Subject: NEW PEOPLE CORRESPONDENT: NO NAME?
From: DECEPTION
To: All
Date Posted: 11:55:01 02/10/08 ()
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The So called THE NEW PEOPLE site engaging in so called NEWS about sa lone is deceptive. The problem is their freetown correspondent has never mention his/her name in the articles. This left many of us with the suspicion that the so called correspondent is not real but a figment of their propaganda machine. It must have been sheku kallon who is writing this bogus articles claiming to have come from a so called correspondent. If your correspondent in freetown is real why don't you mention his/her name in the articles. Or is it just a deception?

Subject: Alpha Saidu is a real idiot
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 10:08:28 02/10/08 ()
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I have read Alpha Saidu's rantings on this forum and I have come to the conclusion that the man is an idiot.

His latest rantings against Kabs is just stupid. Who told him that the Publisher of a newspaper can be somebody else's boss ?

Far as I know about newspaper heirarchy , the Publisher is the boss of the newspaper.

Alpha Saidu has had his inane articles on this forum deleted by Kabs or the moderator and some of us thought initially that they were biased against him .

I do not feel so anymore after reading Alpha Saidu's latest rantings against the entire Cocorioko.I support the idea to have him banned for life from this forum.

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu is a real idiot
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 11:07:59 02/10/08 ()
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He's not the only one.

If you cannot find a space in your heart (or even in your head) to forgive him then why not just have him banned for as long as your anger lasts - or is it the everlasting kind of anger ?

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu is a real idiot
From: Kumboh
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Date Posted: 11:13:19 02/10/08 ()
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he may not be the only one but he is the MOST EGGREGIOUS and his banning has absolutely nothing to do with anger. Its more like people have had enough of his uncouth, divisive and tendency to prevaricate.

Subject: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 10:06:34 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Should I unsurprisingly assume that the canons posited in my posting "Contribution to the Personal Attack Bramble Bush" are arguably sound, here is an effective prophylactic for all postings that buck the mentioned canons: Label them trash! Accordingly, I urge responsible patriots to ground their positions on arguments, whether they be factual, logical, juridical, bookish, or commonsensical.

ORDER
UPON REASONED CONSIDERATION of Umpire's "Contribution to the Personal Attack Bramble Bush" and, it appearing, after reasonably notice and opportunity, no Opposition thereto has been filed, it is this day and forever thereafter hereby ORDERED that all postings in this august forum that abrogate the canons or rules posited in the aforementioned "Contribution," shall be justifiably deemed trash. So ordered, by the Court of Common Sense in the Judicial District of Uncommon Sense, Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Subject: Re: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: M. Alieu Iscandarii Esq
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Date Posted: 10:54:19 02/10/08 ()
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Maybe we should start with your posts which in my opinion are lacking in effective communication, infused with unimpressive verbiage, and unconnected syntax. Lets start with your nonsensical posts and declare them Trashy because they indeed are. I have never been impressed with your choice of words and being a student of english myself I shudder to think how much difficulty other less endowed people on the forum would have understanding your posts. My thirteen year old who is an avid reader of the posts on this forum has always had problems with reading you trashy posts and has come to me with questions about your choice of words and the manner you put then together which many a time makes no sense at all and is so totally unimpressive.

I ask that you adopt the Obama mantra CHANGE.

Stay Blessed

Subject: Re: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: salone man
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Date Posted: 11:39:14 02/10/08 ()
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ALIEU,WHY ARE YOU TURNING YOUR REVOLVER ON INNOCENT UMPIRE WHO EVERY GOOD CITIZENS OF THIS FORUM BELIEVE WRITE WELL.IS IT BECAUSE HE CRITISIZED YOUR POSTING ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON?COMMON MAN YOUR KNOW BETTER THAN THAT.YOU SEE THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH US,SOMEBODY DOES NOT BUY OUR POSITION,YOU TURN YOUR REVOLVER ON HIM.

POOR UMPIRE,I FEEL SORROW FOR YOU.YOU DON'T DESERVE THIS.HOLD YOUR FIRE.

I DISAGREE WITH YOU ALLIEU UMPIRE WRITES WELL.YOU KNOW THAT, YOU ARE JUST REFUSING TO ACCEPT THAT FACT.

ALLIEU FOR GOD SAKE, YOUR BOY IS JUST THIRTEEN YEARS OLD.TELL HIM TO WAIT A LITTLE WHILE,HE WILL BE SMARTER JUST LIKE YOU.DON'T BRING YOUR SON INTO THE WAR YOU WANT TO START WITH UMPIRE.ASK MAHATMA.

ALIEU I SEE TROUBLE COMING FOR YOU.I KNOW UMPIRE JUST RECEIVED A NEW CONSIGNMENT OF THE LATEST MISSILES(BIG AND DANGEROUS WORDS) FROM THE SWEDISH LIBRARY NEXT TO HIM.ASK MAHATMA.

Subject: Re: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:43:13 02/10/08 ()
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ok a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. I am not convinced and so it goes

Subject: Re: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 11:34:51 02/10/08 ()
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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Assuming you are a lawyer, I am amazed by your unjudicious disposition. But, that's a matter between you and your clients. Please reread the relevant posting, and under the Order, please specify in a lawyerly manner "the trash" in my postings, as I construed that locution, therin.

Now, to your trashy posting: even my puddle cannot decipher even the seedling of an argument in what I am objectively constrained, by the canons, to characterize as your trashy posting. Sir: where are your arguments on the original issues, namely the issue of Hillary's trip and her senior thesis? Posit and elaborate them! I wont't allow you to smuggle obfuscatory lawyerly tricks into the discussion. God knows I did not throw the first molotov; you did. Now: let's rumble with arguments, not conclusory, circular, and bareknuckled averments. Fair enough, Sir? Additionally, I implore you to adopt,nay embrace Rene Descartes' heuristic: think! Regarding your self-serving self characterization as a "student of (sic) english," I invite others to pass on your command of the King's English.

Subject: Re: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: Referee
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Date Posted: 11:45:59 02/10/08 ()
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Umpire, beware you are going up against one of the toughest baddest cyber warriors on any sierra leonean forum. Alieu iscandari aka wascalleh is unrelenting. he has kicked everyone ass that has come up against him. If you dont believe me ask that guy called sengbe kounawah. Alieu placed him into self imposed exile.

Subject: Re: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 11:40:47 02/10/08 ()
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same old trashy postings nothing has changed. I implore you to change from writing unimpressive trash to something more positive and productive. On the issue of molotovs, I dont do violence, so you can rule that out of the calculus. The point I am making is that you use and overuse of many polysylabic words sometimes make for difficult reading and more so when you dont hit the point and move on. Thas my last posting on the issue. I have said my piece now lets move on.

Subject: Re: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 12:09:08 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Glory to logic! And this brother is a lawyer? The Bard was right: "let's kill all the lawyers!" Address the original issue Bra, namely Mrs. Clinton's trip and her senior thesis. Or, should I assume, given your refusal to revisit the argument, that your original posting and those that piggyback on them are, under the mother of discursive protocols---prove controversial statements---trash? And this, after a clear directive had been propounded on the matter?

The hubris, O the hubris: you may have made your "last posting on the issue." Good God Almighty: what "issue"? You raised an issue about Mrs. Clinton, and when I challenged you to put your arguments on the table, you wrapped yourself in the mantle of obscurantism. That may be good for your intellectual constitution. Amazing, is it not, that after your surrender, you order: "lets (sic) move on.(sic) Who is the implied "we" here? Count me out of that set, bitte.

Subject: Re: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: Disillusioned Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 11:24:15 02/10/08 ()
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Message:
Allieu, I give you thumbs up for finally exposing umpire deficiencies. Umpire wants us to believe he's educated but only succeeded in proving that he's disillusioned. I mean this guy CANNOT construct a single sentence correctly. If you look at his postings you'll see how disconnected his sentences are.
I wonder who he's rying to impress on this forum when infact many of us here are professionals. Umpire thinks he knows a lot of philosophy...whether this is true or not is not my point, my point is that Umpire lacks the basics of the English language and he knows that.

Subject: Re: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 11:46:02 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Message:
An Allieu epigoni: under the Order, please specify in concreto, Umpire's "disconnected...sentences...." Moreover, prove that "...Umpire lacks the basics of the English language...." Perspicuously, what Umpire knows or thinks he knows is, sensus strictu, evidently irrelevant to issues at hand. Fellow patriots, ah lie?

Subject: Re: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: You lie
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Date Posted: 12:08:41 02/10/08 ()
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Fellow patriots, ah lie?

YES YOU LIE

Subject: Re: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: Alieu Watcher
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Date Posted: 11:36:07 02/10/08 ()
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You can trust that alieu iscandari will speak his mind under all circumstances. this umpire has just run into his john mcenroe

Subject: Re: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 12:14:15 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Message:
Indeed, a mind bereft of arguments.

Subject: Re: HOW TO DEAL WITH TRASHY POSTINGS IN THE FORUM
From: referee
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Date Posted: 12:19:59 02/10/08 ()
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listen to referee brother, you cant take Iscandari down in a fight one on one. The guy is a warrior. When its wasnt cool to be APC alieu was APC and publically said so. were you around when the SLPP used to come down on him? Did you see how they all fell on the wayside?

Subject: Sierra Leone: First Foreign Policy Blunder
From: Madingo man
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Date Posted: 10:02:42 02/10/08 ()
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Concord Times (Freetown)
OPINION
8 February 2008
Posted to the web 8 February 2008
Umaru Fofana
Freetown
When Nigeria and Cote D'Ivoire almost had a spat over who should succeed Javier Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra as the UN Secretary General, it underscored how far a country can, should and must go to fill a vacancy in a foreign organisation.
Abuja had put forward Joe Garba, while Abidjan had presented Amara Essy to head the world body. Here we were ignoring at best or even excoriating Dr James Jonah for what some deemed as his snub at the time for his native Sierra Leone. Whatever that meant!

No disregard for the late Garba (who was president of the UN General Assembly), Essy who was foreign minister of Ivory Coast and President of the UN Security Council, or even Dr Boutrous Boutrous Ghalli who emerged the winner. But Dr Jonah was perhaps best placed for the job. He was Under-Secretary-General of the organisation and, more crucially, had risen through the ranks.
Excepting, of course, that Dr Ghalli, then Egypt's foreign minister had his country fully behind him. Of course no comparing the diplomatic clout of Cairo and Freetown! But if the latter had backed Dr Jonah, one western diplomat told me some time ago, that could have made him a more serious contender that he probably would have benefited from what Kofi Annan later benefited from - having been in the UN system.
So Dr Jonah never had the chance to become the first black UN chief. But his was not the same as that which befell the Tanzanian diplomat Salim Ahmed Salim, who got the whole world voting for him to succeed Kurt Waldheim, thanks to his country. But the United States vetoed his candidacy.
Dr Salim later returned to become the last secretary-general of the Organisation of African Unity and oversaw its transition to the African Union. It is the failure of Sierra Leone to lead that Union last month that has marked the first foreign policy blunder of the Ernest Koroma presidency and probably the worst since the AFRC regime that led to international sanctions against the country.
Sickeningly, because of the political bigotry that has taken the best of the thinking of many a Sierra Leonean, some may be rubbing their hands with glee that Dr Abdulai O Conteh failed to become President of the AU Commission. Or for the same reason that some are postulating that the AFRC coup was the best to happen to this country. How sad!
Anyway! I first heard of the candidacy of Dr Abdulai O Conteh to succeed Alpha Omar Konare, only on the eve of the summit of African heads of state. By the way the post went to Jean Ping, Gabon's deputy prime minister and foreign minister. A francophone succeeding another francophone. It is probably one of those self-restraining unwritten rules that such giants like Nigeria and South Africa do not vie for such a post. In the same way as no citizen of such world powers as the US, UK, Russia or Germany has ever become Secretary-General of the United Nations.
So there was Sierra Leone, submitting the only West African candidate for the continent's top diplomatic job, and losing out. Yet nobody has bothered to explain to us as a nation, what went wrong! In fact, one West African diplomat in Freetown told me that he only learned of Dr Conteh's candidacy two days before the summit. Typical Muammar Ghadaffi style, eh?
Dr Abdulai Conteh is such a brilliant and selfless citizen of the world, I think, that if Freetown had sold him well the rest of the continent would have bought him with their last penny. His contribution to the continent and country, and now to Belize where he is chief justice, is no mean feat. One thing that has not dawned on most of us is that we are now a proud member of what I will call the League of Democratic Countries, alongside Ghana, Benin, South Africa and Botswana among not too many on the continent. That is definitely a high ground on which to stand tall.
One may be tempted to think that the government is less than five months in office; hence not much time for an entente cordiale with other counties. But it has already attended several international meetings among them the Commonwealth summit, another organisation apart from ECOWAS that we should have canvassed to change the official address of Dr Conteh.
President Koroma and his foreign minister, Zainab Bangura also attended the ECOWAS summit. The government's apparent cosy relationship with Burkina Faso and Senegal, plus our long-standing relations with Guinea are all plusses. In the absence of another West African candidate, why could they not market Dr Conteh? It almost burns to cinders our foreign policy acumen.
Relevant Links

West Africa
International Organizations and Africa
Sierra Leone



I would imagine if the government was not prepared enough, they should have held on to presenting a candidate for the post, instead of doing so without adequate prior ground work. We cannot afford to be embarking on enterprises that we know we cannot succeed in. We want well calculated foreign policy odysseys, not strolls. Deliberately planned with a view to giving us the clout we deserve internationally.
Have we ever asked ourselves why, if the Senegalese president for example says something about international affairs it carries far more weight than if our president does? That perception that Dakar is more democratic than Freetown is fast becoming a myth, I think. We enjoy far more freedom here than Senegalese do.
Our elections were far more democratic than theirs were. The difference probably is that they have a far superior foreign policy strategy. In our case, for many years, it has always been higgledy-piggledy. This MUST change!

Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: First Foreign Policy Blunder
From: New Blood
To: All
Date Posted: 11:03:39 02/10/08 ()
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Madingo Man I am sure that "Or Lawyer don rub oil en sully im character" long before you or Umaru became active in your present vocation of support for him which I believe is undetermined by reason and facts or balance required in such process.

Oona day support Conteh for several personal reasons but I am sure that none of you Know him well or are conversant with his paper trail of a morally reprehensible record.

Your arguments are devoid of pertinent knowledge about his past that can be utilized to enhance any sensible support for his future.

I am sure that young Umaru and Mandingo Man understand that To Govern the AU is to choose ..but they are yet to grasp the significance that the choice they have unfortunately concerned themselves with,is one focused on an imperfect proposition that is offered.

Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: First Foreign Policy Blunder
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:21:36 02/10/08 ()
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All politics is personal and the same goes for those who support or are against Dr. Abdulai Conteh. I am old enough to be conversant with Dr. AO Conteh and his role in sierra leonean politics. Maybe its time we get everything out in the open. Please tell me what "Morally" bankrupt act he has committed. Lets list all the things that he is reported to have done so that we can clearly distinguish fact from SLPP fiction.

Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: First Foreign Policy Blunder
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 10:21:45 02/10/08 ()
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Is this journalism? Assuming that the elections were not rigged, and the article alludes to no such phenomenon, then it pointless in a democratic selection to demand reasons, i.e. arguments for the outcome of a democratic contest. This riff is the raison d,etre of the democratic theory of "elections." Of course, one is free to speculate about the outcome of elections, but to demand "reasons," as here, is countersensical.

Subject: NES FLASH ON HILLARY CLINTON
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 07:25:10 02/10/08 ()
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NEWS FLASH !
Hillary Was AGAINST the Civil Rights Act of 1964
While a Republican and 'Goldwater Girl'

I know and appreciate that Barack Obama has taken the high road, but as a black
man it is important to me that we all know the TRUTH about Hillary. Read This.....THEN
SPREAD THE WORD !!!!

A March 12, 2007 article written by acclaimed Washington columnist Robert Novak
sheds a very revealing light on the true sentiment of Hillary Clinton during the
peak of the Civil Rights Movement. Clinton recently was found to have minimized
the great and monumental strides taken by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by stating
that it was Lyndon B. Johnson, then president, who should receive the credit for
the ci vil rights progress including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In an attempt to attract black support Hillary Clinton regularly shares her 'civil
rights experience' during every speech given to black audiences. Novak writes
of one such speech at Selma's First Baptist Church on the 42nd anniversary of
the 'bloody Sunday' freedom march there, where Sen. Clinton declared: 'As
a young woman, I had the great privilege of hearing Dr. King speak in Chicago. The
year was 1963. My youth minister from our church took a few of us down on a cold
January night to hear [King]. . . . And he called on us, he challenged us that evening
to stay awake during the great revolution that the civil rights pioneers were waging
on behalf of a more perfect union.' But Novak's article states that there's
a big problem with her statement.

The fact is, in 1963, not only was Hillary Clinton a republican, but she was also
a staunch supporter of republican Senator Barry Goldwater, well known as a segr
egationist and one of the most vocal senators adamently against the passing of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is why he lost in his presidential bid to Lyndon
B. Johnson. Novak writes '...how then could she be a 'Goldwater Girl'
in the next year's presidential election?' He continues, '...she described
herself in her memoirs as 'an active Young Republican' and 'a Goldwater
girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit.'

Novak adds, 'As a politically attuned honor student, she must have known that
Goldwater was one of only six Republican senators who joined Southern Democratic
segregationists opposing the historic voting rights act of 1964 inspired by King.
Hillary headed the Young Republicans at Wellesley College. The incompatibility of
those two positions of 40 years ago was noted to me (Novak) by Democratic old-timers
who were shocked by Sen. Clinton's temerity in pursuing her presidential candidacy.'
Novak adds, 'What Hillary Clinton said at Selma is significant because it betrays
her campaign's panicky reaction to the unexpected rise of Sen. Obama as a serious
competitor for the Democratic nomination.

Clinton's plans were transformed by the advent of Obama, an African-American
threatening the hard allegiance of black voters forged by Bill Clinton. On one hand,
the Clinton campaign has attacked Obama and his supporters. On the other hand, she
has sought to solidify her civil rights credentials.

While Clinton was re-inventing her past, her road to the White House is not going
as planned. Instead of a steady procession to coronation at the Denver convention,
she is involved in a real struggle against credible opponents led by Obama. No wonder
she and her handlers were tempted to imply the existence long ago of a young lady
in Chicago's suburbs who never really existed.'

We greatly appreciate Mr. Novak's findings which bring one main thought to
mind. Wake up Black America! DON'T BE FOOLED ! The fact is, despite her falsehoods,
Hi llary was AGAINST the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that Dr. Martin
Luther King died for. As a 'Goldwater Girl' she was actually even against
Lyndon B. Johnson, the very person she now gives the credit to for Dr. King getting
to the mountaintop. She has worked extremely hard to hide many truths about her
past, including ordering that her 92 page college thesis that she wrote at Wellesley
College be 'sealed' and unavailable to the public, an order forced upon
the college by Bill Clinton while president, although all senior thesis' at
Wellesley have been available for public reading for over 100 years, except one....Hillary
Rodham Clinton's.

Reports have stated that information in her 'secret thesis' could be the
'Swift Boat' ammo to be used by the Republican Party against her should
she become the nominee. (read more about 'secret thesis' at MSNBC)

In addition to re-inventing her past, the most obvious new Billary Clinton strategy
is to use 'Token Negroes' like BET Founder Bob Johnson, Tavis Smiley, and
Magic Johnson to name a few, to attack and discredit Barack Obama, a tactic which
many blacks find additionally offensive, calling these black Clinton cronies 'sell-outs'.
Spread the word....share the facts. The Clinton's have been conning the black
community for a long time and are NOT what they claim to be. I bet they go home
at night, pour some expensive wine, kick their feet up and just laugh like crazy
about what big black suckers we are. But now, it's time to prove them wrong
!

By: Greg Jones

Subject: Re: NES FLASH ON HILLARY CLINTON
From: Leonean
To: All
Date Posted: 12:02:39 02/10/08 ()
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Message:
You have now switched pulling down your country men to an honourable lady. You may like Obama because you are black, but do not fall for that Republican propaganda. Most of the southerners you see today grew up in the era of segregation and there is no way you can look back into their history without them having them being linked at one time to a segregationist.
One way you can really judge people politically is to look at the aggregate of their actions over their timespan. If you do this you will find out that Hillary has always been an advocate and proponent of civil rights.
As Sierra Leone we are fond of bringing people down, Alieu, but Hillary is a far better person than your bigoted self will ever be. Hail to Obama-Clinton and down with their detractors.

Subject: Re: NES FLASH ON HILLARY CLINTON
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 12:11:54 02/10/08 ()
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Message:
My bigoted self believes that you are tooo stupid to notice that that article was not writen by me but rather by someone whose name appears on the bottom of the article.

Subject: Re: NES FLASH ON HILLARY CLINTON
From: Don Osman
To: All
Date Posted: 10:18:05 02/10/08 ()
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Message:
Alieu, thanks for exposing this lady for who she really is. The fact that her campaign had to resort to calling Obama names and using the race card to breed fear in the hearts of white folks, betrays her true nature and character.

Subject: Re: NES FLASH ON HILLARY CLINTON
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 10:29:09 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Message:
Sorry, bra: no exposure has gone down, no pun intended. The issues here are determinate: the significance of an alleged trip by Mrs. Clinton and the content of her senior thesis. The global issues of her "true nature and character" are best left to God. Let's stick with the pertinent issues on this potentially explosive problem.

Subject: Re: NES FLASH ON HILLARY CLINTON
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 08:20:15 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Message:
Full Disclosure: I HAVE NO INTEREST IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES.

It appears to me that Hillory's alleged trip with her pastor to hear King is not inconsistent with her support for Goldwater, as a matter of logic and fact. What Novak needs to prove is that the trip never happened. He has not done so.

Moreover, the thesis argument is inconclusive, if not irrelevant. It would be relevant if and only if the thesis were the only document sealed by the Cintons. The contrary holds. The issue could be conclusively resolved only if the thesis is unsealed, AND, first, the thesis contains text relevant to the issue, and second, if such text is embodied therein, no reasonable equivocation attaches to it.

Subject: SALONE GOVERNMENTITIS
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 06:03:34 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Message:
Here is a sober, no holds barred phenomenological descr1ption of a significant chunk of political discourse and narrative in Sierra Leone:

Phenomenological Descr1ption: It rained cats and dogs for seven days.
Discourse and Narrative: The Government is liable.

Phenomenological Descr1ption: Teenage prostitutes are ubiquitous at Lumley.
Discourse and Narrative: The Government is liable.

Phenomenological Descr1ption: The Leone is worthless.
Discourse and Narrative :Blame the Government.

Phenomenological Descr1ption: There is no meat, rice,fufu, etc. in relevant markets.
Discourse and Narrative : Government liability.

Phenomenological Descr1ption: Too many school and university dropouts.
Discourse and Narrative : Government liability.

Phenomenological Descr1ption: Sparse Mosque and Church attendees.
Discourse and Narrative : Blame the Government.

Phenomenological Descr1ption: Your uncle has just bought a Mercedes ZZZ; built a mansion; dons five grand suits; and he is government worker at Customs, earning a salary of less than 200 bucks a month.

Discourse and Narrative : Praise the Lord! Glory to God!

Subject: Re: SALONE GOVERNMENTITIS
From: salone man
To: All
Date Posted: 11:04:29 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
UMPIRE,YOU ARE A GREAT WRITER,BUT I BELIEVE ONE OF THE OATH THAT EVERY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TOOK WAS THE UPHOLDING AND PROTECTION OF THE CONSTITUTION.SO,IF A CUSTOMS OFFICIAL IS CORRUPT,IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT TO ENFORCE THE LAW BY INVESTIGATING AND ISSUING OUT AN APPROPRIATE WARRANT OF ARREST AND FILING CHARGES AGAINST THE CORRUPT OR ROUGH CUSTOMS OFFICIAL.IT IS ALSO THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JUDGICIAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT TO INTERPRET THE LAW AND PUNISH OR PASS OUT JAIL TERMS,IF THE SAID CUSTOMS OFFICIAL IS FOUNDED GUILTY.

HAVING SAID THAT,IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GOVERNMENT TO PUT IN PLACE COMPETENT PEOPLE WHO CAN IDENTIFY AND FIGHT CORRUPTION.IT IS INDEED THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

THE CONSEQUENCIES OF UNCHECKED CORRUPTION COULD BE ONE OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING.ACUTE POVERTY(SCARCITY OF NEEDED PRODUCTS AND UNAFFORDABLE PRICES),AN IMPOVERISH NATION(SECOND FROM THE BOTTOM ON ALL UN HUMAN INDEXES),REBELLION(RUF,KAMAJORS,ETC),"COUP DE TAT"(NPRC,AFRC,ETC).

WE DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO THOSE DARK DAYS AGAIN.THAT IS WHY I AM CALLING ON ALL SIERRA LEONEAN TO PUT ASIDE ALL TRIBAL,POLITICAL AND SELF-INTEREST SENTIMENT AND HOLD OUR PRESENT GOVERNMENT AND FUTURE GOVERNMENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CORRUPTION THAT UNDERMINE THE SURVIVAL OF OUR NATION.

INFACT ONE OF THE MAIN REASON WHY APC WON THE JUST CONCLUDED ELECTION IS THE MASSIVE CAMPAIGN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IN SIERRA LEONE LAUNCHED AGAINST GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION IN THE FORM OF SONGS-"TWO FOOT ARATA"."BOBOR BELLEH" TO NAME ONLY BUT FEW.SO,THE PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE SET THE STAGE FOR APC,WHO CAMPAIGN AGAINST CORRUPTION RIGOROUSLY AND SUCCEEDED TO KICK SLPP OUT.

Subject: Re: SALONE GOVERNMENTITIS
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 12:20:08 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Message:
Relax, bra. We're on the same page. For you only: it was an ironic posting. Laugh small, bra!

Subject: Re: SALONE GOVERNMENTITIS
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 08:32:42 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123

Message:
This business of shirking personal responsibility and blaming every ill on the government is the reason why Sierra Leone and, indeed the continent, is so backward. Your skit aptly captures this morose syndrome that has sapped ingenuity from our people: Blame the gov'ment for all ills; absolve ourselves of all responsibility.

I was mildly amused over the discourse after the APC victory in the last elections. The focus was on who was gonna clean out on the top jobs and who was gonna be in the dog house of unemployment. It was a fight about government patronage and largesse, 'Northernization' IN, 'Southernization' OUT and corrosion of the ties that bind Salone. Very few mentioned how WE can do business in the country and create jobs and opportunity in a way the government can never.

Kennedy, where are you buddy? "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country..."

Subject: Re: SALONE GOVERNMENTITIS
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 09:11:47 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98

Message:
Its Sunday: so, Amen! And, on the other matter, it is also Sunday, albeit, on a different ground. She is home: what a sight!

Subject: FEN PLABA and EDDIE GRANT are already members!Join us!
From: The Grandmaster of the MUKENDEH cult
To: All
Date Posted: 01:46:39 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: c83-248-83-123.bredband.comhem.se at 83.248.83.123

Message:
Those who want to get rich overnight should seriously think about joining the brotherhood.Just say YES and all your financial problems are solved.

Why waste time washing cars,distributing newspapers,digging graves or risking your life as a night watchman to earn a living in Europe or the States? Join the brotherhood and go back home a stinking rich man!

Subject: Re: FEN PLABA and EDDIE GRANT are already members!Join us!
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 08:53:42 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123

Message:
Grandmaster, you promised me billions and I am still as broke as a sawed-off MangoTik branch. What's going on? Bai Bureh, if I don't win the Megamillions jacjpot next Tuesday, I will go Kai Londo on you and quit the Mukendeh!

Subject: Re: FEN PLABA and EDDIE GRANT are already members!Join us!
From: Umpiew
To: All
Date Posted: 03:58:35 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98

Message:
As you can discern from the timing of this posting, I am an element of the set {newspaper} boys. I say YES: and I'm waiting for the money. I always deliver my newsrags prompto. I expect money, no joke.

Subject: Response to Umpire
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 00:33:03 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Umpire, sorry for the late response. As I indicated, I had to run therefore, I did not have the opportunity to respond until now. I must also thank you for such remarks. It should be no surprise. As long as one is human, one is expected to learn a thing or two from even the youngest child, if such a person opens their mind and is ready to learn. Even in schools and colleges, the Teacher or Lecturer, I am referring to a democratic Teacher or Lecturer, is expected to learn from his or her pupils or students. He or she sees them not as tabularizes but active participants.
Sadly, this phenomenon is not transposed in most of our African settings, in some, where children are driven to the back because elders are discussing, children are thrown to the bushes because they are intelligent or different, has resulted in the lack of creativity and independent thinking: resulting further to the confusion that causes anger in some adults when they cannot think creatively and decisively as others do, because creative and independent thinking is nourished from childhood.
On the contrary, in Western and other democratic settings, children are encouraged to exercise their minds; people are given free speech and free expression, which is responsible for the developments that take place in these countries and settings because people do not hide their feelings and ideas for fear that they can be scorned-upon or pushed to the bushes, secluded and or ostracized. I was thinking that that Africa is behind us. I was of the impression that such a savage world is behind us but I was mistaking.
We push those different from us, intelligent than us or as us to the back; we mock, cause their pains for cynicisms, we push them to the back so that we can be seen or even hate them instead of using their differences, intellect to our people’s advantage and us. Unfortunately, that is un-business-like but savage-like. In our discussions, I believe I mentioned that when we do not have answers, when our ideas are overshadowed or we cannot make ways to project ourselves, our ultimate answer is to get rid of opponents or don’t engage them at all, dismiss them, as you succinctly put it. This is why most great African thinkers have been murdered for political or other foolish explanations. People such as Osagifo, Nkwame Kruma, Patrice Lumumbu, Imilkal Cabral, Amadu Ahijo to name a few of the brilliant statesmen that were brutally murdered. The Age of Reasoning is an age that is now talk in our communities but active in Civilized Worlds, an age known as the Information Age.
Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh and I have discussed here extensively, and as it has been exemplified on this forum and other quarters time and again, we are gripped by an astonishing Mentality, which has manifested itself on particularly, this forum. I hope and pray that the Colonial Mentality that has grasped our communities, whereby, even when we see wrongs done we find ways to squeeze our excellence and or edges to project our successes (the Masters success actually,) even when such master himself sides justice. It is appalling that even when that is known to be the truth, we try toothlessly to bend it with pseudo-craftsmanship of incredible un-excellence. Who has the right to take another human’s life (fake to make belief) because they have been promised? What is greater than the constitution in America? What is nationalism and national pride? What did I do that every one wishes to measure their successes, their mental capacity, their achievements or seriousness with me, in America for that matter and when all are educated? These are questions that come to mind when I try to rationalize the philosophy of Colonial Mentality.
I am proud to be me and I am glad to have this discussion with you. I wish all Africans will be as proud as I am to stand for what is right, contribute for the betterment of their countries and people and do not even take pride for such efforts because it is their responsibility, and then hail unblemished with all the efforts.
I wish you well in your search for the Mighty dollar. I wish our people well. I pray that we are free from slavery once and for all.

Subject: Re: Response to Umpire
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 04:08:46 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Message:
Thanks for your reasoned response. I agree with most of your assertions, which are fully argued. But, your questions? Only God knows the answers to them. I confess my ignorance; some matters transcend the scope of mere human reason.

Subject: Re: Response to Umpire
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 11:20:36 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Umpire, thanks for your honest and show of integrity. Today I was watching C-Span on the topic of President Bush's visit to Africa. The lady speaker, Madam Jennifer Cooke, Co-director of Africa Program, Center for Strategy & International Studies elaborated immensely on reasons Africa is under the prevalent condition. When asked by a Christian lady who was concerned about the Christian image of America, in contrast to the many killings of prominent political leaders that took place in Africa, such as the ones I made mention of last night, most of who were killed by us, the Africans themselves, though sponsored. Madam Cooke took painstaking efforts to cite that the Cold War had very active roles to play in these killings but failed to apportion some of the blame to Africans themselves who would endure to kill their blood for self-aggrandizement.
Indeed, certain things are better left unsaid because of the reluctance to accept responsibility for inaction.
I mentioned Colonial Mentality. If the questions I posed are baffling, let me rephrase them by asking, is frowning at an innocent, marginalized, brutalized though determined compatriot or other persons an African culture? Is punishing another person because it is presumed some one powerful is killing such a person an African culture? In other words, is bully or condoning it an African culture? Is imposing and manipulating to gain respect an African culture? Is using some one's ideas meant to promote our mother land against them an African culture? Is the lack of sympathy and or empathy an African culture? Jealousy can be any ones culture and it is the reason for the wars we have fought for decades, killing and maiming millions of people. That does not surprise me at all.
Does it astonish to know the hypocrisy and or ignorance we lived in for years? Some of us claim to condemn or criticize others because they view the latter as being brain-washed in that, their English or way of life some-what reflects that of people of host countries, different from what we presume to be African culture but my question is, how much did we wish to be the Colonial Master; or put in another way, how much did we wish to be brain-washed if these were issues we condemned others for but we perpetrate them? Is it not obvious that most of us want things just for ourselves, which is why we condemn, criticize or even wish death for those we hope not to have what we cannot afford? Better put, are we the brain-washed, in that we emulate everything that people of the “superior race” portray?
You are a man of high integrity I suppose, and would hope you maintain such integrity because most like you have come on this forum with such pretext but it was eventually proven that they cannot stand alone. As this character they presented was not built on solid foundation, they fell on the way side. I hope you will not join their cabal.
Once more, I salute you for your distinguished charisma. Yes, some things are better left untouched because no matter how small and easy to conceptualize they me be, the self sometimes stands between our integrity and our minds.
I hope Africa's culture returns, where respect is earned by the portrayal of good behaviour, intelligent reasoning, good character, where integrity, humility and honesty is key not the arrogant, haughty, rude, dishonest and irresponsible attitudes most Africans have now embraced. I am sorry for the use of such words but there is no other way to size-it-up when this is the attitude portrayed.
I am hopping for the day our true culture returns. Today most of us are in limbo. We are not adopting the ideals of our host countries because we do not understand them nor are we exhibiting the African culture. As such we are lost. May God help us.
Be good. Have a nice day.

Subject: ZAINAB BANGURA AS FOREIGN MINISTER
From: WHY
To: All
Date Posted: 00:18:01 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
CAN ZAINAB BANGURA TELL US,WHY SIERRA LEONE IS NOT INCLUDED AMONG THE COUNTRIES PRESIDENT BUSH WILL BE VISITING IN AFRICA.ARE WE NOT OVER QUALIFY NOW,WITH A PERFECT ELECTION CONDUCTED IN SIERRA LEONE AFTER YEARS OF WARS.LOOK AT KENYA.

WERE DID ZAINAB OR FOREIGN AFFAIR GO WRONG.DO WE NEED A BETTER OR MORE CONNECTED FOREIGN AFFAIR MINISTER TO MARKET SIERRA LEONE AND MAKE HER MORE ATTRACTIVE TO THE INDUSTRILISED NATION.

WITH ALL WHAT WENT ON AND IS GOING ON IN SIERRA LEONE I SEE NO REASON WHY THE US PRESIDENT WILL STOP IN LIBERIA WITHOUT VISITING SIERRA LEONE. SIERRA LEONE IS A CLASSIC CASE OF TRUE DEMOCRACY.

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA AS FOREIGN MINISTER
From: tamba moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 07:26:05 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From: gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk at 62.25.109.196

Message:
"I SEE NO REASON WHY THE US PRESIDENT WILL STOP IN LIBERIA WITHOUT VISITING SIERRA LEONE"

My friend,its about colonial ties and perhaps economic ties to a very large extent.

When Tony Blair visited Salone on his way out,I did not hear Liberians shouting for him to 'drop-by'.Doyah lef Zainab saful..

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA AS FOREIGN MINISTER
From: Snake
To: All
Date Posted: 06:22:53 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253

Message:
Why are you picking on Zainab ? You guys are sick on this forum .What has Zainab got to do with setting Bush's schedule ?

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA AS FOREIGN MINISTER
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 05:24:02 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
What does Zainab have to do with the scheduling of President Bush's visit to Africa? Isnt it wrong to un necessarily criticize the honorable minister for things that she has ABSOLUTELY no control over?

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA AS FOREIGN MINISTER
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 04:28:52 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98

Message:
Haven't you noticed that even the leading Republican Presidential 'front runner' avoids the shadow of Bush like the plague? Moreover, given our scarce resources, according to the 'experts' in 'development theory', the Salone government cannot afford to foot the security bill to guard Mr. Bush from, to use his favorite words in the English language, "the terrorists." Additionally, who is going to pay for the expensive dinners and liquor? I doubt that Mr. Bush would give a toast with a glass of omolay. How about a pitch, respectfully, no pun intended, to the US Ambassador to Sierra Leone? A Bush visit should upgrade his resume. There is your man.

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA AS FOREIGN MINISTER
From: Contri
To: All
Date Posted: 03:52:19 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Who is bush?

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA AS FOREIGN MINISTER
From: No nonsense
To: All
Date Posted: 04:36:09 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: none@yahoo.com
Entered From: proxy4.wlink.com.np at 202.79.62.14

Message:
The thing that was on fire and when Moses approached it and they had a discussion, he ended up roaming the desert for forty years

ha ha ha ha ha ha

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA AS FOREIGN MINISTER
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 04:32:21 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98

Message:
The President of greatest country on God's earth, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Subject: CONTRIBUTION TO THE PERSONAL ATTACK BRAMBLE BUSH
From: umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 19:32:45 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98

Message:
According to the policy of this forum, personal attacks are verbotten, prohibited. But what is a personal attack? I'll rephrase the question: what is a personal critique? First, to the extent that all ideas or ideational formations are generated by a person or persons, any critique directed at such ideas or ideational formations are personal. Hence, an appropriate question is the objective reference of "critique." A critique is, primordially, an evaluation of the valid scope of an idea or ideational formation; and, it is equally primordially, a determination of the limits of the valid scope an idea or ideational formation.

Clearly, under this analysis, a critique devoid of arguments is unadulterated nonsense. If, according to Kant, concepts without intuitions are blind, a critique lacking arguments is equally blind. I call it a personal attack. Or, trash.

For example, if I posit the negative critique that Mahatma-Foday cannot write, then if I fail to corroborate the critique with FACTUAL AND LOGICAL ARGUMENTS, reasonable inferences therefrom inclusive, then I would have unleashed an unjustifiable personal attack. The point is that a necessary condition of a personal attack is a negative judgment directed at a person; but such a condition does not ripen into a personal attack unless the sufficient condition---UNARGUED NEGATIVE JUDGMENT---is satisfied.

Sterile indeed would be a forum in which critique, as construed supra, is absent. This implies that all bareknucked, argument dirempt postings should be annulled. Justifiably, under my argument. We dae nar America, but that is hardly an argument for appropriating the American tragedy of the soundbite, the perfect vehicle for uncritical judgmental activity. I should think that the policy implications of my argument, assuming it is embraced by the Moderator, are obvious.

Subject: Re: CONTRIBUTION TO THE PERSONAL ATTACK BRAMBLE BUSH
From: No Nonsense
To: All
Date Posted: 04:42:15 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: none@yahoo.com
Entered From: proxy4.wlink.com.np at 202.79.62.14

Message:
WELL DONE PROFESSOR "SABI SABI". U NA REAL BOOKMAN. JUST DAE TALK U USUAL. ME NOR KNOW UDAT U KIN WAN IMPRESS SEF. BUT CARRY ON NOR MORE. AT LEAST U PIECE DEM KIN MAKE MAN DEM LAUGH SMALL.

Subject: Re: CONTRIBUTION TO THE PERSONAL ATTACK BRAMBLE BUSH
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 09:44:02 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98

Message:
Moderator, under my "Contribution to the Personal Attack Bramble Bush," No Nonsense's posting, even though it contains transparent ironic positive determinations, is a personal attack. It is therefore, according to the canons posited in "Contribution," trash.

Subject: Pedro Da Cintra
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 16:07:12 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Do you know that the mountain ranges that Pedro saw and named Serra Lyoa-Lion Mountain was just the peninsula ranges!
Is it time we had a country name change?

Subject: Re: Pedro Da Cintra
From: salone man
To: All
Date Posted: 00:22:27 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Please start taking your medication again and stop smoking...........ok.Remember your doctor warned you to quit.

Subject: Are Creoles an ethnic group, tribe, or cultural group?
From: Civil Discourse
To: All
Date Posted: 15:38:06 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I have always wondered whether Creoles/Krios are an ethnic group, tribe, or cultural group. Or even if there are any differences between the 3.

I think this is important, simply because of the impact it could have on both reclaiming identities and embracing tradition and heritage.

For example, say one has identified him/herself as a Creole/Krio since the inception of the term/definition. Then at some point, the individual is able to trace his/her family roots to Nigeria (Yoruba)and Ghana (Asante), what then is the individual to do in regards to his/her identity? Does he/she still hold claim to being a Creole or embrace his/her actual ethnicity(ies) which in this case would be a Yoruba-Asante?

As from my understanding, the Creole culture was a manifestation of the melting pot of the many other ethnicities that existed in Freetown at that time. Creole in itself became such a definition of Freetonians, removing the distinctions caused by the many different ethnicities, and reaching a common culture that defined everyone as one. This common identification of a group of diverse people, over the years, caused a deviation from identifying with actual ethnicities (Yoruba/Asante/etc..) and a strong attachment to the term 'Creole'.

I think this has been one of the negative outcomes of the Creole Culture as I believe that there was much divine potential of this group, who could have utilized the advantage of being a diverse group in the promotion of pan-africanism and nationalism, driving the fundamental essence of the Creole Culture (a cosmopolitan nation).

This by far is still one of the greatest attributes of the Creole Culture, in that it is a cosmopolitan nation of various ethnicities, a diverse people sharing a common heritage and empowering their community from the foundation of their commonalities, as opposed to their differences. Creoles are not some form of physically ethnic unique people, rather Creoles are a Community, connected by a shared desire for education, empowerment, progress, and advancement in the human condition.

This is what I think the Creoles themselves failed to exemplify in their outreach to other indigenous communities. Rather than promote the fundamental essence of what defined the Creole Community, they chose to hold their esteem above all others, adapting to the western prototype of the inferiority complex, utilizing their advantage to define and solidify the distinctions between them and other indigenous communities. Till today, there are still references made by Creoles of 'contri mahn dem' or 'dem bahkwohd pipul' etc... Sustaining the insinuation that Creoles are still better than indigenous Africans simply because Creoles are Creoles.

The greatest mistake of the Creoles was to depart further away from the essence of the Creole culture, and embrace the prototype of the capitalist westernized nature of inferiority vs. civilized. The mistake was that Creoles became attached to the falsification that Creoles were an ethnic group tied by some sort of biological/physical distinction. This diminished their acceptance of their actual identities which in essence was (Asante, Yoruba, Temne, etc...) Now, although most Creoles learn about their actual biological/physical ethnicities, they choose to ignore it and hold on to the Creole mantle, thereby refusing to reclaim their identities as indegenous Africans themselves.

However, please be aware that there are many Creoles who do identify with their roots, who do promote the essence of the Creole culture of nationalism, who do utilize their cultural purpose to empower other communities. So this in no way, generalizes the entire Creole community.

Though, if only those other Creoles who, for some reason or another, are hindered by the continued effects of colonial mentality, can somehow reclaim their biological/physical identities, while still promoting the essence of their Creole culture to empower other communities, then the divine purpose of the Creole community, which I believe is solely attributed to the Creoles towards the development of Africa, will be attained.

Rather than scrutinizing the Creoles for characteristic and phsycological consequences stemming from their fortunate and unfortunate historical ties with the West, Slavery, Discrimination, Colonization, etc... lets focus on how do we utilize the advantage of a cosmopolitan nation, that has the power to spread the message of pan-africanism throughout communities in Africa, empowering them to become thriving communities, equal to any other across the world.

Subject: Re: Are Creoles an ethnic group, tribe, or cultural group?
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 04:15:44 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
ethnic group, cultural group, one soup

Subject: Re: Are Creoles an ethnic group, tribe, or cultural group?
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 16:11:58 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Message:
Away with this silly Krio problematic: Krios are not determined biologically, period. They are stone cold Africans who have forgotten their tribal roots. This much is known. Accordingly, it may be said that Krios are constituted within a halo of ignorance of their origins. That's biology 101.

On the cultural side, Krios lose, as FP would put it, "hands down." Any African with the will and resources can acquire European traditions with ease. Accordingly, this factor cannot determine who is a Krio and who is not a Krio.

An argument could be made that Africans carrying "European" names (I say "European" because the vast majority of these names are rooted in the pagan civilization of what Europe chooses to call "Classical Antiquity": Greece, Rome, Hellenized Christianity) are Krios. That argument is flawed: it is both over and under inclusive. Suppose I change my countryman name to Julius Caesar or Tony Blair or George Washington, would that me a Krio? Over my dead body. I appeal to all sober Krios to stop historicizing their contemporary weakness in Sierra Leone. Stop, before another Rwanda happens!

Subject: Re: Are Creoles an ethnic group, tribe, or cultural group?
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 15:57:51 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
It is mostly the old generation of Creoles that have this superiority complex. The young ones of today are not steeped in their parents complexes.
In 50 years time I doubt if the Creole community would be significant. The ones abroad would have inter married with foreigners and the ones at home would have intermarried with other tribes.

Subject: Re: Are Creoles an ethnic group, tribe, or cultural group?
From: KABU
To: All
Date Posted: 20:50:56 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: kabu@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 206.216.34.171

Message:
It has more to do with native inferiority complex than it is to do with creole superiority assumptions.

Creoles have always been accomodative, providing opportunities for all sierra leoneans to live life to the fullest. Freetown will forever continue to be known as the colony of the free and we are now making efforts to restore that heritage that will never be wiped away.

Marriage of italians to american indians never wiped away the american indian culture, neither would creole/native intermarriages.

What you should be fighting for is for our parliament to expunge the words "NATIVE" and "NON-NATIVE" from the laws of Sierra Leone. For as long as upliners continue to refer to creole as "non-Natives", non- creoles will continue to referred to as "Natives" with all the derogatory connotations that go with the term.

Subject: Attacks on Abdulai Conteh unfair
From: Snake
To: All
Date Posted: 15:09:16 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253

Message:
The attacks on Abdulai Conteh are very unfair.

Subject: Re: Attacks on Abdulai Conteh unfair
From: madingo man
To: All
Date Posted: 04:43:46 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.151.102.43

Message:
We should stop this hatred against some of our finest citizens. During the Siaka Stevens era, some of our people went through hell and the same Sama Banyas; the Michael Abdulais; the Bu-buaki Jabbies; and the JB Daudas who we see today as our leaders in the SLLPP were all part and parcel of that regime that caused atrocities in that country so if we want to start castigating people lets us start from our own.

Some of these men were nominated for lucrative jobs in Sierra Leone but nobody sent a letter to the appointments committee to protest and why should we do that to man who is trying to make us the proud.

I think as a nation, we should learn to be proud of what we have, there are nations with more bad people than we but when it comes to national pride they will support whoever is representing them. we should stop this bring down syndrome and try to build our nation and get it out of the bottom of all these tables.

Subject: Re: Attacks on Abdulai Conteh unfair
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 08:14:42 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.254.4

Message:
Madingo man, I can understand our differences in responsible moral ethics. I would not trade my principles and ideals for the sake of an unpopular effect. If we continue to allow such people get away with corruption and abuse of power, they will continue such even when outside and the taint will be on the origin - Sierra leone.

We should be proud of our bad apples instead of trying to rehabilitate them. Condoning is not rehabilitation!!

No one wants to bring down anyone in this matter - the truth had to come out to save the rest of the continent from a morally bankrupt intellectual giant. I am sorry but I will not stand to see such people get away. The only time I will desist from such is when such people atone and make meaningful contributions to the development and advancement of the lives of the people, through their policies and abuse of power, allowed to suffer.

Subject: Re: Attacks on Abdulai Conteh unfair
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 16:15:27 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98

Message:
Please specify the concrete ways you determine them to be "unfair."

Subject: Re: Attacks on Abdulai Conteh unfair
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 15:41:12 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: client-86-0-80-223.leed.adsl.virgin.net at 86.0.80.223

Message:
Snake, please tell us how unfair the truth about his past dispensations are! My account can be found in articles written in West Africa, The International Confederation of free Trade Unions (ICFTU) Review, The ILO Archives and in published books. Snake please tell me what is so unfair about the comments some of us have made. His decisions of yesterday are haunting him today. He woefully failed in the principles and ideals that formed the cornerstone of his discipline - to protect and preserve laws. He abused that for selfish gains. what else can one do when you carried yourself as if there is no tomorrow. The child yesterday you destroyed his father is the man today challenging your moral responsibilities to hold an office that the entire continent africa depends on - that is my message to AO.

i am sorry snake, the truth about AO has to be told - blaming others for his past folly is unacceptable. He could have repaired such damage to his past by undergoing a therapy in the form of atoning by way of giving to society that which his human frailties did not permit when in service. A foundation to help disadvantaged Sierra leonean children would have repaired such dent on his person. It takes 20% of his salary to help hundreds of children across the country he helped destroyed their homes. Did he do that? No!! he kept running away thinking no one will find him. he stealthily got the job in Belize. I only came to know 6 months after his appointment and that was when my twin-brother had a row with him in Belize.

I do not find joy doing this but the truth has to be told to send messages to others that the world is not like before - it is fast moving - rum to any of us now, will be know all over the world in minutes. let him atone and consider supporting a movement to help in the development and advancement of the disadvantaged in our nation.

I am sorry snake;you have to advise your man about his failings and how there is still time for him to repair the damage. I know so many ills about him, his children and family but will not be happy to reveal all on this forum for anger's sakes. i will leave that to God. he is dealing him the blow he dealt to others. had he not persecuted my father, I may not have known the world as I do now. Not all can be like me!!

Subject: Re: Attacks on Abdulai Conteh unfair
From: Salone boy
To: All
Date Posted: 04:51:17 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 99-65-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.65.99

Message:
Chez, you are a sickening person. Your alliance with the SLPP has made you become a laughing stock.
You are still quiet over the senseless and barbaric killing of your Uncle, Musa Kabia.
Today, you want us to believe that your Father demise was as a result of AO Conteh.
Sierra Leoneans have a long way to go before they will sight progress and development.
When SLPP big guns murdered innocent civilians including Kula Samba , none of you sent a letter at the University in Bradford protesting Berewa's presence there.
As Sheriff said, it was South Easterners who rallied for the killing of Minah. I saw in my own eyes Pujehun residents at State House dancing and singing when they learnred that Francis Minah will be killed.
if ose nor sell yu, street nor go buy yu.
Momoh depended in dissent from the South East to nail Minah.
Why some of you are so nefarious ? You will go at great length to kill and tarnish the image of your brothers and sisters.
An unmerciful Chez, have you made peace with your twin brother? Why can't you embrace love and forgiveness for others?
Writing to different International organisations tarnishing the image of a true Sierra Leonean negates your God given rights to live in peace and love with others.
Chez, you have to apologise for engaging in such a wretched and vile act.

Subject: Re: Attacks on Abdulai Conteh unfair
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 08:46:44 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.254.4

Message:
Salone boy, I have no apologies to make. Whatever I said is in publications. I will take your insults as words coming from a man who is opposed to my statements - very natural. only enlightened people can look beyond the statements I made. With all due respects, I stand by my words - AO Conteh is not a competent contender for any position that involves the socio-economic welfare of a village of 30 houses. You do not know this people. As a child some of us battled with their selfish ideals. You want to help the man - tell him to atone and make meaningful contributions to that which gave him a footing in the intellectual world. take a trip to his hometown to see the selfish nature of your giant.

I fell out with my brother because I told him the truth - he did wrong and I was not on his side. Ask him and he will tell you if our dispute was a fault of mine. I will not support my child if s/he abuses his office. I am not perfect - I have done wrongs in my life and atone for them and made reparations - today i am still in the same community. My past is all but things to laugh about. That is humanity !!

Why did you think he was not allowed to enter the UK after the NRC takeover? salone Boy - please do not let us spill all the beans - I said what was troubling me and that is it. You want more from me - you will not get.

Did I mention the SLPP issue? Who was an ardent critic of pa kabba? During his reign, I had many conversations with him and most of them were centred on appeals for him to do his best to make Sierra leone a better country. I recall him asking me - what can i do for you my son? I told him that i would only want my country to be a stable and better country for the benefit of her citizens.

I take Sierra Leone to be my home and have no allegiance to no single entity but the whole. I am not a tribalist or some other prejudice against others. Every Sierra leonean is my brother or sister. Thank God, i was able to live in all the four corners of the country.

Indeed I am sick - sick and tired of us not progressing - you say the truth about the actions of a leader that negates his responsibilities and you will try to hunt him down. i have no fear save that of God.

i did not start this - it started when I saw an accusation from supporters of AO calling others bigots - who is the bigot here? selfishness and greed is bigotry to some extent - an AO has that. Please commission someone (I would not mind to make the full contribution)to go to his village and they will tell you what their eyes saw. No respect to anyone who does not respect and care for his people ( not just your immediate kin especially when you've been entrusted to serve the whole.

Concerning my uncle - that was the most sad thing that could happen to anyone. may his soul rests in perfect peace. The matter has been ongoing and we hope the people responsible will some day admit to those prejudicial killings.

I love my country and I believe you know that. i have always tried to make my people a better people able with confidence to compete anywhere. Mind you, i am also a believer of humanity? I work with different nationalities and they all respect Sierra leone.

Anger is a totally legitimate emotion, so when I felt it today, I accepted it. I have tried to control it, though. I have also tried no to fly off the handle or raise my voice – I have just said what it is that I am upset about and want to get a conversation going. I find no place for guilt in this situation – I have every right to react the way I want. No one has the right to tell me that I don't get to feel what I felt. I may have some facts wrong, and I am happy to be corrected soon.

Salone Boy no apologies!! So sorry!!

Subject: Re: Attacks on Abdulai Conteh unfair
From: WHY
To: All
Date Posted: 00:00:22 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-241-240-21.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 71.241.240.21

Message:
WHO IS/WAS YOUR FATHER.WHY WAS HE PROSECUTED BY AO.DON'T TAKE IT THE OTHER WAY.I JUST WANT TO KNOW.

Subject: Re: Attacks on Abdulai Conteh unfair
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 03:58:17 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: client-86-0-80-223.leed.adsl.virgin.net at 86.0.80.223

Message:
He was then the Secretary-General of the Siera leone Labour Congress. An organisation geared towards advocating the rights of workers in the country. His name was james Baimba Kabia. He was prosecuted for calling a national strike. Read the posting below and you will have a thorough grasp of the whole matter. I hope I was able to answer your question.

Subject: Only Good news
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 14:18:59 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7

Message:

Conference on Academic Freedom in North Africa (English):
http://www.codesria.org/Links/new_08/academic_freedom08.pdf

Conference sur la libertŽ acadŽmique en Afrique du Nord (fran ais) :
http://www.codesria.org/French/nouveau08/academic_freedom_conf_rabat08_fr.pdf

Special Writing Workshop for Mano River Area (English) :
http://www.codesria.org/Links/new_08/special_writing_manoarea_river08.pdf

Textbook Programme (English):
http://www.codesria.org/Links/new_08/textbook_writing_prog08.pdf

Small Grants Programme (English):
http://www.codesria.org/Links/new_08/small_grants08.pdf

Programme de petites subventions (fran ais):
http://www.codesria.org/French/nouveau08/small_grant_prog08_fr.pdf

FOrmulaire de candidature au Programme de petites subventions
(français) :
http://www.codesria.org/French/nouveau08/attach_small_grant08_fr.pdf

English Scholarly Writing Workshop (English):
http://www.codesria.org/Links/new_08/scholary_wrting_workshop08.pdf

National Working Groups (English):
http://www.codesria.org/Links/new_08/national_working_groups08.pdf

Groupes nationaux de travail (français):
http://www.codesria.org/French/nouveau08/national_working_groupsfr_08.pdf

Guy Mhone Essay Competition on Development (English):
http://www.codesria.org/Links/new_08/guy_mhone_competition08.pdf

Concours d'essais Guy Mhone (français):
http://www.codesria.org/French/nouveau08/mhone_essay08_fr.pdf

Faculty Seminar Series (English):
http://www.codesria.org/Links/new_08/faculty_seminars_series08.pdf

SŽrie de sŽminaires facultaires (français):
http://www.codesria.org/French/nouveau08/faculty_sem08_fr.pdf

Conference of Deans (English):
http://www.codesria.org/Links/new_08/conference_deans08.pdf

ConfŽrence des doyens de facultŽs (français):
http://www.codesria.org/French/nouveau08/conf_deans08_fr.pdf

Comparative Research Networks (English):
http://www.codesria.org/Links/new_08/comparative_research_networks08.pdf

RŽseaux de recherche comparative (Français):
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CODESRIA Alumni Conference (English):
http://www.codesria.org/Links/new_08/alumni_conf08.pdf

ConfŽrence des anciens laurŽats des instituts (français):
http://www.codesria.org/French/nouveau08/alumni_conf08_fr.pdf

Advanced Research Fellowships (English):
http://www.codesria.org/Links/new_08/advanced_research_fellowshp08.pdf

Programme de bourses de recherche approfondie (français) :
http://www.codesria.org/French/nouveau08/advanced_reseach08_fr.pdf

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CODESRIA
P.O. Box 3304, CP 18524
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Fax:+ 221 33 8241289
Email: marie.ndiaye@codesria.sn
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Subject: A DUGGESTION ON THE YENGA AND OTHER TERRITORIAL LAND MATTERS
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:12:42 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: client-86-0-80-223.leed.adsl.virgin.net at 86.0.80.223

Message:
I believe, if we the citizens of Sierra Leone can formally but with seriousness express our concerns on the Yenga and other territorial matters, the government would listen. take the case of my good brother, Minister of Defence, Rt. Hon. Palor Conteh. many opposed his military dress code and the president was able to talk to him. the president listened to the many voices. The same should happen with the yenga matter. not to abuse our rights to show concern but to seriously express that we are concern about the neglect on the issue. To date no case has been filed at the internartional court of justice (ICJ).

Another suggestion is for a formidable group of sierra leoneans to lobby the west and find out from the ICJ the procedure citizens should follwo if their government fails to listen to them (very tricky but qworth finding out). i am never afraid to ask a stupid question, it makes me know what i should do.

The link below will take you to a frontier dispute between Benin/Niger:

Subject: Re: A DUGGESTION ON THE YENGA AND OTHER TERRITORIAL LAND MATTERS
From: YONGAWO
To: All
Date Posted: 19:41:19 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: yongawomohamed@hotmail.com
Entered From: host86-132-21-62.range86-132.btcentralplus.com at 86.132.21.62

Message:
It's no exaggeration that the AU's record on Border Dispute Resolution is poor to say the least. Nevertheless, before running to the ICJ it would be
prudent for the Government in Freetown to officially register the Yenga Matter with the AU. Probably, this has been done. Also, has the Government tried ECOWAS? The Government of the day has no excuse not to give this Yenga issue the seriousness it deserves.
Significantly, the Foreing Ministry should, if not already done give a press statement on YENGA. Sierra Leoneans and the world need to know what measures the Government intend taking on YENGA.
Allah Bless Salone. Amen

Subject: Re: A DUGGESTION ON THE YENGA AND OTHER TERRITORIAL LAND MATTERS
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 14:58:31 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123

Message:
Alieu Iscandri had a brilliant proposal to take Guinea to the ICJ and settle this once and for all. Zainab should be making moves in that direction. Nigeria and Cameroon had some static over the Bakassa region. Everyone was cocking their guns and the testosterone was going crazy and then someone went to the ICJ and things cooled off. Cameroon was awarded Bakassa and no gun was shot in anger. Let's take Yenga to the Hague.

Subject: Re: A DUGGESTION ON THE YENGA AND OTHER TERRITORIAL LAND MATTERS
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 15:20:37 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: client-86-0-80-223.leed.adsl.virgin.net at 86.0.80.223

Message:
so it should be!

Subject: Re: A DUGGESTION ON THE YENGA AND OTHER TERRITORIAL LAND MATTERS
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 14:24:10 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98

Message:
Common brother. It is child's play to get Yenga back: smuggle Sabano to the other side of Yenga, resurrect Demba, and let the music roll: the enemy, yes, THE ENEMY, will shuffle to the other side of Yenga, for the enemy loves Demba and Bembeya infinitely more than their chinese A-K 47s.

Subject: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Kawusu
To: All
Date Posted: 13:21:02 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4575eca0.dyn.optonline.net at 69.117.236.160

Message:
"Those of us who support President Koroma do so while still casting a wary eye at APC's legacy. My support of President Koroma, for example, is solely based on the belief that he would straighten out Salone's economic problems and not because of love of APC. If a skunk emerges tomorrow as the party's flagbearer, see Fen Plaba run away!" Fen Plaba

Like Charles Margai, like Fen Plaba --APC-PMDC-APC.

And now Fen Plaba wants to fly to Sweden to check out some Swedish girls on information from Umpire??? Fen Plaba nar man ehn half.

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 14:21:33 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123

Message:
Kawusu lef for hambug. If U dae nar New York, cam leh we go pap nar Greenwich Village tonight.
I mean it though about the political parties in our country. Knaves have indeed arisen from all political parties in Salone at various times and so it behoves us all to have a healthy skepticism of these Kabudus.
If a worthy patriot were to emerge in the next elections as a candidate, I would vote for him regardless of the green, orange or red bandana he sashays with on the catwalk. Of course the retrogrades in the parties would always be around, conspiring to sabotage progress. So far EBK is fighting the good fight despite the determined efforts of the APC's Cro Magnons.
As for Sweden's golden princesses, I'm hitting Scandinavia this summer. It is on my 150 to-do-list before I kick the bucket (I'm right now on #46).
By the way, I may get lucky and run into Umpire and Bai Bureh. We will party it up like an East End Wutpah.

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: THE TRUTH
To: All
Date Posted: 13:47:24 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-70-17-228-81.balt.east.verizon.net at 70.17.228.81

Message:
Rumors are that Fen Plaba is blood related to former president Bill Clinton; very smart, down-to-earth, articulate, great heart, BUT for the sake of THEN BABY THEM e kin do anytin.....................

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Kawusu
To: All
Date Posted: 13:54:01 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4575eca0.dyn.optonline.net at 69.117.236.160

Message:
The Truth,

Me man nar true U talk so- oh. I have heard about Fen Plaba's kinship with Bill Clinton for a long time now but since di man nar mi good fren, ar nor bi wan pull ihm wase nar doe. Rev. Kabs-Kanu for pray for Fen Plaba pan dis ooman bisness ya.

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:01:28 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: client-86-0-80-223.leed.adsl.virgin.net at 86.0.80.223

Message:
Mi man na three ting wae certain na dis life - den born we, we go live en we go die. Woman business na part of the living process - if e dae function leh de man do am. Just be careful who you doit with. The most pretty and articulate - bingo!! Any bachelor get problem, especially if you get charm lek fen plaba. Just go easy mi coz - de gal dem dangerous now - every tem wae you cam you dae reduce you living - life span. Try adopt one technique wae nor go mek you cam. dat kin mek you life long - dis water na de west dae mek the woman dem more active and dem go wan suck you dry.take tem oh!!

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 14:39:37 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123

Message:
"Try adopt one technique wae nor go mek you cam"...Chez

Chez, you gotta share this with the forum! Not for longevity, but to make a happier bed. I am one of those 'one minute' men Missy Eliott grumbled about.
Coz, please publish that technique. We want peals of laughter to emerge frome the bedroom!

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 15:18:46 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: client-86-0-80-223.leed.adsl.virgin.net at 86.0.80.223

Message:
Coz, it is in the mind. I cannot trace the book. It is an ancient chinese practical guide to male harmony. You simply try to withdraw from throbbing whenever the tempo is sensed/felt. Then you go in again but this time visit the corners slowly and try to gently throb - you do three gentle throbs to the left, then three gentle throbs to the right and one heavy throb in the middle. Continue this way and whenever you feel the tempo again withdraw. There are other angles or positions to prevent premature ejaculations - let us leave this for now - the wrong message may be felt.

Will send you the title of the guide when I find it. Another helper is: Sexual Healing Through Ying and Yang by Ziahong Shen.

There are also other natural herbs, especially from The Dominican Republic that has helped a lot of men protect their relationships. The female can dessert you if you cannot understand her needs. I will also give you a tip on these other helpers from Dominica soon.

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 17:07:12 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98

Message:
FP and Chez, let's move on. Chez: Remember AO has access to the net; and, FP, you know that the level of generality of the discourse is rapidly approaching KABS' hammer, and forget not that tomorrow is Sunday. I hear you've purchased a ticket? Vrai, n'est pas?

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 17:20:17 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: client-86-0-80-223.leed.adsl.virgin.net at 86.0.80.223

Message:
Oui Monsieur Le Conte!! A wise advise. Nothing too explicit just a touch on male harmony.

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 14:15:42 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98

Message:
Here is evident envy: if FP is "brilliant, etc.", why hit him on his private amorous adventures? Again, envy? See my Sermon on the Mount, posted earlier. Bra Chez, I can't believe you are scarred of these women who drink "dis water na de west." Would that I were not trapped between the horns of my Swedish Viking.

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:27:42 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: client-86-0-80-223.leed.adsl.virgin.net at 86.0.80.223

Message:
I would not challenge any of them! trust me, they will shorten your days, if you attempt to challenge them. This, in a research by Robert Stewart, in his book "Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love", confirmed that for every time a male ejaculates, he decreases his longevity. So it is recommended that the male on average should ejaculate once a week. I try to do it once every two weeks. you can have it every day but try hard not to ejaculate. To restrain from ejaculation is an art that can be mastered by anyone over time and practice. i have a practical guide on this and will look for it and share it with you all. It will help us stay healthy and strong for ejaculation is the killer in sexual intercourse.

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 15:40:40 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-76-114-169-98.hsd1.dc.comcast.net at 76.114.169.98

Message:
Under Stewart's theory, some of our fathers who had fourteen wives, should have had lives shorter than a roach's. Secondly, no ejaculation, no life, period. "Ejaculation is the killer of sexual intercourse...." That's a new one! I wonder, assuming Stewart practices what he professes, how many advils he pops a day from the pain in you know what issuing from inhibiting the flow. Holy cow: the title of the text is "Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love." Here we have him: Women and truth? Never the twain shall coexist. I agree with Nietzche: the love of falsehood by most, if not all, women makes philosophers fall in a hole in broad daylight. Behold the makeup, false eyelashes, the gladiator bras (to 'recover' the glorious firmness of the virgin's breasts), false hymens (according to FP), false hair, false skin color ('factory girls' or 'bleachers') and, to get to bottom of the matter, false bottoms. Indeed, the "love of wisdom" probably has nothing practically meaningful to say about the great lovers of the false: women, most women, excepting,of course, all the mothers of patriots. Proof: how many women patriots post in this forum? This depository of TRUTH.

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 15:46:21 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: client-86-0-80-223.leed.adsl.virgin.net at 86.0.80.223

Message:
What he suggested was to do at least one a week. I try to do it once every two weeks. It keeps the woman intact and you very strong in body and mind. He did not say one should not. The everyday ejaculation is the problem. You can have it five times a day but just restrain from coming five times a day. Try it and you will see. Your Swede will tell you a secret about your new art!!

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 17:53:35 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Actually, I'm a virgin. I'll consult you, with FP's mediation, when I make the decision to be deflowered. Contrary to a popular misconception, my Viking is a Royal Virgin. Thus, the regime in my homestead is petting. So much pain; desire, be damned!

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 14:15:36 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Here is evident envy: if FP is "brilliant, etc.", why hit him on his private amorous adventures? Again, envy? See my Sermon on the Mount, posted earlier. Bra Chez, I can't believe you are scarred of these women who drink "dis water na de west." Would that I were not trapped between the horns of my Swedish Viking.

Subject: Re: THE TYPICAL FEN PLABA
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 14:15:35 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Here is evident envy: if FP is "brilliant, etc.", why hit him on his private amorous adventures? Again, envy? See my Sermon on the Mount, posted earlier. Bra Chez, I can't believe you are scarred of these women who drink "dis water na de west." Would that I were not trapped between the horns of my Swedish Viking.

Subject: Thanks cocorioko for the clarification
From: Amadu
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Date Posted: 12:53:27 02/09/08 ()
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I was the first one to raise the issue because I was eager to read more about the superstar. I was just calling the attention of cocorioko to find out the facts about the story. It was not in any way shape or form to bash cocorioko but rather to find out the facts. I read cocorioko at least three times a day. No need for the name calling but rather to find out the facts and supply us your readers with the best information. Don't take it personal.

Subject: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 11:20:57 02/09/08 ()
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The campaign to whiten a sullied man like Abdulai Conteh has taken off in earnest, but the campaigners are so bereft of reality that the entire exercise looks like a fool's errand. Repackaging an old offender for sale is a difficult feat to perform, and the job could get even thornier when there is lack of skill in those doing the bidding. If the Foreign Ministry in Freetown cannot sell the candidacy of the "most qualified man for the job" at the African Union, Guinea-Conakry may have to seize more Sierra Leonean territory without provoking the opprobrium of the international community. The Northernized Foreign Ministry in Freetown is run by a woman known more for her "Northern Attractiveness" to the president than the possession of diplomatic cachet. Sidi Ibrahim Sherrif's argument that Sierra Leone's failure to see Dr. Conteh through at the AU was partly due to the absence of our Foreign Minister who had "other engagements in the UK," is a piece of rubbish that could undermine Zainab Bangura's diplomatic image with fierce crudity.
As the nerve-center of our international charm offensive, the Foreign Ministry should be primed to multi-task with the ability to direct counterblasts at Sierra Leone's opponents while wriggling our way through diplomatic logjams. With her limited diplomatic skills, can Zainab Bangura do well in a scenario involving a propaganda war with an external aggressor whose Foreign Ministry is well-oiled by wily diplomats?

I am beginning to see why the Guinean occupation of Yenga remains a lifeless topic. Neither State House, nor the Foreign Ministry, has the needed tact to coordinate a bilious campaign against the Guinean occupiers. The Foreign Ministry of a beggar-nation is too important to be left in the hands of bungling officials whose qualifications lay in tribal "suitability." More disturbing about the APC government is the fixation with recidivists like Abdulai Conteh. Dr. Conteh has seen, and wasted, better days as a diplomat. In a world where Sierra Leone faces newer challenges, Dr. Conteh cannot be expected to do anything beyond the flaunting of his academic credentials. The man lacks nationalism, integrity and diplomatic artfulness. The biggest DIPLOMATIC misdirection in recent Sierra Leonean history was taken under the aegis of Dr. Conteh's barren days at the Foreign Ministry. Propping this man up for an international job should NEVER be done in my Sierra Leonean name! At the moment, I am more concerned with Zainab Bangura's unsuitability at the Foreign Ministry, than the unfailing ambitions of a failed diplomat like Dr. Abdulai Conteh.

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 06:09:18 02/10/08 ()
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Bra Enviable, you are starting to sound like an intelligent bad of "HOT AIR". Your writings are so devoid of facts, and they are starting to sound more like innuendoes rather that the writings of a well educated brother from Kailahun, which you are. Here are some examples of it.

"The biggest DIPLOMATIC misdirection in recent Sierra Leonean history was taken under the aegis of Dr. Conteh's barren days at the Foreign Ministry."

Without providing any facts on this, the statement above quoted is "Baseless". You are begining to sound like an Abdulai Conteh hater, which is not what I believe that you want to come out sounding like in the first place. I do not think that you are old enough to know Abdulai conteh as a prosecutor in sierra leone. I would therefore surmise that everything that you have heard about Abdulai Conteh is hearsay. You were around when the AFRC were prosecuted by Mr. Berewah the former leader of the party you support. People were condemned to death, monies were exchanged with the then vice President to wit: $5000.00 per head to avoid prosecution and or the death penalty. The accused were denied the right to appeal their sentences, even the civilians were in the same predicament and the prosecutor Mr. Berewah, was a seating member on the so called committee on the prerogative of mercy which was in itself a conflict of interest. I have so far heard you say NOTHING about that travesty of Justice which occurred while you have been an adult and a prolific writer on this forum. Why then may I ask you, have you been silent to this injustice meted out to innocent men and women, civilians and military, by the party that you support.

AO conteh in my humble opinion is a man of substance and we do our country an injustice when we negate his input and cry him down in public. For this reason I have refused to respond to Chez Winnakabs article on the issue because I believe that his article reflects how low he has sunk in his so called patriotism. Dr. Abdulai Osman Conteh is an honorable man and nothing you or anyone says would make me believe any diferent. He has represented sierra leone very well and as the Chief Justice of the state of Belieze he does every sierra leonean proud and that includes you. I have read his opinions while on the bench in Belieze and I am indeed proud of his achievements and so should you.

Dr. Conteh was a prosecutor of FM Minah. Assuming in arguendo that FM MInah was innocent, as many of you claim, that should not make the prosecutor the enemy because he was only doing his duties as an employee of the state. Abdulai Conteh did not seat at the commitee of mercy, make any decisions post conviction to the best of my knowledge. Why then does he generate so much hatered and particularly amongst south easterners liek you who are wont to turn a blind eye when these very same acts he is accused of are committed by people from the south east, by people like Hinga Norman who turned a blind eye to the rape slaughter of innocnet sierra leoneans whose onle crime was that they belonged to the APC party.

Get of the high horse brother and start acting sierra leonean

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 12:16:16 02/09/08 ()
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As a patriot, you are free to pass on the suitability of any cabinet minister for any post. So does the raray man at Big Wharf or Saw Pit or, the locus where my street smarts and horse sense were polished, Mabayla. You are a smart guy, and accordingly, I need not remind you that tribally grounded invectives do not an argument constitute. Where is the argument, factually based, it goes without saying, that the Honorable minister's diplomatic skills are "limited." Inquiring minds want to know. Unfortunately, you have not made the case. Give it another shot!

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 13:08:42 02/09/08 ()
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I am impressed with your civility. May the good Lord continue to bring out the best in you. No offence. just want to be your friend. Forget about the insults - nothing to be ashamed of. You are a giant that is beginning to see the direction to which you need to tread.

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: Rubbish Rubbish
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Date Posted: 11:54:14 02/09/08 ()
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Your party was in power for eleven God damn years and they did nothing about yenga. In fact it became a government policy that no one should say anything about it because tejan Kabba who is a Guinean will talk to his brother. APC has been in power for just five months and you want them to perform a miracle that your government failed to do in eleven years. You must be living in a dream world or since you have nothing worthwhile to do, whiling away time by writing your normal rubbish. I even wonder where you took that moniker as their is nothing enviable about you or your rantings on this forum.

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 12:26:27 02/09/08 ()
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Yes the past created the present condition!! However, it is important for the present to be able to demonstrate a sign of hope for a better negotiation for what the past was not able to do. There are priorities and grand designs in every governemtn's foreign policy and startegic plan. Just as our president was able to challenge the electricity situation and took it upon himself to try to address it. I believe the same should not be bad for the foreign office. The seizure of Yenga by Guinea is a very serious international breach and the Foreign ministry should make it their priority. Forget about what kabba could not do. History will serve him his cold dish in due time.

What is our current design on Yenga and the recent appropriation of more villages (if true)?

We as citizens should not only depend on the government to deliver for us all of the time. We should take it upon ourselves to ask the Guinean people why they are taking our lands through their national media. I intend to start such a process when time permits - soon I believe as it is a far more desperate issue than most at hand. Bra Enviable is indeed enviable!!

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 11:42:56 02/09/08 ()
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Better said than all!! One thing we should know which you pointed out, lacking nationalism. the likes of AO Conteh would like to be affiliated to Guinea more than Sierra Leone. the good thing about Guinea is that they do not tolerate people who have denigrated Sierra Leone to be given a platform. If wishes were horses, AO would prefer to enjoy his life in Guinea. Guinea does not tolerate the recklessness we bequeath to morally bankrupt individuals like AO Conteh.

The Yenga issue will be resolved. I have this belief that the likes of you and me will some day be able to lobby the international community to lend ears to the cries of patriotic Sierra Leoneans. Let hope be preserved in us. Time will tell!!

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: nico
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Date Posted: 12:27:24 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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I have been a passionate advocate of Yenga. I did not only wrote an open letter to Tejan Kabba on this serious threat to our sovereignity, but the non -action and mendacious position of Tejan Kabba forced my resignation as one of the reasons from the party. I will, in due course, express my views in the most robust and uncompromising stand for the new administration to scaled up the Guinean provocation with the relevant international areana.

Guinea is an unfriendly neighbour and a sucker. They will not leave until we convinced them that they cannot hold on to our land with impunity. As a nation, we need to know who is who and know who to entrust our most sensitive jobs.

Where is Suma? he exploited the SLPMB and invested the loots in Guinea. Even in death, he refused to be burried in Sierra Leone because he claimed to be a Susu Guinean.

Who was given the principal Immigration job in Sierra Leoen in the seventies, was it not Frank Jalloh. I know what he did to it. Frank Jalloh was the biggest peoples trafickers, bringing his Guineans in Sierra Leone to mine our diamonds and committed other acts of piracy in Sierra Leone.

I know this because our house was his transit post to the diamond zones in Kono and Tongo field. To me, what is hapenning to Yenga finds expression in our lack of foresight. There is a link. It is sensitive but I will be homing in on this at the right time.

We as Sierra Leoneans must begin to stand by our own people

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: Sojaman
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Date Posted: 12:16:28 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: lavahun@yahoo.com
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The Yenga issue must be handled with care. Most people on this forum would prefer the government o take a more aggressive approach in dealing with the issue. One thing they fail to realise that in international politics especially when it comes to matters like these, any action taken must be backed by force or the potential use of force if dialogue fails. Are we prepared for that. Will our fragile economy be able to sustain a long drawn out war with Guinea. Is Yenga worth the loss of life of our citizens that will ensue? When I read some of the posts here, it take me back to 1977. those old krio women will be in their houses while the demostrations are on. They will ensure that their children are safely within the compound whilst encouraging us to go out and challenge the ISU.

This short dialogue actually took place during those days

Krio Woman: Abayomi, Tilay, Abioseh, unu pas cam insye en lock de gate. Unu nor see police dae pass up en dong with gun. Bring all tin insye en lock de gate.

Two minutes later

Krio Woman: (to a country boy walking along the street) Morlai, na watin dae happen dong trit?

Morlai: Na dem policeman dae run ata we ma

Krio Woman: Unu nor gree. Unu sef for stone dem. Dem police ya pasmark. Make ar gee u tik make un go fet for unu right

That is the typical attitude of some people on this forum. Just because they are hiding somewhere in euope, they want us to go out and fight because they will not be involved or affected by it. We have elected a government. Let us allow them to do their job rather than every Tom , Dick or harry having the idea that they can do a better job than the people who have been elected. Especially people like "Enviable" who thinks he is Mr Know all

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 05:43:41 02/10/08 ()
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"old krio women will be in their houses while the demostrations are on"

What could have been a brilliant post on the issues has unfortunately been marred by tribalism. In 1977 I was one of those "krio" boys who led other students in marching up to Fourah Bay college with my little sign that said " Sierra Leone lad of Toy jets and helicopters". I was arrested and taken to the CID.

You take away from the flavor of your post when you inject anti krio or anti tribal commentary into it. In 1955 way before I was born and probably you too, my Grand Uncle Bankole faced a british soldier with a Bren Gun at Clock tower and lived to tell the story. Many krios have given up their lives and freedom to see siera leone move forward.

Now lets get to the meat and potatoes of your post. It is true that many on this forum who are advocating for war are on the wrong side of the debate because we as a naton are not militarily strong or economically viable enough to sustain any war against Guinea or within ourselves.

The solution to the Yenga issue is that the government of sierra leone must file a Legal action against the government of Guinea at the INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE and seek reparations from the Guinean government for its illegal hold on our country. Preceeding that the government must make a very PUBLIC statement on the issue with the pesident issuing a very public statement on the state of negotiations with Guinea. A formal report must be made to the United nations with regards to the Yenga situation and at all stages of the process the President and the Foreign minister must report to the people of sierra leone on the ongoing efforts to resolve the situation. The biggest mistake that this government would make with regards to Yenga is to keep public that is increasingly seeking answers to this problem, in the dark.

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: nico
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Date Posted: 13:45:20 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
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Sojaman

Are you waiting for the Guineans to capture the whole of Sierra Leone including the seat of Salone Government before you do something?

The reason why Guinea is taken liberty on our sovereignty is because we as a nation and people have been too tolerant for our own good. We have been very shortsighted. We have failed to secure our borders, we have not bothered about the possible threat of this kind from our supposeably sister country and did not planned in our donkey years to counteract such a threat. Now our arguement is that we cannot do anything because we don't want war.

Guinea is aware of this and unless we begin to knock on the doors of UN, the international court of justice AU, UK etc to put pressure on Guinea to honour its last comminique to withdraw from our territory, Guinea will become bolder and more ambitious territorally.

War is not an option for now but I believe there are other ways. I will explain that to the media, in my article to be sent out later.

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 12:23:00 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Message:
I agree with you. It is the function of the elected government to secure the borders of Sierra Leone. However, how does that preclude citizens from offering their two cents? Argument, please!

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 13:09:46 02/09/08 ()
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I am left with my mouth wide open! Indeed you have transcended!

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 15:46:30 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Message:
Your mouth is "wide open" for a short sleeve or a long sleeve? Answer the question!

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 15:48:05 02/09/08 ()
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Wide open with admiration - it is no crime! is it?

Subject: Re: ZAINAB BANGURA, ABDULAI CONTEH AND OUR LACK OF DIRECTION
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 17:22:27 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Message:
Consult an attorney; fear not that you are 'here' illegally, since attorneys cannot, assuming an attorney-client relationship attaches, report to Hawaii Five O, past criminal acts: generally. On the other hand, your illegal status is a continuing offense. Now, you are in real trouble. Consult Mr. Cockran, Esq.

Subject: I CHALLENGE AO CONTEH TO DIP HIS HANDS INTO HIS POCKET
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 11:17:49 02/09/08 ()
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In the interest of natural justice, I call upon Dr. Abdulai Osman Conteh to dip his hands into his poctets to support our new venture 'BOYS TOWN SIERRA LEONE'(BTSL). BTSL is geared towards building a school for the children of disadvantaged Sierra Leoneans and others from the neighbouring countries. The goal is to provide them with a quality education that would prepare them to build the nationstate with technological skills and traditional Sierra Leonean values.

These are some of the things one would have expected the dishonourable Chief justice to have thought of and not to vy for a position he knew very well was not within his grip.

Atone by become our first Benefactor. History will erase your deeds if such philanthropism becomes part of your accolades.

If you want to contact BTSL do so by writing to:
Boys Town Sierra Leone Project
PO Box 135
London
SE8 4PR
UNITED KINGDOM

We are mere mortals and can err. The only evil is not atoning when you have the opportunity. It is the best rehabilitation therapy for any individual - ATONEMENT.

Subject: Re: I CHALLENGE AO CONTEH TO DIP HIS HANDS INTO HIS POCKET
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 10:47:41 02/10/08 ()
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Message:
ROTFLMMFAO
Are you now reduced to "begging" for donations from Dr. Conteh whose reputation you have UNFAIRLY excoriated in the foreign press? If you were he would you entertain this offer? I dont think that Dr. Conteh would entertain your offer and I think that it stinks to the highest hell and smacks of some degree of criminality. This sounds so much like EXTORTION to me and I think you should be very careful when you make these very public statements like the one above.

Of course your idea is one that is laudable and one even I would not mind contributing towards, but to publicaly brag about bad mouthing one of Sierra Leonens finest legal minds and then only to turn around and ask him to contribute to some pet project of yours and by so doing it would erase his perceived deeds in your jaundiced eye is VERY VERY WRONG. If I were he, I would consider bringing a lawsuit against you winston, based on tort and take some of this fanmed money that you claim to have from you.

with regards to the incident of your brother going to Belmopan to "dis" the seating chief justice over some perceived injustice that you claim to have suffered, he is lucky that he came out of there alive because I have been to Belize, Belize city, Belmopan, and Dangregar and I submit to you that if he had been caught he would have been skinned alive and he would have deserved it if for nothing else his STUPIDITY.

Stay Blessed

Subject: For Chez
From: Jan
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Date Posted: 10:23:31 02/09/08 ()
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Chez, why don't you attend the all important meeting tomorrow at 3 pm at the usual place (Hankey Place tabard Tenants Association) off Long lane SE1? The last time I saw you was at the meeting we had on day the Albert Academy had a function.You attended that meeting late. This is a big meeting and the indications suggest that it will be the biggest turnout for a long time. Something very big and interesting is going to happen tomorrow. To hear about it is not the same as to witness it. Hope to see you there tomorrow. I consciously do not want to say much about it in this forum.

Subject: Re: For Chez
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 10:27:13 02/09/08 ()
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Thanks Jan. Will be there tomorrow. hope to be in London by midday and will have time to refresh myself. Will without doubt attend.

Subject: The Effects of Today's Leadership Actions or Inaction...
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 09:17:28 02/09/08 ()
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...On Lives and Society of Tomorrow - Part I

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The Effects of Today's Leadership Actions or Inaction On Lives and Society of Tomorrow - Part I

By Dr. Erango Kelbisow

"... for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Galatians 6:7 (Holy Bible)

Keen observations reveal that numerous factors play major role in shaping or destabilizing an organization or society's future. If one should insist on knowing what exactly affects lives and society the most, a careful selection of factors would include such topics as family, youth, leadership/government, and the entire nature. Assuming that family and the entire nature would remain intact, the narrowing down process would lead the inquirer to the youth and leadership/government for further discussion. Although the youth and future leaders, rarely by design and mostly by sheer accident or force, inherit what their predecessors leave behind, some might still argue that the future of a society/nation heavily depends on its youth. However, regardless of how many pertinent factors could be staked up on the list, specially, in most developing countries, the foremost of all factors, according to the opinion of this article's writer, would be today's political leadership/government actions or inaction that most affects lives and society of tomorrow.

Therefore, Part I of this article calls upon present and aspiring leaders to learn to or put personal idiosyncrasy aside and live up to the purpose and responsibilities of the office they occupy (or aspire to occupy) without any prejudice for or against whomever comes to receive service. Although the term leaders in this article could also mean parents, business or community leaders, religious leaders, chief executive officers or their designees in private organizations, educators, other professionals, bureaucrats in government agencies, but more specifically it refers to, political leadership in government. Indeed, only a democratic form of government that represents the people could set up a proper path to remedy all forms of injustices that the people would experience and live under.

The leaders in government could easily make or rake lives and the future of a nation/society through its popular or unpopular policies, regulations, internal memorandums, and international treaties. Either absence of a genuine democratic form of government in place or presence of democratic appearance only in words and on paper would certainly complicate the matter and diminishes the hopes and aspirations of many for a better tomorrow. It has been quite clear that the transfer of political power in most developing countries, including Ethiopia has rarely been carried out by design and peaceful means but rather mostly by sheer accident and guns. As a result, the people in those countries continue to suffer under difficult conditions and different leaderships that come in succession. Every such leadership tends to either lack knowledge, necessary skills, experience, or all of these to successfully lead the people. Therefore, in a plain language, it continues to terribly underestimate the potential and intelligence of the people it alludes to lead in most of its actions or inaction. In spite of its own shortcomings, claiming to "know-it-all", such leadership tends to be determined to blame its predecessors for every adverse conditions in society and remains more resolved to revenge (maim or destroy) anyone perceived to be in its way. It is obvious that such transitions would be very expensive, in terms of resources wasted and lives lost in vain and/or on the on-the-job-training that would be required to bring the new and inexperienced leadership up to par. The beginning of a new and crawling administration that would not know what to do or how to run a day-to-day government affairs would be another trying time for most citizens to repeatedly go through. Most decisions made during this time of transition would be arbitrary. However, such new leadership generally appears to be full of zeal, empty words, and self-aggrandizement.

Unfortunately, all rosy things which were promised to the people by the new leadership on its way up to the sought after office would not be delivered. To the dismay of the people, the delivery date of the promised items would continue to get unspecified extension. Therefore, after patiently waiting and watching for long time, the people who were promised the delivery of democratic form of government, respect for their rights, personal safety, better service and opportunities, and economic prosperity by their leaders in office tend to give up hope. The level of their trust in the leadership would hit rock bottom. The irony of all of this is that, the new leaders transform their own lot from rags to riches while the poor people's living conditions in those countries were found to be substandard. While living conditions of people from these countries were documented, compared, ranked, and reported internationally, those countries with inefficient and unstable governments would lead the list from the bottom. On the contrary, the leaders of these same countries were found to be among the wealthiest in the world. In spite of promises on top of promises, there was no evidence that the leaders' zeal alone would deliver a morsel of bread to the hungry, hope to those covered with despair, safety to those who are afraid of losing their lives, and prosperity to those who are poverty stricken. Unless leaders in the government rid themselves from all forms of iniquities, it appears that in such environments, among other things, respect for human rights, valuing the sanctity of life, peace, and prosperity would increasingly become never attainable dreams.

Of course, leaders at the helm of government make widely affecting policies and major decisions. It should be understood here that making policies and major decisions during highly charged emotions or with less or no regard for the target group would totally remove needed objectivity for making sound and practical policies. Any policy development and implementation that lack practicality would be like an exercise in futility. If policy were formulated without any regard to target group and haphazardly implemented, regardless the intent of the policymakers, the outcome of the policy would be nothing better than a total disaster. I hope it would suffice to cite an example or two from the failed actions or inaction of the previous government era in Ethiopia. Although historians could record this better than I, among others, one major action taken by the political leadership was that of the introduction of alien political ideology of Marxism to the culture and the circumstances of the Ethiopian people and its associated policy related to Villagezation (Mender Misreta). These government actions or inaction proved to be unacceptable to the ethos of the people. It failed. Certainly, the people would continue to feel the negative effects of the era for generations to come. Like a coin with two sides, also to give credit when and where it is due, one positive outcome that was registered for the Dergue era was that of the Literacy Campaign which reduced the nation's illiteracy by a substantial percentage.

The lesson here is that, policies made based on skewed perceptions and inadequate information, on one hand, and, implemented hastily and wrong, on the other, would have a skewed outcome that dashes people's hopes for better future. The outcome clearly indicates that the failed policy decisions could also backfire at the government itself. Therefore, leaders at the policy making level of government, at any time in history, would be advised to do more than the proverbial saying "think twice" before making any policy decisions in order to avoid more complicating life and the future for others. Thus, it is apparent that numerous leadership actions or inaction in history point to either people's joy or sufferings. Leadership decisions were not supposed to or should not be handled as personal decisions. Since they would affect many others, one as a leader should always be objective, gather genuine data related to the decision to be made, involve the target group, get unbiased expert advice, modify as needed, weigh alternatives, and make the decision that would result in people's joy rather than sufferings. Also, it would be very important to note here that proper implementation of those decisions would be of a delicate nature and people's leaders must be extremely tactful if they would not want to cause unnecessary suffering to the people.

If the leadership in office messes up things with an unpopular actions or inaction and fails to lay down proper foundations for a positive development of the organization or country to take effect, another leadership that would follow would end up with chaos in its hands. In the same vein, it needs to be recognized that leadership transition left to chance alone would leave the nation in a permanent political, social, and economic coma. However, in countries that would fall in such travesty, the cutting of the chord of the vicious cycle of misery to the masses calls for a selfless, totally committed, and a unique group of leaders to emerge and set a tone. The tone might include riding ineffectiveness from government. It appears that tyranny, ruthlessness, and corruption breed ineffectiveness or vise versa. These in turn result in lack of trust, absence of personal safety, instability in government, and continued misery with no relief in sight for the people.

Regardless of how occasional and bad the mistakes might be, mostly due to lack of clear explanation to the constituents, leadership blunders in decisions made and/or unpopular actions taken or inaction at times become so exaggerated. I do not think genuine leaders would mind being looked at as humans like anybody else who are subject to err. However, when they err, the people expect their leaders to humble themselves and admit that they made a mistake and assure them that it would not happen again. I also hope that, unless it would be considered a grave mistake, the people would forgive their leaders, although they may not forget the act, and like to move on with life and living. Another valid point here is that, it would be better if a leadership would avoid becoming wrapped up and insulated with its own vain glory and act as if nobody could tell anything or criticize what it does. A leadership with such an attitude and behavior towards its own people would only reign until its cup would run out. The people would be fed up of the leaders' arrogance and deceit. It would be only a matter of time that the leadership that has been living in folly would soon fall from grace and favor of the people it claims to lead. Such policy blunders, which continue to be made, may be just blunders to the individuals who made them and when they made them. But, these blunders could become an everlasting disaster for lives and the future of the society.

If the reader of this article is currently in a leadership role or would be in the future, he/she needs to remember that the decisions he/she makes or would make and the actions being taken or inaction would affect far too many lives than one would ever imagine. Therefore, as a leader, one should not fail to set an appropriate example of a leader to subordinates and our youth to learn from. If such acts were conducted today, they would contribute positively towards sustaining lives and society of tomorrow. Merely holding an office and not appropriately serving the people does not make a leader a leader. A leader must always remember that the office he/she occupies ethically could not and should not be used for revenge and personal vendetta. If he/she is a public servant or a government employee, he/she occupies the office to serve fairly all those who would come under the auspices of that office, not only a special interest group such as a given business, religious body, ethnic group or tribe. Thus, a leader should never misuse and abuse the power of the office for personal gain, but rather provide a fair and ethical service to the people he/she ought to serve.

In general, when the leadership is far removed from its followers, there would be a wide gap between leaders perceptions and constituents perceptions about services provided and services received, respectively. Although the gap that emanates between the leaders and the followers could be sometimes based on perceptions, but many times, it would be based on real discrepancy on the part of the leadership that could not live up to its responsibilities. In order to eliminate or minimize the perception or real difference, the parties must be willing to conduct genuine self-evaluation first and discuss openly and honestly with one another about those perceptions and realities that prevail. Thus, would be millions of dollars worth questions to help eliminate or minimize the gap could include, do the leaders in government and the people agree that there is a major problem in their relationship? Are they willing to solve the problem? If so, do they want to listen and/or talk to each other? If they have reached at an impasse, are lives and society of tomorrow going to be better or worse off as a result of this impasse? Could it be mediated? Who would mediate?

In part II of this article, in order to assist leaders to become effective public servants, sets of relevant and ethically appropriate questions that government leaders would raise and answer them would be introduced. This section also deals with what the role of good and visionary leaders should be like for the betterment of the society. The reader in this section would be briefly informed about what leaders' roles would be like in managing change that is overwhelming societies everywhere as related to our circumstances.

Note: Dr. Erango Kelbisow lives in Los Angeles and is an educator affiliated with the Los Angeles Unified School District. He holds three graduate degrees in Institutional Management, Public Administration, and Educational Administration from Pepperdine University. He also holds various professional licenses (credentials) from the State of California and belongs to numerous professional Associations. For any feedback, send e-mail to: ekelbisow@juno.com.

Subject: Re: The Effects of Today's Leadership Actions or Inaction...
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The doctor's reasoning, though not his aspirational ethos, is deeply flawed. I shall not comment on the contentless pronouncements on, for example, the need for good leadership. Of course, everyone wants good leadership. The question is how? The doctor's piece, prolix, to the core, instead of answering the question, sinks into the clouds of contentless abstractions.

Political Assumption or Prejudice: The doctor dogmatically posits that only a democratic form of government would deliver the goods? That may be true, false or undecidable. However, he fails to argue for his position, ironically surprising for a piece that urges "responsibility." I suspect that the author is Ethiopian, from which tribe, I know not. Some arguments against Ethiopia's monarchical form of governmet, please, in Part 11, "we naw go tire."

Subject: Re: The Effects of Today's Leadership Actions or Inaction...
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Wonders never cease! You amaze me! keep it up!

Subject: Re: The Effects of Today's Leadership Actions or Inaction...
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Date Posted: 10:21:07 02/09/08 ()
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Nothing in life is without flaw. My grasp of the reasoning is simple - that our actions or inaction of today determines the destinies of many. This is akin to our Sierra Leone situation of yester years by our leaders that brought untold sufferings to 80% of our population. if we make the right decisions today the tomorrow will be better and if we make the wrong decisions the tomorrow will not be pleasant.

Below is Part II:

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The Effects of Today's Leadership Actions or Inaction on Lives and Society of Tomorrow - Part II

By Dr. Erango Kelbisow

"... for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Galatians 6:7 (Holy Bible)

In this part also, like the previous part of the article, the readers, specially, our present as well as aspiring leaders, would be invited to objectively ponder over the essence of the content of this article. The reader would be asked to take the message in here to heart and try the very best to make life easier and meaningful for oneself and everybody. Your consent would be sought here to be sensitive to the needs, feelings, aspirations, and dreams of all people whom you as leaders commit yourselves to serve. Although the people's wishes might appear fuzzy to some leaders, without any ambiguity, the people would want to live in peace, their rights to be respected, be safe and free. The people also would want to run their own affairs. This would mean that they would rather elect in free and fair elections the leaders of their choice rather than have leaders imposed on them by sheer accident of time or the powers to be. It is hoped that leaders would recognize that, only the fulfillment of the people's wishes to exercise their rights would ensure promising future and guarantee continued development for better society of tomorrow. Therefore, as leaders, your genuine commitment to serve sacrificially, honestly, and fairly and, in fact, to carry on that commitment even farther into concrete actions would be of utmost importance to the welfare and future of our people.

It is very essential that our leaders would know exactly what would be expected of them while in office - that is to effectively, ethically, morally, and judiciously discharge official responsibilities during their tenure in the office and prepare to peacefully transfer power in due time, but nothing less. Remember that, our people deserve the best of leaders who would do all they can and want to see the country make a positive progress and even advance in every aspect it stands to improve. The desirable leaders would lift up the nation from the state it has been fallen for quite sometime now. To do that, first, such leaders would be expected to possess necessary skills to objectively assess the time period we are living. Then, they would reflect experiences from yesteryears, anticipate and prepare for the future, bridge the gap that prevails between them and their followers, seek and get honest feedback from the people, and provide quality service to all people who stand to receive services from their leaders. To rise up to this Herculean task, while still adhering to the job descr1ptions, among other things, each leader would be encouraged to raise personal questions similar to the ones posed below and seek appropriate and ethically pertinent answers to those questions. The questions would include:

1. What qualities of a leader do I possess in these times of change?

2. What is the purpose or function of
the office I am holding or aspiring
to?

3. For how long am I going to hold
the office?

4. What do others think of the quality of service they receive from this office?

5. Do I treat others the way I want to be treated?

6. What types of examples of a leader am I setting for others to learn from me?

7. How do I want to be remembered by the people, the organization, or country I serve?

In the interest of the Ethiopian people and the society's future, it is essential that leaders would, first, meet and even surpass the standards that would be required for the office they occupy. Then, they should be constantly made by genuine rule of law and professional ethics to be mindful of the purposes of their institution's existence and of their holding the office in order to be effective in what they are supposed to do. Thus, the goal of this article would not be achieved until most or all leaders internalize daily the primary reason of their occupying the office and serve everyone that comes under the auspices of that office in a professional manner. This internalization could not be substituted by giving a correct answer to questions posed above and other similar questions but by only actual demonstration of an appropriate act. The act could be deduced as an appropriate only when the leaders serve others in a manner that they themselves would like to be served when it is their turn to be on the other side of the desk or in a line to get service from others. If such a quality of service would be rendered to the public, without doubt, it would be declared that the state of professional maturity in leadership has been achieved. Only then, where all our leaders at every level, specifically those in government, would be considered 'good leaders'.

I believe that good leaders are those who are empathetic towards the people whom they serve. Good leaders would not take ethnocentric positions but rather acknowledge, value, and respect diversity that characterizes the society where they live and serve. Their focus would be on common grounds and interests of all citizens. If and when they genuinely accept and value diversity, they would rarely exploit diversity for their own political interest or personal gain. They would neither use diversity to distance people from one another nor would they tolerate others when they put down one group and lift up another in society. Good leaders would have a positive prospective about the society as a whole and be inclusive rather than exclusive of the diversity in the government and in its ranks of leadership. Its aim would be making an extra effort to work together with others in a democratic forum and agree to disagree in order to make a positive difference in the lives of all people in the society. Good leaders would be interested in building a consensus before making major decisions where differences in opinion would be ironed out first and/or some level of agreement would be reached. They transcend themselves from tribal, religious, and any other form of bondage that might cloud their fair judgement towards others who might differ from them in any way. They would always listen carefully to the heartbeat of their followers and that of their compatriots. Without question, desirable leaders put the interest of others and that of the country above their own.

Good leaders are also great history students who would continue to learn from the past, mistakes of others and that of self. They would have a good grasp of the present and wholeheartedly prepare for the inevitable tomorrow as well. Good leaders realize the importance of securing a stamp of approval from their followers about where and how they want to be led and on controversial and very important decisions. Unfortunately, if the leaders would not have their followers' consent on major policies and decisions and would still want to go ahead with the decision; they would be left to "dance alone." Good leaders help solve problems encountered by their followers rather than create more problems and, even, complex ones for the followers to solve. Able leaders would do their level best to avoid making the type of mistakes for which history will remember them and the people will not forgive or forget. Good leaders would be ethically restrained from using the cover of their office and temporary power to abuse, misuse, and possibly destroy the image and future of others.

Good leaders would have good human skills, solid knowledge base, pertinent leadership skills, courage, and necessary wisdom to develop, modify, or rescind policies or decisions that were made and would be considered hostile to the very people who stand to be served by those instruments. Good leaders would usually have a good grasp of the direction where they want to take as they safely and harmoniously lead their followers to a known destination. The desirable destination for the people would be politically stable and economically viable state from where many citizens would not want to run away as many have done or continue to do so for over a quarter of a century now from Ethiopia. Good leaders understand that, human aspirations for better tomorrow could not be suppressed under any circumstances but would surpass any imaginable physical, psychological, and geographic barriers that might be erected by the powers to be. Thus, good leaders would create an atmosphere where people would have a sense of security, where their rights would not be violated, they can have freedom to move from one place to another within and outside of the country in order to live, work, and establish residence anywhere they choose. Good leaders would not erect barriers against citizens for the sake of their own political expediency. Rather, they must be patient enough to educate the people until they understand what is on the table rather than be pushy, evasive, or coercive to have their way. Since perceptions would vary, even on matters of common concern, good leaders must invite and be willing to objectively listen to opposing viewpoints. Good leaders are sensible enough to understand their limitations. Although they could, they would not tear down everything that has been in place when they take office thinking that they would rebuild it to their taste or even better. Good leaders would have a good sense of judgement that the meager resources the country might have could not stretch enough to accommodate their wild expenditure on political, social, and economic experimentation that would call for a total destruction of existing infrastructure with a hope of building a new one. Such actions by any leadership would be a true call for another trouble.

Although change is inevitable, to be caught up with change unprepared would be a total disaster. Believe it or not, change is everywhere. In fact, an overwhelming change is upon us. Thus, all leaders in every office in the country would be encouraged to have a new way of thinking and behaving if we were to successfully usher in the type of change that would be friendly to us and enable us to meet our society's needs. This type of change would require a special call upon all our leaders to prepare the people and able leaders and transfer power peacefully. Unless such a practical assurance would be in place and soon for the inevitable, just to sound and appear patriotic would not be sufficient enough for all family's, the organization's, or society's future after you would be gone.

Leaders are supposed to be change agents. As such, they must anticipate the reality of the future and al3rt their followers to be on guard. Without question, a prepared society would change the change itself to its advantage. Indeed, we are living in an opportune time and also in a more demanding time in human history. True enough, we also live in an exciting time that has made the world closer than ever before with a mind boggling "technological miracles" like neighboring communities would be, next to each other, and yet a more challenging time where economic disparity between the poor and the rich rages on. This is indeed a very challenging time, more so, for a leadership in developing countries. Among many depressing things in most developing countries, there would be many more mouths to be feed daily than there would be needed resources available. The needs and challenges are so immense. Therefore, able leaders would be expected to have gone through the crucible of preparation to properly and successfully lead people in this age and time of dizzying change.

Indeed the youth, those who inherit only what is left behind, are only a mirror image of the society that produced and nurtured them and the leadership that had set a pattern for them to emulate. Therefore, they could neither be blamed for the responsibilities they had not been prepared to shoulder nor had they received political power peacefully from their predecessors on what they could build on or improve. However, historically, they would not go free from bearing a responsibility, whether it would be good or bad, for the period of time they would bear the torch of an organizational or national leadership. Therefore, it is quite clear that actions or inaction of any leadership while in office at any given time in history would have immense impact on the lives and society of tomorrow.

In summary, my appeal to the reader of this article would be that, as a leader (or an aspiring leader), you have the future of many in your hands. Please, be aware of your actions or inaction that would have drastic effects on lives and society of tomorrow. Others look up to you for their hope and direction in life. Do not betray their trust. Remember, have nothing else but a positive influence on others, specially, on the nation's children. Stop feeling or claiming that you are the only one with correct solution all the time to every problem. Be persistent and an optimist. Remember always to do your best with clear conscience. Life would go on even after you, maybe even better. Thus, make a positive contribution. Do not forget to invite, involve, and motivate others in the cause. Make certain that the cause you would be engaged in benefits others by alleviating the misery of the masses. If you and other leaders with all followers together would do the very best today, certainly, lives and society of tomorrow could be better off. Finally, as a concerned citizen, my appeal to the leaders is that, if you really care about lives and the society of tomorrow, please prepare other and better leaders to carry on the torch of hope, true democracy, and prosperity past the rhetorical line for the people who deserve it.

Note: Dr. Erango Kelbisow lives in Los Angeles and is an educator affiliated with the Los Angeles Unified School District. He holds three graduate degrees in Institutional Management, Public Administration, and Educational Administration from Pepperdine University. He also holds various professional licenses (credentials) from the State of California and belongs to numerous professional Associations. For any feedback, send e-mail to: ekelbisow@juno.com.

Subject: Re: The Effects of Today's Leadership Actions or Inaction...
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 11:07:45 02/09/08 ()
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My brother, I am convinced your intentions are honorable. Supremely and unequivocally uncontroversial, and therefore, unproblematic is the proposition that our actions today determine, in a loose and unscientific sense, our situations in the morrow. "Loose," I say, because of contingencies such as "luck" and the incomprehensible will of God. AO, if I understand your anguish, proves my point.

Subject: Re: The Effects of Today's Leadership Actions or Inaction...
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 11:30:42 02/09/08 ()
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My brother, I was not able to understand the followin: "...AO, if I understand your anguish, proves my point".

AO came from a background in the heart of Kambia district. Our society then offered them the opportunity to be educated to serve the coming generations. he attended the best schools and then moved to the best universities in the UK. It was not luck! the society then rewarded the brilliant and encouraged the not so brilliant. When these brilliant minds came to serving the society that once offered them those favourable conditions they decided otherwise and brought untold sufferings to many and blotted their characters.

My brother, in the days of our fathers, a 29year old educated Sierra Leonean had all the luxuries of life to enable him work towards building a better future for the coming generations. Now, you will find a 50 year old educated Sierra leonean not able to serve his country because of the changes in the direction of the norms and values we had towards our future generation. Luck plays a part but not when you have a society that functions through meritocracy. Abdulai O. Conteh did not come from the affluence one would say the likes of the Yumkella's came from. But he met a societal norm that favours the brilliant and he was part of the brilliants. Why was he not able to understand his origins and that there are many like him.

Anger is a totally legitimate emotion, so when I felt it today, I accepted it. I have tried to control it, though. I have also tried no to fly off the handle or raise my voice – I have just said what it is that I am upset about and want to get a conversation going. I find no place for guilt in this situation – I have every right to react the way I want. No one has the right to tell me that I don't get to feel what I felt. I may have some facts wrong, and I am happy to be corrected.

My brother, my anger does not go beyond saying what I feel - nothing more.

Subject: Re: The Effects of Today's Leadership Actions or Inaction...
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 11:59:22 02/09/08 ()
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Mr dear brother in rational discourse and controlled emotional affect, maybe I failed to communicate perspicuously: assuming your allegations against AO are credible, my point about the consequences of bad acts,such as those you attribute to AO, not hanging like a monkey on the bad guy's back, is that "luck" or the unfathomable will of God sometimes, but only sometimes, prevents the LOGICAL consequences from eviscerating the bad guy. Oh!, before you fly to the UK, don't forget my proffer!

Moreover, the second point---how to do the right thing---is even more problematic. Generally tradition, the 'wisdom' passed down from one generation to another, serves as a guide. But again, because of the ever-changing necessities of the LIVING PRESENT either individually or socially, this ancient guide must be modified or, in a crisis, rejected as FALSE. The point? THE LIVING PRESENT IS, TO BE SURE, CONDITIONED BY THE PAST, WHICH IS EFFECTIVE IN IT, BUT NOT UNCONDITIONALLY. Two consequences follow: first, doing the right thing is, in most cases, excepting the most mundane cases (taking a shower in the morning, not abusing the mother of your kids, not stealing (but what if the result of abstaining from theft is my demise?), judiciousness of an action vel non is determined only and only by its consequences. Alas, and this is the second consequence, the interpretation of consequences is hardly analogous to 1 plus 1 equals 2. The human condition is a mess, sometimes manageable, though. Hang in there! By the way, when you get to the UK, inform Wilben Short that I have no interest in his wife, Claire Easmon-Short; Claire should be allowed to respond to my e-mails.

Subject: Re: The Effects of Today's Leadership Actions or Inaction...
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 13:04:16 02/09/08 ()
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My bro, the reasoning in the last appeal:

- "...Finally, as a concerned citizen, my appeal to the leaders is that, if you really care about lives and the society of tomorrow, please prepare other and better leaders to carry on the torch of hope, true democracy, and prosperity past the rhetorical line for the people who deserve it".

The above should be embraced by all of us. I will honestly say to you that I admire the west for protecting the future of their generations. My admiration for them has clouded the images of the wrongs we alleged they have done to us. I liken my admiration to what Cheik Anta Diop once said, "...Nous ne pouvons pas entièrement blâmer les Européens de leurs contrats ! Ils vivent en état dur et donc la loi de la nature dicte la survie du plus convenable...". Crudely translated: "We cannot entirely blame the Europeans for their deeds! They live in harsh conditions and therefore the law of nature dictates the survival of the fittest.

My bro, why are we lacking in the development and advancement of our nationstate? My answer is simple! The majority allow the few that govern dictate the way of life.

Will tell your rival to allow your friend to read her emails.

Subject: Re: The Effects of Today's Leadership Actions or Inaction...
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 14:02:45 02/09/08 ()
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I see that your affect has improved. I feel your anger. Proof: your ironic riff about "my rival." FP, let my brother know how the Almighty has blessed me. It's the weekend, brother. We have been through two heavy rounds, and its only highnoon. Accordingly, let's deal with Diop when you return to the UK. Have a nice and safe trip. Uncle, don't forget ankala, ankala, ankala.

Subject: THE HERMENEUTICAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF SALONE'S LITERARY CULTS
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 07:36:16 02/09/08 ()
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Let's face it, we are the best educated West Africans, if not Africans. Our souls are riddled with book knowledge; our emotions, with envy: regrettably. There is a tension here: love of book knowledge appears to be inconsistent with envy. I say "appears" because even Einstein got angry when some German Young Turks attempted to falsify his relativity theories. Be that as it may, we---the gutter---according to the 'development experts'---cannot afford the toxic drive of envy. Rather we should embrace the virtue of emulating the best or, if the best cannot be found, fabricate or make it up. Better that than wallowing in the destructive culture of envy.

Take the recent wahala in this forum about "northerners". Nothing but envy, despite the ruse of wrapping the venom in the seductive garb of historical erudition.

Ode: envy not, emulate; emulate cheerfulness, not angst; not number oneness should you desire, brotherhood and sisterhood, must you valorize; affirm not that since my neighbor is worse off, therefore, I am better off, even you and your neighbor are both in the gutter; negate, you must, the ethos of the animal in you, for the animal in you was transcended by the image of God in you, according to the Jewish Bible, the Christian Bible and the Qur'an.

Transition: Come now my people, come all ye who hold Salone dear: come to practical, not theoretical wisdom.

Conclusion: Theoretically, I have arrived at the solution to "our" problem: the artisan is devoid of envy, for he or she is always looking for a master artisan to emulate. Accordingly, we need artisans in all significant spheres in the private and public realms that are constitutive of the entity called Sierra Leone. Under this projection, since they hated the bodily tools of the artisan---the hand and the leg---the RUF was the apotheosis of theoretical consciousness: does theory lead to barbarism? Behind every fairly characterized historical barbarism, sharp eyes, another tool of artisans, will not fail to uncover a theoretical basis or, if you are not a 'Marxist', ground, Grund, if you studied philosophy at Heidelberg, or presupposition, if you "read" philosophy or other some other knicknack at Oxford or Cambridge. Harvard, a malata Heidelberg, Oxford or Cambridge, does not count here for the purposes of this sermon on the mount.

Subject: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Truly
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Date Posted: 03:25:47 02/09/08 ()
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Maada Mustapaha, the Ghost of Minah and the AU!
Written by Sidi Ibrahim Sheriff
Saturday, 09 February 2008

Please allow me to use your medium to respond to the bigoted point of view of Maada Mustapha on the Minah Ghost in relation to the AU Commission elections. Yes we lost to Gabon and Zambia with Gabon winning the Chairpersonship.

To the sincere Sierra Leoneans and Embassy staff in Addis who spent sleepless nights on the campaign, albeit a few days before the elections, the loss was not personal to Dr. Abdulai Conteh. It was a loss for Sierra Leone without bigots like Maada and his cohorts. It is amazing how Maada could reduce a national issue to some primitive and seemingly unenlightened analysis. What does FM Minah’s Ghost have to do with a Sierra Leonean who had the best credentials in the contest losing the elections?

Yes we lost the elections! We lost the elections because we were running against a Country whose president has been in power for generations. We lost the contest because this president, who has been in power for generations, was desperately determined to win. We lost because this president had an abundance of resources to use for the contest-flying his foreign minister candidate and other campaign envoys all over the continent and beyond, to every continental meeting, to every sub-regional meeting. They even had a campaign team in Addis one month before the elections-taking folks to dinner and interacting with colleague foreign ministers who would ultimately prevail on their presidents.

We lost also because the politics of the AU is usually fought along friendship, regional and linguistic lines: The Franco-phones rallied around Gabon. We lost also because our candidate is not a sitting foreign minister or Ambassador. More importantly also, we lost because our country for now lacks the resources to mount a huge continental campaign. The list goes on and on and on….!!!!!!!!!

There are some other disadvantages: Our president is new and has not made many friends on whom he can depend. Omar Bongo on the other hand has a good rapport with almost all heads of states that have been there for close to four years and over. We also had the disadvantage of providence which caused our president to arrive in Addis a day past the crucial opening that would have given him some opportunity to sell his candidate.

Coupled with the president’s delayed arrival was the absence of our foreign minister throughout the Ministerial sessions due to other engagements in the UK. We were also the last to nominate a candidate thereby coming into the race very late.

Based on my experience and I am sure the experience of so many who have had the privilege to attend African and other Summits, continental or regional elections have more to do with country campaigns than the credentials of the individual candidate. They have more to do with resources than with the personality of the individual candidate. I would therefore venture to say that our Candidate was by far the most qualified and better prepared to run the African Union during this critical transitional period of the Union. Unfortunately, the credentials were only a matter for officials at the AU Commission and not for the voting heads of states and governments.

Maada’s unabashed gratification, while not surprising, underscores not only how education has failed to develop his mind set, but also reveals the visceral hate he bears for his countrymen who are different. He is unpatriotic and will revel at any mishap facing his country as long as the party in power is not the SLPP. For me, president Koroma and other Sierra Leoneans who were on the ground in Addis, the loss was national. It was a lost opportunity for Sierra Leone! To introduce the theory of a Minah ghost just as a possible driver for our loss is merely illogical and plain stupid. I am therefore compelled to say a few words on the FM Minah Ghost phenomenon that Maada introduced into the fray.

I support the contributions made by some informed and disinterested parties during the exchanges on “Leonenet”. Let me however add a few comments. Does Maada ever know why FM Minah in a sensational Treason trial in which Minah was the most distinguished and high profile official became the 5th accused? Minah was 5th accused because Dr. Abdulai Conteh was reluctant to indict unless more evidence was provided. With the help of ethnic South-Easterners and the police, more evidence was brought before the Attorney-General. At the time, most South-Easterners wanted to celebrate the demise of N’gor Minah.

As someone rightly pointed out, Dr. Abdulai Conteh was only one of several prosecutors and Minah had several of Sierra Leone’s best legal minds in his defense. Those who had the final ability to determine Minah’s final fate were 1) the Judges, 2) the Jury and in the final analysis 3) the Mercy Committee. The trial went from the High Court to the Court of Appeals and eventually the Supreme Court. So would Maada agree that, based on his thinking, all the Judges in the various trial Chambers, the Jury and the Mercy Committee were complicit?

Let me hasten to remind Maada that his political mentor and name sake was a member of the Mercy Committee alongside other south-easterners and that Dr. Abdulai Conteh - based on principles and his opposition to the death penalty and to the annoyance of his colleague ministers - excused himself from the process of the Mercy Committee to give Minah a fair chance. But it was not surprising that his name sake, a member of the Mercy Committee, was more than happy to see Minah go to the gallows because of their political rivalries. He and Sama Banya had an interest to see Minah disappear from the political scene.

This was why Maada Mustapha and his sect were in their elements, passionately singing behind his name sake as he walked down to take his seat before the debates at the FBC Amphitheater in the early 90s, debates that were moderated by Mr. Palor Bangura. Maada’s name sake was now vying for the SLPP leadership without the potential threat of a Francis Minah challenge. If Francis Minah were alive, he, alongside Maada Salia, would have returned home to the SLPP. It is therefore hypocritical that most of the individuals who were unsympathetic to Minah are all of a sudden coming to his defense.

I wonder what some of them think about the Demise of Kemokai and the subsequent N’dongbowusu unrest - all factors that led to hatred for Minah in the south-east. Minah’s family should focus more on the betrayal of his kith and kin than on the role of a single individual who was a mere prosecutor, whose job was made easy by sworn testimonies from south-easterners who hated his guts.

Also, now that we are in the business of conceding so much power to Ghosts- should we use Maada’s theory to pontificate on the failure of Maada Bio’s quest for the SLPP leadership as well as Berewa’s bid for the presidency? Since the issue of Ghost hunting was so compelling to the Psyche and theoretical analysis of Maada Mustapha, one would be shocked to note that Maada failed to evoke the same theory during the recent SLPP convention and Sierra Leone General Elections.

So, were both Maada Bio and Berewa hunted by the Ghosts of 29 and 24 individuals executed by the NPRC/SLPP in 1992 and 1998? Berewa was by the way one of several prosecutors and Maada Bio was central in the NPRC executions in case Maada Mustapha is suffering from selective amnesia!!!!!! Or is it the case that Minah’s single life warrants more attention than the lives of over 50 individuals murdered in cold blood and majority of them without a single trial?

It is increasingly becoming my worrying conviction that some of our brothers from the other side of the country have been brainwashed to believe that in any Sierra Leone Enterprise, only the northerners should be or can be the culprits.

When Jimmy Kandeh in another context was busy making a so-called poignant political analyses some years ago in the Washington area on the failed tenure of the APC, all the names he knew to throw at the audience were northern names. It did not take long for some one in the audience to cripple his seemingly strong points with a simple question that forced the audience to focus on the Sama Banyas; the Salia Jusu-Sheriffs; the Ndomahinahs; the Michael Abdulais; the Joe-Jacksons; the Amara Bangalis; the Francis Minahs; the Ngobehs; the Massaquois; the Dabohs; the Bu-buaki Jabbies; the JB Daudas; the Kapindi Jamirus; the Gendemmehs; the list goes on: south-easterners and major players in the APC.

Interestingly, the real and actual ghost for individuals like Maada is Dr. Abdulai Conteh. The mere mentioning of his name evokes extreme jealousy and hate from some south-easterners. I am sure if Dr. Abdulai Conteh were south-easterner or should join the SLPP today he would without delay be immunized against the extreme hatred that is directed towards him. His only crime is being a consistent APC individual and a northerner: Plain envy!

We have got to put a stop to these myopic and naïve ways of doing commentary on the political landscape of Sierra Leone. We are all just too intelligent to see through bigotry and rabid tribal slants. Maada you cannot be called a Sierra Leonean if you fail to recognize that you share a common destiny with citizens who hail from Kambia to Sefadu, from Shenge to Falaba, from Pepel in Port Loko to Daru, from Sulima to Bumbuna, from Pendembu to Rotifunk, from Bo to Freetown. For me, fellow compatriots, this is all Sierra Leone and therefore means the world to me. The people who live in and hail from these areas are my brothers and sisters for whose rights and welfare I am prepared to fight. So my brothers and sisters both the failings of the APC and SLPP whether in their parts 1 or 2 were the collective responsibility of Sierra Leoneans from all corners of Sierra Leone.

It is time for us to begin to think national and embrace each other as compatriots who share a common destiny and vision to move “the land that we love, our Sierra Leone.”

Sidi Ibrahim Sheriff

Virginia, USA.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 February 2008 )

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Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT
From: New Blood
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Date Posted: 10:57:18 02/09/08 ()
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Sidi Ibrahim Sheriff wrote re: Abdulai Conteh

"His only crime is being a consistent APC individual and a northerner: Plain envy!"

That is not his only crime my friend! In the first place Being APC or Notherner is no way synonymous with Thieving and Corruption linked to characters like Conteh:....Infact, there are millions of Northerners who identify with APC that are neither blameworthy or censurable for violations of moral or penal codes.....besides lettering from Cambridge,Oxford,Yale or Harvard does not immune a person from corrupt practices!

Considering that the prevalent issues at the African Union today are Corruption and HIV Aids, and Lawyer Abdulai Conteh adjudged to corrupt practices is certainly unqualified to head the AU in this era of CHANGE;

How can Conteh sway the thinking of the Libyans who wield so much influence in AU today, when they are aware that he had failed to demonstrate the ability and initiative to handle Ministerial responsibility honestly while he serving as Foreign Minister in the eighties?

FYI,Lawyer had failed to inform Pa Sheki about Libyan cash donation he had recieved for the OAU summit that took place in Freetown…Pa Sheki only got to know about the donation from the Libyans after Conteh approached them demanding that the expired cheque be re- issued in his own name:…and when he was questioned he simply claimed that he “forgot”

Just because the AU is seeking bright, positive and flexible people to act with the highest integrity and professionalism in all their endeavors,The AU can ill afford to trust it’s continental anti corruption campaign in the hands of a corrupt fellow like Abdulai Conteh

Before you guys cry Wolf Remember the two factors at play here: First is that OAU equals AU: Second,Old APC is not equal to New APC…

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 11:40:14 02/09/08 ()
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"That is not his only crime my friend! In the first place Being APC or Notherner is no way synonymous with Thieving and Corruption linked to characters like Conteh:....Infact, there are millions of Northerners who identify with APC that are neither blameworthy or censurable for violations of moral or penal codes.....besides lettering from Cambridge,Oxford,Yale or Harvard does not immune a person from corrupt practices!".............New Blood.

Bullseye! Sweet, concise, congent and 'smack-downish'. Couldn't have threaded the words better.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 12:55:42 02/09/08 ()
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Hailmary, says I. Poignant, razor sharp reasoning: succulent, crisp, effusively pulsating with sense: den man ya no book o.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 06:07:43 02/09/08 ()
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On reading Sidi's praise-singing and defence article on behalf of AO Conteh, I was touched by the calming and recondite words used by Sidi in defence of his mentor.

What I would like Sidi to understand is that it is not only the Minah's who are unhappy about AO Conteh. I wrote a lengthy piece to the AU, ILO, and ICFTU for them to oppose AO's nomination and candidacy. I sent them newspaper cuttings from 'West Africa' magazine 1981 and the ICFTU Review to show that AO is a morally bankrupt man who abused his seat to victimise his fellow countrymen. My very own father, an employee at the Sierra Leone Labour Congress (SLLC) was a victim of AO's injustice.

In September 1981, my father was arrested and charge for treason. He was remanded in custody and AO knew he had done nothing but to cry for his fellow citizens to have better conditions at work and an average standard of living. My father and others called a nationwide workers' strike. The workers supported the call and stayed home. The government bought over some members of the SLLC and AO was the principle who offered my father a post to call-off the nationwide strike. When my father refused to accept the post, he was sent back to Pademba Prisons and charge with Treason.

After negotiations broke down, Stevens officially declared a state of emergency on 7th September 1981 directly aimed at preventing the general strike called by SLLC on September 1st 1981.

During this period, eight people were shot dead, shops looted and over 40 people were arrested. Senior members of the SLLC were picked up after the State of Emergency broadcast and eventually taken to Pademba prisons. The current Minister of Information and Pious Foray were also rounded up and detained.

The explosive issue that most perturbed me was the Foreign Minister's, AO Conteh; responses to Ann Bolsover's interview in New York (see West Africa Archives 21 September 1981). I will posit here a question and answer that will show you how AO set the favourable stage for my father to be charge with Treason;

Question from Ann Bolsover: What do you feel caused the strike in the first place?

AO's answer: I would say, looking back at the situation and given the facts that are known to us, that this was just not industrial action. Behind it was a political agitation. The SLLC set itself up as a constituted political movement, or wanted to set itself up as a constituted political movement....

That answer saw the bracing of my father at Pademba Road Prison. Even when my father went on hunger strike, AO denied to the world saying, "...Another piece of news that they disseminated was that one of the detainees, Mr. Kabia was on hunger strike, when in fact there is no hunger strike in this place. Mr. Kabia is a sick man and he had to be put on a special diet. He was not on hunger strike". Sidi, your mentor may mean the world to you but to many of us, he is a morally bankrupt intellectual, a two-faced lying hypocritical backstabber. For his gains he can send his fellow men to the gallows.

Your mentor is a selfish character. When last did you visit Rogberray? Take a look at that village of less than 300 hundred people to tell you about the unaltruistic nature of your mentor.

My twin brother was shocked to see him in Belize five years ago. He confronted him and nearly lost his life. I had to write to the British High Commission to help save him from AO. I know Belize and what Belmopan is like, especially a foreigner that does not see eye to eye with the Chief Justice. My twin brother accused him of causing the demise of our father and the untimely dispersal of my father's children. As luck would have it we got him to Atlanta, Georgia safely, away from AO's plans to liquidate the so-called troublemaker that arrived in Belize to disrespect him.

The story about AO to some of us is unfinished business all the time. Only Time will Tell. The Lord will surely bring AO to atone for his deeds. Where is the money that he sold the lives of so many of his fellow citizens for? I believe I have seen and eaten more money in my short life span than AO - I mean in millions that have generously helped so many people more than he can ever think of in just this span in my resilient life. I have no respect for him and would pray he understands that to be educated is to graciously help the less unfortunate and not just a selected few from his close knit.

AO lost on account of his lack of moral responsibilities and discipline in his professional ethics. I wrote on the AU forum (nothing to hide) that such a man who cannot help improve conditions of a village of less than 30 houses is not fit to be elected to an office to run affairs of more than 100 million households. To be educated is one thing and to be competent is another.

AO's loss is his loss and do not believe is a Sierra Leone loss. Do you seriously believe he was wholeheartedly supported? His selfishness and stinginess are other factors that cost him the loss.

No one will vote for such a man with so much trouble; he left behind. The perpetrator always forgets his crimes but the victims will never forget. I will never punish AO for what he did but will want him to see what his actions of yesterday determined the destinies of others today and tomorrow. I travelled by road for two years with no money and passport to be where I am today because no one was there to willingly help. The God that I had, showed me so much beauty that I am able to forgive the likes of AO but will not stay silent to see his likes continues to destroy the lives of others. Any attempt to have elected him to head the AU would have ended in a disgrace for Sierra Leone and a disastrous outcome for entire Africa. The likes of AO should stay silent and gradually help replenish their dented character with good.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 06:41:20 02/09/08 ()
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I am very touched by your story, Chez. It really shows the rancid persecution of the Siaka Stevens government of all who disagreed with them, even on matters of principle. What a sad, disgraceful chapter in our nation's history.
Those of us who support President Koroma do so while still casting a wary eye at APC's legacy. My support of President Koroma, for example, is solely based on the belief that he would straighten out Salone's economic problems and not because of love of APC. If a skunk emerges tomorrow as the party's flagbearer, see Fen Plaba run away!
By the way, I used to visit a charismatic, gap-toothed cousin of my dad's in Brookfields who was always gracious to even the 'smallest' visitor. Food was always on the tablle! My cousins, the late Sidiki Daoe, and Mohamed Daoe used to live in his house, gratis, at various times on their way up. I wonder if that was your father....God Bless, bro!

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: KABBS KANU to Fen Plaba
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Date Posted: 07:54:28 02/09/08 ()
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"the late Sidiki Daoe...,".

FEN PLABA, are you referring to Sidique Dao , of the FBC of the 1970s who headed the Housing scheme in the old APC government ? Don't tell me he too is dead. Please clarify.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 08:28:41 02/09/08 ()
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Indeed Kabs, Sidique Daoe is dead....a number of years back. I travelled to Maryland to see him after they released him from the hospital. He had been flown in very sick. When I saw him after his treatment, he seemed well, enthusiastic about his job prospects at NASSIT and was gearing to go. About two weeks after he left, I got a call from Freetown that he was in a coma from which he never recovered. May his Soul RIP.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: KABBS KANU
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Date Posted: 09:05:10 02/09/08 ()
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I am sorry to hear that my great buddy and one of the men I respected most at FBC, Abubakarr Sidique Dao, is dead. It is a great loss. We are losing our collegues faster .

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 08:13:48 02/09/08 ()
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He died some years back - say around 2001/2. He was the Deputy Director-General of NASSIT up until his death.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT
From: Al Barney
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Date Posted: 16:30:14 02/09/08 ()
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Kabs, S.Doa died in March of 2003 and was laid to rest after a brief service at his house at Spur Road. May his soul rest in peace.

With AO Conteh, it seems the Minah ghost phenomenon is in itself gloomy and not scary enough but these guys would forever be found guilty in the court of public opinion for the blatant disregard for the rights of innocent citizens that continued to languish in poverty while they imported Italian marbles to furnish the homes they built from stolen funds.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 08:43:15 02/09/08 ()
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The late Sidiki's days with the ministry of education were exemplary and a vehicle for the furtherance of education for the less fortunate in Sierra Leone.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 07:24:58 02/09/08 ()
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Correct! The late JB Kabia stayed at Bass/Bath Street. I was in my early primary education then. Sidiki and Mohamed are my uncles too. Uncle Sidiki died a few years back. Uncle Mohamed is in the UK. His memorial anniversay is on the 14 February (valentines day)- he suffered and prejudicially lost his life because he was not bought.

Sierra Leone needs an altruistic character. A person who believes honour and nobility is greater than the crude acquisition of ill-gotten wealth. With honour and nobility comes unimaginable wealth. Every person that comes in contact with such a person and progresses will forever remain to believe and support the ideology of altruism.

What the likes of AO Conteh did to my hope to progress in this world changed my whole outlook on life. Trusting no one save God. Their actions induced a sense of freedom and adventure, risks and rewards, gambling and daring acts of courage. It turned me to become a person of passion and excitement.

They also made me to believe that I can do anything, that I am extremely capable, and a true survivor.

They create in me a sense of being of a highly flexible individual who can adapt to any new circumstances quickly, and has excellent reflexes; often, important decisions are made in seconds, seemingly impulsively even.

Bro the negative actions of the likes of AO Conteh transformed my understanding of life – that the negative actions of others should be potentials tools for positivity. I have still not completed my mission but I will thank God he saw me through all these years. My twin bro, now in the US, went through the similar. He is really angry with the likes of AO Conteh.

I take what they gave us with equanimity that one day they will atone. I do not carry grudge around but will always remember the cold nights and hot nights in faraway lands. They are my pillars to liberate others. Whenever I see a problem, my reflexes are able to calculate a resolve with minutes. Thank God for the sufferings gave beauty to my eyes, enlightenment onto my paths and hope is preserved in me that one day, what my father suffered for will be made manifest. The end of the immoral is misery!! God Bless you Bro!!

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 09:12:46 02/09/08 ()
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Your father JB Kabia, my dear Chez, was indeed one of the true giants of Sierra Leone, toiling unglamorously away from the limelight, pushing assidiously for workers rights, human rights, refusing to be bought by the Siaka Stevens political machine and being persecuted for his uncompromising integrity and patriotism to country, and not to a personality cult.

With all his responsibilities and his valor, he was the funniest man I ever met. If you were in a room with JB Kabia, he would have you in stitches as he cracked joke after joke. What a wonderful man!

I remember him stopping by our house in Masiaka, on his way to Freetown, when the Labour strike was just beginning. My dad was concerned about Koth Kabia's safety and asked him to be circumspect but your dad very calmly and serenely told my pops that the strike would continue despite attempts to buy him off by the powers-that-be. He was a small man, short of stature, but his unwavering integrity and steely courage shone through and filled the room that day. He was harshly persecuted by Siaka Stevens because that Labor strike awakened people and nearly kicked APC out of power. A dispassionate rendition of contemporary Salone history will one day acknowledge the immense contributions of the great JB Kabia. I am proud I shared a tiny slice of DNA with him. May his soul continue to thrive in Heaven. Best regards.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 09:31:41 02/09/08 ()
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Thanks coz!! His death left a great vacuum and disunity amongst his people to this day. With God's divine hand all shall be well soon.

Sometimes I wonder what is crime was! All he wanted was to instill commensality into the heart and minds of our leaders. You cannot eat all and let the people who create the wealth live in dire conditions - such I recall him saying is chaos to come. That chaos came and I hope we have learnt the lessons that you cannot ignore the responsibilities of making better conditions for the people who thrive to allow the economic machinery of society to properly function.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: YONGAWO
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Date Posted: 14:11:40 02/09/08 ()
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Chez,

My father shared the same agony with your dad. My poor dad was locked up in a police cell for respecting the call from your dad and his comrades. Siaka Stevens was in Makeni, hiding away from the Labour Uprising in Freetown. He personally ordered my father who was an NPA engineer arrested for refusing to go to work. Since then my poor father develoved high blood pressure and other related ailments that he has never recovered from. I thank Allah he is still alive and kicking at 82. There is more to say but this not the place.
May your father's soul continue to rest in heaven.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 14:16:19 02/09/08 ()
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My email is winakabs@rock.com. We can help each other. Thanks for letting me know.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 08:36:20 02/09/08 ()
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Thanks for sharing your touching story, Chez. We all can learn from your resolve and potentially prepare us for model contributions in our daily lives. The late Sidiki D. was a source of inspiration to some of us; his untimely death was a huge blow to most of his colleagues, friends and not to mention your immediate and extended families. The last time I saw him was at SM Hospital, I had a brief conversation with him the content of which continues to be vivid in my mind. He was my hero. Again, thanks for sharing the February 14th. date, it means a lot to some of us. May his soul continues to be in perfect peace.

On a light moment, please continue to keep your identity private from people like Fen Plaba. FP is a wiz in identity protection; you can not imagine the time and efforts I have employed to identify him. Albeit, It serves me better to follow your postings on moniker basis. All the best to you.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: KABBS KANU
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Date Posted: 08:08:07 02/09/08 ()
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"Uncle Sidiki died a few years back. Uncle Mohamed is in the UK. His memorial anniversay is on the 14 February (valentines day)- he suffered and prejudicially lost his life because he was not bought."

Where did he die ? What happened to him ? I am very, very sad to hear this because Sidique Dao was one of the guys I respected most at FBC. What a wonderful gentleman. The last time I saw him we drove in the same cab from a party at FBC to Brookfields . Yes, he lived at Brookfields like me. Please answer my questions.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Kalos
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Date Posted: 08:53:16 02/09/08 ()
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Indeed, he was a wonderful and generous gentleman, KABS. It is not too late to feature him with your brilliant pen. I believe CHEZ and FP can provide you additional information.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 08:20:37 02/09/08 ()
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In Freetown. He was ill for some time. I spoke to him the night before he died - all he was saying on the phone was "tell Musu (wife) to give me water". He was lock up by the Kabba government and upon his release he travelled to the west. I met him at his residence at Kings Cross, London. After that he was made Deputy-Director General of NASSIT. Not long on the job, he fell ill. Went to the US for treatment but was brought back to Sierra Leone. I do not know what actually killed him- some say - you know the Africa thing - den want his job so dem put sontin for am. Others have another story. Many his soul continue to rest in peace. He was a man for all.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 10:25:53 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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I understand your position towards the Pa and his epigones like AO. Leave the matter to God! On a mundane basis, Bra, I read that you are loaded; I need some, if you get my drift. Kabs has my e-mail.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 10:36:28 02/09/08 ()
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I am not loaded. Whatever is in my hands belong to the people I meet. I have the means to resources and not the physical or liquid cash. I believe in transforming ideas into liquid - that has been my job since I left Sierra Leone in my late teens. If you have an idea that could benefit a lot of people, please fill me in and the venture capital will not be a problem to outsource.

There is one idea on the table and the idea is looking for academics like you. It is similar to 'Boys Town Jerusalem'. It is for the benefit of the disadvantaged in Sierra Leone. At present there is 12 acres of land for its construction. What is needed is a 'Steering Group' to commence its initiation.

If we sacrifice ours today for the betterment of the minds of tomorrow, our nation will receive the glory it once had. Stay Blessed and hope you find it in your heart to consider the 'Boys Town Sierra Leone' ideology.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 18:04:04 02/09/08 ()
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I was only kidding. Seriously, though, I have a few business clients, actually ip clients that may productively collaborate with you. I'll e-mail you. Remember though, I am in it strictly for money, not for any contents of higher understanding or ideas. I came here to make money, period. Call me a pimp of Western erudition, if you wish. But I always follow the money,which does not preclude collateral benefits inuring to "we Salone".

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: KABBS KANU
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Date Posted: 09:06:17 02/09/08 ()
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Thank you, Chez. May God bless his soul.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 09:08:25 02/09/08 ()
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Amen!!

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Bai Bureh
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Date Posted: 07:03:46 02/09/08 ()
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Jack you bin know Sorie Daoe nar Blackhall road Kissy?

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 09:34:56 02/09/08 ()
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Ar nor too memba am. I was more closely in touch with the Daoe children of the late Haja I'Mah, my aunt: Mustapha, Sidique, Mohamed, Oya and Bai Daoe and Dr Daoe in Mauritania. I also had the pleasure of knowing, and the heartache of enduring the tragic death a few months ago in the US, of the brilliant Dr Sulaiman Daoe who studied in Egypt and worked in Kuwait before coming to the States about a dozen years ago.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 10:39:02 02/09/08 ()
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Appropriately, it the day before the holy day. FM, what do you think of my pitch. The check, as a consequence of my adoption of your advice, has been detained, until I mend my ways. Soon, e go begin wer donglin, instead of nigtie. The rosy world I had is coming apart; things are falling apart. The peaceful evenings, punctuated by Viking Dionysian frenzy, are tragically tipped in the direction of gloom. Poor me: gloom, I shall resist, however. I will take back my nirvana.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 11:29:02 02/09/08 ()
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Wetin? Di Check wan loss? Umpire, off to the lawns! Mighty men of Africa, stop tapping the forum keys and grab your racquets! Umpire, ump away buddy! We will arrest the gathering gloom and blow at the embers with pouted puffs while you go back to work. Ignite those homestead flames and send the Viking into rambunctious rhapsodies, the way only a Salone Sabisman can! Just promise to sneak away, into the forum every few hours. We need your cerebral exertions here on the forum even as you do the Manpikin bizness between the Nordic sheets. Remember, we need that check! You rock, my brother.

Subject: Re: AO CONTEH'S LOSS IS NOT A LOSS FOR ALL SIERRA LEONE BUT SELF
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 12:42:35 02/09/08 ()
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Man o man: dis forum na crack, and I'm loving it! FP, thanks for your concern. Your proffer will be taken provisionally. But what a feat! Cerebral exertions in the heat of the action? I better stop now, provisionally: she has braided her soft, superfine blonde hair into Viking horns. I have to protect my butt. I hear the phone ringing. Wait a minute: she is on call. Good. I'm back.

Subject: BRA ENVIABLE AND OTHERS FYI
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 01:12:29 02/09/08 ()
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Maada Mustapaha, the Ghost of Minah and the AU!
Written by Sidi Ibrahim Sheriff
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Please allow me to use your medium to respond to the bigoted point of view of Maada Mustapha on the Minah Ghost in relation to the AU Commission elections. Yes we lost to Gabon and Zambia with Gabon winning the Chairpersonship.
To the sincere Sierra Leoneans and Embassy staff in Addis who spent sleepless nights on the campaign, albeit a few days before the elections, the loss was not personal to Dr. Abdulai Conteh. It was a loss for Sierra Leone without bigots like Maada and his cohorts. It is amazing how Maada could reduce a national issue to some primitive and seemingly unenlightened analysis. What does FM Minah’s Ghost have to do with a Sierra Leonean who had the best credentials in the contest losing the elections?

Yes we lost the elections! We lost the elections because we were running against a Country whose president has been in power for generations. We lost the contest because this president, who has been in power for generations, was desperately determined to win. We lost because this president had an abundance of resources to use for the contest-flying his foreign minister candidate and other campaign envoys all over the continent and beyond, to every continental meeting, to every sub-regional meeting. They even had a campaign team in Addis one month before the elections-taking folks to dinner and interacting with colleague foreign ministers who would ultimately prevail on their presidents.

We lost also because the politics of the AU is usually fought along friendship, regional and linguistic lines: The Franco-phones rallied around Gabon. We lost also because our candidate is not a sitting foreign minister or Ambassador. More importantly also, we lost because our country for now lacks the resources to mount a huge continental campaign. The list goes on and on and on….!!!!!!!!!

There are some other disadvantages: Our president is new and has not made many friends on whom he can depend. Omar Bongo on the other hand has a good rapport with almost all heads of states that have been there for close to four years and over. We also had the disadvantage of providence which caused our president to arrive in Addis a day past the crucial opening that would have given him some opportunity to sell his candidate.

Coupled with the president’s delayed arrival was the absence of our foreign minister throughout the Ministerial sessions due to other engagements in the UK. We were also the last to nominate a candidate thereby coming into the race very late.

Based on my experience and I am sure the experience of so many who have had the privilege to attend African and other Summits, continental or regional elections have more to do with country campaigns than the credentials of the individual candidate. They have more to do with resources than with the personality of the individual candidate. I would therefore venture to say that our Candidate was by far the most qualified and better prepared to run the African Union during this critical transitional period of the Union. Unfortunately, the credentials were only a matter for officials at the AU Commission and not for the voting heads of states and governments.

Maada’s unabashed gratification, while not surprising, underscores not only how education has failed to develop his mind set, but also reveals the visceral hate he bears for his countrymen who are different. He is unpatriotic and will revel at any mishap facing his country as long as the party in power is not the SLPP. For me, president Koroma and other Sierra Leoneans who were on the ground in Addis, the loss was national. It was a lost opportunity for Sierra Leone! To introduce the theory of a Minah ghost just as a possible driver for our loss is merely illogical and plain stupid. I am therefore compelled to say a few words on the FM Minah Ghost phenomenon that Maada introduced into the fray.

I support the contributions made by some informed and disinterested parties during the exchanges on “Leonenet”. Let me however add a few comments. Does Maada ever know why FM Minah in a sensational Treason trial in which Minah was the most distinguished and high profile official became the 5th accused? Minah was 5th accused because Dr. Abdulai Conteh was reluctant to indict unless more evidence was provided. With the help of ethnic South-Easterners and the police, more evidence was brought before the Attorney-General. At the time, most South-Easterners wanted to celebrate the demise of N’gor Minah.

As someone rightly pointed out, Dr. Abdulai Conteh was only one of several prosecutors and Minah had several of Sierra Leone’s best legal minds in his defense. Those who had the final ability to determine Minah’s final fate were 1) the Judges, 2) the Jury and in the final analysis 3) the Mercy Committee. The trial went from the High Court to the Court of Appeals and eventually the Supreme Court. So would Maada agree that, based on his thinking, all the Judges in the various trial Chambers, the Jury and the Mercy Committee were complicit?

Let me hasten to remind Maada that his political mentor and name sake was a member of the Mercy Committee alongside other south-easterners and that Dr. Abdulai Conteh - based on principles and his opposition to the death penalty and to the annoyance of his colleague ministers - excused himself from the process of the Mercy Committee to give Minah a fair chance. But it was not surprising that his name sake, a member of the Mercy Committee, was more than happy to see Minah go to the gallows because of their political rivalries. He and Sama Banya had an interest to see Minah disappear from the political scene.

This was why Maada Mustapha and his sect were in their elements, passionately singing behind his name sake as he walked down to take his seat before the debates at the FBC Amphitheater in the early 90s, debates that were moderated by Mr. Palor Bangura. Maada’s name sake was now vying for the SLPP leadership without the potential threat of a Francis Minah challenge. If Francis Minah were alive, he, alongside Maada Salia, would have returned home to the SLPP. It is therefore hypocritical that most of the individuals who were unsympathetic to Minah are all of a sudden coming to his defense.

I wonder what some of them think about the Demise of Kemokai and the subsequent N’dongbowusu unrest - all factors that led to hatred for Minah in the south-east. Minah’s family should focus more on the betrayal of his kith and kin than on the role of a single individual who was a mere prosecutor, whose job was made easy by sworn testimonies from south-easterners who hated his guts.

Also, now that we are in the business of conceding so much power to Ghosts- should we use Maada’s theory to pontificate on the failure of Maada Bio’s quest for the SLPP leadership as well as Berewa’s bid for the presidency? Since the issue of Ghost hunting was so compelling to the Psyche and theoretical analysis of Maada Mustapha, one would be shocked to note that Maada failed to evoke the same theory during the recent SLPP convention and Sierra Leone General Elections.

So, were both Maada Bio and Berewa hunted by the Ghosts of 29 and 24 individuals executed by the NPRC/SLPP in 1992 and 1998? Berewa was by the way one of several prosecutors and Maada Bio was central in the NPRC executions in case Maada Mustapha is suffering from selective amnesia!!!!!! Or is it the case that Minah’s single life warrants more attention than the lives of over 50 individuals murdered in cold blood and majority of them without a single trial?

It is increasingly becoming my worrying conviction that some of our brothers from the other side of the country have been brainwashed to believe that in any Sierra Leone Enterprise, only the northerners should be or can be the culprits.

When Jimmy Kandeh in another context was busy making a so-called poignant political analyses some years ago in the Washington area on the failed tenure of the APC, all the names he knew to throw at the audience were northern names. It did not take long for some one in the audience to cripple his seemingly strong points with a simple question that forced the audience to focus on the Sama Banyas; the Salia Jusu-Sheriffs; the Ndomahinahs; the Michael Abdulais; the Joe-Jacksons; the Amara Bangalis; the Francis Minahs; the Ngobehs; the Massaquois; the Dabohs; the Bu-buaki Jabbies; the JB Daudas; the Kapindi Jamirus; the Gendemmehs; the list goes on: south-easterners and major players in the APC.

Interestingly, the real and actual ghost for individuals like Maada is Dr. Abdulai Conteh. The mere mentioning of his name evokes extreme jealousy and hate from some south-easterners. I am sure if Dr. Abdulai Conteh were south-easterner or should join the SLPP today he would without delay be immunized against the extreme hatred that is directed towards him. His only crime is being a consistent APC individual and a northerner: Plain envy!

We have got to put a stop to these myopic and naïve ways of doing commentary on the political landscape of Sierra Leone. We are all just too intelligent to see through bigotry and rabid tribal slants. Maada you cannot be called a Sierra Leonean if you fail to recognize that you share a common destiny with citizens who hail from Kambia to Sefadu, from Shenge to Falaba, from Pepel in Port Loko to Daru, from Sulima to Bumbuna, from Pendembu to Rotifunk, from Bo to Freetown. For me, fellow compatriots, this is all Sierra Leone and therefore means the world to me. The people who live in and hail from these areas are my brothers and sisters for whose rights and welfare I am prepared to fight. So my brothers and sisters both the failings of the APC and SLPP whether in their parts 1 or 2 were the collective responsibility of Sierra Leoneans from all corners of Sierra Leone.

It is time for us to begin to think national and embrace each other as compatriots who share a common destiny and vision to move “the land that we love, our Sierra Leone.”

Sidi Ibrahim Sheriff

Virginia, USA.

Last Updated ( Saturday

Subject: Re: BRA ENVIABLE AND OTHERS FYI
From: Tamba Moiwo
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Date Posted: 08:31:42 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
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"We lost the elections because we were running against a Country whose president has been in power for generations".

This is a reckless admission by all accounts.If you knew this score, would it not have been prudent to wait until yours was in power for sometime?

Bo inna lef we ba.AO Conteh is a rank opportunist.The man graduated from Lada-Driving Lawyer beaten up at Pademba Road( an act for which the Bar Association in their defence solidarised with him) to a C130 Merc owner after the 1977 elections--quiet a leap would you not say?

regards

Tamba Moiwo

Subject: Re: BRA ENVIABLE AND OTHERS FYI
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 06:15:49 02/09/08 ()
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On reading Sidi's praise-singing and defence article on behalf of AO Conteh, I was touched by the calming and recondite words used by Sidi in defence of his mentor.

What I would like Sidi to understand is that it is not only the Minah's who are unhappy about AO Conteh. I wrote a lengthy piece to the AU, ILO, and ICFTU for them to oppose AO's nomination and candidacy. I sent them newspaper cuttings from 'West Africa' magazine 1981 and the ICFTU Review to show that AO is a morally bankrupt man who abused his seat to victimise his fellow countrymen. My very own father, an employee at the Sierra Leone Labour Congress (SLLC) was a victim of AO's injustice.

In September 1981, my father was arrested and charge for treason. He was remanded in custody and AO knew he had done nothing but to cry for his fellow citizens to have better conditions at work and an average standard of living. My father and others called a nationwide workers' strike. The workers supported the call and stayed home. The government bought over some members of the SLLC and AO was the principle who offered my father a post to call-off the nationwide strike. When my father refused to accept the post, he was sent back to Pademba Prisons and charge with Treason.

After negotiations broke down, Stevens officially declared a state of emergency on 7th September 1981 directly aimed at preventing the general strike called by SLLC on September 1st 1981.

During this period, eight people were shot dead, shops looted and over 40 people were arrested. Senior members of the SLLC were picked up after the State of Emergency broadcast and eventually taken to Pademba prisons. The current Minister of Information and Pious Foray were also rounded up and detained.

The explosive issue that most perturbed me was the Foreign Minister's, AO Conteh; responses to Ann Bolsover's interview in New York (see West Africa Archives 21 September 1981). I will posit here a question and answer that will show you how AO set the favourable stage for my father to be charge with Treason;

Question from Ann Bolsover: What do you feel caused the strike in the first place?

AO's answer: I would say, looking back at the situation and given the facts that are known to us, that this was just not industrial action. Behind it was a political agitation. The SLLC set itself up as a constituted political movement, or wanted to set itself up as a constituted political movement....

That answer saw the bracing of my father at Pademba Road Prison. Even when my father went on hunger strike, AO denied to the world saying, "...Another piece of news that they disseminated was that one of the detainees, Mr. Kabia was on hunger strike, when in fact there is no hunger strike in this place. Mr. Kabia is a sick man and he had to be put on a special diet. He was not on hunger strike". Sidi, your mentor may mean the world to you but to many of us, he is a morally bankrupt intellectual, a two-faced lying hypocritical backstabber. For his gains he can send his fellow men to the gallows.

Your mentor is a selfish character. When last did you visit Rogberray? Take a look at that village of less than 300 hundred people to tell you about the unaltruistic nature of your mentor.

My twin brother was shocked to see him in Belize five years ago. He confronted him and nearly lost his life. I had to write to the British High Commission to help save him from AO. I know Belize and what Belmopan is like, especially a foreigner that does not see eye to eye with the Chief Justice. My twin brother accused him of causing the demise of our father and the untimely dispersal of my father's children. As luck would have it we got him to Atlanta, Georgia safely, away from AO's plans to liquidate the so-called troublemaker that arrived in Belize to disrespect him.

The story about AO to some of us is unfinished business all the time. Only Time will Tell. The Lord will surely bring AO to atone for his deeds. Where is the money that he sold the lives of so many of his fellow citizens for? I believe I have seen and eaten more money in my short life span than AO - I mean in millions that have generously helped so many people more than he can ever think of in just this span in my resilient life. I have no respect for him and would pray he understands that to be educated is to graciously help the less unfortunate and not just a selected few from his close knit.

AO lost on account of his lack of moral responsibilities and discipline in his professional ethics. I wrote on the AU forum (nothing to hide) that such a man who cannot help improve conditions of a village of less than 30 houses is not fit to be elected to an office to run affairs of more than 100 million households. To be educated is one thing and to be competent is another.

AO's loss is his loss and do not believe is a Sierra Leone loss. Do you seriously believe he was wholeheartedly supported? His selfishness and stinginess are other factors that cost him the loss.

No one will vote for such a man with so much trouble; he left behind. The perpetrator always forgets his crimes but the victims will never forget. I will never punish AO for what he did but will want him to see what his actions of yesterday determined the destinies of others today and tomorrow. I travelled by road for two years with no money and passport to be where I am today because no one was there to willingly help. The God that I had, showed me so much beauty that I am able to forgive the likes of AO but will not stay silent to see his likes continues to destroy the lives of others. Any attempt to have elected him to head the AU would have ended in a disgrace for Sierra Leone and a disastrous outcome for entire Africa. The likes of AO should stay silent and gradually help replenish their dented character with good.

Subject: PIC OF THE DAY
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 00:37:50 02/09/08 ()
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“Little girl, it looks like you are leaning to the right… here, let me help you”

Subject: CONFIRMED BY UNBEATABLE COCORIOKO : Gibril Wilson Sa.Leonean
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 22:38:20 02/08/08 ()
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www.cocorioko.net

One of the heroes of American football , the excellent Safety who immensely contributed to the sensational Super Bowl victory of the New York Giants over the New England Patriots last weekend --Gibril Wilson-is a Krio-speaking , cassava leaves soup -eating Sierra Leonean like any of us .COCORIOKO confirmed the story today and is planning to feature the great Gibril Wilson on this newspaper soon. If you have been having doubts since reading our story this week, start beating the goombay drums in 'prideful' glee.Gibril Wilson is a Sierra Leonean par excellence ! !

The Editor-in -Chief , after thorough investigations, had a breakthrough today and spoke lengthily with some family members of Mr. Gibril Wilson.

The inimitable , exciting and magnificient footballer , Gibril Wilson, is the proud son of Haja Tattie (Salamatu ) who lives in Maryland , USA. His father , Pa. Wilson recently passed away in Conakry , Guinea. Wilson's siblings are his elder brother , Sheriff ; other brothers Yussuf and Alhassan , who served in the U.S.Army ; Infact, Alhassan is the twin partner of Wilson's sister , Makuta , who is married to one-time Leone Stars soccer sensation, Leslie Allen; Their youngest sister is called Hassanatu.

Gibril came to the U.S . when he was 6 and was reared in California by his aunt, Isatu Bangura. He is described as a very humble young man whose successes have not gone into his head.

Infact, Gibril 's family is organizing a big Super Bowl party for him next Saturday February 16, 2007 at the Best West End Hotel in Maryland. The party will draw a huge crowd of Sierra Leoneans , many of whom will be going there to catch a glimpse of the American football hero with Sierra Leonean blood running in his veins. We will cover the party in full.

This discovery must shame our detractors once again. Since we reported on Monday that Gibril Wilson is a Sierra Leonean, some of our detractors who would rather live in ignorant bliss or who underrate their own country have been bashing us on the COCORIOKO FORUM. Now they will eat their own words raw, because COCORIOKO was right again--Gibril Wilson hailed from Sierra Leone, a small West African country that excels in producing eminent citizens who rock the world in sundry

Subject: Re: CONFIRMED BY UNBEATABLE COCORIOKO : Gibril Wilson Sa.Leo
From: Homeboy
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Date Posted: 04:38:27 02/09/08 ()
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I just had a discussion with "Gibo" about the ongoing debate at Cocorioko and the brother cant believe his ears ...matter of fact we finally concurred that he has nothing to prove to armchair quarterbacks who bear no relevance to his promising career...

I think that the naysayers are mostly "Pull Him Down Witchman Sierra Leoneans" who perceive arbitrary limits to the achievement of progressive brothers and sisters that hail from the motherland.......in the end the success of others becomes their own failures!..."but dem go taya"

Similarly if anyone had dared posted that the songwriter for the famous hip hop star Kanyon West and aspiring Hollywood star of "Wired" Idriss Elba are also "Homeboys"..... "dem go say nar lie" ....Bo if oona nor sabi Sa Lone person or oona nor know natin but am nor therefore nor to Sierra Leonean?

Subject: Re: CONFIRMED BY UNBEATABLE COCORIOKO : Gibril Wilson Sa.Leo
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 20:42:38 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Moderator, does this posting constitute a "personal attack", incredibly, on all Sierra Leoneans? Beyond the archaic reference to witchcraft and other cultural obscurities, the posting is, under my reasoned definition of critique, TRASH.

Subject: Re: CONFIRMED BY UNBEATABLE COCORIOKO : Gibril Wilson Sa.Leo
From: alcole
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Date Posted: 09:32:24 02/09/08 ()
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you are sure true, Idriss Elba was born of Sierra Leonean Father and Ghanian mother in England.

Subject: Re: CONFIRMED BY UNBEATABLE COCORIOKO : Gibril Wilson Sa.Leonean
From: alcole
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Date Posted: 23:24:23 02/08/08 ()
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Thanks cocorioko, here goes my story about Gibril Wilson. Your coverage next week about Gibril Wilson will shut up all the so call, ignorant educated fools. On Monday I posted that Gibril was living with Sharif and yousef in the Bronx when he came to the state. Your report has proved me right.

Subject: Re: CONFIRMED BY UNBEATABLE COCORIOKO : Gibril Wilson Sa.Leonean
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 22:51:06 02/08/08 ()
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I don't think you will call someone who doubt the story detractors. We all know sa lone man like to falsify things. Remember when Joseph hills went to Sierra Leone? The info was that his origin was from sierra leone. Joe hills never said so, but it became a nationwide info. So, I can give you many instances about sa lone man. So, for me to believe you have to give me proof especially a superstar like Wilson whose personal details is all over the internet. When I first read this, I search the internet extensively, but all I got was born in CA. So it just a demand to get the proof.

Subject: Re: CONFIRMED BY UNBEATABLE COCORIOKO : Gibril Wilson Sa.Leonean
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 00:21:09 02/09/08 ()
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For our credibility sake, we always check our stories before we publish them. Somebody was rude to us calling us Lie-lie Cocorioko. Why would we lie ? I am happy that we proved our detractors wrong once more.

Subject: Re: CONFIRMED BY UNBEATABLE COCORIOKO : Gibril Wilson Sa.Leonean
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:28:48 02/09/08 ()
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You do not have to prove anything to people who do not believe. The guy is Sierra Leonean , Many Sierra Leoneans in t Bronx, NY knew he was Sierra Leonean before Giants won the Superbowl.

Subject: Re: CONFIRMED BY UNBEATABLE COCORIOKO : Gibril Wilson Sa.Leonean
From: Lameh Gblah
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Date Posted: 06:38:03 02/09/08 ()
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I told you some few days ago that this guy is a sierra leonean but you never beleived me . I told you that last April when I went to sierra Leone I met him and his sister along campbell street and I never knew him either but his sister Kadi(daram)who I knew introduced him to me told me that he is the fomous Gibril Wilson of The new york Giants, they invited me to a party at the national stadium presidential suite to celebrate his achivements.I was there along with Joseph Tobby of East End Lions Fame and many other celebrities . He was introduced by is brother and his mum also was introduced . I knew his mum Haja Nana 30 of Andrew street, whe n as a small boy selling at the Krootown road market, she use to sell oil and some provision just by Liberty Cinema at Krootown road in front of the market. She told me that Gibril left sierra Leone at the age of 6 and join his brother and sister in the U.S. where he grow up playing college football and then rose to fame . All of us had a lovely time and very nice interaction. If people want me to give them his sister's number (Kadi)in London I would be very please to do so.

Subject: Re: CONFIRMED BY UNBEATABLE COCORIOKO : Gibril Wilson Sa.Leonean
From: TK
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Date Posted: 15:55:47 02/09/08 ()
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So let us have have Kadi'd .number

Subject: Eminent Sierra leonean Jurist heads for the Bay Area
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
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Date Posted: 17:13:00 02/08/08 ()
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Eminent Sierra leonean Jurist, Judge Abdul G. Koroma will be visiting the san Francisco Bay Area sometime in April 2007 and is slated to deliver a lecture at the Golden gate University Law School. A dinner in his honor will be held at the Scotts Sea Food Restaurant in Jack London Square in Oakland CAlifornia. Tickets are $100.00 per head. calling all sierra leoneans to be there and patronise an eminent sierra leonean jurist.

Subject: Re: Eminent Sierra leonean Jurist heads for the Bay Area
From: m. Alieu Iscandari esq
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Date Posted: 17:21:26 02/08/08 ()
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Heres the link

Subject: Re: Eminent Sierra leonean Jurist heads for the Bay Area
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 06:26:17 02/09/08 ()
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Wow! Wow! I got a prickling sensation running down my whole body - real cold! This fellow countryman is remarkably outstanding. Such should have gone for the offices of the AU and not the selfish and stingy AO Conteh who shamed himself thinking he was shaming Sierra Leone.

Judge Abdul G Koroma, your are an exemplary inspiration - a true role model. If you can do such, so many will now look up to you to believe that they can be that. may God bless you and save you from the detraction and envy of the evil minds.

Subject: Re: Eminent Sierra leonean Jurist heads for the Bay Area
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 18:25:41 02/08/08 ()
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WOW!
Can you imagine a man of such intelectual distinction?
I am always proud to see Sierra Leoneans excel in this magnitude.
Wow.
What is his misson to the Bay Area and where specifically?
Pardon me, we are talking about California Bay area(smile)but that is true.
We have highly educated brothers and sisters from Sierra Leone that have contributed immensely to world civilization and I am very proud of them.
I am writing from the University of Maryland, where we have plenty of them, and where many have left indellible mark on the progrss of civilization as Lecturers. Didn't Dr. Abdul Karim Conteh Lecture at the University of Maryland?
Many have made their contribution towards the human civilization what can have done or can you do should always be fresh on our minds. Where will I be in the History of World Civilization is a very good question to remember. Will History recognize me in the place of Judas, Adolf Hitler or Judge Abdul G. Koroma who has contributed worthily towards human civilization as enumerated in his resume. I would prefer the latter. God bless his heart. These gatherings are places that should serve as preparation grounds to make such contributions; for those who have such thoughts; for others, well you see what they are engaged in.
Be encouraged that you can be the best if you put your mind to it by not hatting those who have such a dream but dreaming with them.
Bravo Judge Abdul G. Koroma may God give we the younger ones the brain and courage to emulate examples ofpeople of your calibre who see the need to salvage the world from a humanitarian perspective rather than from selfish perspective.

Subject: Re: Eminent Sierra leonean Jurist heads for the Bay Area
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 18:58:16 02/08/08 ()
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I have never heard about Judge Abdul G. Koroma before and probably wouldn't have had it not been for the entropic ferment of Cocorioko. Good to see our luminaries capelighting Western shores.
By the way our judges have absolutely fantastic fashion sense! That silk throatkerchief the good judge is wearing is gonna make the gender benders in the Bay Area seductively limp their wrist and say "Heeeeey!"

Subject: Cocotioko Lie Lie...?
From: Investigator
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Date Posted: 16:12:41 02/08/08 ()
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You claim that G. Wilson was born in Sierra leone how far is that from the truth: http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/players/playerpage/493121
May be you wanted to say his Great Great grand Parent came from Sierra Leone...but as usual you always twist the fact..

Subject: Re: Cocotioko Lie Lie...?
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 17:37:54 02/08/08 ()
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Read all the inputs of others in the debate below.Even Mr.Shamsu Deen-Cole, a New Jersey activist, said that Gerald is a Sierra Leonean. Instead of opening your mouth here calling us names , why not read all the inputs ? I don't know why some of us just cannot ask questions without labelling people. YOU HAVE A MOUTH AS WELL AS EARS AND EYES. PLEASE USE ALL OF THEM WELL.

Subject: Re: Cocotioko Lie Lie...?
From: Gerald Cole
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Date Posted: 23:43:10 02/08/08 ()
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Cocorioko has proved me right, I was living in the Bronx at Ogden Ave, when Gibril Wilson came to the state, and he was a little boy. The whole Sierra Leonean crew were living in that neighborhood, if I could name a few, little John, Sentu Johnson, big boy, John Roberts and Gibril’s brothers. We are planning to welcome him in the Maryland area with a victory party.

Subject: Re: Cocotioko Lie Lie...?
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 22:44:07 02/08/08 ()
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I was one of those who have doubt about this, but I insisted that until I got proof, I will go by what ESPN and other sport internet sites state. Kabs said he has proof and I will be happy and believe. His article explains convincingly, but yet to give a tangible proof. I will be happy if a Sierra Leonean excels. That is a big pride for Sierra Leone, but I don't want to put my country into a laughing nation.
KABS, thanks for the info nd I am looking forward for the proof.

Subject: Re: Cocotioko Lie Lie...?
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 17:41:10 02/08/08 ()
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I noticed that the moderator has cut the thread for archiving. Go to the archives and read what relatives of Gibril wrote. If future, get all your facts first before you label people.

Subject: REVISITING FODAY SANKOH AND COMPANY
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 13:34:17 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Fellas, are you scarred of being long or short sleeved by Foday Sankoh and Company? Or, did you believe the report of his re-dockerection at Kissy Dock Yard? Or, is it that you fear the fierce Oxfordian rhetoric of the good Docta? Accordingly, I renew the thematic.

Subject: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 13:04:30 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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What is the theoretical point of this debate about the "settlers" and "provincials?" The short answer is that it is pointless. Similar to metaphysics, it is a trick to implement practical policies. A few points about the task of the historical reconstruction of past human reality:

1. A sharp distinction needs to be made between historiography (the presentation of historical research) and historical research.

2. Historical research NEVER issues in unchallengeable hypotheses, because any and all historical hypotheses are subject to future falsification. Accordingly and paradoxically, no historical fact can be established without the explicit caveat, "true for now ONLY."

Given these rather elementary heuristics of the historical reconstruction of past human reality, it is arguable that the debate about "settlers" and "provincials" is pointless. It is evident that no original source can answer the following question: who were the original people of Sierra Leone? Hence, any and all historical postulates are not really concerned about bonedry historical propositions, but are strategy attempts concerned with advancing and implementing socio-economic policies in the Living Present realities of Sierra Leone. Philosophers use the same gimmick in their metaphysical constructions. And lawyers do the same in their manipulation of precedents.

3. Accordingly, the debate is only apparently about the past. It is evidently pointless to mention the many patently false historical statements that have been asserted in this theoretically barren debate. One will do. Alcole, citing Fyle, asserts that: "The Creoles were traders and an elite class in Freetown and in Colonial Sierra Leone during the 19th century." Unarguably, Fyle's historical statement is FALSE. Were ALL Creoles traders? Moreover, Fyle knows all too well that Creoles were divided into a high class, middle class, and a pautopauto class. In brief, Fyle's historical conjecture is effectively refuted by sociological facts. Of course, Ronaldino's wild averment that "100% of Creoles are literate", abstracting from difficulties hanging over the contstrual of "literate", as Contri astutely observed is, is similar to Fyle's statement: sparkingly false. I personally know many illiterate Creoles, construing "literate" here as ability to understand, speak, and write the language of our British masters, albeit "former."

4. Ominously, given that Creoles constitute less than 5 per cent of the population of Sierra Leone, it is quite clear that only 'resettled' Creoles, i.e. those in the West, would urge, under the intellectual dishonest ruse of historical reconstruction, a war to assert "Creoledom." The ensuing decimation would make Rwanda Disney. Sober and responsible Creoles in Freetown would not DARE, guided by common sense and the constraints inherent in the new dispensation of societal power, make claims of 'superiority' in the conditions of contemporary Sierra Leone; leave that to their sons and daughters in the West.

5. Conclusion: get over it. The influence of Creoles in Freetown, in particular, and in Sierra Leone in general is, at best, deminimis. And it is this foreseeable dimunition of influence that fuels the fires of Creole historical research: such a use of history is clearly an abuse of history. Stop!

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: alcole
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Date Posted: 15:32:25 02/08/08 ()
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Your views are welcome, would that change history? Can’t tell, am just trying to see if we can come up with Sierra Leone history month for the benefit of our children. Thanks for analyzing the Creole history. I will love you do the same with the mende history next week.
Think positive
God Bless!!!!

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 15:49:49 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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My views were not intended to change "history," rather they were meant to elucidate the great distinction between "interpretation" and "application." What history is obviously depends on the power structure in a society. In brief, even the subject matter of history is ideologically contestable.

Moreover, the analysis of how change is effected in the living present (you can change your views about the past, but once you posit a historical fact or a concatenation of the same, they are subjectively immutable) is one of the most difficult intellectual problem, and it transcends all theoretical, practical and prudential disciplines. Accordingly, if I am unable to assuredly posit a theory of mundane, everyday, plain vanilla change---genetically (pertaining to me as a concrete human personality) or generatively (pertaining to intersubjective relatively valid structures of a group)---it would be unreasonable, I should think, to expect, even naively, my ideas to change history.

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: alcole
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Date Posted: 16:04:17 02/08/08 ()
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OK, thanks am cutting out of this site. Waste of time for me.

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 18:49:52 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Good riddance! Sing up with a sound bite site. Can't stand the heat in the kitchen, wise to sprint out.

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: Contri
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Date Posted: 13:10:18 02/08/08 ()
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Man you can really analyse! Truly, you are a brilliant man, very observant and you know your cues.Have you tried publishing as an interest? Thanks for the clarity!

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 13:37:31 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Glory to God!

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 13:14:04 02/08/08 ()
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I must commend as well - great improvement. I know he can do it - he is just stubborn. It is working. Thank the Sangha.

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 13:41:10 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Glory to God!

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 13:48:30 02/08/08 ()
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Thank God!

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: Umpire
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Date Posted: 14:31:53 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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I will ignore you from now on: should you attempt to reply to any of MY postings with advertizements for a religious cult, I shall personally call Kabs, demanding that you be banned, under the Rules. Every reader can see your sick trick: there is a serious issue on the table, and you dare to sprint, where angels tiptoe. It is up to the Moderator: he can permit this salient thematic to be elaborated and criticized or ALLOW YOU TO POST PERSONAL ATTACKS. Accordingly, I hereby invite the Moderator to INTERVENE NOW, TO PREVENT AN ENCORE that is well known to him. Is he going to allow you to turn this esteemed paper into a yellow rag or not? THAT IS THE QUESTION FOR kABS AND FM. I could have been billed clients $500 an hour for the time it took me to compose and post the piece. Yet, sensing the danger in the postings thematized by my posting, I gave up the money, for love of country. It's up to you Kabs and FM.

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:14:11 02/08/08 ()
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Greetings ladies and gentlemen. In my effort to respond to Umpire, let me take this opportunity to register my apologies to members who might have responded during our last debate but did not hear from me. I have been away from this forum since the last time I posted. I have checked the archive to see if the messages were archived but it is apparent that no messages have been saved in the archive for the year 2008.
Continuing my response, let me make it known that I agree with you Umpire, as cordiality acquiescence that the debate of Settlers and Provincial is pointless. This is so specifically, where the aim is not geared towards ascertaining facts about the debated culture towards the promotion of the land we all love, Sierra Leone. Pointless in my view because if no efforts are made to know the sociological and philosophy of cultures, no effort is made to understanding underlying principles, which will dampen our quest to forging ahead, harmoniously, as a culture.
Immanuel Kant, a Philosopher whom in an effort to define Enlightenment in the essay "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" He defined Enlightenment as an age shaped by the motto, "Dare to know;" that involved thinking autonomously free from the dictates of external authority. He stated that “All the preparations of reason, therefore, in what may be called pure philosophy, are in reality directed to those three problems only [God, the soul, and freedom]. However, these three elements in themselves still hold independent, proportional, objective weight individually. Moreover, in a collective relational context; namely, to know what ought to be done: if the will is free, if there is a God, and if there is a future world. As this concerns our actions with reference to the highest aims of life, we see that the ultimate intention of nature in her wise provision was really, in the constitution of our reason, directed to moral interests only."
Reading from your effort to address Fyle’s narration of the Creole history, I am impelled to reason with the following essay “The Concept of Encounter of Cultures in the Philosophy of History: Problems and Solutions by
Hamlet A. Gevorkian
(Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.”) Here he stated,

“Any reflection upon "other", "alien" culture is possible always from the perspective of a definite culture: the other culture is seen as refracted through the prism of our culture, of our world-perception, world-construction, world-understanding. In this sense the reflection upon other culture is subjective, as if prejudiced and slanted. The awareness of this situation causes attempts to find out how is it possible to overcome this subjectivity of the reflection upon other culture and reach objective knowledge of it, so that the reconstruction of it would be adequate. Thus, here too the Kantian question arises: is objective knowledge possible (in the sense of independence from our cognitive approaches and operations, patterns of thought which are shaped by and "molded" in our culture), and if yes, how? In our case, as in the whole field of the humanities, the situation is complicated, and the question is re-formulated as the following: how objective knowledge of historical and cultural phenomena is possible, taking into account that they are (a) essentially individual - unique, inimitable and transient and (b) get their meaning and become conceivable only in the wholeness of historical and cultural integrities, in which they are incorporated?”
In which case, we might not know for sure what is fact, fiction or false without any quotation from Fyle, whereby, his work is presented to us vabatim for our reflection. Therefore, any direction we attempt to focus our stance at this point, will be subjective rather than objective for the lack of evidential report of writing. Readers who are not conversant with Fyle’s historical narration on the subject discussed would be left in limbo, when in an effort to ascertain facts since you rendered regrettably, none, is pursued. Could your presentation of his effort in presenting the creoles in a grandiose sociological spectrum, a manure of conveyance in a contextual misrepresentative masquerade? Just a question.
Viewing from the word culture in the perception of schools-of-thoughts and disciplines especially “Anthropologists who use the term "culture" to refer to the universal human capacity to classify, codify and communicate their experiences symbolically, Primatologists who have identified aspects of culture among humankind's closest relatives in the animal kingdom,” I would agree that our focus be on finding out the authentic history of the cultures (culture) discussed so that we can bring the best out of our culture from these findings for the betterment of the Sierra Leonean culture and the World Culture since History will always lead the origins of the named cultures to single, un-agreed origin that we dare not to know.
By and large, I am impressed that you resurfaced this discuss for Enlightenment purposes. We may never know the truth if we do not listen and learn. We shall listen and learn if the facts are not presented objectively. Dare to know?
Humbly presented:
Bambay Lansana Kamara, Sanyoya.
Thank you!

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 18:06:19 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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I personally commend you on your mastery of the difficult PROBLEMS connected with the human condition. It appears to me that most of the discourse on culture, tribalism and, particularly, politics in Sierra Leone assumes that there are easily accessible solutions to first, thorny theoretical problems. Having made this naive assumption, any and all practical proposals to solve practical problems conditioned by specific features inscribed by our historical heritage are either uncritically (without analysis and argument) dismissed or, worse, attributed to manipulative, self-serving motives, usually tied to tribalism.

Critiques of the current government may serve as Exhibit 1. One negative critique will clarify the point: the thunderous critique that the government is a nothern government. If I had made such a critical judgment, my obligation would be to fairly present and refute counter-arguments. On the contrary: sound bites are the norm. The northernization argument may be sound, but it has not been presented. And for good reason: Is Margai a northerner? And the Vice-President, a northerner too? If the government in parliament and in the executive is not northern a corps perdue, then the northernization critique is factually and fatally flawed. But, I'll let this fly, for I am not a politician, except to state that a colleague in the law, John Musa, Esq. serves as a spokesperson for the President. The last time I checked, John hails not from Sanda, but Kono.

The objects of the human sciences, contrary to naive public opinion, are more complicated than those of the objects of the objects and methods of the formal sciences and the arche formal-ontologogical science of physics. In brief, theoretical physics is easier than historical research. The implications buggle the mind.

Finally, I am aware of the naive, politically juvenile movement of "Creoledom." As I mentioned, this is a dangerous syndrome. If it goes unchecked, the eggheads propagating the same will have only themselves to blame if it ends up inflaming the passions of demagoges among the 'provicials.' How many battalions do these epigones of Creoledom control? Hence, my de-tribalization hypothesis. I know sound counter-arguments against my hypothesis, and when I see one I'll respond.

Finally, I note that your piece demonstrates that we have don't have to be bookish to make sense. Nar sense make book, according to Pa. Stevens, abstracting, of course, from how the Pa applied this maxim.

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:57:31 02/08/08 ()
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Umpire thank you for your kind words. I particularly agree with the statement that “It appears to me that most of the discourse on culture, tribalism and, particularly, politics in Sierra Leone assumes that there are easily accessible solutions to first, thorny theoretical problems. Having made this naive assumption, any and all practical proposals to solve practical problems conditioned by specific features inscribed by our historical heritage are either uncritically (without analysis and argument) dismissed or, worse, attributed to manipulative, self-serving motives, usually tied to tribalism.”
In submission, let me emphasise that the lack of answers or rather the vague or the lack of knowledge and the willingness to make research, reflection on certain topics gives rise to disqualifying possible solutions or admittance of availing answers. As such most things,ideas and or concepts are attributed to heresy that has entrenched a Moral pluralistic for a sadistic moral relativistic groupings that is now a culture within our culture. But can this attitude be traced to ancestral origins or is it a new phenomina?
Take myths such as cutting hair at night, Yellow Woman, visiting parents’ graveyard a second time, to name a few. These are unscientific beliefs that have existed within cultures that have caused problems in our communities between the ones who wish to break-away and those who wish to maintain such beliefs. Ten chances to one, most of these beliefs are meant to preserve selfish and egocentric gratifications. This is no different from the effort to allude culture, tribalism and, particularly, politics in Sierra Leone with the assumtion that there are easily accessible solutions to first, thorny theoretical problems. Whereby, historical heritage are either uncritically (without analysis and argument) dismissed or, worse, attributed to manipulative, self-serving motives, usually tied to tribalism. This is so because the art of discussing issues to unearth the truth is self-implecating or rather deserving of our hidden agenda or selfish pursuits. Mende man will attribute the political activities of groups in Sierra Leone to tribalism because it is not serving their egocentric and or selfish agenda. The Temene man will assert tribalism to political practices of Mende group to Tribalism because their execersie of power does not sit well with their igocentric and or selfish desires. A patriot’s efforts to help savage the problems of his or her people is misconstrued to be political intent because the contenders see such efforts to deviate from their egocentric and self-serving agenda or because such people can conceptualize further than the above-mentioned moral pluralistic for sadistic moral relativist grouping. There therefore, there has existed schools-of-thoughts that will hardly meet through dialogue.
I have to run but thank you for your response.

Subject: Re: ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY
From: Umpire
To: All
Date Posted: 19:16:10 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: jallohlaw@yahoo.com
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Thanks for your response. I suspect I have a lot to learn from you. But right now, I'm bombed out from fishing for the mighty dollar in the jungle of business. Fen Plaba knows where I will be after this posting; he knows about the imperative of maintaining a fine balance between cerebral exertion and muscle exertion. Have a good night!

Subject: Alpha Saidu Bangura is Ban for good
From: Foday Mansaray,Chairman of the Board
To: All
Date Posted: 12:07:30 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
May God bless the good Rev.for taking his time to explain everything that transpired between himself and Alpha Saidu. I am confident that Alpha Saidu should not be given another opportunity to participate in this forum. He has not only denied everything that he said, but trump up more outrageous lies to create new unnecessary problems.

The situation with my mother is clear. I requested both Muslim Jamaat to write an article and send it to me. I asked for pictures and stories many many times and it was not forth-coming.
Cocorioko does not write article for people. People write their articles and send them to us for publication. Call Alhaji Alieru Bakarr how many times he promised to send me pictures and stories from Hajj. Please don't disseminate information that is not true.

Secondly have as much right as me to send congratulatory message your Mother. Moreover, the message represents my family AND the Muslim community of New Jersey, CONGRATULATING all those who successfully completed there Hajj. Why should you fuss about this, is beyond my comprehension.

Moreover, you also indicated during our conversation, that you went to School of Journalism with Philip Neville. I do not want to go there or talk about that. What is in questioned here is your malicious attacked on kabbs and you deceitfulness to create confusion among good, honorable and patriotic people who just want to see nothing, but Sierra Leone moving forward.

Rev. Kabbs, Moderator and Forum Police, Alpha Saidu must be ban for good. Giving him another chance is a great dis-service to this forum and the good people like Lawyer Alieu Iscandri who have great intention for progress and democracy. In my opinion, he needs to go somewhere else and create anarchy.
My apology to Rev. for even listening to you and remember this Alpha saidu, you can run but cannot hide.
You know what I am talking about.

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu Bangura is Ban for good
From: man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 20:15:23 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
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Message:
Foday, did Alpha Saidu Bangura said that he went to Journalism school with Phillip Neville? This is a black lie.Alpha Saidu is actively doing his watchman job here in Maryland. He is always like this, since our days at the Prince of Wales. Big mouth.

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu Bangura is Ban for good
From: FODAY MANSARAY
To: All
Date Posted: 02:03:59 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Yes, he said he sat in the same classroom with Phlip Neville studying Journalism.For all it is worth, he claimed to be a season Journalist,"I quote".

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu Bangura is Ban for good
From: man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 20:15:22 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
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Message:
Foday, did Alpha Saidu Bangura said that he went to Journalism school with Phillip Neville? This is a black lie.Alpha Saidu is actively doing his watchman job here in Maryland. He is always like this, since our days at the Prince of Wales. Big mouth.

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu Bangura is Ban for good
From: man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 04:36:07 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-96-240-15-68.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 96.240.15.68

Message:
This Alpha Saidu is a man among men. You can't believe that he told a poor woman that he is bereaved and this poor woman sympathised with him by sending some money for him. After a month again, he called this woman and started crying that he have lost his neice. Again, this woman sent some money for him. Later, it was proved that he was never bereaved. I really dont know where to put this fellow. I think he need to be in one of the remote villages in Sierra Leone. People came to this country to improve themselves, but not this fellow. Journalism my foot.

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu Bangura is Ban for good
From: Marie Kay
To: All
Date Posted: 21:30:48 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: ma2002@yahoo.com
Entered From: ip68-8-136-217.sd.sd.cox.net at 68.8.136.217

Message:
Man pikin,
I have been following your comments with regards to this poor gentleman. For goodness sake why cant you leave Saidu alone. You dont know how much people know about you if you are real. Stop personal attacks. If that woman had the courage to tell you things about Saidu, it is not for you to use it to attack him in a forum like this. It is not even fair to the woman who told you her secret. Will you please keep quiet a bit over that issue? This is the second time you are refering to this issue.
I think you are idle and you lack issues to talk about. Leave Saidu alone. I dont know him but he has never made any response to your comments. That shows maturity.
Marie

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu Bangura is Ban for good
From: man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 06:08:58 02/10/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-96-240-15-68.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 96.240.15.68

Message:
Marie if this is your real name, is your name Alpha Saidu or are you his defence lawyer? This is not a personal attack. The woman in question is my relative and I need to bring it to the notice of other people to know more about your client, Alpha Saidu. Your client knows that it is a fact, that is why he is not responding. It is not a question of MATURITY. Maturity my foot, after telling lies and my poor cousin sent him money. Madam defence lawyer, you call it Maturity, give me a break. Why can't you tell your client that he did a bad thing?

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu Bangura is Ban for good
From: TOFFIE BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 11:32:35 02/10/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
BETTER CHECK WITH YOUR SISTER BECAUSE SAIDU MAY HAVE USED HER MONEY AGAINST HER. HE IS VERY MUCH INTO JUJU WITH HIS FAMILY

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu Bangura is Ban for good
From: FORREST GUMP
To: All
Date Posted: 06:21:54 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I thought this Forum has a policy of not attacking someone who does not contribute to this Forum I might be wrong can any one enlighten me on this
FORREST

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu Bangura is Ban for good
From: man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 18:36:56 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-96-240-15-68.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 96.240.15.68

Message:
Forrest, I dont understand what you mean. What Saidu did to this poor woman is not a story, but a reality. The woman is my relative. This is not a personal attack.

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu Bangura is Ban for good
From: man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 18:36:53 02/09/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-96-240-15-68.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 96.240.15.68

Message:
Forrest, I dont understand what you mean. What Saidu did to this poor woman is not a story, but a reality. The woman is my relative. This is not a personal attack.

Subject: Re: Alpha Saidu Bangura is Ban for good
From: DOG PEKIN
To: All
Date Posted: 20:20:55 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
HE WENT TO A SIX MONTH SEMINAR ON JOURNALISM HELD AT FBC AND HE DID NOT FINISH THE COURSE. HE WAS KICKED OUT. THE SOB IS NOT I REPEAT NOT A JOURNALIST.

ON THE CONTRARY HE IS A CHARLATTAN WHO CLAIMS HE IS OF GOD YET HE DOES SATANIC THINGS LIKE USING JUJU AND WITHTHE SLIGHTEST OPPORTUNITY WEARS DEVIL CLOTHES AT PARTIES.

NAR SAIDU DAE BOT ALL DEM DEBUL WAE DEM KIN PULL NAR PARTY NAR EAST COAST. LEH EE JES CLEAROUT BEFOE WE YA

Subject: A contribution to your Black History Month
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 11:16:13 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
List of 70 African immigrants who claimed return passage from Jamaica to Sierra Leone on board the Clarendon. Jamaica, 21 August 1861.
Catalogue reference: CO 137/356/25 folio 189. Crown Copyright.

Are any of your great great Grand Parents on this boat to Freetown
From the British Archives

Transcr1pt:
List of African Immigrants, embarked from the Port of
---------- Kingston, Jamaica, for Seirra Leone. -----------

No. ---- Names ----
Male
Female
Date of
Embarkation
- Remarks -
12th August 1861
1
James Cole
2
John Thomas
1
“


3
Sally Davis
“
1


4
Jonas Thomas
1
“


5
Lucy Thomas
“
1


6
Nancy George
“
1


7
David Jones
1
“


8
Hannah Thomas
“
1


9
William Lambert
1
“


10
William Campbell
1
“


11
Charlotte Campbell
“
1


12
Ha[ ]ey Williams
“
1


13
John Davis
1
“


14
Lucy Williams
“
1


15
John Smith
1
“


16
William Thompson
1
“


17
James Campbell
1
“


18
Henry Harding
1
“


19
Rosy Harding
“
1


20
Hannah Bright
“
1


21
Solomon Bright
1
“


22
James Brown
1
“


23
John Harding
1
“


24
John Cole
1
“


25
James Bull
1
“


26
James Coker
1
“


27
Charlotte Rogers (with an Infant)
“
1


28
Thomas Williams
1
“


29
Eliza Williams
“
1


30
Lucy McCawley
“
1


31
James Johnson
1
“


32
Nancy Ellis
“
1


33
Fanny George
“
1


34
Francis Parker
1
“


35
William Thomas
1
“


36
Elizabeth Johnson
“
1


37
Henry Palmer
1
“


38
Lucy Coker
“
1


39
Samuel Pratt
1
“


40
Nelly Cheers
“
1


41
Jara
1
“


42
Sophia Williams
“
1


43
John Thomas
1
“


44
Henry Davis
1
“









Carried over
26
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Subject: Re: A contribution to your Black History Month
From: alcole
To: All
Date Posted: 12:05:08 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Thanks Ron for the help, I have posted the site to my relatives and friends living in England, Sierra Leone and Guyana. I was able to prove my settlers background. My Great Great grandfather and mother on my mother side were on that boat, Solomon and Hannah Bright. It was a great help to one of my friend who is finishing her PHD at Columbia University in New York. People like you are needed in this forum. Please email me anything that could contribute to our Sierra Leone history. olushola364@msn.com

Subject: Re: A contribution to your Black History Month
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 15:37:22 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
My grand mother used to tell me of one of her aunts she could never understand when she spoke. When I had a word with one of uncles he said that lady was Barbadian speaking in West indian twang

Subject: Re: A contribution to your Black History Month
From: alcole
To: All
Date Posted: 11:57:22 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Trust me my mother's maiden name was Hannah Bright, my father told me his mother was was from São Tomé and Príncipe.

Subject: Re: A contribution to your Black History Month
From: Contri
To: All
Date Posted: 12:08:31 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Did you know they speak the same krio we speak in sao tome et principe? My uncles wife is from there - they now live in spain.

Subject: Re: A contribution to your Black History Month
From: alcole
To: All
Date Posted: 12:28:04 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This is why we should use this site to share our history, Sierra Leone population is made up different ethnics groups .The creole is a mixture of all ethnics groups from all over Africa, farnadndo po, sae tome, Equitorial guniea, Nigeria, Ghana and some freed slaves. The Creole background is richer than the Liberian American background. Whiles the Temenes migrated from the North into what is now Sierra Leone in the 14th and early 15th century, seeking access to new trade that was developing along the Atlantic coast. It is time to change, no one tribe is better than any other tribe in Sierra Leone.

Subject: Re: A contribution to your Black History Month
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 11:19:01 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/caribbeanhistory/popups/movement-of-people/CO137_356_25.htm

Subject: Re: A contribution to your Black History Month
From: alcole
To: All
Date Posted: 12:09:53 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This is good, where did you get it from? This is why we should not take this forum site as a place for negative discussion site. We should all share our history on this site.

Subject: Re: Is It True? THE DANGERS OF HAVING AN ENSLAVED MIND
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 11:01:04 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
It can be very pitiful when the victims of slavery and colonial rule express admiration for the oppressor by indicating that the plantation master was quite kind to one of his slaves or colonized subjects. In the eyes of the slave master, the so-called PROTECTORATE people and CREOLES were nothing but a bunch of savages fit only for Western domination. Any African who looks back at that history with nostalgic eyes is a slave at heart. We are supposed to rue, not admire, the European tagging that divided us into PROTECTORATE and CREOLE people. Whereas black Americans continue to lament being rooted out of Africa through slavery, some repatriated Africans are actually longing for that evil phase of history by being proud of the subhuman status to which the European reduced them. The protectorate people were European subjects, the Creoles repatriated Africans from that act of inhumanity called slavery. Why would any conscious Creole take emotional solace in that history by making disparaging comments about Africans once tagged "protectorate people?".

Slavery may be over, but many black minds are yet to be disburdened. Many victims of European history are yet to be liberated from the haunting echoes of slavery and colonial rule. Give me a break with this slavish mentality that admires the history of rape, torture, and total bastardization of the black race. I will rather be a Sierra Leonean than boast with the colonial master's vestigial chains of oppression. Those giving currency to the CREOLE vs PROTECTORATE divide are actually replaying the sad drama between "House Niggers" and their brothers in victimhood, the "Field Niggers." Neither one of these Africans should taunt the other. The reason? House Niggers may have been spared the drudge on the plantation, but the indignity of being raped and owned as domestic property, made them no better than the toiling Field Niggers. Those who get gratification from being the slave master's chosen servants are sadly longing for slavery all over again. Creoles and protectorate people should argue over who used to be the colonial master's favorite possession? I am too properly educated to chain myself with that brand of self-enslavement!

Subject: Re: Is It True? THE DANGERS OF HAVING AN ENSLAVED MIND
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 11:34:49 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Bravo!! We are not different!! Thus education is the key. I would hope that my forefathers were the ones whom had enough of the plantations. And even though they had been set free had the dying urgue to go back to Africa at all costs.
The setting up of Bo School and others to give proper education( as opposed to 'Bantu education') fought for by the Creoles was an unselfish move. The creoles also made it a point that their wards were educated to a high standard.
It is a pity that the educational standards have sank so low in the country.

Subject: Re: Is It True? THE DANGERS OF HAVING AN ENSLAVED MIND
From: nico
To: All
Date Posted: 15:32:59 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: 82-45-226-138.cable.ubr03.enfi.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.45.226.138

Message:
"The setting up of Bo School and others to give proper education( as opposed to 'Bantu education') fought for by the Creoles was an unselfish move. The creoles also made it a point that their wards were educated to a high standard."

The Creoles had no influence in setting up the Bo School, they were not happy about it because the British colonial masters had a clear idea who to hand over the country's leadership when they left.

So the extablishment of the Bo school, was specifically to train the sons of Chiefs to take leadership. There was no doubt that the creoles had education and occupied almost all the state funtionaries ie civil service, judiciary etc. Because of their western affluence which they acquired via slavery, they were arrogant to the colonial administrors and thought that they were equal with them.

Subject: Re: Is It True? THE DANGERS OF HAVING AN ENSLAVED MIND
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 20:24:48 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
thought that they were equal with them.

Speak from one side of the mouth please. Were the creoles or for that matter any of humanity represented in siera leone UNEQUAL TO THE BRITISH?

Now I am really ROTFLMMFAO

Subject: Re: Is It True? THE DANGERS OF HAVING AN ENSLAVED MIND
From: KLA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:05:05 02/09/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The wannabe Congolese Guitarist missed the chords on this
piece.

FOO FOO GAINS fohl!!

tstm

Subject: Re: Is It True? THE DANGERS OF HAVING AN ENSLAVED MIND
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 18:01:30 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Nico, I think you have miss read me. The Creoles fought /debated in the colonial council in Freetown for a higher standard of education to be implemented up country. It is a known fact that the British wanted to have a standard of education fit for menial jobs only. It was Bankole Bright and others that stood up and demanded a higher standard.
I have tried to get access to transcr1pts around that time but to no avail. I have been told that the British library at Kings Cross should hold some.

Subject: FREETWON WAS PART OF KQUOJA KINGDOM
From: Contri
To: All
Date Posted: 10:50:04 02/08/08 ()
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Message:
Now pronounced as Koya owned Freetown before the Europeans came. The mane invasion saw the disintegration of this once powerful kingdom ruled by the Sapes. The mane invasion's ambition for expamnsion saw increasing warfare and slavwe trading that first brought the black moors to Upper Guinea Coast, now Sierra leone.

The Sapes are now extinct and have been absorbed to become temne. King Niame bana (as pronounced by the early europeans meaning 'The Big name) conquered the Sapes. He lease freetown (the coastal parts) to the british who in return gave a scholarship to his son to study in England. he later died and the King was distraught. He wanted the land back but was betrayed by trusted clansmen - Gumbu-Smart and others - he died unable to resolved the land dispute. My great grandfather tried to open the case but did not survive the wait. Rokiamp has a long history. To this day even the queen claims part of Freetown. It had to end during the NPRC era when reoles born in Freetown considered themselves part of the 'Overseas Crowen Territory' to have legal residence in the UK.

Subject: Is it true....
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 09:35:56 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
That it was the Creoles in the Freetown Council that fought for proper education for the people in the Protectorate.
The Colonial Masters wanted a form of Bantu education which was to get the natives to count up to ten and recite the alphabet. I have been told that it was Bankole Bright and others that fought against this when the BO school was to be formed. Could you imagine where the SLPP boys will be today if it had been otherwise?

Subject: Re: Is it true....
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:20:49 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator5678.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.180.78

Message:
Bankole Bright was a Lokko.

Subject: Re: Is it true....
From: alcole
To: All
Date Posted: 12:39:42 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Bai Bureh, Bankole Bright was from Murray Town. I don't know if he was a lokko or creole. My mother has a family relationship with the Bankole Bright. one of Shaki Stevens' biography stated he was a creole.

Subject: Re: Is it true....
From: KLA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:05:15 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 164.82.85.3

Message:
"Herbert Bankole-Bright (23 August 1883 - 14 December
1958) was a politician in Sierra Leone.

Born in Okrika, then in Sierra Leone, Bright studied medicine at Edinburgh University before setting up a practice in Freetown"......Wiki

You then must find out where OKIRA IS.!!

Acole, you can always use the WIKI site as a serious research tool. NAH SO FOR CUT CASE.... in this age of the internet.

TSTM

Subject: Re: Is it true....
From: alcole
To: All
Date Posted: 15:45:15 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Thanks, WIKI site is always misleading, because they had Gibril Wilson place of birth as CA and he was born in Sierra Leone. My views are always from Georgetown University, Library Guyana.

Subject: Re: Is it true....
From: Contri
To: All
Date Posted: 09:54:34 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Your story has truth in it but not the whole truth. my great grandfather told me that there was an initial problems with the creales and the contri about jobs and who should be closer to the white man. The white man saw these wranglings and decided to take advantage of the situation. he first tried to con the creoles by refusing to accept them as educated people - was still trying to boss the educated creoles. the creoles could not have it. They decided to seek help from the contri forgetting the problems they've had. The whiteman knew this and went straight to contri and explained the creole plan not to educate the contri - the white man decided to help contri with their own schools and supported by the chiefs - the whiteman establish special schools for the children of the chiefs. Thus a big wedge between the creole and the contri. majority of the creole were selfish - only a few with foresight saw that 'nothing lasts forever - only in unity can a people stand. the catholics did the same - only their kind or you pretend to be their can get scholarships in their institutions.

So revisit your story and make the amendments. thanks for bringing up such an interesting topic.

Subject: February is black history month, next week Mende history
From: alcole
To: All
Date Posted: 09:08:58 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.74.168.162

Message:
History and Background of the Creoles

The Sierra Leone Creole (or Krios) are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone, descendants of various groups of freed slaves from the West Indies, North America and Britain landed in Freetown between 1787 and about 1855 (or possibly as late as 1860). The Krios live primarily in the Western Area of Sierra Leone, particulaly in the capital, Freetown and make up 3.5% of the country's total population. The Creole have been the subject of many social science books.

Like their Americo-Liberian neighbors, Krios are of considerable European ancestry because some of the African American and West Indian settlers were descended from American and European slave owners. Also, because of considerable intermarriage between the Europeans who settled in the colony and the settlers, many Krios have Caucasian ancestry. Alongside the Americo-Liberians, they are the only ethnic group of African American and West Indian descent inside West Africa.

The Krios speak a distinctive creole language, Krio, based on English and African languages. The Krio language is widely spoken throughout Sierra Leone.

The ancestors of the creole include the Black Poor (from England), Black Loyalists (from Nova Scotia), Black Nova Scotians (of African American ancestry) , Maroons (from Jamaica), West Indians (mainly from the Barbadian and Jamaican West India Regiment whose Second and Fourth divisions were disbanded in Sierra Leone in 1819 and numbered around April 1,030), and 38 African Americans who were taken there by Paul Cuffe (the thirty eight black Americans consisted of nine families mainly from Boston. The Elizabeth (Mayflower of Liberia) also left New York Harbor and transported another 86 African Americans to Freetown in 1820). Also in 1829, 85 Barbadian slaves were taken to Freetown, Sierra Leone and were at first convicts, but were later on released and became wealthy people in Freetown, Sierra Leone. These six major groups of freed people of color were known as the 'Settlers'. The Liberated Africans are also the ancestors of some of the Creoles and they provided an influx of new immigrants comprised of mainly Yorubas and Igbos. The 'recaptives' initially did not mix with the 'settlers' and did not intermarry. Various groups of African Americans and West Indians also kept on migrating to Freetown during the 19th century. Some creoles are of European and/or Native American (of which it is mostly Cherokee or Taino) ancestry through their 'Settler heritage'. The Creoles were traders and an elite class in Freetown and in Colonial Sierra Leone during the 19th century. Many creoles were educated abroad, and many also spread Christianity and their lingua franca throughout West Africa.

copy from
The History of Sierra Leone: A Concise Introduction by C. Magbaily Fyle

Subject: Re: February is black history month, next week Mende history
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 09:25:27 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83

Message:
Do you know that the Creoles are the only tribe in Africa today that are 100% literate?

Subject: Re: February is black history month, next week Mende history
From: Contri
To: All
Date Posted: 09:58:38 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: client-86-0-80-223.leed.adsl.virgin.net at 86.0.80.223

Message:
What is literacy? I know creoles - do not want to name names - with so much property and wealth - yet uneducated!! Revisit your statement.

Subject: Re: February is black history month, next week Mende history
From: alcole
To: All
Date Posted: 10:44:31 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: uslec-66-43-153-180.cust.uslec.net at 66.43.153.180

Message:
My black history month is not about creoles, it is about knowing ourselves and please don’t used this as negative, our kids are been born all over the world and they don’t know about our culture. I don’t want anyone to bring this as a tribal conversation. Read and let know about ourselves.
alcole
Georgetown, Guyana

Subject: Re: February is black history month, next week Mende history
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 10:19:09 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.237

Message:
Yeah, revisit your STATEMENT! Did you hear they say?

Subject: Tejan Cole email address
From: Madingo Man
To: All
Date Posted: 05:06:40 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.151.102.43

Message:
I have an English friend who wants to pass on some serious information to the ACC Commissioner Tejan-Cole. If any body has his email address can you pls make it availabe so that i can pass it on to him. It is for the good of our beloved country Sierra Leone.

Thank you.

Subject: Re: Tejan Cole email address
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:54 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
I do have his e mail address but I cannot divuldge it in a public forum. Send me an e mail to aiscandari@aol.com and I will forward it to him and copy you.

Subject: Re: Tejan Cole email address
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 11:09:12 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.85

Message:
I have ATC's personal email address but can't divulge it without his permission. However you may send your info to mammysweh@gmail.com and I will forward it. I don't know the ACC's email address.
Anyway, I will see him next week when he visits.

Subject: Re: Tejan Cole email address
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:17:28 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126

Message:
If you cant find ACC's email..
I bet if you gave it to tthe good reverend he will publish the story and have the ACC pick it up from there..

If the reverend will not publish because APC is indicted. AWARENESSTIMES BABY.. or NEW PEOPLE will investigate the story..

Your best bet.. if its scalping to SLPP cocorioko..
If its APC tiffman dem.. Awareness times or New people.

One Love, one nation.

Subject: Re: Tejan Cole email address
From: NEW PEOPLE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:24:44 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.237

Message:
New people my *******. This is the most useless sa lone site I ever see. They don't even have a decent site. All the links are broken and yet they are mouthy? So what's up with you guys? Can't you create a simple decent site before continue hallowing for the SLPP?

Subject: Re: Tejan Cole email address
From: New People Response
To: All
Date Posted: 18:29:24 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-76-254-113-217.dsl.hstntx.sbcglobal.net at 76.254.113.217

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Perhaps you need to check the New people web site again.

I think we should have alternative views and opposition and Sierra Leoneans home and abroad must have an opportunity to hear from right across the political spectrum.

This is no advertisement; it is just a bid to give a brother an alternative viewpoint.

Subject: Re: Tejan Cole email address
From: Police
To: All
Date Posted: 07:04:22 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2

Message:
Balackmail & revenge????Grow up now.

Subject: A Brotherly advice to Alpha Saidu Bangura
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 04:58:57 02/08/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Alpha Saidu Bangura,
I am addressing you openly on this forum to advice you to exercise great control when you are angry.There is o doubt in my mind that you are capable of being an excellent gentleman but I believe the problem is when you are mad, you do not control what you say and in the process you say things that are untrue only to deny saying them later. We have to be addressing these issues in public because COCORIOKO and this forum belong to the public, not even to me , who set them up. COCORIOKO is a public utility company, not a KABS KANU UTILITY COMPANY.That is why people even oppose and criticise me on this forum . Remember that COCORIOKO was first called THE PEOPLE'S DAILY NEWS-INQUIRER, before we changed it to COCORIOKO.

Yesterday morning, we had a discussion when you called me .I was lucky to get your call because I was just leaving one class and it was my free period. During the call, I scolded you seriously for something you did to me that I told you was not right. You were surprised because you did not know what you had done. I then took my time to explain to you what I thought you had done to me that was not right.I said that as a christian, it is my duty to tell people when they do something to me that was not right.

I told you that I had a discussion with Foday Mansaray the previous night and he told me that you had called him to complain that you had been banned from the forum. I told Foday that you had called me too but that I did not ban you and that I will investigate who banned you and find out the reasons and will take the appropriate decision , based on the facts. During that decision , Foday said you had made certain representations to him about him with regards to condemnations made of him . I told Foday point blank that I have never discussed COCORIOKO matters with you.The only thing I told you once was that COCORIOKO does not belong to the APC. This came about because you,Alpha Saidu, had been accusing me on this forum, on the AWARENESS FORUM and on the SLPP FORUM that Cocorioko was an APC NEWSPAPER.Your assertions were so persistent and you had made them public and I had to correct you in the interest of my integrity and the paper's credibility.

I do recall our discussion well.You had called me to make angry protests that an article you wrote about the APC Leader , Ernest Koroma , had been removed from COCORIOKO. You wanted to know why because you were expressing your candid opinions to which you were entitled.You then accused me of being biased in favour of the APC . AT THAT TIME, ALEX MANSARAY WAS THE CEO OF COCORIOKO .REMEMBER ? you said you were advising me as a brother. Your advice was exactly this(WORDS TO THIS EFFECT ) : "Boss Kabs, you have established great respect and credibility as a journalist all over the world. Your newspaper, as you can see, is the best source of news about Sierra Leone. Wherever I go, people say very good things about you , but the only problem lately is that people are saying that the paper has become an APC paper . I myself am veey concerned about that because I love the paper and I respect you , but I want to believe what people are saying because you give more coverage to the APC than the SLPP and you ban more people associated with the SLPP from your forum than APC members.I am MUSLIM . When I die I will be the only person in my grave.I will not hesitate to tell you the truth. Boss Kabs, don't blame me for writing in the other forums that Cocorioko is APC . We even hear that there is one member of the APC going around telling people that Cocorioko belongs to him; he decides what goes into Cocorioko --If he does not want any article in Cocorioko it will not be published -and everybody on Cocorioko is working for him. This is very bad for democracy in Sierra Leone and I am very hurt because you, Boss Kabs, has come to be somebody we had all put our trust and confidence in that you are promoting democracy in Sierra Leone. Why should you sell out at this time ? These are my concerns ". WORDS TO THIS EFFECT.

That was when I clarified to you , as the Publisher and Editor-In-Chief , that COCORIOKO was not an APC paper and nobody was on the payroll of any APC member. I said it was not right for anybody to tell you that we were working for him because it was not true. I said that I was promoting Ernest Koroma because I had profound respect and trust in his integrity and commitment , having been his college mate at FBC in the 70s . I said Ernest Koroma presented the best hope for positive change in Sierra Leone.I still believe that and that is why I am behind the man. I know that he will bring lots of positive changes to Sierra Leone if given a chance.He will make mistakes , like any human being , but on the whole he will make a big difference for the better and everybody will be happy with him at the end (As long as he does not listen to bad advisers).

You will admit , for the sake of your God, our God and everybody's God , that the name FODAY MANSARAY never appeared in our discussion,because Foday had never even joined COCORIOKO then. Even you admitted to me today that YOU NEVER TOLD FODAY MANSARAY ANYTHING about his name being ever mentioned .You said Foday had sent you a note,asking you to call him and when you did, he set upon you, attacking you for attacking his mother in the forum when it was published that she had returned from Mecca. You said you told him pointedly that you did it because it was not Foday's mum alone in Somerset,NJ that went to Mecca. You said Aliru Bakarr , a noted member of the Somerset Muslim Jamaat and others also went on the Hajj and that COCORIOKO should have reported about them too and not singled out his mother. You said all your discussions were based on what you thought were not being done right by COCORIOKO. I asked you over and over and over whether you were sure that you made no other misrepresentations to Foday with reference to me. You assured me fully that you did not and we were even supposed to have put Foday on the line today for you to debunk his statements to me. When I came home from school, I was tired and "crashed" and overslept.That was the only reason we did not call Foday.

Alpha Saidu, I have no reason to hate you or keep you out of this forum because I have nothing against you as a human being but as I also told you today, you have to be careful about the things you say and write when you are angry. THE BIBLE clearly warns in the book of JAMES that if any man says he is religious and cannot bridle his tongue, that man's religion is vain. (James 1: 26). Take your time to also read the whole of Chapter 3. I have no reason to doubt your commitment to Allah. I am only advising you to be careful what you say when you are angry.

You have to stop saying things against Allieu Iscandari that are not right. You can criticize his views but stop attacking his family and also stop making personal attacks on him.

You have to stop writing things that are not true.Do not pass on to people what others did not tell you about them. This brings conflicts in the society. I can see that at times you don't mean to do it but it happens because you don't control yourself when you get angry.

You have to control what you say because these things do come to haunt you back. Say only something you can defend in the future.

After our discussion today,when you denied ever misrepresenting my name to Foday, I asked FORUM POLICE to free the IP of the computer you said other Sierra Leoneans use. Since you denied using the moniker that was banned, I decided to give you a second chance. That was at 10 am . Well, I gave you the benefit of the doubt. That will show you that we are democratic. But that was also before I woke up tonight to read that you were having another problem--This time with Foday himself.

Let me make this clear to you that you cannot disrespect any member of COCORIOKO on this forum. You response to Foday was deleted because it was disrespectful to him as the Chair of the Cocorioko Board and again you did not think before writing because you repeated something YOU HAD SWORN TO ME TODAY (AND WAS PREPARED TO CHALLENGE FODAY ON THE PHONE ABOUT )THAT YOU NEVER TOLD HIM. You have to stop confusing people. Do not say one thing, deny it and say it again. You are confusing others and creating conflicts. Learn to promote good relations between people. Do not knowingly create conflict between people.

Alpha Saidu, all these contradictions are the fact that you do not control what you say when you get angry. My frank advice to you is before you respond to people next, count up to 10. You may be a fine gentleman. Whenever I talk with you, I notice from the tone of your voice and your statements that you are respectful to me and you are a decent man , but my problem with you is your thoughtless statements online about other people.

Drop this obsession about who owns Cocorioko.

For the benefit of our readers and yourself, COCORIOKO does not belong even to me or the APC or to anybody in particular.I set up COCORIOKO and I did it to give the public a vehicle to express their views.If you don't see SLPP articles in the paper, it is because no SLPP man sends articles to me as they used to do. Cocorioko IS A PEOPLE'S NEWSPAPER. It belongs to the people. It belongs to you too if you have the right attitude.

Also let me make this clear to you that nobody dictates what I write. I am a free man of the realm since my birth.Those who knew me at CKC and FBC and throughtout life know that I can never be anybody's stooge. I am only promoting Ernest Koroma because I believe he is the best prospect for positive change and socio-political and economic development in Sierra Leone presently.

I hope you will listen to my kind and brotherly advice and give people a break. Try to write on issues , not individuals . May God bless you.

Subject: REV. KABS KANU, WHO DO YOU CHOOSE TO SERVE, GOD OR FODAY .
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 17:58:19 02/08/08 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: c-69-140-129-75.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.129.75