion euros, 9.9 billion dollars) since 2001. "It has been doing some work but also you have to measure that with what was expected of the commission and what it signed up to achieve," said Collett. "And when you compare those two things, you'll realise that the progress has been very disappointing," he added. Britain's complaints came days after the global rights group Amnesty International accused Sierra Leone's government of institutionalising corruption and of not doing enough to root out the practice. The British diplomat said "the number of cases which have been successfully prosecuted has been slow and we have not seen any high profile cases successfully prosecuted and that's why mainly the ACC was established." "There have been high-profile investigations but no successful high-profile prosecution," he said. In its latest report on the war-shattered west African country, Amnesty alleged "official corruption in the various segments of governance." Amnesty said since the creation of the country's anti-corruption body in July, 2000, 54 of the 560 cases investigated had been taken to court, and 29 resulted in convictions. Subject: Re: SLPP liars read this Message: Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: =========================================================================================== WANTED: AN INDEPENDENT ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION By JOHN LEIGH I write to salute a courageous MP, the Honorable Haja Afsatu Kabba, for the insight she showed in discussing a key national problem in her recent speech in Parliament while debating the government’s program set forth in the President Address. Haja Kabba spoke on a number of problems facing our country and highlighted the centrality of the role of rampant corruption in keeping Sierra Leoneans down and behind the rest of the world. The Haja wants an Independent Anti-Corruption Commission. Any sensible government, committed to advancing the public interest, will not ignore her reasonable proposal. Haja Kabba pointed out in plain, straightforward language what every intelligent Sierra Leonean, members of the local diplomatic corps, the NGO community and officials of donor countries already know quite well. Namely, the Anti-Corruption Commission as currently authorized is woefully ineffective in the face of escalating corruption. Hon. Haja Kabba then went on to properly set forth the correct reason why our Anti-Corruption Commission has so far failed, and will continue to fail in its fundamental duty. Namely, the Attorney General’s office must first authorize the prosecution of each and every corruption case, before the commission can take its responsibilities to their logical conclusions by prosecuting alleged wrongdoers whose cases the Anti-Corruption Commission already investigated and deemed prosecutable. THE DEFECTIVE LEGISLATION MAY HAVE BEEN DELIBERATE In other words, the Act of Parliament that gave birth to the Anti-Corruption Commission is deeply flawed for it deliberately subjugated the Commission to suffocating political control. This control, some might convincingly argue, may have been willfully conceived and abusively administered as evidenced by the commission’s ineffectiveness that the Hon. Haja pointed out during her speech in Parliament. Some of us have read news reports about a former attorney general boasting about how wide his discretion is under the law and that he is free to exercise such authority without accountability to the people. It is this political control via the political office of the Attorney General that appears to have effectively emasculated the Anti-Corruption Commission’s work, rather than the ineptness of the commission’s staff. CORRUPTION IS NOW SAID TO BE RAMPANT Honorable Haja Kabbah fully understands this distinction and the immediate consequences upon our body politic. She knows, as we do, that despite the excellent work of the commission’s staff, corruption has expanded substantially and has become rampant. So rampant, some would argue, that corruption in Sierra Leone has probably expanded exponentially when compared to the corruption levels existing during the notorious pre-war years. Thus, even after widespread national and international clamor to address the debilitating problem of corruption in our land, the needed political will to effectively address the problem at all levels of society, is yet to emerge. Now, Honorable Haja Kabba has again properly raised the matter and would very much like that the correct action be taken. Haja Kabba has now boldly recommended to Parliament that the Anti-Corruption Commission should be empowered anew, presumably by an Act of Parliament, to directly prosecute its own investigated cases of corruption rather than continue to go nowhere except through the Attorney general’s office and wait there for a decision to prosecute – an eventuality that may never happen. The Haja deserves the support of the public and the government on this important matter. I respectfully urge our government to pay heed to Haja Kabba’s very reasonable request because success in containing corruption will help uplift the lives of our people and insure that peace and social progress permanently reign supreme in our land. As an important first step in demonstrating its commitment to the democratic principles of transparency and accountability on this very hot issue, why doesn’t the government release to the public those cases already investigated and certified as prosecutable by the commission but rejected for prosecution by the Attorney General, together with the Attorney General’s reasoning for its non-prosecution decision in each relevant case? The easy but unacceptable alternative is for the government to deliberately ignore Hon. Haja Kabba and other thoughtful Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad, are not the only people demanding that the authorities stop corrupt practices. The British Government has already dispatched to Freetown two or three of its cabinet ministers and at least one top civil servant during the last two years alone to encourage our country’s leadership to do the right thing and genuinely address our massive corruption problem. Likewise, in its most recent report about corruption worldwide, Transparency International in Berlin gave our country very low marks on the issue of corrupt practices. The International Crisis Group in Brussels, Belgium and Human Rights Watch in New York, two respected international NGOs with deep interest in, and credible work internationally on behalf of Sierra Leone, have also reported adversely on the catastrophic state of corruption in Sierra Leone and the obvious lack of progress in containing the problem. The American Embassy in Freetown issued a statement in recent weeks expressing its concerns about rampant corruption in Sierra Leone and said it intends to deny issuing visas to the United States to public officials it deems corrupt. Rampant corruption is at the heart of the multiple miseries endured daily by the masses in Sierra Leone. If the problem is not genuinely addressed, the people of Sierra Leone will continue to labor under the yoke of extreme hardship because corruption is one of the major reasons why the price level for the everyday necessities of life such as rice, palm oil, petrol, rent, etc. is so high; why salaries are so low; why good-paying jobs are so scarce and why the supply of electricity for the masses is so tiny. Rampant corruption is behind the degradation in the exchange value of the Leone and behind the high prices of commodities for where rampant corruption is chronic, banks and financial houses overseas heavily discount the external value of that nation’s currency. This renders imports more expensive. Rampant corruption discourages foreign investments because international businesses know that where there is rampant corruption, the country cannot be expected to be a stable place where property can be safely protected or where executives can manage their businesses without contending with extortion demands and/or bribe-taking by some in authority. Lack of foreign investments translates into job scarcity and low or non-existent salaries and wages. Rampant corruption is behind the spread of HIV/AIDS. For when prices of daily necessities are high and wages low or non-existent, some people are forced to engage in prostitution or become promiscuous just so they can eat and pay for a roof over their heads; or take care of their families. As is well known, prostitution and promiscuity spread many terrible diseases, some of which may still be incurable. Rampant corruption, coupled with our government’s ineffectual anti-corruption mechanism, is behind Sierra Leone’s poverty. It is a poverty that is so deep, so dense and so widespread that our country has remained in the last place on the UN Human Development Index for the past seven years. Accordingly, Sierra Leone is the least safe place on earth for mothers during childbirth. We have one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world; lowest life expectancies, lowest per capita income; an abundance of diseases, high rates of illiteracy, poorly equipped schools, poorly paid teachers, poorly equipped and poorly funded hospitals, inadequate clean drinking water, inadequate food production, primitive agricultural tools, dangerous roads, substandard and inadequate housing, etc. Thus, Haja Kabba is right to demand that the Anti-Corruption Commission must be properly empowered to do its job. AN INDEPENDENT JUDGE IS APPRECIATED BUT NOT ENOUGH The government may claim that the Anti-Corruption Commission is powerful enough because it has already appointed an independent judge to try corruption cases. But what use is an independent judge if the most egregious corruption cases never get to see the light of day at all because of politics? What is urgently needed now is, thus, not only an independent judge but so also is an Independent Commission with its own Independent Prosecutor in order to render effective the fight against the impunity of corruption. Without an independent prosecutor, the commission cannot be independent and without an independent commission rampant corruption will continue to flourish in a land of extreme hardships. Sierra Leone already has an independent Special Court to independently investigate, independently prosecute and independently judge those deemed most responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in an attempt to address the problem of impunity in the perpetration of violence against civilians. If the government has already agreed to let the Special Court operate with complete independence in Sierra Leone, we are requesting that the same authorities ask the same or similar donor nations to likewise set-up a truly Independent Anti-Corruption Commission to deal with the rampant corruption problem in Sierra Leone once and for all. I am not in any way minimizing the horrors of the rebel war but the requested Independent Anti-Corruption Commission is more likely to benefit far more Sierra Leoneans currently and into the long run than the Special Court ever will. Nothing is more criminal and more inhumane in today’s Sierra Leone than for those deemed most responsible for corruption – e.g. people with public aliases such as Mr. Money Man, Gabteh Karkah, Money Nyapu Nyapu - to keep on punishing the suffering citizens of Sierra Leone with the impunity of their rampant corruption while the authorities appear satisfied with ‘the toothless bulldog’ Anti-Corruption Commission bestowed with phony powers. CORRUPTION CAUSED AND PROLONGED THE CIVIL WAR The rebels had successfully argued for years that they were fighting to end corruption and bring genuine democracy to Sierra Leone and many people in authority in democratic countries believed them because of our pre-war history of corruption and fake democracy. It took a lot of hard and skillful work, along with the documentation of rebel atrocities, illicit diamond exports from Liberia and Burkina Faso and RUF/AFRC sabotage of the Lome Agreement before the United States Congress compelled the Clinton Administration to support a UN Chapter 7 mandate. Today, we are back to Square One with our chronic corruption cancer. Yet we are still ‘waging’ a phony war against it, even as rampant as corruption has become. CONCLUSION To those currently in authority, I say ‘please take appropriate action forthwith so that history never repeats itself in Sierra Leone because you failed to heed the sensible advice of the Honorable Haja Afsatu Kabba, MP. Please create a genuinely independent Anti-Corruption Commission with an independent prosecutor and an independent judge’. Subject: Re: START WITH REFORMING YOUR OWN PERSONAL CORRUPTION Message: John Leigh, you are utterly corrupt. Plus you write nonsense whiCh, because you are dim-witted, you don't realize is utter nonsense. AS YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD BEFORE, SPARE US YOUR LANGA-LANGA-RUBBISH THAT HAS NO HEAD OE TAIL. We are not idle or crazy to read your rubbish that is not the paper it is written on. Lonta. If you want to reforem corruption, start with your own corruption that you have already amitted openly. Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: I know that many anti-corruption campaigners are anti-corrupt only while out of office. Once they get in power they usually become far more corrupt than those they had criticized. Lets face it, as FACT said elsewhere in this forum, corruption is by all ethnic groups and I strongly suspect that our culture in this area is simple: public office is for private gain (hence the popularity of "oos sye den tie cow nar dey he go eat grass"). Herein lies my utter revulsion to yap-yap talk such as: "Ar go do dis; ar go do dat wenn ar ween". Instead, I say: show us first what you have ever archieved in your life on your own before making such promises. Otherwise, they are empty! PERIOD. But there is nothing wrong in adopting into law the sensible suggestions people make from time to time, even if they are corrupt. In fact, such people may have inside knowledge on how best to checkmate corruption. I firmly believe that no one has a monopoly of ideas but whatever we do, lets keep in mind that containing corruption is a long-term project. To begin with, our officials and people are too poor and our culture entails humongous responsibilities by one for many others, many of whom are virtually helpless. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: You should know, John Leigh: You are a perfect example of that public immorality! Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: You really need help You ALAKI FOR TRUE. Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: What evidence do you have to prove that she is "fine, upright, god fearing, eloquent and straight forward woman"? This is the same problem that you have earlier today been exposed of having: Making unfounded assumptions and including them as an answer in your question. DOn't you ever learn from your repeated mistakes of comprehension? Look what failing GCE O Level English multiple times have done to you! Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: YOU, Koker are the one who made a claim that the person is upright, etc. Unless you do not understand English, you would realize that it is YOUR obligation to prove your claim. I never made a claim about the woman -- I merely reminded you to correct your predictable omission in failing to provide evidence to suport your claim So, it is totally nonsensical for you to ask ME or whoever you refer to as Jalloh to provide evidence for a claim that has NOT been made by me! Do you see how your GCE O Level English failures continue to follow you arounf more than 30 years later? You'd be well advised to return to Form One to start your long overdue remedial edcuation in English comprehension, Koker. Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: Did KOKER, or me(alieu) write the above? The onus is in your court BRA. My question again what proof do you have to show us here she was corrupt? If you can't answer these questions then i beg of you to stop the tanishing of people's characters because you dis-agree with them. And by the way i will say it again: I AM NOT KOKER. LONTA Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: Koker, please address your question to "Mr JOKO LENGA:" As blind as you are, surely you can differentiate between my writings and whoever yhou are referring to. Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: Subject: Re: SOME ANTI-CORRUPTION IDEAS FOR REFORM Message: The only thing that has been exposed over and over again is your abject ignorance of the most fundamental rule of serious debate -- that if you make an allegation you must provide evidence for it. Subject: Re: SLPP liars read this Message: I can tell a good country by the kind of people who are aspiring to rule there. Our country has been bastardise by corrupt, dishonest and unelectable people who are all morally bankrupt. Take that scruffy, baseless, up for sale ugly ape looking John SNUFF eating Leigh for example. This is the hopeless rude child who actually fought his mum, called his country men LOW GRADE SAN SAN HUMANS. This is the morally bankrupt idiot who had the guts to tell the whole world that he is not only corrupt, but can also be bought. We were lucky as ambassador he only used his official residence as a whore house. If Berewa was to win and make Leigh foreign minister, I won't be surprise if I hear that he has been arrested for having a leak at the gate of Buckingham palace. Or his been caught boot legging our passports in Dubai. I can still remember a diplomat who was recalled for urinating on the street. When you have rude, corrupt, jumped up unelectable morally bankrupt politicians like Leigh running your country, nothing good will come out of it. Wae you allow SWEH pikin lek Leigh for rule you NAR ALAKI GO FALAH YOU KONTRY TAY GO. Don't get angry, true hat for tork but you don tork am, Leh God bless you Subject: Re: SLPP liars read this Message: Subject: Re: SLPP liars read this Message: As for your question about why we allow crooks like the latest onesn in the current SLPP regime to loot our country's money, the answer is that Sierra leoneans are too timid to exercise their legal right to insist that their government obey the law. Remember, a people get the government they derserve. If Sierra Leoneans did not deserve a corrupt govt., the SLPP would have been gone in the 2002 elections. The next chance for our people tro kick the crooks out is in the August elections. At that time, we will see if Sierra leoneans still deserve to be ruled by crooks in the SLPP. Keep in mind, no corrupt government will rule over people who refuse to be ruled by crooks. Just ask Johnny Paul Koroma's AFRC in 1997. Or Albert Margai's SLPP in 1967. Subject: BRITAIN CONDEMNS CORRUPTION IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Agence France Presse FREETOWN, May 15, 2007 (AFP) - Britain, the external backer of Sierra Leone's drive against corruption on Tuesday slammed the west African's country's anti-graft watchdog for performing below expectations. British high commission spokesman in Freetown, Robert Collett, said that while the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) had prosecuted some cases, it had not measured up to anticipated levels. "Although there have been some successes, the people of Sierra Leone and the UK government expected more from the Anti-Corruption Commission than has been delivered," Collett told UN Radio in Freetown. The British Department for International Development (DFID) has underwritten the project to the tune of five million pounds sterling (7.3 billion euros, 9.9 billion dollars) since 2001. "It has been doing some work but also you have to measure that with what was expected of the commission and what it signed up to achieve," said Collett. "And when you compare those two things, you'll realise that the progress has been very disappointing," he added. Britain's complaints came days after the global rights group Amnesty International accused Sierra Leone's government of institutionalising corruption and of not doing enough to root out the practice. The British diplomat said "the number of cases which have been successfully prosecuted has been slow and we have not seen any high profile cases successfully prosecuted and that's why mainly the ACC was established." "There have been high-profile investigations but no successful high-profile prosecution," he said. In its latest report on the war-shattered west African country, Amnesty alleged "official corruption in the various segments of governance." Amnesty said since the creation of the country's anti-corruption body in July, 2000, 54 of the 560 cases investigated had been taken to court, and 29 resulted in convictions. Subject: Re: BRITAIN CONDEMNS CORRUPTION IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: BRITAIN CONDEMNS CORRUPTION IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: BRITAIN CONDEMNS CORRUPTION IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Recently, ITK, the only SLPP apologist on this forum that is not immersed in rudeness and other acts of public indecorum, claimed that no aid donor had determined that the SLPP government of President Kabbah and Vice President Berewa was corrupt. In typical blind support of the most corrrupt govt. in the history of Sierrra Leone, ITK brazenly claimed that he had read every report by donors and he had not found any reference to the SLPP govt.'s internationally notorious corruption. We now wait to see if ITK will come here to explain the contradiction between his boastful claim of comprehensive reading and the existence of the DFID report slamming the kleptomanic SLPP govt. for its notorious corruption. Subject: Re: BRITAIN CONDEMNS CORRUPTION IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Just checked in on a lunch break. Would love to respond, but ar baig me haid dae hart. You want me to put much credence in a report from AFP. Those who know better, know better. Anyway, when they can figure out the correct currency exchange rate for pounds sterling to euros and dollars, I might consider a response to their miserable attempt. Honestly, the corruption bandwagon is getting too convenient now. Amnesty International? Accusing others of "institutionalising corruption", whatever that means? Oh yes, of course, that's AFP's misinterpretation of what AI actually said. Typical mischief. If I can find some phensic, will consider sending you a full reply; although I really see no need. Nothing in AFP's report is new or refutes what I said in our prior discussions; more importantly, nothing supports the unsubtantited assertions you made at the time. Thanks for the compliment, best Subject: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: The consequences of street trading are among other things, vehicular traffic, road accident, robbery and filth as passing through these congested streets is a hassle with each day having its own story. In the midst of the day’s activities, pick pockets and mobile phone snatchers have fielded the day. Bad accidents are also on the increase. The hones of garbage are eyesore to modern day civilization symbolizing the agents for poor health. Before now street traders in the city centers only sell durable goods including foot ware, dresses, confectionaries and other personal effects. The situation has deteriorated to the extent that traders now sell perishable goods like mangoes, bananas, pineapples, rose apples, pears and cucumbers in these main streets of the city. Street trading has no doubt beautified our city. The pills of these fruits are left scattered all over the place with some of them dumped in the gutters creating the effects of street trading as major concerns to all and sundry. The advent of Operation Free Flow was to certain extent reduced the pressure of street traders on the forbidden streets as months went by we relatively had free movement and street theft minimized. My concern is why OFF ceased temporally when street trading is an every day issue? Many reasons have been associated to the sudden disappearance of Operation Free Flow. Some say it is political, others argue that it was the personnel who prostituted it. The police side of the story had it that impostors have undermined the essence of the operation. Pessimists viewed it as political claiming that removing the recalcricants traders from the streets will have a negative effect on the SLPP during the August elections and as such the vice president and SLPP flag bearer, Solomon Berewa who is the head of the police council, must have called for a halt until after the elections. Others accused the police of distortion and the operation is used for money making. To me, there is no excuse to justify street trading especially in the heart of Freetown. I think the common good should be more paramount than unreasonable excuses. I know the problem of street trading is not now but it is a continued problem because appropriate solutions are not implemented. Compromise has always undermine all previous cosmetic solutions. The identified areas for our national market center is the Victoria Park which as not now, full. The rest of the traders are on the streets in the mad rush to meet the customers first. The central government as well as the Freetown City Council should stand on the ground to re-dedicate all street traders to the Victoria Park and other suitable areas. Although it’s automatic to stop street trading but consistency in implementing the laws will give the desired results. Successive governments had failed because half way they have done jobs that are compromised for political reasons. The streets needed to be decongested to allow free flow of movements and serene atmosphere. Stalks of these stubborn street traders are the hideouts for the night armed robbers who terrorize people on a daily basis especially in places like Ecowas Street (Salad Ground) P.Z, Sani Abacha Street, Rawdon Street, Garrison Street, Lumley Street and Siaka Stevens Street. The joint security patrol is very ineffective creating more armed robbery on the increase. If only Hon. Solomon Berewa and the Inspector General of Police Brima Acha Kamara accept the situation under review in good faith, the appeal has been the resumption of Operation Free Flow and a proactive joint patrol security team to monitor the process. The situation as at now is not healthy as our right of free movement has been impeded by others. In the case where such is not being done, the state is being held responsible to ensure every one enjoys his or her freedom of movement. State facilities are for the comfort of every body but some of us have been deprived of our free movement in the main streets of the once serene city of the sub-Sahara. The free movement of people fosters development in a country. Therefore we want to see the develop of our city by getting traders controlled how to maintain traffic and allow people and movement of vehicles to flow while at the same time being allowed to sell their wares Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: The answer is obvious to all except SLPP apologists: Because the SLPP government is NOT a responsible goverment. So, the real nonsense lies in your nonsensical question. Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: If so, you must be another blind SLPP supporter. Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: That, in turn, means that either you do not understand what you wrote, or, if you do, that you are indulging in a fraud by asking a question in which you suggest the answer to the question, without admitting it beforehand (or after the fact, as you serial incomprehnsion suggests). Calling your question nonsense is not calling you names. It is merely calling your question what it is. Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: However, it was easy to prove that you were the original author of the nonsensical question. Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: WHY WILL THE GOVERNMENT ASK THAT PEOPLE BLOCK AND LITTER THE STREETS OF FREETOWN? Now this is me asking you. Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: It is the same answer as the one I gave you when you hid behind the false name "Concerned:" Because the SLPP is an irresponsbile government. Do you want that simple, obvious point translated into Mende in a probably futile attempt to finally get you to understand it? Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: I actually wrote that question, but I am sure reading by your response that you didnt understand the question. It was a rhetorical question basically implying that if SLPP was a responsible government, they wouldnt let people litter, conjest, steal etc etc on the street. I think you and I are saying the same thing...you probably just missed the point buddy. Now read again and tell me how nonesensical it is. Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: IF KoKER do you GIRL in EAST COAST, nor pull de warm art pan me yah. Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: Concentrate on the issue -- your nonsensical question,. Denials of your many false names or trying to being irrelevant personal issues you may imagine are of interest to me will not change the issue. This is the problem with you blind SLPP apologists -- you seem to live in a make-believ reality that allows you to blkindly support a failed and corrupt goverment while it inflcits suffering upon your own people -- just to satisfy your selfish interests. Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: Take it from me, I have a lot of experience dealing with his type of desperados, especially during the AFRC/RUF/Ninjas war. He is never going to listen - no matter what. Nor will he ever argue cogently because he has been badly wounded and doesn't know how to get even. His back is against the wall. The solution is to give him an out: cut him off! Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: They include the questions of your fraud in claiming falsely that yoiu defeated the RUF in the USA, your corruption in giving bribes to aid and abet the convict, President Kabbah to violate the order barring him from public office, and your basless arguments (based on lies about corporate taxes and "run away" businesses). Leigh, you can run, but you will never be able to hide from reality. Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: Subject: Re: Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown Message: Do you congratulate someone for being stupid? Or are you looking for company in ignorance? Subject: The Samir Abess Rice Mill Deal- More questions than Answers! Message: Sierra Leone is going through a massive reconstruction phase, and public procurement of goods and services account for a large share of public expenditures. Contracts for the supply of food to hospitals and prisons; stationery and equipments for government offices; furnishing of State House and Ministerial Quarters; school and market construction; houses for displaced chiefs; books and furniture for schools; road construction; drugs for hospitals; consultancies; the award of World Bank contracts for the supply of seed rice and rice mills are creating a booming trade for public officials with the authority to approve such contracts. While the Anti-Corruption Commission’s efforts have targeted outright bribery and/or embezzlement (low profile cases), very little has been done to put a stop to corrupt procurement practices associated with the award of contracts (high profile corruption). It is estimated that between 2003 and 2005 alone, the country lost about Le 70 billion every year through improper and inefficient procurement practices. Many of the government contracts issued are by all accounts a dismal failure, not only because the contractors do not deliver as promised, but also because the of the cronyism, and favoritism associated with the award of contracts. The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Sama Mondeh wants us to believe that the award was in line with the NPPA Act, and the Ministers of Finance and Information and the Executive Director of the NPPA have come to his defense. We do respect the spins given by the Ministers, but call on our Parliamentary Representatives to probe this particular deal. While appreciating Rokel Bank’s attempt to honor its obligations, the efficacy of the procurement system used by the Ministry of Agriculture and the level of monitoring used to ensure the contractor’s compliance come in for reproach and the questions that need answers are: 1. Why has it taken Dr. Alfred Kandeh of the NPPA two years to query the procurement procedures employed by the Ministry? 7. What amount of due diligence was carried out to determine the performance track record of the contractor before the final award was made and why is the Minister only acknowledging now that the contract fell into the hands of the wrong individuals? At the inauguration of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Feb. 6, 2000, President Kabbah said "My government and the ordinary people of Sierra Leone now have a new war to wage. This is the war against corruption. And in this fight, nobody will be above the law, including myself." “Government business needs to be conducted in a manner above reproach and…with complete impartiality and with preferential treatment for none.” If those in authority who are supposed to maintain the public trust renege in their duties, then the fight against corruption would continue to elude the nation. This probe should be conducted in the interest of the many Sierra Leoneans for whom food security in 2007 is a dream, while million dollar contracts for seed rice and rice mills are flying around. Now that President Kabbah’s term of office has expired, we want to remind him that in 2007, millions of Sierra Leonean children still go to bed hungry and the least he can do for them is to have the courage to institute an investigation into this matter for the sake of posterity. Subject: Re: The Samir Abess Rice Mill Deal- More questions than Answers! Message: ROKEL BANK RESCUED CORNERED CONTRACTOR Henry Aki Macauley said yesterday that the proprietor of Strand Investments, Abess and Sons had been classified by his Bank as one of the Bank’s worthy clients when he applied for a bank guarantee of close to Le1,650,000.000 for the purposes of importing on behalf of government thirty (30) rice mills into the country. Henry Aki Macauley explained that the bank management was aware of the fact that Strand Investments were awarded the contract legally by the government of Sierra Leone and that the management of the bank was also aware of the fact that Abess and Sons had in the past executed contracts awarded by reputable institutions and had performed accordingly. Henry Aki Macauley stated further that at some point after the contract was awarded to Strand Investments, the contractors instructed Rokel Commercial Bank to remit the sum of one (1) million pound sterling to the manufacturer of the rice mills, Alvan Blanch. The Rokel Commercial Bank according to the Managing Director, Henry Aki Macauley, saw the contract awarded to Abess and Sons as part of the government’s food security programme and therefore the bank saw the need to be part of such a development-oriented programme. He further emphasized that like in all banking transactions where customers who seek to raise loans for the promotion of their businesses, Rokel Commercial Bank requested an acceptable collateral security which Abess and Sons provided. He lamented that at some point, there was a lull when rumours circulated that the contract agreement between Abess and Sons and the government of Sierra Leone had been rescinded by the state. “But the truth is that the contract was never discontinued, even though Abess and Sons suddenly discovered that they had run short of funds to continue the contract. It is not my business to explain how Abess and Sons ran out of money but what is very clear is that as a bank, we still stand by our commitment when we prepared the bank guarantee which now explains why the Rokel Commercial Bank has paid to the manufacturer of the 30 rice mills the full sum required for the delivery of the machinery.” He emphasized that Rokel Commercial Bank has taken over the responsibility of supplying the machines directly to government latest June this year. “What we are doing at the moment is to step in the shoes of Strand Investments, to ensure that the government is supplied with the equipment for which we stood guarantee, after all we are a responsible and highly respected bank that cannot afford to shy away from its responsibilities.” Henry Aki Macauley said further yesterday that the bank felt embarrassed by this development, as that was the very first time any third party was demanding a recall as a result of the non-performance of a contractor. “We understood government’s good intentions and we also understood the problems created by the sudden disappearance of the contractors which cost me to travel to Manchester to locate the father and son who constitute the company. After which we came to a kind of agreement, which further encouraged me to confront the manufacturers, Alvan Blanch, on the issue. Alvan Blanch of the company said to me that the manufacture of the machinery had commenced and that they themselves were unhappy about the stalemate when it became clear that no more funds were coming from Abess and Sons.” At every stage, according to Henry Aki Macauley, I kept the Minister of Finance informed about developments and the Minister of Finance assured me that the Minister of Agriculture Dr. Sama Monde had been briefed about the effort of Rokel Commercial Bank to ensure that the contract was executed to the fullest. According to the Rokel Commercial Bank Managing Director, Henry Aki Macauley, he was surprised that the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security exhibited a lack of knowledge about the effort already made by the Rokel Commercial Bank to supply the machinery on behalf of Strand Investments. He lamented that on several occasions the Deputy Managing Director of the Rokel Commercial Bank, Archibald Davies attempted to contact and brief the Minister of Agriculture so as to update the leadership of that Ministry about efforts being made by Rokel Commercial Bank to rescue that contract, but the effort made by the Deputy Managing Director did not come to fruition because the Minister of Agriculture was not interested in further discussions regarding the contract. When the New Citizen interviewed the Minister of Finance last night on government’s position on the Strand Investments contract, John Benjamin said, “we had to rescue the contract in two stages. Firstly, we allowed the contractors an extension of the contract period and after it failed we turned to the bank and asked the bank to work out modalities to save the situation. The bank management was honest, according to the Minister of Finance because even though the guarantee period was almost expiring at some stage, all the parties agreed that the guarantee stood. Mr. John Benjamin further informed the New Citizen that the Deputy Financial Secretary, J. O Wellington, has been mandated by his ministry to write a letter to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture to appraise them of the actual situation of the contract as there is evidence that Rokel Commercial Bank had actually concluded arrangements with the manufacturer of the rice mills to make sure that the machinery arrives in Sierra Leone latest June this year. Subject: Re: The Samir Abess Rice Mill Deal- More questions than Answers! Message: Which version of the story are we to trust, that of the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Agriculture or that of the Executive Director of NPPA? Rokel Commercial Bank is reputable and could have been saved the trouble if the appropriate procurement procedures had been adopted. If there was compliance with the provisions of the Procurement Act of 2004, I dare the minister of Agriculture to come out with a press release for the benefit of the people of Sierra Leone. Subject: Re: The Samir Abess Rice Mill Deal- More questions than Answers! Message: Housing director embezzles funds FREETOWN, August 01 -- The Country Director of the African Housing Fund (AHF)- Sierra Leone, Mr. Patrick Olu Beckley is reported to have fled the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, for an undisclosed locat1on in the United States of America following alleged embezzlement of thousands of dollars from the organisation's funds. Standard Times gathered that the Kenyan authorities have confiscated Patrick Beckley's assets including his house, cars and some personal effects. The African Housing Fund (AHF), a Pan African organisation with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, started operations in Sierra Leone in April 1986 in the Kambia, Bo and Pujehun districts respectively, specializing in rebuilding and refurbishing houses vandalised during the rebel war and also giving out micro credit to small scale enterprises. It is understood that the sacked director, Patrick O. Beckley, was operating the organisation as a one man's employer, serving as Accountant, Project Manager and Purchasing Officer. In addition, all external transactions were directly under his tight control until when it became quite evident that the organisation was virtually collapsing that the Ministry of Lands, Housing, Country Planning and the Environment decided to step in in order to salvage the situation. The ministry signed series of memoranda of understanding with the Nairobi office under successive ministers, including, Alhaji Samura, Capt. (Rtd.) Abdul Rahman Kamara, Haja Hafsatu Kabbah and Dr. John Karimu but with little success as the Kenyan headquarters had already dissolved the entire organisation's operations in Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. With the collapse of the former management, an interim management committee under the supervision of Shelter Afrique was set up in Nairobi to oversee the activities of the AHF programme and Mr. Patrick Beckley was again appointed Deputy Director leaving behind several hundreds of Sierra Leonean employees jobless and dejected. Meanwhile, when Standard Times contacted the Director of Housing in the ministry, Mr. Murana to comment on certain allegations levied against him by some aggrieved workers alleging that he had received huge sums of money on their behalf from Kenyan, he stated out that the allegations are untrue, adding that he was on leave during the year in question, that is, between May 1998 and November 1999 and that he had no knowledge of any transaction that may have taken place in his absence. This press also gathered that in 1999 during the term of office of former Minister of Lands, Haja Hafsatu Kabbah, the sum of $15,000 was sent to the AHF office in Sierra Leone which was reportedly received by Nazralla Kamara, Yusuf Kamara, Mr. Samura and Mr. Sheriff who failed to account to the other members of the organisation which led to a bitter quarrel, causing the minister to expel them from their Youyi Building 3rd floor office. Documentary evidence presently available to this press confirmed that the Minister of Lands and Housing, Dr. Alfred Bobson Sesay and his Director, Mr. Murana are making frantic efforts to retrieve funds from AHF headquarters in Nairobi to pay their redundant workers in Sierra Leone. In a letter written to a Mr. L. R. Oluanji of the interim management committee of Shelter Afrique on the subject matter of "Staff Benefit and Liabilities, AHF programme Sierra Leone". The letter read in part: "I refer to the subject which is of serious concern to the government of Sierra Leone and the ministry in particular. As you are aware, a number of outstanding issues are yet to be addressed since the cessation of the AHF operations in Sierra Leone, principal among these are that of the payment of benefits owed to staff and settlement of liabilities incurred on behalf of AHF. "As you are aware Sierra Leone has gone through a disastrous ten-year war which has distressed and traumatized a large percentage of the population. In such circumstances the government is anxious to avoid any situation that would cause discontent and ignite social unrest. I thus take this opportunity to prevail upon you to use your good offices to conclusively address the growing agitation among your staff for their benefits to be paid". To bring the matter to a close, some disgruntled workers have called upon the Anti-corruption to invite the sacked AHF Director from the states to come to Sierra Leone and face the commission, adding that Mr. Beckley's statement is unbelievable, stating that 80% of the houses constructed by his organisation have broken down. Ministry of Lands officials say they have no official dealings with AHF as all transactions were carried out by their boss, Mr. Beckley when things were going on pretty well and now that the table has turned around they've falsely maligning ministry officials to pay them some money. Editor's note: Read in our subsequent editions the present financial position of AHF, Present assets and liabilities in Sierra Leone and the invitation of the Anti-Corruption to probe the past activities of the sacked director, Patrick O. Beckley. Subject: Re: The Samir Abess Rice Mill Deal- More questions than Answers! Message: Please give us the evidence you omitted. Subject: Re: The Samir Abess Rice Mill Deal- More questions than Answers! Message: Subject: Re: The Samir Abess Rice Mill Deal- More questions than Answers! Message: Prove it. That should be easy since you claim it is a "fact." Subject: Re: The Samir Abess Rice Mill Deal- More questions than Answers! Message: The 4 -bedroom town house I leased in Duncan Court Nairobi, opposite the Yayah Center, and close to the residence of Minister for Presidentail Affairs, Dr. Sheku Sesay was home to me and my family and where I hosted several of the visiting Sierra leonean delegations. My family maintained our diplomatic status until I left Nairobi in 2000, and was never revoked. Shelter Afrique and the African Housing Fund are Pan African organizations comprising of almost 40 African Governments, of which Sierra Leone is a member represented by the Hon. Minister of Housing. Why has it taken the proponets of that article so long to prove their allegations? It is no suprise that Standard Times press is getting into so much trouble for printing libellous statements. “When our personal safety is threatened, the courage to speak out and do so from another place can become the force of change”. Subject: Re: The Samir Abess Rice Mill Deal- More questions than Answers! Message: Then my point is whay don't you sue them or since it probably might be a little difficult to prove your case, why don't you write a rebuttal. Thats all we on this forum are asking of you. You might be right, but if you do not put it out there, MR, then the little we have from standard times will take a lead. Subject: DUMB SWEDISH DRINKING WELFARE CABAL Message: Earlier today, I posted a Note of Appreciation to the organizers and managers of Cocorioko Forum for their splendid work in the public interest. In highlighting their leadership qualities, I wrote: “But let’s face it, there are a whole lot of dunces, short-tempered wild welfare drunkards and crackpots writing voluminous trash upon trash in this forum and overworking Dr. Nahim with craziness. “Kissy Craseyard is presently over populated. But not everybody condemned there is actually crazy. Some are plain so chupid, their phoolumunkuness is being mistaken for craziness. “Your patience in dealing with alphabet-soup trash moniker-abusers is legendary………. – JL” If there is ever a combined case of craziness and phoolumunkuness draining the patience of our Cocorioko patrons and forumites, it is the case of alphabet-soup moniker abusers – re Alan Cranston, Leonenetter, Patriot, Kankay - trying to self-invite attention to an obscure irrelevant letter written in NOMEMBER 9, 2001 to the Washington Post by condemning me and my work to his Swedish Crackpot Club of moniker abusers, ostensibly because I did not reply to a letter by the then Liberian Ambassador. Here is what the imported-can-of-soft-drink attention-seeker wrote: “Mr. xxxxxxxxxxxx, John Leigh is a brazen fraud. Nothing proves that more than his blatant lie that he was responsible for defeating the RUF in the USA. While the Liberian ambassador was busy publishing Taylor's proganda in the Washington Post, Mr. Leigh never once responded.” AND “ "While the Liberian ambassador was busy publishing Taylor's proganda in the Washington Post, Mr. Leigh never once responded." “Alan: “You are right. Ambassador Leigh at all did not reply as Liberia's active ambassador was very busy promoting the RUF and Charles Taylor in the American capital. I was on Leonenet at the time and I archived the reply that Mallam O posted when a Sierra Leonean came to the rescue of our country in the Washington Post.” Other self-praises, loaded with flunkey dunce argumentation and posted in Cocorioko Forum followed - under different alphabet soup monikers - to create the false impression that the self-praise postings were written by independent contributors when it was in fact the same crookish imported-can-of-soft-drink idiot writing the same bombastic trash. The said letter from the Liberian Ambassador was published on October 31, 2001. Mumbo-tombo-dumbo Funku’s own rebuttal was published on November 9, 2001. For the information of the public, I will herewith respond to this false accusation against me. First, the subject-matter was no longer – by the fall of 2001 - relevant to my work in defining Charles Taylor, the RUF, Foday Sankoh, Johnny Paul Koroma Foot of State and our elected government for the American authorities and the interested public, local and international. I had already accomplished such much earlier and American policy was by then securely on a pro-Sierra Leone pendulum. In contrast, the Liberian Ambassador was seeking to do damage control that we at the embassy had caused Taylor and his government. At this point in time, the main American media was anti-Taylor and pro-Sierra Leone. Second, by October 2001, the embassy was on to something else. The issue then was the TGS-NOPEC Oil Prospecting issue, not Charles Taylor. Taylor’s faith was sealed by then and it was only a matter of time for him to be ousted and face charges. We at the embassy were way ahead of the idiot imported-can-of-soft-drink-parity flunkey who was still stuck in his Ancient History class. Third, one single letter to the editor in the Washington Post by an unknown moron imported-can-of-soft-drink-parity flunkey – calling himself Alan Cranston and Leonenetter, etc. - will have no bearing on US government policy. It will not even be noticed by those in authority. An Op-Ed piece has a much better chance to gain attention but even here there must be follow-ups with those with the power to take action. Hence the proliferation of lobbyists in America! Any individual who thinks his single letter to the editor in one single newspaper on one single occasion can close a political or diplomatic deal is the dumbest idiot in the whole of Creation. Fourth, as an ambassador in DC, one does not need to just write a single letter to one single newspaper one single time to get what you want done. One needs to do much more. First, you must engage the authorities One-on-One. As SL Ambassador during the crises in my country, I was so frequent in lobbying Members of Congress that I was mistaken for “the new Black Congressman” by many in Capitol Hill. I was frequent in the State Department and in various US Agencies for the sole purpose of putting Sierra Leone’s/ECOMOG’S case to the American authorities. Second, you must back up your One-on-One meetings with correspondences and telephone calls. The letters I wrote are on file in our DC embassy. They are a huge pile. I suspect that I must have written more letters, memorandums and statements on SLeone’s behalf during my six-year tenure in DC than the total of all letters written by all other SL Ambassadors to the US combined under the APC years of poverty spreading. Fourth, you should meet the influential public to speak and take part in debates – and I did – schools, colleges, universities, chambers of commerce, Rotary Clubs, NGOs, Churches, Mosques (I was well-known in the Ahmaddiyya Community), country clubs, picnics, conferences, seminars, think tanks, etc. Fifth, you must travel and I did so to at least two dozen states on behalf of SLeone. Lastly, you must engage your country’s Diaspora – and I did. So any individual who puts his exclusive reliance on one single letter to the editor, in one single newspaper on one single occasion regarding one single irrelevant matter and then claims that he got the Taylor-AFRC/RUF job done and that the real ambassador who diligently did all of the other above items is a fraud because he never wrote the said irrelevant single letter is truly nuts and ought to be banished to the bottom of the nation’s loony bin. Thank you. – JL ================================================================================================== PS: I do not read the Washington Post. I merely glaced through it. I am snobbish about newspapers. I read only the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal – North America’s two top papers. But lately, I am into the Financial Times. Thanks. - JL Subject: Re: CLUELESS, UNINTELLIGBLE, AND HOPELESS FRAUD Message: The most conclusive proof that you are a fool who inhabits his own clueless reality. For your information, Leigh, when the Washington Post writes, Washington leaders pay attention. That is why every policy maker in the USA -- from the president down to civil servannts, read the leading paper in the USA. It is also why U.S. Secretaries of State over the past 30 years from Kissinger, to Baker, to Condoleeza Rice, Secretaries of Defense from MacNamara to Rumsfeld, have used it to communicate their views to the world. It is entirely predictable that you -- the most lueless misfit ever to corrupt the Salone embassy -- would boast that you don't read the paper that every seriois diplomat diligently reads -- whether it is about Watergate (which brought down the president of the USA in 1973) or Walter Reed (which brought down top military brass in 2007). It is pathetic to see that just like your doomed quest to recover your bribe money led you to lick your spit under Berewa's feet, so too has your quest to hide from your dereliction of your duty as ambassador led you to expose your ignorance of the ways of Washington, D.C. Because the Liberian ambassador understood what you did not understand, that is why he wrote a letter in the Washington Post. Abd because you were clueless, you did not see the need to respond when your country's enemies were distorting the truth about the rebel war they had started. No wonder you were fired by President Kabbah -- you are completely clueless, John Leigh. Not to mention very unintelligent. Subject: Re: CLUELESS, UNINTELLIGBLE, AND HOPELESS FRAUD Message: Subject: Re: CLUELESS, UNINTELLIGBLE, AND HOPELESS FRAUD Message: The obvious answer: Because Taylor was NOT on the defensive -- except in the ignorant, lazy, and incompetent mind of the serial fraud, John Leigh! The fact is Leigh was derelict in failing to recognize the demands of an ambassador's job. He himself confessed that, without realing it, when he boasted in blatant ignorance, that he did not read the most important news paper in Washington DC (and arguably in the USA) -- The Washington Post. That is proof that Leigh was a irretrievable clueless ambassador -- a fact again proved by his failure to understand wehat the Liberian am,bassador understood when he replied to the Washington Post, while the clueless Leigh w3as boasting that he never read the Post! As for your rather clueless question, if you have to ask what Jalloh did to influence public policy against Charles Taylor, perhaps you need to find a translator to translate his article for you into a language you understand better than English. Subject: Re: CLUELESS, UNINTELLIGBLE, AND HOPELESS FRAUD Message: Jalloh stop your lies. That article had no weight in persuading te CLINTON administration or in diffusing the Taylor propaganda. If JL who was your AMB could not read your article, what proof do you have that others did? Besides it was printed on the inner part of the washington Post. Brag Brag. Subject: Re: CLUELESS, UNINTELLIGBLE, AND HOPELESS FRAUD Message: "If JL who was your AMB could not read your article, what proof do you have that others did?" Koker, Koker, Koker, you are beyond being dumb! The proof is obvious: Unlike the cluesles Leigh, Prsident Clinton and his cabinet, and most of Washington, DC brower btokers read the Washington Post. To simplify, Leigh's clueessness is so vast, it is unmateched anywhere in the diplomatic world: Heck, even the Liberian ambassador was nore clued than the lunatic Leigh! Subject: Re: CLUELESS, UNINTELLIGBLE, AND HOPELESS FRAUD Message: You put your rear end in public by making such bogus claims my friend. This the case of Kettle calling the Pot Black. Subject: Re: IMPORTED SOFT DRINK LOONY BIN Message: Every one I know in this forum is aware that our imported can of soft drink crackpot belongs to the loony bin. Clearly, he has lost it on the basis of the mountain of his trashy postings under different monikers in this single forum. Here he is writing as Allie. Over there he is COWARD. And yonder he is CIRPORATE or Corporate tax Fraud, Amidu Bio, What's in a Name, Economist and so on and on and on. No matter what the proof is, he is of one mind and one mind only untill death. So, why engage him with sense? If you expect reason and logic from the loony bin, then I believe you must be wasting your time. Cheers! - JL Subject: Re: CLUELESS, UNINTELLIGBLE, AND HOPELESS FRAUD Message: They include the questions of your fraud in claiming falsely that yoiu defeated the RUF in the USA, your corruption in giving bribes to aid and abet the convict, President Kabbah to violate the order barring him from public office, and your basless arguments (based on lies about corporate taxes and "run away" businesses). Leigh, you can run, but you will never be able to hide from reality. Subject: Re: IMPORTED SOFT DRINK LOONY BIN Message: It appears that you are the loony one -- throwing insults here and there, calling people names -- all because you are not able to win an argument against them. You have already been exposed a s a fraud who makes wild claims for which you have shown no evidence. Your allegation about multiple monikers is another of such empty claims. Please provide your evidence if you think one person is using anonymous bases to wrtite there. Then, show us the rule in Cocorioko that forbis the use of False name(s) to post. Unless you can do that, please understand that your rants about a perfectly acceptable pratice -- instead of taking on the issues in the persons' postings -- is proof of your having a loose screw whirling around your increasingly empty head. Subject: Re: CLUELESS, UNINTELLIGBLE, AND HOPELESS FRAUD Message: Koker, again, your chronic incomprehension exposes the arrant nonsensse underlying your question. Let me again hold your hand through your predictable displays of your ignorance: 1. Your question assumes, as is your wont, that there was only one letter written by Mr. Jalloh to the Washington Post. Question #1: Where is your evidence to prove your baselsss assumption? Answer: None -- as one would expect from someone who has no clue how to write a question. 2. Your question also assumes that the author is a "nobody" Answer: None -- as one would expect from someone who has no clue how to write a question. Do you see, Koker, how your ignorance is so great that it extends to the most elementary task in English composition -- wriring a question? Subject: Re: CLUELESS, UNINTELLIGBLE, AND HOPELESS FRAUD Message: Subject: Re: CLUELESS, UNINTELLIGBLE, AND HOPELESS FRAUD Message: I remember someone saying every time you are exposed you see your obsession around every twist and turn you get spun around. The Jalloh I know openly writes in his own name. Seems to me that you are the frustrated one. There is probably someone (or some people) laughing at your obsessive assumption right now. Subject: Sierra Leone's Amb. Leigh Blames Liberia's President for Fig Message: Subject: Re: Sierra Leone's Amb. Leigh Blames Liberia's President for Fig Message: I am delighted that you have resurfaced. I am one of those who truly appreciated your contributions but was not surprised that you took time off because of the persistent unreasonable conduct - with some people always looking to discount and deprecate good works while deliberately over-magnifying or even inventing negatives - just to push their own private agendas. I will never allow them to succeed even if I am alone but I am glad you are back. I am delighted with your excellent citation that all I know all forumites will find educative. I thank you very much. - JL Subject: Re: Sierra Leone's Amb. Leigh Blames Liberia's President for Fig Message: Subject: Re: Sierra Leone's Amb. Leigh Blames Liberia's President for Fig Message: The fact is you are a nonentity. So, who cares what you think? You are also very dumb. You don't even know that you are being used for comic relief on this forum. All of which makes sober people looking at you in the twilight of your life shake their heads. Truly sad. Subject: Re: Sierra Leone's Amb. Leigh Blames Liberia's President for Fig Message: Here is an excerpt ""Charles Taylor, over the years, has maintained good relations with some American politicians," says Leigh, naming specifically Jackson and U.S. Representative Donald Payne (D-N.J.), a member of the black caucus. Through its misguided policies toward Liberia, Leigh says the United States has allowed Taylor to flourish and support the rebels. Subject: Re: Sierra Leone's Amb. Leigh Blames Liberia's President for Fig Message: Thank you for your excellent citation and for your gracious comments. We SLeoneans will begin to move our country forward and improve our own individual lives and that of our people when we learn to do the right things all the time. One of the first things we must learn - and which you and Mr. Concern have posited in this set of postings - is that we got to be honest with each other and GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE regardless of other considerations. We cannot deny the good that others achieve for our country just so that we can get ahead by stepping on them. It won't do us any good in the long-term. I am delighted that you and Mr. Concern are my fellow countrymen. Democracy is extremely difficult to establish and manage. So we have to work patiently in the public interest and never allow ourselves to be worn down by detractors. Some people have a vendentta against me for three reasons. First, I declined to join their grouping after they had pinned their hopes on my joining them. Second, I endorsed another individual who in my carefully considered estimation would be the best president under the prevailing circumstances. Third, I exposed the counter-productive background and record of the opposition and did so rather effectively and spoiling the fun of some over-ambitios political upstarts. The condition of our people and our country is no fun. They are suffering and we ought to think quite carefully how to improve their lives. This has been my mission and it will so continue regardless of the opposition and detraction. Again, I deeply appreciate your kind contribution. - JL Subject: Re: Sierra Leone's Amb. Leigh Blames Liberia's President for Fig Message: Ambassador of Sierra Leone John Leigh Most ambassadors point to pie charts, economic graphs and glossy brochures to explain what they do. They talk in niceties about economic development, trade and investing in their home countries. Ambassador John Leigh holds up bloody photographs of mutilated bodies and pictures of children with amputated limbs. "These are innocent, peasant people from small villages. These are not professional people. These are farmers who had their hands cut off," he says while holding up the photographs. "These are little babies. This is a little girl going to school, this is a peasant woman," he says pointing to photographs of Sierra Leoneans who Leigh claims have been brutalized by rebels in the West African country. Leigh says the alleged atrocities could have been prevented if the United States had recognized the true nature of the problem in Sierra Leone, a small, diamond-rich country that few people outside of Africa know anything about. In unusually blunt language for an ambassador, Leigh has strongly attacked the Clinton administration, members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and the Rev. Jesse Jackson for letting the situation in Sierra Leone deteriorate to the point where thousands have been killed. It is only recently, says Leigh in an interview, that views have shifted and the administration, the caucus and Jackson have come to see what has happened in Sierra Leone. "Right now I am very happy because there has been progress," says Leigh. "In Congress right now, they are very knowledgeable about Sierra Leone and are very keen on assisting us. The CBC now firmly supports the established government. But none of that matters much unless we get some money in the bank. They have to assist us with money in the bank." Leigh says the United States has an "obligation" and "owes" assistance to the country because many Sierra Leoneans are descendents of African American slaves who were transported to southern plantations and then escaped to return to Sierra Leone. The ambassador, who has served as his country’s Washington representative since September 1996, has not had an easy job. He first had to bring the situation in Sierra Leone to the attention of officials in Washington, D.C., and then try to do something about it. He has had to ruffle many feathers to get some attention, and he has taken on some powerful forces, like the Clinton administration. Only in the past few months have there been signs that Leigh is making progress and the situation in Sierra Leone is starting to improve, according to the ambassador. But Leigh says the situation is tenuous at best and the country is in dire need of help. Anti-government rebels, whom Leigh says have terrorized the country for a decade, are still a powerful force in the rural areas of Sierra Leone and if given a chance will probably again try to bring down the government with another campaign of violence. "They have to be stopped and put out of the country. That is the only true way that there will be peace in Sierra Leone," says Leigh. The 61-year-old American-trained attorney and holder of a master of business administration degree, took on the job of ambassador after many years of working for such U.S. corporations as Xerox, Chase Manhattan and Squibb Pharmaceuticals. He was asked to become ambassador by President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, who Leigh had supported with money and advice. Kabbah had taken office in early 1996 in the country’s first democratic elections since 1967. The election took place in the middle of a reign of terror that began in 1991 when a group of 100 guerrilla rebels launched a campaign to take over the country. The rebels, operating as the Revolutionary United Front, have seen their numbers grow into the thousands and have been backed by Charles Taylor, president of neighboring Liberia, says Leigh. It is Taylor’s aim, says Leigh, to take over Sierra Leone and its rich diamond mines in the eastern part of the country, as well as Guinea, which borders Sierra Leone on the north. For most of the 1990s, the Clinton administration did nothing about the fighting in Sierra Leone, says Leigh. In 1998, the administration decided to try to en d the fighting and reached out to rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who has ties to Taylor, says Leigh. The administration made concessions to Sankoh and forced the Sierra Leone government to give rebel members government positions, says Leigh. The proposed deal, which was supposed to end the fighting, was brokered by Jackson, who a year earlier had been named special envoy for the president and secretary of state for the promotion of democracy in Africa. "The people of Sierra Leone were completely against this agreement because it made concessions to the killers," says Leigh. A few weeks after negotiations began, another round of terror started with the rebels, according to published reports, killing as many as 6,000 people in a three-week period. A peacekeeping forced composed of African nations ended that round of terrorism and negotiations began anew to sign a peace agreement. Again, Jackson, representing the United States, played a pivotal role, says Leigh. In July 1999 a final peace agreement was signed that gave rebels representation in the government, which is something the majority of Sierra Leoneans still adamantly oppose, says Leigh. But, rebel leader Sankoh was arrested and is awaiting trial for war crimes. The peace has held, except for occasional rebel outbursts. What has raised the ire of Leigh is a perceived financial and political connection among Liberian leader Taylor—who the ambassador calls a "criminal"—Jackson, the CBC and the Clinton administration. Not your usual fodder for polite diplomatic discussion. "Charles Taylor, over the years, has maintained good relations with some American politicians," says Leigh, naming specifically Jackson and U.S. Representative Donald Payne (D-N.J.), a member of the black caucus. Through its misguided policies toward Liberia, Leigh says the United States has allowed Taylor to flourish and support the rebels. A Clinton administration official, who declined to be named, says the United States has been the primary contributor to the peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone and is now involved in financing a program to help the people of that country. "We never sided with the rebels and have always supported efforts to bring peace to the country and establish a democratic government," says the official. The official was unsure of the administration’s policy toward Taylor but says the State Department has urged him in the strongest possible terms to stay out of Sierra Leone and stop his support of the rebels. Rep. Payne, who represents a large area of Newark, N.J., calls Leigh's statement that he has had an ongoing relationship with Liberian President Taylor "outrageous." "I do not support the RUF [rebel forces]. I have never supported the RUF, they are a bunch of thugs and bandits. And I do not support Charles Taylor, either," says Payne. Subject: Re: Answer the Question Message: It appears that you do not understand the question you were asked. Let me simplify it for you: The question asked you to show us your direct reply to the Liberian ambassador's multiple letters to the Wsshington Post -- the paper that President Clinton and his cabinet dutifully read. Therefore, the only responsive answer is for you to show us your reply, if you ever replied. Otherwise, do the right thing and admit that you failed to reply. Showing us an irrelevant alleged article with a suspiciously absent date or place of publicationnto check their authencity is totally not an answer to the question: Did you reply to trhe Liberian ambassador, yes or no? When the Washington Post writer lambasted the Liberian ambassador's boss, Charles Taylor, the ambassador replied DIRECTLY to the same Washington Post, casting lies about Taylor's activites against Salone, and defending him. WHERE IS YOUR OWN REPLY, LEIGH? Subject: Re: A Potrait of Self-Delusion Message: That is not true. They rejected you when you demanded that you be the leader after the SLPP had rejected you. They did not want you because of your mental instability. "Second, I endorsed another individual who in my carefully considered estimation would be the best president under the prevailing circumstances." That is also not true. You went back to lick your spit to endorse your hero, Berewa, after you had trashed him as not fit to be your leader because the PMDC had rejected you. "Third, I exposed the counter-productive background and record of the opposition and did so rather effectively and spoiling the fun of some over-ambitios political upstarts." That is not true. Like a petulant child, you attacked Margai because you had been rejected by him for leadership of the PMDC. So, the only person you exposed was yourself -- as a mentally unstable, corrupt individual whose undiplomatic antics proved that both the SLPP and the the PMDC were right in dismissing your bid for their leadership. Subject: Pirates attack British ship off Liberia coast Message: MONROVIA, Liberia: Machete-wielding pirates boarded a British cargo ship over the weekend, forced its crew to disembark and stole the ship, the vessel's captain said Monday. A U.N. helicopter saw the 3,500-ton ship being towed away and one person was arrested in connection with the incident, U.N. spokesman Ben Malor said. Two boats towed the vessel deep into neighboring Ivory Coast's waters, Malor said. The ship, the MV Tahoma Reefer, ran into engine problems off Liberia's The ship was carrying several thousand tons of fuel used to power the vessel. Shteynberh said he was worried that if the fuel spills into the ocean, "it will cause serious ecological problems for the coast and for the region." The ship was sailing under the flag of the Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Subject: Walkers contribute their slice of £10,000 for LOAF funds Message: Walkers prepare for their fund-raiser More than 150 people took part in a walk to raise about £10,000 for children in Hastings, Sierra Leone. Walkers could choose to walk either five, 10 or 15 miles towards Fairlight. There was also a toddle-waddle through Alexandra Park for the youngsters. The money will be used to build a community centre, post office and other amenities in Hastings, Sierra Leone. The project will cost £100,000. £20,000 has been raised so far. Subject: POLITENESS PLEASE Message: As someone observed - and it’s plain for all to see he is becoming an embarrassment to his party and I doubt that they have appointed him spokesman for Mr. Solomon Berewa. How many supporters does he have in this Forum? How many support this kind of persistent rudeness? Rudeness is NOT a trademark of Sir Milton Margai’s SLPP. If he talked like that to some of my nearest and dearest, I’d put him in his place in such a way, that it would stay kicked. Please do not doubt such is possible. Even if Leigh ceased being ambassador in 2002, it’s still reasonable to expect that he should comport himself with some gentlemanly, old man dignity. Even Mugabe does not talk that way. Does he not know the meaning of the word DECORUM? If so, then why then does he speak like ragamuffin? This is disgraceful behaviour and shocking to those who look in and observe a former Sierra Leone ambassador behaving like that. Why does he assume that he is more intelligent than we are? There are lots of Sierra Leoneans who are more capable than he is. Mr. David Kieli is impeccable, from my point of view. I’ve observed him disagree on Leonenet, even with me and politeness is a winning way. The Iranian Embassy staff have that ADAB and it is praiseworthy. One the other had, since Leigh has been relieved of his duties, perhaps because of his tendencies) I should like to assure the general public that he is no longer a representative of the Sierra Leone government. He is merely representing and reflecting his won egotistical self, but he should know that he has a responsibility. John Akar was charming. I listened to his entire MY GUEST programme (in which he was David Frost-like) Subject: Re: POLITENESS PLEASE Message: Cornelius, there won't be another warning. I will simply block you for good if you mess with this forum. Cheers! /Moderator Subject: Re: POLITENESS PLEASE Message: I’m sorry if you think that I transgressed. I thought that I was writing well within Cocorioko legal and decent limits. A general excuse could be that Fools rush in where angels fear to tread and I do not intend to repeat the offence. I do not know if there are other contributors in this Forum who live in Sweden and therefore I take personal offence about the many references to welfare and drunkenness which in reality cannot refer to me. I was exhorting Mr. Leigh to be polite, that is all and to stop calling each and everybody who disagrees with him as flunky and fulumuku etc. I am now going to peerperdom and it doesn’t matter who mentions me by name or what anybody says, I will not respond. I have enough self-confidence to know who I am and I not am ruffled by somebody else’s demeaning language which in reality reflects on the abuser. It’s the worst part of me: it’s is arrogance and indifference speaking. Sorry Cornelius Subject: Politics Takes The Back Seat Message: Commentary Politics Takes The Back Seat Throughout history, leaders of nations and groups have had ample opportunities to display statesmanship and exemplary leadership when their opponents on the other side of the political spectrum lose their lives or are deeply aggrieved. In Kenya in the late 1960s, Tom Mboya, a firebrand politician’s death provided an opportunity for a show of true maturity by the politicians of that country. And a lot of them missed the opportunity to show statesmanship when they failed to recognise the qualities and the importance of their fallen colleague on the other side of the political fence and to mark that occasion with due reverence for the dead and displaying kinship considerations. Equally regrettable, Chief Leboah Jonathan of Lesotho failed to ‘shed tears’ when his political opponent died in a rather questionable way due to the fact that he led a demonstration against his government. In Guinea in the 60s, the death of Diallo Telli, one of the greatest sons of Africa who became the first OAU Secretary General was not even mentioned in the daily papers as a sad event nor was there any official tributes paid to one of the greatest sons of Africa all because he was on the other side of the political fence. Even the great Kwame Nkruma had his great stature dented a little when he failed to recognize or mourn the death of his political opponent, the great J.B. Danqua. President Hissene Habri of Chad was reported smiling when he heard the death of his political rival and opposition leader, Goukoni Weddaye. All these examples have been narrated here to demonstrate the extent to which some political commentators honour and respect our leader President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah who took time off his busy schedule to mourn the death of a political opponent on the other side of the fence in the distinguished personality of Foday Abdul Rahman Kaloko. In his own words, President Kabbah referred to the death of the Deputy Mayor of Freetown and APC Organising Secretary, Foday Abdul Rahman Kaloko as a great loss to this nation. The tolerance that President Kabbah and his government displayed in his short tribute to the fallen APC hero has caused many political analysts to hold the view that President Kabbah takes his duty as leader of Sierra Leone and therefore father of all Sierra Leoneans very seriously. Furthermore, President Kabbah deserves to be congratulated for demonstrating that all Sierra Leoneans are one and that the death of any Sierra Leonean is a source of grief for him, no matter what party, tribe, district or religion he belongs to. The New Citizen salutes President Kabbah for his magnanimity and pray that future leaders of Sierra Leone will take up where President Kabbah has left in his effort to bring about reconciliation and brotherhood in our nation Subject: One more question : Where are you? Message: Question: Was the said John Leigh subordinate to the Sierra Leone government (Foreign Minister) or had he wholly taken over that function? Was he also in charge of all the diamonds and the cash? (We know about the $100,000) That was the question, and you don’t have to read any further, really. The rest is some personal shit, about ambassadors here and there (personal note-taking…..you know what I mean? Now Leigh probably does not expect that San-San- boys are also capable of understanding simple things that he understands in his classroom. We too understand simple English and have studied some history, including that of the 2nd World War, Algeria Liberation, the Congo Crisis, and some details about Biafra, behind the scenes South Africa, Angola, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Liberia. The Arab- Israel wars too. The morning after I saw Oladipo Diya, Abacha’s No 2 man and my own Yoruba brother on TV, trembling in the chains that Abacha had put him in and accused him of treason etc, I went to the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Gustav Adolfs torg to see the man in charge of that area, Mr. Arne Ekefelt. Tall, very tall, impressive, (upper class mannerisms) I last talked to Mr. Ekefelt by phone, when he was in Tallin, two weeks before he passed away…….. You know after the Muhammadu Buhari- Tunde Idiagbon coup in Nigeria, and my wife had not heard from me for a week, (all external telephone lines had been cut a few days before the coup – except the one at Scanastra, a Swedish-Nigerian company. I knew the manager, but that was too far out of town (Port Harcourt) she was worried. The Swedish Embassy sent a team by boat, from Lagos, to look for me in Rivers State. That’s how Sweden takes care of her own. Well, the whole streets led the Oyibos to me, and guess what? I was alive! It’s not a difference between the resources of the “first” and “third” world. It’s a difference in attitude to our fellow countrymen, that even san-san boy Swedes like me, are still Swedes. Think of Gilad Shalit Ehud Goldwasser Eldad Regev Mr. Ekefelt of course knew Oladipo Diya, from Zaria, and spoke warmly about him. My heart concern was for Oladipo Diya’s LIFE. Look at what happened to Chief Moshood Abiola! The bastards. We got to the Sierra Leone situation in due course of time and there my mouth was hanging open (piece of chicken hanging from the mouth as when watching the revolution on TV, was missing.) He was fully informed. About everything. Comprehensive. Arms shipments etc. I received an education but cannot go into details – not that there is anybody on this forum who would not understand. We are Homo sapiens. He understands Sierra Leone enough to - excuse me, even tackle the job of president. Perhaps only san-san boys like me could think so? Another friend, Mr.Hugo Herm (SIDA) was very informed. He used to bring me back local newspapers, from Sierra Leone, when he visited. Nice man. I once sent him to my uncle (Olu Beccles-Davies, who I don’t think was meeting anybody….……. Had breakfast with him Sunday morning at his home. And he invited me a few times lunch at the SIDA headquarters in Stockholm. Neither Mr. Ekefelt nor Mr. Herm , nor anyone Englishman or Scot in London, or Soulay Daramy ( really nice brother Soulay) or Ambassador Cyril Foray called me fulmunuku flunkey, Swedish Social welfare drunkard etc. We had very meaningful and (some would say intelligent and informative meetings. Professor Foray and Dr. Davidson Nicol were unique as persons, humble, friendly of service to the people, invited even San-San boy like me home and to party. Surprise! I thought it was his double, but he confirmed that he was he: Last Summer I met Boris Pankin and took the train with him. Why should this Leigh ambassador think that he is more (mentally and otherwise equipped than everyone in the Foreign Office in Great Britain & Northern Ireland?) We have not even talked about the role of the Nigerians and Ghanaians (ECOMORG) which ought not to be underestimated. The Nigerian Ambassador to Stockholm (when we Nigeria Union had a welcome reception for him) told me that Nigeria had spent some $8 billion in maintaining their forces in Sierra Leone and added, “No price is too high to pay for PEACE.” I also met Dr. Tony Aidooo, Jerry Rawlings’ minister of Defence here in Stockholm, when President Rawlings party (NDC) branch was launched here (Stockholm) Mr. Bashir Mohamed, the Secretary at the Nigerian Embassy was my best friend. I love him, and some of his predecessors. An ambassador should also be, a man of the people. (For Forumites in Sweden: On May 25th, 9-12-30, there will be an African conference at ABF, Sveavägen. The Zimbabwe ambassador will be there, and so will Joe Frans. In the meantime, we are listening attentively, in this forum. We are students and san-san boys not Emeritus professors. So when we have differences of opinions, even in the philosophy department, we do not like to hear that it’s because we are flunkies and fulumunkus, because there are things we know, can do, even other simple languages that we speak, that Leigh cannot understand… Subject: Question for Amb-ass-a-dor: Message: (We know about the$100,000) That was the question, and you don’t have to read any further, really. The rest is some personal shi- about ambassadors here and there (personal note-taking…..you know what I mean? Now he probably does not expect that San-San- boys are also capable of understanding simple things that he understands. We too understand simple English and have studied some history, including that of the 2nd World War, Algeria Liberation, the Congo Crisis, and some details about Biafra, behind the scenes South Africa, Angola, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Liberia. The Arab- Israel wars too. The morning after I saw Oladipo Diya Abaca’s No 2 man and my own Yoruba brother shaking in chains that Abacha had put him in and accused him of treason etc, I went to the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Gustav Adolfs torg to see the man in charge of that area, Mr. Arne Ekefelt. Tall, very tall, impressive, (upper class mannerisms) .He had been Ambassador to Nigeria for EIGHT YEARS and I was amazed. Really amazed. a true diplomat, polite, al3rt, sharper than a razor. The meeting lasted an hour. I last talked to Mr. Ekefelt by phone, when he was in Tallin, two weeks before he passed away…….. You know after the Muhammadu Buhari- Tunde Idiagbon coup in Nigeria, and my wife had not heard from me for a week, (all external telephone lines had been cut a few days before the coup – except the one at Scanastra, a Swedish-Nigerian company. I knew the manager, but that was too far out of town (Port Harcourt) The Swedish Embassy sent a team by boat, from Lagos, to look for me in Rivers State. That’s how Sweden takes care of her own. Well the whole streets led the Oyibos to me, and guess what? I was alive! It’s not a difference between the resources of the “first” and “third” world. It’s a difference in attitude to our fellow countrymen, that even san-san boy Swedes like me, are still Swedes. Think of Gilad Shalit Ehud Goldwasser Eldad Regev Mr. Ekefelt of course knew Oladipo Diya, from Zaria, and spoke warmly about him. My heart concern was for OLadipo Diya’s life. Look at what happened to Chief Moshood Abiola! The bastards. We got to the Sierra Leone situation in due course of time and there my mouth was hanging open (piece of chicken hanging from the mouth as when watching the revolution on TV, was missing.) He was fully informed. About everything. Comprehensive. Arms shipments etc. I received an education but cannot go into details – not that there is anybody on this forum who would not understand. We are Homo sapiens. He understands Sierra Leone enough to - excuse me, even tackle the job of president. Perhaps only san-san boys like me could think so? Another friend, Mr.Hugo Herm (SIDA) was very informed. He used to bring me back local newspapers, from Sierra Leone, when he visited. Nice man. I once sent him to my uncle (Olu Beccles-Davies, who I don’t think was meeting anybody….……. Had breakfast with him Sunday morning at his home. And he invited me a few times lunch at the SIDA headquarters in Stockholm. Neither Mr. Ekefelt nor Mr. Herm , nor anyone Englishman or Scot in London, or Soulay Daramy ( really nice brother Soulay) or Ambassador Cyril Foray called me fulmunuku flunkey, Swedish Social welfare drunkard etc. We had very meaningful and (some would say intelligent and informative meetings. Professor Foray and Dr. Davidson Nicol were unique as persons, humble, friendly of service to the people, invited even San-San boy like me home and to party. Surprise! I thought it was his double, but he confirmed that he was he: Last Summer I met Boris Pankin and took the train with him. Why should this Leigh ambassador think that he is more (mentally and otherwise equipped than everyone in the Foreign Office in Great Britain & Northern Ireland?) We have not even talked about the role of the Nigerians and Ghanaians (ECOMORG) which ought not to be underscored. The Nigerian Ambassador to Stockholm (When we Nigeria Union) had a welcome reception for him) he told me that Nigeria had spent some $8 billion and added, “No price is too high to pay for PEACE.” I also met Dr. Tony Aidooo, Jerry Rawlings’ minister of Defence here in Stockholm, when President Rawlings party (NDC) branch was launched here (Stockholm) Mr. Bashir Mohamed, the Secretary at the Nigerian Embassy was my best friend. I love him, and some of his predecessors. An ambassador should also be, a man of the people. (For Forumites in Sweden: On May 25th, 9-12-30, there will be an African conference at ABF, Sveavägen. The Zimbabwe ambassador will be there, and so will Joe Frans. In the meantime, we are listening attentively, in this forum. We are students and san-san boys not Emeritus professors. So when we have differences of opinions, even in the philosophy department, we do not like to hear that it’s because we are flunkies and fulumunkus, because there are things we know, can do, even other simple languages that we speak, that Leigh cannot understand… Subject: JOHN LEIGH IN SELF-EXILE Message: OH JOHN, I WISH YOU WILL BE WISE ENOUGH IN YOUR OLD AGE TO LISTEN TO ADVICE. PLEASE SELF EXILE. IT IS NOT WORTH THIS EMBARRASEMENT. I AM NOT FOR EITHER APC,SLPP OR PMDC SO I DONT REALLY CARE BUT YOU HAVE BECOME A DISGRACE HERE. YOU STATE APC DEVALUE THE CURRENCY WHEN INFACT IT WAS IMF AND THEN SLPP STALWART MINISTER OF FINANCE JUSU SHERIFF. YOU TALK OF APC DRIVING AWAY ALL THE WHITE MEN, I WISH THEY DID MAYBE YOU WILL NOT BE SO CORRUPT, THEY CONTINUE TO RAPE US OF ALL OUR RAW MATERIALS. I KNOW WHY THEY SAY A MAN WILL BECOME A CHILD AGAIN IN HIS OLD AGE. I AM SEEING IT NOW. PLEASE DONT FORGET TO PUT ON YOUR NAPPY TONIGHT. IF YOU ARE A MAN OF ANY CALIBER AND RESPECT LEFT, YOU WILL SELF EXILE AND STOP EMBARASSING YOURSELF AND YOUR PARTY. SLPP DOES NOT DESERVE YOU, THEY HAVE DONE SOME GOODS AND BAD, YOU HAVE MADE IT WORST FOR THEM. Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH IN SELF-EXILE Message: Subject: JOHN LEIGH SHOW US YOUR REPLY TO LIBERIA'S AMBASSADOR Message: In Reply to: Re: Rev. Jesse Jackson & JL posted by Cornelius Hamelberg on May 14, 2007 at 17:11:23: Mr. Hamelberg, John Leigh is a brazen fraud. Nothing proves that more than his blatant lie that he was responsible for defeating the RUF in the USA. While the Liberian ambassador was busy publishing Taylor's proganda in the Washington Post, Mr. Leigh never once responded. By contrast, sober ambassadors always set the record straight in the Wshington Post (as did US government officials) whenever their interests were attacked in the Washington Post. So it is chracteristic of the corrupt John Leigh that he will falsify his record of dereliction of his duty to defend Sierra Leone in the USA, including in the most important newspaper in Washington DC. Here is the Liberian Ambassador's letter that Leigh faiuled to respond to. STOP PICKING ON LIBERIA Tuesday, October 30, 2001: Page A27 Colbert King's Oct. 20 op-ed column, "Pat Robertson: His Deal in Liberia," seeks to inflame public opinion by Recounting the unfortunate killing of five American nuns during the fratricidal war in Liberia nine years ago. He di not state that the culprits were never identified because of countercharges made by various warring factions. Mr. King referred to statements made by Reps. Ed Royce and Donald Payne during a House subcommittee on Africa hearing. Had he shown balance and objectivity he would have mentioned my letter to the committee that expressed regrets that it would seek to "confront" rather than engage Liberia. Nor did the subcommittee invite the Embassy of Liberia to participate in the hearing. Finally, Mr. King indicted Liberia by quoting an Amnesty International report about an alle! ged rape committed by security forces. Using that analogy, the United States should be blamed for the alleged rape incident involving an American soldier in Japan. Collective blame is unfair. During the past few years certain groups have succeeded in demonizing the Liberian administration because of their dislike of its democratically elected leader, President Charles Taylor. This policy has seriously impaired US-Liberia relations and continues to hurt and place the Liberian people at a great disadvantage. At a time when efforts are being made to reestablish Liberia's long-standing partnership with the United States, the aphorism "if you can't help us don't hurt us" is apropos. WILLIAM V. S. BULL Washington © 2001 The Washington Post Company Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH SHOW US YOUR REPLY TO LIBERIA'S AMBASSADOR Message: Alan: You are right. Ambassador Leigh at all did not reply as Liberia's active ambassador was very busy promoting the RUF and Charles Taylor in the American capital. I was on Leonenet at the time and I archived the reply that Mallam O posted when a Sierra Leonean came to the rescue of our country in the Washington Post. Here is the rebuttal that our own ambassador, John Leigh, should have written but which he failed to do, leaving the job to a patriotic Sierra Leonean. Subj: Leonenetter MohmJ writes in the WASHINGTON POST ... on Charles Taylor E-Mail This Article Printer-Friendly Version Subscribe to The Post Mr. Taylor's notorious record specifically includes his long-standing role in promoting the murderous Revolutionary United Front rebels who have raped, tortured, mutilated and killed tens of thousands of my fellow Sierra Leoneans, while displacing hundreds of thousands more since 1991. Mr. Taylor's record of genocide is fatal to Ambassador William V. S. Bull's attempt to refurbish the ex-warlord's image. Ambassador Bull's allegation that Colbert I. King [op-ed, Oct. 20] "seeks to inflame public opinion by recounting the unfortunate killing of five American nuns during the fratricidal war in Liberia nine years ago" ignores the fact that it was Mr. Taylor who in 1989, following his escape from an American jail, started that same war that has killed tens of thousands of innocent Liberians. Similarly, Mr. Bull failed to acknowledge that the "democratic" elections that resulted in the election of Mr. Taylor as president were conducted amid Liberia's raging civil war, during which 90 percent of the citizenry cowered under the murderous yoke of Mr. Taylor, who had violently seized control over them. MOHAMED A. JALLOH Derwood Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH SHOW US YOUR REPLY TO LIBERIA'S AMBASSADOR Message: Thanks to you, now we have the evidence to separate the chaff (those like Joh Leigh who falsely claim to have won the PR campaign against the RUF and Charles Taylor) and the real patriots (like Mohamed Jalloh) who actrually risked their necks to openly challenge the RUF murderers and their blood-thirsty boss, Charles Taylor. Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH SHOW US YOUR REPLY TO LIBERIA'S AMBASSADOR Message: Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH SHOW US YOUR REPLY TO LIBERIA'S AMBASSADOR Message: Or, maybe, you just want to help the fraud, John Leigh, change the subject. For me, I am just too glad that JL the fraud has been exposed for what he is -- a liar who claims credit for the fight in the U.S. against the RUF propanda machine, including that of their sponsor, Charles Taylor, when he was no where in sight to fight them in the Washington Post. The man, as John L. Son said has reduced himself to a total embarrassment for his serial LIES. Subject: A SIMPLETON WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: Leigh fails to provide any such evidence. That is because his wild, partisan claim is a figment only of his nefarious imagination. Perhaps the idle, corrupt Leigh has been spending time in movie theaters watching the new movie about Idi Amin's reign in Uganda where he expelled Asian businesses and their owners! Being a simpleton, Leigh does not know that Uganda is a different country from Sierra Leone., Who, then, would want to debate such a simpleton? Subject: Re: A SIMPLETON WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: Subject: Re: A SIMPLETON WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: Subject: Re: A SIMPLETON WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: Subject: Re: A SIMPLETON WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: Please leave the FORUM IDIOT to enjoy his imported can of soft drink as concocted for foolumunks. If the low grade dunce cannot reach $-LE parity with his imported can of soft drink how would he ever figure out why all those companies were all present in the former British West Africa when the APC came in, in 1968 but were nowhere to be seen in Sierra Leone only by the end of Momoh's tenure in early nineties! Next, our mumbo-tombo-dumbo funku-nunku will ask you for "evidence" to establish that SLeone was part of British West Africa. Thanks for teaching that idiot boy. - JL Subject: Re: A SIMPLETON WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: Even if Leigh ceased being ambassador in 2002, it’s still reasonable to expect that he should comport himself with some gentlemanly old man dignity. Does he not know the meaning of the word DECORUM? If so, why then does he speak like ragamuffin? There are lots of Sierra Leoneans who are more capable than he is. Subject: Re: A SIMPLETON WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: Another thing dear gentlemen, the pathologically egotistical Leigh wants to give the international community the idea that APC is anti-Westeren or anti-White. This is not true. Subject: Re: A SIMPLETON WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: Mr. Leigh: I would advice you to think before you write. You are exposing your ignorance by making statements like the one I have highlighted above. And in the process you expose yourself as a fool. Your problem seems to be that you do not know the difference between association and CAUSATION. The fact that some companies were around when the APC govt. took power, and allegedly were not around after that does NOT mean that the APC "drove away" those companies. Unless you want us to believe that the only reason that companies stop doing business is because the government drives them away! Surely, Mr. Leigh, not even you are that stupid. Subject: Re: A SIMPLETON WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: You are nearly 70 years old. You shouldn't need to be instructed on how to behave this late in your life. If you want to debate, please feel free to do so. However, insults have no place in a debate. And they have no place in this forum. Subject: Re: A DUMBO WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: I do not consider alphabet-soup serial moniker abusers as normal human beings out to promote the public interest. So I am free to deal with that crookish cabal of riff-raffs either tit-for-tat or just ignore them. Its up to me, not you! Further, just because you are 76 years old does not mean I am near as old, weak, sickly and dumb as you think you are. Please go drink your imported can of soft drink that was concocted for foolumunkus parity or go take drinks welfare in Sweden, you ............................ - JL Subject: Re: A SIMPLETON WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: You may be free to deal with your imaginary demons within yourself as you please (or, as they please with you). However, you are not free to deal the rules of decorum as you please. You have to obey the rules of polite society if you wish to be part of it. So, find another way to exorcize your imaginary demons. Rudfeness, as you have ben told ad nauseam is not a substitute for reason. Subject: Re: A DUMBO WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: I am beginning to get irritated with you referring to Don't you think I am resourceful enough? HOW MUCH ARE YOU WORTH LEIGH? How much money do you have in the bank? SHares? Investments? Property? Do you care to declare your assets such as they are? You may be making promisies about doing for people when you become president, but stop messing with me. Do you understand that? I had a nighmare of a ice pick decending with force through the centre of your skull......and woke up in fright. I do not think of you as a big man or hogah or anything like that. Look at how pathetic you look. Subject: Re: A SIMPLETON WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: No one expects someone like you who is notorious for never understanding anything he reads, to understand that. Subject: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: In Reply to my posting under: PA MAGGAI DESPICABLE CHICKENS you recently wrote as follows: "John Leigh, By the way, all the business that departed SLeone during APC'S incumbency are still flourishing in the Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria. Below is my APC, non-PMDC, piece. I am sure it not not at all complex for a brilliant professional like you. Thank you. - JL ====================================================== HOW APC EXPELLED DEVELOPMENT AND IMPORTED SUFFERING & TROUBLE. © By John E. Leigh In evaluating the electoral strength of the parties with well known presidential candidates, I have concluded that few people are genuinely behind the APC other than hegemonistic tribesmen and the direct and indirect beneficiaries of APC largesse that came with APC’s notorious practices of marginalization, favoritism, nepotism and outright corruption. This conclusion is not surprising because when it comes to political suffering, our people have a long memory, indeed. During my extensive traveling inside Sierra Leone I came across people in all corners of the country who vividly recall APC’s years of mass marginalization, mass poverty spreading; mass unemployment, mass company closings, the catastrophic closing of the railway, mass capital flight, mass European flight, mass missionary flight, ruinous “stangflation” (price inflation without economic growth); SLPMB ruination, confiscatory foreign exchange abuses, deep currency adulteration, continuous frivolous frolicking by the elite amidst mass breeze-sucking and continuous darkness by the masses. All this misery was followed by wanton AFRC war and destruction. The APC was in power from 1968 to 1992. But they did far less than the SLPP has done in a mere 11 years in power amidst war, coups and more war. Moreover, APC did many, many evil things that brought war upon us during their quarter century in power. SLPP has done far less worse things than the Red Fake Pro-Communist Devils. One of the worse things the APC ever did was degrading our country’s democratic multiparty political system into a one-party APC State that monopolized and abused power for nearly 20 years. The APC adulterated the national currency, the LEONE. When APC came into power One Leone equaled one dollar and fifty cents. Today it is Le3,000 equal $1.00. Thus what should have fetched you and me $4,500.00 today gives us only $1.00. The $4,499.00 is what the APC/AFRC/RUF leaders stole from our people or merely wasted through incompetence, frolicking and selfish hegemonistic marginalization. APC closed the railway and sold it for scrap, isolating nine-tenths of the country from the capital. Road accidents then proliferated, killing and maiming thousands and leaving many orphans. Marampa mines were closed and Jamil Sahid was given the keys to the diamond industry. Annual diamond exports declined from 1.2 million carats of gemstones under the SLPP in 1966 to zero gem stones exports and only 150,000 carats of industrial diamonds in 1990. Well-connected political crooks stole of the gemstones. TODAY, APC is led by Sahid Jamil's peggy-boy. 1. Bata Shoe Company; 2. UAC (United African Company); 3. UAC Motors, 3. PZ (Paterson & Zochonis), 4. PZ Motors, 5. GB Olivant, 6. Odeon Cinema Co., 7. Elder Dempster Lines Ltd. 8. Palm Lines Ltd., 9. Rawlinson & Co., 10. ABC Textiles, 11. CFAO (Cie Francaise de la’Afrique Occidentale), 12. CFAO Motors, 13. SCOA, 14. SCOA Motors, 15. Multi-Stores, 16. Kingsway, 17. Kingsway Chemists, 18. West African Drug Stores, 19. British Petroleum, 20. Texaco, 21. AGIP, 22. DELCO (Development Company of Sierra Leone), 23. SLST (Sierra Leone Selection Trust), 24. DIMINCO, 25. Stavely Motors Ltd., 26. J Milhelm, 27. Henry Duck & Co., 28. A Genet & Co., 29. M. Jourdan, 30. BoJons, 31. UTC, 32. Leventis, 33. Cold Storage, Department Stores, 34. Major & Co. Pharmaceuticals, 35. UMARCO, 36. Mining & General Services, 37. Hodges, 38. Philip George & Co., 39. O Swiessy & Co., 40. Mobil Oil Company, 41. Shell Oil Company, 42. Standard Chartered Bank, 43. Barclays Bank, etc. (plus British Airways & British Caledonean) Except for Barclays Bank, Shell and Mobile, APC drove off all of the above European businesses from Sierra Leone and 99.9% of white people as well during the time of Siaka Stevens and Joseph Momoh because of their mindless corruption and incomprehensible addiction to selfish tribalistic hegemony and stupidity. While these divestment disasters were going on, the beneficiaries of APC’S corruption, favoritism, nepotism and marginalization sat by silently enjoying their crooked benefits and never lifted a single finger to protest the cold blooded executions of Dr. Mohamed Fornah and Alhaji Ibrahim Tarqui by Siaka Stevens! Shell Company was later expelled by the NPRC and Barclays Bank was driven away by the excesses of the APC-related AFRC/RUF coupligans. Under the APC, the SLPMB defrauded producers of their earnings and wasted the proceeds of exports through corrupt practices. The result was a total loss of Sierra Leone's export trade - coffee, cacao, piassava, kola nuts, etc. worth tens of millions of ££££ and impoverishing all the areas of cash crop production. The expulsion of European businesses, the driving way of Europeans residents, the degradation of the SLPMB, the monopolization and mismanagement of foreign exchange reserves impacted the whole society: Mass unemployment, destruction of the national tax base depriving government of revenues, international isolation, and a major loss of business for the post office and airlines. Sierra Leone was in shambles. It was APC that introduced and spread the culture of "non-maintenance" in Sa Leone, just like they introduced and spread corruption. Electricity generating machinery, waterworks, bridges, roads, buildings, etc. where never maintained. They were left to deteriorate until they reached a non-functional state. What was not destroyed by lack of maintenance, the ARFC/RUF coupligan regime smashed up out of vindictiveness. All these were left for SLPP to fix. Education deteriorated significantly. Kondoh and monthly pocket money for sixth formers and college students were cancelled and books for schools and colleges became unaffordable and unavailable. Inflation reigned supreme and the relationship between income and the cost of living became in disharmony. People could no longer live within their means. Some top civil servants were unable to afford school fees for their children. Mass marginalization of non-tribesmen or insiders took place. Tens of thousands of young people and experienced professionals left the country. Poverty increased, morality declined. Election fraud was the order of the day. Kalo kalo, yuki yuki, dregging became the avenues for survival. The society deteriorated to a most catastrophic and savage war. When I returned to Freetown in early 1994 I found people emaciated and being told that they sucked breeze for dinner because there was no food security in the whole country! I can go on and on and on but please let me stop here. I can now safely say that our people do not want either the old (APC) or the new (PMDC) mumbo-tombo-dumbos over their heads. Thank you. – JL Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: I AM NOT FOR EITHER APC,SLPP OR PMDC SO I DONT REALLY CARE BUT YOU HAVE BECOME A DISGRACE HERE. YOU STATE APC DEVALUE THE CURRENCY WHEN INFACT IT WAS IMF AND THEN SLPP STALWART MINISTER OF FINANCE JUSU SHERIFF. YOU TALK OF APC DRIVING AWAY ALL THE WHITE MEN, I WISH THEY DID MAYBE YOU WILL NOT BE SO CORRUPT, THEY CONTINUE TO RAPE US OF ALL OUR RAW MATERIALS. I KNOW WHY THEY SAY A MAN WILL BECOME A CHILD AGAIN IN HIS OLD AGE. I AM SEEING IT NOW. PLEASE DONT FORGET TO PUT ON YOUR NAPPY TONIGHT. IF YOU ARE A MAN OF ANY CALIBER AND RESPECT LEFT, YOU WILL SELF EXILE AND STOP EMBARASSING YOURSELF AND YOUR PARTY. SLPP DOES NOT DESERVE YOU, THEY HAVE DONE SOME GOODS AND BAD, YOU HAVE MADE IT WORST FOR THEM. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Turns out the the truth is that he never even once replied to the many letters in the press written by the far more active promoters of the RUF in America. And yet, the buffoon John Leigh has the liba to claim that he defeated the RUF all by himself in America. Like you said, Liegh is a world notorious liar. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Hopefully it is no who you say you are. But if it is, you are a joke calling someone a liar, a crook, when you arec a criminal to the core. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Since BIO is a biggest fraudster i have known. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Address the issue, not irrelevant personalities. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Let's now address the issue as you have requested. When and where have I ever asserted as per this your claim? "Address the issue of John Leigh's serial lies bout how he single-handely defeated the rUF proganda in America. Your rant tegloma is irrelevant to Leigh's serial fraud. "Hey John E., don't forget to add John Leigh's latest lie -- that he single-handedly won the fight against the RUF in America. "Turns out the the truth is that he never even once replied to the many letters in the press written by the far more active promoters of the RUF in America. "And yet, the buffoon John Leigh has the liba to claim that he defeated the RUF all by himself in America. Like you said, Liegh is a world notorious liar." - Amidu Bio My claim is republished below for your convenience. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rev. Jesse Jackson & JL For those of you who might be confused about my view of and/or relation with Rev. Jackson, I’d like to help throw some light on these matters so as not to be misled by any idle Swedish welfare drunkard on the rampage while loaded. During my stint in DC, Liberia under ex-President Charles Taylor spent $4-$5 million dollars a year on lobbyists to give diplomatic support to his NPFL regime, the RUF and later the AFRC/RUF coupligans and Sankoh. Taylor’s worldwide propaganda as propounded by Payne, Jackson, Cohen and others to the US government, Congress and public non-government power circles was that the AFRC/RUF was fighting to eradicate corruption so as to usher in democracy and development in SLeone. Many of us knew that RUF and AFRC propaganda was entirely false - if for no other reason than the gratuitous violence and brutality inflicted on innocent villagers and miners in Kono. Hence one of my standard lines in debating lobbyists about the RUF war of the plunder of our diamonds was this: “These people (i.e. AFRC/RUF) care nothing about us Africans. They are willing to sell their country’s plundered natural resources to Europeans so they can live the high life.” After Jackson intervened to set-up Lome for power-sharing between the first Kabbah Administration and RUF Sankoh, he went public in the United States preaching that Foday Sankoh was the Nelson Mandela of Sierra Leone. I thereupon staged a counter-offensive explaining to Congress, the Clinton Administration, the diplomatic corps and the American people exactly who Foday Sankoh and Charles Taylor were really are. In the meantime, the State Department Bureau of West African affairs were packed full with the protégés of Jackson and Payne most of whom were sympathetic to Taylor and Sankoh and anti-Kabbah. Luckily for SLeone, a former Peace Corps volunteer who had served in SLeone was soon transferred to this Bureau. Payne wrote to Clinton a most pro-Sankoh set of proposals advocating benefits for the RUF exactly as proposed by Taylor for Sankoh’s benefit. I promptly countered and correctly predicted that any power-sharing won’t succeed because the RUF is interested neither in democracy nor development and that Sankoh and his men were armed criminals who “care nothing about us Africans. They are willing to sell their country’s natural resources to Europeans so they can live the high life.” I propounded this theory again and again in numerous public and private forums. To cut a long story short, at the end of the day, it was my facts and arguments that prevailed in both the US Congress, inside the Clinton Administration, in the media and among the informed public. The embassy’s position soon became the basis for a new American policy for Sierra Leone and Liberia. Payne and Jackson were discredited in DC. Their entire pro-Taylor appointees in State’s West African Bureau were transferred out. ECOMOG received $100 million is training upgrade, equipment and supplies and the soon the US supported a Chapter VII peacekeeping in Sierra Leone as well as large increases in humanitarian aid. In the meantime, Mr. Kenneth R. Timmerman included my exploits in his book about Jackson titled: SHAKEDOWN that was published by Regnergy Publishing, Inc. in DC.20001. All this does not mean that Rev. Jackson has not done great things for America. He has done a lot. But on the Foday Sankoh/RUF/NPFL/Taylor issue, he was proved wrong and our cash-strapped embassy and I were proved right on all matters under contention. We thus whipped Jackson, Cohen and his fellow millionaire lobbyists on this single matter. But before I left Washington, I attended a number of Jackson’s functions that he personally invited me to in both DC and in Chicago. In one of those functions he whispered in my ears: “you done good.” I was even featured in his newspaper or bulletin or something at one point. Thank you for your attention. - JL Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: So, Mr. Tiff-tiff. GOODBYE for good. You are as crooked as your crookish comrades in politics. - JL Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Mr. Leigh, how would you know -- when you are the only real lunatic in this forum? Have you ever known a lunatic to know reality from his illusions(your perennial problem on this form)? Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Repeating nonsense does not thereby change it to sense. Only lunmatics, in fact, repeat the same thing over and over and expect a different result the next time. It was shown yesterday that you lied when you claimed that you promptly corrected the porpaganda being promoted by the RUF in the USA. Conclusive evidence was shown that proved that you did not respoly to any of the Liberian ambassador's published propaganda in the Wshington Post -- the leading newspaper in the USA. Instead, a private citizen picked up the slack left by your incompetencce. If you have evidence that you replied to the savvy and much more competent Liberian ambassador, why don't you publish your reply? Otherwise, please spare us repeated demonstrations of your lunacy in repeating your lies over and over again, while wisshing that such repitition would somehow transform them into truths. You are a lunatic, John Leigh. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: When will you ever understand anything you read? To say that you should not introduce irrelevant personalities does not mean that I was referring to myself. Clearly, I was not -- since my reference was to your alleged Tegloma "criminal" who has nothing to do with the issue of your nonsensical question. Koker, you should take the advice many people have given you and go back to primary school and then try to work your way to Form Five so you can retake the GCE O Level English for the third time. Maybe that will cure you of your inabilkity to understand English. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: But from the horse's mouth, you are irrelevant. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Alas, Koker, your chronic problem expands -- you not only don't understand what you read, but you also have shown that you don't understand what you write. Proving your identity -- by unique, uncomprehending reputation -- twice over, Koker. There is no escape from your affliction. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: In Reply to: Re: PA MAGGAI DESPICABLE CHICKENS posted by Yaya Fanusie on May 11, 2007 at 18:00:16: "That is issue is not important to most of us just simple mind like you who could not handle complex issues." Yaya Fanusi Yaya: You are absolutely right about JOhn Leigh. He truly lacks the ability to understand not just complex issues, but even the simplest ones. The truth is that Leigh is a fool. Check out his attempt to show that he is not obbsessed with Charles Margai, the man who correctly rejected the mad Leigh's demand for leadership of the PMDC. THis is what Leigh claimed. "Except for Barclays Bank, Shell and Mobile, APC drove off all of the above European businesses from Sierra Leone and 99.9% of white people as well during the time of Siaka Stevens and Joseph Momoh because of their mindless corruption and incomprehensible addiction to selfish tribalistic hegemony and stupidity." Question: Where is the evidence that any businesses, much less European businesses, were ever "driven off from Sierra Leone" by any government, much less the APC? Leigh fails to provide any such evidence. That is because his wild, partisan claim is a figment only of his nefarious imagination. Perhaps the idle, corrupt Leigh has been spending time in movie theaters watching the new movie about Idi Amin's reign in Uganda where he expelled Asian businesses and their owners! Being a simpleton, Leigh does not know that Uganda is a different country from Sierra Leone., Who, then, would want to debate such a simpleton Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: What I said about the Old APC cannot be said about the SLPP at all. They are two separate and distinct organizations. First, international businesses do not run away from SLeone when the SLPP is in power. On the contrary they flow in. Right now SLPP has begun to attact foreign investments into SLeone - British Airways, Astreaus Airline, several commercial banks, a kimberlite mining company and so on. This infow of investments contrasts with the catastrophic divestments under the APC as detailed in my lead article addressed to Dr. Fanusie. Second, it is true that there are many APC transplants into the SLPP. As a matter of fact, in the recent past two of them reached high office in the SLPP as Party Chairman & Secretary General. These two organized the Makeni ComBention 18 months or so after their terms of office had expired. These two have now been voted out of office and genuine SLPPers have been elected in their stead. For your information, many SLPPers had to join the APC because SLeone was a one-party APC state imposed on the country by the APC. Third, a lot of KDDAs and Ekutays remain in leadership roles in APC. And your leader was trained by Sahid Jamil. I also noticed that terribly bad people populate the higher ranks of your party. Accordingly, I respectfully beg to differ with your conclusion that what I wrote about APC can equally be applied to the current SLPP. Thanks. - JL Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: As I see it, your argument is reasonable in my estimation. True, people from all ethnic groups helped destroy our country and profit is the be all and the end all. However, tax revenues are another key consideration from public policy viewpoint. The companies the APC drove away paid taxes. Under the APC, bribes were demanded instead. Those who paid bribes got foreign exchange. Those who did not were economically strangulated. Taxes benefit the public interest. Bribes benefit corrupt individuals and starve the government. This is thus a critical difference between the businesses under the SLPP government and those under the APC. Under the APC, tax-paying corporations fled SLeone. Those that replaced them are not famous for paying taxes. Further, the tax-paying corporations before they fled our country, employed many of our people, some in responsible senior professional positions and reinvested in SLeone. Those that the APC had replace them do not. They hire their own only in senior positions and export their profits. But in all truthfulness, some have started to reinvest but they still do not hire Africans in senior positions as far as I know. Multinational corporations are better for SLeoneans than Ma & Pa businesses. As for a new minning polcy, I am very curious because I do not know the details of the current kimberlite deal. I had a falling out on the minning policy with another official years ago when I suggested an economic incentives' approach rather than a police security approach to stabilize our diamond industry. At anyrate, I most certainly appreciate your arguments. Thank you. JL Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Sir,can you name these non-tax paying corporations that replaced their tax-paying counterparts under the APC era? "As for a new mining policy,I am very curious because I do not know the details of the current Kimberlite deal." Sir,I will suggest that you call MOSERAY FADIKKA who is Pa Kabbah/Berewa's peggy-boy and Director for the Kimberlite mining project.This guy is one of the richest Salone man in the country in space of four years through the kimberlite mining project.He reports directly to his MASTERS.Pa Kabbah/Berewa even rewarded him for a job welldone for stealing our money through this project THE ORDER OF THE ROKEL HONOURS. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: If APC were to come back to power, foreign investors will back off. Their record of business shakedowns and kapu-kapus from European companies was hedious. 2. ".... please look at the BIGGER PICTURE of the past 10yrs,and the suffering of our people.Any TRUE PATRIOT will not ADVOCATE for a CONTINUATION OF THE KABBAH/BEREWA REGIME/POLICIES." - BUFORD HWY That's one of our problems - looking back only 10 years! If we limit ourselves to only 10 years back, you will have no idea how much our country has descended into the abyss of failure solely on the basis of wicked, stupid and incompetent political leadership and willing followership. We must look as far back as the days of Sir Milton, critically analyzing the degradation of conditions in our country as left to us by the British. That's when you will get the whole picture. It was a good country then. Today, it is hell on Earth but progress is being made, even if too slowly! The last ten years have not been perfect. In fact, many bad problems persist. But they are far more successful that APC's quarter century of abject misery, extreme backwardness, meanness and utter stupidity. As for the brand new political grouping, their leader has achieved nothing in his entire life sufficiently material for our country to be placed in his hands as well as in the hands of those he has chosen to surround himself with such as ...................................................................................................................... - Please I don't wish to get started as that BAHAVE YOURSELF will be on my case. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Sir,you are absolutely right,because CORRUPTION will not be the order of the day,when the SUN takes power.The ACC will be very EFFECTIVE in PROSECUTING CORRUPT POLITICIANS and CIVIL SERVANTS. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Finally, based on my understanding of who and who are in the APC elite, together with APC's record of mal-governance, the SUN will never be able to clean up corruption. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Sir,who are these New APC ELITES that you think will not be able to clean up corruption? Please give us their names so that we can do BACKGROUND CHECKS on them. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: But the foreign investors that were brought to Sierra Leone and British West Africa by the Colonial Administration and nurtured by prior SLPP Governments but constructively expelled by APC's policies, divested pricesely because they WERE NOT CORRUPT - Bata Shoe Co., British Airways, SCOA, French Company, PZ, etc. left because they were economically stangulated. They were willing to pay taxes but not bribes. So they were economically strangulated and all of them departed our shores - but those companies are flourishing in Nigeria, Ghana and the Gambia. Poor, poor SLeone, we failed miserably again! As for naming names, that's not my cup of tea. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: NONSENSE. Your totally ignorant answer proves that you know absolutely nothing about the relationship between employment and foreign investment. Which is not surprising, since you have never been able to understand the simplest concept in economics. And yet, like the clueless fraud that you are, you brazenly misrepresent yourself as knowledgeable in economics. Man, Leigh, what you stated above is something that would earn you an "F" in my first year economics class. My advice to you is to go back and start learning economics (they accepot cleege students up to age 95, so don't worry about being in your 70s). Then if -- and that's a bif "if" judging by ytour plunbless ignorance) --you pass come back and learn economics from seasones economists. Then, and only then, start talking about economics. Not before. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Are you saying that it is impossible? I say there is some fact in that statement made by JL. It is not completely accurate but there is a semblance relationship between investment( F or L) and labor( Employment). Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: He and members of his crookish cabal are not going to win so they are angry and looking for a fight with cool guys like us. I will give them absolutely no encouragement whatsoever. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: If you can't match the wits of other people, try learning from them. It might make it less necessary for you to resort to insults in frustration at your inability to rebut their reasoned argument. You are much too old (approaching your 70s) to need to be reminded repeatedly to behave yourself. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Now you MR Jalloh has a no right crying down someone when you do not sure of what you are saying. Here is the question/statement for discussion again: Do you really think that there is no relationship between Foriegn Investement and Employment. Since you have repeatedly refused to answer, i will give you one more chance to redeem yourself or i will call it a day and class you as a wanna be ECONOMIST. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Koker, in the very unlikely event that your outlandish claim is true -- given your tital ignorance of economics -- you must have attended the same "university" that gave the ignorant John Leigh a degree (assuming he has one). Like I said, stop wasting time brinmging irreelvant matters about people who are not involved in my debnate with you. It might -- just might -- give you additional time to learn to understand what you read. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: If you do not answer, then that means consent And that my friend makes you a QUACK Economist. I Will no longer discuss this issue with you again. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Runing away will not help since the truth is always there with you -- no matter how hard you claose your eyes. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: He has more names in this forum than the FBI has in all it's files. This loony bin resident is a wild man. And his bombastic claims? That's something else! Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: They include the questions of your fraud in claiming falsely that yoiu defeated the RUF in the USA, your corruption in giving bribes to aid and abet the convict, President Kabbah to violate the order barring him from public office, and your basless arguments (based on lies about corporate taxes and "run away" businesses). Leigh, you can run, but you will never be able to hide from reality. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Please show us the figures of revenues from corporate taxes. Otherwise, please admit that you have no verifiable basis for your opinion. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Your ignorance is astonishing. You start from a lie that the APC drove away businesses and end up with a statement showing your total ignorance of the identity of Sierra Leonee's exploiters. As the saying goes, there is no fool greater than he who knows not that he is a fool. That is your problem. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: What evidence do you have that any business ran away from Salone because of any govt? None. But because you lack discipline in any and everything you do -- whether it is language or thought -- you simply rum amok with your childish, wishful-thinking rants. You run away from the truth when confronted with your lies -- like your lie that you won the battle against the RUF by yourself, when in fact you went into hiding to avoid doing the job for which you were getteing as ambassador -- defending Salone against others like the Liberian ambassador. It is way past time for you to grow up, Leigh. You are almost 70 years old, in case you don;t realize that. We are tired of your pathological lies. Subject: Re: FOR DR. YAYA FANUSIE re APC Message: Subject: WHAT TYPE OF FORUM IS THIS? Message: In Reply to: For Mr. Tamba Gborie posted by John E. Leigh on May 14, 2007 at 11:44:53: I haven't started with you yet. John Ernest Leigh, you crazy bastard son of a bitch called Haja Mamie Kanneh Leigh Moigula whose antecedents were a Muslim family, the Kannehs, you may be going for broke, but WHO are you calling “idle Swedish flunkey welfare drunks”? You talking to me? You couldn’t even SPEAK proper English on CNN. I’m writing a private letter to Solomon Berewa, to put you on leash because I notice that your prospects of a horizon beyond the grave is very limited indeed and your demise, should not affect his campaign, your sycophantic contributions to this Forum did not affect the outcome of your vain attempt to gain a nomination from anyone of the over 350 delegates at the SLPP Makeni Convention. This was only the beginning of your bad luck, you pompous ignoramus. Leigh weeps Subject: Re: WHAT TYPE OF FORUM IS THIS? Message: Subject: Re: WHAT TYPE OF FORUM IS THIS? Message: Subject: Re: WHAT TYPE OF FORUM IS THIS? Message: Foday mansaray Subject: Re: WHAT TYPE OF FORUM IS THIS? Message: I know who " Baldhead" is. THose who did not have cars when they were going to school have their eyes full of such things, now. Some don't have real women..... When You Gonna wake up? God don't make no promises that He don't keep. When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up Counterfeit philosophies have polluted all of your thoughts. When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up You got innocent men in jail, your insane asylums are filled, When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up You got men who can't hold their peace and women who can't control their tongues, When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up Spiritual advisors and gurus to guide your every move, When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up Do you ever wonder just what God requires? When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up You can't take it with you and you know that it's too worthless to be sold, When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up There's a Man up on a cross and He's been crucified. When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up Subject: Re: WHAT TYPE OF FORUM IS THIS? Message: Subject: Re: WHAT TYPE OF FORUM IS THIS? Message: Subject: Re: WHAT TYPE OF FORUM IS THIS? Message: Subject: Apologies from Cornelius Message: My brother-in-law is a psychiatrist here in Stockholm. Moses was the humblest man that walked on the surface of this earth. Subject: Re: Apologies from Cornelius Message: Subject: Re: Apologies from Cornelius Message: Peace. Subject: Re: Apologies from Cornelius Message: Thank you for being so gracious and so kind. I appreciate. What the Almighty wants from us these days is not sacrifice, but CHESED and deeds of loving kindness. A didactic piece of history of history in our scr1pture about the reason why Moses, did not get to the Promised Land (anger). Perhaps you care to tell the story? Yes Sir, restraint, maturity, and good judgement just when you have been irritated to the point where you are about to deliver the first slap. STOP! So he hangs out with those he calls san-san boys like you and me and Kabs? Terrific. We should gang up on him and teach him a lesson that he will NEVER forget before he is laid to rest, six feet deep. Before that he should be given as many medals as Idi Amin, and what he needs is a film star, if only knew how. So, the Mansarays are BANKERS! Good Forum behaviour will secure us some more bread to expand that business! Even Jones might change his mind about going into politics if he had enough money or secure the presidency , without a doubt, they could chop his billions and then go off and do as they really want to do, i. e. to hell with him, and vote for their conscience. Ah! According to our general understanding the Mansarays are like the Cohens, the Sheriffs, the Smiths, Jones, Bahs, Jallohs, Kamaras and Camaras, Contehs. Were I to have read somewhere that Foday Mansaray did this or that (e g got the Nobel Prize, next question would have to be, “Which one???” That’s two questions really: 1. Which Foday Mansaray? And 2, Which Nobel Prize (Peace? Economics? Literature? Medicine? Chemistry?) And if it’s a Cohen that’s won it, the joke is his Jewish mother might ask him, “Only One prize, son?” Deep down I guess I am a little arrogant. Sorry about that. I know what I like, you know what you like and no one has a monopoly on paradise. A question of taste in, e.g. Literature About arrogance, if I ignored some things ( like a madman ranting and raving and stomping on the same spot , foaming at the mouth , up to his wig and flying saucer ears with the same points, in cheap nigger double speak, then I’d be giving in to my own arrogance. If I ignored, that is. Sometimes, that’s why I don’t. I live in a very very different world. Nothing to do with Social welfare Sierra Leone Independence Party etc. Remember blind man in the Quran? So it’s often a clear choice between arrogance and irritation. Well if Leigh talks like that to us, then what about his San-san ancestors and relatives in that there bush in which he is probably their only light? My wife, who in some ways is super-intellectual, doesn’t talk like that to me….. Now you notice again that he starts his codswallop about the old APC? So tiring. To report to his boss who he wants to reward him (with a post) for preaching the anti-APC gospel of the SLPP to people who make a difference. Yes, the Sankoh as Nelson Mandela received a lot of media space. What does he think that we are a bunch of illiterates who can’t read? We know about Ghana, Nigeria, China, Egypt, Iran, India, Pakistan, and Chile, all about Iran, Jordan, and not Sierra Leone with a war going on???? There are many real facts about the SLPP of today that would make him loosen up and probably fart or have a more serious series of liquids or solids accidents within his Makeni-blue trousers, on reading about them. (Such a disgrace for an Honourable Mandinka man that he must commit suicide, if it’s done in public….. so out of consideration you could spare them that……. Foday of the ADB has front (opin tit) like my mother, when he smiles (or is my memory getting fuzzy?) And I guess that’s one difference between you: do the three of you share the same winning smile? I have the slight “open tit” too. Sometimes it is a sacrifice – after all there are other places to be, people to see, other things to do, company to keep. I was explaining to my in-law yesterday and he was laughing at me. “You haven’t been there for 37 years, you are a Swede!” he said. “YOU are only a guest!” During the Lebanon War It was the whole of the Bantaba vs. me. That’s where the hatred started and has been there (on their side) since then. He can also go to hell and stay there. I am a very sociable person in real life full equipped and well qualified with Mr. Kabbah’s SEVEN NATIONAL VALUES. Not exactly humble am I? I might get to Sierra Leone, when things settle down after the elections. I hope Blyden, the former Random Sampler, will have a few Potahs waiting for me when I arrive Subject: Re: Apologies from Cornelius Message: Peace. Subject: Re: Apologies from Cornelius Message: Many thanks for your kind comments which I deeply appreciate. However, I must state that neither you nor Kabs fit into my classification of 'san san boys'. You are definitely far from being considered such. You are my heroes for organizing this forum and keeping it going even-handedly. For your information, in my book san san boys are primary school drop outs who attend to the lowest jobs in society. They work physically the hardest, receive the lowest pay - that is if they get paid at all - and are thoroughly UNIFLUENTIAL. They don't even listen to the advice of other san san boys. Usually, san san boys hardly ever travel beyond a fifteen miles radius of their places of employment other than a very few times throughout their entire lives. The plight of our san san boys ought to be a focus of the attention of all good governments in SLeone. You and Kabs are quite different. You are very influential. You are behind an intellectual facility doing much to advance the understanding of the public interest of our country, Liberia, etc. You are both college gradutes and world travelers. You've never slapped your high school principal or spent two years in form four and then flunked out. You are not papa's boys but self-made men. You belonged or are sympathetic to political parties that had their origins in collegiality, not secretive one-manism coupled with selfish dynastic pretentions and double-cross, deceit, deception, dulpicity and me, me me and myself. You have sacrificed a lot. You are not foolumunkus flunkies surrounding yourselves with a crookish cabal of foolumunkus, tiff-tiff lawyers, dumbo bangucrooks, alphabet soup idiots and opportunists who can turn against you in a flash. You fellows are achievers. And I have never run away from your forum because you fellows are doing and excellent job for which I am grateful. But lets face it, there are a whole lot of dunces, short-tempered wild welfare drunkards and crackpots writing voluminous trash upon trash in this forum and overworking Dr. Nahim with craziness. Kissy Craseyard is presently over populated. But not everybody condemned there is actually crazy. Some are plain so chupid, their phoolumunkuness is being mistaken for craziness. Your patience in dealing with alphabetsoup trash moniker-abusers is legendary. In sum, you fellows are doing a wonderful job for which many of us are truely appreciative. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: Apologies from Cornelius Message: Thank you for being so gracious and so kind. I appreciate. What the Almighty wants from us these days is not sacrifice, but CHESED and deeds of loving kindness. A didactic piece of history in our scr1pture about the reason why Moses, did not get to the Promised Land (anger, and other reasons). Perhaps you care to tell the story? Yes Sir, restraint, maturity, and good judgement just when you have been irritated to the point where you are about to deliver your first slap. STOP! (I haven’t delivered mine yet) I’d like to see Rev Kabs count on the fingers of his left hand, exactly how many times he has actually turned the other cheek. So he hangs out with those he calls san-san boys like you and me and Kabs? Terrific. We should gang up on him and teach him a lesson that he will NEVER forget before he is laid to eternal rest, six feet deep. Before that he should be given as many medals as Idi Amin, and what he needs is a film star, if only he knew how. She’d leave him if that’s all he can talk about and he cannot make her SMILE……( Jerry Rawlings would have much more to talk about and Miss Hollywood would prefer him , I think…… So, the Mansarays are BANKERS! Good Forum behaviour will secure us some more bread to expand that business? Even Jones might change his mind about going into politics if he had enough money or secure the presidency , without a doubt, they could chop his billions and then go off and do as they really want to do, i. e. to hell with him, and vote for their conscience. Ah! According to our general understanding the Mansarays are like the Cohens, the Sheriffs, the Smiths, Jones, Bahs, Jallohs, Kamaras and Camaras, Contehs, Sesays (Lets leave the Berewa out of this) Were I to read somewhere that Foday Mansaray did this or that (e g. got the Nobel Prize) next question would have to be, “Which one???” That’s two questions really: 1. Which Foday Mansaray? And 2, Which Nobel Prize (Peace? Economics? Literature? Medicine? Chemistry?) And if it’s a Cohen that’s won it, the joke is his Jewish mother might ask him, “Only One prize, son?” Deep down I guess I am a little arrogant. Sorry about that. I know what I like, you know what you like and no one has a monopoly on paradise. It’s a question of taste in, e.g. Literature About arrogance, if I ignored some things ( like a madman ranting and raving and stomping on the same spot , foaming at the mouth , up to the hairpiece on the crown of his head and around his Yoda ears, with the same points, in cheap nigger doublespeak, then I’d be giving in to my own arrogance. If I ignored, that is. Sometimes, that’s why I don’t. I live in a very very different world. Nothing to do with Social welfare Sierra Leone Independence Party etc. So it’s often a clear choice between arrogance and irritation. Well if Leigh talks like that to us, then what about his San-san ancestors and relatives in that there bush in which he is probably their only light? My wife, who in some ways is super-intellectual, doesn’t talk like that to me. Now you notice again that he has re-started his codswallop about the old APC? So tiring. To report to his boss who he wants to reward him (with a post) for preaching the anti-APC gospel of the SLPP to people who make a difference. Yes, the Sankoh as Nelson Mandela received a lot of media space. What does he think that we are a bunch of illiterates who can’t read? We know about Ghana, Nigeria, China, Egypt, Iran, India, Pakistan, and Chile - all about Iran, Jordan, and not Sierra Leone with a war going on???? There are many real facts about the SLPP of today that would make him loosen up and probably fart or have a more serious series of liquids or solids accidents within his Makeni-blue trousers, on reading about them. (Such a disgrace for an Honourable Mandinka man that he must commit suicide, if it’s done in public….. so out of consideration we could spare them that……. Foday of the ADB has front (opin tit) like my mother, when he smiles (or is my memory getting fuzzy?) And I guess that’s one difference between you: do the three of you share the same winning smile? I have a slight “open tit” too. Sometimes it is a sacrifice – after all there are other places to be, people to see, other things to do, company to keep. I was explaining to my (Australian) in-law yesterday and he was laughing at me. “You haven’t been there for 37 years, you are a Swede!” he said. I was banned from Bantaba in Cyberspace, because I said that some of the people who are criticising Yahya Jammeh, are a hundred times worse than Yahya. The guy who runs it (is a cousin to my Gambian friend, he has met me, BANNED Me. No freedom of speech? His reply: “YOU are only a guest!” During the Lebanon War It was the whole of the Bantaba vs. me. That’s where the hatred started and has been there (on their side) since then. He can also go to hell and stay there. I am a very sociable person in real life, fully equipped and well qualified with Mr. Kabbah’s SEVEN NATIONAL VALUES. Not exactly humble am I? I might get to Sierra Leone, when things settle down after the elections. I hope Blyden, the former Random Sampler, will have a few Potahs waiting for me when I arrive Subject: Re: WHAT TYPE OF FORUM IS THIS? Message: Where were you when they were raping our grandmothers and amputating the hands and feet of our brothers? Were you shocked then? I wanted to add that the first prime minister of Nigeria was a humble soul and a former primary school teacher….. Subject: Re: WHAT TYPE OF FORUM IS THIS? Message: Bob Marley will call you a Crazy Baldhead. You nar old craseman for true. Cornie, you need help. Go nar kissy crase yard now. You have lost it. The welfare system in Sweden is not going to take care of your old crazy baldhead till you die. Crazy Old Pa. Way you worwor so lek baboon. Baboon Suck Lime Cornie Subject: Re: WHAT TYPE OF FORUM IS THIS? Message: I like the songs: is this love/ Jammin/ One love/Africa Unite/ I'm signing off for now..... Subject: Re: WHAT TYPE OF FORUM IS THIS? Message: Junor Marvin, with Bob Check out Sonny Okusun tooo ( 80s) Subject: Re: WHAT TYPE OF FORUM IS THIS? Message: I have a flat stomach ( right weight for me height ( 6 feet) you may be suffering from an inferiority complex , that's why you don't use your name and that is what is so boring about this forum. Natural black hair (my parents got together when they were in the first flush of their youth, that’s why…… Your crudities don't touch me, but define your king Jimmy origins, coming as you obviously do, from the gutter. Your language reflects that. And to keep my lips pure, I wouldn’t say what you write….. Go on being anonymous with names like Baldhead, Joko Lenga, and welfare system. Go on writing asking yourself a question under one false name and answering it under another. You want men to praise you. Go on praising yourself under a false name. You think that I am not here for a reason? I notice that this is mostly a male dominated forum. Subject: Rev. Jesse Jackson & JL Message: For those of you who might be confused about my view of and/or relation with Rev. Jackson, I’d like to help throw some light on these matters so as not to be misled by any idle Swedish welfare drunkard on the rampage while loaded. During my stint in DC, Liberia under ex-President Charles Taylor spent $4-$5 million dollars a year on lobbyists to give diplomatic support to his NPFL regime, the RUF and later the AFRC/RUF coupligans and Sankoh. Taylor’s worldwide propaganda as propounded by Payne, Jackson, Cohen and others to the US government, Congress and public non-government power circles was that the AFRC/RUF was fighting to eradicate corruption so as to usher in democracy and development in SLeone. Many of us knew that RUF and AFRC propaganda was entirely false - if for no other reason than the gratuitous violence and brutality inflicted on innocent villagers and miners in Kono. Hence one of my standard lines in debating lobbyists about the RUF war of the plunder of our diamonds was this: “These people (i.e. AFRC/RUF) care nothing about us Africans. They are willing to sell their country’s plundered natural resources to Europeans so they can live the high life.” After Jackson intervened to set-up Lome for power-sharing between the first Kabbah Administration and RUF Sankoh, he went public in the United States preaching that Foday Sankoh was the Nelson Mandela of Sierra Leone. I thereupon staged a counter-offensive explaining to Congress, the Clinton Administration, the diplomatic corps and the American people exactly who Foday Sankoh and Charles Taylor were really are. In the meantime, the State Department Bureau of West African affairs were packed full with the protégés of Jackson and Payne most of whom were sympathetic to Taylor and Sankoh and anti-Kabbah. Luckily for SLeone, a former Peace Corps volunteer who had served in SLeone was soon transferred to this Bureau. Payne wrote to Clinton a most pro-Sankoh set of proposals advocating benefits for the RUF exactly as proposed by Taylor for Sankoh’s benefit. I promptly countered and correctly predicted that any power-sharing won’t succeed because the RUF is interested neither in democracy nor development and that Sankoh and his men were armed criminals who “care nothing about us Africans. They are willing to sell their country’s natural resources to Europeans so they can live the high life.” I propounded this theory again and again in numerous public and private forums. To cut a long story short, at the end of the day, it was my facts and arguments that prevailed in both the US Congress, inside the Clinton Administration, in the media and among the informed public. The embassy’s position soon became the basis for a new American policy for Sierra Leone and Liberia. Payne and Jackson were discredited in DC. Their entire pro-Taylor appointees in State’s West African Bureau were transferred out. ECOMOG received $100 million is training upgrade, equipment and supplies and the soon the US supported a Chapter VII peacekeeping in Sierra Leone as well as large increases in humanitarian aid. Later, it agreed to exclude the RUF from power and to try Sankoh and Taylor for war crimes. In the meantime, Mr. Kenneth R. Timmerman included my exploits in his book about Jackson titled: SHAKEDOWN that was published by Regnergy Publishing, Inc. in DC.20001. All this does not mean that Rev. Jackson has not done great things for America. He has done a lot. But on the Foday Sankoh/RUF/NPFL/Taylor issue, he was proved wrong and our cash-strapped embassy and I were proved right on all matters under contention. We thus whipped Jackson, Cohen and his fellow millionaire lobbyists on this single matter. But before I left Washington, I attended a number of Jackson’s functions that he personally invited me to in both DC and in Chicago. In one of those functions he whispered in my ears: “you done good.” I was even featured in his newspaper or bulletin or something at one point. Thank you for your attention. - JL Subject: Re: Rev. Jesse Jackson & JL Message: Mr. Leigh, if what you claim is true, you should be able to provide evidence showing it to be so. I remember asking where the Sierra Leone ambassador was when Liberia's ambassador to the USA was writing pro-Taylor letters to the editor published in the influential Washington Post in 1999 and 2001. You were the ambassador of SL -- and you did absolutely nothing to counter Taylor's lies in the most influential paper in the capital of the USA. Instead, it was left to a private citizen who stated he was a native of Sierra Leone, to repeatedly write a rebuttal to Taylor's ambassador's lies in the Washington Post. Now, you come here to tell blatant lives about how you single-handedly countered Taylor's lies! You, Mr. Leigh,. are a shameless liar. Therefore, I invite you to show us where, when and how you "propounded this theory again and again in numerous public and private forums." Subject: Re: Rev. Jesse Jackson & JL Message: Subject: Re: Rev. Jesse Jackson & JL Message: I wrote (especially) poetry in the 70s. Cannot give a grade to my private expressions. I didn’t go barefoot to school. Later I rebelled at having to have a white handkerchief (at all times) nails cut and clean – at all times (nowadays at havdalah, clean nails reflect the Havdala candle light. (My uncle Jeff and My aunt Nelly, my guardian in London – a Dutch lady, was later on personal secretary to Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa the first prime minister of Independent Nigeria – and her husband, a prominent Ikoyi Lawyer (I stop there, in order not to embarrass anyone) except to add that she taught me impeccable manners (did not say “lie” but fib, not sweat, but “perspire”. Soon enough, when I got back to MY mother in Sierra Leone, the home training of Creoledom set in. Of course, I wanted to be like other kinds. One thing more about me, I am VERY good with older people. – of any cultural background or nationality. My best friend who I still mourn, who I loved and so much and who taught me so much was in his nineties. Labels like intellectual should not be mis-applied…. Lastly, I am not materialistically minded, content with little and have never lived in want and what extras I have goes in to donations to those who are needier than I. Subject: Re: Rev. Jesse Jackson & JL Message: http://www.google.se/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADBR_enSE222SE222&q=superiority+complex Having never been the recipient of “social welfare” and not being a drunkard except at Purim (I bless the wine before I drink it) why do you go out of your way to label “Swedish welfare drunkard”? So that you can feel better? Do you know me? Does your secretary? The low feeling must be a result of being sent to (reform) school in Yonibana, whilst I was attending primary school in Fulham in London and learning proper manners. I was no missionary boy you understand? You have talked so much of this past (1998) that it's like a gramophone record that even your then secretary must have got tired of hearing. It’s probably your only dinner conversation today and tomorrow evening too. We know most of all that. You give the impression that you single-handed master-minded or did most of the things you were guided and helped to do. You were sacked in 2002. WHY? London knows and understands Sierra Leone, better than you or Washington. It was Tony Blair that sent British troops. A lot of hullabaloo has been made about Sandlines too….. In other words there was a level of co-ordination between/ among concerned governments – not only about Sierra Leone, but other countries too. That and your ”you done good " is not an election issue, even if it is the means whereby you keep your self alive and the focus of Cocorioko attention. Who praises Sorious Samura, whose "Cry Freetown" was the catalyst that al3rted world attention about atrocities being committed in Sierra Leone? Has he appeared on this forum to claim any fame of to boast about bravery? What do you have to say about him? We've watched most of his programmes on CNN where you had your five minutes…. Subject: Re: Rev. Jesse Jackson & JL Message: By contrast, sober ambassadors always set the record straight in the Wshington Post (as did US government officials) whenever their interests were attacked in the Washington Post. So it is chracteristic of the corrupt John Leigh that he will falsify his record of dereliction of his duty to defend Sierra Leone in the USA, including in the most important newspaper in Washington DC. Subject: Re: Rev. Jesse Jackson & JL Message: Subject: Re: Rev. Jesse Jackson & JL Message: Subject: BAN CORNELIUS HAMELBERG Message: Please ban Cornelius. He has been kicked out of Leonenet because of this same mammy cuss. Corny is a disgrace. The man is approaching 70 years, but he is still a fool. Corn, you need help. This guy has a mental problem. Subject: Re: BAN CORNELIUS HAMELBERG Message: I am subscribed to leonenet and most active there. The only "mami cuss" (and I am better friends with that guy than you will ever be with me) was because in his fiftieth thesis advocating the "recolonisatiuon of Sierra Leone", I cursed him. The one who was advocating re-colonisation is the one who should have been banned, not me. AS said, that guy ( I understand him) is my FRIEND. Subject: Re: BAN CORNELIUS HAMELBERG Message: Subject: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: Thanks for your inquiry copied below for the convenience of all. Please note that an unavoidable fact of life is that people are constantly faced with having to make choices among the opportunities and problems confronting them. And what is truly problematical is that one’s ideal preference may not be among the alternatives from which one has to choose. So we do the next best thing according to our individual estimation: we select what we think is the best choice among the alternatives available. This is the constant situation facing each of us as we ponder the future of our country and just vas we do as when we conduct our everyday lives. And that is what is going on in Sierra Leone today for one reason or the other. I do not believe that we are a cursed nation as you have asked although aspects of our History are quite repugnant. But we do have much positive aspects in our History also. I thus believe that we can move forward as a nation. I also know that what one individual may consider as failed politicians, others may support as the only hope given the choices available. We have tried war. It was corrupted. It did not work. In fact, the damage in blood and treasury was catastrophic. We have approved and tried coups, even with dancing in the streets. Those have not worked either. We have tried One-Party dictatorship of Comrades lasting almost a quarter century. That also did not work. In fact, the backward long slide led to national degradation and eventually to a most violent war that shocked the conscience of mankind worldwide. We are now trying democracy – like many successful nations have done. Admittedly, it has been a difficult start. We are still at it and we must not give up. Accordingly, we have a choice to make among three or four or more individuals and their political parties in selecting our next government. Assuming that the overall preference is for democracy over war and coups, our choices are limited to the available presidential candidates, their political parties and the candidates put forth by each party for parliament. My own approach is to get engaged in patiently seeking to reform our peaceful democratic system so that we will eventually arrive at the point where SLeone becomes a genuinely thriving, prosperous, democracy country for the benefit of her long-suffering people. Thus, nationalists who want to move the country forward must take a principled position and not concern themselves with holding public office. Instead, they should focus on reforming their parties (or set-up new ones through collegiality) to do the correct thing over the long-term. To improve governance in SLeone, large numbers of good people – high quality people - must get involved and willing to make the deep sacrifices needed to forge ahead in the public interest only. Such is not easy as opposition and detractors are in abundant supply, constantly putting obstacles and discouragement in your way at every turn. WE WAS ROBBED-WE WURZ ROBBED tactics, gongorlee journalism, tsunamis of vituperations, ungratefulness, double-cross, deceit, deception, duplicity, degradation, kindergarten stunts, pandering, pompous idiots, idle Swedish flunkey welfare drunks, low grade dunces, rote-learners, imported-can-of-soft-drink-parity seekers, junior tribalists, tribalistic hegemony, mindless marginalizers, bombastic lies by lying liars, outrageous lying allegations repeated, feeble-minded frog doctors, heckling, cuss, insults, vulgarisms, rudeness, impersonations, fickle-minded alphabet-soup flip-flop/hip-hop abusers, stupidities, arrogance, one-manism, private ownership of political parties, dynastic greed, crookish cabals of opportunism and similar negatives are the types of problems one is frequently confronted with and which genuine nationalists must overcome or bypass if we are to move our country forward to a genuinely civilized state respected by all. Like I said, Sierra Leone is not cursed at all but we do have an over-abundance of bad characters floating within elements of our population. So in order to get to where is best for our country and people, one must never be allowed to be distracted by the above and similar negatives. Hence, keeping this objective constantly in clear focus is the correct way to go. I very much appreciate this opportunity to respond to your inquiry. Thank you. - JL Posted by Tamba Gborie on May 14, 2007 at 06:21:21: In Reply to: Re: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. posted by John E. Leigh on May 13, 2007 at 20:16:59: Bra Leigh, i am not a member of any political party but i do have great respect for you. My question is don't you think we are a cursed nation for supporting failed politicians when we know that they are not capable of bring any meaningful change to the lives of our people? I have just arrived from freetown after a two weeks holiday and the scenes i witnessed disturbs me to realise that majority of our people are happy to continue with the same failed politicians. there are countries in africa that are as poorer as we do but are making progress in alievating poverty amongst their people, such as Ghana, Ghambia, Burkinafasso etc. Why can't our politicians do something to emulate these countries for the benefit of our people. Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: Thank you for putting that multiple moniker abuser straight. Merely because some people abuse whatever system they operate in does not mean others do likewise. To get people with guilty knowledge to truly understand clean honest people is a virtually imposible problem to solve. But you've done good in this case. Thank you very much. - JL Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: They include the questions of your fraud in claiming falsely that yoiu defeated the RUF in the USA, your corruption in giving bribes to aid and abet the convict, President Kabbah to violate the order barring him from public office, and your basless arguments (based on lies about corporate taxes and "run away" businesses). Leigh, you can run, but you will never be able to hide from reality. Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: How about tranparency in the Minerals sector? Sceptics abound.This is not a partisan issue. We must not claim to be mineral rich, but poor on all developmental indices. Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: The Minerals History of our country is one sad story. I agree with you there ought to be genuine transparency in this sector as in the rest of the government. We should get parliament to act. - JL Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: And it is traitors like your and your corrupt blind SLPP supporters who hypocritically say parliament should act when you know the identity of the criminal Berewa and his corrupt SLPP, and yet you bleat that he and them are the best qualified to rule Salone. No wonder people tell you the only thing you care about is retrieving your bribe money. So, stop pretending you care about the welfare of any Sierra Leonean but your unpatriotic self. Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: You talking to me? You couldn’t even SPEAK proper English on CNN. I’m writing a private letter to Solomon Berewa, to put you on leash because I notice that your prospects of a horizon beyond the grave is very limited indeed and your demise, should not affect his campaign, your sycophantic contributions to this Forum did not affect the outcome of your vain attempt to gain a nomination from anyone of the over 350 delegates at the SLPP Makeni Convention. This was only the beginning of your bad luck, you pompous ignoramus. Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: Leigh fallah ALAKI ee go beat ee mama But nar treet go men am ALAKI nor good oo Leigh go nar Bo den go halah pan am Nar the craise dae wok am ALAKI nor good oo Leigh fallah RUDENESS ee go cuss ee leaders Wae dae lick ee VOMIT ALAKI nor good oo Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: "John Leigh walked himself out of the Convention Hall all alone. No supporter followed him outside. He could barely stand and he had to lean on this filthy, rusted old water-tank to catch his breath and compose himself. The word then spreads amongst journalists that John Leigh was outside and they started to hover around him with their tape recorders. John Leigh starts by blasting certain delegates and the entire membership of his party with particularly nasty words for the delegates. John Leigh starts by blasting certain delegates and the entire membership of his party with particularly nasty words for the delegates. At several points, he bursts into tears and wept like a cry-baby. But the lady who carried the day in terms of crying (No, sorry, not crying but WAILING) was this lady shown here wearing a "John Leigh for President" T-Shirt. She was wailing like a banshee and even physically attacked Leigh's Campaign Manager, Hindolo Butcher. She could not be consoled and in her distraught state revealed a lot of revelations to the public about how much cash Leigh spent to get himself nominated but which no sober-minded delegate paid heed to. They all ate his money and voted their consciences." Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: As a youngster in Freetown, I had good connections with the British High Commission, with Naval attaché Edwards and family ( through my parents of course) and with the British Council, played table-tennis with the kids of the American ambassador Bill Dupree in Freetown, sometime, in Ghana, other friends, have ambassadorial friends from the Middle East, gubernatorial friends and higher in Nigeria, including the police, Chiefs, ministers, a couple of millionaires ( perhaps Leigh and partner are one?), good friends with an attaché of the Iranian Embassy and Nigerian embassy here - once upon a time, GOOD American friends – one now dead and former CIA agent, Kenyan, ( he took me places) but little Leigh takes the biscuit. But still waters run deep…. So what the heck is a tip on the iceberg? Leigh’s drop from official suit-and-tie ambassador to eng-an-day man is a great drop in social economic status and prestige that’s why in the face of the elections that’s mostly what he has been yapping about in this Forum – his own past days of glory – which is not an election issue and can talk about anything else. What a dream! Never been an MP or a minister, never ran a department, and he wants to fly into Freetown, my home town, call up a press conference, every week to make some pompous declarations or propose some grandiose scheme that’s not anchored in reality, make a few speeches, pen a few self-praising articles everywhere, and then thought that he would emerge winner at the SLPP Makeni Conference. Therefore the tears of a disappointment which was not based on real expectations. Can you imagine how much more arrogant he would be (God forbid) as president of Sierra Leone? Or president of a country that had nuclear weapons? How he would talk to people – how less “educated” heads of state in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa would feel? Having met people like Ashcroft and all the other American officials who helped the then poorest and war torn country in the world, he thinks that that’s where he belongs, rubbing noses with people like that whilst trying to mash down brothers like Rev Jesse Jackson. An essential difference between him and Charles Margai I leave you to discern from this item: “Persistent protection of people in positions of power even if such people have done something unethical or illegal.” Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: Salone's curse -- and it is a curse, despite your self-serving rambling -- is exemplified by the "over-abundance of bad characters floating within elements of our population." Chief among those wreckers of our country are the corrupt and unpatriotic leaders of the SLPP -- your ertrhswhile and current heroes, President Kabbah and VP Solomon Berewa. Coming a close second to those architects of our country's massive poverty and suffering of our people are their corrupt and unpatriotic blind supporters -- people like you. Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: President Kabbah has never been my hero and Berewa is not my hero. I worked for President Kabbah during his first term and supported his policies then. We were political associates by virtue of the fact we belonged to the same party and were actively involved in pursuing the same policies. Now I support Mr. Berewa as the most superior presidential candidate available to vote for in the forthcoming 2007 presidential election. And I support the SLPP as the party whose candidates for parliament should be voted in. None of the above can be interpreted by any sensible individual that Berewa and Kabbah are or were my hero, respectively. They are not and never have been! Talking about corruption, APC has the far worst record - Vouchergate, Closure of the railway and the international sector, the flight of captital, European investors, US Missionaries and SLeoneans to the Diaspora; the spread of catastrophic poverty nationwide, hegemonistic marginalization, mindless Ekutay frolicking and the provocation of war. PMDC was born in corruption such as its fake excuse blaming Makeni for its split, its secretive-dead-of-night, one-manic ownership organization formed prior to Makeni, double-crossing of genuine Third Force reformers, inclusion of tiff-tiff lawyers, crookish bangucrooks, junior tribalists and alphabet-soup opportunists. The said flunkey group has since encountered a definitive tailspin as the direct result of flunkey dunce leadership, discrimination against Fullahs, Mandingoes and Sosus; yet another double-cross (of its loyalists Northern Muslim supporters) and both compounded by a stupid kindergarten stunt. Fahlahmahkahtah remedial leadership simply can think straight. I will not be replying to you. I leave that task to others. Thank you. - JL If you wish to criticize Messrs. Kabbah and Berewa, please give us examples. I have given you Vouchergate, railway and business closures and flight of Europeans, Americans and Sierra Leoneans. You now give us a few anti-SLPP, Berewa and Kabbah specifics, if any. Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: The evidence that the SLPP is the most incomptent and corrupt administration in the history of Salone is found in the fact that throughout the 10-year SLPP regime of your former and current heroes, Kabbah and Berewa, Salone has been ranked the worst or second to worst in the world. Once you understand that never-before-witnessed catastrophic failure of the SLPP regime of your incompetent and corrupt heroes, you should understand the nonsense underlying your statement that the APC is the worst government. Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: Kabbah's biggest financial backer, Britain, and other organizations have found corruption in Kabbah's govt. to be so rampant that in 2005, they publicly condemned the SLPP regime for its massive corruption. The UN similarly condemned Kabbh's and Berewa's corruption the very next year. Those facts have nothing to do with liking or not liking the corrupt despots, Kabbah and Berewa. They have everything to do with their shameful record of wrecking our country. Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: Subject: Re: For Mr. Tamba Gborie Message: To repeat: I am exposing the corrupt SLPP politicians like President Kabbah and VP Berewea who have raped and pillaged our country into becoming the worst country on eart for the past ten years. Subject: The Beauty Of Competition Message: Commentary In Sierra Leone, one of the factors that led to the acceptance of the IMF supervised liberalized economy is borne out of the fact that there is need for the private sector to be operated in a competitive atmosphere. For skeptics who do not believe in a liberal economy and who do not believe in competition in the marketplace, they only now look at the manner with which the telecommunications sector is flourishing in an atmosphere of competition to also realize the benefits the ordinary citizens can enjoy. Furthermore, it is the competition spirit that ensures that the telecommunications companies fervently work towards excellence to make sure that they can compete with each other effectively for the purpose of attracting more customers. One other area where competition has paid dividend is in the commercial banking system as Sierra Leone can now easily boast of seven commercial banks operating within Sierra Leone and that four of these banks actually commenced operations after the end of the civil war. This is the beauty of competition and it need not be overstated that the ordinary Sierra Leonean now has a choice of bank just as the banks themselves work assiduously to meet international standards of banking in an effort to attract more customers, both within Sierra Leone and outside Sierra Leone. But commercial banks are not new in Sierra Leone, what is new in Sierra Leone is the cellular phone system as the first cellular phone company commenced operations as recently as 1999 and today, in terms of revenue generation and in terms of tax paid to the government, the telecommunications companies stand out conspicuously as the best performing institutions in the private sector. It must be conceded however, that even though the government has weaknesses here and there, the manner in which the telecommunications industry has been handled has resulted to an efficient manner of monitoring the activities of such companies. The setting up of the Telecommunications Commission headed by Kanji Daramy was at first seen just as the creation of another Commission but the truth of the matter is that within a very short time, the telecommunications sector has been structured in an enviable manner that it can now boast as the Commission with the most educated members of the administration. But also important is the fact that the telecommunications companies are satisfied with the manner in which the Commission operates just as the government itself which was recently the recipient of Le 3 billion from NATCOM has suddenly discovered that it has also created an institution that is clearly a goldmine in the area of income generation. For a statutory Commission to perform so efficiently and to be able to attract huge sums of money and to pay such funds to the government for the development of this country should be applauded. Subject: Gov’t to give Le5 billion to NEC Message: Gov’t to give Le5 billion to NEC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Chairperson for the National Electoral Commission announced on Friday that her commission would receive a total of Le 5 billion from the government of Sierra Leone to construct its new administrative building at Tower hill. It will be a 100% funding by government. She said government had already given them 25% of the amount, which she said was adequate for the time being and could kick start the project. It will also house the Human Rights Commission. And the perimeter fencing and the operations center will be funded chiefly by the United Nations Development Programme and the Japanese government. Before laying the foundation stone, President Kabbah appealed to all political parties to see the elections as a friendly contest and not a fight. “I will never…ask the NEC Chairperson to do anything in favour of anybody or any political party” the president assured. He thanked the Japanese Government for their support. He said the Administrative building would be a three-storey building that would include a penthouse on the top floor. The ground floor, with a dome, will house the NEC Resource center and the first floor will house the Human Rights Commission. It will have 15 offices, a conference room and a hall to accommodate 50 people. Its façade will be all-glass tinted, for which jokingly warned, “People living in glass houses should not throw stones” Subject: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: I attended the press conference organised by NEC, and Thorpe defended the actions of NEC for postponing the elections. She stated that they did the right thing and it was not in violation of the constitution. Kamanda also lied about what Thorpe said in his reports below.Registrants are expected to check their names at registration centres and not at NEC headquartters. May be Kabs, need to have a little chat with reporter Kamanda. ELECTIONS COMMISSION STARTS EXHIBITING NAMES OF REGISTERED VOTERS SOON COCORIOCO By Joseph Kamanda The National Electoral commission (NEC) is expected to start exhibition of names of registered voters at its headquarter in Wellington east of Freetown. The exhibition is supposede to have been conducted at the various registration centers to allow all voters to make sure that their names are on the voting list. However many people interviewed by COCORIOKO on this move by NEC praised the Elections Commission for a laudable move that could help to assure the nation that NEC did its job well to register voters. This move will also give voters the opportunity to know whether they were really registered. AWOKO Provisional voter register out next week -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Chief Electoral Commissioner, Christian Thorpe has announced that the exhibition of the provisional voters’ register (PVR) will take place on 21 – 25. Explaining to journalists at the electoral commission’s headquarters last week, Dr Thorpe said the registers would be exhibited at the former registration centers where registrants were expected to confirm their details. They will find an exhibition staff at each centre whose role will be to assist registrants to ascertain that their names are on the PVR. Registered voters are not only expected to confirm whether their names are on the register, but also to correct any mistakes that exist. They can also “raise objections [to] any persons… ineligible for registration,” the NEC boss stated. She stressed that only those with a voter registration ID card would be allowed to peruse the PVR and challenge the eligibility of people on the grounds that they are not Sierra Leonean or are under-aged. The NEC Boss said that the onus of proof would be on the challenger and the hearings or enquiry would take place on the 26-27 May. That will be followed by the publication of the certified voter register which will be used on polling day on 11 August. Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: However, they have to accept because the change did not violate the constitution. What did I say that was false ? Secondly, what I heard is what I reported about the registration. Everything is recorded on tape. Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: 12 May 2007 Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION 15 Industrial Area, Wellington Opposite former Aureol Tobacco Company Private Mail Bag, Freetown. PRESS RELEASE: Revision of Election Timetable Issued 10 May 2007 Section 87(1) of the Constitution states that “A general election of the members of Parliament shall be held not earlier than thirty days and not later than ninety days after the dissolution of Parliament: Provided that nominations for such elections shall in no case be closed within fourteen days after dissolution.” Under the above section of the Constitution the nominations for the Parliamentary election can not be closed before 9 July 2007. In consideration of the fact that the Parliament will dissolve on 25 June 2007 the National Electoral Commission is required to review the timelines available for nomination of candidates and all other technical and operational preparations required prior to polling. Technical and operational difficulties 1. Following the completion of the nomination process, all nomination forms and accompanying Documentation need to be delivered to NEC HQ. This can only be completed on 10 July 2007. Each of the 112 ballot papers then need to have all required data inputted electronically. This requires data entry of all candidate names, scanning of photos of all candidates, electronic merging of photos and party symbols or independent symbols onto ballot papers for the corresponding candidates and cross checking to ensure all data has been correctly entered for the correct candidate and for the correct constituency. 2. Given that there are 112 ballot papers and that there could be anywhere between 1,000 and 1,500 different candidates, and possibly more, this process will take at least 4 days and possibly 1 week. This timeframe assumes that the ballot paper design would have been finalized well in advance of nominations, that the NEC will establish a large scale operation in order to complete the process as quickly as possible, that NEC staff would be working extended hours and that the process would commence as soon as nominations begin. Optimistically the final layout of the ballot papers would be completed by 14 July 2007 but could take longer. 3. Given the number of different ballot papers and the quantities required, the process of printing and packaging, where each constituency ballot paper has to be separately packed, labeled, palletized and labeled again according to district, will take considerable time. All packaging has the additional consideration that the election will take place in the rainy season and must therefore be resistant to the climatic conditions. It is estimated that the above processes will take 2 weeks to complete. The ballots will therefore not be ready for transportation into Sierra Leone before 28 July. 4. Under normal circumstances it would take up to one week from the arrival of ballot papers in country to final delivery to all polling centers. The pallets have to be broken down, each constituency ballot package separated and assigned to the correct constituency, all ballots delivered to the district and then delivered onwards to each respective polling center. Unlike the Presidential ballots, which can be delivered to any polling center, the Parliamentary ballots are constituency specific and therefore require quality control checking and verification at all stages of the distribution process. 5. Given that the election will take place during the rainy season the distribution of materials needs to take place sooner than is normal to enable the commission to execute contingency plans where difficulties and problems arise. Current operational planning estimates that up to one additional week is required to guarantee that all ballot papers arrive at all polling centers in time. Key factors considered in this regard are the need for porters to be employed to convey materials long distances where no other means are feasible and the difficulty with helicopter flights in the rainy season requiring flexible timeframes that allow for rescheduling of deliveries. Recommendations and Conclusion Based on the above technical and operational considerations, the date for the dissolution of Parliament and consequent completion of the National Electoral Commission has made the following recommendations: · Elections are still held concurrently but are rescheduled to take place on 11 August 2007. · Nominations for President to take place from 2 to 9 July 2007. · Nominations for Parliament to take place from 2 to 9 July 2007. · There will be one campaign period, for both the Presidential and Parliamentary elections, from 10 July to 9 August 2007. · Final certified results of the Presidential election will be available on, or around, 23 August 2007. · The run-off election, if required, will be held within 14 days from the announcement of the result from the previous election (in accordance with the Constitution). Therefore it is estimated that the run off election, if required, will be held on, or around, 6 September 2007. This date will be confirmed later following detailed analysis of operational requirements and progress with the first round count. · The election for Paramount Chief Members of Parliament is held within a period which allows for the successful candidates to attend the first sitting of the new Parliament which will take place within 28 days from the 11 August 2007. The Commission is in the process of assessing this proposed timeline in the light of other operational, technical and legal parameters and will publish the date for the elections in the National Gazette when this assessment is complete. Signed... Christiana Thorpe (Chairperson & Chief Electoral Commissioner Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: Is this not what Kamanda is saying too , but in a different way ? You can use all the masks you want but Kamanda is a credible reporter. Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: NEW ELECTION DATE STANDS When asked why the elections could not be postponed to late September or early October in the dry season, she explained that Section 49 c gives the President only ninety extra days to stay in office to ensure the proper conduct of parliamentary elections as she reminded those present at the meeting yesterday that the present President’s actual tenure ends May 2007. Questions were raised yesterday as to whether the heavy down pour of rain in the middle of the monsoon months would not interfere with the elections themselves, Dr. Christiana Thorpe was very positive that Sierra Leoneans would come out to vote as she also explained that the number of voting centres has been increased by 96 in the Northern Province, 47 in the Southern Province, 10 in the Eastern Province and 3 in the Western Area, thereby now making it easier for the voters to walk shorter distances to the polling stations and cast their ballots. After the meeting with civil society yesterday, there was no doubt that 11th August 2007 stays as the new date for the presidential and parliamentary elections which will run concurrently as the elections for the paramount chiefs would be conducted on the 25th of August 2007. NEC has also not ruled out the possibility for a run-off which means that in the event of a run-off, such an election would be conducted on the 6th of September 2007. It was generally agreed at the meeting yesterday that there was need for an amendment to the State Constitution to avoid the constitutional complications such as those now being confronted by NEC. Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: Bravo, Kamanda. Keep on the good work. Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: Kamanda's report stated that thorpe is aginst postponing the elections. Stop supporting people who are feeding the public fasle reports. Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: CHRISTIANA THORPE DIFFERS WITH SLPP GOVT. Christiana Thorpe, a fall-guy to the incumbent Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP) Government) ? Do not bet your pay check on it yet. Reports reaching COCORIOKO say the National Elections Commission ( NEC) Chairman's patience with the SLPP government is wearing thin . Yesterday, Dr. Thorpe joined the voices of the opposition parties and civil society groups to call on the government to try and dissolve parliament, reminding the SLPP regime that the 1991 constitution mandates only five years rule for any government . Thorpe has also started kicking against the change of the elections date by the government. READ report by Joseph Kamanda : The National Electoral Commission (NEC) yesterday added its voice to calls made by opposition parties and civil society groups for the closure of parliament, saying, the 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone gives both the president and parliament five years terms of office. Dr. Thorpe said that the NEC has to find a time within the legal framework for a date which means by the 14th of May parliament is suppose to close and mark the end of term of office of the President. “ Parliament dissolves itself on its fifth birthday and the August 11th date for election is not conducive for NEC as it will be in the rains”, Dr. Thorpe noted. However, the NEC agreed for the date to stand. The NEC Chairman further disclosed that she was part of the team that worked on the initial July 28th elections date before even it was announced by President Kabbah and promised to provide a level playing field for not only political parties but also for the electorates. As for the exhibition, the NEC Director of Operations, Aiah Matia said that there will be a list of names of registered voters at all centers in the country to enable people to correct mistakes in their names, photos, sex, age and others potential issue that might stop an individual from voting coming polling day. Martia noted that the exhibition process is noted as another registration but this exercise allows people to make objections in terms of names and nationalities adding that from 30th May to June 1st those who will win their objection case will have their names inserted on the lists. Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: Martia noted that the exhibition process is noted as another registration but this exercise allows people to make objections in terms of names and nationalities adding that from 30th May to June 1st those who will win their objection case will have their names inserted on the lists."---JOSEPH KAMANDA Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: Subject: Re: THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPH KAMANDA Message: Subject: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: That is because you know no fair-minded sensible person, John Leigh! You only know people like you -- blind SLPP apologists. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: ======================================================================================= ======================================================================================= The above proves what I said: no reasonable individual will ever agree with any wiseguy who claims SLPP is on a melt-down. It is not. If anything, it is flourishing. Those who believe that their party is on the up-and-up, let then stage their own Million Man or 10,000-Man parade. Let then do it and prove their point! If they can't or are unwilling to prove their mass appeal, I am willing to wait untill the votes are counted. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Actually, the only thing it proves is that you still don't understand your chronic problem -- a deep detachment from reality. Worse still, you are not even aware of your mind-altering disease. So, as the person who replied to you earlier correctly said about you, you see things that are not there and fail to see what is actually there for all to see. Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: REBUTTAL OF THE DAY Message: Just goes to show you that Comic Aleigh was a sideshow at the most important meeting of his own SLPP party. Couls that explain why he spends so much time here -- as far away from the reality of his disgrace as he hopes he can run? Subject: From the national value point of view ( 1) Message: “Ambassador John Ernest Leigh aspires to become the next Leader of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party in succession to President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.” (wrote John Ernest Leigh in his own website. The Forum there is dead- and that’s probably why he is here.) Since President Kabbah enunciated the SEVEN NATIONAL VALUES, they have been a yardstick by which to measure or judge some of our public figures, in public office or contesting for public office. – and in doing so we have kept personal attachments, wives or lack of them and all the problems surrounding such entanglements and so on, completely out of the picture. These are the words of president Kabbah in summarising/ concluding his first SEVEN NATIONAL VALUES speech: “Sierra Leoneans believe that recognition of diversity is key to political, economic and social cohesion and national stability. Sierra Leoneans believe that their peace, personal security and safety cannot be always guaranteed without the assistance and goodwill of those next door and in the wider community of nations. Sierra Leoneans are compassionate. They are committed to sharing their talents and other resources with those in need. Sierra Leoneans believe in fair play - in the office, on the farm, in school, in the sporting field, and in other areas of human interaction. Sierra Leoneans believe in themselves but detest arrogance.” This is an excerpt from the speech that president Kabbah made in Makeni on 3rd September that Leigh probably did not hear , because he was dreaming – and still persists in hounding Hon. Charles Margai and when he does so to Hon Ernest Bai Koroma, that will be his end, his demise from act and scene: finito: President Kabbah said: This Forum is a public venue and we are under observation, not only by researchers and investigators of all types. It is fully understandable that Leigh is not the sort of person that any sane government of today would appoint as an ambassador to any place in the world, since he has made it very clear what he thinks of all who he labels san-san boys, although he consistently shows the traits of that sector of society that he would like to be president and chief Ambassador of, but an impoverished sector that he so despises, he himself disguised in the convention suit and APC red-tie he wore, to cut a colourful and impressive figure in at the Party Convention to which he had nominated himself ( self-nomination after numerous articles, a campaign website ( “John Leigh for president” ) and yet he failed to even get to stage one, and left early, escorted by the Police, since no one among all the party delegates who were present deigned to It’s ok to talk about his business success in purely abstract terms ( as if he were some emperor of some extensive business empire- on which basis of performance he would likewise transform the Sierra Leone economy, without taking from it that which by the people’s right does not belong to him? There are Sierra Leonean people known to be touts, whose source of livelihood is promising businessmen in the West that they will fix this and fix that for them (for a small retainer fee, if the business men will cover all other expenses – promise them diamonds, assure them of direct contacts and influence with president this and minister that, and cousin so and so. Politics is a lucrative business , especially for failed business men that’s why some of them want to be president (and would like – of course to run the country of ignoramuses and san – san- san boys and girls like me, as if the country was their personal business property, because they are so smart. So smart that they spend a few thousand dollars (could exaggerate and say $100,100) and not get even one of the delegates to support him? In his self-presentation there is a glaring absence of dates! Especially in connection with the various businesses that he is supposed to have worked at/with. People (even me) have CVs which account for their lives from day one, to now). Rev. Jesse Jackson was born on 8th October 1941. Putting the cards on the table? When was John Ernest Leigh born? This man whose ambition was to be leader of his party (when there are real men around) after telling us – in the most minute detail (self-glorification) about some of the irrelevancies and big fictions of his background, he has still not answered this question that was put to him, for the simple reason that he is far older than Hon. Charles Margai. Is he incapable of answering the question, because there are added reasons why it would not be in his favour to do so? It so happens and much of the evidence is here, that this uncultured, and unpleasant personality thinks that he is better than everybody in the SLPP - because he begged for and was given an appointment and title which he obviously relished “Land of diamonds Sierra Leone Ambassador to the United States of America.” He would like to get the job back, but he had better wake up from such a dream. Like his dream to be president of Sierra Leone, it’s not going anywhere no matter how much he paid his mohray man to ensure that. Hasn’t he also more or less been saying that he put an end to the war – and that only because “he” could not exterminate his enemy (other Sierra Leoneans) was it expedient to sue for peace? Has he ever heard of people of the calibre of Professor Cyril Patrick Foray Sierra Leone ambassador to the Court of St. James's and people like the erudite, cultured and truly impressive Dr. Davidson Nicol who was also earlier on accredited to the United Kingdom – an appointment he accepted to represent Sierra Leone, under the APC government. People are still waiting for him, patiently and not in an ambush. http://www.google.se/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADBR_enSE222SE222&q=+Personality+disorder%3A+illusions+of+grandeur&btnG=Search Subject: Re: From the national value point of view ( 1) Message: Subject: Blair to visit Sierra Leone later this month Message: Subject: WHERE IS HINDOLO TRYE? Message: Was Hindolo hoping that Ernest will make him his running mate? Subject: UGLY Message: Subject: For Johnny P. Leigh Message: For someone in his early seventies you should have learned some sense by now. You may have "whipped" this or that person and will soon get whipped in and out of this Forum. Don't go away. After that, you won’t be looking like this: Subject: Re: For Johnny P. Leigh Message: Even san san boys don't look as scaffish as the babu-face, baybayraybay-"gbenneh"(omolay-red) lips John Leigh. Subject: Re: For Johnny P. Leigh Message: If he was to appear like this in front of me for any job be it a security Guard to watch those san san boys or a car was boy to wash BEREWAS fleet of cars, I will only ask him two question. First question will be, what did you have for breakfast? Next question will be how did you get here? And whatever answer he gives me, my next move will be to show him the door and tell him he will here from me soon. Which i will never bother to do. That was exactly what the slpp did to him. Do we all remember cokoriokos article on Christiana Thorpe re. the voters registration? The paper mentioned some thing about a front line staff with funny teeth. PRESENTATION PRESENTATION and PRESENTATION is what I made out of it. Lets Imagine SCRUFFY SCAFFISH Leigh as president standing, facing the children at the kindergarten singing our national anthem. Those kids will be traumatised for the rest of their lives. You mean with all these years john has lived in the west ee teet fiber LANDA?Man wae dae cham bitter kola en eat snuff? I saw those sierra Leoneans he referred to as low grade humans and car wash boys at the Pmdc convention and boy they were more presentable than him. With all his three decades of western tours. And he has the audacity to call people munkus? When he is the one that looks like a village green SCAFF. Look at his sad COMBAT old face. Look at his jacket, lord bongo sef lie. And look at his shoes, I can bet any one my PRADA boot that his shoe does not cost more than ten dollars at Pay less shoes. Yet still he went and bribe with $ 10.000 for a job. What a nut case. He needs a face lift. Boy ! THIS BABU WORWOR. IF FIBER BABU OH JOHN LEIGH FIBER BABU OH OOOH OOOH Subject: Re: For Johnny P. Leigh Message: Subject: Re: For Johnny P. Leigh Message: Subject: Re: For Johnny P. Leigh Message: If one was objective, one would have to conclude that Leigh is a rude, unintelligent, megalomaniac. Debating with such a person will be a total waste of time for a sober person. But of course John Leigh would be the last person to realize that. That is why he actually believes that people are lining up to debate him. Sad. Subject: Re: For Johnny P. Leigh Message: Nigeria? He hasn't said anything since that fateful day on which after all the fanfare, press conferences, Tee Shirts, flags, badges, buttons, nobody even raised a hand to nominate him in Makeni. Hon Charles Margai was nominated and secured 34 votes and was the “nearest rival” according to “Africa Confidential “ whereas not one of his own countrymen, not even from his own home town/ village was willing to nominate him or second him. Why? This is the man who is boasting that he "Whipped” Rev. Jesse Jackson in one place and how he “dealt with the Rev. Jesse Jackson” in another whilst he can't even win a nomination to contest a simple party contest in his own country, after organising his press conferences with much pomp and ceremony, and spending the alleged amount of dollars to get just one man to say " I nominate Leigh." This is the man who also encourages bribery and corruption and openly told people to”take the money"- as he he has been probably "taking "- and certainly giving, and is it any wonder that he was sacked from the job as public servant? I can imagine how he must have been lording it over his minions – all based on his notions of being an “educated African”. About the trial of Charles Taylor, it should be reasonable for those who have done a profile of him to expect that Leigh would like to be important there too. I haven’t delivered the first blow for Charles yet. There are a good many reserve punches from which he cannot recover. He has been warned several times and he has attacked me several, and disrespected Charles Margai enough times to warrant what will come to him the next time he transgresses by one millimetre. Sankoh was vice president. Subject: Re: For Johnny P. Leigh Message: Hence my correct descr1ption of Leigh's undiagnosed mental illness as megalomania. "Hon Charles Margai was nominated and secured 34 votes and was the “nearest rival” according to “Africa Confidential “ whereas not one of his own countrymen, not even from his own home town/ village was willing to nominate him or second him. Why?" ANSWER: Because John Leigh is mentality unstable, he lacks the ability to recognize reality. He sees things that don't exist, and fails to see those that actually do exist. "This is the man who also encourages bribery and corruption and openly told people to”take the money"- as he he has been probably "taking "- and certainly giving, and is it any wonder that he was sacked from the job as public servant?" ANSWER: No, it would not surprise any rational person. But of course, Leigh claims to be surprised by his firing -- conclusive evidence of his mental illness (see the above answers for details of his undiagnosed mental disorder). Subject: Re: For Johnny P. Leigh Message: As a youngster in Freetown, I had good connections with the British High Commission, with Naval attaché Edwards and family ( through my parents of course) and with the British Council, played table-tennis with the kids of the American ambassador Bill Dupree in Freetown, sometime, in Ghana, other friends, have ambassadorial friends from the Middle East, gubernatorial friends and higher in Nigeria, including the police, Chiefs, ministers, a couple of millionaires ( perhaps Leigh and partner are one?), good friends with an attaché of the Iranian Embassy and Nigerian embassy here - once upon a time, GOOD American friends – one now dead and former CIA agent, Kenyan, ( he took me places) but little Leigh takes the biscuit. But still waters run deep…. So what the heck is a tip on the iceberg? Leigh’s drop from official suit-and-tie ambassador to eng-an-day man is a great drop in social economic status and prestige that’s why in the face of the elections that’s mostly what he has been yapping about in this Forum – his own past days of glory – which is not an election issue and can talk about anything else. What a dream! Never been an MP or a minister, never ran a department, and he wants to fly into Freetown, my home town, call up a press conference, every week to make some pompous declarations or propose some grandiose scheme that’s not anchored in reality, make a few speeches, pen a few self-praising articles everywhere, and then thought that he would emerge winner at the SLPP Makeni Conference. Therefore the tears of a disappointment which was not based on real expectations. Can you imagine how much more arrogant he would be (God forbid) as president of Sierra Leone? Or president of a country that had nuclear weapons? How he would talk to people – how less “educated” heads of state in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa would feel? Having met people like Ashcroft and all the other American officials who helped the then poorest and war torn country in the world, he thinks that that’s where he belongs, rubbing noses with people like that whilst trying to mash down brothers like Rev Jesse Jackson. An essential difference between him and Charles Margai I leave you to discern from this item: “Persistent protection of people in positions of power even if such people have done something unethical or illegal.” It's also the title of a book by Richard Bach - which I'm sure he hasn't read Subject: Re: For Johnny P. Leigh Message: As for the answer to the long-settled question of his insanity, let's go the early days when the question was still open: John Ernest "Do I Look Crazy or Insane To You?" The answer, even in those early days of in the lunacy of the goat-tied, seating-under-the-sun-coat-clad Leigh, could be guessed from the fact that the 70-something years old man, Leigh, was pictured wearing a baby's bib! So, the subsequent confirmation of Leigh's lunacy was a foregone conclusion. In truth Leigh the lunatic has become "Sierra Leone's Political Comedian." No wonder he is the butt of hilarious jokes on this forum, while he thinks (likethe raving lunatic he is) that anyone really wants to "debate" him! Subject: Cocorioko Has More News on Sierra Leone than Local Papers Message: Subject: Re: Cocorioko Has More News on Sierra Leone than Local Papers Message: Bra Kabs, thankyou for keeping us informed!!! Subject: Re: Cocorioko Has More News on Sierra Leone than Local Papers Message: Subject: Re: Cocorioko Has More News on Sierra Leone than Local Papers Message: Subject: For Kabs. Message: Subject: REPORTER KAMANDA SHOULD GET PEOPLE'S NAMES RIGHT!!!!!!! Message: ---------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: REPORTER KAMANDA SHOULD GET PEOPLE'S NAMES RIGHT!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: REPORTER KAMANDA SHOULD GET PEOPLE'S NAMES RIGHT!!!!!!! Message: Mr. Reider is the SLPP Publicity Secretary and MP. Mr. Fayai Musa was briefly a Deputy Minister of Agriculture representing the RUF in President Kabbah's unity government after Lome. If 'Fayai Musa' is used as a nick name, such ought to be presented in a manner to avoid the confusion pointed out by I-MAN. Therefore, I-MAN'S point is correctly presented to Cocorioko in my opinion. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: REPORTER KAMANDA SHOULD GET PEOPLE'S NAMES RIGHT!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Message: You are doing a fabulous work for all of us and thank you very much. - JL Subject: Re: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Message: Subject: FOR KABS Message: Subject: WAS THE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION OF NPRC ILLEGAL? Message: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by John E. Leigh on May 12, 2007 at 09:16:43: In Reply to: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? posted by CADMUS on May 12, 2007 at 07:33:12: A coup regime is not a de jure government. Therefore its acts are not legal and once out of office its decisions have no legal force unless rectified by parliament. Parliament never rectified the Beoku Betts Commission's decisions"(John Leigh). If the above is sound legal argument, then it follows that the "CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION" of KABBAH, BEREWA, AND BANDA-THOMAS WAS an illegal commission, and by extension, the constitution and laws that brought the SLPP TO POWER WERE ILLEGAL. Subject: Re: WAS THE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION OF NPRC ILLEGAL? Message: Subject: Re: WAS THE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION OF NPRC ILLEGAL? Message: The following conclusion of yours is inaccurate: ".............. then it follows that the "CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION" of KABBAH, BEREWA, AND BANDA-THOMAS WAS an illegal commission, and by extension, the constitution and laws that brought the SLPP TO POWER WERE ILLEGAL." The so-called Kabahh, Berewa and Banda-Thomas constitional Commission was a de facto commission that went nowhere. The constitution it drafted was allowed to die a natural death. Its recommendations have been ignored and never legalized by the elected parliament. The Constitution under which Kabbah and Berewa were elected is the 1991 Constitution adopted under the last APC government. It is the same constitution that is in force today. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: WAS THE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION OF NPRC ILLEGAL? Message: Subject: Re: WAS THE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION OF NPRC ILLEGAL? Message: During the days of Betts, the findings of a commision of inquiry was not acceptable as a judgement of the high court. This was howeverr changed when the constitution was reviewed in 1978(not too sure about the date), and from then on, the findings of a commision can be admitted as a judgement of the high court. As from 1978, if you were found wanting by a commision of inqyiry, you are guilty as charged. Subject: Re: WAS THE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION OF NPRC ILLEGAL? Message: Subject: WAS THE "BEOKU-BETTS COMMISSION" AN ILLEGAL COMMISSION? Message: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by John E. Leigh on May 12, 2007 at 09:16:43: In Reply to: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? posted by CADMUS on May 12, 2007 at 07:33:12: Our moniker abuser-flip-floppers think they are entitled to their own set of facts, whether non-factual or utter rubbish. The Beoku Betts Commission was a three-man concoction set up in 1967 by the then coup regime. The coup regime was overthrown in early 1968 after barely a year of their own coup. The overthrown elements were then thrown in jail where some of them faced execution for treason after all of then had been convicted. A coup regime is not a de jure government. Therefore its acts are not legal and once out of office its decisions have no legal force unless rectified by parliament. Parliament never rectified the Beoku Betts Commission's decisions. Subject: WILL "LAWYER CADMUS" EVER CLEAR THE AIR ABOUT HIS LAWERING? Message: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by BUFORD HWY on May 12, 2007 at 12:14:21: In Reply to: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS posted by CADMUS on May 12, 2007 at 10:16:36: BTW you have still not convence this forum yet of your LAWYERING Subject: Re: WILL "LAWYER CADMUS" EVER CLEAR THE AIR ABOUT HIS LAWERING? Message: Subject: Biggest Crowd ever in Bo march for SLPP -- Cocorioko report Message: Subject: Re: Biggest Crowd ever in Bo march for SLPP / Bogus Message: Subject: So you think you know all the answers!!! Message: Subject: John Leigh you don't mean it Message: Subject: Re: John Leigh you don't mean it Message: You Dumbo, not surprisingly you've asked the following dunce question: "Are u sure people are suffering deprivation and lives miserable when you wrote here a few days (after the SLPP rally) that you see the happiness on the faces of people, with their stomach full as a result of President Kabbah's food security.When suddenly have they beeN been deprived? Deprived of what?" Yes, I am quite sure of what I wrote in response to Mr. Steven's inquiry, you feeble-minded soul - frequently rushing to reach erroneous conclusions that only dunces can reach given the specific facts on the table. Merely because people have gained weight in recent years and are photoed similing during a highly successful SLPP rally does not mean that everything is honky-dory in their otherwise everyday lives. It is the same thing I have been saying since you PMDC remedials attacked me because I refused to support your stupid double-crossing cult leader: merely because I endorsed VP Berewa as the most suitable candidate to be our next president does not mean that I have changed my critical views about the difficulties facing our country and people. Nor have I abandoned the problems and reforms I wrote about. Food security has definitely improved over all in SLeone and people may be happy as evidenced by the smiles on their faces at a specific point in time, but underneath their exteriors are a myriad of problems they have to confront and endure every single day of their lives - like those itemized by Mr. Steven. My point is that Solomon Berewa and the SLPP are better placed and equipped to address those problems than stupid dumb-dumb, dunce, arrogant, haughty, secretive, double-crossing, pandering mumbo-tombo-dumbo, one-manic cult party-owner and supporters assembled in a foolumunku grouping of alphabet-soup political harlots, alphabet-soup opportunists, alphabet-soup moniker abusing flip-floppers, tiff-tiff disbarred, disrobbed and defrocked lawyers; crookish, stupid bangucrooks; bombastic liars, lie-lie hip-hoppers and confusionists, etc. relying on an imported can of saft drink to attain parity with us SLPPers... AND VP Berewa is also far superior for leadership than Jamil's insurance peggy-boy representing and surrounded by KDDA hegemonistic marginalizers, One-Party monopoly poverty spreaders, and Ekutay frolickers who frolicked endlessly and mindlessly while people sucked breeze for dinner and lived in abject darkness and in utter frustration so much so that when the NPRC overthrew them, rank and file SLeoneans danced in public thoroughfare around and across the nation in joyous happiness. You Junior Tribalist Babalolo dumb-dumb, please stop wasting our time with yet another useless hip-hopping, flip-flopping handle in this forum. Stand-up squarely like me and make your case PMDC = PA MAGGAI'S DEFEATED CHICKEN. Thank you very much. - JL Subject: Re: John Leigh you don't mean it Message: This forum is not here for rude people like you to insult others just because they disagree with you. The proper response is to use reason, not rudeness. But, while you have a right to self-deluusion, you do not have a right to insult people. I hope you would not give the cause to remind you again to behave yourself on this forum. Subject: Re: John Leigh you don't mean it Message: Get a life. You are using the name Ibrahim Babaloko in Leonenet to attack others because you are not man enough to face them. Now you are here again using another handle to attack Leigh.Hey Munku Bob, you nar munku borbor for true. MUNKU BY PACKET.MUNKU BORBOR. MUNKU BABOON PIKIN. Subject: Re: John Leigh you don't mean it Message: Subject: Re: John Leigh you don't mean it Message: Was it necessary to insult ? You should have responded to the questions posed by the writer. Please let us stick to the issues and debate. And you have no proof it is Bob Jusu.You know it. Please help us make this a sweet and pleasant forum. Subject: Johnny Paul escaped with diamonds – Issa discloses Message: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On his fifth day of giving evidence in his defence, the former interim leader of the defunct Revolutionary United Front, Issa Sesay has said that following his overthrow in 1998, the former leader of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), Johnny Paul Koroma arrived in Kailahun with some quantity of diamonds. Sesay said the diamonds were taken from Johnny Paul by the then RUF battlefield commander Sam Bockarie alias Mosquito. He said after the AFRC troops had left Koidu for Kailahun, the RUF leadership were informed by one of Johnny Paul’s bodyguards that the former junta leader was planning to move to Ghana with his family and was in possession of diamonds. He said when Mosquito received the information he convened a meeting of all senior RUF officials and asked that the bodyguard repeat what he had told him, which he did. Mosquito then ordered that Johnny Paul, who was at the time at Kangama, be immediately arrested. “We then headed for Kangama where the [Johnny Paul’s] bodyguards were disarmed and the diamonds taken from [him].” It was reported that Makuta had been violated by RUF rebels. Subject: Re: Johnny Paul escaped with diamonds – Issa discloses Message: Subject: Kabbah’s mandate ends Monday – NEC Boss Message: Kabbah’s mandate ends Monday – NEC Boss -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Chief Electoral Commissioner, Christiana Thorpe has advanced reasons for the postponement of presidential and legislative elections from 28 July to 11 August. Speaking to journalists at the headquarters of the National Electoral Commission at Wellington outside Freetown, Dr Thorpe said, constitutionally, parliament cannot dissolve before 25 June since their first sitting was ion 25 June 2002. This, she went on, would not allow ample time for the commission to hold credible elections. “…If we were going to have separate elections then we have no problem but because we as a nation we would not be able to run two separate elections so we have to find a time within the constitutional legal framework where we can have both parliamentary and presidential elections together.” Dr Thorpe said. However, quoting constitutional provisions, Dr Thorpe said the president was allowed to stay in office, for as along as elections were pending. “Whatever we say, Presidential elections must be completed before August 14, because we are bound by the constitution.” Dr Thorpe declared But the fact that both elections are holding at the same time, both elections had to be held before the president’s extended mandate ends. Subject: Re: Kabbah’s mandate ends Monday – NEC Boss Message: Subject: My honourable friends: Understanding John Ernest Leigh. Message: What Mr. Leigh has been saying in his sometimes pedantic and monomaniac way is that Solomon Berewa would make a better president than any of the other presidential candidates. People with ideas would be talking about issues and not about alleged defects in other people’s personalities…. Derrida was expelled from School in Algeria. What would the over-educated Leigh say about that? My only quarrel with him has been that he (Leigh) has not been saying it mildly, or politely or lovingly or skilfully or even diplomatically and he has made the same point for almost every day for over a year now. This could be of some interest for those whose religion (unlike Desmond’s Tutu’s) does not necessarily mean” Love thine enemies.” Matthew 5:43 -44, which is part of the moral code of both John Ernest Leigh ( the attacker) and Charles Francis Margai the leader of the PMDC and indeed Solomon Berewa the leader of the SLPP. These three gentlemen are in politics for the glory of Sierra Leone which the san-San boys say is in desperate need of salvation. Actions are more eloquent than words, and so it goes without saying that every political party in Sierra Leone, embraces the concept of one country , one people – and I do not think that John Leigh would gang up with some foreigners against Hon MP Charles Francis Margai. That shouldn’t happen, There are several books in the genre of this one that I quote. e.g.. the immensely readable And “A Rap on Race” in Margaret Mead faces James Baldwin – very dated now, but the insights are still mostly eternal, are still interesting and immensely readable. When I got to page 8 of Jacques Derrida & Elisabeth Roudinesco: “For What Tomorrow – A dialogue – Cultural memory in the Present” ” I thought of the Leigh - Margai dichotomy>animosity. (They should meet in a TV studio and have a debate, before the SLPP vs. PMDC football match I was talking about (there too it’s uncertain that Leigh would be in the SLPP eleven, whereas C.F.Margai would be sure to be captain of himself and the other ten.) Margai is a gentleman and no pugilist and so a meeting in the ring is out of the question although Moijue Kaikai would I’m sure be willing to act as Mr. Margai’s seconds – after choosing weapons for the duel – but is Leigh up to it? Does he have any training in the use of firearms? Rapier? Zulfikar??? Is he in any kind of condition?) Page 8 (I don’t know if you’d call it a book – the microphone was switched on to record the discussion between these two. The discussion ( in French) was transcribed and translated into this book that I am currently reading – alternating with Amos Oz´ most excellent “ A Tale of Love and Darkness” which I am fully enjoying in Swedish ( as “ En Berättelse om Kärlek och Mörker.” – If you’ve read Robert Wellesley Cole’s “Kossoh Town Boy” Soyinka’s “Ake” etc unlike me, you won't be able to put Oz down to even write a posting to Cocorioko…… Anway E.R. (Elisabeth Roudinesco): “You have dealt with the theme of the enemy, the friend, the adversary, particularly in a seminar in which you deconstruct the work of Carl Schmitt. (19). You point out that, according to Schmitt, political difference proceeds from discrimination between the friend and the enemy. Without this discrimination, there is no politics. You oppose to this a more Freudian conception of politics in which “hatred would be inscribed in the very mourning of our friends” (20) And you cite the famous story of the hedgehogs that Freud took from Schopenhauer. Some porcupines give up cuddling each other to ward off the cold: they hurt each other with their quills. Obliged one winter day to huddle together, they end up finding a mean distance between attraction and repulsion, friendship and hostility.” Well she goes on talking for another two pages, after which Derrida begins: “Indeed there is nothing serious in politics without this apparent “hair-splitting” that sharpens the analyses without being intimidated by the impatience of the media......... etc etc and he talks on for another two pages……. Subject: My honourable friends: Understanding John Ernest Leigh. Message: What Mr. Leigh has been saying in his sometimes uncouth and monomaniac way is that Solomon Berewa would make a better president than any of the other presidential candidate. People with ideas would be talking about issues and not about alleged defects in other people’s personalities…. Derrida was expelled from School in Algeria. What would the over-educated Leigh say about that? My only quarrel with him has been that he has not been saying it mildly, or politely or lovingly or skilfully or even diplomatically and he has made the same point for almost ever day for over a year now. Actions are more eloquent than words, and so it goes without saying that every political party in Sierra Leone, embraces the concept of one country , one people – and I do not think that John Leigh would gang up with some foreigners against Hon MP Charles Francis Margai. That shouldn’t happen, There are several books in the genre of this one that I quote. E.G. the immensely readable And A Rap on Race (Margaret Mead faces James Baldwin) – very dated now, but the insights are still there are still interesting and immensely readable. When I got to page 8 of Jacques Derrida & Elisabeth Roudinesco: “For What Tomorrow – A dialogue – Cultural memory in the Present” ” I thought of the Leigh - Margai dichotomy>animosity. (They should meet in a TV studio and have a debate, before the SLPP vs. PMDC football match I was talking about. Margai is a gentleman and no pugilist , and so meeting in the ring is out of the question although Moijue Kaikai would I’m sure be willing to act as Mr. Margai’s second – after choosing weapons for the duel – but is Leigh up to it. Does he have any training in the use of firearms? Rapier? Zulfikar???) Page 8 (I don’t know if you’d call it a book – like “the microphone was switched on to record the discussion between these two. The discussion ( in French) was transcribed and translated into this book that I am currently reading – alternating with Amos Oz´ most excellent “ A Tale of Love and Darkness” which I am fully enjoying in Swedish ( as “ En Berättelse om Kärlek och Mörker.” – If you’ve read Robert Wellesley Cole’s “Kossoh Town Boy” Soyinka’s “Ake” etc you won't be able to put Oz down to even write a posting to Cocorioko…… Anway E.R. (Elisabeth Roudinesco): “You have dealt with the theme of the enemy, the friend, the adversary, particularly in a seminar in which you deconstruct the work of Carl Schmitt. (19). You point out that, according to Schmitt, political difference proceeds from discrimination between the friend and the enemy. Without this discrimination, there is no politics. You oppose to this a more Freudian conception of politics in which “hatred would be inscribed in the very mourning of our friends” (20) And you cite the famous story of the hedgehogs that Freud took from Schopenhauer. Some porcupines give up cuddling each other to ward off the cold: they hurt each other with their quills. Obliged one winter day to huddle together, they end up finding a mean distance between attraction and repulsion, friendship and hostility.” Well she goes on talking for another two pages, after which Derrida begins: “Indeed there is nothing serious in politics without this apparent “hair-splitting” that sharpens the analyses without being intimidated by the impatience of the media......... etc etc and he talks on for another two pages……. Subject: Re: My honourable friends: Understanding John Ernest Leigh. Message: Please excuse my brevity. I’m in a hurry to get back to Amos Oz. Derrida’s father was no prime minister of Algeria or an Akpata type like SLPP’s Albert Margai. He was “a commercial traveller, a sales representative dealing in wines and spirits fro the Tachet house” Of his father Derrida speaks on page 107: “My compassion for my father was infinite.. Hardly had he begun school, when at the age of twelve he had begun working for the Thachet business, where his own father had been a modest employee. After being a sort of apprentice until the age of adulthood, my father became a commercial representative: he was always behind the wheel of his car. Sometimes I would accompany him on his rounds; I drove for him when I could. At every hotel, café, grocery store, he stopped, to take orders, and I always saw him in the persona of the petitioner or the applicant. In relation to the clients but also to the boss, whose authoritative paternalism irritated me as much as his benevolence. What I sense d in his benevolence, more than anything was the condescension it expressed. One of my father’s many given names, Charles, was no doubt that of the Tachet grandfather (and what a peculiar family name, no? One thinks of the satin (tache) of some unknown original sin….” About the circumstances of Jacques Derrida’s expulsion from school, I’ll give you his own words - page 109 of the dialogue between him and Elisabeth Roudinesco – also Jewish and the chapter is entitled ”of the Anti-Semitism to come”: “I was the only one who could understand the sufferings of a father; and, in fact, my father often preferred to confide in me, beginning in my adolescence. Whenever we were alone together, he approached me from the bottom of his silence; he called me as a witness to the incomprehension and indifference of the others. It is true that this experience was more or less contemporaneous with that of the intensified anti-Semitism of the time. I was expelled from Ben Aknoun high school in 1942, and beyond any anonymous administrative measure, which I didn’t understand at all and which no one explained to me, the wound was of another order, and it never healed: the daily insults from the children, my classmates, the kids in the street, and sometimes threats or blows aimed at the “dirty Jew”, which I might say, I came to see in myself…… In my opinion Mr. Leigh, you don’t have to debate. Here is one of my great African heroes and after his second coming, he is not called junior Jesus for nothing. In the Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia he is described thus: Subject: Re: My honourable friends: Understanding John Ernest Leigh. Message: Subject: Re: My honourable friends: Understanding John Ernest Leigh. Message: Thank you for attempting to explain my politics to people who refuse to understand where I stand. However, I'd like to suggest just a few corrections among the many in your posting. 1. "People with ideas would be talking about issues and not about alleged defects in other people’s …. Derrida was expelled from School in Algeria. What would the over-educated Leigh say about that?" -Hamelberg a) Was Derrida the son of a future prime minister who squandered his humomgous privileges in a land of deprivation? 2. ".....code of both John Ernest Leigh ( the attacker) and Charles Francis Margai the leader of the PMDC". - Hamelberg CORRECTION: I have never been the attacker. I am the counter-attacker. Ever since I refused to join their rubbish party, they have been on my case. And after I endorsed Mr. Berewa, PMDCians have sought to smash me up politically but to no avail. Al I have done is to explain again and again the reasons for my stance. 3. I thought of the Leigh - Margai dichotomy>animosity. (They should meet in a TV studio and have a debate, before the SLPP vs. PMDC football match I was talking about. Margai is a gentleman and no pugilist , and so meeting in the ring is out of the question although Moijue Kaikai would I’m sure be willing to act as Mr. Margai’s second – after choosing weapons for the duel – but is Leigh up to it. Does he have any training in the use of firearms? Rapier? Zulfikar???) CORRECTION. I hold animosity towards none. Merely because my opinion about someone is extremely low does not mean that I hold any animosity to such person. Next, I am not a pugilist. I am a debater, innovative and a tireless one at that - just ask the AFRC, the RUF, the ninjas, gongorlee wohwoh, Charles Taylor, US Rep Donald Payne, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Mr. Taylor's highly paid American henchmen such as US former Assist secretary of State Cohen, etc. I whipped them all intellectually without cussing or fighting! PMDCians can't debate. They have settled on heckling, cuss, lies, wild and baseless outrageous bombastic allegations, vulgarisms, insults, ridicule, abuse, flip-flopping monikers, hip-hopping handles, immitations, fahlahmahkahtahism, divertions, formenting confusion, stupidities, lurid conversations, impersonations, munkuisms, pandering, kindergarten stunts, alphabet-soup monikers, formfoolism - all this to try and trap just one-single individual just one-single time, but all to no avail! The last thing those flunkey junior tribalists and remedial foolumunku dunces want is a solid free and fair debate as to how best we can go about shaping a good future for our country. All they are after is for their cult leader to realize his dombolo dynastic dreams whether such would be a disaster for our country or not they don't give-a-damn. Thank you again for trying to explain the stance I am defending in cyberspace. - JL Subject: Re: My honourable friends: Understanding John Ernest Leigh. Message: If you continue like this, you will become an embarrassment to the SLPP and at that point they’ll take a distance to you. Of course you’d probably whip this man (intellectually) with one part of your brain ( the left) tied behind your spare part, I’m sure. Subject: Re: HAMELBERG: YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. Message: You are wrong. William Cohen was a Republican Senator from Maine who later became President Clinton's Secretary of Defence during my stint in DC. The Cohen I am talking about was US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under President Raegan. Mr. Cohen later became a paid lobbist for Liberia under Charles Taylor during my stint in DC. Taylor spent between $4 to $5 Million a year funding lobbists to provide diplomatic support for the RUF and the AFRC/RUF and himself. They ate his money and lost. To compete in those contests against Taylor's men, I spent my own personal funds in order to be able to present the facts and logic for SLeone to various power centers in America. And we won resoundly without importing a single can of soft drink to beat them, let alone to reach mere parity with those bozos. Please don't butt in where you are ignorant because the embarrassment will be entirely yours and whatever you do, please do not provoke my mumbo-tombo-dumbo-funku foolumunku tirade! Thank you. - JL Subject: For your understanding Message: You watching me write this? Fine. More of something nuanced from you please and cut out the pedestrian chicken bit. I’m late in reading and replying to this, the last of my guests this evening has just left – it’s Mother’s Day and he was also talking about the anniversary of Catholic Lady Fatima’s holy visitation at Lourdes and MUST call home to Milwaukee and Wisconsin. There was a time when Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan fawned on Captain Valentine Strasser. He must have struck a chord somewhere that captured their romantic imagination. http://www.google.se/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADBR_enSE222SE222&q=%22Hymietown%22+Jackson However Rev Jackson must in my opinion have been convinced of, or fooled into believing Taylor was a saviour. This because of the historic AfricanAmerican - AmerigoLiberian connection, a sense of affiliation, brotherhood and sympathy across the Atlantic Ocean. Isn’t Taylor’s father African-American? You can call it tribalism if you wish. You could count the African presidents who were at his departure ceremony from Liberia to Calabar, Nigeria. I saw you on CNN on more than one occasion and there’s also that long interview that EIR had with you, which I have a copy of. These are very simple matters compared to some other matters that might be less easy to understand. It’s not so much my alleged in-depth ignorance but that the allegations made against the gentlemen you mentioned, appeared to me to be preposterous. So I mistook one administrative Cohen for another Cohen of the administration. Some mistakes are ignorance of course. If Waraba did the same, I’d assume that he was deliberately trying to tickle your funny bone/ press your button and like one of Pavlov’s puppies, there you’d go again with what you call your “tirade” which is quite lady like, mild and to me amusing, to hear or read such coming from someone like you or officially from Evelyn your younger brother, in whatever capacity. Watch Waraba. He can be mean. I’m Sorry about being wrong (wrong Cohen) and at the same time I am happy it was not OUR William S. Cohen. Thanks for the correction. I don’t feel embarrassed about making such a mistake, and I repeat, these are very serious accusations that you make against these gentlemen: ” US Rep Donald Payne, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Mr. Taylor's highly paid American henchmen such as US former Assist secretary of State Cohen” This was the centre of gravity of my distress: the accusations and your self-glorification (glory be to John Ernest Leigh) hitting the higher notes of boastfulness with “. I whipped them all intellectually without cussing or fighting!” (But on this Forum you are cussing all the time!!!!) Were their intellects separately or in combination (two heads, in this case three heads being better than one) contending the accuracy of what you were saying? Then let us say that truth did overcome and perhaps you are more intelligent or intellectually gifted than those who you accuse of having been in cahoots with Charles Taylor. Nothing really “ intellectual “ about your presenting - as you say- some facts or counter-facts on the table –if you could do the same at the ACC, then it would not be you “ whipping anybody intellectually” or even winding up on the cross, up side down, like St. Paul. It would have been a triumph (at the ACC) of honesty, truth transparency, over some crooks. I should wish that you come out swinging like the late Johnnie Cochran, that you persist and prevail there too. ( ACC) “I spent my own personal funds in order to be able to present the facts and logic for SLeone to various power centers in America. And we won resound(ing) ly without importing a single can of soft drink to beat them, let alone to reach mere parity with those bozo” Finally let me advice you, that I’m not in a mood to accept what from my point of view is unacceptable. You may be used to bullying or intimidating your embassy staff or even your president and vice president with your “mumbo-tombo-dumbo-funku foolumunku stock in trade” which mean nothing to me and by mean nothing, I mean UNINTELLIGIBLE / not civilised speech neither Struti nor Shruti or anything else like that, intili? Subject: Re: HAMELBERG: YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. Message: You watching me write this? Fine. More of something nuanced from you please and cut out the pedestrian chicken bit. I’m late in reading and replying to this, the last of my guests this evening has just left – it’s Mother’s Day and he was also talking about the anniversary of Catholic Lady Fatima’s holy visitation at Lourdes and MUST call home at Milwaukee and Wisconsin. There was a time when Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan fawned on Captain Valentine Strasser. He must have struck a chord somewhere that captured their romantic imagination. However Rev Jackson must in my opinion have been convinced of, or fooled into believing Taylor was a saviour. This because of the historic AfricanAmerican - AmerigoLiberian connection, a sense of affiliation, brotherhood and sympathy across the Atlantic. Isn’t Taylor’s father African-American? You can call it tribalism if you wish. You could count the African presidents who were at his departure ceremony. I saw you on CNN on more than one occasion and there’s also that long EIR interview had with you, which I have a copy of. These are very simple matters compared to some other matters that might be less easy to understand. It’s not so much my alleged in-depth ignorance as you express about the gentlemen you mentioned, but what appeared to me to be preposterous. So I mistook one administrative Cohen for another Cohen of the administration. Some mistakes are ignorance of course. If Waraba did the same, I’d assume that he was deliberately trying to tickle your funny bone/ press your button and like one of Pavlov’s puppies there, you’d go again with what you call your “tirade” which is quite lady like, mild and to me amusing, to hear or read such coming from someone like you or Official Evelyn your younger brother. Watch Waraba. He can be mean. I’m Sorry about being wrong (wrong Cohen) and at the same time I am happy it was not our William S. Cohen. Thanks for the correction. I don’t feel embarrassed about making such a mistake, and these are very serious accusations that you make against these gentlemen:” US Rep Donald Payne, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Mr. Taylor's highly paid American henchmen such as US former Assist secretary of State Cohen” This was the centre of gravity of my distress: the accusations and your self-glorification (glory be to John Ernest Leigh) hitting the higher notes of boastfulness with “. I whipped them all intellectually without cussing or fighting!” Nothing really “ intellectual “ about your presenting- as you say, some facts on the table – if you could do the same at the ACC, there to it would not be you “ whipping anybody intellectually” or even winding up on the cross, up side down, like St. Paul. It would have been a triumph (at the ACC) of honesty, truth transparency, over some crooks. I should wish that you come out swinging like the late Johnnie Cochran, that you persist and prevail there too. “I spent my own personal funds in order to be able to present the facts and logic for SLeone to various power centers in America. And we won resound(ing) ly without importing a single can of soft drink to beat them, let alone to reach mere parity with those bozo” Finally let me advice you, that I’m not in a mood to accept what from my point of view is unacceptable. You may be used to bullying or intimidating your embassy staff or even your president and vice president with your “mumbo-tombo-dumbo-funku foolumunku stock in trade” which mean nothing to me and by mean nothing, I mean UNINTELLIGIBLE / not civilised speech neither Struti nor Shruti or anything else like that, intili? Do you know what time it is in Stockholm? 2.37 a.m. Subject: Re: HAMELBERG: YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. Message: Please don't ask me to present my so-called master plan. I have none because I am not a candidate for president. The focus ought to be on actual presidential plans and the candidates' backgrounds, not mine because I am not that important. Thank you. As for your apology, I am refusing it because you burried it in the middle of your winding statement and surrounded it with a whole lot of irrelevant trash. If you wiah to know more about how I dealt with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, please read SHAKEDOWN by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington, DC The other points you've raised are equally superflous and thus there is no need to address them. I am not interested in continuing with this subject. Goodbye. Thank you. - JL Subject: Mr.Leigh Message: Respect? Check this and measure against you puny self in those pictures. Tie yu trossis tight. Subject: Re: HAMELBERG: YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. Message: Subject: Re: My honourable friends: Understanding John Ernest Leigh. Message: Subject: The comfort of a rusting roof Message: The Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is continuing with her attempt to steer the country back towards stability after years of war. And while some parts of the capital Monrovia now seem to be getting back to normal, in other parts just having a roof on your house is a major struggle. The little houses in the villages along the road to Lofa County are neat and new, and - to an outside eye - the epitome of picturesque Africa. The mud huts have palm thatched roofs and walls freshly smoothed with ochre yellow clay. Some have even been decorated with hand prints and other patterns in those most ancient of pigments - white and black and terracotta red. But the people who live there are not particularly proud of their new homes. The destruction in many places was almost total Whenever I talked to them they were eager to tell me that they did not always live like this, and they were keen to show me the foundations of their old houses, spacious and solidly built with corrugated iron roofs. Lofa County, in the far north, on the borders of Guinea and Sierra Leone, for a long time escaped the worst of Liberia's civil war. But in the most recent - and everyone hopes final - phase of the war, after the year 2000, rebel forces invaded from over the Guinea border and fought their way south to unseat President Charles Taylor. Lofa County found itself right in the front line. The destruction in many places was almost total. No warning Nyewolihun is a modest, out-of-the-way village in Kolahun district. We found it an hour and a half's walk down a rough track from Kolahun town. For 10 years and more the war passed this place by. But in 2001 government soldiers attacked the village without warning, from across the stream which marks the edge of the settlement, and burned it to the ground. They did not stop to explain why, but they may have suspected the villagers of sympathising with the rebels. The people scattered in all directions. When they returned they found the bodies of 16 of their neighbours lying among the smouldering ruins of their homes. After that everyone left and went to Sierra Leone or Guinea as refugees. In 2004 when their area was quiet they started coming home. The first to return had to rely on tree crops like bananas for food, and on hunting the game which had become plentiful in the abandoned forest. 'Some kind of a house' But this is a fertile area and Nyewolihun is growing all its own food once again. When we visited they served us home grown rice, with short nutty grains, fish from the stream and fresh cloudy palm wine. They hope to have their cocoa trees, their main cash crop, back in full production by next year. There are still gaps in the fabric of the village, the rubble of houses whose owners still have not come home, but most families have rebuilt some kind of a house, and there is a small mud and thatch school for the children. On the square foundation of the old meeting hall, a temporary marquee of green palm branches can be raised for special occasions. Pepper soup The towns, if anything, are in a worse state than the countryside. While people are busily rebuilding their own houses, the old Lebanese-owned stores that used to line the main street of Kolahun town are still in ruins. The local people in Lofa seemed quietly confident that peace would hold The best restaurant in town is a kind of wooden box built into the corner of one of the ruins, although it still manages flowered plastic table cloths, white net curtains over the doorways and a choice of main course - bean stew or pepper soup. The Lebanese traders who used to have a stranglehold on Liberian commerce were often resented, but now the local authorities upcountry are begging them to come back. Despite all the rebuilding going on, no-one is selling building materials in the whole of Lofa County. Cement, roofing sheets, ceiling panels - all have to be bought in Monrovia, the capital, a long day's journey away on unpaved roads, and hauled back up at considerable expense. New confidence When I suggested to the owner of one store in Monrovia, close to the truck stop where lorries leave for the north, that he was missing a great commercial opportunity in places like Lofa, his verdict was that the situation was still far too dangerous to risk opening up again in the interior. And yet the local people in Lofa seemed quietly confident that peace would hold. While I was there I got embroiled in a debate about roofing sheets, the merits of various gauges and qualities and how long they would last. Could you manage with a thinner gauge as long as you were away from the corrosive effect of sea air? Would it have to be painted every year with anti-rust paint? The verdict was it would certainly last five years, perhaps 10. No-one even questioned whether it was worth spending the money, when someone might come and burn the village at gunpoint or carry off the roofing sheets. And that is a true sense of security - knowing that the roof will stay on your house until it finally rusts away. E-mail this to a friend Printable version Subject: Blair to visit Sierra Leone in May Message: Speaking at a ceremony for the construction of a new electoral commission headquarters in the capital on Saturday, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah stressed "He (Blair) has informed me he would come by the end of the month." He did not elaborate on further details over the visit. Sierra Leone is a former British colony that gained independence 46 years ago. Prince Charles visited the country last year, pledging Britain's support for reconstruction in Sierra Leone, which endured a murderous civil war between 1991 and 2001 that left tens of thousands dead. MF/ Subject: DISCUSSING WAY FORWARD FOR MOTHER SIERRA LEONE. Message: I am a young Man and I understand there are many different opinions how we can get this done so I implore on others to discuss this issue positively which will help us, the next generation, the Youths to serve our country and people well. My opinion for building a better Sierra Leone is to return to a community based policy instead of this capitalist policy we are embarking upon which continue to impoverish many and enrich few privileged. Secondly we need to de-code the colonial mentality of our leaders and our people. We need to educate the miseducated that everything foreign is not better. Decode the dependency state of our leaders, governments and our people. Thirdly and probably most important we need to produce electrical power and build roads. Electrical power must be present so that we are capable of making machinery for other types of industry and for agriculture. Build roads that are easily accessable for commerce and trade. Fourth, we need to build our own industries. Sierra Leone need to become an industrialized nation. We should not deepend on china for our staple food, we need to produce enough rice for the nation and extra to be exported. We need to manufactured our own goods and also set the price for items we export. We also need to manage our own affairs, our own mines and our financials situation instead of IMF and WORLD BANK managing our affairs. Their interest is not for the citizens of Sierra leone but to continue enriching the west. Fifth, We need to revamp our political system, We do not need one parliamentary person representing 44-45,000 people while in other develop nation one parliamentary represent 150-350,000 people. All our funds are spent on big government instead of being spent on building industries. We have too many chiefs and no indians. Last but not least, we need to start training successors who will lead Sierra Leone. Most or our leaders seek job security by repressing others, this unpatriotic deed only help us to become more undevelop, we need to foster in the Youths, educate them and prepare them for service to our great nation. There are too many problems in Sierra Leone but i believe these are few of the Big rocks that needs to be put in place for the smallers rocks to fall into place. THANK YOU KINDLY FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY; YOUR ABLE SERVANT IN TRAINING DR. MICHEL SHO-SAWYER Subject: Re: DISCUSSING WAY FORWARD FOR MOTHER SIERRA LEONE. Message: Subject: Re: DISCUSSING WAY FORWARD FOR MOTHER SIERRA LEONE. Message: Yours is a most stupid advice indeed - and you claim to be the most brilliant APCist. Small wonder your party's leadership is in the hands of Jamil's insurance peggy-boy! SLeone will never develop if we confine ourselves to the activities of our grandparents. How about those grandparents that sold their people? How about all the professions invented long after our grandfathers had gone to the great beyond? Man, get serious - this is where my mumbo-tombo-dumbo foolumunku bangucrooks tirade comes in. Go exercise your elephant belleh before I get started! - JL. Subject: Re: DISCUSSING WAY FORWARD FOR MOTHER SIERRA LEONE. Message: Subject: Re: DISCUSSING WAY FORWARD FOR MOTHER SIERRA LEONE. Message: You are cordially invited to observe some genuine ess-kicking of low self-esteem getting giddy with illusions of grandeur. The ess-kicking will be on behalf of Hon. Charles Margia. Stay on the scene. Subject: Re: DISCUSSING WAY FORWARD FOR MOTHER SIERRA LEONE. Message: Subject: John Leigh wants to Debate - But debate what??? Message: Now lets be honest, why would you think many people would believe that, when the evidence on the ground speaks differently? . The people in Freetown have gone without electricity for months.The darkest city in world. Even Kenema and Bo which used to enjoy 24hours electricity (APCs initiative), are now in constant blackout. 2. The city is flooded with trash and garbage and thieves and hooligans and human waste 3. People are more hungry than ever before... 4. corruption is at its highest and no one seems to even care...today, I read of the Le 1.7billion contract sold to a Lebanese mafia in manchester..now the people of Sierra Leone would have to pay world bank that money back. 5. Infant mortality at its highest in the whole world. 6. Protitution is rampant with innocent kids selling their parts in exchange for money - now close your eye..and imagine if that 13 year old was your kid. 7. The roads are impassable....accidents are rampant...schools/colleges open only to close down as a result of strike and other industrial action... Now tell me John, my fellow country man, tell me, what is there to debate about. This is not funny. I really dont care what part of politics we belong to, this is shameful, barbaric, pathetic, and immoral. We are killing our future by not educating our kids, by sleeping with them instead of helping them, everyone trying to wipe his ass from the only uncontaminated spot in the latrine...we come abroad, educate, go home and steal money, have free sex with girls for $5 because they are too poor to resist...a system we have created and a status quo we are bent on maintaining...we are responsible for this malaise john. Now tell me what is there to debate. debate what. I am an intellectual but I am not proud of what is happening to my fellow country men...I will never be pround until they have the opportunity I have had abroad. Now john, I am not into your kind of debate which is to give a ganeology of the problem by blaming other governments...we are tired of that. Dont tell me about SLPP please or APC or PDP or PMDC. Just say something different...the way forward john. Subject: Re: John Leigh wants to Debate - But debate what??? Message: It is very self-serving for people to ignore the suffering of the masses and promote the continuation the status quo. In my view this is wrong, selfish, and illogical. Subject: Re: John Leigh wants to Debate - But debate what??? Message: I am ready to debate the issues when you are ready. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: Debate What??? Message: I can imaging the frustrations tormenting you and many others as I read your recitation of the huge problems confronting our people. I have lived through some of those problems myself as I traveled the length and breat of our country beginning in September 2003 and more intently since January 2005. Perhaps, you might recall that I wrote repeatedly in cyberspace and in the local SLeone print media about the poor governance of Sierra Leone beginning about a year or so after I was recalled from DC. The problem to debate, therefore, is not the existence of those problems - which you and I and numerous others are aware of and upset about - but how best to address them successfully. If you think there is nothing to debate, I would respectfully disagree. If you think the matter is worth exploring, I am ready when you are ready. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: Debate What??? Message: Subject: Re: Debate What??? Message: I phoned Sheikh Tunis in New York a few yeras ago , and he cried over the phone about chuild prostitution in Sierra Leone. This is the reply that Steven expects from you, your words "The problem now is: How best can we solve this terrible situation and thus improve living conditions for our people? How can we go about developing our country on a systematic basis?" What do you want to "debate"? Subject: Re: Debate What??? Message: For your information, I have already stated where I stand. Show me where I am wrong. Thanks. - JL Subject: John-L SLPP IS A NIGHTMARE FOR SIERRA-LEONE Message: Subject: Re: LIFE IS TOUGH IN SIERRA-LEONE Message: You are quite right. I have a very nice, pleasant and fulfilling life in the US (and in Nigeria). Every thing is A-O-K just as you stated. After all I live in a developed country that rewards hardwork and decency. For example, if I had spent my $100,000 in the public interest in America during a most terrible time, as I did for Sierra Leone - and we won in the end, my money would have long been refunded with interest and when the time came to celebrate the victory, I would not only not be excluded, I would be treated like a hero! And if the authorities in Ameria were to behave like those in Sierra Leone did in holding my money and excluding me from the victory honors, the American people would stand up and would jankoeneekoe the authorities until they did the right thing or those responsible would never be able to function properly in the country. But not so Sierra Leoneans. Our people would do the opposite and would go out of their way to taunt, ridicule and cuss those who did good for them. Hence, I am doing great in America but not so great in Sierra Leone. SLeone is struggling country. Our people are suffering grievous deprivations as Mr. Steven has pointed out in a recent posting and as I have written about for years on-line and in the print media. Life in Freetown is somewhat better because it has more modern amenities than provincial communities. But even there, life is still miserable. The problem now is: How best can we solve this terrible situation and thus improve living conditions for our people? How can we go about developing our country on a systematic basis? I do not know how you calculated your 10-year requirements for solving this or that problem. Perhaps you might help me here with an explanation. By the way, be very careful how you compare and contrast SLeone with the US. Do not take anything at face value. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: LIFE IS TOUGH IN SIERRA-LEONE Message: John Leigh: That is not the problem. The problem is people like you who betray their country for their purely selfish reasons -- such as seeking to recover the bribes you had paid fore a job as ambassador to the most corrupt government in the history of Salone. Since it is that same SLPP regime that is responsible for devasatating Salone in the last decade, the real problem in Salone is the presence of unpatriotic people like you who selfishly promote corrupt and incompetent people for leadership of our country. The most graphic examnple of your lack of patriotism is your promotion of the most clueless of the current cabal of corrupt and incompetent SLPP leaders, Solomon Berewa, as qualified for the presidency of Salone. The question that traitors like you, John Leigh, have not answered is: How can the suffering of the people of Salone be stopped by continuing the tenure of the same SLPP regime for the next five years which has caused their suffering during the past 10 years? Subject: MR STEVEN-NO NEED TO ARGUE WITH CONFUSED JL Message: Subject: Re: MR STEVEN-NO NEED TO ARGUE WITH CONFUSED JL Message: It seems to me that Mr. Steven is a conscientious fellow who is trying to find answers to important questions. As such, I do not think you have any business trying to shove him off. I am willing to debate him. My mind is open. All you have to do is persuade me with facts and logic. Some people in this forum are trying to persuade others with cuss, multiple monikers, bombastic allegations, lies, stupidities, vulgarisms, formfoolisms, etc. They are wasting their time. Please do not join them. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: MR STEVEN-NO NEED TO ARGUE WITH CONFUSED JL Message: JL, you have accurately described yourself and your antics on this forum -- even though you don't know it. That's bad news for most people on this forum who are simply tired of your incessant nauseating displays of crude manners. Subject: YOU COWARD KAMAJOR(APC)KEEP MUTE Message: Subject: Re: YOU COWARD KAMAJOR(APC)KEEP MUTE Message: Subject: National Tourist Board Message: 4th April 2007 The Secretary to the President Presidential Lodge, Hill Station, Freetown Dear Sir, RE: ALLEGED IMPROPER ALlocat1on OF STATE LAND FOR PRIVATE/TOURISTIC DEVELOPMENT At the beginning of the 66th meeting of the Board of Directors on Wednesday 4th April 2007 the General Manager, Mr Cecil J Williams presented a letter to the Directors in which he was directed to proceed on leave with immediate effect pending investigation into his administration. Totally Surprised The Directors read the letter and were totally surprised to note the said letter was neither routed nor copied the Board through me as Chairman. You will please permit the Board to say that there is a breach of procedure in routing this correspondence because according to the Development of Tourism Act 1990, the Board is charged with the responsibility of supervising and directing the work of the Management headed by the General Manager. The Board is therefore of the view that any development affecting the General Manager should be done with prior consultation of it. With the greatest respect, the Board is not happy with the routing of the letter under reference. Without attempting to resist your directive, the Board strongly believes that the sending of the General Manager on immediate leave at this crucial moment will not augur well for the Board’s operations, as well as the promotion and development of the Tourism Industry, especially now it is showing signs of taking up again after the rebel war. Hard working and committed In the Board’s view Mr Williams is not only hardworking and committed, but has also shown professionalism in his work by virtue of the long years he has worked in the industry. We therefore, fear that the replacement of him by any other person will neutralise all gains the industry has started making. The board has noted that the correspondence from your office continues to allege an improper allocat1on of State Lands along the Lumley Beach. In your early correspondence on the same issue, the General Manager replied to all queries in his letters of 26th January 2007. Copies are attached for ease of reference. At this juncture The Board wishes you to note the following facts relating to land along the Lumley Beach (a) The Board is acting within the provision of the Development of Tourism Act 1990 1. 2. 3. 4. The Board therefore feels that for anybody to suggest that the General Manager has done allocat1on of land without authority is tantamount to unfairly accusing him. Duty free concessions On the other issue relating to indiscriminate recommendation for the award to Customs Duty exemption, we are also concerned that this issue should be another reason for the General Manager’s immediate leave and investigation. The Development of Tourism Act 1990 allows the General Manager with the approval of the Board to make recommendations to the Ministry of Finance through the Ministry of Tourism and Culture for Aids and Incentives to tourist establishment which qualify for such assistance. The Board wishes to state the Ministry of Finance is not bound by these recommendations, which are adequately provided for by the relevant Act. The General Manager and the Board have not operated outside the ambit of the Development of tourism Act 1990. As stated in this letter, Mr Williams is by many standards a very good Manager. We as a Board strongly believes that by sending him on immediate leave at this material time will not be in the best interest of the Board’s operations and the Tourism Industry, which as a hospitality sector is playing a major role in many other countries. The present Board, which has as Directors persons with sound integrity, has found him not wanting in his work as General Manager. On the contrary the Board has found him to be honest and has shown the willingness on a number of occasions to make personal sacrifice in the Board’s work. In the light of the foregoing paragraphs the Board earnestly requests that the directive to send Mr Williams on immediate leave be reviewed in the interest of contuinity of the Board’s work. Yours faithfully, S.E. Gbomor, Chairman Tourist Board cc. H.E. the President Hon. Vice President Minister of Finance Minister of Lands and Country Planning Minister of Tourism and Culture --------------------------------------------------- Assuming the Minister is ultimately responsible for this attempt to remove Mr Williams, (whose characters it would seem all who know him agree is sound ) what could his motives be ( bearing in mind the kind of allegations that have surfaced in the past and is public knowledge, about the minister's own character, honesty and integrity - or the lack thereof)???? Subject: Re: National Tourist Board Message: Subject: Liberian newspapers will be surprised on June 4 Message: Subject: Sierra Leone polls in August Message: 12 May 2007 Subject: CHRISTIANA THORPE TAKES A SWIPE AT COCORIOKO Message: “Christiana Thorpe has a responsibility and MUST explain to the nation what went wrong With her usual calm and pleasant demeanor Christiana Thorpe slowly beamed as I put these points across to her. “I'm not bothered with detractors, no, no. If you bother with them, they'd only distract you” she said, smiling. “I'm focused on delivering credible elections within the mandate of NEC”. Really the criticisms of Christiana Thorpe are not really about her. They are the legitimate fears of those who have seen the political ineptitude of governments that have had NEC within their embrace. Christian Thorpe met Sam Malige, a member of the ruling party, over a decade ago, long before she was appointed to head the NEC. She says they have remained friends because “when it comes to areas of national development, we have a lot in common”. Mr.Malige runs a non-profit outfit, the Opportunity Industrialization Center, where children who dropped out of school get a second chance. “Him [Sam]being a member of the SLPP does not affect my professionalism with my job at NEC. No man in an island, everybody in this country know somebody who may or may not be of the same political affiliation”, she points out. Some of the sagely on-line posts focus on the credible The Executive Representative to the United Nations Secretary-General in Sierra Leone, Mr.Victor Angelo, believes Christiana Thorpe has done a great job securing the independence of the Commission. Victor Angelo also commented publicly that “as long as Christiana Thorpe heads the National Electoral Commission, we will have a strong commission”. FAWE's Haja Abdallah says the NEC chair is a “very determined woman. She does not let anyone distract her. She is not one that can be manipulated or influenced to do what she does not believe. She's also very God-fearing”. “At NEC we're doing our best to establish credibility in all that we do. Subject: Re: CHRISTIANA THORPE TAKES A SWIPE AT COCORIOKO Message: Subject: NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION SECRETARIAT [NEC]: PRESS RELEA Message: 15 Industrial Area, Wellington Opposite former Aureol Tobacco Company Private Mail Bag, Freetown. PRESS RELEASE: Revision of Election Timetable Issued 10 May 2007 Section 87(1) of the Constitution states that “A general election of the members of Parliament shall be held not earlier than thirty days and not later than ninety days after the dissolution of Parliament: Provided that nominations for such elections shall in no case be closed within fourteen days after dissolution.” Under the above section of the Constitution the nominations for the Parliamentary election can not be closed before 9 July 2007. In consideration of the fact that the Parliament will dissolve on 25 June 2007 the National Electoral Commission is required to review the timelines available for nomination of candidates and all other technical and operational preparations required prior to polling. Technical and operational difficulties 1. Following the completion of the nomination process, all nomination forms and accompanying Documentation need to be delivered to NEC HQ. This can only be completed on 10 July 2007. Each of the 112 ballot papers then need to have all required data inputted electronically. This requires data entry of all candidate names, scanning of photos of all candidates, electronic merging of photos and party symbols or independent symbols onto ballot papers for the corresponding candidates and cross checking to ensure all data has been correctly entered for the correct candidate and for the correct constituency. 2. Given that there are 112 ballot papers and that there could be anywhere between 1,000 and 1,500 different candidates, and possibly more, this process will take at least 4 days and possibly 1 week. This timeframe assumes that the ballot paper design would have been finalized well in advance of nominations, that the NEC will establish a large scale operation in order to complete the process as quickly as possible, that NEC staff would be working extended hours and that the process would commence as soon as nominations begin. Optimistically the final layout of the ballot papers would be completed by 14 July 2007 but could take longer. 3. Given the number of different ballot papers and the quantities required, the process of printing and packaging, where each constituency ballot paper has to be separately packed, labeled, palletized and labeled again according to district, will take considerable time. All packaging has the additional consideration that the election will take place in the rainy season and must therefore be resistant to the climatic conditions. It is estimated that the above processes will take 2 weeks to complete. The ballots will therefore not be ready for transportation into Sierra Leone before 28 July. 4. Under normal circumstances it would take up to one week from the arrival of ballot papers in country to final delivery to all polling centers. The pallets have to be broken down, each constituency ballot package separated and assigned to the correct constituency, all ballots delivered to the district and then delivered onwards to each respective polling center. Unlike the Presidential ballots, which can be delivered to any polling center, the Parliamentary ballots are constituency specific and therefore require quality control checking and verification at all stages of the distribution process. 5. Given that the election will take place during the rainy season the distribution of materials needs to take place sooner than is normal to enable the commission to execute contingency plans where difficulties and problems arise. Current operational planning estimates that up to one additional week is required to guarantee that all ballot papers arrive at all polling centers in time. Key factors considered in this regard are the need for porters to be employed to convey materials long distances where no other means are feasible and the difficulty with helicopter flights in the rainy season requiring flexible timeframes that allow for rescheduling of deliveries. Recommendations and Conclusion Based on the above technical and operational considerations, the date for the dissolution of Parliament and consequent completion of the National Electoral Commission has made the following recommendations: · Elections are still held concurrently but are rescheduled to take place on 11 August 2007. · Nominations for President to take place from 2 to 9 July 2007. · Nominations for Parliament to take place from 2 to 9 July 2007. · There will be one campaign period, for both the Presidential and Parliamentary elections, from 10 July to 9 August 2007. · Final certified results of the Presidential election will be available on, or around, 23 August 2007. · The run-off election, if required, will be held within 14 days from the announcement of the result from the previous election (in accordance with the Constitution). Therefore it is estimated that the run off election, if required, will be held on, or around, 6 September 2007. This date will be confirmed later following detailed analysis of operational requirements and progress with the first round count. · The election for Paramount Chief Members of Parliament is held within a period which allows for the successful candidates to attend the first sitting of the new Parliament which will take place within 28 days from the 11 August 2007. The Commission is in the process of assessing this proposed timeline in the light of other operational, technical and legal parameters and will publish the date for the elections in the National Gazette when this assessment is complete. Signed... Christiana Thorpe (Chairperson & Chief Electoral Commissioner) Subject: NEW ELECTION DATE STANDS Message: NEW ELECTION DATE STANDS When asked why the elections could not be postponed to late September or early October in the dry season, she explained that Section 49 c gives the President only ninety extra days to stay in office to ensure the proper conduct of parliamentary elections as she reminded those present at the meeting yesterday that the present President’s actual tenure ends May 2007. Questions were raised yesterday as to whether the heavy down pour of rain in the middle of the monsoon months would not interfere with the elections themselves, Dr. Christiana Thorpe was very positive that Sierra Leoneans would come out to vote as she also explained that the number of voting centres has been increased by 96 in the Northern Province, 47 in the Southern Province, 10 in the Eastern Province and 3 in the Western Area, thereby now making it easier for the voters to walk shorter distances to the polling stations and cast their ballots. After the meeting with civil society yesterday, there was no doubt that 11th August 2007 stays as the new date for the presidential and parliamentary elections which will run concurrently as the elections for the paramount chiefs would be conducted on the 25th of August 2007. NEC has also not ruled out the possibility for a run-off which means that in the event of a run-off, such an election would be conducted on the 6th of September 2007. It was generally agreed at the meeting yesterday that there was need for an amendment to the State Constitution to avoid the constitutional complications such as those now being confronted by NEC. Subject: APC MAYOR OF FREETOWN SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF!!!!!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: APC MAYOR OF FREETOWN SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF!!!!!!!!! Message: GOD go THANKA them. Subject: PA MAGGAI DESPICABLE CHICKENS Message: Most people are hiding behind monikers in and out of which they flip flop. This flip-flopping moniker abusers have used multiple names for no good cause. Names recently flip-flopped into include: SLPP Apologist, slpp, Lileondo Lee, Jon Lee, Really, Serious, Comic Aleigh, Observer, LIAR, Look, Goat Tied-neck, Mansfield, Michael, Fingerslip, John E. L. SON, FBI, POLITICAL, etc. All the above flip-flippings are used solely to insult, cuss, lie, impersonate, and invent trashy stories and stupidities or engaged in lurid conversations such as these from flip-flopper monikers "Jon Lee" and "michael" for no useful reasons such as the following: Posted by Jon Lee on May 11, 2007 at 16:26:41: "..odat tell u say me na okobo. gee me u oman mek a operate pan am..ehn kam de oda day ehn see if e go watch u. na da tem u go know say u tolloli small ehn u nor geh de longevity lek me. Posted by michael on May 11, 2007 at 16:31:23: "Ha ha ha !!! wow... na afor try ba ehn see. gee jon lee wan net ehn see.but Jon we go geh for measure da ting dae forse oh...ah ah a man dem una nor kill me. Posted by jon lee on May 11, 2007 at 16:35:06: "pa pa ya..try me wit da u babes way geh dar dry wais APC mek ar cherr imm...u know wetin ar dae talk bout. ah promise u, enor go ever watch u. ar go pound dawan dae lek yebeh...tell am mek e call me for wan nite stand. Subject: Re: PA MAGGAI DESPICABLE CHICKENS Message: LEIGH NAR CRAIS MAN YOU WAE DAE LAUGH AM WAE EE DAE DANCE NAR YOU CRAIS PASS AM. So lets just make a fool of him and get back to business. No need for all that RUBBISH. Thank You All. LOW GRADE SAN SAN the man who will never chance his handle to pock Leigh in his babu yei. Subject: Re: PA MAGGAI DESPICABLE CHICKENS Message: Now lets be honest, why would you think many people would believe that, when the evidence on the ground speaks differently? . The people in Freetown have gone without electricity for months.The darkest city in world. Even Kenema and Bo which used to enjoy 24hours electricity (APCs initiative), are now in constant blackout. 2. The city is flooded with trash and garbage and thieves and hooligans and human waste 3. People are more hungry than ever before... 4. corruption is at its highest and no one seems to even care...today, I read of the Le 1.7billion contract sold to a Lebanese mafia in manchester..now the people of Sierra Leone would have to pay world bank that money back. 5. Infant mortality at its highest in the whole world. 6. Protitution is rampant with innocent kids selling their parts in exchange for money - now close your eye..and imagine if that 13 year old was your kid. 7. The roads are impassable....accidents are rampant...schools/colleges open only to close down as a result of strike and other industrial action... Now tell me John, my fellow country man, tell me, what is there to debate about. This is not funny. I really dont care what part of politics we belong to, this is shameful, barbaric, pathetic, and immoral. We are killing our future by not educating our kids, by sleeping with them instead of helping them, everyone trying to wipe his ass from the only uncontaminated spot in the latrine...we come abroad, educate, go home and steal money, have free sex with girls for $5 because they are too poor to resist...a system we have created and a status quo we are bent on maintaining...we are responsible for this malaise john. Now tell me what is there to debate. debate what. I am an intellectual but I am not proud of what is happening to my fellow country men...I will never be pround until they have the opportunity I have had abroad. Now john, I am not into your kind of debate which is to give a ganeology of the problem by blaming other governments...we are tired of that. Dont tell me about SLPP please or APC or PDP or PMDC. Just say something different...the way forward john. Subject: Re: PA MAGGAI DESPICABLE CHICKENS Message: Subject: Re: A SIMPLETON WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: Yaya: You are absolutely right about JOhn Leigh. He truly lacks the ability to understand not just complex issues, but even the simplest ones. The truth is that Leigh is a fool. Check out his attempt to show that he is not obbsessed with Charles Margai, the man who correctly rejected the mad Leigh's demand for leadership of the PMDC. THis is what Leigh claimed. "Except for Barclays Bank, Shell and Mobile, APC drove off all of the above European businesses from Sierra Leone and 99.9% of white people as well during the time of Siaka Stevens and Joseph Momoh because of their mindless corruption and incomprehensible addiction to selfish tribalistic hegemony and stupidity." Question: Where is the evidence that any businesses, much less European businesses, were ever "driven off from Sierra Leone" by any government, much less the APC? Leigh fails to provide any such evidence. That is because his wild, partisan claim is a figment only of his nefarious imagination. Perhaps the idle, corrupt Leigh has been spending time in movie theaters watching the new movie about Idi Amin's reign in Uganda where he expelled Asian businesses and their owners! Being a simpleton, Leigh does not know that Uganda is a different country from Sierra Leone., Who, then, would want to debate such a simpleton? Subject: Re: A FOOLUMUNKU WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: In your posting you argued as follows: "Leigh fails to provide any such evidence. That is because his wild, partisan claim is a figment only of his nefarious imagination. Perhaps the idle, corrupt Leigh has been spending time in movie theaters watching the new movie about Idi Amin's reign in Uganda where he expelled Asian businesses and their owners! Being a simpleton, Leigh does not know that Uganda is a different country from Sierra Leone., "Who, then, would want to debate such a simpleton?" What I wrote to Dr. Fanusie about (re departed businesses) is what is known in the analytical profession as "constructive expulsion". This occurs when the government's policies and practices are so egregiously evil and counter-productive that the foreign companies I identified fled the country on their own. They voluntarily divested - i.e. packed up and left our shores - because of bad government policies that were so teerible the investors in those companies took it to mean the government wanted them out. Such was unlike the situation in Uganda under Amin that got you confused. Nevertheless, both are two different set of evils that resulted in economic collapse. In the meantime, the divested SLeone businesses continue to flourish in the Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria but extinct in Sierra Leone. They departed under the tenure of Stevens and Momoh. WHY? Do you now understand, M-T-D? Next time, please stay in your league of foolumunku analysts. One more thing: before ever running your mouth again, please make sure you thoroughly understand what you are talking about. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: A SIMPLETON WITH THE SIMPLEST MIND Message: You got it wrong again, Leigh. There is no such thing as "the analytical profession." Your statement to that effect is pure nonsense -- just as your false claim of "constructive expulsion" is utter nonsense. You wtrite rubbish and you don't even realize it -- proof that you are a simpleton. Subject: Re: PA MAGGAI DESPICABLE CHICKENS Message: You are wrong. That's not what I said. Please check your facts. How about the item below? - JL HOW APC EXPELLED DEVELOPMENT AND IMPORTED SUFFERING & TROUBLE © By John E. Leigh In evaluating the electoral strength of the parties with well known presidential candidates, I have concluded that few people are genuinely behind the APC other than hegemonistic tribesmen and the direct and indirect beneficiaries of APC largesse that came with APC’s notorious practices of marginalization, favoritism, nepotism and outright corruption. This conclusion is not surprising because when it comes to political suffering, our people have a long memory, indeed. During my extensive traveling inside Sierra Leone I came across people in all corners of the country who vividly recall APC’s years of mass marginalization, mass poverty spreading; mass unemployment, mass company closings, the catastrophic closing of the railway, mass capital flight, mass European flight, mass missionary flight, ruinous “stangflation” (price inflation without economic growth); SLPMB ruination, confiscatory foreign exchange abuses, deep currency adulteration, continuous frivolous frolicking by the elite amidst mass breeze-sucking and continuous darkness by the masses. All this misery was followed by wanton AFRC war and destruction. The APC was in power from 1968 to 1992. But they did far less than the SLPP has done in a mere 11 years in power amidst war, coups and more war. Moreover, APC did many, many evil things that brought war upon us during their quarter century in power. SLPP has done far less worse things than the Red Fake Pro-Communist Devils. One of the worse things the APC ever did was degrading our country’s democratic multiparty political system into a one-party APC State that monopolized and abused power for nearly 20 years. The APC adulterated the national currency, the LEONE. When APC came into power One Leone equaled one dollar and fifty cents. Today it is Le3,000 equal $1.00. Thus what should have fetched you and me $4,500.00 today gives us only $1.00. The $4,499.00 is what the APC/AFRC/RUF leaders stole from our people or merely wasted through incompetence, frolicking and selfish hegemonistic marginalization. APC closed the railway and sold it for scrap, isolating nine-tenths of the country from the capital. Road accidents then proliferated, killing and maiming thousands and leaving many orphans. Marampa mines were closed and Jamil Sahid was given the keys to the diamond industry. Annual diamond exports declined from 1.2 million carats of gemstones under the SLPP in 1966 to zero gem stones exports and only 150,000 carats of industrial diamonds in 1990. Well-connected political crooks stole of the gemstones. TODAY, APC is led by Sahid Jamil's peggy-boy. 1. Bata Shoe Company; 2. UAC (United African Company); 3. UAC Motors, 3. PZ (Paterson & Zochonis), 4. PZ Motors, 5. GB Olivant, 6. Odeon Cinema Co., 7. Elder Dempster Lines Ltd. 8. Palm Lines Ltd., 9. Rawlinson & Co., 10. ABC Textiles, 11. CFAO (Cie Francaise de la’Afrique Occidentale), 12. CFAO Motors, 13. SCOA, 14. SCOA Motors, 15. Multi-Stores, 16. Kingsway, 17. Kingsway Chemists, 18. West African Drug Stores, 19. British Petroleum, 20. Texaco, 21. AGIP, 22. DELCO (Development Company of Sierra Leone), 23. SLST (Sierra Leone Selection Trust), 24. DIMINCO, 25. Stavely Motors Ltd., 26. J Milhelm, 27. Henry Duck & Co., 28. A Genet & Co., 29. M. Jourdan, 30. BoJons, 31. UTC, 32. Leventis, 33. Cold Storage, Department Stores, 34. Major & Co. Pharmaceuticals, 35. UMARCO, 36. Mining & General Services, 37. Hodges, 38. Philip George & Co., 39. O Swiessy & Co., 40. Mobil Oil Company, 41. Shell Oil Company, 42. Standard Chartered Bank, 43. Barclays Bank, etc. Except for Barclays Bank, Shell and Mobile, APC drove off all of the above European businesses from Sierra Leone and 99.9% of white people as well during the time of Siaka Stevens and Joseph Momoh because of their mindless corruption and incomprehensible addiction to selfish tribalistic hegemony and stupidity. While these divestment disasters were going on, the beneficiaries of APC’S corruption, favoritism, nepotism and marginalization sat by silently enjoying their crooked benefits and never lifted a single finger to protest the cold blooded executions of Dr. Mohamed Fornah and Alhaji Ibrahim Tarqui by Siaka Stevens! Shell Company was later expelled by the NPRC and Barclays Bank was driven away by the excesses of the APC-related AFRC/RUF coupligans. Under the APC, the SLPMB defrauded producers of their earnings and wasted the proceeds of exports through corrupt practices. The result was a total loss of Sierra Leone's export trade - coffee, cacao, piassava, kola nuts, etc. worth tens of millions of ££££ and impoverishing all the areas of cash crop production. The expulsion of European businesses, the driving way of Europeans residents, the degradation of the SLPMB, the monopolization and mismanagement of foreign exchange reserves impacted the whole society: Mass unemployment, destruction of the national tax base depriving government of revenues, international isolation, and a major loss of business for the post office and airlines. Sierra Leone was in shambles. It was APC that introduced and spread the culture of "non-maintenance" in Sa Leone, just like they introduced and spread corruption. Electricity generating machinery, waterworks, bridges, roads, buildings, etc. where never maintained. They were left to deteriorate until they reached a non-functional state. What was not destroyed by lack of maintenance, the ARFC/RUF coupligan regime smashed up out of vindictiveness. All these were left for SLPP to fix. Education deteriorated significantly. Kondoh and monthly pocket money for sixth formers and college students were cancelled and books for schools and colleges became unaffordable and unavailable. Inflation reigned supreme and the relationship between income and the cost of living became in disharmony. People could no longer live within their means. Some top civil servants were unable to afford school fees for their children. Mass marginalization of non-tribesmen or insiders took place. Tens of thousands of young people and experienced professionals left the country. Poverty increased, morality declined. Election fraud was the order of the day. Kalo kalo, yuki yuki, dregging became the avenues for survival. The society deteriorated to a most catastrophic and savage war. When I returned to Freetown in early 1994 I found people emaciated and being told that they sucked breeze for dinner because there was no food security in the whole country! I can go on and on and on but please let me stop here. I can now safely say that our people do not want either the old (APC) or the new (PMDC) mumbo-tombo-dumbos over their heads. Thank you. – JL Subject: JL WE ARE NOT IDLE TO READ TEN THOUSAND SENTENCES. Message: Subject: Re: JL WE ARE NOT IDLE TO READ TEN THOUSAND SENTENCES. Message: That's why he spends his time venting his anger at his betters who are successfully employed, unlike him, and the world din general. All Babu-face, goat-tied, sweating bootlicker Leigh does all day is recyle his nonsensical, envy-filled diatribes filled with ungrammatical sentences in a futile attempt to be noticed. He fails -- as he has failed in everthing he has tried in his life. Don't forget that Kabbah sacked him from the only job he has had in the past 10 years. The corrupt Leigh has found out that in America, you can't bribe for a job --you have to be qualified for one. So, Spit-licker Leigh has not been able to get a job since he was sacked by President Kabbah for selling Salone passports to terrorists from the embassy in Washington DC. Subject: SLPP'S MELTDOWN IS PREDICRED - culled Message: The Presidential and Parliamentary elections which were scheduled on 28th July have been resheduled for 11th August 2007.This decision by NEC to reschedule the election date has been described most unfortunate. In a “Plain Talk” discussion radio programme aired on Radio UNAMSIL on Saturday, 5th May 2007, respondents to the programme clearly exposed the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) had a hand in the shift of the election date. Indeed the SLPP has a hand on the election date. When President Kabbah announced 28th July 2007 as the election date he also has the constitutional authority to dissolve parliament by proclamation. But the president has deliberately failed to exercise his powers instead allowed the Speaker of Parliament to insist on finishing their term of office knowing fully well that four weeks is not enough to mobilize and put all the logistics together. Even the six weeks that are now envisaged falls far below the constitutional framework. The SLPP is aware of such colossal constitutional breach and has also failed to provide a level playing field to the opposition parties. It is a fact that since the 2005 Makeni Convention of the party where the Vice President Mr. Solomon Berewa was elected as the flag bearer of the SLPP, he has been vigorously campaigning throughout the country than his counterparts. While conducting these campaign trails in the disguise of sensitization, Mr. Berewa has been allegedly accused of siphoning state funds he dishes out in these campaigns all over the country. But unfortunately neither the National Electoral Commission (NEC) nor the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) has done anything under the financial regulations provisions of both institutions to query or check the VP’s campaign spree. As I have many times traveled with the vice president to the provinces particularly in the south and eastern provinces, the turnout has not been encouraging with low receptions accorded him by the people. The fact of the matter is that Mr. Solomon Berewa is not marketable. Most people have perceived him as the principal architect to all the woes that have befallen this nation. His insatiable appetite for money stigmatizes him as the most corrupt person in Sierra Leone. Now that the SLPP have realized that they foolishly listened to President Kabbah in selecting a non marketable person in the person of Solomon Berewa and even of greater calamity, replacing a seasoned politician, Dr. Prince Harding who has won two general elections as Secretary General by an inexperience political novice in the person of Mr. Jacob Jusu Saffa, has put the party in a perilous state. Given this fact, the party’s only alternative is to rig the elections. Their plan is to settle for the rural areas where they intend stuffing the ballot boxes and depriving the people from voting. But the SLPP should not forget that those who helped them in such practice in 1996 and 2002 are no longer with them. Any such unethical tactics by the SLPP will be robustly challenged. Thus, SLPP’s spectacular melt down is predicted. ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- © 2006 Standard Tim Subject: Re: NO SLPP MELTDOWN PREDICTED Message: Your analysis re the prospects of the SLPP is wrong. There is absolutely no SLPP meltdown predicted by any fair-minded sensible person that I know of. As we speak, my own evaluation is that SLPP is in for a clean victory. VP BEREWA Neither of his two rivals are anyway near him in stature and in national acceptance. His following has increased by the day and the SLPP rank and file have now accepted him 100%, if relectantly in some quarters. The SLPP rank and file long since had decided to swallow the bitter pill of Makeni than split the party and allow the dreaded APC to waltz into power as in 1966. And Mr. Berewa has tirelessly traveled around the whole country opening schools, markets, clinics, etc. and explaining government policy, taking direct questions from the audience and allowing people to judge him as they listen to him and observe his demeanor. Clearly, the marketability of Solomon Berewa has been a most successful endeavor indeed. His two rivals are way behind. APC is weighed down by 25 years of malgovernance characterized by mass hegemonistic marginalizations, extensive poverty-spreading and reckless Ekutay frolicking. Koroma has not shown the leadership neccessary to show his superiority to Berewa. PMDC is a non-starter. Dombolo is on a tailspin given the widespread PMDC challenges to Fullah, Mandingo and Soso registration as voters; followed by the double-cross of Northern Muslim loyalists in a failed attempt to pander to Fullahs via a flunkey kindergarten stunt. If you are with Prince Harding, then you are not in the reform wing of the party. JJ Saffa is. Harding has APC baggage, Saffa does not. True, Harding has won two convention elections as Party S-G and Saffa is coming in for the first time. I know the character of both of them well and my preference by a wide margin is for Saffa. After Prince Harding told me publically from the high table at the party convention in Bo in 2002 to "shut up and go back to America" after I had correctly complained about the shinanigans in the corruption of the delegate selection at SLPP-North America branch(clearly a foretaste of Makeni), he did not call another meeting of the SLPP Executive Council until July 2005 - two months after its term of office had expired. It was this expired executive committee that arranged Makeni under Harding's leadership. My position is that Harding's executive committe had no de jure power to organize the Makeni convention in September 2005 because its term of office had expired in May 2004. It was thus Harding that organized the ConBention in Makeni in 2005. And many in the rank and file were glad that JJ Saffa was elected in his stead. I believed that if Harding had been re-elected S-G, PMDC For, your information, it was Harding that was behind the anger of many rank and file elements who voted for independent candidates in 2004 and was the architect of the 2004 SLPP Local government elections disaster around the country. Thus it was not a calamity to have voted Harding out. It was a true blessing in my opinion. One of the very first reforms VP Berewa instituted was to return the award of the party symbol to the constituencies instead of retaining it, as Harding had done, at party headquarters where allegations of purchased favoritisms were quite frequent. Returning the palm tree symbol award to the constituencies has energized the grassroots because they deem it more democratic and less corrupt. In sum, your entire analysis is in error. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: SLPP MELTDOWN PREDICTED Message: That is because you know no fair-minded sensible person, John Leigh! You only know people like you -- blind SLPP apologists. Subject: Title of the Day Message: Dunce El Stupido SLPMB Crook Oodat in yas clean, mek he yerri........ Subject: MR.HAMELBERG-WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD FOR AFRICA? Message: Subject: Re: MR.HAMELBERG-WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD FOR AFRICA? Message: My son sat down in the kitchen on my birthday in 2005, and in between playing cards with his mother, wrote this essay as part birthday present on July 14, 2005, and regard this as aprt contribution to the topic. “ Wither Africa? Neo-colonialism and its advocates. By Nathan Hamelberg By other standards, it’s still impossible to rid oneself of a haunting image of a general African decline. Literacy levels, infant mortality, poverty – none of these areas have witnessed great leaps ahead or even substantial changes in a positive direction; in some countries, with the advent of AIDS and the insufficient political reactions to it, life expectancy has even slumped. This overall gloomy picture is at least partly punctuated by attempts at African unity, aimed at African independence vis-à-vis the West through greater African interdependence to encourage peaceful coexistence, more ecologically sound transportation and less dependence on cash crop production. With the emergence of what might enthusiastically be dubbed neo-pan-Africanism, it’s necessary to recall that a lot of it simply amounts to policy changes brought upon Africa by the world community and brought about by the end of the cold war. With the cessation of hostilities in Ethiopia, Somalia, Namibia etc, Western powers have sought to reduce the expenses for policing Africa whilst still insuring a continued steady supply of neo-colonial revenues. Firstly through reducing military aid to allied states and right wing paramilitary groups (Unita et al.). Secondly through using the UN to prompt African states to carry on with the fire brigade rescuing operations that the US and Europe found themselves caught up with in the days of their most heavy democratic and progressive sounding rhetoric immediately following the collapse of Stalinism. That period already stopped short with the Somalian civil war, and was dead and buried in Rwanda. The result being that the two African giants in particular - Nigeria and South Africa, with Libya jockeying for a third place – all play the part of regional rescuing services. With the recent debate on debt cancellations and even African recompensation, it’s obvious that there’s a lot at stake and that it’s necessary to read the fine print of Blair and Co.’s humanist rhetoric. Who’s fooling who? One thing is certain; the major industrialised economies are busying themselves for two main reasons. Firstly, Western exploitation of the African continent for the last ten fifteen years has reached such an extreme that the very weak African institutions, the very states ruled by leaders bound and gagged by austerity measures imposed from abroad, that are its prerequisite are crumbling all together. African loans have become all but uncollectible, being more often than not inherited from corrupt and/or authoritarian regimes backed either by a now non existing Soviet Union or a remnant of an ossified US foreign policy. Come a democratic sweep throughout most of the continent, most regimes are not particularly keen on honouring deals struck with their persecutors of yesterday and political opponents of today. To make matters worse, for the most part of postcolonial history, the lines between foreign aid and loans have been constantly blurred, with the absolute majority of western aid being conditional and tied to government purchases of key national industrial products of the benefactor country in question, thereby severely limiting freedom of manoeuvring for newly independent states. By the late 70s/early 80s, things were getting so out of hand that IMF stepped in to clean up affairs, insofar as the system of tying new African states to the west was rationalised. It meant the end of the previous prevailing system with a tendency towards overbidding in terms of courting new leaders so as to lull them into long term commitment and handing out licences on handling raw materials, refinement etc, and in it’s place came structural adjustment programs that dictated how investment, industrialisation and privatisation policies should be pursued lest thing turn ugly, turning African and Latin-American economies into western smorgasbords. In this way, plundering could accelerate, since postcolonial governments’ hands were tied through the various loans once granted to win time to get economies on their feet. In the discussion on miracle economic growth, certain countries always get mentioned, the Asian tigers, the NICs (Newly Industrialised Countries) and in the early nineties lexicon the ABC countries of Latin America (Argentine, Brazil, Chile) and now India and China. But what is seldom mentioned is how repeatedly, the former of these countries enjoyed most favoured nation status as loan takers, for political reasons (creating strong regional buffers against the spread of communism etc). Even more seldom is it mentioned that contrary to popular belief, more often than not, these examples of spectacular economic growth have benefited greatly from the presence of strong, nationalised banks serving the establishing of a combative industry being able to take up completion with western industrial nations, rather than being the result of all out neo liberal programmes. Back in Africa, foreign investment is beginning to become a complete gamble, and cash returns cannot any longer be expected with regime changes not only in troubled areas such as the democratic republic of Congo but also in formerly exemplary states such as Ivory Coast. When the initiative for corporate scramble for Africa rests on individual multinationals rather than the good ‘ol formal slicing and dicing of states 130 years back, investments are a lot less safe. Buying private armies has been proven a risky business, and long term stability is in the interest of all multinationals – if only they could deliver. Enter the G8. What giant corporations cannot achieve, synchronized efforts of the world’s leading industrial states can – if everyone falls in line. The crux of the confusion is, among other things, the different influence the various G8 member states hold within the World Bank have, how big a claim to repayment of loans they have. And least but not last, how big the economic interest they have with regard to Africa receiving, if not a light Marshall plan of economic recovery, then at least enough slack to get up on its two feet to get the wheels spinning again. A secondary issue is an ideological one. Ever since the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas in Mexico, and especially since the hugely successful protests at the world trade organisation summit in Seattle 1999, international trade relations have come under everything from close scrutiny to heavy criticism to complete rejection from large groups, North, South, East and West. The Blair agenda mesmerizingly comes with an explanation of African (and so called developing countries’) poverty that dodges its colonial roots yet manages to posit Western democracies as the saviours of the day. Or put in another way, African prosperity lies comfortably, with trust in Western capitalism if only the latter gives a helping hand, and African poverty is essentially the product and symptom of mismanagement and neglect from a corrupt elite, which is seen as something separate from and in no way a product of the combination of western colonialism and its legacies, IMF endorsed neo liberal capitalist structural adjustment programs (SAPs) coupled with political, financial and military aid to the most corrupt regimes as long as it’s served Western interests for the past forty something years. In some dogmatic leftwing circles, it is axiomatic that all US policies amount to devilry. The truth is of course, a lot more complex. The US has always been self-serving in its foreign policy, but there are examples of countries that have prospered under the canopy of US imperialism. My point is not a claim that the times have changed and we should all cheer and say hoorah because of Western policy changes. No, in reality not a lot has changed except the technical way to administer plunder. The US military capacity is more than twice that of the next two contenders and a lot of its technology is one generation ahead of the rest. Technology wise, the runners up (Israel, Britain) are not only amongst America’s closest allies, they are also heavily dependant on American support to maintain their position in the New World order. Western leaders are keen to “reset” all African economies insofar that they don’t want debts to inhibit business as usual. Not only that, as we’ve witnessed during the past G8 summit before it was blasted into medial insignificance by Islamist London commuters/suicide bombers/terrorists (insert favourite), offering African elites an “economic amnesty” gives exploitative trade relations credibility so that they can be maintained without loss of face in Africa, Europe or elsewhere. Cancellation of debts has been the hobby horse advocated by the pious and picked up by more or less everyone else, from cocainist rock stars in Gucci sunglasses to born again Christian statesmen. Resurfaced panafricanists have challenged that way of posing the question of African poverty, although somewhat inadequately, by trying to flip the scr1pt, and maintaining that cancellation of debt is not enough, economic recompensation for colonialism and slavery is more in place, pretty much inspired by Holocaust recompensation claims. But whereas Israel enjoyed substantial American foreign aid and even more substantial military aid as American client state supreme in the region and internationally, temporarily enriched African governments could not industrialise soundly within the brief time span of one or two mandate periods and remain certain of Western benevolence if that same African industrialisation did not serve Western interests or at least, did not threaten Western profits. In the unlikely event of economic recompensation, African countries would have to pursue policies of greatly increased regional cooperation in order to not find themselves indebted again to European and American economies, well protected by agricultural and industrial trade tariffs. Since African problems are structural, all remedies simply prescribing “add cash and stir” into basically bankrupt and corrupt economies are doomed to fail simply because they do not address the heart of the matter – African dependency. Enter the solution as old as colonialism itself, – “more massa!” most unsurprisingly advocated by those who most strongly identify themselves as most gifted as would be rulers with counselling and support from those countries with which they identify. The most confused, disillusioned and most tragically, self-hating internet scribes offer a bullet-proof solution to the problem of African dependency – more African dependency. There are several roots to this hopeless position, internalised racism, “it was better way back when” conservatism, and a great deal of respect for strong, western institutions and traditions. And a great deal of their reasoning owes a lot to Locke and Hobbes, arguing that only the presence of one, strong centralised authority can bring about order out of chaos. That medicine has been prescribed with varying degrees of success in East Timor, Kosovo, Macedonia etc, and in all none of these cases have the strong centralised authority consisted primarily of former colonisers (Serbian or Indonesian troops) but rather multiethnic forces that can gain the respect of different ethnic parts of the populace. From the basically very correct observation “we’re worse off now than we were forty years ago” some very wrong conclusions are drawn. One thing is certain; for professionals, academics, teachers etc, motherland education meant that career opportunities were open all over the British/French/Portuguese colonies, and nothing hindered trade between different colonial territories. In so far as there were absolute advantages in how the administration was organised. This shows how limited the nation state is as a tool to bring about development in this late modern world – if African communications was more free flowing and African economies more integrated fifty years ago (even if it was primarily so arranged to serve European interests), before the emergence of various artificial nation states then surely today’s African nation states present a dead end for Africans except for those corrupt leaders that owe their positions to those very same state formations. (More on the problems posed by the nation states later, but mainly from a domestic perspective.) Today, like jealous brothers, other former colonies are looked down upon and the father figure of “our” colonizer is preferable for aid and support, since he’s bound to have learned to love us after a few centuries of rape. If it was simply expert knowledge and support that was requested, then Indian, Chinese, Brazilian, Cuban, Korean or Iranian engineering would do just as well as formal Oxbridge or école superieur merits. But since most of these sycophants back their claim to relevance with free quotations from their Oxbridge education, it should come as no surprise that they passionately prefer the expertise of their former colonial masters that they somehow share than some other patois speaking natives’ homemade skills. Most of these sycophants claim to, if not fame then infamy, stems from their own Oxbridge grooming, and they invariably refer to those same institutions for salvation. Great Britain has declined ridiculously as an industrialised nation in the past half century, only picking up the last ten years when it’s come into step somewhat with the rest of Europe, and it took some bribing in the form of special tax exemptions to coax them into going for European cooperation. How do they compare with aforementioned states in terms of development? Very differently in varying cases. But the point is it’s a completely different thing to claim that “we were better off in the forties” and to say “we’d be better of if we’d be recolonised”. The latter statement misses the fact that one reason Great Britain and its brother colonial states have fared so well as they have is that with neo-colonialism, they’ve shoved the burden of administration on to corrupt local elites whilst still, through trade relations, been able to reap the profits inherent in the relations that stem from African underdevelopment. The profits of African underdevelopment are twofold. First of all, or rather, on a simple level, it’s a question of value, the transformation of value when say bauxite is refined to aluminium. The whole profit lies in that refinement, mining for bauxite is itself as profitable as peanut vending . Secondly, beside all the IMF and World Bank encouragement to focus on few cash crops and raw materials leaving African countries extremely vulnerable to the world market prices and it’s whims, there’s a self-interest for Western states to keep African and so called third world states on a certain level of underdevelopment as to protect their own industry and agriculture (i.e. European Union trade tariffs, stemming from an economic union that preaches the lofty values of death to protectionism and free trade to impoverished nations as a means to access their markets). Tribalism, Clientalism, Corruption and Democracy In all African states, two competing systems of power-sharing coexist, and unfortunately, they mix very badly. Traditional tribal clientalist leaders are pitted against each other within the framework of parliamentary democracy. Urban areas are somewhat more resilient to tribalistic politics due to more mixed populations and class based political formations. Under colonialism, tribal divisions were encouraged in the age-old “divide and conquer” way. When the European powers withdrew, and western-trained elites sought to establish parliamentary democracy it accentuated those divisions even more. Whereas tribal chiefs, princes and kings ruled over areas corresponding to those inhabited by “their” tribe, colonialism constructed hybrid multiethnic states where leaders of various tribes disguised as political parties would contest for power over areas much larger than those of their tribes. Parliamentarianism gave states that were ruled by leaders that, more often than not, were seen as the candidates of one tribe rather than of all people. Multi-ethnicity is nothing bad in itself of course, but in a situation where the mismanagement of colonies led to famine, starvation and epidemics, national elections put pressure on the electorate to vote along ethnic lines and thus, for majority peoples, secure a disproportionate amount of the state’s booty. This would then be redistributed in accordance with old, clientalist traditions. In times of crisis, best to collectively “go for self”. Such arrangements of power- sharing encourage secessions such the Katanga province in the Congolese civil war, the Biafra war etc. With a framework of more confederate constitutions and greater regional co-operation, a lot of the incitements towards tribalism and secession would be countered. Additionally, with ambitious industrial and development policies, a far greater part of the national wealth would not stem from raw materials, oil or agricultural products which are all local and therefore closely tied to a specific tribe. If the state is seen as an agent that refines what local inhabitants have, and develops the whole nation with the proceeds, good. If it is seen as an agent of multinational companies, handing out contracts to plunder in exchange for small bribes, then to hell with it. For the average (previously self-governing) villagers in agrarian areas, the arrival of urban ballot informers telling them who is eligible in the national election is bound to muster as much enthusiasm as somebody asking for their support of a team they don’t know in a sport with rules they’re completely unfamiliar with, especially if the office in question entitles the holder to tax levying, looting and oppression. National elections amount to a procedure geared to giving some formerly exiled intellectual of a different tribe the mandate to bully you, just because 51 percent of the population of an administrative area drawn up in Berlin 1884 endorses it. That’s bound to provoke, to say the least. If people do not see themselves as “one” people, what is formally majority rule will be experienced by many as oppression. If on top of this, some political parties advocate religious law, that experience will be unbearable. If 51 percent Hausa-Fulani (or rather, their representatives) want to impose Sharia law on 49 percent Igbos and Yorubas, 100 percent of Igbos and Yorubas will identify themselves not primarily as Nigerian but as Igbo and Yoruba. (In an “us or them” situation, few will risk tossing a vote away by voting for some secular idealist. This is no African phenomenon; check Northern Ireland or former Yugoslavia for example). An old objection to Western democracy is that the borders of African states do not correspond to fairly homogenous populations but are thoroughly artificial constructs in the first place. Though this objection is accurate, the question is, then what? Trying to return to a pre-colonial Africa in post-modern days seems a bit naive if not impossible. How do we go about giving power to the people? And by the way, how do we go about making Africans of various tribes identify themselves primarily as Africans and/or nationals? How do we make governments accountable, and even more desirable, create more real self-government? A lot of corrupt dictators have used the above objection as a pretext for stripping their citizens, of other tribes and their own, of their civil rights. It’s not democracy that’s flawed, it’s the artificial African nation states that are insufficient as a means to realising African democracy. The necessary steps forward requires reconstituting democracy on a smaller level (locally) in order to make it genuinely popular and on a larger level (regionally) in order to make African societies strong enough to collectively combat western exploitation. Footnotes: 1. For convenience sake I’ve arbitrarily chosen Ghanaian independence as the start of decolonization, although its prehistory predates World War Two, and not the least, was given a great push through rapid spread of panafricanism through the International African Friends of Abyssinia opposed to Italian occupation in the thirties. 4 Given the explosive development of the telecommunication industry, and its heavy reliance on satellite technology, it is stupid bordering criminal neglect that a country such as Sierra Leone does not itself have the facilities to process bauxite and rutile into aluminium and titanium, two of the most important metals for satellites. 5. The case of Ogoniland in Nigeria is a textbook example. Had the Nigerian Oil minister reinvested profits from oil then perhaps the Ogoni people would not have felt so abused by multinationals. Even better, had Nigeria taken things in their own hands and gone beyond merely supplying crude oil to Western countries that refined it into various petroleum products, then Africa’s second richest country would be a lot more prosperous © Nathan Hamelberg 2005 Subject: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by FBI on May 11, 2007 at 13:10:01: In Reply to: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH posted by John E. Leigh on May 11, 2007 at 12:29:22: "The quoted phrase refers to the conduct of that El Stupido SLPMB crook " John Leigh, is that what you now call your hero, President Kabbah? How ungrateful! Leigh, did you only find out that the man who FIRED you as ambassador for your corruption in selling passports to terroriats at the SL embassy in Washington DC -- President Kabbah -- was a notorious SLPMB crook who had been BANNED from holding any public office in SL? Don't you know Leigh that aiding and abetting terrorists is a federal crime in the US for which you can still be prosecuted by the US governmwent? Do you know Leigh that aiding and abetting the SLPMB criminal, Predsisdent Kabbah through your $10,000 bribe for an ambassadorship in the USA -- is a criminal violation of the Beoku Betts Commission of Inquiry BANNING Kabbah from holding any public office? Don't you know Leigh that by bribing the adjudged SLPMB Crook and your co-conspitaor in the violation of the laws of Salone, you, Leigh became an accessory to the SLPMB crook's crime in defrauding the people of Salone? Do you now see that you, leigh were accurately describing yourself, Kabbah -- the SLPMB crook you bribed for a job before he fired you as ambassador, and Berewea -- the SLPP crook you also bribed for a job should he win the elections you and them are bent on rigging,when you qwrote: "To survive and prosper they must steal, lie, defraud, double-cross and deceive others and/or engage in some form of predatory parasitic conduct." Leigh, is there no criminal conduct -- including bribery, corruption, fraud, conspiracy to aid terorists by selling Salone passports to terrorists at the embassy in Washington DC, election fraud, prostituting the Salone ambassador's residence with your concubine -- which you will not commit in your shameful quest to rise above the lowly state to which your rudeness and immoral chacter have condemned you? Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: May be you can help to clear my mind. especially since so many people inclusing qualified Lawyers seem to abuse the Legal position on this forum, Since I was not old enough to remember the Beaku- Betts commission,can you please post a copy of the report on this sight for me. I say so because my understanding of the Law is that those Commissions were set up to inquire and make recomendations. It follows therefore that if that commission had recommended that Kabbah should not hold public office again, that recomendation should have been passed as a resolution my PARLIAMENT.It only becomes legally binding after Parliamentary confirmation. A mare recomendation of a commission of inquiry is not Law. If Parliament had ractified that recomendation can you also please assist me with references as to where I can have sight of that Parlimentary resolution, and the date thereof, the parliamentary debate, and name of the Parliamentary Speaker at the time. If Parliament did nor rectify that recomendation, then everything said about Kabbah, cannot stand, since he was not banned by the laws of Sa Lone from holding office. It follows therefore, with simple Logic that Kabbah did no wrong and John Leigh cannot aid and abet a person where no crime has been committed. Think about it...it is quite simple. John Leigh is in the clear AGAIN. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: Our moniker abuser-flip-floppers think they are entitled to their own set of facts, whether non-factual or utter rubbish. The Beoku Betts Commission was a three-man concoction set up in 1967 by the then coup regime. The coup regime was overthrown in early 1968 after barely a year of their own coup. The overthrown elements were then thrown in jail where some of them faced execution for treason after all of then had been convicted. A coup regime is not a de jure government. Therefore its acts are not legal and once out of office its decisions have no legal force unless rectified by parliament. Parliament never rectified the Beoku Betts Commission's decisions. Even if it did, the sovereign people voted for Tejan Kabbah in 1996. Those who think the Beoku Betts Commission word ought to be final as far as Kabbah's right to be president is concerned, had a choice to go to parliament or the courts. They did neither since 1995 when he became a presidential candidate or even later when he became president. After 11 years or so sitting on their hands, they cannot now be heard complaining about the lack of enforcement of the commission's report. However, the above was not the real reason why I disregarded imported-can-of-soft-drink idiot's comment in this area. I ignored the dumbo because he sought to invent the fiction that my comment in response to Mr. sengbe Wutehteh's question referred to Kabbah when in fact it was clear that it was meant solely for the foolumunku parity daft. Our flip-flopper-moniker abusers have no valid case to make against the SLPP or anyone of us defending the party in cyberspace. So they have all settled on heckling with lies, wild baseless allegations, instigating confusion; diversions, inventions, cuss, insults, vulgarisms and lurid conversations; stupidities, utter rubbish and the like. The very last thing these shameless, mentality weak fickle-minded detractors want today is a free and fair debate of the relevant issues facing our country. They can't cope. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: "...Our flip-flopper-moniker abusers have no valid case to make against the SLPP or anyone of us defending the party in cyberspace. So they have all settled on heckling with lies, wild baseless allegations, instigating confusion; diversions, inventions, cuss, insults, vulgarisms and lurid conversations; stupidities, utter rubbish and the like..." "...The very last thing these shameless, mentality weak fickle-minded detractors want today is a free and fair debate of the relevant issues facing our country. They can't cope..." These statements are so very true about our detractors that anyone with any sense of propriety, and half an ounce of intellect will attest to the fact we [SLPPers] have already defeated them in cyberdom. In general, these statements quite accurately portray the difference between us, as SLPPers, and them, as APCerians, and PMDCians. Indeed, THEY CANNOT COPE with us. My work has been done. I now bid the forum ADIEU! Won't be back till August. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: Thank you very much for your contributions in helping the Diaspora public understand the true facts about the situation in SLeone and the contributions of the SLPP in advancing the public interest after nearly 30 years of nation-wrecking by APC, the RUF and the AFRC and for also accurately portrary PMDC as PIKIN MAGGI DONE CRASE. Thank you very much for everything and do please have and enjoyable and productive summer. - JL Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: Is it not apparent to you that the fact that the self-admiited bribe-giver and child truant John Leigh, resorts to abuses, instead of argument, is conclusive of his INABILITY to reason. It is that mental weekness that should have restrained you from jumpring to the totally wild conclusion that Leigh is able to cope with even the most elementary opponent, not to mentionm the masters of debate who have been making him look lkike the fool he is. So, SLPP apologist, keep runing away from the truth. That would change nothing -- but you are too dim-witted to ever understand that simple truth. Perhaps if you went back and retook that GCE O Level English test you have failed repeatedly -- perhaps -- you kight understand taht fact. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: Fooloomunku Leigh, where did you say you studied law? Your ignorant opinion would earn you an F in my beginning law class! Unless you produce a certified transcr1pt, I would not beleiev that you ever passed a law exam. And if you do, I would immediately recognize a fourth rate instution that allowed such an ignorant person like you to claim a law degree. If you are a serious person, you will produce the legal authority under Sierra Leonean law for your porous opinion. Your failure to do so is conclusive of the nonsensical nature of your unsubstantiated opinion. Like someone told you and your fellow blind SLPP apologists, you will say anything, no matter how outlandish and dishonest, to try to shield traitorious selves from the truth. No wonder your SLPP regime is the most corrupt government is Sierra Leone's history. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: Hey John, when I read that statement above, it far contradicts what you had said your position was on this forum earlier..You had said you were here to set the records straight in a meaningful engagement without necessarily taking sides. But defence is not what that means. to defend someone means to do so at all cost...irrespective of what the facts say. You have a legal background, and you very much know what a defence lawyer's job is to defend a man who murders in broad day light. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: Political defence work is quite different from legal defence work. We are defending only against untrue and distorted accusations as well as putting into perspective the records of the SLPP vis-a-vis APC and PMDC people. And we are willing to acknowledge missteps by the government and to concede up front that SLPP is not perfect. Our basic line of defence is simple, "bad as SLPP is alleged to be, it is far better for SLeone than APC or PMDC." Thanks for your inquiry. - JL Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: John Lee, if that is true, why is it that it is only under the SLPP government that Sierra Leone has been ranked continuously as either the worst, or second-worst country in the world? Your defense of the worst government in the history of Sierra Leone as better than previous governments is simply corrupt. That makes you corrupt. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: CADMUS: A commission of Enquiry's finding and recomendation obtain its legal force NOT from a "resolution of parliament" as you claimed in transparent error, but only from its ADOPTION by the government. That adoption is signified by the publication of a government WHITE PAPER on the commission's recommedations. That was done following the Beoku Betts commission. So, contrary to your wishful thinking, Tejan Kabbah's guilt in the theft of SLPMB money was legally determinedwhen the SL govt. published a White Paper adopting the Beoku Betts Commission's finding. Therefore, Tejan Kabbah was legally barred from holding any public office in SL upon his habv[ving been found guilty of theft. Thus, JOhn Leigh, by bribing the adjiudged SLPMB THIEF, Te4jan Kabbah, aided and abetted the convited thief Kabbah in violating the laws of SL which barred the comvicted thief from ever holding public office. Therefore, your opinion that "John Leigh is in the clear AGAIN" is nothing more than the usual unpatriotic expression of blind suport by a fellow corrupt blind SLPP supporter for one of the most corrupt and ignorant blind suporters of the SLPP. I am of ocurse referring to the bribe-giving, terrorist-supporting, concubine-cohabiting, vomit-licking, English vocabulary-deficient, undiplomatic, and extremely rude John Leigh. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: You have misunderstood my point...I am sure it is not delibrate.I did say 'by resolution' whiich could have been done by means of a white papers..you are right in that point. However, I did also talk of confirmation of the commissions' reports by Parliament.You ignored that...never mind. Did the Sa Lone parliament confirm the comissions finding.That is what I want an answer to.If so please give me the reference of time and date of the Parliamentary sittings, and the name of the Speakers of Parliament at the time. You know as well as I do that WHITE PAPERS only set out Government's Policies, what they intent to legislate on. The commissions could have been set up by means of a white papers, What follows the report or recomendation of the commissions. That is waht I want to know. White papers are not Law.They state Governments intentions.The only way Laws can be made without parliament will by means of Delegated legislation, even then the enabling Act must have been passed by Parliament. Why are you trying to lower the High esteem I hold you to? One can prostitute Politics, but the Law is different, you have to be accurate, and you know that. I give you another example...You call Kabbah a 'CONVICTED THIEF'. The commissions of inquiries were not criminal courts.You know that very well.Further on from that, they were not set up to conduct a Criminal trial, though it may have seemed like that if you were an SLPP. their purpose within their mandate was was to inquire into various aspects ansd activities of various individuals and produce a report or recomendation. To the best of my knowledge Kabbah has never been tried in a Criminal Court of Law in Sa Lone and convicted. It is therefore wrong to say he is a Convivted thief. Now, do you agree with me that John Leigh is Innocent?He is clean and fit for the position of future Foreign Minister, until you prove otherwise, and I mean prove, not gossip. I must give it to you,though, (and this can only happen on Cocorioko) You have forced me to Defend Kabbah even though I am not a Particular fan of his brand of SLPP, but there you are.These things happens.Like you Americans will say S..TS happens. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: Cadmus you cant be serious. So are you saying that had Maskita been alive, he could have actually been the next Pope? Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: CADMUS: So, whose record have you been touting on this forum if not that of the SLPP of which Kabbah -- and only Kabbah -- has been leader? As many people have told you, you SLPP apologists will say anything just to hide from the truth about your very corrupt and incompetent SLPP regime that beats all records for corruption in Salone. Regarding your repeated fallacy that a commisison of enquiry needs parliamentary "approval" that is a surprising display if ignorance of the law, Cadmus. Once you understand that a commisison of enquiry draws its authority from the independent LEGAL branch of the state, you will understand how completely nonsensical it is to say, as you did, that its decisions must be "approved" by the LEGISLATIVE branch of the state. To bring it down to the level of the layman so that you can understand your gaping error, consider the following simple analogy: To say that a commission of enquiry;s findings must be approved by parliament is like saying that the judgment of a criminal court (such a a Magistrate court of a High Court) must be approved by Parliament before it has the force of law! NONSENSE. That shows total ignorance of the law on your part -- it means that you do not underfstand the most elementary foundation of the Salone constitution -- the separation of powers among the executive (government), legislative (parliament) and the judiciary (the courts). So, both you and the even more ignorant fraud posturing as a lawyer, John Leigh, have failed to pass a test that even Form One students should be able to pass -- understanding the separation of powers foundation of the constitution of Salone. Once you underrstand that, you will understand that the SLPMB TIFFMAM President Kabbah iwas legally found guilty of looting SLPMB money by the Beoku Betts com ission of enquiry and was legally barred from holding any public office in Salone. That makes the self-admitted bribe-giver, John Leigh, guilty of the crime of being an accessory in the SLPMB TIFFMAN, Kabbah's violation of the order barring him from ever holding public office in Salone. You two SLPP apologists are not lawyers - at least not ones worth their salt, I am sorry to say, but that is demonstrated by your display of total IGNORANCE of Salone law. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: BTW you have still not convence this forum yet of your LAWYERING. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: My good friend, thank you for that. I don't need to do that. I do Lawyering (as you put it) for living in Courts. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: I don't believe that you are a lawyer. One time you arranged to meet a forumite who was passing thru London. When the forumite arrived at the rendez-vous, you failed to show up -- and failed to respond to the forumite's repeated attmpts to contact you. That is the profile of someone who has something to hide -- like his real job. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: I do know your proper Identity, what a shame you feel you must hide behind yet another handle when you want to insult people. I promised to meet both Sengbe and Alieu Iscandri if they were ever in London. I did not arrange to meet either of them at anytime. I did not at anytime give either of them my Address,either home or E-mail. Neither did they, so how on earth could we have arranged to meet? I think some of you guys on this forum are below the pale. I have been practicing my profession for the past 15 years.That is my business.Those who know me know what I do. It should not matter to you what I do as long as you understand what I write on this forum.If you are so fixed on the Law then please go to Law School, preferably a British one. I will not agin entertain any discussion on what I do from hencefort, because it does not seem to get us anywhere with the idiots I deal with on this forum. I will only now reply or discuss matters relating to Sa Lone and/or politics generally. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: Please don't feel bad telling off moniker abusers. They are fair game for insults because you are dealing with fake, not real, names and those fakes are used to insult, lie, etc. Generally, they are up to no good. You will never catch me hesitate to hammer a foolumunku hidding behind a chicken moniker abuse. - JL Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: Subject: Re: HERE IS MY REBUTTAL Message: Thanks for bringing the "FBI" multiple moniker abuser-flip-flopper posting to my attention as I have stopped reading postings from such flip-flopper dunces. They keep on coming up with newer monikers to flip-flop in and out as they please and I ignore them because many other contributors deal with them to my utter satisfaction. Now that you have directed my attention to this particular one, I am obliged to respond. First, there is nothing to recover from, as your caption might suggest, because the trash our multiple moniker abuser-flip-flopper posted is old, old rehashed stuff collected from the garbage pile of this forum after it had been dealt with ten or more times over going back to 1996 when I stopped embassy rogues from drinking drunk on the embassy premises, selling US diplomatic visas obtained by false pretences, arranging passport deals to defraud ordinary SLeoneans, stealing consular fees, broke-balancing, kiting bad checks and so on. Now PMDC dumbos say I am with terrorists. The extreme nature of their outlandish excesses may indicate that they are loosing their cool and heading for another dombolo. Second, I will now show you how stupid this EL Stupido SLPMB crook is, in my simple and straightforward answer to their repeat rubbish for the individual I refer to as the EL Stupido SLPMB crook is precisely the same individual who is misusing “FBI” as his latest serial flip-flop moniker. Thus the El Stupido SLPMB Crook I am wrote about is the same flip-flopper multiple moniker abuser-individual who reproduced my statement to Mr. Sengbe Wutehteh that described "FBI" as follows: "The quoted phrase refers to the conduct of that El Stupido SLPMB crook" to ask the following question as if he is an innocent bystander but who has guilty knowledge of the truth: "John Leigh, is that what you now call your hero, President Kabbah? How ungrateful!" Next, there is nothing remotely ungrateful that can be concluded as emanating from my above statement that Dumbo El Stupido SLPMB Crook borrowed because there is absolutely nothing for me to be ungrateful for to the real El Stupido SLPMB Crook your "FBI" moniker flip-flopper. I made it clear in my writing that the El Stupido SLPMB Crook I was writing about was solely in response to this specific question from Mr. Sengbe Wutehteh: “Is there any bearing with regards to an 'El Stupido' on this forum, who worked in the budget office of the erstwhile SLPMB organization under M.K. Suma's mentorship for ten years? If so, please let us know.” El Stupido thinks people are as stupid and corrupt as he is. He knows or should have known that: 1. El Stupido SLPMB Crook is the one posting in this forum by flip-flopping into multiple monikers. President Kabbah is not posting in this forum at all. In addition to the above, the cluefoolness El Stupido SLPMB Crook should never have assumed that forumites are suffering from cluelessness on account of his stupid, childish, remedial trick as follows: 1. President Kabbah has never written in SLeone local press or On-Line about how to INSTANTLY ALLEVIATE POVERTY by gaining DOLLAR PARITY for the LEONE. Dunce el-Stupido SLPMB Crook has done so several times as set forth in my answer to Mr. Sengbe Wutehteh. I need not go further in responding to the additional trash EL Stupido SLPMB Crook posted as everything El Stupido SLPMB Crook posted is grounded solely on his not being the real El Stupido SLPMB Crook inquired by Mr. Wutehteh and who labored and stole SLPMB money during a ten-year span and who was mentored by the man who ruined the SLPMB through crookedness and thus spread poverty and suffering in the cash-crop producing districts in SLeone: Bo, Bonthe, Moyamba, Pujehun, Kenema and Kailahun Districts - all SLPP strongholds since the days of Sir Milton – for no just cause. Below is my complete response to Mr. Sengbe Wutehteh’s inquiry followed by his complete inquiry and my original posting that invited Mr. Wutehteh’s inquiry. Please compare the three postings with the rubbish that El Stupido SLPMB Crook mumbo-tombo-dumbo foolumunku remedial flunkey dunce “FBI” flip flop moniker abuser is trying to sell to the general public. Then please let El Stupido understand that people are not as stupid as he is and as he thinks. Forumites are not that easily hoodwinked, certainly not by a patent dunce like El Stupido Mr. Wutehteh asked me to point out to the public. Thank you. – JL In Reply to: Re: THE USUAL FOOLUMUNKS: Mansfield, Lileondo, Apologist, Comic posted by Sengbe Wutehteh on May 10, 2007 at 15:03:21: Sengbe Wutehteh kindly asked me to respond to the following request: “…….. please give the public an explanation of the following phrase …..: "...imported-can-of-soft-drink idiots, bombastic dunces and foolumunku crookish Bangucrooks..." "For the benefit of forumites and peepers alike, what is the story behind the "imported can of soft drinks"? Yes, yes! The quoted phrase refers to the conduct of El Stupido SLPMB and his remedial colleagues in the same foolumunku grouping of political of alphabet soup opportunists. Without any factual basis or valid justification, Mr. Munku El Stupido fancied himself as a smart “economist”. So he wrote rubbish articles about how to get the Leone to gain parity (one-for-one) with the US Dollar. He then sent his dunce writings and photos of himself to a number of local SLeone newspapers and the On-line press. It was the same article each time but backed by stupid interpretations/amplifications from time to time. Mumbo-tombo-dumbo then filed numerous postings and letters praising his idiot writings but under various names and monikers to fool remedials and other foolumunkus. Because no one serious questioned his rubbish (probably because they were too outlandish for anything but low grade discussions among skaffs), he got cocky and plastered his writings, photos and bogus praise all over the place and decided it was time to take on named individuals. That’s when he first questioned me in this forum only to get whacked big time. Since then, he has been using multiple monikers in failed attempts to ridicule me! SOFT DRINK DOMBOLO BOMBASTIC TRASH BANGUCROOKS In Reply to: THE USUAL FOOLUMUNKS: Mansfield, Lileondo, Apologist, Comic posted by John E. Leigh on May 10, 2007 at 13:50:09: Bra John, please give the public an explanation of the following phrase, as you did when you described the KDDA and Ekutay phenomena in the polity of Sa Lon: "...imported-can-of-soft-drink idiots, bombastic dunces and foolumunku crookish Bangucrooks..." For the benefit of forumites and peepers alike, what is the story behind the "imported can of soft drinks"? Is there any bearing with regards to an 'El Stupido' on this forum, who worked in the budget office of the erstwhile SLPMB organization under M.K. Suma's mentorship for ten years? If so, please let us know. Thank you very kindly. THE USUAL FOOLUMUNKS: Mansfield, Lileondo, Apologist, Comic PMDC MAGGAI HAS HAD HIS CHANCES ALSO A pro-PMDC cyberspace writer, Mr. Morie Mussaffa, recently argued that since both the SLPP and the APC have had their time governing Sierra Leone and had failed doing so, the Baby Maggai's PMDC should be given its own chance this 2007 election. Mr. Mussaffa is gravely mistaken. SLPP'S RECORD GOING INTO THE 2007 ELECTION Let’s face the plain facts. SLPP was confronted with an extremely difficult war situation when it came to power in 1996. It negotiated what citizens thought was a final settlement but which nation-wreckers used as a stepping stone. And barely 14 months in power during which time the SLPP Administration succeeded in bringing inflation down from $1.00 = Le1,700. to $1.00 = Le1,000 - thus pegging the price of a 50lb of rice at Le15,000 - hegemonistic tribesmen in the APC-packed military violently struck killing people and purporting to overthrow our elected government. With the imposition of the violent ARFC/RUF junta of barbarians and savages upon us, the political, economic, social, and security situation vastly deteriorated. It was the SLPP that brought the peace we are now enjoying in the country and laying the foundation for employment and development by bringing back to Sierra Leone the international community that previous governments had constructively expelled. APC Any talk, therefore, of a New APC is wishful thinking and double-talk because the same old bad politicians that wrecked the country and provoked war are lurking behind their Jamil peggy-boy leader, hoping for a comeback to selfishly ruin everything once again and re-impose their backward rubbish hegemony. PMDC THE MAN IS A LOW GRADE FAILURE WHO BLEW SCARCE OPPORTUNITIES So what do we come across? Our man has had more than his fair share of opportunities to prove his worth but has done little in his 40 years in the public limelight other than desperately trying to lead others and be president at all costs but without investing his time and attention in garnering any proper learning. Here are a few examples of indications of poor quality background for political leadership by the PMDC man going back many, many years without much improvement as of date: 1. The man has little or no respect for education: He spent two years in St. Edwards Secondary School, Freetown but alleged warning signs prompted his transfer to CKC in Bo where he survived three years without graduating with his class for he failed and flunked out in form four after spending two years there. 2. He served in parliament as an APC MP. What were his contributions to SLeone whilst an MP? Please educate me because I know of none. 3. He has served in the SLPP Cabinet. What were his contributions to society? None that I know of! I have heard that he awarded no-bid government supply profit contracts to his wife and other relatives. He certainly owes the public an explanation if his basic anti-corruption plank is to have any credibility. 4. His politics is one of instability and extreme opportunism. He has been a member of a number of political parties, going in and out as the wind blows for purely personal opportunistic reasons. His party membership include as: SLPP, PNP, APC, NUP, PMDC. 5. THE CDF. If PMDC is claiming as qualified to lead the whole country, (i) how come Maggai never understood the significance of the plight of Chief Sam Norman other than as a money-making opportunity for him alone? (ii) How come he demanded a cool advance of $50,000 (the equivalent of Le150,000,000) in legal fees even before considering helping the man who risked his life protecting Maggai’s own very hometown during the AFRC/RUF barbaric occupation? Isn’t this an extreme form of individualistic opportunistic insatiable greed for money regardless of who suffers? 6. If PMDC is claiming as qualified to lead, how come Maggai thought he could get away with double-crossing the genuine Third Force reformers in the country by the simple expedient of secretly setting up a one-manic, ownership fahlahmahkahtah party for himself and then surround himself with harlot political opportunists, disbarred tiff-tiff lawyers, imported-can-of-soft-drink idiots, bombastic dunces and foolumunku crookish Bangucrooks; then began inviting his superiors to join him? Why would he ever think that his superiors would ever want to leave their own well-established collegial party for the likes of Bangucrooks, tiff-tiff lawyers and disappointed harlot alphabet-soup politicians amongst cans of imported soft drinks' idiots licking their chops for parity? 7. If PMDC is claiming as qualified to lead, how come Maggai thought everyone is as fickle-minded like he is and willing to leave their parties and jump into a new mumbo-tombo-dumbo party of munkus at the slightest opportunity? This man's arrogance is incorrigible! 8. If PMDC is claiming that it is qualified to lead, how come Maggai’s people went after Sierra Leone-born Fullahs, Mandingos and Sosos during the voter registration process but then chose to pander to Fullahs by heartlessly double-crossing his loyalist Northern Muslims supporters who had helped organize and fund his one-manic political grouping? 9. Can a party led by such a double-crosser-panderer and surrounded by mumbo-tombo-dumbos foolumunkus do better than the SLPP? My response is simple: NO WAY JOSE! Then, why give them the chance to wreck SLeone just like the APC wrecked its own chance? That's where I and other reformers come in. We are (at least I am) willing to suffer political sackings and discrimination and stupid ridicule from the likes of Lie-Lie-SLPP Apologist, Lileondo Lee, Liar, Look, Mansfield, Really?, Fingerslip, Comic Aleigh and the other mumbo-tombo-dumbos, etc. in the steadfast pursuit of the public interest. Therefore, the choice is completely clear as to which party is the most reliable vehicle for the advancement of SLeone: The SLPP. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: He has lost alot of respect but I believe he can regain his pride by self-exile, decode his colonial mentality and return to the ring with a progressive mentality. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: So, take your pronographic fantasies and your rudeness to where it belongs -- the SLPP forum in Awarenes Times. Better still to the conbention of corrupt peeople, where you will find corrupt people like Kabbah, Berewa, and their bribing vomit-licker, Leigh the Loser (L.L). Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: I earlier asked him to give back to the people of salone what he stole from us in the form of scholarship. He was a very bad investment for the country. Subject: Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"? Message: Subject: TWO MORE E-MAILS FROM HOME Message: "Good Day Sir, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Another development - Mr Michael Foday of PMDC and Dauda Lansana of APC has decleared for the rulling SLPP in kenema. 2. INSPIRATION Name: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Message: Dear sir, I am a young man who admired you too much in the way you chellages issues os boldly,honest,fairless in doing things.If i am opportune, we all are now in the same political fold. Subject: Re: ONE MAIL FROM HOME -- MAKENI EDITION Message: Local News Leigh is giving the impression to the outside world that he was cheated during the convention, when he woefully failed to secure none of the delegates to even nominate him, not to talk about having someone to second his candidature. He is even denying the true pictures of events as dramatised by himself, his Campaign Manager, Rev. Hindolo S.B. Butcher and a lady, Ms. Susan French, who claimed to be his niece as she loudly wailed. Leigh now disowns Susan French completely and he wrote on the Internet that he has absolutely no connection with Ms. French either by ‘blood’ or by ‘marriage’. Leigh writes like he does not even know who she is or why she was wailing on that day her accusations about how much money, the failed aspirant wasted. Mr. Leigh is also giving the impression that the press especially the print media are all against him and that all reports on the print media including that of the Awareness Times, were all ‘rubbish’. In an e-mail sent to Sierra Leoneans living abroad in answer to one Ahmed Koroma on 15/9/05, Mr. Leigh insinuated that newspaper reports on the outcome of his humiliation and the shameful scenery he created as he was helped out of the convention centre by security personnel, were mere fabrications. Ahmed Koroma had written on the Internet that, "If this report (of Awareness Times online) is true, then there is something really hilarious about Salone politics." Mr. John Leigh immediately responded to Ahmed Koroma by stating that he was no longer in Sierra Leone but safely inside his house in Massachusetts, USA.Continuing his confused writing, Mr. Leigh stated that Susan was not the only one who wailed as a result of his horrible public disgrace but according to Leigh, "Dozens shed tears out of concern for what the future holds for Sierra Leone given the illegalities brazenly committed in Makeni during the nomination process." Mr. Leigh started appearing on the Internet shortly after the Makeni Convention and all his writings clearly revealed a very confused and distraught person. He gathered a few hanger-ons who rallied around him and tried to coax him. However, instead of becoming more composed, Mr. Leigh has increasingly become even more confused as his emails and Internet writings reveal. In light of the true picture of events since Leigh started disgracing himself over FM 98.1 with his lack of command over the Krio language, it is difficult to understand clearly what he is trying to pass across to unwitting Internetters and the outside world. What is however clear and what came out on that Mr. Leigh’s fateful day is that his non-nomination was first greated with silence and when the nominations were closed, it was greeted with an outburst of laughter and then comments filled with disdain for John Leigh, such as, "Wo dat go vote for dis kind man" and "Leh ee go learn for talk Krio first" Nobody in the form of supporters, followed the dejected Mr. Leigh out of the hall. He was by himself except for Ms. French who was wailing above the loudspeakers the following words: ‘Wose kind disgrace dis? Na Butcher dem all plan dis. Butcher wan kill me uncle. Ee wan kill me uncle." Indeed, John Leigh made the headlines again in Freetown that week. Awareness Times is reproducing some of the headlines and comments from the various newspapers which covered John Leigh at the convention. *Concord Times, September 5, 2005: "John Leigh almost went into coma." *New Vision, September 5, 2005 ‘Berewa wins landslide." It commented: "The legal minded strongman and former Ambassador to the United States of America John Leigh together with Dr. Lansana Nyallay of Tegloma fame were left in the cold during nomination period for the position as leader and flagbearer of the SLPP…" *Independent Observer: September 5, 2005 commented "Former Sierra Leone Ambassador to the United States of America, John Leigh and Amerca based Lansana Nyallay did not contest since they were not nominated during the convention. Leigh later addressed the press that he was cheated." The Exclusive, September 5, 2005: "Berewa’s brooms sweeps clean." It wrote "… He was said to have summoned an immediate press conference during which he disclosed to press men that he spent fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) on the campaign for the party’s leadership." The Awoko newspaper, September 5, 2005: "Solo B in clean sweep victory." It wrote: "Mr. John Leigh one of the six contestants for the position of party leader and presidential aspirant was sighted crying like a baby after he was not nominated." The Focus newspaper, September 5, 2005: "Clean sweep victory for Solo B." It wrote "…. all the contestants unanimously accepted the results of the election. Earlier during nomination time Mr. John Leigh one of the six contestants for the position of party leader and presidential aspirant was sighted crying like a baby after he was not nominated." The New Tempo newspaper, September 7, 2005: "Butcher Butchers John Leigh." It wrote. "The biggest casualty of this year’s SLPP convention is leadership aspirant, John Leigh… campaign manager for the Leigh camp, Hindolo S.B Butcher, said the people who were supposed to nominate Mr. Leigh "failed to do so despite assurances up to the eleventh hour of the convention…. It was alleged that Mr. Leigh, through Butcher, paid two delegates from Gbangbatoke constituency about $5000 to get him nominated and seconded…However, a niece of Leigh, Susan French, accused Butcher of conspiracy with the others to pocket the money… Susan burst into tears and cried throughout the conference." Salone Times newspaper, September, 8, 2005: "John Leigh in bad mood." A picture story with the following caption: "Presidential aspirant and former Ambassador to US, John Leigh leaving the Makeni polytechnic campus, accompanied by police and journalists, after the close of nomination… Mr. Leigh who failed to be nominated left the convention hall in a despondent mood and was later whisked from the scene into a police vehicle which drove away." Can John Leigh deny all these factual reportages to mean all Sierra Leonean newspapers are ‘rubbish’? Observers are already commenting that John Leigh ate his cake before it was baked and that prior to the convention, he had already bitten more than what he could chew. In an exclusive interview with this press about two weeks to the Makeni convention, John Leigh had urged delegates to "Eat their money and vote their conscience," insinuating therein that his rivals were bribing the delegates money. An observer at the Makeni convention commented on this, "well he has been paid in own coin. Who will tell me that someone will go into politics without spending money? perhaps, Mr.Leigh was doing his own discreetly so therefore he gained nothing out of it." Awareness Times gave John Leigh extensive coverage during his campaign period. We covered him every time he called on us to give him coverage. We gave all his silly comments prominence. His silly comments wherein he attacked other decent people with names like "Swegbehs" were all carried by Awareness Times in our stated bid to give full coverage to all the candidates seeing that we are an independent newspaper. John Leigh was so grateful to Awareness Times after one interview we did for him, that he called us up to say thanks with the following words: "Thank you Awareness Times. Thank you so much for all what you have done and have been doing to give me such coverage. I truly appreciate your wonderful newspaper. My wife, children and friends call me all the time from America to say that they have been reading your news reports about me. You have never taken a single penny from me nor have you ever asked me for any money. I am truly indebted to you people. You are professionals of the highest order unlike some of your colleagues who always want money for any little coverage." Now, that John Leigh has been shamed and disgraced and independent newspapers covered his national shame and his national disgrace, he has turned around to say that newspapers are writing "rubbish". As one email to Awareness Times stated, "John Leigh has lost his mind. It is important that people know that his writings are from a mentally unbalanced person." Subject: Re: ONE MAIL FROM HOME -- MAKENI EDITION Message: Subject: Re: TWO MORE E-MAILS FROM HOME Message: Stop being an embarrassment, too many of us had You are ruining your legacy. Look yourself in the mirror real hard, take a break and come back fighting for the People of Sierra Leone, her impoverish citizens. Subject: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: “…….. please give the public an explanation of the following phrase …..: "...imported-can-of-soft-drink idiots, bombastic dunces and foolumunku crookish Bangucrooks..." For the benefit of forumites and peepers alike, what is the story behind the "imported can of soft drinks"? Yes, yes! The quoted phrase refers to the conduct of El Stupido SLPMB and his remedial colleagues in the same foolumunku grouping of political of alphabet soup opportunists. Without any factual basis or valid justification, Mr. Munku El Stupido fancied himself as a smart “economist”. So he wrote rubbish articles about how to get the Leone to gain parity (one-for-one) with the US Dollar. He then sent his dunce writings and photos of himself to a number of local SLeone newspapers and the On-line press. It was the same article each time but backed by stupid interpretations/amplifications from time to time. Mumbo-tombo-dumbo then filed numerous postings and letters praising his idiot writings but under various names and monikers to fool remedials and other foolumunkus. Because no one serious questioned his rubbish (probably because they were too outlandish for anything but low grade discussions among skaffs), he got cocky and plastered his writings, photos and bogus praise all over the place and decided it was time to take on named individuals. That’s when he first questioned me in this forum only to get whacked big time. Since then, he has been using multiple monikers in failed attempts to ridicule me! SOFT DRINK DOMBOLO BOMBASTIC TRASH BANGUCROOKS Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: The originality and clarity of your eloquence in these descr1ptions would attest to the fact that your education through the formative years was not by rote, contrary to the thoughtless, mechanical repetition of verbiage rendered by some on this forum. Indeed, we are all grateful to you for educating us in the unique way that you do. Thank you again. Subject: Re: FOR LEIGH THE PASSPORT-SELLING TO TERRORISTS CROOK Message: John Leigh, is that what you now call your hero, President Kabbah? How ungrateful! Leigh, did you only find out that the man who FIRED you as ambassador for your corruption in selling passports to terroriats at the SL embassy in Washington DC -- President Kabbah -- was a notorious SLPMB crook who had been BANNED from holding any public office in SL? Don't you know Leigh that aiding and abetting terrorists is a federal crime in the US for which you can still be prosecuted by the US governmwent? Do you know Leigh that aiding and abetting the SLPMB criminal, Predsisdent Kabbah through your $10,000 bribe for an ambassadorship in the USA -- is a criminal violation of the Beoku Betts Commission of Inquiry BANNING Kabbah from holding any public office? Don't you know Leigh that by bribing the adjudged SLPMB Crook and your co-conspitaor in the violation of the laws of Salone, you, Leigh became an accessory to the SLPMB crook's crime in defrauding the people of Salone? Do you now see that you, leigh were accurately describing yourself, Kabbah -- the SLPMB crook you bribed for a job before he fired you as ambassador, and Berewea -- the SLPP crook you also bribed for a job should he win the elections you and them are bent on rigging,when you qwrote: "To survive and prosper they must steal, lie, defraud, double-cross and deceive others and/or engage in some form of predatory parasitic conduct." Leigh, is there no criminal conduct -- including bribery, corruption, fraud, conspiracy to aid terorists by selling Salone passports to terrorists at the embassy in Washington DC, election fraud, prostituting the Salone ambassador's residence with your concubine -- which you will not commit in your shameful quest to rise above the lowly state to which your rudeness and immoral chacter have condemned you? Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: You are lacking leadership ability, you are a failure to Mother Sierra Leone. Please exile yourself from this forum and from Sierra Leone and save yourself from more embarrassment. What a shame for someone who we once respect to belittle himself to this level for attention. It is a shame, instead of you educating us and directing Sierra Leoneans everywhere in the world to be patriotic, you continue to devide us using your colonial slave mentality. What A shame!!! Any True SLPP members who love their country will be ashame to be in your present, I am not talking about those who practice syncophancy but those true SLPP died hard who love Sierra Leone more than themselves. Please Exile yourself until you find your patriotic Back Bone. Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: Believe me, me baby nor go want anything for do with you. First off you get Kaboo face. Second you nor day timap. The baby more than satisfy with me snake wae I get.......... Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: Since you are now officially classed as OKOBO, i will treat you as one. Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: Subject: Re: FOR SENGBE WUTEHTEH Message: You Nar Big Wait Fowl Subject: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: In a once-developing country since brutalized into low grade status but still with democratic aspirations, it is necessary for conscientious individuals to lay down with "dogs" and "wake up" with them in other to help the larger society get to where it would like to go. It comes with the territory. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: (b.) help restore anyampee (thief) Kabbah to power. Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Thank you very much. I, too, I am in the dark as to my recalll for Prez Kabbah merely informed me in late August 2002 in writing that he was recalling because he wished to re-organize the foreign ministry and the diplomatic service and that I will be affected by the impending changes. Nothing more was heard from him but I suspect he was upset at me for some reason which I still can't farthom! The point remains that a president has the right to recall any of his appointees at any time he wishes for any or no reason. So no one should quarrel with the president's decision. Frankly, I have no problem with Mr. Kabbah's decision even though I was disappointed. But that's politics! That's why I was fully prepared for such an eventuality before entering public service. As for the groundhog rice story, I have not heard it before now and I am skeptical because many things that go wrong and are blamed on the president or some top official may actually have occurred behind their backs and/or not as rumored at all. Just consider all the lies about me in this forum! It is all part of Afro-politrics. Thanks again for your kindness. - JL Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: How can you be in the dark about your own corruption, Mr. Leigh? There is nothing left to fathom about your firing as ambassador to the USA. YOu were corrupt. You were so corrupt, in fact, that even the most corrupt government in the history of Sa Lon could not stomach your unprecedented corruption. So you were fired. How hard can that be for even you to fathom? Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: You have been warned: Stop your trash! You are making me much too important. And how often must I explain my political to you? Berewa is my choice because he is a far suprior candidate to foolumunku and Jamil's peggy-boy, poverty spreaders, marginalizers and dynastic dombolos and stupid fools. I was offered my $90,000plus balance "as soon as ar ween" by dombolo but I declined politely as advancing our country's interest is my first and last consideration. To advance SLeone's interest people will have to put sleep with dogs and wake up with mechanical morons flip-flopping in and out of multiple monikers with names such as: Apologist, LIAR, jon lee, Question, ?Tion, POLITICAL, Comic Dunce, El Stupido FBI, Look, Mansfield, Lileondo, Really, FAN, Fingerslip, Foolumunku, Parity, Alleviate, IMF/WB Idiot, Makeni Goat-Necktie, Makeni Goat-Rope, Red, Dumbolo, Imported-Can-of-Soft-Drink, Leone, Dollar, Munku Face, Remedial, etc. - JL Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Could it be that you brought the fleas to the poor dogs before you fell asleep? Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: The bra sabi ansa hint! Subject: QUOTE OF THE YEAR Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE YEAR Message: What explanation does the commander-in-Chief have to give about Commander-in-thief Ali Baba and the 40 thieves? Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE YEAR Message: Bra Cornie, like someone said the SLPP government of Kabbah and Berewa, includinf the bribery scheme between Kabbah and the man who bribed him for an ambassadorship, Comic Aleigh, is the worst government in the history odf Salone. The evidence, linke that in your link, is just too clear. Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE YEAR Message: ”conspiracy to aid terrorists by selling Salone passports to terrorists at the embassy in Washington DC” AS far as I know, Mr.Leigh is certainly not that kind of person. Please lets not go that way – the price of being on such a list could be too heavy to pay even if he doesn’t know it. Concerning the untimely death of Gloria Newman –Smart – in connection with some passports, it would be good for those in authority over Sierra Leone passports – in this day of dual nationality, be wary and to keep an eye on things. It’s bad enough withy money laundering, unknowingly giving safe haven to people we don’t know…. Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE YEAR Message: Leigh is a dangerous, undiplomatic, traitor who will betray anyone and any cause for his selfish interests. He even betrayed himself by licking his pit and praising the same Berewa he had called a crook and corrupt. Subject: A read to understand: Big men, big fraud and big trouble Message: Special report Get article background Nigeria's elections Reuters Subject: QUOTE OF THE WEEK Message: Leigh the Liar, Stop your lying! You read Comic Aleigh's true descr1ption of your, corrupt, undiplomatic, bribe-seeking, job-disappointment worthless life. You read it -- with great pain, as your goat-tied neck bulges with anger and the sweat left over from your winter-coat-in-the-sun Makeni experience joins the tears in your eyes to create a picture of Babu-wase face Leigh crying for his lost bribe monies stolen by the corrupt SLPP leaders (Kabbah and Berea) whose butts you licked for nothing!! Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE WEEK Message: KING LOGGY, our Internet guru, can you please post the photo of Leigh in Awareness Times with the famous red tie choking his neck that gave rise to his caricature as a sacrificial goat tied with a rope? Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE WEEK Message: It was a hot day. Lots of Florida water in the bottle. For a picture of the rope tied around the throat of the goat, you’ll have to go to the abattoir where they bleat in terror, though someone could call it “Song of a goat” Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE WEEK Message: Dogs will lick your mouth when played with. Sleep with them, wake up in fleas. Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE WEEK Message: "At this stage journalists had flooded around Leigh as he sweated profusely in his black coat and his throat tied with a red tie like a goat bound for sacrifice. It was Alhaji I.B. Kargbo, the President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists, who intervened later by asking his colleagues to give him chance…"allow him to get air." At the insistence of journalists, John Leigh accepted to make a statement. He started off by being his usual vulgar and rude self. He even verbally attacked one delegate calling the person a "bastard" for what reason, no-one knew." See, bra Cornie, Leigh has notr changed. So, no charity for the corrupt, vulgar loser. Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE WEEK Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE WEEK Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE WEEK Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE WEEK Message: Subject: BBC Reith Lecturers 2007 by Jeffrey Sachs in China Message: This is where all concerened (SLPP,APC and the economists and planners of the PMDC) should pay some attention. WE should know what we are talking about. Subject: Re: BBC Reith Lecturers 2007 by Jeffrey Sachs in China Message: Have a nice weekend.... Subject: LGFD Monitors the Finances of Local Councils Message: Freetown-The Local Government Finance Department (LGFD) has fielded a mission to monitor and evaluate local councils on their use of financial resources transferred for the periods 2005, 2006 and for the first quarter of 2007. The objectives of the exercise are to verify that financial resources at the local government level are efficiently utilised for the intended purposes, and that local council spending is done in a cost effective manner. It is also meant to verify that councils comply with national guidelines, standard policies and regulations relating to finance administration and to collect, collate and establish baseline data as they relate to the sub-national government finances. The teams comprise officials from the LGFD, Public Financial Management Reform Unit, the Decentralisation Secretariat and devolving Ministries Departments and Agencies such as Health and Agriculture. The programme of activities of the teams include a follow-up on the implementation of projects under the LGFD programme, monitoring the effective use of the LGFD Operational Manual by local councils, determining whether local councils have adequate capacity to manage funds and identifying gaps for capacity building. They are examining own-source revenue performance and expenditure management control in councils in relation to approved budgets, and are also carrying out a detailed examination of own source revenue performance for the periods in question The exercise which is coordinated by the Director of the LGFD, Sheku Bangura, is in line with the provisions of the Local Government Act which requires local councils to observe the tenets of transparency and accountability in their operations. Subject: WHY HAS SIERRA LEONE FAIL TO DEVELOP Message: It's implies the ability to defend one's interests and if necessary to impose one's will by any means available. In relations between peoples, the question of power determines maneuverability in bargaining, the extent to which a people survive as a physical and cultural entity. When one society finds itself forced to relinquish power entirely to another society, that in itself is a form of underdevelopment. ~ Walter Harding Do our leaders have the political will power to break the dependency chain Dr. Michel Sho-Sawyer Subject: Re: WHY HAS SIERRA LEONE FAIL TO DEVELOP Message: My own view of this matter is that more than mere leadership is involved. I believe that we have not yet developed because sufficient numbers of our people are not yet ready for development. I believe we are not yet ready because a crital mass of our population aren't ready to make the necessary sacrifieces that development requires. Besides, what constitute "development"? What needs to be done to get there? Thanks for raising the issue. - JL Subject: Re: WHY HAS SIERRA LEONE FAIL TO DEVELOP Message: Mr Leigh, If you had been elected at the SLPP convention as the flag bearer,what CHANGES/DEVELOPMENTS do you think, you could have bring to the table for the development of our nation? Subject: Re: WHY HAS SIERRA LEONE FAIL TO DEVELOP Message: Your question re development is really too heavy for this forum. Already people are being overtasked and overstretched - and complaining about - reading some of my long counters. As regards my SLPP leardership platform, I posted such in my website www.changesierraleone.org for over a year and made references to it on numerous occasions in this forum. Should I find a copy, I'll re-post it for your attention. I am sure we'll have plenty of occasions later to discuss SL development. Thank you for your inquiry. - JL Subject: Re: WHY HAS SIERRA LEONE FAIL TO DEVELOP Message: Subject: Re: WHY HAS SIERRA LEONE FAIL TO DEVELOP Message: It was when they had gone and we were faced with thye stark realities ------- that the destitution of the land after long years of colonial rule was brought sharply home to us. There were slums and squalor in our towns, superstitions and ancients rights in our villages. All over the country, great tracts of open land lay untilled and uninhabitted, while nutritional disease were rife among our people. Our roads were meagre, our railways short. There was much ignorance and few skills. Over eighty percent of our people were illiterate, and our existing schools were fed on imperialist pap, completely unrelated to our background and to our needs. Trade and commerce were controlled, directed and run almost entirely by Europeans. Of industrries, we had none except those extracting gold and diamonds. History seem to be reapeating itself, now they are using IMF and World Bank. Dr, Fanusie, Rest assured we are studying our history to serve our people again. Our leaders of tomorrow will build industries and empower the people of Sierra Leone to think great of themselves as our fore fathers were. Your Able Servant In Training Dr. Michel Sho-Sawyer Subject: Re: WHY HAS SIERRA LEONE FAIL TO DEVELOP Message: Subject: Re: WHY HAS SIERRA LEONE FAIL TO DEVELOP Message: The question that begs to be answer is what have our leaders done since we gain pilitical independence. Subject: WHY HAS SIERRA LEONE FAIL TO DEVELOP Message: It's implies the ability to defend one's interests and if necessary to impose one's will by any means available. In relations between peoples, the question of power determines maneuverability in bargaining, the extent to which a people survive as a physical and cultural entity. When one society finds itself forced to relinquish power entirely to another society, that in itself is a form of underdevelopment. ~ Walter Harding Do our leaders have the political will power to break the dependcy chain Dr. Michel Sho-Sawyer Subject: Blair and Kabbalah Message: Subject: Re: Blair and Kabbalah Message: Subject: Re: Blair and Kabbalah Message: Subject: African Mix is on now-African Music-kalw-91.7 FM Message: Subject: Re: African Mix is on now-African Music-kalw-91.7 FM Message: I listened the other night......to what Miles Davis has called the great African Music.... This is how I expect it to be in the boxing match between Fanusie and Li-e as that match between Ali and jelly and we know in advance, who will be waking up from the canvas after biting the dust.....
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 06:42:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: "xxxxxxxxxxx"
Subject: Way Forward.
To: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
And then to Eastern polytechnic compound to welcome the vice president.
Everything was focusing on the dramatic change that occurred in the P.M.D.C And other political parties, that over thousands of there supporters has defected to S.L.PP with there membership and contribution cards.
Solo B, was in their mist yesterday to have face-to-face talks with them. As the Calendar date for both presidential and parliamentary elections is drawing nearer,
The S.L.PP flag bearer Solo B is now winning up on his political professionalism In all direction in the country.
Almost all secondary schools in Kenema and Kailahun district this week benefited With school uniforms, books and pen, pencils per pupils from the S.L.PP Govt.
In which vice president S.B was the chairman of this historical event.
He also donated the sum of fifty million leones for the Kailahun Co-operative Union and ten million leones to vulnerable groups.
The newspaper came in very late to me; I decided to give Dean M.A.J Bockarie, Mr Kemokai, Party office and S.L.B.S FM 95.3 to observe the papers.
I still have your interest; most people have great respect for me, especially When I always represent you in the country.
Your have good vision and faith.
I am still on the struggle, but I always put things in prayers.
The seven days ceremony for my late sister will be on Sunday the 20th.
I wish you good luck and all the best.
My regards to you
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
To: All
Date Posted: 12:47:20 05/17/07 ()
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The seven days ceremony for my late sister will be on Sunday the 20th
From: Concerned
To: All
Date Posted: 11:53:11 05/17/07 ()
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Bra JL. This is another wuteteh elections. IT is over. We have finish the Kpata Kpata.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:42:37 05/17/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Yes, Concerned, we are doing real good so far.
I was further told that some participants were so exhausted from march activities, seminars, discussion groups, picnics, etc. that they did not depart Bo until Tuesday 15th instant.
I am sure that other parties have supporters all over the country and in BO as well but my estimation is that they do not have enough to win the presidency or to compel a second round. In fact, VP Berewa should win on the first round in excess of 60%. As you know only 55% is required.
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 13:20:20 05/17/07 ()
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VP Berewa should win on the first round in excess of 60%. As you know only 55% is required
From: OBSERVER
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Date Posted: 10:52:34 05/17/07 ()
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A Bad Copy From the Past
OBSERVER
BY KENNETH Y. BEST
Published: 16 May, 2007
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 08:26:47 05/17/07 ()
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This morning my attention was drwan to an article posted by John Leigh, which article is still in the process of being researched, wherein he made certain comments without mentioning my name, but where it was clear that the refernce was to me, with regards to certain matters occuring during my tenure at the special court. As alleged by the person who provided me this information and is helping in the research of this article, Mr. Leigh made statements which were untrue and misrepresented the true facts. As most of you know on this forum, I have on more than one occasion placed my neck out on the choping blck in defence of John Leigh. However it appears as if while I was away for the past month, that he Mr. Leigh had tanek an opportunity to malign my reputation in an underhanded way. I will more fully address this issue after the research into the article has been completed.
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 12:34:07 05/17/07 ()
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Alieu,
From: Salone
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Date Posted: 07:35:17 05/17/07 ()
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The Patriotic Vanguard, Sierra Leone News Portal|
- Wednesday 16 May 2007.
I had made a conscious decision to sit out the current elections as I had the elections of 2002 and not resume my commentary on the political situation even though my retirement from teaching in January of this year was in order to relocate immediately to Sierra Leone to do precisely that.
From: FULLAH TOWN JAMAT.
To: All
Date Posted: 06:18:25 05/17/07 ()
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All Jamba and Rum lovers are invited to the 50th birthday celebrations of a long term drugs addict,in Oakland,CA,on Sat.05-26-07,starting at 9PM.
If you are religious(you have the directions of God),please,dont show up because this party is exclusively for satanic and misguided people.
All the rats and cockroaches in the city of Oakland,CA,have filed in a petition to the mayor,because they know that the Jamba smoke will be so much that, all of them will die on that day.
From: SATANS AGENT
To: All
Date Posted: 07:09:25 05/17/07 ()
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YES SIR WE AND ALL OF US WILL BE THERE. MANY OF THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO BE THERE TO CELEBRATE THE ANIVERSARY HAVE LETTERS AFTER THEIR NAMES LIKE BA, BSC, MSC, MD, JD AND NONE OF US IS WITHOUT SIN, NOR IS ANY AMONGST OUR NUMBER ON THE GUEST LIST MISGUIDED. BUT ALL OF US HAVE ACHIEVED SOMETHING IN LIFE AND WE ARE NOT SLEEPING IN OTHER PEOPLES COUCHES LIKE THE UNINVITED.
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 06:58:44 05/17/07 ()
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This is the writings of SAIDU BANGURA who can not hold on to a job,and he is everywhere from NJ to MD to VA to GA to DC and now back in MD.Saidu it will be better for you to get your GREEN CARD situation straight,before picking a fight with someone who is far more better than you.
Oh about being a religious person,ALLAH the ALMIGHTY will be the DECIDER for who enters his PALACE/HAVEN.So do not try to pretend as if you are a GODLY person when you bearly PRAY your FIVE DAILY SALATS.
From: Lord Bongo Johnson
To: All
Date Posted: 15:37:26 05/17/07 ()
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For those of you interested in immigration matters, progress is being made to legalize illegal immigrants in the US.
Check this press statement out.
Associated Press
May 17, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Key senators and the White House reached agreement today on an immigration overhaul that would grant quick legal status to millions of illegal immigrants already in the U.S. and fortify the border.
Latest Sierra Leone News (local newspapers, radio broadcasts, regional and international wire and online reports): http://www.leonenet.net/news.htm
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 07:18:21 05/17/07 ()
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Buford
I know who the author is but what me worry my friend. I dont need to respond to the author. As they say "wen you load nar ungrateful boat you go land nar regret wharf"
From: FACT
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Date Posted: 07:24:07 05/17/07 ()
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Alieu, if I were you, I would invite him. But I can understand your position.
From: Almamy Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 06:39:06 05/17/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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Please do not use the name of our Jamaat for personal bone-picking..
Foulah Town Jamaat deserves better
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
To: All
Date Posted: 11:59:25 05/17/07 ()
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Almamy hat do you expect of someone who in our community is an outcast. The person does not even understand that you cannot use certain monikers to attack another person. Thats what happens when man dun run out of blessings
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 23:20:44 05/16/07 ()
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and the White House were in talks with World Bank officials to work out details of his resignation, senior administration officials told CNN, adding they expect him to leave "soon."
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 21:15:02 05/16/07 ()
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All of these Dancers are handicapped. (DEAF)
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 07:41:06 05/17/07 ()
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Bra,that is so beautiful.
From: FPA Staff Report
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Date Posted: 18:59:00 05/16/07 ()
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Detention Facilities Below Standards in Liberia, UNMIL Rights Report Finds
05/16/07 - FPA Staff Report
Monrovia - The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) today launched its report on human rights developments paying particular attention to human rights conditions in prisons and detention facilities.
The report monitored by the personnel of the Human Rights and Protection Section stationed across Liberia between November 2006 and January 2007 has documented that the conditions in the detention facilities were generally well below the minimum standards recognized internationally.
The GOL should, as far as possible, expedite the building or renovation of detention facilities in line with a comprehensive national corrections policy, to end the practice of holding police suspects and court detainees in the same facilities, among others.
Prisoner access to basic sanitation and health care is of special concern. There are no separate facilities for the detention of juveniles, who are entitled to specific protections due to their age. Although the authorities have tried to hold juveniles in separate cells, this was not always possible due to the lack of space.
From: DR. YAYAH JAMMEH
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Date Posted: 18:28:46 05/16/07 ()
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Gambian President's Claims of AIDS Cure Refuted
From: elogima
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Date Posted: 15:45:16 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: kolugbonda@yahoo.co.uk
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THE END OF A BEGINNING (PEKIN MAN
DON CRUMBLE –aka PMDC)
Over the past several weeks, I’ve patiently but irritatingly gone through a barrage of the PMDC heaving cry on the coming elections most notably from the self acclaimed new ‘special envoy ‘Moi Mustapha aka Togbanda, egged by the ‘pepper doctor’ Sorie Ibrahim Kamara of Maryland whose disenchanted piece at the cocorioko’s weekend edition tells much of a party moaning for a 911 rescue. These two public Relations midgets , who according to an internal party memo I was privileged to browse, belongs to a conspicuous splinter group of the orange party spiritually headed by S.I. Kamara –the man who pride himself as the alpha and omega of Charles Margai’s close confidants. If recent press release from one Yolanda Thompson is anything to go by, then I am confident that the all celebrated North America PMDC council headed by that fugitive Liberian cum Sierra Leone lawyer Baimba Kamara, is already on its death bed if not already shrouded for burial.
Sorie Kamara according to reports single handedly threw Dauda Bangura’s running mate bid into the dustbin of PMDC cascaded history. Of course, to the pepper doctor, Bangura is a political baggage that would have stealthily armed the SLPP and APC. So to him he has already won his battle of the titans.
What Mustapha of New jersey has failed to accept is the failed leadership of Margai as brilliantly and disarmingly put by Hashim Daboh in his devastating resignation piece. Yet the Jersey man’s compelling fight to ennoble his Jersey /Maryland PMDC bloc is an all out struggle to stamp his authority and the team he embodies. Of course, Margai knows that he has lost the fight. So he is now standing amongst his followers as a lonely man. But like Achebe’s ‘Chike and the River’ little book, Margai feasted on the Sewa, but washed his hands with his spit. I wish Daboh had further dilated on his reasons he abandoned the ship he helped stir in North America and the web.
But back to Mustapha’s snubbing rants of recent times , it’s high time that this abandoned captain knows that it’s no hidden secret that he has longed been excommunicated by the PMDC USA and therefore should shut up and see what further release/s Yolanda will belch on the Internet to establish my statement. Simply, Togbanda is not an official PMDC man as he intends for us to think. Which of the ‘Pekin man don cry’ aka PMDC factions do Mustapha belong?
Whilst writing this short piece , I read on the net ( cocorioko’s ) one Towei ranting about a coalition or Interim government to conduct the august 11 ,2007 slated elections . This is one thing that really requires just one thing- nonsense. For the Asmara man, may I suggest that you start your good governance talk with President Isaias Afwerki first (since you would want us assume you as a man if not a pseudo activist) –a man who has banished all his opponents right under your nose? Did you give him similar advice? Or if your stance on Sierra Leone is indeed a matter of patriotism if not a reality check, why not dispatch on the net some of your similar silly talks about the Eritrean situation for the good of the public. Or isn’t just a kind of ‘pappy’ show announcing your squalid state of affairs in that beleaguered nation. Can the Asmara man tell us the number of political parties in his Eritrea compared to the multiplicity of such organizations in Sierra Leone.
No doubt that Margai has already reached his waterloo if not his political apogee, and he has no where and no one to seek solace to. Reliable sources from within the caboodle agrees that Margai has been contemplating withdrawing from the elections ,but his alphabet political toddlers in the States who unfortunately happens to be his financier cannot see themselves missing out on the ministerial cuts . What a sham.
Well just a little suggestion for that caboodle rebel leader Mustapha, please tell us which of the PMDC you and your pepper doctor belong. The information would enable us better understand your plight and may influence my way of interpreting your passages. But really, Togba, your best bet is to just close down your pen and stop the public relations waffling. ‘Water don pas gari, leh Margai jus go back to the SLPP and ask for forgiveness. There, he may be reconsidered for a probable limelight in politics, but just remember one thing the man knows this is his waterloo if not his apogee.
Elogema Talia Mameh-Lopo
From: kc
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Date Posted: 23:33:23 05/16/07 ()
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You guys should be debating issues affecting the average sierra leoneans and try to come up with practical solutions.The needs on the ground are urgent
From: simon belewa
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Date Posted: 15:04:32 05/16/07 ()
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Tribal Governor Dies In Sex With Crazy Woman
From: kroobaymom
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Date Posted: 14:24:11 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: kroobaymom@yahoo.com
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Fourth report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone
By UNIOSIL
May 15, 2007, 21:01
From: KROOBAYDOG
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Date Posted: 14:42:04 05/16/07 ()
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IX. Human rights and rule of law
From: KROOBAYDOG
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Date Posted: 14:39:37 05/16/07 ()
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A. National Electoral Commission
From: KROOBAYDOG
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Date Posted: 14:38:02 05/16/07 ()
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II. Major developments
From: KROOBAYDOG
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Date Posted: 14:36:56 05/16/07 ()
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A. Sierra Leone Police
From: KROOBAYDOG
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Date Posted: 14:30:00 05/16/07 ()
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19. The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces has continued to review its structure with the support of the International Military Advisory and Training Team and the Department for International Development. The review aims at creating an affordable armed force, given the country’s limited resources, which would have an increased deployment capability and enhanced operational and logistical performance. It is envisaged that the armed forces would scale down from 10,300 to approximately 8,500 military personnel over the next few years, mainly through natural attrition and the provision of a voluntary redundancy package.
From: kroobaymom
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Date Posted: 14:34:25 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: krobaymom@yahoo.com
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ABI NAR STRUCTURE DEM GO CHOP!
From: Angry Man
To: All
Date Posted: 13:46:17 05/16/07 ()
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Why will something good comes out of Sierra Leone, when its leaders are crudely dishonest and evil infested. Kabbah tenure is over but the lame duck civil society groups are reticent in calling for Kabbah to hand over power to an interim government. Because his mandate has ended and he is perpetuating his rule, abomination and curse will follow this SLPP government. The SLPP is failing to see the writing on the wall; Time is UP!!!
But, blind are they and they will surely punished for destroying the abode of the poor. The SLPP has clearly demonstrated failure in all its deeds. The SLPP lack of good governance and accountability is now being censured by Human Rights groups including the British government.
Joko Smart, a close confidante of Kabbah is busy shielding all the corrupt SLPP cronies and family members from the ACC net. Is there a curse among Sierra Leoneans?
Why do they allow crooks and dishonest people to determine their fate? Has civility lost in Sierra Leone? With billions of leones in the drain, Minister Mondeh is still holding his cabinet post.
What a shame!!!. Nobody has called for his resignation not even the lame duck civil society groups. Even on this forum, we have seen that Sierra Leoneans are not good. While some are allowed to call others fulumunku and other despicable names, others are being blocked and censured by those who say they are fair.
I am ashamed for our Country. She has bad people. Many are wolf in sheep's cloth.
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 23:14:01 05/16/07 ()
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After August 23rd when the election results are announced, you will likely blow up.
From: Not so Independent
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Date Posted: 08:29:34 05/17/07 ()
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Yesp he will blow up on yo Freaking stupid tribalistic, nepotistic political bitch assz
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 10:36:11 05/17/07 ()
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Freaking, Tribalistic, Nepotistic?
Have a NICE day now......
From: Not so independent
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Date Posted: 12:12:17 05/17/07 ()
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You Missed "political bitch assz"
From: freetown boy
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Date Posted: 13:08:44 05/16/07 ()
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"Take that scruffy, baseless, up for sale ugly ape looking John SNUFF eating Leigh for example. This is the hopeless rude child who actually fought his mum, called his country men LOW GRADE SAN SAN HUMANS. This is the morally bankrupt idiot who had the guts to tell the whole world that he is not only corrupt, but can also be bought. We were lucky as ambassador he only used his official residence as a whore house. If Berewa was to win and make Leigh foreign minister, I won't be surprise if I hear that he has been arrested for having a leak at the gate of Buckingham palace. Or his been caught boot legging our passports in Dubai. I can still remember a diplomat who was recalled for urinating on the street. When you have rude, corrupt, jumped up unelectable morally bankrupt politicians like Leigh running your country, nothing good will come out of it. Wae you allow SWEH pikin lek Leigh for rule you NAR ALAKI GO FALAH YOU KONTRY TAY GO."
From: HOUSING DIRECTOR
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Date Posted: 11:48:27 05/16/07 ()
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"It is no suprise that Standard Times press is getting into so much trouble for printing libellous statements."---OLU BECKLEY
From: Nahim
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Date Posted: 11:49:47 05/16/07 ()
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"Where is Dr. Nahim when we need him?"
From: HOUSING DIRECTOR
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Date Posted: 10:25:25 05/16/07 ()
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Standard Times
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 11:12:13 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
Overt and covert government intimidation tactics are not going to stop us from pointing out the corrupt practices of the current administration. I proudly served my country for 17 years and Africa for 4 years and never have I been terminated or dismissed as the Standard Times Newspaper alledges.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 20:45:37 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
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Mr.Beckley,I do not have enough evidence to prove that you were corrupt when you served as a senior government official but I know with all degree of certainty that,you only served as head of a governement
department under the APC because you supported
corrupt practices.That was the order off the day.
Therefore,with the utmost respect I have for you,please,stop talking about corruption in Sierra Leone because you were part of it.
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 06:33:58 05/17/07 ()
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Saidu I saw AJUWA at the SLCA proclaimation ceremony,and she looked beautiful and relaxed from your TIFF TIFF MONEY ABIT.
She has someone very reliable in her life that helps HER with the BILLS,and not like you PARASITE.
From: NAR U SABI
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Date Posted: 07:09:51 05/17/07 ()
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NAR U BIZNESS BIZABODY EN KONGOSA
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 07:52:18 05/17/07 ()
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IF U HART WARM GO POLICE.
From: PROZAC
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Date Posted: 00:55:59 05/17/07 ()
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Enti you lek for disrespect de wan dem wae big pass you. Hmmm nar crase dae cam pan you so. watch en see. stay on da medication en increase you dose you don dae crase bra
From: JOSEPH
To: All
Date Posted: 06:19:55 05/17/07 ()
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U nar pikin wae fo lef so u nor sabi put mot insi tok
From: Standard Times
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Date Posted: 19:35:00 05/16/07 ()
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If Mr. Patrick Olu Beckley thinks that he has been malign or libeled by Standard Times he should be brave enough to go to Sierra Leone and pursue legal action to clear his name. After all we know there are a bunch of criminals who had extorted Sierra Leone covertly or overtly and using the United States as a safe haven to cover their crimes. Since he alledges that he was accused to be junta collaborator-causing him to flee Sierra Leone- then there is shadow of doubt that some of our people who suffered under the junta regime will sooner or later al3rt the American government to conduct a full fledge investigation as to the circumstances surrounding the presence of my Olu in the United States when the junta regime is no more in power. I hope Mr. Beckley is not making us to retrospect on the saying, " an evil man fleeth when no man pursueth."
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 17:05:04 05/16/07 ()
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Olu I think that you should seek legal assistance with regards to this very libelous story by the Standard Times Newspaper. Need some good lawyers? Let me know.See you at "You know where"
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 17:12:47 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
See you soon on this and many more issues.
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 13:28:57 05/16/07 ()
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“When our personal safety is threatened, the courage to speak out and do so from another place can become the force of change”.
From: Salone
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Date Posted: 10:32:19 05/16/07 ()
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Salone's newspapers are many times a conduit for lies paid for by the victim's enemies.
From: HOUSING DIRECTOR
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Date Posted: 10:36:56 05/16/07 ()
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yes, it is rue that salone mewspapers are full of lies. The same Beckley that Standard Times called a THIEF is using the same Standard Times to attack other people. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
From: Salone
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Date Posted: 10:43:26 05/16/07 ()
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You are missing the point. The allegations against Beckley have not been supported by ANY evidence.
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 10:39:47 05/16/07 ()
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The fact that he went to KENYA with his TIFI TIFI business, makes you wonder.
From: Fair
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Date Posted: 10:48:34 05/16/07 ()
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Please provide evidence that he ever had a TIFI TIFI business.
From: APC
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Date Posted: 11:00:06 05/16/07 ()
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Hey are they all not quoting standard times, or getting information from standard times?
So how is Beckley's reproduction from standard times any better than what was produced by the other person on him from the same paper?
You wanna be fear? Be real fear.
I sense BECKLEY using another moniker.
From: Fair
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Date Posted: 11:07:57 05/16/07 ()
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The issue is not where they are getting information from. The difference is that Standard Times failed to provide any numbers to support its bald allegations against Beckley.
From: Concerned
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Date Posted: 14:07:24 05/16/07 ()
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Thats your problem everything becomes irrelevant when it is your turn to convince others.
Boy you need to get some tutoring in debating ethics.
From: Fair
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Date Posted: 14:25:12 05/16/07 ()
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"If OLU really thinks he is not what standardtimes says he is, then he sould have sued them for character assasination."
From: APC
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Date Posted: 14:55:29 05/16/07 ()
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Aye bo. Did he say that was the only avenue/remedy?
Now it is you who does not understand what you read.
From: Fair
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Date Posted: 15:12:53 05/16/07 ()
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" Did he say that was the only avenue/remedy?
Now it is you who does not understand what you read."
From: krio boy
To: All
Date Posted: 16:31:14 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 24.66.94.142
Can OLU tell us about what he did at Low Cost Housong Estates.Better or good?Be honest please.
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 17:02:16 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
The records are there to show but I am happy to have:
1.I was the first member of staff.
From: JOSEPH
To: All
Date Posted: 06:11:45 05/17/07 ()
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I think Sierra Leoneans should always commend people 4 good work done 4 the country and stop the pulling down.We should give people merit for their work.People out there sending all sort of attacking words on OLU let them see some of his achivement in this country.Journalist are always writing things they do not know,and taking legal action against them is a waste of time.
From: krioboy
To: All
Date Posted: 21:15:07 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 24.66.94.142
Thanks very much and as from now i know how to react to whatever i hear about you.I knew you briefly when you were the manager but never awere of such efforts you made.
Thanks again
From: news
To: All
Date Posted: 08:22:11 05/16/07 ()
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Britain blasts SLeone's anti-graft watchdog
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From: An angry man
To: All
Date Posted: 08:37:44 05/16/07 ()
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Why will something good comes out of Sierra Leone, when its leaders are crudely dishonest and evilinfested. Kabbah tenure is over but the lame duck civil society groups are reticent in calling for Kabbah to hand over power to an interim government. Because his mandate has ended and he is perpetuating his rule, abomination and curse will follow this SLPP government. The SLPP is failing to see the writing on the wall; Time is off!!!
But, blind are they and they will surely punished for destroying the lifes of the poor. The SLPP has clearly demonstrated failure in all its deeds. The SLPP lack of good governance and accountability is now out by the censure from Human Rights groups including the British tax payers money.
Joko Smart a close confidante of Kabbah is busy shielding his cronies and family members from the ACC net. Are there a curse among Sierra Leonneans?
Why do they allow crooks and dishonest people to determine their fate? Has civility lost in Sierra Leone? With billions of leones in the drain, Minister Mondeh is still holding his cabinet post. What a shame. Nobody has called for his resgnation not even Charles Mambu lame duck civil society group. Even on this forum, we have seen that Sierra Leoneans are not good. While some are allowed to call others fulumunku and other despicable names, others are being blocked and censured by those who say they are fair.
I am ashamed for our Country. She has bad people. Many are wolf in sheep cloth.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 13:47:55 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-aa14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.116.18
Here are my suggestions, first propounded approx. three years ago, to help address SLeone's difficult corruption problem. They might still have relevance to some. Hopefully, I am correct!
WITHOUT REFORMS DAILY HARDSHIPS WILL PERSIST
Honorable Haja’s concerns and do nothing about increasing the effectiveness of the Anti-Corruption Commission. If the authorities decline, fail or refuse to take the appropriate corrective action, the current rampant corruption will continue to fester; while the Attorney General’s office will go on serving as a mortuary for the investigations already concluded by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
CORRUPTION IS THE MAIN REASON BEHIND DAILY HARDSHIPS
AN INDEPENDENT PROSECUTOR IS THE ANSWER
Let it be remembered that our country’s reputation for rampant corruption was part of the reason why the war lasted so long and why the suffering was so barbaric. When I was Ambassador in Washington, I discovered that Western nations refused at first to help conclusively defeat the rebels because the rebels initially succeeded in exploiting our country longstanding reputation for rampant corruption. Even though the rebels had corrupted their own insurgency, sold out to Charles Taylor and embarked on a systematic program of mayhem in order to obtain and export more diamonds, Western nations insisted on the RUF’s participation in government.
From: Corporate taxes Fraud
To: All
Date Posted: 14:06:17 05/16/07 ()
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How can a self-admitted bribe-giver for a job as an ambassador talk about corruption without starting with his own corruption?
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 14:01:15 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
I hold no brief for her, but if there has ever been a Minister of Housing that served Sierra Leone with dedication and integrity, that would be the Hon. Afsatu Kabbah.
From: krio boy
To: All
Date Posted: 16:33:59 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 24.66.94.142
I am not sure of that buddy.
From: JOKO LENGA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:51:22 05/16/07 ()
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You will be shocked that this same Hon. Kabba was Kabbah's first minister of Housing until she was sacked, and she was corrupt to the core. These people are just talk, they are pathetic.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:24:58 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Mr. LENGA:
From: Corporate Taxes Fraud
To: All
Date Posted: 14:32:24 05/16/07 ()
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"I know that many anti-corruption campaigners are anti-corrupt only while out of office."
From: Concerned
To: All
Date Posted: 14:14:40 05/16/07 ()
Email Address:
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Are you accusing a fine, upright, god fearing, eloquent and straight forward woman of impropriety while heading the Housing Ministry?
From: English
To: All
Date Posted: 15:16:35 05/16/07 ()
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There you go again, Koker, displaying your notorious inability to understandf anything you read>
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:24:30 05/16/07 ()
Email Address:
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That question is for you. What evidence do you have to show she was/is corrupt?.
Jalloh no matter what people like you say about well meaning sierra leoneans like Afsatu Kabba, you will not deter her/their strides to make salone a better place for us all.
From: English
To: All
Date Posted: 15:36:45 05/16/07 ()
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Koker, you are like a clock: your lack of comprehension can be predicted just like the chimes of a clock can be every hour.
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:44:37 05/16/07 ()
Email Address:
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Let me refresh your porus brain. Accroding to you Mr JOKO LENGA:
Here is a Reproduction of your statement/accusation: "You will be shocked that this same Hon. Kabba was Kabbah's first minister of Housing until she was sacked, and she was corrupt to the core. These people are just talk, they are pathetic".
From: English
To: All
Date Posted: 15:49:26 05/16/07 ()
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"Let me refresh your porus brain. Accroding to you Mr JOKO LENGA:"
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:55:18 05/16/07 ()
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JOKO/JALLOH bo lef me yah. You have been exposed. You deceitful being. Accusing people of corruption that you have no clue who they are and have no evidence to that effect.
From: English
To: All
Date Posted: 16:37:09 05/16/07 ()
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Koker, you capacity for self-delusion is amazing!
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 13:06:06 05/16/07 ()
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Even on this forum, we have seen that Sierra Leoneans are not good.
From: An angry man
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Date Posted: 08:37:27 05/16/07 ()
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Why will something good comes out of Sierra Leone, when its leaders are crudely dishonest and evilinfested. Kabbah tenure is over but the lame duck civil society groups are reticent in calling for Kabbah to hand over power to an interim government. Because his mandate has ended and he is perpetuating his rule, abomination and curse will follow this SLPP government. The SLPP is failing to see the writing on the wall; Time is off!!!
But, blind are they and they will surely punished for destroying the lifes of the poor. The SLPP has clearly demonstrated failure in all its deeds. The SLPP lack of good governance and accountability is now out by the censure from Human Rights groups including the British tax payers money.
Joko Smart a close confidante of Kabbah is busy shielding his cronies and family members from the ACC net. Are there a curse among Sierra Leonneans?
Why do they allow crooks and dishonest people to determine their fate? Has civility lost in Sierra Leone? With billions of leones in the drain, Minister Mondeh is still holding his cabinet post. What a shame. Nobody has called for his resgnation not even Charles Mambu lame duck civil society group. Even on this forum, we have seen that Sierra Leoneans are not good. While some are allowed to call others fulumunku and other despicable names, others are being blocked and censured by those who say they are fair.
I am ashamed for our Country. She has bad people. Mnay are wolf in sheep cloth.
From: Nationalist
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Date Posted: 09:56:01 05/16/07 ()
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You ranger is pwerfectlu understandable. It is obvious that you are a patriotic Sierra leonean.
From: For ITK the SLPP Apologist
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Date Posted: 07:00:43 05/16/07 ()
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Britain blasts SLeone's anti-graft watchdog
From: Peeper
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Date Posted: 08:55:17 05/16/07 ()
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The Brits are back!Salone may be a soft Target for the revival of the overseas British African Colonies.
From: charles
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Date Posted: 11:54:38 05/17/07 ()
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Yeh Oh. never say never.
From: SLPP Apologist
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Date Posted: 07:28:45 05/16/07 ()
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"Britain's complaints came days after the global rights group Amnesty International accused Sierra Leone's government of institutionalising corruption and of not doing enough to root out the practice."
From: ITK
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Date Posted: 15:10:29 05/17/07 ()
Email Address: ishmael.taylorkamara@kmzr.com
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SLPP Apologist:
From: DIAMINT PEDDLER
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Date Posted: 00:07:41 05/16/07 ()
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Traders Return to the Streets of Freetown
After Operation Free Flow has died, street traders have returned to the forbidden main streets of Freetown again. Activities of street trading are now in full swing especially in streets like Sani Abacha Street, Ecowas street,P.Z ,Wilberforce Street, Rawdon Street, Garrison Street and Siaka Stevens Street. These places are congested with human traffic competing with goods in the shallow streets.
From: krioboy
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Date Posted: 07:52:07 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
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APC,PMDC are behind that failure since they were given promises to the traders about it if they vote for them.
Politics of opposition is always very nasty in Sierra Leone as if they have no other way to convience voters.
What a mess people.
From: Job
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Date Posted: 09:54:00 05/16/07 ()
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Krioboy, okay let me forget about the bad english you are writing. But, what do you mean by "given promises"? Why would any responsible government ask traders to block, litter, steal, conjest, environmentally-degrade a street/road that is meant for all? I dont care what the votes are about, I wouldnt see any responsible government doing that, in spite of campaign antics. Man, stop this nonesense.
Job
From: krio boy
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Date Posted: 16:39:58 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
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My friend your english can only gain you as a person so i dont care what you say but i have the right to say what i feel is the truth.Keep you english for your family while i live a good life like anyone.I am a sierra leonean and i have a language that i can speak well.
Your APC is the only Govt. that can do that to gain votes.Take care and sleep with you english.
From: Job
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Date Posted: 20:22:28 05/16/07 ()
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na dat mek u nor bin for put mot pan ting way you nor sabi wrait ehn read. Okay you have a great nite and stop toying with big people's stuff.
Job
From: krio boy
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Date Posted: 21:25:56 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
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Thanks and give yourself a good night.
From: Momoh
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Date Posted: 09:59:09 05/16/07 ()
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"Why would any responsible government ask traders to block, litter, steal, conjest, environmentally-degrade a street/road that is meant for all?"
From: Concerned
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Date Posted: 10:43:04 05/16/07 ()
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Why don't you answer the question? It is logical and straight forward.
So Mr there is nothing wrong with the above question posed. Nar de fool way you fool na im make you see that as a nonsensical question.
From: Momoh
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Date Posted: 10:44:58 05/16/07 ()
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The question is nonsensical -- as I have already proved. Do you have difficulties understanding what you read?
From: Concerned
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Date Posted: 10:56:33 05/16/07 ()
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Why is the question nonsensical? tell us. You been the smartest man on this forum.
How is the question posed to you not worth answering?
Labeling people will not make you any better or smarter.
From: Momoh
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Date Posted: 11:04:12 05/16/07 ()
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Your question is nonsensical because it ASSUMES the very answer it seeks -- whether the SLPP govt. is a responsible govt. or not.
From: Concerned
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Date Posted: 12:09:59 05/16/07 ()
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"Your question is nonsensical because it ASSUMES the very answer it seeks -- whether the SLPP govt. is a responsible govt. or not".
Your assumptions are wronget me make it clear to you.
I did not ask the question, i like most people on this forum are after answers.
so for you refuse to answer the question posed means you are a LIAR.
And with that i will cease of this matter.
From: Momoh
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Date Posted: 12:17:52 05/16/07 ()
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You did ask the question -- under a different moniker. Once you saw how nonsensical it had been shown, you tried to hide from your mistake -- by assuming a different moniker.
From: Concerned
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Date Posted: 12:57:18 05/16/07 ()
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"Krioboy, okay let me forget about the bad english you are writing. But, what do you mean by "given promises"? Why would any responsible government ask traders to block, litter, steal, conjest, environmentally-degrade a street/road that is meant for all?"
"I dont care what the votes are about, I wouldnt see any responsible government doing that, in spite of campaign antics. Man, stop this nonesense".
Job
The above question posed by JOB is nonsensical according to you Mr SMART.
From: Momoh
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Date Posted: 13:05:39 05/16/07 ()
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The answer is uobvious, Koker.
From: Job
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Date Posted: 16:29:10 05/16/07 ()
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Hey Momoh,
Job
From: Concerned
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Date Posted: 13:31:20 05/16/07 ()
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Jalloh like somebody told you on this forum, it is not everybody who does not agree with your assumed smartness that is KOKER.
Your best bet will be to shut the hellup and stop your Lying.
Whatever you and KOKER have done to each other in the past should not affect your ability to debate issues.
From: Momoh
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Date Posted: 14:12:57 05/16/07 ()
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Koker, Koker, Koker, I have already told you that it is ireelvant when you bring personalities into the issue of your nonsensical question.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 14:00:43 05/16/07 ()
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Concerned, you are incredibly patient. But don't you think you might be beating your head against a brick wall? If so, the solution is to cut off this nutt case from your busy agenda.
From: COWARD CIRPORATE TAXES FRAUD
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Date Posted: 14:28:15 05/16/07 ()
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John Leigh, stop hinding from the truth by responing to unimportant side-bars. Face the question you have been running away from.
From: Concerned
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Date Posted: 14:09:43 05/16/07 ()
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Thanks JL. Wiil do
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:12:50 05/16/07 ()
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Congratulations! - JL
From: Question
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Have you finally gone insane, corrupt John Leigh, the serial fraud?
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 18:05:54 05/15/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
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Sierra Leoneans have just witnessed another bungled up contract award involving a whooping Le.3.6 Billion (approximately $1.0 million) World Bank contract to Samir Abbess of Strand Investment Limited in 2005 for the procurement of thirty mid range rice mills. An initial disbursement of Le1.6 Billion was made to the contractor on the issuance of a 4 months guarantee by Rokel Commercial Bank. The Rice mills have not been delivered and now Rokel Commercial Bank is trying to save the situation hoping it can fall back on foreclosing property and instruments in its possession.
2. Why is the NPPA saying that there were lots of anomalies discovered in the award of the contract and at the same time coming out publicly in defense of the contract award?
3. Why are the Ministers of Finance and Information jumping to the defense of their colleague’s contract award when the NPPA in a letter dated 20th April 2007 written to the Minister of Agriculture queried the procurement procedures employed for the award of the contract to a bidder who did not meet certain procurement requirements according to the Act?
4. Why did Dr. Mondeh go against the President’s public announcement to rescind the contract as reported in the Standard Times Newspaper?
5. Did Abess make any financial contributions to the SLPP election fund-raising campaign?
6. What is the relationship between Dr. Mondeh and Mr. Abess? Standard Times Press in an article refers to a very friendly relationship!
Not too long after, under the watchful eye of ACC Chairman Val Collier, Sierra Leone's Marine Resources Minister Lawrence Kamara was forced to resign over a charge of embezzling US$45,000 of government funds, and to refund the amount involved; Sierra Leone's Agriculture Minister Dr. Harry Will was convicted of embezzling US$1.5m from World Bank development funds meant to buy rice seed from Ghana for struggling Sierra Leonean Farmers. Justice Mohamed Taju Deen, who fined Will a mere Le 500,000 (US$250), was in turn convicted of having accepted bribes in exchange for the light sentence. On Nov. 6, 2001, President Kabbah indefinitely suspended Sierra Leone's transport and communication minister, Momoh Pujeh, for illicit diamond mining and alleged diamond smuggling.
From: I. B. KARGBO
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Date Posted: 23:43:04 05/15/07 ()
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LOCAL NEWS
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BY I.B KARGBO
Henry Aki Macauley insisted that the transaction between himself and Strand Investments also known as Abess and Sons was proper and above board, especially since the company had never defaulted in a manner that would put a question mark on the reputation of that company.
When asked whether the bank was not going to run at a loss if they must undertake to supply the government 30 rice mills, Henry Aki Macauley explained that there was a collateral provided by the contractors from which the bank can recover its money and furthermore, the bank would be at liberty to collect the remaining 60% of what the government still owes Abess and Sons after the final execution of the contract.
He agreed that the bank management was very cooperative and that he was also aware of the fact that the bank had made arrangements to pay for the 30 rice mills and that he as Minister of Finance, had put the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Sama Monde, in the picture at every stage, he was surprised that the Minister of Agriculture was attempting to back out of the transaction instead of rescuing the contract by giving an unnecessary one sided version to the media.
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 09:40:04 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
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"he as Minister of Finance, had put the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Sama Monde, in the picture at every stage, he was surprised that the Minister of Agriculture was attempting to back out of the transaction instead of rescuing the contract by giving an unnecessary one sided version to the media"
From: HOUSING DIRECTOR
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Date Posted: 10:24:04 05/16/07 ()
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But your Rokel commersial bank said that everything was done above board.Macauley said the procurement procedures used were above board, and everything was legal. What is your point? Forget about politics sometimes man. For a man who headed the housing ministry in salone, you should not be throwing stones, because you are one corrupt chap. Since you base your accusation on an article found in the Standard Times, do you remember what the same Standard Times said about you? Ok, so Standard Times called you a thief, we all believe Standard Times that you are a THIEF.
Standard Times
From: edmund
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Date Posted: 10:26:47 05/16/07 ()
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"For a man who headed the housing ministry in salone, you should not be throwing stones, because you are one corrupt chap."
From: SALHOC
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Date Posted: 10:32:58 05/16/07 ()
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Bo una too trivial. The fact of the matter is: OLU BECKELEY IS FRAUD.
From: edmund
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Date Posted: 10:47:02 05/16/07 ()
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"The fact of the matter is: OLU BECKELEY IS FRAUD."
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 11:35:29 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
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Overt and covert government intimidation tactics are not going to stop us from pointing out the corrupt practices of the current administration. I proudly served my country for 17 years and Africa for 4 years and never have I been terminated or dismissed as the Standard Times Newspaper alledges.
From: POINT
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"I proudly served my country for 17 years and Africa for 4 years and never have I been terminated or dismissed as the Standard Times Newspaper alledge"
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 14:07:40 05/15/07 ()
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Dear Forumites:
Third, you must meet the press in person – and I did worldwide: TV, radio, newspapers, debriefings and press conferences.
From: Independent Observer
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Date Posted: 14:39:02 05/15/07 ()
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"I do not read the Washington Post. I merely glaced through it."
From: Komaneh
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Date Posted: 13:24:28 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: komaneh@yahoo.com
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You missed the point of Leigh's rebuttal. By the time the letters were written, Taylor was on the defensive, so he had no need to write another letter. Events subsequently bore him out. So his argument is, writing a letter will only help if you do other things. Are you saying that he is wrong? If so, what did Mr. Jalloh really do to ensure USG SL policy was favorable to SL?
From: Allie
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Date Posted: 14:22:01 05/16/07 ()
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Your cluelessness is showing! If Taylor was on the defensive, as you claim, why did the much more knowledgeable Washington Post find it necessary to write in REBUTTAL of Taylor's mouthpiece, Ambassador Bull?
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 15:02:19 05/16/07 ()
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"As for your rather clueless question, if you have to ask what Jalloh did to influence public policy against Charles Taylor, perhaps you need to find a translator to translate his article for you into a language you understand better than English".
call me sef KOKER.
Old saying: "Self praise is no recommendation"
From: Allie
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Date Posted: 15:06:58 05/16/07 ()
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From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 15:27:44 05/16/07 ()
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Question again.
What is your evidence that your one grain letter to Washington post by a MR NOBODY was read by any of the people involved in the restoration democracy in Salone?
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 15:48:27 05/16/07 ()
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Mr. alieu sesay:
From: COWARD CORPORATE TAXES FRAUD
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Date Posted: 16:53:41 05/16/07 ()
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John Leigh, stop hinding from the truth by responing to unimportant side-bars. Face the question you have been running away from.
From: Question
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Date Posted: 16:50:57 05/16/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh:
From: Allie
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Date Posted: 15:42:49 05/16/07 ()
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"What is your evidence that your one grain letter to Washington post by a MR NOBODY was read by any of the people involved in the restoration democracy in Salone?"
Question #2: Where is your evidence to prove your baselsss assumption?
From: APC
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Date Posted: 15:47:01 05/16/07 ()
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Bo una lef Jalloh he is sick in the head. Frustration is about to get him.
From: Observer
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Date Posted: 16:41:58 05/16/07 ()
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Sengbe, as an independent observer, you are the one who appears to be sick -- with an obsession for the man called Jalloh.
From: Concerned
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Date Posted: 13:46:45 05/15/07 ()
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Irrespective of what others think about John Leigh, there were good things that he did for the restoration of Democracy that alot of you are refusuing to accept, selectively ripping through the missing pieces.
That is unfair to him and to us who read what is said on this forum.
I was once a busy contributor on this forum but it seems we are not looking for solutions, we are looking for people to blame and that is not DEVELOPMENT, that is BACKWARDNESS.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 21:43:44 05/15/07 ()
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Dear Concerned:
From: Concerned
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Date Posted: 07:50:28 05/16/07 ()
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I do come around when i can JL. I have school work to do and have to concentrate on that instead of IDLENESS and CUSS CUSS.
From: Sad
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Date Posted: 00:25:02 05/16/07 ()
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Like someone told you, you are fighting your imaginary demons.
From: John Camarra
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Date Posted: 14:03:18 05/15/07 ()
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And there are those who say he did nothing while others were busy killing our people. You might have a personal vendetta for me Leigh, but in GOD'S NAME be HONEST and lets have the facts.
In a letter to the caucus in August, Leigh wrote, "The CBC policy suggestions are supportive of the criminal activities of Taylor and Sankoh in Sierra Leone to the extreme detriment of the welfare of the people of Sierra Leone."
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 22:04:38 05/15/07 ()
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Dear Mr. Camarra:
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:41:04 05/16/07 ()
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From The Diplomat, Washington, DC
Stopping the Atrocities
by Tim Deady
It’s not pretty.
In a letter to the caucus in August, Leigh wrote, "The CBC policy suggestions are supportive of the criminal activities of Taylor and Sankoh in Sierra Leone to the extreme detriment of the welfare of the people of Sierra Leone."
From: Allie
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Date Posted: 12:54:05 05/16/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh:
From: francis
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"First, I declined to join their grouping after they had pinned their hopes on my joining them."
From: Associated Press
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Date Posted: 13:11:50 05/15/07 ()
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Pirates attack British ship off Liberia coast
Flashback: Pirates in persuit
coast and docked in Monrovia, where the crew was awaiting mechanical help, said Volodymr Shteynberh, the ship's captain. Four days after it docked Saturday, two fishing boats approached the cargo ship and around 25 pirates jumped aboard brandishing machetes, Shteynberh said.
The captain said three crew members were injured before the ship was towed away in the direction of Ivory Coast. "Two received cuts on their heads," Shteynberh said.
Source: Associated Press
From: WHITE MAN
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Date Posted: 13:05:08 05/15/07 ()
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Walkers contribute their slice of £10,000 for LOAF funds
The annual walking event, which is organised by Hastings group LOAF, started at Christ Church, Blacklands.
Last Updated: 15 May 2007
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 11:26:39 05/15/07 ()
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Is this the man who wanted to be leader of the SLPP and president of Sierra Leone?
He would not dare talk like that to my nearest and dearest in front of me.
Why must he abuse all those who disagree with him?
I don’t mean to cause any embarrassment to anybody, but Lango Deen has always impressed me as Intelligent, witty, cultured, informed, versatile, and poetic when she chooses to be, perhaps the product of a Western Liberal Arts education and what in Sierra Leone we call GOOD HOME TRAINING.
From: MODERATOR
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Date Posted: 12:50:27 05/15/07 ()
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Fools die because they simply ignore the lessons of yesterday and go on repeating the errors of the past, pretending, as it were, that history has never existed.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:26:09 05/15/07 ()
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I only contribute under my real name.
From: NEW CITIZEN
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Date Posted: 09:43:12 05/15/07 ()
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LATEST HEADLINES
NEW CITIZEN
In neighbouring Ivory Coast, the death of Robert Guei, a booted army general and originator of the word ‘Ivorite’ failed to win the slightest sympathy from the authorities of that time for fear that it would amount to recognizing his nationalistic stance against foreigners.
And in Liberia, Samuel K. Doe reportedly breathed a sigh of relief when he said, “that is one enemy less” when he heard of the death of his political rival and namesake, Jackson F. Doe of Liberia.
President Kabbah has demonstrated to the whole nation how Sierra Leoneans should relate to each other for the sake of peaceful co-existence and for the developmental aspirations of the country through the belief and practice that Sierra Leone is one country and one people.
Posted on 15 May 2007
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 09:28:05 05/15/07 ()
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Some modifications:
He had been Ambassador to Nigeria for EIGHT YEARS and I was amazed. Really amazed. a true diplomat, polite, al3rt, sharper than a razor. The meeting lasted an hour.
We talked about Sierra Leone of course. And Ghana.
Intelligence, ignorance, curiosity and a willingness to learn, and a penetrative mind that can get at the heart of the issue where there is a beam of light, is not the monopoly of people who are more advanced, more equipped, more powerful than Johnny E. Leigh.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 09:01:26 05/15/07 ()
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Question: Was the said John Leigh subordinate to the Sierra Leone government (Foreign Minister) or had he wholly taken over that function? Was he also in charge of all the diamonds and the cash?
We talked about Sierra Leone of course. And Ghana.
Intelligence, ignorance, curiosity and a willingness to learn, and a penetrative mind that can get at the heart of the issue where there is a beam of light, is not the monopoly of people who are more advanced, more equipped, more powerful than Johnny E. Leigh.
From: JOHN E. L SON
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Date Posted: 07:51:57 05/15/07 ()
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I AM SORRY TO INFORM YOU ALL THAT JL WILL BE IN EXILE SOON, HE IS NEITHER WANTED IN THE SLPP PARTY NOR IS HE WANTED ANYWHERE. HE HAS LOST ALL RESPECT AND DOES NOT EVEN KNOW HIS OWN COUNTRY HISTORY. WHAT A SHAME.
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SON,
PLEASE GO TAKE YOUR MEDICATION. DR NAHIM JUST CALLED ME AND COMPLAINED BITTERLY THAT YOU SEEM TO BE GETTING WORSE. HE BELIEVES THAT YOU ARE NOT TAKING YOUR MEDS AS PRESCRIBED. PLEASE, SON TAKE YOUR MEDS. IF YOU DO NOT, I WILL BE FORCED TO COMMIT YOU.
WHAT DID I DO FOR GOD TO GIVE ME SUCH A SON?
From: Alan Cranston
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Posted by Alan Cranston on May 15, 2007 at 03:57:33:
Ambassador
Embassy of the Republic of Liberia
From: Leonenetter
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"While the Liberian ambassador was busy publishing Taylor's proganda in the Washington Post, Mr. Leigh never once responded."
Date: 11/9/2001 4:38:31 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: osankoh@hotmail.com (Mallam O. Sankoh) Sender: owner-leonenet@listproc.umbc.edu To: leonenet@listproc.umbc.edu
Leonenetter MohmJ writes in the Washington Post ...
News Home Page News Digest Nation World Metro Business Washtech Sports Style Education Travel Health Home & Garden Opinion Weather Weekly Sections Classifieds Print Edition
Charles Taylor: A Record of Genocide
Friday, November 9, 2001; Page A36
The latest attempt by the Liberian ambassador to dress warlord-turned-president, Charles Taylor, in the borrowed robes of a democratic leader [letters, Oct. 30] comes up against an insurmountable barrier: Mr. Taylor's extensive and murderous record of human rights abuses in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
© 2001 The Washington Post Company
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From: Patriot
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I applaud you for your foresight in keeping the evidences thast show which of our compatriots took action to fight the RUF and Charles Taylor to the best of their ability -- through their pen.
From: MUNKU JUSU
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Date Posted: 06:56:11 05/15/07 ()
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Why do you sound like my friend munku Jusu. Hey Munku Bob.
From: Kankay
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Date Posted: 08:20:06 05/15/07 ()
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Maybe because the lies of the SLPP's apologists all the same -- so whoever exposes them will sound the same.
From: Analyst
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Question: Where is the evidence that any businesses, much less European businesses, were ever "driven off from Sierra Leone" by any government, much less the APC?
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 03:45:47 05/15/07 ()
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Stop making a fool of yourself!
From: Analyst
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An autobiographical statement, no doubt. But of course, you'd be the last to know that -- proving the point that you are a fool!
From: Independent Man
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Once again, stop makng a fool of yourself.
You will only expose your rear-end if you continue down this path. Think about it......
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 09:31:56 05/15/07 ()
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Dear I-MAN:
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 11:06:19 05/15/07 ()
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Is this the man who wanted to be leader of the SLPP and president of Sierra Leone?
As someone observed - and it’s plain for all to see he is becoming an embarrassment of his party and I doubt that they have appointed him spokesman for Mr. Solomon Berewa.
How many supporters does he have in this Forum? How many support this kind of persistent rudeness.
If he talked like that to some of my nearest and dearest, I’d put him in his place in such way, It would say kicked. Please do not doubt such is possible.
This is disgraceful behaviour and shocking to those who look in and observe a former Sierra Leone ambassador behaving like that.
Why does he assume that he is more intelligent than we are?
Why must he abuse all those who disagree with him?
I don’t mean to cause any embarrassment to anybody, but Lango Deen has always impressed me Intelligent, witty, poetic when she chooses to be, and the product of a Western Liberal Arts education and what in Sierra Leone we call. GOOD HOME TRAINING.
Yes, EIR usually has good intelligence sources....
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 10:22:23 05/15/07 ()
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Is this how an old bag of bones talks, like an uncivilised IDIOT?
From: Analyst
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"If the low grade dunce cannot reach $-LE parity with his imported can of soft drink how would he ever figure out why all those companies were all present in the former British West Africa when the APC came in, in 1968 but were nowhere to be seen in Sierra Leone only by the end of Momoh's tenure in early nineties!"
From: BEHAVE YOURSEF
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Date Posted: 09:56:34 05/15/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh, please start to show respect for this forum by resisting your usual urge to insult people who don't agree with you.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 11:55:05 05/15/07 ()
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Mr. BEHAVE YOURSELF:
From: BEHAVE YOURSELF
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Mr. Leigh:
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 12:42:21 05/15/07 ()
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Leigh,
"drinks welfare in Sweden" if that is meant to be a refence to me, since I do not and have not taken "Welfare" since I started living in this country permanently in 1971. I do not qualify for "welfare" whatever the case.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
From: Analyst
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Koker, the only thing that is being exposed, other than your ignorance, is John Leigh's.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 22:36:55 05/14/07 ()
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Dear Dr. Fanusie:
You are correct about no one wants to debate with you.
Do you know why? Because you have only one issue; Charles Margai. That is issue is not important to most of us just simple mind like you who could not handle complex issues. I will see how you will handle me come July 11, 2007 when I start my campaign for the APC AND ERNEST BAI KOROMA.
Yaya Fanusie-APC"
I promptly replied with the piece below. Since that time you have been completely silent on this subjectmatter. Once again, I extend my invitation: could you please defend APC regarding the massive flight of businesses away from SLeone during its quarter century in power, the currency degradation and the massive spread of poverty.
Under the SLPP, Sierra Leone boasted a large, well functioning international business sector providing tens of thousands of jobs for our people as well as bringing modern technology to our country. During that time, the European companies operating in Sierra Leone included the following:
The SLPP has begun to correct this dismal record of the bookmumu APC.
Simply restated, our people fully remember the years of suffering when the APC tribalists, hegemonistic tribalists, mumbo-tombo-dumbos and gangsters governed Sierra Leone.
From: JOHN E. L SON
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Date Posted: 07:48:52 05/15/07 ()
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OH JOHN, I WISH YOU WILL BE WISE ENOUGH IN YOUR OLD AGE TO LISTEN TO ADVICE. PLEASE SELF EXILE. IT IS NOT WORTH THIS EMBARRASEMENT.
From: Amidu Bio
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Date Posted: 08:27:57 05/15/07 ()
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Hey John E., don't forget to add John Leigh's latest lie -- that he single-handedly won the fight against the RUF in America.
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 10:38:32 05/16/07 ()
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And your name is AMIDU BIO? TEGLOMA DALLAS CHAPTER? FORMER PRESIDENT?
My friend you need to shut up.
From: What's in a Name
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Address the issue of John Leigh's serial lies bout how he single-handely defeated the rUF proganda in America. Your rant tegloma is irrelevant to Leigh's serial fraud.
From: alieu sesay
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Wow! i sense nervouseness in you sir. So i will conclude this is not AMIDU BIO.
From: What's in a Name
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Your sense of sense is as shaky as is your sense of understanding.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:11:09 05/16/07 ()
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Mr. Amidu Bio/What's in a Name:
Later, it agreed to exclude the RUF from power and to try Sankoh and Taylor for war crimes.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:50:49 05/16/07 ()
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The real shrink in this forum is DR. ABDUL NAHIM, not Dr. Nahim. The fellow who stole from Tegloma is stealing another's handle because he akready has a bad name. Accordingly, I won't open his posting or read it.
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"The real shrink in this forum is DR. ABDUL NAHIM, not Dr. Nahim"
From: Dr. Nahim
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Date Posted: 12:30:51 05/16/07 ()
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John Leigh:
From: alieu sesay
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" not irrelevant personalities".
Thank you sir for been so honest. And for letting us know you are irrelevant personality.
From: What's in a Name
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Koker, your chronic problem gives you away -- whether you hide behind the name "concerned," "alieu sesay," Indpendent Man" or "Sengbe"!
From: alieu sesay
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hahahahaha oooh hohoho...
Get you red handed. You submitted before realizing your mistake.
Porrot. Call me whatever you want: Koker, Independent, Alieu sesay etc etc nar you bizness.
From: What's in a Name
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"But from the horse's mouth, you are irrelevant."
From: Fan
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by Analyst on May 12, 2007 at 02:57:05:
From: Fact
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Mr. Leigh: What you have said about the old APC can equally be applied to the current SLPP. It's not the parties, its the people in the parties! When would you realize this? The current SLPP is now the home of most of the old APC nation wreckers! Wake up, man!
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 10:13:47 05/15/07 ()
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Mr. Fact:
From: FACT
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Date Posted: 19:48:08 05/15/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh, the destruction of Sierra Leone was done by people from all the ethnic groups and all the regions. There are bangucrooks, tombo dombos, ekutay dombolo types in the current SLPP just like in the old APC.
Sierra Leone's problem is a problem of leadership,not party or ethnic group or tribe.There were a lot of businesses in Sierra Leone under the APC. They come and go just like now under the SLPP. The bottom line for all of them is PROFIT. Maybe they get away with a lot under the SLPP.Berewa was saying he will revise the mining policy(provided he wins). Why? Please tell me.You think Siaka Stevens would have allowed such a policy? It's not the number of businesses but the quality or usefulness of the business to the people of Sierra Leone. Thank you very much.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 21:25:59 05/15/07 ()
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Dear Mr. FACT:
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 06:50:57 05/16/07 ()
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"Under the APC,tax-paying corporations fled Sleone.Those that replaced them are not famous for paying taxes."
Mr Leigh I know it is your right to support any candidate that you wish to support,but please look at the BIGGER PICTURE of the past 10yrs,and the suffering of our people.Any TRUE PATRIOT will not ADVOCATE for a CONTINUATION OF THE KABBAH/BEREWA REGIME/POLICIES.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 10:30:53 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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1. "...... can you name these non-tax paying corporations that replaced their tax-paying counterparts under the APC era?" - BUFORD HWY
No, I do not know them by name but do know that Government revenues from corporate taxes have been way down slip since Siaka Stevens days but have begun to rise again. Even so, our government is on the dole. We cannot pay our way without international charity. PERIOD.
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 12:05:10 05/16/07 ()
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"If the APC were to come to power,foreign investors will back off."
THERE WOULD BE NO SACRED COW.
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 12:23:54 05/16/07 ()
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Now you understand why the clueless, corrupt and unpatriotic, corparate-taxes fraud John Leigh claims that multinational companies are better than "Ma and Pa" companies for Salone -- when they are almost as notorious as the corrupt SLPP for global corruption.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:21:56 05/16/07 ()
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If foreign investors back off, unemployment would soar and remain at a very high level. Next, government tax revenues will decline appreciably and lastly, Sierra Leone will be cut-off from management and technology inovations.
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 13:01:42 05/16/07 ()
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Yes Sir,but the SUN will not be intolerance with corrupt foreign investors,and that is one of the differences between the CORRUPT SLPP and the SUN.There are alot of repitable foreign investors that are willing to go through the proper channel and help develop our nation,but,because of the corrupt SLPP govt,they have decided to stand back and see what would be the outcome of these elections.
BTW with the SUN in power,the BUCK STOPS AT THE TOP (PRESIDENT),whilst with the SLPP the BUCK STARTS AT THE TOP (PA KABBAH/BEREWA).
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 13:37:36 05/16/07 ()
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It would be excellent if corrupt foreign investors are kept away from Africa. They are behind a large part of our suffering and backwardness. They help Sankoh, Taylor, Amin, Mobutu, etc. ruin their countries
From: Ciorporate Taxes Fraud
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Date Posted: 15:27:18 05/16/07 ()
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"If foreign investors back off, unemployment would soar and remain at a very high level. Next, government tax revenues will decline appreciably and lastly, Sierra Leone will be cut-off from management and technology inovations."
--- John Leigh the Corporate Taxes Fraud
Posted by John E. Leigh on May 16, 2007 at 12:21:56:
Now listen to the flip-flop fraud artist lick his vomit:
"It would be excellent if corrupt foreign investors are kept away from Africa. They are behind a large part of our suffering and backwardness. They help Sankoh, Taylor, Amin, Mobutu, etc. ruin their countries ."
--- John Leigh the Corporate Taxes Fraud
Posted by John E. Leigh on May 16, 2007 at 13:37:36:
From: Economist
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Date Posted: 13:01:13 05/16/07 ()
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"If foreign investors back off, unemployment would soar and remain at a very high level." John Leigh
From: Junior Economist
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Date Posted: 13:25:09 05/16/07 ()
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"If foreign investors back off, unemployment would soar and remain at a very high level".
Keynesian Theory of Macroeconomics should be a start for proof.
Question. So
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 15:09:28 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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WHY waste your time with that imported can of soft drink crackpot rudeness dumbo? He is used to writing stupid articles with his photos all over the place but because he was ignored he thought he was a brilliant economist.
From: BEHAVE YOURSELF
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Date Posted: 16:45:17 05/16/07 ()
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John Leigh, this is anothe4r reminder for you to stop displaying your rudeness on this forum. As I rteminded you before, rudeness is not a substitute for reason.
From: Economist.
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Date Posted: 14:36:14 05/16/07 ()
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Stop talking nonsense.
From: Junior Economist
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Date Posted: 15:03:38 05/16/07 ()
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You see how daft your statement was?
From: Economist
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The only thing I see is a clearly ignorant person asking an even more ignorant question while drunkenly bandying around economic terms of which he obviously has no clue what they mean.
From: Junior Economist
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Date Posted: 15:34:38 05/16/07 ()
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I, unlike you can clearly say i do know what i am talking about. Having a BS in Economics and an MS in Macr-economics , means i am in a better position to discuss economic issues especially macro-economic issues.
From: Economist
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"Having a BS in Economics and an MS in Macr-economics , means i am in a better position to discuss economic issues especially macro-economic issues."
From: Junior Economist
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Date Posted: 16:02:39 05/16/07 ()
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Get off this KOKER thing. Answer the question for us all on the forum.
From: Economist
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Date Posted: 16:57:50 05/16/07 ()
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Koker, unfortunately, you can not hide from your identity. You only have to open your mouth and your inability to understand what you read easily exposes you.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:13:01 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Our man is not only a empty quack but he has lost his senses all together.
From: COWARD CORPORATE TAXES FRAUD
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Date Posted: 17:00:11 05/16/07 ()
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John Leigh, stop hinding from the truth by responing to unimportant side-bars. Face the question you have been running away from.
From: Statistician
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Date Posted: 10:36:52 05/16/07 ()
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"No, I do not know them by name but do know that Government revenues from corporate taxes have been way down slip since Siaka Stevens days but have begun to rise again."
From: Isaac
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Date Posted: 00:05:04 05/16/07 ()
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"Multinational corporations are better for SLeoneans than Ma & Pa businesses."
From: Hassan Conteh
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Date Posted: 13:09:21 05/15/07 ()
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You lack any sense, Leigh. Every time you open your mouth you prove that.
From: Observer
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Date Posted: 01:01:35 05/15/07 ()
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Leigh's problem is that he lives in his own twisted fantasy land where the worst suffering brought to Salone by the SLPP does not exist.
From: SHOCKED
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Date Posted: 17:55:30 05/14/07 ()
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Posted by Cornelius Hamelberg on May 14, 2007 at 14:05:35:
From: krio boy
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Date Posted: 00:58:46 05/15/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
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With all the qualification,jobs but you still act like a rasta?Well what can we do about you educated and the country at the same time?
From: ok dok
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Date Posted: 00:49:06 05/15/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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Behaviour oh behaviour
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 21:15:28 05/14/07 ()
Email Address: FMANSARAY@AOL.COM
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Any more obsinity or calling names like this means you are out of the forum.Respect is a two way street.
Please lets be civil and I am waiting for a formal
apology.
cocorioko Board chairman
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 21:41:28 05/14/07 ()
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Formal apology: Mr. Mansaray, I suppose you mean that you want formal apologies from those who have been constantly bombarding this forum with petty assumptions about san-san boys, fulmunku flunkeys. etc?
When did some of the best become equated with some of the dregs, who climed out of their backgrounds ?
You got some big dreams, baby, but in order to dream you gotta still be asleep.
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
Karl Marx has got ya by the throat, Henry Kissinger's got you tied up in knots.
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
You got unrighteous doctors dealing drugs that'll never cure your ills.
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
The rich seduce the poor and the old are seduced by the young.
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
You got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules.
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
Instant inner peace and every step you take has got to be approved.
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
You think He's just an errand boy to satisfy your wandering desires.
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
They tell you, "Time is money" as if your life was worth its weight in gold.
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
Do you have any idea why or for who He died?
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
Copyright © 1979 Special Rider Music
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 04:50:20 05/15/07 ()
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Coocoo
From: Question
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Date Posted: 05:00:28 05/15/07 ()
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Is that a mende translation of an English word you haven't yet learnt how to use, Edmond Koker?
From: DR ABDUL NAHIM
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Date Posted: 21:59:56 05/14/07 ()
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Oh God, one more patient for me. Please report at Kissy Craseyard tomorrow morning. Please do not forget to take your meds. Your condition is getting out of hands.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 22:20:05 05/14/07 ()
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To the Rev Kabs Kanu and Mr. Foday Mansaray, and to our august Forumites, and any ladies present I will say I am sorry for polluting their innocent eras/ eyes/ church minds.
Foday Mansaray? Is it Foday Mansaray who was at FBC at the same time that I was? Howdi! If you remember, I last met you at STERNS African Music shop in London. You were then were working at the African Development Bank in Abidjan. Manny moons have passed……..
You don't need to worry. I was last in Sierra Leone in March 1970. I have an open ticket to the Middle East, Tehran, China.
Sierra Leone?
About one door being closed and others open. I have unlimited access to three Israeli Forums and one Gambian Forum…… So don’t worry if it’s in your heart to ban me, your loss will be someone else’s gain but talk to Leigh to stop abusing people. He is not better than anyone here.
From: FODAY MANSARAY
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Date Posted: 19:56:46 05/15/07 ()
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con, our moderator has spoken. please take the day off and hopefully we hear from you soon.
From: FODAY MANSARAY
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Date Posted: 23:48:27 05/14/07 ()
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Apology accepted.The intention here is to exercise a lot of restrain, maturity and good judgement so that we can agree to disagree. I am not a Fan of our Hon. Ambassador as you all know but we must remember that everything been equal ,he is doing a terrific job to hang around people you will call san san boys like me and kabbs .Such is life. Musa pbuh. was humble yet he never made it to the promise land. There is someting to learn from that story. I know Foday Mansaray who worked at ADB. This Foday Mansaray worked at the National Development Bank, SL, Freetown.
Please let keep our head up.By the way, keep your one way ticket. Sierra Leone need you to go back home.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 01:38:11 05/15/07 ()
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This is social, not political. Repeat, my father could speak Suso, fluently. I wish that I did to.
To Dr. Nahim and the Social Welfare concerns of Baldhead , I’ll just say that I’m a lowly Salone man. The in-law I mentioned, ( Göran) who is a psychiatrist has a grandfather who was Mayor of Stockholm……yes, like Pa Shaki, but of a more aristocratic sort, whereas I am a rarayman, understand?
I’d like to see Rev Kabs to count on the fingers of his left hand, exactly how many times he has actually turned the other cheek.
(There’s a quality / experience of poetry and prose, I’m afraid that I wouldn’t enjoy that much, even in Paradise......
Well, Sam King ( formerly ECHOES) called me yesterday and re-linked me with another Foday and an Irishman that was one of my best friends in Ghana ……..but as a Sierra Leonean – even in a Sierra Leonean Forum , I’m talking about OUR COUNTRY….
I was banned from Bantaba in Cyberspace, because I said that some of the people who are criticising Yahya Jammeh, are a hundred times worse than Yahya. The guy who runs it (is a cousin to my Gambian friend, he has met me, BANNED Me. No freedom of speech? His reply:
From: FODAY MANSARAY
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Date Posted: 23:48:27 05/14/07 ()
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Apology accepted.The intention here is to exercise a lot of restrain, maturity and good judgement so that we can agree to disagree. I am not a Fan of our Hon. Ambassador as you all know but we must remember that everything been equal ,he is doing a terrific job to hang around people you will call san san boys like me and kabbs .Such is life. Musa pbuh. was humble yet he never made it to the promise land. There is someting to learn from that story. I know Foday Mansaray who worked at ADB. This Foday Mansaray worked at the National Development Bank, SL, Freetown.
Please let keep our head up.By the way, keep your one way ticket. Sierra Leone need you to go back home.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 11:06:04 05/15/07 ()
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Dear Mr. FODAY MANSARAY:
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 03:09:43 05/15/07 ()
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RESPECT: Corrections
This is social, not political. Repeat, my father could speak Suso, fluently. I wish that I did too.
To Dr. Nahim and the Social Welfare concerns of Baldhead, I’ll just say that I’m a lowly San-San Salone man. The in-law I mentioned, (Göran) who is a psychiatrist has a grandfather who was Mayor of Stockholm……yes, like Pa Shaki, but of a more aristocratic sort, whereas I am a rarayman, understand? Osman Lahai has met his oldest daughter, because we went to her birthday party the evening he arrived.
(There’s a quality / experience of poetry and prose, I’m afraid that I wouldn’t enjoy that much, even if I were to read it in Paradise......
Remember the blind man in the Qur’an?
Well, Sam King ( formerly ECHOES) called me yesterday and re-linked me with another Foday and an Irishman that was one of my best friends in Ghana ……..but as a Sierra Leonean – even in a Sierra Leonean Forum , I’m talking about OUR COUNTRY….I have aright to speak about OUR country.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 18:04:37 05/14/07 ()
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This is merely verbal. There has been along accumulation of insults from the other side, not just to me but too many of us, san-san boys.
If you expect an apology from me, forget it.
And grand larceny and corruption?
Sankoh gone. Hinga followed. What did you say then?
Where is your voice? When will there be discussions about serious things?
My son wrote an insightful and easily read essay about Africa. Has there ever been a discussion that he could participate in this forum?
From: CRAZY BALDHEAD
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Date Posted: 18:13:28 05/14/07 ()
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Corny, big belly,
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 19:08:40 05/14/07 ()
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Sorry baldhaed, I am not one.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 19:03:50 05/14/07 ()
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Where is the love, on this Forum?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 18:48:55 05/14/07 ()
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Bob Marley would call me, his tasta brother with roots in WEstmoreland, Jamaica, a baldhead?
Should I be exchanging tit for tat? You don’t even know how to curse or praise. Obviously can’t distinguish your arse from your elbow undercover.
You may be come great writer with your childishness. You’ll be king.
Why do you underestimate women so much? Many of those working in the military etc are women.
WHAT do you say to them, crazy baldhead?
Do you tell them how handsome I am?
If you can’t I’ll sweet talk them without any talk about degrees, or cash……?
You are probably not in the Sierra Leone you claim to love, for economic reasons.
I too have three brothers – two in the UK one in Holland and my sister lives in the US.
Does my existence bother you? Were you a kakademic?
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:25:37 05/14/07 ()
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Rev. Jesse Jackson & JL
From: Alan Cranston
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Date Posted: 03:46:59 05/15/07 ()
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"I promptly countered and correctly predicted that any power-sharing won’t succeed because the RUF is interested neither in democracy nor development and that Sankoh and his men were armed criminals who “care nothing about us Africans. They are willing to sell their country’s natural resources to Europeans so they can live the high life.” I propounded this theory again and again in numerous public and private forums."
From: NUNKU BOB
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Date Posted: 06:55:20 05/15/07 ()
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wHY DO YOU SOUND LIKE MY FRIEND mUNKU jUSUS. hEY mUNKU jUSU.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:56:57 05/14/07 ()
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This is not merely to you. I often ask questions to get answers from the horses’ mouth. Sometimes it is like at an exam. The questioner is not ignorant. I listen attentively to the perspective of the reply and have a fairly good memory.
I like Mr. Lamin Siddiqi very much. (who received a national award recently). He adopted me. He is my uncle.
About frugality, we live in our own house, and I invited Osman Lahai, to stay with me for ten days ( of course I didn’t know him from Adam, when I invited him, met him on Leonenet - yes he is Mende, and my brother. We had a good time together and you can ask him how I live, how I am, if you are curious……no big deal. After my acquaintance with Osman, I regretted more than ever that I do not know the South of Sierra Leone, and hope to put up a solid bungalow in Kailahun, and there to drink some poyo in the evenings,, count the starts as we used to do at the cantonment at FBC, in the evenings or watch the sun dip (as Conrad once put is " bloodshot" below the horizon at Lumley Beach.
Miss listening to all that Jazz at Cyril (Rogers-Wright) in his little shack in Leicester – saw Jimmy Smith in concert here in 72…..time? The old folks say festina lente. Reality check is: tempus fugit……
I LOVE my wife , my daughters, their mother, my son, my family Israel, my relatives, Sierra Leone, all Sierra Leoneans and identify with the sufferers and san-san boys and students at Magburaka , than I do with my relatives like Sir Henry Lightfoot –Boston, , Cyril Rogers –Wright, Cream and Ebun Wright,……
Tomorrow I write to Solomon Berewa. ( In another age or day, I'd take care of Mugabe of Zimbabwe as an elder and friend at the request of his Embassy staff as I did with simliar visitors from Nigeria)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:11:23 05/14/07 ()
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Check this out:
You are my senior by far. Your junior half brother Evelyn is my senior. Respect yourself man the days that you have left to live, before you join your ancestors.
Chief Hinga Norman was in touch with his people in the UK on an almost daily basis, reporting there. I do not think that Professor Cyril Patrick Foray was sleeping at his post.
From: Alan Cranston
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Date Posted: 03:57:33 05/15/07 ()
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Mr. Hamelberg, John Leigh is a brazen fraud. Nothing proves that more than his blatant lie that he was responsible for defeating the RUF in the USA. While the Liberian ambassador was busy publishing Taylor's proganda in the Washington Post, Mr. Leigh never once responded.
From: Kohtoh Kamal
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Date Posted: 16:59:11 05/14/07 ()
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nice!!
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 21:41:37 05/14/07 ()
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Thank you very much. - JL
From: JOKO LENGA
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Date Posted: 14:08:22 05/14/07 ()
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Kabs,
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:27:18 05/14/07 ()
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You'd have to get to sixty before approaching seventy.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:20:38 05/14/07 ()
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I am younger than Johnny Leigh's brother Evelyn, who is a friend and does not speak with a Bo town accent....
N: My name is as given.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 11:44:53 05/14/07 ()
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Dear Mr. Mr. Tamba Gborie:
Apart from such an approach, I cannot think of more practical alternative.
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From: Tamba Gborie
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Date Posted: 17:45:34 05/14/07 ()
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Thank you for for replying adequately to my concerns regarding our country. as i have already indicated, you are one out of millions of sierra leoneans that i have so much respect for and what ever rubbish written in this forum about you is not going to change that. i shall rethink my position in due course and support Solomon Berewa to be our future leader based on your constructive analysis of the three candidates.
From: Stop Talking to Yourself
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Date Posted: 01:09:25 05/15/07 ()
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You are pathetic,JOhn Leigh.
From: Tamba Gborie
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Date Posted: 02:22:02 05/15/07 ()
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you are the one that is pathetic. i am Tamba Gborie who is living in london and not John Leigh as you assumed. Kabs can you put this idiot out of his misery.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 11:17:30 05/16/07 ()
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Mr. Gborie:
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Date Posted: 11:55:31 05/16/07 ()
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John Leigh, stop hinding from the truth by responing to unimportant side-bars. Face the question you have been running away from.
From: peeper
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Date Posted: 15:18:44 05/14/07 ()
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Mr.leigh,
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 10:57:27 05/16/07 ()
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Mr. Peeper:
From: Diamonds
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Date Posted: 12:00:23 05/16/07 ()
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That shows you are ignorant of the fact that it is Berewa and the SLPP which has sold off out minerals to the IMF. Berewa proudly announced it to the world last October in New York.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:05:35 05/14/07 ()
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I haven't started with you yet.
John Ernest Leigh, you crazy bastard son of a bitch called Haja Mamie Kanneh Leigh Moigula whose antecedents were a Muslim family, the Kannehs, you may be going for broke, but WHO are you calling “idle Swedish flunkey welfare drunks”?
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 15:22:00 05/14/07 ()
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FITYEI nor good oo
MMMIE sweh nor good oo
Nar the sweh don ketch am so
BRIBE BRIBE Leigh nar shalat
"CONBENTION" den stitched am up
MAMIE sweh nor good oo
Borbor Leigh nar sad old fool
MAMIE sweh nor good oo
From: Question
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Date Posted: 14:44:23 05/14/07 ()
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QUESTION FOR CORNIE: Is this a preview of Joh Leigh's eleventh-hour hero and former whipping boty, Solomon Berewwa's fate come this August's presidential election?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:06:59 05/14/07 ()
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He could have been talking about himself: “These people care nothing about Africans, they are willing to sell their country’s soul to Europeans, so they can live the high life” (John Ernest Leigh in his EIR Interview, the Lyndon LaRouche people) There’s a picture of William S. Cohen on the front cover of that magazine with the headline “LaRouche: “I would court martial the SOBs”
From: Almamy Seray-Wurie Si
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Date Posted: 12:47:59 05/14/07 ()
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I do not think SL is cursed and I would say thank God we would now have a President leaving office after two terms. God will see us through soon. I agree with you though that we have must choose between the Gronpig (Berewa), Arata (Margai) and Squirell (Koroma)
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 12:33:50 05/14/07 ()
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"Like I said, Sierra Leone is not cursed at all but we do have an over-abundance of bad characters floating within elements of our population."
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 14:47:34 05/14/07 ()
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Mr. Patriot:
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Date Posted: 15:11:44 05/14/07 ()
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It is obvious that you do not understand the nature of the SLPP's massive corruption. Let me try to explain it to you in a simple manner in the hope that you would finally understand it.
From: ok dok
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Date Posted: 13:09:40 05/14/07 ()
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I am not sure are right to call those people currupt.
When did you know Kabba and Brewea and plese tell exactly how you discribed them.I know Berewa since he was a Govt. LAWYER till he resigned and formed his Law firm.So they guy has been what you are looking for.Kabba of course is just so great than any of your previous Heads of states{Sheika and Momoh}i mean.So my friend if you dont like these people,just go your way.
Have have really wrecked the country?
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 13:33:30 05/14/07 ()
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During Kabbah's SLPP govt., Salone has received more foreign aid than any of the previous governments. During that time, Salone has remained the worst country in the world. For hald of that time, Bereewqa has been Kabbah's second-in-commnand.
From: ok dok
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Date Posted: 01:03:51 05/15/07 ()
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What have you done towards the country with all your facts.They will win again because of your lies trust me.
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 01:08:04 05/15/07 ()
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I have refused to steal the country's money and spent it on myself and my cronies -- something Kabbah and Berewa have not done for their country.
From: ok dok
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Date Posted: 07:24:04 05/15/07 ()
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Iam not sure you are honest but just trying to be a politician.What are doing out the country while you should be there helping the people and country or helping to build up your APC /PMDC?
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 08:22:53 05/15/07 ()
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I am not sure you understand what you read. I have already answered your question when you asked it the first time.
From: NEW CITIZEN
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Date Posted: 11:32:11 05/14/07 ()
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LATEST HEADLINES
NEW CITIZEN
The Beauty Of Competition
As a result of competition within the telecommunications sector, the consumer now has a choice between Celtel, Africell, Comium, Tigo, Datatel and even Sierratel.
Whether Kanji Daramy had problems in the past or not,
From: AWOKO
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Date Posted: 11:30:07 05/14/07 ()
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AWOKO
KELVIN LEWIS
Christiana Thorpe disclosed on Friday at the official foundation-laying by President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of NEC’s headquarters.
The whole complex to house the NEC Headquarters will comprise the Administrative building, an operations center and a perimeter fence.
He urged them to stop threatening each other and accusing people falsely.
The Chief contractor, Mohamed Coomber said the new building would be unique as they had combined “flexibility and dynamism in the structures.”
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Date Posted: 09:51:13 05/14/07 ()
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Cocorioco's reporter Joseph Kamanda has filed two misleading reports recently. This Friday, Cocorioco reported that Thorpe is angry with the gov't for changing the elections date.
It however came as a surprise to all and sundry when NEC said that the process should be conducted at the commission’s head office.
With this act, the credibility of the commission appeared to have been left in a rather doubtful perception as there has been wide spread speculation and outcry from amongst the public that it is unfair to extend elections date since registration period was not extend.
BY KELVIN LEWIS
From: Joseph Kamanda
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Date Posted: 10:07:51 05/14/07 ()
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Christiana Thorpe said the date was not appropriate for NEC:
1. Because the heavy rains will interfere with voting
2. Materials have aleady been printed and to change them will cost a lot of money
From: NOT JOSEPH KAMANDA
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Date Posted: 10:14:42 05/14/07 ()
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Sierra Leone polls in August
FREETOWN - Sierra Leone’s elections chief has ruled out changing the already re-scheduled date for presidential and legislative elections despite opposition demands.
Opposition and civil society groups have been lobbying for polling - -originally set for July 28, but moved back two weeks - to be pushed to December citing unfavourable weather conditions at the scheduled time.
"I agree that rains would affect turnout as has been postulated by the public but we have no alternative as we are bound by the constitution," said head of the national elections commission Christiana Thorpe.
She said the law does not allow parliamentary polls to be held more than three months after the legislature is dissolved.
Parliament is to be dissolved end of June.
Voting date was moved to August 11 to give lawmakers more time for the electoral campaign.
Opposition and civil society groups have slammed the decision to delay the elections arguing the new date falls in the peak of the rain season which would probably make it difficult for voters to reach polling stations.
Elections in the west African country have traditionally been held in May, before the onset of the rains.
Thorpe said more voting locat1ons would be set up to ease the strain on voters travelling long distances to cast their ballots.
The elections are expected to serve as a crucial test of the west African country’s democratic credentials and establish whether it is on the road to full recovery after a 10-year civil war.
President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, who is nearing the end of his two terms, is not eligible for re-election.
Sapa-AFP
From: NEC
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Revision of Election Timetable in Sierra Leone (Release issued 10 May 2007)
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Materials printed? Are you out of your mind?????
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"I agree that rains would affect turnout as has been postulated by the public but we have no alternative as we are bound by the constitution," said head of the national elections commission Christiana Thorpe".
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LOCAL NEWS
NEW CITIZEN
Christian Thorpe explained further that the Constitution, especially Section 84 (ii), insists that the term of Parliament ends on the 25th of June 2007.
The date of 25th of June 2007, according to Dr. Christiana Thorpe, to July 28th 2007, the first stipulated date for the elections, is too short a period to conduct constituency-based elections and a presidential election, also taking into consideration that there must be ample room for voter education, campaigning by the political parties and for the printing of the ballot papers for 112 constituencies and a nationwide presidential election.
From the month of May to August 11th, the constitutional provision in 49 c would still be adhered to by the Commission.
Posted on 08 May 2007
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Date Posted: 11:20:06 05/14/07 ()
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You are upset with Kamanda because he reported about the big turn-out at the SLPP march in Bo.Kamanda has shown that he is a fair-minded and independent reporter like the newspaper he works for.
From: krio boy
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Date Posted: 11:34:59 05/14/07 ()
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You are right thats all the reasom why they {APC,PMDC}are trying not to give credit to Kamanda
From: NOT JOSEPH KAMANDA
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Date Posted: 11:24:49 05/14/07 ()
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It is not about SLPP or APC, it is about reporting the truth. Forget about partisan politics. The man has filed several repors that are untrue. Kabs should definitely have a little chat witth him.
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Nope. The man said that thorpe said that she did not agree with the date as its violate the constitution. This is not about fighting with Cocorioco. It is about Kabs mainytaining the credibility of his paper. Thorpe said the postponement of the elctions was done by her commision because they needed more time.
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What are you talking about false reports ? Have you been reading other newspapers ? Some said the same thing Kamanda reported . Please leave the boy alone. He is doing a great job and does not need your whinning.
From: NOT JOSEPH KAMANDA
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Date Posted: 11:35:12 05/14/07 ()
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Read what Kamanda alledgely said, with some input from Kabs. The man and his editor reported a false story. This is a lie, and Thorpe never said that during her press conference.
Speaking to journalists during a news conference held at NEC headquarter, in Freetown NEC Chairman Dr Christiana Thorpe disclosed that the five years term will come to an end when elections results shall have been announced.
She said that the official results of the elections must be in within fourteen days time.
Dr. Christiana Thorpe ; May yet prove critics wrong that she is "fessing" up to the SLPP government
From: CREDIBILITY
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Date Posted: 11:39:28 05/14/07 ()
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Here is reporter Kamanda again, contradicting himself. The boy needs help.
"As for the exhibition, the NEC Director of Operations, Aiah Matia said that there will be a list of names of registered voters at all centers in the country to enable people to correct mistakes in their names, photos, sex, age and others potential issue that might stop an individual from voting coming polling day.
"It however came as a surprise to all and sundry when NEC said that the process should be conducted at the commission’s head office.
With this act, the credibility of the commission appeared to have been left in a rather doubtful perception as there has been wide spread speculation and outcry from amongst the public that it is unfair to extend elections date since registration period was not extend." --JOSEPH KAMANDA
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None said what Kamanda stated. AWOKO, New Citizen and the others never said what Kamanda stated. Kamanda misrepresented Thorpe, Kabs. Credibility is very important. The man has filed in false reports. Have a little chat with him. You remember your best friend Sylvia Blyden?
From: Cocorioko Fan
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Kabs is now a wise man and knows a trap when he sees one. COCORIOKO is making name in Sierra Leone and abroad , so Kabs is not going to indulge you at a time when his paper is winning local and international acclaim. Whether Kamanda made a mistake or not this time , he has written too many fantastic articles and scoops for this to affect his credibility. People know the boy's ability . You are just making mountains out of molehills and I hope Kabs continues to ignore you. And please we have many important things to discuss so give us our peace.
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"There is absolutely no SLPP meltdown predicted by any fair-minded sensible person that I know of." --JL
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Date Posted: 10:02:56 05/14/07 ()
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Published by Cocorioko On-line news, Sunday, May 13, 2007:
"BIGGEST CROWD EVER IN THE HISTORY OF BO TURNS OUT FOR SLPP MILLION MAN MARCH
"Who ever still has lingering doubts about the unconquerable stronghold that Bo is to the Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP) should have been in the Southern capital city to see the record crowd that massed behind the incumbent party in its Million Man's March yesterday
"According to reports by SLPP supporters there may well have been about half-a million people in yesterday's mammoth crowd and there was no room for any more doubts: Bo Town belongs to the SLPP and remains the party's key to victory. Our reporter, while refusing to say that half-a-million people turned out, did however confess that many veterans in the town admitted that in all their lives they had never seen such a massive crowd before in Bo. It was as though the people of Bo were bent on demolishing for once and for all the argument that the opposition People's Movement For Democratic Change ( PMDC ) had upended the SLPP in its traditional stronghold.
"Some ugly scenes were however reported as supporters of the SLPP and the PMDC clashed during the parade. According to reports, the PMDC office was stoned as the procession passed by and loyalists who had massed in the office responded . Some people in green were said to have been seen storming the office in an attempt to vandalize it, but there was no independent confirmation of these claims. The situation was brought under control later. After the march, it was a whole night of partying and feasting in Bo as the SLPP celebrated a successful march that had demonstrated their stranglehold over a key city."
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"The above proves what I said: no reasonable individual will ever agree with any wiseguy who claims SLPP is on a melt-down."
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 09:13:33 05/14/07 ()
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He could ask any of the over 350 fair-minded and sensible delegates at the SLPP Makeni Convention, none of whom thought it fit to nominate him.
From: Maada
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You are wickedly funny, Cornelius! Are you saying that the clueless man John Leigh spent a few days -- and a lot more of his bribe money -- at the SLPP convention, and yet failed to get to know any of them?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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“ 20. We who stand with working people and the poor have a special responsibility. We must stand for what is right; stand up to those who have the might. We do so grounded in the faith that what is morally wrong will never be politically right. But that if it is morally sound, it will eventually be politically right.
21. Politics in my view is not about lies. It is about being truthful, faithful and loyal to the people we seek to serve. For members of our Party, we should be able to understand that there should be space for others belonging to different political parties so that we can achieve national cohesion and stability. Trying to think only about ourselves can lead to bad governance and favouritism and that could also lead to corruption and an unstable political and security environment. The leadership of any party and leaders generally should ensure that everybody has a stake in the country and guaranteed a bright future. This is the basis of my overall principle of accommodation as manifested in my approach to political adversaries as well as supporters. That is why I have decided to build a social safety net into National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) so that there could be a future for every Sierra Leonean especially during their old age. “
http://www.statehouse-sl.org/speeches/slpp-con-2005.html
Neither of these two gentlemen – the latter I know much better than the former, have ever or would ever talk to me the way that the Mende man Leigh born in Bo, in the Southern province, “PC BAIMBA SIDIQUE LINEAGE”) hopefully proud of his ancestry, thinks it is his diplomatic right to address others who are different from him and disagree with him. It could be that we don’t like the same kind of food, don’t read the same kind of fiction, or listen to the same kind of music, cinema, or have the same taste in clothes (jokes) or even have the same kind of feeling , grasp and understanding of the English language and its psychological resources.
Illusions of grandeur
He should visit the websites and blogs of other people, e.g. Barack Obama who is everything that Leigh is not:
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 08:01:36 05/14/07 ()
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I meant to post this.........
what does he say about others.
It's issues for him not like some others, hanging out day in day out on this Forum, saying the same old thing, wanting to be a light in our darkness.
From: Bella Barrie
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Date Posted: 03:27:11 05/14/07 ()
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The outgoing British Prime Minister, Tony Blair will visit Sierra Leone later this month, according to the country's president.
From: JOKO LENGA
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Date Posted: 22:30:12 05/13/07 ()
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Since he joined the APC, not much has been heard from this man. What's up Hindolo? He has disappeared from the salone political scenne for over a year now since his entry into the All people's Congress party.
From: krio boy
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Date Posted: 01:50:58 05/14/07 ()
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Cherinor Ojuku Sesay is more ugly than anyone in Sierra Leone
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 22:11:50 05/13/07 ()
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You are not cutting an intelligent figure on this Forum. Ask your friends. Ask mine.
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_2005473.shtml
From: UGH--LY
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Date Posted: 22:35:30 05/13/07 ()
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John Leigh is a very ugly guy. His face looks like a real scaff. No wonder he tries to cover it up by calling people names.
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 13:29:56 05/14/07 ()
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If I was to commend the slpp for anything it will be their total rejection of this ugly baseless up for sale ape looking scaff.
To be honest with John, he is not only ugly but looks very scruffy. No sober minded interviewer will ever offer any job to a scruffy looking scaff like this old fool. Qualification or no qualification presentation is the first criteria for any interview as long as there is no $ 10.000 BRIBE involve.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 22:49:37 05/13/07 ()
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Ugly or black and beautiful like Rev Jesse Jackson, my own supporters and I are anxiously waiting for him to show me his true colours one more time.
He does not deserve any mercy - so he had better separate himself from the SLPP and stand alone as a unique (and wide open )target, so as not to cause collateral damage.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 23:30:21 05/13/07 ()
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He would like to deabate and be disgraced by our young ones , who are more educated than he is in both Law and politics.
From: UGH -- LY
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Date Posted: 23:49:02 05/13/07 ()
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Bra Cornie, the truth is that, judging by his performance at Makeni and on this forum, Leigh can not be considered as educated either in politics or the law.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 01:18:29 05/14/07 ()
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Debating what? Talking about himself non-stop and about how great he is. A big bag of breeze and singularly lacking in a sense of humour; takes himself far too seriously on this forum which is his platform.
He is less than a quarter of the man that Jerry Rawlings is. He is less than a quarter compared to Rev Jesse Jackson in the United States of America or Africa.
He could take a closer look at this and come in
From: UGH -- LY
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Date Posted: 01:49:15 05/14/07 ()
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"Talking about himself non-stop and about how great he is."
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:03:40 05/14/07 ()
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He could have been talking about himself: “These people care nothing about Africans, they are willing to sell their country’s soul to Europeans, so they can live the high life” (John Ernest Leigh in his EIR Interview, the Lyndon LaRouche people) There’s a picture of William S. Cohen on the front cover of that magazine with the headline “LaRouche: “I would court martial the SOBs”
From: UGH--LY
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Date Posted: 22:59:28 05/13/07 ()
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Leigh is black and ugly -- the oposite of blach and beautiful.
From: Liko
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Date Posted: 17:18:09 05/13/07 ()
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It is striking to realize Cocorioko has more scoops on Sierra Leone these days than even the local papers. Besides, the news here is refreshing and, is updated by the hour. This is, indeed, amazing considering Cocorioko is foreign based. Cocorioko was the first to report the death of Kaloko. Rev. Kanu has done a remarkable job in standardizing his paper to capture the latest news on Sierra Leone. I therefore doff my hat to him with all my heart.
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 21:58:27 05/13/07 ()
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Kabs is doing an excellent job!!!
He is in a class of his own....
From: Cocorioko Fan
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Date Posted: 19:20:55 05/13/07 ()
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Kota Liko, you are quite right. I am amazed and wonder how Kabs is able to be in the United States but he provides the best coverage of Siera Leone news.
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 20:12:33 05/13/07 ()
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Thanks , guys.It is appreciation like this that keeps me on the job. This is such a big work that at times I just want to quit and get my life back, but then I consider those of you who appreciate my hard work and those of you who depend on us for information and I decide to hang in there. I however thank those working with me .They too deserve a lot of credit.
From: Tourist
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Date Posted: 14:50:01 05/15/07 ()
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Kabs please send me your contact number we've got some news for you.
From: Independent Man
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Why is Josepth Kamanda calling Victor Reider Victor Fayia Musa Reider??? Is that his name? How can a reporte make such a mistake????? Why didn't the editor correct it??????
The elections are over ; we are only waiting for formalities : National Chairman of the SLPP
By Joseph Kamanda
While the Leader and Presidential candidate of the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), Vice President Solomon Berewa is busy having a meeting with party stalwarts in Kailahun District, the National Chairman of the SLPP, Alhaji Unisa Nurudeen Jah yesterday stated that elections are now over and the SLPP has already won the contest. Alhaji Jah made the remark during an interview on United Nations Radio’s current affairs programme "On the Spot" during the SLPP Million Man March in Bo.
He said that the whole of Sierra Leone was in Bo during the parade and the painted the town green, which was an indication that the SLPP has already retained Bo . Sounding more confident that ever before; Jah said : “Bo is not sleeping ; the people of Bo are awake”.
As for National Publicity Secretary of the SLPP, Victor Fayia Musa Reider, he said that the march started from SLPP's headquarters at Mahein Bioma Road to New London with supporters on top of open trucks playing loud Mende music saying, "If you were bitter with us , change your countenance , because it is not our fault ; the people are ready to choose Solo B. as their next President. "
Reider challenged other political parties not to take the chance of imitating the SLPP as they will be doing such at their own detrIment, adding that the Bo district people have decided not to accept any other party other than the SLPP. Berewa, according to Reider, was in Kailahun but the march was held to demonstrate the first phase of the knock out of the August 11th political contest. .
Reider ended by saying : “No party as of now has influence over the minds of the people of Bo except SLPP and its Presidential hopeful Berewa who is the only possible successor to Alhaji Tejan Kabbah because of what the SLPP government has done for the people,” said Reider.
From: RUF
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Date Posted: 19:23:36 05/13/07 ()
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Victor Reider's nickname is Fayia Musa. People say he was the character called Fayia Musa.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 19:44:56 05/13/07 ()
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Mr. Victor Reider is not Fayai Musa. I have met both of them.
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 20:14:23 05/13/07 ()
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I have made the correction. Sorry about that. Too much work.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 20:16:59 05/13/07 ()
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Not surprising at all.
From: Tamba Gborie
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Date Posted: 06:21:21 05/14/07 ()
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Bra Leigh, i am not a member of any political party but i do have great respect for you. My question is don't you think we are a cursed nation for supporting failed politicians when we know that they are not capable of bring any meaningful change to the lives of our people? I have just arrived from freetown after a two weeks holiday and the scenes i witnessed disturbs me to realise that majority of our people are happy to continue with the same failed politicians. there are countries in africa that are as poorer as we do but are making progress in alievating poverty amongst their people, such as Ghana, Ghambia, Burkinafasso etc. Why can't our politicians do something to emulate these countries for the benefit of our people.
From: JOHN CONTEH
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Date Posted: 15:23:40 05/13/07 ()
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Kabs,
I thought Reider's name is Victor Ebeduni Reider? You should edit some of Kamanda's stories, you are the editor.
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 13:26:22 05/13/07 ()
Email Address: RNMDTWO@YAHOO.COM
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Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"?
"The Beoku Betts Commission was a three-man concoction set up in 1967 by the then coup regime. The coup regime was overthrown in early 1968 after barely a year of their own coup...
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From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURAs
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Date Posted: 00:02:15 05/14/07 ()
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Charles,with respect allow me to correct you,the NPRC never formed a constitutional commission.It was the national advisory council that unilaterally decided to write a new constitution for Sierra leone with the determination to include provisions that will multiply our problems.Thank God some of us were vibrant enough to kick against it and it was finally dropped.
From: john E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 20:14:13 05/13/07 ()
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Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS:
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 23:27:05 05/13/07 ()
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THANKS FOR THE EDUCATION. We live to learn, and learn to live.
From: JOKO LENGA
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Date Posted: 14:10:07 05/13/07 ()
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Curtis,
From: Dr. C. CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 20:12:23 05/13/07 ()
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THANKS FOR THE EDUCATION.
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 13:04:31 05/13/07 ()
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Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"?
CADMUS:
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 13:00:44 05/13/07 ()
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Re: WILL HON. JOHN LEIGH RECOVER FROM THIS "SUCKER PUNCH"?
CADMUS,
I would like to inform you that your American Lawyer friend is not the only LEGAL STUDENT in this forum.There are many of them in here,so for you to allude the fact that it is your American Lawyer friend who posted the answers to your questions that you asked,is very wrong of you.Mind you I am not a LAW STUDENT,but it is just a word of CAUTION.Stop accusing/thinking that your American Lawyer friend was the one who answered to your posting.I know FOR FACT that he is not scare/afraid of anybody in the forum,and when he decides to respond to your posting,he will do so under his REAL NAME.
From: THAVARISH
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Date Posted: 06:40:05 05/14/07 ()
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As buford hwy rightfully stated,whenever there are Legal issues in this forum,our British Lawyer CADMUS will skip town and shows up a few days later.How can we trust his ability to uphold his profession,when he constantly avoid serious legal issues that most of us(LAYMAN) are waiting for serious answers?
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 11:35:06 05/13/07 ()
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"BIGGEST CROWD EVER IN THE HISTORY OF BO" TURNS OUT FOR SLPP MILLION MAN MARCH Who ever still has lingering doubts about the unconquerable stronghold that Bo is to the Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP) should have been in the Southern capital city to see the record crowd that massed behind the incumbent party in its Million Man's March yesterday
According to reports by SLPP supporters there may well have been about half-a million people in yesterday's mammoth crowd and there was no room for any more doubts: Bo Town belongs to the SLPP and remains the party's key to victory. Our reporter, while refusing to say that half-a-million people turned out, did however confess that many veterans in the town admitted that in all their lives they had never seen such a massive crowd before in Bo. It was as though the people of Bo were bent on demolishing for once and for all the argument that the opposition People's Movement For Democratic Change ( PMDC ) had upended the SLPP in its traditional stronghold.
Some ugly scenes were however reported as supporters of the SLPP and the PMDC clashed during the parade. According to reports, the PMDC office was stoned as the procession passed by and loyalists who had massed in the office responded . Some people in green were said to have been seen storming the office in an attempt to vandalize it, but there was no independent confirmation of these claims. The situation was brought under control later. After the march, it was a whole night of partying and feasting in Bo as the SLPP celebrated a successful march that had demonstrated their stranglehold over a key city
From: GBANGBANI
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Hey...!!!!! Not just talking, Back your posting with photos. According to a BBC report in BO town, it was reported that people (SLPP & Or PMDC) were throwing stones on each others. So where then this more than one Million you are claiming may have come from? However, do you even know that the population of BO is not up to one million?
Next time back your words with photos as technology is just that simple in todays world
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How do you describe to a blind person the color of the sky?
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Date Posted: 23:24:13 05/12/07 ()
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Our people are suffering grievous deprivations as Mr. Steven has pointed out in a recent posting and as I have written about for years on-line and in the print media. Life in Freetown is somewhat better because it has more modern amenities than provincial communities. But even there, life is still miserable. ....JOHN LEIGH
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John Leighh, you seriously don't mean the above. Are u sure people are suffering deprivation and lives miserable when you wrote here a few days (after the SLPP rally) that you see the happiness on the faces of people, with their stomach full as a result of President Kabbah's food security.When suddenly have they beeN been deprived? Deprived of what?
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 11:08:04 05/13/07 ()
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Dear Babaloko Idiot:
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John Leigh, behave yourself.
It is obvious that you live in your own dreamworld, seperate from reality. That is your right. So, you can chose to fool yourself that your firing by Kabbah was merely a "recall." Or that the sound rejection of your overreaching demand for leadership of the PMDC was transformed into your refussal to join the same PMDC that had firmly rejected you.
From: I brahim Babaloko Bob Jusus
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Date Posted: 23:34:44 05/12/07 ()
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Hey Bob Jusu,
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 19:09:29 05/13/07 ()
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Yes, I have heard the same story that somebody we all know is based in NZ and as a flunkey worshipper recently flip-flopped into a new moniker and became the odious Ibrahim Babaloko in a SLeone chatroom in order to continue his failed propaganda for his double double-crossing flunkey leader. Please continue to expose these alphabet soup hip-hoppers and flim-flam artists. Thank you. - JL
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Sir or m'am,
From: AWOKO
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AWOKO
Johnny Paul escaped with diamonds – Issa discloses
Asked by his lawyer Wayne Jordash if anything was done to Makuta, Johnny Paul’s wife, Sesay replied, “nothing was done to her…she only complained that she was tired.”
The trial continues today.
From: krio boy
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Date Posted: 00:46:09 05/13/07 ()
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He Johnny Paul was trying to bring APC back in power.
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AWOKO
The NEC boss went on to say that the president’s tenure ends on the day the final results are declared hence President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah’s second five-year term will end on 14 May 2007.
“So that is why even when the President’s term in office finishes on the 14 May he has to hold on for three months which will be in August 14,” the chief Electoral Commissioner emphasized,
She said Parliamentary elections could hold anytime between July 25 (thirty days after dissolution of parliament) and 25 September (ninety days after dissolution).
The chief electoral commissioner agreed that rains would affect turnout as has been postulated by large sections of the public, but that they had no alternative as they were bound by the constitution.
She said to address this, they had recommended to the Law Reform Commission to stipulate a definite time for both Parliamentary and Presidential elections like it obtains in America.
From: krio boy
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What do you say Mr. Awoko?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 19:12:08 05/12/07 ()
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My honourable friends: Understanding John Ernest Leigh.
But why not concentrate on pro-Berewa issues? How much time has been wasted pushing that useless button – as if it is on Cocorioko the battle will be won.
“For the Future of Israel “interviews with the philosophical Shimon Peres who today wants to be president of Israel – and not leader of a political party (in the courses I took in Israeli Politics, he was not the most liked person)
http://www.amazon.com/Future-Israel-Shimon-Peres/dp/080185928X
http://www.amazon.com/RAP-RACE-James-Baldwin/dp/044021176X
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Next paragraph (“It was possible then to be opposed and to make decisions concerning issues of great importance for thought, on the basis of arguments that…..”
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 18:49:21 05/12/07 ()
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But why not concentrate on pro Berewa issues. How much time has been wasted pushing that useless button – as if it is on Cocorioko the battle will be won.
This could be of some interest for those whose religion (unlike Desmond’s Tutu’s) does not necessarily mean” Love thine enemies.” Matthew 5:43 -44) which is part of the moral code of both John Ernest Leigh ( the attacker) and Charles Francis Margai the leader of the PMDC and indeed Solomon Berewa the leader of the SLPP. These three gentlemen are in politics for the glory of Sierra Leone which the san-San boys say is in desperate need of salvation.
“For the Future of Israel “
http://www.amazon.com/Future-Israel-Shimon-Peres/dp/080185928X
http://www.amazon.com/RAP-RACE-James-Baldwin/dp/044021176X
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Next paragraph (“It was possible then to be opposed and to make decisions concerning issues of great importance for thought, on the basis of arguments that…..”
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:53:59 05/12/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh,
Instead of suggesting “just a few corrections among the many in (my) posting, you’d better suggest all the corrections you’d like to make. That way you have a clear and clean conscience and we don’t have to start going back and forth, unnecessarily.
It is very difficult for me to articulate and link together as you have invited me to do, these personal experiences and the deconstructive gestures in the direction of Freud and patriarchy or, as you say, patricentrism. With regard to my father, there was an ambiguous mixture of compassion and hostility. My father lacked authority, while being so prone to anger and I regretted the fact that he always came to me to explain. Sometimes, no doubt later- but these things are so obscure and difficult to describe here – I must have taken the side of my mother against my father.”
You could write an article or two in Cocorioko, putting forward your suggestions about how Sierra Leone should go forward – if you don’t want to get bogged down with debating those who cannot debate or who you can easily “defeat”. as “flunkey junior tribalists and remedial foolumunku dunces”
“She also worked hard and projected a career as a medical doctor for her son and enrolled him at the prestigious Achimota School. Unfortunately, Rawlings disciplinary problems prevented him from completing his General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level. In fact, he admitted that his mother's strictness was part of what made him a rebellious kid.”
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:57:42 05/12/07 ()
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I posted inreply to mr. leigh but it does not come out that way.....Why?
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 19:42:37 05/12/07 ()
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Dear Mr. Hamelberg:
CORRECTION:
b) Did Derrida slap anyone of the authorities in his school?
c) Lastly, I am by no means over-educated. I can handle the level of education I earned.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 22:28:20 05/12/07 ()
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“Next, I am not a pugilist. I am a debater, innovative and a tireless one at that - just ask the AFRC, the RUF, the ninjas, gongorlee wohwoh, Charles Taylor, US Rep Donald Payne, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Mr. Taylor's highly paid American henchmen such as US former Assist secretary of State Cohen, etc. I whipped them all intellectually without cussing or fighting! (John Leigh)
Not very humble are you?
You mean WILLIAM S. COHEN (married to a soul sister)? He is a very capable man.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 10:27:51 05/13/07 ()
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Mr. Hamelberg:
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:35:30 05/13/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh,
When are you going to publish your master plan/ blueprint for Sierra Leone or are you never going to do it? You are so immersed in your past and your SLPP is yet to come out with a manifesto. You had better get cracking. That would be more interesting than all this gossip which is becoming your favourite pastime. Here, may I enquire out of curiosity, who is supposed to have slapped who and why? And the mysterious allusions to soft drinks? What’s that all about? Please.
I have seen Rev. Jesse Jackson reviled in print as "Hymietown" Jackson. I am also aware of the Taylor Lobby and have more details about that. Civil Rights apart, both of these men are tainted as anti-Semites. They are in the files of ADL.
What you wrote was in simple enough English for you to have understood when you were in form 4, so it’s not really a question of understanding or not understanding – although you may be prone to credit yourself with superior understanding. Congratulations for your success in that particular mission. I hope that you graduate to more difficult tasks and wish you successes there too.
Mr. Leigh, your latter statement is a more humble way of expressing your accomplishment. Compare these words with your earlier euphoria:
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 19:39:33 05/13/07 ()
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Great guy Mr. Leigh,
When are you going to publish your master plan/ blueprint for Sierra Leone or are you never going to do it? You are so immersed in your past and your SLPP is yet to come out with a manifesto. You had better get cracking. That would be more interesting than all this gossip which is becoming your favourite pastime Here, may I enquire out of curiosity, who is supposed to have slapped who and why?
I have seen Rev. Jesse Jackson reviled in print as "Hymie town" Jackson. I am also aware of the Taylor Lobby and have more details about that. Civil Rights apart, both of these men are tainted as anti-Semites. They are in the files of ADL.
What you wrote was in simple enough English for you to have understood when you were in form 4, so it’s not really a question of understanding or not understanding – although you may be prone to credit yourself with superior understanding. Congratulations for your success in that particular mission. I hope that you graduate to more difficult tasks and wish you successes there too.
Were their intellects separately or in combination (two heads, in this case three heads being better than one) contending the accuracy of what you were saying? Then let us say that truth did overcome and perhaps you are more intelligent or intellectually gifted than those who you accuse of having been in cahoots with Charles Taylor.
Mr. Leigh, your latter statement is a more humble way of expressing your accomplishment. Compare these words with your earlier euphoria.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 20:03:28 05/13/07 ()
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Mr. Hamelberg:
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 21:06:11 05/13/07 ()
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I was only being as polite as I could be to you ( I am not Berewa or Kabbah)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:39:08 05/13/07 ()
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You may meet again.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 21:11:41 05/12/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh
PLaese read this
From: Elizabeth Blunt
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Date Posted: 18:37:18 05/12/07 ()
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The comfort of a rusting roof
By Elizabeth Blunt
BBC News, Liberia
Reverend Thomson Yengbe greets guests in the temporary village hall
Lofa County found itself in the front line of the final phase of the war
And among the ruins people are squatting, in tarpaulin and plywood shacks. Petty traders sit at rickety little stalls along the roadside.
The village was burnt to the ground by government soldiers in 2001
From Our Own Correspondent was broadcast on Saturday, 12 May, 2007 at 1130 BST on BBC Radio 4. Please check the programme schedules for World Service transmission times.
From: TONY BLAIR KAMARA
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Date Posted: 17:20:23 05/12/07 ()
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Blair to visit Sierra Leone in May
Sat, 12 May 2007 22:49:29
The outgoing British Prime Minister, Tony Blair will visit Sierra Leone later this month, according to the country's president.
From: Dr. Michel Sho- Sawyer
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Date Posted: 16:47:59 05/12/07 ()
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What is the way forward and how do we change the path/direction Sierra Leone is in.
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 19:36:07 05/12/07 ()
Email Address: futatoro@gmail.com
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Dr. Sho-Sawyer,
Do you want a blunt Advice from me? I am sure you will say "yes". So here is the blunt advice from Yaya Fanusie.
Go find out what your great grndfather did for Sierra Leoneans and West Africans and then you start something like that and expand it. You understand? You know the cliche " Do what you preach1".
My great grand mother who came from Saint-Louis(Ndar)and Goree, Senegal to Bonthe and Freetown in the mid 1800, because she was wealthy she gave interest free loans Senegales, Guineans and Sierra Leoneans who wanted to start their own businesses.
That is why I started COAFORUM LOANS for petty business owners in Africa-mainly for women. Find out what your great grand father accomplished and replicate and expand it. Discussion is useless. Let us revive execellent family traditions in private enterprise.
Yaya Fanusie
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 20:05:59 05/12/07 ()
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Dr. Fanusi:
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 20:43:37 05/12/07 ()
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Mr. John Leigh,
I see you are now foaming in your mouth not because of rabbies but because of your inferiority complex-low self-esteem. You were not born into the Social Class
of my maternal side and therefore I will ignore your comment about my ancestors. That the way we were raised: to ignore those who do not share our pedigree.
Yaya Fanusie
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:58:59 05/13/07 ()
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Coz Yaya,
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 21:20:25 05/12/07 ()
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Thank you very much. - JL
From: Steven
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John why do you think people would really want to debate you when you do not have substance to discuss. You say the same thing over and over.Its all about how the APC destroyed Sierra Leone, and how the SLPP is the best thing that happened to Sierra Leone.
Steven
From: Critical Thinker
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Date Posted: 20:55:04 05/13/07 ()
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JL and sengbe's passionate support for th SLPP baffles me because the evidence on the ground speaks to how ineffective the slpp has been. They are dealing with a handful of issues currently on the forum but I will bring it up again sometime later.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 21:04:17 05/13/07 ()
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Mr. Critical Thinker:
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 18:30:45 05/12/07 ()
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Mr. Steven:
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 20:01:54 05/12/07 ()
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Mr. John Leigh:
You missed the thesis of Steven. His thesis it is useless to debate with you because all you want to talk about is the geneneology of APC RULE and you do not want to confront the dismal performance of Kabbah-Berewa-slpp for the last 10yrs. And in your reply you recognize the appallingly shoddy performance of Kabba-Berewa Regime over the last ten years.
Charles Margai smart pass you brah.
Yaya Fanusie
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 19:52:19 05/12/07 ()
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We understand Steven clearly. The disgust is ours.
Table your suggestions, perhaps you have thought about the problems so contructively that you have solutions, an agenda, acourse of action.
What debate do you want to "win"
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 20:11:00 05/12/07 ()
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Mr. Steven started this thing. Let's don't jump the gun. Please allow him time to respond for himself.
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 11:15:04 05/12/07 ()
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JL.I am quiet sure as we are speaking now,you are living in a comfortable house,24hrs electricity,3daily meals,safe and clean environment etc.Could you please describe the daily life of a resident in Freetown?I dont want to mention the provinces or rural areas.First and foremost, does the SLPP need another 10years to clean the garbage from the streets? Then 10 more years to install electricity?Then another 10 years for clean water supply?Another 10 years for the regular payments of salaries to the civil service?Another 10 years to construct a single pavement?etc,etc,etc.Some of you are inhuman in your thinking,intentions and doings.The days of your evil organization(SLPP)are numbered Mr JL
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 18:58:19 05/12/07 ()
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Mr. Kamara:
From: Patriot
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Date Posted: 22:49:31 05/13/07 ()
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"The problem now is: How best can we solve this terrible situation and thus improve living conditions for our people? How can we go about developing our country on a systematic basis?"
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 10:49:07 05/12/07 ()
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You are absolutely right,the present status of the country is a nightmare,but somebody like John L.who is associated with an evil organization like the slpp wont listen and see the reality.Therefore,it is better to give him the benefit of the doubt and dont waste your time to argue or debate with him.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 19:48:38 05/12/07 ()
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Mr. Kamara:
From: Patrick Kamara
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Date Posted: 01:41:08 05/14/07 ()
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"Some people in this forum are trying to persuade others with cuss, multiple monikers, bombastic allegations, lies, stupidities, vulgarisms, formfoolisms, etc. They are wasting their time."
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 10:23:55 05/12/07 ()
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Your foolish,hopeless SLPP days are numbered despite their attempts to hang on.I hope you are aware what is going on in Pujehun?They have started again their ndorbgowusu-rebel-kamajor-slpp cannibalistic mayhem.
From: APC
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Date Posted: 22:30:37 05/13/07 ()
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Was on vacation in ATL. Just got back to my base in Midsouth
From: Amistad
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Date Posted: 09:57:25 05/12/07 ()
Email Address: Cinque@salonehistory.com
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Originally posted by PEEP Magazine
TOURIST BOARD DEFENDS ITS SECRETARY CECIL WILLIAMS
The Board does not own the land along the Lumley Beach, but it is assigned to it by the Ministry of Lands and Country Planning for allocat1on
The Board only allocate land but does not lease it
The allocat1on of land by the Board is done through a Technical Committee with the membership of Directors and professionals from the public and private sector. The Technical Committee does the evaluation and recommends to the Board for approval.
The General Manager does not to allocat1on solely but serves as Secretary to the Committee
Amistad's comment:
From: Concerned Diasporan
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Date Posted: 12:12:22 05/12/07 ()
Email Address: homeagain@verysoon.com
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What is Okere adams playing at? Williams works very hard selflessly
trying to revive tourism in Sierra Leone. Every Sierra Leonean in London
knows how he waves the flag at the World Tourism Market show at the
Docklands (UK) with minimal resources. Okere needs to explain what is
going on at NTB.
From: Pro--Special Court
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Date Posted: 06:31:25 05/12/07 ()
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If the Special Court was successful in getting witnesses to testify against Hinga Norman who was a hero,is it a criminal and killer like Charles Taylor that they won't have people to testify against ?
From: NEC
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Date Posted: 04:59:33 05/12/07 ()
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Sierra Leone polls in August
FREETOWN - Sierra Leone’s elections chief has ruled out changing the already re-scheduled date for presidential and legislative elections despite opposition demands.
Opposition and civil society groups have been lobbying for polling - -originally set for July 28, but moved back two weeks - to be pushed to December citing unfavourable weather conditions at the scheduled time.
"I agree that rains would affect turnout as has been postulated by the public but we have no alternative as we are bound by the constitution," said head of the national elections commission Christiana Thorpe.
She said the law does not allow parliamentary polls to be held more than three months after the legislature is dissolved.
Parliament is to be dissolved end of June.
Voting date was moved to August 11 to give lawmakers more time for the electoral campaign.
Opposition and civil society groups have slammed the decision to delay the elections arguing the new date falls in the peak of the rain season which would probably make it difficult for voters to reach polling stations.
Elections in the west African country have traditionally been held in May, before the onset of the rains.
Thorpe said more voting locat1ons would be set up to ease the strain on voters travelling long distances to cast their ballots.
The elections are expected to serve as a crucial test of the west African country’s democratic credentials and establish whether it is on the road to full recovery after a 10-year civil war.
President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, who is nearing the end of his two terms, is not eligible for re-election.
Sapa-AFP
From: JOINDANINJA
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Yet someone in an on-line forum and online newspaper argued: “Christiana Thorpe by all indications cannot take an independent position.Does her defense team realize that she is the fiancée of Sam Maligie? Another wrote:
between her and her faith.”
public services the NEC chair has rendered over the
years. One notes “Miss Thorpe's in fighting for the
rights of girl children that suffered during the war will remain indelible in the minds of human rights and civil society activists”.
From: SMOKE
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But I did not see the swipe at Cocorioko . Foolumunku
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NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION SECRETARIAT [NEC]: PRESS RELEASE: Revision of Election Timetable Issued 10 May 2007
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LOCAL NEWS
NEW CITIZEN
Christian Thorpe explained further that the Constitution, especially Section 84 (ii), insists that the term of Parliament ends on the 25th of June 2007.
The date of 25th of June 2007, according to Dr. Christiana Thorpe, to July 28th 2007, the first stipulated date for the elections, is too short a period to conduct constituency-based elections and a presidential election, also taking into consideration that there must be ample room for voter education, campaigning by the political parties and for the printing of the ballot papers for 112 constituencies and a nationwide presidential election.
From the month of May to August 11th, the constitutional provision in 49 c would still be adhered to by the Commission.
Posted on 08 May 2007
From: Independent Man
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Folks,
The report below (taken from Cocorioko News Site) is very troubling. How can the city council which is under APC Control allow this kind of rubbish? Where was the Mayoy when this was occuring? Does he have control of the City Council? Is his authority respected? Does he respect the dead man?? How can this happen under the Mayor's watch????
Don't APC have any unity? Don't they respect one another???
BO APC DEM PASSMARK!!!!!
No matter what you think of Mr Kaloko, have respect for the dead. Good Lord!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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KALOKOH'S OFFICE LOOTED AND VANDALIZED
By Joseph Kamanda
Barely less than a week after the sudden death of the former Deputy Mayor and National Organization Secretary of the oppositions All Peoples Congress (APC ) Councilor , Abdulrahaman Foday Kaloko, in a road accident along the Makeni Kono highway, workers at the Freetown City Council are reported to have looted and vandalized his office.
A senior Freetown City Council officer who prefers anonymity Friday told COCORIOKO that the workers stormed into the late Mayor’s office on the pretext of looking for his pictures which were carted away by the looters. The incident did not exactly surprise supporters of the opposition APC . One of them told this newspaper that the late Organizing Secretary had become a man hated by many people because of his hard work for the party , outspokenness and meteoric rise to political stardom
While mourning Mayor Kaloko’s sad death the APC party has on Wednesday appointed former Council of Churches of Sierra Leone Secretary General Almamy Philip Koroma to replace Foday Kaloko as the APC National Organizing Secretary.
To sound opinions on the replacement of the late APC kingpin, COCORIOKO spoke to APC synphetizers in Freetown and this is what Juliana Waters has to say : It is wrong. We all know that Foday Kaloko died in the interest of the party so it unacceptable to appoint somebody to replace him when he has not even been buried yet”.
Like the latter , Aminata Turay believes some members of the APC embattled Kaloko and his death will impact on the party’s chance to win the August 11th elections.
Osman Kamara, who used to be a stunt supporter of the APC in the east of Freetown, said; "They have killed Kaloko for us and we can no longer be encourage by any member of the party”.
From: APC
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That Party( APC) is a "halaki" party. Nothing good comes out of these people. An executive member died while dispensing his offical duties and instead of them to respect the dead and bury him, they are busy fighting over his belonging, looting his office and cap it up with a replacement named.
From: John E. Leigh
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From what I have noticed over the past month or so, few people have the self-respect and ability to debate me on national issues in this forum.
Jon Lee"
michael
jon"
I am interested in debating national issues. They seem to be interested in trash and hecklings. Accordingly, I will no longer open postings by such dumbo flip flippers. Thank you. - JL
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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In as much as i do not agree with boy Leigh i don't think its cool to attack him personally like that. Like I said the last time, I will keep using and banging the name LOW GRADE SAN SAN in his head as a protest and my own way of telling my countrymen about the derogatory names he used to describe them because they simply exercised their freedom of choice. But writing such things about any one I think is a bit off key.Guys, Leigh is an embarrassment to himself, there is a lot to tell him that will make him look like the sad old fool he is. I don't think we need to take it to another level this way.
From: Steven
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John why do you think people would really want to debate you when you do not have substance to discuss. You say the same thing over and over.Its all about how the APC destroyed Sierra Leone, and how the SLPP is the best thing that happened to Sierra Leone.
Steven
From: Yaya Fanusie
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John Leigh,
You are correct about no one wants to debate with you.
Do you know why? Because you have only one issue; Charles Margai. That is issue is not important to most of us just simple mind like you who could not handle complex issues. I will see how you will handle me come July 11, 2007 when I start my campaign for the APC AND ERNEST BAI KOROMA.
Yaya Fanusie-APC
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"That is issue is not important to most of us just simple mind like you who could not handle complex issues." Yaya Fanusi
From: John E. Leigh
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Mr. Analyst:
Certainly not you. You don't understand!
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"What I wrote to Dr. Fanusie about (re departed businesses) is what is known in the analytical profession as "constructive expulsion".
From: John E. Leigh
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"You are correct about no one wants to debate with you." - Dr. Fanusi.
Under the SLPP, Sierra Leone boasted a large, well functioning international business sector providing tens of thousands of jobs for our people as well as bringing modern technology to our country. During that time, the European companies operating in Sierra Leone included the following:
The SLPP has begun to correct this dismal record of the bookmumu APC.
Simply restated, our people fully remember the years of suffering when the APC tribalists, hegemonistic tribalists, mumbo-tombo-dumbos and gangsters governed Sierra Leone.
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JL, ARE YOU WORKING THESE DAYS? THE WAY YOU TAKE YOUR TIME TO WRITE HUGE ARTICLES OR WHAT EVER YOU CALLED THEM DOES NOT SEEMS YOU HAVE A SERIOUS JOB THESE DAYS.
WE DONT HAVE TIME TO READ THOSE HUGE, LONG SENTENCES OF YOURS. JUST SUMMARIZE YOUR POINTS.
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Terrorist-Supporting Bribe-giving Leigh has no job, my brother.
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SLPP’s Spectacular Meltdown is Predicted
Posted by on May 11, 2007, 02:59
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From: John E. Leigh
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Mr. Alan Barry:
I have traveled with VP Berewa in the North, South and East. I have traveled alone around the country to do my own private evaluations. I can say categorically that Berewa has turned the tide in his favor and the momentum is definitely on his side.
PRINCE HARDING Vs. J. J. SAFFA
Your comments about Prince Harding and JJ Saffa really tells a lot about your character. A man may be judged by the company he keeps. So I am judging you by your support for Harding and your disapproval of Saffa.
would be a success today.
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"There is absolutely no SLPP meltdown predicted by any fair-minded sensible person that I know of." --JL
From: Independent Man
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Here it goes (Courtesey J.E. Leigh)
From: MUSA KAMARA
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AFrica is the richest continent on our planet,but has the poorest people.Can you please explain?What is hindering Africa's unity as a continent and as a race?We Africans(BLACKS)are the only race without a defined identification in any aspects.Why cant we form our Black Africa Union?The African Union comprises the north Africans,I mean the Arabs who will never be loyal to that organization,because they belong to the Arab league.Sudan will decide the path it will follow.As I see it the Arabs wont accept Sudan to be part of them.An organization like SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN UNION WILL BE PERFECT AS A BEGINNING.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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This topic is being discussed in another Forum and has been discussed so many, many times.
For the greater part of the period passed since the process of African decolonization began, voices have been raised in praise of the old order, few of them white European but the absolute majority of them African. It’s tempting to disregard them all as bitter house Negroes who have fared worse since the destiny of Africans, on a formal political level at least, rested on the shoulders of Africans. The issues raised by reactionaries are too grave to be whisked aside; the gross domestic product per capita levels have fallen since the seventies in most sub-Saharan states, and the African nations’ part in world industrial production has fallen in relative and absolute figures.
Late Post Colonial Africa
The New World Order.
The “New” Neo-colonialism.
2.There are several objections to employing GDP as a measure of economic clout/development. When it comes to registering individual wealth per capita, it fails to take in to account any transactions that take place outside of the capitalist market. Traditional African economies where a great deal of the economic activity is through exchange of goods rather than the sale of them on markets, or households self-reliance through agricultural activity does not count toward a higher GDP per capital level, and therefore, African and other “developing” countries economies might seem even more impoverished than might really be the case, whereas western capitalist economies appear to be thriving.
3There are of course exceptions; South Africa most notably. Given that the process of African decolonization ended with the dismantling of apartheid, South African postcolonial development follows a completely different path than the rest of Africa.
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 13:32:13 05/11/07 ()
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Re: FOR LEIGH THE PASSPORT-SELLING TO TERRORISTS CROOK
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 07:33:12 05/12/07 ()
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Dr CRtis-Thomas,
From: John E. Leigh
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CADMUS:
From: Sengbe Wutehteh
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According to the very ERUDITE, INDOMITABLE and MENTALLY INDEFATIGABLE John E. Leigh:
From: John E. Leigh
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Mr. Sengbe Wutehteh:
From: Teacher
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Edmund Koker, you keep displaying your chronic problem -- your inability to understand ANYTHING you read!
From: DUMBO LOW LEE
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"A coup regime is not a de jure government. Therefore its acts are not legal and once out of office its decisions have no legal force unless rectified by parliament. Parliament never rectified the Beoku Betts Commission's decisions/"
From: Steven
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"Our flip-flopper-moniker abusers have no valid case to make against the SLPP or anyone of us defending the party in cyberspace. So they have all settled on heckling with lies, wild baseless allegations, instigating confusion; diversions, inventions, cuss, insults, vulgarisms and lurid conversations; stupidities, utter rubbish and the like..."
Steven
From: John E. Leigh
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Mr. Steven:
From: Ansu Kamara
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"Our basic line of defence is simple, "bad as SLPP is alleged to be, it is far better for SLeone than APC or PMDC."
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" say so because my understanding of the Law is that those Commissions were set up to inquire and make recomendations. It follows therefore that if that commission had recommended that Kabbah should not hold public office again, that recomendation should have been passed as a resolution my PARLIAMENT.It only becomes legally binding after Parliamentary confirmation. A mare recomendation of a commission of inquiry is not Law."
From: CADMUS
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Why are you afraid to your real name....I now you are my American Lawyer friend and I enjoy discussing these matters with you, but by using different handles you are demeaning yourself and calling in issue your credibility.
From: Jenneh
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Quoting Cadmus "Now, do you agree with me that John Leigh is Innocent?He is clean and fit for the position of future Foreign Minister, until you prove otherwise, and I mean prove, not gossip"
From: LAWYER
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"You have forced me to Defend Kabbah even though I am not a Particular fan of his brand of SLPP"
From: BUFORD HWY
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CADMUS,
I would like to inform you that your American Lawyer friend is not the only LEGAL STUDENT in this forum.There are many of them in here,so for you to allude the fact that it is your American Lawyer friend who posted the answers to your questions that you asked,is very wrong of you.Mind you I am not a LAW STUDENT,but it is just a word of CAUTION.Stop accusing/thinking that your American Lawyer friend was the one who answered to your posting.I know FOR FACT that he is not scare/afraid of anybody in the forum,and when he decides to respond to your posting,he will do so under his REAL NAME.
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BUFORD HWY
I am here on this forum as a political party supporter. And that is it.
You can come and see me in action. I will give Kabbs my e-mail address, if you are that keen.
From: Ahmed Kanu
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CADMUS:
That suggests that
From: CADMUS
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Ahmed Kanu,
I hate to insult people , but lies like this make me puke.
From: John E. Leigh
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CADMUS:
From: analyst
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The arguments made by "Lawyer" are not typical of the American Lawyer friend.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 15:59:31 05/11/07 ()
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Dr. Charles Curtis-Thomas:
First, as most people in this forum know, President Kabbah is not my hero. Nor do I speak on his behalf. (How many times do I need to reconfirm my position on these two matters?). My piece was not about President Kabbah at all! It was about late Suma's peggy-boy!
2. President Kabbah never worked in the Budget Office of the SLPMB at any time. El Stupidi SLPMB Crook did.
3. President Kabbah was never mentored by M. K. Suma. El Stupido SLPMB Crook did.
4. President Kabbah was never an employee of SLPMB. El Stupido SLPMB Crook was.
5. President Kabbah was never associated with SLPMB for ten years. El Stupido worked and stole from SLPMB for ten years.
2. President Kabbah has never used “Imported Can of Soft Drink” in trying to explain anything. Dumbo Dunce el Stupido SLPMB Crook has done so on numerous occasions as he reprinted his stupid, illiterate INSTANT poverty alleviation dollar-leone parity rubbish.
3. President Kabbah does not have a munku face. The fooolumunku idiot El Stupido SLPMB Crook has a stupid looking munku face.
4. President Kabbah does not use monikers in this forum. El Stupido Dumbo SLPMB Crook flip-flops into various monikers all the time.
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Posted by John E. Leigh on May 11, 2007 at 11:01:10:
Is there any bearing with regards to an 'El Stupido' on this forum, who worked in the budget office of the erstwhile SLPMB organization under M.K. Suma's mentorship for ten years? If so, please let us know." - Sengbe Witehteh
The "...imported-can-of-soft-drink” phrase reflect my mocking of his dunce example of how to go about gaining Leone-Dollar parity. If you go back nine months or so and look at the RUF Gongorlee Wohwoh RUF Ninjas Rubbish Sylbanya Times, you might see his dunce article as well as his munku-looking face.
The “bombastic” comes from poorly educated dunces who feign being properly learned, by frequently using multi-syllabic English phrases and Latin in remote humble village Court Barrays, mostly in the Southern Province, to hoodwink unsuspecting impressionable poor people as being well-meaning and as truly educated types and there to help them. In fact, their sole intent is to take advantage of those poor villagers.
As for the “foolumunku crookish Bangucrooks” label, I was referring to remedial dunces with known reputations of career crookedness such as: deceit, deception, duplicity, double-cross, lie-lie, tiff-tiff, etc. Such dangerous characters belong to a flunkey political grouping of harlot opportunists deliberately hiding their spurious backgrounds and lying to the public that they are after positive changes in our country. In fact, they seek nothing but to abuse our political privileges in order to wreck society in pursuit of personal benefits. These people can’t function in any regular, law-abiding society because they are dunces and crooks. To survive and prosper they must steal, lie, defraud, double-cross and deceive others and/or engage in some form of predatory parasitic conduct.
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Posted by John E. Leigh on May 10, 2007 at 13:50:09:
By any objective reckoning, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party has not failed the nation at all. Surely, there are disappointments here and there but its record is neither a complete failure as Mussaffa posits; nor is the SLPP capable of the dombolo, fahlahmahkahtah, foolumunku, kindergarten, double-cross stunt that has
thrown the secretly organized, one-manic, privately-owned, dynastic-oriented PMDC into a permanent tailspin.
Already our country’s large mostly APC-generated international debts have been cancelled. Thanks to the leadership of the SLPP Government. The SLPP Government has moved forward in numerous other areas although not as much forward as a disgruntled few like myself would have preferred. Nevertheless, SLPP has moved our country forward and substantial forward movements are expected under the incoming SLPP Administration of Solomon Berewa beginning in August 2007.
As for the APC, it has a most deplorable record of mal-governance. Hence, voters have rejected it twice in preference to the SLPP. With the late Sahid Jamil’s insurance peggy-boy leading the APC whilst he has surrounded himself secretively in the background with KDDA tribal hegemonistic marginalizers and frolicking Ekutay poverty spreaders, the same old APC can’t be expected to be accepted favorably in 2007.
Of course, the Maggai PMDC has no record of governance. But one-manism is the norm as a governing standard in our country. Thus we ought to carefully examine the background of the leader of PIKIN MAGGAI DON CRASE (PMDC) grouping to find out the kind of future that is likely under this watch. In doing so, we rely on the simple theory that MONKEY NOH GO LEFF EEM BLACK HAND BEHIND.
Here is proof of a fickle-minded politician lacking stability in his political philosophy except to jump to wherever he feels he might gain personal profit to fulfill his dunce dynastic dreams.
10.Was not the APC and its surrogate AFRC/RUF Coupligans that wrecked SLeone? My answer is YES!
Has the SLPP ever wrecked our country? My answer is Not at all, although it is not yet perfect and needs to improve on its second term performance!
From: JOHN E. L SON
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Date Posted: 15:24:14 05/11/07 ()
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If he respect himself and has any dignity remain, He will call it quits, return to exile, recover from whatever he is on and return with a patriotic backbone to fight for the Citizens of Sierra Leone.
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 16:16:59 05/11/07 ()
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Here comes another OKOBO spewing shit on the forum.
Borbor, this place norto for OKOBO....Go participate nar the OKOBO FORUM.
Seriously, Get Lost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: L.L.
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Date Posted: 05:32:12 05/12/07 ()
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Actually, Koker, this forum is not a place for rude people.
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Date Posted: 16:26:36 05/11/07 ()
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Viagra overdose. the man has nothing else in life but to stay aroud and use multiple handles...
From: Independent Observer
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Koker, shouldn't you be asking one R.B. S. Koker to return the money he stole at SLPMB that he used to send his children -- people like you -- abroad to waste Salone's money on your education, when it is clear that you and your ilk are incapable of learning anything?
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:58:11 05/11/07 ()
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The latest news from home are as follows:
1. DEFECTIONS TO SLPP
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From Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown
Sierra Leone's former Ambassador John Leigh goes insane overseas
By Sayoh Kamara
Sep 19, 2005, 19:21
Disgraced aspirant for the SLPP leadership in the just concluded national delegates convention in Makeni, John Ernest Leigh, has fled to the United States of America with his tail between his legs, brooding over the thousands of US Dollars he wasted in his failed bid to influence delegates to vote for him as party leader and flagbearer for the ruling SLPP. From his Massachussets home in the United States, Mr. Leigh seems to have gone completely insane as evidenced by his writings on the Internet.
Red-eyed and weeping like a cry-baby with his throat tied with a red necktie like a goat bound for sacrifice
At this stage journalists had flooded around Leigh as he sweated profusely in his black coat and his throat tied with a red tie like a goat bound for sacrifice. It was Alhaji I.B. Kargbo, the President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists, who intervened later by asking his colleagues to give him chance…"allow him to get air." At the insistence of journalists, John Leigh accepted to make a statement. He started off by being his usual vulgar and rude self. He even verbally attacked one delegate calling the person a "bastard" for what reason, no-one knew.
© Copyright 2005, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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JL, Any response to this article? Did you cry like a bay-bie?
From: JOHN E. L SON
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Date Posted: 13:13:09 05/11/07 ()
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Mr. Devide and conquer. Stop embarrassing us. Please find your patriotic back bone and either fight for the citizens of Sierra Leone or wither away into exile.
respected you. Do not take that away.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:29:22 05/11/07 ()
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Sengbe Wutehteh kindly asked me to respond to the following request:
Is there any bearing with regards to an 'El Stupido' on this forum, who worked in the budget office of the erstwhile SLPMB organization under M.K. Suma's mentorship for ten years? If so, please let us know.
The "...imported-can-of-soft-drink” phrase reflect my mocking of his dunce example of how to go about gaining Leone-Dollar parity. If you go back nine months or so and look at the RUF Gongorlee Wohwoh RUF Ninjas Rubbish Sylbanya Times, you might see his dunce article as well as his munku-looking face.
The “bombastic” comes from poorly educated dunces who feign being properly learned, by frequently using multi-syllabic English phrases and Latin in remote humble village Court Barrays, mostly in the Southern Province, to hoodwink unsuspecting impressionable poor people as being well-meaning and as truly educated types and there to help them. In fact, their sole intent is to take advantage of those poor villagers.
As for the “foolumunku crookish Bangucrooks” label, I was referring to remedial dunces with known reputations of career crookedness such as: deceit, deception, duplicity, double-cross, lie-lie, tiff-tiff, etc. Such dangerous characters belong to a flunkey political grouping of harlot opportunists deliberately hiding their spurious backgrounds and lying to the public that they are after positive changes in our country. In fact, they seek nothing but to abuse our political privileges in order to wreck society in pursuit of personal benefits. These people can’t function in any regular, law-abiding society because they are dunces and crooks. To survive and prosper they must steal, lie, defraud, double-cross and deceive others and/or engage in some form of predatory parasitic conduct. - JL
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Bra John, please allow me to take this oppoertunity to thank you for your kindness in elucidating the meanings of the phrases and words you appropriately concoct to describe folks on this forum and elsewhere, and the political situation in our country.
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"The quoted phrase refers to the conduct of that El Stupido SLPMB crook "
From: JOHN E. L SON
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Date Posted: 13:06:12 05/11/07 ()
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Now I understand why you could never be leader of our belove Sierra Leone.
From: Jon Lee
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Date Posted: 15:46:16 05/11/07 ()
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Leigh is a pathological liar and everyone on this forum knows that. So since his credibility is very questionable, it goes without saying that what ever he says is without doubt questionable.
Jon Lee
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Bo OKOBO lef for multiply nar this forum.
You are a tiny, inadequate MORFOR......Go take you medicine en try for shut up way serious people day talk.
From: Jon Lee
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listen independent..odat tell u say me na okobo. gee me u oman mek a operate pan am..ehn kam de oda day ehn see if e go watch u. na da tem u go know say u tolloli small ehn u nor geh de longevity lek me.
Jon Lee
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Hahahahahaha
Tiny nar so you get mot mot. De las lady way you bin day with say you nar 3 seconds brother. The lady say on 3 different occassions, you talk so much about wanting action. The strange part is that you nor gree pull you trosis until the light go out. But by the time you pull trosis you angel bin don die-die. De Baby conclude say you nar 3 seconds brother. He nor know say you noto even 0.1 s brother.......
From: Jon Lee
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independent...word na mot noto load na ade...gee me de girl mek ar gee am de aaron's rod...u know da ting wae dem call metals expand upon contraction?...ah go woke da u bubu dae until e see ihm period. ar go nyanga ihm tunnini..den ah turn am ehn geem am long na de back until ee vomit. after dat, arh geem de juice for drink...den e go clean me rod with ihm tongue....me man tell ahm mek e call me now ah really hot...mek a cherr am.
jon
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Tiny,
You nar rahray man for true. You tok-tok dae cober you inadequacy. Who dat ever say man nor kin fen way for enjoy life inspite of some short comings ...... Hahahahaha
From: jon lee
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ahhhh....me man geh for copy me style for tonite wit de girl eight? listen ar geh copyrite for me style. If ah katch u dae do am, ar go cut you tololee...now tel de babes mek e cam try something new...by de way imm tunini set?
jon
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Ha ha ha !!! wow...independet bobor na afor try ba ehn see. gee jon lee wan net ehn see.but Jon we go geh for measure da ting dae forse oh...ah ah a man dem una nor kill me.
michael
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Date Posted: 16:27:59 05/11/07 ()
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Bo you nar OKOBO. Lie man. Dat girl wae u bin dae fallah nar MD nar im say you nor to man!
From: jon lee
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pa pa ya..try me wit da u babes way geh dar dry wais APC mek ar cherr imm...u know wetin ar dae talk bout. ah promise u, enor go ever watch u. ar go pound dawan dae lek yebeh...tell am mek e call me for wan nite stand.
jon
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Nor to boast Bra but any sie ar go you nor welcome dae. Trust me. Yah.
From: Jon Lee
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me man...if you bin done gee me you girl for trial...lek u done geh result...ah nor dae boast...but ah richly endowed man...just sen ....to me for free trial
Jon
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Dumb ass find an original handle.
The handle JOHN E L SON just does not fly.
You must be a retard to think that J.L. wants people like you using part of his name. Don't you have any shame?
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Dogs will lick your mouth when played with. Sleep with
them, wake up with fleas.
From: John E. Leigh
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Non-Partisan Observer:
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You're the man, John. I have high regards for you and your leadership skills.
I find it impossible to comprehend what happened between you and Kabbah after after all the things you did to:
(a.) to save Sa Lone from going to thieving hands of the AFRC cut-foot cut-hand rodents.
I refer to him using the above peuedonym because it is known that he connived with other members of the old SLPP guard to steal huge quantities of rice and blame the loss on groundhogs [(gron-pig) Marmota monax]
From: John E. Leigh
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Mr. Non-Partisan Observer:
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"I, too, I am in the dark as to my recalll for Prez Kabbah merely informed me in late August 2002 in writing that he was recalling because he wished to re-organize the foreign ministry and the diplomatic service and that I will be affected by the impending changes."
From: Yaya Fanusie
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John, How can some one with PERSONAL INTEGRITY be a collaborator/associate/aid & abet those who are corrupt, dishonest, crooked, slimey? Why do you knowingly sleep with theives, embezzlers etc?
Are you that confused? Why do you associate with scumbags like Kabbah and Berewa? For $90,000 you are going to be a Political Whore? Or is Giggolo? Brah it looks like you rotten inside.
Yaya Fanusie
From: John E. Leigh
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Dr. Fanusi:
From: Yaya Fanusie
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John,
The popular view of you off cyberspace is that you are confused. You are important yes just like a useful bacteria in the large instestine. Political speaking large intestine is the SLPP.
Yaya Fanusie
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"Dogs will lick your mouth when played with. Sleep with them, wake up with fleas."
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Brah yu lell a choke with laff!!!!!
Great.
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Nar true, waraba, me sef laff tae ar wan p---- pan meself!
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"Leigh, is there no criminal conduct -- including bribery, corruption, fraud, conspiracy to aid terorists by selling Salone passports to terrorists at the embassy in Washington DC, election fraud, prostituting the Salone ambassador's residence with your concubine -- which you will not commit in your shameful quest to rise above the lowly state to which your rudeness and immoral chacter have condemned you?"
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How much is it in $ & £ ?
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"A World Bank contract to the tune of Le 3.6 billion awarded by the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Food Security for procurement of thirty mid range rice mills by Samir Abbess of Strand Investment as reported in the local press has resulted into a big loss for the Tejan Kabbah administration."
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Joking is one thing, but this is a DANGEROUS accusation
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"Joking is one thing, but this is a DANGEROUS accusation "
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PLEASE, read this and take some small comfort that Sierra Leone is not Nigeria. It's a matter of scale:
Big men, big fraud and big trouble
Apr 26th 2007 | ABUJA, CALABAR AND KANO
From The Economist print edition
The deep rottenness of Nigeria's political system threatens all the economic gains this giant country has made
EVER since Sani Abacha expired in the arms of two Indian prostitutes, possibly from an overdose of Viagra, in 1998, Nigerians supposed that their worst days were behind them. The “coup from heaven”, as Abacha's death was called, seemed to release the country from three decades of increasingly ruinous military dictatorships that had brought Nigeria diplomatic isolation and economic collapse. In 1999, the country made a fresh start with a new elected civilian administration led by Olusegun Obasanjo, the outgoing president. He has been lauded in the West for his economic reforms and his drive against corruption.
But the organised vote-rigging and fraud that characterised the state and local elections on April 14th, as well as the parliamentary and presidential polls on April 21st, suggest that Nigeria may be sliding backwards again. Nigeria's own independent observers' group has called them a “sham”. The European Union, normally a master of nuance in these matters, baldly stated that the whole electoral process “cannot be considered to have been credible”, and remarked that its report was the most damning it had ever issued anywhere in the world.
The opposition parties have called for a re-run of all the elections. The only people who seem happy with the charade are officials of the inept and craven Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and those who appointed them in the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). The PDP's presidential candidate, Umaru Yar'Adua, won an astonishing 70% of the vote; but few will accept the result as anything other than a fraud.
The consequences could be extremely destabilising in a country as fragile as Nigeria: a brittle mosaic of about 300 different ethnic groups, equally divided between Muslims, largely in the north, and Christians, mainly in the south. This is a fractious and rancorous polity at the best of times. But with a full-blown insurgency raging in the oil-producing Delta, and relations between Muslims and Christians already tense, the last thing Nigeria needed was a new government that many will regard as illegitimate.
Much protest will take place in the courts, which will proceed at their usual glacial pace. But it will also take other forms. About 200 people were killed during the elections themselves, according to EU estimates. Most of the violence has been directed against institutions that (in popular belief) connived in the results. Several INEC offices were burnt down. In the big cities this week, thousands of police and soldiers were on the streets in armoured cars, ready for trouble. The situation could easily get out of hand.
In many African countries all this might pass without much comment. But Nigeria matters more than most. It is Africa's most populous country, with 140m people, and, after South Africa, the continent's second-biggest economy. It vies with South Africa, too, for diplomatic and military leadership. Its peacekeepers serve throughout the continent; Nigeria provides most of the troops in Darfur, for example. A strong and stable Nigeria has become essential to the project of building an Africa that can solve its own problems.
It is also the continent's largest producer of oil, and the sixth-biggest oil-exporter in the world. It already provides 8.5% of America's imports, a figure that could rise to 10% in a few years' time. Nigeria has been proposed as the answer to the West's concerns over energy security; a dependable oil ally, away from the turbulent Middle East and Venezuela's pesky Hugo Chávez. But given the current state of affairs, the oil price has been edging up all week on fears of worse to come in Nigeria.
The country's boosters had invested heavily in a successful presidential election. They hoped that this ballot—potentially, the first constitutional transfer of power from one civilian administration to another since independence in 1960—would cap the “Nigerian renaissance”. Instead, the country is sliding into grave political uncertainty. How did this happen?
The promise of reform
The answer is to be found largely in Mr Obasanjo's government of the past eight years. When Abacha died, Nigerians looked to Mr Obasanjo—a charismatic Christian, ex-general and former president—as the man to guide them out of the country's mess. He won an election in 1999 and, after a slow start, set about tackling many of Nigeria's long-term problems. And he achieved a good deal.
A team of younger, zealous reformers, dubbed “the seven samurai” by one diplomat, was brought in to overhaul the economy. In particular, they confronted the corruption that had seen Nigeria's leaders pocket, by some estimates, $380 billion of the country's oil wealth since independence, the equivalent of about two-thirds of all the aid given to Africa during that time. Thus the “reform programme” was born.
At the macroeconomic level, Nigeria has been hailed as a success. A forceful former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, got rampant inflation down to single digits last year and built up foreign exchange reserves that now stand at around $48 billion. The country has been achieving growth rates of over 5% in the past few years. So impressive have the statistics proved to international financial institutions that Nigeria has recently won debt relief, and the country's credit rating is now good enough to let it issue bonds on the global market.
It was the anti-corruption drive, though, that caught the domestic and international imagination. Mr Obasanjo set up an agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which at first amazed and delighted Nigerians with its success. It was headed by a wiry and energetic former policeman, Nuhu Ribadu, whose hand-picked enforcers have recovered over $5 billion in stolen assets and successfully prosecuted the sort of people, businessmen and policemen, who most Nigerians assumed would forever remain above the law.
This was all impressive stuff. But in other respects Nigeria's old problems remain, and have even worsened under Mr Obasanjo. For a start, much of the macroeconomic success is due to the high price of oil; it has made little visible difference to Nigerians' wretched daily lives. Over 70% still live on the equivalent of less than $1 a day; decaying hospitals, schools and roads tell their own stories. Bashir Borodo, the president of the Manufacturers' Association of Nigeria, reckons that in the poorer north of the country over 60% of university graduates are unemployed. And with so many people doing casual jobs, under-employment is massive too.
Besides all this, the deeply corrupt political system has remained intact and, if anything, entrenched itself under Mr Obasanjo. In Nigeria, politics is money, and money is politics. With economic activity almost totally dependent on the oil revenues that flow in through the central government coffers (over $50 billion in 2006), the surest way to enrichment is through political office—or through contracts from your best mates in those offices. Incumbency has become everything in Nigeria; to lose office is to lose almost the only means of survival, as well as immunity from prosecution. The extra cash flowing through the system from a higher oil price has merely raised the political stakes, making politicians more brazen than ever in their attempts to cling to office. Or, as Mr Obasanjo said himself, these elections were “do or die” time for his ruling PDP.
The result, as the EFCC's Mr Ribadu puts it, is “not even corruption. It's gangsterism. It's organised crime.” That is particularly true of local and state politics, where most of the money is actually disbursed. The problem is most acute in the five or six oil-rich Delta states. There the local elections on April 14th were replaced by something more like organised thuggery, with PDP gunmen beating up opponents, intimidating voters, snatching ballot boxes and stuffing them with pre-marked ballots. Winning candidates piled up huge victories on high turnouts in places where the ballot papers had never even arrived.
The rewards for such rigging can be impressive. In 2006, for instance, the governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili, had a budget of $1.33 billion to spend, considerably more than the budgets of some other west African countries, such as Mali and Niger. Moreover, Mr Odili had far fewer people to spend his money on.
Not that much of the money is actually spent on them. An almost total lack of transparency hides where most of the money goes, but a Human Rights Watch report managed to catalogue some items in the Rivers State budget for last year. The governor's office spent $65,000 a day on transport and travel and over 1.5 billion naira ($11.5m) on new cars; two new helicopters cost 5 billion naira, on top of the previous year's new jet; about 1.3 billion naira went on gifts and catering. By contrast, the capital budget for the health sector was 2.8 billion naira, in a state with some of the poorest, least healthy and worst-educated people in Africa.
Gangster politics
When farcical election exercises deny people the opportunity to vote their politicians out of office, it is not surprising that many take up arms to get their share of the oil money, through kidnapping and illegal bunkering of oil. Political resistance slips easily into plain gangsterism. But the politicians, in turn, will employ the gangsters to do some kidnapping and bunkering for them. It is good business; over 100 foreign oil-workers have been kidnapped and ransomed in the past year alone, at about $500,000 a time. In much of the Delta it has now become difficult to distinguish between politicians, gangsters and insurgents. The charade of the state elections on April 14th will only have added to the bitterness and hostility in the region, making early resolution of the Delta insurgency even less likely than before.
On the day of the presidential election money-politics could be seen in action in central Kano, the dusty, dilapidated industrial capital of the north. There, in the local government area of Fagge, the PDP had budgeted 35m naira for political “mobilisation” and the main opposition party, the All Nigerian Peoples' Party (ANPP), 40m naira. In one ward, Fagge A, the PDP, according to one of its operatives, had budgeted 594,000 naira ($4,650) for 21,000 registered voters and 35 ballot boxes. Thus each “independent” presiding officer at the polling station was given 3,000 naira and his clerk 2,000 naira. Each policeman was getting 1,000 naira. That left payments of about 200 naira ($1.57) per voter—whose votes, far from being secret, were inked with a thumb on the ballot in front of party agents. Multiple voters, who will have registered several times with sympathetic election officials, might vote ten times, at a reduced bulk rate of 100 naira—still picking up a tidy 1,000 naira each.
The friendly officials are paid for a variety of services, one of which is not to scrutinise the register too closely. Hasia, for example, had just voted with the registration card of her mother, who had already voted herself. Hasia had the second of her mother's two cards. She has probably not even reached the legal voting age of 18. Her card clearly identified its owner as being 60 years old, but this had not proved a problem with the right official.
All day PDP and ANPP party agents were negotiating spot-prices on votes, rather like the oil markets that grease the rotten political machines. But at least there was voting in Kano state. To the north, in Katsina, Mr Yar'Adua's home state—which he had to win comfortably—it was more like the Delta, with ballot papers arriving very late or not at all. And, curiously, remarkably few presidential ballot papers arrived at the polling stations, leading many voters to conclude that they had already been filled in elsewhere.
In his own quest to hang on to the rewards of office, in 2005 Mr Obasanjo started a campaign to alter the constitution to allow him to run for a third term. Huge bribes, of up to 50m naira, were offered to parliamentarians to vote for the change, but the Senate bravely voted against it last year. Since then, Mr Obasanjo has misused every means at his disposal to ensure that his own PDP men win the state houses and the presidency, knocking his opponents out of the race by bringing charges of corruption against them from the EFCC.
So even the straight-talking Mr Ribadu's outfit has now been politicised. It has used high-handed and unconstitutional means to smear Mr Obasanjo's opponents and keep their names off the ballot papers. The EFCC has done some good work in the past. But, like the elections themselves, its credibility has been mortgaged to political expediency.
The charitable interpretation of Mr Obasanjo's behaviour is that he has to act this way to “preserve” the reform programme. If that is so, he has badly miscalculated; the reform programme has itself become a casualty of the rotten politics.
Can Nigeria expect anything better from Mr Yar'Adua, if he is sworn in as president on May 29th? Probably not. Despite a reputation for personal honesty, the obscure northern governor comes to power as a creature of Mr Obasanjo's PDP clique. With few obvious credentials for the job, apart from being the younger brother of Mr Obasanjo's former vice-president, he was hand-picked by the president against the will of many in the party. And Mr Obasanjo will retain considerable formal power as the party chairman. At least Mr Yar'Adua is a northern Muslim, taking over the presidency from a Christian southerner.
As a free-marketeer, he has pledged to continue the reforms of his master. But he will come to power with even less legitimacy than Mr Obasanjo had after his own flawed election victory in 2003. This will cause huge difficulties for him, especially if Nigeria's disillusioned Western backers give the country a wider berth.
Progress by saxophone
Nigerian politics does not have to be like this. Given a chance, good state governors do emerge. In Cross Rivers, for instance, on the border with Cameroon, Donald Duke has effected an impressive transformation over the past eight years.
AP A vote for Yar'Adua is unlikely to change her world
In the state capital, Calabar, the streets have no pot-holes. According to the state government, every village is connected to the national grid and everyone has access to clean water. There is almost no litter. Remarkably, instead of the fleet of blacked-out SUVs that normally idle outside governors' offices, ready to whisk the big man a few hundred metres down the road, outside Mr Duke's office stand brand new garbage lorries from Germany.
Moreover, Cross Rivers has no oil wealth. Mr Duke has achieved all this on a fraction of the money available to his neighbours. Instead, he has frozen official salaries, cleverly exploited existing resources and taken on debt. In partnership with private investors, he is also responsible for Tinapa, the largest retail and business development in west Africa. It contains several new giant studios to grab a large slice of the $200m-300m a year “Nollywood” film industry, which churns out, by some estimates, more films than either of its rivals in Los Angeles or Bombay.
The other key to the state's success is Mr Duke's love of the saxophone. Every Sunday evening he performs in his house with his band. And instead of trying to micro-manage his succession, rig the state elections and prepare for endless court battles, when he leaves office at the end of May Mr Duke is going off to America for a music course. It is an unusual example of a politician who is willing to let go.
But if honest and good leaders can make a difference, the only sure way to break the corrosive link between money and politics in Nigeria is to encourage a private sector that is vigorous enough to give people other ways to make money. As last week's vote-rigging showed, Nigeria is bursting with energetic entrepreneurial talent. But trying to start a business from scratch is almost impossible. Capital scarcely exists. Although banks are required by law to set aside one-tenth of their pre-tax profits for small business start-ups, few loans are actually made.
The biggest impediment of all to economic activity in Nigeria is the country's feeble and erratic power supply. All businesses have to have expensive generators that can double the cost of a start-up; they then have to employ people just to scuttle around grabbing whatever scarce diesel fuel they can find to supply the generators. Two weeks before the election, the ramshackle national Power Holding Company (known to Nigerians as Please Hold Candle) managed to churn out just half the electricity that the country produced in 1960 for about half as many people. If the new president could do just one thing to improve Nigeria's political and economic prospects, it would be the full electrification of his country.
“It is totally false”, wrote Chinua Achebe, Nigeria's greatest writer, 24 years ago,
to suggest that Nigerians are fundamentally different from any other people in the world. Nigerians are corrupt because the system under which they live today makes corruption easy and profitable; they will cease to be corrupt when corruption is made difficult and inconvenient. The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.
After Mr Obasanjo's failure, Africa's weary titan still awaits those leaders.
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Date Posted: 09:28:10 05/11/07 ()
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"Please note that I do not open, let alone read, any posting by Comic Aleigh. So I do not know what crap he wrote"
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"your goat-tied neck bulges with anger and the sweat left over from your winter-coat-in-the-sun Makeni experience joins the tears in your eyes"
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Date Posted: 11:41:17 05/11/07 ()
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San-San boys, other low life and scum, could bathe directly in the Moa
The tie in the photo is APC-red enough and does not seem to be strangling the wearer or causing him any harm. In fact he looks spruced up and neat, in his presidential suit
Despite what he’s been through, for which we expect some sympathy from you. He has paid his dues…..
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Personal quote of the day:
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Cornie, you are usually right, but not this time -- Leigh has not paid his dues. Check out how he was accuratelt desceribed before with his rudeness, vulgarity and corruption he still displays:
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 11:24:29 05/11/07 ()
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It was the month of Septemeber - a day Makeni will remeber.....
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Bra Cornie, your reseacch ability is second to none. Just like Leigh's worwor face is second to none -- in ugliness.
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Date Posted: 12:59:15 05/11/07 ()
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Corruption is obviously a central issue here.
There is an expression " as ugly as sin."
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More, Bra Cornie, give us more evidence to show that Leigh, Kabbah, Berewa and Leigh -- constitute the leaders of the most corrupt govt. in Salone's history!
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Date Posted: 08:38:48 05/11/07 ()
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BBC Reith Lecturers 2007 by Jeffrey Sachs in China
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Date Posted: 09:45:33 05/11/07 ()
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Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute is our best friend and I hope that he gets the Nobel Economics Prize, soon.
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Tonkolili District Council mini stadium under construction - one of the projects scheduled to be visited
Four teams have been set up to carry out the exercise in all local councils starting on Monday May 7 and ending on Saturday May 26, 2006.
From: Dr. Michel Sho- Sawyer
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Date Posted: 00:46:37 05/11/07 ()
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The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa Spring mainly from the fact that Africa Lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, being basic to the relations within any group and between groups.
Are our leaders selfless to put the citizens interest ahead of theirs.
Kind Regard
Your Abe Servant In Training
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Dr. Michel Sho-Sawyer:
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"I believe we are not yet ready because a critical Mass of our population aren't ready to make the necessary sacrifices that develop0ment requires."
Assuming that your statement is true,what sacrifices do you think in your opinion that our people need to sacrifice inorder to convert these developmental problems that are driving our Nation down to the drain into a better develop Salone?
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Mr. Buford HWY:
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 01:34:31 05/11/07 ()
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Dr. Sho-Sawyer,
Please read Kwame Nkrumah's Africa Must Unite and also Neo-colonialism. Also read Jean Monnet and the European Union. And follow Sarkozy steps in France. He said he is going to be European rather than French Ahbecause he wants to counter GLOBALIZATION. He realized France can not succeed but Europe can. And you have all these idiots
ruling petty states in Africa and they have no clue what is about to happen to Africans. Do you understand what I am saying? Look here young man I am old. So I will not face the extermination of the African Race. You and Amadu and Emmerson will have to confront your powerless when the real scramble for Africa will start.
What you gonna do?????
Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 08:51:28 05/11/07 ()
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When The Great Scramble For Africa began in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, colonies had become a necessary appendage for european capitalism, which had by then reach the stage of industrial and financial monopoly that needed territorial expansionto provide spheres for capital investment, sources of raw materials, markets, and strategic points of imperial defence. Thus all the imperialist, without exception, evolved the means, their colonial policies, to satify the ends, the exploitation of the subject territories for the aggrandizement of the metropolitan countries ---
They were all rapacious; they all represses and despoiled, degraded and oppressed. They took our lands, our lives, our resources, and our diginity. Without exception, they left us nothing but our resentment, and later, our determination to be free and rise once more to the level of men and women who walk with their heads held high.----------
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So what have we done with all that we have since the colonialists left?
From: Dr. Michel Sho- Sawyer
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Date Posted: 12:50:11 05/11/07 ()
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They are still there using IMF and World Bank.
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Date Posted: 00:45:32 05/11/07 ()
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The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa Spring mainly from the fact that Africa Lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, being basic to the relations within any group and between groups.
Are our leaders selfless to put the citizens interest ahead of theirs.
Kind Regard
Your Abe Servant In Training
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Kabbah will soon do a Tony Blair in Freetown. He will hand over the country to Berewa before the elections. Mark my words.
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IN YOUR DREAMS. APC WILL WIN THIS ELECTION. WHEN WE WIN IT. IT TAKE US 30 YEARS TO GIVE THE POWER TO SOME ONE
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Date Posted: 05:53:32 05/11/07 ()
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KAK FINE
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Date Posted: 23:16:34 05/10/07 ()
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Hi Folks,
If you are up now then tune to KALW-91.7 FM from San Francisco and listen to it on the internet. Emmanuel Nado from Ivory Coast is the DJ.
Yaya Fanusie
it is on Thursdays 9PM Pacific Standard Time.
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Date Posted: 07:02:16 05/11/07 ()
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Yaya,
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