Subject: Sierra Leone: Fish Shortage Rocks Freetown Markets
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Sierra Leone: Fish Shortage Rocks Freetown Markets
Concord Times (Freetown)
27 February 2008
Posted to the web 26 February 2008
Ben Samuel Turay
Freetown
The Secretary General of the Krootown Road Market Association (KMA) who is also a fish trader Monday said they have observed a significant shortage in the supply of fish to markets.
Explaining the situation through her experience, Ramatu Bangura said she bought a carton of bonga fish for Le 8,000 last year but now, its price has increased to Le 33,000 "and I have to make profit," she said adding that she has been having problems with her customers because of the increment in price.
On what could have been responsible for the price increase and afterward, shortage in the commodity, Bangura said they observed that fishermen are paying high taxes and that the increase in the price of fuel also contributed to the shooting up of fish price.
A sampled view of consumers revealed that many homes in Freetown are now wondering on how best to get fish in their meals. A resident of Freetown, Zainab Bolloh explains how some of them have been grappling with the increase in the price of fish. "This increase came in a manner nobody could explain and many people can't afford the current cost of fishes in the markets," she said.
"The common fish which is bonga was sold at three pieces for Le 2,000 some time ago and the current amount is Le 1,500 for one," Bolloh said.
She added that 2008 is a bad year for Sierra Leoneans as the cost of living is becoming difficult every day as price of commodities keeps skyrocketing.
A fisherman at government wharf, Santigi Kabbia said they pay taxes before going out to fish and most times they catch only a small quantity of fish and thus sell them at a high price. "Fuel is another aspect that is giving us problem," Kabia said.
A student of Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), Alex Favil Cline said the government should monitor the fishing industries to try and know their problems.
"My girlfriend goes to the market and everyday comes home grumbling about the increment in the prices of commodities. I think a reduction in the prices of commodities should be the government's first priority," Cline said. "Issues like light is also important but food comes first," he concluded.
Subject: APC website
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Subject: New People Proves Credibility
From: Neutral Man
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Date Posted: 05:25:38 02/27/08 ()
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We are sometimes hostile to opposition leaning papers but New People has over the few months online have broken stories that other papers find difficult to get. Most if not all of these tories have been true. I remember the story below in december and we all condemned them for reporting false stories. Cocorioko is also guilty of that condemnation. Should Kabs-Kanu apologize to New People? They have proven to be very effective in getting APC inside information that are damaging. Read the report below.
http://www.thenewpeople.com/080226army.htm
Subject: PROTEST AGAINST NAGGING
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 04:29:53 02/27/08 ()
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It's about time we make it known to these complaining SLPP "skirts" that we are tired of their nagging about what Siaka Stevens did to them 40 years ago.
Please respond to this message as a protest against SLPP nagging. By doing so, we hope they will come to the realization that this is 2008 and Siaka is not E-R-N-E-S-T.
Subject: Re: PROTEST AGAINST NAGGING
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Subject: Re: PROTEST AGAINST NAGGING
From: JOE LAHAI
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Date Posted: 05:01:33 02/27/08 ()
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ERNEST IS WORSE THAN SHAKI, BECAUSE WHILE SHAKI RECRUITED AND USED CRUDE/RAW LIMBA MAMPAMA TAPPERS AS HIS ATTACK DOGS, ERNEST HAS RECRUITED AND USED CERTIFIED AFRC/RUF LOOTERS, ARSONISTS, RAPISTS, BROAD DAYLIGHT ASSASINS AND DRUG ADDICTS AS BODYGUARDS AND APC ATTACK DOGS. POINTS OF REFERENCE: THOSE MURDERED FULA BUSINESS MEN, PASTOR CONTEH OF BROOKFIELDS, THOSE FULANI HERDSMEN IN KAMBIA DISTRICT
Subject: Re: PROTEST AGAINST NAGGING
From: David Bangura
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Date Posted: 07:28:31 02/27/08 ()
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These are the kind of irresponsible people of Sierra leone. This people dont look at things objectively, they always look at things from the point of view of a tribal sentiment. It is too scarery to see Ernest sourronding himself with those thurgs. You cannot be assuring people with unity and at the same time doing things contrary to what you are saying. Look at the recent incident that took place around APC head office
in freetown. We understand the jeep which those thurgs used for the operation belong to he Ernest Koroma and that his own very brother was a key player in the molestation of the people. What kind of backward thinking is that? You think you can do anything you like because your brother is a president? Ernest Koroma need to put his foot down if he want people to treat him seriously.
Look at the other thing that happened at the lungi airport, why would they denied the former vice president access to the lounge that is provided for dignitaries of the country? Does Ernest Koroma want to say that he does not know anything about that? If so, then somebody else is running the country for him.That country is still not stable, as long as things like these are happening.
Subject: Re: PROTEST AGAINST NAGGING
From: JOE LAHAI
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Date Posted: 07:57:44 02/27/08 ()
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MR DAVID BANGURA, I UNDERSTAND YOUR FRUSTRATION. UNFORTUNATELY, ERNEST KOROMA CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. HE'S NOT IN CONTROL OF ANYTHING. HE'S A BUFFON, LIKE MOMOH. HOW CAN A MAN WHO CALLS HIMSELF PRESIDENT ALLOW HIS OWN BROTHER TO BRUTALISE HIS OWN PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR HIM, USING HIS OWN JEEP? IT BEATS MY IMAGINATION
Subject: Re: PROTEST AGAINST NAGGING
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 09:28:32 02/27/08 ()
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APC was full of crap in the 60's and it is full of even more crap today.
Subject: Re: PROTEST AGAINST NAGGING
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SOON THE APC WILL FALL FLAT ON IT`S FACE
NAR U SABI
Subject: Beware of Solomon Musa - Kailahun District Elections
From: Albert Moinina
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This is public information that I would like to share with the forum. I understand Mr. Musa is vying for the District Chairmanship of Kailahun. PLEASE BEWARE.
CAAR000011/1999
CAAR 11/1999
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF APPEAL
APPLICATION FOR REVIEW NO. 11 OF 1999
(ON APPEAL FROM DCCC 264 OF 1999)
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BETWEEN
THE SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE Applicant
AND
SOLOMON DOMINIC MUSA Respondent
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Coram: Hon Stuart-Moore Ag CJHC, Mayo VP & Stock JA
Date of Hearing: 15 December 2000
Date of Judgment: 15 December 2000
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J U D G M E N T
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Stuart-Moore Ag CJHC (giving the judgment of the Court):
Introduction
1. On 18 November 1999, the Respondent was convicted, following a trial before Judge Muttrie in the District Court, of attempting to transfer a travel document to another, contrary to section 159G of the Crimes Ordinance, Cap. 200, and section 42(2)(a)(ii) of the Immigration Ordinance, Cap. 115.
2. Following conviction, the judge imposed a sentence of three years' imprisonment. The Secretary for Justice (the Applicant) now applies to this court for a review of sentence pursuant to section 81A of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, Cap. 221, leave having been granted by the Chief Judge on 9 December 1999.
3. The particulars of the charge which the Respondent faced were that he, without reasonable excuse, attempted to transfer travel documents to Michael Squires, an ICAC Chief Investigator (known to the Respondent as Michael Miller), namely three Sierra Leonean diplomatic passports.
4. The maximum penalty for an offence such as this is imprisonment for fourteen years and a fine of $150,000. An alternative charge of accepting an advantage as an agent, contrary to section 9(1)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, Cap. 201, was not considered by the judge in his Reasons for Verdict in the light of the conviction on the first charge. We are told that it was this alternative charge carrying a maximum of seven years' imprisonment which was originally transferred to the District Court. The charge to which the Respondent pleaded guilty had been added later to the amended charge sheet which is now before us.
Prosecution's case
5. The Respondent was the Principal Immigration Officer of the Government of the Republic of Sierra Leone. This made him the most senior official in that country's Immigration Department. The allegation against him in brief was that he attempted to sell three diplomatic passports which had been issued in Sierra Leone to an undercover ICAC officer for the sum of US$540,000.
6. The Respondent came to Hong Kong in February 1999, and on 26 February, he met Michael Squires (PW3), a Chief Investigator of ICAC, who was working under the name "Michael Miller". He was posing as a businessman operating a courier service. The Respondent was offering to sell diplomatic passports which would enable the holders of such passports to avoid customs' inspections. PW3 had a concealed tape-recorder to record their meeting at a well known hotel. A second meeting took place a few days later on 3 March in a room at a different hotel which, on this occasion, was video-taped by means of a concealed camera. For part of the time, a third man, who was calling himself "Simon Stone" and who, we are told, was also an ICAC operative, was present as well. Simon Stone had introduced the Respondent to PW3.
7. The judge summed up the background to these meetings, starting with the events at the first hotel, as follows:
"(PW3) told the defendant that he was a businessman, engaged in conveying various articles from Thailand to other places. He understood that the defendant had passports for sale. The defendant confirmed that he had diplomatic passports of Sierra Leone which he was prepared to sell. He said that he was a senior civil servant in Sierra Leone and responsible for issuing passports there. He offered passports for sale at ¡ê120,000 sterling each. He told the witness that the passports could be used safely because he would make arrangements for the details of the holder to be recorded in Sierra Leone. (PW3) asked if he could make use of false names in the passports and the defendant said that that would be all right. He said that the use of the passports would allow the passport holder to claim diplomatic privilege so that his bags would not be searched."
8. PW3 was then taken to the Respondent's room in the hotel where the Respondent showed PW3 his own service and diplomatic passports, together with a considerable number of ordinary passports and three diplomatic passports. The majority of these genuine passports were in blank form. The Respondent said that he was willing to sell the three diplomatic passports. He showed PW3 a large metal seal which he said he had been given to use in the course of his duties. He undertook to give the seal to PW3 in the event that he bought the passports so that PW3 could complete the passport in any name that was chosen. The Respondent also showed PW3 photocopies of other diplomatic passports which two bankers were said to be buying from him. The Respondent assured PW3 that the passports were reliable because they would be registered with the Government of Sierra Leone. He also said he would need to use some of the money used to purchase them towards payments to other members of the Government of Sierra Leone. In addition, the Respondent made clear his intention to provide forged naturalisation certificates to support the validity of the passports. PW3 then agreed to buy the three diplomatic passports.
9. On 3 March 1999, when PW3 and Simon Stone met the Respondent at about 10.00 a.m. in the second hotel, PW3 produced photographs of three persons saying that they were his employees. PW3 then asked how the passports should be made up to avoid the risk of damaging them. The Respondent then set a photograph into one of the diplomatic passports, laminated it and sealed it with the embossing seal. We have seen this passport today and it was most professionally done. PW3 then showed the Respondent his briefcase which contained some United States currency and he asked Simon Stone to collect the balance of US$540,000 which was said to be in the hotel safe. Simon Stone then left the room ostensibly for the purpose of bringing back the money but he returned with other officers who arrested the Respondent. The video-recording supported this account of matters, and recorded other details given by the Respondent as to how the false passports should be filled out.
10. After his arrest, the Respondent was questioned. At first, he denied having had any dealings with PW3. He denied trying to sell passports and later explained that Mr Miller (PW3) was the business partner of Simon Stone. He said, for reasons which will become apparent, that he was trying to convince PW3 that Simon Stone had "done nothing wrong". In effect, he said he had been trying to give a demonstration of genuine passports. He denied having any knowledge of any money at the meeting in the second hotel. The Respondent then went on to say, as the Reasons for Verdict concisely show, that:
".... he was himself in Hong Kong at the invitation of his country's ambassador to testify in a matter before the Hong Kong courts concerning a Sierra Leone passport issued to Stone, which was alleged to have been obtained unlawfully. He was also to deal with the Hong Kong Immigration Department and various other persons, regarding passports which had been issued under his country's investment immigration programme, and to see whether these had been properly issued. He explained this programme which in effect allowed outsiders to become naturalised as citizens of Sierra Leone, and to hold passports from that country, in exchange for investment there. He mentioned a Mr Frank Yiu who had been appointed by his government to run this programme in Hong Kong."
Defence case
11. The judge rejected the Respondent's defence of acting with a reasonable excuse. The Respondent had made out in his evidence in the court below that he was recruiting an "honorary consul" on behalf of his Government and, in pursuance of this, that he was lawfully issuing a diplomatic passport. The judge had heard evidence from PW3 that during the earlier meeting on 26 February 1999, PW3 had told the Respondent:
".... you see the problem is this is that .... my friend Simon was stopped at immigration check point. He was arrested, searched .... and so on..... Now I can't afford that to happen.... Because, if my people, and I'm interested not so much to myself but some of my .... associates. If my people was stopped .... and searched it would be, at least, embarrassing .... And if they were stopped and searched in the wrong country, it would be potentially fatal. So, I need (know) that ... is not going to happen. Now, how can I be assured of that?
(Respondent): Yeah, I would not .... tell a lie in that, yeah. All I know is this, that's one the document I give you .... internationally recognized. The thing which I give you ... alright.
(PW3): So, you have a diplomatic passport?
(Respondent): I do.
(PW3): Yeah, O.K.
(Respondent): O.K. I'm the head of the department."
12. Part of the gravity of this case is revealed by the last answer because, of course, anyone with immigration difficulties arising from the use of these diplomatic passports would have been able to refer the matter not merely to someone in the Immigration Department connected to the Sierra Leone Government but to the person who was actually in charge, namely this Respondent.
13. The judge, in rejecting the defence case, found that the Respondent was using a set of false documents in return for a very large sum of money. Whatever legitimate business had brought the Respondent to Hong Kong, this was not part of it. It is also implicit from the Reasons for Verdict that the Respondent knew, when he committed the offence, that the person to whom he was selling the passports would be inserting false particulars of the passport holders' identities and that these would be used to facilitate international criminal activity. Two of the passports were to be sold in blank form and one of them had had the photograph inserted by the Respondent at the request of PW3. The passports were to be sold together with naturalisation certificates which the Respondent said, no doubt to add credence to the travel documents, would be backdated to 1995. Furthermore, he had provided an official seal of the Sierra Leonean Government as part of the illegal transaction. The Respondent had assured the purchaser that the passports would be registered with the Government of his country, and that some members of his Government would be bribed to ensure that the passports would be accepted as genuine.
Mitigation
14. The Respondent's mitigation in the court below rested heavily on his personal circumstances, in particular his lost status in his home country and his sense of solitude and his inability to converse with anyone except in English when so far away from Sierra Leone. Secondly, it was said that he was not in the best of health. The third matter raised in mitigation has been strongly relied upon by Mr John Dunn who now represents the Respondent. This related to an element of 'entrapment' which counsel who acted for the Respondent in the court below suggested was something which could properly be taken into account as a mitigating factor. On this basis, counsel who appeared before the District Court judge had sought a discount to the sentence which would normally have been passed as a reflection of the Respondent's reduced moral culpability.
Sentencing considerations
15. In passing sentence, the judge was well aware of a number of aggravating factors. First and foremost, the Respondent was a very senior official of a foreign government with authority to issue passports himself and with access to genuine passports and other government items such as certificates of naturalisation and official seals.
16. Secondly, the passports, certificates and seals were all genuine and the Respondent was able to put in place suitable arrangements to ensure that the documents would be recognised by the Sierra Leonean Government once they had been purchased. This was crucial to their international acceptance and was a key factor in making them high value items.
17. Thirdly, as the Respondent well knew, the value of diplomatic passports lay in the immunity from search which they provide to their holders which extends, of course, to the sealed diplomatic bag or bags they might carry with them. The knowledge of their value was evidenced by the very high price he was asking for these three documents.
18. Fourthly, and arising directly from the second and third aggravating features, the Respondent was aware that the person to whom he was trying to sell the diplomatic passports was apparently buying them because he was involved in international criminal activity. This activity may, for all the Respondent knew, have been trafficking in drugs or in arms or have been connected to terrorist activities.
19. With these factors in mind, taken together with the mitigation, the judge took a four-year starting point and reduced this to a sentence of three years' imprisonment.
The Application
20. Mr Ryan, on the Applicant's behalf, submitted that the sentencing judge had not paid sufficient regard to the gravity of the offence or, most significantly in the present context, the impact of the Respondent's offence on the international community. This conduct would not only have impacted on Hong Kong but on every country in which diplomatic passports might have been used to gain entry without a search of the holder. In this context, it is to be noted that the Respondent also had in his possession a number of ordinary passports but it was not these which he was selling to PW3. Mr Ryan submitted that the sentence should have reflected the danger posed to other nations by the Respondent's conduct as well as compliance with the principle of the comity of nations by the courts in Hong Kong. As to this principle, Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law (2nd ed.) defines the "comity of nations" as:
"... that body of rules which States observe towards one another from courtesy or mutual convenience, although they do not form part of international law. It is derived altogether from voluntary consent, and is inadmissible when it is contrary to the State's known policy or prejudicial to its interests. In the absence of any positive rule affirming or denying or restraining the operation of foreign laws, courts of justice presume the tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless repugnant to its policy or prejudicial to its interests."
21. Bokhary J (as he then was) in The Queen v Raquel M. Garcia (1990) 1 HKLR 599 at 601G said in a helpful passage regarding the approach taken by the courts to the comity of nations:
"There is a mutual responsibility shared by all nations in regard to the proper identification and legitimate control of persons moving across international boundaries. There are very good reasons - even in the best of times - why this is important. And nowadays - with the rapid movement of ordinary criminals and worse throughout the world - these things have become even more important. That is why these matters always have to be regarded seriously and certainly investigated thoroughly."
22. We respectfully endorse those remarks. In the present case, the Respondent was an active participant, said Mr Ryan, in an illegal passport racket using a position of considerable influence to sell diplomatic passports to those who could afford to pay a high price for them. His offence was obviously far more serious than the kind of offence committed by a person who is in possession of a false passport for his own use.
23. It was in these circumstances that Mr Ryan submitted that the sentence was manifestly inadequate. It was his contention that the judge, while admittedly having referred to the maximum sentence available for an offence of this kind, had nevertheless paid little regard to the legislative intent for an offence of this gravity. As Mr Ryan pointed out, the sentencing judge had relied to an extent on the judgment given by Power VP in Secretary for Justice v Tsui Kim-ming, Simon CAAR 4/1997 (unreported) for the purpose of assisting him in the determination of an appropriate starting point for sentence in the present case. In Tsui Kim-ming, the respondent had successfully taken immigrants to England on four occasions. He was caught as he tried to take a fifth person to the same destination by posing as the husband of a woman who was using his real wife's British passport. He pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the use of an unlawfully obtained travel document and aiding and abetting the use of an identification card relating to another. The remaining four pairs of offences in the sequence were taken into consideration. In that case, the sentencing judge had adopted an overall starting point of two years' imprisonment which he reduced to a total of fifteen months having regard to the mitigation. The Court of Appeal took the view that a starting point of four and a half years would have been appropriate and, but for the fact that it was a review, would have imposed a sentence of three years' imprisonment taking into account that it was a plea of guilty. The court found in that case that the offences were premeditated and committed for financial gain, deceiving the authorities on four occasions.
24. In the present case, the sentencing judge took the view that the offence was "more serious" than the offences disclosed in the example of Tsui Kim-ming because of the facility being provided by the Respondent to drug and contraband smugglers "rather than simple illegal immigration". We agree with this sentiment but, despite this assessment, the judge then adopted a lower starting point (four years' imprisonment) than the Court of Appeal had stated was appropriate in Tsui Kim-ming.
25. The judge outlined the mitigating factors before eventually sentencing the Respondent to three years saying, amongst other things:
"I accept that the defendant has a clear record. He had an important position in his own country which he will no doubt now lose because of this offence. He is an African from Sierra Leone and only speaks the language of that country and English. Prison in Hong Kong, amongst an almost entirely Chinese and non-English-speaking prison population, can be expected to be hard on an African. I do not know whether there is any agreement between Hong Kong and Sierra Leone which may allow him to be transferred home by order of the Chief Executive under the provisions of the Transfer of Sentenced Persons Ordinance. I can take his foreignness into account. I can, I think, also take into account that he is not a well man, and was unable to continue with his trial for one day because of hypertension. In view of his own particular personal circumstances, I propose to allow a reduction of 1 year."
26. In effect, the Respondent had been given a discount of 25% to allow for those matters which had been raised in mitigation.
Respondent's submissions
27. Mr Dunn rightly submitted that nowhere in the Reasons for Sentence had the judge made any reference to the 'entrapment' element which he suggested formed the background to this case, despite the fact that it had been specifically referred to in mitigation. He argued, therefore, that we should act on the assumption that the judge had taken this element of the mitigation into account in arriving at a four-year starting point before the judge made a further reduction to take into account the Respondent's personal situation.
28. Mr Dunn reminded us that Lord Scarman, adopting what had been said in R v Birtles (1969) 2 All ER 1131n and (1969) 1 WLR at 1047, when delivering his opinion in R v Sang (1979) 2 All ER 1222 at 1243, had said:
"It would be wrong in principle to import into our law a defence of entrapment. Incitement is no defence in law for the person incited the crime, even though the inciter is himself guilty of crime and may be far the more culpable. It would confuse the law and create unjust distinctions if incitement by a policeman or an official exculpated him whom they incited to crime whereas incitement by others, perhaps exercising much greater influence, did not. There are other more direct, less anomalous, ways of controlling police and official activity than by introducing so dubious a defence into the law. The true relevance of official entrapment into the commission of crime is on the question of sentence when its mitigating value may be high: see R v Birtles."
29. Mr Dunn submitted that not infrequently the courts are to be seen giving a discount to an offender who has been entrapped. As one example, he cited HKSAR v Daswani Anil Shewakram CACC 253/1997 (unreported). In that case, the trial judge had ignored the mitigation relating to entrapment. It is, we are bound to say, far from clear from the judgment why the so-called entrapment should have attracted any reduction in sentence. The mere fact that it was mentioned in mitigation obviously does not give rise to an automatic requirement to give a discount unless the entrapment provides mitigation along well defined lines to which we shall shortly turn. Furthermore, in Daswani Anil Shewakram, this court appears to have overlooked the fact that the sentencing judge had taken an eight-year starting point before he reduced this by one-third to five years and four months to take into account the pleas of guilty. As Mr Dunn pointed out, the court in that case appeared to have thought that a 50% discount for entrapment was appropriate but, if so, it seems to us that the court went on to discount the sentence, which had already been discounted by a third, by a further 50%, leaving the applicant in that case with a sentence of two years and eight months to serve.
30. Unsatisfactory though the decision in Daswani Anil Shewakram clearly was, Mr Dunn's point remains a valid one. Where entrapment establishes a lower blameworthiness on the part of an offender, a lower sentence than would normally be imposed should be given.
Conclusion
31. One of the questions we have asked ourselves is whether in the present case the Respondent was somebody who should have benefitted on sentence as the result of the way in which he was caught in a trap. We have already made reference to the way the Respondent behaved when he first met PW3. It is apparent to us that no criticism attached to PW3's conduct. His duty was to carry out an investigation into a potentially serious passport racket. In carrying out that duty, what he had said to the Respondent was:
".... I've got a group of associates who involve themselves in .... shall we say .... a courier service. And .... basically, they run a private courier service and doing various commodities. And .... it's so useful on occasions for us to be able to go to .... government facilities .... not bother with ... the irregularities that you will get when you go on a normal visa .... Simon tells me that you might have available, ... diplomatic passports of your country .... My problem is that .... I know that Simon has got a passport from your country and I heard that Simon has had a great deal of difficulties at the moment."
32. We were reminded of the way in which Barker JA expressed the position, when dealing with entrapment, in R v Liu Chun-fai (1987) HKLR 1032 at 1035G-J where he said:
"So there is a fundamental distinction between police incitement which results in the commission of the offence or perhaps a more serious offence and undercover police investigation, which may be absolutely essential in certain types of crime if the police are to do their work properly.
The sale to the police officer in this case would not have taken place if the police officer had not been there. It would not have taken place if the man knew he was a police officer. But the real question is whether it would have taken place to somebody else if it had not taken place to this police officer .... We conclude therefore that there is no substance in the suggestion that the police conduct here constituted entrapment. Therefore their conduct was not a mitigating factor as far as the applicant was concerned."
33. The matter was also covered in a very brief passage in HKSAR v Kai Chi-chung & Anor. CACC 259/1997 Power VP said:
"What a sentencing court must ask itself is whether there was any real likelihood that the appellant was encouraged to commit an offence, which he would not otherwise have committed. In the present case we say without hesitation that there was no such likelihood. When the police officer posed as a customer hoping to purchase drugs he was setting a legitimate trap. There was, we are satisfied, no element of entrapment in the present case such as would attract any discount from the proper sentence."
34. We can put it, perhaps, even more shortly. A "legitimate trap" is not to be equated with entrapment.
35. The Respondent, who was 46 at the time of this offence, was in our view at no stage encouraged to commit a crime which he would not otherwise have committed. On the contrary, the Respondent named his price, ¡ê120,000 sterling for each passport, and showed PW3 the equipment he had with him to turn the passports into valid travel documents for whoever needed them. The inquiry made by PW3 revealed the Respondent to have been ready to find a willing buyer, whoever he may have been.
36. Bearing in mind the gravity of the offence, in our view none of the factors which the judge took into account in mitigation should significantly have affected the sentence he imposed. If entrapment was a factor he took into account, and it is unfortunate that the judge was silent on the topic, he should not have done so in the particular circumstances which pertained here. The Respondent had abused his high office while on a visit to Hong Kong on what was ostensibly a legitimate visit and the consequences of his actions were of his own doing and no doubt motivated by personal greed.
37. In our view, the sentence for this offence required a substantial deterrent element. We are equally in no doubt that the sentence of three years' imprisonment failed to provide a deterrent effect and was unduly lenient bearing in mind the maximum level of imprisonment which is provided for such offences taken together with the circumstances in which this offence was committed. These circumstances provide an insight into the considerable abuse of power by a corrupt and very senior official of a foreign government who occupied a position of great trust. It is plain that the Respondent paid scant regard to the potentially widespread damage which could have flowed from his actions both in terms of the criminality that he was promoting on the part of others once they took possession of the diplomatic passports and as regards the respect with which all nations treat the holders of diplomatic passports.
38. In our view, a proper starting point should have been not less than ten years' imprisonment. As the jurisdictional limit in the District Court is seven years, we shall impose that sentence by way of substitution upon the Respondent. He would normally have received a sentence of at least ten years and so he had already derived significant benefit from the fact that these proceedings were conducted in the District Court. For that reason, we cannot see that any further discount can be justified.
39. This application therefore succeeds. The sentence is varied from three years' imprisonment to one of seven years.
(M. Stuart-Moore) (Simon Mayo) (Frank Stock)
Ag Chief Judge, HC Vice-President Justice of Appeal
Representation:
Mr Bernard Ryan, SADPP and Mr Joseph To, SGC, of the Department of Justice, for the Applicant.
Mr John Dunn, instructed by the Legal Aid Department, for the Respondent.
Subject: Re: Beware of Solomon Musa - Kailahun District Elections
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 05:58:54 02/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.242.150.96
Message:
If you all you said is true, then it must be made clear that such people need not stand for public office. We must not encourage economic criminals.
Subject: Re: Beware of Solomon Musa - Kailahun District Elections
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 05:15:01 02/27/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
YES, ALBERT MOININA, YOUR POSTING IS ACCURATE. SOLO MUSA WAS MY COLLEGE MATE AT FBC DURING THE LATE 70s AND EARLY 80s. HE RAN FOR THE STUDENTS UNION PRESIDENCY IN 1982/83 AND LOST TO SAHR J B NGAYENGA. HE WAS ELOQUENT AND POPULAR, BUT LOST BECAUSE STUDENTS DID NOT TRUST HIM WITH THEIR MONEY.
I'M NOT THE LEAST SURPRISED THAT HE'S RUNNING ON AN APC TICKET. THE APC IS FULL OF SHADY CHARACTERS
Subject: Re: Beware of Solomon Musa - Kailahun District Elections
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 05:56:35 02/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.242.150.96
Message:
You'll never cease to amaze me. The subject is completely different from what you are lamenting about.
I'm surprise to hear you say you actually went to FBC.
What really happened? did you qualify or were you thrown out. Because it doesn't reflect according to your responses as someone with the above status.
Subject: Re: Beware of Solomon Musa - Kailahun District Elections
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 07:15:49 02/27/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MR APC EDIE GRANT, I ENTERED FOURAH BAY COLLEGE IN 1979/80, STUDIED FOR, AND OBTAINED AN HONOURS DEGREE IN GEOGRAPHY(1984/85). I ALSO READ FOR, AND OBTAINED A POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION FROM THE SAME COLLEGE IN 1985/86. IN ADDITION TO THAT, I HOLD AN MPHIL FROM STRATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY, SCOTLAND.
SEE WHY I CAN SPELL CORRECTLY AND YOU CAN'T? I AM A SOUTHERNER, YOU KNOW. WHILE WE GO TO SCHOOL, YOU "SELL PANCAKE" ALONG ROGBANE ROAD, OR "DIG DIAMOND" IN IN SUMBUYA - DAMN BLOODY "SAN-SAN BOY"
Subject: Re: Beware of Solomon Musa - Kailahun District Elections
From: medkay
To: All
Date Posted: 05:48:33 02/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.77.241.242
Message:
Mr.JOE LAHAI you are my senior but you a disgrace to be a sierra leonean you tribal efulefu.
Subject: Re: Beware of Solomon Musa - Kailahun District Elections
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 07:27:31 02/27/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MY CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR COUNTRY SPEAKS VOLUMES. SOME OF YOU CAN ONLY SURVIVE WHEN A PARTY LIKE THE APC IS IN STATE HOUSE, INCLUDING MEDIOCRES LIKE EDIE APC GRANT AND THAT BI-SEXUAL FOOL PARADING HIMSELF AS EBK'S PRESS SECRETARY
Subject: Re: Beware of Solomon Musa - Kailahun District Elections
From: medkay
To: All
Date Posted: 07:50:07 02/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 161.red-88-22-26.staticip.rima-tde.net at 88.22.26.161
Message:
Mr.JOE LIE LIE you are a real sycophant who doesnt know where you are heading to.Your contribution is only to write about a succesful government that is only five month old and doing a herculan task that your own dommy party fail to do during your eleven to seventeen years of a fail government,that only bent on promoting south and south east tribalim,outdated court cases,to show educated failures.Bring development and awareness to our people not grieviances,you low thinker JOE LIE LIE.
Subject: Re: Beware of Solomon Musa - Kailahun District Elections
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 08:27:14 02/27/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
STOP THAT STREET TRADING YOU'RE DOING AND HEAD BACK TO SCHOOL. YOU DAMN IDIOT
Subject: No doubt! You better believe that.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:21:52 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-155-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.155.25
Message:
President Ernest Koroma is very popular in Sierra Leone , says popular Businessman
Written by Cocorioko Newspaper Limited
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
The President of Sierra Leone , Dr. Ernest Koroma, is very popular in Sierra Leone and everywhere he goes, the outbursts of public enthusiasm and fanaticism are unimaginable , a famous Sierra Leonean businessman of New York , Mr. Abdulai Barrie, who has just returned from Freetown , told COCORIOKO in an exclusive interview today. And Abdulai Barrie views have been backed by many people from the diaspora who have been to Sierra Leone.
Mr. Abdulai Barrie said that he stayed in Freetown for three months , went all over the city and also travelled to many parts of the provinces where he spoke to a lot of people about the change of government in Sierra Leone in September. Mr. Barrie stated that President Koroma is held in very esteem all over the country.
Mr. Barrie blamed detractors from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP) and their tabloids on the internet for the misconception being held in the diaspora by some Sierra Leoneans that people were disillusioned about the new government and President Ernest Koroma and were complaining a lot.
Mr. Barrie and the diasporan Sierra Leoneans who have just returned to the U.S. explained that the President's popularity and the public confidence in him were huge . Mr. Barrie stated that from the army to the Police to workers and the general public everybody believed in the President and his manifestations to change the country for the better. Infact, the boys on the street, Mr. Barrie went on, have a popular saying : "Ernest big pass lie. Ernest Koroma nor day lie. E big pass lie ".
Mr. Barrie said he attended the Myohaung Day celebrations at the Army Barracks and the President was well received and honoured by the soldiers. He stated that President was clad in military fatigues for the program and from the looks on the faces of the soldiers one could see that they were very delighted with him
Mr. Barrie conceded that prices of foods had skyrocketted within the past months and people were complaining about it , but Sierra Leoneans are confident that the government would tackle the problem satisfactorily .It is also true that some Sierra Leoneans were blaming the APC government, but they do not represent the voice of the people. Many Sierra Leoneans believe that the rising prices of food is a world-wide phenomenon. This complaining itself , Mr. Barrie enthused, has not affected the public trust and confidence in the President and the government . "People still have confidence in Ernest Koroma that he will change the country for the better , despite the rising prices " Mr. Barrie said.
Mr. Barrie told COCORIOKO that the face of Freetown was gradually changing. He said that darkness has gone and there is electricity in the capital now."The Freetown we have today is far different from the Freetown of the SLPP days , with all the darkness and futility, " Barrie indicated. He however said that the government has a lot to do to stop the escalating prices of food ." However, for now, Ernest Koroma is the man of the people," Mr. Barrie concluded : "The people love the President" .
Mr. Barrie further explained that when the President is on his way to work in the morning, people cheer him on the streets. One thing that Mr. Barrie found fascinating is that unlike the eras of Presidents Siaka Stevens, Joseph Momoh, Tejan Kabbah and Heads of State Valentine Strasser and Maada Bio when the leadesr caused long traffic jams in the city, the Ernest Koroma motorcades procede through the city easily, barely affecting traffic.
Mr. Barrie called on the people of Sierra Leone to continue to give their overwhelming support to the President as he seeks to bring positive socio-economic and political changes to the country.
Subject: CANDID OPINION CALLING CARD
From: SALONE MAN
To: All
Date Posted: 20:38:14 02/26/08 ()
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Entered From: at 71.163.183.208
Message:
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Subject: Re: CANDID OPINION CALLING CARD
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 21:01:25 02/26/08 ()
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Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
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Subject: Re: CANDID OPINION CALLING CARD
From: Kalos
To: All
Date Posted: 00:47:54 02/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-70-17-225-207.balt.east.verizon.net at 70.17.225.207
Message:
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Subject: Re: CANDID OPINION CALLING CARD
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:27:28 02/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
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Subject: BO TRAIN....WATERLOO!
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 20:04:38 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
The trains were old, slow but reliable---transporting people and goods from Pendembu to Freetown and in between and effectively uniting the country.
With a bold vision that sticks it to the naysayers, our leaders can bring back the railway. Second hand engines and rails can work for now. This will provide jobs and revitalize the economy.
Next time we visit Libya, India, etc, let's ask them about the possibility of building a railway in Salone.
Subject: Re: BO TRAIN....WATERLOO!
From: babyshow
To: All
Date Posted: 02:33:51 02/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-76-244-70-58.dsl.austtx.sbcglobal.net at 76.244.70.58
Message:
Thanks 4 bring this topic up....
Subject: Re: BO TRAIN....WATERLOO!
From: FREE SPEECH
To: All
Date Posted: 23:27:19 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h209.189.213.151.ip.alltel.net at 151.213.189.209
Message:
"Abandoned railway trestle outside Waterloo"
There you GO! We still have some remnants left; it was not a total LOSS.
Subject: Re: BO TRAIN....WATERLOO!
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 02:01:51 02/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
Beautiful picture, bro. Breathtaking scene.
Subject: WHY IS THE OFFICIAL STATE HOUSE WEBSITE STILL ACCESSIBLE?
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 17:06:15 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.254.34
Message:
Why is it that we love to be in haste and do things wrongly when we can exercise patience and do things right.
The state house website s still accessible when not all links and info have be professionally placed. Is this deliberate or just plain stubbornness refusing to learn from competent people?
I implore the webmaster to hold on till the website is complete. it is a dsgrace to put the names of cabinet ministers and blank photo place-holders. This has been for over three weeks now. A junior website designer would have scanned and uploaded such photos in two hours or less! What is going on?
Subject: Re: WHY IS THE OFFICIAL STATE HOUSE WEBSITE STILL ACCESSIBLE?
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 01:51:53 02/27/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MY DEAR MAHATMA, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THAT STUPID, IRRESPONSIBLE AND INCOMPETENT FOOL OF A PRESS SECRETARY?
Subject: Re: WHY IS THE OFFICIAL STATE HOUSE WEBSITE STILL ACCESSIBLE?
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 05:16:00 02/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.242.150.96
Message:
Negativity is your nature, I'm not suprised if you're never involved in fruitful discussions.
My brother Lahai, please take advice on this, frustration can destroy ones life. All you to do at the moment is to take timeout and visit your home that way, you'll be able to understand that your negative thoughts are not necessary after all. The longer you stay in the west without visiting home the more deeply you get engulfed to the white man's ideology and the only way you'll feel that you are contributing to your country is by responding to any BOTHO BATHA ideas of other miscreants.
Try to involve yourself in more objective discussions that way you will be relieved of your burden.
Subject: Re: WHY IS THE OFFICIAL STATE HOUSE WEBSITE STILL ACCESSIBLE?
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 08:22:01 02/27/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MR APC EDIE GRANT, THIS IS A CLEAR MANIFESTATION OF YOUR STUPIDITY. HOW CAN YOU ADVISE ME TO RETURN HOME WHEN YOU DO NOT HAVE A CLUE ABOUT MY WHEREABOUT. YOU'RE A DAMN DUMB FELLOW. IF YOU MUST KNOW, I'M RIGHT HERE IN FREETOWN, NOT FAR FROM THE PLACE WHERE THOSE ARMED ROBBERS YOU CALL APC SUPPORTERS CONGREGATE WHEN HEADING TO SEE VICTOR FOH FOR THEIR DAILY PERDIEM. REASON FOR PERDIEM: "LOOK FOR ANYONE WHO'S NOT APC; BEAT HIM/HER UP; TAKE HIM/HER TO THE OFFICE AND CHAIN HIM/HER. IF THEIR FRAIL MOTHERS COME TO PLEAD WITH YOU, MOLEST THEM THOROUGHLY AND WITHOUT MERCY. "WE'RE IN POWER; NOTHING WILL COME OUT OF IT".
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Subject: MAHATMA,ARE YOU IN AFRICA OR WHERE?
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 17:48:38 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb1303w-ad03-79-238.dynamic.mts.net at 206.45.79.238
Message:
Iguess those who are teaching you APC politics needs to becareful orelse,you will end up FODAY SANKOH
Subject: Re: MAHATMA,ARE YOU IN AFRICA OR WHERE?
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 18:54:54 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.254.34
Message:
Not able to understand the relevance of your comments in relation to my observation! Can you make me understand please?
Subject: Minister of Energy Ambushed
From: News
To: All
Date Posted: 16:48:29 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.14.42.190
Message:
Minister of energy ambushed, visit www.ernestkoroma.org for details
Subject: Re: Minister of Energy Ambushed
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 16:57:32 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.254.34
Message:
You owe cocorioko advertorial fees for advertising the HE's website. Just cut and paste the article noting the source - sufficient! Directing others to the website is advertising.
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ENERGY AND POWER MINISTER AMBUSHED
BY SIMEON SESAY OF TOTAL BUSINESS
The Minister of Energy and Power Honourable Asfatu Kabbah was ambushed by both junior , intermediate and senior workers of the Guma Valley water company at her Percival Street Office .
According to Mr. Alex Y. Kargbo Chairman Junior workers committee, they were at the office in their large numbers not for a strike action as many would want to interpret it ,
but to thank the Minister for the mark improvement she has made in changing the old and corrupt administration that he quoted has led to the bankruptcy of the parastatal for quite a long time now .
Mr. Kargbo recalled that on the 8th January the minister paid a visit to the parastatal and several problems were highlighted by them and paramount among this was the relationship between the workers and the management . He went further to state that, not too long almost the whole management has been replaced and this is why they were at the ministers office to say thank you.
He went on to disclose that the minister should do more as there are still problems facing the parastatal that needs her attention if the president’s dream of revamping the sector is to be realized. Among grievances he highlighted was the slow pace in the trial of their death colleague by alleged members of the Fire service sometimes last year.
The secretary General of the Electricity workers union Mr. Alhaji Bashiru Deen was also present and expressed similar thoughts on their visit.
The workers were holding different placards reading “sanity is back at Guma thank you iron lady”. No to bureaucracy “we are calling for experience managers not degrees as they have failed us “
Attempts to get Ministry officials to comment proved futile as the minister and few others were at state house attending a meeting .
If what the workers claimed is anything to go by, the Ministry is on track in tackling the crucial issues of water and electricity that has plagued the country for far too long.
Subject: Top Stories slideshow, useless if no link to stories
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 16:11:51 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.208.159.18
Message:
What is the point of the slideshow with onhover effects when they do no lead to the stories they highlight?
If the links on click do not lead to the articles, there is no point behind the slideshow, and it is only takinf up space on the page, and causing the developer wasted time in keeping it current.
There are better modules that you can use to display images from articles and provide a link to them. Check out shape5's free image fader joomla extension or their other extension the image and content fader at www.shape5.com. You might want to grab a new template for the site whilst you are there....
Subject: Re: Top Stories slideshow, useless if no link to stories
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 16:46:26 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.254.34
Message:
Thanks! Nice lead - just grab one for self.
Subject: ONLY IN SALONE
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:25:28 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Sierra Leone: Police Boss Caught in Bed With Driver's Wife
Concord Times (Freetown)
27 February 2008
Posted to the web 26 February 2008
Mohamed Massaquoi
Freetown
OSD Regional Coordinator East, Chief Superintendent Amos Kargbo was Friday night reported arrested and handcuffed by his driver for 'professional misconduct' as he was found in bed with the wife of his long-serving driver, Peter Numya.
Speaking to Concord Times, Numya said the Superintendent has been after his wife for quite a while especially when he is away on official duty but he was trying to get a clear picture of what was happening.
"When I noticed that Amos was after my wife, I reported the matter to the Assistant Inspector General of Police East, Elizabeth Turay for her to advise Kargbo to stop chasing my wife. But despite that, he still continued with this unprofessional conduct," the aggrieved driver explained.
"Kargbo proposed to help me with some money to buy a phone for my wife but in my absence, while on duty, he went to my house and convinced my wife that he would buy her an expensive phone. My wife told me that he even showed her some US dollars just to demonstrate his love for her provided she accept his love advance," Numya added.
Narrating how he set the trap to catch his boss in the act, Numya said he told Kargbo on Thursday that he would be traveling to Freetown to address some family matters. "He immediately gave me Le 25,000 for my transportation. Meanwhile, he had called my wife that since I am traveling to Freetown, he is going to spend the night with her. On Friday night, I picked up my traveling bag on the pretence that I was going to Freetown. I returned home and told my wife that she should open the door for him anytime he knocks." Having positioned himself in a concealed part of the house, Numya gave details of what happened in his room. "By 1:30 am, he went to my wife right in my bedroom. He knocked the door and the lady opened. He was walking like a chameleon in my bedroom as I was observing the process," he said and recounted how he had dismantled his pistol on that particular night even though he knew that the chief boss will be visiting his wife for the night.
"I arrested him right in bed with my wife. I asked him to give me his hands so that I will handcuff him. He refused. I had to hit him in the mouth before I handcuffed him. I used two handcuffs- one on his hand and the other for the pillar upon which I tied him for people to see him arrested before his neighbors apologized for him at that particular moment," he said and added: "I have made official report to the AIG on this matter." When contacted, the AIG disclosed that she was informed about the matter but they are still investigating it. On the other hand, head of the CDIID office in Kenema, Sorie Bobor Sesay said he refused to investigate the said officer on the grounds that he does not want to be implicated.
"I have even informed the Inspector General of Police that I am not going to investigate this particular matter," he said. Meanwhile sources close to Sesay said he refused to investigate Kargbo on the grounds that they are from the same tribe.
Probing further, a female police officer who pleaded to be anonymous maintained that Amos has always been using female officers on the pretext that he will marry them. "He has engaged over three female police officers in this division. He always propose marriage to them but he will abandon them after getting what he wanted," she concluded.
However, Amos Kargbo is not at the Kenema Police Station presently to answer to these allegations and efforts to reach him on his mobile phone were fruitless.
Subject: Question
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 14:57:31 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.85.60.155
Message:
Please forgive me for asking this question, but an answer would help us to understand events, as they have unfolded in our recent past history with regards to the war, the afrc coup d'etat, and the general political instability in the '90's up to 2002 in Sa Lon.
The question is as follows:
"...why is our President[EBK] so fascinated with former AFRC [and ruf] people?..."
Subject: Re: Question
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 22:37:43 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
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Subject: Re: Question
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 09:19:01 02/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.85.58.97
Message:
"... a symbiotic relationship...?"
Well, that is a good one, King Watermelon.
Subject: Re: Question
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 16:51:11 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.254.34
Message:
My opinion - fear - the AFRC were APC sympathisers and the RUF - the detractors that waged a war on the APC. Assurrance and fear put together gives you AFRC = APC Assurance and RUF = APC Fear. Both together is security intact. That is my assessment and understanding of the present climate. Did I make sense?
Subject: Re: Question
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 09:16:45 02/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.85.58.97
Message:
"...Did I make sense?..."
Yes you did.
Subject: THE SCREAMS AMIDST THE HOT SULFUR FUMES!!
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 13:08:18 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.84
Message:
Yep, those screams and howls emanating from the bowels of Hell are none other than those of Salone's own mass murderer, Foday Sankoh.
Scream-a-minute fest! You go Satan! And don't forget to baste Maskita too.
By the way I often wonder about the final destination of some of our Bras: Milton Margai, Albert Margai, David Lansana, Siaka Stevens, John Bangura, Juxon-Smith, SAJ Musa....Oh where art thou now!
I hear that Kula and the Boys are waiting, with Kobokos, to welcome Berewa and Tejan Kabba into the Great Beyond when those two finally kick the bucket!
Subject: HARASSMENT OF SIERRA LEONEAN BUSINESS MAN
From: WHY
To: All
Date Posted: 13:04:55 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: proxy2.messagelabs.net at 216.82.251.227
Message:
TO POLICEMAN,
CAN YOU PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/messages/62528.html
Subject: INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT (SLPP STYLE)
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 12:26:15 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.147.29.91
Message:
This is what the SLPP wants us to believe that they deserve a third chance in government when throughout the 11 years in power all they did was to abandon their duties ie rebuilding the country.
Its a shame for even the place where many of their members called home can be neglected like this. Kailahun, if only this selfish people made effort to rebuild roads would have brought not only wealth but security in the country.
Thanks to EBK's government to sign contract that will see this places uplifted.
Bad heart SLPPers go to hell.
http://standardtimespress.net/cgi-bin/artman/publish/article_2700.shtml
Subject: Re: INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT (SLPP STYLE)
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:47:16 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 205.148.53.200
Message:
No need to go hell. We are already in hell under ernest bombali Koroma's APC. With lawlessnes and crime that pervades the nation. Harassment of people affiliated with or in the previous govt. . What did APC do in twenty five years? how many roads were built in kailhun then?
Subject: Re: INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT (SLPP STYLE)
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 12:55:56 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.147.29.91
Message:
The only carriageway to Kailahun, Koindu and Segbwema were built by the APC of Siaka Stevens.
Be reasonable my brother, Sierra Leone is for all of us hiding the truth just so you party is not seen as failed the country does not help. I'm not a relative of anyone in government so all I can gain from them is if they improve our country and I guess the same goes to you and many other Sierra Leoneans except you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth.
Subject: Re: INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT (SLPP STYLE)
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:11:48 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-187-207-114.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.187.207.114
Message:
Being born with a silverspoon in my mouth does not mean I cannot see or feel the pain of the poor and needy. The fact is APC destroyed the country financially and morally.If Koroma is able to spur development in Sierra Leone we will all benefit. If he does a good job , i will praise him, Unfortunately he has not done anything concrete for Sierra Leone so far. I am not a sycophant, I will not be impressed by the provision of intermittent of electricity to freetown. It was the same sycophancy that let Kabba force a losing candidate on throat of SLPP.
I wish Koroma well but the rabid antisoutherners and tribalists in the APC ,things do not augur well for Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT (SLPP STYLE)
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 02:03:41 02/27/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MR KAMARA, EDIE APC GRANT IS ONE SUCH RABID ANTI-SOUTHERNER. HIS FATHER AND MOTHER HAIL FROM KALANGBA AND BINKOLO RESPECTIVELY, BUT HE WAS BORN IN ROGBANE.
Subject: Re: INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT (SLPP STYLE)
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 05:32:53 02/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.242.150.96
Message:
When I read posts from both LAHAI and Kamara my impression is, Kamara appeared to be a more mature and has a higher IQ than that pathetic LAHAI.
In all my contributions on this forum, I've never mistakenly showed any form of Anti- South or East. Yes I'm rabid about nationwide development.
Kamara, its so dissappointing to read that you'll give praise where its due when you're always in denial of SLPP 11 years destruction of Sierra Leone and the only idea contained in your cerebral thinking is Old APC destroyed Sierra Leone, I will never denial that Old APC didn't do well but at least they did better than the 11 years of SLPP.
Joe Lahai, anyway, there's nothing wrong with hailing from any part of Sierra Leone the country is for all Sierra Leoneans.
Subject: Re: INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT (SLPP STYLE)
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 08:48:04 02/27/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MR APC EDIE GRANT, DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HOW THE INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT IS DETERMINED? YOUR LEVEL OF LITERACY IS TOO BASIC TO UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT MENTAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL AGE PROCESSES AND RELATIONSHIPS. WIKIPEDIA MIGHT BE OF HELP TO YOU
Subject: WHAT KNICE AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 02:05:22 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
Former CDF Members Commend APC Government
Subject: Re: WHAT KNICE AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 13:00:48 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Once a crook, always a crook. The APC trained a batch of killers known as the SSDs, turned them into an official arm of law enforcement, and committed untold brutality on Sierra Leoneans and Southeasterners in particular. All this talk of ALLEGED Kamajor military training is nothing but an APC design for fake whistle-blowing to warn against what the party of Siaka Stevens could have done if it were the opposition. I do not have the idle time to attach credence to the Communist-type propaganda being stoked by the APC. However, what worries me is the proclivity of the APC to believe its own rubbish and live out its craziest political fantasies by killing Southeasterners as a preemptive strike. The APC is too craze-driven to be ignored when the party indulges in daydreaming as we see in the cock and bull stories about the Kamajors.
As for Sheka Tarawalie, I will recommend the man spends some time learning the essentials of political penmanship. His "State House Releases" look more like comic foolery than the formal writings of a presidential aide. Indeed, the APC is in power again.
Subject: Re: WHAT KNICE AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 22:56:21 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
Bra E, thanks for the response but what about the press release by the CDF ex-combatants that is the subject of this thread?
Subject: Re: WHAT KNICE AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 13:23:18 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.147.29.91
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Bra E, please give me evidence that SSDs committed atrocities against Southeasterners.
And can you also explain to me what happen during the 1978-1979 civil unrest in BO between the dominant Mendes and Minority Temne.
Subject: Re: WHAT KNICE AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 02:42:52 02/27/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
BRA ENVIABLE, THERE IS AN IMPORTANT OMISSION IN YOUR POST: BEFORE THE SSD, THERE WERE THE DREADED CUBAN TRAINED ISU. THE REQUIREMENTS FOR RECRUITMENT INTO THIS FORCE WERE THAT: YOU HAD TO BE LIMBA OR TEMNE; YOU HAD TO BE CRUDE AND RAW; AND YOU HAD TO EXHIBIT A VERY STRONG AVERSION TO ANYTHING ANTI-APC. SINCE THE SOUTHERNERS AND EASTERNERS WERE ANTI-APC, SEVERAL TRUCK LOADS OF THESE ATTACK DOGS WERE DEPLOYED IN ALL SOUTHERN AND EASTERN DISTRICTS, WITH HIGHER DENSITIES IN BO AND KENEMA. SHAKI ARMED THEM TO THE TEETH AND USED THEM TO QUELL THE STUDENT UPRISING OF 1977. THEY WERE USED TO PREVENT OPPOSITION CANDIDATES FROM FILING THEIR NOMINATION PAPERS, GIVING RISE TO THE SO-CALLED "UNOPPOSED APC PARLIAMENTARIANS". THEY WERE USED TO BEAT UP JOURNALISTS WHO DARED WRITE STORIES ABOUT THE APC, AND SO ON. EDDIE APC GRANT SHOULD GO AND ASK JOURNALISTS LIKE PIOS FORAY, FRANK KPOSOWA, THE APC'S HINDOLO TRYE AND OTHERS.
THE ISU'S BECAME SO POWERFUL THAT THEY EVEN CHALLENGED THE MILITARY, WHO WERE NOT ARMED. I'M AFRAID, THE APC IS TAKING US BACK TO THE TERROR DAYS OF THE ISU, BY ENLISTING AFRC AND RUF LAY-ABOUTS INTO THE POLICE AND ARMY.
Subject: Re: WHAT KNICE AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU
From: Duna
To: All
Date Posted: 17:13:35 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.254.34
Message:
It was '77 - '78. The ISU/SSD caused mayhem in the parts of Tikonko and Bumpe. I saw it all happen.
Subject: Re: WHAT KNICE AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU
From: Sengbe Big Axe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:33:52 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.85.60.155
Message:
Are these the CDF members (Kamajors) that the "Americans/CIA" told Shekito (Press Secretary to President Koroma) about?
When did they come out of the bush training with the intention to disrupt the forthcoming local government elections?
Yesterday?
Boy oh boy!! Akartas will NEVER change.
How u doing, Mr. Rotten Watermelon Loggy!!
Subject: Re: WHAT KNICE AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 23:11:57 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
Now that's interesting my good ole' branlaw!
Hinga Norman's bravest are now on the side of the APC and you refer to me as "Mr. Rotten Watermelon" Loggy?
I am now going to change the subject of this thread to
"WHAT SENGBE, KNICE, AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU."
Ha ha ha! Back to you!
Subject: Re: WHAT KNICE AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 19:48:27 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
Just curious! What did the American/CIA to shekito?
Subject: Re: WHAT KNICE AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:41:27 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 205.148.53.200
Message:
The CDF are no different than any other Sierra Leonean opportunist and sycophant. SLPP is out of power and they need to earn their bread. why not praise ernest bombali koroma and his northern based govt. If this can give you bread to eat, heh go for it. most objective people know none of ernest' actions so far have not benefited the south.
nobody is going to be fooled a group of hungry CDF praiing APc.
Subject: Re: WHAT KNICE AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 13:07:14 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.147.29.91
Message:
These are clear signs that the SLPP have lost hope. First, Hon Charles Margai was branded a traitor by the SLPP supporters simply because he played a crucial role that lead to their demise.
The Kamajors were hailed as national heros because they were used to intimidate the APC during the Kailahun campaign. Now that the Kamajors realised they were used for the SLPP political gains and through their support for the present government they are now considered to be opportunists.
What is left of the SLPP?
Subject: Re: WHAT KNICE AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 05:41:15 02/27/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
GOOD OLD EDIE GRANT, DO YOU THINK THE CDF ARE FOOLS? THE APC HAS MADE RES, PAMAI, PEPPEH, SALT, EN FISH DEER. NATURALLY, THE CDF ARE DOING THE SMART THING: CASHING IN ON THAT FOOL PARADING HIMSELF AS RESIDENT MINISTER, SOUTH TO BUY RES, PAMAI, PEPPEH EN SALT.
Subject: Re: WHAT KNICE AND ENVIABLE WILL NEVER TELL YOU
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:28:24 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-187-207-114.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.187.207.114
Message:
From recent news comming out of Sierra Leone , I would say ,What is Left of Charles Margai? SLPP overeacted to Charles Margai. The man is an unstable meglomaniac.Moving from one party to another. he could learn a few lessons from Ernest about focusing on goals.
Look, the kamajors as most Sierra Leoneans are opportunists and sycophants. They need to eat.They will praise whoever will feed them. There will be a bunch of former SLPP coming out to praise and worship Ernest Bombali Koroma in the near future, in order to save their jobs or earn a living.
The true SLPP will stay and build the party. The nation needed a change . we do not want want dictatorship. the nation and SLPP needed new blood. the defeat was good for SLPP and it will allow us to weed out the opportunists,
So there is alot left of SLPP my brother. The people of Sierra Leone will soon see the incompetence of APC.
As they say NO TO LIGHT WE DAE EAT>
Subject: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 00:10:43 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
A mind is a dangerous thing to waste, to paraphrase the United Negro College Fund's slogan. Saloneans have the blood-soaked history to demonstrate the nightmarish reality of those words.
Too many young people without education,
...or job prospects after scavenging like jackals for an education.
And ruthless politicians determined to cynically exploit and distort disillusionment for political gain: True before the rebel war, true after the rebel war.
Now we hear that politicians are seeking to settle political battles and game the system extrajudicially, by hiding Kamajors in the bushes! This charge is as explosive as any RPG fired by a child soldier on a Jamba bender.
It is either treason or slander and hence merits an unbiased investigation.
If an innocent man's name is being dragged through the gutter, then Dr Kaikai must have his name unequivocally cleared and Shekito sanctioned.
If Kaikai and Co are indeed hallucinating about another bush rebellion, then they must be punished harshly by the courts as a warning to other adventurers.
Subject: THE BLAME GAME
From: FREE SPEECH
To: All
Date Posted: 09:48:34 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h12.79.29.71.ip.alltel.net at 71.29.79.12
Message:
"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy." -Wayne Dyer
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 05:27:52 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MY DEAR FEN PLABA; WHAT A POSTING!! THE TRUTH CANNOT BE FARTHER THAN THIS. DUFF MY HAT TO YOU.
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: medkay
To: All
Date Posted: 06:01:51 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 63.red-83-46-13.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 83.46.13.63
Message:
Mr.joe lahai and co.this kamajors picture shows how carnibal,ruthless and backword you are in this modern world we are living.Pls tell those your tribal clan to go and pray for their sin commited during your reign in power to our innocent people.Shame on you.
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 07:36:38 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MEDKAY, WHO ARE THE INNOCENT PEOPLE YOU ARE REFERING TO? YOU MEAN THOSE DRUG CRAZED, ILITERATE RAG TAG SCUMS IN THE APC/AFRC. YOU CALL THOSE INNOCENT? WHAT KIND OF A MAN ARE YOU, OR ARE YOU IN A STATE OF TRANCE?
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:26:25 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
The same can be said about the Soko bana in Port Loko but they were too cowardly to come and defend Siearra Leone against the rebels.We know Temne men are just Gbose Gbose. When the nation needed the gallant men to defend her, She had to depend on the kamajors, Tambaboro, the Limba and kono CDF.Where were the soko banas. Just Gbose Gbose as usual. The CDF may be ruthless and bacward but they a more than you and your sokos.
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 07:41:19 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
SOKOBANA ARE ONLY VISIBLE DURING ELECTIONS; AIM: TO INTIMIDATE PEOPLE
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: David Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 06:56:45 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: wanglobe.hilton.com at 192.251.125.85
Message:
The propaganda that the APC is trying to spread in that country will only hunt them at the end the day. If the SLPP did not train kamajor for national election why would they try that for ordinary local government elections? The APC government is mobilizing all ex-combatants for their dirty games, then they want to use the SLPP as a scape goat. Look at the terrible thing that happened recently in Freetown, Ernest Koroma's brother and other APC thurgs went and molested a pastor and his mother and other people around APC's head office, and nothing came out of it. Brima Acha Kamara is seeing all what is happening but cannot do anything, and he called himself Inspector General. It is just a matter of time, that country is going to go back to where we were 11 years ago if the trend of affair continued.
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 07:52:08 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
BRIMA ACHA KAMARA WILL SOON GIVE AN INTERVIEW CLAIMING THAT THE PASTOR WAS BEATEN BY KAMAJORS DRESSED IN RED AND DRIVING A CARJACKED VEHICLE BELONGING TO ERNEST KOROMA'S BROTHER. HE WILL ISSUE A WARRANT OF ARREST FOR DR FRANCIS KAIKAI, DR JOHN KARIMU AND JOHN BENJAMIN. LEATHERBOOT, OUR BRAND NEW POLICE OFFICER, WILL BE RECALLED FROM MOROCCO TO COME AND INTEROGATE THEM AND PROFER CHARGES. ABDULAI CONTEH WILL BE THE PROSECUTOR. READ TOMORROW'S EDITION OF THAT USELESS "UNPATRIOTIC VANGUARD"
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 07:29:54 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: lpsdsl1.claranet.co.uk at 79.123.36.145
Message:
"If the SLPP did not train kamajor for national election why would they try that for ordinary local government elections?"
Reason, its because they the people of Sierra Leon for granted and underestimated them. But they used Kamajors in Kailahun.
"It is just a matter of time, that country is going to go back to where we were 11 years ago if the trend of affair continued."
And NO my friend, we will never go back there I know you enjoyed it a lot because you can afford to rape girls that otherwise you'll not have been able to get them to bed. We as civilised and forward thinking Sierra Leoneans, we do not enjoy these things. So its an emphatic NO to your plans. So piss off
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: Birch Williams
To: All
Date Posted: 09:11:37 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-151-46-204.range86-151.btcentralplus.com at 86.151.46.204
Message:
Body of Message:
This is for you Edie Grant; ARE YOU REALLY OBJECTIVE? PLEASE READ THE POSTING BELOW AS IT SHOWS LACK OF OBJECTIVITY WHEN COMPARED WITH HOW YOU RESPONDED TO THE CURRENT ARTICLE.
Posted by Eddie Grant on February 26, 2008 at 07:35:18:
In Reply to: Re: Is this article correct? posted by Issa Koroma on February 26, 2008 at 05:53:06:
This is the age of technology things like this can be corroborated by just posting picture of the victim on the news paper since it alleged to have interviewed him. Otherwise its just another propaganda aimed at destroying the country simply because SLPP were kicked out of power.
I challenge the reporter to send us evidence of torture. The showing of the APC Headquaters is not enough to convince some of us.
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 12:48:50 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.147.29.91
Message:
You better come up with a more sensible response as mine disputes claims that such thing happen. If it happen as alleged, please we need to see evidence and you will see that I'm really objective.
What many people contributing on this forum don't understand is the more false and negative stories they post here just to score points, is the more damage they'll do to our country. Please don't mistake this to mean condoning violence, because I'm one of many people who will advocate against violence when the need arise.
The problem we face here is political destruction many people use this and other medium to defame their opponents. When have you ever read about developmental lapses of erstwhile SLPP on THE NEW PEOPLE SINCE IT'S LAUNCH, all you here is EBK's government this and that. The only place where the media benefits nations and people is the WEST where they really understand the role of the media in national development. We must give praise where its due if you do that, whenever you criticise objectively you'll be taken seriously.
When have read on the NEW PEOPLE NEWSPAPER about what needs to be done for the people of Kailahun, Tonkolili and Koinadugu who were abondoned completely by the erstwhile SLPP government.
I believe in one country and one people.
But as long as the truth is ignored, people will always have to deal with.
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 07:56:09 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
HEAR THIS NARROW MINDED EDIE APC GRANT AGAIN
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: medkay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:38:38 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 194.red-88-16-247.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.16.247.194
Message:
You diehard kamajors insane loosers just propagating hatred against a well established government that is taking sierra leone to where we were before as a nation of civilised and peace loving people.Not with your backwardness education way of thinking,as you did to destroy the country for the past eleven,sixteen years,using rebellion for your own political gain.Good for nothing carnibal supporters.shame on you.elef pa una,pass una suck am nar bobby.To you mr.JOE LAHAI,trinalist chief.
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:03:36 02/27/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MEDKAY, SORRY; THE WORD IS "SHAKER", NOT "SHAKE-SHAKE"
Subject: Re: KAMAJORS IN THE BUSHES? THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES!
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 08:58:06 02/27/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
SAN-SAN BOY MEDKAY, THROW AWAY THE SHAKE-SHAKE AND GO TO SCHOOL. THAT WAY, YOU CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT TAKING THE RISK OF BEING BURIED ALIVE IN A DIAMOND PIT. WAKE UP BOY; HEED MY ADVICE AND GO BACK TO SCHOOL. IF YOU DO, YOU WOULD NOT BE RELIANT ON JUNTA MAN VICTOR FOH'S DAILY ALLOWANCE TO BEAT UP PEOPLE
Subject: WHO IN GOD'S NAME IS THIS PERSON?
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 20:07:06 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
I just saw this posting somewhere on the forum. Some of our fellow Sierra Leoneans are really scary. May God save Salone!
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Posted by BOIMAKEI on February 25, 2008 at 08:59:51:
In Reply to: NO MORE ADVERTISEMENTS ON THIS FORUM posted by KABS KANU on February 22, 2008 at 06:01:48:
DON'T DO ANY SUCH THING: IF YOU DO, I'LL CASTRATE YOU, GRIND YOUR BALLS AND FEED THEM TO THOSE DRUG CRAZED APC THUGS WHO, AFTER THE ELECTIONS, LOOTED MY PROPERTY AND BURNT IT TO ASHES, because "Nar den Mende dem".
Subject: Is this article correct?
From: Cali
To: All
Date Posted: 19:00:17 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: kargbo2@gmail.com
Entered From: adsl-215-226-220.aep.bellsouth.net at 68.215.226.220
Message:
Hi
Can someone refute or confirm this information on the link below? If this is true,All of us need to fight and stop it. This an article about the bitting of a Pastor at the APC headquarter. Please somone read the article and tell me it was fals.
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20057774.shtml
Subject: Re: Is this article correct?
From: Issa Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 05:53:06 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-136-9-250.range86-136.btcentralplus.com at 86.136.9.250
Message:
Yes, the information in that article is correct. I am an independent Sierra Leonean so there is no need for anyone to say that I am Anti-APC. It is only supporters of the ruling party that will advise you not to believe because it does not reflect well on the ruling party. Let us forget about politics for now and concentrate on the innocent vulnerable people. If we truely love our country and regardless of any party affiliations we should be bold enough to speak out on such alarming issues. The fact is i have just arrived from Freetown and i can confirm the truth of the allegations against these thugs who claimed to be members of the APC.
Subject: Re: Is this article correct?
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 07:35:18 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: lpsdsl1.claranet.co.uk at 79.123.36.145
Message:
This is the age of technology things like this can be corroborated by just posting picture of the victim on the news paper since it alleged to have interviewed him. Otherwise its just another propaganda aimed at destroying the country simply because SLPP were kicked out of power.
I challenge the reporter to send us evidence of torture. The showing of the APC Headquaters is not enough to convince some of us.
Subject: Re: Is this article correct?
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 22:34:55 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
Dont believe what ever is coming from awareness times. They've lost their credibility long time ago. No one is taking them serious now.
Subject: Re: Is this article correct?
From: Yellowman
To: All
Date Posted: 21:53:35 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 84.54.30.6
Message:
No one takes them serious so Ernest Koroma is scrambling for damage control by sending his wife to beg Pastor to drop charges and not pursue the matter? Dont know where you got your infor from but Awareness Times is most serious newspaper in Sierra Leone right now bra.
Subject: Re: Is this article correct?
From: Issa Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 06:54:26 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-136-9-250.range86-136.btcentralplus.com at 86.136.9.250
Message:
Yes, the information in that article is correct. I am an independent Sierra Leonean so there is no need for anyone to say that I am Anti-APC. It is only supporters of the ruling party that will advise you not to believe because it does not reflect well on the ruling party. Let us forget about politics for now and concentrate on the innocent vulnerable people. If we truely love our country and regardless of any party affiliations we should be bold enough to speak out on such alarming issues. The fact is i have just arrived from Freetown and i can confirm the truth of the allegations against these thugs who claimed to be members of the APC.
Subject: Re: Is this article correct?
From: SALONE MAN, BRIGHT STREET, FREETOWN
To: All
Date Posted: 06:15:40 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: saloneman@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
OF COURSE THE STORY IN AWARENESS TIMES IS TRUE. THE NARRATION IS EXACTLY AS IT HAPPENED. I LIVE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, SO I CAN CONFIRM ITS ACCURACY. WHAT SURPRISES ME IS THAT THE PASTOR AND HIS FAMILY ARE APC. THEY ARE LIMBA FROM BINKOLO
Subject: Re: Is this article correct?
From: FORREST GUMP
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Date Posted: 04:43:57 02/27/08 ()
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HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT FRIENDLY FIRE? THAT`S WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THEM, ALL I CAN SAY TO THE PASTOR THE SLPP WILL WELCOME YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WITH OPEN ARMS
FORREST
Subject: Special Court
From: Junior Lawyer
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Date Posted: 18:33:20 02/25/08 ()
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Is it true that Government is going to overrule the Special Courts judgment, and grant a pardon to all AFRC convicts.Can Govt do that???
Subject: Re: Special Court
From: M. Alieu Iscandari esq
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Date Posted: 07:12:42 02/26/08 ()
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Its another VILE rumour. The APC is committed to upholding the decisions of the Special Court. No Government would be allowed to commute the sentences of those who have been convicted for crimes against humanity. What amazes me about the SLPP propaganda Machine is that they keep churning out lies after lies oblivious to the fact that there are people out here who are aware of what the truth is.
This is simply UNTRUE.
Subject: Re: Special Court
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 06:30:35 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
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YES; THAT'S WHAT ERNEST KOROMA PLANS TO DO. I HEARD IT FROM A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE. HE PLANS TO ENLIST THEM IN THE POLICE FORCE AND USE THEM, TOGETHER WITH LEATHER BOOT, AS HIS BODYGUARDS. LEGALLY, HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT, BECAUSE THE DECISIONS OF THE SPECIAL COURT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE BINDING. THE UN IS LIKELY TO IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON OUR COUNTRY IF HE PARDONS AND FREES THEM. HE RISKS LOOSING THE SUPPORT OF EVEN HIS OWN PEOPLE BECAUSE OF WHAT THOSE MISCREANTS DID TO THE PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE: CHOPPING OFF LIMBS, BEHEADINGS, RAPING AND OFCOURSE, LOOTING.
Subject: Re: Special Court
From: Sempu Jay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:35:14 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: sempujay@yahoo.com
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I hope the president will not dream of doing this. This will be the greatest blunder ever made in Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leoneans are still nursing the wounds inflicted by those bush people. Some of us lost lives and valuables through their actions.
EBK please, please let justice takes its course.
Sempu
Subject: SPECIAL COURT?KABS KANU WILL SUPPORT EARNEST KOROMA
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 11:39:08 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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Trust me he will.
Subject: Re: SPECIAL COURT?KABS KANU WILL SUPPORT EARNEST KOROMA
From: JOE LAHAI
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Date Posted: 09:20:44 02/27/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
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AND SO WILL THAT FRUSTRATED PHILIP NEVIL. FRUSTRATED BECAUSE ERNEST KOROMA DID NOT APPOINT HIM MINISTER AFTER ALL THAT SUPPORT HE GAVE BY WAY OF DISSEMINATING PROPAGANDA. EBK PREFERED THAT PITIFUL BI-SEXUAL ASSHOLE CALLED SHEKITO, AND THAT OTHER BUFFON, MOHAMED D KOROMA (INFORMATION MINISTRY), WHOSE BOSS(MY TEACHER WAY BACK IN 1973 AND OWNER OF "OLD CITIZEN PRESS"), IS PERMANENTLY DRUNK
Subject: Operah's ancestors.
From: ishmael
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Date Posted: 17:02:03 02/25/08 ()
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According Dr. Luis Gates documentary on PBS, Operah Winfrey ancestors are kpele from Liberaia, not sierra leone.
Subject: CLINTON'S RUNNING SCARED - FEARMONGERING
From: Dunia
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Date Posted: 14:38:53 02/25/08 ()
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Bill Clinton wore the Ghanaian custom when he was in Ghana - what is wrong with Hilary - loosing streak?
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashoa.htm
Subject: Re: CLINTON'S RUNNING SCARED - FEARMONGERING and RACIST
From: Nar Me
To: All
Date Posted: 05:09:01 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: thenewsletter@hotmail.com
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This will definitely backfire on Clinton. While Obama wearing such a costume is nothing to be worried about or ashamed of, it is clear that Hilary Clinton understands the image such a costume presents to many Americans. In a subtle way, her ploy is racist. Shame on her.
Nar Me
Subject: APC......
From: Watasai Stone
To: All
Date Posted: 14:27:24 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: laj201@aol.com
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Its funny how Cocorioko hasnt reported this pice of news...
These types of acts are going on at the headquarters or the ruling party in Sierra Leone?
What a damn shame...
Subject: Re: APC......
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 22:54:43 02/25/08 ()
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The contents of this report leave me in doubt as to
(a) The truth or accuracy of this report.
(b) The impartiality of the paper in which it is reported (A paper which according to Solomon da bomba Berewa, is “Sierra Leone’s number one newspaper” WE are to suppose because they are very nice to him.)
(c) the principles of principled journalism
(d) Whether the APC starting with the spokesperson is going to tell that us whether or not we are back to the not so good old APC days when ( so I'm told) the rule of law did not count for much and an S.I.
( APC thug) would drag some worthy newspaper editor to the Pa. The poor and defenceless journalist would enter the Pa's presence with a repentant pre-formed cringe and head bowed in shame would answer the Pa's first question before being thrown into the jaws of hell.
The Question: Nah which kine Omole/urine yu bin drink wae yu write da rubbish article 'but me?"
And the Champion of Peep: Pa, ah baig padin Sah, ah bin chak wae ah write da rubbish dae sah (of course he hesitates to say,”Pa, noh to me write am Oh!" - because Pa could enquire in a voice raspier than the Lion King’s " Are you calling me liar?"
APC supporters will undoubtedly have some reservations to express about this sad state of affairs.
Subject: Re: APC......
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 07:23:48 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
WATASAI STONE: YOU BET, THEY WILL
Subject: CORNELIUS ALWAYS IN DOUBT OF ARTICLES ABOUT APC
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 01:32:27 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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Message:
WHY?
Subject: Re: CORNELIUS ALWAYS IN DOUBT OF ARTICLES ABOUT APC
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 11:57:52 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
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Perhaps because I don't understand the Gospel Story.
Or, perhaps because truth is sometimes stranger than fiction and it's difficult to find an honest politician with no blood on his hands.
I take the APC and reports about the APC at face value and do not doubt their intentions. I'm sure that we all share their development aspirations - they are also our aspiration. Co-operation yes, and only selfishness and greed should not get in the way.
I also understand the deep-seated malice that animates the heart of the so called ”The New People” and their main miracle consists in making a mountain out of a mole hill. They should be taken with a large dose of Epsom salts, or Castor oil.
Is there any reason to doubt the beating of Rev. Conteh? Has anyone denied these grievous charges?
John Leigh claims that some of the pictures of him that were posted on that website were doctored photos - doctored to make him appear (to a would-be beholder) in a less than favourable light.
Subject: Re: CORNELIUS BUT ARE SURE OF OTHER NEWSPAPERS?
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 12:22:17 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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Tell me of other papers not in support.Do you like the?
Subject: Re: APC......
From: Dem-go-crazy
To: All
Date Posted: 16:02:17 02/25/08 ()
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Message:
This was the change peope yearned for
Subject: Re: APC......
From: AwT Boy
To: All
Date Posted: 17:40:00 02/25/08 ()
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The interesting thing is that when their (APC supporter David Conteh & Co.) asses got whopped by their buddies, they ran to Awareness Times. The stone the builder rejected is now the head cornerstone.
Subject: Re: APC......
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 07:27:10 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
AwT Boy: THAT'S APC FOR YOU; FULL OF LIES AND CONTRADICTIONS AS EVER
Subject: Re: APC......
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:51 02/25/08 ()
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Message:
Abi.....
Dont we all deserve the rulers we get.. ???
Subject: Re: APC......
From: Dem-go-crazy
To: All
Date Posted: 16:44:21 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Now watch for Kabs-Kanu's spin on APC hooliganism. APC will self destruct
Subject: Re: APC......
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 07:30:15 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Subject: President Koroma spent Le850m, APC Le 2.2 billion
From: PMDC Man
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Date Posted: 13:48:21 02/25/08 ()
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President Koroma spent Le850m, APC Le 2.2 billion
The finance officer at the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC), Sam Campbell, over the weekend released the political parties’ expenditures report, placing President Koroma, his vice and party as the highest spenders during the 2007 polls.
The report was received from the political parties in line with the Political Parties Act, obliging parties to present financial reports 60 days after the announcement of elections results.
The financial report sent in by the All People’s Congress (APC) stated that its presidential candidate now Head of State spent eight hundred and fifty million Leones whilst Vice President Samuel Sam Sumana spent four hundred and fifteen million, seven hundred and twenty thousand Leones and the APC generally spent two billion, two hundred and ninety seven million, five hundred and seventy four thousand Leones.
Shocking was that the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) did not send financial reports for its presidential candidate former Vice President Solomon Berewa and his running mate erstwhile foreign affairs minister Momodu Koroma.
The only financial expenditures sent by the SLPP were the ones incurred by them for 30 parliamentary candidates and the party as a whole spent one billion, eight hundred and two million eighty one thousand and four hundred Leones. The APC too did not submit expenditure reports for its 102 parliamentary candidates.
The leader of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC), Charles Francis Margai, and his running mate, according to the PPRC spent two hundred and fifteen million, four hundred and fifty Leones and three million, six hundred and sixty six eight thousand, five hundred Leones.
The PMDC party as a whole spent two billion, one hundred and fourteen million and twenty three thousand, fifty five Leones.
The commission though praised the PMDC as the only political party that fully complied with the provisions made in the 1991 constitution and the Political Parties Act.
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) presented an expenditure that its presidential candidate, Andrew Turay, and running mate spent one hundred and ninety four million, three hundred Leones and seventy six million, four hundred Leones respectively.
The party, generally spent six hundred and five million, one hundred and eighty two thousand Leones.
With the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the expenditure presented for its presidential candidate and running mate spent one hundred and twenty million, eight hundred and ten and forty three million, five hundred and fifty Leones respectively.
The party spent one billion, seven hundred and thirty five million and four hundred and nineteen Leones.
The United National People’s Party (UNPP), and the Peace and Liberation Party (PLP) spent seven hundred and fifty six million, five hundred and thirty two thousand seven hundred Leones and thirty two million and ninety one thousand respectively.
By Ishmael Bayoh
Subject: Re: President Koroma spent Le850m, APC Le 2.2 billion
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 22:38:43 02/25/08 ()
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They were afraid to show the public how they used public money for their party.
Subject: Re: President Koroma spent Le850m, APC Le 2.2 billion
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 14:54:53 02/25/08 ()
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These figures do not seem to be correct. The amounts that were spent on the elections, by APC alone far exceed those reported. Some of the APC stalwarts sent out to solicit votes were given huge amounts of money and sent out across the country to buy, steal, encourage votes in their favor. Personal accounts of one APC supporter alone who was given about $20,000 to go to Moyamba during the elections clearly invalidate the amounts APC is claiming that they spent. This was a guy who was not even in the leadership ranks. Imagine what the likes of Victor Foh, Sam Sumana, and others were giving out.
How are the reports compiled? Are they getting the amounts from independent sources, or are they just relying on the parties to "report" what they spent. Who in their right mind comes up with these rules if that is the case?
Subject: Re: President Koroma spent Le850m, APC Le 2.2 billion
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 08:23:25 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
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THE APC BALANCE SHEET IS BOGUS. THE PARTY CHARGED FEES FOR CERTAIN POSITIONS AND SOLD SYMBOLS FOR ONSTITUENCY SEATS.
VICE PRESIDENT SAM SOUMANA FOR EXAMPLE, BOUGHT HIS RUNNING MATE POSITION FOR A WHOPING 400,000 US DOLLARS. THERE WERE OTHER STRONG CONTENDERS FOR THE POSITION , BUT VICTOR FOH ADVISED THAT THEY BE KICKED OUT IN FAVOUR OF THE HIGHEST BIDDER. SOUMANA IS USING THE 80 MILLION "CLEANING-DAY PAY-DAY" TO RECOUP SOME OF HIS MONEY; BUT I HEAR THAT LOGUS KOROMA SHORTCHANGED HIM DURING LAST MONTH'S "CLEANING-DAY PAY-DAY". I AM WONDERING WHAT WOULD HAPPEN THIS SATURDAY.
Subject: HARASSMENT OF A SEIRRA LEONEONEAN BUSINESS MAN
From: WHY
To: All
Date Posted: 12:36:18 02/25/08 ()
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CAN SOMEBODY ADVICE PRESIDENT KOROMA THAT THE HARASSMENT OF THORLU-BANGURA IS SENDING THE WRONG MESSAGE TO FOREIGN INVESTORS ABOVE ALL SIERRA LEONEAN BUSINESS MEN.
THORLU-BANGURA WAS PICKED UP BY POLICE OVER THE WEEKEND.IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE OIL REFINERY, WHICH WAS SOLD TO THE LATE NIGERIAN PRESIDENT SANI ABACHA,BY THE SIERRA LEONE GOVERNMENT BY THEN. UPON HIS DEATH THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO SELL THE OIL REFINERY BACK PREFERABLY TO A SIERRA LEONEAN BORN BUSINESS MAN.IT WAS A DEAL DONE IN THE OPEN.ALLIEU THORLU-BANGURA WON THE BID AND THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT LEGALLY TRANSFERED THE OWNERSHIP OF THE OIL REFINERY TO HIM.
CAN ANY BODY TELL WHY THE APC GOVERNMENT IS HARASSING HIM.THIS IS REALLY PAINTING A VERY UGLY PICTURE OF THE GOVERNMENT.
Subject: Re: HARASSMENT OF A SEIRRA LEONEONEAN BUSINESS MAN
From: Policeman
To: All
Date Posted: 18:23:46 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
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Is Thorlu Bangura a Sierra Leonean Businessman???He is Sierra Leonean, no doubt, but a businessman????You got to be joking.He is just a bandit, and his selfish and dishonest actions almost destroyed Sierra Leone.Remember Seyle Yorfendeh, remember Phillip brother & injunction fo all Sierra Leone assets??Remember French wheat flour for USD5 million??So the paid agents should stop polluting this forum with this filth.
His arrest will not discourage any investor, and on the contrary, they will be pleased that, atleast one mercenary is out of the scene.
Subject: Re: HARASSMENT OF A SEIRRA LEONEONEAN BUSINESS MAN
From: WHY
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:50 02/26/08 ()
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HE IS A VERY HARD WORKING SIERRA LEONEAN,WHO WAS ABLE TO GET BACK FROM THE NIGERIANS OUR OIL REFINERY.
NO NEED FOR YOU TO START CALLING ME NAMES, DEBATE THE ISSUES.WHAT ABOUT PHILLIP BROTHER & INJUNCTION ON ALL SIERRA LEONE ASSETS? WAS THORLU-BANGURA SIERRA LEONE GOVERNMENT? FRENCH WHEAT FLOUR FOR USD 5MILLION? CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO US WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THE CASES YOU MENTIONED ABOVE.EDUCATE US.WHAT ROLE DID HE PLAY,WHY ARE YOU SAYING HE IS SELFISH, DISHONEST AND A BANDIT.WHAT ABOUT SEYLE YORFENDEH?
DON'T FORGET YOU ARE ON A WORLD WIDE WEB,MR THORLU-BANGURA AND HIS FAMILIES HAVE THE RESOURCES AND SUBSTANCE TO TAKE YOU TO COURT,IF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS OUT OF MALICE.
CAN YOU EDUCATE US.
Subject: Re: HARASSMENT OF A SIERRA LEONEAN BUSINESS MAN
From: WHY
To: All
Date Posted: 12:39:51 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
CORRECTION:TITLE SHOULD READ "HARASSMENT OF SIERRA LEONEAN BUSINESSMAN"
Subject: Re: HARASSMENT OF A SIERRA LEONEAN BUSINESS MAN
From: SALONE DEEP
To: All
Date Posted: 12:53:05 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
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AWARENESS TIMES FIRST REPORTED THIS AROUND THE 2/15/2008.ACCORDING TO HER PRESIDENT KOROMA DENIED THE WHOLE STORY.
INTERESTING THING ABOUT THE WHOLE CASE.MR THORLU-BANGURA WAS ONLY PICKED UP OVER THE PAST WEEKEND 2/22/2008,BUT THE NEWS ABOUT HIS ARREST HAD BEEN AROUND SINCE 2/15/08.
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20057692.shtml
Subject: Bush's African Tour : A writer gives his personal
From: foday mansaray
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Date Posted: 12:30:03 02/25/08 ()
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Surprisingly, the Bush Administration has done more for Africa's Fragile Economy than many US administration that includes Bill Clinton Administration.. Look at the establishment of the huge grants under the millilium challenge fund. Tanzania, Ghana and other third world countries got a heavy dose of funding to put then on fast track of becoming a developed economy.
We need to look at not just Immigration. These are old laws on the books that we as immigrants needs to do something about. Bush is going to do what is best for his (base) and we need to get together as people to start doing same. The sooner they realize we are serious’ then they will start taking us serious.
We must be grateful to America irrespective of our current situation today. We are learning a lot from American which we need to export back home to benefit future generations.
Bush's African Tour : A writer gives his personal views
Written by Jacob Sax Conteh
Sunday, 24 February 2008
President Bush’s recent trip to Africa is neither historic nor spectacular. Most recent US presidents have visited Africa. While this was George Bush’s second visit to the Continent, as Africans, we should judge world leaders by their actions, not by their words.
United States policy in the past seven years has been detrimental to Africans. With focus on the so called War on Terror, many issues pertinent to Africa have been ignored. On the immigration issue, while Asians and other regional nationals travel with ease to the US for trade and study, the US consuls in Africa have been very hostile to Africans who try to travel to the US. Even those who win the diversity lottery are denied entry. And here in the US, many Africans who live in cities like Minneapolis have been targeted and forcibly removed while Hispanics roams the streets and even have Day Labor Camps in places like Virginia where people can pick them for the day to work for them.
Another issue where Africa has been traded unfairly by the Bush Administration is trade. Though they have effectively unlinked democracy with trade when it comes to China, Bush still talks about democracy before trade when dealing with Africa. Today the people of Zimbabwe who are innocent victims of Robert Mugabe’s excesses suffer immensely because both the US and UK have refused to trade with the improvised country. Yet they trade freely with communist China and other undemocratic Asian and Middle Eastern countries.
But the greatest problem is the “cowboy diplomacy” which both Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama have been talking about in their campaign. The people of Darfur still suffer immensely because the President Bush does not have the courage to pressure the Chinese into relinquishing their support for the Khartoum regime. In the midst of all this, Bush is trying to open more military bases in Africa, something President Kuffour of Ghana boldly pointed out.
While many applaud Bush’s recent visit to Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia, the visit does not have much substance. This is a visit by a lame duck president who will soon be in power – a president who belongs to a party that does not care about Africa. As Africans, we should look beyond the rhetoric and see who really cares for our course. Above all, we must look after ourselves as foreign aid is not going to make us rich.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS ARTICLE REPRESENT ONLY THE OPINIONS OF THE WRITER. THEY DO NOT REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THIS ONLINE NEWSPAPER ON THE BUSH AFRICAN TOUR .
Subject: Re: Bush's African Tour : A writer gives his personal
From: salone man
To: All
Date Posted: 13:44:34 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
THEY DID IT.
YES WE CAN.
PRESIDENT KOROMA IS TAKING THE FIRST STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION RIGHT NOW.
SIERRA LEONE NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT.
YES WE CAN.
WHAT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SIERRA LEONE AND DUBAI?
YES WE CAN.
Subject: Re: Bush's African Tour : A writer gives his personal
From: salone man
To: All
Date Posted: 13:37:49 02/25/08 ()
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Message:
YES WE CAN.
DUBAI DID IT.
THEY WERE ORDINARY FISHERMEN THAT TRANSFORMED THEMSELVES INTO PROMINENCE AFTER THE DISCOVERING OF OIL,THROUGH A LEADERSHIP THAT HAS VISION,WISDOM AND LOVE FOR DUBAI.
WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH OUR DIAMONDS AND TONS OF NATURAL RESOURCES? GOD HELP PRESIDENT KOROMA,GOD HELP US.IF DUBAI CAN DO IT, WE CAN DO IT.
Subject: RE: Astonishing Facts about Late Hinga Norman...?
From: MUSA
To: All
Date Posted: 08:41:42 02/25/08 ()
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Members of this FORUM; if this is true as quoted below, why is he trying to be hailed as hero? Is it because he is now dead and customary, the dead must be respected irrespective of their ill' act?
"We cannot discuss the contemporary political history of Sierra Leone without indicting him as the harbinger of political instability in that West African country. Either by intent or design, the fact remains that he was the ADC to the Governor General Sir Henry Lightfoot-Boston. ""It was Hinga Norman, then lieutenant in the Sierra Leone military, who actually put the governor and the winner of the 1967 General Election Siaka Probyn Stevens under house arrest while the former was about to swear in the latter as the New Prime Minister of Sierra Leone"". For that one reason, denying the smooth transfer of power from the losing incumbent leader to the winner leader of the opposition party – opened the gates of hell in the country".
Somebody help me shed some light of understanding into this shadow heroism. I was not yet born by then and seem doomed of what is going on here....!!!
Subject: DO YOU KNOW KABBAH'S WHEREABOUTS?
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 07:08:37 02/25/08 ()
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I promised to give him 5 slaps for neglecting our people and contributing to the grave loss of the 2007 elections. I have looked at the sentence and it will be six onths suspended sentence for the 5 slaps. I need to give him that humialiation - if you know his whereabouts please let me know!
Subject: Re: DO YOU KNOW KABBAH'S WHEREABOUTS?
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 07:49:48 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
HE'S IN ROGBANE
Subject: Re: DO YOU KNOW KABBAH'S WHEREABOUTS?
From: Foday Mammy
To: All
Date Posted: 11:25:23 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Kabba went to Seoul, South Korea where he took part in the Universal Peace Forum conference. After Korea he went to Dubai and then to Nigeria where he is leading a delegation of APRM (african peer review mechanism)experts to evaluate the performance of the Nigerian government.
Subject: Re: DO YOU KNOW KABBAH'S WHEREABOUTS?
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 08:29:44 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Where is that? Thank you for your help!
Subject: Re: DO YOU KNOW KABBAH'S WHEREABOUTS?
From: New Rochelle
To: All
Date Posted: 10:19:04 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Wrong. Kabba is presently in new Rochelle, New York (less than 30 minutes outsidee New York city. The same town he resided in during his years working at the UN. If you can make it to NR why would you be so stupid to want to slap your ex-president anyway? By the way, we operate according to the rule of law over here here in the states. We do not take the law into our hands. I hope that is not what you imply you people do over there, otherwwise I am tempted to say..."NO WONDER!"
Subject: Re: DO YOU KNOW KABBAH'S WHEREABOUTS?
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 11:20:36 02/26/08 ()
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I have already checked out what the penalty for giving him five slaps will be. I am prepared to sacrifice my freedom to fulfill that which i have always wanted to do to the stupid ex-president. We could have been ahead had greed not clouded his reasoning. I believe in the rule of law and would not feel bad receiving punishment for doing the wrong thing. i know i will be doing the wrong thing but the satisfaction I will get for making sure my hand/finger prints are on his cheeks is the joy I long for. Sorry brother - some of us will break the law to settle old scores. i would rather the states punish me than letting him getaway from my slaps.
Subject: For Peace. Yah let me blow my hurn for once.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 00:45:27 02/25/08 ()
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Peace, sorry for replying late. I was watching the Oscar 08 Awards.
You guys get head ache over what somebody says about you here but since I started contributing on these Sierra Leonean forums, whatever you say here is behind because I would listen to brains afterwards whose ideas will make this forum a graveyard. I look at beautiful men and women whose ideas and appreciation for humanity is different from what most people bother with here.
To be honest with you, I don't know who “Candid Opinion” is and I doubt if I care very much. I am not contesting for position in Sierra Leone nor do I want to impress any one that is already impressed. Take it from me. I want you to also know that no man has ever in my life, taken a woman that I am with from me, especially a man who is not sure of himself to write his actual name on a free forum. What is he hiding? That is one quality for which sober-minded and classical women will definitely see the difference between him and I: confidence; because it tells them that I am not one who hides behind curtains for what is my right.
Moreover, there is no one on this forum I would get into it for any woman. I love Sierra Leone than any single woman. In fact, I am not sure we have the same taste in women.
Look pal, the entire world was talking about Janet Jackson, this and that woman. Regardless of the fact that she or they are rich and popular does not eat me up; why? I love human beings not what they have. I am in America for God sake; the land of opportunities; besides, at this point when they have made the promise and brought the entire world’s attention to it, I would only work hard, go to school because that is just me. But not that they be convinced, no. I would only be a fool to try to convince them after they had said they are convinced. All the singing and movies was a way of saying that they are convinced, which started years back 10, 12, 15 years back? So why should I try to convince them the more? But I am not the one who would live what I have been doing my entire life because some body has made a promise. If I make mention of it in fact, is just to mess with those who want to mess with me, SO THAT IT BECOMES A TWO-WAY-STREET.
Note that if everything one has is gone, only those who love you will even admit that they know you or will surround themselves with you. I love beautiful, educate, well mannered, charismatic and forward-looking women with good heart who are willing to make a difference in other people’s lives with simplicity and elegance. One who can enrich my mind and I theirs. A lot of you thought it was and is a joke but I do know one thing that there are those in the world whose thinking are not petty and what most women would love a man for is not an iota of consideration in the minds of charismatic, loving and kind-hearted women who are informed about the world and want to change it for the better. I do not like arrogant, rude and rush-to-judgment type of women. If a woman cannot impress me with their intelligence, elegance and kindness, there is no way they can impress me with rudeness, false-show or obey-the-wind type of women who do things just because they see others do it regardless if those are right or wrong. These are the types he might date who are not for me.
But the fact remains that most Sierra Leoneans who did not know me while I was growing-up, my college days, my days in Freetown and days in the States before I even made mention of the movie Shemgbe that brought the anger or when I was in Charlottesville, Virginia before I came with my daughter's mom to Alexandria, Virginia in 1996-97 have now taken the lead in what you see demonstrated here on most occasions. Most who contribute on this forum had left Sierra Leone way-way-back so their mindset of Sierra Leone is scanty. This is why those who know are surprised but would not say a word and are learning more about Sierra Leoneans.
Most of you never know whom and what I have been with so you are carried-away by the Sierra Leone rumor when in fact, there are those who know me, have videos of me at gatherings among Americans and even Sierra Leoneas that are laughing at what most have been saying or thinking.
No, I don't know this person and I doubt if him and I will ever compete for a woman. I have seen and heard women. I read what most people write here and I do know the type of women such knowledge would impressed. I am not troubled by such. Most of whom I will never date. That is God's honest truth and that is no boast but the fact. The women who wish to live a better world for their children and the younger generation do know a quality-man who can make a difference. My work has not even started. Take it from me.
The Candid guy might be jealous or angry at something he knows that he might be wishing to make me disbelieve but the fact that he might be thinking in that line tells me that we shall never, I repeat, never, meet over a girl because when the cloud is clear, you will definitely tell yourself, yes, that is the guy, the real guy. It is Pizarro, Pee. When I write to my former girl friend, I write, yours Pee. In order words, it is him yesterday, today and even better tomorrow; that is the confidence I have. When I came to the U.S. I came with the determination that I either get the best or go without because I was sure of doing things the right way and nothing will stop rightness but God and I have confidence in the land because I know it is that land: the land of opportunities. Except if that is not true, then they fail but not me because I have paid my dues, done everything that they have required of. In other words, I have kept my side of the bargain, will they keep their word?
So with this matter of taking a woman from me, please read what I write, the way I write and what I am talking about to know the type of woman I would want to be with. But this does not mean that I would not maintain the respect I have for women, no I will till the day I die, though I am disappointed in most of them.
Therefore, I don't know the guy and from his statements, his girlfriend will never be the type I will be interested in.
It is said, show me your friend and I will tell you who you are. A man is assessed by what he says and the company he keeps.
The women who can read this passage without complaining of how long it is are women that I would be interested because it tells that they are interested in knowledge. If they can read this, they can read books.
Subject: Re: For Peace. Yah let me blow my hurn for once.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:25:50 02/25/08 ()
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Mr Kamara..
Lets be friends mate..
If i came off wrong earlier.. i am sorry..
I was merely asking for an explanation..
Gods kids are my brothers.. even the ones dropped on thier heads at an early age..
So lets shake hands and be friends..
And i live around the Alexandria, VA area too.. so i bet we have eat at the same table, or danced to the same music.. of bought at the same store..
In time.. ours will be a lovefest..
What you say man..????
Subject: Re: For Peace. Yah let me blow my hurn for once.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 11:30:10 02/25/08 ()
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Candid Opinion, I have nothing against any Sierra Leonean even those who might have done me wrong. During my years of contributions here, even when the war was heated in Sierra Leone, my life has been between sufferings and recovery but I knew I was not loosing if I stand resolutely for the welfare of our people. I believe that life is valuable and I will do anything within my power to protect it. When I stood for peace during our war, I did so not knowing whose life could be saved but I just knew that any one whose life was saved is my brother, sister, father and mother regardless of where they hail from in Sierra Leone. When the peace agreement was reached, I said, and still believe, that we should forget and rebuild the brotherhood in peace and unity. This is so because I believe in the power of unity, and understanding that there will never be unity when we hold grievances.
In that case therefore, I should not be the person who should hold animosity over petty things as an attack on a forum. Yes it hurts when we deviate from the real issues prevalent in our motherland to imitating issues we have no knowledge of. But if this is done in the spirit of wanting to dig-up the truth for us to understand each other for the betterment of Sierra Leone, even if one insults my mother, I would brush it off and move on.
I love you as a compatriot whose progress I will always pray for because if you succeed, Sierra Leone has won.
In that case, I am humbled that you should take the first step to apologize to me. I would say apologies accepted in sorrow for not have initiated such a gesture first.
Thanks for your foresightedness.
Subject: Re: For Peace. Yah let me blow my hurn for once.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:35:06 02/25/08 ()
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Let me give you one from you tube..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5qPTiwdPflE
Subject: Re: For Peace. Yah let me blow my hurn for once.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:09:50 02/25/08 ()
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OK.. well i am going to apologise 2wice over for been petty..and an a**..
Thanks for been above it all..
I can feel the love.. brother...
Have a blessed day..
Subject: Re: For Peace. Yah let me blow my hurn for once.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 14:12:55 02/25/08 ()
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The pleasure is mine.
Subject: Jesse Jackson's lineage traced
From: Genetics
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Date Posted: 21:40:13 02/24/08 ()
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Throughout his long tenure as a civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse Jackson has had a lot of tough rows to hoe.
It turns out his ancestors did too. Literally.
During a power luncheon at N’Digo magazine in the West Loop this week, it was revealed that Jackson’s lineage stretches back to the Mende farmers of Sierra Leone in West Africa.
Dr. Rick A. Kittles, an associate professor of genetic medicine at the University of Chicago, traced Jackson’s ancestry.
The testing that Kittles and his colleagues do is “important for everybody, whether you’re a celebrity or not,” Kittles said. “When you say, ‘I might have diabetes,’ the first thing [a doctor] says is, ‘Do you have a family history?’ So it’s important to understand your ancestry for many other reasons besides setting up some map of Africa and saying, ‘This is where I’m from.’ ”
For $300 to $350, Kittles’ five-year-old company, African Ancestry, will analyze anyone’s maternal or paternal DNA and pinpoint their African roots — with a high degree of accuracy, he claimed — in four to six weeks.
Aside from Jackson, high-profile people who’ve submitted to swabbing include Oprah Winfrey and music industry titan Quincy Jones. They explored their origins on the 2006 PBS miniseries “African-American Lives.”
Aside from Jackson, N’Digo’s group included eight other Chicago movers and shakers ranging from business barons and academics to broadcasters and politicians.
According to N’Digo founder Hermene Hartman, Illinois Senate President Emil Jones Jr. was amused to learn that his roots were European. “I called him yesterday,” she told the crowd. “Emil started laughing and said, ‘I knew I was a white man!’ ”
Part-time Chicago resident and financial industry CEO Chris Gardner was moved when he learned of his ties to the Mende group of Sierra Leone — so moved that he plans to jet back to the motherland this year. Gardner, a self-made multimillionaire, was played by actor Will Smith in the 2006 film “The Pursuit of Happyness.”
“Can you imagine for a second Alex Haley — had he had access to this kind of technology when he was writing Roots 30 years ago — he could have just gotten on a plane and said, ‘Hey, Mr. Kinte, we’re relatives,’ ” Gardner said.
Kittles has tested about 15,000 people since starting his studies in 1995.
Subject: Re: Jesse Jackson's lineage traced
From: Watasai Stone
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Date Posted: 15:03:58 02/26/08 ()
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Isaiah Washington From the TV show Grey's Anatomy is Mende also.
This ccould end up being good for sierra leone.
Subject: Re: Jesse Jackson's lineage traced
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 15:12:50 02/26/08 ()
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Could be..
If managed properly..
There is a host of ways we could tap into this geneological rtacing thing...and make it a tourist bait...
Subject: Shekito , then , was not far from the truth ? Read this :
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 18:25:49 02/24/08 ()
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Hon. Musa Tarawally Responds
21 February 2008
Sierra Express Media
Hon Musa Tarawally Responds
Hon. Musa Tarawally speaks to Sierra Express
There have been claims and counter claims on the recruitment of Kamajors for the disruption of the coming local council elections. On the 20th February, our reporter caught up with Hon. Musa Tarawally and this is what he had to say; "It is very unfortunate to know that the SLPP denied planning to use ex-combatants to intimidate members of the other political parties for the disruption of the up coming local elections.
Crimes are normally detected through traces and records. By all records, there are indications to certify that using ex-combatant especially ex-Kamajors to intimidate people for the destruction of elections is a major strategy of the SLPP.
During the past elections, Moyamba District was one of the locat1ons used by the SLPP to regroup ex-Kamajors, initiate new ones as political thugs to intimidate and disrupt the past elections. Evidences of this are in the custody of the Police in Moyamba.
Key SLPP supporters in persons of Syl Farna, Dr. Joe A.D. Allie, Councilor James Allie, Dr. Magnus Gborie and Madam Lulu Sheriff, were the ground organizers supported by J.J Saffa who happens to be Secretary General and Mr. Solomon Berewa the then leader of the SLPP. There are evidences to further confirm that huge amounts of monies was paid to operatives by the SLPP, of which some operatives made statements to the Police and are willing to confess on their volition.
Other instances were the stabbing of an APC supporter at Waterloo by SLPP ex-combatants and hosting of several ex-combatants at the SLPP HQ during the elections. Ex-combatants who were hired by the SLPP have consented to confess because they did not receive what was arranged to be paid to them. Concerning Dr. Francis Kai Kai, he was in Pujehun for the past months, organizing the SLPP and talking the people, who were mostly ex-combatants or ex-Kamajors pleading with them not to leave the party.
“My intervention with the ex-kamajors is to give them new directions towards the development of their various communities so that they will never be misused again by the SLPP. So far they have been responding positively and understanding his Excellency's vision for them and the country as a whole.”
On interviewing Hon. Musa Tarawally, our reporter dashed on to the Secretary General of the SLPP and this is what he said also; "Good luck to Musa. May God guide him. He is dishonest. I don't want to draw daggers with small minds. For some people, the purpose of politics is to make money. Musa is part of this school. For some of us, it is to promote good governance. We can always make money either in politics or elsewhere. If we had remobilized the Kamajors, no other party would have campaign in our strongholds. He knows that as a party we believe in peace and unity for the country.”
Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news
Subject: Re: Shekito , then , was not far from the truth ? Read this :
From: David Bangura
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Date Posted: 06:59:39 02/25/08 ()
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This is absolute nonesense, APC is the only party that is known for intimidating other party members. We have clealy seen that on many occations. These are all lies, it is their leader who is putting together all ex-cobatants for a reason best know to them. The only advise i can give to them is that, Sierra Leone is not like before, every body have a strong mind now, so if they dare make any mistake, the worst thing will happen.SLPP did not train kamajor for major election why will they do so for ordinary council elections. One thing I can tell anybody is that, if it was APC who was treated the way SLPP was treated, what happened in kenya would have been a small one. APC is the only uncivilized party in that country, they are lawless, they are vindictive etc.
Subject: Re: Shekito , then , was not far from the truth ? Read this :
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 22:47:36 02/25/08 ()
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All of you will be exposed by your writing. If you dear think sa lone will go to tribal war, you missed your head. That aint happen my friend.
Subject: Re: Shekito , then , was not far from the truth ? Read this :
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 14:12:26 02/25/08 ()
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What about the events in Kailahun and Segbwema during the last elections. Do you think we're fools like you?
People like you should be caught and kept away for good as any chance given to you will be disastrous. It is quiet clear in your reaction to this article. You will surely fail if you think the worst will happen in Sierra Leone. We've suffered enough there's nothing worse than what your Kamajors and RUFs inflicted on us, we don't need people like you.
Subject: Re: Shekito , then , was not far from the truth ? Read this :
From: JOE LAHAI
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Date Posted: 08:31:19 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
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MR EDIE APC GRANT: YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT KAMAJORS AND RUF DID TO YOU, BUT I DID NOT HEAR YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT THE AFRC DID TO THE PEOPLE OF MABELLA IN 1997, AND TO THE REST OF FREETOWN ON 6TH JANUARY, 1998. WERE THOSE ATROCITIES CARRIED OUT BY KAMAJORS OR BY YOUR DRUG CRAZED SOBELS WHO HAIL FROM..................
Subject: Re: Shekito , then , was not far from the truth ? Read this :
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 13:19:34 02/26/08 ()
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You have no legitimate proof to show that AFRC is a replica of APC. These are quiet different sides we're talking about your SLPP's preaching of tribalism. The Kamajors were a formidable force when they were first rolled out to defend their region untill they were influenced by the unpatriotic SLPP.
Even during that time they were still respected by other tribes especially the Temnes who even joined the clan. But when they were given orders to capture and kill anyone who speaks Temne, that's when they became loose cannon, hence the mass human rights abuse.
Subject: Re: Shekito , then , was not far from the truth ? Read this :
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 07:05:21 02/25/08 ()
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SLPP - thought 'civilised' are selfish and self-centred. SLPP lost because of greed and neglect of the people they are supposed to serve.
Subject: Re: Shekito , then , was not far from the truth ? Read this :
From: David Bangura
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Date Posted: 06:57:28 02/25/08 ()
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This is absolute nonesense, APC is the only party that is known for intimidating other party members. We have clealy seen that on many occations. These are all lies, it is their leader who is putting together all ex-cobatants for a reason best know to them. The only advise i can give to them is that, Sierra Leone is not like before, every body have a strong mind now, so if they dare make any mistake, the worst thing will happen.SLPP did not train kamajor for major election why will they do so for ordinary council elections. One thing I can tell anybody is that, if it was APC who was treated the way SLPP was treated, what happened in kenya would have been a small one. APC is the only uncivilized party in that country, they lawless, they are vindictive etc.
Subject: Re: Shekito , then , was not far from the truth ? Read this :
From: glass house
To: All
Date Posted: 07:50:30 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: glasshouse@msn.com
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We all know the truth both parties recruited ex combatants. APc recuited former junta ruf combatants that are now been integrated into the police. slpp recruited kamajors. both parties most stop this. in th elogn run this would not be good for our country. civil wars dont start in a day. they build up over night. politicians on both sides should do what is right for the country and end this.
Subject: Actually, people are praising Candid Oinion's call card
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 17:35:49 02/24/08 ()
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I don't know why Candid went ballistics today when Ronaldinho asked that question ( Candid, another lesson from a veteran forumite:At times, pretend not to hear. Some questions are set-ups).However, people who have used the cards he is selling from CallingCards.com,owned and operated by Universal Calling Inc, have been praising it . His cards can in no way be compared to the ones Ronaldinho was referring to. Those are ripoffs. Please believe me and patronize him. He struck the right cord when he said that we must patronize our own Sierra Leonean businesses.
Subject: Re: Actually, people are praising Candid Oinion's call card
From: Love them cards!
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Date Posted: 18:55:58 02/24/08 ()
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A candid and refreshing show of support for a worthy Saloneman enterprise. Thanks Kabs for supporting a fellow Sierra Leonean. And Candid Opinion, keep on with the good job!
Subject: Re: Actually, people are praising Candid Oinion's call card
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 00:03:27 02/25/08 ()
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Kabs,
My trigger finger just got too independent...
I think its the NEW APC...I was seeing red..
We all get carried away sometimes i guess..
Just like a New jersey five0..chasing a salone car jacker...it was the heat of the moment.. the adrenaline, tunnel vision if you may..
I am a decent, honest, humble salone dreg man..
Just like fullah pa's that open their lily table.. and sell diamint..
I plan to take this a dollar at a time.. build up my client list.. get my people involved..
Funny....
My komaneh called me the other day...
He was like, me man... nah this you plan for take support me sister en dem pikin dem..
Ah say....you don buy...???? En hang up...
I believe..
I have 365 days.. every day counts.. every customer.. counts.. every single dollar counts..
I make 1.25 per 20 dollars card.. not much.. but thats why i designed the business as callingcards for AFRICA. And not calling card for salone.
I just want 0.0005 percent of the Nigerian diaspora to engage...
0.010 percent of the salone diaspora to engage..
0.00010 percent of egytian.. ethiopian, ghanian, south african...malawi, gambia, ivory coast....this list is ENDLESS
I can see the potential.. i can fell it.. this is gwan be a salone success story..
Built right here...1 person at a time.. 1 dalla at a time
And MY ACE will be Brother fen plaba..
Its the age old...fear of the unknown..and been comfortable with the REBTELS of this world even when we are been robbed blind..
Its 12:30 am....
Man get for go crub the 9 to 5 tmr....
Calling cards for africa needs more clients before i can quit my day job...Its a decent concept.. but needs more Nigerian and Ghanian and somalian clients.. since salone man dem dey form fus en gee rebtel en skype en BOSS cards dem money.. even when (I) provide the same service CHEAPER..
Call that what you may.. for me..the pain and rejection is painful...
Like i said..
Its like your brother telling you he recently decided to be vegetarian just when he knowns you plan to open a butcher shop...
But i expected that..
I just have to convince him that eating the soup, and pushing the hog foot to the side is not haram..
As long as its just the soup.
Thanks for the endorsment bra...
Like i said earlier in the evening ..
You petty dey try..
Unu Good night.
And my more knicker ain't candid onions..
Subject: TIME FOR SILLY SEASON !
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 16:08:20 02/24/08 ()
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For all my fellow forumites who are old and achy of bone-and-joint but young at heart and sweet of eye, I humbly present this SOULJAH BOY dance instructional video. You will learn steps that will amaze your teenage kids (and it is good for that pesky arthritis too).
And when you go to Salone on a JC junket and hit Paddys, Old School and the other night spots with those fat one-pack abs of yours, just do the Souljah Boy like a superman and see all the pretty young things go "Ooooooooh!"
Guaranteed to give you more smiles than extending fistfuls of dollars or rocking your jeans below your dross!
Subject: Re: TIME FOR SILLY SEASON !
From: Dancing Grandpa
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Date Posted: 19:05:35 02/24/08 ()
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I am tired of dancing the geriatric shuffle. I am 59 and I think it is a damned shame to move stiffly on the floor as is expected of us golden oldies. I am not yet ready to kick the bucket. I am going to try this crazy Souljah dance and just shock the hell out of everybody at the next Salon party. Just when the youngsters start doing the American dances, i am going to explode with the souljah boy dance, if only my knees can hold.
Subject: PICTURE OF OUR CURRENCY
From: salone man
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Date Posted: 16:00:44 02/24/08 ()
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Subject: Re: PICTURE OF OUR CURRENCY
From: CURRENCY
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Date Posted: 16:23:23 02/24/08 ()
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Front: Siaka Stevens (1905-1988), President of Sierra Leone 1971-1985
This is when the LEONE was the LEONE.
Subject: Re: PICTURE OF OUR CURRENCY
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 17:26:34 02/24/08 ()
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Yeah...
And he made sure he ef'ed it up good.
Subject: Re: PICTURE OF OUR CURRENCY
From: James Tebin
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Date Posted: 16:00:53 02/25/08 ()
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Watch it Candidi O..... watch it.
Subject: Re: PICTURE OF OUR CURRENCY
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 16:12:03 02/25/08 ()
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Message:
What???
Bandalay big nose made sure he messed up the leones good en proper..
Nah lie..?
I just ssaid it in less flowery words..
You feel sorry for him.. or jsut respect..?
Does he deserve it..?
Some African leaders should be tried for genocide just for thier economic misnagement..
I bet that KILLS a lot more of us than all the wars and all the Mosquito's...
Subject: Which one is the official state house website?
From: Conteh
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Date Posted: 15:19:54 02/24/08 ()
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which one is the official state house website? www.ernestkoroma.org or www.statehouse.gov.sl
Subject: Some Sa Loneman get bad heart en fool!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 15:06:07 02/24/08 ()
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Message:
What is all this trickery, anger and manipulation?
Is there a reson for the bottom or have we been ignorant, greedy and jealous? Are you faitful enough to say it? I challenge you to be honest and ask yourself why you are doing it and say it loud to yourself.
Outch!
I have nothing to be jealous of you pal; and from careful observation, our thinking differ copnsiderably. You will know after you learn from the Teacher. (Big things clapping, little things "stopping.")
You will learn how the civilize do it. Thinks this is Stone Age. 21st. Century, Constitutional Democracy. If I fail, democracy has failed and so is human civilization. I have nothing to loose. Its one man amopng a world population of 6 Billion. They made the promise not me. Go after them not me.
Did you think of that? That is where I am smatter.
Who the cap fit.
Can't read over and call it whatever you want to.That's on you. Bo you refuse to realize that every Sierra Leonean, every human on the face of the earth was-in on it?
Subject: Clean Sweep – Obama Beats Clinton in Washington,...old news
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 14:34:44 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-227-57-159.hsd1.mi.comcast.net at 71.227.57.159
Message:
This is old news...is Cocorioko running out of articles, or just want to post articles regardless of the fact that they are behind, and the information is now stale?
Give us information on Texas if you want to be relevant, also, when did you start reporting on US news...did we mention we get our US news from other sources.
I applaud your attempt at expansion, but please stay with the APC propaganda and other related news..we appreciate you better when you do what we know and have come to expect from you...;0
Subject: Freetown Road, Belize City.
From: Interesting
To: All
Date Posted: 13:51:32 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Project Name: Esso Freetown Road Service Station
locat1on: Freetown Road, Belize City
Client Name: Esso Standard Oil S. A.
Duration: 4 Months
Descr1ption: Construction of Esso Freetown Road Service Station
Subject: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:47:52 02/24/08 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
Entered From: pool-138-88-143-251.esr.east.verizon.net at 138.88.143.251
Message:
My boyhood friend and brother, Mr. Ahmed Conteh(one of the very few people who promoted the then unknown,Mr.Ernest Koroma)gave up a lot of useful things only to support Mr.Koroma. He left his family in the USA and went to Freetown, did all what he could to make sure that Mr.Ernest Koroma wins the last elections.
After the elections, Pres. Koroma begged and assured Mr.Conteh to run for a parliamentary seat in Freetown, Mr.Conteh believed in the Pres.Koroma and accepted the offer. Mr. Ahmed Conteh came to the USA and made a funding activity and got huge amounts of money(because a lot us trust Mr.Conteh and know that he will perform very well).
Mr. Conteh went to Sierra Leone with the assurance that he will win the bye-election because the President told him that he(Conteh) will get the seat at all cost.
Before, Mr.Conteh, got to Freetown, the APC party symbol has all already been given to a Alieu Badara(who never did anything for the APC or pres.Koroma).
I am happy that a lot of APC members in Atlanta are displeased with the APC.I am also sure that they will now see what I have been telling them about Pres.Ernest Koroma and the APC,(that the APC party is full of good for nothing and ungrateful people).
I feel sorry for Mr.Ahmed Conteh but I am sure he has learnt his bitter lesson.
MY PEOPLE,STAY AWAY FROM THE APC.
people).
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 22:59:09 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
Mr. Bangura this is a clear differences between my parent born SLPP party and other parties. During the SLPP rein, SLPP were busy paying back all their cronies with jobs and other benefits. In the process corruption set in. At the end they lost their way. Your story should be a good example of how a leader should be. A leader should not focus on satisfying his cronies leaving the rest of the country to die out. Good job for promoting the effectiveness of the president. You may think you are criticizing the president, but your criticism is a blessing for him.
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: O'toole
To: All
Date Posted: 14:51:58 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: otoolekargbo@yahoo.com
Entered From: cpe-65-186-220-54.insight.res.rr.com at 65.186.220.54
Message:
Alpha Saidu everybody will know that this posting is not in the intrest of Mr. Conteh. You are just making a bubu out of yourself, am sure you are in the ATL. well, having live in the ATL for a while, am not erj,mi,ddd,ryyf,h
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 10:38:17 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MR O'TOOLE, I AGREE THAT THE POST IS NOT IN APC DIASPORAMAN CONTEH'S INTEREST. I HOWEVER NOTE THAT HIS POST IS IN THE INTEREST OF ALL SIERRA LEONEANS. IT EXPOSES OUR PRESIDENT AS A LIAR; A DECEPTIVE CHARACTER WHO NEVER KEEPS HIS PROMISES. MR EDIE APC GRANT, PLEASE NOTE THIS INTELLIGENT DEDUCTION.
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: Pedro Da Cintra
To: All
Date Posted: 06:19:30 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: dator5678.161.gbgsd.se at 62.88.180.78
Message:
WAN GBMR KA SINKA MU. GBEPEH KA FORF OR GBATHY. MBAYEH M'LAP EE?
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 14:34:46 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.58.106
Message:
I've always believed that in politics people forego other things to join politics for the betterment of their beloved country. I've also learnt that some people do so for personal gains not for the good they can offer.
Your narrative suggests that, Mr Conteh was vying for power not because he wants to bring solution to some of his country's problems but to benefit his himself otherwise, why being so embittered for not able to serve on this occasion? does this mean the end of Mr Conteh's contribution for his country? one can serve his/her country without having to hold position in government.
Mr Bangura, your disappointment is an indication that you will not give up a well paid job to help your country for less paid position in government but will only do so if you believe you stand to make a fortune for yourself.
I believe the EBK appointments is based on what I call "CHARACTER REFFERENCING" and not 'who you know but what you know'. This is one of the reasons you find that many people failed to land those highly sought positions in EBK's government. Those lucky ones were well vetted before entrusted with those jobs.
I urge you Mr Bangura to exercise patience and even allow Mr Conteh to voice his discontent. Perhaps Mr Conteh is unable to serve in this capacity on this occasion but if he's got that patriotic blood in him, he could do something else which can catch the eyes of the president and who knows.
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 05:41:39 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
QUESTIONS FOR MR APC GRANT: YOU HAVE (AS ALWAYS)COMPLETELY MISCONSTRUED OR MISREPRESENTED THE POINT MR ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA IS MAKING. WHAT HE IS SAYING IS THAT PRESIDENT KOROMA DOES NOT KEEP HIS PROMISES, IS UNRELIABLE AND HAS A TENDENCY TO DECEIVE. WHY MAKE A PROMISE WHICH YOU CANNOT FULFIL? IS THAT NOT DECEPTION? WHAT CAN BE MORE DECEPTIVE THAN THIS?
MR CONTEH IS NOT THE ONLY SIERRA LEONEAN WHO HAS BEEN DECEIVED BY OUR PRESIDENT. AS A MATTER OF FACT, ALL SIERRA LEONEANS HAVE BEEN DECEIVED AND FEEL LET DOWN. DID MR KOROMA NOT PROMISE TO BRING THE PRICE OF A BAG OF RICE TO 20,000 LEONES DURING HIS CAMPAIGNS? WHAT IS THE PRICE OF RICE TODAY? IS IT NOT IN EXCESS OF 100,000 LEONES? DOES THIS REPRESENT A PROMISE KEPT? MR APC EDDIE GRANT MUST ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 08:16:20 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: lpsdsl1.claranet.co.uk at 79.123.36.145
Message:
Mr. LAHAI, you do not possess leadership trait. What I'm trying to say is, if you're given the opportunity to lead a government or organisation, you will fail miserably at the earliest possible time if you think you can satisfy everyone close to you which is wrong.
My friend, the human nature is very difficult to interprete. In this regard, I mean once you are on the spotlight to distribute positions, people tend to think that this is their opportunity to get what they crave for and if you don't becareful, you willend up giving away more than is available to give. So you see your organisation will soon colapse.
A more typial example is for people who lives in the west where all your relatives thinks you're much better off than you're telling. So everyone is vying to share the wealth they perceived you to have and if you think you would have to satisfy all of your relatives then you will end up faling to secure your own future. The same goes to leading a government, if you allow yourself to be reharsed by your closest friends, and fail the nation you entirely have yourself to be blamed as your friends will move away and will not admit ever played a part in your demise.
So allow our leader to lead to the best of his knowledge and ability.
LONTA!!.
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 10:22:57 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
YOU HAVE DRAWN A MILLION WRONG CONCLUSIONS LATELY MR GRANT. CONTRARY TO WHAT YOU THINK, I DO NOT MAKE PROMISES (EVEN TO MY FAMILY) THAT I KNOW I CANNOT FULFIL; NEITHER DO I ENTERTAIN EVERY REQUEST (Note the word "every") FROM FRIENDS AND FAMILY WITH A BEGGING CAP IN HAND. NO, I DO NO SUCH THING.
FORMER APC OPPOSITION LEADER, ERNEST KOROMA WENT ABOUT PROMISING EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO SUPPORT HIM WIN THE ELECTION, KNOWING FULL WELL THAT HE DID NOT HAVE THE WHEREWITHAL, TO FULFIL THOSE PROMISES, NEITHER THE CLOUT WITHIN THE APC RANKS TO MAKE DO ON HIS PROMISES. WE ARE TOLD THAT HE PROMISED THIS DIASPORA GUY (who championed his campaigns and fundraising efforts abroad) THE PARTY TICKET TO CONTEST FOR A VACANT SEAT IN PARLIAMENT. THE GUY, WE ARE TOLD, WAS SO ASSURED THAT HE DID A LITTLE BIT MORE "MAMMY COKER", CASHED IN ON SOME CONTRIBUTIONS FROM HIS FELLOW APC FRIENDS, PACKED HIS POPO BAG AND HEADED STRAIGHT FOR SALONE. HOW DISSAPPOINTED HE WAS WHEN, UPON ARRIVAL, HE LEARNT THAT VICTOR FOH HAD ASSIGNED THE SYMBOL FOR THE CONSTITUENCY HE WAS INTENDING TO REPRESENT TO ANOTHER APC MAN (IN VICTOR FOH'S WORDS "a grassroots member" ). WONDERS WILL NEVER END INDEED: WHO WOULD HAVE DARED AWARD A PARTY SYMBOL TO ANOTHER MEMBER IN DEFIANCE OF SIAKA STEVENS? NOT EVEN E T KAMARA (POWERFUL AS HE WAS) WOULD HAVE DARED DEFY "PASS A DIE'S ORDERS". GO ASK ABDULAI CONTEH AND THE OTHER DISSENTING VOICES DURING THE SUCCESSION BROUHALA IN 1985.
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 07:52:56 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: lpsdsl1.claranet.co.uk at 79.123.36.145
Message:
Joe Lahai, Try this, LAHAI omit the H and the result is what you're rest my case.
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 08:09:52 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
WHAT ON EARTH DO YOU MEAN BY "...and the result is what you're rest my case"? SEE WHAT I MEAN, WHEN I TOLD YOU LAST WEEK TO GO GET SOME MORE....?
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: medkay
To: All
Date Posted: 06:36:44 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 227.red-88-17-7.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.17.7.227
Message:
mr.JOE LAHAI as you may called yourself is a disgrace for you to be a sierra leonean who supposed to be part of an idealist man rather been a die hard defuct kamajor,ruf,nprc killer force who only knows how to destroy and maim peaceful citizen.Pray for your sins and become a bornagain sierra leonean.I was educated under your so called past regime of your ngomende cabals i know how you people are,leave this new regime does his home work before start to defame or criticise.NAR WODRI GO MAKE U KOLO,PALOGOSO.
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 13:39:25 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.240.32.237
Message:
JOE LAHAI when you omit the H, it becomes LAAI = LIE. Maybe you can't even pronounce your own surname, thats why I said you can read but cannot comprehend.
I've noticed that you have a very low IQ.
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 10:30:41 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MY APC FRIEND MR GRANT, DO NOT GO INTO MATTERS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT IQs?
NOTE: IF YOU OMIT THE "H" IN THE SPELLING OF MY NAME "LAHAI", IT DOES NOT BECOME "LIE".
Subject: Re: PRES. KOROMA DISAPPOINTS APC MEMBERS IN ALT,GEORGIA
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 07:56:26 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
WO'NT REPLY TO YOUR S......H.......?........T, BECAUSE IT REQUIRES VERY SERIOUS EDITING. DON'T HAVE THE TIME FOR THAT MR APC MEDKAY OF ROGBANE FAME
Subject: Ernest neglect state house website for his own
From: Salone pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 13:26:10 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 65.91.143.4
Message:
Check statehouse website www.statehouse.gov.sl. the website is down, but www.ernestkoroma.org is working perfectly. Question, is Ernest Koroma serving people or himself?
Subject: Re: Ernest neglect state house website for his own
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 06:29:59 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.250.66
Message:
It is a very sad thing that such is happening. Every dog has his day. If Ernest wants to be a dog that will have to regret when he leaves power so be it. He has ample time and resources to run our country. If he puts his interests more than that which he was elected. History will smile upon him. he will join the other failures. I see little hope where the likes of Kemoh Sesay, sapha Koroma and Alpha khan are operating. This will be their last. Let us put our faith in God. He he loves us he will turn their selfish desires to more menaningful thoughts directed at developing their country.
Sad that we still do not have a website but the president has one. Ernest rethink and make the right moves.
Subject: Re: Ernest neglect state house website for his own
From: medkay
To: All
Date Posted: 06:46:23 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 227.red-88-17-7.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.17.7.227
Message:
The president website was there before he became president,the official website is under construction period.I still have faith on our leader,with former official presidential website what have the president does for this our nation zero nar so so dorti,tribalism en blackout.Please give chance to progress.
Subject: Re: Ernest neglect state house website for his own
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 08:05:03 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MEDKAY, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH BASIC ENGLISH. STOP YOUR STREET TRADING AND FULAMAN KILLING AND GO GET YOURSELF SOME EDUCATION. IT WILL HELP YOU A GREAT DEAL ON THIS FORUM.
Subject: Re: Ernest neglect state house website for his own
From: medkay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:55:23 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 120.red-88-16-251.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.16.251.120
Message:
I got my education during slpp reign,you good for nothing slpp elites.
Subject: Re: Ernest neglect state house website for his own
From: NAR U SABI
To: All
Date Posted: 04:38:42 02/26/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host81-153-195-10.range81-153.btcentralplus.com at 81.153.195.10
Message:
THERE U GO
NAR U SABI
Subject: Re: Ernest neglect state house website for his own
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 07:27:34 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.250.66
Message:
He can easily commission for work on the website to be done by students at IT institutions accross the country and winner give an award. It will show how serious he is about helping in the education of our people. The inability for a government to fully states its policies on the main organ of communication (statehouse website)is worrying. Give the job to the poor students of web design and choose from amongs them a winner, therby promiting interests in rtechnology. The Nigerian flag, in 1960, was commissioned to be designed by students across Nigeria and a winner was chosen amongs the many designs. Ernest should learn to involve the future leaders of tomorrow in issues like this and not just spending silly money on a website that is still not ready but is already carrying State House Press Releases and tested for the whole world to see. I doubt if such competence should have to wait for two months to be competent. A professional can understand an erring spot. Ernest time waits for no man. This little things can be done by your students (the leaders of tomorrow). Do not neglect their willingness to support country-wide projects or assignments.
Subject: The McPhillips Foundation
From: Giving back to the community
To: All
Date Posted: 13:14:21 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h12.79.29.71.ip.alltel.net at 71.29.79.12
Message:
Says Kevin McPhillips “it has to be emphasised that anything we do is never to be considered charity since such a patronising term will never be applicable to our fine young friends in these schools. They are proud young people who simply miss out on some of the things children in other parts of the world take for granted. They are not recipients of “charity” - they are an important part of Sierra Leone’s future and they’ll make it just fine. In the meantime, our work is simply by way of a little help - no different to helping our own children at home from time to time - it’s no big dramatic deal - simple as that”
Subject: Re: The McPhillips Foundation
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:11:04 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Excellent move..
Worthy of praise..
Keep on doing the right thing...
Subject: State House Press Blasts "SLPP Gang": Dr. Francis Kaikai say
From: Alieu Oil
To: All
Date Posted: 11:25:27 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-21-180-12.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 76.21.180.12
Message:
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State House Press Blasts "SLPP Gang": Dr. Francis Kaikai says it is “Lamentable Situation” in Sierra Leone
By
Feb 22, 2008, 17:32
Sheka Tarawalie (Shekito), the State House Press Secretary has yesterday issued a rebuttal to the recent opposition SLPP bitter complaint against his office. Shekito sent in the dispatch from Dakar, Senegal where he is currently on an official assignment. Additionally, in an email copied to all newspaper houses, Joseph Kamanda, the author of the piece that the SLPP is bitterly complaining against, has described Dr. Francis Kaikai and others mentioned therein as being members of an "SLPP Gang" whom they [State House Press Secretariat] will continue to press against the wall.
The SLPP’s Dr. Francis Kaikai in a telephone conversation with this newspaper last evening has however refused to comment on the rebuttal. He simply opined that the current State House Press Secretariat was "lamentable".
"Is this the calibre that our Nation has to offer as Presidential Press Secretary? It is a lamentable situation," Francis Kaikai observed adding that when he went to the Independent Media Commission (IMC) for hearing into the complaint against the State House Press, he was informed that the IMC had been dissolved with immediate effect by State House.
MEANWHILE, THE SHEKITO RELEASE FOLLOWS:
PRESS STATEMENT
SLPP REBUTTAL STORY – MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
By Sheka Tarawalie (State House Press Secretary),
at the Ngor Diarama Hotel, Dakar, Senegal - 21 February 2008
I am currently out of Sierra Leone on official engagements in Senegal, but I feel compelled to respond to issues being raised by the Opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) about an article concerning Dr. Francis Kai Kai and his alleged attempts to mobilise ex-kamajor fighters to disrupt the forthcoming local council elections.
From the outset, I must say the SLPP is blowing things out of proportion by organising a press conference and issuing a press statement on an issue that should not have taken centre stage in the agenda of our country at this time. One would have expected the opposition to have called a press conference to hail the moves of President Koroma in seeking the interest of the nation by successfully negotiating substantial support from the Libyan Government to the people of Sierra Leone at a time when such support is greatly needed. A responsible opposition is not only there to oppose but to uphold national interest. That the SLPP never made mention of this, but instead delved on a matter that had already been filed to the Independent Media Commission (IMC) and awaiting hearing, is a calculated attempt to divert the minds of the people from the international/diplomatic gains being made by the APC government.
On the article in question, I have already spoken to a good number of people, including journalists, on this subject, but I deem it fit, since the opposition has taken it upon itself to wash its dirty linens in public, to make certain points clear.
Firstly, the State House website is still under construction and has not been launched for the public’s consumption. A mere click at the said website clearly shows that it is still being tested: www.statehouse.gov.sl/test2/.
This website has not been advertised anywhere, and we have never asked the public to have a look at it, neither have we contacted any potential advertisers nor other websites for possible links. This means that anything tried on the website in the form of articles or pictures is purely on trial and entirely for internal purposes. We are not responsible for anyone being too curious about things and finding out what was not meant for public consumption. Suffice it to say that the publicity given to this website by the SLPP on the story in question is neither our creation nor our intention.
Secondly, the story in question was well sourced, but the writer Joseph Kamanda used his discretion not to put it out for public consumption. The IMC and the general local media in Sierra Leone know that Joseph Kamanda reports for an online newspaper, but he did not send the said report to it. He merely used the article for the purpose of testing and has ever since taken it off the site. If he had wanted to actually discredit Dr Francis Kai Kai as alleged, he would have filed the report.
Thirdly, as intimated earlier, Dr. Francis Kai Kai had already reported the matter to the IMC, there was therefore no need to hold a press conference.
Fourthly, I am not sure the IMC will take this matter seriously, except perhaps because the IMC itself is more culpable in an online crime of still telling the world that Ahmed Tejan Kabbah is President of Sierra Leone. If one should click on the IMC’s official website, it would be discovered on the ‘Activities’ page that the ‘latest’ report still portrays to the world (with a photograph) that Kabbah is Sierra Leone President - http://www.imc-sl.org/activity.htm Who then is portraying a bad image of Sierra Leone; of a people refusing to accept change?
Fifthly, the SLPP should stop playing the fool by saying that they brought peace to Sierra Leone. If they did, they would have still been in power. The people of Sierra Leone know how peace was belatedly brought to our country, and at a great loss, which obviously could have been avoided by a responsible government at the time. And the people know how the DDR programme was implemented haphazardly and therefore still leaves most of our youth unemployed and un-reintegrated.
The people spoke in the last parliamentary and presidential elections. A responsible opposition will respect just that.
The hullabaloo being raised by the SLPP on this Francis-Kai-Kai issue is tantamount to the tantrums of a man caught with his pants down. #END
Subject: Re: State House Press Blasts "SLPP Gang": Dr. Francis Kaikai
From: Norman Sankoh-Maskita
To: All
Date Posted: 20:16:18 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-66-108-68-252.nyc.res.rr.com at 66.108.68.252
Message:
Whosoever endeavors to engage in the arming or training of combatants to destabilize the peace of our beloved Sa Lone will surely perish...IN HELL...
God Bless Governor Clarkson... an all well meaning Sierra Leoneans!
Subject: Re: State House Press Blasts "SLPP Gang": Dr. Francis Kaikai
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 11:45:29 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-227-57-159.hsd1.mi.comcast.net at 71.227.57.159
Message:
"Firstly, the State House website is still under construction and has not been launched for the public’s consumption. A mere click at the said website clearly shows that it is still being tested:"
Big lie....there is no under construction notice on the site, and content once posted on a webserver with no access control is considered in the public domain...
You want to test, you can do so with apache/IIS webserver locally on a machine with all the content you want, and no one will see the information...
Subject: Re: State House Press Blasts "SLPP Gang": Dr. Francis Kaikai
From: POLITICAL
To: All
Date Posted: 13:05:22 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
It doesn't matter whether public or not. All they should do is put a notice that the site is under construction. Failing to to do so will mean to most if us that the site is back in business for public consumption. No excuse Mr. Secretary. However, I commend the press secretary for his fierce defense against a system that have set the pace for the politics of destruction for our country. SLPP was in power for 10 bad years and it is undeniable that they lost valuable opportunity to turn this country around. Why blaming the APC now for something they failed to do in 10 years is beyond my imagination.
Subject: Re: State House Press Blasts "SLPP Gang": Dr. Francis Kaikai
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 14:27:24 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-71-227-57-159.hsd1.mi.comcast.net at 71.227.57.159
Message:
Kind Sir, Have you read the article that the SLPP is complaining about?
It alleges that Dr. Kaikai along with John Karimu and John Benjamin were in Liberia training kamajors to come to back to Sierra Leone and cause trouble. At the time that they were supposed to be doing this, Dr. Karimu was in Nigeria doing an AU peer review, John Benjamin was in Segbwema, and Dr Kaikai was in Kenema the SLPP reports.
This is article that the Secretary says was at the discretion of the reporter to publish.
Is he not advocating a crime (mispreason of treason) here, if this were factual? Is himself not committing the same crime by claiming they were just testing, and were not going to publish it? Are the allegations under investigation?
This issue is not about blaming the APC. It appears to be about clarifying an issue that would clearly affect the hard fought peace in the country that is proganda based on inflaming political tensions and jeopardizing the security of the state for party partisanship.
Too many people died as a result of careless propaganda, the rebel war, and power hunger, and any signs of an attempt to return the country to those days should be immediately curtailed be it APC or SLPP.
Subject: Re: State House Press Blasts "SLPP Gang": Dr. Francis Kaikai
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 05:52:23 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
I THINK FRANCIS KAIKAI, JOHN KARIMU AND JOHN BENJAMIN SHOULD TAKE SHEKITO TO COURT T CLEAR THEIR NAME AND EXPOSE THE SHAMELESS LYING TACTICS OF THOSE WRETCHED AND SILLY APC THUGS AND THIEVES
Subject: Re: State House Press Blasts "SLPP Gang": Dr. Francis Kaikai
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 14:57:13 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.146.58.106
Message:
During the well hitted campaign for the past elections, the SLPP leadership claimed the APC was planning an assassination on them. What action did anyone take then?
The SLPP have deviated from opposing the most important policies in EBK governemnt. Instead, they're spending most of their time, money and energy to defame and pull down the government and country.
My friend desist from this games.
One of the main reasons I respect and adore BRA ENVIABLE is, he hardly involve in petty issues like these but he advocate on issues that mostly affects the nation. I'm currently on the side of the government so I do disagree with him a lot but I know this guy will continue to attack government policies that require scrutiny which is what a good opposition should be. But most so called SLPP supporters especially those self proclaimed PhD holders in this forum only engage themselves in point scoring arguments, promotion of tribal differences.
Subject: TIWAI ISLAND
From: Nar Me
To: All
Date Posted: 11:12:50 02/24/08 ()
Email Address: thenewsletter@hotmail.com
Entered From: amontsouris-152-1-34-126.w82-123.abo.wanadoo.fr at 82.123.220.126
Message:
A little bit about Tiwai for anyone interested.
Subject: Good reading. The mind is a terrible thing t o waste.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:53:07 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-151-194.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.151.194
Message:
Please do not take offense until you have read the link bellow.
I am really worried about most contributors here; seriously worried. This is from a careful observatin of what they enjoy doing and the efforts they relentlessly make in manipulation that they think no one notices and even when people have noticed and try to correct them, they are still in denial. I am very worried about such manipulation.
Please read the following link and think hard.
Enjoy!
Subject: Re: Good reading. The mind is a terrible thing t o waste.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:57:26 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-151-194.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.151.194
Message:
That is counseling with one "l" and an "s'
Subject: Re: Good reading. The mind is a terrible thing t o waste.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:59:38 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-151-194.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.151.194
Message:
"Are You Involved With A Psychopath?"
Stop The Madness
By: Michael G. Conner, Psy.D
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For most of us the idea of a psychopath conjures up images from movies like "Silence of The Lambs" and characters with names like "Hannibal Lector." Fortunately characters like Hannibal don’t really exist. Serial killers and people involved in ritual torture are rare, but psychopathic behavior is more common than you might think.
I have known several psychopaths in my life. The clearest case involved an older teen who had no sense of guilt. He could learn the rules, but he had no sense of conscience. The only thing that saved him was a mother who loved him, took him to counseling for years and spent a great deal of time patiently teaching him right from wrong. I remember a conversation where he told me, "People know when something is wrong because it feels wrong. I have to remember or be reminded that stealing from someone is wrong. I don’t feel bad if I take something."
Meeting this young boy changed my opinion of a psychopathic personality. Why? Because children with this condition are "emotionally blind." And while I do not excuse cruelty or criminal behavior, I have sympathy and appreciate how hard it is for some people to learn how to act responsibly. Without help, potentially psychopathic children will become adults who never remain attached to anyone or anything for long. They may end up living a "predatory" lifestyle, feeling little or no regret, and having little or no remorse - except when they are caught or about to be locked up. A psychopath is not necessarily a bad person. But they are prone to have problems with society, rules, expectations and relationships.
A psychopath will use people for excitement, entertainment, to build their self-esteem and they invariably value people in terms of their material value (e.g. money, property, comfort, etc..). They can involve and get other people into trouble quickly and they seem to have no regret for their actions. To date there is no checklist of behavior and symptoms that will tell you with certainty whether or not a person is a psychopath. But there are warning signs. The following warning signs are based on my experience but primarily research conducted by Robert Hare, Ph.D - the leading expert on the Psychopathic Personality.
Characteristics of a Psychopath
superficial charm
self-centered & self-important
need for stimulation & prone to boredom
deceptive behavior & lying
conning & manipulative
little remorse or guilt
shallow emotional response
callous with a lack of empathy
living off others or predatory attitude
poor self-control
promiscuous sexual behavior
early behavioral problems
lack of realistic long term goals
impulsive lifestyle
irresponsible behavior
blaming others for their actions
short term relationships
juvenile delinquency
breaking parole or probation
varied criminal activity
The idea that psychopaths eat people is a myth. In reality, a person with a psychopathic personality can lead what appears to be an ordinary life. They can have jobs, get married and they can break the law like anyone else. But their jobs and marriages usually don’t last and their life is usually on the verge of personal chaos. They are almost always in some kind of trouble or they are not far from it.
A psychopath is usually a subtle manipulator. They do this by playing to the emotions of others. They typically have high verbal intelligence, but they lack what is commonly referred to as "emotional intelligence". There is always a shallow quality to the emotional aspect of their stories. In particular they have difficulty describing how they felt, why they felt that way, or how others may feel and why. In many cases you almost have to explain it to them. Close friends and parents will often end up explaining to the psychopath how they feel and how others feel who have been hurt by him or her. They can do this over and over with no significant change in the person's choices and behavior. They don't understand or appreciate the impact that their behavior has on others. They do appreciate what it means when they are caught breaking rules or the law even though they seem to end up in trouble again. They desperately avoid incarceration and loss of freedom but continue to act as if they can get away with breaking the rules. They don't learn from these consequences. They seem to react with feelings and regret when they are caught. But their regret is not so much for other people as it is for the consequences that their behavior has had on them, their freedom, their resources and their so called "friends." They can be very sad for their self. A psychopath is always in it for their self even when it seems like they are caring for and helping others. The definition of their "friends" are people who support the psychopath and protect them from the consequence of their own antisocial behavior. Shallow friendships, low emotional intelligence, using people, antisocial attitudes and failure to learn from the repeated consequences of their choices and actions help identify the psychopath.
Psychopaths with low intelligence or a poor education seem to end up in jail more than ones with a higher education. The lack of emotional insight is the first good sign you may be involved with a psychopath. The second best sign is a history of criminal behavior in which a person does not seem to learn from their experience, but merely thinks about ways to not get caught.
So what happens to these poor kids if they don’t learn right from wrong? Parents with a child like this usually end up angry and frustrated. They will often shield their child from the consequences of their decisions and take the role of continuously trying to educate their child as to right and wrong. The child is always in trouble and doesn’t seem to learn. Their parents may begin to excuse their child's behavior believing their child will eventually "get it." When they don't, many parents resort to punishment. But what these children need is intensive guidance, instruction, training, choices, consequences and supervision. Severe and repeated punishment alone is the worst thing you can do. Letting a child like this run around unsupervised with violent and antisocial children is almost as bad. And child abuse is a sure way to create a social misfit or a monster.
There is a growing discussion among researchers to suggest there may be a genetic influence that creates a psychopathic personality. The psychopath may lack the ability to physically feel what others identify as the physical sensation of guilt. They can feel fear, anger, sadness in the moment but not guilt for what they did or what they are about to do. Some sociologists believe that a sexually promiscuous psychopath who can live off others is a survivor and may represent one of many genes for survival in the human species. Even more surprising has been the observation that many adult psychopaths do not seem to benefit from support, counseling or therapy and may in fact commit crimes again and sooner because of it. Research using brain scanning technology has revealed that the brain of a psychopath functions and processes information differently. One famous brain imaging study showed that psychopaths can remain calm looking photos of dead bodies in automobile accidents where as other people were clearly upset. They don't use their brain they way others do. This suggests that they may be physically different from normal people.
Are you involved with a psychopath? You may not know because they can be very charming and friendly until you get close and disappoint them. Don’t assume anyone is a psychopath based on their behavior alone. It is the pattern of their life and many other factors. Please don’t go around assuming or calling someone a psychopath just because they may have some of the warning signs. Get a professional opinion from a qualified mental health professional if you think you are involved with a psychopath.
For more information on the psychopathic personality and Dr. Hare's book "Without Conscience", see www.Hare.Org
copyright 2001 to 2005, Michael G. Conner"
Subject: WHY WE FOUGHT THE10 YR WAR IN SIERRA LEONE?
From: CREOLE TACTICS MAKE COUNTRY STUPID
To: All
Date Posted: 06:38:33 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-216-252-183-190.wdb.ses-americom.net at 216.252.183.190
Message:
BECAUSE SOME DUMB ASS COUNTRY CAN JUST OPEN THEIR SNUFF STINKING MOUTHS AND INSULT OTHER TRIBES AND GET AWAY WITH IT, THATS IS WHY. KABS KANU IF YOU ARE THE ONE HITTING MR COLE BELOW THE BELT BE CAREFUL, OTHERWISE SOME BAD BAD MAMA PIMENT CURSES WILL FLOOD YOUR FORUM . I WONDER WHY OTHER CREOLES DID NOT RESPOND TO THAT STUPID EMAIL? STUPID MAN!
Subject: Is it not time phone cards be investigated?
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 02:07:44 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
All phone cards do not give the allotted time they say. It seems that 1 minute is 50 seconds. So if it says you have 40 minutes, you actual have 33 minutes.
Because these phone cards are used by 'third worlders' the authorities seem to turn a blind eye! Is there a specific authority to complain to?
Subject: Re: Is it not time phone cards be investigated?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:18:16 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
READ THE DOGON FINE PRINT...
No one cheats you out of any minutes..
It pains me to have to explain elementary - 101 stuff to grown ass men..
Ronaldino.....
I believe in most cases you where given the choice to choose...
Its either the ROUNDING.. or connection fees or Maintanace fee..
ALL CARDS HAVE THEM.
ALL, PERIOD!!!!
The calling cards business is a cut throat business, measured in pennys and cents.
On my site....
You are given the option of 23 different cards.
Three of which have 1 minute rounding.
Twenty with 3 minutes rounding.
If you makes short calls.
Talk for a minute and then hang up..and count your minutes...
YOU BEST CARD IS a 1 minute rounder.
If you call and chat... and chat... a 3 minute rounder rounder is your best bet.
If you buy a 3 minute rounder. And talk for 1 minute and 5 second.. you are billed 3 minutes.. so you 60 minutes just turned 57.
If you thing phone cards are expensive at 9 cents a minute VS 4 dollars a minute you need your SKULL examined..
TRY CALLING FROM YOUR LAND LINE.. 4 dollars a minute..
I got slammed ($32) dollars for a (8) minute call i mistakenly made from my home phone.
With $32 dollars on my calling cards...YOU could have talked 3 days...
Assuming you sleep, eat, shit, en have a job in between.
And yes.... LAND LINES ALSO HAVE ROUNDING.
Now if thats settled.. i am glad i was of service...
And please USE OUR CARDS..
ITS A SALONE OWNED BUSINESS.
AND YOU CAN REACH ME ANYDAY..
AND YOU ARE NOT GIVING THE OTHER GUYS YOU MONEY.
THIS MONEY.. HOW EVER LITTLE will find its way into salone's economy..
I just sent $500 for my mum this morning..
USING A SALONE REMITTANCE COMPANY.
WWW.ACESSPOINTCASH.com
Owned by my salone sister. Leah Mansaray.
I know its personal stuff..but just want to give you my heart and have you know how i operate..
THATS 500 of calling cards money in the salone economy.
And WESTERNUNION DID NOT GET A CENT.
My email is
2footleppet@gmail.com
admin@callingcards.com
I know you willfully tried to irked me this morning.. and i am home whole day.. ready to answer your queries...LINE BY GOD DARN LINE.
Next time, before you put a pin in my balloon with your ignorance..
Ask, or research...
Here let me help you...
GOOGLE.com?i feel cheated by my phone cards.
SALONEMAN, we are different breed indeed...
FOR THOSE WHO KNOW HOW TO USE CALLING CARDS..
AND FEEL LIKE CALLING MUMMY, GRANDMA, DAD..
www.callingcardsforafrica.com
www.callsalone.com
www.callfreetown.com
www.callmonrovia.com
www.callabuja.com
SHOULD I KEEP ON?
We have Africa covered.
We can't be beat..
REBTEL my foot.
Subject: Re: Is it not time phone cards be investigated?
From: Phone Cards
To: All
Date Posted: 10:33:25 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h12.79.29.71.ip.alltel.net at 71.29.79.12
Message:
Thanks for clarifying how the phone cards work.
The thing that gets me is that, before, when using a phone and you make a call and no one answers (not talking about an answering machine) you do not get charged. Lately when using any type of phone card, whether someone answers or not, you still get charged.
Not to mention that I have lost several $$$ like that on a single card, without talking to a single Soul on that card. The card company made its money but I get the shaft.
Subject: Re: Is it not time phone cards be investigated?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:14:35 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Was it one of my cards..?
Even if it was not..
Let me spent a few minutes explaining our collective pain...
A few weeks ago, a ship dropped its anchors off the Arabian peninsular.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327588,00.html
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/31/Cut-cable-disrupts-Internet-in-Middle-East_1.html
Ripping up valuable underwater cables that transmit both voice and data from the indian sub continent to middle east and on to africa..
Most of the routers for Africa are located in or transverse the middle east.. and North Africa..
When this happened.. there was a mad rush for re-allocat1on.. re-routing..
Salone.. as always been on the bottom of the totem pole got shafted..
People bought my cards and encoutered the same problem you encoutered.. most of them called me complaining..
I spent 3 solid evenings after my day time job (i try not to mix mattes, and think its morally wrong to do my private business on company time).. to sort the issue out with connections to salone.
I bought cards just like you and tried connection and got the same no conection.. minutes deduction problem..
I tried the same card..to Nigeria.. works fine.. to guinea.. worked fine..
I switched card... and bought another card by another provider. Worked..
So i waited a few days and used my other card again.. works fine..
I called a few of my customers and told them to try the old cards.. THEY TRIED AND IT WORKED.
So our connection issue has been resolved..
If you are not getting service with your other provider..
Switch to us...We offer excellent rates.
Great Sunday to you.
Subject: Re: Is it not time phone cards be investigated?
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:33:52 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-187-207-114.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.187.207.114
Message:
You are right, it is in the fine print and the land phones have rounded to the nearest minute for years.You just do not notice it immediately as the phone card.
Subject: Re: Is it not time phone cards be investigated?
From: O'toole
To: All
Date Posted: 05:41:48 02/24/08 ()
Email Address: otoolekargbo@yahoo.com
Entered From: cpe-65-186-220-54.insight.res.rr.com at 65.186.220.54
Message:
Mr. Ronaidino you are right its seams that its better for us to go back to the phone line again. I stop useing phone cards a long time ago since the time i got my lingo line which runs from an internet conniction. It tells you the price you pay per mins. before you call to sa/leone before you you call and are even got more mins and the connectio is exxl.
Subject: Re: Is it not time phone cards be investigated?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 06:50:41 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
I use Rebtel and I am satisfied with the connection. You get what you pay for. Check it out www.rebtel.com tell them aiscandari@aol.com sent you
Subject: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:13:00 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Oh and before i forget..
I advertize on COCORIOKO...
Kabs kanu has some of my money in his pocket...
Thats helping a salone business in my own books...
No fronting, no doublespeak.. no ambulance chasing..
Shioooooooooooooorrrrrrrrr
Subject: Re: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: Businessman
To: All
Date Posted: 11:19:26 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
You sure are one lousy businessman. I will not be surprised if your cards do not sell because you don't know how to address others. You are rude.
Subject: Re: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:29:22 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
No comments..
*********** disclaimer of no comment ***********
Because my answer.. even one warranting putting you in your place for NOT BEEN SURPRISE that i do not do well.
Whatever that means and what evevr your wishes would be..
Would again be termed rude.. and then this will be one of those twilight zone episodes or a lesson in catch 22's..
Anyways, let me hold my anger at you..
And wish you God go with you my brother..
Subject: Re: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: rail
To: All
Date Posted: 11:15:03 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 32.148.50.207
Message:
live on
Subject: Re: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 10:42:33 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
And you, in particular, are enjoying what others are not getting. Your business is advertised not only on the newspaper but the forum. Nobody else enjoys that privilege , so if your money is in my pocket, you are getting more advertising space than you are paying for.No big deal, brother , and no need drawing me into this .
Subject: Re: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:59:04 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Bra, i did not draw you into anything..
I stated a fact... non-equivocal one for that matter..
You decided to be drawn into it...
This nah bote ba...?
And yeah..i am getting a lot of advertizing space..
But it is in our agreement..you AGREED to those terms before you took my money, so dont you come here acting like you are my sugardaddy and me a FBC student..
And i am one of the pioneers in cocorioko adverising.
I took a risk, cause you have no proven record of click thru rates and conversion or traffic...
I do my own share around here... without pay...
I participate.
I bring valued information to the table.
I help with direction.
I give advice.
I help keep our democracy solid by helping keep APC on its toes..
And yes.. i offer some of the cheapest and most convenient means of communication to SALONE.. period...
With me en you, it is not a favor.. it is a contract..
And i am still waiting for my receipt.. tax time looms..
Subject: Re: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:44 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
I WILL STOP RESPONDING TO THIS THREAD UNLESS ITS A BUSINESS QUESTION.
Cause i am sooooooooooo angry right now that i might come off unprofessional..
I like a cordial business atmosphere and have tried to build that rapor around here..
But you fellas are getting on my reserved nerve..
I am not the turning the other cheek kind on most days..
If anyone has a callingcardsforafrica question.. i will answer privately if you email me directly.
2footleppet@gmail.com
Subject: Re: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 11:10:00 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
CANDID OPINION,
I am not after your money .I have other unexplored sources of getting money for COCORIOKO .The very paper can sell and pay its own bills if we can get it into print. You are talking like your money is sustaining us. It is not.
Secondly, I love to do business with people who respect me. I find your attitude most disrespectful and unacceptable.
In future, if you have any business matters to discuss with me, have the courtesy to address me through my mailbox and not through this public forum. I don't think the readers were party to this transaction to advertise for you.
If you don't show any respect for me or business courtesy, we will not advertise for you again.
I am somebody with a very big heart, incase you do not know.
Subject: Re: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: Tell him
To: All
Date Posted: 11:25:45 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 32.148.202.237
Message:
He does not know that as long as APC is in power, you have many
ways to raise cash
Subject: Re: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:24:45 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
I think i am willfully been targeted here for reasons i do not understand.. and i think an apology is warranted.
YOU BROUGHT THE ISSUE TO THE FORUM not me..
If you wanted to use private mail box.. it was and IS on you. You have my email..
Nowhere did i say you depend on my money.. or you will go broke without my own kobo..
My money might not be sustaining you.. but it could..
30-40 of MY KIND can make you a happy man..
Its a numbers game..i know.. i live it..
And i find your attitude disrespectful as well..and do business with respect.. and as your customer i dont think i am getting any from you..
About advertizing for me in the future..
All i can say is ah bayge duya bra..
Noto disrespect.. just can sit here and take abuse from people without giving as good as i get.. regardless if you wear a white collar or wear a wig to courts..
A LOW BLOW IS A LOW BLOW...regardless if its froms family.. i will hit right back..
Big heart.. ???
You should talk to your doctor.. it might put you at risk for cardiovascular problems..
Subject: Re: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:07 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
Candid Opinion,
I have told you what I feel. Nobody targetted you. Somebody asked a simple question to which you overreacted. You should have simply said that your card was different and that people who try it will find out. You did not have to become very defensive to the point of drawing in my name and stating that your money is in my pockets. If your cards are good, just say that they are.That is a business technique.You only dwell on the positives.
You know all the other extraneous things we discussed that I was supposed to have done to give an added boost to your business .This will show you that my intention is to help, even beyond our transaction. Given such a scenerio, I think you should have addressed me through my e-mail . You should not have even drawn me in because that was absolutely not necessary.
One way you know a good business person--E nor geh wamm -heart.You heart too wamm. Try diplomacy and courtesy for a change, brother.
Subject: Re: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 12:20:11 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
I will extend my hand out and say i might have over reacted..
I will tell you to your face Kabs.. Me nah you baba..
Young man for you..
But i will also tell you that i will only show respect when i am shown some..
This post.. the words.. shows respect for me.. it shows advice.. it shows age and maturity as in fine wine..
And my response will be equal..
I thank you for your advice and i take your advice fullheartedly..
-----------------------------------------------
Reason me heart wam is because i woke up..with enthusiasm.. got a cup of Ethopian coffee (African grown) and ran to the study to come read the thoughts and aspirasions of my fellow Sierra Leoneans since i left for bed last night..
Imagine my disgust at been slammed by Ronaldino and been seconded by Dr iscandari..2 seasoned respected community members..
I felt really really bad.. serious..
Eveyone here by now knows i sell cards..
Everyone here knows that i means a lot to me A LOT when my people join together to make it happen..
If Ronaldino had a question and NOT A DECLARARION to make about calling cards..he could have easily asked his brother.
If Lawyer Iscandari knew he was not going to use my cards, he should not have paid me lip service.
And I have asked a lot of my countrymen here for endorsement.. to help me make the business successful..
So far.. it has only been a certain Mr Fen Plaba (Bra what ever your real name, i hope we meet one fine sunny day) and Bra Banx. I thank both of them..
Imagine your dentist telling you to use Colgate..when he knows you are the CEO of Crest.
I have been in the online business a while, this is not my first online endeavor..
I know how endorsements works..
And i know when people say.. support our advertisers.. so supporting me supports cocorioko. So this trickles..
And it affects you too..
And my comment about me been an advertiser in cocorioko was without malice.. i was jsut expressing that i support my salone peoples business.. thats all.. Nothing else..
If you looked, i even change the subject from the original to emphasize my point.
I think where i become abrasive a bit and misinterpreted is my style of writing.. I am a darn humble person..even to faulty levels.. But i do not like been bitchslapped..
If at all i offended you.. i am whole heartedly sorry..
Same goes to everyone..
Subject: Re: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 15:17:49 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
Candido, Salone's own Tokyo Sexwale.
Let the business boom.
Let it rain Dineiro.
We need fewer government bureaucrats...
And more businessmen.
All the best.
Subject: Re: HOW TO SUPPORT A SALONE BUSINESS.
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:26:26 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
Bra if noto you support around here.. i think plenty man feel say me nah lek dem bra befoe globe or odeon.
Ma winny.. ma lossi..
Take this you win..take this you loss..
Mine is a legit business, started and run by a PROUD Sierra Leonean..
I hope my friends, countrymen, compatriots will acknowledge and participate... and lets all make this a collective and progressive business..
As me granny (bless her heart, she passed only 3 weeks ago.. on the 9th).
If hose nor sell you, trit nogo buy you...
This is a classical case of that lil parable.
I duff my shokoto off to you bra.
Nuff respect.
Subject: Re: Is it not time phone cards be investigated?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:06:42 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Mr. Iscandari..
I find your comments hypocritical..
It was only a few days ago.. on this forum (if someone knows how to search the archives please post link.) that i asked if you have tried our cards..
Your answer if i remember right was..
"Send me the link, I am always willing to support a salone business".
LAST TIME I CHECKED.. REBTEL does not even have a black man in thier staff.. let alone been a salonemans company..
I even emailed you 2-3 days ago.. and did not get a reply back.. and i thought we are all comrades.. if not by country.. then by association.. and by cyber konomanship here on cocorioko..
Now.. let me give you rebtels rates and skypes rates and OUR RATES....so you can make a SENSIBLE informed decision...
****************REBTEL*****************
http://www.rebtel.com/en/Rates/Rates/
Search: FROM - USA, To - Sierra Leone.
Landline Mobile
USD 0.132 | USD 0.279
If its skype..?
****************SKYPE*****************
http://www.skype.com/prices/callrates/#listing-S
USD 0.299 | USD 0.344
Vs OUR RATES.
************* www.callingcardsforafrica.com ************
Landline Mobile
USD 0.9 | USD 0.13
Thats 2 to 1 to Rebtel.. and almost 3 to 1 on Skype.
If you feel cheated....or feell like you have a hole in your pocket...
We are not proud.. prodigal son or not..
Your dollar is good..
AND YES............YOU WILL BE HELPING A SALONE BUSINESS..
5 years, who knows.. we could be competing with Celtel.
Thats our DREAM and goal anyways...
We plan to be a player in the salone cellular market.. but it won't happen by been Judased by our own brethren..
Imagine my dissapointment this morning reading this stupid thread...
Subject: Re: Is it not time phone cards be investigated?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 02:24:18 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Mr Candid Opinion,
I have ben using Rebtel for thepast year and thats after trying cards like the ones you sell which claim to give you all these minutes to siera leone only to find out that you are being cheated with hidden fees and costs like connection costs, which are not disclosed, like the fact that at the start of the conversation you are told that you have 56 minutes and by the time you talk for 10 minutes you are told that you have one minute remaining.
In case you do not know, I do make quite a few calls to sierra leone and other places in the world and what I need is to have a reliable service that doesnt cheat me on my time. That is not in any way an indictment of you as a person or the cards that you sell, its just a matter of fact regarding my experience with these kinds of cards. When I went into your web site and realised that it was the same type of cards that I had had experience with I just didnt try them.
"Judased"? In what way have I betrayed you my friend? By not buying your cards? Dont I have a right to chose who I spend my money with? Should I patronise a siera leonean business even if I was not getting any satisfaction from patronizing them? Rebtel allows me to make calls to "Rebtel countries" and in turn allows those people to call me at any time with a free number, do you cards do that?
Here is my calling cardplus account so that you realise that I have been with this entity long beofre you came on board and I have tried them and I am DISAPPOINTED
Your Most Recent Cards:
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Subject: Re: Is it not time phone cards be investigated?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:04:05 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Bra....
I apologised yesterday..
I am only reading this now..Monday.. 10AM..
I overreacted..terribly..
Like you say.. its up to you where you spend your money..
I am really really sorry for the way i responded..
I do hope you will see to lets leave it as dirty water under the bridge.. and lets move on..
If there is any question i can answer on how to make your "Talking to salone and the rest of the world" life nore comfortable..
Please reach out to a brother..
Cheers bra..
Subject: Re: Is it not time phone cards be investigated?
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 08:03:34 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
Mr. Iscandari, is there not some trade descr1ption law being breeched? saying 40 mins but delivering 33mins?
Subject: Re: Is it not time phone cards be investigated?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 09:28:53 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
My law partner has sued some of these companies in class actions before and maybe you need tocontact me with soem info and he will be glad to go after them. aiscandari@aol.com.
Get some info from the card and contact me with that
Subject: The World's Billionaires
From: Sa Leonean Billionaire
To: All
Date Posted: 21:46:12 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h12.79.29.71.ip.alltel.net at 71.29.79.12
Message:
The World's Billionaires
#664 Oprah Winfrey
03.08.07, 6:00 PM ET
Age: 53
Fortune: self made
Source: television
Net Worth: $1.5 bil
Country Of Citizenship: United States
Residence: Chicago, Illinois , United States, North America
Industry: Media/Entertainment
Marital Status: single,
Education: Tennessee State University, Bachelor of Arts / Science
As she embarks on her third decade ruling daytime television, Oprah is still finding other worlds to conquer: on Broadway (The Color Purple), on radio (her new network, Oprah & Friends, debuted last year on XM Radio). Born in rural Mississippi, became TV newscaster in Nashville, Baltimore. Joined Chicago TV station, turned third-rated morning show into nation's No. 1 talk show. The Oprah Winfrey Show launched nationally 1986; currently airs in 127 countries, drawing 48 million viewers a week. Owns property in Chicago, Hawaii, Santa Barbara, Calif. Gives to needy women, children via Oprah's Angel Network and the Oprah Winfrey Foundation. Opened $40 million Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in January.
Subject: Re: The World's Billionaires
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 23:12:45 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-182c806a.dyn.optonline.net at 24.44.128.106
Message:
For every billionaire, there is a potential billionaire!
Subject: Re: The World's Billionaires
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 00:54:34 02/24/08 ()
Email Address: bai_burehuk@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: c83-248-87-19.bredband.comhem.se at 83.248.87.19
Message:
U nar bad boy.Lol.
Dis nar Fen Plaba way e bin small.
Subject: Re: The World's Billionaires
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:17:30 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-187-207-114.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.187.207.114
Message:
Bai bureh, Opera nar southeasterner
Subject: Re: The World's Billionaires
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:33:22 02/24/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: c83-248-87-19.bredband.comhem.se at 83.248.87.19
Message:
Gimme proof so dat are go believe.
Subject: Re: The World's Billionaires
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:19:49 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
No.. she is from the SOuth...and where the east meets south..just on that line...
Where its neither south, nor east...
Subject: Re: The World's Billionaires
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:37:32 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-187-207-114.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.187.207.114
Message:
the liberians aso claim her. May be she will visit Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: The World's Billionaires
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:02:22 02/26/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
DON'T WANT HER HERE; SHE WENT AND ESTABLISHED THAT ZILLION DOLLAR SCHOOL FOR LEARDERSHIP IN SOUTH AFRICA, INSTEAD OF IN KAMABAI OR ROGBANE
Subject: Re: The World's Billionaires
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:54:53 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-151-194.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.151.194
Message:
No wonder.
Subject: Re: The World's Billionaires
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 00:38:32 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
"Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you King"
Subject: What!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 19:10:29 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-151-194.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.151.194
Message:
What!
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07billionaires_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank_34.html
What!
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07billionaires_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank_30.html
Subject: A new direction?
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:34:40 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
We learn from each other, do we?
I specifically like the gallery section.
Subject: Tavis Smiley "State of the Black Union" - Afternoon Session
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:32:42 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Did any African, Sierra Leonean in particular, attend "State of the Black Union?" What contributions have Sirra Leoneans made towards the Black struggle in America?
No insults please just explain if you know of any.
Subject: Thank God for our sweet Sierra Leone
From: SOGBUI
To: All
Date Posted: 16:00:28 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
Saudi men arrested for 'flirting'
Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have begun investigating 57 young men who were arrested on Thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca.
The men are accused of wearing indecent clothes, playing loud music and dancing in order to attract the attention of girls, the Saudi Gazette reported.
They were arrested following a request of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
The mutaween enforce Saudi Arabia's conservative brand of Islam, Wahhabism.
Earlier in the month, the authorities enforced a ban on the sale of red roses and other symbols used in many countries to mark Valentine's Day.
The ban is partly because of the connection with a "pagan Christian holiday", and also because the festival itself is seen as encouraging relations between the sexes outside marriage, punishable by law in the kingdom.
The Prosecution and Investigation Commission said it had received reports of such "bad" behaviour by 57 young men at a number of shopping centres in the holy city of Mecca, the Saudi Gazette said.
The guardians of some of the men defended their actions, however, saying they would regularly get together at the weekend to have fun without ever violating laws governing the segregation of the sexes, it added.
Subject: Moving sierra leone forward( stop it .BRA ENVIABLE)
From: foday mansaray
To: All
Date Posted: 14:18:52 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-172-251-180.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 71.172.251.180
Message:
We thank all those who have supported us and still believe in our mission. To promote democracy, civil governance and to enhance long term growth and prosperity for all sierra leoneans.
In our mission to keep Sierra Leone moving forward, we may be differing in our opinion and approach but our goal must be the same. To protect and preserve the future with our actions today for generation yet unborn.
I am again cautioning all my brothers to be patience. You cannot built a sky-scraper from up down. Someone has to do the fundamental (dirty Jobs). AS God will have it, we have a leader who is young, eager and determined to build a foundation for generations yet unborn. In all of his speeches, he has said 36 months, he will be able to turn Sierra Leone around.
By all indications, he has demonstrated the leadership qualities that will justify there will better days ahead. Let’s be patience and give out suggestion in a constructive manner. If you think the President’s nominations are out of the box, it is your right to criticize...
The collapse of Soviet Union saw the raise of financial crimes beyond human comprehension. It is true of all failed system of government. where there is no law, corruption takes precedent. The world has changed. Charles Taylor is been tried for War Crimes. Sierra Leone has join hands to reform its judicial process and the rule of law. The Will of Justice is just beginning to turn towards reform. The last government is just unfortunate to see Sierra Leone’s judicial system turn the spotlight on them. It has to start from somewhere.
The Government has not announced any Amnesty for prior crimes committed against the state but certainly while we are building a true judicial system, one can only be tried with in that system and not the Court of Public opinion
Therefore, stop the wrong acquisition of Northernization.The President closest allies are Creoles and Mendes. Are they from the North? They love there people before Ernest Koroma and that is just the fact of life.
Posted by BRA ENVIABLE on February 22, 2008 at 21:46:23:
In Reply to: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC? Posted by Knice on February 22, 2008 at 20:53:22:
The Pac’s love of single-party dictatorship is a fateful prediction I made just after Northernization commenced under President Koroma. Cocorioko called me a pessimist, but as a man who grew up under Siaka Stevens and practically saw Sierra Leone being bled to death by JS Momoh's brand Ekutay politics, I do not need to be bitten twice to be wizened. If Abdulai Conteh, for example, is still worthy of an APC leader's affection, then the party has not grown at all. The rumoured training of Kamajors in the Southeast is part of a state-inspired ruse to justify violence against Southeasterners before 2012 could even make it on the almanac. Koroma is a virtual prisoner of the old criminals who think
Subject: Re: Moving sierra leone forward( stop it .BRA ENVIABLE)
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:57:33 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Foday:
I agree with you that Sierra Leone has changed and hopefully for the better. With this change , we should be free to give our opinions without fear of govt persecution, we should be able to criticize the govt when they are not delivering fast enough or when they make promises they cant deliver or when there is blatant Northernization in job appointments. Ernest may have Creole and Mende freinds but we have not seen that in his appointments. Sierra Leone is bigger than Bombali, Port Loko and Tonkolili.
Ernest was the one that promised uniterrupted electricity in 90 days. Noonelse. That promise was too optimistic. You need two years to solve the electricity problem. It can not be rushed.
The main problem APC should solve first is lawlessnees and crime. Not doing this will prevent foreign private investment which the nation needs badly. World bank and the Western nations will never give Sierra Leone the money it needs for development as they have no material interest in a poor African county like ours.
If Mr Koroma is serious about solving the electricity in Sierra Leone, He should not have dealt with questionable Lebanese company and deal with a real energy company like the one that is on Exit 12 in NJ TUrnpike in your neck of the woods. Let him talk to the Tanzanian President about how he solved their electricity problems.
All of us would benefit from a better Sierra Leone but we are not going to be prevented by APC fanatics from cricizing poor APC policies.
Subject: ELEPHANT HEAD NOTO PEKIN LOAD.
From: COUTION
To: All
Date Posted: 16:11:34 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Talking about judicial reforms, it is not ethical to be directly involved in the prosecution, apprehension, and trial of your political rivals and opponent. That is why we have “an independent” judicial system.
We do not have to wait every five or ten years for governments to change before we learn about the corrupt practices of the previous government. Bai Koroma was the head of the opposition and all these corruption happened on his guard. He never brought these things to the attention of the courts or the people. There should be an ongoing system of checks and balances. To give the SLPP 11 years of silence and all the time to cover there tracks just to make political headlines, is criminal in itself.
A more troubling issue is the actions of the current vice president. We know in the absence of law and order, man is essentially a criminal. But the situation is even worse when some men become the law to others. If Sam has a case against members of the previous government, he should take it to court and have people indicted for their crimes. Not to just go-ahead and molest hand picked opposition members.
Today, we see very successful people in their private lives leave their quite lives for public service, just to be branded as criminals at the end of there service.
Sierra Leone has been an independent nation for over 45 years now and the only national figures we know are those who fought for that independence. We brand all our public servants as criminals; we have labeled them and they live up to it. There was a public out cry and a hail of criticism when Kabba suggested that JS Momoh gets a pension and state support. We look at pictures of the deranged Strasser and laugh about it. These are the faces of Sierra Leone, we disgrace them we disgrace our nation, and plant a negative sense of security in the heads of our current leadership.
We totally forget that over time Sierra Leone has deteriorated in all aspects of the word, like a rotten piece of rag, each new patch revels a new crack. I am an SLPP supporter, but genuinely believe that EBK has a true intention and belief as Kabba had when he took over that he could change Sierra Leone, but as Siaka Stevens once said “elephant head no to pekin load”
Subject: Re: ELEPHANT HEAD NOTO PEKIN LOAD.
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 18:05:31 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 38.98.119.16
Message:
Thank you very much for saying what others will likely not say here.
I have been on a sabbaticial -- if you will -- from Cocrocko for some time. Not necessarily by choice. This is the busiest time at work, and time for other pursuits has been rather limited.
I have checked in intermittently, however, over the past couple days. And, I must say: In the immortal words of (????), "plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose". Staying with the French theme, I am so disgusted with all the pointless bickering and APC/SLPP nonsense that I could simply skip to my conclusion and say "Comme on fait son lit on se couche".
Ok enough showing off my literary/languages prowess.
Honestly, countrymen and women, after wading through the APC/SLPP silly stuff you can imagine my utter bemusement at the senseless whining about a supposed "snub" by President Bush. Let's be real! Who in their right mind would consider Sierra Leone a top-priority or required stop for President Bush on a tour for Africa? True, it may all boil down to "national interest", or if you're a pessimist, "resources"; but as all the communiques have made clear, it stability, democratic ideals, good leadership and economic performance is what puts you on the US radar screen. (Funny how this kinda makes sense, huh?)
But if the Cocrioko discussion forum is anything to go by (and don't think for a second that State Dept. wonks don't access these sorts of sites), I would not be surprised if the administration's viewpoint on countries like Sierra Leone is: "Hey, people deserve the Governments they get. We'll do our bit; but, we can only do so much. Yhey've made their bed, they must lie on it".
Now, if only we Sierra Leoneans could be just as honest about ourselves...
Subject: Re: ELEPHANT HEAD NOTO PEKIN LOAD.
From: DeLaw
To: All
Date Posted: 20:12:34 02/23/08 ()
Email Address: contehlawrence@yahoo.com
Entered From: cpe-66-61-131-201.insight.res.rr.com at 66.61.131.201
Message:
AH BEG NEXT TIME MEK YOU TRANSLATE YOUR FRENCH NOW, ABI?
"plus ca change,plus c'est la meme chose"='some things change,some remain the same' is the best I can do.
"Comme on fait son lit,on se couche"='how you pred you bayd,na so you go lidom pan am' is the best I can do on that one.NA WAH OH!SO PLEASE EXCUSE MY BROKEN.LOL.
Subject: Re: ELEPHANT HEAD NOTO PEKIN LOAD.
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 10:43:21 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 38.98.119.16
Message:
Yes, thanks DeLaw for pointing out the "faux pas". Nor ask me for translate dis wan oh! (LOL)
Anyway, nine out of ten for your efforts. I like your take on the first one. That quote best translates into English as: The more things change, the more they remain the same. (What's your best Krio translation? I liked the one you gave for the second quote).
BTW, it's not clear who first said the above quote; it has been attributed to different Frenchmen. I have used it quite a bit when discussing Africa/Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: ELEPHANT HEAD NOTO PEKIN LOAD.
From: Singulier
To: All
Date Posted: 12:29:32 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
Here's a good link for some more French stuff.
Subject: Re: ELEPHANT HEAD NOTO PEKIN LOAD.
From: ITK
To: All
Date Posted: 22:31:12 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 38.98.119.16
Message:
Many thanks, Singulier. Those were very good. I will definitely forward the link.
Subject: Live from New York its Saturday Night Live
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 12:09:42 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
http://www.glumbert.com/media/chrisrocksnl
Subject: Re: Live from New York its Saturday Night Live
From: Nar Me
To: All
Date Posted: 14:19:46 02/23/08 ()
Email Address: the newsletter@hotmail.com
Entered From: amontsouris-152-1-4-249.w82-123.abo.wanadoo.fr at 82.123.210.249
Message:
The following is quote from the postings after Chris Rock's piece. I like it!!
"HELLO JERK OFFS
Once upon a time Blacks were called NIGGERS
Mexicans were called WET BACKS
Orientals were called CHINKS
Now Blacks are referred to as AFRICAN AMERICANS
Mexicans are referred to as HISPANICS OR MEXICAN AMERICANS
Orientals are referred to as ASIAN AMERICANS
Whites have always been referred to as AMERICANS
And the American Indians have been referred to NATIVE AMERICANS
YOU WANT POTICAL CORRECTNESS?
Start referring to Whites as EURPOEAN, RUSSIAN AMERICANS ETC
And start calling THE AMERICAN INDIANS WHO THEY REALLY ARE
AMERICANS."
Subject: KOROMA GOES TO LIBYA
From: Independent Man
To: All
Date Posted: 11:44:14 02/23/08 ()
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Gaddaffi to Pour Money Into Sierra Leone as Ernest Koroma wows the Libyans
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GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE
Office of the President
PRESS STATEMENT
LIBYA PLEDGES MORE SUPPORT FOR SIERRA LEONE
In the wake of highly successful trip to UK, Ernest Koroma has returned from another highly successful trip! From Libya this time.
His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma paid an official visit to the Libyan People’s Arab Jamahiriyat from 16th to 18th February
The two-day state visit to Libya by President Koroma and entourage has ended with the Libyan government promising to give more support to Sierra Leone. After several consultative meetings between the two leaders and delegations, the government of Libya has pledged to help in the following areas (in addition to existing assistance):
AGRICULTURE:
- Thirty tractors, fifteen of which will be air-freighted immediately
EDUCATION:
- Thirty 6-classroom schools to be constructed (the government of Sierra Leone to determine their locat1on)
- Ten scholarships for higher educational pursuits
- Rehabilitate the Islamic college at Magburaka
HEALTH
- Refurbish, repair, and equip one referral hospital
- Build a prosthetic factory for the production of artificial limbs for amputees
WATER SUPPLY
- Render assistance in rural water-supply by providing a drilling rig for the construction of manual water-well pumps
TOURISM
- Build a five-star hotel (land to be provided by the Sierra Leone government)
ENERGY
- Develop Sierra Leone’s hydro power potentials
- Sending Swiss engineers to carry out feasibility studies on the second phase of the Bumbuna Hydro Project with a view to determining Libya’s intervention
FOOD PROVISION
- Provide an unspecified reasonable amount of rice and flour
WATER TRANSPORT
- Provide a brand new ferry to ply the West African coastal region
AIR TRANSPORT
- Extend the services of Afriqiya Airways by providing flights from Tripoli to Freetown and from Freetown to London by the third week of April 2008
INVESTMENT
The Libyan government has also promised to send a technical expert delegation to Freetown to carry out feasibility studies in the investment potentials of Sierra Leone especially in the areas of tourism and energy provision. This will be followed by a joint commission meeting.
Release issued from State House Press Secretariat on 18TH February 2008
Subject: Re: KOROMA GOES TO LIBYA
From: Query
To: All
Date Posted: 23:25:28 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Any envelopes!!!!!
Subject: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:41:55 02/23/08 ()
Email Address: bai_burehuk@yahoo.co.uk
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Serves them right!
For some of them it was an excruciating pain but for others it was a death blow.In academic terms, it was a gross humiliation; in street-fighting terms it was ass-kicking; in conventional military terms it was a surprise and effective counterattack; in football terms it was a brilliant direct free kick by an expert of the Beckham or Roberto Carlos class; in boxing terms it was a Mike Tyson-type knock-out punch; in movie terms it was a blockbuster; in Newtonian terms it was a reaction to an unwarranted action;in plain journalistic terms it was an appropriate response but in political terms it was an advantage over an attacking opponent who has been pushed to a corner and placed in the most awkward defensive position.
When Kanji Daramy was in charge this kind of bull never happened because he was SLPP.The APC had no time for such frivolous diagnosis.They had their plan and were busy refining the details leaving the SLPP with their own devices.Istead of concentrating on how to redress their almost defunct party they are out bickering and trying to prove Salone belongs to them.If they think Kanji Daramy the former ordinary school teacher who contributed to the gross corruption that engulfed the Ahmadiyya School at Kissy was perfect they need to think again.Better let sleeping dogs lie!
The wishful thinkers who are of the opinion that Shekito has behaved in a manner incompatible with his status as a press secretary and so should be fired, replaced or asked to resign are living in a dream world.When Silvio Berlusconi the then Italian prime minister out of anger in the European parliament responded to a taunting by Martin Schultz by calling him a "Nazi kapo" did he resign his post for that?
Don't expect to piss people off and get away with it.
Shekito did exactly what a press secretary should do even if it includes chastising.Whether disprportionate or not is another thing but it should be done.Frivolous meddlers must be detered!
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: Logic
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Date Posted: 23:28:33 02/23/08 ()
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His detractors?????He is a small man - both physically and mentally, ans such people cannot possibly have detractors.Dont aggrandise him unnecessarily, and if you are his sympathiser, see that he acquires more common sense.Pictures with Prince and Princess can only impress Salone Govt, and it means nothing.
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: John Kargbo
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Date Posted: 17:19:45 02/23/08 ()
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"If they think Kanji Daramy the former ordinary school teacher who contributed to the gross corruption that engulfed the Ahmadiyya School at Kissy was perfect they need to think again.Better let sleeping dogs lie!"---------------------Posted by Bai Bureh.
I was one of Kanji Daramy's students at the Ahmadiyya Secondary School in Freetown where he taught English, Literature and French in forms 4,5 and 6 for just one year before he took up a civil service job in the ministry of transport & communications. That was around 1978/79.
What does he have to do with Tarawallie's press release? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
Please leave my former school teacher out of this, Mister Bai Bureh.
Kanji Daramy is now busy with re-establishing his private consultancy business, Communications and Management Services, according to a very close friend of his with whom I spoke recently.
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 01:19:57 02/24/08 ()
Email Address: bai_burehuk@yahoo.co.uk
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Message:
I was his student too incase you want to know.Kabiru Mansaray also taught me.Actually some fanatics brought him into this.Check the archives.
I have only counterattacked and nothing else.
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: Nar Me
To: All
Date Posted: 14:36:18 02/23/08 ()
Email Address: thenewsletter@hotmail.com
Entered From: amontsouris-152-1-4-249.w82-123.abo.wanadoo.fr at 82.123.210.249
Message:
Let's face it. Shekito made a blunder. His rebuttal was not professionally done. However, the only real mistakes are the ones from which we learn nothing. That's how we all gain experience by learning from our mistakes. Let's hope that Shekito learns from the criticism he has received on this forum and perhaps ask advice until he finds his feet. The State House Press is not a Tabloid. Good luck Shekito.
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: teacher
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Date Posted: 23:35:35 02/23/08 ()
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He made no blunder, and he is under the illusion that he is untouchable.If Francis Kaikai really goes for him, then I will be sorry for him
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 06:02:56 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
SHEKITO GET SWEH; HE IS A CURSED FOOL
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 01:22:25 02/24/08 ()
Email Address: bai_burehuk@yahoo.co.uk
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Message:
Who is Francis Kai Kai? Let him bring it on then I will open his Pandora's box!
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 13:41:27 02/23/08 ()
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What has Kanji Daramy got to do with the issue raised regarding Shekito's incompetence (or lacking proactive thinking)?
Go to do more to save the likes of Shekito - you cannot take up a job you cannot do - it is gross dishonesty!
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: Argument
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Date Posted: 23:30:38 02/23/08 ()
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The argument is who is more stupid, Sheka or Kanji????The obvious answer is Kanji has very stupid looks, and Sheka has very stupid brains.
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: John Kargbo
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Date Posted: 11:54:06 02/26/08 ()
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Argument, it's good that you are not human but only the figment of somebody's warped imagination. Why do you bring insults into what is not even debatable unless you must have drunk your own urine and from which you have lost your sense of reasoning if ever your maker had endowed you with one?
If you can't think properly don't get involved in matters that you know nothing about. We call people like you " jus cam". Please go back to that rathole from you had emerged. Why insult my teacher who imparted so much knowledge to me and many others?
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: APC
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Date Posted: 11:45:22 02/23/08 ()
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Message:
"BaiBureh",
Man you are becoming more and more polarizing with the passing of each day. Is there not a better way to be an ass kisser????
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:21:05 02/23/08 ()
Email Address: bai_burehuk@yahoo.co.uk
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Man I will never be an a-kisser. I am myself. I do what I deem fit.APC does not put food on my table neither does the SLPP take away food from my plate.I live and survive on my own.There are SLPP guys who a-kiss 24/7 and I believe you are one of them.
Why don't you pose the same question to the hardcore APC bashers? Those who think whatever THE APC does is wrong and whatever they did was right even though the reality is otherwise.If that is not polarization then the word should be re-defined.
Boy whatever I do is in the name of patriotism.Salone has to move on with whoever is at the helm.No psychological pressure or sabotage should be allowed to prevail.
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: APC
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Date Posted: 13:38:01 02/23/08 ()
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Well, my friend, if the APC government does not have to put food on your table to become the major ass-kisser that you are, then are you doing it simply for the love of it?
You have also at one time lamented the fact that your president is not a full-blooded themne. Do you want to create a themne nation in Salone? Or is the current northernization process a precursor of an emergent themne nation where the Bai-Burehs of the world would unleash a new wave thuggery on other ethnic groups?
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 13:43:16 02/23/08 ()
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Who was Bai Bureh?
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 06:09:18 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
HE'S REFERING TO THE BAI BUREH OF THIS FORUM, NOT THE LEGENDARY TEMNE WARRIOR
Subject: Re: Shekito taught his detractors an unforgettable lesson
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:06:44 02/23/08 ()
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Yeah...
In football terms..
Its called wednesday morning quarter biting..
This issue ran its course 2 days ago.. if you had something to say about the incompetence of the mouth of the APC you faint late..We moved on..
We pointed out that Shekito is a loose cannon.. and he should not be using statehouse (TAX PAYERS) stationery to wipe his bottom..
If EBK thinks he should be fired...i will not shed a tear. If EBK thinks he should be given a medal of honour for, aye bro.. i hope its gold plated.. cause like things sold at swissy... shekito will not last...
Press secretaries are 2 a dozen...
Subject: Its the economy stupid.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 10:07:46 02/23/08 ()
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Culled from visitsierraleone.org
Indeed....Our economy and governance has been disastrously centralized over the years.
Its Roxy building or jump nar water.....
Imaging if we had 10 roxy buildings...i bet local councils with these responsibility will be 5 times more efficient than 1 roxy building.
Our economy/and the civil service that manages it needs to meet the needs of the people.
If i had a brillaint idea on how to turn a flower only found in kailanhun into perfume..
No way i am driving all the way to freeown to make it official..
We need a concerted and concentrated effort to industrialize our economy...
And by industrialize i am not neccesarily talking about Caterpillar or Machinery..
I mean make almost everything designed in a distinct industry so it can be quantified and aggregated...
The mortgage industry.
The loan industry.
The banking industry.
The retail industry.
The hospitality industry.
The used car industry.
The car parts industry.
The timber industry.
The transportation industry.
The grannat and ginger beer production.
The soap manufacturing industry.
The Chea (we call it Ori) butter industry.
The entertainment industry.
The telecommunication industry.
All these are money money money maker without even a cent from the world bank or George Soros.
Its is no wonder America derives 3/4 of its GDP from the retail industry.
Simply because they found a way to track sales at checkout.
And we 400 years since the first cowry shell and glass beads where exchanged cannot figure out how governement can take its own cut.
Subject: Re: Its the economy stupid.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:13:35 02/23/08 ()
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Read the thread.
http://forum.visitsierraleone.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=2545&PID=29627#29627
Subject: Re: Its the economy stupid.
From: Steve
To: All
Date Posted: 10:35:18 02/23/08 ()
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Bumbuna Dam and the economy. Will this project every reach completion? Is it even worth the time and money, or is it a pork barrel project.
Subject: Re: Its the economy stupid.
From: Steve
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Date Posted: 10:45:38 02/23/08 ()
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Bumbuna Falls before the Dam.
Subject: THE REPUBLICAN ATTACK MACHINE REVVING UP!
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 09:40:18 02/23/08 ()
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The Republican Bad Boys: They are h-e-r-e!!!
Subject: Re: THE REPUBLICAN ATTACK MACHINE REVVING UP!
From: Dem.
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Date Posted: 10:05:58 02/23/08 ()
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HILLARY'S HEALTHCARE
Subject: .....AND HILARY IS RIGHT BEHIND!!
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 09:57:09 02/23/08 ()
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Message:
But Barack go win ma!
Subject: Grafton land battle ends. From the exclusive 02/18/2008
From: landsdealer@yahoo.com
To: All
Date Posted: 07:14:59 02/23/08 ()
Email Address: landsdealer@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 193.219.206.140
Message:
The Long drawn legal battle between Chief Santigie Bangura of 186 Regent Road Lumley and the out going Minister of Lands Dr.Alfred Bobson Sesay with ten others over a peice of land situated situated and lying around grafton village in the mountain area rural district has been finally laid to rest at the Freetown High Court presided by justice A.B.Halloway.
It could be recallled that the two parties went to court for redress as both were claiming ownership of the said land.
After a protracted legal argument between the plaintiffs lawyers Amadu Koroma and defence counsel Kabbah Koroma , Justice Halloway finallly gave judgement on 11th December 2007 in favour of Chief Santigie Bangura.
After the court verdict , the much delighted Chief Bangura told our reporter that he was thankful to God Almighty for directing the judge to deliver such judgenment in his favour after almost five years of legal battle between him and the erstwhile Lands Minister. The chief disclosed that he acquired the said land in 1989 from descendants of the village but was surprised when Dr.Bobson Sesay, on assumption of office hastily distributed the said land among some people, including senior police officers, navy officers and politicians. The land is about 152.1057 acres.
When questioned about his intention for those that have already erected structures on his land, the chief said as a traditional leader and humanitarian , he would advise them in their own interest to contact his lawyer, Amadu Koroma at his no, 37 Percival street, offices for re-negotiation .
The chief said failure to adhere to his advice will lead to the facilitation of the enforcement of the court order which empowers him to take possesion of all that is on the land. CULLED ROM THE EXCLUSIVE NEWSPAPER OF MONDAY FEBRUARY 18.2008
THE END
MY THOUGHTS:
IS IT TRUE THAT OFFICIALS OF THE LANDS MINISTRY WERE SELLING TWO TOWN LOTS FOR 15 MILLION LEONES OR ABOUT 5.000.00 DOLLARS? I KNOW NAMES I WANT TO MAKE PUBLIC.
SOME WHERE EVEN ASKING FOR 4 WHEEL DRIVE VEHILCLES AS WELL. THANK YOU CAPT DAVIES FOR SACKING ONE OF THOSE ROGUES WHO HAVE EATEN PEOPLES MONEY WITHOUT GIVIVNG THEM THEIR PAPERS SO EVEN THE LANDS MINISTRY IS CORRUPT
WAS SOME OF THE LANDS GIVEN TO GILFRIENDS, CONCUBINES AND SREET PIKINS DEM?
FOR A DRAMA FREE LAND PURCHASE WITH ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS DATING TO COLONIAL DAYS INHERITED BY GENERATIONS OF CREOLES LAND OWNERS IN THE WESTERN AREA, please email me: landsdealer@yahoo.com
Bamikeh Spencer-Cole, Esq.
Subject: Re: Grafton land battle ends. From the exclusive 02/18/2008
From: Forum Accounts Messenger
To: All
Date Posted: 08:16:05 02/23/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Message:
The first email you will receive is your bill for this advert you are cunningly making.Don't think you are smart.Your creole tactics will not work this time.
Subject: Re: Grafton land battle ends. From the exclusive 02/18/2008
From: CREOLE TACTICS MAKE COUNTRY STUPID
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Date Posted: 06:34:13 02/24/08 ()
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Message:
Your reference to Creole tactics is racially and tribally motivated but unfortunately many dumb ass creoles on this forum could not send you a mouth licking ass reply son of a bitch.
I wonder why Mr.Cole himself did not respond to you dick head tobacco chewing country sorry ass!
Subject: Re: Grafton land battle ends. From the exclusive 02/18/2008
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 08:28:37 02/24/08 ()
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Message:
I doubt if the so-called Forum Accounts Messenger is really an official of Cocorioko. Probably someone monikering.
Subject: THE SLPP HEAVY WEIGHTS
From: PATRIOT
To: All
Date Posted: 23:10:49 02/22/08 ()
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The Slpp Heavy weights are in town,(the opposition) and they make a lot of sense, please APC light weights and feather weights, only CLEAN rebuttals please!
The standard has been Set.
Subject: Re: THE SLPP HEAVY WEIGHTS
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 01:57:26 02/23/08 ()
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Message:
Almost feels like the new parliament ..
YONI MOON don don...
The pa.. need for pack en go...
Where is the new libyan res?? eh..
Ah yerri say...
His royal ear nest..will declare his ass ets..soon..
SLPP created the petroleum reserve... no to lines for 4 years..
APC.. 3 months....now its congo cross to madongo tong..
Inflation under SLPP.. 7%..
APC.. 22 percent.. 3 months...
SLPP 7 industrialised mining companies in 4 years..
APC.. if una nor pick me.. ah dey take me ball...
Stone dem...stone dem..
SLPP, we dey bear.. bumbuna will be ready soon..
moroccan engineers to finish the distribution lines and then ligh..
APC????
Haja.... hormus for light 3 bulbs...keep the change.....
Building infrastruction..???
Leh ah lef nah baffa...
Subject: Re: THE SLPP HEAVY WEIGHTS are a bunch of crybabies!
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 01:48:03 02/23/08 ()
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Message:
Yep, a few of the SLPPers really do have Mike Tyson-like dynamite fists that will lay your a** on the floor if you mess with them. However most of them are just thumb-sucking crybabies who grumble, complain and throw tantrums whenever they don't get their green feeding bottles.
It looks like the Green Boys have decided to rewrite history with a straight face. According to these 'Nostalgicistas', Salone under the SLPP was Heaven, Heaven, Heaven dripping with manna, honey, dineiro and sparkling with brilliant electricity and public works. And they say this with no irony at all!
Under the APC, the green critics contend, the Lion Mountains have become Hell multiplied by seven, with a bunch of Northerners clumsily burning hope and raising nightmares from the ashes. Phew! Crazy, isn't it?
Subject: A GEOGRAPHY TIP
From: CENTENNIAL GIRL
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Date Posted: 21:59:31 02/22/08 ()
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IT HAS COME TO MY NOTICE THAT ALMOST ALL FORUMITES-- INCLUDING THE MOST AND LESS EDUCATED ONES ARE USING THE CARDINAL REFERENCE OF "SOUTH-EAST" TO REFER TO BOTH THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF SIERRA LEONE. THAT IS PLAIN WRONG. PLEASE DESIST FROM THIS PRACTICE. SOUTH-EAST REFERS TO ONLY THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTH AND THE EAST, AND NOT THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN REGIONS. THOSE FAMILIAR WITH SET THEORY SHOULD LEARN FROM THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE UNION OF TWO SETS (WHICH GIVES THE ALL OF THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN REGIONS) AND THE INTERSECTION OF TWO SETS (WHICH YIELDS SOUTH-EAST)
Subject: Re: A GEOGRAPHY TIP
From: Maths teacher
To: All
Date Posted: 01:23:20 02/23/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: c83-248-87-19.bredband.comhem.se at 83.248.87.19
Message:
Please for your own good get books on O'level maths and review your knowledge of Venn diagrams.Joint Schools Project will be more handy.
Subject: Re: A GEOGRAPHY TIP
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 01:44:33 02/23/08 ()
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Message:
Cocorioko never fails to confuse me and my low life O'
level, little mind, 3rd grade educated kankalay educated mind.
Where do these people who think in my years of living on this earth and reading encyclopedia britanica from top to bottom... it is their disfunctional...think in a box.. constructive theorems...and superficial educational specialisation that should rule the day..
Where does one come off with the notion it is not proper for me to call a region.. universally accepted and salonically known as the south-east as... not the south, neither the east...but the intersection of the south and east..
Is this your final answer..????
Subject: Re: A GEOGRAPHY TIP
From: Primary School
To: All
Date Posted: 10:33:00 02/23/08 ()
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This is not even O' level stuff. It is class 5 stuff. The region between the South and the East is know as SOUTH-EAST and the region between the North and the West is known as NORTH-WEST. To aoid your own embarassment, please take any geography or atlas or even map quest. Better still google it. It's never too late to learn.
Subject: Re: A GEOGRAPHY TIP
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:58:23 02/23/08 ()
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Message:
Well for you, its definately late for you to learn that You can call it potatoe, while i call it potato...
If thats class 3 stuff...you got your lesson of the day...
I WANT TO CALL the WHOLE region between southeast for ease of conversation..
You got a problem.. sue me..
Subject: Re: A GEOGRAPHY TIP
From: Yamba
To: All
Date Posted: 13:49:48 02/23/08 ()
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Message:
Please stop spelling 'definately' for 'definitely'. There is an I after the N, not an A after the N.
Subject: Re: A GEOGRAPHY TIP
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:33:48 02/23/08 ()
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Message:
Thanks for the correction....
My kankalay english teacher owes me a refund..
I will definitely seek him out next time i get to freetown..
Hows that..? Should i use a ' for how's?
Or should i have use I'll instead of I will..??
Subject: Re: A GEOGRAPHY TIP
From: Yamba
To: All
Date Posted: 16:02:57 02/23/08 ()
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Message:
You are really funny. By the way I am one of your faithful customers. The card is good but the last time I called, I felt a little disappointed because it told me I have 54 mins but ended up with only about 25 mins. I hope that was just a one time glitch. I plan to buy again next week.
Have a great you weekend, bra.
Subject: Re: A GEOGRAPHY TIP
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 16:32:34 02/23/08 ()
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Beautiful...
Now i feel like an ass for trying to be smart...
A customer is like a stranger in my tradition..
All the doors are opened.. the fattest goat will be slaughtered.
The oldest daughter...
Sent to go sleep at her uncles..
Bra Yamba..
We had some terrible minute malfunction 3-2 weeks ago.. Solved..
Most of my customers have my personal email.. some even my cell phone.. so they call or email me when they get issues.. and the calls have been less since monday.. while sales went up a bit...
Thats a great indicator of customer satisfaction.
As always.. Thanks for putting Kola in my pocket..
If there is any REASONABLE way i can return the favor...or you have a question.. or want to just blast me privately...
2footleppet@gmail.com
admin@callingcardsforafrica.com
Cheers... have a blessed WE..
Subject: Re: A GEOGRAPHY TIP
From: Primary School
To: All
Date Posted: 13:42:10 02/23/08 ()
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Message:
No wonder Bambay hates the hell out of you. Sometimes you are just too arrogant for anyone's taste. In other words, if you can not accept a simple correction like this, then S/ Leone will be behind for a while.
Subject: Re: A GEOGRAPHY TIP
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:26:24 02/23/08 ()
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I dont know where you got the "Bambay hates me" bit.
That was the VERY 1st time me and any human named Bambay exchanged words..can hardly be classified as hate...
Just like he said...he does not hang with riff raffs like me.... , and i retorted that he should buzz off...i dont hang with fakes and hypocrites and people who prime a sentence with the prejudicial words "YOUR KIND"..My kind is his kind.. and your kind
On me been arrogant bit...
I was just sitting here.. expressing my honest opinion on the reasons why i think people refer to the whole region as southeast...or Newyork, New England, Jersey as North East.... nah you cutout, bussout...en overwrap..
And continue insisting (can not accept a simple correction like this) that i see it, read it, eat it your way..
If thats not arrogance..
Its becoming hard to come to cocorioko and nor cuss somebody for the day..
Na..Eclipse or full moon ba???
Subject: Re: A GEOGRAPHY TIP
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:33:22 02/23/08 ()
Email Address: bai_burehuk@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: c83-248-87-19.bredband.comhem.se at 83.248.87.19
Message:
He will sue you for sure.I think you should be contacting oremi Alieu Iscandri to be on standby.
Subject: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: Knice
To: All
Date Posted: 20:53:22 02/22/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Their overture to their third act was a hastily commissioned investigation of the alleged corruption of their predecessors. The predictable results of that inquiry were disseminated across borders, with only the effect of further tarnishing the image of a nation that has little room to spare for more bad press. True to form we have since heard nothing of what recommendations if any, that their Commission proposed. Or of solutions the APC has considered for a corruption problem that APC governments in fact perfected. The investigation appears to have been purely mischief intended for one more twist of the dagger in the backs of their recently vanquished rivals. That was the whole point. The political dividends of said inquiry were savored, and that was that. No further actions are necessary as far as this APC government is concerned. They are satisfied to have drawn their ounce of blood.
Then there was the Shirley Gbujama affair, which reminded us of APC indifference to civil liberties. Whatever one may think of Mrs. Gbujama, due process and common decency demand that she is charged with specific crimes before her movements as a free citizen are compromised. But this APC government, as is true for all previous APC governments, still does not understand that the end does not always justify the means. As they chain the likes of Shirley Gbujama, they are opening the gates wide open for the return from the Diaspora, of APC architects of the wreckage that is Sierra Leone today. Who next will receive the APC red carpet treatment, Johnny Paul Koroma?
The politicization of civil institutions still continues to deny Sierra Leone of any continuity that is so crucial to maintaining any momentum in national development. We can recall that the APC governments of Stevens and Momoh politicized the civil service and the security forces. They stocked these critical institutions with partisan hacks without regard for competence or qualification. These policies had several damaging consequences for the country. One of these was that Sierra Leonean security forces were totally unprepared when the RUF invaded in 1991. Another was erosion in the competence of government to deliver services. This was evident in the management of the Railroad Services, the Guma Valley Dam, and the National Power Grid under Stevens and Momoh. The Railroad for its part became so unsafe and dangerous from lack of maintenance that it was scrapped, which action severely injured the fundamentals of the national economy. The Guma Valley Dam and the Power Grid also lacked routine maintenance and necessary expansion to accommodate a growing population. These defects ultimately forced the capital city to go on a severe diet of drinking water and electricity rationing. I happen to believe that the Kabbah SLPP government’s greatest failure was in not restoring these services. Their failure however cannot excuse APC accountability for wrecking these services in the first place.
The current APC government has now expanded politicization of government institutions into financial markets, as competent and experienced bankers are purged to be replaced by more reliably partisan APC hacks. I am left wondering, just when did Banks become government agencies in the first place? And what are the potential risks when Banks as public institutions are aligned with an Ekutay culture that will emerge far stronger than ever, as this APC government takes hold. Also, can this APC government be so blinded by its zeal for vengeance that it cannot see that trading competence for party loyalty is a blueprint for their own certain failure?
The APC always has been and seems to still be at its incompetent worst when it comes to managing the economy. They have revived this appalling record in their current response to galloping prices of staple foods that began when they came into power. As always, their preferred solution is superficial and totally incongruent with the problem. In this case they have chosen to blame merchants whom they dismiss as unpatriotic and even thieves. Perhaps they can jawbone merchants into pricing their wares at less than cost, which at best is delusional. At worst such below cost pricing should it ever occur, will only exacerbate the underlying inflationary pressures that are the result of their inattention to the economy. Prices for staple foods typically rise because there is far more demand for, than supply of staple foods. A rational and more effective solution therefore, is an increase in the supply of staple foods, either from increase in imports or domestic production, or both. His Excellency however is too busy with His World Beggar Tour, to pay attention to farm policy.
Every Sierra Leonean ought to be very troubled by rumors floating in various places, including the presidential website no less, of insurgents training in the South/Eastern regions of the country. Where is the evidence in support of this very serious charge? The APC has proven to be at its best when it has enemies. It is the reason that they are so good at winning elections, but so ineffective at governance. It cannot be easy to blame enemies for your failures when every aspect of national affairs is under your brand. So why is the government spreading fear? Perhaps this latest rumor amounts to only a creation of much needed enemies without whom the APC apparently cannot have life. Or may be they are again angling for reason to declare another APC only party state. Either way such shenanigans are bound to detract from important work at hand and result in another failed APC tenure, which Sierra Leone certainly cannot afford.
In our delirium over kicking the SLPP out, and relegating them to the dustbin of history, we must show some class and concede to them their small successes. Christina Thorpe for instance is quickly being adopted as an APC cause celebre. But to the extent that she has been successful, Christina Thorpe is an SLPP success story. The APC vehemently opposed her appointment as they were certain that she would favor the SLPP. I remember it well, for I was banished from this very forum for siding with those who defended her appointment.
Let us also temper our anger over Berewa’s tardiness in conceding his loss, with honest remembrance that the APC has never managed a free and fair election of any kind. It is a very important distinction for Sierra Leonean democracy that every SLPP fall from grace has been at the ballot box. The 2007 election in particular has been hailed across the globe as a breakthrough for African democracy. In contrast the APC record is of malignant infidelity to the electoral provisions of our national constitution. The only option the APC has ever offered Sierra Leoneans in electoral matters is change by force and chaos.
So what is the matter with the APC? I don’t know for sure, but taking note of what they have revealed of themselves, I cannot pass up the temptation to make some forecasts of actions they are likely to pursue in the next five years. My first is that they will replace Christina Thorpe with a reliably more partisan APC Electoral Commissioner before 2012. Their lip service to the national interest notwithstanding, the APC simply values purity far more than diversity. My second forecast therefore is that they will drop the current VP in favor of a thoroughbred Temne or Limba candidate in 2012. Fortunately prevailing international opinion is such that the APC will not be able to do away with the 2012 elections altogether. My third forecast therefore is that they will resort to organized and systematic violence as means for perpetuating their hegemony.
There is of course nothing new in any of this, and combined with the demographic monotony of their cabinet, diplomatic corps, and civil service, I think rumors of a new APC are greatly exaggerated. This APC government is exactly like the previous ones who deconstructed a hopeful nation that was poised for success, and replaced it with the dysfunctional state that only they can love and dominate. This version 3.0 too I am afraid, is your father’s and grandfather’s APC.
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 08:31:59 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83
Message:
God is a man that does not sleep! Do you know of the dastardly things shirley Gbujama did when she was in power. She deserves every thing that is comming to her.
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 23:24:56 02/23/08 ()
Email Address: saigobe@lanset.com
Entered From: pool-71-245-169-215.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net at 71.245.169.215
Message:
Ronaldino:
What laws of Sierra leone Did Shirley Gbujama break?
Yaya Fanusie
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: STUPID
To: All
Date Posted: 05:24:43 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
IT'S NOT THE TEMNES OR THE LIMBAS, IT'S THE ELECTRICITY STUPID!
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: Santigie Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 02:11:08 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Knice, the loser and mende tribalist,is back online with his crooked and biased thinking.You guys really dont have shame to compare a rotten and useless party like the SLPP to the APC. It looks like the day they were sharing the word shame in this world, SLPP people were not in attendance. If your rotten SLPP was all that, why were they rejected by the people of Sierra Leone ? Aren't you ashamed that the 11 year legacy the SLPP left us was darkness , poverty and suffering ? Aren't you ashamed that only when the APC came to power that children saw light for the first time ? When will you be ashamed that all SLPP did in power was to perpetuate tribalism ?
You guys try to have some shame. Sierra Leoneans knew that SLPP is hopeless that is why they brought back the APC to teach them how to develop the country.
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 01:00:37 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
My second forecast therefore is that they will drop the current VP in favor of a thoroughbred Temne or Limba candidate in 2012........KNICE
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KNICE, I present to you a thoroughbred you may want to proffer for VP, in this Machiavellian scheme you imagine the APC to be concocting.
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 00:26:17 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
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Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: Knice
To: All
Date Posted: 13:42:50 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-457836a6.dyn.optonline.net at 69.120.54.166
Message:
LOGGY, sorry to learn that you have teeth ache.Get well soon.
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 04:58:25 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
Youve got the picture wrong Mr. Knice, its actually a YAAAAWWWWNNNN at the same old anti anything not SLPP nonsense that you folks in the SLPP keep posting and all the crazy.
Its starting to get booring around here with all these posts from you an others condemning a government that has only been constituted for 5 or 6 months and which replaced your "Do nothing""steal everything""Vengeful" government that you so firmly supported durinng the elections.
With your kind of ideas and brilliant mind, you should be providing positive input into how the country should be run and supporting argument to buttress your thinking. So fr you have been acting more SLPP than Sierra Leonean. You talk about the APC being violent is hypocritical in that you knew that the SLPP leadership had provided machetes to its rank and file inorder to stir up trouble against the APC during the electioneering. Why didnt you lend your voice in opposition. You knew that the SLPP in Kailahun had used violence to prevent the APC from campaigning there in clear violation of the election laws of sierra leone. Why were you so conspiciously silent?
I must say however that amongst SLPP members, you are probably one of the best I have come accross. Many on this forum do not know that you and I are on phone contact and that you were the ONLY SLPP member who took time out to call me and congratulate me on the APC victory. I consider that act an act of Magnanimity and I doff my heart to you. Its now time to have all of us place our ideas on how to move sa lone forward in a bg bowl and it would be incomplete without your usual erudite non SLPP contributions. Have you noticed that when you write on issues of national importance, that you come out so much more brilliant. It is that brilliance which sierra leone needs.
On the issue of Christiana Thorpe, its time you in the SLPP leave that woman alone. You have villified her defiled her name and her reputation, all because she dared to show a morality and honesty in the interest of sierra leone. She very well may have been appointed by the SLPP, but I am almost certain that the SLPP's numerous recorded public attempts at blackmailing her and bribing her were purposed to intimidate her into creating the outcpome that the slpp wanted. The Government of Ernest Koroma does not have any interest in getting rid of Ms. Thorpe and you might as well get used to that.
Asmuch as you have castigated the APC, there has not been one positive word from you on the appointment of Vandi Minnah as the deputy Minister of Foreign Affaires. Try to give the "devil" his dues.
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 14:41:05 02/25/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
Alieu:
I think Knice is being sarcastic as he can read that picture equal to or better than anyone. Personally, I wish I can do more to help him and Bra Enviable overcome the agony of an election defeat.
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: BRA ENVIABLE
To: All
Date Posted: 21:46:23 02/22/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The APC's love of single-party dictatorship is a fateful prediction I made just after Northernization commenced under President Koroma. Cocorioko called me a pessimist, but as a man who grew up under Siaka Stevens and practically saw Sierra Leone being bled to death by JS Momoh's brand Ekutay politics, I do not need to be bitten twice to be wizened. If Abdulai Conteh, for example, is still worthy of an APC leader's affection, then the party has not grown at all. The rumoured training of Kamajors in the Southeast is part of a state-inspired ruse to justify violence against Southeasterners before 2012 could even make it on the almanac. Koroma is a virtual prisoner of the old criminals who think the APC is a personal property of "full-blooded" Temnes and Limbas. Koroma himself has NOT been recognized as a "full-blooded" Temne. He must either break free from that dangerous aspect of Northernization for the sake of Sierra Leone, or take us headlong into a messier crisis, very soon. I am trying to be optimistic, but Koroma's position as a President fettered by unreformed APC criminals leaves me with nothing but realistic pessimism.
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: medkay
To: All
Date Posted: 05:52:14 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 209.red-88-16-240.dynamicip.rima-tde.net at 88.16.240.209
Message:
Even if EARNEST BAI KOROMA is not accepted to be a full fledge temne as you said,but is accepted to be son of the soil to be true and patritic sierra leoneans.This is just the same cheap propaganda of un patriotic SLPP southeasterner tribalistic good for nothing sierra leonean.una go bear we fus,dis we we time for rule una proper,proper one,so that next tem we una wan rule una go consult we the northerner first.
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:06:35 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Where is the cheap publicity. Ernest has a limba mother and suposedly a TEmne mandingo father. Was nt that the same thing the tribalistic APC Temnes were saying about Momodu Koroma that it is not a true Temne. Who is tribalistic. The southerners are the most tolerant people in Sierrra Leone. How many Mendes are settled in Makeni,Magburaka, Kambia, Port loko running businesses, married to Temne women. Tell me. Not as many as the Temnes in the south. Temnes will run them out of their towns. Who is the tribalistic?
Give me a break .SlPP lost because the people wanted a change. In a democracy people are free to have a change. i know you APC fanatics are not accustomed to that. The way you talk about ruling people, shows that you are from the old APC GBose Gbose dictatorial crowd. Sierra Leone has changed, We do not have kings who rule. Ernest is a servant of the people, if he fails they can kick him out with his APC gang. Remember that.
No body needs a consult a Northerners, We contact the best brain . Be it from the West, east ,south or Nort.
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:42:22 02/24/08 ()
Email Address:
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Very few me man. There are more intermarriages between Temnes and other tribes ie there are more Temnes marrying other tribes than any other tribe marrying Temnes that makes the Temnes the most tolerant and most diverse tribes in Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: JOE LAHAI
To: All
Date Posted: 06:50:41 02/25/08 ()
Email Address: joelahai@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
HERE HE GOES AGAIN: EDDIE APC GRANT
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:54:49 02/23/08 ()
Email Address: bai_burehuk@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From: c83-248-87-19.bredband.comhem.se at 83.248.87.19
Message:
OrKama cool.You are also of temne-krim origin.One of your parents is a die-hard APC supporter I guess.
To tell you the truth temnes are very hospitable, they like outsiders so much that everyone of them wants to marry a temne woman or man.That is one of the reasons the temnes have managed to unite with all tribes in matrimony.The reason many mendes don't marry temne women is not tribalism.The parents of mende guys always advise them to marry only their sisters.I have seen on several occassions mende guys jilting their non-mende wives even after having kids to go by their parents' advise.Having knowing this most temne families will never allow their daughters to even have a casual relationship with mende guys not to talk of marriage. Only temne guys marry mende girls and stick by them. Chezwinakabs is a classic example.My brother's wife is a lokko but nobody cares!.Now who is tribalistic?
The mendes unlike other northern tribes don't like mixing that is why you don't find a significant number in the north.
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:38:24 02/23/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Bureh, I am talking fom experience. Temnes have a business and trading personality. You expand into other territories and prevent others from capturing yours. The southerners and easterners are the most hospitable in Sierra Leone. If KambiA or Port Loko had gold and diamond, do you think you will see many ethnic groups settling there. You just see the Syrians and TEmne syrian mullatoes. Magburaka had gold , how many settlers from other groups .do you see. I am not calling Temnes tribalistic, I am saying they are less hospitable to outsiders than our Southern and eastern brothers.
I have experienced this from visiting my parental villages. This is not to say that every Mende is happy when their daughter marries aTeme mui.
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE APC?
From: watasai Stone
To: All
Date Posted: 14:16:05 02/23/08 ()
Email Address: laj201@aol.com
Entered From: at 131.118.54.87
Message:
Bai Bureh, YOUR WRONG.
KAMARA IS RIGHT.
Temnes and Limbas are located ALL OVER THE SOUTH AND EAST. They live there with no problems and raise thier children there as well.
The same cannot be said about the North. The Mendes and Konos are very hospitable and Tribes and tribes FROM THE NORTH HAVE RELOCATED AND SETTLED THERE FOR GENERATIONS. Thats why you have so many so called Mendes with COnteh, Koroma, and Sankoh last names, who are really descendants of Temne people that settled in Mende line GENRATIONS AGO, which is a trend that is still continued today.
Subject: AN APOLOGY DUE DeLAW
From: Krio boy
To: All
Date Posted: 17:47:06 02/22/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-126-139-157.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 71.126.139.157
Message:
During the heated debate on the freedom speech, I realize that my response to your psoting was very harsh. However, that anger was wrongly directed at you. It was supposed to be targerted at Umpire who spent two weeks attacking creoles. On this note, I wish to apologize to you for my irrational reponse to your posting.
Your brother in the struggle.
Subject: Re: AN APOLOGY DUE DeLAW
From: DeLaw
To: All
Date Posted: 19:20:58 02/22/08 ()
Email Address: contehlawrence@yahoo.com
Entered From: cpe-66-61-131-201.insight.res.rr.com at 66.61.131.201
Message:
APOLOGY ACCEPTED.THANK YOU.
Subject: Re: AN APOLOGY DUE DeLAW
From: Krio boy
To: All
Date Posted: 19:32:18 02/22/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-126-139-157.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 71.126.139.157
Message:
Thanks for your progressive and true Sierra Leonean spirit. Thanks for forgiving. God bless.
Subject: Leave Shekito to do his job
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 17:45:33 02/22/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I have noticed that some people on this forum have been bashing the State House Press Secretary, Sheka Tarawallie. Please let's leave the young man to do his job.President Ernest Koroma had confidence in him when he was appointed Press Secretary.
Shekito is a very intelligent young man and will provide excellent service as State House Press Secretary. If he has made a mistake at all , as you people think, he has the ability to overcome this mistake and do a greater job.
Instead of crying him down, please let's try to upbuild him . We should be more interested in building up our own than pulling them down.
Some numbskull on this forum with IP number 66.178.120.242 also chose to deliberately misinform readers why making misrepresentations about me with regards to the job offered me at State House. Incase this enviuos, putrid and retarded numbskull wants to know , my job is still waiting for me at State House, while I battle to regain good health. I am still on cue to serve President Ernest Bai Koroma, the people of Sierra Leone and the APC government. I feel humbled by President Koroma's gesture to recognize my ability and to provide me the opportunity to serve my country. I always thank God for the President and for God's assistance for him to succeed.I know he is going to succeed because he is succeeding already .In just 6 months , he has done what the previous President could not achieve in 11 years. I will proudly serve the government in any capacity it pleases the President when once I regain my full health once more.
Let me take this opportunity to say here that going back to serve the government is a deed of supreme sacrifice. As a teacher in the U.S, I a doing great in this country. Teachers are not underpaid here as in Sierra Leone . Though there is room for improveent, the salaries of teachers are excellent here. I believe there are others who were making very lucrative salaries before they decided to go serve their country.
We should therefore appreciate those who go back to serve the country. I know my enemies are wishing me evil but I want them to know one thing--What he has destined, man cannot change.
Let us therefore leave this labo about State House jobs and concentrate on suggesting useful tips that will help to improve our country.Let stop this bad heart and wishing others evil and work towards the betterment of the country.
Nobody stopped anybody from being employed by State House.Lets give people a break.
Subject: Re: Leave Shekito to do his job
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 20:57:24 02/22/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip68-100-48-137.dc.dc.cox.net at 68.100.48.137
Message:
If we are going to leave incompetents to continue doing there job then maybe.. we should just call Ahmed Tejan Kabbah back to report for duty..
How about JS momoh..?
Kabs get small shame man an call the mans behavoir what it is.. Disgraceful..
And if that dumbeh comment was headed in my direction because i pointed out that the statehouse press secretary should watch his pen and his mouth then all i can say is birds of the same feather....
I would expect you to show journalistic and editorial decency and drop the rebuff on your "Wall Renowed highest "cycling" paper" and give shekito a call to act like an officer of the state...and you do like wise as publisher and proprietor of cocorioko...
I dont get it..
We all for find religion cause we have a new government?
Subject: IS ET KAMARA DEAD?
From: NEW Blood
To: All
Date Posted: 17:26:14 02/22/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-66-108-68-252.nyc.res.rr.com at 66.108.68.252
Message:
It is true that NEW APC's resurgence to power has seen the demise of it's old guards..
It began with one of it's foundation members SAT Koroma,followed by it's women's wing champion Sally Ann Wallace Johnson.
Since then Bigwigs like FS Anthony whose crossing over to APC enabled Steven.s defeat of Albert Margai in 1967,and Former Foreign Minister Dr.SS Magona who recently defected to another Party have also died.
This week Obituary of Former Mayor June Holst- Roness and Deputy Minister Aiah Mbayo hit the headlines....And just this afternoon someone emailed me to say that Party Strongman ET Kamara is dead!..can anyone confirm this?
What is going on with the Old APC?
Is it that now that APC Party is "back to power" these old diehards can go and rest in peace..or is it that the old APC Stalwarts would rather die than be ruled by their own "borbohs and Titis?
Whatever di case be, leh God gee dem good road!
Subject: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 17:07:01 02/22/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
Anyone else can add thier own ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE
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Alright Candido, I'm gonna take a whack at it....ahem!
Steal and 'shabe' hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid from countries that were driven to convulsions of grief over their revulsions of the CUT HAND atrocities of the rebel war:
ORDERS FROM THE SLPP STATEHOUSE.
Refusing to build an inch of road or a stitch of construction...and taking infinite pride for getting a mention in the Guinness Book Of World Records as the darkest city and country in the world:
ORDERS FROM THE SLPP STATEHOUSE.
Literally selling Salone to an unseemly caboodle of foreign mercenaries, crooks and vipers just to return Kabba to power from Guinea by all means necessary:
ORDERS FROM THE SLPP STATEHOUSE-in-Exile.
Scarlet-lettering all SLPP opponents and beating, killing and maiming thousands during the bloody return from Conakry:
ORDERS FROM THE SLPP STATEHOUSE.
Grabbing soldiers they don't like (including Kula Samba) and killing them by firing squad:
ORDERS FROM LAGOS, AND SLAVISHLY CARRIED OUT BY KABBA'S SLPP STATE HOUSE.
Impoverishing Salone into a permanent economic purgatory:
ORDERS FROM THE SLPP STATEHOUSE.
The entire Republic of Salone, only 7 MW in eleven years:
Yep...ORDERS FROM THE SLPP STATEHOUSE!
Candido, ee bocu but ar go stop for now...
Subject: Re: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 17:26:05 02/22/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.151.107.110
Message:
In 2002, a British couple appeared on a British game show "Who wants to be a millionaire". When asked what will do if they win the jackpot, their answer was we will buy the T-Y Island in Sierra Leone for £250,000, they were further asked why they think that's possible their answer was, we've made our enquiries and found that the government is willing to sell the island at £250,000 (two hundred thousand pound sterling). Thank God these people are out otherwise, we would have found ourselves being evicted by foreigners.
Subject: Re: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: Investor
To: All
Date Posted: 17:31:38 02/22/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-126-139-157.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 71.126.139.157
Message:
Where is the T-Y Island in Sierra Leone? Assuming that this Island exists, what is wrong with a British couple buying it, developing it and employing sierra Leoneans to work there? Instead of leaving the fictictious T-Y Island to monkeys and birds, why not sell it or at least lease it?
Subject: Re: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 17:49:36 02/22/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 78.151.107.110
Message:
Mr Investor, you sound like Mr Distractor. Are you a Sierra Leonean? or just a sympathizer.
Anyway, T-Y Island is a small area located in the Bonthe District south of the country not habited by humans but its a very beautiful tourist attraction.
If you mind to know before the kata kata befall the entire Sierra Leone, this was one of the places which attracted huge number of tourist from europe and the US.
If you're covansant with the world renouned documentary maker David Attemborough, he made a documentary on the Island with aim of showing it to the western world to boost tourism for our country.
Hope this helps.
Subject: Re: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: Investor
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Date Posted: 18:49:03 02/22/08 ()
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Mr. Grant, thanks for your enlightenment. I happen to come from Bonthe Island myself, but have never heard about T-Y island. You mentioned Mr. Attemborough but was he using a nick name for the Island or the actual name of the map of Sierra Leone? I'm quite familiar with York Island on the way from Mattu Jong to Bonthe Island. York Island, where the launches (boats) transit for passengers to buy fried fish and cassava bread, has a deep-rooted history in the transatlantic slave trade. Infact to this day there are still slave warehouses on that Island. But T-Y Island does not ring a bell....We have places like Gbap, Bendu Cha, Bum, Dema, Yargoy etc etc.
Subject: Re: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: JOE LAHAI
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Date Posted: 07:08:58 02/25/08 ()
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MR INVESTOR, MR EDIE APC GRANT DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ANY PLACE OUTSIDE ROGBANE. HE'S BEING MISCHIEVOUS. I SWEAR TO OGBASATANIE
Subject: Re: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 20:05:55 02/22/08 ()
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IT is TIWAI Island no T Y. It is located near Poturu in Pujehun district. That is why you never heard of it. It is a beautiful place, there have been many documentaries about it on US TV. It some unique animal and plant life. it lost a lot during the war.
Subject: Re: LOCATION OF TIWAI ISLAND IS SALONE
From: kinni -Moi
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Date Posted: 08:59:50 02/24/08 ()
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Tiwai Island in Sierra Leone
Having gone through your postings on the above issue, I feel obliged to enlighten fellow Sierra Leoneans who have not been and/or heard of this wonderful scenery in our native land.
To start with, the name TIWAI comes from the Mende language and it’s a combination of two words as follows:
Ti = Island
Wai = Large or Big
Put together gives you the name as Tiwai, meaning “Big Island”. (same as we have Ti Hun in Bonthe district)
The island is located in Pujehun and Kenema districts. I said Pujehun and Kenema district because, both districts have always lay claim to it as it’s comprises landscapes belonging to the two districts. Nature is very dynamic and this can be clearly seen on the island. The moa river curves right around the island which makes it impossible to reach without crossing the river.
From Bo town, you will have to drive to Potoru and take a turn from the center of the township next to the chiefdom Admin offices from where the road sign board is visible with drawings depicting the Island. I think its six or ten miles from Potoru town (I stand to be corrected)
From Kenema, you will have to drive through Small-Bo and wonde chiefdoms to Bandajuma Sowa on the main road to Pujehun and Zimmi (The supposed Sierra Leone –Liberia Highway that is still a dream). After crossing the Wanjei Bridge at Bandajuma, you will drive for between 3-4km and turn left. This road leads you to small settlement which is inhabited by close to a thousand people.
The care takers or forest rangers resides in this village. They will take you to the chief and clan elders before proceeding to cross the river in an outboard motor operated boat to cross river moa to the island.
While on the island, you will meet other rangers and/or tour guides who will take you round the most beautiful scenes on earth. There is a research center that was initially constructed by funds from the American gov’t and rehabilitated by Environmental Foundation for Africa with funds from UNHCR. There are several constructed campsites in special locat1ons for those who will like to camp out in the forest. In Tiwai, its forest green on one side with lots of species of and sandy on the other side with lots of sand and birds though most were killed during the war. I wish I had the photos to upload. But next time they will be included.
Ketamia
Kinni-Moi in Asmara, Eritrea
Subject: Re: LOCATION OF TIWAI ISLAND IS SALONE
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Date Posted: 11:39:41 02/24/08 ()
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I agree with everything you said except that TIHUN, in the Bonthe district, near Mattru Jong, where the Bios rule, is not an Island. If your translation of Tiwai is correct, then Tihun would be "in the Island". Not so quick, because Tihun is not an Island..Am I missing something here?
Subject: Re: LOCATION OF TIWAI ISLAND IS SALONE
From: Kinnie-Moi
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Date Posted: 03:20:29 02/25/08 ()
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You miss nothing. I was only trying to bring to mind Tiwai as its literally translated in Mende. In any case I have not been to Tihun but clearly Tiwai is in Mende and means big and/or large island.
Thanks for the correction and hope you find time to visit Tiwai Island in Salone someday some how. The village elders and rangers will definately share details of the names and how it came to be property of two chiefdoms (Nyawa and Barri) in two districts (Kenema and Pujehun).
Ketamia
Kinnie-Moi
Asmara, Eritrea
Subject: Re: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: BONGOR
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Date Posted: 20:39:43 02/22/08 ()
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Tiwai is a very beautiful piece of real estate in S/Leone. I don't know if it is an island or not. I saw documentries on it back in the 90s. It is a naturalists' dream come true. The Govt. should develop it for tourism.
Subject: Re: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 20:47:36 02/22/08 ()
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You are right . I saw the same documentaries on pBS in 90s. investor s were interested in developing the island but plans were halted by the war. IT is pujuhen ditrict not too far from liberia
Subject: Re: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 20:36:12 02/22/08 ()
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T Y...????
Bra Eddie, thats was funny..
http://www.visitsierraleone.org/tiwai.asp
http://www.efasl.org.uk/tiwai/visit.htm
Subject: Re: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: JOE LAHAI
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Date Posted: 07:17:27 02/25/08 ()
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IT WAS'NT FUNNY; IT WAS MISCHIEVOUS
Subject: Re: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 05:56:39 02/24/08 ()
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Thanks Candido. Disappointed though for not even giving me some kind of commendation for putting this on the spotlight. I bet there're lot of people who do not even know the existence of this exotic place untill now. I merely made an abbreviation T-Y, it sounds the same though.
Subject: Re: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: BONGOR
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Date Posted: 08:13:23 02/23/08 ()
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I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANKS TO YOU FOR THAT WEBSITE. I JUST CAME BACK FROM S/LEONE BUT NEXT TIME I AM OUT THERE, I'LL GO VISIT TIWAI. NATURE IS MY PASSION.
THANKS AGAIN BRA CANDID
Subject: Re: ORDERS FROM STATEHOUSE--A RESPONSE!
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:51:09 02/23/08 ()
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Thats how we do..
Help in anyway i can..
There is plenty of salone resources on the web..and more added each day..
Here is sweet salone before kotor sheki...
http://www.sierra-leone.org/HistoricPostcards/postcards1.html
Subject: IN RESPONSE TO DR. MANNAH ON REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF EDUCAT
From: CKC guy
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Date Posted: 16:55:49 02/22/08 ()
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I think the fallacy in Dr. Mannah's analysis is a function of generalisation. May be he should have used the phrase "average houshold". But even that might not be right because standard comparative analysis requires the use of per capita empirics.
For example, let's look at the following example;
a) Makeni has a population of 500 out of which 100 are FBC graduates.
b) Kenema has a population of 1500 out of which 125 are FBC graduates.
Looking at those numbers, you would think that Kenema is more highly educated than the Makeni.
However, the rate of university(FBC) graduation is 10% for Makeni and the rate of university (FBC) graduation in Kenema is 8%.
In doing cross-regional analysis, what matters is not the absolute number of graduates but the per head/capita differences.
Even a microeconomic analysis of Dr. Mannah's thesis on regional distribution of education in Sierra Leone will not find EVERY household in the southern and eaStern Sierra Leone to have a minimum high school diploma.
Further, the United Nations, the World Bank, the United States and the IMF all compare the level of education across regions using the following variables;
a) rate of primary school enrolment
b) rate of secondary school enrolment
c)the rate of female/male enrolment
d) adult literacy rate