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
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 06:42:29 -0700 (PDT)
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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
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The seven days ceremony for my late sister will be on Sunday the 20th
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Bra JL. This is another wuteteh elections. IT is over. We have finish the Kpata Kpata.
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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.
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VP Berewa should win on the first round in excess of 60%. As you know only 55% is required
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A Bad Copy From the Past
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Published: 16 May, 2007
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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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.
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Alieu,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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"
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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
Entered From: 24hrpc6.cpmc.columbia.edu at 156.111.18.145
Please do not use the name of our Jamaat for personal bone-picking..
Foulah Town Jamaat deserves better
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
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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
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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
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
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
To: All
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
To: All
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
To: All
Date Posted: 10:25:25 05/16/07 ()
Email Address:
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Standard Times
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
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
Entered From: c-69-143-240-17.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.240.17
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
To: All
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
To: All
Date Posted: 07:09:51 05/17/07 ()
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NAR U BIZNESS BIZABODY EN KONGOSA
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
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 ()
Email Address:
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U nar pikin wae fo lef so u nor sabi put mot insi tok
From: Standard Times
To: All
Date Posted: 19:35:00 05/16/07 ()
Email Address:
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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
To: All
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
To: All
Date Posted: 13:28:57 05/16/07 ()
Email Address:
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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
To: All
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 ()
Email Address:
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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
To: All
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
To: All
Date Posted: 10:39:47 05/16/07 ()
Email Address:
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The fact that he went to KENYA with his TIFI TIFI business, makes you wonder.
From: Fair
To: All
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 ()
Email Address:
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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
To: All
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
To: All
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
To: All
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
To: All
Date Posted: 14:55:29 05/16/07 ()
Email Address:
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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
To: All
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 ()
Email Address:
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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 ()
Email Address:
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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 ()
Email Address:
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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 ()
Email Address:
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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 ()
Email Address:
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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
Entered From: cache-dtc-aa14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.116.18
Mr. LENGA:
From: Corporate Taxes Fraud
To: All
Date Posted: 14:32:24 05/16/07 ()
Email Address:
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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 ()
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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
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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
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Date Posted: 15:24:30 05/16/07 ()
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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
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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
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Date Posted: 15:44:37 05/16/07 ()
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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
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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
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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
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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
To: All
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
To: All
Date Posted: 15:10:29 05/17/07 ()
Email Address: ishmael.taylorkamara@kmzr.com
Entered From: at 38.117.238.82
SLPP Apologist:
From: DIAMINT PEDDLER
To: All
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
To: All
Date Posted: 16:39:58 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 24.66.94.142
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 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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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 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Congratulations! - JL
From: Question
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Date Posted: 12:19:29 05/16/07 ()
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Have you finally gone insane, corrupt John Leigh, the serial fraud?
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
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
To: All
Date Posted: 23:43:04 05/15/07 ()
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LOCAL NEWS
NEW CITIZEN
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
To: All
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
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:29 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: POINT
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Date Posted: 20:08:13 05/16/07 ()
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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 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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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
Entered From: smith2250.apsc.vt.edu at 128.173.64.123
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 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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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
To: All
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 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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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 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mr. Camarra:
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:41:04 05/16/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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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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Date Posted: 00:17:31 05/16/07 ()
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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
To: All
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.
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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.
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I only contribute under my real name.
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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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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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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.
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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?
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Posted by Alan Cranston on May 15, 2007 at 03:57:33:
Ambassador
Embassy of the Republic of Liberia
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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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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.
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Why do you sound like my friend munku Jusu. Hey Munku Bob.
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Maybe because the lies of the SLPP's apologists all the same -- so whoever exposes them will sound the same.
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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?
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Stop making a fool of yourself!
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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!
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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......
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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....
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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?
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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!"
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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"
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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.
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"But from the horse's mouth, you are irrelevant."
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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:
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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 ()
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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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"If the APC were to come to power,foreign investors will back off."
THERE WOULD BE NO SACRED COW.
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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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"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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"If foreign investors back off, unemployment would soar and remain at a very high level." John Leigh
From: Junior Economist
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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 ()
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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 ()
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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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"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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"Multinational corporations are better for SLeoneans than Ma & Pa businesses."
From: Hassan Conteh
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You lack any sense, Leigh. Every time you open your mouth you prove that.
From: Observer
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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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Posted by Cornelius Hamelberg on May 14, 2007 at 14:05:35:
From: krio boy
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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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Behaviour oh behaviour
From: FODAY MANSARAY
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Date Posted: 21:15:28 05/14/07 ()
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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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Coocoo
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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
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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."
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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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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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You are pathetic,JOhn Leigh.
From: Tamba Gborie
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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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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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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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"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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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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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
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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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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.
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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
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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 cr