Subject: TRUE AS GUINEAN SAID SIERRA LEONE PEOPLE ARE LAZY!!
From: Liberian Man
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Date Posted: 16:29:46 01/27/08 ()
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I agree with guinean, Sierra leone peole are lazy. they leave themselves to be exploited by collecting little monies to feed their numerous girlfriends. You lot are a lazy people. Buck up and do something to change the lives of your people - you talk more than you can do!! I dont want to hear any insults from you people - it is the truth I am saying. You have it all but you deo not know how to use it.
Subject: Re: TRUE AS GUINEAN SAID SIERRA LEONE PEOPLE ARE LAZY!!
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:44:17 01/27/08 ()
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Liberians are even more lazy than the Sierra Leoneans especially the country people. The Americo-Liberians enslaved you and treated you like dirt. The Sucessful non Americo -Liberians were Guinean mandingo and Sierra Leonean and Nigerian immigrants. You are the last people to talk about laziness. Sierra Leoneans are generous to foreigners to a fault. These generosity is abused by many foreigners, Do not worry Sierra Leoneans will buck up especially those of us that worked and endured racism abroad. We have a stronger love and appreciation for Sierra Leone and will not accept the abuse of sierra leoneans anymore. Yes we were naive and nebulous but no more.
Subject: Technical Assistance Needed
From: FODAY MANSARAY
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Date Posted: 12:43:55 01/27/08 ()
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Muckson ,Please call me.
Subject: MODERATOR
From: FODAY MANSARAY
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Date Posted: 12:25:50 01/27/08 ()
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CAN YOU PLEASE CALL ME ASAP
Subject: THE CHEIF JUSTICE WAS UNLAWFULLY REMOVED.
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
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Date Posted: 06:48:01 01/27/08 ()
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In-accordance with act no.6 of 1991(the constitution of Sierra Leone) the office of the chief justice shall only become vacant when-
(a)He or she dies.
(b)He or she willingly resigns.
(a)the holder is impeached by parliament.
This provision was put in the constitution(the supreme law of the land) to prevent the president from removing the head of the judiciary at will.
Recently, president Koroma removed Dr. Ade Renner-Thomas only because it is said by APC members that the chief justice is a member of the SLPP.
Once again president Koroma justifies his statement that he will take our country back to the lawless days of his God fathers Siaka Stevens and Joe Momoh.
It sounds most funny to hear that Dr. Renner-Thomas was sent on vacation and replaced by another substantive holder justice Humu Hawa Tejan- Jalloh.
All sober minded people will agree with me that when a substantive holder of any office goes on vacation, somebody else acts in his or her place.
It makes no sense to have two substantives holders of one office. I know that in the APC everything is up side down but the laws of our beloved country must always be supreme.
Subject: Re: THE CHEIF JUSTICE WAS UNLAWFULLY REMOVED.
From: Kanikay Fullah
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Date Posted: 09:32:50 01/27/08 ()
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Alfa Saidu:
You and I know that Dr Renner-Thomas was replaced by another SLPP Member in the person of Haja Justice Hawa Umu Tejan-Jalloh. Please find other things to complain about if you have a conscience...
Subject: ERNEST & MINISTER RUINED ECONOMY IN NO TIME
From: JJ Blood
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Date Posted: 04:26:54 01/27/08 ()
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J.J’s Statement on how Ernest Koroma & David Carew “ruined” Economy in Sierra Leone
By Awareness Times
Jan 25, 2008, 18:30
"President Koroma and his Finance Minister David Carew cannot manage this economy. They have completely ruined our economy in just four months. The APC is not used to liberal economic system where forces of demand and supply determine the prices of goods. The APC believes in controlled regime characterized by parallel activities and all sorts of rent seeking activities. They willfully create shortage that will benefit a few people at the expense of the majority.
This is when they issue chits to themselves for rice, sugar, flour and such, after their policies would have created shortages. Under Ernest Koroma, there has been no fiscal discipline. Since September, there are several instances of extra-budgetary and huge expenditures. Expenditures on Presidential Inauguration, Bumbuna Retreat, excess overseas travels, cleaning of Freetown and other payments are alarming. Currently, we have 44 ministers and 17 advisers. Probably even more serious, is the fact that the APC government does not respect procedures and systems. There are persistent breaches of procurement laws.
The Presidential Lodge is being rehabilitated by hand-picked contractor without any procurement notice. How much is paid for the renovation? Only God knows. What of reported US$149,000 given to the State House Baby for transformer for NPA? There are several instances of fiscal indiscipline which have now destabilised the economy causing the sufferings.
I am sincerely worried that the APC has so soon reversed the many gains the SLPP administration made in stabilizing the economy and initiating structural reforms. They are misusing the cash reserves left by the SLPP administration. For them, the easiest way to manage the economy is to impose a ban symptomatic of a control regime.
Seizing palm oil and selling it in the open market is a mere economic façade. APC allegations of sabotage by foreign businessmen and threats of price control all worsen the crisis. Such utterances scare away genuine investors. Any attempt to re-introduce importation by government or control the price of goods will be economically suicidal. They should try to understand dynamics of essential goods." J.J. Saffa lengthily positioned.
Subject: Re: ERNEST & MINISTER RUINED ECONOMY IN NO TIME
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 11:55:54 01/27/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Man you will die of frustration.Where were you during the formative stages of the SLPP corruption? Where were you when the SLPP specialized in and became supermen of corruption? I never knew you were a good writer until now that you have been trounced in the past elections and the APC have made their first patriotic impact with the improvement of the electricity situation.Seems your pen had no ink during the Kabba corruption rule.
It is better for the corrupt SLPP to stand by the sidelines and play the role of silent spectators while they learn from the APC what patriotic gorvenance is all about.
Stop this frivolity of destructive and senseless criticism.It is because of myopic individuals like you that Sierra Leone has always been backward and yet still you are inclined to keep our country the way non-progressives like you want.Wake up man!
Subject: Re: ERNEST & MINISTER RUINED ECONOMY IN NO TIME
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:38:22 01/27/08 ()
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Bureh: APC has to understand that we are in a democracy and accept criticisms. This is democracy . We are not going be silent spectators. It is the same silence that allowed Siaki and a buffoon like Momoh destroy Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is going through a transition. It is too early to blame everything on Ernest. But the economy is not doing well right now. Face the fact.
They have formulated plans that will destroy the ecomomy. Unilateral Banning of timber exports,Plan ban small scale diamond sales. Sierra Leone needs to develop plans that attract businessmen. prosecute and fine those who destroy the timber lands.
The electricy was rushed for political reasons. It was idiotic to borrow $32 million to provide electricity when you do not have a steady revenue stream to offset the costs. Sierra Leone did not pay their bills in the past. That is one of the main reason , we are in the electric mess. SLEC does not collect enough from the debtors. What is going happen when you start sending bills to the people who have not paid electricity bills in years.
APC does not plan, They are trying show up SLPP. The election is over. SLPP lost. APC take your time and deliver. Do not rush things for publicity sake. Sierra Leoneans are smarter than you think.
Subject: WHAT HAPPENED TO COCRIOKO?
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 23:09:12 01/26/08 ()
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Almost two days I have not been able to access cocokoriok. Is it out of business or just a technical problem?
Subject: Re: WHAT HAPPENED TO COCRIOKO?
From: The guy
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Date Posted: 09:04:41 01/27/08 ()
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I have tried for the last 2Wks. to No Avail.
Can someone from the Front office say something?
Subject: Re: WHAT HAPPENED TO COCRIOKO?
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 06:18:47 01/27/08 ()
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The site is on. But this problem has been coming and gpoing and I think our technician, Muckson Sesay has to do something about it. Because of a change he made in URL , depending on where you are, you can't log in to COCORIOKO. Your computer cache remembers only the only URL which was cut off. I had the same problems on my job office computer. The problem was only solved yesterday, by chance . This was how, and I want you to try it :
Google LIBERIAN NEWSPAPERS
Check the one list that has Cocorioko as one of the Liberian newspapers
This will open the page and create a new memory for your computer.
We will pass on the concerns of you people to Muckson Sesay.
We are sorry for all inconveniences.
Subject: Foday Sankoh collects vehicles at Quay
From: Nar God pay dem
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Date Posted: 21:49:22 01/26/08 ()
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RUF Party Vehicles Arrive At Quay
By Augustus Mye-Kamara.
A huge crowd gathered at the ports yesterday to witness the RUFP Leader, Foday Sankoh inspect a fleet of eleven new vehicles which he had shipped some time ago. Eight German-made MAN diesel trucks and three Hilux jeeps were among the consignment he cleared at the Queen Elizabeth II Quay.
In a brief interview with pressmen, Chairman Sankoh revealed that he had personally gone to the Quay to ensure that every item was opened and contents thoroughly examined to satisfy the Ports authorities and comply with standard clearing regulations.
“Some people might give different imterpretations if the trucks weren’t opened and checked”, Sankoh observed. The RUFP leader disclosed that he had bought the vehicles in readiness for politics adding, “I want to be adequately prepared before launching into full-fledged campaigning”.
Customs officers interviewed disclosed that they were satisfied that nothing contraband was included in Sankoh’s consignments, noting further that everything had been done according to established rules. When asked whether any customs waiver was granted chairman Sankoh, a senior customs worker, attached to the Operations Department replied that Sankoh had insisted that he paid in full the duties levied on his imports, because, according to Sankoh,no one was above the law.
A female police officer, of the Harbour police station who was present at the Quay, noted that if every member of government were to emulate the fine example of Sankoh and stop demanding Customs Concessions, the country will experience a boost in customs revenue. A close aide of Sankoh’s disclosed that the total customs tariff paid is in excess of Le 50 million leones
Subject: Re: Foday Sankoh collects vehicles at Quay
From: NONSENSE
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Date Posted: 23:46:11 01/26/08 ()
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ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT FODAY SANKOH OF THE RUF?IS HE NOT DEAD?.
Subject: YES WE CAN!!!!1 Obama wins South Carolina
From: Happy Democrat
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Date Posted: 20:30:51 01/26/08 ()
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Obama routes team Clinton. The people rejected Bill Clinton and his wife. They said no to smear politics. Next is super duper Tuesday!
Subject: Major Kula Samba
From: Man Pikin
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Date Posted: 18:33:24 01/26/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
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Kabbah and Berewa will pay for what they did to the late Major Kula Samba. May her soul rest in peace.
Subject: Re: Major Kula Samba
From: Tit for Tat
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Date Posted: 09:39:00 01/27/08 ()
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What did Bambay and Momoh pay for FM Minah's death?
What did Siaka and Minah pay for Taqi/Forna's death?
What did SAJ Musa and Strasser pay for Bambay's death?
What will Abdulai Conteh and Momoh pay for Minah's death?
What did Minah pay for Kemokai's death?
What will Ernest, Archa, and Serry-Kamal pay for the recent Kono killings?
Subject: Paul Kamara
From: Manpikin
To: All
Date Posted: 13:08:43 01/26/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
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Is it true that Paul Kamara of For Di People newspaper is part of Prezo EBK delegation to the U.K. Why Paul Kamara? I hope Prezo EBK advisers are giving him good advises. They should remember that 2012 is coming. The time again when we will exercise our franchise. Lonta!
Subject: Interesting how Cocorioko's reports become used by others
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 11:09:33 01/26/08 ()
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Sierra Leone's President, 5 Ministers, opposition leader Off To UK
News - Daily News
Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma and a delegation of five cabinet Ministers as well as a leader of the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) left Freetown Saturday for a three-day official visit to the United Kingdom.
The trip was at the invitation of Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, Queen Elizabeth 11 and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
According to Minister of Information and Communication Minister, Alhaji Ben Kargbo, who is on the trip, the delegation includes Minister of Trade and Industry Alimamy Koroma, Presidential and Public Affairs Minister Alpha Kanu, Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Zainab Hawa Bangura, Minister of Defense Pallor Conteh, the SLPP leader in Parliament, Hon. Momoh Pujeh and Journalist Paul Kamara.
While in the UK, the delegation will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Brown and officials of the British government.
Speaking to journalists Saturday, Kargbo said the invitation of the President to Britain was an indication that the British government was so far pleased with his performance since he assumed power in September last year.
During talks with Brown, President Koroma is expected to stress to the British government the need for more continuous support from Britain, to enable him expedite the revival of the Sierra Leone economy and usher in socio-economic and political reforms that would change the country from a state of despair to that of hope.
Kargbo said President Koroma would highlight the impressive achievements his government has made so far in consolidating peace, national reconciliation, civility and the restoration of electricity to the capital, Freetown, after almost two decades of perpetual darkness.
Since Independence, Sierra Leone, a former British colony, has been receiving economic, social, political and other logistical support from the British government before. Panapress
Freetown - 26/01/2008
cocorioko
Sierra Leone's President , Dr.Ernest Bai Koroma , accompanied by First Lady, Mrs. Sia Koroma, and a strong ministerial delegation, arrives in Britain today for a state visit. According to reports from our State House -based correspondent, Joseph Kamanda, the President will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and officials of the British government.
The invitation of the President to Britain is a sign that the British government is pleased so far with the performance of President Ernest Koroma since he came to power in September after sweeping the country's landmark Presidential Elections held on August 11 and September 8, 2007
A former British colony, Sierra Leone receives economic, social, political and logistical support from the British government .During talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, President Koroma is expected to stress to the government the need for more continuos support from Britain as he seeks to revive the Sierra Leone economy and usher in socio-economic and political reforms that would remove the state of despair that the citizens of Sierra Leone presently finds themselves.
President Koroma will likely also highlight the impressive achievements his government has made so far in consolidating peace,national reconciliation , civility and democratic government in Sierra Leone, as well as restoring electricity to the capital , Freetown.
Ministers expected to travel with the President include the Information and Communications Boss, Mr. I.B.Kargbo, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Alimamy Koroma, the Minister of Presidential and Public Affairs, Alpha Kanu, Foreign Minister, Zainab Hawa Bangura and Defence Minister , Palor Conteh, among others.
During the absence from Sierra Leone of Dr.Koroma, the Vice-President, Chief Samuel Sam-Sumana will act as President .
COCORIOKO plans to conduct interviews with some of the officials of the Presidential delegation . PLEASE READ OUR WEEKEND EDITION FOR FULL COVERAGE OF THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO BRITAIN.
Subject: Re: Interesting how Cocorioko's reports become used by others
From: Jack
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Date Posted: 15:08:38 01/26/08 ()
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Kabs, you know some of us are very slow. So what is the significant difference between the two reports? May I take it that it is the mention of SLPP Parliamentary in the delegation while in the other is "among others".
Subject: Re: Interesting how Cocorioko's reports become used by others
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 15:50:51 01/26/08 ()
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The person used our story verbatim without acknowledging anything. Worse, the person used our specualations as statements made by the Information Minister. Just read both articles patiently.
Subject: Re: Interesting how Cocorioko's reports become used by others
From: Observer
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Date Posted: 16:51:39 01/26/08 ()
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The original Cocorioko article was plagiarized and then doctored.
For example Cocorioko said,
President Koroma will likely also highlight the impressive achievements his government has made so far in consolidating peace,national reconciliation , civility and democratic government in Sierra Leone, as well as restoring electricity to the capital , Freetown.
The other newspaper doctored the cocorioko version by add the name Kargbo, and then continue a mot a mot use of the source article, namely:
Kargbo said President Koroma would highlight the impressive achievements his government has made so far in consolidating peace, national reconciliation, civility and the restoration of electricity to the capital, Freetown, after almost two decades of perpetual darkness.
"Will likely" was changed to "would". In another instance, "British government" was changed to "Britain".
Moh'm Jalloh is better at analytic reading and may be of better help than me in this kind of stuff. Let's see if we'll hear from him.
Subject: Re: Interesting how Cocorioko's reports become used by others
From: Cheap Nomics
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Date Posted: 17:58:12 01/26/08 ()
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This man called Jalloh is more than 50 years old but he will do anything to appear like a child. He will talk to himself, pretend to be someone else, all in the hope of getting attention.
This forum has since known Mohm Jalloh as a mediocre. After reasing the posts from all the brains on this forum, we know jalloh is only mediocre.
A man more than 50 yrs old behaving like a child to get attention is chidish in itself.
Subject: Re: Interesting how Cocorioko's reports become used by others
From: No thanks!
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Date Posted: 16:59:07 01/26/08 ()
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Please don't unleash Mohm Jalloh on us again. We know
Mohm is better at everything.
Subject: WHAT DOES GUINEA WANT FROM SIERRA LEONE
From: Olu Sokoye
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Date Posted: 09:53:29 01/26/08 ()
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Guinea is at it again. First Yenga. Now more villages have been added to the Guinean occupation. What does Guinea want from us? Why treat your neighbor with such disrespect? The government should address this issue with its Guinean counterpart before it gets out of hand. I thought Guinea would show more maturity and stop looking for unnecessary trouble in a region that has seen too much bloodshed. What does Guinea want from us?
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES GUINEA WANT FROM SIERRA LEONE
From: Guinean
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Date Posted: 05:39:07 01/27/08 ()
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The whole of sierra leone belongs to Guinea. Before the name sierra leone or serra loa, Guinea was running things. the white man change our country. Surely, petit a petit we will take the whole of sierra leone. The british only came to help you during the war becaue the suspected we had plans to take over. See what we did to all your villages around our boarders during your war - we bulldozed all the houses and now those lands are part of ours.
You cannot do anything about it. we have the might to withstand your masters. We build our country from your resources and all your presidents originated from Guinea - Check your history!!
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES GUINEA WANT FROM SIERRA LEONE
From: Koboko
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Date Posted: 14:19:37 01/27/08 ()
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Back off!! Phony Guinean.
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES GUINEA WANT FROM SIERRA LEONE
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:10:37 01/27/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Don't make yourself a political ass by claiming Salone was part of Guinea!Learn to get your facts right.Had it not been for Salone there would have been no Guinea by now.Go back to history and learn that Salone saved Guinea from the invasion of Cabral and his forces during the seventies.
By the way did you know Salone was the France of all Guineans in the seventies and eighties? The only way guineans were accepted by fellow guineans as being civilized was to go on pilgrimage to Salone where they will undergo training on civilisation and after graduation return to Guinea to masquerade as civilized persons.Even late Sekou Toure and the present chain-smoking and kola-nut-chewing Lansana Conte did not miss the opportunity.
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES GUINEA WANT FROM SIERRA LEONE
From: Guinean
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Date Posted: 13:44:46 01/27/08 ()
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i do not disagree - you have it all and your laziness made us take it all - yes we learnt from you but we are now way ahead of you. you are at the bottom of the world in terms of poverty with all your rich minerals you cannot feed yourselves - you sell everything. March is coming and we will buy all your palm oil as we have bought all your rice. none of your corrupt police can stop us - we give them little money in the bush and they let us smuggle all your resources. there is even talk of buying your country if we are faced with problems with our current plan of taking your country piece by piece.
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES GUINEA WANT FROM SIERRA LEONE
From: Your Brains are Failing You: Guinea Belongs to Mali
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Date Posted: 09:44:07 01/27/08 ()
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Well, since you claim to know history then please do more research. Guinea belongs to Mali and Senegambia..That is why Shekou Toure is a Malian and Lansana Conteh is from Bissau..The Portuguese donated his parents to present day Guinee
"Everyone has origins from Somewhere"..One Fact
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES GUINEA WANT FROM SIERRA LEONE
From: Guinean
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Date Posted: 13:37:10 01/27/08 ()
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You do not understand my post - I know about mali stretching down to our coasts. After the fall of the mande empire, Guinea (then French Guinea)encompassed nowadays salone. See the book by norman rich titled Great Power Diplomacy: 1814-1914 (Paperback)
by Norman Rich (Author). In this book on page 158 there is a 1381 map of French Guinea. Sierra leone, liberia and ivory coast were all under us.
You guys were very lazy and we worked in your houses and looked after your children but today please visit our cities you will see your former house boys owning airfields with private planes. You lot are a talking bunch and make no mistake if you do not change your attitude of talking only and no action - you will be governed by another guinean - a fulla this time around.
All you know is talk and showoff - nothing in the pocket. They give you bribes and you spend it on your so msany women. Our women work for their men that is why we named our country - la guine.
Please change your name to something that reflect who you really are - assarobluff
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES GUINEA WANT FROM SIERRA LEONE
From: Mohamed A. Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:51:11 01/27/08 ()
Email Address: Saghinosoccerworld@yahoo.com
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Kudos to you brother for refreshing that idiot's pea size brain. I hope he will still be around when the situation is taken care of.
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES GUINEA WANT FROM SIERRA LEONE
From: Guinean
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Date Posted: 13:47:41 01/27/08 ()
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look who is calling the kettle black. my grandfather got his money from your country. he was a house boy and later set up a corner shop. he kept sending money to labe and now we have everything. my brothers are doctors and lawyers in france - all from your resources. who is the idiot?
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES GUINEA WANT FROM SIERRA LEONE
From: Jealous of Fullahs
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Date Posted: 16:06:10 01/27/08 ()
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I think you sre Jealous of Fullahs..Please do not cover up in saying GUINEANS
Subject: Pegmabi
From: man pikin
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Date Posted: 06:11:24 01/26/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
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Mr. Leigh, is Ambassador Pegmabi still our permanent rep. to the UN? Thanks
Subject: Re: Pegmabi
From: salone police
To: All
Date Posted: 15:43:54 01/26/08 ()
Email Address: salonepolice@hotmail.com
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Yes, Professor Pemagbi is still in New York. He is probably one of very few Kabbah appointees who must be kept by the Ernest Koroma administration because he has represented his country very well, he is a pure gentleman, and he has always treated all Sierra Leoneans who need the assistance of the New York mission equally and with respect.
THE MAN IS A WONDERFUL DIPLOMAT. I hope President Ernest Koroma does not listen to the gallery and recall him. He is a merit to Sierra Leone and Sierra Leoneans.
Subject: Re: Pegmabi
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 18:01:14 01/26/08 ()
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I agree with you that Joe Pemagbi should be retained . The Same could be said of Ambassador Allieu Kanu and Mr.Sylvester Rowe.These guys have been serving the country excellently well at the Sierra Leone Mission. Infact, Ambassador Kanu is doing a project on Sierra Leone's maritime law that will be very useful to Ernest Koroma's government.
Subject: Re: Pegmabi
From: Maritime Lawyer
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Date Posted: 08:51:59 01/27/08 ()
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Message:
What value can "immigration Lawyer Kanu" add to maritime law in Sa Lone when one of the senior maritime lawyers at the UN is also a Sierra Leonean?...
Emotions aside,I personally think that if any of the SLPP ambassadors are to be considered by the APC, Ambassador Rowe has an edge over the two because of his experience and connections at the UN Public Relations department.
Subject: Re: Pegmabi
From: Sidom Luk
To: All
Date Posted: 06:28:00 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-69-204-133-167.nycap.res.rr.com at 69.204.133.167
Message:
Who told you APC cares about such projects? The guys are magnificent morons. See how they have destroyed the economy in four months? And you Kabs, you continue peddling lies about America food prices. American food prices do not jump by 100% in three years let alone 4 months. Go search for another lie. Did someone say you are a pastor? God have mercy on your soul. Becos you don lie borku for dis post wae Alpha Khan lie say den dae gee you. Get this you will get nothing from APC. They know you crossed over only after the first round. Were younot the one who published the most Sia Tiyaama articles?
Subject: Re: Pegmabi
From: PH.D
To: All
Date Posted: 06:45:39 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
You stinking bastard, don't you know that Kabs was appointed Diector of Communication at State House ?
Subject: Re: Pegmabi
From: Habope
To: All
Date Posted: 06:50:21 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-69-204-133-167.nycap.res.rr.com at 69.204.133.167
Message:
Habope pan die man soos. There is no position like that my man. What would he do when you have director of information and the minister of information. Alpha Khan Lie pan dee man. Kabs thought he was going to be press secretary...oops den forget dee man. So Kabs confronted Alpha Khan who gave him an agenda. Den Khad dee bra. Hehehehehehehehehehe God don't like ugly.
Subject: Re: Pegmabi
From: Jealous
To: All
Date Posted: 08:09:10 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
You are just envious.Kabs got a big appointment as we read in the newspapers. He will contribute greatly to that country as he is doing now. The Director of Communication, we learnt is higher than Press Secretary by far. Are you angry because you were not considered because your country has no use for you ?
Subject: Re: Pegmabi
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 08:13:50 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
Kard de man ? You are bnot serious .You don't know what is happening and if you don't please ask . If Kabs Kanu accepts the Director of Communications job, it will be just a stepping stone for me. There is more in store. You sabi you nor know.
Subject: Re: CORRECTION. Pegmabi
From: APC
To: All
Date Posted: 08:15:48 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
You are not serious.
Stepping stone just for "HIM".
Subject: Re: Pegmabi
From: London Man
To: All
Date Posted: 05:45:14 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.252.10
Message:
kabs, you do not know allieu kanu - the man is not a very progressive individual. he is an enemy of others' progress. Come to London and ask about him and you will hear true stories of the people 9especially sierra leoneans) he destroyed. He is not a principled man - he is what a wiseman will call an 'intelligent fool'.
Sierra Leone needs people who have the country at heart and not only their interests. We need younger people, more qualified and principled in their fields. Allieu kanu is no such man
Subject: Re: Pegmabi
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:00:36 01/26/08 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Dear man pikin:
I do not know and would not know as I do not follow such happenings. - JL
Subject: Chief Justice sacked
From: Lawyer
To: All
Date Posted: 03:24:53 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 84.54.21.148
Message:
Chief Justice Renner Thomas has been replaced by Justice Umu Tejan Jalloh yesterday
Subject: Re: Chief Justice sacked
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 07:19:06 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-70-17-228-81.balt.east.verizon.net at 70.17.228.81
Message:
Is Umu the sister of the just defrocked Ambassador? If this story is correct, EBK nar man way day appoint by merit and...........
Subject: Re: Chief Justice sacked
From: The Guy
To: All
Date Posted: 09:29:02 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 63.72.211.162
Message:
It is my hope that you are not charging a seebling for the others failure in conducting himself honorably. "EBK nar man way day appoint by merit and" as said by you, what are insinuateing by this statment?
Subject: Re: Chief Justice sacked
From: Merit Checker
To: All
Date Posted: 14:54:16 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 84.54.30.6
Message:
Umu is the immediate younger sister of the PMDC Running mate, Dr. I.I. Tejan Jalloh and the sister of the mother of the APC's Deputy Minister of Works.
Subject: Re: Chief Justice sacked
From: Dynastic Fullahs
To: All
Date Posted: 09:51:27 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-72-68-216-122.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 72.68.216.122
Message:
T-J Families have ancestors who were faithful to Allah but when present day T-J decendants behave Allah continues the favours...however like everyone else Allah frowns on the T-Js who fail to keep the three goods(faith, honesty, and modesty or manners)
Successful parenting, hardwork, courage, and opportunities results to siblings being successful professionals.
*Deputy Min of Works and ACC Chair are from a T-J Fullah Musu (Act Chief Justice's Jaja)
Subject: African Delegates Agree to Form a "United States of Africa"
From: Mark Wood - Founder, USA for USAfrica
To: All
Date Posted: 01:34:47 01/26/08 ()
Email Address: usa4usafrica@gmail.com
Entered From: at 66.53.212.42
Message:
We would like to thank Yaya Fanusie of COAFORUM.COM for their support and backing of USA for USAfrica and their acquiring our web address: http://unitedstatesafrica.com to promote our Coalition for African Unification.
African Delegates Agree to Form "United States of Africa"
USA for USAfrica: The Coalition for African Unification…
Africa Must Unite - When Will Africa Unite? In 2012...
Will the next generation of Africans be happy healthy and hopeful like this: or victims of life in the current Africa like this: Will the elderly be able to mentor and reflect on their years of wisdom like this: or scratch in the dirt waiting to die like this:
Our Mandate: The formation of a United States of Africa must immediately be brought into public debate worldwide and among Africans themselves.
Africa's leaders and the African Union MUST NOT BE AFRAID to unite as one nation and declare themselves a United States of Africa.
If nothing is done about establishing the United States of Africa, stand warned by Nkrumah's words: "But if we fail and let this grand and historic opportunity slip by, then we shall give way to greater dissension and division among us for which the people of Africa will never forgive us. And the popular and progressive forces and movements within Africa will condemn us."
Africa, Unite 'cause we're moving right out of Babylon,
And we're going to our father's land.
How good and how pleasant it would be
Before god and man, yeah
To see the unification of all Africans, yeah
As it's been said already let it be done, yeah
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher man
Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for the benefit of your children,"
--- says the great Bob Marley.
Please forward this web address to anyone who has cried a tear for Africa and wants to see a change.
http://unitedstatesafrica.com/
Our affiliate sites with various postings and articles from people worldwide confirm the groundswell created by USA4USAFRICA to Unite Africa as one nation via the Internet since 1996.
http://unitedstatesafrica.tripod.com and http://unitedstatesafrica.50megs.com
Support the movement by putting the WORD out. When people see you in United States of Africa apparel, engage them on the matter and have THEM join US as well... See:
The United States of Africa Collection at:
http://www.cafepress.com/usa4usafrica
The concept of African unity embraces the fundamental needs and characteristics of African civilization and ideology, and at the same time satisfies all the conditions necessary for an accelerated economic and technological advance. Such maximum development would ensure a rational utilization of the material resources and human potential of our continent along the lines of an integrated economy, and within complementary sectors of production, eliminating all unnecessary forms of competition, economic alienation and duplication.
Mark Wood - Founder, USA for USAfrica
http://unitedstatesafrica.com
Publisher,
The Green Valley Reporter
661.270.0798
usa4usafrica@gmail.com
greenvalleyreporter@yahoo.com
Subject: A UNITED AFRICA?
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 02:53:00 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
A united Africa is probably the ultimate solution to our centuries old, and most times, precarious
tribal disparities. The potential to exterminate hegemonic practices by dominant tribes is a major element within this concept. Like In Sierra Leone, either of the two major tribes will have to think more than twice to implement ideas that are perceived by the other as being dominating. With that in mind, can you magine the coexistence of the many larger tribes in a united Africa and what consequences that may come? My only concern is the assimilation of smaller tribes. That, in essence, may turn out to be a good thing anyway.
Problem here, however, is that I will not hold my breath, nor cross my fingers, hoping to witness such an historic event. But I can only remind my daughters to always keep hope alive in a rapidly changing world.
Subject: Re: A UNITED AFRICA?
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 06:57:23 01/26/08 ()
Email Address: saigobe@lanset.com
Entered From: pool-71-245-169-215.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net at 71.245.169.215
Message:
king Loggy,
Beautiful picture and wonderful sentiments you expressed.
There will be a United States Of Africa. By 2012 if many like you join the coalition which Mark Wood is making larger every day. If you have access to celebrities contact them and put Mark Wood with them. Currently, Mark is trying to get Angela Jolie, Oprah , Bono, Danny Glover, Madonna etc to become Celebrity advocates for the United States Of Africa.
Very soon, COAFORUM.COM will introduce to the World two new bands- one- The Songhay Federation and Two- The Songhay Nation.
Long live Africans!!!!!!Here comes the Songhay Federation. And it is going to be the World Super Power that will Save the PLANET.
Please go to www.coaforum.com and click on the page Annual Africa Unite Now Festival and organize one in your area. Call and can give you details. The fundraiser is for the Songhay Finance Corp which will be women majority owned. Let us talk. We must Unite to save our children and our planet.
Subject: Re: A UNITED AFRICA?
From: KLA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:49:05 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 164.82.85.3
Message:
DR.Fanusie,
Thanks and congratulations on your efforts to create a strong and united Afrika,built to take her deserved place amongst the Continents of the Globe!
Indeed, All of humanity,are of AFRIKAN DESCENT, till proven otherwise...KLA.
Sir, Are you working with the current African Union,the progeny of the OAU, in the execution of your goals? In this spirit of Afrikan UNITY,the Africa
based AU must be a part of any initiative to unite the
Continent.
Some Africanists have noted that the concept of a United States of Africa,Could be a unrealistic dream, considering the size, diversity, and record of ethnic strife on the Continent.
The Economic unity of the African Continent,must assume an ASAP role,leading to economies capable of contributing to the creating of the institutions of Continental Unity.
Failed and marginal African States, will either be expelled from the African Union,or be part of more vibrant economic Centres.
Your time and efforts must be appreciated by Pan Africanists of the Globe!
tstm
Subject: Re: A UNITED AFRICA?
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 23:13:21 01/26/08 ()
Email Address: saigobe@lanset.com
Entered From: pool-71-245-169-215.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net at 71.245.169.215
Message:
KLA,
The Modalities for the Songhay Federation will be in place by 2012 and by 2015 the inaugaration will take place. Please visit www.coaforum.com and click on the Annual African Unite Now Festival. Let us know how you can be part of the festival in your area.
My brother we are going to commercialize our Diversity. That will put an end to disunity. Look at this way if you need Mendes as cunsumers of your Temne products would you want to kill them or upset them? The festival would have that as one of it manifest goals. Please come join us so that the Federation will come sooner than we plan.
Personally, I do not criticize the AFRICAN UNION. It has a useful role in the march towards the Federation.
COA AND USAforUSAFRICA Coalition have been lobbying for Dr. Abdulai O. Conteh to be the next Chairperson for the African Union Commission.
I just came back from the planning session of SalCOR where interesting projects for Sierra Leone are being developed. Please get as many Salone organization to become part of Salcor. Please watch Cocorioko for the announcement.
Yaya Fanusie-COA
www.coaforum.com
Subject: Guinean soldiers occupy five more villages in addition to Ye
From: YENGA
To: All
Date Posted: 23:35:01 01/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-252-103.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 69.140.252.103
Message:
Guinean soldiers occupy five more villages in addition to Yenga
A front page report in today’s For Di People says Guinean troops have occupied five more villages in eastern Sierra Leone apart from Yenga.
The Parliamentary representative of Constituency 3 in the Kailahun district, Hon. Musa I. Sam, reportedly said the Guinean soldiers were strongly in control of the five villages in his constituency and disrupting farming activities in the occupied villages.
The Member of Parliament said he did not understand why the Guinean soldiers should still occupy Yenga and other parts of Sierra Leone after the war had been officially declared over. He said the Guinean soldiers are engaged in agricultural activities in the areas they occupy, depriving the inhabitants there from tilling their land.
“Apart from the illegal occupation of territories in Sierra Leone, the soldiers are terrorizing the indigenous forcing them to leave their villages” he is quoted as saying. He urged President Koroma to explore every possible avenue to free the areas from Guinean occupation as the Tejan Kabbah led administration failed to do.
Subject: Re: Guinean soldiers occupy five more villages in addition to Ye
From: MUNKU SOLDIERS/POLITICIANS
To: All
Date Posted: 09:55:23 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-72-68-216-122.nycmny.east.verizon.net at 72.68.216.122
Message:
I am of Guinean Decent though Sierra Leonean. But many Soldiers and Politicians in Guinea are Munkus...
Unfortunately, Guinea is presently a failing state therefore one must pray for them before the TIME BOMB ticks
Subject: Re: Guinean soldiers occupy five more villages in addition to Ye
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 08:42:09 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Why is APC so silent on YEnga after the elections.
Subject: Re: Guinean soldiers occupy five more villages in addition to Ye
From: man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 09:44:40 01/26/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-96-240-15-68.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 96.240.15.68
Message:
I hope you will not blame APC. Let us be objective. What did the SLPP did about Yenga? Nothing. Let us hope that Zainab Bangura will try to contact her counterpart in Guinea about this issue so that it will be resolved once anf for all.
Subject: Re: Guinean soldiers occupy five more villages in addition to Ye
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:04:17 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-187-195-146.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.187.195.146
Message:
The issue is what has APC done and said about Yenga since it came to power. It criticized SLPP about YEnga during the elections. After the elections , we have heard nothing. I t proves the point that APC is all talk and no action.
Your foreign minister needs more experience and finesse, sounds too local on the air. She could learn from her deputy, Vandi Minah who has more experience than she does.
Subject: Re: Guinean soldiers occupy five more villages in addition to Ye
From: Man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 05:01:37 01/27/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-96-240-15-68.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 96.240.15.68
Message:
Is she not your foreign minister? Are you now an American? What about Momodu Koroma? Was he too not local? Give me a break. I hope you are a patriot.
Subject: Re: Guinean soldiers occupy five more villages in addition to Ye
From: kam
To: All
Date Posted: 10:34:03 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
You cant compare Momodu Koroma's qualification with Zainab. Momodu went to Princeton. Where did Zainab go to college. Remember , the most important qualification for Ernest Koroma's female appointees, either a former girlfreind , a potentail girlfreind or was recommended by a girlfreind.
Subject: APC scribe clears Libyan leader
From: JOINDALIST
To: All
Date Posted: 23:33:43 01/25/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
APC scribe clears Libyan leader
The Secretary General of the ruling All Peoples Congress Party has reportedly exonerated Libyan leader, Muamarr Gaddafi from been tried by the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone. Reacting to a front page article that appeared in the The Pool newspaper in which SLPP Member of Parliament called for the indictment of Mr. Gaddafi. Victor Bockarie Foe in today’s report warned the SLPP to desist from directing their frustrations and distress to diplomats who meant well for the country.
He accused the SLPP of embarking on a campaign of calumny against reputable people since the party lost last year’s elections to the APC, citing the instances of calling on the Special Court to indict former President Kabbah; the resignation of Dr. Christiana Thorpe as Chairperson of the National Electoral Commission. “People should stop banking on allegations that they themselves can not substantiate. President Gaddafi has proved beyond all reasonable doubts that he is a friend and brother of Sierra Leone and the APC government would do all in its power to strengthen that brotherly relationship” he is quoted as saying
Subject: Response for Sierra Leone Police
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:41:36 01/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-60-26.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.60.26
Message:
Sierra Leone Police, thank you for your fantastic response. I agree with everything you stated in your post. You are right on the money especially, on the issue of the President's call for "attitudinal change" and specifically on the issue of decentralization, where you stated: "
"Sierra Leone needs creative restructuring and demographic re-distribution for this centralised (rely-on-government) sydrome to go away." Until the citizens of that beautiful country step-up to say and believe in the words:
"One with a faith that wisdom inspires,
One with a zeal that never tires;
Ever we seek to honour thy name
Ours is the labour, thine the fame," and pay attention to the fact that we are to labour to give the fame to the country we love, we shall never care what that country looks like, what name she carries in the outside world and we shall never care about each other, as we continue to sing,
"We pray that no harm on thy children may fall,
That blessing and peace may descend on us all;
So may we serve thee ever alone,
Land that we love our Sierra Leone." We must endeavor to do as we wish for the good of all whic can only happen when we put Sierra Leone first. When we say Sierra Leone, we have to understand that it is every living and non-living things that are in or have hailed from the country and that have decided, on the own reconnaissance to be part of her.
For this reasoning I applaud you.
Ambassador John Leigh and hundreds of Sierra Leoneans living in the Diaspora can attest to the fact that the purpose of my visit to the Sierra Leone Embassy and writing pamphlets in 1996 was to appeal to the government and Sierra Leoneans through the Embassy here in Washington, D.C. to restore the power of the Chiefs and to see how Sierra Leoneans can unite in the Diaspora. My focus was geared towards decentralization that has been subject of debate on this and other Sierra Leonean forums since I joined and started contributing in 1997.
On that note, let me say that we are on the same side of the coin therefore, I would agree with you extensively that programs need to be put in place that would distract urbanization and attract decentralization, creating social and employment or training opportunities in parts of the country. My only deviation might be that nationals of that country, particularly, those in the Diaspora rather than government should take the lead in these efforts: ordinary citizens can lead in way an appreciable change in their communities will be effected, which will ultimately encourage their brothers and sisters to return to the rural areas. We might underestimate our powers but we should not lack foreign exchange in the Diaspora and with the number of citizens residing here, if we are serious about change, such change will be easily effected than the government could. Projects in agriculture, Masonry, Arts and Crafts, Carpentry, Black Smithery, to name a few are key employment avenues, and you don't even have to shake that too hard in making the substantial difference, a start point for decentralization.
By and large, I do agree with the President ostensibly that we need attitude change to be able to change Sierra Leone. We need to creatively restructure our mindset to follow the words:
"
Knowledge and truth our forefathers spread,
Mighty the nations whom they led;
Mighty they made thee, so too may we
Show forth the good that is ever in thee.
We pledge our devotion, our strength and our might,
Thy cause to defend and to stand for thy right;
All that we have be ever thine own,
Land that we love our Sierra Leone."
Subject: seray kallay head of registry dept.
From: victim
To: All
Date Posted: 19:03:42 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: malik @aol.com
Entered From: 65-86-135-2.client.dsl.net at 65.86.135.2
Message:
IS THIS THE SAME LADY WHO USED TO WORK WITH BUBU AT THE QUAY DURING THE JUNTA DAYS?. IF SHE IS THE SAME LADY THEN LORD HAVE MERCY ON US AND SAVE US FROM HER GRABBING ATTITUDE . WELL AM NOT SURPRISED THE VP IS THEIR BROTHER -IN -LAW;
Subject: Re: seray kallay head of registry dept.
From: THE TRUTH
To: All
Date Posted: 23:36:01 01/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-70-17-228-81.balt.east.verizon.net at 70.17.228.81
Message:
What is your point? She is bright, honest, experienced and probably over qualified for the position of Administrator and Registrar-General.
Subject: Re: seray kallay head of registry dept.
From: VICTIM
To: All
Date Posted: 23:48:10 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: MALIK @ AOL.COM
Entered From: pool-71-246-221-174.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 71.246.221.174
Message:
WHOEVER YOU ARE, WHEN I CONFIRM IS THE SAME PERSON WE ARE TAKING ABOUT THEN I WILL LET LOOSE AND LET THE WORLD KNOW MY POINT. SHE IS BRIGHT BUT SHE HAS NEVER WON A CASE IN COURT , ALL SHE KNOWS IS MORAYMAN BUSINESS. YOU MAY HAVE SEEN HER BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW HER, JUST ASK SAIDU BANGURA HE MAY TELL YOU MORE.
Subject: Re: seray kallay head of registry dept.
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 07:14:13 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-70-17-228-81.balt.east.verizon.net at 70.17.228.81
Message:
Mr. VICTIM, I hope you are not referring to the Seray Kallay I know for over 25 years. As the other forumite stated, she is over qualified for the ARG position. I know she is only accepting the appointment because of her plans to slow down and spend more time with her family. If I may remind you, she was a major official at NIC, practised law with N.D. Tejan-Cole and the late Garvas Betts, respected state counsel, outstanding law professor and ...... Let us move beyond the PHD syndrome that is so divisive and destructive for our country.
Subject: Palor Conteh Stops Wearing Military Outfits
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 18:06:53 01/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-72-74-223-123.bstnma.east.verizon.net at 72.74.223.123
Message:
According to that other newspaper, Palor Conteh has stopped wearing military regalia on the "advice" of the president. Being that he was wearing uniforms of a higher rank than he ever achieved, this was a problem. But congrats to both him and the president -if he had anything to do with it - they heeded the will of the people and acted accordingly.
He was shown at the Myohaung celebrations wearing a suit in which he looked quite good in anyway so he should stick to that. Our leaders are not above making mistakes but hopefully, when called out, they will correct their mistakes.
Subject: Re: Palor Conteh Stops Wearing Military Outfits
From: Thick
To: All
Date Posted: 04:03:46 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 84.54.21.148
Message:
Why should grown up people be told, what is right and what is wrong????Improper education or lack of maturity??
Subject: Re: Palor Conteh Stops Wearing Military Outfits
From: Sendeh Lee
To: All
Date Posted: 19:23:22 01/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-74-66-236-237.nyc.res.rr.com at 74.66.236.237
Message:
Methinks your post is simple calumny and a reckless quest to "pull the man down"
Most people understand that the issue was about whether the minister donning fatigues was in conformity with the laws....yet you are now "adding pepper and salt" saying that the matter was about him donning regalia superior to the senior officer rank of major..which he attained while serving... aye bo!
Similarly, your sources had also posted belated pictures about the mayhem in Kono but made no mention about the role the minister played hands on in quelling the disturbances there....
Such "cut en join" reporting can easily be construed by independent observers that the intended purpose of such posts was to effectively use the uniform brouhaha in order to "Pull the man Down"
Bo Oona lef dis bad hart business pan journalism en blogging,en learn for call a spade a spade do ya sir or ma!
Subject: Re: Palor Conteh Stops Wearing Military Outfits
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 18:11:48 01/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: client-81-109-210-100.leed.adsl.virgin.net at 81.109.210.100
Message:
people power on the move - for peace's sakes we have to bow to the will of the people. bravo!!!
Subject: MR. ALFRED S. COLE , YOU ARE WRONG AGAIN .
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:23:31 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-69-140-129-75.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.129.75
Message:
With respect I would like my brother and friend Mr. Alfred Cole to understand that there is a massive distinction between a POLITICAL PARTY and the GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE.
A political party- Is a group with people of like minds who seek political power to promote their agenda.
A government- Is a group of people empowered by law to orderly manage and control the affairs of a country.
This group of people form interacting units in-order to charge their duties efficiently.
A government is made up of three(3) distinct branches,( The Legislature, The Executive and The judiciary).
If you really understand this post, you will agree with me that, there is nothing known as SLPP GOVERNMENT OR APC GOVENMENT.
Both the SLPP and the APC are political parties not the Government of Sierra Leone.
No one political party will never again be the government. Far gone the tyrannic and satanic days of the APC LORD SIAKA STEVENS.
No one political party can run our country.
Subject: Re: MR. ALFRED S. COLE , YOU ARE WRONG AGAIN .
From: The Guy
To: All
Date Posted: 13:25:08 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 63.72.211.226
Message:
Will you then be happy with the term APC/SLPP Administration?
Subject: Forum Amnesty
From: Moderator
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Date Posted: 16:55:44 01/25/08 ()
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At the requested of the reverend, all quarantined, suspended, or banned IP’s have been released with immediate effect.
New forms of discipline have been introduced which include temporary suspensions depending on the violation.
Please avoid mistakes of the past by being wise in judgment when posting. Here are the guidelines again.
Cheers!
/Moderator
Subject: Re: Forum Amnesty
From: TEST
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Date Posted: 01:39:24 01/26/08 ()
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TEST
Subject: Re: Forum Amnesty
From: wiseman
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Date Posted: 05:33:13 01/26/08 ()
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you jokers thought you had blocked anyone...
Subject: Clinton is abusing the truth
From: Truth
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Date Posted: 12:22:10 01/25/08 ()
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www.politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
Subject: JOKE.
From: Saloneman
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Date Posted: 11:25:32 01/25/08 ()
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A SHERIFF GOT A 911 CALL.
911 CALLER:"HELLO MY NEIGHBOR HAS MARIJUANA(WEED) IN HIS FIRE WOODS,I DON'T KNOW HOW HE IS GETTING THEM INTO THE FIRE WOODS".
SHERIFF:"WHAT YOUR THE ADDRESS"
911 CALLER: "1234 ********* AVENUE"
SHERIFF:"THANK YOU,WE WILL BE OUT THERE"
SHERIFF AND TEAM ARRIVED AT THE SAID ADDRESS AND AXED OPENNED ALL THE FIRE WOODS,BUT FOUND NO WEED.SHERIFF CONTACTED THE CALLER AND INFORMED HER THEY DIDN'T FIND ANY WEED.CALLER APPOLOGISED TO SHERIFF.SHERIFF TOLD HER NO NEED FOR HER APPOLOGIES,THANKED HER, AND ENCOURAGED HER TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE NEIGHBOR.
AS SOON AS THE SHERIFF LEFT, THIS IS WHAT THE CALLER DID.SHE PICKED UP HER PHONE AND CALLED HER NEIGHBOR.
CALLER:"HELLO HONEY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY.DID THEY SPLIT OPEN ALL THE WOODS"
NEIGHBOR:"YES,HOW DID YOU DO THAT.
Subject: MORE CLINTON OBAMA BROUHAHA...I KNOW I AM IDLE THIS MORNING!
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 10:18:05 01/25/08 ()
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Just love the way the Clintons go after their opponents. They are still my political heroes although they are messing up boy, Barrack, pretty bad.
Subject: Re: MORE CLINTON OBAMA BROUHAHA...I KNOW I AM IDLE THIS MORNING!
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 05:05:29 01/26/08 ()
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Now this is funny!!
Subject: HILLARY AND BILL VS BARRACK!
From: Fen Plaba
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Date Posted: 09:43:08 01/25/08 ()
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Why Obama will not win this time around. I will vote for him though in the primaries.
Subject: HILLARY AND BILL VS BARRACK!
From: Fen Plaba
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Date Posted: 09:39:29 01/25/08 ()
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Why Obama will not win this time around. I will vote for him though in the primaries.
Subject: Re: HILLARY AND BILL VS BARRACK!
From: Frustrated Voter
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Date Posted: 10:15:36 01/25/08 ()
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Your are right my brother. They are double-teaming the promising black guy. Bill Clinton as popular he may be, has been acting out of character in this campaign. I thought he was a gentleman but some of his rhetoric against Senator Obama is so disgusting. I will vote for Obama in the primaries and if he loses the primaries, I'll go republican. As an a registered independent, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton---She overly scr1pted to know---And we in America do not want to have another oral sex scandal in the whitehouse..
Plus after the primaries, the crack in the democratic party is going to be hard to mend.
Subject: Re: HILLARY AND BILL VS BARRACK!
From: Black Republican
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Date Posted: 12:26:14 01/25/08 ()
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You are welcomed to join the Grand Old Party!
we freed your ancestors from slavery...
we appointed Powell and Rice to powerful and sensitive positions without exhibiting any slave-master mentality or demeaning you in the process!
so why are you still supporting the masters of the plantation when you are not accepted as worthy or equal!
The real change is for blacks to join the Republican party and stop their blind support for their slave-masters...who still consider them as house n!ggers...
You are welcomed to the GOP!
Subject: Re: HILLARY AND BILL VS BARRACK!
From: White Democrat
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Date Posted: 14:06:45 01/25/08 ()
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What voting right do you have as an illegal immigrant hiding in the shadows of America? Or have you finally married for paper? Your ancestors my foot!
Subject: Re: HILLARY AND BILL VS BARRACK!
From: Black Republican
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Date Posted: 15:28:45 01/25/08 ()
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Considering the spirit of this debate Mr. 'White Democrat',I think that such impudent response from you is quite indefensible.
To further calibrate your inanity,remember that some of us were born in the plantations here and our other confreres who joined us later on as freemen were granted amnesty by REPUBLICAN administrations in the past...
and we have consequently acquired the rights to vote legally ..and since left the plantation and are now fending for ourselves in this great society that our forefathers toiled and suffered for.
That of course was years before dunces like YOU came here either as a refugee evacuated from war... or as a visitor or student that overstayed the tenure stipulated in their visas..
You sound just as pathetic as the other dumbocrats who have no faith that they can survive and do better outside the plantation and still believe in ‘his master’s voice”…get the spin Mr.demodunce?
Your pathology can be easily explained by the old adage that “you can free the servants from the plantation but it’s hard to free the plantation from the thinking of the servants” ...
If you support democats en mi day in support of Republicans nor to tin for cuss or fet pan ya!
Lef me oosie me day eat ya! YOU DON EAT?
Subject: Re: HILLARY AND BILL VS BARRACK!
From: ROLANDO
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Date Posted: 00:56:57 01/26/08 ()
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Black Republica, White Republica no republica, all ju de same. California, Texas, and all this knotri belong ah to Mehico. You liva this kontri alone, or I breaka your neck! VIVA MEHICO!
Subject: S/L needs a tink tank to survive - Hon.P.C Kanagbaro
From: Tonkolili Man
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Date Posted: 09:11:11 01/25/08 ()
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Sierra Leone needs a tink tank to survive - Hon P.C Kanagbaro
Paramount Chief Bai Kurr Kanagbaro Sanka 111 has said Sierra Leone needs a think tank that will sit down and look at all that the country has and try to maximize it for the multiplying effect to be far greater.
The Tonkolili Paramount Chief was contributing to the budget debate yesterday when he highlighted the leakages in taxation and given solutions for increased revenue collection.
P.C Kanagbaro stressed on strong government commitment and determination to let the people benefit from the locally generated revenue. He cited information technology and education as a step to the development of the country.
He quoted from the former American President Lyndon Baines Johnson who once said in 1965 “It is in the land of ignorance that poverty started”
He compared other countries like Singapore who does not have the resources like Sierra Leone which are wealthier in natural resources, so also is Sweden but asked “ whether is it that these countries top the human development index because they have a literate society”
P.C Kanagbaro vented out about the poor health condition in the country stating that in the whole of the Tonkolili district with 347,147 people there are only three doctors who spend much of their time out side the district on workshops.
He called for a national strategic plan describing that “ It is only in Sierra Leone that has no plan for the next five or ten years unlike countries like Japan who have a plan for the next 200 years whilst America talks of their American dream”
“ Are we a nation, do we have a future or care about the future, are we a nation” he asked
Also , the Paramount chief spoke about the unstructured construction of buildings in the city, the poor roads, the shanty houses and the congestion as appalling.
P.C Kanagbaro further commented that “ We need development in the country and we need highly thinking people who will sit down and come up with a plans to see that we have good medical school and we need good planning officers who will sit down and look at our resources and bring in the multiplying effect in our economy”
Subject: Re: S/L needs a tink tank to survive - Hon.P.C Kanagbaro
From: Uneducated man
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Date Posted: 09:58:09 01/26/08 ()
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What is a tink?????
I hope he meant think-tank.
It is not possible to form a think tank, because everyone, I mean EVERYONE is a job seeker, and we need serious independent people to advise what is right for the Country.Such people should be financially independent and do not need Government jobs
Subject: Re: S/L needs a tink tank to survive - Hon.P.C Kanagbaro
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 12:25:42 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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LBJ is wrong: it is wealth that creates poverty; no wealth, no poverty. Should you desire a differnt maxim, then pray for the return of the "golden age," or eternal bliss in the beyond. Cue: think tanks generally tank thinking. Another example of copycat Sierra Leoneans?
Subject: Re: S/L needs a tink tank to survive - Hon.P.C Kanagbaro
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 18:02:52 01/25/08 ()
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Trying to demean some very serious thoughts!! What are you? Who are you? Poverty, being a relative maxim, does not demean wealth creation. What is wealth to some is poverty to others. Some are very rich in spirit; others in ideology; others the acquisition of material belongings - Sure Sierra leone needs a think tank to really evaluate and assess the well-being of the whole nation. My hat goes up for the PC MP - may God continue to help him in his thinking for the whole.
Subject: Re: S/L needs a tink tank to survive - Hon.P.C Kanagbaro
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 19:39:23 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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We need a more seasoned editor, don't we? Did the Hon. P.C. Kanagbaro really refer to "THINK tanks" as "tin tanks"? You sound like a politician. I mean you have no respect for discourse founded on evidence. I said LBJ was wrong:no poverty, no wealth. Instead of refuting my position with reasoned argumentation and rrevidence---pragmatic, theoretical or whatever--- you assume the posture of theocracy. What does "God" have to do with my averment that LBJ was wrong and that think tanks tank thinking and that talk about think tanks is no more and no less than the general African assumption that everything non-African is "better." Understandable, given fact that Europe bloodied those Africans who could not defend themselves, but false. You assume, erroneously in my opinion, that Sierra Leone is a "nation." Says I: only on paper. It is, under my lights, a weak constellation of "tribes." In this forum, some have painted the current government as a "northern" government: a Temne government. Is this true? Abstracting from truth seeking, it may be said that the position has been consistently posited indicates a state of mind: tribe cognition or thinking. Tribes, unfortunately, are inconsistent with the concept of a nation. Accordingly, all the tribal organizations in what is wrong headedly categorized as the diaspora are animated by an archaic consciousness. Need I mention that these organizations are headed, in general, by Ph.Ds. If you follow the money, you will quickly follow the logic of this neo-tribalization: tribally founded governmental positions and so-called contracts.
Ominously, you stated that "God" should help His Honor to think for "the whole." To begin with, since the idealization "nation" is inapplicable, under the stubborn fact of tribalism, to Sierra Leone, it is inconceivable how one man can think for "the whole." Recall that Hitler and Stalin claimed to think for the "whole." What does "whole" mean here? If the whole is Sierra Leone, then the parts are tribes. The problem is evident: no tribe will voluntary subordinate itself to another tribe. The halo violence, founded on xenophobia, is grips tribal societies, and it appears that Sierra Leone is a tribal society. By the way, wealth is created by artisans using tools and artifacts and networks of the same to satisfy human needs. Modernity refers to this ancient fact as "technology." Would you deny that intellectuals or scholars are, by definition, not artisans. Thus, you must admit that the Hon. P.C. may be ignorant of the content of intellectual reflection. Wealth is produced by investment now. Reflection's gaze is always riveted on the past. If you have evidence to the contrary, produce it. I need not remind you that evidential discourse is inconsistent with ad hominem baby tantrums.
Subject: Re: S/L needs a tink tank to survive - Hon.P.C Kanagbaro
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 03:57:52 01/27/08 ()
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I speak for peace and nonviolence in discourses - my 'baby tantrums' clearly explains that we are a nation albeit the indifference by a few who will not succeed in their quest to divide us into parts and parcels.
I cannot speak for the government - I strongly believe they are not all temne.
God is very important in my life and His prominence in my life makes Him a part of my utterances.
'Think-tank'! Yes a western maxim that has a place in our societies. In the Africa of old, we had wise men who come together to discuss the socio-economic welfare of their people. They plan for months to come and pray that no one negates from such plans. They settle disputes through emissaries; they trade with others putting their interests first; they care for their people; they punish wrong doers and the laws of compliance to societal norms and values are codified by these few wise men in the interest of peace and a harmonious society. Such should be part of the work of the 'think tank' proposed by the honourable pc.
Parts make a whole - the 'whole', as i said, is sierra leone. What we need now is to be able to understand and respect the beauty of the parts that forms the 'whole' - respect and discipline are key ingredients in making the 'whole' much better. Hitler and Stalin, I greatly admire for their patriotic love of their people and nation, though later, such obsessive love turned to hate for others. I believe in complementarity - tribes should not subordinate themselves to others - the real value is when they explore reason in every disagreement and accept equality before the laws of the lands.
What is intellectual?
Do you believe that an 'enlightened' specie is 'greater' than what certain individuals call 'the intellectual'.
What is wealth? I agree that "wealth is produced by investment now". The wealth, in my opinion, is the health of the society. A healthy people is a wealthy nation. Sierra Leone, needs such a vision and by having people thinking of formulating an ideal to think for the welfare of others that form the 'whole' (nation) is a far better cry.
Keep hope alive and allow ideas to flourish!!
Subject: Re: S/L needs a tink tank to survive - Hon.P.C Kanagbaro
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 07:15:18 01/27/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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I congratulate my co-respondent for his judicious and reflective demeanor. As I stated in an earlier piece, I shall desist from personal attacks; when made, I shall understandingly refuse to understand them. It takes two fight in the gutter of words. Now, hope can be appropriated by anyone; but there is hope based on a realistic assessment of possibilities and probabilities (even "God", though His, yes, His will cannot be deciphered by human reason, appears to dispense His grace and mercy on the basis of this principle). Note that I said "appears," which means that I could be wrong. I note that the assertion that Sierra Leone is not a nation, but a "constellation of tribes" is a hypothesis, open to falsification. A fact that strongly speaks in its favor is that Sierra Leonean political and economic policies are justified, in the main, by sub rosa appeals to tribal pedigree. There is nothing wrong with attributing a geographical determination to a government. In general, the government of Dr.(honoris causa) Koroma is categorized as a "northern" government. In the context of the history of politics in Sierra Leone, most reasonable people would assign the objective referent "Temne" to the sign "northern." Of course, that I refer to these human collectives as tribes does not mean that I agree with the descr1ption: European statesmen and scholars refer to them as "tribes." To the best of my knowledge, I have failed to uncover any definition of the word 'tribe' in any discipline that is not either underinclusive or overinclusive. Nonetheless, life is not lived in the domes of the scholars, but in the rough and tumble of everyday human interactions, adorned with the burdens and sparse moments of happiness attaching to the ever problematic human condition, determined by ignorance of its inception qua species and its destiny. Note that I said "ignorance"; book religions do answer these questions in the lexicon of faith, not knowledge, however. The bottom line is that the realities of Sierra Leone are significantly governed by sentiments founded on tribal affiliation, even though, as I suggested above, the word "tribe" is a foreign category imposed on the people of 'Sierra Leone' (another foreign imposition) by a despotic British imperialistic administration.
Generally, the people colonized by the British had an archaic non-written cultural tradition. Accordingly, in the absence of a literary cultural tradition, reflections on their problems could not have been "encoded" in writing; they were inscribed in memory, instead. And who does not know that memory is a strategic instrument of interpretation. "Think tanks" are an impossibility in a non-literary cultural tradition, period. On your adulation of Hitler and Stalin, I understand your drift, but I think most Germans and Russians would disagree with you. Since I am neither German or Russian or a scholar of German or Russian historical realities, I have no interest in whether your position is true, false or undecidable. I agree that health is a precondition of wealth, but it is a necessary, not a sufficient precondition. There is a sea of humanity that is relatively healthy, but near absolute poverty. Finally, a minor point: ideas are not created by hope, in my view. They are produced by a creative imagination seasoned by reflection on the validity of the past's claim to control the present. Accordingly, the present is always in a transitional state: it is constituted by the struggle between interpretations of the past and visions, however secured, of the future.
Subject: Shut this Forum down
From: Foday
To: All
Date Posted: 04:04:07 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: fodaym@gmail.com
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Dear Mr. Kabs Kanu,
You will do Sierra Leone a big favor if shut this forum down. The emergence of the New APC and President Koroma's open invitation to Sierra Leoneans to join him in rebuilding SL, there should be no need for a forum where people hide to insult, defame each other and their government.
Many of the writers here belong to other forums where they don't say a single word because they would have to use their real names. How in the world would SL improve if we allow our politicians to continue intimidating us into hiding under nicknames?
Mr. Kabs-Kanu shut down this forum or have people subscribe with their real names and verifiable information.
Regards,
Foday
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 08:48:30 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Message:
Waan koeng'aah?
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Waraba
To: All
Date Posted: 23:16:29 01/26/08 ()
Email Address: saigobe@lanset.com
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Speak English!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!l
Waraba
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Nonsense
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Date Posted: 05:43:12 01/25/08 ()
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Kabs Kanu, please do not listen . Where is the democracy and freedom of speech you have advocated to us for long if you close the forum ? How will closing the forum solve the problem ?
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Smart
To: All
Date Posted: 20:31:38 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: cs4326@gmail.com
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This is the problem we have in Africa. This is the reason why we have a lot of dictatorship governments. The reason being a lot of people abuse their own freedom of speech. You give the African man one yard, he takes fifty. Let us be constructive and educative in our discussions in this forum. Sierra leone is our land. If we have a leader that is comitted to his country welfare, let us support him with our prayers and advises. We have to stop all this bickering or else we are not going to learn anything from this forum. Dont abuse your freedom, use it for the good of all. THANK YOU.
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 12:15:58 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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The assumption that "democracy" and "freedom of speech" are unproblematic, evidently referential concepts is nonsense. Basics: What is "democracy"? Nota Bene: it is impossible to value of disvalue a phenomenon, absent a determination of the content of the phenomenon. Ditto for "freedom of speech." Incidentally, "freedom" is another wobbly concept: one may be free FROM something or free TO do something. So, what gives? What the hell I am doing in this forum: it is full of quasi-educated drop outs. All the same, if the editor can push his religious bias of Isa bin Mariam and can make Benjamins at the same time, he would be a fool to close this forum. The forum is a crisp reflection of the intellectual posture of most Sierra Leoneans: intellectual dwarfs.
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Intellectual Dwarf
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Date Posted: 14:13:38 01/25/08 ()
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OK now you intellectual giant, you!
What do U call us? Oh yes "quasi-educated drop outs"?
I think you are out of your damned constipated mind!
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 15:16:07 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: jallowlaw@yahoo.com
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Intellectual dwarf is a dwarf on two dispositive grounds: first, he wrong headedly assumes, absent even the shadow of a scintilla of evidence, that the attribution of the determination "intellectual dwarf," which, in the usual Sierra Leonean fashion, he embraces, attaches the category "intellectual giant" to me. One thing you will not elicit from me, intellectual dwarf, is a personal attack. Accordingly, the following comments attach to your message, which is peppered with the semantic and syntactic structure of "krio," not English. Your first sentence is perspicuously constituted within the horizon of Krio syntax. Accordingly, although it wears the phonetic structure of English, semantically and syntactically, it is pure Krio. Since I am not a Krio, it would utterly unreasonable to expect me to respond to you in Krio. Second, I suppose you have been exposed to a dose of the barbaric linguistic usage of the thuggish literary culture of "hip hop." This is reflected in in your second sentence: "What do U call "us"? That sentence, intellectual dwarf, is not an English sentence. Under whose lexicon did the letter "U" objectivate the pronoun "you"? The answer is obvious: the lexicon of the hip hop culture-benjamin hustlers. Now, to your last point: references to mind states pervade this forum. There is no need here to speculate about the state of your mind: it is there in verba: in your words, dwarf: abstracting from the vulgarism "damned", it is quite obvious that your metaphorical use of "constipat[ion]" as a descr1ptive marker of the "mind" betrays not only a lack of common sense, but, tragically, your dwarfish understanding of the epistemological difficulties of objectifying anyone's mind. Not even Freud ever claimed such an intellectual coup de grace. Now, Freud, in my opinion was no intellectual giant; yet, I would think that your thought pattern will insert him in the sphere of "constipated" minds. Forget about Freud: a sober mind would learn the syntax and semantics of a foreign language. Clearly, English is not your native language. Accordingly, it might be wise to get your mind constipated with its phonetic, semantic, syntactical and idiomatic structures. Incidentally, I am not here valorizing the English Language: in my view, Greek, Latin, Arabic and German are more interesting languages. Hit the books, dwarf!
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 18:09:55 01/25/08 ()
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very sad - where are you from?
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 20:07:20 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: jjallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Sad is a living human being who wants to write but cannot write. No reasonable reader can attach any coherent content to your incoherent message: What is sad? Silence. In the name of Zeus, this is a forum: talk, and talk or write coherently. Sadly, what does my pedigree have to do with the fecundity or lack thereof of my thoughts? Produce arguments and evidence that corroborate your sound bite; or, perhaps, you assume that the cognitive product of journalists with bachelor degrees should regulate all discourse. That would be sad, indeed. American anti-intellectualism, perhaps? Deeply sad and pitiful is that your horse sense or street sense did not monitor your written speech. Beyond sadness, and bordering on evasive strategizing, is the dearth of a reasoned response to my assetions. Maybe they are erroneous, perhaps inconsistent, perhaps incoherent; but to believe that your ungrammatical posit: "very sad - where are you from?---always begin a sentence with a capital letter!---addresses my contentions is infinitessimally sad.
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 04:09:52 01/27/08 ()
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I expected a request for an explanation on my lamentation - 'very sad' - where are you from?' and not an offensive outburst.
You see dear, we live in a world that so many of us do not comprehend. It is a very simple world if we only make things less difficult. i try to understand every writing or language by not pretending to know that which I do not know. I try not to be the pious or sage in anything. I lay down what I believe to be facts that some will not believe as facts. This is the world we now live!! A world so beautiful if we only understand and respect differences and not taunt them - that is the sadness I speak of!
There is no comfort in the truth and such causes a quest for a battle to be more superior by way of looking for faults in a speech and writings.
Do you know that the most destructive animal in the animal kingdom is 'Human'?
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 07:48:20 01/27/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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You wrote: "I expected a request for an explanation of my lamentation - (sic) 'very sad' (sic)- where are you from" and not an offensive outburst." Under the rules of the grammar, syntax and semantics of the English Language, what you wrote is unadulterated nonsense. I should think that under your lights the previous sentence is an "offensive outburst." If you choose to call a fact an "offensive outburst," no reasonable person can prevent you from doing so. Equally, no reasonably can make any sense out of your message because you perspicuously failed, perhaps based on ignorance or laziness, to follow the rules of sentence construction of the English Language. Do you not see the painful irony of your situation? You urge understanding. While understanding cannot reasonably be limited to speech, whether spoken or written (one can understand or misunderstand a gesture, for example) this is a forum in which communication is given as written speeches. If your sentences are not well formed under the rules of the permitted language, your talk of understanding is incomprehensible.
Intellectual honesty mandates that where a proposition is advanced that is not intersubjectively self-evident, it must be corroborated by appropriate evidence. Accordingly, since you fail to surgically posit out evidence of "an offensive outburst" in my reply to you, it would be plainly silly for me to address your emotional reaction, or to 'sample' your riff, I expect a reasoned, not an emotional reaction to my writings, not a cris de coer. Hence, the burden of proceeding is on you: produce the evidence! Or, be silent!
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:08 01/27/08 ()
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I am beginning to understand the writer. My peace to you! Go over your post and advise me that it contains no error. I will send you an e-lolly for your proficiency in the English language. I await your response before I produce the evidence you requested.
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 11:41:55 01/27/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98
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I'll get to the point. I shall not allow you to evade your responsibility: the issue is not about proficiency in the language of your former colonial masters; produce, produce, again produce relevant evidence that my text is an "offensive outburst." That is the issue, and I shall not allow you to stray therefrom with irrelevant, evasive tricks. Produce the evidence or shut up! Incidentally, your implicit assumption that I value the language of your former colonial masters is misplaced. As an African I view all European languages with utter suspicion, for reasons that are too obvious to deserve objectivation: the values of the English who defeated the people of Sierra Leone by force of arms, and proceeded to rule them despotically for over a hundred years are embedded in the English language. Sampling Labarja, the simple objective question is: are you going to produce the evidence or not? Don't come back with an answer metaphorically identical to the proverbial "the dog ate the homework." Go to work, son of Adam.
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 13:53:11 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
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Who the are you as an african? which part of africa are you from; that you so believe you masterly control the language of my "former colonial masters" and yet you criticise them that gave you such a powerful tool to have the ability to debate with me? Who are you?
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 14:53:40 01/27/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98
Message:
Now we are wasting time, are we not? Respectfully, you sound like a broken record. Let me reason with you. Assume that I am a bushman. Does it follow from that assumption that the Brits taught me how to write under the phonetic and lexicographic structures of English? Further, assume that the string of words "masterly control [of] the language of [your] 'former colonial masters'" has an objective referent. Who determines the validity of the relation between the string and the objective referent? The Brits? Tony Blair, Gordon, ...who? I don't suppose that you hold that only Brits can determine the effective use of the English language. What evidence do you have that English is a "powerful" linguistic tool? But, before you answer, how do you construe the locution 'powerful'? Do you see what is going on? We are engaged in reflexive discourse: we are using language to talk about language. The result?: Nichts, nothing: an epistemological cloud of Platonic nonsense. Accordingly, it must be concluded that ideational reflection evidently assumes a nimble mastery of the reflective tool, herein English. After this long and tedious reflection on reflection, I hope that you recognize the plain disutility of knowledge of my origin or the source of my appropriation of the English language. How about some ideas, for a change? Finally, you assume that criticism always connotes a negative judgment. A critique can explore the merit or lack thereof of an idea; additionally, a critique may indicate the limits of judgment: inability to posit a judgment---undecidability. Under your logic, a negative judgment passed on a part (here, British imperialism), constitutes a negative judgment on all British phenomena. Even a naive conception of a theory of wholes and parts can easily and convincingly demonstrate the manifest absurdity of such a projection. Have you had enough? Let me know.
Subject: Re: Shut this Forum down
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 12:14:15 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98
Message:
The assumption that "democracy" and "freedom of speech" are unproblematic, evidently referential concepts is nonsense. Basics: What is "democracy"? Nota Bene: it is impossible to value of disvalue a phenomenon, absent a determination of the content of the phenomenon. Ditto for "freedom of speech." Incidentally, "freedom" is another wobbly concept: one may be free FROM something or free TO do something. So, what gives? What the hell I am doing in this forum: it is full of quasi-educated drop outs. All the same, if the editor can push his religious bias of Isa bin Mariam and can make Benjamins at the same time, he would be a fool to close this forum. The forum is a crisp reflection of the intellectual posture of most Sierra Leoneans: intellectual dwarfs.
Subject: MODERATOR
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 03:50:30 01/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ac81e912.ipt.aol.com at 172.129.233.18
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Please call me ASAP.We need to work on the amnesty today.I promised midnight yesterday but could not get you on the phone.
Also , after the amnesty, kindly post all the rules and regulations. Thanks in advance.
Subject: Re: MODERATOR
From: YIPIPI
To: All
Date Posted: 21:11:09 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Message:
HURRAY
Subject: Re: MODERATOR
From: Fafalie
To: All
Date Posted: 08:10:06 01/25/08 ()
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Mr. moderator, you are truely an APC praise singer. Where in the whole city that electricity has been spread? You have been given this false rumour about electricity in that country and you still continued to give the false rumour. When will Some Sierra Leonean jounalists begin to write objectively? And stop this "lay belle"
Subject: Re: MODERATOR
From: AWOL
To: All
Date Posted: 08:35:20 01/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-69-204-133-167.nycap.res.rr.com at 69.204.133.167
Message:
Kabs-Kanu has been away from Sierra Leone since 19 zote. He knows nothing about the country. As a minister he should stop spreading lies on behalf of the unGodly APC. But oh ya, dee man dae habope pan job wae nor exist. Since Alpha Khan the crook lied about Dir of Communications job, Kabs has thrown his cloth away and donned a cloth of the devil. Kabs lef lie
Subject: Response for DeLaw and Fen Palaba
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:59:59 01/24/08 ()
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Entered From: pool-71-178-60-26.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.60.26
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DeLaw and Fen Plaba, sorry for the delay in responding.
I would not have much time to discuss this issue in detail but I will give you a few reading to explain why I made reference to the Great Depression. It is to give you and readers some historical equivalence to our problems that had similar origin though different in some spectrum of factors responsible for these occurrences.
The Great Depression is dated back to 1914 by some Historians and Economists because they believe global economies had started slowing after World War 1. The impact was severely felt by 1932-1938. Therefore, as we have have emerged from war and as the ousted government used the war as the reasons for the slow development, I thought it fit to use the Great Depression as a symbolic example to relate to.
The depression did not only affect America but the entire market economy.
DeLaw I am not making any proposition for the government. It would be unsound on my part and unfair on the government's part for me to make any economic proposition when I have no clue what the national budget is like nor do I know what the Gross Domestic Product (DGP) is.
However, my response is strictly focused on what the citizenry should and can do to alleviate the problem. In fact, this is the reason I brought the Great Depression up.
Sierra Leone's problem lies within the areas I made mention of, which are corruption, the lack of patriotism, dependency on foreign aid, which we have no alternative because as it is and up to the period that our foreign debts are forgiven we live in a hole. Please read an article from cyber essay on the effect of the great depression on global economy to see that our economy that was devalued could not do well in the global market economy not only because of the devaluation but that we do not produce to meet needs and the import far exceeds export and most or all of what is imported are paid for in foreign currency.
Bellow you can read to understand how Germany in particular came to be hit by the recession the same goes for America, Great Britain and Japan.
According to Cyber Essay:
"By 1936, all the main economic indicators had regained the levels of the late 1920s, except for unemployment, which remained high. In 1937, the American economy unexpectedly fell, lasting through most of 1938. Production declined sharply, as did profits and employment. Unemployment jumped from 14.3% in 1937 to 19.0% in 1938.
Soon, the Depression was spreading to the rest of the world,
especially to Europe. There, the single country that was most affected
was Germany whose very weak economy could not cope with the slow
disappearance of American capital. Let us mention that Germany was
still paying reparations (for World War I), which made its situation
even more delicate. Germany was forced to borrow from Great Britain
and France which could not compensate for the decline in U.S.
lending.5 The trap in which Germany found itself was quite
disconcerting: she had to pursue deficiency policies to gain the
confidence of investors in order to attract foreign funds. At the same
time, devaluation posed a major problem. It increased the burden of the
external debt (through the exchange rate mechanism) which was payable
in foreign currencies."
Our situation is similar to what happened to Germany. We were not paying reparations but we were in huge debt. Besides, trade agreement with other industrial nations was very low in percentile. In America for instance, trade agreement with Africa up to 1997 was 2%. But this has been increased to a higher percentile.
How can we take advantage of this increase as citizens is what I made mention that will even benefit us individually and go to benefit our people. Say a Sierra Leonean invest in apple plantation for instance, the tendency for you to get international market for the products that are made out of it is greater. That is one example I referred to of but I never proposed to the government for the aforementioned reasons. How we as a people can produce enough agricultural produce to feed our people and even trade with other African countries is what I made reference to.
I made reference to transportation and how businessmen whose commodities have to reach a wider market from Freetown to the rural areas and how to expedite this without much reliance on government is what I made reference to. Imagine Bailoh Barrier establishing an air taxi by himself, how about a business organisation, what can they do when they do not live everything to the government? Their business growth rate is lower compared to if it is to extend to the entire Sierra Leone and beyond.
Like I said, I will not have time to discuss at Length but believe you me, I am highly impressed by your input. Yes " The people will not accept lame excuses and they may not be easy to pacify with sweet talk from the pulpit.They need realtime solutions to their problems." But most importantly, we need to help ourselves succeed for the benefit of all Sierra Leoneans. We are not helping them but us because it is our people suffering, it is them dying in hospitals, it is our friends, our brothers and sisters going without education. No matter what, if you live America to visit Sierra Leone you want to see a one time college or school mate do well. You would not like to see a son or daughter of your former girl friend pass-bye without shirt on his/her back, food to eat even if she has the child for another man. When you see her happy and her children happy and doing well, as a good man, you will feel proud inside.
You would hate to see your former Teacher/Lecturer without even food to eat. it doesn't make you feel proud does it? You would hate to see school children, the ages of five carrying benches to school on their heads, in their thirties, benches their parents are suppose to sit on at home do you?
Do we need the government to organized our communities in the Diaspora to come-up with ideas and work upon them to give self-reliance to our people? How many times have you Sierra Leoneans cried foul that monies you sent home were either not enough or were not put into good use or where not given to the people that they were to go to? How about devising methods that will keep on giving if we are organized and determine? Sierra Leone from my experience is gradually disintegrating. I can recall growing-up when people use to grow crops on their farms and give bags of rice to poor people especially the blind, the lame and the old. It is not happening. One of means through which which America got out of the depression were the sacrifices the citizens themselves made through Self Help and charitable organizations. We have had charitable organization of Sierra Leonean origins but but have not worked why? They failed because of the implementation. They were geared towards dependency rather than self-sufficiency. We can device methods to teach our people to fish rather than giving them fish. This is what I am making reference to. But I am not making proposition.
Once again, thank you for your inputs and I must appologise that certain times I sound as argumentative or angry which is part right and partly wrong. I just feel for us that for several years I have made reference on this forum ideas that certain people have put in use yet, my Sierra Leonean people are still vehemently determined to prove that I am crazy when none of them are Psychiatrists. What would this people think of you is what angers me especially when I see my people continue to suffer. As you may know, I do not force people to embrace my ideology. What I ask is let us discuss it. I am not trying to prove I am intelligent than any one otherwise, after curious observation, I would just keep quiet. Those who know what I am talking about will attest to it that I do not need to prove myself to any one.
But I highly appreciate your inputs, thank you.
Subject: Re: Response for DeLaw and Fen Palaba
From: Salone Police
To: All
Date Posted: 03:22:07 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: salonepolice@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-76-254-113-217.dsl.hstntx.sbcglobal.net at 76.254.113.217
Message:
The major premise of your piece is that Sierra Leone is in debt. That is factually incorrecr as the SLPP government received comprehensive debt forgiveness for Sierra Leone before it left office.
Subject: Re: Response for DeLaw and Fen Palaba
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:15:50 01/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-60-26.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.60.26
Message:
Sierra Leone Police thank you for your piece. I am afraid the major premise of my piece is not that Sierra Leone is in debt but that we should reverse our mindset that government should do everything for us, including feeding our people. Please go and re-read my posting over.
I was the one posting messages from an Organization known as "ONE" about debt cancelation for African nations. I was the one sociliciting your support to respect the call made by this organisation by writing to President Bush, the G8 to push for debt cancelation for poorverty-striken nations as Sierra Leone. In fact, not too long ago, I posted a request made by the said organisation for us to write to the head of world financial institutions, the world bank to be specific to consider cacelling about 43 billion dollars for Liberia and I reposted the outcome of such endeavor to write to him. So I should know which country's debts were cancelled and which weren't. But read my post again, which will help you understand where I was coming from. I know you probably read in hate as such, you missed the point along the line.
The pivotal point of my writing is re-examination for self-reliance, whereby, we re-examine the role the governt should play, the role we should be playing without too much reliace on government for everything.
I know we all make such erors so don't feel bad.
Once again, thank you for you observation.
I do not have time to read over.
Subject: Re: Response for DeLaw and Fen Palaba
From: Salone Police
To: All
Date Posted: 12:17:09 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: salonepolice@hotmail.com
Entered From: nat1-whar.wcjc.cc.tx.us at 207.80.112.1
Message:
I understand. Thanks a lot Bambay.
Your point is very valid especially as it concurs with and reinforces the call by President Koroma for "attitudinal change." The only problem there is that Sierra Leone needs creative restructuring and demographic re-distribution for this centralised (rely-on-government) sydrome to go away.
Governments elsewhere normally restructure demography by
a) creating social and employment or training opportunities in parts of the country where the government would like to shift that population. So for instance, government could make the provision of electricity, water, banking, and roads a priority for, say, makeni, as well as a training institute that supplies human capital for a small industry. This would encourage people to shift from selling small wares on Garrison street to Makeni. This can be replicated in so many parts of the country.
b.0 President Koroma can also expand existing industrial estates around Freetown and encourage youth tp train toward working in those industries.
c) Public works - roads, bridges, construction projects and trainign institutes for such jobs would be also very helpful and have a positive ripple effect on the economy.
There are other ways too that the President should explore.
But too much centralisation is hurting the Sierra Leone economy.
Subject: State House Online.
From: NEWS
To: All
Date Posted: 22:32:31 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h161.71.89.75.ip.alltel.net at 75.89.71.161
Message:
The Republic of Sierra Leone Website.
Subject: Re: State House Online.
From: The Nationalist
To: All
Date Posted: 00:10:13 01/25/08 ()
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Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
It is more professional and more classy than the Kabbah web site. Kudos. Who is the webmaster ?
Subject: Re: State House Online.
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 18:20:55 01/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: client-81-109-210-100.leed.adsl.virgin.net at 81.109.210.100
Message:
really? Did you try to access the many buttons on the home page? tell us what you got! Please tell the webmaster to make sure the whole is complete before sounding to the world the better of two.
It needs a lot of work - too much info lacking!!
Subject: Re: State House Online.
From: Protocol
To: All
Date Posted: 15:06:45 01/26/08 ()
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Entered From: at 84.54.30.6
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Not just that. The entire website look is VERY UN-PRESIDENTIAL. It is a disgrace to protocols.
Subject: Re: State House Online.
From: Question
To: All
Date Posted: 16:00:45 01/26/08 ()
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Message:
To begin with, I suggest the above critics showed us a website they have created, and then we can move on to talk about professionalism or what is presidential and not.
Subject: Re: State House Online.
From: PH.D
To: All
Date Posted: 06:48:34 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
That's the thing.The Sierra Leone cannot create anything but when others have done their thing, all they do is condemn. Pull Him/her down. That is all we know.
Subject: Re: State House Online.
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 09:28:39 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.252.10
Message:
A constructive criticism that makes positive recommendations is not a SEA of condemnation. Look at the site and try to click on some of the buttons. The job seems to have been done in haste. I'll recommend they take their time and make sure all info are in place before a launch. From experience, I was able to see that it still needs time and info to make it to the completion stage.
Not all Sierra leoneans are Pull Him/Her downers. Some believe in helping in the progress of fellow countrywo/men.
I stand proud to call myself that sort of A sierra Leonean who prides in contributing in the progress of fellow citizens.
Subject: Re: State House Online.
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 04:14:20 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.252.10
Message:
One does not have to show you about his deeds to enable you discuss with him about your folly. The socalled 'state house' website is not yet complete and should not, in the interest of professionalism be made accessible to all. Complete the site, making sure all info in place before you launch it for the world to see.
Subject: AMNESTY AT THE FORUM TOMORROW : IPs to be freed
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 20:38:06 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
IN OUR DESIRE TO PROMOTE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND unhindered expression of people's feelings about matters back home, we are going to grant amnesty to all those whose IPs were blocked for violating the rules of the forum. If you know anyone who has not been able to post, tell him/her to try by midnight .
Though we will free the IPs , one thing we will not relent on is that we will continue to enforce the rules .However, there will be no more permanent bans.
Violators will be cautioned twice by the moderator and if they refuse to listen, will be restricted for posting for 10 days.
Somerset , NJ residents who would want to settle old scores with Foday Mansaray, Miss Agnes, Bishop Boyabi and me , will however not to be allowed to participate on the forum. If you have problems with us, meet us like men ( Or women ). Do not hide behind monikers to pay back.
Otherwise, the forum will be different as of tomorrow , with IPs released and only suspension of violators and no more permanent bans.
We hope this gesture will be appreciated and people will obey the rules and avoid personal attacks.
Subject: Re: AMNESTY AT THE FORUM TOMORROW : IPs to be freed
From: PH.D
To: All
Date Posted: 06:51:43 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
Sierra Leoneans don't deserve amnesty. They are no good and will never be good. Do you see why their country is the most backward on the face of the earth ?
Subject: Shared from Leonet
From: HOPE
To: All
Date Posted: 19:12:35 01/24/08 ()
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Message:
As promised, here are my personal/subjective impressions of the physical, social, and political terrains of the parts of Sierra Leone that I saw: Freetown, Lunsar, Makeni, and Magburaka.
It was an anxious moment. The voice was soft and assuring; asking all to prepare for landing at the Lungi Airport. Having lived in America since the Bai Bureh War, I did not know what to expect. Armed only with images of Sierra Leone gleaned from the internet and from travellers' accounts, I was prepared for the worst. The plane landed at about 2 A.M. Finally, this JC from Lunsar has arrived. Being home again was an indescribably good feeling. It did not bother me that there were only a few lights, and that beyond the airport darkness reigned. It was peaceful here.
The airport, not as high-tech and beautiful as those I have seen in the US of A, is far better than it was when I left in 1988. It is bigger and cleaner. It was hot but I expected it, for that was how I left it. The number of 'helpers' has also increased, but I had no problem cliaming my baggage. I made sure that my Krio was as crisp as that of anyone from Kissy, Wellington, or Istehn, trying desperately to reclaim my 'Istehn Savisman' status. It was familiar here.
Then a re-introduction to the broken system. This was Tagrin. The line of vehicles was long but I was certain my vehicle would have a place in the ferry, so I could see Freetown once again after so many years. My vehicle was next and the driver has paid. Then the Freetown bound gate was closed. The Lungi bound gate was opened to allow three vehicles from behind us to 'board' the ferry. I and those behind me were furious; it was a directive from State House, we were told. In my 'JC ' mind frame, this was unacceptable, yet could not stop it. 'Nothing has changed for the better; this was happening when I left the country,' I reminded myself. In dismay, I returned to the airport to spend the rest of the morning in a hotel. I could not see Freetown until the next day.
Freetown is chaos. The streets teem with the lazy feet of traders many of whom did not have much to trade. The hills and valleys that marked the beauty of Freetown are now landscapes of numerous slums. Freetown is a choked city. Something has to be done about it, and it should be done now. It is not as dirty as it used to be months before the elections. I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the streets, especially main ones, are tarred. Many of the familiar places in the West End are intact and beautiful. The beaches are as beautiful as ever.
Lunsar is a charred town slowly rising from the ashes of war. The tarred streets I used to know have been replaced with dusty pathways. The same can be said about Magburaka. Makeni, however, is bustling with life. The main streets are tarred and business seems to thrive here. I spent most of my time in Lunsar. The poverty in these places is massive. Yet, the people are happy and not depressed. The four weeks I spent in Sierra Leone were the most peaceful and restful in the last 18 years. I would go back in six months if I had the money. I must acknowledge that the challenges of material poverty and health care are enormous; but there is hope. The hope lies in the emerging consciousness of the people to shape their own destiny, and their determination to not allow incompetent governments to impose themselves on them anymore. Most people are eager to participate in the march to progress but need an inspiring leadership.
The new dispensation (APC) is still settling down. To their credit, they have been able to bring light to many parts of Freetown. I personally enjoyed the Ernest Koroma light as well as the ice-cold water that came with it, during my two or three days in Freetown before I left for America. I am, however, concerned about certain issues:
Northernization: One has to be 'blind' in many ways to deny the fact that the APC appointments (ministerial and others) have been dished out to mostly northerners. I raised this with friends in the APC and none of them disagreed with me, but promised a reversal of the trend (I'm not sure how that will happen) in the near future. In a country where the government is the biggest employer, a hiring and firing process that privileges a particular region or tribe threatens the peace. This should be a concern for all of us because it has the colour of polarization. Many non-APCers, especially Mendes, who hold positions in government or parastatals, are uncertain about their jobs. Ernest Koroma may be well-meaning, but if he fails to resist the inimical pressure from the old guard of his party, he will lose the country pretty soon. He has said a lot that he has not done, yet people give him the benefit of doubt. To put a northernizing agenda ontop of empty words should be a conc ern to all of us.
Indiscipline: This may be APC's most serious and most immediate challenge. Any society that does not respect the rule of law is on its way out of the human fold. President Koroma should move fast to arrest the indiscipline in two sets of supporters: the traders in Freetown, and the youth. The traders in Freetown have effectively seized the streets, turning that city into an ugly web of lanes strewn with wares and feet. The problem is that they believe they can lay their wares anywhere in the city because this is their government. They need to know that the government does not own the streets or anything; the people of Sierra Leone do, including those who are not APC. Those who live in the city deserve a clean and 'free' environment. The youth, many of whom are unemployable, believe that they can do anything to anyone who is not APC. These groups need to be educated about democracy and the rights and obligations of every citizen.
I hope Ernest will move quickly to address these issues, among others. Sierra Leone is not yet a lost cause. It is still redeemable but it requires government to create the ennabling environment, and citizens to once gain see dignity in labour. There is a lot more to share, but this is it for now.
Subject: Re: Shared from Leonet
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 03:27:02 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: 82-45-226-138.cable.ubr03.enfi.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.45.226.138
Message:
Hi Hope
This is an excellent testimony, which has all the hallmarks of intelligence, patrotism and honesty. I do not know your political affiliation but it is clear from your writing that you are concerned about certain issues that can cause some problems for the APC and stand in their way to delivery unless EBK project himself as president of the whole of Sierra Leone and resist the in-house pressure from those pushing for what is now perceived as the politics of northernalsation.
Although I belong to a different political spectrum from that of EBKs APC, I campaigned for a change to governance-away from what it used to be. So I am naturally interested to see that the new APC do the right things for our country and succeed in doing the right things for our nation.
Because, I belive, the success of the APC in improving the lives of our people and making a significant diference to delivering results will vindicate my criticism of my own party-SLPP.
EBK does not have to, need to appoint or include Southerners in his administration for the sake of it. In fact his is not under any constitutional requirement to do so. Political expediency, in the African context could, however, make a review of the current perceived policy of northernalisation necessary and relevant. But this should not be done in haste or pressure from the same failed hungary politicians who are itching to make a come back.
Personally, I am opposed to EBK reverting to the old order-by recycling those who served in the incompetent Tejan Kabba SLPP administrations. EBK can reach out to many Southerners in Sierra Leone and in the diasporas, many more qualified and abled than the cronies of Tejan Kabba who contributed hugely to the dire situation our country is in today.
EBK must not succumed to pressure and intimidation from people who had the opportunity to build a better Sierra Leone but wilfully failed in their responsibilities.
Our nation should not afford to give these sconderels another chance, then another chance etc -for that is how political recycling is entrenched and corruption replicates.
As a southerner, I constantly highlighted the carelessness and deficiencies of the SLPP leadership when they were in power but I was often described by those who do not see beyound their noses as a hater of SLPP - a party that I belonged to and supported by inheritance.
Some of us are privileged to have a good education and have experiences in diversity and international etiquette. We have a duty, irrespective of tribes and party politics to shape, influence and speak out on fundamental issues partaining to the wellfare and stability of our nation as one perceived it. That is pricisely what you have accomplished in your testimony.
I am sure you had a nice holiday.
Regards.
Subject: BRA ENVIABLE, U LOSS O!
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 19:10:46 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
Pa Komaneh,
Why is the most prolific political commentator on the forum suddenly taciturn? Your fans miss your perspicacity as you dissect complex national issues with a gifted scalpel. Wherever you are, I hope you blaze the forum with your brilliance soon.
As you contemplate, I hope your eyes smile a little as these Cameroonian ladies shake it like they are in Freetown.
Take care buddy.
Subject: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: Alfred S. Cole
To: All
Date Posted: 18:56:11 01/24/08 ()
Email Address: alfcoles2120@hotmail.com
Entered From: c-71-197-99-190.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.99.190
Message:
Alpha, when I read your response to my posting- THE WHITEMAN REMEMBERS KULA, I was shocked. I was forCed to immediately conclude that you could have been one of those groups of our countrymen who were sending distorted information to the outside about what was going on in the country at that time. Those who sent the information did so in expectation of kickbacks like Allie Bangura, Julius Spencer and Hannah Fullah who jointly dramatized what went on during their radio programs at Lungi. That was the reward for killing our brothers and sister in the army. Hannah Fullah took the Directorship of 98.1; Julius Spencer, the Dramatist became the Minister of Information and Broadcasting on their return from Conakry and Allie Bangura became the Minister of Trade and Industry.
There was a coup. Yes! But it was not planned by all those who were executed. If I read you correctly, Kula Samba did not conspire with anybody to overthrow any governemnt. My assessment of your response makes one to believe that you were either not in the country, or if you were, you were not following the kangaroo court proceedings. Kula Samba and others were not guilty of anything, let alone a coup. The so-called court was constituted by enemies, save the Nigerian Officer, who washed his hands off for finding no one of them guilty from what the prosecution presented before the court.
Tom Carew wanted to become the CDS so he towed the line and yielded to his boss' directives. Even though Kabbah knew that Carew was a very limited military officer, he compensated him with the office of CDS (compensatory democracy that was popular in Kabbah's appointments). I refuse to agree that you know what a court of competent jurisdiction is.
If you were citing the cases of Mohamend Sorie Fornah and 14 others and Kai-Kai's as the legal references used to convict the officers, then the President too was guilty of a crime-MIS-PRISON OF TREASON according to our laws. The former president knew about the coup; he had been told about the coup by Colonel G.S.T. Mani and CDS Hassan Conteh. He refused to act promptly to stop the coup. When the coup actually took place, the former president was remembered for saying that he knew about the coup three days before it happened. Therefore, if you cite the Kai-Kai's case as a legal reference to support the convictions the soldiers, why was Kabbah not convicted; and why is he still passing around a free man? Why is he not being questioned for his non-chalance when his ministers and other statesmen robbed the nation? Why is he not questioned for his role in setting this country backward? I am shocked to hear that he is still around with nobody to ask him. In Kai-Kai's case, O.C Benjie was sentenced for his knowlegdge of the coup which he had kept secret.
Alpha, honesty does not have to do with sentiuments. It has nothing to do with political affiliation, religious groupings or regional placings. We only need to be fair to each other. Kabbah, Berewa and a host of others were not fair to those guys they executed and us as citizens. But do you want to argue that Berewa accepted bribes when the kangaroo court trials went on? Why did he accept bribes from the people he was prosecuting? You need to cross-check your 'facts' before you condemn what I am writing. I don't wnat to use this forum to expose the so-many things I know about that party in relation to its dealings with the war and bla, bla, bla... It was only some SLPP members who believed that the soldiers were not fairly tried. That was why I had to direct my support away from the SLPP; and when I did, I went along with thousands. Those numbers were reflected in the past elections. The people were only paying back the SLPP for what the party did to their relatives, loved ones and the country. If the SLPP accepts its wrong doings to the people it will have some people sympathizing with it.
Once again, Alpha, there was a coup. Accepted! But that coup was not a hand work of many of those officers that were executed. The underlying belief in many minds like mine was that Kabbah, or rather Berewa murdered those soldiers because they feared that they were a threat. Kabbah did not like his own Army and he saw what that meant to him during the 2002 elections. Kabbah hated anybody that was called a soldier. His happiest moment was when one was dead; so he stopped at nothing to ensure their death. But people say he by himself didn't want to murder them; but because he was a weak leader, he yielded to his Attorney General (later Vice President) who wanted to make an easy road to the presidency. The so-called coupists were dragged to the Kangaroo court where there was an absence of the due prosess of the law (of course it had to be). To borrow from you, we will do Sierra Leone a million good, if we become honest and call things by their names. Like one responder said and I agree with him, that Kula Samba was gruesomely murdered because:
1. She as an officer failed to suppress the mutiny of the other ranks who overthrew their government;
2. She joind the "illegal" government of Johnny Paul Koroma by serving as a minister;
3. She helped in the "illegal" activities that were going on during the AFRC regime.
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: OK DOC
To: All
Date Posted: 08:58:19 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: OKDOC@MSN.COM
Entered From: gate4-sandiego.nmci.navy.mil at 138.163.0.44
Message:
IF YOU TAKE PART IN AN ILLEGAL GOVERMENT THAT OVERTHROWS AN ELECTED GOVERNMENT IT IS TREASON AS FAR AS I KNOW. I AM NOT HEAR TO BACK ANYONE. BOTH KILLINGS OF KAI KAI AND KULA SAMBA WERE WRONG. I FEEL IN A DEMOCRACY THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVING A GOOD LAWYER TO DEFEND THEM FI THEY COUDL NTO AFFORD ONE. ALSO THE DEATH SENTENCE SHOULD BE LOOKED AT BY ALL OF US AS A COUNTRY. BECAUSE POLITICIANS WOUDL CONTINUE TO USE IT TO GET RID OF THEIR ENEMIES.
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 10:49:34 01/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
Both Kabba nad Berewa were advisers to the NPRC govt that over threw a legitimate APC ruler. Is that treasoneous?
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: Dumbo
To: All
Date Posted: 09:31:52 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-69-204-133-167.nycap.res.rr.com at 69.204.133.167
Message:
Don't be dumb. Only a fool would compare NPRC and AFRC. NPRC were not only successful in kicking the government out, but they were accepted by the people. AFRC was never accepted so they did not achieve legitimacy. Kula Samba was part and parcel of a coup that toppled a democratic government. According to the laws of Sierra Leone treason's punishment is death. Stop making a hero out of a villain.
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 12:29:19 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
Stand in the corner and pump!!! Was the NPRC COUP legal? You have a big stick in your bladclatt eye!
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: Stupid
To: All
Date Posted: 14:26:41 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-69-204-133-167.nycap.res.rr.com at 69.204.133.167
Message:
Hey stupid, don't deviate. I talked about legitimacy. NPRC became a legitimate government and AFRC was never legitimate. So take your legal nonsense elsewhere. Kula Samba was part of an illegal and Illegitimate crop of blood curdling killers she will always remain a villain in my book.
Subject: FOR YOU, REV KABS KANU.
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 18:38:42 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
JUST GOT THIS JOKE FROM COMEDY CENTRAL:
George W. Bush was passing through an airplane terminal and he noticed an old man in a long white robe, with a long white beard, long white hair and carrying two stone tablets in his arms.
He approached the man and asked reverently, "Aren't you Moses?"
But the man wouldn't listen to him and continued walking. George asked him again, ''Aren't you Moses?''
The old man continued ignoring him, even turning his back on little Bush. George grabs the man's arm, looks him right in the eye and insists, "Answer me -- Aren't you Moses?"
The man replies, "I'm not saying a thing! The last time I spoke to a Bush I ended up roaming the desert for 40 years!"
Subject: Re: FOR YOU, REV KABS KANU.
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 18:47:06 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
That is very funny and worthy of publication. you nar man.
Subject: RESPONSE TO THE AGENDA CONTINUES - So WHAT
From: Nar Me
To: All
Date Posted: 14:29:03 01/24/08 ()
Email Address: thenewsletter@hotmail.com
Entered From: amontsouris-152-1-67-106.w83-202.abo.wanadoo.fr at 83.202.77.106
Message:
"So What"
Can you please clarify what you mean by
"So what.Temnes have suffered a lot since 1992 coup, and now is their time to enjoy"
I do not belong to any political party but I do think that Christiana Thorpe did a very fine job and she is a Sierra Leonean we can be proud of. In my book, Now is the time for whoever is at the helm to work and work very hard to move Sierra Leone forward. I am concerned about the statement "Nar now we for enjoy" enjoy what? What is lurking behind that statement?
Nar me.
Subject: RE: What's happening with your on-line news web page?
From: MUSA KALAWA
To: All
Date Posted: 10:47:21 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-76-195-146-21.dsl.lsan03.sbcglobal.net at 76.195.146.21
Message:
Hi' Mr. KABS,
I today visited you on-line news paper which appears not in operation. Just a little concern and was trying to see what may have gone wrong.
Thanks' in advance
from ur' participant.
Subject: Re: RE: What's happening with your on-line news web page?
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 15:47:21 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Empty your browser cache.
Subject: FOR THE BRITISH SIERRA LEONEANS
From: THAVARISH
To: All
Date Posted: 10:27:42 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-074-228-219-218.sip.asm.bellsouth.net at 74.228.219.218
Message:
LSE(london school of economics and political science) is hosting the President on the 29th next week.
Subject: Re: FOR THE BRITISH SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 13:24:26 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.108.80.12
Message:
T bot
Subject: Re: FOR THE BRITISH SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 11:53:28 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98
Message:
What does the locution "British Sierra Leoneans" mean?
If ever there were a contradictory sequence of words, this is it? Why would a "Sierra Leonean" (an imposed name, by the way, by a Portuguese archaic literary tradition) align him or herself with an autocratic, despotic entity, in the relevant context, of an entity named "Britain"? Another faux pas? How about "diasporian" 'Sierra Leoneans.' A quick check of a credible lexicon would quickly and unequivocally manifest the absurdity of this locution. The point: Sierra Leoneans loathe anything connected with Sierra Leone, perhaps for good historical reasons. In general, they tend to look to either Britain or "America" for directions on how to live their lives: epigones of the "Western World," would be a generous characterization. Finally, does anyone familiar with the general theory of understanding seriously entertain the view that writing "Krio" in phonetical structures of the English Language converts that spoken language into one with a written cultural tradition? Anyway, Sierra Leone is a known basket case: even this paper bows before power, instead of speaking truth to power, the supposed foundation of Euro-American journalism. Pathetic, I say.
Subject: Re: FOR THE BRITISH SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 09:57:21 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.252.10
Message:
A "diasporan" a dispersed people, language, or culture concentrated in one place
British Sierra Leoneans or can also be written Sierra leonean british: sierra leoneans with dual nationality - having british nationality also.
Umpire, where do you hail from - Caucasian? Negroid? or other? I can see you masterly control the English language! Does that mean you are English or british or some other.
Subject: Re: FOR THE BRITISH SIERRA LEONEANS
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 12:54:05 01/27/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98
Message:
Characteristically, you fail to join the issue. If you think that I am wrong, say so. Worry about whether my ideas have objective validity; worry not about whether I am a "caucasian" or some other ideological claptrap. Humans are humans because they make tools, use tools to make other tools to fend off the tyranny of nature in humans and outside humans. For Westerners, the determination of human difference is "race". Unfortunately, color is not a tool. Accordingly, it plays no role in the human condition. Thus, my pedigree is utterly irrelevant: just as in business, one must follow the money so in this forum one must follow ideas, wherever they may lead. Minor point: Please examine the first sentence of your last sentence of your posting; race is not a place. And note that this critique is not rooted in formal grammar, but sense, the sense or meaning of ideas.
Subject: Moderator: Experiencing a hard time getting to Cocorioko
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 09:05:47 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.148
Message:
I am experiencing some difficulty getting to the Cocorioko newspaper. It's like the luck of the draw, using the usual urls. I had to google the forum a few minutes ago.
www.cocorioko.net
www.cocorioko.net/app
The above addresses have been shooting blanks. Am I the only one experiencing this?
Subject: Re: Moderator: Experiencing a hard time getting to Cocorioko
From: Moderator
To: All
Date Posted: 09:36:50 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-66-141-186-124.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 66.141.186.124
Message:
Yes, we started experiencing this problem on a sporadic level recently, but Muckson Sesay, our IT guru is keeping tabs on it. The links you provided seem to be working for now, at least from my end. Cheers!
/Moderator
Subject: Minister of Transport and Aviation in alleged corruption
From: MINISTER
To: All
Date Posted: 08:50:04 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-69-140-252-103.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 69.140.252.103
Message:
Minister of Transport and Aviation in alleged corruption
The Minister of Transport and Aviation, Kemo Sesay, is reportedly at variance with President Ernest Koroma’s zero tolerance on corruption, with allegations of constructing an ultra modern house at Hill Station in less than two months following his appointment as Minister.
Independent Observer accuses the Minister of living a flamboyant and lavishing lifestyle. The report further accuses the minister of receiving a kick-back from the head of the Maritime Administration, Philip Lukulay, for retaining him in the position.
Subject: Re: Minister of Transport and Aviation in alleged corruption
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 08:58:07 01/24/08 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
Entered From: at 82.114.74.97
Message:
Bo leh man den lef dis kine tin ya. If you know nothing, say nothing. Whoever told you Kemoh only started building his mansion last year gravely misled you, Mr. Minister.
Go back and cross-check your facts.
Subject: SLPP MUST NORTHERNIZE AND DEMENDELIZE TO SURVIVE!
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 06:47:35 01/24/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator5678.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.180.78
Message:
I forsee the total fragmentation or disintegration of this party.The members need some reality check.Instead of wasting time in thinking about how you can kick the invincible and dynamic APC (All People's Choice) from power do the following for your survival as the patriotic and democratic powerhouse(APC) is not inclined to a one-party state:
Please take these tips seriously:
1-KICK OUT ALL THE MENDES FROM THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND REPLACE THEM WITH TEMNES AND LIMBAS;
2-TAKE THE PARTY TO ITS NORTHERN ROOTS;
3-FORGET ABOUT THE APC FOR NOW SO AS TO FIND TIME FOR MEDITATION,CONCENTRATION AND CONTEMPLATION.
4-ACCEPT WHAT YOU CANNOT CHANGE AND THAT IS THE APC HAS TO BE IN POWER FOR TWO SUCCESSFUL TERMS.
5-WAKE UP FROM YOUR UNNECESSARY SLEEP IN WHICH YOU ARE DREAMING OF TOPPLING THE APC BY INSIDUOUS ACTIVITIES.THE PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE ON YOUR SIDE FOR NOW.
6-STOP YOUR FEEDING FRENZY CUM SMEAR CAMPAIGN THROUGH THE SO-CALLED FAKE AND DISREPUTABLE 'NEW PEOPLE' PAPER.REMEMBER HOW AWARENESSTIMES TOOK YOU FOR A LONG RIDE AND PLAYED ON YOUR MYOPIA,IGNORANCE AND ARROGANCE? WHY TRUST ANOTHER NEWSPAPER OF THE SAME REPUTATION?
Subject: SLPP FUTURE GOVERNMENT SHOULD REFLECT VOTING PATTERN
From: Sylvester Johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 16:50:10 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 66.134.74.30
Message:
The emergence of PMDC was mainly as a result of the previous SLPP government abandoning its strong hold. Whereas the SLPP got about 65-75% of its votes from the South/East, its ministers, deputy ministers and ambassadors consisted of less than 20% of the people from the South/East. The next SLPP government will continue to be representative of the entire nation but the government will truly represent the voting pattern. It made no sense to appoint 5 ministers and including the running mate from Tonkolili alone and yet could not win a single seat in the last election from that district. The party is going to be scientific in its approach to politics in Sierra Leone.
Make no mistake, we are determined and resolute in our desire to return that country to the party that has the country at heart. We are not going to appoint CNAs and the likes from the diaspora in ministerial/deputy ministerial positions. Individuals from the diaspora should help their parties without competing with the locals for political appointments. We should be creating jobs for our people back home. The SLPP has the brains and the financial resources to challenge the APC and come out victorious.
You may need to tell the Cocorioko editor that THE NEW PEOPLE ONLINE NEWSPAPER is an independent privately owned paper. Its Chief editor just happen to be a member of SLPP just as in the case of Cocorioko.
I need to go back to work and make more money for SLPP.
Subject: Re: SLPP MUST NORTHERNIZE AND DEMENDELIZE TO SURVIVE!
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 12:07:06 01/24/08 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-69-140-129-75.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.129.75
Message:
Bai Bureh, the SLPP has always maintained a national character. I encourage you to read its history, you will see that it is the only political party of inclusion in Sierra Leone.
Please, do not forget that 75% of the founding fathers of the SLPP were from the North(Kandeh Bureh, adikali Modu, Siaka Stevens, chief yumukalla and Dr.H. Conteh, just to name a few).
If you also examine people who served in the president Tejan Kabba era you will see that 85% of them (ministers/deputy minsters and ambassadors) were from the north.
I appeal to all Sierra Leoneans to disbelieve our adversaries who say that our party(SLPP) is only for mendes. Please, check our records you will see that the SLPP is for every Sierra Leonean.
Only people who do not have anything to offer, talk about tribes.
ONE PEOPLE, ONE COUNTRY.
Subject: Re: SLPP MUST NORTHERNIZE AND DEMENDELIZE TO SURVIVE!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 11:25:27 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 205.148.53.200
Message:
We will replace the committe members with the best and most competent sierra leoneans be they TEmne or Limba . We do not want to replicate the actions of Ernest Bombali Koroma where Sierra Leone is the Bombali, Tonkolli, Port Loko axis.
What makes you think Limbas and Temnes will do better. We ere under Limba leadership before.Where did Ekutay take us. why not have krios and fulas run things.
APC will last two terms, they will implode and return to their theiving ways
Subject: Re: SLPP MUST NORTHERNIZE AND DEMENDELIZE TO SURVIVE!
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:27:00 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator5678.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.180.78
Message:
Orkama take my tips seriously.Don't say I did not tell you.
Do you know you are one intersting fellow? Your uncle is one of the APC bigwigs which is to your benfit.Presently you are surviving with APC contributions but yet still you are into APC-bashing.Boy for dae talk haf lef haf.
We have seen the mendes rule Salone in the sixties with tribalism the basic ideology and practice.Remember the MENDE BY RADIO program? Don't forget the prevalence of the KONGOBAY in that era.I don't need to explain the use of this Salone engineering masterpiece since this forum is not only accessed by Saloneans otherwise it will be a human rights issue for the surviving SLPP members of that era.Do you know your party can be tried for human rights abuses involving the KONGOBAY? You know what I am talking about!
It is true the Limba rule came with Ekutay but not as detrimental as the Tegloma and Wuteteh.
Now that it is Temne rule you will see nothing like sub-grouping because Temnes don't believe in that and that is why APC is the real peoples' party and will be in power till they decide they don't to rule anymore.
Subject: Re: SLPP MUST NORTHERNIZE AND DEMENDELIZE TO SURVIVE!
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 08:38:55 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Bureh:
The kongobay engineering is sherbro which is close relative to Temne linguistically. Temnes are not united or monolithic in politics that is why we have not had a Temne leader for a long time. Temnes are split . There are many among SLPP. AB Kamara who was APC was a staunch SLPP, he only joined APC by force after he and his Brother DR Sheku Kamara were nearly killed by SI in previous election violence.
SLPP lost because they did not deliver to the people's expectations and also did not sell themslves to people properly. Whether the ticket was all Temne would not have made a diffrence. They would have lost.
Bureh, I speak the truth, IF APC performs, I will praise them. It is too early to make a judgement. But their performance so far is nothing to scream about.
Bureh, I did not benefit from APC anymore than anyonelse. You know when our brothers get power all their money is spent maintaining girlfreinds. My benefit is from Private business. There is more money in Sierra Leone from business than politics.
I hope you do not take this as a Temnes time to rule, this attitude will engender more tribalism . We just need a good leader.
Subject: Re: SLPP MUST NORTHERNIZE AND DEMENDELIZE TO SURVIVE!
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 16:29:18 01/27/08 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: 82-45-226-138.cable.ubr03.enfi.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.45.226.138
Message:
"There are many among SLPP. AB Kamara who was APC was a staunch SLPP, he only joined APC by force after he and his Brother DR Sheku Kamara were nearly killed by SI in previous election violence."
Kamara
I know about the story above. I was at the late Dr Yilla's compound in Bo when A B M Kamara returned from his prospective constituency in the north, where he was brutally prevented by S I Koroma,s thugs to filed his nomination.
S I Koroma had subsumed the emerging Temenes leaderships by pretending to be Temene when in fact he was the son of an illegal immigrant from Guinea. Had the likes of Tarqi, Forna , Hajj Conteh etc not crumbled under the SI oppression, we could have probably had a real Temene leader before now.
Subject: Re: SLPP MUST NORTHERNIZE AND DEMENDELIZE TO SURVIVE!
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:33:00 01/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Nico:
AB Kamara & Sheku are my first cousins. We are also closely related to the Yillas. My interest in SLPP is long term. Kabba was able bastardize and destroy the party because Sierra Leoneans are sycophants and cowards. Should I say bellas. My taught to speak the truth and fear no one, even If you risk your life.
Subject: Re: SLPP MUST NORTHERNIZE AND DEMENDELIZE TO SURVIVE!
From: Krio Boy
To: All
Date Posted: 09:36:27 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-69-204-133-167.nycap.res.rr.com at 69.204.133.167
Message:
Kamara it is now becoming very clear that some of these Temnes and APC are the most tribalistic group in Sierra Leone. Den nor gree learn buk but den want good wohk. See how they have messed up the economy in 4 months? SLPP stabilized the economy for 5 years and these tribalistic morons from APC and the north are sinking the country.
Subject: Re: SLPP MUST NORTHERNIZE AND DEMENDELIZE TO SURVIVE!
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:17:16 01/26/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: c83-248-90-147.bredband.comhem.se at 83.248.90.147
Message:
Bra right now ah learn book pass you teacher en are kin challenge am any sie. As for you are nor need for talk much go leh you go take diploma fors before you talk but degree.
And let me tell you one thing no mende SLPP member has achieved what I have achieved in my professional life and I am still going very strong.If you think you mende SLPP are the most educated think again. I have a record of many mende guys who studied engineering with me but failed miserably and if for you that means greatness may the Lord deliver you from the darkness that has engulfed you.
Finally scatter-brains and nitwit ragamuffins like you need a sound education on how to participate in forums.
Subject: Re: SLPP MUST NORTHERNIZE AND DEMENDELIZE TO SURVIVE!
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 20:24:33 01/26/08 ()
Email Address:
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Bureh:
There are brilliant Sierra Leoneans from all tribes in the diaspora. Engineers, Doctors, lawyers and scientists. Euducation does not necessarily engender good leadership and national sucess. If that was the case, Siaki's cabinet in 1977 would have made Sierra Leone sucessful.
You should put your engineering prowess and skills to the betterment of Sierra Leone, If you can. Forget about the politics. Bring people to people development to Sierra Leone. The bottom line, no politician can develop Sierra Leone , the people have to do it with their entrepreneurial spirit.
We need all Sierra Leoneans from all tribes for us to develop. Not all SLpp is Mende. Some us diehard SLPP are not Mende, We just believe SLPP is the best and most tolerant party in Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: SLPP MUST NORTHERNIZE AND DEMENDELIZE TO SURVIVE!
From: One in a million
To: All
Date Posted: 14:30:01 01/26/08 ()
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Right we now know one half-baked munku who took the mantle. Goo to the parliament and see the illiterate Northern buffoons there. Like Kumboh Kamara who sold ice cream in DC. No wonder oona do damage dee economy in 4 months and oona don loss 4 more villages to Guinea. The people will soon see through your ilk and kick the APC out
Subject: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: Alfred S. Cole
To: All
Date Posted: 04:42:06 01/24/08 ()
Email Address: alfcoles2120@hotmail.com
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I read the piece about the late Major Kula Samba with tears in my eyes. The tears rolled down to my chest without ceasing. It was as if the executions just took place. I remembered them all (most of them were innocent although they were soldiers and served the Junta).
I was reminded of those sad days when Sierra Leoneans referred to their Army as rat-tag boys and sobels; those sad old days when Sierra Leoneans lost reasoning and thought that even their brothers and good friends were sobels; those sad old days when chiefs were bundled from Kono in their number and dumped in the prisons at Pademba Road; those sad old days when you wanted to catch a thief you only needed to shout, REBEL, and that thief would be apprehended instantly; those sad old days when Sierra Leoneans applauded Kabbah as savior; those sad old days when ECOMOG was a property na Salone; those sad old days when Sierra Leoneans thought that it was only when blood would flow before betteh kam nar dae country..... Those were sad days indeed.
Then came the war and the blood flow refused to cease. Sierra Leoneans were displaced in their numbers. I went to Guinea and then to Ghana and then to Ivory Coast.
We refused to see reason that these soldiers we were condemning were our brothers and sisters. During those days we allowed Kofi Anan's UN and ECOWAS to use Sierra Leoneans as specimens for the return of "democracy" (SO SAD). We frowned at any conversation that pointed at the truth because we thought we were doing the right things. When we were asked as to whether the 24 Soldiers were to be executed we responded in the affirmative.
I was not entirely against execution but was against the execution of all 24 because it was not all of them that participated in the coup. Apart from the first and second accused persons, the rest of them were forcefully co-opted into the Junta government. They could not have done otherwise like Kabbah was telling everybody to leave the country. Those were the early blunders of Kabbah.
Sadly,Kabbah knew about the coup three or four days before it took place on the 25th May. Kabbah, being the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, had power to stop the coup. Two senior officers told him about the coup in the making but he refused to take action. He grabbed CDS, Hassan Conteh, and slaughtered him like he did Kula Samba. Colonel G.S.T. Mani didn't surrender. Colonel S.F.Y Koroma was executed becuase his brother Johnnny Paul was head of the Junta Government which he served. Kula Samba was executed because she served the same government.
If we can recall, during her tenure, she started the disarmanent of Child Combatants, an indication that she wanted peace and the end of the war. When Kabbah was reinstated, Shirley Gbujama who had nothing in her head like disarment of Child Combatants now got the idea as to what to do. When she was interrogated by the BBC news man in that respect, she became mute and remained mute since then.
If Kabbah should go free, nobody should doubt it at all. Kabbah is being protected by Kofi Anan (eventhough he is no longer in the UN) and the whole UN because he was their colleague.
The underlying reason for the executions of those soldiers (fine soldiers) was because SLPP wanted to consolidate itself in power. Berewa didn't want any contest; he wanted to silence his opponents. But let me remind the people that Kabbah had said he was going to teach those soldiers a lesson they will never forget. For him (Kabbah), he was executing his enemies not coupists.
If I were president, Berewa would not go free. If I were the president, Kabbah should have been in Pademba Road prison at this time.
Kabbah calously commited a crime against his people. The laws of this country state that if you know about a coup and refuse to talk about it or tell somebody else about it, you are charged with Misprison of Treason, a crime that housed O.C Benjie in Pademba road for a long time. Is Kabbah above the law?
For Berewa to have prevailed on Kabbah to execute Kula Samba and some other soldiers, I am still baffled. But do you also know that Berewa accepted bribes during those trials and convicted the people? Yes! He took money from a woman and many others,(whose names I will withhold for now) but sentenced them to death by hanging. Go to the records; the woman was not a soldier, but was very active during the AFRC tenure. She should be in Freetown.
Look at who was behind these gruesome murders; SANI ABACHA, whose name is remembered today by all Sierra Leoneans. What is President Dr. Koroma waiting for to rename our street that bears that munster's name? Abacha was also a soldier who used Sierra Leone to regain his lost glory. Thank God he died before the peace. But I know that Kula's soul will haunt Kabbah and Berewa until they bid farewell to this life.
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 09:59:32 01/24/08 ()
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What a poignant posting. The injustice of that kangaroo court that murdered Kula and her compatriots will live in infamy and will always haunt the SLPP for backing Kabba and Berewa in that dastardly treachery. But why are we surprised? Didn't the same folks sacrifice Hinga Norman to cover their tracks? The SLPP should get its head out of the sand and smell the coffee. Instead of venomously attacking Christina Thorpe for conducting a free and fair election, the Palm Tree Boys should get on their knees and beg God and the people of Salone for forgiveness, for uncritically supporting Kabba as he systematically perverted justice and economics in our country.
In that massacre, I lost a cousin whom I used to carry on my neck as a kid, and twirl much to his delight: Lt. Marouf Sesay. If nothing else, I am proud that he defiantly looked in the eye, those Nigerians and their Sierra Leonean lackeys at that twisted court, and told them to go EFF themselves, after they sentenced him to death.
Sani Abacha is such an accursed figure in Nigeria that some of my Nigerian friends do not understand why we continue to honor this fiend, who is thoroughly despised in his own country. Parliament should immediately change Sani Abacha Street to something less controversial.... Kula Samba Street would be nice.
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 09:17:55 01/24/08 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
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Alfred, you were dead wrong in stating that Kula Samba and others were executed because the SLPP wanted to consolidate itself in power.
It sounds very funny when you and your associates refuse to understand that Kula Samba and others were executed because they were found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction of a serious crime. They conspired in May,1997, to overthrow the constitutionally elected government by unlawful means.
Alfred, Sierra Leone is a country of laws. Therefore, whoever commits a crime must be taken to court and be given due process of the law. That was what the SLPP did in the case of Kula Samba and others, that was also what the APC did in the case of Dr. Mohamed Soire Fornah and 14 others and the case involving Kai-Kai and others.
Once again, I am most respectfully appealing to you my friends in this forum, please, do not allow your sentiments to surpass your reasoning abilities.
We will be doing Sierra Leone a million good, if we put aside our political, regional and religious affiliations and be fair to each other.
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: Man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 04:40:25 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-96-240-15-68.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 96.240.15.68
Message:
Saidu, I dont blame you. Berewa and Kabbah will pay for what they did.
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: No nonsense
To: All
Date Posted: 10:00:29 01/24/08 ()
Email Address: none@yahoo.com
Entered From: npj-proxy.wlink.com.np at 202.79.54.50
Message:
When a creep like saidu Bangura starts talking about putting political, regional and religious affiliations aside and be fair to each other, it makes me feel like vomiting. This guy has only being spewing tribalism, sectionalism and nepotism on this forum from day one. He has continuously shown the kind of pathetic person he is on this forum. He has also succeeded in showing his ignorance on the issue of Kula Samba by stating that she was convicted of conspiring to overthrow the government of Tejan Kabbah. It is this same kind of argument that some people bring to issues of national importance. They will know very little about the issue but will jump on the bandwagon based on their political leaning. For your information Saidu, Kula Samba was convicted according to Kabba and Berewa not because she conspired to overthrow their government but because
1. She as an officer failed to suppress the mutiny of the other ranks who oevrthrew their government
2. She joind the illegal government of Johnny Paul Koroma by serving as a minister
3. She helped in the illegal activities that were going on during the AFRC regime
These are just some of the concocted things she was convicted of. the whole world knows that the whole proccess which you claim was a court of competent jurisdiction was just a kangaroo court led by a Nigerian Officer who stated during his summations that the accused were innocent but it is left to the members of the court martial to declare them innocent or guilty. The members of the Court Martial were all promised fabulous amounts by Berewa and kabba for them to return a guilty verdict on those accused. After the verdicts were passed only Carew was compensated. The others were all sacked or left the army under questionable circumstances. So please dont insult the intelligence of the members of this forum or the memory of those gallant soldiers who were butchered by the Kabba regime with your nonsense. We all know the kind of person you are and tyhe gates of hell are already open for you. The less you say on this forum, the better it will be for you.
Nonsense kabai.
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: ALHAJI ALIEU TAFIE
To: All
Date Posted: 23:27:57 01/24/08 ()
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I have the greatest pleasure to pump some sense into your sick brain.
A court martial- Is a statutory body (that simply means that it is provided for in our law books). It has the authority to bring people to justice. In accordance with our laws, a court martial is supervised by a judge advocate( a trained and qualified lawyer of a very long standing). For your information the said court martial was headed by brig. Tom Carew, a very senior Sierra Leonean military officer. All the accused persons had defence lawyers, that simply means, they were given the opportunity the prove their innocence. I am sure that nobody in court's panel told you that the accused persons were not guilty. Your lying lips will burn in hell fire,(Kafireebilie).
A kangaroo court- Is an illegal body, It has no authority to judge people.
If you decide to refer to a legal authority as a kangaroo court then, SOMETHING IS SURELY WRONG IT WITH YOU.
At the time of that legal proceedings, Hon. Solomon Berewa was the Attorney-General.
That simply means-he was the chief law enforcement officer, therefore he had a statutory obligation to prosecute all those who fell short of our laws.
If you are disgruntled with Hon. SOLOLMON BEREWA for efficiently discharging his duties without any favour or ill- will, then SOMETHING IS DEFINATELY WRONG WITH YOU.
When you make allegations against people the burden of proof rests on you, therefore, I challenge you to come up with any evidence to prove beyond all doubts that any body in the SLPP paid members of the court martial to unlawfully convict Kula Samba and others.
The verdict was based on the evidence adduced before the court.
People must be ready to face the consequences of their actions. Nobody is below or above the law, that is a fundamental principle of democracy.
I know that the manufacturers for your medication, ran out of supplies ,therefore you can not get your medication. Please, do not blame us in the SLPP for that because we have nothing to do with that.
We know that when your medication is not available, you act up, therefore we do not have time for you.
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: Alfred S. Cole
To: All
Date Posted: 07:23:32 01/25/08 ()
Email Address: alfcoles2120@hotmail.com
Entered From: c-71-197-99-190.hsd1.ca.comcast.net at 71.197.99.190
Message:
You see another sick SLPP Land Rover 110 Defender has emerged in defense of the the Kangaroo court. You have misconstrued me altogether. I think if you read and understood me well, you would have been able to read that I didn't say SLPP paid Berewa to convict the "accused' persons. I earlier mentioned that some people who were charged had their people meeting Berewa and giving him hand-outs (bribes) to save their people from conviction. But wait! If the judge is trained and qualified, does that prevent the judge from acting contrary to the law? Do you also know that the Nigerian trial lawyer didn't see anything treasonable in the charges levied against the acucused persons for which they could have deserved death and therefore washed his hands off the case and referred it to the Carew you so badly trust? Tom Carew had no option but to do his master's will; hence he presented them to the master who endorsed their death. Didn't you find anything unlawful with non-acceptance of an appeal? How would refer to that? Was that not a denial of their fundamental rights?
If the fundamental principle of democracy is that nobody is below or above the law, then there was no fundamental principle of democracy as the court of "democracy" examined the case before it with malice. I still maintain that the former president who knew about a coup but failed to prevent it committed a treasonable offense.
SLPP refuses to accept being a wicked and bad government. You should accept that the former president needs to answer some questions even to your party; isn't that so?. He is just being lucky for now.
There is no need for insult my brother, or refering to me as not having supply of my medication. That's how losers react. As soon as they are told the truth, they jump out of bearing and proportion and act otherwise.
Whatever has been written is a fact that the Berewa and Carew you defend fear to react to because they know the people are there that gave them the money. I did mention that the woman is in Freetown and Berewa knows she is there. Can somebody be killed for serving a government that was considered to be a de- facto government? I am not defending the Junta and the coup. I was against the coup but did not favor the killings of the soldiers who did not take part in the planning of the coup and didn't know about it either like the former president who knew. My question is and will always be, why was he (the former president) not interrogated; and why was he not charged with Misprison of Treason? That is the law; it is in our books, yet you claim that the fundamental principle of democracy is that nobody is below or above the law. Where is the former president; is he above or below the law?
No well-meaning Sierra Leonean has time for SLPP just as SLPP didn't have time for us. Because the party didn't have time for us, we gave it its due. That party has been a disgrace to even you, you know; you are only defending. Nobody can have time for SLPP (a loser) either.
I am still emphasizing that most of them were killed unjustly, because their killers wanted to stay in power by driving fear into people. Thank God, even with their new thugs (rebels), SLPP couldn't make it at the pools. I am not disgruntled; I am only telling you what you do not know about these men you defend.
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 09:44:16 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
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Saidu do you know the make up of the FIRING SQUAD? Never in the history of modern Africa has a nation used executors from another country!! Shame on SLPP.
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 11:32:48 01/24/08 ()
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Basco, You are still around. I thought you would have been in Freetown as a key financial advisor.Take Care
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: Basco
To: All
Date Posted: 12:37:38 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
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Mr K, how are you? Just back from the old country. After the elections posting became an anti-climacs. But I will tell you this for free if the Kailahun court baray results had been announced Salone would still be burning.This I sensed from the folks I talked to.
Kenya sparked up after dodgy late results and over 500 people died. This happened to a government that has the police and army eating out of its hands.
Imagine Berewa had succeeded in manufacturing 250,000 votes to head of EBK? With no core army or police to cover his back? Mayhem would have been the order of the day and with specialists in 'long han and short han' on both sides on the loose, with stoked up embers of revenge for lost ones(in the civil war) being fanned,Salone would not have recovered in a million years.
God must love us!! What ever SLPP say about them winning the elections, putting Salone first will the precedent that has been set for future elections.
As for the Finance job, there is so much one can do that getting involved in political appointments would be a drag! Every thing sells in that country. My laptop running windows 98 went for a handsome price. Man United, Chelsea and Arsenal 2006 shirts swiftly changed hands.
Looking to go back in a couple of months.
How's the New Year looking so far?
Subject: Re: THE WHITE MAN REMEBERS KULA!
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 03:55:03 01/25/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
So far so good. You know business pays.Leave the politics to the politicians. Is money still flowing in the country? I thought with the threat of a clampdown on corruption ,people will haord or hide money. I think , we need a few more months before we can see a change.
Take care
Subject: SORRY ABOUT THESE NAUGHTY JOKES, GUYS.
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 23:17:31 01/23/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
For those who are offended by racy jokes, please don't open the following links:
http://jokes.comedycentral.com/joke_of_day.aspx?adjustDate=13&id=644
http://jokes.comedycentral.com/joke_of_day.aspx?
http://jokes.comedycentral.com/joke_of_day.aspx?adjustDate=29&id=8233
And for those who don't have a funny bone amongst your 206 bones in your skeleton, please don't act like this Liberian man!
Subject: Re: SORRY ABOUT THESE NAUGHTY JOKES, GUYS.
From: KALOS
To: All
Date Posted: 22:07:59 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
FP, trust me there is no need for you to apologize, the "Boyfriend troubles" clip is the best I have seen.
Continue to be yourself: UNFILTERED!!!!!!
Subject: Re: SORRY ABOUT THESE NAUGHTY JOKES, GUYS.
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 00:50:47 01/24/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: c83-248-90-147.bredband.comhem.se at 83.248.90.147
Message:
Lol! Fen Plaba nar so den get for do you way you nor wan fen you yone woman. Becareful with den blind curve.Lef dis bandit bizness.Lonta ka da bai.
Subject: SORRY ABOUT THESE NAUGHTY JOKES, GUYS.
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 23:09:55 01/23/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
For those who are offended by racy jokes, please don't open the following links:
http://jokes.comedycentral.com/joke_of_day.aspx?adjustDate=13&id=644
http://jokes.comedycentral.com/joke_of_day.aspx?
http://jokes.comedycentral.com/joke_of_day.aspx?adjustDate=29&id=8233
And for those who don't have a funny bone amongst your 206 bones in your skeleton, please don't act like this Liberian man!
Subject: Bread Shortage hits Freetown
From: Awoko
To: All
Date Posted: 22:37:49 01/23/08 ()
Email Address:
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Bread Shortage hits Freetown
Bread consumers in Freetown and its environs woke up yesterday morning to find that all bakeries failed to supply their sales agents due to the skyrocketing of a bag of flour at various shopping centres in the capital.
According to one bakery owner at Lumley, Alpha Bah in an interview with Awoko, he disclosed that importers in Freetown were now selling a bag of flour for Le130, 000.00 on wholesale while retailers were selling it much higher.
He added that if he bought the said flour to sell back to the public, he would be making skeleton profit considering the capital spent to buy it.
Mr Bah lamented that, “bread baking in Sierra Leone is a challenging business and government needs to ensure that prices are stable in the market, as consumers cannot afford to buy a single bread for Le1000.00 as we are not prepared to buy a single bag of flour for Le 130,000.00 and later sell it to the public for an exorbitant price”.
Some bread sellers around Freetown interviewed disclosed that the recent increase in the prices of flour and other basic food stuffs in the market had compounded the problem, and that bread sellers and bakers had decided not to sell until the government regularize the current increase.
Subject: APC: HOW TO AVOID BECOMING ANOTHER FAILED GOVERNMENT!
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 20:09:12 01/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
The elections were held more than a million political months ago. Enough of the self congratulations already, fellow APCers. The SLPP are gonna keep sulking and cussing Christina Thorpe but the government has to roll up its sleeves and get busy.
WE have electricity which is a major feather in EBK's cap. However there has been a sharp spike in food prices- a politically toxic situation. This is a black eye for our president since the buck stops with him. Our people don't give a hoot about global economic trends, you know.
The government needs to find a solution to the grotesque unemployment situation, since the moribund private sector can't do jack about it. Unless the government urgently constitutes a task force to especially deal with youth unemployment, the government will soon realize that the honeymoon it has been enjoying will be pretty evanescent. How can people keep saying "Oh Waaai, Oh Saaaai" when petrol and kerosene are unaffordable and when Gapay Dae Wire because the price of rice and Maggi have tripled? All the dozens of political appointees must begin to earn their keep. Withold their salaries until they find jobs for the kids!
Sanitation, Bormeh, Road repairs, Fixing pumps, Agriculture, Hastngs Airport.....These are all places where the President and his crew can be creative in addressing this jobless problem.
Unless the President moves fast on this issue, I fear he is just one Emmerson song away from a plummet in the polls.
Subject: Re: APC: HOW TO AVOID BECOMING ANOTHER FAILED GOVERNMENT!
From: FREE SPEECH
To: All
Date Posted: 00:15:57 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h161.71.89.75.ip.alltel.net at 75.89.71.161
Message:
Glad to see your use of some common sense instead of the blind support exhibited more often than not. I agree and disagree with you. On the electricity issue, I agree we do have it, but only for about eight hours a day and some areas still have not seen any light. This is not acceptable. Remember 32 million
Imagine if light goes out in New York City, the light company works diligently 24/7 for as long as it takes till lights are back on. Do you think eight hours a day of electricity will be acceptable in New York City?
If you can’t accept it in NYC, you should not accept it in Freetown. There is our disagreement.
Every country gets the government it deserves. - Benjamin Disraeli
Subject: Re: APC: HOW TO AVOID BECOMING ANOTHER FAILED GOVERNMENT!
From: FREE SPEECH
To: All
Date Posted: 08:01:39 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Nope, not an SLPP supporter and stupid I’m not. Have no political affiliations, and do not plan to have any. SLPP was a big disappointment to say the least. Also less than 24/7 hours of electricity in Freetown was not acceptable under SLPP and will not be acceptable under APC. And I’m only taking about Freetown not the rest of the Country. And I have heard of Bumbuna.
In my estimation, politics in Sierra Leone is like a Circus, and you are part of the dog and pony show on the outside looking in.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Benjamin Franklin
Subject: Re: APC: HOW TO AVOID BECOMING ANOTHER FAILED GOVERNMENT!
From: GETTING ON MY NERVES
To: All
Date Posted: 02:34:12 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
"If you can’t accept it in NYC, you should not accept it in Freetown. There is our disagreement."
CHAI, YOU CAN'T GET ANYMORE STUPID THAN THIS!
MUST BE AN SLPP SUPPORTER RIGHT?
Subject: Re: APC: HOW TO AVOID BECOMING ANOTHER FAILED GOVERNMENT!
From: FREE SPEECH
To: All
Date Posted: 08:03:37 01/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h161.71.89.75.ip.alltel.net at 75.89.71.161
Message:
Nope, not an SLPP supporter and stupid I’m not. Have no political affiliations, and do not plan to have any. SLPP was a big disappointment to say the least. Also less than 24/7 hours of electricity in Freetown was not acceptable under SLPP and will not be acceptable under APC. And I’m only taking about Freetown not the rest of the Country. And I have heard of Bumbuna.
In my estimation, politics in Sierra Leone is like a Circus, and you are part of the dog and pony show on the outside looking in.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Benjamin Franklin
Subject: Re: APC: HOW TO AVOID BECOMING ANOTHER FAILED GOVERNMENT!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 23:06:50 01/23/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Fen Plaba thank you for your comments. I am not sure where you are writing from but I would be delighted to give you a website that you can read to get some information on how America got out of the Great Recession of 1914. I am of the impression you have an idea what this Great Recession was like for the Americans living then.
Let me continue to say that it takes a fool to be tackling the same problem from the same angle without addressing the causative agents for the problem/s. The Sierra Leonean problems are so diverse that it has to take a leader who can stand the wind to be able to solve them and it has to take a total involvement of the Sierra Leoneans to be able to solve them.
The problem starts with corruption, infrastructural underdevelopment, the lack of unity amongst her people, the lack of trust amongst her people, the desire for all to lead, creating a semblance of scramble for power causing secrete pull-down syndrome to pervade many of the forward-moving vision of certain leaders who come to power with a desire to make a difference but are latter broken-down by even some members of the inner core. As such, we see the many low developments in governmental tenures.
President Earnest Bai Koroma has started on the right footing. Electricity is a vehicle that promote industrialization and even invention. It assures security. He only needs support and the readiness of the citizenry to change the status quo, ideologies held that governments should do all.
These are our people. We should not sit and wait for governments to feed them especially when we live in worlds were we have the resources to come-up with programs that can assure food productivity and self-reliance. I have said this on Sierra Leonean forums since I started contributing on them in 1997 and continue to say it time and again, that it is a shame that a nation with vast plowble lands with fertile soil, good water supply and ambled-bodied work force, we still depend on foreign nations for our staple food. Rice, peanuts anything that can be grown such as salad, tomatoes, egg plants, potatoes, yams to name a few must never be imported from foreign lands.
But you know what our problems are? We are not economically or business-minded if you will. We need quick fixes on issues we give no or little reasoning to. As long as the problems are patched we are satisfied and ready to patch it again. As such, rather than we continue with other agenda, we will sit to be fixing the same problem year after year. How can there be development. With such mindset what assurance do we have that the many patches would not open at once?
Why shouldn't our people care about global economy when we do not, or are not yet producing oil? When OPEC raises the price of oil, it will affect Industrial production companies because they will pay her to produce materials. This in trun will affect Pa. Jamboria in Kabasa who produces rice because if he is not restricted by labor cost, he will be restricted by markets to sell his produce. It will affect the price of vehicle, thus affecting Yankee boy or Saidu Belleh who relies on driving for profession because if he cannot afford to buy a vehicle, those who can afford will be restricted as to how many they can buy and whom to hire. It will affect Oothaim who lives Kissy to drive to his office in mid Freetown because he has to buy gas. It will affect Abu who would have to take poda poda to look for work or sell the small market he has in other parts of Freetown or the rural areas. It will affect Ramatu who would have to go to college to learn. Guess what? It will go back to affect the oil company themselves for the cost of the parts of the machines they use to produce oil, to pay raises for employees who work in these oil inductries because they too can be affected by the hyke in price of other commodities.. See how round the globe is? We are in a global village. What affects the global market affects the villager in Kayayebeh. You see.
When the currency does not reach a value of the International market standards or equivalence, businessmen who buy foreign goods would have to pay higher, thus in turn, charging the common man higher price for such commodities.
So we live in a global village and except those who are not business-minded do not care about what happens globally. When those leave and venture the International arena they are the ones that become problems for their fellow Sierra Leoneans because they knew very little or nothing about the outside world, especially the global economy.
We Sierra Leoneans must resent this idea of "the government should do this and that for us." Businessmen who have an organisation must start devising methods where, they can advocate with their colleagues how to have the railroad back in force to keep the smooth running of the business and other transportation facilities. The focus must not be on our natural resources alone. There are very many ways to increase wealth in Sierra Leone that have not been tapped into.
We must be in position were separate bodies within Sierra Leone should be able to commute in studying various sectors of Sierra Leone's history and economy to help Sierra Leone out of the problems we are now in. The many secrecy must go, should we want to make Sierra Leone a transparent, corrupt free and prosperous country. The many impossible minds must be converted to positive thinkers that believe or will believe in Sierra Leone again and that with cooperation and selflessness, it is possible. Without us believing in our potentials, we can never lead. Without us coming-up with agendas, projects, programs and selflessly sharing them amongst our peers who should be given the chance to review it for it's implementation, and those in turn selflessly moving from the ideology of "such an idea must be mine but not being mine, it must be hidden from public attention because we do not like the success of this and that person, it is possible. So you see my friend, the change starts with us. Start believing today that you can make a difference in Sierra Leone it will happen. If each Sierra Leonean is determined to change Sierra Leone for the better takes the move, Sierra Leone will progress. If each Sierra Leonean refrain from the idea that they want to be seen as the ones that can do it all, Sierra Leone will develop in a minute. But what is holding us is selfishness and ego-centrism. Unnecessary show-offs, gossips, wanting to be when we are not and greed. We have to change that to change Sierra Leone. We have to be nosey on important issues that have global significance not just talking about our fellow Sierra Leoneans. This is what is plenty in our communities, it is what is heavy on the minds of even people who write here because they have exhibited it grandiosely why? Those who exhibit such attitude do not know about global economy nor global issues as such they are still entangled in Sierra Leone especially, the ignorant group of Sierra Leoneans that they lord over. Shame on them.
Gets to go.
Here read a little about the American recession of 1914.
Subject: Re: APC: HOW TO AVOID BECOMING ANOTHER FAILED GOVERNMENT!
From: DeLaw
To: All
Date Posted: 21:28:14 01/23/08 ()
Email Address: contehlawrence@yahoo.com
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The current administration would need a serious infusion of funds to run the kind of service economy you are proposing.It seems to me that if the government does not have a well thought out plan,to solve the country's problems,it will be playing a-cat-and-mouse game.
After tackling the electricity problem,soaring prices for basic goods are currently threatening to have our 'well meaning' politicians face the music and show what they are made of.The people will not accept lame excuses and they may not be easy to pacify with sweet talk from the pulpit.They need realtime solutions to their problems.
This government needs to plan and execute an economy that is production based to start with and then focus on other areas.We need to help them succeed for the benefit of all Sierra Leoneans.
Subject: Re: APC: HOW TO AVOID BECOMING ANOTHER FAILED GOVERNMENT!
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 22:29:55 01/23/08 ()
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There really are no easy solutions my brother. With a robust private sector, we wouldn't be having this discussion about govt intervention in the economy to create jobs. As U said, we need to help the govt succeed for us all.
With the angry economy (everywhere a looming recession), we better do something about unemployment. The only realistic shot we have to take a bite out of the jobless wahala is to implement a public works project, big time. There are capable diasporans who have the know-how and the altruism to implement such a project that will put our youth to work. True, it will involve an infusion of cash to get it started. However this money will be pumped right back into the local economy and tittilate growth.
Subject: Re: APC: HOW TO AVOID BECOMING ANOTHER FAILED GOVERNMENT!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 08:19:07 01/24/08 ()
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DeLaw and Fen Palava, thank your for your insightful response. I do agree that the global economy is an angry one with everywhere a looming recession. However, I am on my way to Washington, D.C. therefore, I will make a promise that I will respond immediately I return. I provided a link that I would suggest you read on the American Great Depression of 1914 to see what happened in America that is not at per with our problems in Sierra Leone at any giving time in our history besides the war, and to also see how that was revived. Part of my response will fall within that line. Also, I would like you to read the global economic trend and how that has impacted our capability and or incapability thereof, to solving our problems.
Talk to you then.
Subject: Re: APC: HOW TO AVOID BECOMING ANOTHER FAILED GOVERNMENT!
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 11:18:27 01/24/08 ()
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Thanks for the link about the Great Depression, Bambay. I have read the info. I await your posting after your trip to D.C. Have a safe journey.
FP!
Subject: Medical Miracles (Scientific World)
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 19:05:04 01/23/08 ()
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Conjoined twins Mohamed and Ahmed have come to America from Egypt in need of a miracle. Their father Ibrahim is placing his trust in Dr. Kenneth Salyer and a team of physicians at Medical City Dallas Hospital to give his babies a chance for a normal life.
By using 3-D computer imagery as a roadmap and learning from previous surgeries, doctors are doing everything they can to help these babies. Doctors are using state-of-the-art tissue expanders to ensure there is enough skin and muscle to cover the babies' heads after they are separated. Once the tissue expanders are in, special jackets will keep pressure from building in the boys' heads.
Doctors estimate it will take at least three months for the twins' skin to stretch. If that's successful, they can start preparing for the separation surgery.
Watch and read gallery bellow:
Subject: Interview with VP
From: Jack
To: All
Date Posted: 16:27:56 01/23/08 ()
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Kabs, sometime back you promised an interview with the First lady and uptil now... yeang... No one hold you to task for that; as if that was not enough you promised an interview with The VP uptil now, again ... yeang... CAN WE PLEASE KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON for crying out loud?
Subject: Re: Interview with VP
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 19:24:58 01/23/08 ()
Email Address:
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We interviewed Chief Sam through Khadija Sesay and published the story.
The first Lady regretted she had to travel to Senegal that Saturday and we too did not make the trip to Sierra Leone.
Our apologies for all inconveniences.
Subject: No Propaganda Here
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 15:47:48 01/23/08 ()
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Just read your editorial on the APC being blamed for food prices, which you rightfully blamed on global economics not local politics. However, this is just propaganda (this might not be the right word I am looking for.) You know very well that the govt, regardless of political stripe will get blamed and has gotten blamed for increases. Its not an APC exclusive. How many strikes did we have because of high petrol prices?..and I'm going way back here.
How many complaints did we hear because of high rice prices. And since you brought neighboring countries in the equation. There was almost a regime change in Guinea a couple years ago, because rice prices where to high. So to expound on the problem the way you've done, is just you being an APC mouthpiece. Let's stop.
Our people do not care and in some cases, a lot of them have no idea about global markets. They want to buy a cup of rice, the price is too high, the govt is screwing up, period. And part of the reason is because of their experience with the govt in the past. When a couple well connected people are the only ones that can import rice and rice ends up getting hoarded - and this has happened - you can see why our people are sceptical.
So again, you are right, the current govt is not to blame for high prices, but every govt in the past has gotten blamed for the same. So instead of just putting that out there like its a pass for the govt not to do anything, which tends to happen in undeveloped countries like ours, we need to talk about how the govt can help to alleviate the problem.
If we grew enough rice in SL, it might not cost $30/bag. Even here in the rich US where $800 won't change anyone's life, the govt is planning on giving up to that much in tax rebates/refunds to help people during these current rough economic times. And by the way, I've given the badge of honor of best SL owned online news source for our country. That being the case, just as I won't find glaring errors in the NY Times, I am hoping for the same in Cocorioko..So what is this? "We want to demolisg dissident propaganda that it was because the APC came to power in Sierra Leone that food prices increased."
Subject: Re: No Propaganda Here
From: TAMPALAY SONKO -SONKO
To: All
Date Posted: 22:23:27 01/23/08 ()
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Rightfully, there is rising food prices in sierra leone just like here in the US.The President is taking the necessary step to investigate and execute fiscal policies to build our food security.That does not take four months. The President begin with the basics to trigger growth and that was electricity to start with.
Without quoting any sources, I can assure you by the next raining and harvest season, you will see similar attempt to stablize food supply all over sierra leone.We have to grow as much food as we consume to cut down on our demand for imports.
The APC government did not have the luxury of food reserve to stablize prices or a standing order that they can capitalize on. Unlike the SLPP they got all kinds of assitance from united nations, AOU and off course a ship load of rice from the Libyan Traitor.
This APC government will push strong agricultural police which will enable us to go back to the days when Sierra leone grow its own food consumption and even export to neigbhouring countries.
It is also the determination of this Governmet to revive andd grow every last Institution that will act as catalyst to stablize food security. From cooperative Development Banking, Farmers credit , micro credit to Agricultural Credit.This will also mean massive embarkment and mobilization of our
human resources to return back to districts to and farming areas.The City of Freetown is over crowded and we need to educate our people to go back to basics.Agriculture.agriculture,agriculture.
This APC government unlike other PREVIOUS governments and past SLPP, they stuck there head in the sand hoping when they wake up, everyone will be well feed.It does not work like that.May be there were one or two project which became a success uner the SLPP .Credit, party because of individual who refused to be corrupt.President Kabba and his bandit will not let this gentle man help his people in peace.Dr Koroma will not ask for a bride from anyone.You can take that that to the bank.The reason we don't have a ferry running today was because Tejan Kabba requested 60,000
for the ferry license to be issued.The investors are now beginning to come around .If the traders coming form Lungi can bring as much food to frreetown and can return on time to come the next that has a more reaching effect on prices.