Subject: Pic of the day
From: Onliner
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Date Posted: 08:29:30 05/31/07 ()
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See how he's biting the laughter. Seems he's going to burst anytime.
Any idea who's inside the ari-ogbo?
Subject: You done good, Bra John
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 08:14:52 05/31/07 ()
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Bra John, you've done an excellent job / service for / to our party on this forum and elsewhere. It is now time to say adieu to this forum, and concentrate on the campaign by giving effective political pointers to the players on the ground, and writing your political thoughts in more appropriate media.
I came out of peeperdom to make that suggestion to you. I hope I am not out of line.
You done good, Bra John.
Subject: IRCBP Concludes the Handing Over of Sites for the Constructi
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Date Posted: 07:42:19 05/31/07 ()
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The office for Makeni Town Council which is yet to be completed
IRCBP Concludes the Handing Over of Sites for the Construction of Local Council Offices.
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The second phase in the handing over of sites to local councils for the construction of office buildings has been completed.
The final handing over ceremony in the series that constituted the second phase took place in Magburaka, on Tuesday May 29.
The first phase saw the handing over of sites to five local councils in 2006, while the second phase saw the ceremony been repeated in eight other councils.
The move to facilitate the construction of offices for local councils stems from the desire of the Institutional Reform and Capacity Building Project (IRCBP) and the World Bank to improve working conditions for local council employees. In 2004 the World Bank and IRCBP fielded a mission to assess the needs of all 19 local councils in terms of office space and the team came to the conclusion that offices in all the councils should be rehabilitated or rebuilt.
On Monday May 27, the Principal Finance Officer of the IRCBP, Lara Taylor-Pearce, handed sites over to Contractors for offices in Port Loko and Tonkolili District Councils, the last two councils in phase two.
Deputising for the Coordinator of IRCBP Peter Kaindaneh, Lara Taylor-Pearce reiterated the fact that contractors were engaged through a highly transparent process.
In Port Loko, Lara Taylor-Pearce (left), gives salient advice to the lady Contractor, Ishatu Sesay
The conditions in the Public Procurement Act and the Donor Procurement Regulations were observed in giving out the contracts.
George Lamin Vandi, IRCBP Civil Engineer, said that the IRCBP adopted the National Competitive Bidding Process as against the International Competitive Bidding process to give local Construction Firms an opportunity to improve their expertise.
George Vandi who doubles as Project Manager said the current venture represents one more intervention of government to support local councils.
The ultra modern buildings when completed will boast facilities such as a conference hall with the capacity to sit about 500 people, about 16 offices some equipped with kitchenettes, a resource centre and a restaurant.
The contract for the construction of an office for Port Loko District Council was won by Estu Construction Enterprise. The Managing Director, Ishatu Sesay, is grand daughter of the late Paramount Chief Bai Fonti Ngbanga 11 of Buya Romendi Chiefdom in the Port-Loko District.
She called for 100% support from the people, and expressed her determination to complete the project in less that the agreed period of ten months.
Subject: ALMOST SUFFOCATING FROM "FRESH AIR"
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Date Posted: 04:24:29 05/31/07 ()
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I came out of my hole to get out some fresh air. I almost suffocated from the "wantem bres wae bang me". Lah go back nah me hole.
READ AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT I MEAN.
Posted by Moijue on May 30, 2007 at 12:42:36:
In Reply to: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY posted by John E. Leigh on May 30, 2007 at 12:19:35:
In Mr. Leigh’s view, the Oil Agreement drafted under Mr. Berewa’s supervision is exactly the type of commercial agreement that has subjugated Sierra Leoneans in deep poverty and must never be subscribed to again
I hope you will also educate them of the bad agreements like above that SOLO BEE negotiated on our behalf.
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Posted by John E. Leigh on May 30, 2007 at 16:36:02:
In Reply to: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY posted by Moijue on May 30, 2007 at 12:42:36:
I stand by my comments set forth in my memo re the TGS-NOPEC OIL Deal of April 22, 2001. This does not mean that I should jump ship and join unstable alphbet-soup foolumunkus or poverty spreaders/marginalizers/frolickers. - JL
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Subject: SIERRA LEONEANS: The Dying and The Living
From: Almamy Seray-Wurie Si
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Date Posted: 16:57:09 05/30/07 ()
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APC, SLPP, Fake Third Force, APC Chaff-Chaffs...
Which Age Group suffers the most?
*5-20= The majority not having basic meals a day and the minority being fed with corrupt income. Those in between live by faith.
*20-35= The majority cannot pay for tetiary training/college and minority working without job security except if being used as political yes-youth. Those in between live by faith or migrate.
*35-50= The majority cannot earn a decent income considering living standards (except for "Gbate-Kaka") and the minority move between jobs for greener pasture. Those in between live by faith or give up morals for "Coco-Yebeh"
*50-65= The majority are fighting for political power to make up for their middle-age losses and the minority are fed up without an option as the whole political atmosphere now stinks. Those in between are confused and havbe given hope on SL (except God's faithful servants)
*65-80=The majority are God-fearing since death is so close and the minority are greedy as shown in their fight for power despite living through all the other age groups as corrupt individuals (without repenting). Those in between are sick or neglected which makes them vulnerable (compromising the truth)...
In 2012, Sierra Leoneans may wake up like the Prince who woke sleeping beauty.
Subject: FOR MOIJUE
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Date Posted: 19:15:59 05/30/07 ()
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How do you rate MP ANSU KAIKAI in pujuhun to your PMDC member standing against him?Any match?
Subject: Re: FOR MOIJUE
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Date Posted: 23:07:28 05/30/07 ()
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Salieu Conteh will win on August 11
Subject: Re: FOR MOIJUE
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Date Posted: 05:20:38 05/31/07 ()
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We can see a conteh winning kaikai{Lord oh}
Subject: Re: FOR MOIJUE
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Date Posted: 06:27:10 05/31/07 ()
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OK Dok, u dae tok lek e nor possible. Is Conteh not a Sierra Leonean and descendant of Pujehun?
Subject: Re: FOR MOIJUE
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Date Posted: 07:55:26 05/31/07 ()
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The only thing i will defend for the KAIKAI is the chieftaincy not MP
Subject: WHAT IF...?
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Date Posted: 16:13:10 05/30/07 ()
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What if you have to cast a vote for either John Leigh or Charles Margai for the presidency.....who will you vote for and why?
Subject: Re: WHAT IF...?
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Date Posted: 01:25:30 05/31/07 ()
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SO far I have told you who I would not vote for and partly, why I would not. I cannot think of a more ridiculous idea than Johnny Leigh as president.
Let me have breakfast and then weigh the options again.
If I had to choose between Johnny Leigh and Chief Tony Blair?
I'd choose
Subject: Re: WHAT IF...?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 01:11:04 05/31/07 ()
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I would vote for Charles Margai of course.
That’s my honest opinion and I prayed an hour ago.
A besserwisser who didn’t fail in form four (because he already knew it all) would be unlikely to listen to others who he thinks he is superior to. This kind of thinking can lead to dictatorship at cabinet level. At the Hill Station level, we would never be invited the champagne. It’s a good height to look down from. Higher still, from heaven but arrogance will not get anyone there.
The Makeni Convention at which he failed to even get nominated, whereas Charles got 34 votes and was runner up, shows that I am not alone, - even within Leigh’s SLPP, in making such a determination. It’s politics.
For those like Barack Obama, who want to be professors of Constitutional Law, at prestigious American universities, the door is open. They can go and boast in academia, among the other professors, about how brilliant they are.
Obama of course does not say downgrading things about other lawyers, or their lack of excellence. Where is Leigh’s excellence in public relations? That is the number one quality of a politician.
We don’t even know how old Leigh is: We know that Tony Blair was born on 6th of May 1953.
Mr. Leigh would be a disaster as Foreign Minister.
I’d give Momodou Koroma 85%
It’s good that Foreign ministers (especially those from very poor countries, who have no nuclear weapons) keep a rather low profile.
Leigh would be all over the place – and the san san boys (from other countries) other ministries, other presidencies, would feel a little uncomfortable with him around.
How does he get along with the Africa-Americans? How many san san boys are we altogether, in USA, AFRICA? Yes, in USA Osama will court the black vote by starting his speech,
“Brothers and sisters” and not commit any social atrocities or violate language proprieties.
NO AFRICAN AMERICAN would vote for an n African-American candidate who thought that he was great – and it was not MR. Leigh and his mighty efforts that brought the war to an end in Sierra Leone. As the BBC commentator made clear (1300GMT) in covering Chief Blair’s visit. These commentators (Allan Little, Mark Doyle, know Sierra Leone, and their jobs, so well.)
The world is not divided into wise guys like Leigh and Fulumunkus like me.
Jerry Rawlings is a charismatic speaker.
Who wants a president who starts his funeral oration with "Friends, Romans, Citizens, & San-san boys, Flunkies, Fulumunkus, idiots, fools, and other failures in life!”?
A question that I'd like to ask is about the 149 chiefs that were assembled to meet the visiting prime minister of Britain and his wife.
They must be feeling very honoured. Does this make them more inclined to support the SLPP?
Subject: Re: WHAT IF...?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 03:07:36 05/31/07 ()
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first of all the candidate should be chosen by the Party. He just can't fly in from the street. Or because he was Nigeria's ambassador oir apostle to Mars...
Very briefly: I would vote for Mr. Margai because I regard him as truly Sierra Leonean , a man of the people who has spent most of his life in Sierra Leone and please note that even during the most difficult times, he has been part of the STRUGGLE.
(Uganda’s president Museveni lived in Goteborg, Sweden for more than six months, before going to the bush to fight – like Mugabe.)
Which fool would expect Leigh to lead a war against corruption?
The man who claims he was” robbed” and then joined forces with the”robbers”!
He has since taken away his long and tearful complaint ”We was robbed” which indicted the SLPP ConBention as nothing less than criminality and wickedness in high and low places.
He wants to be rewarded for being a faithful lap dog.
A MAN, should be more principled, should have more pride, and stand on more solid ground.
Charles Margai has never compromised on such an issue.
If Lee had got one vote at the Conbention, he would be begging to be running mate to Bee.
If it’s not too late, he can still raise the cash and go for it.
Ambition without enough cash, to support the vanity of it all?
There are other leading personalities in the SLPP.
A diplomat or politician does not go around offending everybody, just because he thinks that he is so smart. How smart is he, really?
Who would I vote for Leigh or Jesse Jackson?
Lee or Obama, how do they compare and who would I vote for in the US?
Who is the san san boy of the two?
Obama was elected by people ……..
Look at a real man’s working on ISSUES:
Of course, I’d vote for
Subject: Re: WHAT IF...?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 03:20:53 05/31/07 ()
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Hoepfully Mr. Leigh who is a resident member of the House of Cocorioko, will be appearing in person to express approval or disapproval of what's being said, so that we can have a civilised discussion.
NB: I am not a drunkard ( I bless the wine before I drink it), I do not land have never live on welfare, since I started living in Sweden permanently in 1971, and I am not a "jew boy".
Subject: Re: WHAT IF...?
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Date Posted: 16:17:04 05/30/07 ()
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John Leigh
Mr. Leigh is a new face in the salone political scene and I trust him more than Margai. Margai has been all over the place(APC, SLPP, NUP, SLPP0, and his only aim is to become president of salone at all cost. He is a bomber without a number(Excuse me, Standard times)
Subject: Re: WHAT IF...?
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 23:10:26 05/30/07 ()
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Margai has never joined APC, and rewind your music to Makeni
Subject: Re: WHAT IF...?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 05:46:14 05/31/07 ()
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"WE was robbed" as an historical record has been erased from the website where it used to be on public view. The conBention has now been given decent clothes to wear and is dressed up as the Convention.
Perhaps it was a convention and not a ConBention after all and it was just old sour grapes talking.
Because if it was a ConBention ( and Charles Margai still managed to get 34 votes, how many more votes would he not have got if it had been entirely free and fair , and without an atmosphere of intimidation? Fierce part discipline meant not incurring the wrath of Pa Kabbah, by supporting other than his prince in shining armour, Pa Berewa.
If it was indeed a Con-BENTION, then Hon Charles Margai had a moral basis for jumping out of that kind of corruption, and had the spine, to do it.
Others will forever be lacking in that kind of courage.
Sure people move around and eventually settle down, e.g. David Horowitz, from radical left to radical right…..
Read some political biographies.
My friend from the Gambia told me this story about an accident:
A taxi driver lost control of his car and smashed into a market place.
When Particulars Joe, the policeman came up to take down the details, the Taxi driver said he had a witness to testify in his defence.
“Ask this Leper standing here what happened,” he said to the police.
“Oh yes, I saw everything from the beginning to he end”, said the witness.
He was driving like 100 miles an hour, like a mad man or perhaps drunk, no brakes, no horn, and 100 m.p.h. and straight into the market place, where he fucked up the whole place, Mr. Constable!”
“What???” said the taxi driver in disbelief:
“Am I Mr. Leper?” asked the witness.
The moral of the story is obvious. Respect for even diplomats or san san boys and not only for Prince Charles or Prince Solo B Something they didn’t teach at the Sunday School?
Subject: Re: WHAT IF...?
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Date Posted: 00:27:14 05/31/07 ()
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I am not sure whether Iwould vote for CFM but for JL, its an outright NO.JL is as slippery as a GEL. He causes so mudh noise as the elections draw closer.I have come across some SLPP diehards that do not really like his lay-belleh approach.What an unfortunate diplomat.
Subject: Re: WHAT IF...?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 05:18:54 05/31/07 ()
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I’m in complete agreement with you about the downside, on very objective grounds. It’s opportunism, that’s’ what it is. Corruption is a very important election issue or should be, so said the BBC. They also know.
Can’t imagine e.g. Jeremy Greenstock dreaming of being PM of GB and Johnny is no Jack Kennedy either.
It’s always a question of QUALITY, not just self-proclaimed quantity. Check this out (I hope that the happy birthday child of yesterday Alieu Iscandari Esq. does):
http://www.google.se/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADBR_enSE222SE222&q=++Jeremy+Greenstock
Of course Leigh only comes up in this Forum, where he keeps himself alive, and even here he is not so popular.
Cyril Patrick Foray/ Davidson Nicol/ Eldred Jones/ Canon Sawyer/ Sir Henry etc, never called me a fulumunku, or flunkey or san-san boy (some can fox-trot and waltz you know) - and of course those who came from abject poverty, would like to refer to those who are far less of san san boys than themselves, would like to call others San San and San_san, whether culturally, at whatever dinner or cocktail party, making the smallest of small talk or even courting the countess) is most easily done, and quite naturally too.
The San San boys and the non San-San boys should declare their assets (including their Swiss Bank accounts, so that they can differentiate between the weeds and the chaff.
But corrupt politics being their last resort to getting rich, they will never do that, not now, because some of them have nothing in the till to boast about and some of those already in office have too much to account for.
Just see how simple and humble the Blairs were at this last visit to Sierra Leone. “Greatly honoured “, she said.
Those who are not Paramount Chiefs, MPs or big-wig cabinet ministers want to be King of America.
JE or JJ? What a question!
Which man?
If you knew JJ, you’d know that he's proud to be a "San San boy”. This is reflected in his creation and implementation of the PDC idea in 1982. (Peoples Defence Committees, active parts of the decision-making process in their own localities. San San boys, having a say -so)
JJ?
He's what you call a GUY:
Subject: Peace brings hope in land with life expectancy of 37
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Peace brings hope in land with life expectancy of 37
Jonathan Clayton, Africa Correspondent
Sierra Leone holds several world records — all of them negative. For seven of the past ten years it has been ranked the world’s poorest country, only recently nudged out of bottom place by Bangladesh.
The United Nations’ Human Development Index says that its life expectancy, at 37 and falling, is the lowest in the world. Deaths in childbirth are the highest in the world, made worse by widespread female genital mutilation. Nearly a third of children do not survive beyond the age of 5. Unemployment runs at more than 70 per cent and about the same percentage of the five million population live below the poverty line of 52p a day.
Nevertheless, the country today is at peace and, though corruption is endemic, there are signs of a mini economic boom. In the smarter areas of Freetown, the capital, grand villas overlooking long, curving beaches are being built. Boat-yards supplying a booming fishing industry reverberate to the sound of repair work.
There are new hotels, some geared to tap into the country’s tourist potential. Freetown is full of bars, restaurants and discos, all of which do a roaring trade, particularly among the large numbers of expatriates who have flooded in to help to rebuild the country.
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The problem is that little of the money, or Britain’s £40 million a year in aid, has trickled down into Freetown’s teeming shanty towns, where people wash and bathe in excrement-filled rivers, and too many young people say they have no prospects of finding work.
In rural areas, however, the picture is not so bleak. Crops have been replanted and the country is self-sufficient in food. Village markets and schools have reopened. The peace is tenuous. Local people run away the moment they see a white man approaching in a car, believing it can only mean one thing — mercenaries and the return of fighting. Overall, though, only the large number of limbless beggars hints that this country was until recently the setting for one of postindependence Africa’s most brutal civil wars.
In what has been described as the most complete case ever of total social implosion and breakdown, some 500,000 people — one tenth of the population — were murdered, maimed or raped.
Child soldiers, brainwashed by commanders and high on drugs, chopped off the limbs of civilians. Thousands were forced to dig for diamonds in vast open-air labour camps. The men responsible for pillaging the country’s diamonds are either dead or facing trial at a UNbacked tribunal. Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia, who bankrolled the rebels in return for diamonds, goes on trial in The Hague next month.
For Tony Blair perhaps the most satisfying event is that despite all its problems, no one in Sierra Leone today talks of a return to war.
Subject: ‘I’m trying to move Salone football forward’ - Leroy Rosenio
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‘I’m trying to move Salone football forward’ - Leroy Rosenior
Leroy Rosenior, the national football team’s caretaker manager, yesterday at the National Stadium in Freetown told Awoko Sports that he was not here just to qualify Sierra Leone for Ghana 2008 but to try to move the country’s football forward.
Rosenior noted that the two matches against Togo and Mali were going to be tough ones; but that what many fans wanted to see at this time was progress and that he could not just change things overnight.
“Its need a lot of hard work,” he indicated.
He also mentioned that, “if every one is prepared to work hard and give me the necessary support I can achieve my goal, and hopefully we can have a good result in the next two matches which would give everyone a massive lift.”
The Leone Stars’ coach stated that, “it is not good to take up a job and you are not successful,” stating further that it’s one of the main reasons he decided to come [to Freetown] to have a good look at every structure including the clubs and players before making a decision.
Rosenior noted that he was not in the country on holidays but to work very hard. “If I can have five to six days for any match to talk to the players and assess them on the ground, then I can produce a good team.”
Subject: Marketplace at LeoneDirect.com!
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Date Posted: 15:30:36 05/30/07 ()
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Subject: Rosenior names first squad
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Rosenior names first squad
By Mohamed Fajah Barrie
BBC Sport, Freetown
Leroy Rosenior has named his first Sierra Leone squad
Newly appointed Sierra Leone coach, Leroy Rosenior, has named a 21-man squad to face Togo in Freetown on Sunday in a 2008 African Cup of Nations qualifying match.
The squad for the Group Nine game includes thirteen foreign-based players and includes three new caps Albert Jarrett, Melvin Kamara and Ahmed Deen, who all play in England.
"It's been a little bit hectic selecting the players, we had 35 players and we've cut it down to 20 and I'm expecting one more player from Norway," Rosenior told BBC Sport.
"It's been fantastic settling down with the players and one thing that has struck me is the high motivation of these players.
"They desperately want to do well, this is fantastic and if I can channel that in the right direction then we've got chance to achieve something.
"I'm getting to know the players and forming a good relationship with them and I think it's going to work well."
The big name missing from the list is the Leone Stars captain, Mohamed Kallon, who along with three other players are serving bans imposed on them by the Confederation of African Football.
Squad:
Goalkeepers: Habib Sesay and Christian Coker (both Kallon FC)
Defenders: Mustapha Sama (LG-ACB Hanoi, Vietnam), Gibrilla Woobay (Universitatea Gaiova, Romania), Seyney Kargbo (FC Brussels, Belgium), Mohamed Fornah (Cenegal FC), Ibrahim Koroma (Kallon FC), Abu Tommy (Mighty Blackpool), Ahmed Deen (St Albans, England)
Midfielders: Kewullay Conteh (Atalanta, Italy), Melvin Kamara (Port Vale, England), Samuel Barley (OIS, Sweden), Alimamy Sesay (Kallon FC), Nahim Khadi Jr. (Bromley, England), Umaru Bangura (Honefoss BK, Norway), Albert Jarett (Milton Keynes Dons, England), Brima Conteh (Mighty Blackpool)
Fowards: Julius Conteh and Jamil Kargbo (both Dukaya, Cyprus) Abdul Deen Sesay (Ports Authority), Sheriff Suma (GAIS, Sweden)
Subject: Texan faces deportation in Africa war crimes case
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Texan faces deportation in Africa war crimes case
Web Posted: 05/29/2007 11:51 PM CDT
Guillermo Contreras
Express-News
Sierra Leone native Samuel "Sam" Kambo looks like a snapshot of the model citizen: Honors college student. Exemplary employee. Family man. A leader.
But to the U.S. government, the Texas transplant's presence in the United States has suddenly become a matter of concern — 14 years after it first let him into the country.
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Kambo — who settled in Austin with his Sierra Leonean wife and has four U.S.-born children — is in a jail in San Antonio fighting an attempt to deport him. This comes years after he informed the U.S. government that he was part of a group that overthrew a corrupt dictatorial regime in his native country in the early 1990s.
The government accuses him of participating in war crimes, which Kambo, 38, vehemently denies.
His unusual case, scheduled for trial today in San Antonio's immigration court, has pitted his supporters against an immigration system they accuse of unjustly punishing a man with good moral fiber.
"I don't understand Sierra Leone politics," said Robert Cullick, one of Kambo's co-workers at the Lower Colorado River Authority in Austin. "All I know is there's a man in front of me of integrity."
For years, the government opened the door for Kambo.
The State Department granted him visas to come to Texas to study and work after the 1992 coup. His previous employer applied on his behalf for his permanent residency. But when he showed up for his green card interview last October, immigration officials in San Antonio denied his petition, jailed him and put him in "removal" proceedings.
They cited as a reason his membership in the National Provisional Ruling Council, a military junta that ousted Sierra Leone President Joseph Momoh.
The government's immigration lawyers in San Antonio claim in their court pleadings that Kambo's presence in the United States is "an affront to civilized society."
The NPRC ruled Sierra Leone from April 1992 to 1996. In immigration court filings, Kambo maintains he quit the group in 1994 because of disagreements over how it was running Sierra Leone. He also argues that he wanted to make peace with rebel forces, but the majority in the NPRC wanted to fight.
In a 2005 letter to the government lawyers, the State Department said Kambo was one of eight soldiers in the inner circle of the NPRC.
"The ruling NPRC government took severe actions against rebels. Public humiliation, summary execution of prisoners and displays of rebel heads (and other body parts) were not uncommon," the letter said.
Kambo is not linked directly to any of the war crimes.
Kambo's attorney, Simon Azar-Farr of San Antonio, said Kambo readily admits he was part of the coup.
"He also agrees that a government makes mistakes in that maybe the proper attention is not paid to infrastructure or all of those matters, but in terms of the accusation that he was involved in genocide, torture or extrajudicial killings, he has always categorically denied any such claim," Azar-Farr said.
Kambo's wife of 14 years, Hanaan, said her husband did not have leadership roles while in the NPRC.
"He was disillusioned with the group. Things were not working out," she said of his reasons for quitting.
To those familiar with Sierra Leone politics, Kambo was the cool head trying to make his country better.
"Kambo was the only guy in the group who had the courage to quit," said Carl Schieren, who was a consultant to the United Nations in the 1990s and an expert on Africa. "That's something no one wants to recognize. He was on a much higher moral plane than the others."
Schieren helped administer a U.N. diplomatic program that gave scholarships to NPRC members to study abroad. Kambo was one of the scholarship recipients, enabling him to help pay for his engineering education at the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with honors. He later obtained a master's degree in business administration from UT.
At his job, Kambo excelled, was chosen for a leadership program and gained the respect of his fellow employees, who have been supporting his family financially and morally.
Hanaan Kambo hopes all the good her husband has shown convinces the immigration judge hearing his case that he should be allowed to stay.
"We don't know if justice will prevail. We're hoping. We're praying." Hanaan Kambo said. "We just want to be together as a family."
Subject: Tony Blair the African chief
From: CHIEF
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Tony Blair the African chief
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Beneath the shade of the giant cotton tree in Mahera village, Sierra Leone , Tony Blair became a paramount chief.
Stilt walkers teetered along, whirling grass-covered dancers threw themselves with abandon into their displays, the women sang and the drummers drummed as the celebrations of his elevation began.
A reigning chief told the solemn ceremony that ancient chiefs won their honour by successfully defending their settlements against aggressors.
"Therefore the role Mr Blair played in helping us defeat the rebels entitles him to chieftaincy in Sierra Leone," it was pronounced.
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A robe of brownish hues was draped across his shoulders as he sat on the ceremonial chair, a symbol of the enduring link between the former colonial state and the British crown.
Mr Blair told the crowd of excited villagers and local dignitaries, as he sat surrounded by fellow paramount chiefs: "It's wonderful to be with you here today in Sierra Leone and it's a particular honour to be made an honorary paramount chief - thank you very much indeed."
As the ceremony continued Mr Blair's wife Cherie looked on, wearing a matching top of gold, yellow and brown over dark brown casual trousers.
Mr Blair added: "I think it's very fitting indeed that this chair was given to the paramount chiefs during the course of the independence of Sierra Leone from the UK, and today it has a different symbolism.
"By my presence here today it's not an old symbolism of colonialism but the new symbolism of partnership between our two countries for our mutual benefit and good."
Warming to his theme, in a speech bizarre even by the standards of his kaleidoscopic decade in Downing Street, the Premier went on: "That is the relationship we have today and we are proud of it.
"The reason this honour is bestowed upon me is your love of your freedom and your democracy and your belief that Sierra Leone should only be ruled by its people and never given back to the gangsters and the violent people and the anti-democrats."
Mahera village bravely repelled the rebels many times during Sierra Leone's murderous civil war and the Prime Minister, speaking with genuine passion despite the quixotic surroundings, said: "What you showed a few years ago, the courage you showed, showed that in the end what people want is to be free and live in equality with each other.
"I thank you for this extraordinary honour you have bestowed upon me today."
Then, as applause rang out and pointing to his fellow chiefs Mr Blair joked about his refusal to don his robe of office saying: "I think it looks better on you guys than it does on me. "
Subject: Re: Tony Blair the African chief
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 18:31:41 05/30/07 ()
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Chief Blair
Subject: Re: Tony Blair the African chief
From: kroobaymom
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Date Posted: 15:37:12 05/30/07 ()
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This looks more like an initiation into one of the local Ojeh cults rather than a chieftaincy crowning!!! Agba Blair arabiole!!
Subject: Re: Tony Blair the African chief
From: Non-Partisan Observer
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Date Posted: 18:41:22 05/30/07 ()
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Suppressing the laughter, he must be thinking,
"dang, what they heck is that guy saying?"
Tony Awo Blair agbamo tia jaday oga ti-lay-jo.
Subject: Re: Tony Blair the African chief
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:29:29 05/30/07 ()
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Certainly one of our most beloved chiefs.....
In a less CMS country, he would be given at least one wife which it would be impolite to re-fuse (darling) in the name of monogamy....
It is what many a visiting African dignitary looks forward to (a reason why they usually want to leave Madam behind (for secret poly-gamy)
It could be one wife too many…
The excuse is always “But I couldn’t insult them by re-fusing… (It’s part of their culture – but don’t tell her they “honoured” me by…. Etc that’s’ for the prince “Coming to America” & sowing his “Royal Oats”…
And yes, if man is polygamous by nature, it stands to reason that in every Englishman (not the Scots) lurks a streak of Henry V111, the serial monogamist……
But for the record, we love Chief Tony, Chief Tony 1 of UK & SL
Subject: Re: Chief Tony
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:18:35 05/30/07 ()
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Certainly one of our most beloved chiefs.....
In a less CMS country, he would be given at least one wife which it would be impolite to re-fuse (darling) in the name of monogamy....
It is what many a visiting African looks forward to (a reason why they usually want to leave Madam behind (for secret poly-gamy)
It could be one wife too many…
The excuse is always “But I couldn’t insult them by re-fusing…
And yes, if man is polygamous by nature, it stands to reason that in very Englishman (not the Scots) lurks a streak of Henry V111, the serial monogamist……
But for the record, we love Chief Tony 1 of UK & SL
Subject: Re: Tony Blair the African chief
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Date Posted: 16:45:22 05/30/07 ()
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AFOJUDE OH AFOJUDE
Subject: Paramount Chief Matoh & Ya-Bom-posseh
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Britain's Blair Says Farewell in Sierra Leone
By Naomi Schwarz
Dakar
30 May 2007
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair continues his farewell tour of Africa in Sierra Leone Wednesday, the second stop in his three-country tour. The impoverished in west African country is where the prime minister is widely credited with ending a brutal 10-year civil war. Naomi Schwarz has more from VOA's West Africa bureau in Dakar.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair received a warm reception in Sierra Leone, a country that credits the prime minister with turning the tide in its brutal civil war and bringing an end to the 10-year nightmare.
In thanks, representatives of Sierra Leone's 149 paramount chiefs, local traditional rulers in the former British colony, will name Mr. Blair one of their own at a ceremony in the township of Mahera. In addition he will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Sierra Leone.
As Mr. Blair considers his legacy after he steps down next month, Patrick Smith, editor of British-based Africa Confidential says Mr. Blair may hope people will remember his role in ending the Sierra Leone conflict.
"Sending the British troops into Sierra Leone in 2000 was regarded almost unequivocally as a foreign policy success," said Smith. "Three years later when he sent the troops into Iraq and Afghanistan it has been regarded almost unequivocally as a foreign policy failure. So he probably has a bit of nostalgia for Sierra Leone because of that."
Frances Fortune, with Sierra Leone non-governmental organization Search for Common Ground, says Sierra Leoneans have not forgotten the role the British played.
"England is Sierra Leone's best friend," she said. "Sierra Leoneans are very grateful to the support that the United Kingdom has given to the country to help them deal with the war and the aftermath of the war."
Britain has long had a close relationship with the West African nation founded with British help by freed slaves in the 1700s. Africa Confidential editor Smith says Mr. Blair also has personal ties in the country.
"Blair's own family had strong ties to Sierra Leone. His father was an examiner at the Furrow Bay College, which was one of the earliest universities in West Africa," added Smith. "So I think he has both the national and personal ties to Sierra Leone."
Search for Common Ground's Fortune says Sierra Leoneans hope the new leaders in Britain will continue to support development in Sierra Leone. She says infrastructure, particularly roads and electricity, is still lacking, and this impedes growth.
"If we are going to be able to attract investors we need to tackle some of the very larger issues that are limiting the ability of investors to come here and work effectively," said Fortune.
She said the country is also working hard to combat corruption and poverty.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1862682.ece
Subject: BLAIR IN MAHERA
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Date Posted: 14:50:37 05/30/07 ()
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Mr Blair inspected a guard of honour at Lungi airport
Blair attacks Africa trip critics
What is Blair's Africa legacy?
Prime Minister Tony Blair has attacked UK critics of his week-long trip to Africa, after receiving a warm welcome on his arrival in Sierra Leone.
Mr Blair's trip, just before he steps down as PM, has been dubbed a "vanity tour" by some UK newspapers.
But Mr Blair said: "The one thing I have come to despise more than anything else in my 10 years is cynicism".
He said there had been real progress in Sierra Leone where he sent peacekeeping troops during his first term of office.
The move made him a popular figure in the West African state, as it proved decisive in preventing rebels from taking over.
Paramount chief
He was later made a paramount chief - a mark of respect in the country - during a ceremony in the village of Mahera.
Speaking after talks with the country's President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Mr Blair said: "However ferocious the challenges are in this part of Africa it's better to intervene and try to make a difference than stay out and try to cope with the consequences at a later time."
All I'm saying to cynics back home is if we care it might make a difference
Tony Blair
Asked about criticism of his visit, Mr Blair said just a few years ago Sierra Leone had been in danger of being taken over by gangsters - while today it was approaching elections.
"I don't say that is perfection, but I say it's a darned sight better than it was before," he said.
"All I'm saying to cynics back home is if we care it might make a difference and making a difference is what politics should be about."
Corruption problem
During his visit he saw a display by the new army and police force. British troops have led efforts to rebuild the national army since 2000.
Sierra Leone is expected to hold presidential elections in August - the first poll since UN peacekeepers left in 2005.
It is now stable but it remains desperately poor and high levels of corruption are a major problem.
Mr Blair inspected a guard of honour at Lungi airport
Many people would like to see donor countries like Britain put more pressure on the government of Sierra Leone to ensure aid reaches the people who need it.
Asked by local reporters about allegations of poor governance in Sierra Leone, Mr Blair admitted development was "painfully slow" but said he was sure President Kabbah would do everything he could to make the forthcoming elections free and fair.
The prime minister had said he hoped his tour would help to focus attention on Africa and climate change in the run-up to the G8 summit.
I'm really sorry I couldn't come to Freetown but I say to you, next time I come back I will certainly come to Freetown and other parts of the country
Mr Blair on local radio
He is also calling for a strengthened African Union peacekeeping force, to intervene in the continent's conflicts, backed by a £25m reserve fund from the EU.
He added: "Yes it's Africa's responsibility for peacekeeping, but we in the West have a responsibility to fund it, to help to train the force and with logistics. If we do not do that, the impact is faced not just here but in the wider world."
He also apologised for not visiting Freetown - which is a helicopter trip away from Lungi airport - which left some residents of the capital disappointed.
He told a local radio station: "I'm really sorry I couldn't come to Freetown but I say to you, next time I come back I will certainly come to Freetown and other parts of the country.
"It's just been a little difficult in terms of time today."
On his last major tour before he steps down as prime minister at the end of June, Mr Blair has already held talks with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Subject: SLPP, Is this worth a continuity drive?
From: Tiday Salone
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Date Posted: 14:22:53 05/30/07 ()
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Climb the hill above Freetown and part of the answer presents itself: the sprawl of new homes - large, luxurious and gated - that stand now on land that was, seven years ago, lightly forested hillside.
The government that Britain rescued seven years ago is still in power.
It has presided over a system of entrenched corruption in which the political elite grows rich while the mass of the people remain poor.
Unemployment stands at 80%. Life expectancy for men is 39.
In the seven years since Britain's intervention there has been no serious anti-corruption drive. Freetown remains one of the world's few capital cities with no mains electricity supply and no running water in most homes.
Poverty and corruption fuelled the last war. Their persistence means that the ending of the war and bringing of lasting peace remains an achievement both remarkable and fragile.
Subject: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALIEU!!!
From: CHEZ WINAKABS EUROPE
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Date Posted: 13:39:21 05/30/07 ()
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Just got a reminder - today is your birthday and I sent byou a nice gift - check your mail to see if it is an acceptable present. Stay blessed and keep the years rolling in good health.
Subject: Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALIEU!!!
From: Dr. Charles Curtis-Thomas
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Date Posted: 08:28:01 05/31/07 ()
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AGBA ALIEU, OH!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY. MAY THE LORD CONTINUE TO GUARD AND GUIDE YOU.
Subject: Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALIEU!!!
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 14:57:17 05/30/07 ()
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Chez my brother, I took one look at the gift and all I could say was I am not so sure that my 50 year old heart could deal with this.
Subject: Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALIEU!!!
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
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Date Posted: 07:20:12 05/31/07 ()
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I wish you many more birthdays to come.What was the rationale of celebrating your birthday before the correct date(May,30th)?
Subject: Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALIEU!!!
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 17:07:35 05/30/07 ()
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As a foundation member of the COCORIOKO forum, you deserve a hug and a pat on the back on this milestone day in your life.
CONGRATULATIONS AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU from me on behalf of all members of the COCORIOKO BOARD AND THE FORUM. GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY HE GIVE YOU MORE BLESSINGS AND LONG LIFE.
Subject: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: Lie Lee
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Date Posted: 12:47:44 05/30/07 ()
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"Even Caleb Obe and Waju Waju Fadika "BAD MAN DEM" who later became diplomats are by far better than Leigh. Because they never locked their staff out. They never used their official residences as a whore house nor did they ever referred to their countrymen as low grade san san humans or rayray reds boys.If any thing they are cool brothers compared to this baseless reject.
Unelectable hopeless broke and lying vomit lickers like Leigh should be stopped before they get another crack at the whip. And the only way to do that is to simply ask him to prove me wrong. So Guys lets don't blank him, let us ask him to prove his lie about the Sellus family House."
Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY
From: NarTrue
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Date Posted: 13:40:37 05/30/07 ()
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This is the most accurate descr1ption of John Leigh's lack of good character that I have ever read in this forum.
Subject: SLPP SUCCESSES:
From: ABK
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Date Posted: 12:01:18 05/30/07 ()
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You be the judge,read about the achievements of the SLPP Government.
Subject: Re: SLPP SUCCESSES:
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 12:24:35 05/30/07 ()
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Successes? I hope we are all reading from the same article. Alan Little's article is an indictment of the SLPP performance.
On deforestation and overnight gentrification he writes: "Life remains tough for most in Sierra Leone. Climb the hill above Freetown and part of the answer presents itself: the sprawl of new homes - large, luxurious and gated - that stand now on land that was, seven years ago, lightly forested hillside".
On corruption he continues " The government that Britain rescued seven years ago is still in power. It has presided over a system of entrenched corruption in which the political elite grows rich while the mass of the people remain poor. In the seven years since Britain's intervention there has been no serious anti-corruption drive. ".
On economic stagnation and no hopes of achieving the MDG's he says "Unemployment stands at 80%. Life expectancy for men is 39. Freetown remains one of the world's few capital cities with no mains electricity supply and no running water in most homes".
"Poverty and corruption fuelled the last war. Their persistence means that the ending of the war and bringing of lasting peace remains an achievement both remarkable and fragile".
We want to sustain the peace and witnesses many life transforming changes, both of which are elusive under another 5 year term for the SLPP.
Subject: “No 60-year-old will ever rule this country again” Obasanjo
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 10:41:50 05/30/07 ()
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Remarks by Outgoing President Obasanjo made at the Abuja National Youth Leaders Valedictory/Appreciation Congress, May 28, 2007.
“No 60-year-old person will ever rule this country again. We will never have any 60 years old person to rule this country again. I am saying that those taking over from Umaru Yaradua and Goodluck Jonathan will even be much younger. The emergence of Yaradua and Jonathan as president-elect and vice president-elect has shown that the nation is tired of older people in government. I am a supporter of youths taking over administration of this country. You can always see that in my actions that I love and respect the youths of this country. That is the reason why I created the Ministry of Youths which has taken off since January this year. The PDP gave us Yaradua and Jonathan because they are youths. May we never have 60 years and above in Aso Rock as our president again. The duo of Yaradua and Jonathan are the youngest to emerge democratically as our leaders” he said.
No one could have said it better than President Obasanjo who in his recent visit to Sierra Leone called for continuity. This is the first time in Nigeria that a civilian government has handed over power to another civilian government, and President Obasanjo’s call for continuity in Sierra Leone, is a call for a peaceful transition from one elected government to another, and should not be misconstrued as a call for a transfer of power from one octogenarian President to another.
I presume President Obasanjo’s sentiments and wishes for Nigeria, permeate the length and breadth of Sierra Leone; with hopes alive that we can entrust the destiny of our beloved country in the hands of seasoned and matured leaders, with the strength and vibrancy that we need to take the nation forward. The political days of octogenarians like Solomon Berewa, Dr. Sama Banya; Lawyer Carew; JB Dauda, Dr. Demby, and the likes of them are over. We want to see them in the class of senior statesmen; people we can call on for their opinions on national issues. We want the coming changeover to be a true transfer of power and not have a government that is a puppet of the old guards.
Our country needs radical reforms and would not thrive in a situation wherein we have the likes of Retired President Kabbah trying to run the country from retirement, a situation that will happen if Berewa is elected. Sierra Leoneans go to the polls in August this year, hoping to secure a smooth transition to a much younger man who would subsequently hand over to an even much younger President in the future.
President Obasanjo's call for continuity is a wake up call for all Sierra Leoneans to maintain the peace and political stability every single Sierra Leonean has fought so hard for and step up the fight against deprivation and corruption. How interesting these elections would have been if the SLPP had chosen a much younger man as their Presidential candidate, while the octegenarians bow out gracefully!!
Sierra Leoneans should take the cue from Nigeria and vote Ernest Bai Koroma in as their next President. I foresee a better working relationship between President Musa Yaradua (56) and President Ernest Bai Koroma (54) for the furtherance of the interests of the peoples of our two nations.
LONG LIVE THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA- LOVE LIVE THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE.
Subject: Re: “No 60-year-old will ever rule this country again” Obasanjo
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 16:21:19 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: futatoro@gmail.com
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Look kabsKanu,Those who interfere with Free and Fair Elections in Africa I consider them as trash. \obasanjo is trash AND HE NEEDS TO BE PUT ON TRIAL AND THEN SHOT. And think that those who give give support to leaders who interfere with elections should be jailed after trial.
Do not censor my opinion. I sent a posting a few hooura ago and it was not published.
Yaya Fanusie
Subject: Re: “No 60-year-old will ever rule this country again” Obasanjo
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 15:32:33 05/30/07 ()
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Obasanjo’s “No 60-year-old will ever rule this country again” sounds more like a decree than a prediction
It’s unfair to call Mr. Berewa who was born on 6 August 1938 an octogenarian.
Mr. Berewa could be a leader and an elder in whom there is the basic experience requirement – and as VP, of course he is familiar with the ins and outs of doing the president’s job.
The Prime Minister of Sweden is 42 years old.
He was six years old when I came to Sweden……
Subject: Re: “No 60-year-old will ever rule this country again” Obasanjo
From: Yaya Fanusie
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Date Posted: 11:08:39 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: Saigobe@lanset.com
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Olu,
In 1961 I was urging that the voting age be reduce to 15yrs all over Africa. And to run for office 21yrs. ols. if you go to www.coaforum.com you will see that one of our mission is Creating The African Political Culdture for the Women and the Young to lead. We also advocate Fair and Free Elections, etc. We are not just interested in Age but responsible and ethical leadership. As for me, I donot have to listen to Obasanjo. all care he could go screw his mother. If I have the chance I will shoot him. Any body who messes with free and fair elections in Africa should be shot.
Yaya Fanusie
Subject: A TOP BBC REPORTER
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 10:24:05 05/30/07 ()
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.......'It is fair to say that after all the terrible past of Sierra leone, this Country has made great stides for its people,,,,,,Britain brought security, and they have used ut to make peace.......'
ALLA LITTLE a senior BBC reporter on TONY BLAIR's visit to Sa Lone, BBC 1'oclock news in LONDON.
Subject: Re: A TOP BBC REPORTER
From: Blinder Than Blind SLPP Apologist
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Date Posted: 15:02:01 05/30/07 ()
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"[The SLPP government] has presided over a system of entrenched corruption in which the political elite grows rich while the mass of the people remain poor.
Unemployment stands at 80%. Life expectancy for men is 39.
In the seven years since Britain's intervention there has been no serious anti-corruption drive. Freetown remains one of the world's few capital cities with no mains electricity supply and no running water in most homes.
Poverty and corruption fuelled the last war. Their persistence means that the ending of the war and bringing of lasting peace remains an achievement both remarkable and fragile"
"ALLA LITTLE a senior BBC reporter on TONY BLAIR's visit to Sa Lone, BBC 1'oclock news in LONDON." -- quoted misspelling of ALLAN as "ALLA" courtesy of blind SLLP apologist xcalling himself CADMUS.
Subject: Re: A TOP BBC REPORTER
From: SLPP
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Date Posted: 19:39:19 05/30/07 ()
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You are even blinder than the everlastingly blind SLPP apologists like Cadmus and Leigh. But that's not a surprise -- no one can be as blind as you, Joker.
Subject: Re: A TOP BBC REPORTER
From: APC
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Date Posted: 18:21:50 05/30/07 ()
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Oh boy! You guys are always ready to cookup figures to make your arguments look authentic. But whatever you do the SLPP will win again.
Subject: Re: A TOP BBC REPORTER
From: SLPP
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Date Posted: 19:40:03 05/30/07 ()
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You are even blinder than the everlastingly blind SLPP apologists like Cadmus and Leigh. But that's not a surprise -- no one can be as blind as you, Joker.
Follow Ups:
Subject: Re: A TOP BBC REPORTER
From: Tamba Gborie
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Date Posted: 11:14:11 05/30/07 ()
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There was also another report this morning on bbc radio1 about the endemic corruption that has plagued the country. It is reported that, There is no clean water sypply, no electricity and people are suffering because of corrupt government officials of the SLPP. what do have to say about that?
Subject: Why JohnLeigh dislikes Margai
From: Moijue-postman, san san boy sympathiser
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Date Posted: 10:02:46 05/30/07 ()
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After a political rivalin May 2005 declined to cooperate with Ambassador Leigh in trying jointly to capture the Party leadership position unless the said rival became the automatic leader of the reform group, the Ambassador continues to leave the door of cooperation open to all those who wish to join forces to clean up our system of governance.
Moijue:A system that BEREWA has always played a pivotal role in for the past 10 years.
Subject: Watch BBC2 AT 1030PMK TONIGHT
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 09:57:45 05/30/07 ()
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Special programme on salone at 10:30pm on BBC 2 Newsnight
Subject: Re: Watch BBC2 AT 1030PMK TONIGHT
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 10:26:07 05/30/07 ()
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Moijue,
I will be watching with interest....
Thanks for the info.
Subject: Vice President Commissions Two Completed Local Council Proje
From: LOCAL COUNCIL
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Date Posted: 09:19:37 05/30/07 ()
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The Vice President cutting the tape to commission the health complex
Vice President Commissions Two Completed Local Council Projects
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The Vice President Mr. Solomon Berewa, on Sunday May 27 commissioned a new Lorry Park and a Health Care Complex in Magburaka, headquarter of Tonkolili District.
The Vice President addresses a crowd of supporters at the entrance of the lorry park
Both projects were undertaken by the Tonkolili District Council using the rapid results approach methodology. This entails implementation of a project within a relatively short period of time, usually 100 days, with full community participation and limited resources.
The Rapid Results Initiative started in 2004 as a stop-gap measure to get the newly established local councils engaged in the implementation of development projects even before they started operation in earnest.
The Lorry Park, situated at the centre of town boasts a large space that can accommodate tens of vehicles at a time, as well as a ‘pavilion’ for waiting passengers a provisions shop and water well. With a huge metal gate and thick wall fence, security is also guaranteed at the park.
Before commissioning the lorry park, the vice president said the venture was one justification of the reintroduction of the local government system in the country.
The Primary Health Care Complex was completed in just 90 days. It consists of a clinical and an administrative division. Facilities in the clinical division include antenatal postnatal and under five clinics, Laboratory and EPI Services, a dispensary and an adolescent health centre.
The Vice President cutting the tape to commission the health complex
In the administrative division there is a conference hall and various offices.
With the new Primary Health Care Complex, Magburaka has become the only non-provincial headquarter town boasting such a facility.
‘Thank God we had the common sense to bring back the local councils,’ the Vice President said before commissioning the complex. He congratulated Tonkolili District Council and the Institutional Reform and Capacity Building Project (IRCBP) for a job well done. (The IRCBP ensures that local councils function properly.)
The Director of the Decentralisation Secretariat, Emmanuel Gaima told the gathering that the local government system is working. What we need now, he said, is sustainability.
The Vice President and entourage received a tumultuous welcome in Magburaka with huge crowds and masked dancers lining the streets doing endless sloganeering
Subject: Re: Vice President Commissions Two Completed Local Council Proje
From: Abdul O'toole
To: All
Date Posted: 10:26:36 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: otoolekargbo@yahoo.com
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Is this the guy that came to columbus to give a talk about sa/lone a while ago. He was before a no smoking hall that he was to give his speech, and was smoking,is the vice of sa/lone boy.
Subject: Re: Vice President Commissions Two Completed Local Council Proje
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 10:56:15 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
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O'toole, Oga How now? Why yo nor ask mek e light you jot!!
Subject: Front page lead article
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 08:33:48 05/30/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh's article on Berewa was going to be the front page lead story in today's COCORIOKO. What happens is that once articles meant for publication are produced on this forum or other newspapers, they may not be lead stories because others have already read them. We want to thrill readers everyday with fresh articles on top of the page.
Contributors who write major articles should give us chance to publish it first like Profs. Jimmy Kandeh , Sia Tiyama and Muana do. After that you can bring them to the forum. What about that ?
Subject: Re: Front page lead article
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 09:22:03 05/30/07 ()
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The SLPP and it's cohorts are so desperate they dont know simple rules.
Subject: Re: Front page lead article
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 10:20:39 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Moijue:
When was the rule made and enunciated? Before or after the fact?
Do you know that the readership of the Forum and front page are not identical? Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: Front page lead article
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 13:41:43 05/30/07 ()
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Common sense dictates that u do so.
Subject: Re: Front page lead article
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 18:33:02 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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One man's common sense is another man's dombolo.
Another man's common sense is a crook's yuki-yuki, kalo kalo excuse, and so on.
I will write to Rev Kabs Kanu later and ask him to reconsider.
Rules must be set before, not after, the fact. And rules must be published for all participants to adjust their conduct accordingly.
Maybe, PMDC is a commonsense party. No wonder it makes so many stupid decisions. GOODBYE. - JL
Subject: Sierra Leone: High Levels of Corruption remain
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 07:18:14 05/30/07 ()
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Just watched the main item on BBC World news: Blair on his way, terrible footage of garbage and squalor, and some pointed commentary on British intervention on the side of the Government seven years ago and as the commentator said, disappointment at the high levels of corruption which is now entrenched in a government that is willing to do very little about reducing it.
Please watch the nerxt world news broadcast
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: High Levels of Corruption remain
From: KLA
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Date Posted: 10:51:49 05/30/07 ()
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So much of British History is tied to Salone. I know you are tops in this regard.
Blair has personal ties to Salone, having spent some of his youth there.
One must also ponder at these acts of British benevolence...GUILT TRIPS or Confirmation Safaris on the inability of Some African Nations to take care of important business, even with abundant help from the
International community.
History is moving full circle.The justification for the noted and brutal exploitation of the AFRIKAN CONTINENT by the true enemies of Afrikans,is being marketed to us with all the creativity of FLEET street
and other centres of hype...In living colours!!
Are Afrikans of this age up to the task in taking our deserved place in the community of Nations? lET THE READERS MAKE THE CALL.
tstm
xx
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: High Levels of Corruption remain
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 10:49:55 05/30/07 ()
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CORnelius,
Britain is the third Richest Country in the world....But give me a Camara and I can take photos and record just as many areas of SLUMP as you wish...I have never been to the states...Do they have Slumps in any of the big cities there?
Oh, and on the question of corruption, Mr Cornrlius, the last British Conservative Government was brought down partly because of corruption, the current Labour Government I can tell you have had no less than 5 Ministerial resignations on account of corruption...The Party is currently been investigated for giving HONOURS in return for CASH.....By the way is there any corruption in the States? I can think of the Harliburton organisation( I am not sure of the spelling) but it is a company that the US Vice President was connected to and had most of the contracts in Iraq. Yet Britain and the USA are the greatest demoracies in the World.
Now don't get me wrong, CORRUPTION in any language, colour, country, Shape of Form is, and should be unacceptable....but please stop trying to fool our people by pretending that it only happens in Sa lone.
It is time you grow up and stop you anti- SLPP rant. Stop fretting old man, Cornie, and get real.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: High Levels of Corruption remain
From: M. Alieu iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 15:37:52 05/30/07 ()
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but please stop trying to fool our people by pretending that it only happens in Sa lone.
It is time you grow up and stop you anti- SLPP rant. Stop fretting old man, Cornie, and get real.
But arent we and shouldnt we ONLY be concerned with what happens in sierra leone?
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: High Levels of Corruption remain
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:50:34 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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NO. We should learn from other societies. Import the good and discard the bad. - JL
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: High Levels of Corruption remain
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
To: All
Date Posted: 18:49:40 05/30/07 ()
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It doesnt appear as if you know what you are responding to and I will make it easy for you. Cadmus believes that Corn should not complain about Corruption in Sierra Leone because corruption is not unique to sierra leone. I copied the relevant portions of his post that I wanted to address and did so accordingly. My response was that the fact that it happens in sierra leone should concern us more than if it were to happen anywhere else. Your response is a classical non sequitur.
Let me ask you this question John do you just jump in to a dialogue without understanding what was being said? I need not apprach the merits of your u8nderstanding of the issues I have addressed, suffice it to say that you did not properly address what my beef was. In the future please treat my posts with the utmost respect, same as I have for you and none of your usual knee jerk reactions that you may have for other forumites. My posts are well thought through and I almost always stand 100% behind what I say.
Stay Blessed
Alieu
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: High Levels of Corruption remain
From: Proof reader
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Date Posted: 11:17:14 05/30/07 ()
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Britain is the third Richest Country in the world?
Not true by almost all standard indicators of national wealth.
Subject: Alieu Sesay-there was corruption too
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 05:34:53 05/30/07 ()
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If we seek development for our nation, then we should stop to deceive ourselves and put the affairs of the state ahead of our tribal,regional or party affiliation combined with personal greed.There is no doubt that,the APC was corrupt and most of those corrupt elements have circulated into other parties mainly to the SLPP.But the level of corruption with the slpp is the worst in the history of our nation.Sierra-Leone received millions of dollars from donor countries for reconstruction and nation building.Where is the money mr Sesay?No electricity,water supply,late salaries for the civil service,garbage all over the country and as a result the country is in a state of environmental disaster.Have you seen the scene of a fraction in Freetown?Mr Sesay,animals namely pigs,humans, garbage and sewage living side by side.Please try to turn on your tv set today on bbc then you will proof me right.The slpp is a failure and they are on the brink of extinction from office.If even they postpone the elctions to infinity they will be rooted out.People are ready to swim beneath the Atlantic ocean to vote them out.I am always available to debate provided you are willing to do the same thing,rather than insulting or using abusive language.
Subject: MR BLAIR PLEASE WARN YOUR SERVICE MAN NOT TO INTERFERE
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 04:56:47 05/30/07 ()
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Mr Blair,I hope your short visit would be an occasion to warn your service man by the name of Mr Kabbah not to tamper with the outcome or results of the elections.The people of Sierra-Leone are fed up with the most corrupt,incompetent government in the history of Sierra-Leone.I hope you will have a glance over the infrastructure of the state despite the millions of pounds your government and the British tax payers have donated.
Subject: Blackout John Leigh: do not read his postings
From: san san boy
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Date Posted: 03:07:12 05/30/07 ()
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It is only here that John Leigh can spew his nonsensical remarks.
In order to render him irrelevant, I support the motion that all of us who want to see Sierra Leone regain its lost image, must not read or react to John Leigh's diatribe and vituperation.
Subject: Re: Blackout John Leigh: do not read his postings
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 10:56:36 05/30/07 ()
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San san Boy,
How then would you contribute to a democratic debate in Sa Lone? You must hear all sides my friend, that way you can learn from people of superior political interllect like John Leigh, it will open your mind......You do not have a monopoly of love over Sa Lone....A true sa san boy talk.
Subject: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: Almamy Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 06:56:01 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: 24hr03.osr.columbia.edu at 156.111.18.112
Message:
I do not think ignoring Amb. John Leigh would help in bringing SL's lost image.
He is tolerant and very few SLeoneans of his profile are like that.
If you have time and points then prove him wrong in writing..
This forum makes an interesting literacy exercise..
My Question for John Leigh is:
I want him to tell us what he has against Margai or APC? Policies/Personalities
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 11:18:14 05/30/07 ()
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Fair point. I don't think that we should blank him, we should expose him as a LYING CREEP by simply asking him to Show us the proof that his dad built the Sellus House in Kormende for his mom. We should exposed him as a political LAIR? For telling Sierra Leoneans a blatant lie during his campaign for the slpp leadership.
If we want to clean the political mess in that country, these are the kind of issues that we should be beating this LYING CREEP with. Because it is a SERIOUS LIE.
Leigh is not a high profile politician. He is nothing but a discredited former ambassador and a despicable LAIR. By his own admission here he is not only corrupt, but an up for sale reject who can be bought at any price. Seriously speaking no one should put this morally bankrupt crook in the same league with heavy weights like Professor George Carew, late Professor Cyril Foray, Galaga King, Shirley Gbujama or John Kuyembeh? Never !
Kabbas errand boys like Morikeh Fofanah and Joe Blell are both decent than this LAIR. You don't hear these people going up and down like a YO YO insulting people because they disagree with them.
Even Caleb Obe and Waju Waju Fadika "BAD MAN DEM" who later became diplomats are by far better than Leigh. Because they never locked their staff out. They never used their official residences as a whore house nor did they ever referred to their countrymen as low grade san san humans or rayray reds boys.If any thing they are cool brothers compared to this baseless reject.
Unelectable hopeless broke and lying vomit lickers like Leigh should be stopped before they get another crack at the whip. And the only way to do that is to simply ask him to prove me wrong. So Guys lets don't blank him, let us ask him to prove his lie about the Sellus family House.
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:12:32 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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"I want him to tell us what he has against Margai or APC? Policies/Personalities" - Seray-Wurie
Dear Mr. Almamy Seray-Wurie:
I do not have any respect for their reputations and I want the public to understand what is at stake on August 11. I deeply believe that each would lead our country and people to yet another disaster if we do not properly exercise our right to vote.
Finally, imperfect though is the SLPP record, neither of the opposition parties represent an improvement over the SLPP. In fact, they represent outright retrogression in my estimate.
In my experience, Berewa is far superior to both of them.
Please don't mind those who are proposing a two-week boycott of my postings. I could care less and no one sensible will take them seriously because their proposal is pure dombolo.
If forumites have any specific complaints, let them itemize them. I have done my own itemizing. So, if I am in error anywhere, any such error can easily be picked out and creamed.
To be truthful, their censorship proposal is just another dunce san-san boy-cum-errand boy, briefcase-carrier ploy on their part to recover from my in-your-face, pinpoint bombardment almost to saturation levels.
These flippant san san boys are stunned beyond belief and are now licking their wounds - not their chops -and may have concluded that they need about two or so weeks to recover. Instead of admitting as much, they come up with another unsustainable PMDC rubbish decision.
Anyway, I myself may be out of the Forum soon. Their proposal may indeed be a "Budd-wan-fly-you-go-shake-tick" situation.
Please let me know if you need any further clarification. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: Almamy Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 12:49:58 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
Entered From: steve.accord-ne.org at 156.111.18.242
Message:
You and I know all three top candidates have been what you call flippers. I worry about what you (SLPP reformers )have as checks on leaders like Berewa. I admire SLPP though for changing Banya and Harding as compared to APC's structure. With a decade in power, the most common low grade san san boy as you call it remains neglected and made fun of.
How would your SLPP take steps that get close to "No Citizen Left Behind"?
* I honestly hope both parties would thoroughly reform by 2012 when a true third force might emerge...
* I cannot at this moment see which is better (though it may not matter to some as am far away from the ballot boxes)..
* I considered which one is most God-fearing, honest, decision-maker with good intent, caring for the future of SL in youths/children, better track-record, less likely to victimize other with political power, be influenced by clubs like "Ekutay", Gbate-Kaka", "Tegloma", "Religious-bias", having mistresses an open-secret, sending near kins abroad whilst our poor suffer, and other forms of abuse of office...
Ernest and Charles are younger but like Berewa they are from a generation breed in corruption.
When you leave this forum then some would realize your worth...Please stay as long as possible.
Most forumites know what would be the outcome of August 11th...
#####I think APC or SLPP because the old North-West for APC and South-East for SLPP would have the greatest influence.
####It is likely that those milking from the system now would want it to remain thus SLPP heavy weights from the North-West would use all reasources availabe to keep their "Gbate-Kaka going"
### I also think APC has a long way to settle and has to prove/show evidences of reform from within. It has to start with the councils controlled by APC+members of parliament doing like Alpha Kanu (though the recent Hajj issue is still not clear to me). sometime ago, Ernest had a shadow cabinet which I did not hear commenting on issues..
## I wonder when the once athen of sub saharan africa would start practising decent politics..Would it happen in my life time? 50-65 fighting to rule, 35-50 generation without decent jobs and 20-35 cannot afford paying college fees, 5-20 being starved or fed with corrupt income.
# Charles has right to contest like any other Sierra Leonean and he is proof that his uncle was good and his father not so bad after all. I do not think though SL is ready for Dynastic rule again. We still have let the piece of cake go round..
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: ADVICE
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Date Posted: 12:11:56 05/30/07 ()
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"Anyway, I myself may be out of the Forum soon. Their proposal may indeed be a "Budd-wan-fly-you-go-shake-tick" situation."
Good riddance,we can't wait to see your rear end out of this forum
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: Moijue
To: All
Date Posted: 10:18:19 05/30/07 ()
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After a political rival in May 2005 declined to cooperate with Ambassador Leigh in trying jointly to capture the Party leadership position unless the said rival became the automatic leader of the reform group, the Ambassador continues to leave the door of cooperation open to all those who wish to join forces to clean up our system of governance.
Moijue:A system that BEREWA has always played a pivotal role in for the past 10 years
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:23:05 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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So what? - JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
To: All
Date Posted: 12:55:28 05/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
So what? - JL
YOU NOR GEH WAN SHAME YOU HOPELESS SHALAT YOU BOSTON BEGGAR. NAR JELOUS EN PWELL HART GEH FOR KILL YOU YOU SAD OLD OLD FOOL
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: Moijue
To: All
Date Posted: 11:31:17 05/30/07 ()
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Message:
U are jealous of Margai and not happy with him as he refused to pitched tent with u in 2005
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:19:35 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
Moijue:
Your allegations are incorrect. Your focus is entirely off. You definitely need a better mentor.
No one has an obligation to cooperate with another in anything and such is no basis for unhappiness. Moreover, his 'pitching tent' with me would have made absolutely no difference. Berewa would have won no matter what! So his not 'pitching tent' with me is of no consequence to me.
Second, Mr. Maggi has nothing that would make me even remotely jealous of him and/or the types of people around him. I like to counter-attack his people simply because his flimsy background camouflaged by a pompous exterior provides me with an excellent punching bag to deal with you all while educating gullible elements of the public about the real issues for August 11, 2007.
And, incidentally, those who truly know me will tell you that I am completely jealous-proof. In fact, there is nothing you or Mr. Maggi have that I want.
My sole concern is the future of our country. I would like to see our country's leadership in the hands of the most qualified team of individuals. That's why I am so patient and respectful in explaining things to responsible people.
A lot of our people are not fully educated about the candidates and the organizations backing them - not to mention their obvious lack of knowledge about how severely our country have been degraded while under control of the wrong group of individuals.
My immediate objective is Voter Education, not jealousy or unhappiness. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: Moijue
To: All
Date Posted: 12:42:36 05/30/07 ()
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In Mr. Leigh’s view, the Oil Agreement drafted under Mr. Berewa’s supervision is exactly the type of commercial agreement that has subjugated Sierra Leoneans in deep poverty and must never be subscribed to again
I hope you will also educate them of the bad agreements like above that SOLO BEE negotiated on our behalf.
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 16:36:02 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
I stand by my comments set forth in my memo re the TGS-NOPEC OIL Deal of April 22, 2001. This does not mean that I should jump ship and join unstable alphbet-soup foolumunkus or poverty spreaders/marginalizers/frolickers. - JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: Moijue
To: All
Date Posted: 12:38:09 05/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
U wish u had the support that Margai has today that is giving ur party sleepless night.
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 16:47:01 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
I do not wish for anything Maggai has. My party is not having any sleepless nights - anymore than it was involved in any purported assassination attempt of your man.
Your party must be crazy sending you alone to confront me. Poor, poor leadership! The PMDC dike has too many holes and you do not have enough fingers - and chewing gun - to stem the tide. The dam is going to burst soon. Maggai won't be able to help you and others. You are wasting your time - like I am wasting my time dealing endlessly with you.
Accordingly, I am closing all debate with you in this forum for good as of today. GOODBYE. - JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: Moijue
To: All
Date Posted: 17:42:31 05/30/07 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Hope u are not running away from my factual rebuttals to your baseless yelibas about the man Berewa u were crucifying yesterday.
Have a nice day flip flopper of the decade.
Subject: Re: John Leigh is COURAGEOUS and believes in DEMOCRACY
From: krio boy
To: All
Date Posted: 18:44:26 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: krioboy@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb11dc1-161-174-58.dynamic.mts.net at 142.161.174.58
Message:
Your own sleepless night will come after Aug.11.
Subject: Blackout John Leigh: do not read his postings
From: san san boy
To: All
Date Posted: 03:06:56 05/30/07 ()
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It is only here that John Leigh can spew his nonsensical remarks.
In order to render irrelevant, I support the motion that all of us who want to see Sierra Leone regain its lost image, must not read or react to John Leigh's diatribe and vituperation.
Subject: Re: Blackout John Leigh: do not read his postings
From: silent majority
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Date Posted: 11:18:58 05/30/07 ()
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Why? Mr Leigh's essential arguments appear to me to be persuasive. SL voters are faced with a difficult decision in August. I say difficult because our collective destiny is at stake and our available options i.e APC, PMDC, SLPP etc all seem unlikely to deliver salvation anytime soon. It therefore seems to me that each voter must, amongst other considerations, consider which party is likely to pose the greater risk to the country as a whole. I suspect that this is the right approach to the problem. The very poor performance of the current administration cannot properly be the only consideration. If that was the case the SLPP would not have a hope. I am leaning towards the view that the risks of handing over the reigns of government to the current APC or PMDC may be greater than allowing the current administration yet another chance to make good on their promises. But I would be interested in the detailed counter attacks from senior opposition figures to Mr Leigh's points.
In addition I would appreciate Mr Leigh's comment on the notion that the SLPP did in fact do great damage to Sierra Leone by 1. advocating a one party state before the '67 elections 2. sponsoring, aiding or at least encouraging the very first coup after those elections. 3. Not going into principled opposition after those elections and potentially being in a better position to oppose Siaka Stevens (SS)one party ambition when SS went on to double cross his erstwhile supporters by imposing the one party state he had bitterly opposed.
Subject: Re: Blackout John Leigh: do not read his postings
From: silent majority
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Date Posted: 10:27:21 05/30/07 ()
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Subject: FORUMITES BLACK OUT JL FOR 2 WEEKS
From: BLACKOUT
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Date Posted: 23:55:45 05/29/07 ()
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I suggest that no one reply to John Leigh postings for 2 weeks. You will see a drastic changes in his stupid posting. Let's use the power of 'silence'.
Subject: Re: FORUMITES BLACK OUT JL FOR 2 WEEKS
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 11:04:42 05/30/07 ()
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You have got it all wrong... John Leigh does not write here so he can receive replies from Dumbos..or anybody for that matter...He writes to exercise his superior political mind, by saying what he believs in, and defend the Party he believe in and loves.
Read it or not he will say what he feels, it is called DEMORACY....(check it out in the dictionary It come under D)
He is here more to Educate most of you on this FORUM...that in itself is a good thing.That is what great men do.
Subject: Re: FORUMITES BLACK OUT JL FOR 2 WEEKS
From: boli
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Date Posted: 16:22:55 05/30/07 ()
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He is a liar and a loser. 'It come under D'. JL should teach you a bit of his grammer......fulumunku
Subject: Re: FORUMITES BLACK OUT JL FOR 2 WEEKS
From: BLACKOUT
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Date Posted: 14:49:34 05/30/07 ()
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Nope! JL write on this forum to flood unnecessary argument.
Subject: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE: SECTION 4
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 23:44:43 05/29/07 ()
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SECTION FOUR - SLPP BUILDS; APC WRECKS
APC DESTROYED SIERRA LEONE WITHIN 20 YEARS
TWELFTH, APC’s quarter century in office was on the whole a huge disaster for Sierra Leone. Of course, APC did a few good things. But by and large it was a long period of nation wrecking and what APC did not wreck, APC’s offspring, the AFRC/RUF junta, severely damaged or destroyed outright.
APC destroyed our multi-party democratic system and imposed a one-party monopoly dictatorship for nearly 20 years.
Nation-wrecking policies included the constructive expulsion of virtually all the corporations doing business and paying taxes to our government. The end result was extremely painful to our country to this day: mass unemployment, the extensive spread of poverty, poor government tax revenues, bad external reputation for our country.
The railway was shut down and sold for scrap by Stevens and Jamil.
APC shut down Marampa Mines. DIMINCO was looted. Diamond exports dried up.
Missionaries and European fled the country. Ready-made first-hand goods gave way to Belgium second hand goods and junk.
Water works, Road Transport and electric power stations collapsed from poor or zero maintenance and aggressive corruption.
APC ruined the SLPMB thus impoverishing once proud and financially independent producers.
Economic crimes were rampart as poverty was endemic. Buried dead bodies in cemeteries were dug up, stripped of valuables like and left exposed to the elements.
The APC government disbanded all district councils and concentrated power in Freetown under the APC president.
APC gave us the AFRC/RUF coupligan junta by packing the army with hegemonistic tribesmen and its prolonged mal-governance: KDDA marginalization, Ekutay poverty spreading, Binkolo Frolicking, Nepotism, Favoritism and Mass Discrimination against non-Northerners.
APC Degraded the National Currency, reducing its exchange value and rendering it inconvertible. It was a nightmare to travel out of Sierra Leone during APC days.
More on APC later.
Suffice to state here that APC is so discouraged by the heavy baggage of mal-governance it is carrying that they now presented themselves as the NEW APC. But the same OLD APC crooks and dubious personalities are lurking behind Ernest Koroma, a man mentored by the late Shahid Jamil.
A PARTIAL LIST OF SLPP’S ACHIEVEMENTS IN ONLY TEN YEARS
SLPP’s record of achievement vis-à-vis the competition clearly points to a first round election victory for Solomon Berewa and a large parliamentary SLPP majority. SLPP’s achievements during the last ten years include the following priceless victories:
1. Teaching the Military that coups are obsolete and wrong and that civilians can and will reverse coups.
2. Notifying the interloper states that though poor we are able to defend our national Independence.
3. Systematically restoring the Rule of Law after AFRC depravity and destruction.
4. Professionalizing and equipping the Military and Police Forces and creating a relationship for them with their UK counterparts following their politicization by the APC.
5. Patiently restoring civil administration from the catastrophic mess that the RUF and AFRC left behind.
6. Negotiating the Lome Accords and securing humanitarian aid.
7. Ending the war, disarming, demobilizing and re-integrating nearly 75,000 ex-combatants into civil society and thus securing the peace.
8. Labored to establish an International Regime known as the Kimberly Process on the international rough diamond trade.
9. Restoring the close diplomatic relationship between the UK and SLeone that existed before APC severely damaged it with their dunce comrade politics.
10. Rebuilding and refurbishing the Colonial Secretariat building and Bank of Sierra Leone building and repairing and refurbishing the other public buildings such as the Law Courts that AFRC/RUF badly damaged.
11. Rebuilding the Pademba Road Prisons.
12. Renovating and re-equipping all hospitals in the country.
13. Re-establishing the District Councils that the APC wantonly abolished
14. Protecting the Freedom of the press
15. Securing the forgiveness of $1.6 Billion in international debts incurred by corrupt, stupid and tribalistic hegemonistic governments.
16. Rebuilt public Bus service linking the capital with the provinces.
17. Re-equipping the Civil Service.
18. Renovating and re-equipping Lungi International Airport
19. Restoring water works and pipe-borne water in the provinces.
20. MORE LATER
CONCLUSION
BEREWA’S SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE AND WORK ETHICS ARE NEEDED
Many problems abound in Sierra Leone following years of neglect and mal-governance by the APC and the wanton destruction by the AFRC/RUF. Margai does not have the education, the experience, intelligence and stability to effectively address our manifold problems. APC has had its chance and has wrecked our country. Despite the propaganda, it is still the OLD APC.
President Kabbah has made a good start. Even so, all is not perfect but he has laid a solid foundation for social, economic and political progress. He has successfully mentored Berewa. Of all his competitors, Berewa has the background in education, experience, the attitude and intelligence to get the job done. Thank you. – JL 28/05/07
Subject: Re: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE: SECTION 4
From: FACT
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Date Posted: 21:21:07 05/30/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh, most of what you have listed as SLPP achievements are projects initiated and funded by the international community.These things would have happened no matter which party had won the 1996 and 2002 elections. Please let us have purely SLPP achievements. Thank you.
Subject: Re: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE: SECTION 4
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Date Posted: 12:15:53 05/30/07 ()
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Wonderful,For writing a brilliant piece like this through your political godfather Alhaji U.N.S.JAH (SLPP CHAIRMAN) BEREWA will pay the money that Kabbah government has refused to pay Ambassador Leigh a debt of $90,231.81 owed him.
Subject: Re: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE: SECTION 4
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 17:47:05 05/30/07 ()
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I am glad you think my piece is wonderful. Thank you very much. I would like to see your brilliant erudite lawyer leader match it!
Meanwhile, I see your team mates need two weeks or so to read and digest the article. Boy PMDC boys are really smart.
Here are the rest of my comments:
"I don't completely understand your point.
First, I wrote my rebuttal through no one. I consulted no one and made every decision myself.
Second, Alhaji UNS Jah is not my political Godfather. He is merely a political associate as well as an old friend from our Bank of Sierra Leone days.
Whether President Berewa will pay the debt owed me or not, I have no idea.
Lastly, my rebuttal is the right thing to do on its own, whether or not anyone is going to pay me the government debt owed me. That never entered my mind.
Today is my last day I will respond to you on your postings or your response to my postings. - JL"
Subject: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE: SECTION 3
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 23:40:20 05/29/07 ()
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SECTION THREE: MARGAI HAS NOTHING VALUABLE TO OFFER ANYONE
SAN-SAN BOYS VS MARGAI’S ERRAND BOY AND BRIEF CASE CARRIER
EIGHT, Frog Doctor’s personal attack on Dr. Momodu Koroma is ridiculous and shows how lacking the opposition is in understanding social issues. It is also hypocritical. Here is a man who once shed crocodile tears mercilessly complaining about my identifying uninfluential PMDC supporters as ‘san-san boys, bike drives, Shellmingo carwash boys and low grade noisemakers’ but does not now hesitate to refer to a one-time Margai assistant as Margai’s ‘errand boy and briefcase carrier’ in a futile attempt to denigrate Sierra Leone’s Foreign Minister. If Frog Doctor is part of the PMDC elite, then I truly believe that PMDC will never have a successful future.
This frogie is the same man, probably assigned by his flunkey boss, to attack me as anti-Limba over seven years starting with the interregnum but failed in his foolish mission as his feeble-mindedness marked him indelibly as someone totally lacking in credibility. When his foolish anti-Limba scheme failed, he wrote in Leonenet that I was anti-All Northerners but got promptly rebuked by another netter. Now this same man is assigned to STOP BEREWA. PMDC is wasting its resources on a very poorly educated male whose reliance on a lone Soviet frog experiment to bolster his scientific pretensions is a well known exercise in flunkeyism.
That Dr. Koroma was a one-time assistant to Mr. Margai does not mean Koroma must forever be condemned to that status as PMDC appears to be demanding. Like the grassroots of Sierra Leone, people want to gain ground, move up and not remain stagnant in the same low grade level forever. So, when Dr. Koroma came into contact with a more promising and productive mentor (the President of the Republic), he correctly made a change. Here is a group – PMDC- promising the whole country ‘positive change’ yet they are bitterly complaining because Dr. Koroma changed his mentor. It was an extremely smart move by Koroma since he gained most valuable opportunities for self-growth while serving the public – something he never got and could never get from this Margai man.
Margai had nothing positive to offer Koroma. Imagine how underdeveloped Dr. Koroma would have been today if he hard accepted the implied advice of Frogie and PJK! Like his flunkey mentor, he would today be up to his scalp swimming in alphabet soup and saddled with a large number of alphabet letters chocking his political reputation.
MARGAI HAS NOTHING VALUABLE TO OFFER ANYONE
Perhaps, the PMDC leadership’s policy is to limit individual growth based on a notorious dynastic bloodline, while exploiting the masses forever. Lets face it, Mr. Margai has very little or nothing productive to offer anyone on his own now or in the future. He does not have the requisite education, upbringing, experience, power or money.
He himself was mentored briefly as a pupil lawyer by an APC lawyer, the late A. B. Kamara, years ago. Since then, he has been his own boss. He is certainly not a good leader as we have seen how his many bad decisions have deposited his party into an irreversible free fall. We have also seen how part of its membership fled to the SLPP amidst fanfare in broad daylight around the country. And the recent PMDC March in BO was a crude cuss-cuss, fed-up spectacle of non-voting small boys that got converted to yet another flunkey propaganda assassination bogus plot.
Clearly, the candidate both Frog Doctor and PJK rely on in their STOP BEREWA campaign lacks the requisite education, experience, skills and sophistication to oust a sitting government and thereafter move our country forward. Their man has little or no experience, education or serious mentoring in economics, economic development, finance, banking, monetary policy, international trade, international diplomacy, and world class leadership, etc. So how can he lead?
Will he lead successfully because he is good at non-sustainable tricks such as secretiveness; one-manic-dynastic private party ownership; tribalistic voter registration discrimination, double-cross, deceit, duplicity, deception, duping, pandering, and idiot stunt? NO!
My advice to PMDC members is to carefully study the Dr. Momodu Koroma experience and decide, each for himself, who is more intelligent: the Mentor (Margai) or the Mentee (Koroma), Frog Doctor or Momodu Koroma, PJK or Momodu Koroma. If you remain in the PMDC, please note that you will be putting yourself behind for when the elections are over, you are very likely to get zero, I mean zip, from Mr. Margai.
BEREWA HAS THE RIGHT TO DELIBERATE ON A RUNNING MATE
NINE, as for selecting his running mate, both PJK and Frog Doctor are sorely mistaken in their allegations. SLPP has plenty of talents and Berewa is merely taking his time to review their records and personalities for he still has plenty of time to consider his options. In my view, the right time to select a running mate is when a party leader has traveled the length and breath of the nation and sounded party and public opinion to his satisfaction.
The choices available to him are many and varied and contrary to widespread speculation, the choice is entirely Berewa’s, not Kabbah’s. Even President Kabbah has told party members publicly as much. The SLPP running mate is unlikely to be named prior to the official start of the election campaign by which time plenty of consultations would have been completed. For your information, the campaign does not officially start until parliament is adjourned. This adjournment is slated for June 26.
APC, UNPP and NDA have not yet released the identities of their candidates’ running mates as far as I know. But no one is complaining against those parties while every critic is fixated on Berewa. So if Mr. Margai wishes to rush to lead the pack in mis-selecting his running mate, that’s his business.
ASPECTS OF MAKENI WERE TERRIBLE
TEN, I am one of those who wholeheartedly agree that aspects of Makeni cannot constitute a nice democratic experience. But it is an intra-party political problem. I accept the results because the rank and file, disturbed though they were (and they were not disturbed for Margai at all) at the time, chose to swallow that bitter pill rather than split the party.
I chose to remain in the party to help reform it because after the influential people and the rank and file have indicated their acquiescence, the problem is solved for it is a political problem for the membership only.
Besides, some good did come out of Makeni. Two APC-transplants, antagonistic to my brand of reform politics, were replaced by committed reformers.
Those former members that choose to split and cook up a new alphabet-soup have no further right to blame Berewa for Makeni for they are no longer SLPP members. Rather, they ought to concentrate and show the voting public that theirs is a superior organization free from dynastic One-Manism, etc.
THE LOME ACCORDS BROUGHT US PEACE
ELEVEN, the Lome Accords were not a sellout at all. If anyone truly believes that Lome was a sellout, what did or will he advocate? I believe Lome was a practical compromise that I myself was not particularly happy with at the time. But it had the immediate advantage of slowing down and stopping the violence against civilians and setting the stage for a massive international intervention on the side of the elected government. The end result of the process that began in Lome is the peace coupled with the humanitarian aid and the beginning of the economic development of the country that we the people are still experiencing. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE: SECTION 3
From: gee dem
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Date Posted: 11:15:29 05/30/07 ()
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Wow, JL gee una!
Is it because the articles are so long, complicated, well informed and largely irreuftable that you have all decided to use as an excuse giving JL a blackout your inability to challenge his views.
lets's call things by their names. This is a courageuous and brilliant expose by the former ambassador. If you think he is wrong, come on, refute the subtantive isssues in his articles. Dont suggest an incommunicado to cover for your incompetence or inability or whatever.
Subject: Re: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE: SECTION 3
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 12:05:49 05/30/07 ()
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READ what he wrote about the same candidate previously then u will understand why.
Subject: Re: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE: SECTION 3
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 17:39:32 05/30/07 ()
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It would make no difference whatsoever.
What is important today is, taking into consideration everything ever said about Berewa, Koroma and Margai, who of the three is the superior candidate?
That's the issue facing voters in this campaign.
My piece is in response to specific accusations and allegations against Berewa by a whole lot of APC & PMDC people. I countered and my counter to limited to the issues they themselves raised in their attacks.
Taking everything together, Berewa - even with all what I have said about him and Kabbah - is by far the superior candidate in my estimation.
Other than th Roman Catholic Pope, no one has an infallible record - including me.
Today is the last day I will respond to your postings. - JL
Subject: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE: SECTION 2
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 23:35:44 05/29/07 ()
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SECTION TWO – MOUNTAINS OF IRRELEVANCIES
A review of the multi-ferrous tongues arrayed against Berewa by opposition attackers point to one unmistakable answer: many of the charges they continue to levy are either nonsensical or entirely lacking in merit sufficient to warrant our long-disappointed people to oust the sitting SLPP government they know – with all its faults but with a lot of significant achievements to its credit - or prevent its standard bearer, VP Berewa, from becoming our next president.
All one reads about VP Berewa now-a-days are ridiculous personal attacks and irrelevant accusations including the following: (i) Berewa is of short or pint-size stature, (ii) he has a scar on his forehead, (iii) he smokes, (iv) he is ill, (v) he was mentored and thus (vi) he won’t be another Levy Mwanawasa (of Zambia); (vii) he is out of touch with popular currents, (viii) he has not yet selected his running mate; (viii) he is a newcomer to politics; (ix) Dr. Momodu Koroma is a turncoat former Margai’s briefcase carrier and errand boy, (x) the Lome Accords were a sellout, (xi) Berewa is Kabbah’s poodle, (xii) Makeni was a terrible ConBention, a contrived process in which Berewa was forced down the throats of SLPP delegates by Kabbah; and so on and on, on their trashy path of extremely shallow reasoning and erroneous claims.
CONFUSING POODLES WITH IRISH SETTERS
Even Professor Jimmy Kandeh’s (PJK) analogy equating Berewa to “poodles not being objects of leadership recruitment or preference in the canine world” is rubbish. He mischaracterizes poodle quality just as he got completely wrong his entire accumulated attacks on VP Berewa, Dr. Momodu Koroma and the SLPP. For your information, poodles are highly desirable canines, much preferred and deliberately sought after for their especially high level of intelligence, elegance and hardworking reliable nature. Poodles were originally hunter assistants.
PJK is probably confusing poodles with the Irish setter, notorious as a “slow-witted” i.e. stupid, dog, lazy and good most as a play companion for kiddies. We all know who among our presidential aspirants was a dull, lazy Irish Bar flunkey who was allowed to take his Irish law finals orally allegedly as a favor to the Catholic Mission after he disgracefully twice flunked the otherwise required written Irish bar finals. Earlier, he had allegedly slapped the principal of his high school, spent two years in form four and then flunked out without graduating!
Thus if we are to go along with PJK’s doctrine, by the natural order of things Solomon Berewa is the superior candidate and should win!
SECOND, whether Berewa is pint-size or not is completely irrelevant to the singular issue of which presidential candidate is most qualified and best positioned to succeed President Kabbah as our next president. Relying on the issue of Berewa’s physical size to STOP him from becoming president and propel them to victory on August 11 instead, clearly shows how bankrupt the opposition is of viable campaign issues – not to mention how dumb the tactics are that they rely on.
On one hand they are trashing a tall president – Kabbah - as a bad man. On the other, they are using a shorter man’s stature to condemn him merely because he is of small stature. Flunkeys must understand that physical size cannot be a constitutional or legal or social or moral bar to the top civilian post in any civilized society.
Even one nitwit attacker I prefer to call ‘the Frog Doctor’ has on his own accord in one of his rambling articles, conceded that well known achievers include men of small stature. Yet both he and PJK continue to harp and poke fun on Berewa’s height. Berewa’s height has never grabbed my attention, nor concerned the people. Besides, the average Sierra Leonean male is approximately 5’, 4’’ to 5’, 6’’. Thus it is good to see someone like the average Sierra Leonean occupying the top spot, not just tall people. Brainpower is definitely NOT distributed on the basis of physical stature. Tony Blair is shorter than other British politicians, yet Blair was the chosen prime minister who won three general elections for Labor – the first ever in the UK. (He was also called somebody’s poodle).
I urge the opposition attackers to forthwith cease this type of useless personal attack and concentrate on discussing relevant issues instead. Thank you.
THIRD, Berewa is not ill at all. In fact, he is physically fit and the scar on his forehead is a no-brainer of no consequence. One reason Berewa is constantly on the road and in front of large audiences from early AM to late PM several days a week is to let people see him, question him, observe his demeanor, measure his stamina and judge him for themselves. In addition, Berewa is all over the country as vice president to do his public service work in opening new schools, markets, health clinics, libraries, banks, water wells and receive PMDC returnees to the SLPP fold, etc.
BEREWA IS UP-TO-DATE WITH ALL NATIONAL CURRENTS
FOURTH, PJK’s conclusion that Berewa is out of touch with popular currents is thus flatly erroneous. Berewa is in frequent touch with many people including yours truly. Ever since he became VP, Berewa has been on the road from one end of the country to the other listening to all shades of opinion. From his activist job as VP, Berewa knows how people view the mal-governance record of APC Siaka Stevens, APC Joseph Momoh and the destruction of our country caused by APC-related AFRC.
Berewa knows that the SLPP rank and file would rather swallow the bitter pill of Makeni than split into another alphabet-soup organization and thus allow the hegemonistic, incompetent and corrupt APC to waltz into power with its pass-ah-die view of political tenure. Berewa also knows that PMDC is full of disappointed people some of whom will continue to return to the SLPP as they learn via the hard way how rotten their double-crossing, flunky-dunce party insiders are.
MENTORS TEJAN KABBAH, SHAHID JAMIL & OTHERS
FIFTH, mentoring is a most valuable human development asset in virtually every society. It is how the younger or less fortunate gains valuable knowledge and grow. It is an absolute necessity in a very backward society such as ours. From our parents through our teachers to lecturers on to our bosses at work, we are nurtured, taught and mentored until we are on our own. Such is life’s passage for the sensible progressive and the successful poodles. That we were mentored does not automatically mean that we cannot be independent of - and become superior achievers than - those who mentored us.
For example, Mr. Margai supposedly mentored Dr. Momodu Koroma. Is Koroma beholden to Margai? NO! Hasn’t Dr. Koroma since become a superior achiever than Mr. Margai? YES!
While one decidedly weak rival flunked out of school, Berewa graduated with honors high enough that he was invited to be a teacher in his school. In fact, as previously stated, he taught one of his rivals in CKC. He persevered in college and in his various civil service postings, receiving mentoring along the way. He studied and qualified in law in England where he did his pupilage. He then practiced law with more experienced lawyers, learning from them and adding onto his own. After his successful practice of law, he entered politics unlike others who joined politics while still mental juveniles.
His relatively “late” entry as a politician does not mean that he is a political novice for he went into politics with his valuable life experiences. He was a successful lawyer during the traumatic APC years. He defended politicians and tarried with them. He organized and managed SLPP’s successful 1996 election campaign. He has served as attorney general and minister of justice. As vice president he was in fact an apprentice president, learning what he needs to know so he could be a better president. All his education, training and mentoring should stand him in good stead and make him far more productive than an arrogant, haughty, empty man with little or no mentoring or by someone Siaka Stevens sent to the notorious despoiler of DIMINCO, Sahid Jamil, for mentoring.
You can tell who has benefited the most from mentoring and who has not by answering this simple question: who among the presidential flag bearers is making the least political mistakes and making the more sound political decisions and who is known for doing the exact opposite?
LEADERSHIP PRETENCES WITHOUT SUBSTANCE WILL FAIL
SIX, lets face it, some people are so arrogant they foolishly think they do not need to learn from others and can lead others without learning even though it is universally agreed that appropriate learning is a prerequisite for effective leadership. They claim they know everything but in reality all they do is expose their emptiness with their apparent innate stupidity as reflected by such dunce mistakes like (i) avoiding collegiality in organizing a political party supposedly to represent the reformist Third Force, (ii) relying on splitting one’s party and then use secretiveness and one-manic dynastic ownership of a political party to insure one’s presidential candidacy, (ii) objecting to voter registration merely because of one’s ethnicity, (iv) pandering to Fullahs, and (v) double-crossing one’s most loyal supporters after stringing them along for months, then suddenly and deliberately duping them in cold blood in favor of a totally new comer from another party.
And what further do lightweight politicians show for their inadequate mentoring and refusal to learn from their superiors? Nothing but:
(a) Alphabet-soup roaming in and out of various parties such as SLPP, PNP, SLPP, APC, SLPP, NUP, SLPP, NUP, SLPP, PMDC).
(b) Making mostly fahlahmahkahtah decisions when it is experience, intelligence and originality that matter such as selecting a new party’s name for a Sierra Leonean political party. Instead of thinking originality they lazily fahlahmahkahtered a name from Zimbabwe. For party colors, they fahlahmahkahtered likewise: they fahlahmahkaktered the color from a political party in the Ukraine. For party symbol, party constitution, party slogan, they merely fahlahmahkahtered the SLPP. PMDC also fahlamahkahtered the supposed SLPP criteria for running mate: Northern Muslin. But to their credit, the PMDC seems not to have borrowed anything from the dreaded APC except, perhaps, one-manism.
(c) Surround themselves with other unmentored flunkies such as bangucrooks, disbarred, disrobed and defrocked lawyers, junior tribalists and blockheads, remedial dunces and other alphabet-soup political opportunists and crookish pretenders.
Now, many of our country’s problems cannot be solved by mere fahlahmahkahtah tricks. Substantial original thinking and analyses are required. How can you cope with such a situation if your principal strengths are mere fahlahmahkahtah, alphabet soup hip-hopping and flip-flopping, double-crossing colleagues at will, stunning them with shocking decisions and other counter-productive tactics?
JUMPING TO ERRONEOUS CONCLUSIONS
SEVEN, PJK alleges that approximately 22 years ago – when he himself was still in his twenties - he judged Berewa to be a half-decent lawyer and ‘Peggy Boy’ to Atty. Garvas Betts. PJK was wrong and his observation probably suffered from the inexperience of his youth. We all know 1985 was the year when people began to be fed-up with Mr. Stevens’ rule and talk of APC’s idea of the transfer of power from one president to another began to be in full swing. It was the year when the notorious APC President, Siaka Stevens, was pressed for his concurrence to give up power to Gen Joseph Momoh.
I was part of the audience at Bailor-by-the-Sea, Lokomasama Chiefdom, Port Loko District, Northern Province on or about May 10, 2006 when the Paramount Chief there told an assembled crowd how Barrister Solomon Berewa saved him and his colleagues from Siaka Stevens’ certain gallows on charges of treason. Thus by the time PJK met the courteous, polite, soft-spoken and non-arrogant Berewa at the offices of Betts and Berewa on Godrich Street, Freetown that day in 1985, Berewa had already reached a very high level in his profession wherein he can – and had successfully handled – capital cases such as life-or-death treason trials under the one-party APC regime notorious for hanging civilian rivals to protect its hegemony. A junior (or peggy-boy) barrister does not lead a legal defense team in any capital case anywhere, certainly not in our conservative country.
Just because a lawyer is polite and gentle rather than arrogant and haughty does not mean that the said lawyer is a junior to anyone.
Clearly, our PJK was mistaken in his characterization 22 years ago of a humble, polite, soft-spoken, non-arrogant, non-dynastic achieving barrister of small stature as merely a junior lawyer playing second fiddle to a Tutsi-like partner. This mistake is excusable then given the lightness of PJK’s background at the time and the briefness of the encounter. But to rely on that superficial observation 22 years later, and use it today to characterize a hardworking man who has accumulated successes upon success over the years clearly takes the cake. It shows have lax PMDC leadership is. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE: SECTION 2
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 12:14:27 05/30/07 ()
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For writing a brilliant piece like this through your political godfather Alhaji U.N.S.JAH (SLPP CHAIRMAN) BEREWA will pay the money that Kabbah government has refused to pay Ambassador Leigh a debt of $90,231.81 owed him.
Subject: Re: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE: SECTION 2
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 17:16:17 05/30/07 ()
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I don't completely understand your point.
First, I wrote my rebuttal through no one. I consulted no one and made every decision myself.
Second, Alhaji UNS Jah is not my political Godfather. He is merely a political associate as well as an old friend from our Bank of Sierra Leone days.
Whether President Berewa will pay the debt owed me or not, I have no idea.
Lastly, my rebuttal is the right thing to do on its own, whether or not anyone is going to pay me the government debt owed me. That never entered my mind.
Today is my last day I will respond to you on your postings or your response to my postings. - JL
Subject: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 23:29:19 05/29/07 ()
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BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE & SLPP THE SUPERIOR PARTY
SECTION ONE - INTRODUCTION
Consider this factual situation: three men – short Solomon Berewa, taller Ernest Koroma and short Charles Margai – are competing to succeed the current tall SLPP President of Sierra Leone, Tejan Kabbah, as our next president.
BEREWA. The first is Kabbah’s sitting vice president and former attorney general, relatively new to the SLPP, backed and mentored by Kabbah and selected as SLPP standard bearer at the Makeni ConBVention in September 2005. The Kabbah Administration has been criticized repeatedly for corruption by Britain, other donor nations and their anti-corruption NGOs but no one has accused President Kabbah himself of being personally corrupt or can prove any such allegation if previously made but unknown to this author. Berewa studied law in England.
KOROMA. The second is the leader of the APC Opposition and was mentored by the late Shahid Jamil of DIMINCO and APC’s ex-President General Joseph Momoh upon the recommendation of APC’s ex-President Siaka Stevens. Jamil sent Koroma to commercial school in Liberia to study insurance and Koroma appears to be an, or the sole, owner of Jamil’s insurance business. The APC was in power from 1968 through 1992 when Momoh’s administration was overthrown in a coup by junior officers after Momoh fled to Conakry amidst dancing and joyousness throughout the country and the lavish serenading of the young, inexperienced coup leaders by a liberated public
MARGAI. The third has no mentor known to me – other than his pupilage decades ago under the late APC attorney, A.B. Kamara. He officially split from the SLPP after Makeni where he did not win, to establish his own new party, the PMDC. Previously, he had separated himself from and re-admitted into the SLPP at least six times, most recently in March 2005. He is the son and nephew of two former SLPP prime ministers and served as Minister of Internal Affairs until the fall of 2000. Previously he was an MP under the APC One-Party monopoly state. Margai was taught in school by Solomon Berewa and studied law in Ireland but did his pupilage in Freetown.
ISSUE: Who among the above-named three individuals is best qualified to succeed Tejan Kabbah as our president and why?
Based on extensive and repeated travels around Sierra Leone - most recently in February and March this year – it is my opinion that Solomon Berewa and the Sierra Leone Peoples Party are most certainly the frontrunners by a very wide margin in the presidential and parliamentary elections respectively now set for August 11, 2007.
Small wonder, therefore, that a spate of articles has recently been published in a futile STOP BEREWA campaign but also in obvious recognition of Berewa’s frontrunner status. The attacks also speak volumes in that no one is pushing any STOP ERNEST KOROMA/APC campaign or a STOP CHARLES MARGAI/PMDC campaign for obvious reasons. Clearly, neither the APC nor PMDC is the answer for our country’s deep and extensive economic, social and political problems. Our two opposition parties are not simply credible or acceptable to the bulk of the electorate, although each has scattered, loud, low grade, noisy san-san support here and there within the country.
So, why is the SLPP still credible and still much preferred as the natural party of government despite the heavy criticisms – some quite valid – repeatedly levied against it and its presidential standard bearer?
Because despite its shortcomings – and there are allegedly many - the SLPP’s record of public service is substantially superior to that of any other group that has ever governed our Independent country and because the SLPP organization is substantially superior in quality and in reach than that of any other party’s organization. While SLPP is present and active in every single constituency around the entire country; APC is not active in large parts of the country and PMDC’s presence is limited to only a fraction of APC’s.
And further, why are all the other parties and all their presidential candidates going to be rejected at the August 11 polls as Berewa is elected? Because one party is woefully overloaded with a large baggage of the mal-governance ruination record in our country; both are still poorly led and populated by dubious characters that our people know are seeking either the restoration of their policy of hegemonistic tribalism, marginalization, nepotism and favoritism, on the one hand; and on the other hand are in a desperate search for more alphabet-soup opportunism to feed dynastic arrogance. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 12:13:36 05/30/07 ()
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For writing a brilliant piece like this through your political godfather Alhaji U.N.S.JAH (SLPP CHAIRMAN) BEREWA will pay the money that Kabbah government has refused to pay Ambassador Leigh a debt of $90,231.81 owed him.
Subject: Re: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:47:12 05/30/07 ()
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Moijue:
Your focus is way off. Not everyone has an ulterior motive in his every deed - me included.
I did not initiate the attacks at all so it is disingenuous of you to link my provoked response to any ulterior motive. I just did what I have been doing since I was first attacked for disputing the first bogus assassination rubbish plot attempt last February.
Albert Moinina Mussaffa, Dr. Sorie I Kamara, PJK, Mr. Foday Mansaray, a Cocorioko Board Member; Mr. Francis Pa Santigie Bangura of APC USA and a few flippant others have been writing mostly (with some exceptions) bowtow-bahtah trash against SLPP and Berewa (and even attacking me directly).
When I perceived the useless personal attacks were getting more and more frequent and stupid, I decided to contribute to the debate in the interest of Voter Education.
As for the balance owed me, the proper thing to do is for the government to fulfill its obligations - whether I support them or not. That's how a country's reputation is made. And that is what I expect a genuine SLPP Government to do.
I cannot say the same for an APC Administration or a flunkey dunce outfit populated by crookish foolumunkus and double-crossers. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 13:39:12 05/30/07 ()
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The real CROOKS in salone is the SLPP WHO REFUSES to honour a genuine debt? The Slpp by refusing to pay u is spoiling the reputation of our country.
What is SAINT BEREWA position on this issue?
Also remember for salone to honour any debt, the principal legal adviser will be consulted.At the time of this incident SOLO BEE was the ATTORNEY GENERAL AND JUSTICE MINISTER, WHAT HAS HE EVER SAID ON THE ISSUE?
Subject: Re: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 17:06:29 05/30/07 ()
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I have told you before: the SLPP does not owe me a single penny. It is the government that owes me money.
ONLY one official controls the purse strings of the country: Mr. President.
Solo B has no authority in this area.
My money is a Foreign Ministry Affair. Those with authority there have all approved it years ago but Mr. President is yet to give his assent.
Again, today is my last day to continue looking at or responding to postings from you and others of like standards of debate. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: BEREWA IS THE SUPERIOR CANDIDATE
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 17:46:58 05/30/07 ()
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Running away as usual.Dont worry u wont go away
Subject: For SLPP Apologists and Supplicants:Berewa Does Not Have The
From: Jimmy D. Kandeh
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Date Posted: 23:04:41 05/29/07 ()
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Berewa Does Not Have The Country’s Interest At Heart: Response to Pat Sawyer
Jimmy D. Kandeh
As much as I no longer bother to reply to the “rotorata” written by SLPP apologists and supplicants, let me set the record straight on a few issues raised in Sawyer’s article.
* Momodu is not my contemporary (he is in his fifties, I believe, and I am in my forties) and there is nothing about him to make me jealous - Astafulai. I admire and respect entrepreneurs who make their money the old fashioned way. Ill-gotten wealth is not something to be jealous of unless you are similarly inclined. To be a cabinet minister is not an accomplishment (qualifications have nothing to do with these appointments – its all about patronage and clientelization) in my book. Those who know me will tell you that I am very content with what I do out here as a tenured professor. Kabba tried to recruit me in 1998 (you can ask Pios Foray) but I had no interest and told him so. I simply want to see my country progress and speaking truth to power, which can be risky (JJ Blood’s so-called bodyguards tried to lynch me the last time I was in FNA), is the least some of us can do.
* The fact that you have only worked in your country does not make someone anymore of a patriot than those whose preference it is to work in the diaspora. Is Kabba less patriotic than Berewa because he spent much of his working life outside Sierra Leone? Were Tamba Gborie and “Zagalo” Sankoh more patriotic than Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora simply because they never left home to advance their careers? Patriotism is not a function of where you are domiciled, my brother, and it is quite telling that you seem incapable of understanding this rudimentary fact of life.
* Why compare me to Berewa? I am not running for office nor have I ever fleeced my country. Besides, I am not a politician. You may not be known outside your house but the same is not true for some of us. I would not have survived in the academy out here if I had not done anything (no publications, etc). Unaccomplished professors don’t make tenure and as a tenured professor, I have a job until the day I retire. But who needs your validation for anything I do?
* You claim that Berewa has nothing but the interest of the country at heart. Even Berewa would be hard-pressed to believe such an idiotic propaganda because the man is neck deep in corruption (just ask JB Dauda). You really come across as a kisser-upper and that is putting it mildly.
* Whoever said you cannot be a good leader if you are vertically challenged? You must really have problems comprehending what you read. I never said size was a requirement for leadership but feel free to spin what I said so you can ingratiate yourself to your patron.
* You claim that I secretly wanted the war to continue. How pathetic and malicious! Some of us were targets of all manner of abuse because we staunchly supported the reinstatement of Kabba and opposed the AFRC/RUF; I even supported the Kamajors with my money. Many who were opposed to Kabba’s reinstatement are now in the Kabba/Berewa camp. As a matter of fact, Kabba asked to see me after he heard what I had to say about his policy of appeasing Taylor and Sankoh. The president even instructed Isaac Massaquoi (then at SLBS) to keep on broadcasting an interview the latter did with me because, according to the president, I made a forceful case against power sharing with Sankoh and the RUF. But that was before Lome and everything changed after that. You can check with Isaac for verification. The fact remains that I supported the SLPP and Kabba in both 1996 and 2002 elections because the only other alternative then was the APC. But I have seen enough of the SLPP just as I had seen enough of the APC.
* Lastly, the fact that I have spent much of my professional life in the United States is obviously not unconnected to how the APC and SLPP have despoiled our country. I do not have to go down with my country. No one in their right mind can visit our country today and come back wanting to see the current leadership reelected. Sierra Leone is in worse shape today than in 2002. Enjoy the boreholes, courtesy of the SLPP. How sad!
Subject: Re: For SLPP Apologists and Supplicants:Berewa Does Not Have The
From: ok dok
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Date Posted: 18:54:10 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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I am not sure SLPP ever asked you to join.Momodu on the other hand is younger than yourself.I know you very well like momodu.
Subject: Re: For SLPP Apologists and Supplicants:Berewa Does Not Have The
From: Salia Koroma
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Date Posted: 11:56:22 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: makeni@yahoo.com
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As they say in the neighborhoods of Richmond, Virginia, what a rubbish. What have you done that warrants your recruitment by Kabba? Written or talked loudly? Have you invented or discovered anything that advanced anyone in the US which warrants your employment by your country's government? You cannot even hold a family together. Now, if your wife goes around saying nasty things about you, are you deserving of anyones employment? You are like the other big mouths criticizing Berewa: anyone but Berewa is the refrain. So Charles Margai is it? Well you both are gross underachievers craving for power anyhow you can get it: but you have reached the end of your road. As an aside, you are lying that you are in your forties and that Momodu has an "ill-gotten wealth." Do your homework on yourself and Momodu's background.
Subject: Re: For SLPP Apologists and Supplicants:Berewa Does Not Have The
From: Question
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Date Posted: 23:20:51 05/29/07 ()
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Is "Zagalo" Sankoh the same as Laimpay Sankoh?
Subject: MARGAI BLASTS ERNEST
From: MARGAI FANATIC
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Date Posted: 21:08:49 05/29/07 ()
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Alliance between APC and PMDC is over
As the leader of the Peoples Movement for Democratic Change party, Charles Margai, has allegedly opposed the leadership of the All Peoples Congress, the bond that is said to have existed between these two political parties is now said to be over. During a visit to the Njala University Bo Campus, Charles Margai allegedly issued out diatribes against the APC and its leader, Ernest Bai Koroma; that Ernest Bai Koroma would make an ineffectual leader, because of what he (Margai) referred to as Ernest Koroma’s alleged inability to put his own house in order. The SLPP, according to the PMDC leader, is equally inept as the APC, because it has fallen short of providing the basic necessities for Sierra Leoneans.
Subject: Re: MARGAI BLASTS ERNEST
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 00:05:19 05/30/07 ()
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I dont think you understand what PMDC Margai was saying and I dont believe the alliance is over because Margai talked against Ernest Koroma. After all, this is what politics is all about. Candidates are trying to prove to voters that they are the best of the best. Ernest also doing the samething around the country telling voters that he is the only person capable of leading the country to success. It has nothing to do with Alliance.
Ernest should thank Margai for opening the way for the APC to campaign freely in the east and south. Remember the 1996 and 2002 elections.
And by the way before I forgot. I am not a PMDCist nor do I know Charles Margai personally. So dont describe me as a PMDCist based on argument.
Subject: DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES, LESS TALK , MORE ACTION
From: Dr. Michel Sho- Sawyer
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Date Posted: 20:54:15 05/29/07 ()
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VOTER EDUCATION PORTAL IS LAUNCH. IT IS HIGH TIME WE UNITE SIERRA LEONEANS TO GET INVOLVE PATRIOTICALLY TO DEVELOP SIERRA LEONE.
"Ah nor mix pan politics" has been the position of the majority of good men and women within our community. This position has been formed from witnessing undesirable outcomes of politics void of issues that are real and important to the livelihood to Sierra Leoneans. This argument can be extended to majority of other African countries.
Shift in Voter Behavior
Can the 2007 Sierra Leonean election transition from the current patronage and ethnic-based approach to one based on the real and important issues affecting communities at home and abroad? The Sierra Leone Network developed a Voter Education Portal with the intention to encourage the sharing of ideas, knowledge and resources to educate all on the main issues of the 2007 Elections in Sierra Leone.
The Rapid Results Initiative sponsored by the I.R.C.B.P provided a baseline for an analysis on the major issues affecting Sierra Leoneans. Based on the analysis, the seven major issues affecting people in all 14 districts of Sierra Leone are Education, Electricity, Agriculture, Housing, Roads, Water and Health.
We want to hear from the candidates on what are their plans are to address these concerns. In addition, do subject matter experts and the general voter population have suggestions or solutions on how to address these issues?
Call to Action
Please join us in this effort by visiting the Voter Education Portal to upload relevant information and participating in the upcoming Webinar series scheduled for June 9 , 2007. We welcome Political Party Reps, Subject Matter Experts and the general voter population to use this Portal as a vehicle to collaborate and share knowledge.
Please visit the Voter education Portal to learn more:
http://www.sierraleoneportal.net/voteredu
For more information on the webinar visit the following link:
https://www.gotomeeting.com/register/476378930
Visit the Sierra Leone Network website at:
Http://www.sierraleonenetwork.org
Voter Education Committee 2007
Sierra Leone Network
Subject: Something Salone can learn from..
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 20:34:45 05/29/07 ()
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Ex-China drug regulator to be executed By AUDRA ANG, Associated Press Writer
Tue May 29, 7:15 AM ET
China's former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday in an unusually harsh punishment for taking bribes to approve substandard medicines, including an antibiotic blamed for at least 10 deaths.
Seeking to address broadening concerns over food, the government also announced plans for its first recall system for unsafe products.
The developments are among the most dramatic steps Beijing has taken to address domestic and international alarm over shoddy and unsafe Chinese goods — from pet food ingredients and toothpaste mixed with induso trial chemicals to tainted antibiotics.
Beijing's No. 1 Intermediate People's Court convicted Zheng Xiaoyu of taking bribes in cash and gifts worth more than $832,000 while he was director of the State Food and Drug Administration, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Those bribes allowed eight companies to get around drug approval standards, it said.
Zheng also failed to make "careful arrangements for the supervision of medicine production, which is of critical importance to people's lives," Xinhua said, citing the court. Under his watch, six types of medicine approved were fake and pharmaceutical companies got away with using false documents to apply for approvals, it said. No other details were given.
Zheng's acts "greatly undermined ... the efficiency of China's drug monitoring and supervision, endangered public life and health and had a very negative social impact," the court said.
The punishment was appropriate given the "huge amount of bribes involved and the great damage inflicted on the country and the public," Xinhua said.
In one instance, an antibiotic approved by Zheng's agency killed at least 10 patients last year before it was taken off the market.
It was not immediately clear if Zheng would appeal. Under Chinese law, a death sentence meted out by an intermediate court automatically will be reviewed by a higher court and ultimately has to be approved by the state supreme court.
The sentence was unusually heavy even for China, which is believed to carry out more court-ordered executions than all other nations combined — and likely indicates the leadership's determination to deal with the recent scares involving unsafe food and drugs.
Zheng's sentence was unusually harsh given his rank, though the Communist Party has in recent years pressed an anti-corruption campaign with renewed vigor. The last time someone of Zheng's rank was executed was in December 2003, when Wang Huaizhong, the deputy governor of central Anhui province, was put to death for corruption.
"The Chinese government attaches great importance to the safety and security of food," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regular briefing Tuesday when asked about Zheng's case.
"We stand ready to work with the international community to safeguard the quality and reputation of the Chinese food industry," she said.
In its noon newscast, state television showed a gray-haired Zheng, 62, flanked by court police, who handcuffed him while the verdict was being read.
Zheng had 23 years of experience manufacturing pharmaceuticals in the eastern city of Hangzhou before being appointed the drug administration's first head in 1998, China Central Television said in its report. He ran it until he was fired in 2005.
Zheng saw his power increase substantially in 2002 when the government required that all drugs be approved by the agency. The change resulted in a massive backlog, a situation that encouraged corruption and corner-cutting on approvals for often bogus or dangerous drugs.
Meanwhile, China's first food recall measures will be implemented by the end of the year, an official from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, China's main food safety agency, was cited as saying.
"All domestic and foreign food producers and distributors will be obliged to follow the system," Wu Jianping, director general of the administration's food production and supervision department, was quoted as saying by the state-run China Daily newspaper.
The recall system will be put in place gradually and will focus on "potentially dangerous and unapproved food products," the report said.
The report did not provide further details and the inspection agency refused to comment.
Current regulations on product inspection, issued in 2002, mention the need for a food recall system but the issue has never been systematically addressed, the China Daily said.
In recent months, tainted Chinese pet food ingredients have been blamed for the deaths of cats and dogs in North America, and toothpaste from China mixed with an industrial chemical has been found on shelves in Central America and the Caribbean.
The same chemical, diethylene glycol, was cited in the deaths since October of at least 51 people in Panama who had taken medicine made from diethylene glycol shipped from China and falsely labeled as harmless glycerin.
The China Daily also said the State Food and Drug Administration, the agency formerly run by the disgraced Zheng, will blacklist food producers who break rules.
Under a nationwide safety campaign launched Monday, 90 administration inspectors will be sent to 15 provinces over the next two weeks, the newspaper said.
Food safety problem is a serious problem across the vast country, with China's Health Ministry reporting almost 34,000 food-related illnesses in 2005. Spoiled food accounting for the largest number, followed by poisonous plants or animals and use of agricultural chemicals.
According to the official magazine Outlook Weekly, a survey by the quality inspection administration found that a third of China's 450,000 food makers had no licenses. Also, 60 percent of the total did not conduct safety tests or have the capability to do so, the survey found.
Subject: Re: Something Salone can learn from..
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 05:58:25 05/30/07 ()
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I do think that the punishment was exceptionally harsh. A long jail term under ardous conditions and probably some degree of public whipping on his bare butt would have been more acceptable. I am sure that this may deter future acts by others who may be wont to accept bribes.
Subject: Re: Something Salone can learn from..
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 01:13:01 05/31/07 ()
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No, I beg to differ. While China is rife with corruption and only those who either manage to piss off the higher ups or embarrass them and the country too much seem to get punished, it never ceases to amaze me that despite the horrific punishment for those do get "caught" you'll always here of someone else dipping their hand into the cookie jar. Apparently, they're still not being scared enough.
Subject: king Loggy, BUSH imposes new sanctions against Sudan
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:09:24 05/29/07 ()
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U.S. imposes new sanctions against Sudan
• NEW: "Giving Khartoum more time is not the answer," diplomat says
• NEW: House Speaker Pelosi says Bush did the right thing
• NEW: Sudanese ambassador says government is working for peace
• U.S. imposes punitive action against 31 companies and three individuals
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush imposed new sanctions Tuesday against the Sudanese government in reaction to the violence in Darfur, preventing 31 companies and three people from doing business in the United States or with U.S. companies.
The three individuals are two high-ranking government officials and a rebel leader, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. They were targeted for fomenting violence and human rights abuses in the Darfur region of western Sudan, the agency said.
"For too long the people of Darfur have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the bombing, murder and rape of innocent civilians," Bush said. "My administration has called these actions by their rightful name, genocide. The world has a responsibility to help put an end to it."
Sudan's ambassador to the United States, John Ukec Lueth, said the problem is not with the Sudanese government, but with the rebels who have refused to sign the May 2006 Darfur peace agreement.
Despite the pact, which was backed by the United States and other Western nations, fighting among the government of Sudan, the Janjaweed militia and splintered rebel groups has continued unabated.
The West should pressure the rebels to sign it, Lueth said.
"I am very much disappointed ... about our bilateral relations with the United States. These sanctions are unwanted. They should not be done at this time when my government is constructively and objectively working toward comprehensive peace in the entire country," Lueth said on CNN's "Your World Today."
"Arms and troops will never resolve anything," he added.
Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir had failed to live up to international agreements "on all counts" and "giving Khartoum more time is not the answer." He said government forces in concert with militias continued to launch aerial and ground attacks against rebels and civilians in Darfur.
Negroponte added that the Sudanese government continues to block the deployment of a 23,000-strong U.N. and African Union peacekeeping force for Darfur and obstruct the flow of international aid to the region. There is a poorly equipped contingent of some 7,000 African Union troops in Darfur.
Fighting by government-backed militias and rebel groups in Darfur has killed more than 200,000 people and driven about 2 million from their homes.
The Treasury Department issued a statement immediately after Bush's announcement, saying that, as of Tuesday, the agency had blocked the assets of the three Sudanese.
"Even in the face of sanctions, these individuals have continued to play direct roles in the terrible atrocities of Darfur," said Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. "We are working to call attention to their horrific acts and further isolate them from the international community."
The Treasury Department also acted Tuesday to sanction 30 Sudanese companies owned or controlled by the government of Sudan, including several involved in oil exploration, and one company that has violated the arms embargo in Darfur.
"These companies have supplied cash to the Bashir regime, enabling it to purchase arms and further fuel the fighting in Darfur," Paulson said.
The United States plans to appeal to its allies to apply similar sanctions against Sudan, and will present a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council to strengthen the international embargo against the Sudanese government.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the decision to impose sanctions was the right one.
"It has been three years since the Bush administration correctly termed the conditions in Darfur as 'genocide' and it is long past time for all countries concerned by the suffering that continues in Darfur to take the steps necessary to end it," said Pelosi, D-California.
The United States' special envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, said China -- which has substantial investments in Sudan -- is changing its policy. "I can give you a list of things they have helped us with," he told reporters at the State Department. He said the Chinese position is "evolving" because the violence in Darfur is infuriating African governments.
The three individuals named Tuesday include Ahmad Muhammed Harun, Sudan's state minister for humanitarian affairs. He has been accused of war crimes in Darfur by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Sudan's head of military intelligence and security, Awad Ibn Auf, was also designated, along with Khalil Ibrahim, leader of the Justice and Equality Movement, a rebel group that has refused to sign the Darfur Peace Agreement, the Treasury Department said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters he would like more time to work with the Sudanese government and rebels before the U.N. Security Council votes on sanctions. He stressed that the sanctions announced Tuesday were solely U.S. actions.
CNN's Kathleen Koch contributed to this report.
Subject: Re: king Loggy, BUSH imposes new sanctions against Sudan
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 08:32:53 05/30/07 ()
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Bra Cornie:
Sudan, it appears, finds herself in an unusual civil war with the government siding with one of the warring groups while America, Africa, and probably the rest of the world, side with the other.
Philosophical representations and misrepresentations of the nature of this likely civil war make their way through the media and folks like me just can't make sense out of the damn thing.
To make matters worse, most Sudanese that I have personal contact with, complains the U.S. is making a big deal out of a problem in existence for ever. The U.S.and others, however, are counting the dead and the homeless.
Subject: What is national Pride?
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:59:10 05/29/07 ()
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Katie Couric:
http://www.forbes.com/2006/06/12/06celebrities_money-power-celebrities-list_land.html
Subject: Editorial: Leary of Conducting Business Again in Sierra Leon
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Date Posted: 15:10:55 05/29/07 ()
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Editorial: Leary of Conducting Business Again in Sierra Leone
By Krishan Tyagi Posted: 05/29/07 13:17 [Submit Comment]
RAPAPORT... Sierra Leone is a country that has seen a generation of coups and social and political infighting. It went through a decade-long civil war that ended in 2002. The world felt sorry for this “God forsaken” nation and the international community came to help restore stability and democracy, and help it grow into a prosperous economy by utilizing its natural resources for its own good. The diamond industry and non-government organizations have played an active role in helping realize these goals.
However, despite these efforts, the current social and political establishment of Sierra Leone hasn't learned from history and ignore the workers, businessmen, and foreign governments that have come to their aid. The local powers that be in Sierra Leone – government, politicians, business or professional leaders – continue to pursue their personal greed at the expense of the long-term future of the nation. The corruption in the country is so deep-seated and wide-spread that it seems to be part of the people's psyche and consequently their establishment.
Krishan Tyagi of T&T Enterprises, UK
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I recently heard about the case of Mr. Ramesh, a businessman from India who is based in the United States. He was swindled out of $1 million in Sierra Leone in 2006. His case is still going on in the Sierra Leone courts. I can relate to his case, because now I have been swindled too.
My name is Krishan Tyagi, a businessman based in the United Kingdom and the proprietor of T&T Enterprises. The difference between my case in Sierra Leone and Mr. Ramesh’s case, however, is that my case hasn’t yet reached the courts. I went to Sierra Leone to look for partnerships to import rough diamonds into the UK but what I found instead was a system fraught with lies, con-men, and fraud. Once I tried appealing to whatever authority that I could find, I was repeatedly given the cold shoulder.
My story starts back in January 2006 when I visited Sierra Leone. I met a very senior politician from the opposition party (APC) who was a registered diamond and gold exporter. This politician introduced me to a tribal chief and registered miner, who made me some offers in an import/export partnership. I subsequently returned to the UK to ponder those offers.
After many telephone conversations with the chief over several months, I returned to Sierra Leone in October, at which time he and I agreed on a transaction worth $60,000. It was agreed that once I transferred payment directly to the chief's bank account, he would deliver goods to the customs office (GGDO) to complete the formalities and send the diamonds to me in the UK.
However, after I deposited the money in his account, the chief withdrew the sum and disappeared.
I reported the matter to the Central Investigations Department (CID) of the Sierra Leone police, where it was revealed that this chief was a known criminal. The police officials even had nicknamed him "The Capitalist."
Three weeks after that trip the head of the CID phoned me and said they had arrested the chief, who had made a statement that he supplied the goods to me. According to the CID, the chief produced “a document” before the police showing that I had signed the receipt of goods from him. On my retort that it was a false statement and that the chief must have forged my signature, the head of the CID responded that he also believed the document to be false.
I requested that the CID officials send me “the documents” (or the copies/summary of those documents) submitted by the chief and the CID head agreed to do that. However, those documents were never sent.
Every time I was able to get hold of the CID officials on the phone, they had an excuse for not sending the documents. Once they said they didn’t have my address for posting the documents, which wasn’t true. In the next conversation, the CID official told me that they were certainly sending all the documents for my “perusal and reaction,” but the police didn’t have funds to mail the documents.
Finally after a few days in back and forth telephone conversations, I was told to travel back to Sierra Leone and have a look at the documents myself.
After about a month of the incident and my October trip to Sierra Leone, the APC politician made contact with me again. When I told him of the fraud committed by his friend, the chief, the politician was “very angry” and promised to contact the police and press legal action against the chief to get my money back. However, after a few days of his promise of help to recover my money, this politician requested me to help his son secure a laptop computer as he was studying here in London. I really was not in the position to address the request. And, within a few weeks, this politician’s efforts amounted to only a suggestion that the Inspector General of Police (IG) re-arrest the chief and force him to repay the money, but they would need £1000 to cover his “costs.”
Furthermore, my original intent to strike a partnership in Sierra Leone was at the advice of a Sierra Leonean friend living in the UK. Since I made it clear that I would not give money (or a bribe) to anyone as had been hinted, my friend and his cousins avoided taking calls from me.
Now, you may ask – why not just return to Sierra Leone to view the documents the police claim are at their offices?
Since the police had already gone back on their word, I felt that going to Sierra Leone on my own --and giving another response to the police-- would be a waste of my time. The UK embassy in Sierra Leone advised me to hire a lawyer to take up the case. So, I hired one of the top law companies in Freetown to represent me from the list the embassy recommended on Chambers Global Guide. [Editorial note: Rapaport News did verify at the time the attorney had taken up the case and said a writ was to be filed on behalf of this writer. No subsequent requests by Rapaport were answered by the firm.]
The lawyers told me that they had filed a civil case against the chief in the High Court of Sierra Leone and were taking up the cause with the police, who, in their words, had been bribed. They did nothing of the sort. They never bothered to inform me of any developments, and, more curiously, never sent a bill for filing the case.
I asked a friend to check with the High Court officials, and my fear was proven true: There was no case filed on my behalf at the High Court.
When I called the attorney on this they said my friend had lied, but the firm did not provide evidence of filing or of an acknowledgement issued by the High Court, or a copy of the writ signed by the defendant. (The writ of summons to the High Court was supposed to have been served on the defendant in the town – not at any exact address - and the defendant “wasn’t expected to sign” for a receipt.) The attorney simply decided not to “represent” me or communicate with me anymore.
To my utmost dismay, I found that not only was I defrauded by respected members of the diamond industry, I too had been ignored by the police and the top lawyers in the country who were supposed to represent my interests. After being taken advantage of in Sierra Leone, one can’t even get a case registered with the court - let alone find justice.
I want to warn readers to be very vigilant, even when dealing with what appear to be legitimate and highly reputed people in Sierra Leone. My experience was not an isolated incident, as others going to Sierra Leone on business encountered the same fraudulent practices. Even a recent television show in Britain addressed wide-spread lawlessness and corruption across Sierra Leone.
I believe that if the social and political establishment of that nation continues to follow their myopic ways, they face losing the sympathy of the international community and with it the equitable trade of western businessmen. By making antagonists of the very people most interested in their economic resuscitation, Sierra Leone could well find itself isolated from the world again. In such a scenario, and given its history, who can rule-out another civil war?
Subject: Re: Editorial: Leary of Conducting Business Again in Sierra Leon
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 18:29:12 05/29/07 ()
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Mr. Tyagi,
My name is M. Alieu Iscandari and I am proudly a sierra leonean and a member of the APC party, and a practicing attorney in the satet of California. It is party policy that any members who are involved in fraudulent ACTIVITIES even when they are not on official APC duties will be investigated. Should you be kind enough to post the name of the APC politician that you met I would be grateful. If you would rather post that inofrmation privately, please send it to my e mail address at aiscandari@aol.com.
I notioce however in your post, that you are not alleging that the APC politician that you claimed to have met was not directly involved in the dealings between the chief and yourself, but that he had however not adequately represented you as a contact person. While I may agree wit6h you that there are very corrupt bu8siness people in sierra leone, I would be the first to state that there are many others who are not corrupt and honest and hard working individuals.
I also empathise with you on the very shoddy professionalism that you have encountered with the layer in sierra leone. Maybe it would bne to uyour interest, to post the name of that lawfirm which duped you and then fraudulentkly misrepresented to you that they had filed an action in courts on your behalf when no such action had in fact been filed. This clearly is an ethical problem which would have been easy to fix had this matter been in a jurisdiction where lawyers are actually being held to higher standards.
Subject: Re: Editorial: Leary of Conducting Business Again in Sierra Leon
From: POLITICIAN
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Date Posted: 15:17:02 05/29/07 ()
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Was the APC politician Tiff Papa?Tiff Papa nor go change. Merci. Like father, like son.
"My story starts back in January 2006 when I visited Sierra Leone. I met a very senior politician from the opposition party (APC) who was a registered diamond and gold exporter. This politician introduced me to a tribal chief and registered miner, who made me some offers in an import/export partnership. I subsequently returned to the UK to ponder those offers.
After many telephone conversations with the chief over several months, I returned to Sierra Leone in October, at which time he and I agreed on a transaction worth $60,000. It was agreed that once I transferred payment directly to the chief's bank account, he would deliver goods to the customs office (GGDO) to complete the formalities and send the diamonds to me in the UK.
After about a month of the incident and my October trip to Sierra Leone, the APC politician made contact with me again. When I told him of the fraud committed by his friend, the chief, the politician was “very angry” and promised to contact the police and press legal action against the chief to get my money back. However, after a few days of his promise of help to recover my money, this politician requested me to help his son secure a laptop computer as he was studying here in London. I really was not in the position to address the request. And, within a few weeks, this politician’s efforts amounted to only a suggestion that the Inspector General of Police (IG) re-arrest the chief and force him to repay the money, but they would need £1000 to cover his “costs.”"
Subject: Did I hear you say: "NO, THE A.P.C. DID NOT SAY THAT?"
From: Dr. Charles Curtis-Thomas
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Date Posted: 15:00:23 05/29/07 ()
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13. "Under the APC, central government sustained itself through corruption, nepotism and the plundering of state assets. These practices were replicated at regional and local levels, where Chieftaincy became synonymous with power, patronage and control of resources. When Sierra Leone adopted a one-party constitution in 1978, any semblance of accountability or effective opposition had already been eliminated. Historical trends like economic decay and fragmentation of the national spirit were exacerbated under the one-party system and became key causes of the conflict".
(Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report)
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APC MAN SAYS SLPP BROUGHT REBEL WAR TO SIERRA LEONE
By Joseph Kamanda
A parliamentary aspirant of the All Peoples Congress (APC) party for the forthcoming elections, Victor Kundu Sengu, has refuted accusations that the APC brought the eleven years rebel war to Sierra Leone .
One of the most popular APC candidates in the Kissi Teng constituency four, was speaking at a meeting to welcome APC Leader Ernest Koroma and entourage in Buedu Town for the party's Peace March . He told the large crowd of APC supporters that his party did not bring the rebel war. “When the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) rebels first attacked us in Buedu where they fired the first gun shot they were holding green palm fronds in their hands saying, "We are Sierra Leone Peoples SLPP campaigners and we have come to kick the APC out of power,” recalled Sengu.
The RUF rebels , according to Sengu , launched the war in support of the SLPP on the grounds to fight late President Joseph Saidu Momoh out and bring the SLPP back to power.
Commending previous APC administrations, Sengu said; “ The APC did so many good works in Kailahun District and things were not too difficult for the people compared to nowadays SLPP's ten years of misrule and endemic corruption, coupled with the mismanagement of state funds”. He alleged that the SLPP councillors have on several occasions issued statements threatening to kill APC supporters for holding the view that it was the SLPP who failed Kailahun District . He added to the clarion call for the redemption of the occupied border town of Yenga from Guinean troops.
Constituency Chairman , Tamba Gbondo, registered the commitment of his constituency and the entire Kissi Tongi chiefdom to win the elections for the APC party in Kailahun District, saying; “I want the APC leader to challenge any political supremacy that the APC will win in Kailahun”.
APC supporter from the United States, Sheku Tejan Koroma, who was also part of the entourage that toured Kailahun District said the SLPP Presidential candidate refused to stop in Buedu because he knew that Buedu, Kangama and Koindu are now more than strongholds of the APC.
On the approaching elections, the APC leader and Presidential candidate for the August polls, Hon. Bai Koroma , said Iin two months time the government of Sierra Leone will change to what the people want. Mr. Koroma told supporters to vote for the APC as it is the only party with the potentials to solve the problems of Sierra Leone. "Everybody knows that the 2002 elections and the 2004 local council elections have shown that Sierra Leoneans need a change”, said Hon. Koroma.
To his political rival, Hon. Koroma reechoed; “I have told Berewa not to worry about his pension and retirement benefits . I will take care of his retirement but honestly we don’t want a sleeping President neither a dying Opposition Leader”. He promised that he will make sure that the APC wins more parliamentary seats in Kailahun district.
In Daru town, where Koroma made a brief stop to address his supporters, another APC aspirant, Vamba Kanneh , called on all Jawae Chiefdom people to work hard for the restoration of APC back to power.
He described the visit as the as the recapture of the Kailahun District by the APC at a very crucial time in the political history of Sierra Leone. Web site designed & hosted by leeroy kanu © 2006 at Homestead™
Subject: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 13:39:32 05/29/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh further argued that the Kabbah-Berewa Constitution was biased in favor of the elite; concentrated too much power on the president who could easily become a despot; failed to provide for the proper management of the national currency, the Leone, an omission which Mr. Leigh predicted could easily impoverish Sierra Leoneans. Mr. Leigh also complained that the draft constitution treated women as second-class citizens and, overall, could not possibly be considered a valid democratic constitution, safeguarding the rights of all citizens.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 15:08:41 05/29/07 ()
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You are getting desperate. Your headline is obviously a dishonest childish trick that will fool no one.
I wrote the piece you quoted over a decade ago, in 1994 or some 13 years ago to be more precise. Neither Berewa nor Kabbah was running for president then. A military coup group was in power. And it was Kabbah who contested in 1996.
Lastly, my piece was about a DRAFT CONSTITUTION, not about personalities. The said draft constitution was in fact discarded. The constitution in place today is the 1991 APC-drafted constitution.
Once again, I stand resolutely behind the commentary you are seeking to misrepresent as if it was recently made. Your desperation supported equally by that desperate, single multiple-moniker abuser is not helping your case. - JL
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: Moijue-of fulumukus fame
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Date Posted: 15:43:35 05/29/07 ()
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When you made the statement:
By our folumunku calculation, this is less than 10 years.
ELECT AMBASSADOR LEIGH LEADER OF THE SIERRA LEONE PEOPLES PARTY AT THE COMING CONVENTION IN MAKENI. DATED: August 1, 2005 in Freetown
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 15:32:13 05/29/07 ()
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John Leigh u wrote this piece discrediting Berewa and Kabba when you contested for the leadership of SLPP in 2005 which is less than 2years ago.
The real desperate person is the flip flopper that you have become.
More later.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:02:19 05/29/07 ()
Email Address: Johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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You are desperate. The comment you quoted was written 13 years ago and incorporated into my 2005 SLPP leader campaign literature. I made it plain in my campaign literate that tt was about the NPRC DRAFT CONSTITUTION of 1993/1994 and that my comments were written in 1994 and I was the only Sierra Leonean who reviewed the entire draft.
Your man did not do any thing. Just like he sat idly as APC MP during the entire period European companies divested from Sierra Leone and did or wrote nothing.
He did and said nothing about the TGS-NOPEC oil deal. During the interregnum he wasted time playing around in Conakry and did nothing to help any one. Yet he wants to lead. He can lead you but not me.
Again, I stand by my commentary about the Kabbah-Berewa NPRC DRAFT CONSTITUTION I wrote in 1994.
Read it intelligently if possible - you might understand it. -JL
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: Almamy Seray-Wurie Si
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Date Posted: 17:03:12 05/29/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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"Again, I stand by my commentary about the Kabbah-Berewa NPRC DRAFT CONSTITUTION I Wrote in 1994"
Sir,
Since you are a legal mind like the two who lead the said draft and one with first hand experience working with Berewa (TGS-NOPEC oil deal)..
Can cham kola for Berewa?
If Berewa led APC or PMDC would you have still supported him?
What do you know about his health (especially smoking and drinking though private but will that not mix with his public life)?
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: Jon Lee
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Date Posted: 16:57:31 05/29/07 ()
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Folks, that article was a "pre-convention" article (As John Leigh would normally say when he is caught with his pants down). The circumstances have changed. So ignore it. Right John?
Jon Lee
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: Loser Lee
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Date Posted: 22:25:32 05/29/07 ()
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The only thing that has not changed is John Leigh's immoral character. There is no depth too low for this bribe-giving, spit-licking, corrupt bootlicker chasing after the recovery of his bribes would not sink.
I wouldn't waste time on such a dishonest nonentity like Leigh -- why do you think he never evenb received a single vote from either the SLPP or PMDC?
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 16:51:44 05/29/07 ()
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JEL: He sat in the cabinet that approved the TGS-Oil Exploration Deal that I alone was left to rail against.
When was the deal signed?
Who signed on behalf of SL government?
AND WHO PREPARED the document on behalf of our government?
Who was the principal legal adviser to government at the time when this bad deal was signed?
A deal that impoverised third world contries like SL
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: FACT
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Date Posted: 23:10:28 05/29/07 ()
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I call for a cease-fire gentlemen. Leh ollman go drink cole ginger beer fors ba. Looks like Moijue is spoiling for a fight with JEL.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 16:38:45 05/29/07 ()
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Now u are losing it:When did Margai become APC MP?
ON the TGS-NOPEC oil deal;hear is what you wrote again:
In Mr. Leigh’s view, the Oil Agreement drafted under Mr. Berewa’s supervision is exactly the type of commercial agreement that has subjugated Sierra Leoneans in deep poverty and must never be subscribed to again.
BEREWA spent more time in Atlanta than in Conakry.
WHEN the AFRC/RUF seized power they invited Margai to served them which he outrightly refused to do.They even promised to give him all the properties seized by APC.Still he refused and fled the country.If he was so desperate for power he would have stayed and served the military like your new SLPP aspirant like ABASS BUNDU did .
So relax man, Jesus loves u.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 16:42:52 05/29/07 ()
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So relax man, Jesus loves u.
aint that the TRUTH
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: PMDC
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Date Posted: 14:03:52 05/29/07 ()
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Don't Take John Leigh's seriously. He is a flip-flopper
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH WARNS SALONE PEOPLE AGAINST BEREWA PRESIDENCY
From: Abazam
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Date Posted: 13:49:34 05/29/07 ()
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But Leigh also claims that he does not engage in critism of his party (SLPP) 12 months before and after elections. This means that he is presently blind and oblivious of his own beliefs. He can disown his own writings at this moment. I suggest we all sweep John Leigh into the Marbaylah or Burmeh dumpster of history. The guy is a disgrace. Maybe Berewa should rent him a room at the newly reburbished Kissy Mental Hospital.
Subject: APC: The Making of a Viable Opposition
From: Historian
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Date Posted: 13:14:07 05/29/07 ()
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APC./ Uprising Discourses:The Making of a Viable Opposition/Alternative
The search for a alternative(not necessarily a radical one) to the SLPP did not emanate from the Youth. Nor did they make any organize or independent contribution—based on their own agenda—towards the defeat of the SLPP.The period from independence to 1968 was characterised by a tussle for power between the two organized political machine: the SLPP and the APC.
If the youths were involved, their role was simply one of foot soldiers, as thugs, by the politicians of both parties. This marginalization of youth was concretely expressed in the form of party youth wings(there were also womens wing); an arm of the party always peripheral to where real power was located.
Their performance could therefore be read as a ritual; it always begins with a crisis situation and their moblization as thugs to do their dirty work. Once the project is complete, they fall back to the status quo ante, as wings, waiting for another assignment. These examples of youth "activites"--- Ginger Hall massacre, Akibo Betts lead and inspired; Mobai, Kailahun bye-elections, SI Koroma led and organized; attack on FBC, Kemoh Fadika, led and organized; Kurubola, Kabala, Kawusu-Conteh, led and organized; the Sanda massacre, Temu Bangura, led and organized--- have formed part of the iconography of political violence in Salone.
This reading of their political role does not mean that those who joined the so-called youth wings were all thugs or simply auxillary troops. People like Caleb Aubee, Alfred Akibo-Betts, the John Brothers, Adewole and Olufemi, Mohamed Samura, Kemoh Fadika, Kojo Randle started their political carrers as members of the APC youth league. However, their role was strictly speaking limited to "action oriented tasks" and occassional trips to communist countries; it was only in the 70s that the party gave those who were still in the fold a rightful place in the sun.
An interesting angle to ponder is the question:why youth. An obvious historical paralell is Wallace-Johnson’s Youth League. Was this peformance of youth a throw back to the Youth League era of the thirties? Stevens admiration and respect for Wallace is well know. Was this an unconscious scr1pt been played back and enacted by revisiting the youth league days? These questions are tantalising not least because Wallace-Johnson activities were centred around the youth: employed as well as unemployed. Wallace had in fact argued in the thirties that the youth of Sierra Leone would one day assume the mantle of radical leadership and redeem "the Athens of West Africa" in the eyes of the Black World and in the eyes of humanity.
Is this therefore Wallace’s dream come true or is it a caricature? I would argue that the youth project which started unfolding in the 70s, and which inevitably culminated in the emergence of the RUF/NPRC and the begining of the "uncivil" war is not an enactment of the Wallacian project because it lacked the discipline and the maturity that Wallace-Johnson was known to constantly emphasize in his speeches and writings. Even so, it raises the question of a probable connection in a not too dissimilar soci-economic context. Paul Richards *Fighting for the Rain Forest: War,Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone* does come to grips with the role of youth in the drama surrounding the war and the continuation of the war.
But his heavy emphasis on resources and the forest,(he should have concentrated on the trees instead of the forest) seems to down play the political importance of youth culture, not youth, in shaping the process leading to the rebellion and the continuation of the war.This youth culture which evolved in the late 60s had its geneology in the so-called rarray boy/lumpen culture.
It was the "classical rarray boys", or if you will the first generation, who were the foot soldiers for the politcians. They played this role because of their contradictory lumpen consciousness and their defective education. They were mostly unlettered, predominantly second generation residents in the city, whose abode, the pote, was also a cultural/leisure space constructed around the odelay(debul).
These group were known for their anti-social behaviour: drug(jamba), petty theft, violence(chuk), which did not endear them to the populace at large. Their periodic carnivals on public holidays was always under the watchful eyes of the police; they needed permit for their carnivals, first from city officials and later from the police, in order to "pull debel". Their revelry and riotous behaviour alienated them from the city inhabitants: they were a good for nothing bunch to avoid in the interest of peace.
The rarray boys are still awaiting for their historian/sociologist. The work of Dr.Dennis Bright at the French pedagogic centre and Rev. Sam Kpakra of the Sierra Leone Christian Council on grass root community devolopment and drug rehabilitation are major leaps toward our understanding of this youth culture.
This representation of lumpen culture however started to change in the 70s particularly when middle class youths and other respectable bunch became interested players and participants in lumpen popular culture. This change was reflected in the changing character and composition of the pote as well as the acceptance of odelays as part of the urban cultural landscape.
Yet this change reflected all the contradictory tendencies inherent in lumpens as a social category and their culture. Thus whereas politicians were interested in coopting and taming this culture so as to ensure a ready supply of thugs to do their dirty work,the entry of middle class youth and others in the pote as participants in the periodic carnivals, transformed the culture as well as the nature of the pote.
These youth were still in high school, they participated in the drug culture but still stayed in school. Others dropped out and followed the footsteps of the original rarray boys. The entry of this new crop changed the social equation in the pote. This new change coincided with the coming of reggae music and a decided turn to the political.
The influence of music was at first local: it was rock music, drug and political talk. It started with Purple Haze, a musical group in the city of Freetown, Super Combo from Bo, later followed by Afric Jessips, Suberb Seven and Sabanoh ‘75. The proliferation of reggae music—Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Burney Wailer—and the political lyrics of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Osibisa and Manu Dibango added another dimension to the repertoire of youth rebelliousness and non-conformity.
The liberation struggles against settler colonialism also contributed to the development of this new culture of resistance. The pote, like the English pub, became an arena for discussions centred on what was popularly refered to as the SYSTEM. System "dread" became a slogan and a rallying call for alienated youths in the potes who were mostly unemployed. The popularity of marijuana within this cohort brought diverse groups to the pote so much so that the language of the pote began filtering into mainstream society.
Lumpen youth culture was at the cutting edge in the development of Krio language; they expanded the vocabulary which came to incorporate items from their cultural repertoire.The transformation from "rarray boys" to "service man" was complete with a new language and an iconography of resistance.
This transformation was signified by the link between "town" and "gown".
Ishmail Rashid has explored the connections between this new lumpen culture and FBC students in his forthcoming publication "Subaltern Reactions: Student Radicals and Lumpen Youth in Sierra Leone,1977-1992". What comes out clearly in his take on the issue is the emergence of "organic intellectuals," those who were in the forefront articulating some form of change.
In the 70s this group included mostly high school drop outs and some unfortunate O and A level holders who were mostly unemployed; spent a lot of time in the pote;some later went to FBC, while the majority joined the expanding army of Freetown’s unemployed who lingered mostly in the potes and the numerous working class and lower middle class pubs in the city.
This group were conservant with the political philosophy of some distinguished Africans,they knew in outline form the history of slavery and the slave trade and the dehumanisation of the African; they could make connnections between the colonial past and the post-colonial present; they generally espouse some form of Pan-Africanism.
During this period, pote discussions were spiced with generous quotes from Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, Wallace-Johnson, and at times Haile Selassie. Some of these pote-types had read some Nkrumah(*Class struggle in Africa* was quite popular), some Fanon, some Rodney,a bit of Che Guavara, Fidel Castro’s History Will Absolve Me, and some undigested Marx and Lenin propaganda,thanks Soviet Progress publishers.
By the 1980s students at FBC were a respectable lot in the pote; they were a reference group for their unfortunate brothers, and their role in the 1977 deomonstrations enhanced their status vis a vis other groups in the pote. In the pote’s code of honor,essentially an extension of the bra-borbor clientists relationship in the society,due regard was given to the service man who frequented the pote and was also a student at FBC. Their unfortunate brothers listened to them as they preached,smoked and politiczed in the safe confines of the pote.
It was within this social ferment that the change from "service man" to "man dem" took place. By then, the camaraderie had come full circle: "one love" and "brotherhood" had become the slogan of this new group of youths.These discursive practice was visible in the popular support the 1977 demonstrations received even though some of the thugs who were mobilized by Kemoh Fadika to storm FBC were recruited from the pote.
It is also from this vantage point that the series of student protests in the 80s become intelligible. The students, who were immersed in the rebellious youth culture, became the most articulate group to oppose the APC by utilizing the platform of student politics to launch an attack on APC rule in general and to call for change.
The 1977 student demonstrations were organized and led by students who were particpants in this resistance culture. The Gardener’s club, much maligned by outsiders, was central to some of the demonstrations in the late 70s and early 80s. By the 80s,however, other student groups had emerged that were politically organized. The Green Book study group, the Duche Idea of Kim Il Sung, the Socialist club and PANAFU, Pan-African Union.
These student political groups debated strictly political matters and sought to use the student union as an effective medium to channell their grievances at the national level. They were different not only because of their decidedly political thrust but also because they eshewed the drug culture, a central pillar of this rebellious culture.
The 1977 students demonstrations was not the first time that students were involved in national politics. Before this incident, FBC students were involved in the APC inspired agitation against the introduction of a one-party system.
Later the APC, through Alfred Akibo-Betts,established a branch of the Youth League on campus in the early 70s. But like the lumpens before them, the students did not enter the political arena as independent actors; they were always brought in as foot soldiers in the service of a mythical common agenda.
1977 was therefore the first time that FBC students as a body intervened in the political arena as an informal opposition.The initiative was taken solely by students, the radical students, who did not anticipate the consequences of their actions. The demonstrations exposed the fragility of the APC regime; it was a popular uprising which was supported by a cross section of the population.
The Pa was forced to grant some concessions: a general elections was called three months later. Inspite of its limited gains,the demonstration was successful: it revealed the potential of organized protest particularly by College students. It was a lesson to both students and politicians about the political potential of organized student protests.
It was therefore not surprising that the APC government became involved in students politics by attempting to sponsor candidates. Attempts to draft noted radicals on campus did not succeed but it revealed the polarised nature of student politics as the nation entered the turbulent 80s.
The economic downturn in the early 80s, partly fuelled by the lavish hosting of the OAU conference, and the dwindling revenues from mining excercabated by rampant smuggling, affected the provision of scholarships for students as well as expendtiure on health and other social services. The increase in the ranks of the unemployed continue to shape the discourse in the pote.
And the muted talk about revolution in the 70s, gave way to open talk about revolution. But how this revolution was to be prosecuted was never systematically discussed nor were other options explored.
The talk about revolution, vague and distorted as it was, remained alive in the rhetoric and the language of rebellious youths. And the language shifted from "man dem" to "comrade", and finally to "brothers and sisters".
This shift was symptomatic of an ideological change particularly amongst the "organic intellectuals" in the pote and the numerous study groups in the city and in Bo, Kenema, and Kono. This change was evident in the political groups which had emerged at FBC campus in the early 80s. Anti-imperialists slogans were appropriated as part of this youth iconograhpy.
Meanwhile student-administration relations on campus deteriorated. A student demonstrations in January 1984 resulted in a three month lock out. A Commission of inquiry set up to look into the frequent complaints of students and conditions in the campus turn out in their favor.
The Kutubu Commssion report was never released. By 1985, the administration had taken it upon itself to discipline students so as to keep state interference to a minimum. It was in this context that a radical student union leadership emerged to channel the accumulated grievances of students over the years.
The movement was a coalition of radical goups on campus with a populist platform that attracted radicals as well as democrats.
The Mass Awareness and Particpation (MAP) student union President Alie Kabba was elected unopposed, while he was in Libya attending the annual green book celebration. The MAP was loose coalition of radicals: it involved members of Green book study group, the Gardeners’ club, PANAFU, and the Socialist club.But its fierce rhetoric,bordering on adventurism, alarmed the college administration.
The new governmemt did not follow in the footsteps of previous student leaderships who only tried to address national issues in crisis situations; they took the initiative, partly as a result of the popular youth culture of which it was a product,to link up with youths in the city.
Their publicity campaign spawned numerous anti-govenrment posters on campus and the city. A peoples tribunal was set up to adjudicate between students, and to combat anti-social behaviour. It was a popular government based on allege *Peoples Power*.
These activities, and the rumor that the student leadership was been sponsored by the Libyans, did not endear then to the administration.
What remains unclear in the muddle accounts of several participants is the source of the wild campaign of disinformation about Libyan sponsorship and involvement in student politics.
Perhaps, Alie Kabba’s trip to Libya added some credence to the charge about Libyan sponsorship. If this was the case then it was indeed a flimsy ground on which to base such a serious allegation. And the trip to Libya was not clandestine nor was Alie the only student who travelled with the Sierra Leone delegation.
There were two faculty members on the delegation, Cleo Hanciles and Moses Dumbuya. Whatever the case, the charge of Libyan involvement was serious enough to provoke another student lockout.
The events which led to the expulsion and suspension of some 41 students was connected to the allege Libyan linkage of the student leadership.The students were accused of holding on to their keys during the lent semester break because they intend to camp Libyan mercenaries in their hostels.
Neither the administration nor the government investigated the allegation. What the College administration did was to invited the notorious SSD gendarme on campus to literally fush out students from their hostels.
When the college reopened, for the Easter semester, the administration was faced with a militant student demonstration against the expulsion and suspension of students which subsequently engulfed the city. It led to widespread looting,vandalism and in the ensuing melee,’ the principal’s car got burnt.
Three faculty members—Olu Gordon, Jimmy Kande and Cleo Hanciles judged friendly to the students lost their jobs. Olu Gordon and Cleo Hanciles were founding members and patrons of PANAFU. The student union president, Alie kabba, and four other students—Haroun Boima, Derek Bangura, Isreal Jigba and Mohamed Barrie—were arrested and detained for two months.
They were later arraigned for allegedly torching the principal’s car. The action of the student radicals could be described as infantile.They were neither politically mature nor sufficiently disciplined to realise the short comings of whatever leverage they had on the administration or the state.
They naively thought that their rhetoric could deliver their puerile call for peoples power without a solid organizational base.
Compared to the 1977 leadership, the1985 student leadership was more organized. Unlike 1977,they were politically blind:they failed to understand the inherent limitation of student politics and the dead end of student confrontional politics.
Elsewhere on the west coast, notably Nigeria and Ghana,this confrontational stance had taught students a bitter political lesson.Perhaps,the unpopularity of the regime was a factor shaping student militance:the students enjoyed tremendous support on campus and in the city.
The activities of Alie Kabba,the union president, was according to some his closest advisers,too naive and politically immature. The interview he granted to the BBC about the new change (where he allegedly expressed his determination to have State House come talk to him) was in the words of one of his closest comrades "a stupid mistake."
Their expulsion from FBC ended a phase in the making/constructing of an informal opposition.
Henceforth, the baton, it seemed, was passed on to the lumpen youths and their organic intellectuals some of whom had graduated from FBC and Njala in the city and the numerous study groups/revolutionary cells in Bo, Kenema and Koidu.
Why did student radicals in Sierra Leone, obviously far backward ideologically speaking in comparison to their counterparts in Nigeria and Ghana, embrace the word of Pan-Africanism and Libya’s Green book ideology?
Why did Ghadaffi’s Green book ideology "take root" in Sierra Leone and not in other West African countries? The student movements in Nigeria and Ghana applauded the anti-imperialist stance of Colonel Ghadaffy and supported Libya’s uncompromising position on the question of Africa’s liberation and Third World independence.
They did not embrace the message partly because they were wedded to marxain political economy analysis a la Ake and partly because they were critical of Ghadaffi’s "Third Universal Theory".Radical students in Nigeria, did not theorise the role of students as vanguard of the revolution.
Their position on the Nigerian revolution was always articulated from the vantage point of an alliance of progressive forces. The disastrous attempt by Issac Boro,a student leader in the 60s had foreclosed this option for the student radicals in Nigeria.
Perhaps,the backwardness of the student movement in Sierra Leone with regard to ideology and the lack of a post-colonial radical tradition, was a factor in explaining the attractiveness of the Green Book.
Some student radicals who were involved in this performance are now offering an auto-critque of what, with the help of hindsight, they now dub "youthful adventure." Others suggested that it was not really the message but the opportunity to travel and get some cash which explains their involvement.
This could have been the case for some of the students. Yet the failure to critique Ghadaffi’s ideas and the inherent contradictions in the text reveals a lot about the consciousness of this radical bunch.
They did not only fail to offer a critical analysis of Ghadaffi’s populism but failed to make the obvious connection between the Green Book and Libya’s foriegn policy. No attempt was even made to understand the Colonel’s support for Idi Amin or his claim to Chadian territory.
It is this lack of ideas, this failure to search for one based on a thorough analysis of the situation, which explains why Pan-Africanism--(the pan-Africanism of Wallace-Johnson?) was uncritically appropriated, or why revolutionary Pan-Africanism, became an option.
Pan-Africanism was therefore the context within which the movememt unfolded; Libya, the midwife of the Revolution to be.
Subject: Re: APC: The Making of a Viable Opposition
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 16:11:43 05/29/07 ()
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Talking about the West African Youth League and the impact of I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson, a very special man, and deserves a few chapters on Leonenet. Many special questions and answers surround him.
http://www.google.se/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADBR_enSE222SE222&q=I.T.A.+Wallace-Johnson
Some familiar personalities, Adewole and Olufemi John, Kojo Randle…..Hon Yaya Fanusie does not deserve an honourable mention in that connection?
The music section reported here is weak, very weak. Abysmally weak. Yaya should be asked to tell us more about it. Influences from Congo, Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea (Bembeya played at some of the FBC (Hyso) Dances, I shook HANDS with diamond fingers, Sheiku Diabate, himself) listened to them tune up and practice…..before the dance.
Gooding’s Hall. Yellow Diamond at Krootown Road (where S. E. Rogers, once sent me to “call “a lady, “tell am say nah Rogie dae call am”) But the Fullah music, that flute and the gongi (violin) and the jumping and dancing that was the best, the FULLAH Music, close to the Fra- Fra wedding music one listened to in Nima, central ghetto Accra…..
No mention of The Heartbeats, Jazz Leone Nationa, The Tornadoes, Freddie and Sammie of the Rycco Jazz Band ( Habaiba Musa; My Zainatu) Geraldo Pino, Emile Walsh, Arnold Nylander, Francis Fuster, Balogun Johnston- Williams, Diro Johnson, ( bass) , Desmond Easmon, Miatta Fahnbulleh, George Morgan ( vocalist) Tom Brown, Sondeway of Akpata Jazz, The Echoes, Sam King, Bunting McCormack, The Soundcasters, Cecil Blake, Julian Braithwaite, Dennis Stephanopoulos , Macfoy and the Golden Strings, David Allen, James Braithwaite, Gipu Felix-George (our drummer, and dining hall DJ kept us pumped up with SOUL music and jazz) Seray-Wurrie, “Hank Marvin”, Claudius Dayo Thomas of the Cacademics, Sir Albert Margai the Patron Saint of Akpata Jazz band, many many others…….
The day I got married (at the American Embassy) CHARLIE BYRD played in Freetown. Cozy Cole had been visiting earlier, and some Gospel singers too, The Formula ( I lost my English date – she fell in love with a guy in the band, I think that she thought that he looked like Paul McCartney, poor me, Jimi Hendrix’s “Hey Joe” was already coming through the Speakers….
Subject: THE SPECIAL COURT: MAKING MOCKERY OF IMPUNITY AND JUSTICE!
From: Dr. Charles Curtis-Thomas
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Date Posted: 12:16:55 05/29/07 ()
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At its inception, I was one of those who applauded the setting up of the Special Court of Sierra Leone as I felt that "SAVAGERY AND IMPUNITY" must be niped in the bud. I was seriously disappointed when only a selected few of the culprits were indicted, including:
--Chief, the honorable minister, Hinga Norman
--Moinime Fofana
---Allieu Kondewa
--Foday Sankoh
-- Sam Bockarie
--Issa Sesay
--Morris Kallon
-- Augustine Gbao
-- Alex Tamba Brima
-- Brima Bazzy Kamara
--Santigie Borbor Kanu
A look at the following from the special Court indicates that the Special court is making a Mockery of Impunity and Justice and at the same time treating the people of Sierra Leone as idiots. It would be a wise idea if we could just forget about this whole nightmare and just close this Special court circus.
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Article 4
Other serious violations of international humanitarian law
The Special Court shall have the power to prosecute persons who committed the following serious violations of international humanitarian law:
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict;
Conscr1pting or enlisting children under the age of 15 years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate actively in hostilities.
Article 5
Crimes under Sierra Leonean law
The Special Court shall have the power to prosecute persons who have committed the following crimes under Sierra Leonean law:
Offences relating to the abuse of girls under the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act, 1926 (Cap. 31):
Abusing a girl under 13 years of age, contrary to section 6;
Abusing a girl between 13 and 14 years of age, contrary to section 7;
Abduction of a girl for immoral purposes, contrary to section 12.
Offences relating to the wanton destruction of property under the Malicious Damage Act, 1861:
Setting fire to dwelling - houses, any person being therein, contrary to section 2;
Setting fire to public buildings, contrary to sections 5 and 6;
Setting fire to other buildings, contrary to section 6.
Article 6
Individual criminal responsibility
1. A person who planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation or execution of a crime referred to in articles 2 to 4 of the present Statute shall be individually responsible for the crime.
2. The official position of any accused persons, whether as Head of State or Government or as a responsible government official, shall not relieve such person of criminal responsibility nor mitigate punishment.
3. The fact that any of the acts referred to in articles 2 to 4 of the present Statute was committed by a subordinate does not relieve his or her superior of criminal responsibility if he or she knew or had reason to know that the subordinate was about to commit such acts or had done so and the superior had failed to take the necessary and reasonable measures to prevent such acts or to punish the perpetrators thereof.
4. The fact that an accused person acted pursuant to an order of a Government or of a superior shall not relieve him or her of criminal responsibility, but may be considered in mitigation of punishment if the Special Court determines that justice so requires.
Subject: SLPP Government Pressed for Cash....Custom Tariffs Up 200%..
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SLPP Government Pressed for Cash....Custom Tariffs Up 200%...More Suffering For Sierra Leoneans
Posted by Unissa Bangura on May 29, 2007, 22:35
It was an incredible news last Tuesday May 22, 2007 when a hurriedly arranged meeting was convened at the Customs and Excise Department at the Queen Elizabeth Quay 11 to inform all Clearing and Forwarding Agencies about the new and drastic charges put in place to value goods imported to the country, with special reference to vehicles, personal effects and containers.
It was a big disappointment to the convener of the meeting as less number of Clearing and Forwarding Agents attended with very short notice. The meeting was attended by heads of Divisions of Customs and Excise Department with the Chairman Assistant Commissioner of Customs in charge of operation, Mr. Alimamy Sheriff Kamara presided over the meeting. At the meeting the Assistant Commissioner explained the stringent measures adopted to increase tariffs, noting that all valuation process will now be handled by the British Nationals. “The old tariffs according to the Commissioner will no more be used” he remarked, and added, “The new tariff signed by the Commissioner-General of NRA Dr. John A. Karimu comes into effect” He concluded.
What is of serious concern to the entire membership of the Clearing and Forwarding Agencies is the neglect of NRA authorities to consult them earlier before the meeting was convened since they consider themselves as partners in revenue collection.
A Mr. Alieu Kamara, member of the Clearing and Forwarding Association described the action as a one –man show aimed to exploit the people further.
Since the British stormed the Quay few days back to conduct valuation exercise, the entire Quay is reportedly turned upside down as importers who are not able to pay the new tariffs for their goods valued at exorbitantly four to five times than the original amount they usually pay for cars, vehicles and other items including perishable goods abandoned them in frustration and disappointment.
When this writer went to the Quay, he discovered that the tariffs have been increased by over 200% and importers deserted the scene. The situation as is being interpreted by importers, business individuals and employees at the Quay is that the object is to deprive Sierra Leoneans and subject them to more hardship.
Subject: Re: SLPP Government Pressed for Cash....Custom Tariffs Up 200%..
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Date Posted: 12:27:19 05/29/07 ()
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The "Ayanpees" at customs are going to get richer and richer because the SLPP just cannot break the back of the organised crime syndicate at the quay. Sierra Leone is in the claws of the SLPP Vampires once again. If you wish to finance your campaigne through the NRA by bringing more suffering to our people at home and isolating diasporans then you are in for self-destruction.You are digging your graves for burial on August 11. Believe
Subject: I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAVE HEARD IT ALL....THEN THIS!
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
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THE ANALYST
Monrovia, Liberia
May 21, 2007
Girl Makes Love With Dog
By J. Ebenezer Daygbor
On Saturday May 12, 2007, at 4:30PM, the Firestone Rubber Plantation became a place of action and vehement public protest in demand of a girl who reportedly went out with a dog.
The news broke out few hours after the penis of the dog reportedly hitched in the girl identified as Naomi Johnson. According to reports, the dog is one of the many dogs used for security purposes at the Golf Club at the plantation.
Upon hearing the news, our reporter was dispatched to Firestone to corroborate the information during which an employee of the Plant Protection Department of the company (name withheld) explained what has transpired.
Last Friday, at 2:30AM, the girl identified as Naomi Johnson, who is believed to be a prostitute was hired by unknown PPD officers to have sex for money with one of the three dogs brought from the United States to help provide security at the plantation, he said.
According to him, Naomi who is also said to be in her 20s had gone to the Golf Club where she was said to have been contacted to go in bed with the dog for an amount not disclosed.
As if he was part of the negotiation, he said the girl succumbed and the officer told this paper that after a very brief discussion, the dog and the girl went indoors at the Harbel Hill Community at the plantation.
Observers are however questioning the possibility of the girl in her right mind going in bed with a dog, but the PPD officer indicated that the girl was cunningly drugged without saying as to whether she was drugged before the alleged sex.
"Normally a trained dog sex for about six hours", he said but added that they spent more than the required time in the room, something which according to him, drew the attention of those who concocted the plan.
"But it was very strange for the dog and the girl to be bed from 2:45AM to the next day, Saturday. When it was discovered that both the girl and dog could not come out, we got concerned.
We were not thniking about them again, but approaching the evening hours, we heard the dog barking while the girl was crying for help," he recalled.
Apparently having unsuccessfully fought hard to get its penis out from the girl's private part, the PPD officer said the dog got enraged and began gashing the back, thus causing her to bleed profusely from the back.
"She was bleeding all on her back, because the dog scratched all over her and we were afraid to hear that's how we the guards, who are the care takers, later took her in the embrace of the dog and rushed them to the hospital," he told The Analyst.
He however bemoaned the rather shameful act of Liberian girls giving themselves to dogs, saying "embarrassing for them as Liberians who work with a company to see their sisters being used by dogs."
"While it is true that at times we can call them, but I think this is a big disgrace, because for human beings to sex with dogs. People may ask why we should seek women for dogs, but we must do it, in order to protect our jobs. God in Heaven knows that I'm against this whole thing, but what to do", he said in tears.
Also speaking to The Analyst about the incident, a motorist who ply the streets of the plantation claimed to have been first to see the girl and the dog. Mark Zorh said, the girl and the dog were placed at the back of the four door pick-up belonging to Firestone and taken to the Medical One (1).
When I saw the dog over the girl, I thought the dog was biting her, so I ran a bit closer, but surprisingly the girl was naked, her butt was closed to the private area, that's how I called some of my friends to see, and this is how the crowds grew" he said.
Zorh, who is 24, pointed out that the Plant Protection Department along with some officers of the Liberian National Police, and residents went into serious action to prevent the people from getting the girl.
The riot, according to him was due to the PPD and the police trial to prevent the people from closing in while the crowds resisted to get a closer view of the shameful situation. Each of the onlookers shouted for others to come and see and all of a sudden the street was packed with people" he revealed.
According to sources, closed to the hospital (Medical 1) in Firestone, the girl has been transferred to Medical 2 to continue her treatment, while the ugly dog has been discharged.
Many observers believe the action of the girl is due to poverty, while others argue that girls only devalue her woman hood, in exchange for materials things.
Workers of the plantation told this paper that the habit of the senior staffs mostly the expatriate workers to have their dogs have sex with black girls, while video taping is a gross dehumanization of these girls and abuse of the impoverished people of the country. Efforts to get the side of the management of the Firestone proved futile.
On Saturday May 12, 2007, at 4:30PM, the Firestone Rubber Plantation became a place of action and vehement public protest in demand of a girl who reportedly went out with a dog.
The news broke out few hours after the penis of the dog reportedly hitched in the girl identified as Naomi Johnson. According to reports, the dog is one of the many dogs used for security purposes at the Golf Club at the plantation.
Upon hearing the news, our reporter was dispatched to Firestone to corroborate the information during which an employee of the Plant Protection Department of the company (name withheld) explained what has transpired.
Last Friday, at 2:30AM, the girl identified as Naomi Johnson, who is believed to be a prostitute was hired by unknown PPD officers to have sex for money with one of the three dogs brought from the United States to help provide security at the plantation, he said.
According to him, Naomi who is also said to be in her 20s had gone to the Golf Club where she was said to have been contacted to go in bed with the dog for an amount not disclosed.
As if he was part of the negotiation, he said the girl succumbed and the officer told this paper that after a very brief discussion, the dog and the girl went indoors at the Harbel Hill Community at the plantation.
Observers are however questioning the possibility of the girl in her right mind going in bed with a dog, but the PPD officer indicated that the girl was cunningly drugged without saying as to whether she was drugged before the alleged sex.
"Normally a trained dog sex for about six hours", he said but added that they spent more than the required time in the room, something which according to him, drew the attention of those who concocted the plan.
"But it was very strange for the dog and the girl to be bed from 2:45AM to the next day, Saturday. When it was discovered that both the girl and dog could not come out, we got concerned.
We were not thniking about them again, but approaching the evening hours, we heard the dog barking while the girl was crying for help," he recalled.
Apparently having unsuccessfully fought hard to get its penis out from the girl's private part, the PPD officer said the dog got enraged and began gashing the back, thus causing her to bleed profusely from the back.
"She was bleeding all on her back, because the dog scratched all over her and we were afraid to hear that's how we the guards, who are the care takers, later took her in the embrace of the dog and rushed them to the hospital," he told The Analyst.
He however bemoaned the rather shameful act of Liberian girls giving themselves to dogs, saying "embarrassing for them as Liberians who work with a company to see their sisters being used by dogs."
"While it is true that at times we can call them, but I think this is a big disgrace, because for human beings to sex with dogs. People may ask why we should seek women for dogs, but we must do it, in order to protect our jobs. God in Heaven knows that I'm against this whole thing, but what to do", he said in tears.
Also speaking to The Analyst about the incident, a motorist who ply the streets of the plantation claimed to have been first to see the girl and the dog. Mark Zorh said, the girl and the dog were placed at the back of the four door pick-up belonging to Firestone and taken to the Medical One (1).
When I saw the dog over the girl, I thought the dog was biting her, so I ran a bit closer, but surprisingly the girl was naked, her butt was closed to the private area, that's how I called some of my friends to see, and this is how the crowds grew" he said.
Zorh, who is 24, pointed out that the Plant Protection Department along with some officers of the Liberian National Police, and residents went into serious action to prevent the people from getting the girl.
The riot, according to him was due to the PPD and the police trial to prevent the people from closing in while the crowds resisted to get a closer view of the shameful situation. Each of the onlookers shouted for others to come and see and all of a sudden the street was packed with people" he revealed.
According to sources, closed to the hospital (Medical 1) in Firestone, the girl has been transferred to Medical 2 to continue her treatment, while the ugly dog has been discharged.
Many observers believe the action of the girl is due to poverty, while others argue that girls only devalue her woman hood, in exchange for materials things.
Workers of the plantation told this paper that the habit of the senior staffs mostly the expatriate workers to have their dogs have sex with black girls, while video taping is a gross dehumanization of these girls and abuse of the impoverished people of the country. Efforts to get the side of the management of the Firestone proved futile.
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Subject: Re: I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAVE HEARD IT ALL....THEN THIS!
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 09:15:33 05/30/07 ()
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I am having a very hard time believing that sex between a male dog and a female person - with different physiological make-up - will end up that way.
Subject: Re: I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAVE HEARD IT ALL....THEN THIS!
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 14:40:02 05/29/07 ()
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"Workers of the plantation told this paper that the habit of the senior staffs mostly the expatriate workers to have their dogs have sex with black girls, while video taping is a gross dehumanization of these girls and abuse of the impoverished people of the country"
And the dog was not even put down but discharge from hospital. This is sickening and repulsive.Typical slave master behaviour. They used to let their dogs sleep with our ancestors and when they felt KINKY they will also sleep with the same dogs. And now they are telling us that Aids came from monkeys. The government should ask these expatriate to leave immediately. If they don't ask them to leave, then all Liberians should take direction action. They should storm the plantation and do whatever they can to these repatriate and their dogs. Maybe am being too militant here but this is the worst things someone can ever do to a human being. It doesn't matter if they are creating employment for Liberians its an indirect act of ethnic cleansing. And its just too nasty.I won't be surprise to hear hopeless politicians like Leigh in Liberia saying that they should not expel these expatriate because Liberia need foreign exchange. Because to them money means every thing.
Subject: Re: I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAVE HEARD IT ALL....THEN THIS!
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 16:56:40 05/29/07 ()
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Maybe am being too militant here but this is the worst things someone can ever do to a human being.
NO YOU ARE NOT. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD ISSUE SEARCH AND ARREST WARRANTS FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED AND IF THEY ARE EXPATRIATES, LOCK THEIR ASSES UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEYS. This [pandering to so called expatriates who come to denigrate our people is too much.
Subject: Re: I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAVE HEARD IT ALL....THEN THIS!
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 16:56:01 05/29/07 ()
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Maybe am being too militant here but this is the worst things someone can ever do to a human being.
NO YOU ARE NOT. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD ISSUE SEARCH AND ARREST WARRANTS FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED AND IF THEY ARE EXPATRIATES, LOCK THEIR ASSES UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEYS.
Subject: Re: I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAVE HEARD IT ALL....THEN THIS!
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Date Posted: 16:55:58 05/29/07 ()
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I support you,John Leigh would have embraced it as a means of white man investment.Just hideous.They used,and still using money to spread their sick,inhuman acts across the globe especially in Africa.(SLAVERY,DISEASES ETC.)Africans should start to learn how to say no,enough is enough.We must stop using poverty as a catalyst to justify our behaviour.As the saying goes in the Temne language:'ohmone me benteme en kabane'-means poverty wont prevent me to be proud or loose my self-esteem or dignity.
Subject: Re: I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAVE HEARD IT ALL....THEN THIS!
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 16:55:46 05/29/07 ()
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Maybe am being too militant here but this is the worst things someone can ever do to a human being.
NO YOU ARE NOT. THE GIOVERNMENT SHOULD ISSUE SEARCH AND ARREST WARRANTS FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED AND IF THEY ARE EXPATRIATES, LOCK THEIR ASSES UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEYS.
Subject: Re: I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAVE HEARD IT ALL....THEN THIS!
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Date Posted: 13:42:55 05/29/07 ()
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Go to America and see rich women (not prostitutes), who have dogs for their sexual pleasures. Such dogs ride in the rich lady's expensive cars and recieve treatment that other people can only dream about.
Sir, a woman having sex with a dog is nothing strange. Travel outside of Liberia and open your ears and eyes to amazing stuff that happen outside (in the Western world)
Subject: Re: I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAVE HEARD IT ALL....THEN THIS!
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Sir, a woman having sex with a dog is nothing strange
Sir, lets don't trivialised this nastiness, because it stinks. Yes a human being having sex with any other animal is not only strange but unthinkable in our African culture.These BASTARDS are trying to humiliate us before they can destroy our race.Such practises are not only unethical but unhealthy. Liberia is just next door to us and a lot our of people are destitute. Can you imagine these same expatriates picking them up? Hmmmmmmmmmm
Subject: Re: I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAVE HEARD IT ALL....THEN THIS!
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The issue here is when "white people" exploit our poverty stricken black sisters, and have dogs FUCK(= for unlawful canal knowledge=FUCK) these sisters.
THIS STATE OF AFFAIRS IS TANTAMOUNT TO CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY!
Subject: Re: I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAVE HEARD IT ALL....THEN THIS!
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I heard that the dog's name was Charles Curtis-Thomas.
Subject: Re: I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAVE HEARD IT ALL....THEN THIS!
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Thank God for VIAGRA......
Subject: BEST POSTING OF THE DAY
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Posted by Correction on May 29, 2007 at 09:57:56:
In Reply to: Re: CRY FREETOWN(sierra leone rank 176 out of 177) posted by Kelfala M. Kallon on May 24, 2007 at 13:00:30:
". If this SLPP government has managed to push it even one notch, after all the problems it inherited from over two and half decades of APC misrule and the war, it behooves us to atleast acknowledge this as a major achievement."
Your statement ignores the most significant fact that the SLPP has received nearly $2 BILLION from the international community. That is more aid given to the SLPP than all the other governments of Salone combined.
I don't know if you understand how to analyze an economy, but your failure to note that very important benefit, while overstating the cost of the war that the NPRC also endured while delivery superior performance compared to the SLPP leads to only one conclusion:
That either you don't understand economics or, if you do, your blind partisanship in favor of the SLPP has eclipsed any understanding of economics you may have.
Nothing attest to that more than your unpatriotic statement praising the SLPP -- the very same incompetent and corrupt govt. that has landed SL in the botom of the development index f9or each and every year of its misrule of SL.
Subject: Re: BEST POSTING OF THE DAY
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"I don't know if you understand how to analyze an economy, but your failure to note that very important benefit, while overstating the cost of the war that the NPRC also endured while delivery superior performance compared to the SLPP leads to only one conclusion: That either you don't understand economics or, if you do, your blind partisanship in favor of the SLPP has eclipsed any understanding of economics you may have." -- Correction
Correction:
I don't know if this is the best posting of the day, and I don't know if Kelfala Kallon is a SLPP partisan, but I can say I agree with with you on one thing:
Wehn Economists compare the cost of something to see if it is beneficial, they always include not only the cost but also its benefit.
You are quite correct to point out that Kallon failed miserably when he only talked about the cost of the war, but he said not a word about the benefit the SLPP has reaped from the war -- the billions of dollars that it has received from the international community.
So, I agree with you that Kallon has failed to show that he understand economic analysis in this case.
Subject: THESE CROOKS WILL NOT GIVE UP!
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Message: Please keep this proposal secret, even if you dont want to assist Subject: Re: THESE CROOKS WILL NOT GIVE UP! Message: Commission for the Management of Strategic Resources, Reconstruction and Development (CMRRD) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING This agreement is made this 12th day of April,2000 between the Commission of Strategic Resources of Sierra Leone and Mr. Samuel Isidoor Weinberger of 100 Hatton Garden London ECL 8NX. The CMRRD of Spur Road Freetown, Sierra Leone hereinafter known as ‘PARTY A’ and Mr. Samuel Isidoor Weinberger of 100 Hatton Garden, London ECL 8NX hereinafter known as ‘PARTY B’. The parties intend to establish and carry on business transactions in Sierra Leone for buying and selling precious stones. "PARTY A" shall act as facilitator in the business and "PARTY B" shall organize the purchase of the precious stones. The former shall use best endeavors as a facilitator for he commencement and carrying on of the business in Sierra Leone for the benefit and profit of the latter and the people of Sierra Leone in general. All other agreement on the above mentioned issue is subject to review and rectification for establishing strong business transaction. A final document of this agreement shall be issue later from "PARTY A" to "PARTY B" upon the full commencement of the office of the CMRRD based in Freetown Sierra Leone. SIGNED BY SIGNED BY Mr. Foday Saybana Sankoh Mr. Samuel Iisdoor Weinberger COMMISSION FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF STRATEGIC MINERAL RESOURCES, RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING I, the undersigned, FODAY SAYBANA SANKOH, Chairman of the Commission for Strategic Mineral Resources (hereinafter referred to as the Commission) acknowledging that RAYMOND CLIVE KRAMER, as Executive Officer (hereinafter collectively referred to as KRAMER) is able to provide expert counseling and guidance in matters relating to prospecting; mining, exploitation, recovery, processing, marketing and generally all aspects relating to strategic minerals in Sierra Leone, Do hereby grant to RAYMOND CLIVE KRAMER and/or any other corporation forming part of the KRAMER GROUP OF COMPANIES authority for an initial period of 1 (one) year subject to renewal thereof for such further periods as may e agreed upon for the purpose described in this mandate: To organize and arrange an International Mining conference on behalf of the Commission to be held in South Africa or such other locat1on or venue as may be convenient to all parties for the purpose of investigating and considering all aspects relating to Strategic Minerals in Sierra Leone. SIGNED AT FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE THIS ELEVENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2000 Foday Saybana Sankoh Subject: DOWN WITH TRIBALISM ! Message: In Reply to: COWARDS,MONIKERS-ALIEU S.AND IDEPENDENT M,STAY OUT posted by MUSA KAMARA on May 29, 2007 at 03:51:20: When ALIEU "MUSA KAMARA" talks like a jealous Creole boy attacking country people for their langauages, when Alieu "MUSA KAMARA" tells people that they are primitive Kamajors that eat human flesh, it's easy to know it's the same Alieu Iscandari hiding behind names to talk. Primitive? Nar Krio boy talk that. Cannibals? Nar Krio boy talk dat. Blast country people out of jealousy? Na krio boy talk dat. In this case, it all adds up to reveal Alieu Iscandari. Get the point??? Subject: Re: DOWN WITH TRIBALISM ! Message: Subject: FUCTIONAL MEANING OF PMDC Message: Subject: FELLOW SIERRA LEONEANS,PLEASE,LISTEN TO ERNEST KOROMA. Message: Subject: Re: FELLOW SIERRA LEONEANS,PLEASE,LISTEN TO ERNEST KOROMA. Message: Subject: Re: FELLOW SIERRA LEONEANS,PLEASE,LISTEN TO ERNEST KOROMA. Message: by the way where is Victor Foh- the APC/ AFRC Secretary General? Did he travel with the Lebanese Servant? I want to know so as to al3rt the FBI about his involvement in the Sierra leone Rebel atrocities/rape and mutilations of young girls and college students. Subject: Re: FELLOW SIERRA LEONEANS,PLEASE,LISTEN TO ERNEST KOROMA. Message: Subject: Re: FELLOW SIERRA LEONEANS,PLEASE,LISTEN TO ERNEST KOROMA. Message: Subject: Re: FELLOW SIERRA LEONEANS,PLEASE,LISTEN TO ERNEST KOROMA. Message: Saidu,if you were a credible so call journalist,and not JOINALIST OF LIARS,you would have double checked the accuracy of your source's story,but since you are a FLUNKY JOINALIST,you never double checked.Now I want you to read what the TRUE AND RESPECTABLE JOURNALIST wrote of the close door meeting with Ernest Koroma that your source/you said never happened. "I went through the rudiments of our noble profession,called journalism." Saidu,where did you graduate as a journalism student? because as far as I know you were a DROP-OUT at Fourah Bay. "The only thing I am sure of is that,God knows that whatever comes from me is true and correct." Saidu,first you wrote that there was no meeting with Ernest Koroma and that turns out to be a false statement made by you,and now you saying whatever comes from your mouth is true and correct? Subject: Re: FELLOW SIERRA LEONEANS,PLEASE,LISTEN TO ERNEST KOROMA. Message: Subject: Re: FELLOW SIERRA LEONEANS,PLEASE,LISTEN TO ERNEST KOROMA. Message: Subject: Re: FELLOW SIERRA LEONEANS,PLEASE,LISTEN TO ERNEST KOROMA. Message: Subject: Re: FELLOW SIERRA LEONEANS,PLEASE,LISTEN TO ERNEST KOROMA. Message: BTW have you found a place to stay that you call your OWN? Subject: Re: FELLOW SIERRA LEONEANS,PLEASE,LISTEN TO ERNEST KOROMA. Message: Subject: Re: FELLOW SIERRA LEONEANS,PLEASE,LISTEN TO ERNEST KOROMA. Message: Listen:Before you come here to spew cheap hearsay,do yourself a favor and check your grammar."Interpretation to that" Take a closer look.Your grammar is tasteless.Do not use your head to grow hair when it comes to sound reasoning.Am referring to the whole of your post. Have a nice Sierra Leone peeping phase.. Subject: SIX LEONE STARS PLAYERS IN TOWN Message: Although this is the first time Melvin Kamara and Mohamed Deen are playing for the national team at home, they were among two of the players who played pivotal roles in Leone Stars’ victory over Lynton Orient in England recently. Both Melvin Kamara and Mohamed Deen confided in the New Citizen Sports, “we are competent and determined to demonstrate to Sierra Leoneans that we can defend the national team by humiliating The Hawks of Togo.” Posted on 28 May 2007 Subject: ROSENIOR TAKES OVER LEONE STARS TRAINING Message: Rosenior onboard Astraeus Airline, accompanied by former Brentford Coach, Paul Mortimer, and on his arrival at the National Stadium practice field the home based Coach, Jebor Sherington officially handed over the activities of the national team to the incoming English Coach and went to assist the new Coach to whom he has handed over the affairs of Leone Stars. Subject: Ahead of Sierra Leone/Togo Encounter…PAUL KPAKA DUE TODAY Message: Through the intervention of the President of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), Nahim Khadi, was able to convince the Leone Stars striker to come onboard and rescue Sierra Leone from the clutches of defeat if Sierra Leone is to clinch victory in this most important match due this weekend. Paul Kpaka, a well known household name in Sierra Leone football arena joined the national team, Leone Stars, years back when he proved to members of the public that he was physically fit and competent to handle the frontline of the national team and has proved his prowess by rescuing the national team from the indignity of frequent defeats in the past. Upon his arrival today, the Belgian based Leone Stars striker will leave no stone unturned to bring laurels to his team as he joins his colleagues already in training sessions to bring about the much needed victory over the Togolese if Sierra Leone is to stay in the competition in Group 9 of the African Cup of Nations, comprising Benin, Togo and Mali. Posted on 29 May 2007 Subject: Re: Ahead of Sierra Leone/Togo Encounter…PAUL KPAKA DUE TODAY Message: However, what truth is there behind the recent stories that the coach has been suspended because footballs meant for practice went missing? Did Nahim really divert funds meant for the team? Most people are now actively campaigning for their different parties to win the next elections. What has the Minister of Sport done to restore our sporting activities? Not only football, but boxing, volleyball etc etc. I remember not long ago when the Cubans (the best amateur boxing country in my opinion) were a permanent feature on our boxing calender. What is happening to our club football. Is the Minister Dennis Bright so blind? I wonder what his election campaign would be based on. Subject: COWARDS,MONIKERS-ALIEU S.AND IDEPENDENT M,STAY OUT Message: Subject: Re: COWARDS,MONIKERS-ALIEU S.AND IDEPENDENT M,STAY OUT Message: Subject: Re: COWARDS,MONIKERS-ALIEU S.AND IDEPENDENT M,STAY OUT Message: Am I the only person that believes that the Kamajors are cannibals? Even Berewah believes that and has said that himself. "Primitive", I only call jackasses like you primitive not the rest of my other decent mende bretheren. "jealous" of what?who? You? ROTFLMMFAO. For one last time I am not Musa Kamara or whatever the person calls himself andyou can continue believing that I am. I need not defend that which needs not be defended. You must not be such a smart mende man because I called the Kamajors cannibals under my own damn name so tell me why I have to use a false name to make the same dawgone allegations which are true. Subject: Best online cigarettes shop Message: Bond 11.95$ www.galastore.com www.galastore.com www.galastore.com Subject: Obasanjo inaugurates youth centre in Freetown Message: The centre, built with financial support from South Africa and Libya, is expected ''to provide a second chance'' to the teeming youth in the country, whose otherwise normal school life was wasted by the long civil war that the country went through. It will also provide the skills that demobilised child soldiers, orphans and other war victims, including amputees, will require to make a useful living in post war Sierra Leone. Speaking at the inauguration, President Obasanjo said he was delighted to witness the modest achievements recorded in the country. He appealed to Sierra Leonean youths to take advantage of ''the second chance that you have to make progress in your lives since not everybody has the chance of going to a University ''. He assured the people and government of Sierra Leone that although he was on his way out of office, Nigeria would not abandon them and that the centre would be fully completed. Obasanjo was later bestowed with the country's highest honour of the Grand Order of Sierra Leone. Host President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah said at the investiture that Obasanjo deserved the honour in view of the huge support that Nigeria had extended to Sierra Leone. He said Nigeria made human and material sacrifices to keep his country together and also thanked Obasanjo for the logistic support and the deployment of Nigerian experts in various fields to his country. Subject: Civil Engineer Hands Over Site for New Office Building for P Message: The rationale is that a conducive set-up for council workers would reflect positively in their work. Starting in 2006, the Civil Engineering Department of the Decentralisation Secretariat (DEC-SEC), has been facilitating the rehabilitation of old council offices and building new ones where necessary. Accordingly, work started in five local councils for the construction of office buildings in 2006. The five councils were: Bonthe Municipality, Bonthe District, Makeni Town, Kono District and Western Area Rural. Currently, sites are been handed over to Building Contractors for the construction and rehabilitation of office buildings in other eight local councils across the country. The affected councils are: Kenema City Council, Kailahun District Council, Bo City Council, Pujehun District Council, Moyamba District Council, Koinadugu District Council, Port Loko District Council, and Tonkolili District Council. On Thursday may 24, the site for the construction of an office building for Pujehun District Council was handed over to the Construction Firm, ‘Nation-Wide Logistics’ by the Civil Engineer at DEC-SEC, George Lamin Vandi. Nation-Wide Logistics won the contract through the national competitive bidding process. Subject: Senor Sengbe, Message: (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ERNEST BAI KOROMA, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The number one issue, I believe, will be corruption. And the people of Sierra-Leone are looking forward to a government that will put up a strong fight against corruption, a government that will be more accountable to the people, and a government that will open up and allow Sierra-Leonians to have equal opportunities irrespective of your political convention. JIM CLANCY, CNN CORRRESPONDENT: That's a very general assignment. Dissatisfaction with the government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. At the same time, what are you offering the people? Their concerns are education, their concerns are jobs, and their concerns are putting food on their tables and having a roof over their heads. KOROMA: What I believe I will offer to the people of Sierra-Leone is, in the first place, I will come with a real policy of zero tolerance against corruption. If this message goes out and clearly to the Sierra- Leonians, that this is the government that is going to put up a serious fight against corruption, I'm sure the leakages that are responsible for the poor delivery services in the social sector, like education, health and employment situation will be turned around. (END VIDEO CLIP) OKE: And that was Sierra-Leone's opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma speaking there. Now, I caught up with his opponent earlier this week. Here is what the vice president of Sierra-Leone and presidential candidate Solomon Ekuma Berewa had to say to Koroma's allegations of corruption. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SOLOMON EKUMA BEREWA, SIERRA LEONE VICE PRESIDENT: When the APC or APC leader talks of corruption, it's very ridiculous. Because they institutionalized corruption. It was they who made corruption a way of life. (inaudible) were granted (inaudible), because they were very corrupt, and nobody was allowed to talk about it, nobody was allowed to say anything, because they were corrupt. It is (inaudible). Let us come and show them that corruption is not the right way to run the government. OKE: Mr. Vice President, what is the greatest challenge facing Sierra-Leone today? BEREWA: Well, the greatest challenge is this: Now that we've tried to bring stability to the country, peace, we thank God for that, we thank the international community for that. The next thing we are now going for is to find ways to improve the lot for the average Sierra-Leonian, to reduce the level of poverty that (inaudible) country. It will take a lot of measures to achieve that. You don't have the time now for me to go through that. The next challenge we have is to restore the dignity of the Sierra-Leonian, which was really impaired over the 27 years of misrule and mismanagement by an undemocratic, autocratic government. These are the challenges we have. (END VIDEOTAPE) The Sierra Leone culture unites, whilst politics (and tribe) divide. Dear countrymen, irrespective of our political affiliation, we are Sierra Leoneans, San-San boys and girls or not, we are one country, one people. We endorse this not only as an SLPP idea (a good idea), indeed the idea of many tribes being welded into one country and one people reflects a unity of purpose – it is to be seen as what it is: the national ground is the soil upon which national life is built, the people carry passports saying Nation- ality: Sierra Leonean. Perhaps future passports will include tribal identification. Re- ethnicity and Party: What is the genesis and foundation of the SLPP as a political party? Does brainstorming have to be along party lines? AS CNN’s Jim Clancy said to Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma “That's a very general assignment. Dissatisfaction with the government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. At the same time, what are you offering the people? Their concerns are education, their concerns are jobs, and their concerns are putting food on their tables and having a roof over their heads.” Brainstorming solutions does not have to be along party lines. I should think that the parties would welcome good/ feasible suggestions, no matter the ethnic or regional origin of the idea. Or whether it was put forward b y a PMDC san-san boy or a learned don of the APC. CRIMINALISE CORRUPTION because of the toll it takes on Sierra Leone. Political propaganda, cannot transform theory into false reality, such as the as yet unexpressed but implied “SLPP is CORRUPT”, but APC is not.” Consider how VP BEREWA responded to accusations of corruption on CNN. I saw him smile and think “the kettle calling the pot black”. He did not deny the accusation. He counter- accused, saying “: When the APC or APC leader talks of corruption, it's very ridiculous. Because they institutionalized corruption. It was they who made corruption a way of life. (inaudible) were granted (inaudible), because they were very corrupt, and nobody was allowed to talk about it, nobody was allowed to say anything, because they were corrupt. It is (inaudible). Let us come and show them that corruption is not the right way to run the government.” WE are aware of the SLPP positions in all of these, because they have been in power/ office the past ten years. “ The number one issue, I believe, will be corruption. And the people of Sierra-Leone are looking forward to a government that will put up a strong fight against corruption, a government that will be more accountable to the people, and a government that will open up and allow Sierra-Leonians to have equal opportunities irrespective of your political convention.” He continued: “ What I believe I will offer to the people of Sierra-Leone is, in the first place, I will come with a real policy of zero tolerance against corruption. If this message goes out and clearly to the Sierra- Leonians, that this is the government that is going to put up a serious fight against corruption, I'm sure the leakages that are responsible for the poor delivery services in the social sector, like education, health and employment situation will be turned around.” CORRUPTION can be stamped out by the rule of law which does not place “important” politicians and functionaries above the law. A few interest groups that should have their interest reflected in party policies. The Civil Service bureaucracy is part of govt / not that every person in the civil service is supposed to be a member of the ruling party / this is not so in some democracies, and it\s unheard of that civil servants should contribute to the ruling party\s electioneering campaign funds or face being sacked by the spp boss. Unfortunately every dollar or pound spent is inseparably identified with govt power…….. It’s a nice and comforting tthought imagining that we were all Mendes * like Somalia, a mono ethnic state. No more tribalism. Then, Sengbe, I would talk to you, person to person and Mendeman to Mendeman. Wouldn’t that be grand? Then we would probably have to chose between SLPP and PMDC which some would say was the real SLPP but how can that be, without the grass roots – and I mean ROOTs grown over many many years? Lets show some appreciation for seriousness here. Mr. Kargbo sounds like a Swedish politician: Subject: Re: Senor Sengbe, Message: The near divine authority that Sierra Leonean presidents seem to enjoy also appears to have absolved rank and file Sierra Leoneans of personal responsibility. It seems like everyone is waiting for the 'Pa' to make things right. But the Pas' we have been blessed with don't seem to have a clue either. Corruption and our many other maladies are by-products of this chaos. Subject: Re: Senor Sengbe, Message: After you said it, it was clear to see, although everyone has it as rule of thumb number one, There are many ills people TALK about correcting, but somehow, years roll by (Eleven years of Kabbah) and what can be corrected doesn’t get corrected. Dr. Peter Tucker in the picture, and Mr. David Keili too, another honourable man. See how respectfully I try to address you? You absence – the absence of sound sense and judgment, has been greatly missed in this Forum and I’m sure that we are many who say, Welcome back and may the Forum Police protect you from any abuse by the blind ones. Subject: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Subject: A VERY INTERESTING CASE ON MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE Message: No. RG04-166148 FINAL STATEMENT OF DECISION. Plaintiffs, v. ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES, Defendant. This action was tried before the Court on June 15 and June 19-22, 2006. Joshua Konecky and Roger Heller appeared on behalf of Plaintiffs. Robert Burgoyne, Robert Darby, and Caroline Mew appeared on behalf of Defendant Association of American Medical Colleges ("AAMC"). The parties filed their respective proposed statements of decision on August 1, 2006 and the matter was submitted to the Court for decision. The Court filed its Tentative Statement of Decision on September 20, 2006 and the parties filed their respective objections to the Court's Tentative Statement of Decision on October 17, 2006. A hearing was held to consider the objections of the parties on October 26, 2006 at 9:00 a. m. in Department 22 of the Alameda County Superior Court. Joshua Konecky and Roger Heller appeared on behalf of Plaintiffs and Robert Burgoyne and Robert Darby appeared on behalf of Defendant AAMC. Having considered the applicable pre-trial record, the arguments of counsel, and the evidence submitted at trial, and the objections of the parties to the Court's Tentative Statement of Decision, the Court enters the following Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law as its Final Statement of Decision in accordance with Cal. Code of Civil. Proc. § 632. PLAINTIFFS CLAIMS 1. Plaintiffs claim that they are entitled to extra testing time and other accommodations on the Medical College Admission Test ("MCAT") because they have learning disabilities and/or an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ("ADHD"). Plaintiffs bring this action under California's Unruh Civil Rights Act ("Unruh Act"), Blind and Otherwise Physically Disabled Persons Act ("DPA"), and Unfair Competition Law ("UCL"). Their complaint challenges AAMC's policies and procedures for evaluating requests for testing accommodations on the MCAT, and they are seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. See Complaint at 22. 2. Plaintiffs do not seek entitlement to accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), which expressly addresses accommodations on standardized tests. 42 U.S.C. § 12189. PRIOR DECISIONS 3. In an Order dated September 27, 2005, the Court ruled that the Unruh Act and DPA apply to AAMC with respect to its administration of the MCAT, and that '"the requirement of 'full and equal access under California law" requires AAMC to provide "reasonable accommodations" in appropriate cases to disabled individuals. Order of September 2005. at 1016. The Court held that it will not "resolve on a classwide basis whether the AAMC must provide specific accommodations to individual applicants," that it "will not address the individualized issues of... any given class member ... under the Unruh Act and the DPA," and that it "will not retain jurisdiction to act as a centralized administrative body for reviewing how the AAMC handles individual applications" in the future. Id. at 8-9. 20. The September 2005 Order did not address liability. See id. at 3. PARTIES' POSITIONS ON RELIEF 5. Plaintiffs seek both declaratory and injunctive relief. Plaintiffs have requested an injunction that would impose specific requirements on AAMC with respect to how if handles future MCAT accommodation requests. See Tr. 10-11, 537-44, 551, 555-56. In particular, Plaintiffs have requested an injunction that: Prohibits AAMC from disqualifying individuals for accommodations on the basis of above-average intelligence or academic achievement; Requires AAMC to give some unspecified amount of weight ("due consideration") to the clinical observations provided in support of an accommodation request; Requires AAMC to have all applicable accommodation requests reviewed by individuals who have "significant training and experience in the diagnosis and evaluation of adults with learning disabilities and ADHD."; Requires AAMC to use at least two reviewers for every request, to provide "meaningful explanations" when requests are denied, and to implement a "genuine appeal process.; Provides for ongoing monitoring of AAMC's handling of accommodation requests by Plaintiffs" counsel, with an opportunity to bring concerns of noncompliance to the Court. 6. AAMC argues that injunctive relief is unwarranted and that the Court should instead enter a declaratory judgment that expands upon its prior ruling that the Unruh Act and DPA are applicable in the context of MCAT accommodation requests. AAMC contends that such a declaratory judgment would give prospective MCAT examinees, AAMC, and other interested parties sufficient guidance regarding the applicability and scope of these California statutes. AAMC suggests that (after the conclusion of any appellate proceedings) it will voluntarily implement appropriate changes to its current policies and practices. FINDINGS OF FACT NATURE OF LEARNING DISABILITIES AND ADHD. 7. A learning disability in reading is a condition that interrupts one's cognitive processes and mechanics of reading, forcing the individual to rely on alternate processes. There are different types of learning disabilities. Tr. 154:17-29 (Gregg). Not all learning disabilities affect reading skills. For example, some learning disabilities affect skills in math or the ability to learn foreign language. Tr. 154:14-156:21 (Gregg). A learning disability is an impairment that may make one or more life activities, such as reading or learning, slow, labored and difficult. Tr. at 143:26-144:25. 8. ADHD is a condition that affects one's ability to process certain types of information. ADHD can make the mechanics of reading difficult and can cause one's reading to be slow, Tr. at 144:26-145:9. 208:14-21, 255:23-256:13. ADHD is typically associated with impairment and can be pervasive across many activities of an individual's life. Tr. at 376:12-24 (Ranseen). ADHD is not a learning disability. Tr. 207:2-3 (Gregg). It is a disorder that affects one's ability to attend and deal with different types of information. Tr. 144:26-28 (Gregg). Some people with ADHD tend to have difficulty reading and taking standardized tests as a result of the impairment. Tr. at 377:3-10 (Ranseen). An individual can have above-average or superior intelligence, reading comprehension skills (when provided with additional time), and be capable 9. There are different degrees of severity for learning disabilities and ADHD. Tr. at 181:6-8. The disability need not be "severe" for it to result in difficulty reading and the need for accommodations on exams. Someone with a mild learning disability can have difficulty with the mechanics of reading and may need accommodations, including extra time on timed tests. Tr. at 181:6-15; 393:17-20. CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS OF LEARNING DISABILITIES AND ADHD. 10. There are no completely agreed upon formal diagnostic criteria for ADHD, nor are there well-accepted procedures to document adult ADHD problems. Tr. Ex. 57 at 453: Tr. 353 (Ranseen), 207-08 (Gregg). Likewise, there are no national standards for diagnosing learning disabilities. To the contrary, there is significant disagreement regarding the diagnostic criteria for learning disorders, and professionals are still struggling to agree on an appropriate conceptual definition. Tr. 109, 195, 250 (Gregg); Tr. Ex. 41 at 3-5. Not every reading or learning problem is the result of a learning disability or ADHD. An individual can have difficulty reading and not have a learning disability, and not all individuals with learning disabilities or ADHD have difficulty reading. RT 152, 182 (Gregg); RT 376-77 (Ranseen). Thus, not every person with a diagnosis of learning disability or ADHD is necessarily entitled to accommodations on standardized tests. A clinical diagnosis of a learning disability or ADHD requires the clinician to rule out other possible causes of the reading or learning problem. Tr. at 153:1-13. All diagnoses should include a process by which the clinician rules out other causes of the reading or learning difficulty. Tr. at 152:26-153:13. 11. Persons with high levels of intelligence and academic achievement can have learning disabilities or ADHD. These individuals are often able to compensate for the limitations they 12. Persons can be diagnosed with learning disabilities or ADHD later in life. Tr. at 145:10-17, 146:8-28, 167:12-25, 168:22-171:8, 253:6-28, 254:6-16, 400:9-28, 401:4-20, 402:10-403:23. There are adults with learning disabilities and ADHD who are not diagnosed with these impairments until later in life. There are a number of reasons why individuals with varying degrees of learning disabilities and/or ADHD might not be diagnosed until (hey are adults. Tr. at 169:24-171:8, 254:6-12 (Gregg). For example, there can be a reluctance by the individual or his or her parents to carry the disability label. Tr. at 402:10-403:23 (Ranseen). Persons who are diagnosed with learning disabilities and ADHD later in life may need accommodations, including extra time on standardized tests, even if they have not sought or received academic or testing accommodations previously. Tr. at 243:13-18 (Gregg). 13 There is the possibility that individuals might "malinger" in order to achieve a diagnosis of ADHD that might be used to obtain an "edge on a difficult exam." The record, however, contains no research or facts to support this concern. Tr. at 380:25-28, 402:4-9 (Ranseen). 14 Because of the many variables involved in the diagnosis, in-person clinical observations about the way the individual reads or performs other relevant activities are vital to making a proper diagnosis of learning disabilities or ADHD. AAMC AND MCAT. 15. AAMC is a non-profit membership organization whose members include medical schools and teaching hospitals across the country. Tr. 441 (Julian). In California, AAMC's members include, for example, all of the medical schools in the University of California system, Stanford, and Loma Linda. Id, AAMC's mission is to improve the nation's health care system by enhancing the effectiveness of academic medicine. Id. Dr. Ellen Julian is the Director of the MCAT and has been employed by AAMC in that position since approximately 1997. Tr. al 434:5-9. Dr. Julian regularly interacts with medical school admissions committees and 16. The MCAT is a timed, multiple choice exam that is used by all medical schools in the United States as one variable, among many, in their admissions decisions. Tr. at 441:28-442:8 (Julian). The purpose of the MCAT is to help admission committees predict which applicants will perform successfully in the medical school curriculum. Tr. at 445:10-12 (Julian); Ex. 16, at AAMC01347. The MCAT has significant value to medical schools because it provides a tool for comparing how applicants performed on a uniform test taken under standardized conditions. Order (May 11, 2005), at 2; Tr. 445-46; Tr. Exhs. 117 at 13, 137 5-6. The MCAT is not intended or designed to assess an individual's ability to perform any particular medical task or to predict how test takers will perform as doctors. Tr. at 285:19-286:2. 492:17-493:24 (Julian); Ex. 16, at AAMC01347. AAMC01358. AAMC's materials, including its website, describe the MCAT as a test '"designed to assess problem solving, critical thinking, and writing skills in addition to the examinee's knowledge of science concepts and principles prerequisite to the study of medicine." Ex. 14-17; see also Tr. at 274:12-26, 275:13-276:19. 279:6-282:4; 443:7-9, 444:21-445:12, AAMC Response to Interrogatory No. 16. 17. AAMC's policy states that it provides reasonable and appropriate accommodations on the MCAT, including extra time, when appropriate, to individuals with documented disabilities who demonstrate a need for accommodations. Tr. at 454:15-21; Ex. 33. Dr. Julian IMPACT OF LEARNING DISABILITIES AND ADHD ON THE MCAT. 18. Timed, standardized tests that are designed to measure knowledge or problem solving skills sometimes, but not always, do not reflect accurately the abilities of individuals with learning disabilities and/or ADHD who have difficulty reading. This is because timed, standardized tests require a demonstration of both reading mechanics and decoding abilities and knowledge or problem solving skills. The purpose of providing accommodations to persons with learning disabilities or ADHD in timed, standardized tests is to provide those persons an equal opportunity to demonstrate they have the relevant knowledge or problem solving skills that the tests are designed to measure. Tr. at 147:13-148:5, 148:23-149:4, 154:3-12,204:14-25,205:2-15 (Gregg); Ex. 33, at p.1; Tr. at 387:18-24 (Ranseen); Ex. 58, at AAMC01807. DENIAL OF ACCOMODAT1ONS. 19. Each of the named plaintiffs has documented learning disabilities and/or ADHD and a history of receiving accommodations for them in school and on standardized tests. On its initial review, AAMC did not provide accommodations on the MCAT to any of the named plaintiffs on the basis that they did not provide documentation that demonstrated that they met the standard AAMC used at the time to determine whether someone had a "disability." Ex. 2, 3, 5,8, 10, 11. 21. Brendan Pierce was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD in the second grade. Tr. at 72:19-73:1. His diagnosis was confirmed in 2004. Tr. at 73:18-25. Mr. Pierce received accommodations, including extra time on exams, throughout his educational career. Tr. at 74:26-75:9, 75:14-20, 75:28-76:2, 76:22-24, 77:20-24. AAMC denied Mr. Piercers request for accommodations on the MCAT on the basis that "your documentation does not demonstrate the existence of a disability that would support your request for testing accommodations."" Ex. 5.2 21.1 AAMC does not dispute the standing of Plaintiffs Cashmore and Lebowitz to challenge the denial of their requests for accommodations. Tr. at 433:1 -9. AAMC'S DEFINITION OF DISABILITY AND REASONABLE ACCOMODAT1ON. 22. AAMC's accommodation policies are set forth in a set of written guidelines. See Tr. Exs. 104, 105. These policies are consistent with the policies of other national testing organizations, including policies that the Plaintiffs' own expert, Dr. Noel Gregg, conceded to be reasonable. See Tr. 223-24; Tr. Exs. 154 and 155 (ETS policies for documenting learning disabilities and ADHD), 184 (USMLE policies). AAMC's written policies appear to be largely consistent with policies that Dr. Gregg helped prepare for use within the State of Georgia university system. See Tr. Exs. 183, 185; RT212. AAMC's policies were adapted from and 1 On April 9, 2004, AAMC rejected Mr. Turner's internal appeal on the basis that "we did not find the degree of any impairment described in the documentation you provided constituted a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act." Ex. 3. Mr. Turner, along with the other Plaintiffs, filed this case on July 19, 2004. Tr. at 45:6-22; Ex. 4. Shortly thereafter, AAMC provided Mr. Turner with the accommodations he had sought. Tr. at 45:21 -25. Mr. Turner took the August 2004 MCAT and has completed his first year of medical school. Tr. at 45:21-46:9. Mr. Pierce filed this case on July 19, 2004, and AAMC thereafter provided Mr. Pierce with accommodations. Tr. at 83:7-16. Mr. Pierce is currently enrolled at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he recently finished his first year. 2 Mr. Pierce receives accommodations, including extra time on tests, in medical school. Tr. at 72:11-15, 85:16-20. largely "mirror" the USMLE policies. See Stientjes Dep. 62:3-62:5, RT 373 (Ranseen); compare Tr. Ex. 104 with Tr. Ex. 184. 23. AAMC's accommodation policies are, however, based on the ADA's ''substantially limited" standard of disability. When AAMC evaluates requests for accommodations on the MCAT from California residents, it does so "without regard to whether any individual might be entitled to accommodations under California law." AAMC Response to Request for Admissions Nos. 30, 31; Tr. at 502:4-9; see also AAMC Response to Interrogatory No. 6; AAMC Responses to Request for Admissions Nos. 24-29, 32, 33, 36. 24. AAMC admits that there are individuals in California who might be given testing accommodations if the Unruh Act or Disabled Persons Act standards governed their requests for testing accommodations, but who would be denied such accommodations if the ADA standards governed. AAMC Response to Interrogatory No. 6. 25. There are three principal models for diagnosing learning disabilities. They are the discrepancy model (which looks at the difference between someone's IQ and achievement), the cut-off model (which looks at whether certain academic achievement scores are below a standard score of 85), and the clinical model. Tr. 191 (Gregg), The discrepancy model has been extensively used since the 1980's. Tr. 192, 198-99 (Gregg). Dr. Gregg favors a clinical model, which considers discrepancies between intellect and achievement but also relies heavily on the clinical observations of the evaluator. Tr. 191-92 (Gregg). The head of the Psychology Department at the University of Georgia, where Dr. Gregg works, favors a cut-off model. Tr. 194-96 (Gregg); Ex. 41 at 4, 9-11. 26. AAMC's policy is to determine the existence of a disability by comparing the individual applicant to the "average person" in the general population. This is the "'cut off model. AAMC does not have any criteria or standard definition for what constitutes an "average person" or what the reading rate is for an "average person." Stientjes Designation at 70:25-72:20; Newton Designation at 23:21-24:17. AAMC denies requests for accommodation based 27. AAMC derived its "average person" standard from certain federal decisions interpreting the ADA "substantially limited" definition to require a comparison to the general population, rather than to the individual's peers with similar levels of education. Tr. at 491:16-27. (See Wong v. Regents of Univ. of Calif. (9th Cir. 2005) 410 F. 3d 1052, 1065) However, there is no similar authority interpreting the Unruh Act and the DPA. 28. AAMC has not conducted any research to address whether or the extent to which validity of the MCAT would be impacted by defining disability in relation to one's peers with similar levels of training and experience, rather than the so called "average person" in the general population. Tr. at 491:28-492:6. 29. AAMC's reliance on the "average person" standard, combined with the explanations provided in the AAMC denial letters, the experiences of the named Plaintiffs, and the designated deposition testimony of Dr. Stientjes and Dr. Newton, taken together, suggest that persons with clinically diagnosed or diagnosable learning disabilities or ADHD and who also have intelligence and academic achievement are not deemed "disabled" by the AAMC because their intelligence compensates for their disabilities. Tr. at 79:13-80:11. 81:11-22. 167:8-168:18; Ex. 2, 3. 5. 8. 10. 11; Stientjes Designation at 66:12-67:3, 77:11-18, 78:2-17, 79:7-80:2, 191:14-192:3: Newton Designation at 23:7-12. For example, the denial letter sent to Mr. Pierce justified the denial on the fact that his "scores... and history both indicate significant strength in academic performance." Ex. 5. Mr. Pierce testified that when he received word that his request for accommodations had been denied, he contacted Dr. Stientjes directly, and Dr. Stientjes explained 30. There is a genuine dispute in the medical community about whether the appropriate comparison group for determining the actual existence of disability and accommodation needs is the "average person" or the applicant's "peers". Dr. Gregg testified that professionals in the assessment of learning disabilities and ADHD generally agree that the appropriate comparison group for determining the actual existence of disability and accommodation needs is the applicant's '"peers" (e.g., college graduates for the MCAT). Tr. at 166:21-167:6, 202:9-27, 240:1-7, 256:23-257:18. Dr. Ranseen also acknowledged that there might be people who do not fall below the "average person" standard, and are thus not disabled under the ADA standard, who might still have difficulties reading. Tr. at 392: 14-20. The Court finds that in the instance where a person is diagnosed with a learning disability or ADHD that limits such person in a major life activity, such a person is entitled to reasonable accommodations related to said limitation under the Unruh Act and the DPA in California. AAMC'S ACCOMMODATION PROCESS AND PROCEDURES. 31. Dr. Stientjes was responsible for developing and implementing the specific day-to-day criteria and standards used to review requests for accommodations on the MCAT. Tr. at 511:2-15. At the time this lawsuit was filed, Dr. Harlan Stientjes performed the initial review for all accommodation requests based on learning disability and/or ADHD. Tr. at 509:13-18, 510:21-511:15; Stientjes Designation at 23:1-8, 155:20-156:4, 157:21-158:3. Dr. Stientjes does not have an extensive background concerning the diagnosis of adults with learning disabilities or ADHD. Stientjes Designation at 7:1 8-9:18; Ex. 48. 32. Dr. Gregg testified that minimum qualifications for reviewing a request for accommodations based on a claimed learning disability and/or ADHD would include: (a) degrees specific to the areas of learning disorders; (b) supervised clinical work and internships; and (c) personal experience testing adults with the impairment at issue. Tr. at 173:27-174:7. Defendant's expert, Dr. Ranseen, testified that "it is important for the reviewers of accommodation requests to have significant training and experience in the diagnosis and assessment of adults with learning disabilities and ADHD." Tr. at 399:12-16. 33. Dr. Stientjes arguable lack of experience with diagnosing learning disabilities and ADHD may not be particularly significant because the stated purpose of AAMC's review is not to diagnose whether an individual does or does not have a given impairment, but to determine whether the individual's clinician has adequately documented his or her diagnosis, and whether the documentation demonstrates a need for accommodations. Tr. 501-02 (Julian); Newton Dep. 36:23-37:12; Stientjes Dep. 139:16-140:20. When evaluating accommodation requests, AAMC considers the observations of the supporting clinicians. Tr. 112. AAMC specifically requests clinician reports. See Tr. Exs. 104 at 7, 9; 105 at 9, 13; RT 194 (Gregg). AAMC's approach is identical to the approach Dr. Gregg took when reviewing accommodation requests for ETS. Tr. 222-23. Although individuals performing such a review function can perform better if they have experience or expertise in the diagnosing function, it is unclear whether individuals performing the review function necessarily need significant training and experience in diagnosing adults with learning disabilities or ADHD. The Court makes no findings regarding whether Dr. Stientjes was an adequate reviewer. 34. AAMC has both a reconsideration process and an appeal process. See Newton Dep. 16:2-16:1 7, 44:13-45:8, 47:8-48:7; Stientjes Dep. 34:14-35:3, 89:2-89:24. AAMC's practice is to have the reviewer who initially recommended the denial (e.g. Dr. Stientjes) present the case to the people deciding the appeal. Newton Designation at 13:24-14:4. Dr. Newton is part of the appeals process, admitted that none of the people who review the internal appeals have the AAMC'S FUNDAMENTAL ALTERATION DEFENSE. 36. The Director of the MCAT. Dr. Julian, testified that the basis for the AAMC's refusal to provide accommodations to individuals who meet the definition of "disability" under California law is her concern that moving on the continuum towards recognizing people with less severe impairments as "disabled" and entitled to accommodations, will bring AAMC "closer... to giving an arbitrary group of people extra time." TV. at 457:4-6. Dr. Julian testified that she is "more comfortable" providing additional time only to people who are "truly disabled." a term which she uses to describe those who ''really would not have the opportunity to show their mastery of the content without extra time. They just could not even really take the test. You could not get a good measure for them under standard conditions" Tr. at 456:27-458:2. Dr. Julian's concerns are based on policy considerations about maintaining the standardized nature of the test, based on input from professionals in the disabilities field and legal counsel. Tr. at 37. The focus at trial was on the accommodation of providing more time to lake the MCAT. There was no evidence concerning other accommodations - large print tests for persons with visual impairments, the use of prosthetics for persons with missing hands or digits, isolated test taking conditions for persons with clinical fear of crowds, etc. The fundamental alteration defense concerned whether providing persons with learning disabilities or ADHD with more time to take the MCAT would fundamentally alter a construct measured on the exam; namely, the facility to process written information within a reasonable time period. A second defense offered by AAMC was that the testing accommodation of extra time affects score comparability. The Court also considered whether providing the accommodation of extra time on the MCAT otherwise impairs a legitimate interests of the AAMC. 38. Constructs measured on the MCAT. 39. There is no evidence that AAMC or anyone else has attempted to correlate the time limits on the MCAT with the reading or problem-solving speed, if any, necessary for success in medical school or in the medical profession (or the reading speed of the "average person"). Tr. at 519:18-520:15, 520:27-521:2; see also Tr. at 286:10-288:19; 330:20-26. AAMC did send a survey question to medical school admissions officers in 2003. Tr. at 481:1-482:21, 501:3-6. The survey question asked: "Do you consider it important that applicants be able to process written material quickly?" Ex. 18. Eighty-six percent of respondents answered "yes." Tr. at 481:19-23. The survey did not define how fast "quickly" might be or provide any context for the meaning of "important," as it might relate to other skills that are either useful or necessary in medical school. The vagueness of the question suggests that the responses did not provide meaningful information. Tr. at 286:13-288:19 (Geisinger). There is no evidence in the record demonstrating that that medical students or physicians need to read at any particular pace to be competent. Tr. at 377:17-378:9 (Ranseen). 40. Comparability of MCAT scores. Persons who take standardized tests with accommodations tend to slightly over-predict success at the next level (i.e. college for the SAT; graduate school for the GRE).3 AAMC has published a research article that acknowledges that when test takers with learning disabilities are given extra time then their scores might be a more accurate reflection of the person's actual knowledge and skills. Tr. at 513:26-514:3, 291:14-26; Ex. 20. at AAMC00270. No research studies have been completed that addresses what impact providing extra time on the MCAT to test takers with learning disabilities that make reading difficult would have on the validity, predictive or otherwise, of MCAT scores. Tr. at 289:28- 3 Though the subject matter is different, the MCA T is similar to the GR E and SA T in terms of the skills and knowledge the tests are designed to assess. Tr. at 294:4-25 . The MCA T also is similar to the GR E and SA T in that all three tests are intended to predict grades and test scores at the next academic level. Tr. at 294:26-295:17 . 41. Although this case concerns the MCAT, Plaintiffs argue that to the extent that providing extra time on the MCAT might lead to distortions in predicting success at medical school or in the medial profession, the distortions are substantially eliminated when the MCAT scores are interpreted in combination with undergraduate GPA and the other factors considered in school admissions processes. Tr. at 292:25-293:25, 324:27-325:26, 326:8-18. The AAMC directs and expects that medical school admissions officers will use the MCAT in conjunction with undergraduate GPA and a wide array of other variables, as that will increase the predictive value of the exam. Tr. at 506:12-507:20; Ex. 16, at AAMC01359 ("[S]tandardized test scores should never be the sole basis for student selection."); AAMC Response to Request for Admission No. 20; see also Tr. at 292:25-293:25, 324:27-325:26. 326:8-18. This is an interesting argument because it appears to cut both ways - if unwarranted accommodations that might lead to a potentially unjustified increase of a few points on the MCAT will not have a material effect on admission to medical school, then the decrease of a few points on the MCAT due to a disability that affects reading speed likewise should not have a material effect on admission to medical school. 42. Dr. Julian has begun a study to look at the impact which extra time on the MCAT may have on the predictive validity of MCAT scores with respect to scores on the first step of the USMLE. The study is not completed or published, and has not been submitted for peer review and Dr. Julian describes parts of the study as "rudimentary," incomplete and performed in a "decision-oriented" manner. Tr. at 468:17-20, 471:20-21. Given the preliminary stage of the study, the Court does not give it any weight. 43. Other legitimate interests of the AAMC. AAMC puts a notation ("flag") on the score reports of individuals who meet its ADA definition of disability and receive accommodations on the MCAT. The flag does not indicate the type of accommodation or distinguish between disabilities. Tr. at 507:17-508:13. AAMC advises medical schools that scores flagged under the ADA standard should carry less weight in the admissions process than the other scores. Tr. at 508:23-509:7. 44. The Director of the MCAT, Dr. Julian, testified that there is no economic reason for AAMC to rely solely on its interpretation of the ADA definition rather than to incorporate stale law. Tr. at 504:4-11. 45. Findings regarding Fundamental Alteration Defense. 46. The Organizational plaintiffs, NDSU and IDA, lack standing to assert claims based on their own personal interests. Order of September 2005 at 1 7. 47. The Court previously found a triable issue of material fact whether the IDA and NDSU have representational standing. Order of September 2005 at 17-18. At trial the NDSU and IDA did not meet their burden of proving that they have representational standing. Neither entity demonstrated at trial that a "particular member... of its organization" has been adversely affected by AAMC's testing accommodations policies, Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing v. Westwood Investors (1990) 221 Ca1. App. 3d 1377, 1387, or that they are "adequate 48. NDSU is a national organization and IDA is an international organization, both with wide-ranging activities. Complaint 19-20. Neither was formed specifically to respond to the issue of disability accommodations on the MCAT in California, and neither organization's membership has been shown to be comprised primarily of California residents. They are not, therefore, the type of organizations that should be accorded representational standing to seek injuctive relief. See Midpeninsula, 221 Cal. App. 3d at 1 387; Environmental Protection Info. Cir. v. Dept. of Forestry & Fire Protection (1996) 43 Cal. App. 4th 1011, 1019. 49. The claims of organizational plaintiffs NDSU and IDA are dismissed. STANDING OF INDIVIDUAL PLAINTIFFS. 50. Plaintiffs Turner, Pierce and Lebovitz have standing to pursue this action on the limited class issue certified by the Court. Order of September 2005 at 20. AAMC has stipulated that it does not challenge the standing of plaintiffs Cashmore and Lebovitz. 'IV. 433. UNRUH ACT, DPA, AND THE MEANING OF DISABILITY. 52. The Unruh Act and DPA both define "disability" to mean "any mental or physical disability" as set forth in Section 12926 of the Government Code. Cal. Civ. Code §§ 51(e)(l), 54(b)(1). Under Section 12926, "mental disability" is defined as "any mental or psychological disorder or condition, such as mental retardation, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, or specific learning disabilities, that limits a major life activity." Cal. Gov't Code § 12926(i)(l). "Physical disability" is defined as "any physiological disease, disorder, condition, cosmetic disfigurement, or anatomical loss" that affects a specified body system and "[l]imits a major life activity." Id. § 12926(k)(I). Each person seeking an accommodation on the MCAT must, therefore, present a diagnosis of a disability. 53. The issue then turns to whether the diagnosed impairment limits a major life activity. As the U.S. Supreme Court noted in Toyota Motor Mfg., Ky., Inc. v. Williams (2002) 534 U.S. 184, with respect to the ADA, "[i]t is insufficient for individuals attempting to prove disability status ... to merely submit evidence of a medical diagnosis of an impairment." Id. at 198. "Claimants also need to demonstrate that the impairment limits a major life activity." Id at 195. 54. A physical or mental disability "limits" a "major life activity" if it "makes the achievement of the major life activity difficult." Id. §§ 12926(i)(l)(B), 12926(k)(l)(B)(ii). Colmenares v. Braemar Country Club, Inc. (2003) 29 Cal.4th 1019, 1027. "Major life activities" are "broadly construed and shall include physical, mental, and social activities and working." Id. §§ 12926(i)(l)(C). 12926(k)(l)(B)(iii). 55. Plaintiffs allege that they are limited in the major life activities of learning and reading. The term "'major life activities" should not be "'construed as embracing every possible activity in modern life." Schultz v. Spraylat Corp. (CD. Cal. 1994) 866 F. Supp. 1535. 1538 (interpreting Cal. Gov't Code § 12926(k)(l)(B)). See also Toyota, supra, 534 U.S. at 197 (interpreting phrase "major life activities" in the ADA). The Court considers reading and learning separately. Although the ability to learn affects a person's ability to master the 56. Although the "degree of limitation" that must be shown to establish a disability under California law is less than under the ADA, functional limitations must still be shown. Colmenares v. Braemar Country Club (2003) 29 Cal. 4th 1019, 1027-28, 1031 -32. See also Gelfo v. Lockheed Martin Corp. (2006) 140 Cal. App. 4th 34, 47 ("It is insufficient for Gelfo simply to allege a disability or to identify an injury or physical condition .... Gelfo must demonstrate his injury or physical condition (in this instance, a lower back injury whose existence is undisputed) makes 'difficult' the achievement of work or some other major life activity."). 57. Prospective MCAT examinees who request accommodations must show that their diagnosed impairment "limits" a major life activity (learning or reading) because it "makes the achievement of the major life activity difficult." The California Legislature has not provided any guidance on how much difficulty one must experience in order for an activity to be "difficult." See Diaz v. Fed'l Express Corp. (CD . Cal. 2005) 373 F. Supp. 2d 1034, 1052 n.11. The case law is equally sparse. See id. at 1049-50. The history of the statute suggests that the California Legislature intends to protect persons who have impairments that make major life activities "difficult" and that a major life activity can be "difficult" even if it is not "substantially limited." 58. In determining whether achievement of a major life activity is "difficult" for a particular person. AAMC suggests that the proper analysis is whether achievement is difficult as compared to the average person's ability to perform the activity in question. This is consistent 59. The Plaintiffs suggest the use of a "peer group" comparator in determining whether a major life activity is made "difficult". The Court notes that the use of a "peer group" comparator is problematic for practical reasons in addition to the fact that there is no legal authority for applying such a test in the context of assessing disability under the Unruh Act or the DPA. The practical problems concern the difficulty in defining ones "peer group" and the fact that peer groups change over time and in different settings. As individuals move into more competitive educational or professional environments, they could presumably "become" disabled not because of any change in their individual capacity, but because they have changed peer groups. See Tr. 257 (Gregg); Tr. 370-71 (Ranseen). 60. The parties did not cite, nor could the Court find, any authorities interpreting the Unruh Act or the DPA wherein the "average person", or for that matter a "peer group", was used as a comparator in order to make a finding of "disability" or a disability that "limits a major life activity", thus entitling one to reasonable accommodations under California law. Thus, the Court addresses the "difficult" standard only in general terms and makes two obvious points. First, setting a floor, the California Legislature could not have intended that the concept of 61. For the foregoing reasons, the Court will not adopt a specific standard, guideline or test for determining who is, and who is not, disabled under the Unruh Act and the DPA. There may be circumstances where it might be appropriate to use a comparator, whether it be the "average person" or a "peer group". In other circumstances, no comparator analysis will be required and the determination of disability may simply involve consideration of a particular individuals physical or mental limitations in achieving the relevant major life activity. Each of these approaches may be indulged and still be in compliance with the Unruh Act and the DPA. REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS UNDER CALIFORNIA LAW. 62. The Unruh Act and DPA require AAMC to provide "reasonable accommodations" to examinees in appropriate circumstances. Order of September 2005 at 1416. 63. With specific regard to the scope of accommodations required in the context of a national standardized testing program, the Court finds guidance in a California statute that addresses California's high school exit examination (the "CAHSEE""). See Griswold v. See (2001) 25 Cal. 4th 904, 914 (construing a statute by looking to cases interpreting another statute that "dealt with an analogous subject"); Quarterman v. Kefauver (1997) 55 Cal. App. 4th 1366. 1371 ("we may attempt to gain insight ... by examining use of the same or similar language in other statutes"). 64. The CAHSEE statute expressly requires that "appropriate accommodations'" be provided to disabled examinees, and it includes a legislative definition of the word "accommodations" in the specific context of standardized tests: "Accommodations" means any variation in the assessment environment or process that does not fundamentally alter what the test measures or affect the comparability of scores."'... "Accommodation" may include variations in scheduling, setting, aids, equipment, and presentation format." Cal. Educ. Code §§ 60850(g) and 60850(0(1) (emphasis added). THE COURT DOES NOT REACH WHETHER THE AAMC HAS VIOLATED THE UNRUH ACT OR THE DPA WITH RESPECT TO ANY INDIVIDUAL. 65. The Order of September 2005, states, "The Court will not resolve on a classwide basis whether the AAMC must provide specific accommodations to individual applicants." Because of how the Court certified the class and defined the issues for trial, the trial did not concern the AAMC's evaluation of any individual. The Court will issue declaratory and injunctive relief concerning AAMC's policies and procedures and then dismiss the remaining claims concerning individual issues without prejudice. Walters v. Reno (9th Cir. 1998) 145 F.3d 1032, 1037. If individual applicants contend that they have been denied specific accommodations contrary to any declaratory or injunctive relief then they will need to initiate NO VIOLATION OF THE CALIFORNIA UNFAIR COMPETITION LAW 66. In November 2004, after this case was filed, the voters of California approved Proposition 64, which limits the right to pursue actions under the UCL to persons who have "lost money or property as a result of unfair competion". Bus. & Prof. Code §17204. The California Supreme Court recently ruled that Proposition 64 applies to pending cases. Californians for Disability Rights v. Mervyn's LLC (July 24, 2006) 39 Cal. 4th 223. The individual Plaintiffs in this case have not lost money or property as a result of AAMC's actions and therefore said Plaintiffs lack standing to pursue their UCL claim, and therefore the UCL claims in this case are dismissed with prejudice NOW, THEREFORE, THE COURT MAKES THE FOLLOWING ORDERS: A. The Court provides the following DECLARATORY RELIEF: 1. The AAMC must apply the Unruh Act and the DPA to members of the class (all residents of California who apply or who have applied for testing accommodations to take the Medical School Admissions Test (MCAT) in California at any time from July 19, 2004, through the duration of any injunctive relief ordered by the Court); 2. Under the Unruh Act and the DPA, the AAMC must provide reasonable and appropriate accommodations that do not otherwise fundamentally alter the MCAT to all persons with established disabilities as the term "disability" is defined by the Unruh Act and the DPA. Reasonable and appropriate accommodations may include, but arc not limited to, the following: B. The Court provides the following INJUNCTIVE RELIEF: i. Applicants seeking accommodation have the burden of establishing a physical or mental disability as defined under the Unruh Act or DPA; activity, which documentation includes qualified professional evaluations; a. What documentation should be submitted in support of a request for accommodation, including establishing minimum professional credentials required of the diagnosticians on whose reports the person seeking accommodation relies. Further, providing for notice of denial of the accommodation request and the basis for the denial of all or a portion of the request; b. Establishing the qualifications and background for persons reviewing the requests for accommodation, including holding degrees specific to the areas of learning disorders and having training and experience in the diagnosis and assessment of adults with learning disabilities and ADHD; c. Establishing the qualifications, background and standards of review for persons considering the appeal of any denial of a request for accommodation; D. Preparation of judgment: Plaintiffs' counsel are directed to prepare for filing a final judgment in this matter consistent with the Court's Final Statement of Decision. Plaintiffs" counsel must prepare a proposed form of judgment and submit the same to Defense counsel for approval as to form and content. The Court expressly reserves jurisdiction to enforce this order and, if necessary, to modify, delete, or amend this order to effect compliance with the Unruh Act and DPA. Dated: October 31, 2006 Subject: Re: A VERY INTERESTING CASE ON MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE Message: Subject: Re: A VERY INTERESTING CASE ON MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE Message: 7. A learning disability in reading is a condition that interrupts one's cognitive processes and mechanics of reading, forcing the individual to rely on alternate processes. There are different types of learning disabilities. Tr. 154:17-29 (Gregg). Not all learning disabilities affect reading skills. For example, some learning disabilities affect skills in math or the ability to learn foreign language. Tr. 154:14-156:21 (Gregg). A learning disability is an impairment that may make one or more life activities, such as reading or learning, slow, labored and difficult. Tr. at 143:26-144:25. 8. ADHD is a condition that affects one's ability to process certain types of information. ADHD can make the mechanics of reading difficult and can cause one's reading to be slow, Tr. at 144:26-145:9. 208:14-21, 255:23-256:13. ADHD is typically associated with impairment and can be pervasive across many activities of an individual's life. Tr. at 376:12-24 (Ranseen). ADHD is not a learning disability. Tr. 207:2-3 (Gregg). It is a disorder that affects one's ability to attend and deal with different types of information. Tr. 144:26-28 (Gregg). Some people with ADHD tend to have difficulty reading and taking standardized tests as a result of the impairment. Tr. at 377:3-10 (Ranseen). An individual can have above-average or superior intelligence, reading comprehension skills (when provided with additional time), and be capable 9. There are different degrees of severity for learning disabilities and ADHD. Tr. at 181:6-8. The disability need not be "severe" for it to result in difficulty reading and the need for accommodations on exams. Someone with a mild learning disability can have difficulty with the mechanics of reading and may need accommodations, including extra time on timed tests. Tr. at 181:6-15; 393:17-20. Subject: Re: A VERY INTERESTING CASE ON MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE Message: Subject: Re: A VERY INTERESTING CASE ON MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE Message: ------------------------------------------------------- If I am to take the aforementioned comment by you with any degree of seriousness, then it stands to reason that the article in question "should be right up your alley" and you should therefore find time to read this very educational article. THANKS FOR YOUR RESPONSE. Subject: Re: A VERY INTERESTING CASE ON MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE Message: I started wearing glasses when I was seven - I didn't know that my eyesight was worse than anyone else because I was already an avid reader of everything that I could find, but didn't sit in front, in the class room. I have a school photograph without glasses and I notice that I was squinting. A simple eye test, and I was no longer what people in Sierra Leone call “Blind Bartimaeus” So a child’s experience of brutality begins at a very early age, part of the pedagogic culture. Subject: Re: A VERY INTERESTING CASE ON MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE Message: Subject: that was exactly my point ! Message: Subject: Cop flubs the national anthem/Real or Fake. Message: Subject: Re: Cop flubs the national anthem/Real or Fake. Message: Subject: Re: Cop flubs the national anthem/Real or Fake. Message: Subject: RE: Cop flubs the national anthem/Is this Real or Fake Message: Subject: QUOTE OF THE WEEK Message: Subject: Better Reporting in SL Message: I have noticed that a lot times, when SL newspapers, at least this and the other aforementioned one, report on a story, they tend to print the telephone number (in most cases, an expensive to receive calls cell phone) of the person they are writing about. Now in all the cases that I have read, it is usually the case that the person usually calls the reporter to make a threat, so I can see why the newspapers might print the number. But in the interest of better reporting, I think our newspapers need to understand that one, you should not make it a rule to include people's personal information such as addresses and phone numbers. In this case, Cocorioko is reporting on Nahim Khadi(spelling?) chopping money that Nigeria gave him for the SL Football Association. Until proven otherwise, assume he is innocent, and as can be imagined, there are people that will read the story and want to harrass him, so he'll have to go change his phone number which isn't neccessary. So lets stop printing phone numbers. Sam Subject: Re: Better Reporting in SL Message: I like Nahim.He is an Old Edwardian like me (I attended St. Edwards Primary,though) and you have read the good things we have written in his favour. However, public officials in Sierra Leone should learn that they are serving the nation not themselves and they are accountable to the people. Subject: Re: Better Reporting in SL Message: Sam P.S. Old Edwardian here too although I think I read you were are FBC in the 70's. That puts you YEARS:) ahead of me. Any word on the old school? That was a nice building, is it still well maintained. Subject: Re: Better Reporting in SL Message: Sam P.S. Old Edwardian here too although I think I read you were are FBC in the 70's. That puts you YEARS:) ahead of me. Any word on the old school? That was a nice building, is it still well maintained. Subject: House of Scandals Message: Finance Ministry’s Missing Checks, Touring the building following her electoral victory, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf declared that she never thought that corruption was so "systematic" here, but this seems an understatement. Here, 4,700 ghost names were discovered to be on state payroll. It is a place where, insiders say, loopholes for stealing public funds get wider. The President is a familiar face in this building, at least years back when she served as Finance Minister, a position that enables her, unlike other previous presidents, to know how this place works and therefore take needed action. But has there been any substantive change since she toured the building and ordered the sacking of some top officials? Change at the top perhaps, and in some areas but attributed to the coming into being of GEMAP. Says the UN Panel of Experts, in their last report: "The recruitment of independent financial comptrollers under the Governance and Economic Management Assistance Programme in the Ministry of Finance and major State-owned enterprises has also ring-fenced the major sources of Government revenue…" Recent and ongoing developments question whether the promised reforms here are succeeding or could succeed with a an all-compassing overhaul of a bureaucracy that sources say has outlived its usefulness and cannot meet today’s financial and economic challenges. Here, the Comptroller General of the Republic gets suspended here for time indefinite on charges of financial impropriety, in direct language, missing checks amounting to thousands of US dollars. This was in July 2006. This month, he is pronounced "cleared" and appointed Deputy Auditor General of the Republic, the second highest man responsible for discovering if state funds are spent properly via periodic audits. There is no record of the investigation clearing him and on what grounds. The Deputy Minister for Administration resigns. When contacted, Mr. Eugene Peabody declares the news as "a joke." "Oh that I have resigned? That is a big joke Garblah," Mr. Peabody said. But sources both inside the ministry and outside in top government circles say he has quit for what some "policy differences" with the Minister, Dr. Antoinette Sayeh. He is slated for the Libyan Holding Company, where he once worked, as the Libyans return. Deputy Minister for Tax and Revenue, Alfreda Tambah, now acts in his place. But the suspended Comptroller, Mr. Gregory Momo Johnson, who could not be reached for comments, now faces opposition from the Auditor General designate, Mr. John Morlu ll. Mr. Morlu, a GEMAP hired and Government approved official, has questioned Mr. Johnson’s credentials, saying the university from which he claims to have an MBA, Almelda University registered in the Caribbean Island state Nevis, made news in the US for granting degrees to the highest bidder. Mr. Morlu noted that in 1997, when Mr. Johnson said he received his MBA, this university was under probe for offering fake credentials to those with money. On his resume, Mr. Johnson included his position at the Ministry of Finance—Comptroller General. "Is this same Mr. Johnson who was suspended in 2006…? This is not the best way to build a credible, apolitical and professional" institution…" Mr. Seytumah, in submitting Mr. Johnson’s resume, wrote: "Upon your review of the resume, you may forward your observation to our office for onward transmission to facilitate the appointment…" No Ministry of Finance official was willing to grant interview on the Johnson’s missing checks probe and other reports, such as the appointment of officials at the Ministry without the President’s knowledge and alleged patronage. Calls to interview the Deputy Minister for Debt Management and Expenditure Roderick Smith proved futile. On two occasions this paper was told that he was in a World Bank meeting and could not take calls. The lady who answered one of the calls, she too, an Assistant Minister, Mrs. Brown, referred the reporter to the Disbursing Officer, saying that he could answer all the questions relating to check matters. When the Disbursing Officer was contacted, he declined to comment unless said instructions were given directly to him. This week, another attempt to interview Deputy Minister Smith was made at a check handing over ceremony but he declined the interview and asked that it be rescheduled for another time, reason that he was rushing to an important meeting. The letter appointing Mr. Johnson as Deputy Comptroller General was written by the Minister of State for Legal Affairs, Mr. Morris Seytumah. These are just two amongst the many scandals within the Ministry of Finance, an institution in which sources say, those who work there at the top do leave as poor individuals. In his letter of appointment to the GAC, written by the Minister of Legal Affairs Mr. Morris Seytumah, it said it was by the directive of the President, Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. But there is precedent to Mr. Johnson’s appointment even after he was suspended. Mr. Nathaniel Barnes, Minister of Finance under Charles Taylor, was declared by a Legislative anti-corruption committee to have violated the law by unilaterally granting tax privileges amounting to US 1,374, 344 to a company known as the Liberia Wood Management Corporation. Before the Committee, Mr. Barnes insisted he acted to save 300 jobs, since the tax benefits were meant to keep the company floating, leaving no doubts that within these walls, a single individual has the power to impose and waive taxes. Mr. Barnes is now Liberia’s Ambassador to the UN. Some of President Sirleaf’s closest allies, such as Mr. John Bestman, served as Minister of Finance during the Taylor reign when graft was at its highest peak. It is from these lucrative walls that the current President of the Senate, Mr. Isaac Nyenebo, emerged as comptroller to win his seat and subsequently be elected by his colleagues to lead them. Scandals are common here and they are not likely to abate with this Government. But there is where officials are accused of setting up bogus companies, and channel hundreds of thousands of dollars to themselves, and this is the first in recent time that its officials have been dragged to court on such charges. Minister Lusinee Kamara, his Deputy of Administration Tugbeh Doe, and several others allegedly siphoned huge sums. How the case will go may set the basis for how this place, a house of scandals, could fare in the coming years. No Ministry of Finance official was willing to grant interview on the Johnson’s missing checks probe and other reports, such as the appointment of officials at the Ministry without the President’s knowledge and alleged patronage. Subject: How honest is John Leigh? Message: When was the deal signed? Who signed on behalf of SL government? AND WHO PREPARED the document on behalf of our government? Who was the principal legal adviser to government at the time when this bad deal was signed? A deal that impoverised third world contries like SL Subject: Re: How honest is John Leigh? Message: Subject: Re: How honest is John Leigh? Message: Subject: Re: How honest is John Leigh? Message: Subject: FORUM POLICE-DONT BE BIAS-MONITOR ALIEU SESAY ,INDEPENDENT M Message: Subject: Re: FORUM POLICE-DONT BE BIAS-MONITOR ALIEU SESAY ,INDEPENDENT M Message: Subject: Re: FORUM POLICE-DONT BE BIAS-MONITOR ALIEU SESAY ,INDEPENDENT M Message: Keep that stupidness. Subject: Re: FORUM POLICE-DONT BE BIAS-MONITOR ALIEU SESAY ,INDEPENDENT M Message: Just be careful so that the foolumunku John Leigh doesn't infect you with his vocabulary disease -- part from using words that are not found in any English dictionary, the dunce Leigh also uses words like he does not understand. My advice is that you change your ohone number so that Leigh won't infect you through his unwanted, unsolicited "ar baig Alieu, no deal with me" phone calls, after he had bad-mouthed you with his special-court-lawyer-fired posting that he is afraid of re-posting. The coward. Subject: BROTHER A.ISCANDARI-YOU ARE A DECENT MAN Message: Subject: Re: BROTHER A.ISCANDARI-YOU ARE A DECENT MAN Message: Subject: MR A.ISCANDARI -YOU ARE DECENT MAN Message: Subject: FORUM POLICE-SHOULD CHASE ALIEU SESAY OUT Message: Subject: WARNING FORUM POLICE-INDEPEDENT MAN Message: Subject: FORUM POLICE SHOULD CHASE OUT-ALIEU,INDEPENDENT MAN Message: Subject: Re: FORUM POLICE SHOULD CHASE OUT-ALIEU,INDEPENDENT MAN Message: He also hides behind these monikers, among many others: Sengbe, APC, PMDC Spokesman, charles. Subject: Re: FORUM POLICE SHOULD CHASE OUT-ALIEU,INDEPENDENT MAN Message: Subject: JOHN LEIGHS ARTICLE Message: Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGHS ARTICLE Message: I am tired of hearing this nonesense. Such obsession with the pedigree of public officials is only one of many unfortunate APC innovations. That notwitstanding, I believe that both Sir Milton and Sir Albert's cabinets were far more diversified than those of either Stevens on Momoh; as is Tejan Kabbah's cabinert as well. You have heard this lie repeated so often that to you, it is now understandably, truth. Facts however are facts and if you care to check them, you may just be in for an awakening. Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGHS ARTICLE Message: Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGHS ARTICLE Message: Tribalism is the last refuge of incompetent and corrupt politicians, to paraphrase a wise adage John Leigh is a classic example of such uselss politicians. Subject: A RECORD OF FAILURE: THE SLPP'S MISRULE IN SIERRA LEONE Message: AS SPOKEN OVER UN RADIO AND SUBMITTED IN WRITING TO AWARENESS TIMES President Kabbah became President of Sierra Leone on the SLPP ticket in a Proportional Representation Election in 1996. Kabbah found a strong and united SLPP but he is leaving behind a weak and divided SLPP. This is the first thing to remember President Kabbah for. I remember Kabbah’s Inauguration in 1996. His first address at the State Opening of Parliament contained: - - Promises and appeals galore: All Unfulfilled! He asked Diaspora based Sierra Leoneans to come back home in a 34 paragraph speech but he failed to provide the incentives that would encourage Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora to come home. · Lungi Bridge. He leaves office without the Lungi bridge. · Railway to Koindu. No Railway. - Euphoria of winning lasted too long. He went to sleep. - Slow to take action - Lome Peace Agreement. He signed in bad faith. -. 1997 Coup d’etat. Kabbah was warned before the coup. He failed to nip it in the bud. - Conakry Peace Accord – He signed in bad faith. -. Setting up of democratic institutions – a credit to Kabbah but he failed to strengthen them. - Donor Funds – Misappropriated. No benefit to the state and its people. - Anti Corruption Commission – a witch hunt. Not effective. The Attorney General frustrates the Anti-Corruption Commission. - NASSIT: A Success but too early to start using the NASSIT funds. - NRA – Job for SLPP boys. Dismissal of APC Supporters. - Return of Local Government a success but not run properly. Too much political interference. Ministry of Local Government is over bearing. -. Down sizing the Army and/or early retirements and poor retirement benefits to Forces personnel – A very bad miscalculation. This is dangerous to national security. - I will remember President Kabbah for giving away Yenga to Guinea. Is Kabbah a Guinean? - Poor use of State House – left it as breeding place for vultures, bats and rodents. - The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Recommendations not yet implemented. Kabbah will be remembered for failing to apologise to Sierra Leoneans. - Kabbah is leaving too many beggars on our streets. - The Special Court & Hinga Norman’s plight. Kabbah will be remembered for double standards. The Kamajors will remember Kabbah as an undependable person - Lost Brookfields Hotel & Paramount Hotel. Gave Paramount Hotel to a set of investors and took it back. - Kabbah will be remembered for leaving Sierra Leone with the following:- - No Electricity - No Water. Kabbah has taken Freetown back to the days of Water Wells. - No food even though Kabbah promised that Sierra Leoneans will not go to bed hungry in 2007 but now People are unhappy. People are not glad. People are hungry - I and his friends: Dr. Joe Demby, Dr. Harry Will, Momoh Pujeh, Maigore Kallon and Hinga Norman and their families will remember Kabbah for his cruelty and ingratitude to people who helped him gain the Presidency. - Sierra Leone is last on the Human Development Index. I shall remember Kabbah for this bad state of affairs. - Prosecution of the 1998 Treason trials and Detentions was poor judgement. - Twisting the law to punish political opponents is very bad for Kabbah’s Presidency - Collaborators will remember him. Collaborator is not in our laws of Treason - 24 Soldiers executed: Kula Samba, Hassan Conteh, A.K. Sesay etc etc and their families will remember Kabbah. Can they forgive him? - The 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone and the many breaches of this Constitution will be issues Kabbah will be remembered for. - Kabbah is hardly seen in public. Kabbah will be remembered for insensitivity. - Massive Rigging of elections in 1996 and 2002. Poor conduct of elections, Misuse of the Voter Register. - Mining Industry: Puppet companies in our diamond Industry of Kono - Education: Teachers – newly recruited teachers are not paid on time. Empty classrooms all over the country. - Misuse of DIFID funds – Kabbah constructed very poor quality houses for Paramount Chiefs. I will remember him for treating Paramount Chiefs as such. - Kabbah will be remembered for, . leaving the state of Sierra Leone very much worse off. · Leaving the Sierra Leonean worse off · Brain drain of our professionals. . Indecisive President. · Recycling his friends. The Kanji Daramy positioning against bad Press Coverage is a thing I shall remember Kabbah for. - SIERRATEL now a moribund Company. Kabbah is responsible because he used Sierratel funds to feed himself and his friends in exile in Guinea - Very high Youths/General unemployment in Sierra Leone. On the whole, Kabbah’s Presidency is a wasted era and a loss opportunity. He failed to make good use of the opportunity he had to mobilize huge donor funds poured into Sierra Leone to rebuild the Sierra Leone economy after the civil war. I shall remember Kabbah for his very long and drab speeches. He treats serious national issues, carelessly. Finally, I will remember President Kabbah to be a very greedy President. I thank President Kabbah for giving me 1(one) pint of Fanta Soft drink the only time I ever went to him. Bye Bye President Pa Kabbah, ‘You time don don’. From Victor Bockarie Foh (National Secretary General APC) © Copyright by Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Subject: Re: A RECORD OF FAILURE: THE SLPP'S MISRULE IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: Re: A RECORD OF FAILURE: THE SLPP'S MISRULE IN SIERRA LEONE Message: Subject: No Water & Electricity for Connaught and FBC Message: Lord, Please put some real brains into our leaders' heads, so that they can at least realize how disgraceful their job performances are. Amen! Subject: Re: No Water & Electricity for Connaught and FBC Message: Subject: Re: No Water & Electricity for Connaught and FBC Message: Subject: Re: No Water & Electricity for Connaught and FBC Message: Subject: One-foot Jompie Message: Her mother had warned her about told her about this anti-social practice of staying out in the streets late after her bed time, but she would not listen. Every evening she would come home late and each night She told her of an evil "devil" called "One foot jompie" that kidnapped people late in the night. One late evening, she was returning home when she heard a terrible sound like that of someone dragging a log. The sount would go like thisd: "Gbrrrrrrrr.... dubb, gbrrrrrrrrrrr ... dubbp. She kept running all the way, and the further she ran the closer became the "Gbrrrrrrrr.... dubb, gbrrrrrrrrrrr ... dubbp" sound. She kept running until she came up to the door of her house and started chanting, "Mama yae do cam To this, the mother replied "Ah bin dae tell you say nor waka nar net She kept knocking and chanting, and one foot jompie kept coming closer and closer. In Africa, we were told that mother refused to open the door until one foot jompie came to the girl and took her away. (It portrays the grimness of African psychology which is aimed at teaching young people harsh consequences of unruly behavior) I gues in the West, the ending would be substituded by mother opening the door at ther final minute so as to prevent her child being taken away by one foot jompie. He-he P.s This was just what I heard as a kid. There may be other versions of the one foot jompie story. Your turn ... Subject: Re: One-foot Jompie Message: Mama yae mama yae do come, Papa yae papa yae do come, Subject: Re: One-foot Jompie Message: Subject: Freetown, Sierra Leone, the poorest capital in West Africa Message: Earlier this spring, I found myself in Lumley, a district in the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, the poorest capital in West Africa. There, in the offices of War Child Canada, Barmmy Boy and Lustinejaa (Lus-ten-jay) store their bass amp and mixing board. Barmmy and Lus are 18-year-olds whose music is supported by War Child Canada, which helps children affected by war and promotes young people's rights. Both boys have been on their own for several years as a result of the devastating, decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone, which caused 50,000 deaths before ending in 2002. They travel around the country preaching to schoolchildren and singing about AIDS, teen pregnancy and war. Barmmy and Lus were once part of a collective called The iEARN Music Club, whose record featured songs like "HIV is Dangerous" and "Guitars not Guns." After iEARN fell into disarray, the two started a new group – Artists United for Children and Youth Development (AUCAYD) – made up of various teenagers from around Freetown. In appearance and temperament, Barmmy Boy and Lus are opposites. Barmmy, whose real name is Lansana Mansaray, is small, soft-faced and careful with his words. He occasionally wears a red baseball cap with a giant gold cross above the bill, a subdued nod to gangsta wear. To ease the pressure on his mother, a small-time vendor, Barmmy left home at the age of 11, after his father was blinded by an explosion caused by rebels during the war. Lus, whose real name is Mohamed Kamara, is taller and affects a rapper's pose at pretty much every opportunity. Other than a deep scar beneath his left eye incurred in a soccer collision, he possesses the high-cheekboned, poster face of a pop star, and is as charming as he is loquacious. Each time I saw Lus, he was dressed differently and within an inch of cool, sometimes wrapped head to toe in Rasta gear, sometimes done up like a retro homeboy and, once, in a white Ottawa Senators T-shirt. Lus also lived on his own. Since his family's home was so small – and because his father, an old man, required a lot of care – he'd moved in with friends, drifting nomadically around the city. For both kids, their lives were timed, it seemed, between gigs and sessions. This was really no different from my own rock 'n' roll adolescence, except I always knew where my next meal was coming from and whether there'd be a bed waiting for me. Because they have no personal equipment, Lus and Barmmy write, rehearse and record in a music room in the War Child offices. Barmmy looms over his laptop and writes beat, while Lus scribbles rhymes onto foolscap. The office's second-floor balcony looks out to the other side of a river valley, where ramshackle houses veer over the edge above a ravaged hillside that's littered with garbage and a few palms whose branches hang over the tepid, green-brown water. Even though the river looks like a Club Med for the most worrisome kinds of parasites, there was always activity in the water. On most days, a group of boys used a square yellow water jug with the top carved off to try and catch fish or whatever else survived in the river's rank, murky depths. Once, standing on the balcony, I noticed a strange figure on the road moving at an eerie, somnambulant pace through the deep, sweltering heat, its body encased, neck to toe, in rough black straw. It wore a stark and frightening mask over its face, and while I remember it looking like the harrowing figure in Edvard Munch's The Scream, it was probably more uniquely African than that. The way the creature moved sent a cold shiver up my spine. I ran to get the boys out of the music room to tell me what it was. "Oh, this is the genital mutilation woman," said Barmmy Boy, "you know, from one of the secret societies." He said that, in Sierra Leone, secret societies continue to thrive, and that the creature's job was to recruit young girls into its fold. There'd been a movement to try and abolish the practice of genital mutilation – many girls had died from the procedure, often conducted with nothing more than a rusty blade – but politicians were slow to react, fearing the loss of voter support in the provinces. I followed Barmmy and Lus into the music room, where their song was ready for playback. I brought out my guitar and stood over Barmmy's shoulder, listening to the tune. It was a thundering track, thick and busy with jumpy rhythms and hard, electronic percussion. It was easy to find a place for my guitar part in the song's digital construction, being, as it was, the only organic sound save for the rapping that would come later. I strummed and riffed a little, and as soon as Lus sprung up beside me, churning his arms and swaying his head and humming a melody, I figured that we were in business. While I played, people gathered outside the window, one carrying a yellow bucket of water on his head. Satisfied with what I'd come up with and, perhaps, rising to the audience that had collected, Lus started rapping: "Children, youth say no war/Use your head not your gun." "We will record this at Studio D!" proclaimed Lus, after we'd gone through it a few times. "So, what I'm doing is okay?" I asked, fishing for a compliment. "Great, man, it is great!" said Lus. "You play like your name," Barmmy said cryptically, before imparting a West African gift that was better than any painted mask, hand-dyed batik or basket of chickens, which is what Toronto-based War Child worker Naomi Johnson had been given after her last trip to the country. "You play like Super D!" shouted Barmmy Boy, giving me my nickname. "Super D!" echoed Lus. With that, we were ready to wax it. We arrived at Studio D the following afternoon. It was, more or less, a squatter's space on the main floor of a larger, vacant building that had been bombed and left decrepit by the rebels. The studio was a single room – probably not even wide enough to accommodate a full drum kit – with a vocal booth standing in the corner. James, a Liberian pianist, guitar player and engineer, sat behind a modest, six-channel board staring at an old Compaq computer. Another engineer, named Sam, fed my guitar cable into the mixing console while telling me that the studio's recording schedule was often dictated by the region's weather patterns – because the walls and roof were leaky, and water pooled a few inches deep around the building. He also said that the studio opened only whenever there was money to buy fuel to run their small generator. Barmmy handed James a CD copy of the basic tracks, which he popped into the computer. What I heard from the speakers didn't sound anything like what I'd jammed to the day before. I asked the boys whether they'd brought the wrong track, but Lus said, "No, Super D, we like this one better. It is much more interesting." Because I'd been having so much fun, the weight of the session only hit me once I thought about where I was. thought about whether people had died in the building, what the streets on the other side of the studio door had looked like during the war and how we were making music where, a few years ago, the only sounds were gunfire and wailing voices and dreadful, birdless silence. Stirred by these thoughts, I told the engineer: "Gimme one more track." This time, I played my fat nasty chords with the whole of my forearm. I planted my legs and leaned my shoulder into the riff, striking my strumming hand against the strings like a scythe. I played fiercely, blindly. I tried to show them that, even though I'd never lived through war or had to fight for my next meal, I played the way I did because they'd had to. I wanted to show them that my music was terrifying and real and honest. Barmmy Boy and Lus deserved the best that I could give them. And for a minute, they got it. I finished the track bathed in sweat. "Dynamite, Super D!" said Barmmy. I shot him a look that explained what I'd done, then put my guitar on the ground, pushed open the door, and walked into the deep African sunlight. Subject: A TRIBUTE TO MY LEARNED FRIEND, SENGBE Message: Message: Instead of being political most of the time on this forum, why don't we make it a habit some of the time to learn about each other's culture? This tendency seems to bring us together more so than the "political discussions" that usually divide us and pits us at each others' throats in many instances. Please note that I am NOT advocating for the elimination of such discussions. It is just that once in a while when we talk about topics such as Sa Lon football, S.L. folklores, S.L. folk music, etc., everyone tends to enjoy, and it seems to me that we bond better that way (when we create situations that make us all miss our homeland). For example, the Reverend sharing his vast knowledge about Sa Lon football (even though he wrongfully ascribed ASHANTI KOTOKO to ASANTE KOTOKO some time ago - he was probably thinking in Swahili as opposed to thinking in Ghanaian ashanti)is so enjoyable and devoid of stress. Loggy talking about Idrissa Kontofillie based on his grandma's accounts. Sherbroman talking about Lansana Kuruballay, etc. etc. I think that we need to discuss these cultural aspects about our country so that we can educate one another about our different cultures in a non-political sense, for the purpose of bonding. I wanted to start or continue by telling a folk story about KASIO SAMA, in Mende folklore, but I could not remember any of the contents relayed in the stories that were told to us as kids when we sat in a circle under the moonlight in the village. I also wanted to tell the folk story about ONE-FOOT JOPPIE, but I could not remember it in its intricate details. I need help. Could anyone please share your knowledge with the forum so as to culturally educate us and the peepers too? Cultural awareness is very important in our developement as a cohesive nation. If this proposal is acceptable to you, then please start the ball rolling. If not, then please do not insult me. That tendency will serve no good purpose, but to start a fight. And we do not want that. We want to bond. I thank you. Subject: Re: A TRIBUTE TO MY LEARNED FRIEND, SENGBE Message: is either putting the finishing touches to what will win him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry so that he can wrestle the leadership of the SLPP from whatever san-san boy wants to make it his - or is more probably in a bad mood and busy butchering his poor students’ end of term papers and is not to be disturbed with Soukous hip-hipsters performing live and direct in front of him….. Limba Short Stories (Is there a "Krio Folktales" out yet? Everybody is busy writing English poetrics and stuff about tha war, about child soldiers, FGM etc and once you write a story you go back to work with a new professional of exalted status: WRITER. But the elections are only 75 days away and MUCH can happen within the next 75 days Subject: To Alie Formeh Kamara: Message: More than a few weeks ago there was some talk about Colonel Qadhafi visiting. Has he visited, perhaps to give a boost to Sir Ahmad Tejan Kabbah’s campaign funding? It’s been said that some politicians of the old colonial mentality, are willing to give away the biggest diamonds ever buried in Sierra Leone, in exchange for the title “Sir” Special Congratulations to the marvellous Dr. Sylvester Ekundayo Rowe! Special Congratulations to Alhaji Mohamed Lamin Sidique http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20055341.shtml What I find reprehensible – in the light of their seeking immunity from prosecution for crimes/ looting etc they may have committed I whilst in office, is that Mr. Kabbah gave national awards to the following select judges: Justice George Gelaga-King Justice Maitland Emeric Tolla Thompson Justice Virginia Wright Justice Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh And also to Mr. Foday Soko Conteh – Director of Prisons Understandably some medals to key military personnel too. Unfortunately, only His former Excellency Johnny E did not receive a prize for services so far rendered……. N. B. You're not supposed to believe everything you see in print, even if it's a book: Subject: Re: To Alie Formeh Kamara: Message: I heard he owns a house in Guinea where he intends to reside after he is out of office. If so, it must have created a dilema for him, when the YENGA issue surfaced. Any wonder why he did nothing about Yenga? IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION - Is this man mad? His Judges, freed nationally acclaimed Swegbe, Justin Musa, from procecution by granting him bail for medical reasons. They then gave him his passport even though they knew he was a flight risk. Justin's case would have exposed a number of high ranking officials in the SLPP Executive. Things have a way of staying away from radar and the Justin Musa's case is forgotten. Did the Judge who helped Justin Musa escape receive an award from Pa Kabba? I would like to know the achievements of the ACC since Professor Joko Smart took office? How many high ranking government officials has he prosecuted since taking office? Subject: REWIND Message: Following a direct request for help from President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Nigerian leader Sani Abacha has pledged to restore the Kabbah government. "ECOWAS has pledged to restore democracy in Sierra Leone," he said. Sierra Leone's United Nations Representative James Jonah confirmed Tuesday that President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has asked West African states to provide troops to "restore democracy" in Sierra Leone. In answer to whether the troops should oust the AFRC, he replied, "If possible yes, because what else do we have in the country. We have a bunch of corporals who opened the prisons wide open and 600 people came out, criminals, and they are roaming the streets right now." He said all the West African countries have made a "firm commitment" to restore the Kabbah government. "The president of the republic has made an appeal to the ECOWAS and the information which I have is that, indeed, it is true, they are trying to take action to reverse (the coup)," he said. Jonah said he will attend the OAU conference in Harare, Zimbabwe next week to request sanctions against the coup leaders, including non-recognition of their government and a travel ban on the non-commissioned officers who organised the revolt. "We are going to make it difficult for any military leaders to make a coup," he said. There have been some reports that President Kabbah, who fled to Guinea on Sunday, had re-entered Sierra Leone Monday. In an interview Monday, Kabbah expressed confidence that Sierra Leoneans support his government, and said he is returning to Sierra Leone because it is "where I belong." Subject: Investigating Ghana's energy crisis Message: Barbara Kuukua Oppong with Ghana's Deputy Energy Minister KT Hammond As the winner of the BBC's Newsmakers competition - I am more usually a teaching assistant at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology - I wanted to investigate the cause and effect of the energy problem. It has been attributed mainly to the dwindling water levels in the Volta Lake at Ghana's only hydroelectric plant, Akosombo Hydro. However, the obsolete and poorly-maintained equipment, used for generations, and the distribution of electrical power in the country, could also be blamed. The country continues to suffer from frequent power cuts. Recent research by Data Bank, one of Ghana's leading financial providers, suggests the country could lose up to $1.4 billion by the end of the year if the situation does not improve soon. And Ghana's National Labour Department statistics show that about 33 companies filed for insolvency between September 2006 and March 2007 and over 2,300 workers have lost their jobs. Bitter complaints While the power crisis cannot be directly accountable for these figures, no-one would argue that it is not a contributing factor. Families are also feeling the impact - going through financial crisis due to the laying off of workers. Some told me they are being torn apart, the education of their children being affected as they struggle to pay school fees. new mother Tonye Amedume and baby Seshie They say nobody knows who and what to believe anymore. On the streets, they complain bitterly. I was told quite simply that life was uncomfortable with the unreliable power supply. Desperation and confusion can be felt among people and businesses in Ghana - which is really bad news for the country which is seen to be the beacon of Africa. Ghana's Deputy Energy Minister KT Hammond told me he sympathised, and assured the public that the government had the situation firmly under control. He said it had put in ardent measures to solve the problem. And Deputy Information Minister Oboshie Sai recently told Ghanaians that the energy crisis would be over by 30 September this year. But this is not the first time a government official has put out a date by which the power crisis should cease. The government continues to do its best to allay fears and offers assurances that it is trying its hardest. But many question whether its best enough to end the discomfort of the people of Ghana? Subject: More Blair Message: Subject: Re: More Blair Message: One thing that both Blair (and Benn) don't have to tell Kabbah f or the umpteenth time, is that Kabbah-Berewa have to do more to curb corruption, to mend those gross leakages that Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma and the British government and the International donor community have been talking about, and which is one of the highest levels of corruption in the world. Subject: RE- BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN Message: A very interesting piece by Jimmy D. Kandeh, interesting that it mostly a psychological assessment of the specimen writhing under his microscope, and this does not often happen in Sierra Leone journalism, which sometimes is as raw as cannibalism ( eating your brother’s flesh, i.e. gossip and backbiting) http://cocorioko.net/WeekendSaturdayApril272007p3.html In which sense is Mr. Kabbah not his own man? He is? (“I am right”) “You are wrong. I am not prepared to die for anyone." Respectfully submitted Subject: Re: RE- BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN Message: What comes to mind each time I read crap from Jimmy is that he and many other Margai worshippers have not gotton over the fact the Margai lost to Berewa (some one who is not SLPP as far as they are concerned) in Makeni. What these people forget is that "small-small" Marda Bio almost beat Margai... I guess that was all part of the rigging process too right????? Subject: Re: RE- BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN Message: Subject: Re: RE- BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN Message: You are right on track. I myself have just read BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN by Prof. Kandeh. It is not a smart article and I will soon demolish it on Cocorioko Front page after I complete reviewing the spate of anti-Berewa articles by junior tribalists such as the feeble-brained frog doctor and worthless pro-APC articles by hegemonistic worshippers of Sahid Jamil's PeggyBoy and his terrible side-kick, Victor Ekutay AFRC Foh or Foe or whatever. We do know that as a public persona Maggai has always been his own man (except for PMDC's financial dependence on another or others) that is why our man is empty of the requisite leadership background and experience needed in today's SLeone. Arrogance and haughtiness coupled with other dysfunctional factors can prevent badly needed learning that underpins intellectual vigor. Berewa learned and is experienced, very smart and independent-minded. I can't say such for flunkeys who can't properly analyze a given bundle of facts and make smart decisions thereof. Instead, they depend on secretiveness, one-manic dictatorship ownership of political party, double-cross, dupping, pandering, dombolo stunts, rubbish assassination bogus plot attempts and others acts of deceit and deception grounded in kindergarten foolumunkuism. Without the requisite intellectual vigor to solve economic and social problems with smartness, objectivity and fairness, we will end up with another Momoh or Johnny Paul Disaster ToeNail of State Koroma or even another Foday Sankoh or Charles Taylor. Please just allow me a day for so after Memorial Day and I will deal with those poorly schooled Berewa's/SLPP's attackers. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: RE- BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN Message: Subject: Re: RE- BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN Message: That's a question best answered by his greatest fan, Mr. "We was robbed" Subject: Re: RE- BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN Message: Subject: Re: RE- BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN Message: Subject: Re: RE- BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN Message: Subject: Re: RE- BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN Message: Subject: Re: RE- BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN Message: Leigh does not have to be a presidential candidate to lose in August. All he has to have done is to have guaranteed a victory for the SLPP in August -- which he has openly done here. So, Leigh loses when the SLPP loses -- even though Leigh is not a presidential candidate. Do you now see, Keoker, how stupid you are to say that Leigh will not lose in August because he is not a presidential candidate? Bo, Edmund Koker, true say talk me: you just too fool! Subject: Re: RE- BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN Message: Subject: Re: RE- BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN Message: Your answer to my suggestion that you meant to state that Leigh will lose in August was that you could not have meant Leigh because he is not a presidential candidate. Had you been capable of understanding anything you read, you would have understood the obvious implication of your answer -- that only a presidential candidate can lose in August. Thus the only issue in this matter was based on your "understanding" that only a presidential candidate could lose in August. Therefore, I tried to help you see your characteristic failure to understand what you read by proving that anyone who makes a prediction about the elections stands a chance of losing, depending upon the results. So, whether my premise is right or not in predicting that Leigh will lose is completely irrelevant to the proven fact that one does not have to be a presidential candidate in order to lose in August -- as you stated in your predicatble total ignorance of the meaning of what you read. As you may be able to see (even if you do not understand it), you don't to have be a mind-reader to understand that -- as you nonsensically stated. All you have to do is pass English at the GEC O Level level, which you have repeatedly failed to do -- and it shows in each and every nonsensical posting you write. Subject: FRYING PAN TO FIRE? Message: Subject: Re: FRYING PAN TO FIRE? Message: Subject: Warning to Musa Kamara Message: Subject: Re: Warning to Musa Kamara Message: You should not be partial around here. Subject: Re: Warning to Musa Kamara Message: Subject: Re: Warning to Musa Kamara Message: Subject: Re: Warning to Musa Kamara Message: Does not make him me, should it mot be? Subject: Re: Warning to Musa Kamara Message: Subject: Re: Warning to Musa Kamara Message: Subject: Re: Warning to Musa Kamara Message: I am disapointed with you. I have never had a disagreement with you on this forum I have always respected your openion. I have never gratiutuously insulted or abused anyone on this forum. i always put my points clear, and cogent. Yes, I do get angry when people instead of dealing with the points in issue, start abusing me or my political belief. I was one of the first to condemn Saidu when when he went personal with Alieu's Family(check the back copies or ask the good Rev) There are people who uses other handle to insult and abuse.....these are bad apples and must be rooted out Subject: Re: Warning to Musa Kamara Message: Subject: Re: Warning to Musa Kamara Message: Cheers Offie! /Mod Subject: Conceptualization Message: [edit] Early life Previously female NBC anchors Jessica Savitch, Jane Pauley, and Connie Chung, ABC News anchor Carole Simpson and Elizabeth Vargas, and CBS News anchor Susan Spencer had worked solo on weekend duty newscasts. Elizabeth Vargas also did solo duty on weekday nightly news broadcasts following the departure of the injured Bob Woodruff. Katie Couric has filled in for Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News. Couric has also filled in for Garrick Utley on the Sunday Edition of NBC Nightly News from 1989 to 1992, and also for Maria Shriver on the Saturday Edition of NBC Nightly News in 1989. Couric hosted or worked on a number of news specials. Everybody's Business: America's Children, in 1995 was one example. Similar "specials" of a commercial nature were Legend to Legend Night: A Celebrity Cavalcade in 1993, and Harry Potter: Behind the Magic in 2001. Couric has also co-hosted the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games. She has broadcast with Bob Costas, beginning with the 2000 Summer Olympics. She did not co-host the 2006 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Turin, Italy because of a scheduling conflict with a live taping of Today Show. Brian Williams co-hosted with Bob Costas instead. Couric has interviewed many international political figures and celebrities during her career, including Presidents Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and First Lady Barbara Bush. John F. Kennedy Jr. gave Couric his first and last interviews. Couric has won multiple television reporting awards through her career, including the prestigious Peabody Award for her series Confronting Colon Cancer. Couric has also interviewed British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Senator Hillary Clinton (her first television interview), Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, and First Lady Laura Bush. Am I pushed to the corner yet? Banned, disrespect, Isolate! Big deal. Subject: Something to think about Message: Subject: Alieu Sesay-Your language is below standard!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: Alieu Sesay-Your language is below standard!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: Alieu Sesay-Your language is below standard!!!!! Message: Subject: Re: Alieu Sesay-Your language is below standard!!!!! Message: Calling the Kamajor's cannibals just shows how uneducated and how easily manipulated you are. Stupidity must be a cronic disease in your family. Subject: INDEPEDENT MAN-KAMAJOR-CANNIBAL YOU ARE A FAILURE Message: Subject: Re: INDEPEDENT MAN-KAMAJOR-CANNIBAL YOU ARE A FAILURE Message: Calling the Kamajor's cannibals just shows how uneducated and how easily manipulated you are. Stupidity must be a cronic disease in your family. Subject: JOHN L.YOU OLD FOOLISH AND RECKLESS liar Message: Subject: Re: JOHN L.YOU OLD FOOLISH AND RECKLESS liar Message: Subject: WHAT WENT WRONG? Message: WHAT WENT WRING???? Some say they got it easy....easy to arrive in the U.S. without having to struggle for residency; easy to have parents or other relatives who are willing to support them financially and blah, blah blah. But with all these opportunities, why are so many Sierra Leonean teens, both boys and girls, in big cities quit school and end up in the gangs? But these are only the boyz; the girls will make you think twice to ever consider bringing another Subject: Re: WHAT WENT WRONG? Message: Subject: INDEPENDENT MAN-YOU ARE A STUPID IDIOT!!! Message: Subject: Re: INDEPENDENT MAN-YOU ARE A STUPID IDIOT!!! Message: Calling the Kamajor's cannibals just shows how uneducated and how easily manipulated you are. Stupidity must be a cronic disease in your family. Subject: Re: INDEPENDENT MAN-YOU ARE A STUPID IDIOT!!! Message: Subject: Pa Kabba U nor Try Message: If you are sick in that country your chances are slim to none. Not one of the satillite hospitals are of any standard!!If you have to be taken to the Godreich hospital the road will kill you first. John Leigh and others are prepared to die to win the next elections when they well know that cannot better the standards of the citizens! Subject: Re: Pa Maggi U nor Try Message: You are wrong. I am not prepared to die for anyone or any party. I want better standards of government services for the people hence I am supporting VP Berewa and the SLPP not either of the flunkeys: peggy boy and stupido! Also, I am not here to defend the current SLPP Administration. I have my disappointments just like many people. In fact, I am a well known critic. I openly criticized it for three years on more in public but the man you are promoting did not publish even a single paragraph in support. He sat in the cabinet that approved the TGS-Oil Exploration Deal that I alone was left to rail against. He tried to squeeze $50,000 from Chief Norman. I wrote publicly and repeatedly criticizing his indictment. In my humble estimation, your man is not qualified to lead. Even with all his faults, Berewa is far, far Subject: Re: Pa Maggi U nor Try Message: I want better standards of government services for the people hence I am supporting VP Berewa and the SLPP" Is this the first verse of your humble "Post-ConBention Blues"? Subject: Re: Pa Maggi U nor Try Message: Subject: Re: Pa John leigh U nor Try Message: Where u scared of what Berewa will do to u or because he died as a member of PMDC? Where were u man? JEL, U ONLY CRITICISED after your dismissal.U contributed to the creation of the special court that arrested Norman.U supported the arrest of the CDF and other players when u were AMBASSADOR. Subject: JL PROVE LOW GRADE SAN SAN WRONG IF YOU CAN Message: Subject: Re: JL PROVE LOW GRADE SAN SAN WRONG IF YOU CAN Message: I am proud of you. I want every Sierra Leonean to join me in my crusade against lying politicians by simply asking John the DIAPER to show us the proof that this house does not belong to the SELLUS of Kormende. For the genuine slpp supporters I say this to you. Do not put this scruffy unelectable hopeless moron in front of your party. Leigh is a LIABILITY he cannot bring you any vote nor can he take any away from you. So please join me in exposing this useless LAIR by simply asking him to show us the proof that the house in Kormende was built for his mum by his dad. As for my good old Rev. I am kindly asking you to support this campaign. As you know our biggest problem back home is that for far too long we have been miss lead by lying politician. So please join this campaign. I am also apealing to distinguished personalities of this forum such as Bra Enviable, Bra Cornie, Boss Sengbeh, Kor Yayah, Lawyer Cadmus, Lawyer Iscandari, Mr Beckley, Mr Mohamed Jalloh, the great BUFOR HGW and all honest and decent Sierra Leoneans who want to see honesty in our politics to join this campaign by simply asking John Leigh to show us the proof that the house he told Sierra Leoneans about in Kormende does not belong to the Sullus in. LEH SCRUFFY SNUFFY LEIGH THE BEGGAR FROM BOSTON PROVE ME WRONGE. Thank you all Subject: Re: JL PROVE LOW GRADE SAN SAN WRONG IF YOU CAN Message: It is now a well established proverb that John Leigh has absolutely no credibility. The man lies so compulsively that there is no doubt about that he is a victim of his undiagnosed mental illness. The evidence is legion: From his licking his own spit in endorsing the same Berewa that he had declared unfit to lead him, to his unacknowledged copying of sound economic ideas from those whom he had disagreed with, to his wanton use of bribes to bridge the gap between his delusions of grandeur and his lack of talent for leadership, this man, John Leigh, is a walking nut case. In other words, NAR KRASE MAN> Thereefore, my advice to you, my brother, is not to waste your time waiting for a craxy fool who makes up words that don't exist in any dictionary -- and yet accuses his better educated antagonists of being uneducated. It would be a complete waste of your valuabler time because John Leigh is already a KRASE MAN> Subject: Re: JL PROVE LOW GRADE SAN SAN WRONG IF YOU CAN Message: John Leigh's life -- what little is left of it -- is already "locked into a big lie-box." Subject: Bo: SLPP Doles out Party Symbols Message: By Edie Vandy. It seems all is now set for the August 11, 2007 Parliamentary battle, following the ruling party’s move to dole out party symbols across the length and breadth of the country. The fan fare that followed in Bo district in particular was euphoric, in the wake of the young and dynamic Foday Rado Yokie’s victory over that of challengers Matina Foray, and Edwin Boima, for the high profiled parliamentary seat of Bo Town 2. The PMDC has played it smart by matching up Rado Yoki with erudite Lawyer Aggrey Aruna. This fight is expected to be the most interesting, and will be keenly followed, as both of these candidates are not only friends, but are true buddies, whose paths have crossed in diverse ways, in and out of school. These two, know the dirty linens of one another and the expectations are that these little skeletons will be washed in public when the dice is rolled. Of the two, Rado is more equipped to shut down Aggrey, as he has many arsenals at his disposal. As Secretary to the Lebanese business Tycoon Fawaz,Rado has already won many friends within the business community, and the many locals he meets and helps on a daily basis. Don’t forget the critical role Fawaz will play, for he is going to be a factor to tip the balance in favor of his junior employee, who he has come to respect and thrust over the years. Fawaz is sure to muster his Lebanese community to toss out the ‘bucks’ and woe voters for a Rado victory. Who ever told you that working for a Lebanese is an easy job? For Rado to survive and work with Fawaz over these years must have being a working relationship built around trust. Fawaz will definitely want to see and deal with Rado as MP than an Aggrey politician watching his back. Hon Cecil Hanciles was again re-elected to lead the party in the hot seat of Bo Town 1 over his challenger Rev. Kanagbo from the US. The Hon is expected to face-off with the PMDC’s likely nominee - Mr. Mohamed Tholley, who will bring youthfulness and a fresh perspective into the political ball game of this constituency, unheard of in years. At face value, it seems a straight fight for Hon Cecil Hanciles, who himself had boasted that he was going to punish and knock down his challenger in a straight fight. Pundits are however saying that, the Honourable’s clout and long years of grip on local politics, is not an indicator of victory, for the PMDC challenger who happens to be a fine gentleman, will spar squarely and take this fight right to the finishing tape, and give the incumbent a run for his money. For Bo Town 3, it was a foregone conclusion that Mr. John Bosco Musa was the stronger and most favored of the candidates going to the polls, and there was no surprise here when he emerged as party symbol holder. His victory however became clouded in controversy not because of his competence or popularity, but because his challenger Hon Musa Conteh (from Blama) sees him as flouting the rules of the game by not resigning his position as Director of the Manjama Agricultural Institution, which is partly funded by the government. Nobody is expecting a reversal of the nomination, on this petition. If indeed John Bosco’s candidacy truly holds, he will go ‘head to head’ with an activist and human rights campaigner - Ms. Frances Rogers, of the PMDC. The SLPP is expected to win in this constituency. SLPP has put forth a very strong and able woman as party flag bearer for Bo Town 4, in the person of Ms. Neneh Lebbie. Neneh is pitched to slug it out with Alie Baker of Tinkonko Road, from the PMDC. The stakes are high for Neneh, and the expectations of victory falls in her lap in a very big way. SLPP party loyalists in Tikonko Central will be casting ballots for another young and erudite household name - Eric Jumo. Eric has bucks, and connections, and has a bag load of experience garnered over the years as head of Triple RRR (now NaSCA) in Bo. The people of Bo and Tikonko see this race as clean shaven and a work over for Eric Jumo. There is good news in the offing for the ruling part’s generation XXX, as more and more young men and women are entrusted with leadership roles and responsibilities, and given the platform to articulate their voice. John Tucker aka JT, stands tall as one of the youngest and dynamic of the SLPP hopefuls upon whose thrust the Party relies to cruise through in the upcoming Parliamentary elections. JT if nominated will contest as MP for the Lumley Constituency, and many are tipping him to have an easy victory over any challenger from either the APC or PMDC. It must be recalled that John Tucker was one of the four SLPP councilors who survived an APC sweep of the local council elections in May 2003, when he won himself a seat for the Lumley West III Ward. The assumption is that if the young and inexperienced JT could pull it big when the odds were high; surely he will be victorious now that he has added some clout, brokered some experience and continues to deliver services to the Lumley community, for which he is hailed. JT has in his report card over a very short tenure constructed and rehabilitated a community centre, markets, bore holes, and latrines for the community. There is a growing clarion call by the Lumley community spanning across youths, elders, men and women, to have JT as their Parliamentary representative to bolster his efforts of re-building their community, and for adequate representation, lost out on them over years of neglect. The Lumley community sees in JT, as one they can count on, and one who is there for them at all times, and even in the middle of the night. The buzz so far hallmarks the defeat of Sam Maligi - former NPRC strongman and OIC Executive Director, who attempted to unseat incumbent and son of the soil - Arthur Harvey. Sam Maligi’s assumption of victory was based on a false assumption, opting to campaign on name recognition, built around his NPRC glamour days, and his alleged romance or association with NEC Chair - Christiana Thorpe. The Deputy Speaker Hon Elizabeth Alpha Lavalie survived the storm, and will be running on the party’s ticket to represent the people of Bagbo and Lugbu chiefdom. It must be recalled that the honorable parliamentarian was humiliated by her constituents on her recent visits to the chiefdom on the occasion of the 41st Annual Speech Day and Thanksgiving Ceremony of the Sir Albert Secondary School - Sumbuya. The hon. came unscathed from this scare unleashed by her constituents, who saw her as being out of touch, and far withdrawn from their needs. In Elizabeth Lavalie, the constituents saw no true representation, and there was no evidence of development tied to her aprons on behalf of the community. However embarrassed she was in the past, she managed to pull it off, and no one can say for sure how she did it. As deputy speaker and parliamentarian, she has proven that she is one of Sierra Leone’s finest female politicians in modern times, and just maybe the people of Lugbu and Bagbo decided or were prevailed upon to give her a second chance. The iron lady as she is fondly called is an asset not only to local politics, but national and international politics as well. Subject: Low-income countries receive US$ 265 million to send million Message: * Education Website May 25, 2007—Seven low-income countries—five of them in Africa—this week received support for education programs, under the Education for All - Fast Track Initiative. The national education plans of Benin, Cambodia, Mali, Mauritania, Mongolia, Mozambique and Sierra Leone were endorsed with a financial plan totaling US$ 265 million in grants. The support for the seven national education plans at the FTI donors meeting held last week in Bonn and co-chaired Germany, the current head of the G8 president, comes on the heels of the High-Level Education Conference in Brussels earlier in May and hosted by the European Commission. During this event, new commitments were made by donors for more, better, faster and longer-term aid for education. For the first time, the High-Level Conference had active participation as well of the private sector and such foundations as the Soros and the Hewlett foundations. The Case of Benin Benin, which joined the Fast Track Initiative at the start of 2007, is one of the great African performers in the education field. The number of children enrolled in primary school increased from 65 percent in 1995 to 94 percent in 2005. Girls education is a priority in Benin's national education plan as the number of girls that enjoys basic education lags behind (girls' participation in 2005 was 44 percent). Another priority is enhancement of the quality of education. Although the primary completion rate (the number of children that completes grade six of primary school compared to the relevant age group) increased from 30 percent in 1995 to 54 percent in 2005, the country is making the necessary investments to provide higher quality education to its nation's children thereby reducing the repetition rate and the number of children dropping out of school. With support from the World Bank, bilateral donors and the Catalytic Fund, Benin will hire more teachers which will improve the teacher to pupil ratio significantly. By reopening teacher training colleges, it plans to have 1,200 qualified new teachers per year from 2009 onwards which is a 33 percent increase from 2006 in the number of graduates. Despite the commitments to Education for All made at the 2000 World Education forum in Dakar, Senegal, not all developing countries with sound education plans have been able to attract the additional financing they need. For this reason, a Catalytic Fund of the Education for All - Fast Track Initiative (FTI) was created and sponsored by The Netherlands, United Kingdom, the European Commission, Ireland, Spain, France, Denmark, Germany, Russia and Belgium. Countries with FTI-endorsed national education plans can draw upon this fund to jump-start their education investments. The seven additional national education plans are being funded from the Catalytic Fund. “These education plans show very clearly the firm commitment of developing countries to educate their nations’ children,” said Desmond Bermingham, head of the FTI secretariat. “Some of these countries are extremely poor, but still they manage to dedicate 20 percent of their scarce domestic resources to education purposes.” The Education for All - Fast Track Initiative was established in 2002 under the leadership of the World Bank to help increase the levels of financing for basic education in poor countries. It is also helping to ensure that all financing – both domestic and external – is used effectively to help countries achieve long term and lasting improvements in their education systems. As of now, 31 developing countries are endorsed by the Fast Track Initiative with 15 more countries awaiting FTI endorsement this year. It is hoped that by the end of 2008, another 15 countries can join the FTI to bring the total number of countries to 61 and to include such large and populous countries such as India, Nigeria and Ethiopia where many children do not go to school. Indeed, access to education has expanded dramatically in recent years: in the past five years alone around 23 million children worldwide – who previously had no access to education - have enrolled into primary school. The share of children completing primary school has risen to 79 percent in 2005 from 69 percent in 1995. Six Sub-Saharan African countries have increased primary completion by over 10 percent a year since 2000. These figures point to the important progress that has been made in the most challenging countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, there are still 77 million children who are out of school today – including 44 million girls. It is estimated that US$9 billion in external aid is needed per year in order to achieve the goal of universal primary education. This would require almost a tripling in aid for basic education in low income countries over the next two to three years. Subject: 5 more days- "I will have reached my term limit in May, Message: We still remember all those innocent lives lost in the fight for the restoration of The SLPP government. "PA ALPHA" will be remembered long after you are gone. Subject: WHY IS THE SLPP TRYING TO KILL MARGAI? Message: Subject: Re: WHY IS THE SLPP TRYING TO KILL MARGAI? Message: Subject: Re: WHY IS THE SLPP TRYING TO KILL MARGAI? Message: Too many stupid people are involved; too many stupid mistakes have been made - from the phoney reasons for the split to the most recent childish bogus assassination attempt plot. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: WHY IS THE SLPP TRYING TO KILL MARGAI? Message: Subject: Re: WHY IS THE SLPP TRYING TO KILL MARGAI? Message: This is pure rubbish. "JL u will eat your word when the results start coming in." - Moijue So be it. "Berewa and your very self have spent more time talking about Margai and PMDC than you have spent telling people how you will develop salone." - Moijue Not true. Berewa hardly mentions Margai. If he does it is mostly in connection with bogus assassination ateempt plots, CKC violence and various PMDC rubbish. I do counter-attack pro-Margai statements that are untrue or directed at me. But PMDC 10 dunces are coming at me all at once. So, what am I supposed to do? It is also my right to partake of voter education activities because I have firsthand knowledge of relevant matters - and phoolumunku dunces can cause a lot of damage. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: WHY IS THE SLPP TRYING TO KILL MARGAI? Message: becos Margai wan pull braid nar dem mot. This just reminds me of a gentleman called James Musa Gendehmeh during the dying days of the Momoh regime. He unashamedly told the whole world that President Momoh has given them a Mitsubishi pajero and ordered Ben Kanu to give them a bag of rice every month. Therefore if anyone dare to oppose Momoh he or she will be slaughter. These are the same kind of THUGS who are now embedded in the slpp and want to kill Margai. Because Berewa has done similar things for them. He has awarded lucrative contracts to them and asked Kanja Sesay of NaCSSA to dish out donor money to them for unfinished jobs. So who ever dares challenge Berewa will be killed. What a pathetic country. As a northerner who was born and bread in the slpp, I know for a fact that the slpp has always been a party of harassment and victimisation. Sir Milton started it, he barred a northern Paramount Chief from his Chiefdom and sent him on exile in Pujehun simply because of policy differences. Paramount Chief Taplima Ngobeh of Luawa Kailahun was another slpp bully. He barred his opponent from driving his car not only in his chiefdom but the entire district. He even threatened to use the gentleman's house as a post office or razed it to the ground. So I am not surprise to hear this, it's just a continuation of the victimisation that was started by the slpp "Chairman Mao" Sir Milton. Subject: Re: WHY IS THE SLPP TRYING TO KILL MARGAI? Message: Subject: Re: WHY IS THE SLPP TRYING TO KILL MARGAI? Message: Subject: MARGAI IS S.L.P.P. WORST NIGHTMARE Message: Subject: Re: MARGAI IS S.L.P.P. WORST NIGHTMARE Message: Maggai is no RALPH NADER to the SLPP Subject: Re: WHY IS THE SLPP TRYING TO KILL MARGAI? Message: You tell me...Why woiuld the SLPP wamt to kill Margai, a man who is no threat to SLPP what so ever....It really does not make sense.You think about it....Do you actually believe that PIGS CAN FLY? If you do , then you can believe this tittle tattle of a story. Subject: Re: WHY IS THE SLPP TRYING TO KILL MARGAI? Message: SLPP has far better use for Le80,000,000 than waste such valuable scare resource to plot to spill the blood of someone who has already self-destruct on account of his own dumb double-cross decisions. If you saw the pathetic, fed-up thousand-man flunkey cuss-cuss march in Bo the other Thursday, you can imagine why Maggai is panicing and would come up with another rubbish fahlahmahkahtah plot. The whole of PMDC is not worth even half of the Le80,000,000 alleged. A gunine plot would merit only a tiny fraction of such an amount. Maggai has wasted donated funds with mountains of stupid decisions as he surrounds himself with crookish phoolumunku alphabet rogues lacking in brain power like that feeble-minded, idiot, Soviet frog experimenter writing bowtow-bahtah in cocorioko.net. - JL Subject: Re: WHY IS THE SLPP TRYING TO KILL MARGAI? Message: If you are gullible to believe that story , I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. Why would Berewa and SLPP need to kill Charles who is a spent candidate and poses no serious poliical threat at this time. Lets face it. Charles does not have the money to win the elections in Sierra Leone.( That is why he lost nomination against Kabbah) The opportunists and sycophants who followed him to Subject: Re: WHY IS THE SLPP TRYING TO KILL MARGAI? Message: Subject: www.idea-uk.com Message: this true ? Subject: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: Please behave yourself. There is no reason to hurl insults at a person who merely expresses views contradicting yours. Use reason -- not rudeness --to counter the person's arguments, if you can. Otherwise, please keep quiet. At least that will spare us the spectacle of a grown man like you throwing insults around like a rude, spoilt child unable to get his way. Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: The issue is not because someone expresses views contradicting mine. That has never been the issue with me. Frankly, I thoroughly enjoy dealing with contradicting views. The problem generating my condemnation is the repeat stupidity, the repeat irrelevancies and the repeat rudeness by a few flustered flunkeys abusing monikers, avoiding genuine debate of the issues. Instead, such lowlifers prefer talking offensive trash despite repeated warnings and patience from others. Please try and balance your own reprimands. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: Mr. Leigh, if that were true, then it must be true that you also enjoy diplaying rudeness in public -- because that's what you usually do when contradicted. Specifically, you start calling those who disagree with you names like idiots and other slurs which do not address the issues at all. Instead, they only show bad manners on your part. If someone states what you think are irrelevancies, etc., why not just simply say so -- and then show why you think so, preferably adducing the evidence you presumably relied upon. That is the proper way to debate. Rudeness is not a substitute for reason, as you have been advised repeatedly. Using monikers is not a violation of the rules of an anonymous forum like this one. So, that cannot justify any rudeness from you to the persons you think are doing so. No one stops you from chosing a similar course. As you may have noticed, I tell all miscreants to behave themselves. Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: But a strong, effective opposition cannot be based on a secretive, non-collegial organization, a one-manic dynastic dictatorship, crookish foolumunkus, double-croos, tribal discrimination, etc. or a well known marginalizer, poverty spreader, hegemonistic tribalists, Sahid Jamil's peggy boy, etc. So to me, the only place a good opposition resides right now is in the reform wing of the SLPP. I am batting for Bewera because I believe his will be an improvement over the current administration. Let's pray for such. Even so, I'll remain vigilant. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: This can only come from a hopeless BOSTON BEGGAR who has a history of reform institutions. SCRUFFY, as a SWEH wayward child you fought your mum and you were sent to a reform institution oops setting. SNUFFY, as a sad old fool, you swore at your party leaders and delegates. Because of that and you being a liability with nothing to offer your party in terms of votes, you have again been reduced to serving some time in the reform wing of the very party that you once aspired to lead. Even Abass Chernor Bundu your slpp former JUNTA COLLABORATOR did not go through such a humiliation before he was again accepted into the mainstream of the party. I wonder why? MAYBE BECOS YOU RUDE, BROKE EN GEH MAMIE SWEH. SO AS PART OF YOUR VOTERS EDUCATION SHOW US THE PROOF THAT YOUR PARENTS OWN THE SELLUS HOUSE IN KORMENDE IN BO. Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: I am not surprise at all the words u are using against opposition leaders now.U have used similar words against BEREWA in the past.(the archives will be out soon) I beg to differ with u JL.Were it not for the emergence of PMDC Slpp will not be criss crossing and bribing voters now. Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: I am not surprise at all the words u are using against opposition leaders now.U have used similar words against BEREWA in the past.(the archives will be out soon) I beg to differ with u JL.Were it not for the emergence of PMDC Slpp will not be criss crossing and bribing voters now. " - Moijue Moijue: Here is my point-for-point response to your inquiry: 1. "John Leigh Berewa was part and parcel of the same regime u were decrying yesterday." Yes. So what if Berewa is and was a part and parcel of the exact same regime that I publicly and in writing criticized, decried, complained about and some of whose policies and practices I strongly condemned for a period of three years, ect., ect., etc.....? So what? I have considered all of those matters. I have considered Berewa's background and his involvement in the Kabbah Government before deciding to support him over all others on May 22, 2006 - over 8 months after Makeni and after several return trips to - and extensive travels within - Sierra Leone. But before deciding to support Berewa I also considered the backgrounds of his rivals and their parties. I then deliberately decided to back Berewa of them all and I did so publicly at a press conference where I distributed a written statement setting forth my reasons for supporting VP Berewa. The same statement was posted in cocorioko.net and in this forum. 2. "Did he [VP Berewa]not lie to u that he was not interested in becoming VP in 2002 when he joined SLPP? Yes, he was present and as far as I know, silent. So what? How about all the junior tribalists who were present then and heard the rudeness and who are now with PMDC? Did they do anything? Lets face it our country is not number one in the world for freedom of expression of thought. Those genuine, non-APC-transplanted SLPP members who stood up that day and forced Harding to apologize are with me in the SLPP reform wing and also supporting Berewa for president. 4. "I am not surprise at all the words u are using against opposition leaders now.U have used similar words against BEREWA in the past.(the archives will be out soon)." By all means, please go ahead. Time is running out for you and PMDC. I will deal with that matter when you are man enough to bring it up. I will show you beyond every shadow of a doubt that my attitude towards Berewa is vastly different from my attitude towards the Kings of Stupid, the Kings of Double-Cross, the Kings of Dombolos, the Kings of Marginalizers, the Kings of Ekutay and the Kings of PeggyBoyism, etc. 5. "I beg to differ with u JL.Were it not for the emergence of PMDC Slpp will not be criss crossing and bribing voters now." You have every right to differ with me. We've made different choices. I do not mind at all with the choice you've made because it is your right. In respect your right to freedom of choice. Next, the problem SLPP faced before and after Makeni was with its rank and file and the independent Third Force public, not PMDC or APC. In my view, the SLPP rank and file are not happy with the overall record of the current SLPP Administration. I and others articulated their concerns over three years in the media and during the campaign for Makeni. Aspects of Makeni were not democratic as I wrote in WE WAS ROBBED in September 2005. In fact, it was terrible afro-politics. The truth reached the rank and file. They were not happy. Even then, VP Berewa would have won anyway in my view. I am very practical and accept the fact that democracy is a slow process and our society still has ways to go in this area. My solution is to be patient and swallow the bitter pill of Makeni. So, like the rank and file, I decided not to help split the party. With this decision to stay, what was my choice? Either, I sat out the elections or remain active and seek reforms from within. Joining the notorious hegemonistic APC or the new party for alphabet-soup crookish-foolumunku-junior tribalist types was not an option for bad as Makeni was, some good did come out from the aspect of the convention that was clean. Two reformers were elected into top party positions (Chair & S-G) while APC-transplants that had been fighting me since before BO 2002 were defeated. I did not decide to support VP Berewa until after re-touring SLeone several times in 2005 and 2006 and traveling silently in his entourage. And 8 months after Makeni, I publicaly declared my support for him. PMDC was of minimal interest to me. I knew they wanted me to join them but I was simply not ready to split and work with certain most repulsive crooks, junior tribalists and dummies. But I kept my views PMDC silent. Only when I was attacked in a tsunami of vituperations following my poking despositive holes on the first bogus assassination attempt plot reports in February 2006, did I go public against the PMDC attackers. To this day, SLPP is not worried about PMDC at all. In Makeni, no one was worried about Mr. Margai at all. He has reached his highest point within the party and was not going to gain a strong showing, let alone win, because his background is not that positive. The pre-Makeni focus was to disqualified non-resident candidates and candidates who have less than five-year's residence in the country. Serious people paid no attention to Mr. Margai and his black-suited boys. VP Berewa has done a good job meeting the party's rank and file. He has explained the government's successes as well as his hopes for the future. the voting public has seen him and interacted with him since Makeni. His travels and the Q&A sessions have debunked the false rumors about him. And I am publicly for him. Those in the party who see me in a positive light are very pleased I am still with the party despite all the nasties, the heartaches disappointments, etc. Unlike someone we all know, I do not ranaway like Mobutu's troops and began faking excuses for my flight. I stay and fight until victory is won! Let it be rembered later in August 2007 that I, JL, claim here today that the party I am with is the party that is going to win in 2007 because I am recognized nationally as a genuine part of the Third Force that the people want. I stand for national advancement and success. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: You are wasting our time with meaningless submissions as follows: MOIJUE: Did he [VP Berewa]not lie to u that he was not interested in becoming VP in 2002 when he joined SLPP? JL: No, he did not. But supposed he did, so what? I do not understand what you are aiming at. MOIJUE: Was he [VP Berewa] not present when you were shouted upon by Prince Harding, and what did he do? JL: Yes, he was present and as far as I know, silent. So what? How about all the junior tribalists who were present then and heard the rudeness and who are now with PMDC? Did they do anything? Lets face it our country is not number one in the world for freedom of expression of thought. Those genuine, non-APC-transplanted SLPP members who stood up that day and forced Harding to apologize are with me in the SLPP reform wing and also supporting Berewa for president. NOW, what's your point with this meaningless citation which is confirmed above? What's your point? In Reply to: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO posted by John E. Leigh on May 26, 2007 at 12:43:40: Fifth, a failed attempt was made at the 2002 Bo Nominating Convention to humiliate and discredit Ambassador Leigh. When Mr. Leigh rose to correctly point out that those individuals purporting to be the genuine delegates from SLPP North America were, in fact, self-serving crooks, Ambassador Leigh was told to “Shut Up” and “Sit Down” by the officials conducting the crooked convention. President Kabbah, VP Berewa and other top officials were present but remained silent leaving the distinct impression that the whole exercise had been rehearsed. Only two courageous members objected from the floor while other shocked members later went to Mr. Leigh’s lodgings to offer their sympathy. Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: MAKING THE SIERRA LEONE CONSTITUTION Throughout Mr. Leigh’s sojourn abroad, whether he was in Nigeria, the United Kingdom or in the United States, he never forgot his homeland, his friends and his families back home. He made frequent trips home to marry, to baptize his children and to visit with relatives and friends in both Freetown and Bo, especially his mother at Bo. Mr. Leigh was thus kept up-to-date on most important happenings in Sierra Leone. For example, during a visit to Sierra Leone on or about 1994, Mr. Leigh came across a public notice by the National Provisional Ruling Council Junta (NPRC) inviting Sierra Leoneans to submit their individual commentary on their proposed constitution for Sierra Leone. This constitution had been drafted by members of the NPRC-appointed National Advisory Board (NAB) under the chairmanship of Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, our president, with Solomon Berewa, our Vice President (and like Mr. Leigh an aspirant for Party Leader), as the NAB’S recording secretary. Mr. Leigh got a hold of a copy of the draft constitution, and upon his return to the United States studied it carefully and published a 45-page critique, entitled: Making The Sierra Leone Constitution, which he then circulated to all interested parties including both Tejan Kabbah and Solomon Berewa. A BAD, SELFISH, UNFAIR CONSTITUTION In his critique, Mr. Leigh clearly expressed his dissatisfaction with the Kabbah-Berewa draft constitution as unnecessarily dotted with Latin phrases, numerous long, winding, wordy sentences and thus much too complex for the people, especially in a country with a very low literacy rate and very poor educational infrastructure. Mr. Leigh further argued that the Kabbah-Berewa Constitution was biased in favor of the elite; concentrated too much power on the president who could easily become a despot; failed to provide for the proper management of the national currency, the Leone, an omission which Mr. Leigh predicted could easily impoverish Sierra Leoneans. Mr. Leigh also complained that the draft constitution treated women as second-class citizens and, overall, could not possibly be considered a valid democratic constitution, safeguarding the rights of all citizens. Years later, Mr. Leigh learned from a member of the Tucker family that a key member of the NAB had developed a deep grudge against Mr. Leigh for his detailed, truthful, critique of the draft constitution. Mr. Leigh also learned that he was probably the only Sierra Leonean who bothered to prepare and submit a written commentary covering the entire NAB’S draft constitution as proposed by the NPRC. Mr. Leigh has told this author that he would be happy to re-issue Making The Sierra Leone Constitution if there is sufficient public demand for it. Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: Because I criticized someone's draft constitution or dis or dat, I should never support him for president? Because I criticized someone's draft of dis or dat, I should support another for president, even if the other candidate is an alphabet-soup politician who double-crosses others or is a peggy-boy? What's your point? Tell us. - JL Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: We need to work for reforms within our various parties and make decisions on merit in the public interest. Reforms also include educating people that need education like some of the disappointed hecklers in this forum - but only if they can benefit from such education. The playing field will change when a critical mass for reform comes into fore or when we elect good leaders who want our people to achieve world class status genuinely and willing to do the hardwork to get the job done. It is not going to be easy at all. Right now progressive leadership is not easy to come by but they are there. Some people seem to support fellow tribesmen, schoolmates, etc. whether such wouldbe leaders are good or bad but I see a very hopeful sign in the grassroot people badly wanting improvements in their daily lives. In my own experience, fahlahmahkahtah dummies cannot solve problems helpful to the grassroot. So I really do not see a future for such leaders. Hence, I will continue pushing for reforms from the outside after a 12-month lay-off. As for VP Berewa and Margai, I don't have the answer to your question. As for me, I posses a lot of information but only use such as necessary. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: Subject: Re: LOW GRADE IDIOT I SAID GOODYE LONG AGO Message: I have not read it but will try to do so shortly. At anyrate, I plan to do my own writing about the candidates and their parties re August 11, 2007. Thanks. - JL Subject: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: WHY THE BOMBASTIC LIES? John Leigh, show us the proof Message: REALLY? WHAT ABOUT THIS? Haja Mamie Moigula, however, has been a resident of Bo Town for most of her life. Today, she is 91 years old and well and living in the same house that Mr. Leigh’s father built for her on a 5-acre farm tract when their marriage, blessed with two sons, Edward and Ernest, terminated. Haja Moigula has a life interest in that property with the remainder to her two Leigh sons. NOW EXPLAIN YOURSELF TO THE FORUM, PROVE ME WRONG, PROVE TO ALL SIERRA LEONEANS THAT THIS PROPERTY DOES NOT BELONG TO THE SELLU FAMILY IN KORMENDE IN BO. YOU DISGUSTING PATHETIC SCRUFFY SNUFF LICKING LYING OLD REJECT. YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A LYING OLD CREEP. Subject: Another Vessel Missing at Freeport. Security Director and De Message: MONROVIA, May 25,---In a week after a Ukraine vessel was reportedly stolen from the Free Port of Monrovia, another ship with a huge load of scrap materials has mysteriously gone missing from the Freeport of Monrovia, gateway to Liberia's economy. Speaking during an emergency press conference Wednesday, the Interim Managing Director of the National Port Authority (NPA) Joseph K. Acqui, and his Deputy, Mrs. Grace Tee Kpaan, announced the immediate suspension of the three NPA executives. The three suspended officials, according to Mr. Acqui, have been requested to turn over to the Claims Department, "without delay," all Port Authority properties. The three suspended port officers were also turned over to the Prosecuting arm of the government the Justice Ministry for speedy investigation. In related development the NPA officials have also requested the Justice Ministry to deploy three senior officers to handle the security affairs at the Freeport of Monrovia until a full-scale investigation is conducted. Directors Acqui and Kpaan regretted the mysterious circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the vessel "without our knowledge," and stated that the matter is presently being investigated by the Justice Ministry. "Besides," the two NPA's bosses also intimated that the management of the Freeport of Monrovia has sent three urgent communications to the Ministry of Justice, UN-Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), and the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) for their official attention and prompt action. Elaborating further at the Wednesday press conference, the two top NPA officials pointed out, "We find it difficult to comprehend how a detachment of UNMIL Security Personnel could be in the Port to secure facilities [while] such an irregular happening occurred." Directors Acqui and Kpaan further indicated they were particularly perturbed, especially so when the incident reportedly occurred in the wee hours of the morning, when the entire port operations had been closed down, with UNMIL left with the responsibility to provide security to the port and its assets. Directors Kpaan and Acqui further disclosed that the caterer of the missing ship, with the service name "M/V Aimi, Jacob Elimelokh, an Israeli national, has been arrested and is assisting the police with the ongoing investigation in Monrovia. In separate communications to the Liberian Government, the Ministry of Justice and the UN-Peacekeeping Mission Directors, Acqui and Kpaan requested the UN Mission to institute an investigation into this matter so as to strategize the means to avoid he recurrence of such happenings. Meanwhile, the latest escape of the M/V Aimi ship with the huge scrap materials could be viewed as major security lapse at the Freeport of Monrovia, raising serious concerns about the integrity of the already troubled port, and safety of the goods and assets within its confines. Commenting further, the two port officials revealed that the LEC was written based on the fact the entity negotiated with the M/V Aimi leaders to scrap the destroyed Mount Coffee Hydro-plant for possible exportation outside of the country. Well-placed security sources told the Daily Observer that the mysterious disappearance of the M/V Aimi ship from the NPA is indeed connected with serious and dubious motives. Subject: TAKING AN EXAM IN LIBERIA.SPYING AND CHEATING Message: However the Committee says it has identified the sources, as well as organizations and individuals who aided and abated the leakages of the exams. The committee did not elaborate further on the names but told reporters in Monrovia on Wednesday that the names of those involved would be released to the public in the first week of June 2007. At the same time, the Committee did not say exactly whether those connected to the act are undergoing some security scrutiny for their alleged complicity. In May of this year, the Minister of Education, Dr. Joseph Korto, cancelled the National Exams that was administered by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to over 17,000 12th graders throughout the country, for what it described as “examinations fraud and mal-practices.” As a result of this, the exams for the 9th and 6th graders were also suspended and have since been rescheduled for June 18-27, 2007. Following the cancellation, the Liberia Administrative and finance Committee constituted a seven-member Committee to investigate the leakage and the overall conduct of the examination. The Committee commenced its work on Tuesday, May 15, 2007. But in its report that was submitted to the Chief Government nominee of WAEC, Peter N. Ben, the Chairman of the Sub-Committee, Mrs. Margaret Flomo said during the investigation, the Committee received oral and documentary evidences from a wide spectrum of supervisors, WAEC Staff, Security Agencies and other concerned citizens of the public. According to her, at the end of their investigation, the Committee has made concrete and far-reaching recommendations on the conduct of examinations as well as the operations of WAEC in Liberia. On the issue of punitive measures that have been set aside for those found guilty, the Chairman of the Committee refused to comment and said, “just exercise a little bit of patience, because all of what you want to hear will be released to the public in the first week of June.” The sub-Committee Chairman then used the occasion to urge Liberians who were quick to condemn WAEC and its staff in Monrovia for the unfortunate incidence to desist because as she put it, during their investigation, they received juicy stories of sharp practices by some schools such as camping of students, something that was in violation of the Ministry of Education’s regulations. Mrs. Flomo also pointed out that her Committee was only restricted to investigate the alleged leakages of the May 2007 exams and make recommendations to those who constituted the Committee. She said she was not in the authority to disclose sources involved to the public. The Committee’s Chairman however later expressed the hope that the Liberian Administrative and Finance would consider the Committee’s report and make its position known on the specifics of the recommendations. Receiving the report, Mr. Peter Ben praised the Committee for its hard work in compiling the report and then assured the press that the findings from the report would be released to the public in the first week of June 2007. Subject: The legacy of Tony Blair Message: Oliver Kamm: ony Blair is the dominant European politician of his generation. Having won three general elections, he is the most successful British Labour leader ever. Of British statesmen since 1945, only Margaret Thatcher and Ernest Bevin rival his prominence in international affairs. Yet he leaves office denigrated and even reviled at home by those who enthused over his landslide election ten years ago. A columnist for The Independent expressed a common sentiment: "Was he rascal or madman? Was he, perhaps more likely, both?" nce upon a time, long ago, an American president asked a Labour prime minister for help in an unpopular war. In 1966, Lyndon Johnson asked Britain to contribute to the Vietnam war effort. According to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the president had told him that "a platoon of bagpipers would be sufficient, it was the British flag that was needed." He refused. Two years later Secretary of State Dean Rusk lamented, "All we needed was a regiment. The Black Watch would have done." Wilson had bucked Great Britain's orthodox (and default) foreign policy position of deferring to its American ally and patron. Subject: Re: The legacy of Tony Blair Message: “I stopped the war! It was I who stopped the war!” shouts the madman. The kind of claim that makes some Nigerians and Brits, exceedingly annoyed. Perhaps they go in threes: the Father, the son and the Uncle Congratulatory messages pouring in from Nigeria, South Africa, Libya, Gambia, China, Sierra Leoneans are more interested in Tony Blair and Sierra Leone There’s also Subject: 6 more days- "I will have reached my term limit in May, 2007 Message: Running out the clock could have been avoided if we had the elections during the dry season. Subject: Re: 6 more days- "I will have reached my term limit in May, 2007 Message: Subject: Re: 6 more days- "I will have reached my term limit in May, 2007 Message: Subject: Re: 6 more days- "I will have reached my term limit in May, 2007 Message: Subject: Re: 6 more days- "I will have reached my term limit in May, Message: Subject: Re: 6 more days- "I will have reached my term limit in May, Message: Subject: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: That question is: Do you want to continue suffering under the SLPP? No sane person would doubt the answer the people of Salone will give to that question. Being a blind SLPP supporter, it is not surprising, therefore, that you would prefer that question not be what the election is about. But it is. And that's bad news for the SLPP in a free and fair election. Which is why the always corrupt SLPP now pins its hope on an UNfree and UNfair election." Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Your name seem very appropriate. I like that. You made two foudamental errors....You do not seem to know why people vote. Well,, I would like you to exercise your mind to this point....DO PEOPLE VOTE FOR A PARTY OR DO THEY VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE? If you can answer that then you are half way there. Your second point was..'the question is do you want to continue suffering under the SLPP?...' Why dont you put the question in another way like...'Would you like to continue to prosper under the SLPP?' You see, friend, the answer is always in the question.....remember that.There is a saying in Jurisprudence that...'People find what they are looking for...' think about that too. Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Like a truly clueless person, you missed the sacrcasm in my choice of a moniker to highlight the most common problem among the SLPP leadership and their like-minded supporters like the culprit Lee -- and now you. That cluelessness includes, in your case, obviously the particular fact that you have no clue what sarcasm means. In addition, you are obviously a blind suporter of the incompetent and corrupt SLPP. The proof of your intellectual debility is evident in your dense suggestion that the most corrupt and incompetent govt. in the history of Sierra Leone -- the SLPP -- could somehow have brought prosperity to SL amidst its actual record of pervasive and harrowing suffering that it has inflicted upon millions of Sierra Leoneans over the past 10 years of its unconscionable misrule of our once prosperous country. Where is the evidence? You can find easily it in the FACT that the SLPP regime of Kabbah and Berewa is the ONLY govt. in the history of SL during whose tenure Sierra Leone has been CONTINUOUSLY ranked as the worst or second worst country in the world to live in. To repeat, no other government in Sierra Leone has inflicted that amount of suffering upon Sierra Leoneans. So, do you now see the evidence that you are a completely blind supporter of the incompetent and corrupt SLPP to imagine that it has ever brought prosperity to Sierra Leoneans? As for your predictable nonsensical opinion that people vote for candidates and not for the parties ythey represent, ask yourself tghis question in the slim hope of curing your ignorance: At the presidential level, does a candidate represent himself or a party in the election? At the parliamentary level, is it a majority of candidates or a a majority party that forms the majority in parliament? Can you see and feel your vast ignorance being exposed? Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Edmond Koker, you are really clueless. If what you say is true, and YOU have noticed that -- let's assume -- one person uses all those words, do you suppose no one else has noticed that? What then is to stop any of those far smarter people to "copy" the same words so that a fool like you would think it is one and only one person using those words? Do you see why people say you never, ever understand anything, Koker? Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: So you nar witchman? Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: You dae learn for talk Krio? Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: That reminds me of Ronald Regan's winning questionto the Ameriucan electorate in the 1979 USA presidential election: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" The opposition parties should adopt a similar question for Sierra Leone's voters, after changing the period to "ten years ago." Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: "We are not responsible for your poverty. We inherited it from the APC, NPRC, AFRC and the first SLPP government." Subject: Professor Kaikai read refugees success story Message: By Amy Dale May 25, 2007 12:00 Andrew and his twin brother Alex, the boy throwing the ball in the air in the playground of Belmore North Public School, left the African nation four years ago to live with their uncle - their father having been killed at war before they were born. They arrived as refugees in Australia and settled in Belmore, and as boys do they made friends and played. Soon their athletic skills became obvious to everyone - these boys can run like the wind. Put a footy in their hands and it's "catch me if you can''. And so Andrew and Alex became two of the most important members of Belmore North's Aussie rules team. A team that now just happens to be the best school AFL team in Sydney. "They are incredible athletes,'' says coach David Unicomb. "They are very dominant within the team, and the other kids look up to them that way. You never have to ask them to get involved, they'll be into it and running around without being told to.'' Andrew is now in recovery from the cancer, but is still monitored closely. His frame is slight compared to that of his twin as a result of his treatment, but he is still tipped to be selected by one of Sydney's top sports high schools when he starts Year Seven next year. So taken are the twins with the sport, they have started playing with Western Suburbs in the Sydney league, the club having covered their registration costs so they could play. But AFL will have to fight hard to keep these freakish young sportsmen. Alex has also been chosen at state level in primary school teams in rugby league, rugby union and soccer. For good measure, he also set two sprint records at last year's Australian Primary Schools Athletics Championships. Not that he's about to boast about it. "I play all sports _ soccer, rugby league, union, athletics too,'' said Alex. "You broke some records on the track Alex, didn't you?'' asked coach David Unicomb. "Yeah a couple.'' Belmore North has only played in the Paul Kelly Cup twice, and their record in the competition is flawless - two from two. The school's team has a range of cultures and backgrounds scattered through its players, with students of African, Arabic and Samoan backgrounds. Belmore North is now eyeing the state final of the Paul Kelly Cup, and Alex and Andrew will lead the team onto the SCG on June 18for the finale. As they kicked a ball around at Belmore this week under blue skies, you couldn't help but wonder at the opportunity the boys now have. Sierre Leone, where the life expectancy of the average male is 38, will forever be part of their lives - and now so will Sydney and a football. Subject: JOHN L.DO YOU HAVE INFERIORITY COMPLEX? Message: Subject: Re: JOHN L.DO YOU HAVE INFERIORITY COMPLEX? Message: Subject: Re: JOHN L.DO YOU HAVE INFERIORITY COMPLEX? Message: Subject: Re: JOHN L.DO YOU HAVE INFERIORITY COMPLEX? Message: Subject: Pregnant? Then don't touch alcohol is latest health advice Message: Polly Curtis, health correspondent Women should abstain from alcohol altogether when pregnant or trying to conceive, according to the government's latest advice. The guidance, published today, replaces previous advice that pregnant women should drink no more than two units a day once or twice a week. It comes as research in the US has found a link between smoking during pregnancy and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. Ministers believe the change in guidance on alcohol is needed because too many women underestimate the risks to their baby, although it is not based on new scientific evidence. The Department of Health's research found that 9% of pregnant women are drinking above recommended levels. Fiona Adshead, the deputy chief medical officer, said the new guidance was stronger and clearer. "Our advice is simple: avoid alcohol if pregnant or trying to conceive," she said. Sheila Shribman, the national clinical director for children, young people and maternity services, said: "It is vital that we al3rt pregnant women and women hoping to conceive about the potential dangers of excessive alcohol consumption during pregnancy ... This revised advice has been agreed by the four chief medical officers across the UK." But the National Childbirth Trust said there was not enough scientific evidence to back the move. Mary Newburn, head of policy, said: "It's easy to say don't drink to be on the safe side. But to be on the safe side of not crashing you shouldn't get in a car." She added: "The question is, is the evidence strong enough to say don't drink at all? At the moment I haven't seen that evidence. Pregnant women need more evidence and less advice." The National Organisation on Foetal Alcohol Syndrome estimates that more than 1% of children born in the UK each year have foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, which includes physical, behavioural and learning problems. Jane Brewin, chief executive of the baby charity Tommy's, said alcohol caused more damage to the developing foetus than any other substance, including marijuana, heroin and cocaine. "So although one or two units once or twice a week is thought to be safe, Tommy's believes that no alcohol equals no risk," she said. Many other countries, including France, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand also recommend abstinence during pregnancy. France adopted the advice last year, saying research linked moderate levels of drinking with permanent brain damage. The dangers of smoking during pregnancy are also well documented, but a recent study is the first to prove a link between tobacco and ADHD. Scientists say that children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are up to nine times more likely to develop the disorder. US researchers found smoking acted as a trigger when children were already genetically predisposed to ADHD. Symptoms usually start early in a child's life. "The average number of ADHD symptoms was significantly higher in the offspring who were exposed to prenatal smoking," the study found. Rosalind Neuman, one of the authors, said: "When genetic factors are combined with prenatal cigarette smoke exposure, the ADHD risk rises very significantly." John Krystal, editor of Biological Psychiatry in which the research will be published in June, added: "These data highlight a new risk of maternal smoking, increasing the risk for ADHD in their children. ADHD, in turn, increases the risk for substance abuse." A separate study, published last night, revealed that smoking cannabis while pregnant affected the brain development of unborn babies. The year-long study, led by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden showed that taking the drug could restrict naturally occurring compounds in the embryonic brain which join up nerves and promote foetal growth. Subject: ALIEU SESAY-YOU ARE DUMB. Message: Subject: Re: ALIEU SESAY-YOU ARE DUMB. Message: Subject: The Sorbonne: a reform target Message: By MARCO CHOWN OVED, Associated Press Writer Thu May 24, 12:57 PM ET PARIS - The Sorbonne has no cafeteria, no student newspaper, no varsity sports, no desk-side electric plugs for laptops. France's most renowned university also costs next-to-nothing to attend, and admission is open to every high school graduate. President Nicolas Sarkozy says this picture is emblematic of much that is wrong with France, which seeks to recapture its economic luster and key role in international affairs. Many students fear the new president is out to abolish the French university as they know it, and are plotting resistance. Campuses, long a flashpoint of protest in France, are shaping up as the first battleground for Sarkozy's grand plans for reform. Days after Sarkozy's election, students blockaded a campus of the University of Paris in a pre-emptive protest. And students have gathered to plot strategy in Toulouse and Nanterre. Prime Minister Francois Fillon said this week that a bill on granting universities more autonomy would be presented to parliament in July — when schools are closed and potential protesters are on vacation. Sarkozy has promised change. The Sorbonne, one of the world's oldest universities in the heart of Paris, and the focus of protests last spring, is an example of what he's up against. High dropout rates, antiquated resources and funding cuts have so plagued the Sorbonne — like universities across France — that its president, Jean-Robert Pitte, is calling for an overhaul of the university system. He wants to make admission selective and sharply increase tuition, measures critics call "Americanization." French universities "don't correspond to the needs of the economy, to French society, and even less to Europe and the world," Pitte said in an interview. "I'm pragmatic. I watch what happens elsewhere, and I'm for borrowing what works best." Pitte wants his school to live up to what he calls the "magic" of the Sorbonne name. Founded in 1257 by theologian Robert de Sorbon, the Sorbonne has educated such prominent figures as St. Francis Xavier, Jean-Paul Sartre, Norman Mailer, Jean-Luc Godard and Considering that months of student protests last spring were sparked by a minor labor reform, Pitte's proposals risk setting off another crisis. The challenges start with egalitarian rules that govern French universities. Imposed after the student and worker uprising of 1968, they offer any student with a high school diploma a free education. Financial barriers were to be leveled with generous grants. Nearly 40 years later, the free and democratic universities are producing far fewer graduates than their much more costly counterparts in the United States. In 2005, 14 percent of adults had a university education in France, compared to 29 percent in the United States, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Pitte says the French system just produces dropouts. Forty-five percent of Sorbonne students do not complete their first year, and 55 percent do not earn a degrees. Without entrance standards, there is a "selection-by-failure" that squanders resources and professors' time on students who "have no real chance of success," he said. The Sorbonne is all the more difficult to reform because it has an intrinsic link to Paris' Left Bank intellectual history, which students are keen to preserve. And while French students complain about poor facilities and huge classes, they vehemently oppose change. "Education is a public service and should be open to everyone regardless of their economic situation," said Simon Vacheron, a history student who says the solution is more public money. Many defend the system as a true meritocracy. "It allows everyone to take their chances," said Maxime Lonlas, president of the Sorbonne's largest student union. Instead of being judged on past accomplishments, each student "can be judged on their performance," he added. But Pitte says annual tuition fees of less than $400 — a sum that is often waived — mean there's no financial penalty for failure. There's even a "phantom student" phenomenon where as many as 10 percent of students on the rolls never see the inside of a lecture hall, having enrolled to get free health benefits and student discounts on everything from train travel to movie tickets. Free universities aren't the only choice for French students. There's also a parallel system of "grandes ecoles" that educates the French elite. With 6 percent of post-secondary students, the grandes ecoles have difficult entrance exams and charge tuition of up to $6,700 a year, but offer small classes and graduate nearly all the country's business leaders and politicians. "We're the street-sweepers of the education system," Pitte said, picking up all those who fail to gain entrance to the grandes ecoles. Low tuition also means universities are starved for money and short on the services that are taken for granted in the U.S. The Sorbonne has no alumni association, robbing it of essential donations. And without access to outside resources — corporate funding is prohibited — the universities are crumbling. The University of Shanghai publishes a world ranking of universities, and in 2005, the top French university placed 46th, behind more than 30 American institutions. Sarkozy has included university reform in his four top priorities to be passed during a parliamentary session this summer. His proposals include $20 billion for universities, which would see their budgets increase by 50 percent. Pitte wants to limit the numbers of students in disciplines that have few job opportunities upon graduation, and introduce annual tuition fees of $4,000. "Nobody should be prevented from doing university studies," said Pitte. But to let students who aren't cut out for it into the system "is criminal." Subject: SIERRA LEONE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS Message: http://www.mtisl.org Subject: Re: SIERRA LEONE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS Message: Subject: Re: SIERRA LEONE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS Message: Subject: YET ANOTHER LINK Message: Subject: Re: YET ANOTHER LINK Message: Subject: Re: YET ANOTHER LINK Message: Subject: PMDC'S CHEAP PROPAGANDA - THEY ARE BECOMING DESPERATE!!!! Message: In a COCORIOKO. NET interview at the PMDC National Secretariat in Freetown, Mr. Bangura urged supporters of the PMDC that the attempt should not affect the strength of the party to make it lose the elections. He said the PMDC was requesting for security for the leadership of the PMDC but lamented that none of the authorities responded to “Our call” even though the Police was well aware of the fact that “We have been calling on them for the security of the leader”. Subject: Desperate Sierra Leone Peoples Party Running Scared Message: Paralyzed by untrammeled rapacity, the SLPP is a mere shadow of a government that can only pretend to govern. Right across the board, progressive leadership has been painfully missing in action. It is as if nobody at the top cares and those whose responsibility it is to put our country back on the right track have not done so and are not inclined or predisposed to do so. There is no earthly reason to believe our condition will get any better under Berewa and his slimy cohorts – he offers nothing and promises continuity of Kabba’s horrendous legacy – and our country deserves better than what these certified scoundrels have offered or can bring to the governance table. Rigging elections may favor incumbent parties but in the case of the SLPP, any attempt to steal the forthcoming elections will blowback in its face. The SLPP has started feeling the rising heat but it cannot keep on postponing its day of reckoning. The performance chickens of the country’s oldest party will finally come home to roost on Election Day. Meanwhile, telltale signs (not exhaustive) of a party running scared are evidenced by the following developments. Sierra Leone has never held a general election in the rainy season and the only reason for scheduling elections in late July (now postpone to early August) is voter suppression. A high voter turnout spells defeat for the SLPP, hence the president’s decision to schedule elections right in the middle of the rainy season. The best way around this travesty is to set a constitutional date for elections in Sierra Leone. This should prevent incumbents from playing politics with polling dates. The elections would not have been postponed (they were not in 2002) if the SLPP were confident of victory. Even rogue politicians need time to arrange electoral fixes but the SLPP will ultimately fail in this regard. Given all the time they’ve had to prepare for the elections, the SLPP cannot be confident of victory if it has to resort to postponing the elections. The SLPP first tried to get Charles Margai in legal trouble after the incident at CKC. This did not work and the international community stepped in to ensure that the PMDC was registered. Now we hear reports of a plot to assassinate the PMDC leader. Surely, it cannot be the APC that is trying to eliminate Margai. Two years after its Makeni convention, Berewa cannot even man-up to name his running mate. If it was so important to decide on the party’s flag bearer then, why is it that Berewa is having such a hard time choosing his running mate. The answer is obvious – Berewa is Kabba’s choice and so would his running mate. The untenable tandem of Berewa and Momodu Koroma (one of Kabba’s most detestable sycophants) will go down in flames. Momodu adds nothing to a sinking ticket and is as much a liability to the party’s image as is Berewa. A man that needs more than two years to choose a running mate does not deserve to lead our country. His indecision betrays lack of autonomy (he is less of his own man than Charles and Ernest) and anxieties over compounding the problems of a losing ticket. Reports of voter registration fraud by SLPP partisans tend to validate claims that the SLPP is scheming to subvert the will of the people. Only the SLPP is in a position to tamper with the voter registration process and so far nothing seems to have happened to those caught in reported incidents of fraudulent registration. The violence in Pujehun has mainly targeted PMDC partisans and supporters, which leads one to conclude that the SLPP is resorting to violence, arson and intimidation out of desperation and in a futile attempt to suppress the will of the people. The “betas” throwing fracas in Freetown on April 28 involving SLPP supporters and local residents is reflective of widespread hostility toward the SLPP in the western area. This was not an SLPP versus APC showdown. Scape-goating the APC only points to the SLPP leadership’s refusal to accept the fact that its leaders are loathed and reviled in Freetown and its environs for good reasons. SLPP leaders are having so many sleepless nights over the threat posed by Charles Margai and the PMDC that they have now resorted to periodically announcing fictive crossovers of non-descr1pt PMDC members to the SLPP. Only the desperate, clueless and outrageously dishonest could peddle the falsehood that one million people attended some recent SLPP event in Bo. It surely smacks of desperation for a party to vastly exaggerate its support and then harangue and abuse a reporter (Richard Margao) for filing news reports that flatly contradict its grossly inflated estimate. Bribery is the first instinct of political scoundrels and there are many in the SLPP who believe they can literally buy the outcome of the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. The common refrain you hear is that Money Talks (backed by fetish) and the SLPP has the resources (public funds diverted to finance self-aggrandizing agendas). My response to such misplaced bravado is to remind SLPP partisans that in a contest between Money and People, it is far more prudent to side with the people than with the ill-gotten wealth of “Swegbehs” and “Ayampis.” The best thing the current leadership can do for our country is to allow a clean election to take place. Lessons from Ghana, where elections have progressively become cleaner and legitmate, are pertinent and instructive. Rawlings was a far better leader than Kabba but unlike Kabba he did what was right for Ghana by allowing a peaceful transfer of power to the opposition, thereby helping to consolidate Ghana’s fragile democracy. He did not impose John Ata-Mills on Ghana as Kabba is trying to do in Sierra Leone with Berewa. Even Daniel arap-Moi could not impose Uhuru Kenyatta on Kenya as his successor and there is no reason why Sierra Leone should buck this new progressive trend in Africa. Subject: Re: Desperate Sierra Leone Peoples Party Running Scared Message: Your comparison with systems in Ghana and Kenya are a bit flawed. For how long was Rawlings in power? Do you know whose choice Atta-Mills was? How could you compare the solid, viable, vibrant and genuine opposition in these countries with the efulefu opposition we have in Sierra Leone. Kufour had been steadfast in the opposition in Ghana for an awful long time, sticking to one person, with a claerly articulated standpoint on important issues and had a strong moral basis. Kenya had a very solid opposition coalition in the Rainbow alliance with a veteran leader who was by no means a flip flop. You see the situations are really different, prof and our four by one opposition led by opportunists like Margai simply lacks what it takes at this moment. Incase you are doubting me now, please remember me when you sit down to write your post election piece to Cocorioko (if you would have the courage enough to do that!) Subject: Re: Desperate Sierra Leone Peoples Party Running Scared Message: Jimmy Boy, this can best be characterized as Nonsense! Subject: Re: Desperate Sierra Leone Peoples Party Running Scared Message: Considering all the progress made the past ten years, "horrendous" accurately characterises the brutality of that war and cannot apply to Alhaji Kabbah holding the reins during the most difficult period. However if by "horrendous legacy” he is alluding to the toothless one’s war on corruption, then something more accurate than horrendous would serve the purpose. We now see them desperate about securing their own protection and immunity from prosecution for crimes that the criminals could have committed with impunity whilst in office……. Sounds like one of the MDPC scribes just warming up: Subject: Allieu Iscandri Message: Subject: Re: Allieu Iscandri Message: I join Mr. Kamara is his expression of appreciation to Rev. Kabs Kanu for his excellent leadership in the Diaspora community by upholding the independence of Cocorioko, while making this key communication facility freely available for the discussion of Sierra Leonean and Liberian issues of public concern - despite the abuses by a few people posting heckling lies and insults under several names and impersonations. But Mr. Kamara is wrong when he alleges that I am "sometimes blinded" by my support for my party but he is totally accurate in saying that I want "something in return from the next S.L.P.P. administration." My support for my party is deliberate, open-minded and based on the relative superiority of it's record of governance over that of the competition. APC recognizes its own horrible governance record (such as KDDA tribalistic, hegemonistic marginalization; Ekutay poverty spreading, insatiable Binkolo Frolicking amidst nation-wide hunger, packing the military and police with tribal coupligans; expelling, missionaries, employers and tax-payers and importing bribers; expelling importers of brand new ready made goods and establishing Belgium for secondhand crap and junks; one-party monopoly politics with pass-ah-die tenures of office; abolishing District Councils and centralizing all power in Freetown under one-manic control, putting Sahid Jamil in charge of diamonds, closing the railway, closing Marampa Mines, ruining Road Transport Department, the Post office, the civil service, imposing a culture of no maintenance, hold-up and dregging and unleashing Victor Foh, Abu Black and Mustaba, etc.) that it is seeks to abandon the OLD APC for the so-called NEW APC but with Victor Foh and KDDAs prominently around to help Sahid Jamil's nice, little gentlemanly peggy-boy. PMDC leadership is full of baloney and relying on disreputable tactics (such as: secretiveness, one-manic dictatorship, overreaching dynastic ambition, non-collegial private party ownership, double-cross, deceit, deception, duplicity, duping; reliance on alphabet-soup abuses, harlot politicians with offensive backgrounds including crookishness and disbarment; anti-Fullah, anti-Mandingo and anti-Suso voter registration tricks; pandering to Fullahs but ignoring Mandingos and Susos; foolumunku kindergarten stunts and populated with flunkeys, remedials and dunces submitting foolumunku postings all over this forum)in its failed attempt to gain ground. Proof of PMDC's reliance on the above-listed horrific tactics clearly is indicative of how awful they would govern in the highly unlikely event that a majority of our voters vote for their candidates on August 11. I definitely would like something from the SLPP administration exactly because I agree with Mr. Kamara that the current administration is not near 100% effective. Even so, it is far superior to each and every one of the available alternatives. Mr. Kamara is thus right when he says I (and others) want something in return for our work to help our party win by helping to defeat the no-good opposition candidates and parties through voter education about their records and the backgrounds of their leaders. What I want is what I have always wanted: I badly want the SLPP to work diligently to bring civilized standards back to SLeone. I support the SLPP because it is far superior to every one of the opposition parties and thus more likely to help fulfill my wish than APC, PMDC, UNPP, NDA or XYZ. Lastly, I would like the in-coming Berewa Administration to do a better job in governing SLeone than the out-going Administration. After all, the out-going administration has already solved some very big problems (war, mayhem, local government re-establishment, food security, democracy) and has laid a good foundation for economic and social development. Thus Berewa’s job ought to be easier than Kabbah’s. After the vote count is over later in August, it is my intention and expectation to promptly return to Massachusetts and lay low for 12 months or so but nevertheless keeping tract of developments in our country. After this honeymoon period, I will go public as I deem necessary and in my own way. - JL Subject: TO MOHAMMED KAMARA : Re: Allieu Iscandri Message: "I would want to read your wise opinion." Do you really think Alieu has wise opinions? "The education should be focused in the provinces. Our people in the provinces are too partisan, let them start looking at issues and candidates positions on issues like Education, Health Care, Agriculture, and we also have illegal immigration problems." Aren't the Creoles partisan? They voted for Stevens and the APC in 1967 to perpetuate their hegemony in the Civil Service, the Temnes were complicit because of Sir Albert Margai's tribal disposition in "denying" Karefa-Smart the position of Prime Minister and also not appointing John Bangura as the country's indigenous Force Commander of the Army. Considering the U.S. as a model in this discourse there exists ethnicity and regionalism in her politics. It took 171 years (1789 to 1960) before an Irish, John F. Kennedy (ignore the Catholicism for a second) became president. From 1865 to 1976 (111 years)a Southerner wasn't president until Jimmy Carter (1976). The 1964 victory for Lyndon Johnson, a Texan, was more a sympathetic vote due to the assasination of Kennedy in 1963. The Southern and South-easterners have the right to vote for the S.L.P.P. or whomever they chose. In Federalist 51 "... But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions." Do not be hoodwinked by all the niceties on this forum, Sierra Leoneans are one of the most evil, selfish, vicious, tribal and regional people on earth. There are no SINCERITY on how we transcend these issues. Subject: Re: Allieu Iscandri Message: Subject: Re: Allieu Iscandri Message: Subject: Re: Allieu Iscandri Message: Subject: Re: Allieu Iscandri Message: Subject: Re: Allieu Iscandri Message: Subject: HOW DOES VICTOR BOCKARIE FOH OF THE APC REMEMBER PRESIDENT A Message: I remember Kasbah’s Inauguration in 1996. His first address at the State Opening of Parliament contained: - On the whole, Kabbah’s Presidency is a wasted era and a loss opportunity. He failed to make good use of the opportunity he had to mobilize huge donor funds poured into Sierra Leone to rebuild the Sierra Leone economy after the civil war. I shall remember Kabbah for his very long and drab speeches. He treats serious national issues, carelessly. Finally, I will remember President Kabbah to be a very greedy President. I thank President Kabbah for giving me 1(one) pint Fanta the only time I ever went to him. Bye Bye President Pa Kabbah, Subject: Re: HOW DO I THINK VICTOR FOH SHOULD BE REMEMBERED Message: Subject: IS THAT ALL YOU CAN COME UP WITH? Message: Subject: Re: IS THAT ALL YOU CAN COME UP WITH? Message: Victor Foh was found guilty of vouchergate and dismissed by even the corrupt APC government from the civil service. This man served the AFRC, was a leading voice for them, was tried and convicted of treason, sentenced to death and today is sec gen of the "new APC". New indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Subject: Re: IS THAT ALL YOU CAN COME UP WITH? Message: Subject: Re: HOW DO I THINK VICTOR FOH SHOULD BE REMEMBERED Message: Subject: THE TIME BOMB IS TICKING FOR SLPP Message: Subject: SLPP flagbearers for Port Loko declared Message: SLPP flagbearers for Port Loko declared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The hopes and aspirations of Councillor N’Yillah Othman to contest the forthcoming parliamentary seat within the Lungi environs for the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party has been grounded following his defeat at the symbol award ceremony last weekend. Councillor N’Yillah Othman, who was eyeing Constituency 54, was defeated by 10 votes by Amadu Kalokoh, with the latter scoring 42 votes as against 32 for the former. Contesting the election for the party in constituencies 55 and 56 which comprises of Kaffu Bullom and Lokomasama chiefdoms is Alhaji Abu Yasanneh who defeated Abu Mansaray by 75 votes to 14, while Hon. Osman Tolo Kanu, the incumbent SLPP district Chairman was declared unopposed. For the Port Loko central seat Councillor Munir Sankoh, former chairman of East End Lions football club was declared the winner after he defeated Patrick Forki Sonkoi. Meanwhile the contest for the party’s representatives continues right across the country with more surprises. Subject: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: In short, the SLPP failed to provide services to the people of Salone that the NPRC was able to provide, despite the fact that the SLPP has received more aid from foreign entities than all the previous governments of Salone combined. Based on those facts, it is very clear that the SLPP is the most incomptenet and corrupt government Salone has ever had. In short, the SLPP is the worst government in the history of Salone. That is why the SLPP must be voted out of power if the people of Salone are to emerge from the needless suffering that the SLPP has inflicted upon them over the past 10 years." Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY Message: Chiluba is 'stable' in hospital Corruption 'undermining' justice Which questionable practices are they referrring to here? Subject: Coup Makers Spotted Message: In a prepared speech before members of the Liberia National Law Enforcement Association (LINLEA) Saturday, Mrs. Johnson-Morris, former chair of the National Elections Commission and former Chief Justice, said: “We have credible information that these individuals (disgruntle AFL soldiers) are now forging alliances with some bloodthirsty and power greedy elements in the society to undermine state security and foment chaos and unrest in the Liberian Society”. “These people are forming alliances…Joining alliances with disappointed politicians; those who have had some disappointment in their political careers, they are trying to hire these people (ex-AFL soldiers) and join them, you know, to create chaos, to destabilize the country,” Justice Minister Johnson-Morris told this paper in an interview Monday. But when asked to name the disappointed politicians involved, she declined, saying, “Those who the cap fit will take up issue, but those who know they are not involve in any such devilish act…adding, “We are still investigating and verifying the information.” Mrs. Johnson-Morris, who recapped excerpts of her prepared speech, said her statement basically touched on the genesis of the ongoing security sector reform which has been the basis of the constant violent protests and streets demonstrations by deactivated ex-servicemen. “Our society has been held nearly hostage because of this exercise by some of those who have been affected by it. And we have information like I said. I stand by that, I said we have information that some of these people are forming alliances with these people to try to destabilize the country,” she said. Excerpts of the Minister’s speech: “Today, the Government stands accused of being the architect behind the on-going restructuring of these security apparatus, including the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL). We have, however, repeatedly maintained and, you will agree with us, that the restructuring of our national security apparatus, like other provisions of the CPA, was inherited by this Government and the Government is doing just what any responsible government would do under the circumstance. We must hasten to say that the continuous threats to national security posed by some of the disgruntled deactivated security personnel as a result of the scrupulous compliance with the provisions of the CPA by the stake holders is completely unacceptable. Those involved in such unpatriotic venture must immediately desist. The Government’s leniency in dealing with those involved in these threats against the security of the state should in no way be construed as a weakness on its part, but as a demonstration of its commitment to respect for fundamental freedom of the individual and human rights. “We have credible information that these individuals are now forging alliances with some bloodthirsty and power greedy elements in the society to undermine state security and foment chaos and unrest in the Liberian Society. The Government is therefore calling upon all peace-loving citizens to resist any attempt by these anti-peace elements to destabilize our nation and return it to a state of anarchy and chaos reminiscent of the 14-year civil upheavals.” Subject: After Liberia's war: 'Sometimes you wonder if peace is worth Message: When Liberia's 14-year civil conflict came to an end, its people looked forward to a better life. But the fragile peace means the aid organisations are packing up, leaving those who are sick without treatment. By Kate Thomas Leaning back in a chair in his office, Dr Walter T Gwenigale looks tired. Liberia's Health Minister was out late on Saturday. "The theatre," he explains. He doesn't mean that he had front-row seats at a kora concert or tickets to see something by the West African playwright Wole Soyinka, however. There are no playhouses in Liberia. Instead he spent Saturday evening on duty in the operating theatre of Phebe Hospital, some 130km away in rural Bong county. Liberia's healthcare resources were stripped to the bone by a brutal civil war that lasted 14 years. Fuelled in part by conflict diamonds, the war was led by the former President Charles Taylor, who will be in the dock at the war crimes tribunal at The Hague next month. By the time the conflict ended in 2003, the country's health system was on its knees, 300,000 people were dead and half of Liberia's population of 3 million were homeless. Four years on, peace in Liberia remains fragile. The emergency aid agencies that came in droves at the height of the conflict are pulling out. Liberia is "stable, but tense" they say, as they move on to the next African crisis - to Darfur, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But Dr Gwenigale and the rest of the country cannot leave. With one Liberian doctor per 100,000 people, the Health Minister is taking matters into his own hands. It is not unusual for him, a former surgeon in his 70s, to spend his weekends on duty at Phebe Hospital, where some patients with minor conditions wait weeks to be seen and others die on the operating table during the frequent power cuts. Dr Gwenigale leans forward, his voice as soulful as that of a West African blues singer. "Some people are wondering whether peace is worthwhile. If during the war you have access to health care and all of a sudden that disappears when peace comes, you start to wonder if only conflict is worthwhile." On the wall of his office, a gold-framed portrait of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first female president, elected in 2005, vies for place with a poster of a traditional Liberian saying, outlined in cheery paintbox blues and pinks. "The sun shines on those who are standing before those who are sitting" it says. It is a philosophy that is echoed by the aid agencies working here. "Liberians are already living right on the poverty line," Susan Grant, the programme director for Save the Children in Liberia, says. "If people are unwell, poverty is only going to increase. Health care must be a priority." During the long years of war, 80 per cent of Liberia's health care was in the hands of emergency non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Some had provided free medical care to isolated communities since the conflict began in 1989. But most of these emergency aid outfits are now packing up, leaving the clinics at worst empty, at best staffed by doctors and nurses who are not being paid. With a health budget of only $10m (£5m) for 2007 and less than 30 Liberian doctors at their disposal for a population of 3 million, the Government cannot offer any funding. In February, the Ministry of Health took a giant leap forward when it scrapped consultation fees in all Liberian hospitals. If it is to sustain that, it cannot afford to take any more facilities on. The few aid agencies that are staying in Liberia are forming longer-term strategies to ensure that the country does not disintegrate. But without enough interest from the international community, even they cannot ease Liberia's post-war pains. Post-conflict countries like Liberia fail to excite donors. The positive influence of the President - or Ma Ellen, as she is known - and the political stability that she stands for does not tug at heart strings. Liberia risks becoming a victim of its own success. "This country needs a positive investment, and it needs it now" Nigel Clarke, a consultant in humanitarian aid working with Save the Children, says. "If people don't see the peace dividend in two or three years time, Liberia risks destabilising." At the end of a dusty track on the outskirts of Monrovia is Careysburg Clinic, supported by Save the Children. The courtyard is teeming with noisy toddlers waiting to be vaccinated, their bellies on their way to being swollen. Today is market day, the busiest of the week, and the two nurses will see about 80 patients. "It is a clinic but it should be a hospital," Julius Arma Raynes, who lives nearby, says. "See this?" he says, gesturing at the bullet holes that grace the clinic's walls. "It means, just by the grace of God, we have survived the war. In times of conflict, people suffer. But people suffer after wars too. It hurts to have a building this size with no doctors." As more of the foreign agencies prepare to leave, Liberia's health system is crying out for funds. The maternal morbidity rate here is one of the highest in the world. Life expectancy is one of the lowest, at 41 years. One in four children do not reach their fifth birthday and the morgues are full. In the maternity ward at Phebe Hospital, statistics are concealed behind curtains, blankets and thin wooden doors. There is no ambulance service; patients walk for days to reach Phebe. Some do not make it. Three kilometres away from the hospital in Maliki is Charles Taylor's ranch. It has become a jungle. Acres and acres of neglected land - wild, unruly mango and palm trees, kola nut plants and cassava bushes - stand untouched. "It's fertile land. But nobody knows what to do with it," Alphonso Zezey, who owns nearby land, says. "Taylor's family were looking after it for years." He is talking about the farm but he could be talking about Liberia. Taylor, the man human rights groups accuse of being the cause of instability across west Africa for more than a decade, has left his ranch and the rest of Liberia for other people to clean up. Liberia, literally "land of the free", was established as a colony for freed African-American slaves in 1821, with the government modelled on that of the US. Tensions have always existed between the Americo-Liberians - or the congos, as they are known - and indigenous tribal groups, not least when the US purchased a million acres of land for Firestone rubber plantation in 1926. In 1980, an uprising led by Samuel Doe, an ethnic Liberian, ousted the Americo-Liberian government from power. Doe's authoritarian regime was at the helm until 1989, when he was brutally killed by rebel factions. Taylor came to power in 1997 after an electoral campaign marked by the slogan: "He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will still vote for him." When the former president steps into the dock to begin his trial for war crimes in 10 days' time, he might spare a thought for Liberia and what it has become. As the tribunal begins, he might remember Liberia's once-flamboyant music scene, and how the "cane juice tunes" of soul strummer Molly Dorley were drowned out by mortar fire and shelling. He might remember how streams ran red with the blood of his people. He may think of the cassava fields of Bong county, and how, as he fled to Nigeria in August 2003, they were still shingled with the skeletons of those who lost their lives in the conflict. On the streets of Monrovia, hand-painted signs scream motivational mantras. "Do something to get something," shouts one. "Don't be a bush by the side of the road," says another. New York-style yellow taxis with missing number plates rev their engines in traffic jams outside bombed buildings and teeming squats. Open sewers run down to Westpoint beach, where discarded petrol cans have turned the white sand brown. It is the rainy season and the hot sun filters on to the sea through swollen clouds, spotlighting the battered fishing vessels that bob up and down. These are all healthy signs. Traffic jams indicate that the roads are getting busier. Discarded petrol cans mean people can afford to buy fuel. The fishing vessels may be fragile, but they are just about afloat. For now, the healthcare system is just about up and running. But all this could change in a heartbeat. There are no promises, no guarantees. This may be the "land of the free", but everywhere Liberians are in chains. "Unless funds are directed towards the health system in the very near future, the consequences for Liberia could be very grave," Ms Grant says. Subject: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: I don't think so at all. In the unlikely event that terrorists follow the prince to SLeone, it would do at least two things: (i) Black Africa will rail against them and (ii) The West will increase its attention to SLeone which is what many people want. At any rate, the possibility of the UK Prince serving in SLeone is a stunning vote of confidence in the current SLPP Administration and the improving attitude of our military and the people of Sierra Leone: i.e. (i) improved military professionalism rather than the usual APC tribalistic hegemonistic military packing and less tribal voting and more nationalist voting during free and fair democratic August 11, 2007 elections. SLPP is all over the place already! Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Conditions back home are really tough. Our people suffer a lot because living conditions are harsh. But that in itself is not the issue. I have traveled back and forth to Sierra Leone since 1974. I have seen the downward trend over a long period of time. Despite the bleak conditions you've described, conditions today are superior to what they were just soon after the AFRC/RUF coupligans were evicted. But a lot needs to be done. The British have indeed criticized our government for corruption. But it is the same donor country that is thinking of sending Prince Harry to our country. Such will benefit us and could be interpreted that despite its criticisms, our government still pocesses some redeeming values as I have consistently argued. I am hoping that the in-coming Berewa Administration will more thoroughly address the problems you've identified as well as others. Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Subject: John Leigh, show us the proof. Message: Guys, I have been reliably informed that John the DIAPER Leigh has been economical with the truth here.Because the property he is referring to was not built by his father nor does it belong to his mum. I have been told that the property was built by the SELLUS and actually belongs to the SELLU family of Kormende. Therefore for John Leigh to lie during his campaign for the slpp leadership about a house that does not belong to any of his parents is blatant dishonesty and the lowest grade that any human can be reduced to. It is corruption and its gross. What part of your voters education is this John? Leigh show us proof of conveyance or any document to counter this piece of information. We need honest spokes persons for all the Party's not scheming lying, corrupt devious baseless hopeless reject like JOHN THE DIAPER LEIGH. Subject: Re: John Leigh, show us the proof. Message: Based on his almost pathological addiction to lying, I think John Leigh has an undiagnos3ed mental problem. He concocts lies to show himself in the best light. Then, like a lunatic detached from reality, he proceeds to actually believe his own lies! In a word: Lunatic. Subject: LIES LIES AND MORE BLOODY LIES Message: The APC was no more a tribal packing hedgemonistic party than the SLPP presently is. In fact any definition that you may come up with regards to the APC can just as easily be applied to slpp. I submit most honorably that every member of the senior staff of the present sierra leone military was recruited by the APC. Nearly most of them are mendes and southeasterners. If my submission is a fact, then your statements that the APC packed the military with tribally hedgemonistic intentions is untrue and intended to defraud the intelligence of the reading public. Furthermore nearly 80% of the NPRC coupilgans (to borrow a term from your lexicon) were mende and or south easterners who were recruited by the APC, and this fact further belies the truth of your statements. Clearly your attempts to change the facts with regards to the military recruitment policy of the APC is reflective of the type of politics which we have come to expect from the slpp and its supporters which can be summed up as LIES LIES AND MORE BLOODY LIES. Your claim that Prince Harrys military service in sierra leone is a "stunning vote of confidence in the current slpp administration", is speciaous considering the fact that the very same british govt has expressed openly its disfavor with slpp's governance and its corruption. stay blessed Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: My support for the SLPP is not blind. In fact, I was one of the biggest critics of the current party administration. But we are now approaching elections. I will not criticize my party 12 months before and after elections. Not criticizing my party around election times does not mean my support is blind. If anything, I am a most vigilant party member. Next, I am not talking about the NPRC. I am talking about the AFRC. Check the tribal background of the two-thirds of the army that staged the bloody AFRC coup on May 25, 1997 and led by that Toenail of State and see for yourself who is who. Please also check the tribal backgrounds of the members of the coup councils. Next, please look at the tribal background of the prominent civilian collaborators helping the AFRC and you tell me to what party they belonged. You tell us what the last APC president himself did for the AFRC. Please look at the tribal background of all those who faced trial for treason after ECOMOG kicked out the junta. You will find out that the vast majority belonged to the tiny hegemonistic tribe. And where was the APC leadership during the interregnum? Please, my view of the packing of our military for hegemonistic reasons is accurate. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: Of course it is. But precisely bewcause you are a blind SLPP supporter, you will not see it as such. How can you infer British support of a SLPP gove4rnment that Briotain has already condemned multiple times since 2005 as massively corrupt? You have to blind to make such an inference. And you are -- that's why you did. Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: However to equate that with tribalism is to say that ther are no Mendes in the APC...Is that what you are saying? Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: John as much as I question Momohs legacy as a "leader" in sierra leone, yet the truth must be said that he did nothing extraordinary and or different from what Tejan Kabba, Berewah and a host of present slpp leadership did with regrads to the NPRC which was just as ILLEGAL a gvernment as the AFRC was. You wouldnt criticize your party within a 24 month period with elections in the middle. You have lost my respect as a leader under the circumstances because there have been rumours of abductions in slpp areas ostensiby for the purpose of using the abductees as human sacrifice for the slpp aspirants. Would you keep quiet under the circumstances? Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: Yes, my policy not to criticize my party a year prior to and immediately after presidential/parliamentary elections is a sound one in the public interest given the abundance of lowlifers dombolos who want power to ruin our country. As for your announced lack of respect for me, no problem! What I care about is your own self-respect. If your respect yourself, I am happy. Why would any body want to assassinate a politically impotent phoolumunku alphabet moron is mysterious to me except, perhaps, such rumors are deliberately fabricated in vain attempts to shore up a rubbish outfit deep on a tailspin. If you believe assassination plots against stupid dombolos, then you could be targeted for a cannibal's rich stew next time you venture in certain cannibal areas where human sarcrifice is endemic like the Western Area! My information regarding the alleged unrest in the Southern Province is that it was a huge storm in a tiny expresso cup. Three individuals have now been arrested and are undergoing interrogation in detention. Hut burnings are over! The whole thing is a police matter, and has nothing to do with SLPP presidential or parliamentary politics; a bogus Le80,000,000 assassination plot or human sarcrifice-canibalism. Thank you. - JL Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: With the NPRC, Momoh fled by helicopter on his own. Nobody drove him out and not force was used. He was merely afraid of his own shoulder. So he fled. The NPRC moved in to fill the void. While illegal, the move was widely welcomed by the suffering people. They danced in the streets, serenaded the boys, happy to get rid of a highly destructive pass-ah-die regime which had brought SLeone to her knees in last place. The NPRC regime was gladly accepted, at least for a while. The AFRC regime was the opposite. It overthrew the duly-elected government by spilling blood. The public opposed it. People went on strike and shut down the whole country. The AFRC invited the notorious RUF rebels that the NPRC had fought to join forces to keep the duly-elected government out of power. It was a period of extreme human suffering and massive property destruction that shocked the conscience of mankind. Momoh helped the AFRC to prolong its hold on power. Messrs. Kabbah and Berewa served in NPRC advisory capacity, peacefully and diplomatically encouraging the young soldiers to return the country to civilian rule. The NPRC left power via negotiations. ECOMOG had to violently evict the savage coupligans. Two opposites. One helpful; the other destructive. - JL Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: The fact is that Momoh did nothing ORDINARY or EXTRAORDINARY for Sa Lone...Full stop. I admire you, Alieu, how you get these very Exraordinary Rumours from Sa lone. I wish I had your contact.Human sacrifices my foot. Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: That is impossible -- to be SLPP is to deal in falsehoods. For instance, you believe that the SLPP has brought prosperity to Salone. The reality is that the SLPP has brought untold suffering to Sierra Leoneans. That makes you SLPP because you do not deal in facts, but only in illusions. Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: Subject: Re: THE COUPLIGANS WERE MOSTLY APC Message: I will surprise you soon. Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: "less tribal voting and more nationalist voting during free and fair democratic August 11, 2007 elections." Are you prophesying again ( as you did before the Makeni Conbention) or are you speaking in tongues when you know ( very well) there will be more tribal voting ( when was there ever an election without it? the SLPP is counting on it from the ethnically loyal flock and so be it that a majority is a majority. ”SLPP is all over the place already! " The SLPP was already all over the place (Sierra Leone Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: What has happened to you? You were once the refreshing light of this forum, people read what you wrote with pleasure and learned from it...but since you became 'ALL POLITICAL', with you anti-SLPP tirades all you do these days is fret like most Anti SLPP contributors, If I did not know you better I would think you were seeking information. The fact of the matter is that you are not entertaining of even funny anymore.Where is the old Cornelius? please bring him back. Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Mr Leigh,who are these black africans that would rail on them,when we had our war non came to our rescue except Nigeria? We all know that these are individuals who are ready to SACRIFICE and BLOW themselves for the cause that they believe in.When their leader lived in Somalia,did any Black African stood up to him? NO.So what makes you think that they will stand up to his organization now? Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: You are assuming, incorrectly, that John Leigh can think. Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Leigh, you really are a SIMPLETON! Do you think Africans give a ratz azzz about so-called terrorists? And what makes you think that an incxrease in Western attention (a moronic phrase if ever there is one) will BENEFIT Salone? Are you so stupid, John Leigh, that you can't understand that Africa's problems are caused by the West, in colusion with unpatriotic, colonial mentality-afflicted Africans like yourself and Solomon Berewa? Shamefully, the shameless Berewa was quoted in 2005 as rejoicing over the fact that Salone had just been ranked the poorest country in the world, because -- the fool shouted -- that would make the West give Salone more aid! Imagine that: A dumbkopf rejoicing over his own incompetence in the Salone government! Is it any wonder that Berewa, Kabbah and yourself, as well as your corrupt SLPP are referred to as clueless? M Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: And the possibility of Prince Harry serving in Iraq, what was that? Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: "At any rate, the possibility of the UK Prince serving in IRAQ is a stunning vote of confidence in the current IRAQI Administration and the improving attitude of our military and the people of IRAQ." Is there greater evidence of Leigh's stupidity? Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: There are many reasons why a government official would visit a place, none of which necessarily means that he has "a great deal of confidence in" it. You blind SLPP apologists just amaze us with your incomprehension every time you write your "understanding" of what you read. Truly sad. Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Your lack of education makes you result to insulting people who are light years ahead of you in everything...I can understand you insulting other people, but next time you insult me gratuitously, I will come on to you like a ton of bricks. I will show you how stupid you are.... In my posting I said...'Blair and Bush say so all the time...' did you miss that? I am sure you did....why dont you go back and read my posting again, and please this time do it slowly, maybe your reading is not up to standard of a six year old. If you cannot read, I am sorry, that is not my problem. If all you can do is insult people then I honestly pity you. I think people like you with supersilous mindset are best left in the gutter and the holes you belong to. Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Given your glaring omission of any evidence to support your consequently baseless claim, it would seem that you were actually referring to yourself -- without realizing it, of course -- when you stated: "You sound like you are competing for the IDIOT of the year trophy." But, of course, as I stated you would be the last to know that you are an idiot -- because you are one. Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Which SLPP minister who when asked what minerals we have, enumerated Fanta, Coca-Cola and Seven-Up among the mineral resources with which Sierra Leone is blessed? Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Which SLPP minister who when asked what minerals we have, enumerated Fanta, Coca-Cola, VIMTO CORDIAL and Seven-Up among the mineral resources with which Sierra Leone is blessed? PS. Yes, Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Your vocabulary is so limited that everybody knows who this importer of a can of soft drink is as he tries to seek Leone-Dollar parity with his stupidity and his phoolumunku flunkey dunce argumentation. You ........................................ - JL Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Instead, you use words that accurately describe you but which are not found in any Enflish vocabulary -- "wan-grain-manism clueFOOLness, mumbo-tombu-dumbo munku, foolunumku phoolumunku flunkey dunce." My question for you is: John Leigh, are you alright? Seriously, you act and write like a crazy person. Subject: Re: Hello Pardees here I come Message: Subject: 7 more days- "I will have reached my term limit in May, 2007 Message: Subject: Re: 7 more days- "I will have reached my term limit in May, 2007 Message: tiffy tiffy Subject: Re: 7 more days- "I will have reached my term limit in May, 2007 Message: Subject: TRADE MINISTRY Message: Subject: Re: TRADE MINISTRY Message:
From: "musa umar"
Subject: receive your urgent reply.
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 19:54:59 +0200
THE DESK OF:MR MUSA UMAR.
BANK OF AFRICA(B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO,
WEST AFRICA.
Dear Friend,
(PRIVATE/CONFIDENTIAL).
I am Mr.MUSA UMAR. the Director in charge of Auditing section Bank Of
Africa(.B.O.A)Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso in West Africa. Forgive my
indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise. AS IT MAY
INTEREST
YOU TO KNOW, I GOT YOUR IMPRESSIVE INFORMATION THROUGH THE INTERNET
SEARCH
HERE IN OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO. I have decided to contact you on a
project that will be very beneficial to both of us. During our auditing
in
this Bank,I came across some amount of money belonging to a deceased
foreigner Mr.Sheu Yuan-dong who died with his wife and their only
daughter
on February 16,1998 in a plane crash.
The fund has been dormant in his account with this Bank without any
claim of
the fund in our custody from his relation before my discovery to this
development. He was the Governor of Taiwan Central(Reserve)Bank. The
said
amount is U.S $30,000,000(THIRTY MILLION UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
DOLLAR). I
want you to know that I never master minded the death of the deceased
fellow. Their death occured Naturally. Please View this website:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/
FOR YOUR INFORMATION BEEN YOU NOT A TAIWANESE WILL NOT POSE ANY PROBLEM
FOR
THE SUCESSFUL TRANSFER ON THIS FUND INTO YOUR ACCOUNT. All the whole
arrangement to put claim over this fund as the Bonafide next of kin to
the
deceased has been put in place and directives will be relayed to you as
soon
as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist me and also
benefit
your self to this great business opportunity. In this country as a
civil
servant(A Banker),we are not allowed to operate a foreign account. This
is
the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow who will
forward claims as the next of kin to the Bank and also present a
foreign
account where he will need the money to be re-transferred into on his
request. Our Banking law stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed
after eight years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury
as
unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business
is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
Burkinabe
cannot stand as next of kin. I dont want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill. Be assured this transaction is 100% risk
free.
On conclusion of this Project, you will be entitled to 40% of the total
sum
as gratification,while 60% will be for me.Please you have been adviced
to
keep "top secret" as I am still in service and intend to retire from
service
after I conclude this deal with you. I will fly down to your country
for
subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages previously
indicated
and further investment will be discussed. On your acceptance to be my
partner, please email for a brief discussion before we proceed.
me. I
look
forward to
receive your urgent reply.
Yours faithfully,
Mr.MUSA UMAR.
From: Researcher
To: All
Date Posted: 10:27:35 05/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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(Here's some more of those):
Office of the Chairman
56 Spur Road
FREETOWN
Tel/FAX: 232329/231624
CHAIRMAN CMRRD
DIRECTOR-ISIDOOR WEINBERGER
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To represent the Commission in all areas relating to mining and mineral resources including but not limited to Strategic Minerals and precious stones.
Pursuant to this mandate KRAMER shall report to the Chairman from time to time regarding any interest shown in the above Minerals by interested parties
This Memorandum of Understanding shall serve as authority of the chairman of the Commission entitling KRAMER to perform its functions in terms of this mandate
To attend to all aspects of the marketing and sales of Strategic Minerals on behalf of the Commission through the KRAMER GROUP IF COMPANIES, its affiliates, nominees or agents, upon a profit sharing basis to be agreed upon between the Commission and KRAMER
Generally to perform any such other services on behalf of the Commission as may be required or agreed upon from time to time.
This Memorandum of Understanding is effective as from the immediate setting up of all the structures of and the employment of the various members of the Commission in line with the Lome Peace Agreement. However, upon the signing of this document, authority is given for the organising of the International Mining Conference in South Africa by Kramer Group of Companies.
CHAIRMAN
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:07:53 05/29/07 ()
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Posted by EASY TO KNOW on May 29, 2007 at 06:45:51:
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 13:17:04 05/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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who is being tribalistic here?
From: political prostitute
To: All
Date Posted: 08:59:05 05/29/07 ()
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A HIGHLY CHARGED GANG OF POLITICAL AND MATRIMONIAL PROSTITUTES AND DEVORCEES,WITH NO REALISTIC AND FUNCTIONAL SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS IN SIERRA LEONE.
KEEP THE SLPP BALL ROLLING JL
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 08:22:44 05/29/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
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A very senior official of the APC,told me yesterday that Ernest Koroma only decided to come to the USA to pick up some money for his campaign because he(Ernest) is sure that the most important people in the party our members in the U.S. Ernest,(according to my sources) said his members in the USA are most important because they have the money to spend on his campaign.
This, by my interpretation means that all the APC members in Sierra Leone are not important because they are poor.
The senior APC official went on to say that,when Ernest wins(may God forbid),95% of his ministers will be members from the USA because they spent their monies on him.
My interpretation to that is, regardless of the fact that most of the APC members in the USA,have been away from Sierra Leone for a very long time and do not have what it takes to be efficient ministers,Ernest will till appointment only beacuse they paid for the positions.
The other important thing I know(I got it from themselves) is that 90% of the APC members in the USA only want political positions because they are sure it is the simplest way by which they can make money to continue to support their party.
At the end of my conversation with the APC senior official,I ask why did Ernest decide not to talk to Sierra Leoneans in the USA at a town hall meeting(so that those who put their monies in the party will have the chance to ask him questions, to prove his suitability for the position of president).The official said that Ernest, did not come to the USA for that.
This means that presenting his records or his report card to the people who spend their monies in the party is not important to Ernest Koroma.
I am very happy to see and hear that all for these facts are coming out because they justify my point that Ernest is not running a new APC as he claims,
IT IS THE SAME OLD,SAME OLD, ALL PEOPLES CONGRESS.
Nothing will never change in the APC.
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:25:22 05/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
Mr Saidu,please give us proven facts with names included to back your hypothesis.If Hon.Koroma is raising funds for the campaign which is one of the norms of democracy and I see nothing wrong with that.Some are using scarce state funds at the detriment of the poor to finance their campaign as the slpp is doing now.
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 20:04:03 05/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 67.63.2.157
I thought that was more like the norm in the APC government. Using of state funds to campaign, send their kids to schools in other countries, send their wives and girlfriends to europe and America for medical checkups, give Russian and Chinese scholarships to Party thugs, and above all tell all top officials that "Usai den tie Cow nar dae eee dae eat".
Musa you need to articulate what the so called NEW APC will be doing in the OPPosition after the elections.
Since as far as i am concerned they will not win the general elections in sierra leone for decades to come.
Nor Cuss me ooh because you nor know how for debate issues.
From: Njai
To: All
Date Posted: 12:03:57 05/29/07 ()
Email Address: njai@comcast.net
Entered From: static-70-20-197-79.phil.east.verizon.net at 70.20.197.79
Saidu,
Please stop embarrassing us (SLPP). All what you have said is not substantiated. Give the name(s) of the official(S). This is America. Your freedom of speech is gauranteed to a greater extent especially in this forum.
" Know yousef, nor dey make people den day put mot per you"
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 05:16:31 05/30/07 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-69-143-240-17.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.240.17
Njai,I went through the rudiments of our noble profession,called journalism.It is outside our code of conduct to disclose your source,when the source asked you not to do that.
I dont care what other people who do not like me say about me.The only thing I am sure of is that,God knows that whatever comes from me is true and correct.
If you have been following events on this forum you will know that most of the elements who personally attack me(not the issues I raise) do so under fake names(because they know that, they are lying),and since I am a man not a chicken,I dont reply to them.
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 07:23:36 05/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-074-228-219-218.sip.asm.bellsouth.net at 74.228.219.218
"At the end of my conversation with the APC Senior official,I ask why did Ernest decide not to talk to Sierra Leoneans in the USA at a townhall meeting(so that those who put their monies in the party will have the chance to ask him questions,to prove his suitability for the position of president)."
Forumites you decide who is a liar here.Is it the noble cocorioko journalist who was at the meeting,and took notes,or the so call JOINALIST OF LIARS SAIDU BANGURA who never double checked his story?
From: FBC
To: All
Date Posted: 06:35:03 05/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 216.150.143.18
Now I know for sure you are mentally ill. saidu you attended a certificate course not related to journalism at FBC and i can verify that. you are full of lies and thievry. one of these days a lightning bolt is going to strike you for misusing GOD's name. there is nothing, absolutely nothing godly in you. nobody is scared of you, as you are a failure and a nobody.you are a tea cup handle, rolling stone, village idiot. one of these days your cup will full and the FBI will be waiting to send your illegal ass, to mountain cut, for rebel activities. people like you makes me to never think good will ever come out of sierra leone.
From: fourah bay college professor
To: All
Date Posted: 05:46:19 05/30/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
YOU ARE NOT A JOURNALIST PLEASE STOP LYING. YOU ALSO HAVE A PENCHANT FOR TELLING LIES AND THAT IS GENETIC IN YOU. STOP INVOKING THE NAME OF GOD WHEN YOU ARE SO DEEPLY INVOLVED IN FETISH.
From: VIRTUAL OUTSIDER
To: All
Date Posted: 13:16:22 05/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-197-32.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.197.32
This forum guarantees nothing!! My suggestion to forumites is to say things for the benefit of our people and not for those trying to use your words/statements to make their lives better. Everone on the forum is sold to some poxy person in SL and the receiver of your info then sells it on to another. Nothing is secured or guaranteed here. Just be yopuself and do not put others (sources) into problems
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 09:48:26 05/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-074-228-219-218.sip.asm.bellsouth.net at 74.228.219.218
Saidu who is this very senior official that you claimed to have told you of things that are not truth?Since you always proclaim yourself to be a man of God,why don't you tell the forum his/her name so that we can verify his/her story.If you fail to do so,you would be proving to the forum that you are a MUNAFIK.Having read your so call narration of the Leader's visit,I am 100% sure that you are A LIAR,because the Leader's ITINARY was controlled by me,and your version is TOTALLY WRONG.
From: Foday Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:06:59 05/29/07 ()
Email Address: alakabor2004@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-71-244-5-222.dllstx.fios.verizon.net at 71.244.5.222
You will not change, but the A.P.C will.
From: Kalokoh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:59:20 05/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cs181052045.pp.htv.fi at 82.181.52.45
My interpretation to that is, regardless of the fact that most of the APC members in the USA,have been away from Sierra Leone for a very long time and do not have what it takes to be efficient ministers,Ernest will till appointment only beacuse they paid for the positions.
From: FOOTBALLER
To: All
Date Posted: 06:33:24 05/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Date Posted: 06:32:16 05/29/07 ()
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LATEST HEADLINES
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ROSENIOR TAKES OVER LEONE STARS TRAINING
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Date Posted: 06:31:07 05/29/07 ()
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LATEST HEADLINES
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Ahead of Sierra Leone/Togo Encounter…PAUL KPAKA DUE TODAY
From: boli
To: All
Date Posted: 10:05:56 05/29/07 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
Entered From: 80-44-149-13.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 80.44.149.13
Good luck to our Leone Stars and I hoope they win convincingly.
I think they should also question their prospective MPs on the views on these and other allegations of corruption. We have to start somewhere, this might not be the most appropriate place to start, but what do I know?
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 03:51:20 05/29/07 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: luna.hypair.net at 194.50.180.4
These foolish,corrupt coward monikers should stay out of this forum.Corruption is deep rooted in their blood and they have shown it in many occasions on this forum.First and foremost,they are not using their real identities,accusing decent forumites among many others A.Iscandari to be monikers,insulting debaters if you dont concord to their evil and corrupt ideology.You cowards come out from your holes and use your id and brains to debate and stop insulting,combining etc.A word for the wise is quite sufficient.Mr A. Iscandari is not Musa Kamara,I hope it went through this time.
From: EASY TO KNOW
To: All
Date Posted: 06:45:51 05/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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When ALIEU "MUSA KAMARA" talks like a jealous Creole boy attacking country people for their langauages, when Alieu "MUSA KAMARA" tells people that they are primitive Kamajors that eat human flesh, it's easy to know it's the same Alieu Iscandari hiding behind names to talk. Primitive? Nar Krio boy talk that. Cannibals? Nar Krio boy talk dat. Blast country people out of jealousy? Na krio boy talk dat. In this case, it all adds up to reveal Alieu Iscandari. Get the point???
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 07:31:24 05/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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No stupid only you get the point because only you believe that I use other names to attack people. BTW if you are referring to me as a "krio boy" why dont you drop the "boy" part and make it "krio Man".
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From: PANA NEWS
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Date Posted: 19:33:41 05/28/07 ()
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Obasanjo inaugurates youth centre in Freetown
27 May 2007 - PANA
Outgoing Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday inaugurated a youth rehabilitation centre named after him in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The centre, located in the waterloo area of the city, was a Nigerian initiative under the auspices of the African Union.
From: LOCAL COUNCIL
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Date Posted: 18:44:01 05/28/07 ()
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Civil Engineer Hands Over Site for New Office Building for Pujehun District Council
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The reintroduction of the local government system in Sierra Leone has witnessed consistent efforts by the Institutional Reform and Capacity Building project (IRCBP) to ensure that staff members of councils work in a conducive atmosphere.
This old office building will be pulled down and rebuilt
In a period of ten months ‘Nation-Wide Logistics’, headed by Rodney Michel should have completed the construction of an ultra modern office building at a cost of one billion and four million leones (about $US 334,000 dollars).
George Lamin Vandi hands over Building documents to Councillor Emmanuel Kallon
The handing over was preceded by a brief ceremony chaired by Councillor Emmanuel Kallon. At the ceremony, the Chairman of Pujehun District Council, Nasiru Deen Magona, said the people of Pujehun should not rest on their oars but should supplement the assistance received from the IRCBP.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 18:08:47 05/28/07 ()
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Brother Sengbe,
This is my reaction to your ”One-foot Jompie”. I ’ve been musing......
From East Africa, we head west to Sierra-Leone, where the campaign for next year's presidential election is already gearing up. July's election will be the first since the United Nations peacekeepers elect last year. It's seen by many as a test of the country's ability to keep a lasting peace. The former British colony emerged from a decade of civil war in 2002, but the country is still facing problems of poverty, tribal rivalry and allegations of government corruption. So, we spoke to two of the top presidential candidates. We'll hear from Vice President Solomon Ekuma Berewa in just a moment, but first Jim Clancy caught up with opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress earlier this year. Jim Clancy asked him what topped his agenda.
Not comic relief, but cultural relief in the form of a half remembered folktale, to take off some heat from the SLPP, whilst Rome burns?
They haven’t turned the heat on yet.
What is it about culture that unites us and what are the specific attractions in politics that divides and disunites us, without feet so firmly planted in the same soil, ( some call it mother Earth) under the same blue sky?
How do we chart the evolution of that party? What kind of consciousness could be said to characterise the SLPP under Sir Milton, Sir Alberto, and Ahmad Tejan Kabbah? Solomon Berewa?
Same questions apply to the APC……
And to the UPP which had as its rallying cry, “Cocorioko, UPP dae Crow!” – This at the time when Cyril Rogers Wright was leader of that party, which also included John Nelson-Williams and Mr. H.E.B. John, who was at one time minister of education.
It was more or less a Krio-man’s party, probably arising from the Settlers Descendant’s Union of Pa Buckle……….
Is there such an ideological divide between the SLPP and the APC – and the PMDC ( the new broom offspring/ offshoot of the SLPP, and it’s a PMDC which might one day – perhaps not under its present leadership, return to it’s ancestral Margai roots which are in the SLPP.
That kind of decadence is the ROT at the root of any tree that’s doomed to fall…..
Playing with symbols or metaphors, we can make magic with words into ideas- and place the rot, not at the root or even at the head or tail. Our ideas should impact on reality, dear Sengbe.
Or any variant readings/ permutations of words SLPP, APC, CORRUPT, is, is not.”
All that money from natural resources (an imaginary figure) but the target areas are real:
Youth unemployment
Mr. Solomon Kargbo, PMDC Candidate for Waterloo would like to improve women’s place in society, without violating cultural norms.
Education
Health
Housing
Farming
From the opposition benches we hear that they (APC& PMDC) would vastly improve on all this.
Hon. Ernest Koroma said (on CNN):
Which means that a decent wage should be paid to the police and other law enforcement people, so that they do not merely pray “and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil” with their tongues when their bellies are hungry.
(Mr. Prasad a physics lecturer from Hyrderabad, India, and my neighbour during my first tour in Nigeria) once drove a policemen home in his car. The hungry policemen had stopped him. Mr. Prasad asked him, “Are you hungry?” the policeman answered, “ Yes.”
So the physicist told him to hop into the car. And he drove him home. Offered him a meal….(If the present crop of politicians are serious and not just paying lip service to the SEVEN NATIONAL VALUES, they would in all honesty, self-esteem, Good neighbourliness, Tolerance, Resourcefulness, Generosity and excellence declare their assets. Only san –san boys have nothing to declare.
Women, Farmers Students, workers, dockworkers, fishermen, petty traders…..
The way that SLPPers talk about the APC, you would equate the APC with the Jones Government in Animal Farm, and the SLPPers main argument and scare tactic to those who follow the tenets of animalism of one country one people, is “You don’t want Jones ( i.e.Pa Shaki/APC ) to come back , do you ?
………………………………
Transforming this unity of purpose could sound like a preamble to the creation of a one-party state which would be most feasible if we were all Mendes and not only Sierra Leoneans.
Well, they say that the SLPP has been invaded by APC and other non-SLPPers and that they have effectively taken over the party.
Only problem with a one party state and if SLPP win more than 60% and in the absence of a strong opposition, we do have a de facto one party state, is it’s not esay to get rid of them through the ballot box.
The problem with a one/party state is that when the elite is entrenched, stewing in corruption, with the aid of the most well paid military and police and with all the judges in their pockets, how do the people get their country back?
From: Knice
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Corruption is despicable. But it is not Sierra Leone's priority issue. Sierra Leone's priority is to restore checks and balances into her system of governance. Ever since the hasty adoption of a very poorly designed republican system, Sierra Leone's fate has depended soley on the character and goodwill of whoever is president or head of state. The latest episode of an electoral date that we cannot pin down is more evidence of the corrosive legacy of the president as know-it-all sage fallacy, that masquerades as the Sierra Leonean constitution.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Noted.
"The Separation of Powers" as we were taught at FBC class one ”Power in West African Societies."
Does this mean a Constitution Review is imminent – to put/restore the necessary “checks and balances into her system of governance”? Or- how else is this done?
How to prevent the Pa from legislating his and his crown prince and cabinet's immunity from prosecution for crimes committed whilst they were enjoying power, with immunity – that too is a question.
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Charles Maggai is incapable of doing any harm to the SLPP and our ability to win elections. He is a political prostitute,he is a bee who looks for nectar, and so for the SLPP to want to kill him is inconceivable.
Charles Maggai is no Ralph Nader.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA
ANDRES TURNER, et al.
4. The September 2005 Order also certified a plaintiff class "for the limited purpose of determining whether the AAMC must apply California law to the members of the defined class." Id. at 8. The class was defined as all residents of California who apply or have applied to take the MCAT in California with testing accommodations, from July 19, 2004. through the duration of any injunctive relief ordered by the Court (assuming any such relief is entered). Id. at 9-10.
of academic and professional success, and still have difficulty with the mechanics of reading as a result of a learning disability or ADHD. Tr. at 145:10-17, 146:8-147:12, 167:12-25, 168:22-169:2, 169:9-13, 254:13-16; 401:4-20. Not all individuals with learning disabilities or ADHD, however, have difficulty reading. Tr. 152, 182 (Gregg); Tr. 376-77 (Ranseen).
experience by using "superior intellect" or "superior problem solving skills," or simply by working harder. RT 145-47 (Gregg). There are legitimate questions whether such individuals are appropriately identified as disabled given their ability to achieve success. Tr. 365-66, 393-94, 397 (Ranseen); Tr. Ex. 124 at 487-89 ("The LD Label for Relatively Well-Functioning Students: A Critical Analysis," 32 J. of Learning Disabilities 485 (1999)). Notwithstanding these debates among professionals in the field, California law provides protection under the Unruh Act and the DPA to disabled persons who achieve success in spite of their disabilities.
admissions personnel. Tr. at 445:20-446:1, 500:15-501:2 (Julian).
testified that AAMC will provide accommodations because it is both a legal obligation and "the right thing to do." Tr. at 509:2-7, AAMC's written policy states: "The purpose of accommodations is to provide equal access to the MCAT program. Accommodations 'match up' with the identified functional limitations so that the area of impairment is alleviated by an auxiliary aid or adjustment to the testing procedure." Ex. 33, at p 1.
20. Andres Turner is described as the "classic example" of an extremely bright person with superior intellectual ability and very superior verbal skills, but who has difficulties with the mechanics of reading as a result of a learning impairment. Tr. at 41:11-20. Mr. Turner received accommodations for his disability, including extra time on exams, throughout his educational
career. Tr. at 41:21 -42:10. AAMC denied Mr. Turner's request for accommodations on the MCAT on the basis that "your documentation does not demonstrate the existence of a disability that would support your request for accommodations." Ex. 2.1
on learning disability and/or ADHD when, in the minds of its reviewers, an applicant does not have a limitation when compared to some "average person" in the general population. Tr. at 166:9-18, 181:1-5; Designation of Harlan Stientjes at 66:12-67:3; Designation of Thomas Newton at 23:7-12; AAMC Response to Request for Admission No. 36. People who are not limited in comparison to this "average person," might nonetheless have difficulty reading as a result of a learning impairment. Tr. at 392:15-19 (Ranseen).
that his request was denied because he was too smart and had achieved too much academic success to need accommodations. Tr. at 81:11-22. The Court finds that it would not be appropriate under the Unruh Act or the DPA to conclude that someone is not disabled based solely on a history of high academic success. Such an approach is not in compliance with the Unruh Act and the DPA.
professional qualifications or experience to diagnose and evaluate learning disorders or ADHD. Newton Designation at 11:7-12:13; see also Tr. at 178:7-24, Denials of accommodation requests have been reversed in 10-15% of cases (often following the provision of additional information). Stientjes Dep. 87:22-88:1; Tr. 113. For example, Mr. Pierce acknowledged that he was granted accommodations after supplying additional documentation in support of his request. Tr. 1 83-84.
35. The experts on both sides testified that where a testing entity denies a request for accommodation based on learning disability and/or ADHD, it is important to provide the applicant with an explanation as to the basis for the denial which is tailored to the particular individual. It is not sufficient to simply provide a brief statement that the person does not show the existence of a disability. Tr. at 175:10-1 76:6., 399:1 7-400:8. When AAMC decides to deny a request for accommodation, including the requests of the named Plaintiffs in this case, if has sent a form letter to the applicant that does not specifically identify the reason for the denial or the specific criteria that the applicant did not meet. Tr. at 79:13-28, 176:24-1 77:17, 177:24-1 78:2;
Ex. 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11.
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489:2-6. Dr. Julian is an expert in the fields of psychometrics and measurement, particularly as they relate to the operation of a national standardized testing program. Tr. 434:11-440:7. Dr. Julian is not an expert in the clinical assessment of learning disabilities or ADHD. Tr. at 490:10-25. Dr. Julian does not know, and the AAMC has not done any research or analysis about,
whether providing accommodations under the California definition of disability would bring
AAMC to a point of "arbitrariness" on the continuum. Tr. at 457:11-13, 488:9-489:11; Tr. at
297:16-26; AAMC Responses to Requests for Admissions Nos. 39, 40, 44-49.
MCAT was not specifically designed to measure reading speed. Tr. at 494:18-25; see also id. at 274:27-275:9, 275:13-276:19. 279:6-282:4, 289:15-22; Ex. 14-17. The fact that the MCAT has time limits does not necessarily mean that the exam is designed to test reading or problem solving speed. Tr. at 278:14-279:5, 289:21 22
(Dr. Geisinger). The MCAT is neither designed nor validated to measure the speed with which somebody can process information provided in an oral format (such as the electronic text that some medical students with disabilities use). Tr. at 504:16-22. Although Dr. Julian suggests that facility with problem solving (one of the skills that AAMC's materials indicate is tested by
the MCAT) implies some level of reading speed, none of AAMC's materials regarding the MCAT draw this connection. Tr. at 283:1-14; Ex. 14-17.
291:22, 297:11-15; Ex. 20, at AAMC00267 ("The validity of the flagged MCAT in predicting success in medical school is not known"'). On a related but slightly different point, approximately one-half of the general test-taking population does not benefit at all from additional time on the MCAT, and some even decrease their scores. Tr. at 494:2-9.
The Court makes no finding that any accommodation for any person or persons will fundamentally alter what the MCAT measures or affect the comparability of MCAT scores. AAMC currently provides accommodations (including more time) to some applicants who qualify for accommodations under the ADA standard, so it appears that providing some accommodations to some applicants will not fundamentally alter the MCAT. In the absence of facts on issues such as how many California residents seek accommodations under the Unruh Act and DPA, how many of those the AAMC finds to have disabilities under the Unruh Act and DPA, what accommodations are provided to those persons, and what accommodations are demanded in addition to those provided, the Court cannot determine whether the application of California law to California residents will fundamentally alter the MCAT.
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
STANDING OF ORGANIZATIONAL PLAINTIFFS.
representatives for their members," Order of September 2005 at 19.
51. The Unruh Act provides that "[a]ll persons .... no matter what their ... disability, ... are entitled to ... full and equal ... services in all business establishments...." Cal. Civ. Code § 51(b). The DPA provides that individuals with disabilities are "entitled to full and free access ... to places of public accommodation ...." Id. § 54.1(a)(l). The AAMC is a "business establishment" within the meaning of the Unruh Act. and a "'public accommodation" within the meaning of the DPA. Order of September 2005 at 10-13.
substantive material tested in the MCAT, this case is concerned primarily with a person's ability to read quickly during the administration of the MCAT so that they can demonstrate that they have mastered the substantive material. Case law holds that learning is a major life activity. Wong v. Regents of Univ. of California (9th Cir. 2005) 410 F.3d 1052, 1063 & n.5 (citing cases). Although there was no evidence presented at trial, the Court can take judicial notice that the ability to read is "of central importance to daily life." Toyota, supra, 534 U.S. at 197. Therefore the Court holds that reading is a major life activity.
with federal law. EEOC v. UPS, Inc. (9th Cir. 2005) 424 F.3d 1060, 1071 (holding that "the proper comparative baseline [under the FEHA] is either the individual without the impairment in question" -- for example, when comparing an individual's physical capacities before and after an injury — "or the average unimpaired person"); Wong v. Regents of Univ. of Calif. (9th Cir. 2005) 410 F.3d 1052, 1065 ("The relevant question for determining whether Wong is 'disabled 'i s ... whether his impairment substantially limited his ability to learn as a whole, for purposes of daily living, as compared to most people"). The AAMC's proposed use of an "average person" comparator would not eliminate the distinction between California and federal law. According to the AAMC, under California law the "major life activity" must be "limited" and thus, more "difficult" compared to what is experienced by an average person whereas under federal law the activity must be "substantially limited" compared to what is experienced by an average person.
"difficult" include minor variations from the statistical mean of difficulty for average persons. If any limitation that caused any difficulty whatsoever met the statutory standard, then the word "difficult" would effectively be read out of the statute. Second, setting a ceiling, the California Legislature plainly intended that the "difficult" standard to be lower than the "substantially limited" standard. By way of a hypothetical in mathematical terms, the trier of fact is implicitly called on to determine the mean (average) difficulty of a major life activity and then instructed that under California law protection is triggered at one standard deviation from the mean and under Federal law protection is triggered at two standard deviations from the mean. The locat1on of the mean and the standard deviations probably cannot be quantified or determined with surveys and statistics and will need to be resolved in each case. Decisions will necessarily be made under a variant of the uncertain "I know it when I see it" criteria that judges and jurors use on a regular basis to determine matters such as good faith, reasonableness, and due care.
Neither the Unruh Act nor the DPA provides guidance regarding "reasonable accommodations". The term 'reasonable' does provide for significant flexibility in taking into account the needs of a disabled person and the burden on the business establishment. For example, a restaurant might have an obligation to give a dyslexic patron more time to review a
menu but a movie theater might not be required to slow down a screening so that the same
dyslexic patron could read subtitles." Order of September 2005 at 16.
appropriate proceedings and/or file separate lawsuits. In those proceedings and/or lawsuits, the individual applicants and the AAMC may rely on the judgment of this Court as having established certain common issues. The Court will not retain jurisdiction to act as a centralized administrative body for reviewing how the AAMC handles individual applications.
a. Providing additional test time;
b. Providing different settings or rooms to take the MCAT;
c. Providing special devices, aids or equipment during the MCAT;
1. Within 60 days of the date this Judgment becomes final, AAMC must submit and file with the Court a written report reflecting AAMC's development of internal written procedures for accepting, considering and deciding requests by California residents for accommodations under the Unruh Act and the DPA in taking the MCAT in California. The Court will thereupon conduct a hearing on the report submitted by AAMC and hear the concerns of the parties with reference the proposed internal procedures thus proposed and compliance of the AAMC with the Judgment entered in this matter. The written procedures must describe, at a minimum, the following:
a. The request for accommodation process, including deadlines for submission and determination of such requests, including any appeal process;
b. flow MCAT applicants will receive notice of their right to seek accommodations for the test and advising those seeking accommodations of the following:
ii. Applicants must show that the disability limits a major life activity by making it difficult,;
iii. Applicants must propose reasonable and appropriate accommodations:
iv. Applicants must provide adequate supporting documentation of a disability limiting a major life
C. Prevailing party: The Court finds that Plaintiffs are the prevailing party in this litigation, both under Civil Code Section 55 and Code of Civil Procedure Section 1021.5. and are thus entitled to seek an order for attorneys fees and costs. Counsel are directed to meet and confer to develop a briefing schedule and hearing date for plaintiffs" motion for attorneys fees and costs.
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From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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You think so?
From: CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS, RN,MD(Hons),MPH
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Based on the following, I do think that this is an interesting case on medical Jurisprudence. Your question clearly tells me that you either did not read the entire article or you are "not up there" to understand the gist of the case. THANKS FOR RESPONDING...(Dr. Curtis-Thomas)
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NATURE OF LEARNING DISABILITIES AND ADHD.
of academic and professional success, and still have difficulty with the mechanics of reading as a result of a learning disability or ADHD. Tr. at 145:10-17, 146:8-147:12, 167:12-25, 168:22-169:2, 169:9-13, 254:13-16; 401:4-20. Not all individuals with learning disabilities or ADHD, however, have difficulty reading. Tr. 152, 182 (Gregg); Tr. 376-77 (Ranseen).
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Please don't get me wrong dear learned doctor.
There are many kids in our schools who have been diagnosed with ADHD and of course I am interested in helping kids with learning difficuties such as dyslexy and especially in helping them to read.
From: Dr. C. CURTIS-THOMAS
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"Please don't get me wrong dear learned doctor.
There are many kids in our schools who have been diagnosed with ADHD and of course I am interested in helping kids with learning difficuties such as dyslexy and especially in helping them to read".(Cornelius Hamelberg)
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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The interest is there, the language and content of the article is a bit difficult and could be simplified (it’s a bit technical) and if you want you could give a simplified résumé of it. I'm sure that there are at least a few people who are interested.
In Sierra Leone, we perhaps lack the qualified personnel to work in schools to detect, diagnose such problems and give the help required - and the poor child can wind up being called ”fulumuku",” flunkey”, idiot," or even be accused of witchcraft, etc and perhaps never get a driving licence.
“Spare the rod and spoil the child”? I wonder if school kids in Sierra Leone get caned for not knowing the answer to 1+1
Child soldiers?
Historian posted that bit about marginalised Youth and their role being confined to thuggery for the SLPP etc….
Sad
And some of the older guys, domestic violence, which hopefully Hon. Solomon Kargbo will be able to discourage in Waterloo.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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I got half way through and ditched your interesting case.
I don't read everything in the Jerusalem Post either.
Sorry.
From: Dr. C. CURTIS-THOMAS
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That was exactly my point. If you lack the mental stamina to read the entire article, why not save your comment FOR THE SALVATION ARMY?
From: musa Kalawa
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Was this a total disggrace or just one kind of a fool? An fooicial who cannot enev say the US national pledge. Why didn't he reject the offer if al all he was randomly selected? For such misconduct, I suggest he be placed on one year probation period until he can clearly/say it aloud and be able to recite it without any ifs or buts.
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My take on this is that this is a Joke/prank. The officers lips were bearly in singing the national anthem.
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My take on this is that this is a Joke/prank. The officers lips were bearly in inging the national anthem.
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Was this a total disgrace or just one kind of a fool? An official who cannot even say the national pledge. Why didn't he reject the offer if at all he was randomly selected? I suggest he be place on 1year probation period until he can clearly read/say it aloud and be able to recite the US national pledge without any if or but.
From: Carl.
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"JL, This is a big indictment to your credibility. Low Low Grade San San said the house you talked about for your mom was not actually built by your dad as you boasted or claimed all along and in fact your mom is not the owner. What is your defense to this allegation or fact? Remember JL you are a person who have said a lot about your family and some people still defending you. So please dont disappoint them. Tell forumites that you're credible otherwise your entire life will be locked into a big lie-box"
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I have wanted to post about this for a while now, but most of the errant behaviour so far was on the part of that other SL newspaper that is online as well so I did not bother.
P.S. This is not a denounciation of this and that other newspaper. As a US resident, I appreciate both these outlets that allow me to keep up with news back home. Keep up the good work
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Your advice is well taken. Nahim Khadi should have simply tried to be polite with the reporter.He should have known that this was an explosive issue and his temperament would go a long way for people to believe.
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As a follow up, if Nahim did actually "chop" money like that and it can be proven, then this newspaper should follow up with the story. While I am not sure if its something that would fall under the ACC's jurisdiction, the newspaper can print the facts so that Nahim can be prosecuted for corruption. Assuming he did keep the money, being that blatant is also insulting to the country as a whole and the poor footballers who might be stars in SL but still have to worry about providing for their family. A call to Nigeria can quickly determine whether the money was given out.
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As a follow up, if Nahim did actually "chop" money like that and it can be proven, then this newspaper should follow up with the story. While I am not sure if its something that would fall under the ACC's jurisdiction, the newspaper can print the facts so that Nahim can be prosecuted for corruption. Assuming he did keep the money, being that blatant is also insulting to the country as a whole and the poor footballers who might be stars in SL but still have to worry about providing for their family. A call to Nigeria can quickly determine whether the money was given out.
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House of Scandals
Friday, 25th May 2007
Silent Resignation & Fishy Clearances
From: Moijue
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JEL: He sat in the cabinet that approved the TGS-Oil Exploration Deal that I alone was left to rail against.
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Please answer your own questions. I will never answer your questions but may contest your answers if deemed appropriate. - JL
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Be man enough to educate others who may not know.
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He says that he was "robbed" with his eyes open.
Like Sierra leone, they are still open, for business
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These are monikers,using abusive language as their debate tool.You have to stop them now!!!
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Musa Kamara is Alieu Iscandari.
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Musa Kamara is Alieu Iscandari.
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Hey Alieu, I see you used the word "stupidness", no doubt jocularly.
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Brother,your intellectual and moral integrity is highly regarded.Those bushmen by the name of Alieu sesay and independent man are a shame to our society,the black race and to humanity as a whole.They use abusive language as a form of debate,and they expect us to sit aside and read their fabrications.I know they are frustrated,because their evil and incompetent party slpp is on the brink of extinction from office.God Bless.
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Musu(a) Kamara. You are clearly describing your acts. The above statement can be attributed to you my friend. That is why the forum police and te moderator warned you.
I have always tried to stick to the issues and debate. i have only deviated when people like you tend to distort or twist the facts to suit you.
If you want to be treated like an intelligent and hornest person, quit your baseless accusations about others in Sierra Leone and on this Forum.
By the way did your Sec Gen travel with the Leader(Peggy boy) Turay? Because we would have to al3rt the FBI about him and his involvement into the torture and rape of students in Sierra Leone during the reign of the AFRC Junta.
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 07:20:15 05/28/07 ()
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Brother Iscandari,your intellectual and moral integrity is highly regarded.Those bushmen by the name of Alieu sesay and Independent man are a shame to our society,to the black race and to humanity as a whole.They use abusive language as a form of debate and they expect us to sit aside and read their fabrications.I know they are frustrated because te days of their evil and incompetent party slpp are numbered.God Bless.
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 07:04:31 05/28/07 ()
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You argue by insulting others, learn how to put your case across.I know it hurts because the days of your evil party slpp are numbered.Control your manners and language or else you get more insultive words,and stop behaving as a complete idiot.
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 06:54:23 05/28/07 ()
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You have just described your social status and your mental capability.You are pity.I know you are somewhere cleaning the toilets of decent people.You Idiot!!! You are born primitive and you remain to be a primitive and bushman till death.KAMAJOR AND HUMAN FLESH CONSUMER!!!!!!
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 06:46:54 05/28/07 ()
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Independent man and Alieu are bushmen and idiots.They have no respect for themselves and to others.If you disagree with them,they will attack you.They use abusive language as a form of debate.They have no moral integrity.Therefore,they should be kicked off from this forum,the way their ill-fated slpp would be kicked off from office soon.
From: Inferior Man
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Date Posted: 07:37:35 05/28/07 ()
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Independent Man and alieu sesay are one and the same coward: Edmond Koker.
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 17:10:24 05/28/07 ()
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You failed to do your homework. Alieu sesay is in anaheim CA and Shengbe is in NC. Westcoast and East(southEast)two completely different people and two different places.
For APC, PMDC spokesman and Charles, i have no idea.
From: ALIE KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 06:36:21 05/28/07 ()
Email Address: stepsaheadalie@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: 5ac17586.bb.sky.com at 90.193.117.134
I am astonished as how your publication can allow an ignorant such as John Leigh your medium to make his tribalistic views as to gain favours, by the SLPP party, that he once referred to as bastards when he failed in his bid to be their leader.
Leigh is either blind during the APC years or he wants to be in Ngoh Berewa's good books. But my advice to SLPP activists, is do not trust this selfish idiot as he once referred to your supporters as raray boys.
I am not supporting any party, but i think during APC rule all the tribes were all represented. Can i remind him that i was a small boy then but i can remember names like Jusu- Sheriff, Joe Jackson, Amara Bangali, JB Dauda, Francis Minah, Lamin Ngobeh, Amy Kallon and Ngendemeh all are mendes and have serve under the APC administration. So am i right to say John Leigh was either ignorant of those APC years or the money he embezzled as Ambassador is running out, and he is at logger heads with Solo B and to ensure that he is oneday recalled to steal more money, the once bastards he reffered, he is willing to be among them and may be he himself can be called a bastard as he has join the party of bastards again.
This tribalism thing should not be allowed to play on the minds of the masses. Sierra leone belong to all Sierra Leoneans and to me there is nothng like Temne land or Temne party, neither Mende Land or Mende party. I am free to vote for what ever party, that have the interest of the general populace of Sierra Leone, whether APC, SLPP OR PMDC and i should be allowed to do that without people telling me whether the party is being headed by a Temne, Fullah, Mende or Koranko. My vote is for any party whose policies are good for the entire people of Sierra Leone.
So John Leigh watch your mouth as it is the same mouth that have isolated you from the bastards club that you are so desperate to rejoin.
From: Knice
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Date Posted: 09:50:20 05/29/07 ()
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"I am not supporting any party, but i think during APC rule all the tribes were all represented. Can i remind him that i was a small boy then but i can remember names like Jusu- Sheriff, Joe Jackson, Amara Bangali, JB Dauda, Francis Minah, Lamin Ngobeh, Amy Kallon and Ngendemeh all are mendes and have serve under the APC administration. So am i right to say John Leigh was either ignorant of those APC years or the money he embezzled as Ambassador is running out, and he is at logger heads with Solo B and to ensure that he is oneday recalled to steal more money, the once bastards he reffered, he is willing to be among them and may be he himself can be called a bastard as he has join the party of bastards again".
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:42:23 05/29/07 ()
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It is well known that slpp is a tribalistic party.Who denied Dr John Karefa Smart to rule the country?
From: Tribalists
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Date Posted: 10:38:23 05/29/07 ()
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" am tired of hearing this nonesense. Such obsession with the pedigree of public officials is only one of many unfortunate APC innovations."
From: Abu Conteh
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Date Posted: 06:26:27 05/28/07 ()
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Compilation of how Victor Foh Describes Tejan Kabbah’s Legacy for Sierra Leone
By Victor Bockarie Foh: National Secretary General APC.
May 16, 2007, 21:10 Email this article
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From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 07:48:16 05/28/07 ()
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Kabbah and the slpp didn't only failed the people of Sierra-Leone but themselves as well.
From: APC
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Date Posted: 17:05:29 05/28/07 ()
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Hey rental cop. Whats up? How is work?
From: Bassie Amara
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Date Posted: 23:22:50 05/27/07 ()
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Reports coming out of Awareness Times website state that doctors are discouraged by the perenial lack of water and electricity at the Governement hospital and students are equally appaled by the same fate that continues to plague the oldest/highest institution of Learning in our nation. I wonder if the Kabba government or the ruling party are bothered by this at all. I wonder if the provision of these basic necessities to these wonderful institutions must be done by a faraway countries/governments like Kabba's Libya. I wonder when Salone is ever going to have a RESPONSIBLE and ACCOUNTABLE leader and government that treats issues like these with the priority they deserve.
From: MUSA KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 08:31:07 05/28/07 ()
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I hope Sierra-Leoneans this time around will open their eyes to make the right choice.Sierra-Leone needs a leader who has the country deep inside the heart.
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 00:09:23 05/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Dude, be for real... we don't have leaders in Salone!
What we have are leading henchmen who are into politics for the milking.
Don't you read all the trash on this forum from their card-carrying yesmen?
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 05:26:56 05/28/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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Will like to be a leader who will change himself the way you want to country to be? If yes,do it now.
From: Story Teller
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Date Posted: 19:12:55 05/27/07 ()
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Once upon a time, a defiant little gal living in the outskirts of Foulah Town had the practice of staying out late in the streets.
she would knock, and mother would open the door. She would warn her about staying out late, and then open the door.
"Gbrrrrrrrr.... dubb, gbrrrrrrrrrrr ... dubbp.
"Gbrrrrrrrr.... dubb, gbrrrrrrrrrrr ... dubbp.
Mama yae do cam
Something don catch me tonight"
Ah bin dae tell you say nor waka nar ne
Sometin don catch you tonight"
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:11:19 05/28/07 ()
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TO HER MOTHER SHE CRIED OUT THE SONG:
Mama yae mama yae do come,
Mama yae mama yae do come,
Penti go ker me go to night.
AND THE MOTHER REPLIED:
Ar nor bin sen you go tonight,
Ar nor bin sen you go tonight,
Ar nor bin sen you go tonight,
Penti go kerr you go tonight.
AND TO HER FATHER SHE CRIED OUT THE SONG:
papa yae papa yae do come,
papa yae papa yae do come,
Penti go ker me go to night.
AND THE FATHER REPLIED:
Ar nor bin sen you go tonight,
Ar nor bin sen you go tonight,
Ar nor bin sen you go tonight,
Penti go kerr you go tonight.
From: APOPKA
To: All
Date Posted: 23:08:40 05/27/07 ()
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Bravo!
Any break from Salone politics (way nor get hade, e nor get tail)is refreshing.
From: Why SLPP?
To: All
Date Posted: 17:15:44 05/27/07 ()
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Gunfire used to be the only music in Sierra Leone. By Dave Bidini
May 27, 2007 04:30 AM
Dave Bidini
From: APOPKA
To: All
Date Posted: 12:05:28 05/27/07 ()
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Subject: Cultural Education: The folk tales of Sa Lon
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 19:02:11 03/06/06 ()
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Forumites, please allow me to make a suggestion:
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 12:54:43 05/27/07 ()
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Sengbe,
Ananse stories
Amie Kallon, S.E. Rogers and the definitive collection of Mende Short stories, when?
If you used to be a waiter or school teacher, you're not that any more, you're a righter......and they had better call you that.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 10:41:42 05/27/07 ()
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Sir Tejan? Yes, one good turn deserves another. As Chancellor of the USL he gives Tony a Dr. Title and hopes to join Sir Milton and Sir Albert in the Knights’ Kingdom of greater Commonwealth beings.
Congratulations to a classmate at POW Leonard Gordon-Harris.
Congratulations to a classmate at FBC Mr. Josef A. Carpenter
Congratulations to Mrs. Bernadette Cole
Congratulations to Ms. Delma Dove-Edwin
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 05:52:44 05/28/07 ()
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Dis Bra get mind pass mark.
Can you believe that no one has sought the extradiction of Justin Musa?
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 01:30:24 05/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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25 May: Soldiers this morning overthrew the civilian government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. The coup was led by Major Johnny Paul Koroma, who announced Sunday that he had taken control of the country. "As custodians of state security and defenders of the constitution (we) have today decided to overthrow the Sierra Leone Peoples Party government because of their failure to consolidate the claims achieved by the brokers of peace," Koroma told the nation. He accused Kabbah's government of being "nurtured on tribal and sectional conflict." Koroma said he has invited RUF leader Foday Sankoh to join his government. "In this regard we appeal to the international community and the Nigerian government in particular to release Corporal Foday Sankoh," he said. Gunfire continued into the evening hours as looting soldiers moved around the city in vehicles commandeered from civilians, NGO's, and the government; soldiers also burned down the Treasury building. Freetown is under a dusk-to-dawn curfew, and coup leaders have said that looters, military or civilian, will be shot on sight. The country's borders have been sealed and Lungi Airport and the seaports have been ordered closed. Coup leaders and a Guinean newspaper said President Kabbah has fled to Conakry, Guinea. Connaught Hospital reported 5 dead--including 2 civilians--and 21 injured by midday, but said more casualties were expected.
26 May: Soldiers have arrested 5 former ministers of former civilian government, and are conducting house-to-house searches for others. The five, whose names have not yet been released, are being detained at military headquarters. AFRC spokesman Captain Paul Thomas urged people to return to work, but businesses have remained closed. Hundreds of people have ventured out to view the damage from fighting around the presidential offices. Thomas said that persons whose vehicles had been commandeered by soldiers could now come to collect them, and he apologized for the inconvenience. The coup leaders have asked that students be allowed to take their GCE examinations, and soldiers have been observed escorting children to school. Foday Sankoh has remained noncommittal on the AFRC's invitation for him to join their government. "You have to watch the situation before you talk," he said.
27 May: The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) has suspended the constitution and banned political parties and activity. They promised to announce a timetable for elections soon.
28 May: The Revolutionary United Front High Command today ordered its fighters to back the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. A statement from RUF leader Foday Sankoh was read over SLBS (state radio) at 10:00 GMT, ordering the rebels to stop all attacks and to adopt a defensive posture. "Be on the defensive. All instructions--former instructions--for operations should be cancelled. All commanders should be on the defensive," the statement said. Sankoh ordered RUF fighters to cooperate with the military to defend Sierra Leone's sovereignty. "We ask you to work with (the army) so that peace will prevail in our beloved motherland. So I will like you all to work with them as brothers; we are no more enemies. The enemies are the politicians, not the soldiers." Field commanders were instructed that their orders from Sankoh will now come through Major Johnny Paul Koroma, the leader of the AFRC.
From: ENERGY MINISTER
To: All
Date Posted: 01:27:34 05/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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Investigating Ghana's energy crisis
By Barbara Kuukua Oppong
BBC NewsMaker in Accra
Energy minister KT Hammond says the situation is under control
Ghana's energy crisis began last August - and continues today, with estimates that it could cost the country's economy millions of dollars.
Families say the energy crisis is making their lives uncomfortable
The people I spoke to in the capital Accra are fed up with the situation, and the youth in particular are losing confidence in the government's ability to solve the problem.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 00:19:30 05/27/07 ()
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From Freetown
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 09:49:24 05/27/07 ()
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The visit - if it comes off should please the SLPP no end - that rather than Prince Harry being posted to do some construction work in Sierra Leone, is indicative of hope for the SL govt. Hopefully Hilary Benn (the nicest and most patient member of the cabinet) will retain his portfolio.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 21:18:56 05/26/07 ()
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Whose man is he??
Great men can come from very humble origins. Many stepping stones certainly bridge Mr. Berewa’s journey from being a CKC schoolmaster to being the undisputed leader of the SLPP, and no crying over split milk about it, cry babies.
In which sense then is V-P Berewa the democratically elected leader of the SLPP, not h” his own man”?
We have one no less than Mr. Leigh, SLPP’s Cocorioko trumpeter endorsing Mr. Berewa with these words “I want better standards of government services for the people hence I am supporting VP Berewa and the SLPP”
This means that Mr. Berewa is Mr. Leigh’s man or does it mean that anyone who endorses Mr. Berewa is in fact not effectively endorsing Mr. Berewa, but only in his capacity as puppet or Alhaji Kabbah. We must also make a clear distinction between poodle and puppet or even a parrot…… (Of his master’s voice
When Mr. Berewa becomes president, what kind of president would he be? Will he then be his own man?
He's just going to love this faithfullee lapdog piece, up in neon lights again:
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 01:35:15 05/27/07 ()
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Prof Jimmy Kandeh sounds like a desperate man. He has thrown everything at Bewera, and non has stuck. He is now resorting to telling tales. What a damn shame!
I dealt with Berewa and the late Garvas Betts several times in the past, and by all indications Berewa was very much his own man and quite an excellent lawyer. He was and is in no way anybody's carpet boy.
From: Dennis Deensie Watcher
To: All
Date Posted: 22:51:28 05/29/07 ()
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Hey Deensie you should really keep quiet...So when are you going to be Tamba Moiwo again? Deensie fooolulooluu...masquerading from one moniker to the other.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:24:01 05/27/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear I-MAN:
From: Bassie Amara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:39:40 05/27/07 ()
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John Leigh is indeed a desperate Berewa "Peggy Boy". It is absolutely unbelievable how Leigh has been heapping praises upon praises on Berewa so blindly that even a fool (like Leigh) can easily tell that all he wants is a job., A job so that he can recover his losses from his failed attempt at the SLPP leadership. What a great "batto man" Berewa has gotten himself. You know, Leigh has no job in the U.S. or anywhere else in the world. I am sure that Berewa has dished out some of our foreign aide monies to the loud mouth Leigh. I am also sure that Leigh has a "balanji" that he uses during his "Jeliba" trips to his boss Berewa.
Leigh must be stupid to not know that Berewa is a crook and is not good for Sierra Leone. I hope registered voters can vote someone else this time. Anyone but Berewa. Trust me forumites, if Berewa loses the elections, we will see the same psychotic hopelessness come out of Leigh as happened following the Makeni "combention".
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 09:17:56 05/27/07 ()
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" I guess that was all part of the rigging process too right????? "
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 22:25:23 05/26/07 ()
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It is beyond speculation or dispute that
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 01:08:22 05/27/07 ()
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Own Man, Yone Man, Boogie Man or not, Ernest is going to lose come August 11, 2007
From: Loser Lee
To: All
Date Posted: 12:58:46 05/27/07 ()
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Don't you mean {John}Ernest is going to lose come August 11, 2007
From: Alieu Sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 14:50:01 05/27/07 ()
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Arh! john Ernest is not a Presidential Candidate. Try again
From: Full Coker
To: All
Date Posted: 12:31:36 05/28/07 ()
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Koker, when are you EVER going to start understanding anything you read?
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 13:26:49 05/28/07 ()
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Quit assuming people know what you write. I am not a mind reader/psychic. I read what i see and not what you think.
And onething i know, SLPP will win the elections so your premise that leigh will lose when the SLPP loose is false.
Finally, quit calling me KOKER. He is thirty years older thatn me. YOU DAE MAKE ME ADE DAE BIG. Because calling me KoKer means i am causing you some harm.
From: Full Coker
To: All
Date Posted: 09:42:06 05/29/07 ()
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As usual, Koker, you failed to understand what you read. Let me simplify it for you further:
From: Almamy Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 20:32:52 05/26/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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I just read Jimmy Kandeh's statement on Solomon Berewa and was thinking of what John Leigh said about the flaws of the Berewa-Kabbah constitution.
Sometime ago, I read negative postings over Hinga Norman and Foday Kalokoh's death. Its disturbing knowing SL produces people with such in their minds.
I wondered if the majority in SL recognizes God...
From: M.Yusuf Bah
To: All
Date Posted: 22:41:45 05/26/07 ()
Email Address: dyuzif@msn.com
Entered From: adsl-219-54-209.asm.bellsouth.net at 68.219.54.209
We hear this all the time "first impressions last". Reading Mr.Kandeh's piece on Mr.Berewa makes me wonder if these sentiments are shared whom and to what extent? Personalities are carved indescreminately by nature but shaping it up is our responsibility-personal.
From: FORUM POLICE
To: All
Date Posted: 19:15:19 05/26/07 ()
Email Address:
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Please stick to the issues and make your points with clear, concise arguments. Stop insulting other forumites. Take this warning seriously, brother
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 10:40:07 05/27/07 ()
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Stop insulting other forumites. Take this warning seriously, brother.
From: NOTE
To: All
Date Posted: 11:24:53 05/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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This just tells you that Musa Kamara is Alieu Iscandri
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 08:42:30 05/28/07 ()
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I am NOT musa Kamara. That I stood up for impartiality in the decisions of the Forum Police and Moderator does not make he, I.
From: Mind Your Language
To: All
Date Posted: 22:20:24 05/28/07 ()
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"does not make he, I."
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 23:16:02 05/28/07 ()
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heheheheheheh did you understand what I meant? I know that I am gramattically correct but what the hell as long as I understand you or you, I. ROTFLMMFAO
From: ok dot
To: All
Date Posted: 12:51:18 05/28/07 ()
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I agree with you Alieu,the hypocrisy of the mod and the so-called forum police stinks.Their impartial nature of applying their so called forum laws is glaring.
There are so many people on this forum who have used curse words when they disagree with other forumites but we have never heard a word from them.What have they done to Okobo Saidu who has on more than one occasions gone personal against your family or comical Aleigh slandering a presidential candidate or the so-called lawyer in England who would go nuclear when he disagrees with you.
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 11:13:26 05/29/07 ()
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ok dok,
From: alieu sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:16:45 05/27/07 ()
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Small world(sarcasm).
From: MODERATOR
To: All
Date Posted: 19:28:29 05/26/07 ()
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Thanks for the observation, Forum Police. I was just begining to gear up with our high definition filters and sensors, otherwise. Hope they heed.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:14:49 05/26/07 ()
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Katherine Anne Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American media personality who became well-known as co-host of NBC's Today. In 2006, she made a highly publicized move from NBC to CBS, and on September 5, 2006 she became the first woman to solo-anchor the weekday evening news on one of the three traditional U.S. broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC). She currently serves as the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News. Couric is one of only seven women to have been repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine.
Couric was born in Arlington, Virginia to Elinor Hene, a homemaker and part-time writer, and John Martin Couric Jr., a journalist at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the United Press in Washington, D.C. Couric's father was Episcopalian and her mother was Jewish.[1] Her maternal grandparents, Berthold B. Hene and Clara L. Froshin, were the children of Jewish immigrants from Germany.[2] In a report for The Today Show, she traced her paternal ancestry back to a French orphan who immigrated to the U.S. in the nineteenth century and became a broker in the cotton business. Couric attended Yorktown High School, in Arlington Virginia.[3] She enrolled in the University of Virginia in 1975, graduating in 1979 with a degree in American Studies. She was a sister in the Delta Delta Delta sorority. At the University, she served in several positions at the school's award-winning daily newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. During her third year at the University, Couric was chosen to live as Head Resident of The Lawn, the heart of Thomas Jefferson's academic village.
[edit] Television career
Couric's reporting career began when she was hired by Stan Hooper as a desk assistant for the ABC News bureau in Washington, D.C., later joining CNN as an assignment editor. Between 1984 and 1986, she worked as a general-assignment reporter for WTVJ in Miami, Florida. During the following two years, she reported for WRC-TV, an NBC station in Washington, D.C., work which earned her an Associated Press award and an Emmy. Couric joined NBC News in 1989 as Deputy Pentagon Correspondent. From 1989 to 1991, Couric as an anchor substitute and filled in for Bryant Gumbel as host of Today, Jane Pauley, and Deborah Norville as co-anchor of Today, Garrick Utley, Mary Alice Williams, and Maria Shriver as co-host of Sunday Today, John Palmer, Norville, and Faith Daniels as anchor of the former NBC News program NBC News at Sunrise. She also subbed for Daniels, Norville, and John Palmer as the news anchor on Today. In 1990, she joined Today as national correspondent, becoming a substitute co-host in February 1991 when Norville had a baby. Norville never returned and Couric became permanent co-anchor on Thursday, April 5, 1991. In 1992, she became co-anchor, of "NBC Now" an evening time weekly TV newsmagazine with Tom Brokaw, which was later canceled and folded into part of Dateline NBC, where her reports appeared regularly and she was named contributing rockstar. She remained at Today and NBC News until May 31, 2006, when she announced that she would be going to CBS to anchor the CBS Evening News, becoming the first solo female anchor of any of the "big three" weekday nightly news broadcasts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Couric
From: Non-Partisan Observer
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Date Posted: 16:11:24 05/26/07 ()
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The Story continues...
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 15:29:51 05/26/07 ()
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Can you read and write in your language?which I guess is mende.Your English is below o'level standard.
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 17:39:18 05/26/07 ()
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You keep showing you ass in public each time you post.
You are a dumb ass, ill-formed, kabu-looking, backward oriented, samba-gutter-like minded, malnorished fool.
You come from a class of low-lives and backward people.
From: BEHAVE YOURSELF
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Date Posted: 18:10:35 05/26/07 ()
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Sengbe, you have been told repeatedly that rudeness is not a substitute for reason. Behave yourself.
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 19:10:15 05/26/07 ()
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Musa, you are a shameless, tribalistic, un-broughtup, ill-formed, kabu-looking, munku-thinking, backward-oriented idiot.
For you to call others primitive is laughable.... Dar Pan body with dorty floor way you grow up in nar Sa. Lone, nar you day can call other people dem bushman?
You dumb ass tribalistic punk!!!
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 15:22:31 05/26/07 ()
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You are a shame to the human race.You ass hole and stupid idiot!!!!human flesh consumer.You better control your primitive manners
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 17:40:19 05/26/07 ()
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Musa, you are a shameless, tribalistic, un-broughtup, ill-formed, kabu-looking, munku-thinking, backward-oriented idiot.
For you to call others primitive is laughable.... Dar Pan body with dorty floor way you grow up in nar Sa. Lone, nar you day can call other people dem bushman?
You dumb ass tribalistic punk!!!
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 15:18:48 05/26/07 ()
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You are a shame to our country.You foolish and idiot dumb.Frog and human consumers.Stupid idiot!!!!!
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 17:41:22 05/26/07 ()
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You keep showing you ass in public each time you post.
You are a dumb ass, ill-formed, kabu-looking, backward oriented, samba-gutter-like minded, malnorished fool.
You come from a class of low-lives and backward people
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 15:14:54 05/26/07 ()
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They survived the rebel war, now they have to survive the gangster life in the U.S. This is unlike the previous generation of Sierra Leoneans.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 16:56:48 05/26/07 ()
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. King Loggy, the lack of proper lack of mentorship and good education are a huge factor. Most Sierra Leoneans youths come to the United States without proper preparation educationally and even understanding the American system. When they get here, they most likely meet other Sierra Leoneans who misdirect them or stay in their way because a host of us come to the outside world with the traditional mentality of wanting to be recognized as the elder or one who had been in a certain position in Sierra Leone therefore, the idea of an equal playing field that guarantees to give every one the opportunity to thrive, serves as a threat to this "respect" we wish to continue to enjoy in the African sense. Most who had strong will were reported to the INS over minor issues therefore, were deported. The idea that we are here to compete has turned people against people, dividing us while other nationalities boast of using their intellect, cultural cohesiveness to bring world attention to their rich cultures and thereby bringing wealth to their nations.
But in our case, even if the world intends to make a single person, we are the ones that will devise every mechanism to pull them down. The pull-down syndrome.
A host of these youths came at a time when they had inculcated the idealism that violent means are the only way to resolve problems. Therefore, such mentality haven been nurtured by the brutal war we had, and coming to the States, where most advocates of war and blind-folders and the lack of haven families and friends to lead them in the right direction, they turn to the streets.
On the whole, most Sierra Leoneans who went colleges and universities in Sierra Leone before they ventured out of the country had something to look-up to because they have received adequate training therefore, with or without mentors they can rely on the initial strength they had received through education and examples of people who had made it in Sierra Leone. Therefore, regardless of turbulences other Sierra Leoneans put them through they rely on a legacy they would want to live and better examples to live for the future generation.
By and large, the Sierra Leonean community in the Diaspora is not as organized as other communities to leverage the opportunity to lift each other up, the community and the nation. A majority of us are grappling with the problem of understanding the new cultures we find ourselves as oppose to our cultural beliefs regardless of the amount of time we may have spent in the Diaspora.
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 15:13:58 05/26/07 ()
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You primitive,bushman,idiot and stupid.CANNIBAL KAMAJOR!!!!frog consumer
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 17:34:06 05/26/07 ()
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Musa, you are a shameless, tribalistic, un-broughtup, ill-formed, kabu-looking, munku-thinking, backward-oriented idiot.
For you to call others primitive is laughable.... Dar Pan body with dorty floor way you grow up in nar Sa. Lone, nar you day can call other people dem bushman?
You dumb ass tribalistic punk!!!
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 15:13:38 05/27/07 ()
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musu-a Kamara is insane. We have clearly frustrated his every move on this forum and has now resorted to cuss cuss and name calling.
From: Lamin S
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Date Posted: 11:27:01 05/26/07 ()
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I have just come back from the Mother Land and I am wonder why you guys go on abusing yourselves when both parties SLPP and APC have ruined the counrty. With the SLPP currently in charge no SLPP contributor should come on to this FORUM without firstly stating when he or she last was in the country. A lot of you guys have not been home!! How can you defend what is there?The country is in a mess. Pa Kabba nor try!!
Does Pa Kabba know that Choithrams hospital does not take in just anybody? So if your relatives take you there, you might have wasted valuable time after being turned down.
Does Pa kabba know that the roads off Adelaide St can host a Paris to Freetown Rally. What is the Roads Authority doing? Why cant he tell them to build one road a year with road tax money from each gallon of petrol sold in that country?
Does he know that the SLRA are useing oil paint to demarcate the lanes in Freetown! Proper road paint that should last minum 3 years will only last one rainy season so that the order will be put in again. The NPRC boys to their small credit did Brookfields. What has Kabba done!!
Does Kabba know that Bobson has deforested all of Hill station and that he bought and has built on stolen land?
What can Kabba boast off?
Has Kabba been to the schools to see that even though he has built schools to meet Donor requirements a lot of these schools are empty, due to not enough teachers or incentives for teachers to go and live in these far flung places.
Does kabba know that Bumbuna will not be enough to serve Freetown when ever it comes on stream? Is Kabba happy to have the darkest city on the planet....But did have a couple of street lights at christmas of which was trumpeted as the second comming !
One thing I know for sure is that Berewa will only accelerate the demise of the country. APC on the wings will be no better.
I had not been home in 5 years and I am shock. We have serious problems
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 14:41:33 05/26/07 ()
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"John Leigh and others are prepared to die to win the next elections when they well know that cannot better the standards of the citizens!" - Lamin
more qualified than both him and peggyboy. - JL
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:25:02 05/26/07 ()
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" I am not prepared to die for anyone or any party.
The Gongorlee blues?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:19:55 05/26/07 ()
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You are not prepared to die not prepared for death as president....
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 17:11:33 05/26/07 ()
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JOHN ERNEST LEIGH why did u refuse to attend the funeral of CHIEF NORMAN in his village?
From: PROVE HIM WRONF
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Date Posted: 11:12:10 05/26/07 ()
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JL, This is a big indictment to your credibility. Low Low Grade San San said the house you talked about for your mom was not actually built by your dad as you boasted or claimed all along and in fact your mom is not the owner. What is your defense to this allegation or fact? Remember JL you are a person who have said a lot about your family and some people still defending you. So please dont disappoint them. Tell forumites that you're credible otherwise your entire life will be locked into a big lie-box.
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 12:49:40 05/26/07 ()
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PROVE HIM WRONGE,
From: Advice
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Date Posted: 13:07:43 05/27/07 ()
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LOW-G:
From: corporate taxes fraud
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Date Posted: 11:21:59 05/26/07 ()
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"Tell forumites that you're credible otherwise your entire life will be locked into a big lie-box."
From: POLITICIAN
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Date Posted: 09:30:29 05/26/07 ()
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FROM THE PATRITIC VANGUARD
Bo: SLPP Doles out Party Symbols
- Saturday 26 May 2007.
From: ECONOMIST
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Date Posted: 09:22:20 05/26/07 ()
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Low-income countries receive US$ 265 million to send millions of children to school
story-educationicon
Fast Track Initiative (FTI) and the World Bank
From: Olu Beckley
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Date Posted: 04:44:27 05/26/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
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5 more days- "I will have reached my term limit in May, 2007".
From: HONESTLY SPEAKING
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Date Posted: 04:00:44 05/26/07 ()
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Why is the SLPP trying to kill Charles Margai?
And to those SLPP fanatics, please do not come blowing hot air claiming it's a lie.
Is the SLPP trying to start another civil war with the crude politics of the past?
Why is the SLPP trying to kill Margai?
I am no Margai fan but I am wondering why the SLPP would want to assassinate an opponent?
From: APC
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Date Posted: 12:51:36 05/26/07 ()
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It is illogical for SLPP to do anything to Maggai.
His party is Broke, his executive is fastly depleting, he will be lucky to win a seat in Parliament.
So why will SLPP want to Kill HIM? Hmm
It does not make sense.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 13:44:28 05/26/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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APC, please take it from me: PMDC will never be that lucky enough to win even one single seat in parliament. And in the highly unlikelu event they do win a seat, it would be by the slimest of margins and the winner will soon declare for the SLPP.
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 13:49:27 05/26/07 ()
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JL u will eat your word when the results start coming in.
Berewa and your very self have spent more time talking about Margai and PMDC than you have spent telling people how you will develop salone.
Na dry eye coba shame oona de pa.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 14:56:38 05/26/07 ()
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"Na dry eye coba shame oona de pa." - Moijue
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 11:59:08 05/26/07 ()
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Why is the SLPP trying to kill Charles Margai?
From: Independent Man
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Date Posted: 11:57:50 05/26/07 ()
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Only a fool will believe the story that someone is trying to kill Margai. The man and his party are desperately seeking attention. They smell defeat and are trying to create sympathy for themselves.
E Lef pan dem
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 13:46:26 05/26/07 ()
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PMDC is not a serious factor in the 2007 elections. TOO DUMB! - JL
From: Foday Kamara
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Date Posted: 08:23:41 05/26/07 ()
Email Address: alakabor2004@yahoo.com
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Margai is S.L.P.P.'S Worst nightmare. Margai has removed fifty percent of their votes right inside the own house. They have a huge hole in their heart after Margai left them, a hole no politician or jujuman can fix. Its like being in a wicked and dangerous cult were they do all kind of bad things secretly and one of the strong members defected from this cult, and this defector knows all the secret, all their weakness and decided to fight against them for all their wrong doings. That's why they want to kill him , people should not be suprised of this incident because that is the little games of the S.L.P.P.
From: Alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 12:40:14 05/26/07 ()
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Maggai has moved nothing from the SLPP. This is not the first time that man is moving to another party...thios is the third/fourth time. He has been in and out of the SLPP and has had no effect on the SLPP and their ability to win the votes.
From: CADMUS
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Date Posted: 07:26:46 05/26/07 ()
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HONESTLY SPEAKING,
It is like they want to get their retaliation in first...making excuses even before a single vote is cast.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 14:01:22 05/26/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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CADMUS:
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 07:15:42 05/26/07 ()
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Honestly Speaking:
PMDC will desert him return to SLPP or APC when they realize he does not have money and has no chance of winning.( Election time is for people to make money, even in the U.S.)
Charles critizes SLPP about corruption, a government that he is a member of. If he is so incensed with corruption why did n't he resign from the govt and party. Why did he wait till he lost the SLPP nomination.
From: Killing Margai
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Date Posted: 06:57:42 05/26/07 ()
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What makes you think it is true?
From: Abdul
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Date Posted: 19:41:20 05/25/07 ()
Email Address: a.carr@tiscalli.com
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www.idea-uk.com
Abdul,
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:18:13 05/25/07 ()
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I will not open, let alone respond to any posting bearing certain names including Low Grade Dis or Low Grade DAT. - JL
From: Almamy Seray-Wurie Si
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Date Posted: 16:41:02 05/25/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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Amb Leigh,
I think SLPP would be better with a strong opposition. Events like what happened in Makeni Convention would stop happening, the delay in naming a running mate, Gbateh Kaka, and all games would be checked.
If the majority of Sierra Leonean like APC-SLPP to continue then reformist from within must be encouraged (Like I think you are)..
Sometimes I read you postings on APC but wonder if you are really that democratic. The father of APC was Siaka Stevens who was totally against regionalism etc. Sir Milton Margai was the same as I was told.
I think Tejan Kabbah is more tolerant than Solomon Berewa..You were not given room to help as much as you wished under Kabbah, so I wonder if Solomon Berewa would listen to honest tongues in SL or SL's diaspora
From: BEHAVE YOURSELF
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Date Posted: 18:24:45 05/25/07 ()
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Mr. Leigh:
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:18:30 05/26/07 ()
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Mr. BEHAVE YOURSELF:
From: BEHAVE YOURSELF
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Date Posted: 18:09:20 05/26/07 ()
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"Frankly, I thoroughly enjoy dealing with contradicting views."
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:57:37 05/25/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Whatever a government is, it would need a strong opposition to do a good job in the public interest.
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
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Date Posted: 11:51:39 05/26/07 ()
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So to me, the only place a good opposition resides right now is in the reform wing of the SLPP.
LICKER, you told a lie about a property in Kormende in Bo and you have been busted. Now you have finally reached your WATERLOO. Because there is no reform wing in this forum for useless lairs like yourself John Ernest Leigh.
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 03:28:14 05/26/07 ()
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John Leigh Berewa was part and parcel of the same regime u were decrying yesterday.Did he not lie to u that he was not interested in becoming VP in 2002 when he joined SLPP? Was he not present when you were shouted upon by Prince Harding, and what did he do?
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:43:40 05/26/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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"John Leigh Berewa was part and parcel of the same regime u were decrying yesterday.Did he not lie to u that he was not interested in becoming VP in 2002 when he joined SLPP? Was he not present when you were shouted upon by Prince Harding, and what did he do?
No, he did not. But supposed he did, so what? I do not understand what you are aiming at.
3. "Was he [VP Berewa] not present when you were shouted upon by Prince Harding, and what did he do?"
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 13:45:29 05/26/07 ()
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Fifth, a failed attempt was made at the 2002 Bo Nominating Convention to humiliate and discredit Ambassador Leigh. When Mr. Leigh rose to correctly point out that those individuals purporting to be the genuine delegates from SLPP North America were, in fact, self-serving crooks, Ambassador Leigh was told to “Shut Up” and “Sit Down” by the officials conducting the crooked convention. President Kabbah, VP Berewa and other top officials were present but remained silent leaving the distinct impression that the whole exercise had been rehearsed. Only two courageous members objected from the floor while other shocked members later went to Mr. Leigh’s lodgings to offer their sympathy.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 14:19:41 05/26/07 ()
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Moijue:
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Posted by Moijue on May 26, 2007 at 13:45:29:
From: Moijue
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Date Posted: 13:37:42 05/26/07 ()
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In ur Agenda for change:
Your view on Berewa and Kabba
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 14:26:53 05/26/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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SO what? I still stand by my criticisms of the Kabbah-Berewa NPRC Draft Constitution.
From: Almamy Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 17:15:48 05/25/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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Thanks for your response...
Like it happened in SLPP Makeni, so APC Port Loko cooked leadership. The problem is the Sierra Leonean culture (mentality)which I think we must change.
*When will the playing field be close to being level?
*When will we accept change even if it cost kinship/friendship?
*Why did it take so long for Solomon Berewa to unearth Charles Margai's wuki-wuki as Home Minister? I mean the contracts given to his wife plus open-secret girl-friend
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 13:34:48 05/26/07 ()
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Mr. Seray-Wurie:
From: Almamy Seray-Wurie Si
To: All
Date Posted: 19:46:51 05/26/07 ()
Email Address: almamysi@hotmail.com
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Did you read Jimmy Kandeh's "BEREWA IS NOT HIS OWN MAN" and What will happen if someone of such (as described a character)is in charge (considering the Constitution you criticised)?
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 21:36:28 05/26/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Mr. Seray-Wurie:
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:40:52 05/25/07 ()
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"........Prof you surely can write good English but be prepared to do another piece lamenting your party's demise after August 11. In as much as I sympathize with your frustrations, the fact is that the SLPP is going to win and your right hand man, Margai, is just not a viable alternative." - Cee Bah
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You have searched my public record and you've found absolutely nothing negative about me. John E. Leigh
Her home is located near the old railway workers’ compound in Komende, Bo. It fronts the old railway line that once linked Bo to Gerihun. John Ernest Leigh August 1, 2005 in Freetown
YOU HAVE BEEN ECONOMICAL WITH THE TRUTH HERE, THIS HOUSE IN KORMENDE WAS BUILT BY THE SELLUS AND IS OWNED BY THE SELLU FAMILY IN BO. IT WASN'T BUILT BY YOUR DAD NOR DOES IT BELONG TO YOUR MUM.
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Another Vessel Missing at Freeport. Security Director and Deputies suspended
The mysterious departure of the vessel loaded with scrap metals has led to the suspension of two of the port's senior officers, Free Port Police Director Colonel Michael P. Williams and his two Deputies, Colonels Patrick S. Nyumah and Lorenzo G. Gbendeh.
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Exam Leakage C’ttee Fails To Report
Thursday, 24th May 2007
By Melissa Chea-Annan
A scene at one of the centers the exam was administered The seven-man probe Committee set up to investigate the leakages of the May 2007 West African Examinations, yesterday failed to make public the outcome of its findings.
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( From THE NEW REPUBLIC
A TNR SYMPOSIUM
Tony Blair's Legacy
by David Fontana, Alex Massie & Oliver Kamm
Only at TNR Online | Post date 05.15.07
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Editor's Note: Last week, Tony Blair announced that, after ten years as prime minister of Great Britain, he would step down from office this June. To mark what has been a historic run as one of the world's most visible leaders, TNR ONLINE asked three experts for their take on Blair and his legacy. Here are their responses.
Oliver Kamm
Alex Massie
David Fontana
The truth is more prosaic. Blair was a consummately effective politician. When he was first elected to Parliament, in 1983, the Labour Party--through extremism, infighting, and patent incredibility--might easily have suffered a slow extinction on the model of the French communists. When he became leader of the opposition, in 1994, Labour had lost four successive elections. Many doubted that it would ever hold office again. Blair reshaped the political landscape. He made Labour--for the first time ever--not only a natural, but the obvious, party of government.
There germinated the seeds for the widespread contempt felt for Blair today by the commentariat. (That view is apparently not held by the electorate. A Guardian/ICM poll this week showed Blair's ratings remained high among Labour supporters and that he retained the respect of voters of all parties.) Even commentators hostile to Labour found Blair plausible, articulate, and emollient. What they failed to notice was that Blair augured little and promised less--deliberately so. He dealt in symbols: greater probity in government; openness to Europe; fiscal responsibility; and a rejection of even Labour's nominal historic commitment to socialism. But he represented a tabula rasa on which a heterogeneous collection of declared sympathizers could write their own political programs. Some were bound to be disappointed. The more self-obsessed among them would feel personally betrayed.
In truth, Blair has presided over significant constitutional and social reform: central bank independence; devolved government for Scotland and Wales; civil partnerships for same-sex couples; political accommodation, if not strictly peace, in Northern Ireland; and the development of a broad political consensus about the scale, organization and distributional aims of the welfare state. He has occasionally erred in the direction of populism and illiberalism. But the balance of achievement in domestic policy is substantial.
The principal source of hostility to Blair is his instinctive alliance with the United States. Aspersions against "Bush's poodle" are as ubiquitous as they are ill-conceived. Blair's belief in humanitarian intervention predates President Bush. It is principally due to Blair that Slobodan Milosevic's genocidal aggression was stymied in Kosovo and that murderous hand-lopping rebels in Sierra Leone were rebuffed.
After September 11, Blair stood with the United States not out of deference but because he understood two great facts of the international order since the cold war. First, a new variant of theocratic terrorism gains sustenance from the pathologies of tyranny in the Middle East. Second, in the absence of a supranational organization that exercises the sovereignty necessary to implement international law, the United States is the guarantor of order and liberty. The place of democratic nations, benefiting from those global public goods, is alongside the United States. The maladministration and disasters of post-Saddam Iraq are legion. The prospect of a conclusive resolution to that war is slim. But much the same was true of Harry Truman's commitment of troops to Korea, now a largely "forgotten" war that nonetheless needed to be fought in response to direct totalitarian aggression.
Tony Blair believes the overthrow of Baathist tyranny in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan will be historically vindicated while remaining politically unpopular. I believe he is right. Blair has been a good and effective prime minister. He will also be--unexpectedly, and with no obvious previous interest in foreign affairs--an outstanding figure in diplomatic history and the defense of Western civilization.
Alex Massie:
Whatever else he may be accused of, no one, I think, can deny that Tony Blair has more than made up for Wilson's unwillingness to involve Britain in America's imperial adventures. The Black Watch has played its part, too, serving with distinction in Mesopotamia. And that may be Blair's legacy as much as anything else.
Blair swept into Downing Street declaring he wanted Britain to be at the "heart of Europe," yet the Blair years have sometimes suggested that the English Channel is broader than the Atlantic Ocean. The prime minister's belief that Great Britain can be a bridge between the United States and Europe has been sorely tested since Bush took office. Sometimes, it has seemed as though traffic runs only one way.
But that analysis ignores the real influence Blair has had upon Washington--not least in convincing many Democrats that the war was justified and prudent. (Whether his influence was beneficial is an entirely different matter.) That's why Labourite Gordon Brown's biggest challenge may be to balance Great Britain's interests in Europe with its commitment to the Atlantic alliance. We may expect some subtle distancing from Washington, if only to demonstrate that Brown is his own man.
It won't be an easy task to show independence, given that Brown is instinctively and intellectually even more of an Atlanticist than Blair was when he became prime minister. Where Blair prefers to holiday in Tuscany or Catalonia, Brown spends part of each summer in New England.
Brown's favorite political biography is Robert Caro's monumental study of Lyndon Johnson, of which he wrote in 2002, "[S]urprisingly with LBJ there is real achievement. He made the desirable possible. Without the debacle of Vietnam he was heading to be one of the great domestic policy Presidents." Swap Iraq for Vietnam and it might once have seemed possible to say the same of Tony Blair.
Blair claimed last week that, on his watch, "Britain is not a follower. It is a leader." But many of his countrymen would dispute the first half of that sentiment while wondering quite where the prime minister was intent on leading the country. It's a question Brown will have to answer because Blair failed to.
David Fontana:
hat, exactly, is Tony Blair's legacy? With Iraq at the center of the news, much of the coverage of his decision to step down as prime minister next month concluded that his legacy is nothing too substantial. Indeed, The New York Times reported that Blair is not widely considered to be "one of Britain's greatest prime ministers" and is instead in a "secondary tier" of British leaders.
This is only half right. Blair has done as much to change the policy and constitutional structure of his country as any British leader in several hundred years--and more than perhaps any other Western leader in the past generation. But, because it appears that he did not realign the political and electoral life of his country behind his Labour Party, his legacy will be that of an important policy transformer--but not a political transformer.
Blair was in power for only ten years, but the changes he pushed through during those ten years make your head spin. The United Kingdom has been, for several hundred years, one of the more centralized countries in the Western world. Led by Blair, Scotland now has a Parliament, and so does Wales; Northern Ireland exercises more self-government than it has in some time; and cities like London now govern themselves much more than before, with their own elected mayors. For hundreds of years, Britain has had a substantially hereditary second branch of the legislature, the House of Lords; Blair led the process of reforming the House of Lords by removing almost all hereditary peers. Blair changed the way that health care and education operate, by creating market mechanisms and other similar systems of quality control. The United Kingdom has for the past several decades been one of the few democracies in the world without a written constitution enforced by courts; so, in 1998, Blair pushed through Parliament the passage of the Human Rights Act, which creates a de facto written constitutional regime, with a new Supreme Court at front and center.
And, of course, as Blair said in his speech last Thursday announcing his resignation, when it comes to its role in the world, "Britain is not a follower, it is a leader." We might not remember this now in the context of the failed role that Britain has played in Iraq, but Blair also led efforts to halt genocide in the Balkans, to create peace in Sierra Leone, and to banish poverty and disease from Africa.
Still, with all of these revolutionary changes in the way Britain operates, both at home and in the world, Blair might be remembered as much for his failure to create a lasting change in the political dynamics of his country as for his policy triumphs. Blair won huge landslides in 1997 and 2001, but much less so in 2005. Membership in the Labour Party--and political identification with the Labour Party--never really seemed set to grow in the long-term under his watch, and, in the short term at least, it may have decreased. In many ways, indeed, Blair has simply continued to pursue a version of the centrist political coalitions that Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher used to stay in office for twelve years.
So, decades from now, we will surely remember Blair as a transformative leader. But, unlike figures like FDR or Reagan, we won't be talking about him for being a transformative leader when it comes to politics as well as policy; rather, Blair's legacy is in Britain's policies.
DAVID FONTANA is associate professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. ALEX MASSIE writes for The Scotsman and blogs at The Debatable Land. OLIVER KAMM is an author and columnist for the London Times.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Those were very American commentators. Those who mostly see everything from an American perspective usually are. White House and Ranch, yes, but they must also understand that Sierra Leone is the UK’s oldest colony in Africa (150 years) that the Crown at Buckingham Palace and the brain at No.10 Downing Street are close to Queen Elizabeth 11 Deep Water Quay and the Victoria Park in Freetown.
Sir Milton Margai
Sir Albert Margai (and in your mind’s eye you can see him in the bowler hat getting out of the official shinning White Rolls-Royce – or a day at Ascot…….Sir Charles Margai in person, president of Sierra Leone and Lord Chancellor of the University and the Exchequer…..Lohda ma….what would his detractors on the Forum say then?
(somehow all three presidential candidates are Christian – no wonder Mr. Berewa has started attending mosque services, at least to be seen that he does not have anything against going to mosques, or anything against his boss or any of the people (including us san-san boys) who he would like to vote for him (You now the folktale about how the baboon lost its tail?)
http://www.google.se/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADBR_enSE222SE222&q=Tony+Blair+and+Sierra+Leone
From: Olu Beckley
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6 more days- "I will have reached my term limit in May, 2007".
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Here some Orange people are singing
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According to the constitution, will Mr. Berewa then step into the shoes of Mr. Kabbah and start acting as president, the minute that Mr. Kabbah's time is up?
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But isn't Mr. Berewa a member of Kabba's Executive? Should't he suffer the same fate as Kabba? Shouldn't the whole Executive be disbanded? Is there an instrument for a rescue operation? What does the Constitution say?
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The constitution says that former thief and APC corrupt minister Formeh-kamara should take over. The thieving Formeh will be in state house next week.
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And finish what they started decades ago. hehehehehehheh.
Bra you nar bad a-- m--- "set your mouth".
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"Once you understand the obvious fact that [the candidates] are representing the APC, PMDC, or SLPP, etc. you should be able to see that, contrary to your opinion, the election is indeed a referendum on the SLPP's tenure over the past ten years. Specifically, the people of Salone will be asked to decide a simple question that will be devastating to the party that has caused their immense and needless suffering over the past 10 years.
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Clueless,
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CADMUS:
From: PMDC SPOKESMAN
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Whenever you read posts and responses on this forum, if you are smart you will tell by the sentence construction who that person is.
This person make use of words such as Clueless, Dense, blind, and a few others.
So "manonor", uncircumsised man, and burn teeth, why don't you stop using multi-handles and address the issue like the man,that you claim you are. Why?
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"Whenever you read posts and responses on this forum, if you are smart you will tell by the sentence construction who that person is. This person make use of words such as Clueless, Dense, blind, and a few others."
From: Oh ya
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Na witchman nor more sabie him compin witchman.
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"Na witchman nor more sabie him compin witchman."
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Bra witchman, nor take sense ask me question ya. Make ar go en lef unu pan unu witch bisness. Goodbye!
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Nar you csm tote gbarra case. norbodi nor bin sen call you. You wae cam nar you for go.
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E look lek ar hit the nail on the head.
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"E look lek ar hit the nail on the head."
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"That question is: Do you want to continue suffering under the SLPP?"
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The SLPP slogan in reply should be:
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From Sierra Leone to AFL
Article from: The Daily Telegraph
YOU might just be looking at the most inspiring sports story of the year. That's 11-year-old Andrew Jalloh, born and raised in Sierra Leone and having just recovered from stomach cancer, carrying the Paul Kelly Cup - the symbol of Sydney schools AFL supremacy.
Paul Kelly Cup
Winners ... Andrew and Alex Jalloh at Belmore North Public School are young AFL stars with an inspiring tale. Photograph: Phil Hillyard / The Daily Telegraph
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From: MUSA KAMARA
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Date Posted: 05:50:37 05/25/07 ()
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This is just an indication of your naiveness and dumbness.Have you forgotten the days of slavery,colonialism,apathied etc?You think the white man cares about your development?Mr JL,I think you are in position to give your Black brother once more to the whites either for slavery or re-colonialisation as your cohorts are doing now.By advocating for Prince Harry to serve in Sierra-Leone is just another sign of your greed and nakedness,because you always put the country and the people of Sierr-Leone at the bottom.
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Musa Kamara,
You are a stupid idiot!!!!
From: John E. Leigh
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You are a stupid idiot. Goodbye Dumbo. - JL
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and how do you call a lying creep who told a blatant lie about a house that doesnt belong to his family. Or a useless reject who called his countrymen low grade san san humans? SCRUFFY SNUFFY SCAFFISH RED TEE VILLAGE MORON LEIGH.
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Pregnant? Then don't touch alcohol is latest health advice
· Women underestimate dangers, ministers believe
· Evidence in support of ban may be uncertain
Friday May 25, 2007
The Guardian
From: MUSA KAMARA
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Mr Sesay,your tendency to be blind,and dumb due to your regional,party and tribal affiliation,has lead you to become hopeless and useless.With all the facts outlined to you,relating to the failure of the so called President KAbbah and slpp scoundrel.
From: alieu sesay
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Musa, you are not making sense. Re-write the above sentence and while you are at it get some help from your APC Akartas, Like ---- you know who.
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The Sorbonne: a reform target
Pope Benedict XVI. Genocidal Cambodian dictator Pol Pot was one of its more notorious alumni.
From: Independent Man
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Check this out....
From: Independent Man
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Easy Access.....
From: Cornelius
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They keep on saying that Sierra Leone is wide open - and since they have lost the war against corruption, everybody knows - and the SLPP govt cannot conceal or deny it, that SIERRA LEONE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
From: Independent Man
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Enjoy .....
From: Cornelius
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old news
From: second motion
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Old news indeed.
From: Independent Man
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It is an utter disgrace that PMDC folks have resorted to making up stories of assasination attempt of their leader "Maggi". Mr Maggi is seeking attention by any means necessary.....Shame, Shame, Shame!!!!!!
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PMDC NAMES SLPP AS CULPRIT OF PLOT TO ASSASSINATE PARTY LEADER CHARLES MARGAI
By Joseph Kamanda
After the attempt to assassinate the Leader of the opposition Peoples Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC), Charles Francis Margai, the Publicity Secretary of the party , Mohamed Bangura, has said that no matter what the assailants do next, the PMDC will win the elections.
Asked how it all happened, Mr. Bangura replied : "We received information that some senior members of the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party ( SLPP) had hired mercenaries for the sum of eighty million Leones to attack and assassinate C.F. Margai on his way from Bo." This, according to Bangura , was due to the fact that the SLPP saw the PMDC as a potential threat to kick them out of power through the ballot box during the approaching August 11th elections. “We have put the appropriate security measures in place to protect our leader and we have also informed the Police about the assassination attempt against Mr. Margai”, said Mr. Bangura , who added that this act of the SLPP thugs will not deter the progress of the PMDC to win. "
Speaking on United Nations Radio on Wednesday, Mr. Margai claimed that he received an anonymous phone call from somebody whose identity he stopped short of saying on air. The person revealed to him about a plot to way-lay his convoy and assassinate him.
In response to the allegations, the Secretary General of the SLPP, Jacob Jusu Saffa , said the whole incident was made up by the PMDC and its leadership to gain sympathy from the people . He described it all as a cheap propaganda by the PMDC.
From: Jimmy PMDC Kandeh
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Desperate Sierra Leone Peoples Party Running Scared
Posted by Jimmy D. Kandeh on May 25, 2007, 00:21
From: Cee Bah
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Hey, good piece, Prof you surely can write good english but be prepared to do another piece lamenting your patry's demise after August 11. In as much as I sysmpathise with your frustrations, the fact is that the SLPP is going to win and your right hand man, Margai is just not a viable alternative.
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You wrote: "Rawlings was a far better leader than Kabba but unlike Kabba he did what was right for Ghana by allowing a peaceful transfer of power to the opposition........."
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Only unlovable thing about it is his talking about "Kabbah's horrendous legacy".
From: Mohammed Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:09:04 05/24/07 ()
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My name is Mohammed kamara, i am presently at the Elliott School of International Relations at Geroge Washington University, Washington D.C., I graduated (undergrad)from Howard University in June 2006. My major at Howard was Political Science, presently my concentration is U.S. foreign policy.
I have been visiting this forum for the past year and let me say i admire your postings and objectivity. I must also say a big thanks to Rev. Kabs kanu for creating this medium. Amb.Leigh is another interesting folk but he is sometimes blinded or wants something in return from the next S.L.P.P. administration.This administration has not done very well to the electorate's expectations. If any political party want to defeat the SLPP, they should start educating the electorate now for the next elections because Mr.Iscandri, i think they are going to win the August 11th elections. The education should be focused in the provinces. Our people in the provinces are too partisan, let them start looking at issues and candidates positions on issues like Education, Health Care, Agriculture, and we also have illegal immigration problems.
I would want to read your wise opinion. Thank you very much in advance.
God Bless.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 12:12:23 05/25/07 ()
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"I have been visiting this forum for the past year....... I must also say a big thanks to Rev. Kabs Kanu for creating this medium. Amb. Leigh is another interesting folk but he is sometimes blinded or wants something in return from the next S.L.P.P. administration. This administration has not done very well to the electorate's expectations." - Mr. Mohammed Kamara
From: FARRAH MARRAH
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Date Posted: 10:26:56 05/25/07 ()
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Mohammed,
Please do not be flaterred. Alieu's APC established PRECEDENCE for political executions and are also PARTLY RESPONSIBLE for the SOCI0-ECONOMIC and POLITICAL situation in the country.
The salient issue is the education of politics and governance. I will advise you to read the Federalist Papers because I am an admirer of James Madison whom I regard as the "Father of the United States of America's Federalism."
One of Madison's famous quotes (Federalist 47) "... The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
From: SMT
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Mr. Kamara,
can you please tell us why you think the SLPP will win the next elections ? I personally believe that unpopular regimes CANNOT win popular elections.
From: Mohammed Kamara
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Date Posted: 08:01:42 05/25/07 ()
Email Address: totti23@hotmail.com
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SMT,
Firstly, as i said in my previous posting, the voters in the provinces especially the South-East have to be confronted with issues and failures of the regime because they still vote on tribal lines. Secondly, the SLPP has made in roads in the North through Nacsa by building schools and health centres.The defeat of the SLPP should begin now, not with this election but a long term plan should be put in place by educating the voters to look at varous candidates positions on issues.
Finally, the individual that said Mr. Iscandri is talking to himself is narrow minded, these are the incidents that get Amb. Leigh go hard at some baseless accusers.
My email is open for contact. I live in Washington D.C. and my job is located at Capitol Hill.
God Bless.
From: ok dok
To: All
Date Posted: 07:36:52 05/25/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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Its always hard to accept or belive the truth.
From: Talking to Myself
To: All
Date Posted: 22:16:29 05/24/07 ()
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Alieu stop talking to yourself.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 23:14:39 05/24/07 ()
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I wish I was talking to myself it would be so therapeutic. The brother posted his e mail address did you contact him through that e mail address?
From: Foday Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:01:58 05/24/07 ()
Email Address: alakabor2004@yahoo.com
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HOW DOES VICTOR BOCKARIE FOH OF THE APC REMEMBER PRESIDENT AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH WHOSE TENURE OF OFFICE AS PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE EXPIRED ON MONDAY MAY 14, 2007.
President Kabbah became President OF Sierra Leone on the SLPP ticket in a P.R. Election in 1996. Kabba found a strong and united SLPP but he is leaving behind a weak and divided SLPP. This is the first thing to remember President Kabbah for.
- Promises and appeals galore: Unfulfilled
• Come Home – 34 paragraphs. But failed to encourage Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora to come home.
• Lungi Bridge. He leaves office without the Lungi bridge.
• Railway to Koindu. No Railway.
- Euphoria of winning lasted too long. He went to sleep.
- Slow to take action
- Lome Peace Agreement. He signed in bad faith.
-. 1997 Coup d’etat. Kabbah was warned before the coup. He failed to nip it in
the bud.
- Conakry Peace Accord – He signed in bad faith.
-. Setting up of democratic institutions – a credit to Kabbah but he failed to
Strengthen them.
- Donor Funds – Misappropriated. No benefit to the state and its people.
- Anti Corruption Commission – a witch hunt. Not effective. The Attorney
General frustrates the Anti-Corruption Commission.
- NASSIT: A Success but too early to start using the NASSIT funds.
- NRA – Job for SLPP boys. Dismissal of APC Supporters.
- Return of Local Government a success but not run properly. Too much
political interference. Ministry of Local Government is over bearing.
-. Down sizing the Army and/or early retirements and poor retirement benefits to
Forces personnel – A very bad miscalculation. This is dangerous to national
security.
- I will remember President Kabbah for giving away Yenga to Guinea. Is
Kabbah a Guinean?
- Poor use of State House – left it as breeding place for vultures, bats and
rodents.
- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Recommendations not
Implemented. Kabbah will be remembered for failing to appologise to Sierra
Leoneans.
- Kabbah is leaving too many beggars on our streets.
- The Special Court & Hinga Norman’s plight. Kabbah will be remembered for
double standards. The Kamajors will remember Kabbah as an undependable
person
- Lost Brookfields Hotel & Paramount Hotel. Gave Paramount Hotel to a set of
investors and took it back.
- Kabbah will be remembered for leaving Sierra Leone with:-
- No Electricity
- No Water. Kabbah has taken Freetown back to the days of Water Wells.
- No food even though Kabbah promised that Sierra Leoneans will not go to be
hungry in 2007. People are unhappy. People are not glad. People are
hungry
- I and his friends: Dr. Joe Demby, Dr. Harry Will, Momoh Pujeh, Maigore
Kallon and Hinga Norman and their families will remember Kabbah for his
cruelty and ingratitude to people who helped him gain the Presidency.
- Sierra Leone is last on the Human Development Index. I shall remember
Kabbah for this bad state of affairs.
- Prosecution of the 1998 Treason trials and Detentions was poor judgement.
- Twisting the law to punish political opponents is very bad for Kabbah’s
Presidency
- Collaborators will remember him. Collaborator is not in our laws of Treason
- 24 Soldiers executed: Kula Samba, Hassan Conteh, A.K. Sesay etc
etc and their families will remember Kabbah. Can they forgive him?
- The 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone and the many breaches of this
Constitution will be issues Kabbah will be remembered for.
- Kabbah is hardly seen in public. Kabbah will be remembered for insensitivity.
- Massive Rigging of elections in 1996 and 2002. Poor conduct of elections,
Misuse of the Voter Register.
- Mining Industry: Puppet companies in our diamond Industry of Kono
- Education: Teachers – newly recruited teachers are not paid on time. Empty
classrooms all over the country.
- Misuse of DIFID funds – Kabbah constructed very poor quality houses for
Paramount Chiefs. I will remember him for treating Paramount Chiefs as such.
- Kabbah will be remembered for, leaving the state of Sierra Leone very much
worse off.
• Leaving the Sierra Leonean worse off
• Brain drain of our professionals. Indecisive President.
• Recycling his friends. The Kanji Daramy positioning against bad Press Coverage is a thing I shall remember Kabbah for.
- SIERRATEL now a moribund Company. Kabbah is responsible
- Very high Youths/General unemployment in Sierra Leone.
‘You time don don’.
Victor Bockarie Foh
National Secretary General APC.
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 17:34:31 05/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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The man whose name is synonymous to corruption, an AFRC(ruf) spokesman, a man who participated with Rebels in the torture, rape, maiming and the beheading of Students in Sierra Leone on August 18.
That is how MR APC SEC GEN should be remembered after August 11.
From: Foday Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:37:50 05/25/07 ()
Email Address: alakabor2004@yahoo.com
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YOU CAN'T EVEN COME UP WITH A FULL ALLEGATION ABOUT VICTOR FOH. AND WERE ARE YOUR FACTS OR SOURCES? YOU NEED TO DO SOME MORE RESEARCH OK.
From: foe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:50:09 05/25/07 ()
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who needs facts about Victor Foh? Bo una lef me ya.
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 15:35:11 05/25/07 ()
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Don't mind him. Thats how it is on this forum, when iot comes to them, they need evidence.
APC SEC GEN VICTOR FOH IS A REBEL.
From: ok dok
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Date Posted: 18:54:46 05/24/07 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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Ha HA hah buddy
From: Foday Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:57:36 05/25/07 ()
Email Address: alakabor2004@yahoo.com
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You guys know that your days are numbered in the governing of Sierra Leone. So you can do any thing in your power to win. Even tried to kill your own creation and true S.L.P.P. candidate Charles Margai. I see the S.L.P.P Party like a crab in the water just about to bite before you die. You know you will loose but before you loose you will take some people down with you in the hole. Let me tell you guys even if you postpone the Election to any future date, or under any weather including snow or hurricanes, the people of Sierra Leone will go out there in their thousands to vote you and your green palm tree out of Power.
The people of Sierra Leone are determined this time to prove to you murderers that they are ready for a change for a better Sierra Leone. So please you guys are free to say and do whatever you want because you are running out of time.Long Live Ernest Bai Koroma and Long Live A.P.C. and long live Sierra Leone .
From: SLPP
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Date Posted: 12:45:01 05/24/07 ()
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AWOKO
From: fan
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Date Posted: 12:30:16 05/24/07 ()
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"Like the SLPP, the NPRC faced a civil war from all the warreing parties you named. Yet, unlike the SLPP, the NPRC continued to provide the people of Salone with electricity, potable water, clean streets free of mountains of garbage, medicines, jobs and hope. However, the SLPP has failed to provide any of those benefits to the people. Worse still, the SLPP has failed to deliver services to the people of Salone, even though, unlike the NPRC, the SLPP has received more than $100 million from Britain alone, and more than $1 billion in debt relief.
From: Cornelius
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Date Posted: 08:32:45 05/25/07 ()
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6690677.stm
Mr Chiluba's suits were paid by public funds, the judge had said
Zambia's former President Frederick Chiluba is being treated in a Lusaka hospital after collapsing at home, his spokesman says.
Emmanuel Mwamba told Reuters news agency that Mr Chiluba's condition was stable but doctors advised him to remain in hospital.
Mr Chiluba, 64, suffers from a heart condition.
He is due to be examined by doctors on Monday to see if he is fit enough to stand trial for corruption in Zambia.
Mr Chiluba was earlier this month convicted by a London court of stealing some $46m of state funds - a verdict he denounced as "racist" and "obscene".
Mr Chiluba served two terms as Zambia's president from 1991 to 2001.
His handpicked successor, President Levy Mwanawasa, has been pursuing an anti-corruption drive against Mr Chiluba's former government."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6687303.stm
From: AFL SOLDIER
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Date Posted: 10:12:52 05/24/07 ()
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Coup Makers Spotted
Wednesday, 23rd May 2007
http://www.newdemocratnews.com/
Ex-AFL Wooed
-Justice Minister
The Minister of Justice and Acting President, Mrs. Frances Johnson-Morris, says defeated politicians, in league with disgruntled and disbanded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Liberia, are poised to seize power militarily and plunge the country into another cycle of chaos.
From: ECOWAS
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Date Posted: 10:04:36 05/24/07 ()
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After Liberia's war: 'Sometimes you wonder if peace is worthwhile'
Published: 24 May 2007
THE INDEPENDENT
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 09:13:32 05/24/07 ()
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http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=774662007
From: BUFORD HWY
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Date Posted: 10:08:30 05/24/07 ()
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Alieu,
Is it in the best interest of Sierra Leone for Prince Harry to serve his military duties in our country? If he is a PRIME TARGET wouldn't you think that the SLPP is inviting AL-QEDA to our country?
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:06:43 05/24/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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BUFORD HWY:
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:23:17 05/26/07 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
Entered From: ool-457951c4.dyn.optonline.net at 69.121.81.196
I just came back from F/town last wednesday. I noticed how much my fellow citizens have become desensitized to the filthy environment, the city's dirt roads, the existence of subhuman abodes, the cultural power failure,the gripping corruption, the seizure of yenga by the guineans,the idleness from both grown folks and unfortunately the youth (most of whom will likely be tomorrow's political thugs, rather than future leaders with at least basic formal education). Lawlessness even from individuals in law enforcement. The lechery of older men (including government officials and pervasive tourists) preying on teenage girls/boys young enough to be their grand-children. If it is true that Harry will be going down there, I hope he will make himself useful by making a documentary of the above mentioned conditions and others that are also prevalent. Maybe an expose' from someone like him, might foster genuine corrective measures from international powers that be. Other than looking for solace from the presidential mickey mice in the APC, SLPP and the other circus groups. As far as the terrorist angle goes, let us just pray and hope that Harry's trip in our homeland, does not redirect their attention from the big picture in the middle east. Chances are, a sanctioned hit on him can be subcontracted to an individual or group that is non-middle-eastern. Yes folks including Sierra Leoneans. We sold our own people into slavery for faaaaaaar much less. With the endemic poverty and desperation strangling the nation, a hundred dollar offer can get even Reverend Johnson or Imam Bashar recruited.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 16:48:55 05/26/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Mr. Mohamed Kamara:
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:38:51 05/29/07 ()
Email Address:
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Mr. Leigh please tell me that, you do not glorify the lesser of the two three four or whatever evils. Do you really believe that living conditions now, are superior to those in place just after the eviction of the FARC/RUF buffoons?
From: LOW GRADE SAN SAN
To: All
Date Posted: 14:50:59 05/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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Haja Mamie Moigula, however, has been a resident of Bo Town for most of her life. Today, she is 91 years old and well and living in the same house that Mr. Leigh’s father built for her on a 5-acre farm tract when their marriage, blessed with two sons, Edward and Ernest, terminated. Haja Moigula has a life interest in that property with the remainder to her two Leigh sons.
Her home is located near the old railway workers’ compound in Komende, Bo. It fronts the old railway line that once linked Bo to Gerihun. John Ernest Leigh August 1, 2005 in Freetown
From: Nar true
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Date Posted: 20:11:12 05/24/07 ()
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Low grade: As longt as fact checkers like you and others are around, Leigh's lies will never remain unexposed.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 14:20:27 05/24/07 ()
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John Leigh you continue to sound like a broken record in your blind support of the SLPP. Sometimes I wonder whether you have also taken a blood oath to support SLPP under every circumstance even when they are clearly the bane of every right thinking sierra leonean.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 17:15:03 05/24/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Mr. Iscandari:
Who was Abu Black? Who was Mustasab? What was Victor Foh loudly preaching throughout the interregnum? Didn't he swore at Tejan Kabbah?
From: Blind as a bat
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Date Posted: 20:14:46 05/24/07 ()
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"My support for the SLPP is not blind."
From: TRIBALIST
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Date Posted: 18:16:52 05/24/07 ()
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John Leigh, you are sounding more and more crazy. This was exactly what Morikeh Forfanah was saying when he was the ambassador to Gambia. Both of you guys were expected to represent a country that comparises of multi-tribes. Your statement is worrisome. Tell me, do you support Maada Bio's statement couple years ago that if the APC wins the election he will be willing to overthrow it again? Stop the tribalistic thinking.
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 09:32:40 05/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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What are you saying about Maada Bio's statement in terms of Tribe? He made an irresponsible statement as an individual something which, I am sure he regrets, though I can see where he was coming from.
Have you ever heard of a guy called VICTOR FOE?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
To: All
Date Posted: 18:15:21 05/24/07 ()
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You tell us what the last APC president himself did for the AFRC.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:14:40 05/26/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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"You wouldnt criticize your party within a 24 month period with elections in the middle. You have lost my respect as a leader under the circumstances because there have been rumours of abductions in slpp areas ostensiby for the purpose of using the abductees as human sacrifice for the slpp aspirants. Would you keep quiet under the circumstances?" - Allieu Isacandari, ESQ
Regarding rumors of kidnappings for canibalism, I have not heard any but won't be surprised at all if such rumors are making the rounds within certain flunkey dunce political groupings of over-ambitious foolumunkus of the types that discover fake assassination plots every so often.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 16:46:53 05/25/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Al, the NPRC coup was vastly different from the barbaric AFRC/RUF junta.
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 09:40:26 05/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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ALIEU,
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 10:49:02 05/25/07 ()
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aiscandari@aol.com or 510 938 6186 and you are a chicken if you dont contact me so that I can educate you on these issues which you seem to ignore
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 06:47:20 05/26/07 ()
Email Address:
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Alieu,
thanks for the e-mail address.
Contacting you is not the problem..I had planned to do anyway at some stage....I need to be assured, though, that you have EVIDENCE to support your stories.Rumours and densay is never enough for me.I am SLPP, I deal in facts.
From: Fact
To: All
Date Posted: 12:30:54 05/27/07 ()
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"I am SLPP, I deal in facts."
From: The real FACT
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Date Posted: 08:41:35 05/28/07 ()
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That's my moniker, please leave it alone, ar baig.
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 10:51:19 05/27/07 ()
Email Address:
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forget de borku talk and contact me for the evidence or like I said you be chicken
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 08:46:10 05/28/07 ()
Email Address:
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Alieu,
From: Cornelius
To: All
Date Posted: 12:33:48 05/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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Will it be rigged on a little or on a big scale?
Will there be any election irregularities on Election Day?
Will it be wholly free?
Will it be wholly fair?
in 1967.
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 09:55:13 05/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Cornelius,
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 12:29:21 05/24/07 ()
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"Black Africa will rail against them"
From: Observer
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Date Posted: 12:33:08 05/24/07 ()
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"Mr Leigh,who are these black africans that would rail on them,when we had our war non came to our rescue except Nigeria? When their leader lived in Somalia,did any Black African stood up to him? NO.So what makes you think that they will stand up to his organization now?" -- BUFORD HWY
From: BUFORD HWY
To: All
Date Posted: 12:36:55 05/24/07 ()
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Observer,
That's my bad.
From: SIMPLETON
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Date Posted: 12:25:07 05/24/07 ()
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"I don't think so at all. In the unlikely event that terrorists follow the prince to SLeone, it would do at least two things: (i) Black Africa will rail against them and (ii) The West will increase its attention to SLeone which is what many people want."
Like soneone told you, birds of the same feather nest together -- in communal stupidity.
From: Cornelius
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Date Posted: 12:16:19 05/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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" At any rate, the possibility of the UK Prince serving in SLeone is a stunning vote of confidence in the current SLPP Administration and the improving attitude of our military and the people of Sierra Leone"
From: Ben Kargbo
To: All
Date Posted: 12:28:20 05/24/07 ()
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Cornie, what a great question! Since the clueless simpleton John Leigh will not have any idea how to correctly answer it, let me supply the answer that should expose Leigh's plumbless stupidity:
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:02 05/25/07 ()
Email Address:
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Actually, if you put it that way, you will be scoring an own goal, and vindication John Leigh, because, the british Government( Tony Blair has just returned from IraQ)has a great deal of confidence in Iraq and the adminstration in Iraq.Both Blair and Bush say so all the time. So your point does not stand.
From: Ben Kargbo
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Date Posted: 10:52:04 05/25/07 ()
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I can see that you suffer from the SLPP communal disease that also afflicts Leigh: You never understand anything you read.
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 07:06:50 05/26/07 ()
Email Address:
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Ben Kargbo,
You sound like you are competing for the IDIOT of the year trophy.You my friend might just win it.
people like you make me puke.
I wiil not even bother to read, let alone respond to your illeterate postings again. Good bye IDIOT.
From: Ben Kargbo
To: All
Date Posted: 10:02:13 05/26/07 ()
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Cadmus, one of the marks of an educated person is that he/she never makes a claim of fact without simultaneously presenting the evidence purportedly supporting the claim.
From: Cornelius
To: All
Date Posted: 23:11:43 05/24/07 ()
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For how long have the long-suffering people of Sierra Leone suffered?
As far as the san san boy judgment and other such fulumuku epithets are concerned, “We hold these truths to be self-evident etc and this is our understanding. The arrogant, especially if domiciled in the United States, ought to know better need read no further but could skip to the bottom of the page to read JOB.
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
Presented by the Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
The signers of the Declaration represented the new states as follows:
New Hampshire
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
For additional information about the Declaration of Independence, see these sites:
• National Archives and Records Administration: Declaration of Independence
• Library of Congress: About the Declaration of Independence
From: Cornelius
To: All
Date Posted: 22:43:11 05/24/07 ()
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Let’s take some consolation Ben.
From: CADMUS
To: All
Date Posted: 10:05:23 05/25/07 ()
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Cornie,
You see this is what I am talking about....This joke is as old as history itself.I heard it when I was a little boy..I actually remember it reffered to an APC minister.It was not funny then and it is not funny now.
From: Cornelius
To: All
Date Posted: 00:15:14 05/25/07 ()
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Let’s take some consolation Ben:
And it's no no no to corruption.
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 21:14:29 05/24/07 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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"clueless simpleton John Leigh" - you wan-grain-manism clueFOOLness, mumbo-tombu-dumbo munku, foolunumku idiot.
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 07:04:32 05/25/07 ()
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John Leigh, I would not be accusing anyone of having a limited vocabulary when you don't even have a limited vocabulary.
From: Cornelius
To: All
Date Posted: 14:20:28 05/24/07 ()
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This series is for edutainment only
From: Olu Beckley
To: All
Date Posted: 08:54:38 05/24/07 ()
Email Address: mariamab@aol.com
Entered From: at 206.113.148.2
7 more days- "I will have reached my term limit in May, 2007". A term extension could have been avoided if we had the elections during the dry season in time for the President to gracefully retire.
From: wikned
To: All
Date Posted: 15:40:44 05/24/07 ()
Email Address: edn@yahoo.com
Entered From: 80-44-175-22.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 80.44.175.22
It really pains me to see you trying to be a desk politician. Return the Housing money you have stolen back to the country. We sometimes wonder why people cant make it better in life......is it because of 'the sins of the father'?
From: Shame
To: All
Date Posted: 20:18:39 05/24/07 ()
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what evidence do you have for your allegation? If you have it, show us. otherwise, take your rudeness where it is relished. This is a forum to discuss issues, not to spread malicious defamation.
From: MINISTER
To: All
Date Posted: 08:31:08 05/24/07 ()
Email Address:
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Check out our websites.
From: Agoa
To: All
Date Posted: 09:57:15 05/24/07 ()
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Salone may now be able to take advantge of the AGOA program. No Nation can develop without a heavy involvemrnt in INTERNATIONAL TRADE.
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