Subject: How To Kill Democracy With Sharia Law
From: Bra Enviable
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Date Posted: 11:44:21 03/06/08 ()
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The more I try to understand the needless tempest in the APC's teapot over Sylvia Blyden, the more incredible the fuss appears to me. I have read the statements released by the President's Press Secretary and the Attorney-General, and the silliness in those releases sounds too fatuous to be believed. The Attorney-General and the President's Press Secretary have actually gone ahead with this self-belittling rubbish by formally informing Sylvia Blyden that the published caricatures of the president in "Awareness Times" constitute a libelous act! Are these barely-informed people living in a world of their own? A true democracy will surely demand the resignation of an Attorney-General that does not know the basic legal concepts required to dispense justice. The basic components of libel are defamatory words intended to besmirch some one's reputation, malice-inspired words aimed at dragging the complainant's name into disrepute, and the infliction of injurious words published to shred some one's reputation. These components of libel are, of course, only admissible in a court of law when the complainant is an ordinary citizen. As the nation's "Public Officer in Chief," the president can be caricatured, and even reduced to a laughing-stock, without legal consequences. Why is Ernest Koroma risking his reputation by falling so low as to behave like an illiterate picked from the streets to State House?
If making fun of the president equals to a libelous offence, accusing him of corruption will surely amount to treason. This president has failed a very simple test he should have never taken in the first place. Ignoring Sylvia's pinpricks to concentrate on more important issues could have imaged a sober-driven president in the eyes of the world. Ernest Koroma has simply cheapened his democratic credentials by taking a test administered by Sylvia Blyden. The president should have allowed himself to be tested by an important national issue instead of the comical jabs of a newspaper. The Attorney-General and the President are disgracing themselves in the eyes of the diplomatic community, and it wont be long before Koroma peels off every democratic appearance conferred on him by the free and fair elections he won. A Muslim cleric living by Sharia law is different from a practitioner of democratic politics. Ernest Koroma was elected as a politician, not a Sierra Leonean student of the Ayatollah Imam Khomeini. By turning mere cartoons into felonious deeds, Ernest Koroma has shown that he lacks the political education, and the temperament, to lead a civilized political institution. I am ashame of being Ernest Koroma's Sierra Leonean citizen
Subject: How To Kill Democracy With Sharia Law
From: Bra Enviable
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Date Posted: 11:38:26 03/06/08 ()
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The more I try to understand the needless tempest in the APC's teapot over Sylvia Blyden, the more incredible the fuss appears to me. I have read the statements released by the President's Press Secretary and the Attorney-General, and the silliness in those releases sounds too fatuous to be be believed. The Attorney-General and the President's Press Secretary have actually gone ahead with this self-belittling rubbish by formally informing Sylvia Blyden that the published caricatures of the president in "Awareness Times" constitute a libelous act! Are these barely-informed people living in a world of their own? A true democracy will surely demand the resignation of an Attorney-General that does not know the basic legal concepts required to dispense justice. The basic components of libel are defamatory words intended to besmirch some one's reputation, malice-inspired words aimed at dragging the complainant's name into disrepute, and the infliction of injurious words published to shred some one's reputation. These components of libel are, of course, only admissible in a court of law when the complainant is an ordinary citizen. As the nation's "Public Officer in Chief," the president can be caricatured, and even reduced to a laughing-stock, without legal consequences. Why is Ernest Koroma risking his reputation by falling so low as to behave like an illiterate picked from the streets to State House?
If making fun of the president equals to a libelous offence, accusing him of corruption will surely amount to treason. This president has failed a very simple test he should have never taken in the first place. Ignoring Sylvia's pinpricks to concentrate on more important issues could have imaged a sober-driven president in the eyes of the world. Ernest Koroma has simply cheapened his democratic credentials by taking a test administered by Sylvia Blyden. The president should have allowed himself to be tested by an important national issue instead of the comical jabs of a newspaper. The Attorney-General and the President are disgracing themselves in the eyes of the diplomatic community, and it wont be long before Koroma peels off every democratic appearance conferred on him by the free and fair elections he won. A Muslim cleric living by Sharia law is different from a practitioner of democratic politics. Ernest Koroma was elected as a politician, not a Sierra Leonean student of the Ayatollah Imam Khomeini. By turning mere cartoons into felonious deeds, Ernest Koroma has shown that he lacks the political education, and the temperament, to lead a civilized political institution. I am ashamed of being Ernest Koroma's Sierra Leonean citizen
Subject: Victor Bout arrested
From: swamplionj
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Date Posted: 11:07:53 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: lansanafj1@hotmail.com
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Sierra leonean merchant of death arrested. See BBC news
Subject: For John Leigh and The Blyden Batoliners
From: Nicodemus
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Date Posted: 11:03:35 03/06/08 ()
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Ambassador Leigh wrote
"I opposed her lying ninja-mongering in DC during the late 90s. Later, after Makeni 2005, I have been the intended victim of her numerous crude lies, fiction writing, doctored photos, invented allegations and outright, shameless lies.
Even so, I believe that her arrest and detention are unnecessary in this day and age. She could have been summoned and released without bail. And the press laws of SL need repeal and reform urgently so that criminal punishment is replace with civil sanctions.
Thank you. - JL"
__________________________________________________________
Of course Sylvia Blyden's invectives and sustained vituperations aimed at US and Sierra Leone Government officials as "ninjas provocatuer" maybe protected by free speech but you cannot deny that associating herself with a terrorist organization is outrightly illegal......
So Mr. Leigh, what did you as Ambassador do about that?....Advice the State department to subject her to due process?... or Advice Lawmakers to repeal Anti -Terror Legislation?
Subject: KABBA MUST STAND TRIAL FOR THE DEATHS OF MUSA KABIA AND CO
From: Out for Justice
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Date Posted: 09:50:13 03/06/08 ()
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ITS HIGH TIME TEJAN KABBA AND CO FACE THE TUNE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT OF JUSTICE FOR THE DEATHS OF PEOPLE LIKE MUSA KABBIA AND CO. THE KABBA ADMINISTRATION ORCHESTERATED A VICIOUS PLOT WITH THE HELP OF LATE PRESIDENT SANI ABACHA OF NIGERIA TO MURDER THESE INNOCENT SOULS IN BROAD DAY LIGHT BY SETTING THEIR PHYSICAL BODY ABLAZE WITH GASOLINE AND CAR TIRES IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY. THERE CAN BE NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE, I'M THEREFORE CALLING ON ALL INTERESTED ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE TO SUPPORT AND COOPERATE IN HELPING THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO PROSECUTE HUMAN RIGHT ABUSERS LIKE KABBA AND HIS ENTOURAGE.
Subject: Irate APC youths attack SLPP office
From: Mumbo Tombo Dumbo
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Date Posted: 09:22:05 03/06/08 ()
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Irate APC youths attack SLPP office
As news of the arrest and detention of Awareness Times publisher, Dr. Sylvia Blyden circulated in Freetown, a group of civil society activists protested in front of the Criminal investigation Department (CID) of the Sierra Leone Police, demanding her immediate and unconditional release. Irate APC youths who were angered by the publication saw the protesters as SLPP supporters and reacted by pelting them with stones and bottles to disperse them. The youths took their anger to the SLPP headquarters which is next door to the CID headquarters, by raining stones and bottles on the building.
Some of the youths called for the incarceration of the publisher as her publication was a disgrace to the President and the country. "We will show them that Ernest Koroma is the President of this country and should be respected," a vexed APC supporter, Mohamed Kargbo told Concord Times. SLPP Secretary General Jacob Jusu Saffa, condemned the attack on their headquarter saying their party is worried as the APC has resorted to thuggery, violence and lawlessness. APC Secretary General, Victor Foh, said, APC youths will not attack SLPP offices. "We only regard people with APC membership cards as members of the APC," Mr. Foh said. Mr. Foh described the people that attacked the SLPP office as "lawless youths" who should be taught a lesson. The attack on the SLPP headquarters attracted publication in Salone Times, New Vision and Awoko.
Subject: Re: Irate APC youths attack SLPP office
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 10:58:28 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dear Mumbo Tombo Dumbo:
I wonder where you got your excellent moniker from? Whatever happened to the 'Munku' part? How is Bangucrooks doing?
Lets face it: many of our people are still unsophisticated, suffering, and facing extremely hard times day in, day out with little or no positives in sight. Consequently, they are irritable, full of vexations and, above all, looking for an opportunity to personally benefit.
Many of our youths are unemployed, with some unemployable. Thus, some are quick to do crazy things now and then - as opportunities for mischief present themselves.
Added to this bad situation is the plain fact that politics in SL is a game of utter winner-take-all desperation and usually backed with a take-no-prisoner mentality.
Journalists ought to understand this unsophistication and the desperation in our society. They may thus want to now go easy in presenting President Koroma, his ministers and aides in a less harsh light but nevertheless still critizing him effectively with a clean heart and as subtlely as possible.
Moderate action with zero impatience from the government side; zero jealousy and impatience from the opposition, good objective, impartial policing coupled with constructive criticisms are the key to stability and economic and social progress.
Government impatience and heavy-handedness, opposition provocations and unholy criticisms designed and presented to annoy, upset, hinder, frustrate, defeat, mislead and bring down are not legitimate solutions at all.
Unholy criticisms ought to be left for electioneering times.
In normal times, we must respect our elected governors; give them a fair chance to govern and must criticize them constructively only if they go off on a targent because such is in the best interest of our country and people.
The pro-APC crowd throwing rocks and bottles on peaceful demonstrators and at SLPP premises are way-off the mark. It is fitting to know that even Mr. Victor Foh an OLD APC-type still serving as NEW APC S-G, is upset at such bad conduct and has predicted that such touts will be dealt with according to law. This declaration from Mr. Foh is good news indeed.
Let's now see how these matters of lawlessness and rioting are pursued in deeds, not just words, by the elected authorities: the looting, rampaging of, and the damage to, SLPP homes and offices in Freetown, Bo and Kenema; the bodily assault upon Mayor Sannoh in Bo, and others in Freetown, Bo and Kenema, etc. Thanks Mr. Mumbo Tombo Dumbo ... . - JL
Subject: Test
From: Rubber Duck
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Date Posted: 08:52:42 03/06/08 ()
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Test
Subject: Making it Big in West Africa
From: Multi-Billionaire
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Date Posted: 07:12:19 03/06/08 ()
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http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_Aliko-Dangote_64RI.html
Subject: Kailaihun for all the wrong reasons
From: AFP news
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Date Posted: 07:08:53 03/06/08 ()
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Kailahun is a dusty town about 300 kilometres (185 miles) east of Freetown, in a part of the west African country regarded by human rights groups as the heartland of female genital mutilation (FGM).
Subject: Kabs where do you stand, we know where Alieu stands
From: Rule of Law and Human rights.
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Date Posted: 06:38:31 03/06/08 ()
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THE PRESIDENTS PHOTO WITH QUESTION MARK ABOVE IT.
Before the elections those of us die hard SLPP supporters kept going on about the freedom we were enjoying in sierra leone at the time.Some of us pointed to the Freedom of speech, the Human rights, and the rule of law in the country.It noe seems we took it all for granted...since thereality is now setting in.
SLPP and its leaders were ridicled in every way.no one was ever arrested for drawing a picture or singing a 'SONG'about the SLPP politicians.
It seem that we have lost all those priviledges in our Country in a flash. Songs about The Borbor Beles of this world will no longer be heard again in sierra leone under the APC.
Alieu Iscandri has been very honest on the issue.I respect him for stating his opinion.
Kabs, I know you have been a great fighter for freedom and democracy all your life, Will that fight continue or will your new found position in the APC make it impossible for you to take a Honest stands.....Are you going to take all the world and yet lose your soul?
Rev, regain your respect and condemn this stupidity of your APC friends just as you did in the cases of Paul Kamara, and Neville etc. If you do, Rev you will gain a lot of respectfrom all sides.
Is this the freedom and democracy that we shed so much blood for in our country or is it simply the case of we will never learn? I cry for that beloved country. CRY with me BABBS.
Subject: Re: Kabs where do you stand, we know where Alieu stands
From: Forrest Gump
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Date Posted: 06:50:39 03/06/08 ()
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Kabbs will never Denounce his new found Friends. He will say That was then,now is NOW, In other words he now speaks from BOTH sides of his mouth
Forrest
Subject: The killing of Democracy and Rule of Law in Sierra leone.
From: The London Crew.
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Date Posted: 05:56:03 03/06/08 ()
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The whole story about Sylvia and her arrest has been documented. The other reports from this wonderful cocrioko news papers over the weeks about incidents in Sierra leone especially in Bo have also been document. We have this morning handed a copies of our files and categorising the abuse of democracy and the rule of law in Sierra leone to:
1 Gordon Brown (British Prime minister)
2 Duglas Alexander ( International developement Secretary)
3 David Milliband (British Foreign Secretary)
$ Amnesty International.
We do not believe that a photo if a president with question marks above his head constituted libel of any sort that should lead to arrests.
Now that the APC has started showing its true colours so soon, we will make sure that every step they take is brought to the attention of the whole world and the international communities
Subject: Re: The killing of Democracy and Rule of Law in Sierra leone.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:19:32 03/06/08 ()
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Mr London Crew.. Great job..
I would advocate all salone man utilize thier camera phones and paaste photos on flickr or YOutube of any abuse.. any corruption and any time we find the governement of the day wanting.. APC, SLPP, Margai's popular front..
Anyone.. SALONE demanded change in November..
We citizens soldiers are the ones who will guard us from dictatorial tendencies..
Use technology to expose any government..
If minister ask for bribe.. record the FOOL..
If permanent secretary want a cut.. put it on 20-20..
I hope my generation will not sit and be hoodwinked again by foolish old men and 10 years down the road.. we complain about salone nor go change.. who changed it..?? OR who should have changed it..?
Subject: Re: The killing of Democracy and Rule of Law in Sierra leone.
From: KPONIEGBOU
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Date Posted: 08:05:23 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
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LONDON CREW, DID YOU INCLUDE THE APC TASK FORCE AND WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING IN YOUR BRIEFING? DID YOU TELL THEM THAT PASTORS NOW GET BEATEN UP FOR NO REASON AT ALL, AND THAT FULAH BUSINESS MEN NOW GET MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD BY DRIVE-BY ASASSINS WEARING RED HOODS, VESTS AND JEANS? DID YOU TELL THEM ABOUT BOIMAKEI'S HOUSE WHICH THEY BURNT AFTER COMPREHENSIVELY LOOTING IT? AND FINALLY, DID YOU TELL THEM ABOUT THE 80 MILLION LEONES FREETOWN CLEANING EXPENCES WHICH VP SAM SOUMANA COLLECTS EVERY MONTH END? DID YOU TELL THEM THAT IF YOU DID'NT, I HUMBLY REQUEST YOU TO DO SO AS A MATTER OF URGENCY.
Subject: Re: The killing of Democracy and Rule of Law in Sierra leone.
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 08:00:52 03/06/08 ()
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Why make mockery of yourself? when you know what you've described would not even be listened to by the nternational community. My brother, don't forget that our democracy is very young and in it early stage.
The think tanks of the international community including Britain our development partner would not subject themselves to be seen as interfering with other soverign states like ours. They can only intervene in the case of gross human rights violation. Over the years, Sierra Leone had being riddled with dictatorial governments malpractices with blatant human rights abuse, we're now seeing light at the end of the tunnel but that should not in anyway be compared with veteran democracies like the UK and US.
We must realise that with time, we will come to fully enjoy the benefits of democracy. We shouldn't 'take a mile at the moment when we're barely an inch into democracy.
We can also extinguise this fledgling flames of emerging freedom if other people embark on 'opponent destruction' tactics simply because they're now in opposition and everything will be done to paint a damaging picture of the government to the international community.
My fellow countrymen/women, Sierra Leone is lacking behind other African countries by several years, and this government have a five year mandate to govern, there's no way the opposition will takeover power within this time untill 2012, so any attempt to impede this government from providing vital development is another five years below our African counterparts.
The best we can do for now is, support not for the sake of your opponent but for your country even if that means giving your best ideas to the government. It is too soon to expect full operation of democracy, in fact democracy can only thrive in countries where the people regards country first before partisanship and those countries which already have developmental mechanisms in operation but this is not the case in Sierra Leone. So beware that we have a long way to go before demcratic principles are fully adhered to.
The government so far is doing well, don't try to destroy that simply because you're in opposition, we must learn to let go of power when is really necessary.
Subject: Re: The killing of Democracy and Rule of Law in Sierra leone.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:13:24 03/06/08 ()
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Sometimes i read something and i get reallllllly freaking annoyed..
Eddie Grant...
Where in the hell do you concort this kind of nonsense and try to pass it off as a comment..???????
---------My fellow countrymen/women, Sierra Leone is lacking behind other African countries by several years, and this government have a five year mandate to govern, there's no way the opposition will takeover power within this time untill 2012, so any attempt to impede this government from providing vital development is another five years below our African counterparts.---------
Where is the opposition trying to impeded the APC??
-----so any attempt to impede this government from providing vital development-------
---The government so far is doing well, don't try to destroy that simply because you're in opposition, we must learn to let go of power when is really necessary.---
The statements above coming from a learned gentleman are 3 times more dubious than coming from Pa lamina poyo from tomabome.. Cause its willful..arrogantly so..
Destroy simply because your'e in the opposition.. ???
Is this what we are in for next 5 years.. incompetence camouflaged by baseless accusations??
Tell EBK to lead the freaking country and uphold law and order or he will be impeached for failing his constitutional duty to protect as our president..
Subject: Re: The killing of Democracy and Rule of Law in Sierra leone.
From: Concerned Citizen
To: All
Date Posted: 06:53:07 03/06/08 ()
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Message:
You should be ashamed of yourself for your hypocrisy. Complain my foot!
Do you think that it is the birthright of your tribal party SLPP to rule Sierra Leone.
Which party became the first in our country to kill a journalist? The SLPP supporters killed and burned scores of people on the street of Freetown. Did you talk about excessive human rights violations when Kabbah ordered the killing of students who were protesting in 1996?
Did kabbah moved when he took the life of Kula Samba and others?
Where was your support for the Sierra Leonean people when Kabbah ordered the arrests of innocent people and some died in jail?
How do you draw a line betweeen hate speech and free speech.
Some of you will always cry foul when your rivals are making progress. The SLPP tribal linkage is a harbinger for Sierra Leone's degeneration. Sylvia lack any political constituent to become a future leader. Some of us will never allow that to happen.
How can someone who called her compatriots fulumunku, illietrates, munku and raray boy/girl will take the mantle of leadership where we have eighty percent of people who are not from a conservative background.
Shame on these SLPP tribalists using Sylvia for their selfish end.
Sierra Leone is at a right track. No human rights violations. It is only SLPP spoilers are blowing a big horn to lie. The SLPP tribalists are using wicked propaganda to drive away foreign investors.
Subject: Re: The killing of Democracy and Rule of Law in Sierra leone.
From: KPONIEGBOU
To: All
Date Posted: 08:08:38 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
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Message:
CONCERNED CITIZEN MY FOOT!!WHAT AN IDIOT
Subject: Re: The killing of Democracy and Rule of Law in Sierra leone.
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 07:36:50 03/06/08 ()
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No APC's dictatorial and undemocratic behavior will drive investors away. The people will not be distracted from the failures and incompetence of the APC govt.
You are being rattled by Sylvia.
Subject: Re: The killing of Democracy and Rule of Law in Sierra leone.
From: Concerned Citizen
To: All
Date Posted: 07:45:47 03/06/08 ()
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Slyvia is a small fly that pestering pleasantries in a good home. She is good at changing stories for her own good. John Leigh is a vivid example of how cruel sylvia can be.
The APC has educated and wonderful women who are better positioned than sylvia. Who does not know slyvia's trick. She adores spotlight and will do anything to be noticed.
Her style of journalism is irresponsible. One can only see an evasive woman using journalsim for cheap popularity and pleasure.
The Cummings John, Nancy Steele, Shirley Gbujama, Dais Bona etc, etc did not use wicked propaganda and lies to smear the image of others as young women. They fought using sheer belief in honesty and they managed to reach the apex in their various disciplines.
What made them respected in society is because they fought for a good cause and they did not injure or maliciously attacked anyone.
Sylvia lacks that stature yesterday, today and foreever.
Subject: Re: The killing of Democracy and Rule of Law in Sierra leone
From: swamplionj
To: All
Date Posted: 10:46:06 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: lansanafj1@hotmail.com
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Message:
Nancy Steele???hmmmmmmmmm
Subject: Re: The killing of Democracy and Rule of Law in Sierra leone.
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 06:28:26 03/06/08 ()
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Well done, This was what we warned about during the campaign. APC never changed. A thug is a thug. They will destroy our young democracy. If George Bush was as thin skinned as EBK, There would thousands of journalists being questioned by the police. Please send the documents to the white house and the presidential candidates also.
Subject: SLPP supporters, where is your loyalty?
From: Insider
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Date Posted: 01:59:42 03/06/08 ()
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Fixed with the obsession of Sierra Leone's wealth amnd its power, the sickening SLPP are on it boycotting an important debate in Parliament to seek the release of a notorious propagandist who cursed a UN expert sent to change Sierra Leone and even went as far as blasting America and its system.
These irresponsible SLPP MPS and their cronies must be ashamed of themselves. Where were them when Paul kamara was jailed? Where were these miscreants when Philip Neville and a number of journalists were arrested?
We have seen now that the SLPP has hatched a plot to destroy the country through naked lies and wicked propaganda by the awarenesstimes and the tribalist newpeople outlet.
What is good for the goose is also good for the gander. Awarenesstimes publisher must answer to the criminal charge. Since her new found sojourn in journalism,the profession has gone down to the gutter. The first publisher to take a journalist to court. She even cursed everyone who dare challenged the tribal SLPP wicked acts. Olu Gordon who is a great pen pusher was not spared by Sylvia's devilish trick.
The so-called caricature by all indications short fall of any act of objective journalism. It socks, period.
Only a court of law is the last resort for Sylvia to get a sober head. Maybe, she will learn to respect authority!
The 1965 Public act is a brainchild of the SLPP. So why the fuss?
Subject: Re: SLPP supporters, where is your loyalty?
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 06:01:10 03/06/08 ()
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our loyalty is to the preservation of democracy in Sierra Leone. The incompetent APC govt has been rattled by Slyvia Blyden. Wake up APC fanatics, Sierra Leone is a democracy. what are you going to do when Musicians start singing against APC, Burn their studios.
Subject: Re: SLPP supporters, where is your loyalty?
From: nomoli
To: All
Date Posted: 06:55:47 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: cbalagu@yahoo.com
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APC is less torelant of any opposition. This kind of tactics is a prelude for a one party state. Wait and see this party of hooligans will destroy any semblance of democracy we hold so dearly. Could you imagine EBK being riducled like Bush or his father's vice president Dan Quarle?
Subject: Re: SLPP supporters, where is your loyalty?
From: Brima J Kamanda
To: All
Date Posted: 04:57:01 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: BJone@hotmail.com
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Message:
Dear Alpha et al
Our Democracy is still in its infancy and so is our Freedom of Speech. We are creeping behind Developed Countries and we want to jump high right from start. Democracy and Freedom of Speech comes with Discipline and respectful lawfulness. Awareness Times failed to adhere to these. In Europe, Yes there is Freedom of Speech, Democracy, Human Rights and so on but the citizens do not only know their rights, they also know what is lawful and what is not. This time round, Awareness Times and the The New People did go below the Belt. The articles were provocative, insulting and intimidating with Intent and baseless. Constructiveness and Lawfullness should be key to promoting democracy. I beg to differ. Teach her some lawfulness and discipline. It has been very clear that Awareness Times has been deliberately looking for Trouble and attention. Goodday brotherman, Sylvia is a lawless democratic rebel and she will survive this. I am a staunch SLPP if you care to know. Lontah!
Subject: Re: SLPP supporters, where is your loyalty?
From: Think
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Date Posted: 06:13:46 03/06/08 ()
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...'the awareness times and the new people did go below the belt'....Mr Kamanda, please tell me if by putting a question Mark above the head of the President is such a crime....but then you would not know.
Subject: Re: SLPP supporters, where is your loyalty?
From: Nar Me
To: All
Date Posted: 11:13:03 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: thenewsletter@hotmail.com
Entered From: amontsouris-152-1-84-182.w86-212.abo.wanadoo.fr at 86.212.62.182
Message:
I agree with Brima Kamanda. Ours is still a fragile democracy. Common sense is not so common. In the West, Free Speech goes with structures in place to protect the rights of individuals. We all know the state of our legal system in Sierra leone. We have to walk first before we run. We need to move cautiously. We can oppose without being nasty and obnoxious.
Having said this, I would like to see Government taking a firmer stand on lawlessness in general. A good dose of discipline will not hurt us in Sa Lone.
By the way, the issue was horns on the president's head - not question marks.
Subject: Re: SLPP supporters, where is your loyalty?
From: KPONIEGBOU
To: All
Date Posted: 02:48:45 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
SHUT UP; YOU IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Subject: Re: SLPP supporters, where is your loyalty?
From: Solution
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Date Posted: 06:19:29 03/06/08 ()
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Why you still write captal letter insted of small letter? That is rude rude behave of you. You munku by sorie.
Subject: Re: SLPP supporters, where is your loyalty?
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:36:34 03/06/08 ()
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Fake kenema man you is stil around . I thought yous was busy with yours job. I kinda of likes Sylvia , she be rattling you thuggish Gbose GBOSE APC. Shes not be kissing the big booty of your President Koroma. She tell it like it is. Your Pesident Koroma is Wak , he don t know what he be doin. I hope you get my drift solution confusion . APC is Wak, Koroma is wak
Stop blaming your failures on the journalists.
Subject: Re: SLPP supporters, where is your loyalty?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:04:59 03/06/08 ()
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Kamara...
She is telling it like them is..
And them mights not be liking it..
Them all like the pimple for bow..and say Hail ye Preso of the Gbose Gbose party..
Hail ye, Hail ye..
Wak, solution wak.. APC Wak..
Wak Wak wak.
Subject: Sylvia Blyden has shot herself in the foot
From: The Nationalist
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Date Posted: 01:58:22 03/06/08 ()
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By walking out of the CID as she reported, Sylvia has set a very, very bad example as a journalist and a citizen who has no respect for the law. And you would think there were donkeys standing and let her do this without taking action ? What does this say of our justice system ? It is a big joke. Since Sylvia is the one advocating for the Libel law not to be expunged, what happens tomorrow when she files a case against somebody else ? Shouldn't they walk out of the CID too as they wish ? People in Sierra Leone are not dumb. They have watched this and they have seen it.Wait and see what happens the day Sylvia files a suit against anybody , or the day another journalist is arrested for defaming Sylvia .Frankly,APC has given this wench the popularity she has been seeking all her life.Shame on our system, though .
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden has shot herself in the foot
From: Know the Law
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Date Posted: 05:42:44 03/06/08 ()
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Nationalist, you are just another first class idiot, it seems to me. if you are at a Police station, you can only stay there at your own wishes, or if you are arrested. Ms Blyden was nor arrested, and she did not want to stay ther any more. She did the right thing she lef she did nothing wrong..but would you know that idiot? certainly not.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden has shot herself in the foot
From: David Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 06:56:21 03/06/08 ()
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Nationalist is more than an idiot, he does not probably understand what he read. Police have no right to detain sylvia Blyden or any individual without formally arresting that person. If in their openion, they think Sylvia has done anything wrong, they should have arrested her, but they just kept her in the police without any arrest. The president did the right thing by calling Sylvia to dissiciate himself from the rubbish. Serry Kamal thinks this is the APC of yesteryears? He will find out soon. The SLPP has set a very high standard with regards to human rights in Sierra Leone, so some people in the APC are really going to find it difficult to adjust.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden has shot herself in the foot
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:52:53 03/06/08 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Its seems you are right..
I think our new political dispensation just baffles this tonkolili crowd and the BUZZ word of the day...
"The emperor has ill fitting cloths"..
APC will definitely find it hard to adjust.
Mr Nationalist is a first class DOG SNORT.
Hardly any dark matter between his chin en backor...
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden has shot herself in the foot
From: KPONIEGBOU
To: All
Date Posted: 07:47:04 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
NO; IT IS NOT NATIONALIST WHO IS THE IDIOT, BUT YOU MR DAVID BANGURA. YOU CERTAINLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden has shot herself in the foot
From: mr loyalist
To: All
Date Posted: 05:41:52 03/06/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You guys are posting all sort of of rubbish! How can she spend all her time in a small room without telling her what she is there for. They should have explained to her the reason she has been invited to the CID. Is this what you called arrest or walk off from justice? Can you justify your legal argument on which basis you intend to push this matter.Even to make a cartoon of H.E. I am not sure is a problem.You know now that everyone is fighting to be elevated so let them carry doing bullshiiitttt!God go judge dem if na fine tin den do Sylvia.Lonta
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden has shot herself in the foot
From: Rubber Duck
To: All
Date Posted: 07:21:20 03/06/08 ()
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Message:
Dont worry THE APC will soon fall flat on it`s face
Duck
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden has shot herself in the foot
From: BOIMAKEI
To: All
Date Posted: 08:21:35 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: salonegirl@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
RUBBER DUCK, WHAT' UP MY BROTHER. NOT HEARD FROM YOU FOR DAYS. THOSE APC IDIOTS BURNT MY HOUSE AND LEFT MY AGEING AND AILING MOTHER HOMELESS. THAT IS WHY I WILL NEVER STOP ABUSING THEM. CAN'T WAIT TILL 2012 WHEN WE'LL KICK THEIR STUPID BUTTS OUT OF STATE HOUSE
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden has shot herself in the foot
From: Rubber Duck
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Date Posted: 08:47:08 03/06/08 ()
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Being around Brother. was listening to Leone net where the REV is being laughed at for his stance in the Sylvia Blyden`s brief detention I WISH CADMUS WAS STILL AROUND We will soon get these incompetent KUNUMONU TONTOS on the run.
stay well and keep safe
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden has shot herself in the foot
From: Rubber Duck
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Date Posted: 08:45:11 03/06/08 ()
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Being around Brother. was listening to Leone net where the REV is being laughed at for his stance in the Sylvia Blyden`s brief detention I WISH CADMUS WAS STILL AROUND We will soon get these incompetent KUNUMONU TONTOS on the run.
stay well and keep safe
Subject: Gratifying Sylvia
From: Bahran
To: All
Date Posted: 01:35:08 03/06/08 ()
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Going after Sylvia has been the dumbest move by the "New APC" government so far.
I am not an admirer of Worworliwor, but by her arrest the government has gratified her with cheap popularity
and the attention she had been seeking all along.
The naivety of the APC fall for her stint is beyond all imagination. Has the APC has not realized that without the transparency of the SLPP, they would have never been able to darken the corridors of power?
The culture of caricature dates back to the 16th century, and the term is derived from the Italian word caricare- to charge or load. An early definition occurs in the English doctor Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals (first pub.1716).
Expose not thy self by four-footed manners unto monstrous draughts, and Caricatura representations.
with the footnote —
When Men's faces are drawn with resemblance to some other Animals, the Italians call it, to be drawn in Caricatura
Caricatures can be insulting or complimentary and can serve a political purpose or be drawn solely for entertainment. Caricatures of politicians are commonly used in editorial cartoons, while caricatures of movie stars are often found in entertainment magazines.
Ernest Koroma should have been informed that caricatures are an integral part of political culture. Had he not want to be cartooned, he should have stayed out of politics.
What is he, Ayotolla, a prophet? Bra Jesus?
Good old grandmas used to be heard saying, ‘short heart man nor dae join kaka debul’, meaning “people with fiery tempers shouldn’t join clubs where one has to do silly things”
Release the girl, Ernest. Your nonsense carbide!
Subject: Re: Gratifying Sylvia
From: KPONIEGBOU
To: All
Date Posted: 02:57:58 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
BAHRAN, I ADORE YOU FOR THIS POST. AS FROM TODAY, YOU SHALL BE CALLED "BAHRAN THE WISE ONE"
Subject: Re: Gratifying Sylvia
From: Solution
To: All
Date Posted: 06:23:52 03/06/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Shurrup you baboons. You makes not sense. And no more captal letta
Subject: Re: Gratifying Sylvia
From: KPONIEGBOU
To: All
Date Posted: 08:26:27 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
CHECK YOUR SPELLINGS MR SOLUTION. YOU'RE NOT LITERATE ENOUGH TO BE ON THIS FORUM. YOU DAMN STUPID JUNKS SELLER
Subject: Why Do We Refer To Our Leaders As "De Pa".
From: His Royal Highness
To: All
Date Posted: 01:27:11 03/06/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
"Freedom of the press" is essential to democracy as "respect" is to our culture.
It is all about locating the equilibrium....a state of intellectual or emotional balance
Subject: What's up with SLID?
From: police
To: All
Date Posted: 00:25:46 03/06/08 ()
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What ever happened to SLID? Patrick Bockarie must be living in another planet if he thought that the govt will buy his ideeas. I wonder why Bockarie did not introduce SLID to his one time boss, Fody Sankoh.
Subject: Sylvia Blyden For President
From: His Royal Highness
To: All
Date Posted: 23:56:28 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
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Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden For President
From: Mr loyalist
To: All
Date Posted: 05:46:23 03/06/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You should stop making fun of this situation which i think should be address with a matter of seriousness.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden For President
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:45:14 03/06/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Ah..
A Sylvia hypabole.. a visual satire..
For you Mr Royal Highness.. i say the APC should hang at cotton tree for the uba's to have a fease..
Your post was at March 05, 2008 at 23:56:28:
Its is now March 06, 2008 at 09:50:28:
I am waiting for Our comrades in faith and our countrymen i ndisgust to claim this too been in bad taste.. if not.. all the editorials.. or the cultural brinksmanship.. all the lies where all for fart..
MENSA..are you an equal opportunity defender of our so-called cultures..??
STAND up and be counted..
As for me.. darn she looks good..
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden For President
From: Nasty
To: All
Date Posted: 03:09:19 03/06/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This was in a nasty taste.I see no reason, why cant she be President of Salone???She is highly educated Sierra Leonean, and has all the qualifications to be President.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden For President
From: Mensa
To: All
Date Posted: 00:43:48 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 82.99.234.50
Message:
Well, you got this one right .....Bull's eye!
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden For President
From: THE LION
To: All
Date Posted: 00:09:07 03/06/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
So the 1965 Public Order Act is bad? Just thinking aloud...Didn't Sylvia Blyden voiciferously back Cowan and others to uphold the Act at a time when SLAJ and human right activitists were clamouring for it to be expunged? Hypocrites...
Hmmmm..the parents have eaten "Sour Grapes" and the childrens' teeth are set on edge
Subject: SLPP MPs-A bunch of Ignoramus
From: Saidu Daphay Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 22:12:50 03/05/08 ()
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The irresponsibilty and lack of patriotism displayed by the so-called SLPP Members of parliament to neglect their so-called sworn duty to seek the interest of Sierra Leone instead advocating for the release of provacateur and opportunist like Sylvia Blyden is a clear indication of the short-sightedness, egocentrism and arrogance these people continue to dispaly. The SLPP have destroyed themselves by killing their own supporters, isolated people who had the party at heart and arrogantly think that they are still in existence to the extent that they are now using a prostitute and opportunist like Sylvia Blyden to channel and champion their failed cause. If they cannot survive while they held power for over a decade, what will it profit them to hang on a dead tree like Sylvia Blyden who is fighting for survival? SLPP MP's should think logically and galvanize the people they have destroyed than fighting a losing battle. The People of Sierra Leone have spoken- the government of the day (APC) have exposed your crudeness, so devilish manipulations has no place in a succesful Sierra Leone under the leadership of EBK.
Subject: Re: SLPP MPs-A bunch of Ignoramus
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 05:56:37 03/06/08 ()
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If SLPP are a bunch of ignoramuses why is APC being rattled by a so called prostitute. Why would you call and question her for political satire. If that was the case in America where you reside , George bush would have 10,000 people coming down for questioning.
Wake up APC , Sierra leone is a democracy. The Gbose GBOSe politics of old APC should end. No body is going to kiss Ernest Koroma's fat rump until he has delivered,.
Stop blaming the current APC's failures on the sLPP and our patriotic journalists. SLPP failed and were kicked out by the people. The elections are over. Saidu ,please educate Ernest Koroma and the APC thugs that Sierra Leone is a democracy. You do not kill some one because you disagree with them.
The international community is watching and APC look like bumbling idiots. You have made Sylvia Blyden a so called prostitute into a heroine.
Who are the ignoramuses now
Subject: Re: SLPP MPs-A bunch of Ignoramus
From: KPONIEGBOU
To: All
Date Posted: 09:10:25 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
They don't look like; they're actually bungling idiots. Real bumbling idiots. They hate Sylvia's guts because she tells them their failings to their face. The Attorney General, Serry Kamal is a bigger fool than that incompetent Brima Acha Kamara.
Subject: Re: SLPP MPs-A bunch of Ignoramus
From: Saidu Daphay Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 07:03:58 03/06/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
---Stop blaming the current APC's failures on the sLPP and our patriotic journalists----
Mr. kamara,
Who made Sylvia Blydn a patriotic journalist? Well no doubt the SLPP did and will always align with insignificant elements as a spring board to achieve their self-conceited goals. What you people should do now is repent for the followers you've isolated, think positively on how to move the country forward instead of depending on mischievious elemnts like Sylvia Blyden masquarading as journalist.
Indeed, the international community is watching to see how the SLPP will want to create confusion in the country by employing cheap propanganda and hooliganism to distabilize a country that is heading for progress under the dynamic leadership of Ernest Koroma. The politics of destruction which the SLPP had employed for years to cling to power is a thing of the past. Sierra Leoneans have spoken, so give Ernest a chance.
Subject: Re: SLPP MPs-A bunch of Ignoramus
From: Mr loyalist
To: All
Date Posted: 05:55:45 03/06/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 85.159.201.52
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I very well know you are not in this country.You are one of the opportunist waiting to be called for position Daphay.If you know yourself you should just keep mute about things going on here.How if your cousin is arrested and have all the power and influence to let him out, you do not let him out.Let us leave this political issue and think about our country success.Do not pick on people if you don't want people to pick on you.
Subject: Re: SLPP MPs-A bunch of Ignoramus
From: BOIMAKEI
To: All
Date Posted: 09:20:25 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: salonegirl@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
Point of correction: Saidu Daphay Turay is not a "diasporan". I know him very well and can confirm that he runs two businesses in central Freetown. During the day, he sells junks at Govment Wharf, while at night, he hangs out at PZ to snatch phones. He's a very smart guy; smart enough to know that that dumb fool parading himself as Inspector General of Police will never arrest him.
Subject: Re: SLPP MPs-A bunch of Ignoramus
From: pote loko morayman
To: All
Date Posted: 22:52:53 03/05/08 ()
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Message:
--------so devilish manipulations has no place in a succesful Sierra Leone under the leadership of EBK.
Me jaygay say:
This might just be the reason why EBK did not get 100% of the vote.
Some people do not want a leader like EBK...a good 46% of the nation.
Watin for do.. nah for bear...not everyone has been in the army.. it does not have to be Yes sir, yes sir for us everyone...Some of us like to dance to a different beat.
Subject: THE MAMMY
From: Great
To: All
Date Posted: 21:28:55 03/05/08 ()
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A confident Sylvia Blyden arriving at the CID Headquarters.
Subject: Re: THE MAMMY
From: Mensa
To: All
Date Posted: 00:36:19 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 82.99.234.50
Message:
From her radiant facial expression, you can guess that this 'professional misfit' is really enjoying the 'well-baited' media attention.
Well now my pretty, that brings into question the underlining deficiency of western-modelled societies. If you want to attract media attention, simply transform yourself into a smiling immoral doll.... put up some immoral sketches ..... buy yourself an errecting bra to keep the "boobs" upright ..... scr*w one of the leader of an opposition party ...... then you'll keep the airwaves busy .....! What a world!
Subject: Re: THE MAMMY
From: Bondo
To: All
Date Posted: 22:27:06 03/05/08 ()
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Message:
Is Sylvia 'Bondo-ically' intact?
Is she 'gborrkah' or 'shayma'?
She does look good in that cheap suit given to her by Kabba. I hope our sweet little Medusa stays out of trouble now. Who is her hair stylist? Yikes!
Subject: Re: THE MAMMY--Sylvia Blyden for president.
From: She knows the system.
To: All
Date Posted: 22:40:29 03/05/08 ()
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Message:
E go straighting una den Big man Big Fool wae doe ploy Saleone with una nonsense politics..
Subject: Re: THE MAMMY--Sylvia Blyden for president.
From: Bondo
To: All
Date Posted: 22:55:45 03/05/08 ()
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Message:
Well, I might consider her for president if she gets some plastic surgery for her face and attitude, the little rebel monster.
Subject: Re: THE MAMMY--Sylvia Blyden for president.
From: Mr loyalist
To: All
Date Posted: 06:01:33 03/06/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
una feel se dat go mek e die wit una borku pwel tok dem.E get e yon moni en dae enjoy all citizenship right. Big man big fool dem lek una.
Subject: Wakeup yall and bravo Allieu Iscandari
From: Jorgor
To: All
Date Posted: 21:28:15 03/05/08 ()
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Message:
This is the second time I am directly addressing Alieu Iscandri. The first was when I admonished him to back off the Umpire palaver because it was not in his best interest to engage in diatribe with the ferocious Umpire. In that post, I opined that haranguing with Umpire would damage his (Iscandri’s) reputation and demean his professional integrity. Without revivifying the Umpire issue, let me take a moment, even if late, to commend Fen Plaba, Iscandri, and all those who joined in a gallant fight against bigotry and intolerance.
This time around, I read with approbation and appreciation the article titled: Free speech and politics in Sierra Leone. It is well written, objective, and succinct. Brother Iscandri, I salute you for a job well done. The government in Freetown would be wise to heed your prudent, albeit unsolicited, counsel.
When a staunch party supporter writes an article that proscribe sycophancy and bias in this polarizing geopolitical atmosphere, I think it should be encouraged and applauded. All Sierra Leonean should emulate this approach. I am an independent (nonpartisan), who supported Ernest Koroma with the hope that his government would be more responsive to the needs of Sierra Leoneans, who are fraught with despair and saddled with poverty. My support for Ernest stems from the premise that his government will steer the country from the lackadaisical and nonchalant course of their corrupt predecessors (SLPP). However, it is worthy of note that my support for Ernest does not preclude the fact that APC has a history of corruption, violence, and thugery, as well.
That is why all well-meaning Sierra Leoneans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, or regional affiliation must standup and speak out when the government trample on our poor brothers and sisters. We must not be blinded by ethnic, party, religious, or regional affiliations. When Shirley Gbujama’s rights were violated, whether you agree with her or not, we must all speak out; when investors are lured to our country and duped by unscrupulous and well connected citizens, we must be concerned. When a Limba pastor, an APC supporter, is beaten and tortured by party stalwarts, we must all be outraged; when a newspaper editor is arrested because she caricatured the president in an unflattering manner, whether we like her or not, we must all be apprehensive. What is going to happen next? I remember vividly the night the Tablet newspaper was raided by a combined team of police and party stalwarts. Never again should Sierra Leoneans tolerate such crude and barbaric behavior from any government.
It frustrates me to hear the party faithful defending their party’s malfeasance by claiming that the other party was engaged in more or less the same behavior. If misconduct occurred in the previous government, we should have condemned it. Failure to condemn the shenanigans of a past government should not preclude us from fighting them now.
Governments come and go; legacies of hurt and pain remain. Citizens still languish in anguish. How many times shall we proclaim Hosanna, Only to end up with Subuanalie? Regardless of what our affiliations or interests are, we must resist any government that would trample on our people with impunity. Enough is enough. Will the good Sierra Leoneans please speak up!
Subject: Update on the Sylvia Blyden Detention by Sierra Leone Authou
From: Hoho Haha
To: All
Date Posted: 21:23:27 03/05/08 ()
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Update on the Sylvia Blyden Detention by Sierra Leone Authourities
By Ibrahim Gbow
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Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, the Publisher of the Awareness Times Newspaper yesterday walked out of the well guarded Headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Sierra Leone Police in a manner that left police officers spellbound.
Blyden who had appeared of her own volition at the CID on an invitation, was informed that she was invited to make a Statement on a case of alleged ‘defamatory libel’ and a hitherto unknown indictment of ‘ridiculing the Head of State’ contrary to the Public Order Act of 1965.
On arrival with her lawyer Dr. Bu-Buakei Jabbi at 10am in the morning, she exercised her right to remain silent and refused to make a Statement. She was then placed in a room and asked to wait.
A Confident Sylvia Blyden shown on her arrival at the Police CID yesterday morning
Dr. Bu-Buakei Jabbi, the Legal Representative for Sylvia Blyden clears the way through a horde of local journalists at the CID yesterday.
After hours of waiting, at 2:30pm, the BBC’s Umaru Fofana walked into the room and informed both Sylvia Blyden and her lawyer that he had been officially informed that Blyden had been “placed under arrest for ridiculing the President”.
Dr. Jabbi informed that on the contrary, Blyden had not been arrested and this caused the BBC stringer to again double check with the CID Police Authorities who then walked into the room led by the acting Director of the CID, Mr. Amara Sesay to inform Blyden that she would soon be placed under arrest.
A short while later, the BBC’s Stringer again came into the room and this time, he played a section of a fresh recording he had done with the CID Director in which the Director seemingly stated that Blyden was now under arrest.
This message was then aired worldwide even though in reality, Dr. Blyden was never arrested but at the time, been merely invited for questioning.
It should be noted that a well known intimidatory tactic of the Sierra Leone Police is to delay to arrest you and read you your rights only to then formally arrest you after 6:30pm and then deny you bail at which time, the Law Court Registry would have closed down for the day and you would be forced to spend the night in a police station. This was why around 5pm, detainees usually should have been formally arrested as without being formally arrested, you cannot easily ask the High Court to grant you bail.
Thus, at around 5pm, Sylvia Blyden walked up to the CID Director and insisted that she be either placed under arrest or she would walk out of the CID Headquarters and go about her normal business.
The Police Officers thought she was joking. It was at this point that something like a spell was cast upon the entire CID as Sylvia Blyden picked up her bag and walked right through all the stairway and passed all the policemen, out of the first gate, proceeded through the driveway, passed the second gate and out into the street where her jeep was parked. She then asked her driver to drive off.
As her Jeep's engine was started, that was the time the police seemed to wake up and attempt to chase the car shouting, “Ee dey go oh! Oonar stop am! Oonar stop am!” [TRANSALATION: She is leaving! Stop her! Stop her!].
However, by that time when they seemingly woke up from their strange trance and started shouting to accost her, Sylvia Blyden was no more within their hearing and had been driven from the premises. By 5:30pm when the BBC was making the third broadcast to the world that she was under arrest, Sylvia Blyden was already far away from the CID!
The dramatic and mysterious manner in which Blyden left the heavily guarded CID Headquarters caused the huge crowd of people who had gathered to start to heavily speculate that Sylvia Blyden was not an ordinary mortal.
“This woman has some kind of supernatural force. This has never happened at the CID before for such a high profile detainee to walk right from the top floor of the building pass all the security and skip out of the premises into her car before people come to the realization that she was indeed leaving,” a bemused police officer said in wonder.
When Dr. Blyden later found out what topic she had left behind, she simply explained that since she was not under arrest and the police seemed to be reluctant to arrest her formally and read out charges to her, she had thought that by walking out, she would be accosted and arrested, thus paving the way for her lawyers to start bail proceedings before the Judiciary closed down for the day.
“I was surprised that no-one accosted me so I just continued leaving. I don’t have any supernatural force. The only power I have is the protection of the Almighty and nothing else,” Sylvia Blyden said last night.
Dr. Sylvia Blyden is currently safely fast asleep in her bed in her residence at Lumley in Freetown.
Meanwhile, it should be noted that in a personal telephone call made to the Publisher last evening, His Excellency the President of Sierra Leone has assured Dr. Sylvia Blyden that he had no knowledge of her arrest. He also assured her that he held no ill-will towards her over the Horned Caricature. This is in sharp contrast to a Press Release posted on the State House Website on the matter by Press Secretary Sheka Tarawallie who seems to be set to pick a bone on the non-issue.
Report filed at 1:00am on March 6th 2008. MORE DETAILS & PICTURES OF YESTERDAY'S EVENT INCLUDING THE STONE THROWING RIOT S WILL BE FILED LATER.
Subject: Re: Update on the Sylvia Blyden Detention by Sierra Leone Authou
From: Police
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Date Posted: 22:11:36 03/05/08 ()
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The sooner Ernest fires the less than 5 ft tall serry kamal and Sheka Terawallie, the better for his regime. These two midgets are very unproffesional and unfit to serve in any decent admin. The ball isin your court, Prezo.
Subject: Re: Update on the Sylvia Blyden Detention by Sierra Leone Authou
From: KPONIEGBOU
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Date Posted: 03:14:28 03/06/08 ()
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I AGREE WITH YOU ENTIRELY
Subject: Re: Update on the Sylvia Blyden Detention by Sierra Leone Authou
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 23:54:22 03/05/08 ()
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I really thought they would have used intellect in this situation but I'm very sure there is none to use. The only way to deal with a person like Sylvia Blyden is to ignore her. That would be death to her. If they want to torture her, they should ignore her and pretend like she does not exist. That's really not hard to do because she really is very insignificant. In the grand scheme of things, what is she really doing to improve the country? EBK has the needs of the entire country to deal with. He's meeting with world leaders and looking at ways to improve the plight of the people. What is she doing? Just ignore her; it's a personality disorder and unfortunately there is no medicine to cure her. She'll self destruct soon enough.
Subject: Re: Update on the Sylvia Blyden Detention by Sierra Leone Authou
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 06:06:03 03/06/08 ()
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You are right , But EBK has a party that has a strong thuggish and anti democratic component. These people have not kept up with the democratic change in Sierra Leone. They have made Sylvia a her0ine.
Subject: Re: Update on the Sylvia Blyden Detention by Sierra Leone Authou
From: ACC
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The last time I checked sylvia was not elected president to better the lots of SierraLleoneans. Your comparing sylvia to Koroma is very dishonest. Koroma is the president, and he campaigned that he will end the misery in the country. Sylvia is not president of salone. At least she has a little business in salone, and she is employing some people. DFId just gave her the contract to create a new website for the ACC.
Subject: Re: Update on the Sylvia Blyden Detention by Sierra Leone Authou
From: mmmmmhhh - that pissis weh you done.
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Date Posted: 22:29:12 03/05/08 ()
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I would say include that rat sanpha koroma.
Preso's lack of knowledge about the contemporary happenings in our country is giving me the hibbidgy geebidy....its a bit scary.
Subject: Re: Update on the Sylvia Blyden Detention by Sierra Leone Authou
From: KPONIEGBOU
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Date Posted: 04:41:37 03/06/08 ()
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IT IS NOT A BIT SCARY; IT IS VERY VERY SCARY.
Subject: President Koroma Please leave Sylvia Blyden alone.
From: Yaya Fanusie, PhD
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Date Posted: 20:57:43 03/05/08 ()
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Dr. Koroma, President of Sierra Leone;
You have more important task for your enforcement agencies to do: Like going after those armed robbers who killed two Fula Businessmen recently in Sierra Leone.
Do not be that sensitive. Let remember that satire has always being an important aspect of Sierra Leone body politics.
Let us focus on what is important for the country and making fun of you is in no way undemines the National Interest of Sierra Leone and Africa.
Let the police know what they should be doing is providing Public Safety for Sierra leoneans. There is no need to go after Dr. Sylvia Blyden, The Political Prostitute.
Yaya Fanusie, PhD
APC MEMBER-North America
PS: In 1967, I think it was February. Siaka Steven allowed a special edition of Weyone to be publised on a Wednesday a one page edition because there was a special Ariticle he wanted publish the Article was calle Let Us Pray by A. Yaya. Get a copy and read it and you will see why Siaka Stevens and the whole APC PARTY WAS HAPPY TO PUBLISH IT. Among the ideas in it was this " Albert ToadFace Margai". So everyone started calling Albert Margai "Toadface". He did not arrest the
author of the article. I know I wrote for Weyone then as A. Yaya.
Leave Sylvia alone.
Yaya Fanusie-pre-1970 APC MEMBER.
Subject: Re: leave Sylvia Blyden alone? I beg to differ
From: Brima J Kamanda
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Date Posted: 04:10:52 03/06/08 ()
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Dear Alpha et al
Our Democracy is still in its infancy and so is our Freedom of Speech. We are creeping behind Developed Countries and we want to jump high right from start. Democracy and Freedom of Speech comes with Discipline and respectful lawfulness. Awareness Times failed to adhere to these. In Europe, Yes there is Freedom of Speech, Democracy, Human Rights and so on but the citizens do not only know their rights, they also know what is lawful and what is not. This time round, Awareness Times and the The New People did go below the Belt. The articles were provocative, insulting and intimidating with Intent and baseless. Constructiveness and Lawfullness should be key to promoting democracy. I beg to differ. Teach her some lawfulness and discipline. It has been very clear that Awareness Times has been deliberately looking for Trouble and attention. Goodday brotherman, Sylvia is a lawless democratic rebel and she will survive this. I am a staunch SLPP if you care to know. Lontah!
Subject: Re: President Koroma Please leave Sylvia Blyden alone.
From: Dr. Charles Curtis-Thomas
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Date Posted: 21:20:46 03/05/08 ()
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Dr. Yaya Fanusie:
You truely represent the "NEW APC", keep up this spirit.
Subject: The Making of a Dictator
From: By Guest Writer Abdulai Samura
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Date Posted: 20:57:15 03/05/08 ()
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Little drops of water make a mighty ocean a songwriter once wrote. Indeed, we have seen these little drops become mighty oceans in African leadership. The tragedy of African democracy is when sycophants make African leaders demi-gods that cannot be taunted without being persecuted.
Mobutu Sese-Seko started as a uniter of Zaire, but ended up a treacherous dictator; Idi Amin was supposed to be a liberator but became one of the worst leaders Africa has ever produced because of sycophants like Malyam Mungu who made sure those who dared question Amin disappear. Then there was "Emperor" Bedel Bokassa of the Central African Republic, and Hastings Kamuzu Banda, and Ernest Koroma’s self-confessed hero, Siaka Stevens of Sierra Leone. It is my contention that Sierra Leone is slowly moving to those dangerous arenas, producing a modern day Mobutu Sese-Seko out of Ernest Koroma.
What’s in a Cartoon?
It is becoming clear that the APC government wants to stifle all criticisms of Ernest Koroma and his government in the country.
It amazes me that the Minister of Information is yet to make a press release about the government supporters vandalizing the opposition’s offices in Bo but is quick to release a thinly veiled threat about an insignificant cartoon. People are starving in the country, cost of living has skyrocketed, yet the seemingly idle Information Minister does not think it is important to inform the people about why they are suffering. Instead, the Minister of Information is creating a monster out of Ernest Koroma. Even George Bush has not only been cartooned, he has been called the devil on the floor of the general assembly of the United Nations. The American government has never threatened journalists because of that. God knows the America president has more global respect than the president of the poorest nation on earth has. Governments threaten the press when they have no answer to their failures. Just be reminded that the world is smaller than it used to be when APC destroyed Tablet newspaper and imprisoned journalists. A cartoon is a cartoon and for APC government to threaten newspapers is a first step to violating free speech.
Defacing a Picture is Free Speech
In case the APC government does not know, defacing a political statue or picture is protected by free speech. Any attempt to curtail that will be met with the strongest opposition. Some people convey their messages better when it is visual. In addition some people understand visual messages better so for Ernest Koroma and the APC to attempt to stifle cartoons by the press is ruthless and must be rejected. Ernest Koroma is not God unless IB Kargbo and others want to make him one. Just for argument’s sake, what consequences is the government alluding to in their warning directed at Awareness Times? It is clear that they would not take the matter to court, because there is no law against cartooning a president. If that is the case, then the only other option APC may resort to is sending the group of thugs who beat up Rev David Conteh in the APC headquarters to carry out the threats the publisher of Awareness Times has already received. Either way we will not be surprised as the APC will become more violent as they lose popularity. One thing they should just remember is that the people of modern day Sierra Leone will not take that sort of nonsense any more. The pictorial commentary in Awareness Times was quite correct; it is press releases like these that give horns to Ernest Koroma. Shame on you APC!
© Copyright by Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Subject: "New APC" , Please take note !
From: Dr. Charles Curtis-Thomas
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Date Posted: 20:12:52 03/05/08 ()
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79. The Commission recommends that the laws creating the offences of seditious and criminal libel should be repealed. Conduct aimed at inciting violence or lawless conduct is dealt with elsewhere in the criminal laws of Sierra Leone. Until the laws are repealed, the Commission recommends a moratorium on all existing or pending prosecutions for sedition and criminal libel. These recommendations are imperative. (Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report)
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SLPP MPs and supporters storm CID to secure release of Publisher
Written by Joseph Kamanda
Wednesday, 05 March 2008
The Publisher of Awareness Times newspaper, Sylvia Blyden, was today arrested by Police and taken to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters, Government Wharf in Freetown, for question ing by Police in connection with one of her last week's publication of President Koroma's picture with horns on the head.
Sylvia's arrest angered members and supporters of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) who went out into the streets Freetown with placards in their hands , saying Sylvia should not be arrested.
This however developed into stone-throwing between supporters of the SLPP and other members of the public who supported the arrest of Miss Blyden. COCORIOKO gathered that the Awareness Times publisher is being backed by SLPP executive members , which is why they went to the CID in large number to reverse the decision taken by the authorities on the issue.
While she was in custody at the CID headquarters, SLPP Members of Parliament arrogantly boycotted parliamentary committee sitting on the 2008 Budget and stormed the CID Police station in a bid to secure Sylvia .
The Parliamentary Committee on Finance had no alternative but to postpone deliberations on the 2008 Financial Year Budget due to the deliberate boycott by angry SLPP MPs who were grumbling for the arrest of Sylvia Blyden.
At the CID headquarters to overturn the detention of the Awareness Times publisher were SLPP Secretary General Jacob Jusu Safa alias J.J. Blood and John Benjamin amongst other SLPP MPs who went to the station to secure her release.
Parliamentary sources said this is the second time SLPP MPs had boycotted parliamentary and committee sittings.It could be recalled that the last time SLPP parliamentary boycotted proceedings was over the nomination of Dr. Samura Kamara as Governor of Bank of Sierra Leone to replace his predecessor Dr. James D. Rogers.
Subject: Sylvia Blyden is crying for her mummy
From: Alfred Vamboi
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Date Posted: 19:16:48 03/05/08 ()
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When people were lynched in Freetown by the last SLPP government, the SLPP supporters were laughing merrily. When Sylvia Blyden was spreading lies and falsehoods against hers and SLPP's political enemies, the party supporters were telling her how smart she was. When she was abusing Victor Angelo, Christina Thorpe and everybody her ugly mouth can cuss, she was lauded by the SLPP faithful. She was a bully who used her rag to lie, defame and disgrace others who disagreed with her uncouthness. She used her paper as a bully pulpit to blackmail SLPP officialdom into granting her crookish contracts and so on.
Now that the Untouchable has been touched, please don't expect me to rally for her. At least she can go to court to clear her name. Since she wants to be a martyr why is she crying for her mummy in cell? Stop whining gongoli. Take it like a big gal, Miss Amazon.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is crying for her mummy
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 06:08:49 03/06/08 ()
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Big boy whats your proof. Why did nt you sue her. Your imcompetent thuggish APC has made her a heroine.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is crying for her mummy
From: Forum Prefect
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Date Posted: 09:51:25 03/06/08 ()
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Please keep to the norms of the language. We have had to re-write your name for you several times. Proper names are written with caps. Next time your posting will be deleted. The rules are for everyone.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is crying for her mummy
From: KPONIEGBOU
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Date Posted: 07:40:50 03/06/08 ()
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DO'NT MIND THEM; THEY'RE ALL FOOLS BEING LED BY A BARELY AVERAGE JUSTICE MINISTER, AND AN EVEN BIGGER BUFFON IN STATE HOUSE
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is crying for her mummy
From: Bobsonmans
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Date Posted: 21:24:48 03/05/08 ()
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Here we go again. Can anything good come out of Africa? How can a journalist be arrested for a mere cartoon? It is indeed a shame that some government functionaries including the presidential press secretary who have lived in the West could countenance such actions. If sierra leone is to move forward as a nation, then there should be a sea change in government actions and avoid repeating failed policies or actions of past governments. This kind of pettiness only brings a sense of deja vu and helps reinforce long-held perceptions, stereotypes or call it what you like, that nothing good will come out of Africa. The lack of rule of law and tolerance will do nothing to attract genuine investors which is a pre-requisite for development. The only people ones we can attract are the cow-boy investors.
The great hopes of the people after the elections should not be dashed. Please shy away from repeating the mistakes of the past. When can african leaders ever learn from the past? I am no admirer of both the Awareness times or the Corioko as it is clear from their articles where their sympathy or allegiance lies. As a sierra leonean who is not on the side of the elite progressive journalists we should be proud of are the likes of Paul Kamara and Phillip Neville who are outspoken no matter the government of the day.It must be said, however, that even in the west some newspapers lean towards a particular party.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden is crying for her mummy
From: Alfred Vamboi
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Date Posted: 23:08:00 03/05/08 ()
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The freedom or jaildom of politician-journalists have no effect on the development or progress of the country. I really don't care what happens to Sylvia Blyden. I hear that she walked out of CID in a magic mushroom cloud, freezing the cops. She diesn;t need the bleeding heart hyperbolists on the forum. Let her take her lumps I say. She's one tough mama.
Subject: As Pictures are to vision Satire so is Song Audio Satire
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 19:14:25 03/05/08 ()
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Most APC gbose gbose police and Cyber SSD's calling for the lynching of the devil from lumley.com have danced to the "Den wa ya we go gee dem notice"
Most of you have danced to "Borbor Belleh", "2 foot arata" and a host of other audio satire..
Ernest and Sia has been see enjoying a tune or 2 from audio satires by Emerson, and a few other lyrics aimed at mass distortion of the SLPP's archievements over the past decade..
APC should get a life..
If people like zainab bangura who fronted the fight for good governance and championed some of the best opposition to the SLPP (APC opposition was nothing to write home about) can serve this APC government and orchestrate the blatant disregard for out hardwon liberties are taking place under her watch...and stay mute.. then we will loose a whole lot of respect for her and that non-partisan outfit she championed called "campaign for good governance".
Subject: THE CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST.
From: caution
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Date Posted: 20:46:11 03/05/08 ()
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Now we know EBK and APC’s Hercules tendon, let us blow the dust off our Adobe Photoshop and depict Earnest in ….. let your imagination do the rest.
BUT! BUT! That will jeopardize your JC intentions this christmas, or risk been locked up for violating article xyz sub section 32: failure to kiss the Obai’s picture at ferry junction, or subsection 34; calling his name without making the sign of the cross.
This is step one. The next step will be to round up their political opponents and charge them with treason, send them to the guillotine, the survivors will them flea.
But there is this little thing confusing them; the masses. The same people that stood up against the NPRC, the AFRC and then SLPP.
Subject: Re: THE CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 22:16:07 03/05/08 ()
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Indeed... shocking that a high school knowledge of adobe photoshop could ruffle Serry Kamal and the president and all is hencemen this way...
What would happen when the big boys come out..??
APC aint got nothing on us.. as long as i am not seein any hotel room talking gun with the rebel collaborator named Golley.. i shold be fine..
Subject: Re: As Pictures are to vision Satire so is Song Audio Satire
From: Cry me a river
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Date Posted: 19:41:04 03/05/08 ()
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Had the government arrested an innocent journalist or a Reverend Sister, I would be in the streets right now agitating for her immediate release from jail. But please don't expect me to lose any sleep over the incarceration of one of the most wilful people in Sierra Leonean politics, Mammy Sylvia Blyden. And I say this not because of those silly cartoons. I took a hard look at her disgraceful history of supporting Foday Sankoh in a war that killed hundreds of thousands, and from her shameful brand of toxic politics. Sylvia is in jail? Oh well.
Subject: Re: As Pictures are to vision Satire so is Song Audio Satire
From: Bad Hart
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Date Posted: 19:44:22 03/05/08 ()
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When did she support Foday Sankoh? You have to stop spreading these malicious lies. Will she pass the litmus test for a National Award if she had indeed supported Foday Sankoh?
Subject: Re: As Pictures are to vision Satire so is Song Audio Satire
From: Cry me a river
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Date Posted: 19:51:52 03/05/08 ()
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National Award given by SLPP? That is how they call the Nobel Peace prize these days? Nor make ar laff bra! She got that award by her political Koro-ism to her SLPP Borbor Bellehs!
Subject: BBC Report on Journalist being Jailed
From: One Good Turn
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Date Posted: 18:34:07 03/05/08 ()
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remember when all you had to do was call one of your friends and someone would be thrown in jail? Well now its your trun to be thrown in jail. No bail and now how does it feel
Subject: Sylvia Blyden has the Backing of the SLTRC
From: Dr. Charles Curtis-Thomas
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Date Posted: 16:36:28 03/05/08 ()
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Freedom of Expression
75.Freedom of expression is the lifeblood of a democracy. A culture of public debate and tolerance for dissenting ideas is the sign of a vibrant and healthy democracy. Restrictions on the freedom of expression represent a fearful State; it reflects a State that has no confidence in its ability to promote and disseminate its doctrines in the marketplace of ideas.
76. A free press ranks alongside an independent judiciary as one of the most important counter forces tothe excesses of both the public and private sectors. The media should be free of political patronage. The degree to which the media is independent is the degree to which it can perform an effective public watchdog function on the conduct of public officials and powerful individuals in society. Laws establishing "freedom of expression"require support and enforcement from the courts. Without an independent judiciary, press freedom cannot be maintained.
77. The use ofsedition and defamation proceedings under the criminal law does notbode well for freedom of expression in Sierra Leone. These provisionsare the leftovers of a long gone colonial era. In many countries, lawson sedition and criminal libel have been either formally or effectivelyabandoned. The only circumstances in which criminal sanctions on freespeech can be justified is where an intention to incite violence or lawless conduct has been demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt andwhere there is a real risk that violence will ensue.
78. The Commission recommends that criminal sanctions in the sphere of expression should be avoided. The civil law, which permits the issue of injunctions restraining the publication of defamatory material and actions for damages arising from defamatory publication, is sufficientto protect individuals from unfounded allegations.
79. The Commission recommends that the laws creating the offences of seditiousand criminal libel should be repealed. Conduct aimed at inciting violence or lawless conduct is dealt with elsewhere in the criminallaws of Sierra Leone. Until the laws are repealed, the Commission recommends a moratorium on all existing or pending prosecutions for sedition and criminal libel. These recommendations are imperative.
80.The Commission calls on the members of the media in Sierra Leone tocarry out thorough investigations before publishing stories. News papers should be offering informed comment on matters of national and international concern. Some newspapers are in danger of becoming little more than scandal sheets, relying on provocative and, at times,dishonest headlines to promote sales. Reports that are inaccurate or even untrue seriously undermine the cause of freedom of expression.Journalists who take bribes and allow their newspapers to be used for party political ends or for the settling of personal scores abuse thefreedom of the press. Such journalists are not fit to be members of theindependent press.
81. The Commission calls on the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists and the Media Commission to be more proactive in monitoring standards of journalism practiced in Sierra Leone and to establish mechanisms for effective self-regulation. These organisations can do much to advance a culture of human rights in Sierra Leone.(Sierra Leone truth and Reconciliation Commission Report)
Subject: I will continue to support Ernest till my dying days---Kabs
From: joindalist
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Date Posted: 15:32:14 03/05/08 ()
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Culled from Leonenet
PK.With all your learning, you did not read the article right--That I was calling on the government to exercise restraint and let the matter go, as my headline clearly states ? . The day people like you remove the tribal and regional sunglasses blinding you to the truth Sierra Leone will be a better place.
I don't need to justify myself to you . I am proud of my editorial and stand by it.
Dont worry about the State Department or Home Security.They have records of your tribal incitements already in their files as I was reliably informed. Do you remember the posts made by you and Maada during the elections that were circulated all over the internet ? When the time comes, we will know who has been inciting tribal hatred and violence in Sierra Leone.
My achives are there for all to peruse and hopefully those who peruse the will not be suffering from blindness . They will see that I have not written anything to cause any backlash.
If you are so mad with me for supporting my own government when I was not mad with you for supporting your's, that is your problem . As for me, I will continue to support Ernest Koroma till my dying day. You can attribute to me things I did not do. The tr uth will prevail. .
May God bless you for hating me so much that you are reading things into everything I write, however much I try to balance myself. May God give you your heart's desire, according to his will.
KABS KANU
Subject: Re: I will continue to support Ernest till my dying days---Kabs
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 15:45:00 03/05/08 ()
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You SLPP people have a problem. I posted that response to PK only seconds ago .Phew ! ! ! !
By the way, why all the noise now that it is an SLPP journalist that has been arrrested ? Why didn't we hear this same noise when your SLPP Parliamentarian sent thugs to the FOR DI PEOPLE office to beat up and murder a journalist, Harry Yansaneh ? The man died in the hospital and the SLPP Parliamentarian, Fatmata Hassan , was never charged.
Why didn't we hear all this noise when PAUL KAMARA was sent to jail by President Kabbah and he came out months later all bones and skeleton ?
Why didn't we hear all this noise when the SLPP sent journalists like Hilton Fyle, IB Kargbo, Dennis Smith etc to Death Row and murdered another journalist, Conrad Roy , in jail ?
SLPP, you wre just blind hypocrites and pharisees. Whose vigilantees burnt people on the streets ?
Mr. Kerr-Go-Bring -Cam, why not post this at Leonenet too ?
Subject: Re: I will continue to support Ernest till my dying days---Kabs
From: APC MAN, YELE
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Date Posted: 05:40:54 03/06/08 ()
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JL, ARE YOU STILL BITTER OVER YOUR FAILURE AT THE MAKENI CONVENTION?
Subject: Re: I will continue to support Ernest till my dying days---Kabs
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 08:36:14 03/06/08 ()
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Dear APC MAN, YELE:
Disappointed? Yes; Discouraged? No. Bitter? No. Happy? No.
Of course, I did not get what I set out to achieve in Makeni. Why? Because I headed for a Convention there only to be confronted with a gangster-like ConBention under the direction and control of insatiable insider-hijackers.
Those fellows shamelessly staged a gansterlike conBention and crudely kapu-kapued the contest only to be turned out by the voters - to their utter shock, pain and confusion. Even so, I am not happy. In fact, I am disappointed for my Party.
Are the ousted insider-hijackers bitter about their failure at the polls? You bet they are!
Are they concerned about the bitter times (sackings, lootings, destruction, rampagings, unemployment, expensive food, Police opposition, and uncertainty, etc.) confronting many loyal SLPPers today and in the days, weeks and years ahead?
Makeni, therefore, was the failure of most of the SLPP ousted leadership and the suffers are us Sierra Leoneans who want only the best for our Party and Country. Thank you much. - JL
Subject: Re: I will continue to support Ernest till my dying days---K
From: Nicodemus
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Date Posted: 20:22:44 03/05/08 ()
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I am really flabbergasted at your naivety and innanity good Reverend!
Bra for you to believe that Solomon Pratt's granddaughter and Babatune Blyden's daughter is SLPP is intellectually overwhelming!
Da girl day talk to im papa en im grandpa everyday en dem nor get plaba nar im oona day say nar SLPP porsin?
Advocating on her behalf on principles as a journalistic confrere really makes sense but supporting her as an SLPP victim of APC excesses is plain bunkum!
Are you part of the Awareness hoodwinking party or is it that you were also tricked by her Sleazy Tantrums and sophisticated posturing?
Subject: Re: I will continue to support Ernest till my dying days---K
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 20:52:36 03/05/08 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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What 'sophisticated posturing'? Where?
There is nothing sophisticated about that gongoli woman. She was a very crude ninjas provocatuer.
I should know. I opposed her lying ninja-mongering in DC during the late 90s. Later, after Makeni 2005, I have been the intended victim of her numerous crude lies, fiction writing, doctored photos, invented allegations and outright, shameless lies.
Even so, I believe that her arrest and detention are unnecessary in this day and age. She could have been summoned and released without bail. And the press laws of SL need repeal and reform urgently so that criminal punishment is replace with civil sanctions.
Thank you. - JL
Subject: APC IF UNA SHAKE WE DA WAP!
From: APC IF UNA SHAKE WE DA WAP!
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Date Posted: 18:24:58 03/05/08 ()
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How else do we expect an ADEJOBY false reverend, and half backed journalist to react? Everybody with a decent conscience would know that this is at best travesty, shameful and grossly inflammatory.
We see such reactions only when people make cartoons of a prophet in a sharia law, Middle Eastern dictatorship.
The democracy that Shiaka Stevens ruined was handed to us the one we have now is a sweat and blood democracy.
APC IF UNA SHAKE WE DA WAP! GBINKAN KURU.
Subject: Re: APC IF UNA SHAKE WE DA WAP!
From: Please be quiet
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Date Posted: 18:32:46 03/05/08 ()
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Shut up, you lousy between-toe son of a freak! I hope that you too go to jail.
Subject: Re: APC IF UNA SHAKE WE DA WAP!
From: APC IF UNA SHAKE WE DA WAP
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Date Posted: 20:04:21 03/05/08 ()
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That is all you could do. Hope that I go to jail?
Bra usai a dey, me heart cool. Cockroach lek you nor day touch me. Walahi!
This should teach APC that the modern day media couldn’t be silenced, they should reason with the media. For every anti APC journalist there is a pro APC journalist. Let it roll and let the readers enjoy. APC won a democratic election; the very institution that made that possible is the first thing they attack.
We all sang and danced to Borbo Beleh and a songs that called people rats, pigs and other choice words. Are you going to lock them up too?
Subject: Re: I will continue to support Ernest till my dying days---Kabs
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 17:27:55 03/05/08 ()
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Dear Rev. Kabs Kanu:
We are supposed to be dealing with the NEW APC, giving hope to our hard struggling, suffering people. Therefore, justifying tit-for-tat abuses is definitely not the road to follow to find real hope.
I do not like gongoli morals or the lack of professional ethics at all. Even so, I do not wish gongoli any ill. Pre-trial jailing in horrible PaDemba Road is not the answer to what some might consider mildly unreasonable journalism. Civil sanctions are the appropriate punishment.
President Koroma is popular and well liked. New APC supporters can best help him protect his reputation and help his government by pressing for a clear departure from OLD APC and Kabbah's 2nd. Term SLPP ways.
SLeone has many deep problems she cannot solved herself for years-and-years to come. We need large-scale international development charity if we are to solve those problems. Excellent governance is the surest route to this charity.
Accordingly, may I suggest that supporters of the NEW APC government of Hope resolve to press our president to decline to rely on any of the many bad deeds of the ousted Kabbah Administration as justification for continuing unholy practices.
Thus our primitive press laws ought to be reformed to provide for civil sanctions and administrative punishments that would promote worldclass journalistic standards in our country - and thus more infrastructural, economic and social development. Heavy-handedness (overkill), on the other hand, is the surest route to instability, more suffering nationwide and deeper poverty.
POlitical popularity cannot be certain to last. Please just recall how Kabbah's 70% majority in May 2002 was foolishly squandered away in less than three years and how he stubbornly insisted on his own singular way on most matters until voters revolted at the polls to his utter surprise. Thank you very much. - JL
Subject: Re: I will continue to support Ernest till my dying days---Kabs
From: Salute you Leigh
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Date Posted: 18:40:57 03/05/08 ()
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Leigh, I know that you try very hard to be reasonable and I thank you for that. Miss Blyden has been asking fot it. She was determined that there will be no space for the exercise of the people's mandate by perpetrating lie after rapacious lie, not just as an exercise of democracy but to cause permanent hostility between the peoples. And all this for rubbish political gain. She fas spent many months and years building her Pademba road cell block, propaganda after provocation. She has finally succeeded. Let her now lie in it, I say.
Subject: Re: I will continue to support Ernest till my dying days---Kabs
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 09:20:38 03/06/08 ()
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Dear Salute ...:
I agree with you that Mrs. Foday Sankoh Ninjas RUF Lie-lie Opportunist is a terrible, gongolee, worwor journalist full of lies, hate, deceit, malice and is vengeance-seeking.
My concern is how best should the NEW APC government deal with her in the public interest of our country and that of the governing party without resurrecting images of the OLD APC excesses.
In my humble view, heavy-handedness is not a sensible solution. In fact, it is a typical, counter-productive Third World overkill approach that does not and cannot help our country's poor reputation for bad decision-making and overkill punishment.
I suggest that a 'softly-softly-catch-the-monkey' series of moderate civil penalties - summonses to courts not police stations, affordable (Le2-3 million) but repeated fines, affordable but repeated damages to libel victims, suspension of publication, the run-up of attorney fees, community (non-sexual) service.
A combination of the foregoing should be enough to civilize her and her ilk. If she refuses civilization, then she would not be able to publish at some future point. Carefully thoughtout lasting solutions are usually better for society than overkill, instant solutions.
And I believe that a measured, graduated series of penalties will not only do the job effectively, it would bring respect to our government and country. At least, it would help to dry up bad international publicity about our country.
The present press laws are heavy-handed with primitive punishment as was unjustly suffered by Mr. Paul Kamara and ought to be repealed and reformed soonest. After nearly 40 years on the books, those laws are yet effective in taming our wild, rubbish journalists - and are certain to generate negative international publicity and internal tension whenever Police action is taken under them. Thanks for your kind words. - JL
Subject: Re: I will continue to support Ernest till my dying days---Kabs
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 15:58:39 03/05/08 ()
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With all that in mind.. rain or shine.. and with GOD on thier side..
People voted for a CHANGE... so why the continuity.. and tit for tat..?
REV.. we have to let go of the burden we carry for us to move expeditiously....
A car overloaded burns more gas..
If the APC and your voices on the opposition was not heard back then.. maybe it was because you did not shout enough..
I doubt if the awareness we have this time around will be stiffled and trampled from a bunch of buffoon from up north..
Ask your bras' to release the poor girl..
Big men aint got no shame.. were they not given comics as kids..?
Whats the charge..?
You should be on the forefront calling for her release.. if this paper is what the ink and type its written on..
Principles your countrys, yours.. your parties.. your GOD'S and your profession's .. are been compromised and this is all you came up with..?
Just a friendly advice bra..
Subject: Re: I will continue to support Ernest till my dying days---K
From: Freetownboy
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Date Posted: 16:17:55 03/05/08 ()
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The government is making a grave mistake arresting a journalist. I don't like Sylvia Blyden. However, if this is the way the govt reacts to a cartoon, I fear for the future. Mr Koroma is on course, if he's not careful to lose a lot of goodwill.
Subject: Re: I will continue to support Ernest till my dying days---K
From: Ninja
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Date Posted: 18:46:06 03/05/08 ()
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Sylvia is a journalist? Then I am the next president of the USA. She is no journalist. She is a forsworn Ninja soldier of Mr RUF Foday Sankoh who determined to reignite the rebel war. Lock am up till ee cry gongoli tears.
Subject: APC weakens rule of law
From: Cgg
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Date Posted: 14:53:45 03/05/08 ()
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APC weakens rule of law
Reports monitored from local tabloids have intimated that the Coordinator of Campaign for Good Governance (CGG), Valnora Edwin has condemned the All Peoples Congress (APC) government for not upholding the rule of law as one of the prime responsibilities of a government.
The CGG has reportedly observed with deep concern the continued deterioration in law and order across the country since they came to power. The Campaign also condemns the recent political uprising in Bo, the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service (SLBS) saga and other squabbles that have taken place since the coming to power of the APC. She said it is indeed a civic right for citizens to become aggrieved over issues but they should take measures to seek redress which has to be in conformity with the rule of law.
Subject: Re: APC weakens rule of law
From: Nar way u cham bonga ade
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Date Posted: 19:42:25 03/05/08 ()
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Nar way u cham bonga ade!
Subject: Blyden arrested
From: Focus On Africa
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Date Posted: 14:15:32 03/05/08 ()
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Focus on Africa has just reported the arrest of Blyden. Hundreds of people have converged in front of the CID calling for her immediate release.
Subject: Re: Blyden arrested
From: Kamara-Kargbo
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Date Posted: 14:44:25 03/05/08 ()
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The APc have played right into the playbook of Blyden. Blyden wanted the APC to arrest her. Very soon, those press freedom houses will start shouting, donors will start complaining, and Sylvia will soon become a hero.
Our politicians do not think at all when they have power. The less than 5 ft tall Serry Kamal is now power drunk and they are doing the same things, that they critisized thier predecessors for.
Subject: Re: Blyden arrested
From: Are you happy
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Date Posted: 15:20:18 03/05/08 ()
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I guess Kabs-Kanu is happy. He has called for the arrest of fellow journalists ever since APC came to power. What APC has succeeded in doing is give Sylvia the positive exposure she does not deserve. You can't hate someone so much that you make her popular. Can you imagine people protesting at CID for Sylvia's release? APC leadership is dumb. Take them outside crooked things and violence they are like fish out of water. They are killing democracy and making Sylvia a heroine
Subject: Re: Blyden arrested
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 14:33:37 03/05/08 ()
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Oh well..
Its time to start writing our Senators and DFID..
This is how aid dollar and pounds is used in salone..
STUPID APC.. you just fell into the witches liar..
Subject: Re: Blyden arrested
From: Saidu Daphay Turay
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Date Posted: 15:03:15 03/05/08 ()
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Sylvia an opportunist turned journalist is looking for international recognition. All I will ask the Ministry of Justice is send her to Pademba Road and let the government prpepare their case against her mischief. This prostitute and demon never ventured to disrespect inept, rogue and devilish kabbah. Who, Sylvia thinks she is? Let the prison warders send her to where journalists like Philip Neville and Paul kammara languished for months and years then she will know that her opportunism to make money is not what journalism stands for.
Subject: Re: Blyden arrested
From: KPONIEGBOU
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Date Posted: 06:13:35 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
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SAIDU DAPHAY TURAY, YOU ARE BEING RUDE LABELLING HER A PROSTITUTE. WITHDRAW YOUR STATEMENT OR FACE THE WRATH OF KPONIEGBOU, WHO'LL TELL YOU HOW YOUR FILTHY MOTHER BEGAT YOU
Subject: Re: Blyden arrested
From: LOCK HER UP!!!
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Date Posted: 14:39:57 03/05/08 ()
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It was alright for Wor Wor Blyden to use her connections to harass and lock up her fellow journalists e.g Philip Neville, whislt she celebrated the unlawful incaceration of Paul Kamara...ah..ah..ah ye hypocrites. So it is now wrong for her to face the reality of African journalism. Lock the bitch up and throw the key into the Atlantic
Subject: A Beautiful Forum!
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 14:10:32 03/05/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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It thrives when everyone is essentially a blunt instrument in attack. Bra Ego, Senile Pieh and the Nicely Knitted Hypocrites can have a field day!
Subject: Re: A Beautiful Forum!
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 14:31:52 03/05/08 ()
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FORUM---
The public square or marketplace of an ancient Roman city that was the assembly place for judicial activity and public business.
A public meeting place for open discussion.
A medium for open discussion or voicing of ideas, such as a newspaper, a radio or television program, or a website.
A public meeting or presentation involving a discussion usually among experts and often including audience participation.
A court of law; a tribunal.
Been cryptic will not save you..
The exchange of idea enhances societies..
Imagine if then darn Americans had kept all this internet to themselves.. or the telegraph, or the phone, or the book..
We will still be sending smoke signals from leicester to okra hill..
Subject: FGM should be discussed from within- Plan CEO
From: Mohamed Fofanah
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Date Posted: 13:27:31 03/05/08 ()
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FGM should be discussed from within- Plan CEO
The visiting CEO of Plan International, Tom Miller, has stated that the issue of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) should not be condemned “by a bunch of white people” but that any discussion on the issue should come from within.
The CEO made this statement over the weekend when he briefed journalists about his visit to Sierra Leone.
The Plan CEO said he visited Moyamba and Bombali, “which is one of our operational areas” and met women who were active players in FGM.
He said he was surprised to hear from the women making suggestions about how to stop the practice.
Fadimata Alaincher, the Plan country director, stated that FGM had been practiced in many African countries but that some African countries had stopped it so therefore Sierra Leone could do the same.
She pointed out that, “Sierra Leone is part of a global village that is pushing for the eradication of FGM”, adding that “Plan International will support a Blood Free Initiation.”
The visit of the CEO is the first in Sierra Leone for the 71 years Plan has been in operation in the country.
Tom Miller came with the regional director, John Challover, and they toured Plan’s operational areas in the country.
They also met with President Ernest Koroma and a host of ministers and children whom Plan is supporting in their operational areas in Port Loko, Kailahun, Moyamba, Bombali and the Western Area. The CEO said he was very impressed with the work they had been doing in the country and promised to continue and even scale up their operations. He said, “Plan is working in 66 countries in the world and has been spending a little over 600 million dollars worldwide”.
Plan International is child focused and it is currently working on maternal and child health, education for development, youths and community empowerment and child protection.
Subject: A satire a day, keeps EBK heart light and jovial.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:48:21 03/05/08 ()
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Why are you trying to scare them greenies..
Subject: Psalm For The Never To Retire..
From: Police
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Date Posted: 11:37:50 03/05/08 ()
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PSALM FOR THE NEVER TO RETIRE...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - Professor Peep's Page
Can someone tell me what’s wrong/with Edmond Cowan? Isn’t it about time he retired instead of dusting off his APC - Party Card acquired in the days of Momoh?
Doesn’t he consider it a kind of demotion from Speaker To Ombudsman?
The Speaker is the third most powerful man in the Land/(with no apologies to Sanpha). If the President is ill and his vice is absent the Speaker serves in their place.
What can we say about The Office of Ombudsman (Except that it’s not working). Which reminds us here of one big thing : when will Gabiz face probe?.
A 71 year old guy who’s had at least two heart operations as Ombudsman? Is that a good idea?
Do we hear Cow-And-Gate’s own Right Hand Man is vying to become a judge? Honourable Tolla Thompson also on the Industrial Court? When shall this recycling ever cease and these old guys go rest?
As it was in the Beginning, Tis Now And Ever Shall Be.... Jobs For Life!Amen!
Subject: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: BRA ENVIABLE
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Date Posted: 10:40:45 03/05/08 ()
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Once again, Sierra Leone is standing on a political precipice. The war-beaten country must either rue its unhealthy political past by continuing to chart a democratic course, or simply give in to the temptations that have always lured past leaders into dictatorship. News is filtering through that stern-looking police personnel have visited the offices of the "Awareness Times" newspaper because the paper's proprietress, Sylvia Blyden, recently published a picture frilled with two horns chiseled into the president's head. There are two essential issues at the center of this drama, and conscious Sierra Leoneans need to hurriedly help the APC understand these issues before a popularly elected president undermines the democratic structures that allowed him into power. Whether one likes Sylvia Blyden or not, it remains a fact that the basic essentials of democracy must be protected at all times, irrespective of the repulsiveness of the person trying to enjoy such democratic rights. Equally noteworthy, President Ernest Koroma is NOT a religious leader. He is NOT an Iranian "Supreme" Ayatollah bestowed with religious powers to command the faithful over "cursed infidels." Ernest Koroma is President of a supposedly democratic state. Sylvia Blyden did NOT commit a crime when she lampooned the president by publishing the picture in question. It is perfectly within the ambit of acceptability to have citizens in a democracy make caricatures of their leaders. As long as such pictures do not appeal to "prurient interests" {the legal euphemism for sexually explicit pictures} citizens are free to disfigure their leaders in paintings and other forms of expression.
What worries me even more is the misuse of words by the APC, the political party once known for being honeycombed with intellectuals of various descr1ptions. By calling Sylvia's act "unethical," both the Attorney-General and the Minister of Information have shown that their understanding of political grammar is clearly below average. There is nothing "unethical" with expressing free speech through artistic journalism. The "bigger" the person being ridiculed, the more allowable caricatures become in a democracy. By targeting the President of the Republic, Sylvia's act became even more permissible! How politically schooled is our Attorney-General? What is his level of formal education? These questions are being posed because his operative word linking Sylvia Blyden to "unethical" crimes will not pass muster in either English grammar or legal lingo. I appeal to President Koroma to see reason and back away from undermining the democratic constitution he swore to protect. If President Koroma and his men cannot differentiate between what is tolerable in a democracy and that which must be condemned, then the "new" APC is sadly reconstituting itself into the old, repressive APC. In a theocracy like Iran, "Supreme Leaders" cannot be ridiculed. In democracies, leaders must allow themselves to be ridiculed with burlesque forms of journalism because democracy can be deliberately annoying as it molds itself to safeguard human freedom.
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: Lady J
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Date Posted: 14:38:23 03/05/08 ()
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"Whether one likes Sylvia Blyden or not, it remains a fact that the basic essentials of democracy must be protected at all times, irrespective of the repulsiveness of the person trying to enjoy such democratic rights. Equally noteworthy, President Ernest Koroma is NOT a religious leader. " (Lovey Dovey)
You are one hundred percent right my dear.
What do they mean by Sylvia's cartoon been "unethical"?
Is it their assumption that ethical issues appear as a struggle against irrationality by means of impositions and guilt as a regulatory feeling?. In this context guilt is related to moral conscience and to responsibility.
We need people like Sylvia Blyden in Sierra Leone to "tickle" the moral conscience of our soon to be "ethically bankrupt" politicians.
She has my vote on this one. (God knows the amount of battles we had on Africa Online, and I will chose to battle with her again in the open, if I see fit).
Freedom of expression is justified based on the right of the speaker to express his/her ideas, and the right of the listener to hear those ideas, and the collective good of a free society. But the society will not attain the freedom of expression, just by writing about it and its justifying bases.
It is futile to think that our political system will be democratized by sitting and playing with concepts like freedom, civil society, tolerance, human rights, and the separation of the public and private realms.
She does not deserve to be arrested for those cartoons at all ... Let freedom reign.
Peace and Blessings
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: Yellow Socks and all
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Date Posted: 15:00:17 03/05/08 ()
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The "chickens are now coming home to roost" politically.
We told y'all about the (foreseen) excesses of the APC in a democracy. You did NOT listen.
You were fed up with the SLPP for "yellow socks", and the "slumbering habit" of Solo B in meetings, but we knew all along that "we, in the SLPP", are the least of all the "evils" in SaLon politricks. You did not believe us.
Do you believe us now?
There is more to come, just wait and see for yourselves. I hope it would not be too late by then.
You can always come back home and help to resuscitate the GOP of SaLon, the SLPP.
One country, one people.
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: Lady J
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Date Posted: 15:27:23 03/05/08 ()
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My dear
My eyes will always be open to see "Blue Socks" and "Yellow socks". It doesn't matter who is wearing those socks.
It's about my country, not which party I belong to.
If you get to become President, make sure your "socks" is the right color, or else?
I will be the first one in line to let you know that your "yellow" socks does not match your "blue" shoes, or should I say your "green" shoes?
Anyway ... Don't be so hasty to welcome me into your "chicken coop". How ba ... Nar rhose U wan rhose so? Beeetttteeehhh. Pass ar set gbose-gbose pan unar ... Yellow Socks and all ...
Cheers
Peace and Blessings
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: Solution
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Date Posted: 12:26:56 03/05/08 ()
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Big bad police mans go to arrest Sylvia? I am very glad. Finally the president shows he is Boy pikin! He drink Gbangban! It is not Presdent Kroma who is against Press up freedom. No no no! It is peoples like Madam Sylvia who is enemy of demokracy becos she love Foday Sankoh as Ninja jornalist. She sopport killing of Kula Samba sojas. She get corropt govment contracts from SLPP shuga daddys. She oppose press freedom for Philip Neville and beg Pa Kabba and Berewa to lock up Nevil becos Nevil print frightful naked picture of Sylvia. Eeeewww!
Sylvia also support the attempt asasination of Oposition leader Koroma during election campain in Segbwema and Bo. Sylvia and SLPP bosses call presdent story lie. She call Nyuma hero. She cook lielie poll afta election, and she harass Mammy Thorpe saying Southeast comishoners on NEC were sidelined. She say SLPP win elecshon even afta all know SLPP loss very bad. She play up Northanization propagands just to cause incite us Mendes to hate Presdent kromah. It dont works becos we are all Sirra leonans. He is presdent of all Sirra leone.
This former Ninja has been attack democrasy since elecshon, claiiming disfrenchisement of Kailahun, South even wen her SLPP party stealed ballots like Highways robber. The assault charge on demokrasy is not His Excellent Presddent Koroms, It is opposison SLPP party which harass govment and keep going on about regional tensions and trying to rub salt on contry sorefoot.
So please tell SLPP to give democrasy peaceful chance and tell their fake jornalists to stop gorilla attack against poltical enemies. Tell dem to responsbly oppose and wait for 2012 and go to voters. Without oracle right for rule forreber that SLPP seem to claim and kill for, all Siera Leonans- APC and SLPP- will be woke together for country devlopment and better. But this SLPP is hate democrasy. So God go pornish SLPP for contry undadevlopment. God go ponish SLPP for tiff tiff Swiss bank account.
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: KPONIEGBOU
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Date Posted: 06:41:36 03/06/08 ()
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SHUT YOUR DIRTY MOUTH MR S0 CALLED SOLUTION. NAR YOU GOD GO PORNISH. IF TRAILER NOR BANG EN KILL YOU, NAR TOE-LINE GO KILL YOU. IDIOT!
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 12:34:56 03/05/08 ()
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For your level of projected ignorance.. words like "disfrenchisement" should not be in your vocabulary, spelt wrong or not.. I can imagine the amount of calories you are burning just to be this creative..
Your comment above is edging on dangerous..
No where did Sylvia supported the attempted assasination on then opposition leader Koroma.
There was never any attempted attempt on Koroma.
It was a swiftboat lie. And you bloody darn well know it. So does the ones who propagated that lie.
By alluding thus.. first you are stating here that she had prior knowledge..
Tom Nyuma is definately a hero.. sylvia say or not.
SLPP did not Loss no Bad BBad wan.. it was a 54 to 46% win. well within the standard margin of error of 3-4%.
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: KPONIEGBOU
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Date Posted: 06:45:56 03/06/08 ()
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THANKS CANDID FOR EDUCATING THAT FOOL
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 12:19:05 03/05/08 ()
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http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20057821.shtml
Read Ms. Blydens comments about this law under which she is now facing potential prosecution. I was opposed to this law then and I am opposed to it now. Do I sound like Barrack Obama. I have had a consistent position with regards to the implementation of this law. I beleive that it is one of the vestiges of post colonial oppression by the political leadership of sierra leone. In democracies carricature of the president may be allowable political speech, but the Law in sierra leone as it is prsently on the books may not allow that. The law should be applied as it is on the books until it is changed.
Should the president be held accountable for the laws of the land being inplemented? I think that you should have addressed your comments to the Parliament particularly the SLPP parliamentarians and see if they would be willing to change it. I doubt that. As you know in our parliamentary system the president cannot make or change laws. It is the job of the parliament.
Sure Siera Leone is not a theocracy thas a "no brainer", but the laws as it is presently constituted and as it was so "Robustly" applied by the Slpp government, may not allow for the carricature of the president. If that is the case then the perpetrator has commited a crime and should face the consequences. That notwithstanding, I support a change in the law and I have adovocated that it be changed. I have proposed the following changes.
1. All newspapers and journalists should be insured or bonded in an amount no less that $100 million leones prior to operating in sierra leone. Failure to have such bond in place would subject the offending newspaper and or journalist to criminal prosecution.
2. All defamatory statements should be prosecuted in civil courts as a tort.
3. All judgements should be paid out of the insurance policy or bond. If there are any excesses then it should be paid out of the personal assets of the offending newspaper, journalist or editor.
4. Insurance companies should be allowed to increase the premiums on the bonds and policies made out to newspapers and journalists if these insureds are judgement prone.
5. The system fixes itself where a journalist cannot afford to pay their premiums then they do not work or newspapers do not publish if they cannot afford to pay their premiums. If they do THEN and only THEN can they be subject to crimnal sanctions. Simply put the system will quickly get rid of the chaff
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 15:32:41 03/05/08 ()
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Dear Atty. Iscandari:
Asking each newspaper to put up Le100 million bond prior to operating is clearly excessive. I have no idea what such a relatively large bond would cost but it is bound to be unaffordable.
Please note that the going cost of borrowing money from official sources is at least a whopping 25%! My point here is that financial assets are just too expensive in SL.
Please take a quick look at some basic newspaper financials. The average circulation in SL is around two to three thousand copies three times a week. (A few do publish daily).
The going retail price is Le1,000 per copy. The most amount gross is thus Le3 million x 3 = Le9 million weekly. 30% of this amount goes to vendors leaving publishers with only Le6.3 million weekly assuming no spoilage, no thefts or no returns. From this must be paid all operating costs.
Some of those costs are for imported items like paper, ink, plates, and gas. These items carry the same costs as they do in the US plus international transportation, customs duty and corruption expenses.
Le6.3 million = to $1,100. How can one pay the premiums on Le100 million bond out of this miserable after paying the above exhorbitant operating costs?
We certainly have to find a way to check journalistic abuses but high bond is not one of the solutions. Our country is simply too poor and the market too narrow. -JL
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: Bra Enviable
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Date Posted: 12:59:51 03/05/08 ()
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Alphaa Alieu, I am glad the honorable lawyer I have in you has seen the need to change this law. A democracy that prosecutes its citizens for making fun of its political class cannot be called a democracy. I was expecting President Koroma to be honorable enough to dismiss Sylvia's act by not acknowledging the cartoon.
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: KKW
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Date Posted: 12:03:27 03/05/08 ()
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Don't know the full story, but IMHO a cartoon is a cartoon. Seems like a sycophantic overreaction.
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: Bra Enviable
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Date Posted: 12:21:51 03/05/08 ()
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The President and his Attorney-General probably need an "on-the-job training" session. Assuming they take Sylvia to court, what charges will the State bring against her? Publishing the President's picture in the form of a cartoon? I thought the Attorney-General had more important things to do. These people surely need political education vis-a-vis democratic governance.
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:30:58 03/05/08 ()
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Content..?
Even for emphasis..?
We cant bold, or underline, or change colors..
And we cant caps in content.. ?
So how do you say.. the "NEW" APC??
Or maybe thats ridicule also in KIM ILL KOROMA's salone..
Subject: Re: DEAR PRESIDENT KOROMA: PLEASE GIVE FREEOM A CHANCE!
From: Forum Prefect
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Date Posted: 10:44:52 03/05/08 ()
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Please observe the new rules. No caps on handles, headings or contents please!
Subject: Police invite newspaper publisher for questioning over caric
From: POLICE
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Date Posted: 10:38:08 03/05/08 ()
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Police invite newspaper publisher for questioning over caricature
During the weekly police press briefing, Assistant Inspector General of Police- Crime Services- Francis Munu, told journalists that Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abdul Serry Kamal, on Tuesday ordered the arrest and questioning of the proprietress and publisher of Awareness Times newspaper, Dr. Sylvia Blyden in relation to a caricature of President Ernest Koroma published in her newspaper.
According to New Vision Dr Sylvia Blyden was inundated with threatening calls by irate supporters of the ruling All Peoples Congress party who threatened to publicly flog her for disrespecting their leader. Vexed with the publication, the Ministry of Information issued a statement condemning the cartoon which it refereed to as religiously immoral.
Dr. Blyden was quoted in the Awareness Times newspaper as having no regrets for publishing the cartoon which she insisted was “a visual way of communicating the newspaper’s very serious message about what seemed to be an emerging authoritarian regime.” The story points out that caricatures of world leaders are so common in modern day journalism for the messages they carry but that in Sierra Leone the situation is unusual.
Subject: Re: Police invite newspaper publisher for questioning over caric
From: Solution
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Date Posted: 12:42:09 03/05/08 ()
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Sylvia, a jornalist? Hahahahaha! She is not jornalist. She is a SLPP gorilla fighter who very detamin to wage war on demokrasy. I am not fool at all.
By the way, did you say publik flogging of Sylvia? No no no! That make us bad. No rattan cane for sylvia even if she is opposition to demokrasy for Siera Leone.
Whisper, whisper: How bot a little private spanking for her? Oh yes, mama!
Subject: Police invite newspaper publisher for questioning over caric
From: POLICE
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Date Posted: 10:26:53 03/05/08 ()
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Police invite newspaper publisher for questioning over caricature
During the weekly police press briefing, Assistant Inspector General of Police- Crime Services- Francis Munu, told journalists that Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abdul Serry Kamal, on Tuesday ordered the arrest and questioning of the proprietress and publisher of Awareness Times newspaper, Dr. Sylvia Blyden in relation to a caricature of President Ernest Koroma published in her newspaper.
According to New Vision Dr Sylvia Blyden was inundated with threatening calls by irate supporters of the ruling All Peoples Congress party who threatened to publicly flog her for disrespecting their leader. Vexed with the publication, the Ministry of Information issued a statement condemning the cartoon which it refereed to as religiously immoral. Dr. Blyden was quoted in the Awareness Times newspaper as having no regrets for publishing the cartoon which she insisted was “a visual way of communicating the newspaper’s very serious message about what seemed to be an emerging authoritarian regime.” The story points out that caricatures of world leaders are so common in modern day journalism for the messages they carry but that in Sierra Leone the situation is unusual.
Subject: hurray for bondo women in kailahun
From: Patricia Motayo
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Date Posted: 09:22:12 03/05/08 ()
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Commentary
culled from
By Fuambai Ahmadu, PhD
I am not surprised that the women of Kailahun have taken to the streets to protest what is now becoming a brazen attack by anti-FGM activists against female initiation and excision in Sierra Leone. As a Sierra Leonean/American scholar who has devoted the past fifteen years to the research and study of the symbolic and cultural meanings of both female and male initiation practices in West Africa, I have witnessed first-hand the proliferation (and invidiousness) of this alarming multi-million dollar “development” industry, financed largely by western countries and international agencies such as UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA and so on. Faced with a global media onslaught depicting the most insidious and racist types of representations of African men and women witnessed since colonial times and the downright force of anti-FGM campaigns to shame, more and more circumcised African women have come to see and define themselves through these media lenses as “mutilated”. With utter disregard for differences in cultural, social, and historical contexts and experiences of womanhood, the bodies of circumcised African women are measured and devalued (by anti-FGM activists and increasingly by our own women) against a Euroamerican universal prototype.
Among the reasons for this global action against female circumcision is purportedly the protection of the health and well-being of girls and women. As some researchers have been debating for the past three months now in the New York Times (Tierneylab blog) much of this so-called medical evidence is based on media/activist hyperbole often dramatized by horrific anecdotes and video clips of seemingly hapless girls being held down “against their will”. The anti-FGM movement is given further weight and justification by the highly publicized, sensational, usually ghost-written best-sellers of individual African women who recount their trauma of “mutilation” and victimization as “child brides” traded for cattle and the like; their lurid individual experiences are made to typify those of all circumcised girls and women.
However, most reliable, independent studies show that there are hardly any notable long-term health differences between uncircumcised and circumcised women, especially those who have undergone excision, which is the practice most prevalent in Sierra Leone. Here, I refer to the important works of Carla Obermeyer, an epidemiologist and anthropologist, who challenged the scientific rigor of most studies of female circumcision in her exhaustive reviews of the existing literature.
Another important study was conducted by medical researchers at the Medical Research Council in The Gambia. The Morison et al Gambia study systematically compared circumcised with uncircumcised women. More than 1,100 women (ages fifteen to fifty-four) from three ethnic groups (Mandinka, Wolof, and Fula) were interviewed and also given gynecological examinations and laboratory tests. Overall, the study found no significant differences between circumcised and uncircumcised women concerning the prevalence of specific reproductive and sexual health problems. Forty-three percent of uncircumcised women reported menstrual health problems compared with 33% for circumcised women but the difference was not statistically significant. Fifty six percent of women who were uncircumcised had a damaged perineum compared to 62% for circumcised women, but again the difference was not statistically significant. There were a small number of statistically significant differences - slightly more syphilis among uncircumcised women and a slightly higher level of herpes and one particular kind of bacterial infection among circumcised women. No dramatic differences that warrant the type of claims made by anti-FGM activists.
Two Sweden-based studies led by medical doctor Birgitta Essen further challenge any link between the “most extreme” form of female genital modification, infibulation, and prolonged labor and between infibulation and perinatal mortality. These studies are particularly relevant because they demonstrate that when circumcised African women have access to high standard or first-rate medical care they are no more likely to experience long-term obstetrical problems than their uncircumcised counterparts. Further, an Italian gynecologist, Lucrezia Catania, has also conducted studies on sexuality among infibulated women: in one study, the Somali women in her sample reported more experiences of orgasms than her control group - uncircumcised Italian women (with a different cultural background but fully comparable in all other characteristics).
Despite all this brow-raising evidence contradicting received information about female circumcision and long-term health consequences, only a single study, which happens to be one that was funded, designed and implemented by WHO and published in the Lancet has gained widespread or global publicity. Despite the serious methodological concerns of this study, its dubious findings are now heralded by anti-FGM activists as their post-facto justification for WHO intervention and policies to abolish FGM worldwide. Professor Rick Shweder, an anthropologist at the University of Chicago, recently questioned the findings of this study. Of particular concern, as Shweder elucidated, is the fact that:
“not a single statistically significant difference was found between those who had ‘type 1’ genital surgery versus no surgery; no statistically significant difference between those who had types 1,2, and 3 genital surgeries for the best predictor of infant health, namely birth weight; the perinatal death rate for the actual women in the sample who had ‘type 3’ surgery was in fact lower... than those who had no surgery at all and only became statistically significant in a negative direction through non-transparent statistical manipulation of the data; the study collected data on women across six nations but never displayed the within nation results; there was no direct control for the quality of health care available for circumcised versus uncircumcised women; the sample was unrepresentative of the whole population, and in general any increased risk of genital surgery was astonishingly small and hardly a mandate for an eradication rather than a public health program”.
Certainly and regrettably, Sierra Leone has one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the world. The country has also recently emerged from a protracted civil war that has left much of its already limited social and physical infrastructure utterly devastated. It is poverty - i.e. lack of access to resources, clean water, good sanitation, health centers (I recently read that there were about four practicing ob-gyn doctors in the entire country), medicines, the prevalence of malnutrition, diseases such as malaria and high rates of pre-eclampsia in pregnant women - that is the leading cause of maternal and child mortality and morbidity in the country. It is disingenuous at the very least and an outrageous travesty for development agencies supposedly concerned about the welfare of children and women to suggest, without one iota of medical or scientific evidence from the country, that it is “FGM” and other “harmful traditional practices” that are the cause of these intractable and deplorable health problems facing Sierra Leone. Such attempts to deflect attention away from the actions and policies of previous irresponsible governments as well as endemic structural inequalities in international economic systems and practices (in which diamond rich countries like Sierra Leone are pillaged to meet the insatiable demand of consumers in Western countries) result only in the further division of Africans, and in this case, African women.
For sure, there are some circumcised African women who are against the practice and have their own reasons for it, which should be respected and, in my opinion, legally protected. There are several women in my family who have not undergone initiation and have no plans to have their daughters initiated. Case closed. Nonetheless, the vast majority of circumcised women (as well as men) in Sierra Leone and across the African sub-Sahara belt support their cultural traditions as well as the aesthetics of their bodily modifications. These women’s traditions are celebrated in parallel with male initiation and circumcision rituals and are important expressions of womanhood and female empowerment.
I have written about the differences (as well as similarities) between western cultural interpretations of female sexuality and the symbolic/psychological meanings associated with the external clitoris noting that these meanings have nothing to do with its actual biological functioning in sexual pleasure and orgasm in women. So, while it is understandable given the influence of Freudian interpretations of female infantile sexuality as “passive” and “castrated” that western feminists overtly and implicitly assert the clitoris as symbolic of women’s sexual autonomy, it does not follow that excision of the external clitoris leads to actual or physiological sexual “castration”. Most studies indicate that many circumcised women enjoy sex and experience orgasms. Some do not, but then again many uncircumcised women do not enjoy sex or experience orgasms, despite their clitoris being “intact”.
While I do not deny the freedom of anti-FGM campaigners to attempt to dissuade women to abandon a practice they perceive as harmful or morally objectionable, I must stress that there ought to be some respect and sensitivity to Sierra Leonean women and our culture. The term FGM is offensive, divisive, demeaning, inflammatory and absolutely unnecessary!! As black Africans most of us would never permit anyone to call us by the term “nigger” or “kaffir” in reference to our second-class racial status or in attempts to redress racial inequalities, so initiated Sierra Leonean women (and all circumcised women for that matter) must reject the use of the term “mutilation” to define us and demean our bodies, even as some are or fight against the practice. For those Sierra Leonean women who see themselves and wish to define their genitals as “mutilated” they are welcome to do so in private or among those who are like-minded; there are many African-Americans who refer to themselves and each other as “niggers”. For those of us who take pride in our bodies, our culture, our ethnicity, and our female ancestors, which Bondo represents, we must continue to stand up for ourselves and defy any attempt by others, however powerful they may be, to rewrite their own histories onto our bodies, to negate our particularities as they universalize their own.
When donor agencies use the media to conflate the horrors of sexual violence against innocent girls and women in the aftermath of our war-torn country with the practices of female initiation, it is our duty to educate them that before the various western women’s movements existed, before the all-powerful National Organization of Women, our Bondo ancestors stood against sexual violence and all forms of sexual insult and molestation of girls and women within our various ethnic groups. When our western feminist sisters and activists come into the country and represent us to their audiences as sexually “mutilated” and “castrated” it is up to us to re-educate them about the female sexual anatomy they presume to know so much about: the bulk of the clitoris is beneath the vaginal surface and along with other parts of the genitals and other areas of women’s bodies remain very sensitive and perfectly functioning for most women after excision.
But, even more important, we need to demand of our Government and the international community, not special treatment, but equal rights with other adult men and women the world over. We must demand to know why all sorts of “medically unnecessary” genital surgeries performed on white (or black) well-to-do women in western countries are called “cosmetic” procedures but African women are supposedly subjected to “mutilation” (by the ubiquitous, all-powerful specter of patriarchy). We must demand to know why there is international outrage against the circumcision of African girls yet the circumcision of boys, even under comparable circumstances, continues and moreover is officially encouraged by WHO. What form of patriarchy in Africa competes with the infantilization of circumcised African women by the more militant of our western(ized) feminist sisters who, ignoring their own questionable “cosmetic” practices and hegemonic motives, purport to know better than us what is for our own good. To the Bondo warriors of Kailahun, congratulations for standing up - yet we do have our work cut out for us!
Subject: Re: hurray for bondo women in kailahun
From: KLA
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Date Posted: 09:49:14 03/05/08 ()
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Where is Erica Adams?.......
This sounds like soft porn in the guise of "Female Anatomy Rights".
Well,Well...... DI PHD DEM SEF DAY BEAT DI BONDO DRUM!!
Subject: Re: hurray for bondo women in kailahun
From: Erica Adams
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Date Posted: 00:10:28 03/06/08 ()
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I read the article yesterday with tears in my eyes. I don't have any white man bias, I just love my clitoris. I don't know what sex without one is like and I'm not even willing to take a chance. I believe that only consenting women should undergo this process. The author of this article tried to make a comparison with women who elect to have cosmetic surgery in the West. She fell short with that example because Western women who elect to have cosmetic surgery are consenting adults. I believe that western women probably object to women not being able to experience sex just the way their bodies were designed to. This is not a medical or religious requirement so I don't really understand the strong attachment to this continued practice. I feel so strongly about being the one to educate my daughter about sex, relationships, and marriage. My goal is to empower her to understand that sexual desire is normal but to give her the skills to help her navigate our overally sexually explicit culture while remaining true to her religious morals and values. The idea of sending her into a bush to have some woman hack off her clit just does not mesh well with the vision I had for how I want to help guide her in to womanhood. As a Christian, all I need to do is direct her to what the word of God says.
Subject: Re: Hurray for bondo women in kailahun
From: Question
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Date Posted: 10:15:27 03/05/08 ()
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Good thing they have not mutillated all the African women, otherwise some of us never would have discovered
what the pleasure of having a rapport with a fully equipped African woman meant.
What a waste?
Subject: If EBK had a Dream - ala Martin Luther King.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 08:58:54 03/05/08 ()
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I received a message from Senator Obama this morning..and the inspiration the man just oozes overtook me..
I extrapolated a bit and plagiarized a bit and daydreamed a bit about my own country and almost the same resounding message of HOPE we had last november... AND the NEW dissapointments we face everyday from Sierra leone.
What if it was EBK that sent me this message..????
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Candid-O..
We may not know the destiny of our beloved country.
We may not know why voters rejected the SLPP for the APC last november..We may never know why it is on my shoulders all this rests.. but one thing is clear..
When the dust settles from last novembers contests, we will maintain our stance for a united Sierra Leone and a renewed drive for change..And thanks to millions of people standing for change, we will keep adding feathers to our RED APC caps and development to our nation..
We knew from the day we began this journey that the road would be long. And we knew what we were up against.
We knew that the closer we got to the change we seek, the more we'd see of the politics we're trying to end -- the sneer and dismissal of the issues we think that counts and those we know matter to people's lives.
The stunts and the tactics that ask us to fear instead of hope will not be the hallmark of my regime.
This time -- this year and the next 5-- it will not work. The challenges are too great. The stakes are too high.
Sierra Leoneans need real change.
In the coming years, we will begin a great debate about the future of this country and as us all citizens to join hands and served our country bravely and love it dearly. And we will offer multiple visions of the Sierra Leone we see in the twenty-first century.
Sylvia & Co has already dismissed our call for change and the results past 5 months as eloquent but empty.
I hear a lot of other citizens echo these sentiments. I also know that it was the same case we made against the SLPP that allowed the voters to see thier nakedness.
My Administration knows that it's a call that did not begin with my SLPP or disgruntled SLPP newspaper proprietors. It's the resounding call from every corner of this country, from first-time voters and lifelong cynics, from PMDC to SLPP alike.
And if this zest for change and fire of patriotism should be stoked. We all need to join hands and make it happen for the betterment of our country, our generation and our childrens generation.
If this zest for change should be spread all across our nation and our region, the FREEDOM and Liberties of all individuals, SLPP leaning or APC leaning should be and WILL BE protected by my government and those who serve in my administration and are branches of the state.
I implore all those who would want to take the laws of our land onto themselves to cease and desist, for it will not happen. Press freedom will not be curtailed but enhanced.
Economic, religious and property freedom will not be stiffled but encouraged.
I want to make it Clear as the finiest diamond ever mined from Kono.
NOT IN MY NAME, and definately NOT ON MY WATCH..
I thank you.
-----------------Disclaimer------------------
Note: This is a concoction..a home made brew of foreign ingredients..Apehteshe as we call it...
Subject: Re: If EBK had a Dream - ala Martin Luther King.
From: Put Sylvia Nar Jail
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Date Posted: 11:24:32 03/05/08 ()
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Yea, yea, yea. Ask EBK when he is gonna throw that witch Sylvia in jail for fityteing the Pa.
Subject: Re: If EBK had a Dream - ala Martin Luther King.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:34:34 03/05/08 ()
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So the turks said..
Oh, its them Jews..
And the greeks say.. darn semites..
And the anglo's said fry them all..
Until it was the day of the turks..
If you of human.. "HUMAN" rights is an issue worth fighting for.
So sayeth i.. jah rastafarri ever living..
Bob nester would easi;y put it thus..
Get up, stand up for yoru right...
Get up, stand up.. dont give up the fight..
Subject: John Leigh , by "joining them" , you became a part !
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
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Date Posted: 06:38:58 03/05/08 ()
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Posted by John E. Leigh on March 04, 2008 at 15:54:21:
In Reply to: Making the SLPP great again posted by Madam Future Leader of SLPP on March 04, 2008 at 09:16:39:
Dear Madam:
Assuming your claim of SLPP authenticity is accurate, I'd like to know where you were and what you were doing when I was trying to clean-up the tribal, kleptocratic, incompetent, nepotistic image of the slpp over the years?
How did you deal with the gangsterlike nominating ConBention at Makeni in September 2005?
What is your relationship with the ousted cabal?
Prior to today, what have you ever done for SLPP or our country? Thanks for your kind attention. - JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh , by "joining them" , you became a part !
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:01:27 03/05/08 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
My Dear Chief:
I did not join "them" at anytime. I had already been a member when the Party was democratic - way before "them" hijacked the party in their own interests. So by the time "them" arrived and their intentions known to many members like me, I was already inside the party.
Second, merely being a member of a party in which "them" were also members does not necessarily mean that one automatically becomes part of "them" - no, not at all. For your information, "them" believe in and practised dirty politics and seek personal benefits. I do not and will not - no matter what.
I have consistently and tirelessly fought for clean politics as well as innovative, national productive leadership as the most reliable ways to move our people and backward country forward. I will not change and therein lay my apartness - and my problems.
Because our people's situation is one of extreme hardship, poverty and misery, the old culture and colonial standards that once held our country together in the good old days have collapsed and with nothing good yet to replace it. So we suffer while "them" are still seeking to keep their control even after their ouster for "them" apparently care little or nothing about national misery, suffering and backwardness.
But I am still apart from "them", working from the outside to press for cleanliness, innovative national leadership in the public interest. So far, it has been a thankless, even a costly, job for me.
Please do not confuse my participation for collaboration. They are two distinct matters. Thanks. - JL
Subject: Re: John Leigh , by "joining them" , you became a part !
From: historian
To: All
Date Posted: 07:01:05 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 163.166.135.44
Message:
Chief, did you mean, a collaborator???
Subject: The SLPP... and its very short memory !
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 06:19:59 03/05/08 ()
Email Address: RNMDTWO@YAHOO.COM
Entered From: c-69-143-232-169.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.232.169
Message:
265. The Commission finds the SLPP Government responsible for carrying out the arbitrary arrest and detention of a large number of citizens in violation of their constitutional rights from 1998 onwards. Many of these arrests and detentions, as well as the prosecutions and trials of this period were politically motivated,representing a denial of basic rights. The Commission finds that the Court Martial of 37 soldiers of the SLA during 1998, resulting in the execution of 24 of them, was conducted in contravention of international human rights standards.(Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission report)
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SLPP PRESS STATEMENT
VANDALISATION AND LOOTING OF SLPP OFFICE, BO AND ARREST OF PARTY STALWARTS
INCLUDING THE MAYOR OF BO CITY AND HIS DEPUTY
The Party strongly condemns the vandalisation of the SLPP Office in Bo by hooligans led by the Resident Minister, Musa Tarawali and the unlawful arrest of senior Party Officials. The Party views such acts as intimidation supported by the APC hierarchy and an attempt to suppress the opposition activities in the country in the run-up to the Bye and Local Government Elections.
The Party is reliably informed that the conduct of Musa Tarawali is supported by the President, Ernest Bai Koroma and the APC Party. This is a grand APC strategy to cow our people with a view to making them inactive in politics. We consider this as intimidation and therefore unacceptable.
Painting of Public Property and Portrait of Ernest Koroma
Last week, the colours of a few parks at roundabouts, streets and the Bo Clock Tower were changed from national colours, green, white and blue to red, APC colour on the instruction of the Resident Minister, Musa Tarawali. The public in Bo was amazed by the instruction of the Resident Minister. This fanatic behaviour of the Resident Minister was even reported by the Chiefs to the President during his recent visit to Bo. They predicted that such action would undermine the peace and stability of the township.
On February 27th 2008, the portrait of Ernest Bai Koroma was painted green. We are reliably informed that the painting of the portrait was carried out by the APC thugs in order to establish a basis for their ensuing intimidating actions.
Vandalisation of SLPP Office and Arrest of Party Officials
APC thugs who have been taken to Bo since September 17th 2008 by Musa Tarawali went made and started harassing innocent people in the township. They forced their way into the Bo Party Office, looted properties and vandalized several other items including furniture.
The Bo District Party Chairman, Secretary and the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Bo have been arrested and are held at the Bo police station. They are currently making statements to the Police for an unknown allegation.
The Action of Police
The vandalisation and looting was carried out in the presence of the Police who did very little to intervene. We are credibly informed that when SLPP youths attempted to protect the office, the Police used tear gas to disperse them. To the amazement of the onlookers, the police allowed these APC hooligans to vandalize and loot the office.
The Party cannot continue to witness hooligans vandalizing their offices and intimidating our members whilst the Sierra Leone Police takes no action. Even when actions are taken they are quickly reversed by orders from above. Members and supporters of the SLPP are Sierra Leoneans and therefore have right to state security. In the event this is not provided, they can defend themselves.
The Conduct of the Resident Minister
The conduct of Musa Tarawali keeps undermining the peace and stability of the township. It could be recalled that on January 10th 2008, the eve of the SLPP National Executive Council meeting, with the moral support and instruction from Musa Tarawali, thugs of the APC calling themselves members of APC Task Force molested and harassed SLPP members in party colours. For days following, these hooligans continued to molest and harass innocent people in the township. The thugs can be visibly seen in vehicles parading the township of Bo, reminiscent of the days of the AFRC rule in Sierra Lerone.
With the support of the President, Musa is re-mobilising former fighters in the name of reconciliation. During a visit to Bo, President Koroma gave a group of Kamajors purporting to represent the Civil Defence Force (CDF) in the South, the sum of Le10,000,000. As a follow-up, the Resident Minister, South, Musa Tarawali is dishing out cash to re-mobilise the Kamajors in the South. He is holding meetings with Kamajors in the southern townships. The Party is aware of his recent meetings in Mattru, Pujehun and other places. During the last visit to Bo, the same group was issued APC cards by the President. A Press Release was issued by the Kamajors. All these moves are moves are clear evidence of a re-mobilisation of ex-combatants for political reason.
The Party is not bothered about the political gains they intend to make. We are sure it will be efforts in futility. Rather, we are worried about the security implications of re-mobilising ex-fighters. This is indeed an irresponsible act by the Resident Minister and the APC government. It is surely an attempt to reverse the gains made by the SLPP administration in bringing peace to Sierra Leone in the name of politics. We urge the APC administration to desist from this diabolic act.Conclusion
For the second time, the SLPP therefore urges the donor/international community, especially UNIOSIL to closely follow up this issue of re-mobilisation of ex-combatants in the name of reconciliation. We continue to be firmly committed to deepening the peace process in Sierra Leone and to peaceful and democratic elections.
Signed
Jacob Jusu Saffa
National Secretary General
Subject: Obama loses. Negative attacks do work.
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 06:06:23 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
I am heartbroken over Obama's losses in Texas, Ohio and RI, just when we thought Obama was going to wrap up things. Although Obama still leads in the delegate count, the momentum has clearly shifted in Clinton's direction.
However Clinton's victory came about by her camp deliberately swiftboating Obama. Remember the highly effective Republican Swiftboat attack ads against John Kerry? Get ready for a barrage of negative ads from all sides on the way to Pennsylvania. My fear is that whoever becomes the Democratic nominee will be so badly wounded that he/she will be easy pickings for John McCain.
Subject: Re: Obama loses. Negative attacks do work.
From: KKW
To: All
Date Posted: 12:08:32 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.50.182.249
Message:
It was a dissapopointing finish after all the successes he had racked up. He got swiftboated and did not have an adequate response. I am concerned that he still insists on taking the "high road" even though there is a mountain of material to attack the Clinton's on. Unfortiunaytely Americans are a very competitive (dare I say warlike) people and they love to "fighter". Obama is coming off as wimpoish and this does not inspire confidence. Race is still an issue but he needs to project more strength as a fighter rather than a peacemaker.
Subject: Re: Obama loses. Negative attacks do work.
From: Onliner
To: All
Date Posted: 08:48:33 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
Most of the Clinton votes were tactical coming from republicans who considered Obama a much tougher take for McCain.
Subject: Re: Obama loses. Negative attacks do work.
From: alcole
To: All
Date Posted: 09:00:24 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.74.168.162
Message:
Your statement should be the other way round; Clinton will be tougher than Obama against McCain. As one of my white co-worker who is a Democrat told me, he would rather vote for McCain than seeing Obama becoming the President.
Subject: Re: Obama loses. Negative attacks do work.
From: Michael Conway
To: All
Date Posted: 10:31:50 03/05/08 ()
Email Address: Aguis@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-los-ae04.proxy.aol.com at 195.93.21.132
Message:
The statement " he would rather vote for McCain than seeing Obama becoming the President" What is the reason behind his statement? You did not say, could it be racial? as you said your so called friend is white.
Subject: Re: Obama loses. Negative attacks do work.
From: alcole
To: All
Date Posted: 00:45:11 03/06/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-100-113-63.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.100.113.63
Message:
he is not a friend, he is a co-worker. The statement is racial, and it is the mind set of most white people.
Subject: Re: Obama loses. Negative attacks do work.
From: Onliner
To: All
Date Posted: 10:37:48 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
I was going to ask the same question. He was probably unaware of the undertone of his statement.
Subject: Re: Obama loses. Negative attacks do work.
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 11:31:31 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.90
Message:
Trust me my friend, It is racial. There are million of whites who would vote for Obama simply because they think him the better candidate. However there is a large minority of whites who will never, under any circumstance, vote for a black. They may not say so but it is sadly a reality. The country has come a long way but we still have a long ways to go...
Subject: 1965 Press Act defender faces its sting
From: concern
To: All
Date Posted: 03:39:00 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 181-65-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.65.181
Message:
Sylvia Blyden believes that she is untouchable. Well, wae kakroach wan alaki, nah palmine bottle, e dae fen.
If it is true, that she needs to go to the CID to answer a charge for bringing the office of the president into disrepute.
To bring criminal charge against the proprietress of awarenesstimes thats the way to go.
The days of burning Press houses are over. Justice for Justice is a democratic mode.Good riddance for the APC
Forumtites read awareness statement below.
NOTICES & DOCUMENTS
An Official Press Release from Ernest Koroma's Government in Sierra Leone
Please click on the following linked text to view an official Government Press Release as issued by His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma's team currently handling the affairs of the State of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, as a follow-up to this Press Release, half a dozen well armed Sierra Leone Police officers purportedly acting on the orders of the Attorney General Serry Kamal have this evening stormed the Awareness Times offices looking for the publisher Dr. Sylvia Blyden whom they say is wanted for "questioning" with regards the two horned and upside down caricatures of the President. Dr. Blyden who was not at the offices, will present herself at 9am tomorrow morning at the C.I.D. Police Headquarters in Freetown for this 'questioning exercise'.
Subject: Re: 1965 Press Act defender faces its sting
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 08:57:15 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
I received a message from Senator Obama this morning..and the inspiration the man just oozes overtook me..
I extrapolated a bit and plagiarized a bit and daydreamed a bit about my own country and almost the same resounding message of HOPE we had last november...
What if it was EBK that sent me this message..????
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Candid-O..
We may not know the destiny of our beloved country.
We may not know why voters rejected the SLPP for the APC last november..We may never know why it is on my shoulders all this rests.. but one thing is clear..
When the dust settles from last novembers contests, we will maintain our stance for a united Sierra Leone and a renewed drive for change..And thanks to millions of people standing for change, we will keep adding feathers to our RED APC caps and development to our nation..
We knew from the day we began this journey that the road would be long. And we knew what we were up against.
We knew that the closer we got to the change we seek, the more we'd see of the politics we're trying to end -- the sneer and dismissal of the issues we think that counts and those we know matter to people's lives.
The stunts and the tactics that ask us to fear instead of hope will not be the hallmark of my regime.
This time -- this year and the next 5-- it will not work. The challenges are too great. The stakes are too high.
Sierra Leoneans need real change.
In the coming years, we will begin a great debate about the future of this country and as us all citizens to join hands and served our country bravely and love it dearly. And we will offer multiple visions of the Sierra Leone we see in the twenty-first century.
Sylvia & Co has already dismissed our call for change and the results past 5 months as eloquent but empty.
I hear a lot of other citizens echo these sentiments. I also know that it was the same case we made against the SLPP that allowed the voters to see thier nakedness.
My Administration knows that it's a call that did not begin with my SLPP or disgruntled SLPP newspaper proprietors. It's the resounding call from every corner of this country, from first-time voters and lifelong cynics, from PMDC to SLPP alike.
And if this zest for change and fire of patriotism should be stoked. We all need to join hands and make it happen for the betterment of our country, our generation and our childrens generation.
If this zest for change should be spread all across our nation and our region, the FREEDOM and Liberties of all individuals, SLPP leaning or APC leaning should be and WILL BE protected by my government and those who serve in my administration and are branches of the state.
I implore all those who would want to take the laws of our land onto themselves to cease and desist, for it will not happen. Press freedom will not be curtailed but enhanced.
Economic, religious and property freedom will not be stiffled but encouraged.
I want to make it Clear as the finiest diamond ever mined from Kono.
NOT IN MY NAME, and definately NOT ON MY WATCH..
I thank you.
-----------------Disclaimer------------------
Note: This is a concoction..a home made brew of foreign ingredients..Apehteshe as we call it...
Subject: Re: 1965 Press Act defender faces its sting
From: Doubt
To: All
Date Posted: 04:06:11 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-166-127.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.166.127
Message:
Did the document really say "half a dozen well armed Salone Police officers" to arrest a girl?????
Subject: Re: 1965 Press Act defender faces its sting
From: KPONIEGBOU
To: All
Date Posted: 05:35:15 03/05/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
YES; HALF A DOZEN TOUGH LOOKING BLACK MEN WEARING SIERRA LEONE POLICE UNIFORMS AND ARMED TO THE TEETH. I WAS DRIVING PAST AND SAW THEM WITH MY OWN EYES. NOR TO DEN SAY.
Subject: Re: 1965 Press Act defender faces its sting
From: Gentleman
To: All
Date Posted: 06:59:11 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 163.166.135.44
Message:
Na lie yu de lie.You just want to give APC a bad name.They only sent one policeman to invite her, and the man was not black, he was a mulatto (pale complexioned)
Subject: Re: 1965 Press Act defender faces its sting
From: KPONIEGBOU
To: All
Date Posted: 07:08:09 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MR "APC GENTLEMAN", FOR DA LIE WAE YOU LIE, YOU GO SUFFER UNDER APC TAY YOU DIE NAR TOE-LINE. YOU NOR SEE NATIN YATE
Subject: Attention Modrator: Kponiegbou write Capital letters!
From: Solution
To: All
Date Posted: 05:56:39 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
Moderators, this Kponniegbou is in violate forum rules sir. He is using capital letter instead of small letter.
Subject: Re: Attention Modrator: Kponiegbou write Capital letters!
From: KPONIEGBOU
To: All
Date Posted: 07:11:45 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH YOU? YOU CAN GO TO HELL FOR ALL I CARE!!!!!!!!!!!APC TASK FORCE FOOL
Subject: Re: Attention Moderator: Kponiegbou write Capital letters!
From: Forum Prefect
To: All
Date Posted: 09:39:40 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
Thanks for helping us maintain order. The handle has been decapped this time around. If repeated, his/her posting will be taken off the air. The average Sierra Leonean is allergic to rules often mistaken for a repression of freedom.
Here’s a story about the first ever discussion forum Sierra Leoneans – SLIS.
SLIS had two discussion boards: one for debates and another for public notices. People were using the notice board for debates instead of the one that was meant for discussions.
After repeated unheeded calls for them to refrain from the practice, the administrators gave up and folded the table.
Subject: Re: Attention Moderator: Kponiegbou write Capital letters!
From: KPONIEGBOU
To: All
Date Posted: 07:30:31 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
YES, MR FORUM PREFECT; YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT THERE. SIERRA LEONEANS NO LONGER HAVE THE CULTURE OF DOING THINGS ACCORDING TO LAID DOWN RULES/REGULATIONS/LAWS; THANKS TO SIAKA STEVENS, SI KOROMA, BAMBAY KAMARA, JS MOMOH ETC. ETC. WHO DID EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN TO TEACH US NOT TO DO THINGS IN THE PROPER WAY. UNDER SHAKI AND MOMOH'S APC, A BRILLIANT SIERRA LEONEAN WITH SIX DISTINCTIONS AT "O" LEVEL WOULD BE SHAMELESSLY DENIED GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP, WHEREAS AN IDIOT WITH TWO SUBJECTS, BUT WITH APC CONNECTIONS WOULD BE AWARDED. NAR LIE OR NAR TRUE? I WILL CONTINUE USING CAPS UNTIL YOU GIVE AN HONEST ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION (NOTE THE WORD "HONEST" IN MY DEMAND)
Subject: Re: 1965 Press Act defender faces its sting
From: Solution
To: All
Date Posted: 05:52:43 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
You munku boy. Cannot youse read instroction? Ilitarate foolooloo, Modrator comands, no captal lettas!
Subject: Re: 1965 Press Act defender faces its sting
From: KPONIEGBOU
To: All
Date Posted: 07:34:12 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
MR SOLUTION, YOU HAVE JUST CONFIRMED TO THE WORLD WHAT AN IDIOT YOU ARE. YOU CANNOT EVEN SPELL PROPERLY. STUPID APC THUG.
Subject: Confederacy
From: Divide Sierra leone
To: All
Date Posted: 20:39:05 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 32.145.94.134
Message:
From all I read on this forum, it seems that northerners and
southeasterners cannot stand one another. If this is true will it not
make sense to divide the country and let each group be responsible for
their own destiny? Surely this will prevent future tribal conflict which
this forum seems to be actively encouraging.
Subject: Re: Confederacy
From: KPONIEGBOU
To: All
Date Posted: 08:39:06 03/06/08 ()
Email Address: kponiegbou@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 78.138.1.18
Message:
THE OLANGBAS WILL DIE OF STARVATION. THERE'S NOTHING IN THEIR PLACE, EXCEPT THE BOLILANDS, WHICH THE MAJORITY OF THEM HAVE ABANDONED AND HEADED FOR THE DIAMOND PITS OF KONO AND TONGO FIELD, SANI ABACHA STREET, PZ ROUND ABOUT, FREE STREET ETC. ETC. WHERE THEY SNATCH MOBILE PHONES ETC. ETC. A GOOD NUMBER ARE APC TASK FORCE RECRUITS AND TARAWALLIE THUGS WHO BEAT UP MEN OF GOD AND VANDALISE OPPOSITION PARTY OFFICES. A GOOD NUMBER OF THEM ARE PROFESSIONAL PRAISE SINGERS AND LOOTERS OF NIGERIAN, INDIAN AND LEBANESE SHOPS
Subject: Re: Confederacy
From: Jackal
To: All
Date Posted: 21:39:21 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: epa@gmail.com
Entered From: adsl-68-74-74-86.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net at 68.74.74.86
Message:
As a Sierra Leonean, I denounce, reject and emphatically refuse to subscribe to the idea of a Confederacy in all its designs. Sierra Leone is not big enough for political decentralization.
Sure there is political division along the shores of tribalism, but given the enormity of challenges and problems the country and its leadership faces, there is no room nor need for this idea.
Sierra Leone does not belong to the Krios, Mendes,Temnes, Limbas, Lokos, Sherbros etc. The sharp political division is a symptom of one and many things. That should be the focus of all Sierra Leoneans. The country should UNITE.
Subject: slpp falamakata.
From: awoko
To: All
Date Posted: 19:41:23 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: abu@AOL.COM
Entered From: pool-72-83-233-126.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.83.233.126
Message:
becos apc get bai na dat mek wuna sef want obai, gud wuna put 2012. wuna go los lek nidul nar chaf chaf. wuna tink say wan dea ebk take for kik wuna comot na pawa? we camp na de kot baray dea wait.
Subject: Cocorioko will always have my heart!!
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 17:22:19 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.249.160
Message:
thank you cocorioko for your understanding by way of your consideration in respect of the deleted posts. You will always be in my heart as a true and understanding group of professionals. This deed is one of the most understanding act I have ever seen amongst our people. You are great and will always be great. My support will not waver - you are indeed the truth. Though APC lead, you have shown something exceptional. My hat goes down to salute you!!
Subject: Office of owner of oil refinery burnt down overnight
From: Breaking News
To: All
Date Posted: 17:17:59 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
The office of Allieu Thorlu-Bangura- owner of the oil refinery in Sierra Leone was burnt down last night.It is believe to be an act of ARSON. He just got off the phone with one of his relative in the US,whom i was visiting and a best friend of mine,so i was previlledged to overhear their entire conversation.
I even spoke to Mr Allieu himself,who told me, he was currently at home.He sounded very nice and calm over the phone.
Only last week, he was arrested by the government over the weekend concerning the oild refinery. Couple of guys came up with the issue on this forum,so i am keeping the forum posted.
I was made to understand that the oil refinery was sold to Nigeria by the Kabbah government,but was resold again to an indigenous Sierra leonean businessman by President Obassanjo of Nigeria.Allieu happen to be the highest bidder and winner.The oil refinery i was made to understand was legally handed over to him by the Nigeria government.
So my question is What is going on?
Can somebody throw light on this?
Why is Mr Thorlu-Bangura been treated so badly.
Subject: Re: Office of owner of oil refinery burnt down overnight
From: O'toole
To: All
Date Posted: 17:37:02 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: otoolekargbo@yahoo.com
Entered From: cpe-65-186-220-54.insight.res.rr.com at 65.186.220.54
Message:
This story is too long, i think the oil refinery bolongs to country.(sa/lone) period.
Subject: Re: Office of owner of oil refinery burnt down overnight
From: What going on
To: All
Date Posted: 17:20:12 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
Office i was made to understand is located within the proximity of the oil refinery
Very Sad.
Subject: Re: Office of owner of oil refinery burnt down overnight
From: umufaali
To: All
Date Posted: 09:04:46 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 69.74.168.162
Message:
He is blessed with money stolen from Sierra Leone, he needs prayers.
Subject: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 17:00:51 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
I have been looking at two people who would bring normalcy in the SLPP - Dr. Kandeh Yumkella and Obai Kabia. As Dr. Kandeh is not too keen, I believe our hope is Obai Kabia, eldest son of late Madam Ella Koblo-Gulama. He can give back that which the SLPP lost in Kabba and ungrateful Berewa! What says my comrades?
Subject: slpp falamakata.
From: awoko
To: All
Date Posted: 21:55:36 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: abu@AOL.COM
Entered From: pool-72-83-233-126.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.83.233.126
Message:
wuna cam wit obai becos apc gee bai nar for dat mek una go fen obai, 2012 go abe for am . we go lus am lek nidul na chaf chaf. we de kamp na de kot baray for kont dis tem.
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: King Loggy
To: All
Date Posted: 17:03:05 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
Obai Kabia may have a chance if he were born and or raised anywhere in the South or East. Do you know?
Anything less is a recipe for defacement.
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 17:04:54 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
The mother was, I believe from the south - She was the Paramount Chief of Kaiyamba - she commands respect in the south- Honourable PC Madam Ella Koblo Gulama - some say Mende-Sherbro others pure mende (what is pure mende)
The father was from the north - port Loko - the great Bai Koblo Pathbana II - a Temne/Mande others say pure Temne (what is pure temne).
I believe he can be the new hope for a New SLPP. Obai, if you read this start tighening up as a call will come to you to lead the SLPP if Dr. kande Yumkella continues to be undecided.
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: Mamie Vamboi
To: All
Date Posted: 17:06:53 03/04/08 ()
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Time changes eh. This the same woman that SLPP treated like a nobody when she was alive. Today, its all praises because the ungreatful SLPP was to use her product. Please give us a break. Can you not find a mende child this agian?
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 17:08:31 03/04/08 ()
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I do not like to be drawn into debates along tribal prejudice. I see myself as a Sierra Leonean first. origin from India but born in Sierra Leone - speak temne, mende, susu, a little limba and krio. I see myself first as a Sierra Leonean.
An individual's pristine character to me is what is more important when serving others. Many Sierra leoneans are very selfish and think only of their close knit. To have one and to behold a good pristine being i Sierra Leone is very hard to come by. To do with, we look for those that are moderate and can unite the country.
If a mende comes up and has the stamina to withstand the chores of leadership so be it. A tribe beautifies the whole.
No SLPP is trying to use the late Madam Koblo Gulam's product - it is his destiny and if that is the case allow it. Embrace it! pray for the better and not negativity. Mamie Vamboi, you disappoint me - Sierra Leone needs her sons and daughters. For the very reason you stated regarding the treatment of the late chieftess by a party her father helped founded should be a reward for the myopia in the negatives in the party. Do not be one of the negatives, transcend and grow above that by looking at the positive side to have a place among the positives.
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: King Loggy
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Date Posted: 17:09:24 03/04/08 ()
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I know this much about his parents.
But indeed what is "pure" Temne or Mende?
Fact is, his genetic makeup and the environment he grew up will make the greatest difference towards his acceptability and electability.
Will he be considered a Temne because of his father?
Or will he be accepted because of his close ties to the people and their cultures?
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: Ndakei
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Date Posted: 17:10:48 03/04/08 ()
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One thing you did not mention is his mother Kono backgroud. Do more research about their sando connection. They should be able to talk a bit about their grandmother who hails from kono. Pure mende my boot. If you are fit for the job let it be given to you period.
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 17:11:57 03/04/08 ()
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It all adds up! Spices up! A man cutting across the North, South and East! Any knowledge of him cutting across from the Westside? This man will give EBK the ride of his life! The funny thing is the younger brother is the abled-lieutenant in the Health ministry of EBK's reform group. What would be his take on this? Where will his allegiance be? Sierra Leone will get better and better! the more the merrier!!
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 17:13:27 03/04/08 ()
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In the motherland - it is a fact that his grandfather , Paramount Chief Julius Gulama worked relentlessly to bring people of all ethnic groups together. He supported and worked for the establishment of the BO Government School and was one of the founding members of the SLPP. After his death in 1953, Madam Gulama succeeded him as Paramount Chief of Kaiyamba Chiefdom. This is a clear manifestation of tolerance and leadership that I believe should be an embraced heritage for Obai kabia to follow.
The same can be said of his late father, all ethnics were present in the time of the great Ore rush - most workers in marampa were from the south and mendes. He cuts across - North and south.
During his years at the Un he did not forget his country. His presence was always felt within. He was helpful to people of his motherland and fatherland. I happen to know that the inter-tribal alliance of his mother and father saw a lot of people from the north inter-marrying in the south and such unions produced some of the best minds we have today - though they remain very silent on matters affecting us.
His nomination to the help of the SLPP leadership should see them come out and believe in the new Sierra Leone dream that I believe he should adopt if he was to be elected.
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: What about J.B Dauda?
To: All
Date Posted: 18:57:23 03/04/08 ()
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I am glad that you are promoting OBai. I hope he is a good guy but we should try and get away from the dynastic politics that is the bane of many underdeveloped society. If Obai proves himself worthy, I wish him all the best. However I see a dog fight between the mafia that controls that party right now and new enlightened potential leaders. People like the Koro-istic J.B Dauda and the leftovers of Momodu Sesay, Sama Banya, JJ Blood and so on will go to every sick length to block sunshine from the SLPP. Just ask John Leigh about how the cabal mugged him. It's a scary party right now Mahatma.
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 02:08:00 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
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I believe they will willingly give the party a breathing space - as sore losers they will know that their faces will continue to bring demise for the party. Do not worry - the scarieist part is over - elightenment has come into the party fold.
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 04:14:09 03/05/08 ()
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Mahatma, Obai is an obvious choice but unfortunately does not have the administrative experience. Like Kabba , he is another United Nations crony that has not been tested. Had a cozy UN job for the past 25 years.
Kandeh Yumkella is an allrounder. The UN plus Sierra Leone experience.
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: Alternative thinking
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Date Posted: 09:42:32 03/05/08 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: asdf194.enfieldlibraries.lmn.net.uk at 195.194.75.194
Message:
The next SLPP leader is Yankuba Kaisamba- this is not a joke.
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: oh Yeh?
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Date Posted: 11:28:48 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
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Now you are pissing me off.....This man is not even a member of the SLPP, he is PMDC and they need him there.really.
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: Alternative Thinking
To: All
Date Posted: 13:00:11 03/05/08 ()
Email Address: nicoleconsult@hotmail.com
Entered From: host86-166-217-137.range86-166.btcentralplus.com at 86.166.217.137
Message:
Get your facts right, Yankuba Kaisamba is not a member of PMDC, he supported Margai for the leadership but never registered for PMDC. He resigned from the SLPP because of Former President Kabba's aversion to SLPP blue bloods. He spoke the truth about the party's leadership disastrous policy direction and resigned at the time when the praise singers in the party were convinced the party would win the presidency by 70 percent. His judgement was right, his feas were accentuated.
what he said when he critised his own party, is what those who failed or refused to say at the time are now saying it louder about president kabba's SLPP. We now need his skills and vision to repair that which he had critised.
An impecable predigree, who is incurruptible and despised corruption. He is certainly credible. We are at the moment trying to locate him in the world because he has gone quiet since the completion of the last election.
As a civil servant he is used to being at his best from behind the scene and his contribution to the party is impressive. But we now need him in the open to transform Sierra Leone.
Please Yankuba contact the Kenema SLPP branch or any of your contacts there.
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: David Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 09:00:41 03/05/08 ()
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Guys;
I personally dont think regional consideration is anything we can go by anymore. It is only SLPP that usually have that kind of consideration, when they picked a presidential candidate, the running mate has to come from the north,nonesense, you can pick the running mate from anywhere. The choosing of Sam Sumana by president Koroma was not because of any regional thing, it was because of the profit president Koroma received from him. The white people who partly financed the campaign nd his own personal contributions.
Subject: Re: What says the SLPP to elect Obai Kabia as leader?
From: King Loggy
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Date Posted: 17:14:45 03/04/08 ()
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Well, I wish him all the luck. Chances are he will become our very own Barack Obama.
Finally, thanks you very much for your time as it's after 4 am now in my neck of the woods.
Subject: How many of you APC/SLPP are not or haven't enjoyed .....
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 16:52:29 03/04/08 ()
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(Repost)
...each other's largesses? Hypocrites and parasite so many of us are! let us think of the nation. I am SLPP but was not fortunate to ever enjoy the largesses of my party - I sometimes ask myself why? No reason I could find. fear perhaps? In the current APC, though I am not one of them I am having more fun and offers! What does that tell you? My subconscious will advice me! I am not going to change because I enjoy more under APC. The APC has a right to do that to all of us and should not think I owe them any allegiance, I will tell my subconscious. What was not done under the SLPP in looking after the best minds of tomorrow should be Ernest's grand design irrespective of party allegiance. Ernest is president of all Sierra leoneans. The APC should not hijack our president - that will be chaos - EBK needs to father all of us until the expiration of his time. By doing so, the country will reward him by placing him in the highest esteemed order ever imagined in the history of our country.
go to hell you hypocrites in the APC/SLPP!!
Subject: Re: How many of you APC/SLPP are not or haven't enjoyed .....
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:53:48 03/04/08 ()
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Well said, Mahatma. Many of us suporting SLPP today did not benefit from the spoils of their govt over the past 11 years. Kabba purposely avoided the strong SLPP familly members not to be accused of favoritism. We support SLPP out of principle and for preservation of democracy,
Subject: Re: How many of you APC/SLPP are not or haven't enjoyed .....
From: vandi
To: All
Date Posted: 19:18:19 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: vandi@aol.com
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Message:
mr kamara, what do you mean by strong slpp family? how many clean and strong slpp family in sierra leone? it was a blessing kabba did not give your family any thing.
Subject: Re: How many of you APC/SLPP are not or haven't enjoyed .....
From: kamara
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Date Posted: 04:06:08 03/05/08 ()
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Message:
Much more than The APC. We do not need anything from the Govt. We need the preservation of democracy and stability in which unfettered business can occur.
Subject: Re: How many of you APC/SLPP are not or haven't enjoyed .....
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 16:54:53 03/04/08 ()
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Exactly kamara - "out of principle and for preservation of democracy". This is why we should try and shame some of these undemocratic elements who want to disturb our young democracy. they speak for themselves and not all SLPP. Their fists are clench for power to scatter our economy through their stealth machinery. We will not allow that. take the UK for instance - SLPP UK members are covertly trying to organised an election to elect only their kith and kin. The last executive has not been able to give account to all the paid memberships and sponsorships. Their game is in the knowledge of all and all are awaiting to disgrace them. kamara - the SLPP needs to be rooted of all the bad and selfish apples within. let it be a campaign. This will make them rethink their covert operations and fall in line with party policies. We are watching you guys!
Subject: The Death of Prof. John Conteh-Morgan
From: ndabezeta ndovogazy
To: All
Date Posted: 15:35:26 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: ndabezeeta@yahoo.com
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Message:
I regret to inform you about the death of Dr. John Conteh-Morgan. He died early this morning in the USA where he was a professor of French and English literature at the Ohio state University. May his soul rest in peace
Subject: Archive Update
From: Moderator
To: All
Date Posted: 14:28:36 03/04/08 ()
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The 2008 archive has been partially updated.
Subject: Re: Archive Update
From: BREAKING NEWS
To: All
Date Posted: 14:39:45 03/04/08 ()
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Message:
Why did you delete my posting about the "burning of the office of Allieu Thorlu-Bangura-owner of oil refinery.
Did i break any rule?
Subject: OFFICE OF OWNER OF OIL REFINERY BURNT DOWN OVER NIGHT
From: BREAKING NEWS
To: All
Date Posted: 14:24:18 03/04/08 ()
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Message:
The office of Allieu Thorlu-Bangura- owner of the oil refinery in Sierra Leone was burnt down last night.It is believe to be an act of ARSON. He just got off the phone with one of his relative in the US,whom i was visiting and a best friend of mine,so i was previlledged to overhear their entire conversation.
I even spoke to Mr Allieu himself,who told me, he was currently at home.He sounded very nice and calm over the phone.
Only last week, he was arrested by the government over the weekend CONCERNING THE OIL REFINERY. Couple of guys came up with the issue on this forum,so i am keeping the forum posted.
I was made to understand that the oil refinery was sold to Nigeria by the Kabbah government,but was resold again to an indigenous Sierra leonean businessman by President Obassanjo of Nigeria.Allieu happen to be the highest bidder and winner.The oil refinery i was made to understand was legally handed over to him by the Nigeria government.
So my question is What is going on?
Can somebody throw light on this?
Why is Mr Thorlu-Bangura been treated so badly.
Subject: Re: OFFICE OF OWNER OF OIL REFINERY BURNT DOWN OVER NIGHT
From: WHAT GOING ON
To: All
Date Posted: 14:28:45 03/04/08 ()
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Message:
Office i was made to understand is located within the proximity of the oil refinery
Very Sad.
Subject: Making the SLPP great again
From: Madam Future Leader of SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 09:16:39 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.90
Message:
I am patriotically Sierra Leonean and a Northerner. I love SLPP and actually suckled from the green breast. I have DNA in me that is as legit as any scion of our party's. My great grandfather was one of the charter founders of the party. Of late however, I have been seriously dismayed as a bunch of tribal hegemonists had corralled this great party and attempted to make it a regional, parochial party. Being Mende shouldn't be a sine qua non for party leadership.
I believe that SLPP must go back to its nationalistic roots that saved the country from colonial oppression. Now with a united, truly inclusive SLPP leadership, the dormant support of SLPP in the North will become a roar.
I am hoping that all my brother and sister- SLPPers who have been talking about One People, One Country will support me when I officially declare for the party's leadership. I have the resources and have been accumulating human capital for this historic run. I say historic because I am a woman. I will be forwarding my email address to some of the forumites as I get to know your positions. We really can make Sierra Leone great and get away from the ruinous and bankrupt party policies of the past decade. We also need to get away from the juvenile record that we are setting right now in opposition. We are a great party, worthy of great things, things that make the country proud. I look forward to your support, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you and good luck.
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 15:54:21 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Dear Madam:
Assuming your claim of SLPP authenticity is accurate, I'd like to know where you were and what you were doing when I was trying to clean-up the tribal, kleptocratic, incompetent, nepotistic image of the slpp over the years?
How did you deal with the gangsterlike nominating ConBention at Makeni in September 2005?
What is your relationship with the ousted cabal?
Prior to today, what have you ever done for SLPP or our country? Thanks for your kind attention. - JL
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Madam Future Leader of SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 19:04:43 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
John Leigh,
I have done a lot in my own little way to alleviate poverty in our country, as you will soon learn when I officially declare after tying up a few loose ends. One of the most disgraceful chapters in our history occurred during the convention at Makeni that saw you completely disenfranchised by the mafia. That sad episode in a way is what inspired my run.
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 19:19:38 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
As my user car salemand friend would say..
If it seems too good to be true.. well it most probably is..
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Deemdin
To: All
Date Posted: 12:42:38 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: deemdin@yahoo.com
Entered From: mx4.pwcgov.org at 208.29.67.36
Message:
This is a myth. The SLPP has never been great. You cannot be great when you rely on regional politics instead of national politics. The SLPP had all the support in the world to become a great party after the war, but they resorted to nepotism and cleptocracy and that led them out of power. The only way for the SLPP to ever be great is for them to disband and start a new party altogether than does not rely on the South/East, but all of Sa Lone to rule. That is how you achieve greatness. For now, that is a far cry.
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Madam Future Leader of SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 13:14:48 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.192.88
Message:
Thanks Brother Deemdin for your take. SLPP has always been a great party until it was hijacked by narrow-minded apparatchiks who effectively turned it into a parochial, Southeastern tribal party. that is why this great party of the Independence struggle has become an apparition of the valiant aspirations of the whole country.
If our forefathers can only see what the current batch of useless leaders have done to this once noble party, they will be spinning in their graves. We have to broaden the appeal of the party to all regions. We have to make other tribes believe that they have a stake in the SLPP. We have to push the agenda of reform and development. We can no longer accept the stigma of being a tribal mafia. We are a great party. We need to rise above the politics and the chicanery of the J.J bloods and the Blydens of the world. We don't have time to play games.
I am ready to earn the respect and support of my compatriots as we regain the past glory of the glorious SLPP. We must first rescue the party from the clutches of the clique that is currently messing it up. Thanks in advance.
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Joker
To: All
Date Posted: 11:40:38 03/05/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.6
Message:
Kadi,
You make me laugh....you keep going on about this tribalism in the SLPP, but you have never submitted any shred of evidence to support it.How is anyone going to take you seriously?
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:11:51 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 205.148.53.200
Message:
We welcome your contest your declaration for the leadership of SLPP. Like you my father , a northerner was also a founding member of SLPP. I have stayed SLPP because it is most democratic and tolerant party in sierra Leone.
Dont be dimayed , the so called tribalists are fightimg to preserve our young democracy. If not will return to the one party state where we are forced to worship the President and agree to whatever he does.
My dear sister, The Temne and Limba areas in the north had decided to vote APC this election. No matter what SLPP did, they would not have won in those areas in the North.
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Madam Future Leader of SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:06:53 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.90
Message:
My brother in politics, you can't imagine how much solace your words are to me. I know I will encounter skeptics along the way ...and I have indeed met many since I started this journey. We will resuscitate what our united forefathers dreamt of: To make Sierra Leone strong, prosperous and united. My determination is absolute and unshakeable. Yes, there are many Sierra leoneans---men and women---who are up to the task. The North shall embrace SLPP again. We just have to show that we are a responsible party with clear cut ideas that embrace everybody in the country. I will rise to the task.
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:32:26 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Heheh..
Kamara you bite the bait.. ??
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Madam Future Leader of SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:40:58 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.82
Message:
Thank you Mr. Candid Opinion for your healthy cynicism. With compatriots like you who zealously guard their political neutrality (from reading you), Sierra Leone will not be bought by sleek oil salesmen and charlatans. I hope that, as time goes on, I will be able to convince you to join the movement to make SLPP the most representative party in sierra leone with stakeholders from all regions. Just give me a fair chance sir. Our party right now is a shadow of its former self. We are the party of giants of Sierra leone that are not done proud by the current bunch of petty politicians. We need to raise the bar. i look forward to welcoming you aboard to make SLPP a powerhouse of tolerance and progress in sierra leone. God bless.
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:59:47 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 205.148.53.200
Message:
Candid;
you are right but I decided to give he or she the benefit of the doubt.
by the way , what is the website for your phone card. I have heard about it but not tried it yet.
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:17:29 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
www.callsalone.com
www.callfreetown.com
or you can just click on the advert above the forum that has my advert..
http://www.hwforums.com/2179/index.html
Thanks for patronizing and let me know if you run into issues..
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admin@callingcardsforafrica.com
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Mensa
To: All
Date Posted: 13:21:15 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 82.99.234.155
Message:
That's my man! ..... Like him or despise him, but Candid-O is the man with the business attitude!
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:28:48 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
I hope everyone likes me..
Despise is a heavy word.. disagree would be more like it..
Cheers man..
man dey dreg..
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Mensa
To: All
Date Posted: 13:37:58 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: unikad@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 82.99.234.155
Message:
Noted! Cheers!
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: SIK
To: All
Date Posted: 10:06:35 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: skoroma@hotmail.com
Entered From: lgrt-122.dhcp.umass.edu at 128.119.230.122
Message:
While I doubt your identity and the authenticity of your message, I will encourage you to stop talking politics as of now. It is prudent to contribute to the development of the country to have a better ground and chance of being chosen as a party leader and subsequent election to be president.
You could have great dreams for your country. Your sincere patriotism should be manifested in diverse ways to reflect your genuine political intentions. Like you said, you have both human and financial resources(I presumed). Start with small projects to free the people from poverty, illiteracy (both academic and political illiteracy), violence, drugs, teenage pregnancy, and the list goes on. People will ask about you, and would want to identify with you. Galvanize this recognition and sell your political agenda. May be people will buy it. Please start with these ideas; I will support you within my human province.
Subject: Re: Making the SLPP great again
From: Madam Future Leader of SLPP
To: All
Date Posted: 11:13:57 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.90
Message:
I have actually started many microfinance schemes in the north and East, with the support of friends and backers of mine for the past three years. They have actually made an impact in those areas. We hope to translate rhetoric into practical solutions later on, with or without the presidency. As for my authentica, I hope to show all my friends that I am a real patriot. Thanks.
Subject: Attention All Edwardians
From: St. Edward's School Band
To: All
Date Posted: 08:42:12 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
Hi,
I'm writing on behalf of the entire membership of the st edward's secondary school brass band. For some time our band has constantly wtih few instrument.
In recent years the school band has been awarded the best school band in freetown (PREMIER BAND), which has always been in the possession of the Prince of Wales school band.
We are presently under the supervision of Rev.Fr John Emmanuel Garrick as the chairman band commitee. The band has also travel overseas to perform for an engagement in guinee and the gambia respectively. We are looking forward to any prominent edwardian that will help make st edwards band mentain the standard it has attained.
Looking forward to your edwardian response
Best Regards
Christopher L.D.J.Pratt
Deputy Band Master - member old edwardian association
Subject: Re: Attention All Edwardians
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:15:34 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
A proud Edwardian standing to attention SIR.
What can be done..?
I have a few people i can raid with emails...
One me count on a cool $100 courtesy of www.callingcardsforafrica.com
Open a paypal account and let us know how the account and money will be administered.
patriots.. the time give is here..
Borku belful talk, is good.. but it has to be backed by some action.......
When you open the paypal account let me know.. and i will forward to VSL (my other forum).
Subject: Re: Attention All Edwardians
From: johnny
To: All
Date Posted: 09:58:52 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 87.82.104.129
Message:
be careful befoe u send u money. Dem go chop am for u for natin! Send the instrument/s instead. I speak out of recent experience.
Subject: Moderator - What has happened to the post?
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 07:28:23 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.249.160
Message:
Name: Mahatma
E-Mail:
Subject: MODERATOR - WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE POST AFTER THE BELOW?
Body of Message:
Moderator, what has happened to all the postings just after the one post by Apha Alieu?
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• HOW MANY OF YOU APC/SLPP ARE NOT OR HAVE NIT ENJOYED... - Mahatma 04:26:00 03/04/08 (2)
o Re: HOW MANY OF YOU APC/SLPP ARE NOT OR HAVE NIT ENJOYED... - Kamara 05:52:38 03/04/08 (1)
Re: HOW MANY OF YOU APC/SLPP ARE NOT OR HAVE NIT ENJOYED... - Mahatma 06:24:52 03/04/08 (0)
• WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - Mahatma 01:45:40 03/04/08 (9)
o Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - KING LOGGY 02:04:11 03/04/08 (8)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - Mahatma 02:15:16 03/04/08 (7)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - mamie vamboi 05:03:06 03/04/08 (1)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - Mahatma 05:26:35 03/04/08 (0)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - KING LOGGY 02:45:47 03/04/08 (4)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - Ndakei 05:10:32 03/04/08 (1)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - Mahatma 05:30:51 03/04/08 (0)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - Mahatma 03:00:55 03/04/08 (1)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - KING LOGGY 03:13:57 03/04/08 (0)
• Dear Mr. President - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq 00:52:40 03/04/08 (3)
o Re: Dear Mr. President - Alieu Wait Fors 01:34:18 03/04/08 (2)
Re: Dear Mr. President - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq 02:18:14 03/04/08 (1)
Re: Dear Mr. President - Mahatma 02:49:45 03/04/08 (0)
• The case of the $52000.00 vehicle - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq. 00:32:14 03/04/08 (3)
o Re: The case of the $52000.00 vehicle - Nomoli 04:07:30 03/04/08 (1)
Re: The case of the $52000.00 vehicle (url) - george 04:38:04 03/04/08 (0)
o Re: The case of the $52000.00 vehicle - mistadocta 02:04:14 03/04/08 (0)
• Doctor shortage:Could Sierra Leone Replicate this program? (url) - Erica Adams 23:43:40 03/03/08 (1)
o Re: Doctor shortage:Could Sierra Leone Replicate this program? - mistadocta 02:10:19 03/04/08 (0)
• Candid-O's Logic - Mensa 23:43:32 03/03/08 (1)
o Re: Candid-O's Logic - Mahatma 01:41:34 03/04/08 (0)
• The Distance travelleved. Thie hie hie. (url) - Bambay Lans Kamara 21:50:42 03/03/08 (0)
• Issa Sesay wants Tejan Kabbah to testify!!! - Betty Milton 20:38:51 03/03/08 (0)
• For APC Thugs:AFTER BO...WHAT NEXT? - Peep 20:09:16 03/03/08 (0)
• The APC never heard of ECOWAP - Candid Opinion 18:56:34 03/03/08 (0)
• Education is the key (url) - Bambay Lans Kamara 17:19:07 03/03/08 (0)
• The Mistakes we make. (url) - Bambay Lans Kamara 17:13:10 03/03/08 (0)
• Deleted Posts - Moderator 16:24:14 03/03/08 (4)
o Re: Deleted Posts - POLITICAL 16:32:35 03/03/08 (3)
Re: Deleted Posts - Moderator 17:52:40 03/03/08 (2)
Re: Deleted Posts - Candid Opinion 18:29:19 03/03/08 (0)
Re: Deleted Posts - Political 17:59:20 03/03/08 (0)
• Please adhere to the new rules - Forum Prefect 15:33:36 03/03/08 (0)
• Phillip Neville's naked pictures of Sylvia Blyden. - Picture Perfect 15:21:38 03/03/08 (2)
o Re: Phillip Neville's naked pictures of Sylvia Blyden. - Mahatma 16:33:21 03/03/08 (1)
Re: Phillip Neville's naked pictures of Sylvia Blyden. - Candid Opinion 18:25:04 03/03/08 (0)
• To SLPP Extremists: The price of a coup is excecution - Jagboima 14:58:46 03/03/08 (16)
o Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Sylvia Who? 20:30:04 03/03/08 (1)
Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Mahatma 02:03:23 03/04/08 (0)
o Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Mahatma 16:36:03 03/03/08 (2)
Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Fan of Mahatma 16:46:33 03/03/08 (1)
Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Mahatma 02:07:20 03/04/08 (0)
o Re: To SLPP Extremists: The price of a coup is excecution - Salone Police 15:20:23 03/03/08 (10)
Re: To SLPP Extremists: The price of a coup is excecution - Be Real 15:38:01 03/03/08 (2)
Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Mahatma 04:17:22 03/04/08 (0)
Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Minkailu Johnson - Sannoh 17:42:45 03/03/08 (0)
Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY (pic) - Candid Opinion 15:36:05 03/03/08 (5)
Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY - What do you Know 16:14:26 03/03/08 (1)
Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY - Are you a moron? 16:31:53 03/03/08 (0)
Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY - TALIBAN MY FOOT! 15:49:21 03/03/08 (2)
Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Hate Language? 15:28:09 03/03/08 (0)
• ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage! - John E. Leigh 14:12:38 03/03/08 (6)
o Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotag - Yaya Fanusie 20:29:17 03/03/08 (0)
o Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage! - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq 20:25:59 03/03/08 (2)
Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage! - KING LOGGY 23:07:15 03/03/08 (1)
Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage! - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq 23:31:39 03/03/08 (0)
o Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage! - Eddie Grant 15:01:49 03/03/08 (1)
Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage! - John E. Leigh 16:50:26 03/03/08 (0)
• Was it fair or not to post the pictures of EBK - about awareness times post 13:59:07 03/03/08 (2)
o Re: Was it fair or not to post the pictures of EBK - Sam 15:16:32 03/03/08 (0)
o Re: Was it fair or not to post the pictures of EBK - Ginawah 14:24:18 03/03/08 (0)
• Govt Press Release - Dehunge 13:21:58 03/03/08 (1)
o Re: Govt Press Release - KPONIEGBOU 06:09:49 03/04/08 (0)
• Why the Economic Sabotage? - John Kargbo 13:16:59 03/03/08 (9)
o Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq 19:52:28 03/03/08 (1)
Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - Mannaski 21:24:06 03/03/08 (0)
o Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq 15:38:44 03/03/08 (2)
Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - John Kargbo 17:16:49 03/03/08 (1)
Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - John Kargbo 18:03:35 03/03/08 (0)
o Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - Mannaski 14:53:34 03/03/08 (3)
Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - Eddie Grant 15:12:01 03/03/08 (1)
Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - Mannaski 15:16:37 03/03/08 (0)
Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - SPELL CHECK 15:07:50 03/03/08 (0)
• Tribalism - Sierra leonean 12:27:50 03/03/08 (4)
o Re: Tribalism - Lucky Dube died for us all - Different Colors, One nation. 12:47:16 03/03/08 (2)
Re: Tribalism - ABK 13:12:05 03/03/08 (1)
Re: Tribalism - Question 14:04:28 03/03/08 (0)
• President George W. Bush doing the rub-a-dub style (url) - Cornelius Hamelberg 12:07:40 03/03/08 (0)
• PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - ABK 12:06:49 03/03/08 (6)
o Re: PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - Warning 12:21:00 03/03/08 (5)
Re: PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - ABK 12:28:28 03/03/08 (4)
Re: PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - Candid Opinion 12:44:29 03/03/08 (3)
Re: PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - ABK 12:57:27 03/03/08 (0)
Re: PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - Dehunge 12:52:55 03/03/08 (1)
Re: PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - Candid Opinion 13:05:43 03/03/08 (0)
• TREASON TRIAL FOR SLPP BIGS AND THEIR TITY SYLVIA! - Solution 11:41:13 03/03/08 (3)
o Re: TREASON TRIAL FOR SLPP BIGS AND THEIR TITY SYLVIA! - London Boy 12:00:34 03/03/08 (2)
Re: TREASON TRIAL FOR SLPP BIGS AND THEIR TITY SYLVIA! - Solution 12:19:36 03/03/08 (1)
Re: TREASON TRIAL FOR SLPP BIGS AND THEIR TITY SYLVIA! - minkailu johnson - sannoh 18:03:56 03/03/08 (0)
• GOOD ARTICLE (url) - Nar Me 11:16:55 03/03/08 (1)
o Re: GOOD ARTICLE (url) - Nar Me 15:27:04 03/03/08 (0)
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Subject: Post and Handles with Caps will be removed
From: Forum Prefect
To: All
Date Posted: 07:18:20 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
In a bid to enhance the outlook of our Cocorioko Forum forumites were asked to refrain from using caps. The new rule did not pose any problem for our rule abiding contributors.
We thank them for helping to give the forum an orderly look. For those allergic to rules, please be reminded that posts and handles with caps will simply be removed.
Subject: Re: Post and Handles with Caps will be removed
From: Good Bye
To: All
Date Posted: 07:56:07 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
It's a good thing for Cocorioko to enhance the outlook of this forum; and it is also a good thing for me to keep my trade mark name, KING LOGGY as it has been for over 10 years. I must say good bye now to all my cyber friends.
Subject: Re: Post and Handles with Caps will be removed
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 09:17:53 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Moderator, please accomodate King Loggy. He's one of our veterans and also one of those whose mothers were abused very obscenely everyday by the Lumley Beach.Com "Heroine" during our trying days when our forum was being flooded with porn and mammy cuss to bring it down. I also like to use Upper caps when writing my name. Permit him to use the same. However, King Loggy must obey your demand for lower caps when writing the title of his posts. I think your quest to present a decent forum to the world is justified and laudable. .
Subject: Re: Post and Handles with Caps will be removed
From: man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 13:15:37 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-96-240-15-68.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 96.240.15.68
Message:
Kabs, any news if I.B. Kargbo will be coming down to New Jersey. Thanks
Subject: Re: Post and Handles with Caps will be removed
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 07:24:36 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.249.160
Message:
Would it not be nice to have the post back for a limited duration for one to change the caps? Most of the stuff came from the mind and would prove time consuming to go over everything again. Some important and beneficial issues have all gone to waste because of a policy some are not aware. First time to know this.
Subject: Re: Post and Handles with Caps will be removed
From: Kabs Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 09:28:02 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
Mahatma,the issue will be dealt with in camera.The moderator will help to see if what you have asked could be done but you have to obey what he suggested because it is for everybody's good.
Another way we could help is to have those particular posts achived as soon as possible .But I am appealing to all forumites to be a little more patient.
The moderator is working hard to achive all our posts. The problem is that he has to process each and every post to remove the IP numbers which appear in archived posts. We have all your posts and we will archive them all, but we want to maintain your anonymity. You will not be happy if your posts appear in the archives with your IP numbers when we did not inform you ahead of time that we would do so. COCORIOKO protects the confidentiality and anonymity of its forumites.
Not a single post is missing.Everything is intact for historical purposes and for the perusal of posterity .
Subject: Re: Post and Handles with Caps will be removed
From: man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 13:12:02 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-96-240-15-68.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net at 96.240.15.68
Message:
Kabs, any idea if I.B. Kargbo will be coming to New Jersey?
Subject: Re: Post and Handles with Caps will be removed
From: Moderator
To: All
Date Posted: 10:34:13 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
Thanks Kabs. The ball is in Mahatma's court as I wait for him to send me his email address. I have checked the forum email a dozen times since I offered to forward the postings.
With regards to the caps issue, I visited the main board of our host company right after our convesation to take a peek at the outlook of the other forums. They all look like what have right now, with the exception of the SLLPP forum.
We need to emulate good standards were we to ever get out of the "wan place" syndrome that has haunted our livelihoods thus far, engage a "charity begins at home" attitude by showing good examples ourselves as we aim for higher heights.
The archives are all in perfect contition, as I embark on the uphill and tedious task in removing all the IP numbers. They will be up by the end of the day.
As for King Loggy. It's a regret to lose one of our brains. I did not ban him or say anything to run him off. Hopefully, he will change his mind and come back.
Cheers!
/Moderator
Subject: Re: Post and Handles with Caps will be removed
From: K.L
To: All
Date Posted: 14:15:31 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69
Message:
Moderator, indeed you did not ban me nor did you run me off. A personal decision was made that was intended to respect both forum rules and a login name that cannot be written with lower case letters.
I do not expect you to understand the rationale behind this but it's been like that for over 10 years.
Meanwhile, thanks to Kabs for requesting my continued use of the name as usual. However, no special priviledges for me. But for the love of the forum, I decided to retire that name from this forum but my presence is going to be felt here with a login name I have yet to decide on.
Subject: Re: Post and Handles with Caps will be removed
From: Moderator
To: All
Date Posted: 16:05:40 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
Having been acquainted with your mighty handle during the prehistoric SLIS days of Uncle Boizy, Nagoman, Tagondae Sagba (to name a few), and others gives me a more clear understanding of what this new order may mean to you.
I can relate because being left handed myself, fufu and bitter leaves never tasted the same after I was forced to eat with my right hand when growing up.
However, I can assure you the lack of taste will dissipate as soon as you get accustomed to the new standards. You will soon realize that the gems of your crown mean much more to us than its size.
Hopefully you will apply the good ol' Sa Lone "vex take nor vex leff" judgement to the situation, damn the stupid moderator, and return to your kingdom we all built together.
Cheers!
/Moderator
Subject: Re: Post and Handles with Caps will be removed
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 10:12:08 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.249.160
Message:
Thank your Rev. We will comply!
Subject: Re: Post and Handles with Caps will be removed
From: Moderator
To: All
Date Posted: 08:06:49 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-68-91-32-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 68.91.32.112
Message:
I definitely understand and empathize with your situation. Here’s what we can do. You may send your email address to: thenewsletter@hotmail.com, and have the deleted posts forwarded to you, so you can repost them. My schedule is as busy as anyone else’s or perhaps more, and therefore wont’t have the time to repost them. Sorry but hope this works out.
Subject: MODERATOR - WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE POST AFTER THE BELOW?
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 07:13:55 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 88.202.249.160
Message:
Moderator, what has happened to all the postings just after the one post by Apha Alieu?
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• HOW MANY OF YOU APC/SLPP ARE NOT OR HAVE NIT ENJOYED... - Mahatma 04:26:00 03/04/08 (2)
o Re: HOW MANY OF YOU APC/SLPP ARE NOT OR HAVE NIT ENJOYED... - Kamara 05:52:38 03/04/08 (1)
Re: HOW MANY OF YOU APC/SLPP ARE NOT OR HAVE NIT ENJOYED... - Mahatma 06:24:52 03/04/08 (0)
• WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - Mahatma 01:45:40 03/04/08 (9)
o Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - KING LOGGY 02:04:11 03/04/08 (8)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - Mahatma 02:15:16 03/04/08 (7)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - mamie vamboi 05:03:06 03/04/08 (1)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - Mahatma 05:26:35 03/04/08 (0)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - KING LOGGY 02:45:47 03/04/08 (4)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - Ndakei 05:10:32 03/04/08 (1)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - Mahatma 05:30:51 03/04/08 (0)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - Mahatma 03:00:55 03/04/08 (1)
Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER? - KING LOGGY 03:13:57 03/04/08 (0)
• Dear Mr. President - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq 00:52:40 03/04/08 (3)
o Re: Dear Mr. President - Alieu Wait Fors 01:34:18 03/04/08 (2)
Re: Dear Mr. President - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq 02:18:14 03/04/08 (1)
Re: Dear Mr. President - Mahatma 02:49:45 03/04/08 (0)
• The case of the $52000.00 vehicle - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq. 00:32:14 03/04/08 (3)
o Re: The case of the $52000.00 vehicle - Nomoli 04:07:30 03/04/08 (1)
Re: The case of the $52000.00 vehicle (url) - george 04:38:04 03/04/08 (0)
o Re: The case of the $52000.00 vehicle - mistadocta 02:04:14 03/04/08 (0)
• Doctor shortage:Could Sierra Leone Replicate this program? (url) - Erica Adams 23:43:40 03/03/08 (1)
o Re: Doctor shortage:Could Sierra Leone Replicate this program? - mistadocta 02:10:19 03/04/08 (0)
• Candid-O's Logic - Mensa 23:43:32 03/03/08 (1)
o Re: Candid-O's Logic - Mahatma 01:41:34 03/04/08 (0)
• The Distance travelleved. Thie hie hie. (url) - Bambay Lans Kamara 21:50:42 03/03/08 (0)
• Issa Sesay wants Tejan Kabbah to testify!!! - Betty Milton 20:38:51 03/03/08 (0)
• For APC Thugs:AFTER BO...WHAT NEXT? - Peep 20:09:16 03/03/08 (0)
• The APC never heard of ECOWAP - Candid Opinion 18:56:34 03/03/08 (0)
• Education is the key (url) - Bambay Lans Kamara 17:19:07 03/03/08 (0)
• The Mistakes we make. (url) - Bambay Lans Kamara 17:13:10 03/03/08 (0)
• Deleted Posts - Moderator 16:24:14 03/03/08 (4)
o Re: Deleted Posts - POLITICAL 16:32:35 03/03/08 (3)
Re: Deleted Posts - Moderator 17:52:40 03/03/08 (2)
Re: Deleted Posts - Candid Opinion 18:29:19 03/03/08 (0)
Re: Deleted Posts - Political 17:59:20 03/03/08 (0)
• Please adhere to the new rules - Forum Prefect 15:33:36 03/03/08 (0)
• Phillip Neville's naked pictures of Sylvia Blyden. - Picture Perfect 15:21:38 03/03/08 (2)
o Re: Phillip Neville's naked pictures of Sylvia Blyden. - Mahatma 16:33:21 03/03/08 (1)
Re: Phillip Neville's naked pictures of Sylvia Blyden. - Candid Opinion 18:25:04 03/03/08 (0)
• To SLPP Extremists: The price of a coup is excecution - Jagboima 14:58:46 03/03/08 (16)
o Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Sylvia Who? 20:30:04 03/03/08 (1)
Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Mahatma 02:03:23 03/04/08 (0)
o Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Mahatma 16:36:03 03/03/08 (2)
Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Fan of Mahatma 16:46:33 03/03/08 (1)
Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Mahatma 02:07:20 03/04/08 (0)
o Re: To SLPP Extremists: The price of a coup is excecution - Salone Police 15:20:23 03/03/08 (10)
Re: To SLPP Extremists: The price of a coup is excecution - Be Real 15:38:01 03/03/08 (2)
Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Mahatma 04:17:22 03/04/08 (0)
Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Minkailu Johnson - Sannoh 17:42:45 03/03/08 (0)
Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY (pic) - Candid Opinion 15:36:05 03/03/08 (5)
Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY - What do you Know 16:14:26 03/03/08 (1)
Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY - Are you a moron? 16:31:53 03/03/08 (0)
Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY - TALIBAN MY FOOT! 15:49:21 03/03/08 (2)
Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION - Hate Language? 15:28:09 03/03/08 (0)
• ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage! - John E. Leigh 14:12:38 03/03/08 (6)
o Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotag - Yaya Fanusie 20:29:17 03/03/08 (0)
o Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage! - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq 20:25:59 03/03/08 (2)
Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage! - KING LOGGY 23:07:15 03/03/08 (1)
Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage! - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq 23:31:39 03/03/08 (0)
o Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage! - Eddie Grant 15:01:49 03/03/08 (1)
Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage! - John E. Leigh 16:50:26 03/03/08 (0)
• Was it fair or not to post the pictures of EBK - about awareness times post 13:59:07 03/03/08 (2)
o Re: Was it fair or not to post the pictures of EBK - Sam 15:16:32 03/03/08 (0)
o Re: Was it fair or not to post the pictures of EBK - Ginawah 14:24:18 03/03/08 (0)
• Govt Press Release - Dehunge 13:21:58 03/03/08 (1)
o Re: Govt Press Release - KPONIEGBOU 06:09:49 03/04/08 (0)
• Why the Economic Sabotage? - John Kargbo 13:16:59 03/03/08 (9)
o Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq 19:52:28 03/03/08 (1)
Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - Mannaski 21:24:06 03/03/08 (0)
o Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - M. Alieu Iscandari Esq 15:38:44 03/03/08 (2)
Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - John Kargbo 17:16:49 03/03/08 (1)
Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - John Kargbo 18:03:35 03/03/08 (0)
o Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - Mannaski 14:53:34 03/03/08 (3)
Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - Eddie Grant 15:12:01 03/03/08 (1)
Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - Mannaski 15:16:37 03/03/08 (0)
Re: Why the Economic Sabotage? - SPELL CHECK 15:07:50 03/03/08 (0)
• Tribalism - Sierra leonean 12:27:50 03/03/08 (4)
o Re: Tribalism - Lucky Dube died for us all - Different Colors, One nation. 12:47:16 03/03/08 (2)
Re: Tribalism - ABK 13:12:05 03/03/08 (1)
Re: Tribalism - Question 14:04:28 03/03/08 (0)
• President George W. Bush doing the rub-a-dub style (url) - Cornelius Hamelberg 12:07:40 03/03/08 (0)
• PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - ABK 12:06:49 03/03/08 (6)
o Re: PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - Warning 12:21:00 03/03/08 (5)
Re: PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - ABK 12:28:28 03/03/08 (4)
Re: PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - Candid Opinion 12:44:29 03/03/08 (3)
Re: PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - ABK 12:57:27 03/03/08 (0)
Re: PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - Dehunge 12:52:55 03/03/08 (1)
Re: PAPA GOD PLEASE SEND US ANOTHER AGBA SATANI - Candid Opinion 13:05:43 03/03/08 (0)
• TREASON TRIAL FOR SLPP BIGS AND THEIR TITY SYLVIA! - Solution 11:41:13 03/03/08 (3)
o Re: TREASON TRIAL FOR SLPP BIGS AND THEIR TITY SYLVIA! - London Boy 12:00:34 03/03/08 (2)
Re: TREASON TRIAL FOR SLPP BIGS AND THEIR TITY SYLVIA! - Solution 12:19:36 03/03/08 (1)
Re: TREASON TRIAL FOR SLPP BIGS AND THEIR TITY SYLVIA! - minkailu johnson - sannoh 18:03:56 03/03/08 (0)
• GOOD ARTICLE (url) - Nar Me 11:16:55 03/03/08 (1)
o Re: GOOD ARTICLE (url) - Nar Me 15:27:04 03/03/08 (0)
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Subject: HOW MANY OF YOU APC/SLPP ARE NOT OR HAVE NIT ENJOYED...
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 04:26:00 03/04/08 ()
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...each other's largesses? Hypocrites and parasite so many of us are! let us think of the nation. I am SLPP but was not fortunate to ever enjoy the largesses of my party - I sometimes ask myself why? No reason I could find. fear perhaps? In the current APC, though I am not one of them I am having more fun and offers! What does that tell you? My subconscious will advice me! I am not going to change because I enjoy more under APC. The APC has a right to do that to all of us and should not think I owe them any allegiance, I will tell my subconscious. What was not done under the SLPP in looking after the best minds of tomorrow should be Ernest's grand design irrespective of party allegiance. Ernest is president of all Sierra leoneans. The APC should not hijack our president - that will be chaos - EBK needs to father all of us until the expiration of his time. By doing so, the country will reward him by placing him in the highest esteemed order ever imagined in the history of our country.
go to hell you hypocrites in the APC/SLPP!!
Subject: Re: HOW MANY OF YOU APC/SLPP ARE NOT OR HAVE NIT ENJOYED...
From: Kamara
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Date Posted: 05:52:38 03/04/08 ()
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Well said, Mahatma. Many of us suporting SLPP today did not benefit from the spoils of their govt over the past 11 years. Kabba purposely avoided the strong SLPP familly members not to be accused of favoritism. We support SLPP out of principle and for preservation of democracy,
Subject: Re: HOW MANY OF YOU APC/SLPP ARE NOT OR HAVE NIT ENJOYED...
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 06:24:52 03/04/08 ()
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Exactly kamara - "out of principle and for preservation of democracy". This is why we should try and shame some of these undemocratic elements who want to disturb our young democracy. they speak for themselves and not all SLPP. Their fists are clench for power to scatter our economy through their stealth machinery. We will not allow that. take the UK for instance - SLPP UK members are covertly trying to organised an election to elect only their kith and kin. The last executive has not been able to give account to all the paid memberships and sponsorships. Their game is in the knowledge of all and all are awaiting to disgrace them. kamara - the SLPP needs to be rooted of all the bad and selfish apples within. let it be a campaign. This will make them rethink their covert operations and fall in line with party policies. We are watching you guys!
Subject: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER?
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 01:45:40 03/04/08 ()
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I have been looking at two people who would bring normalcy in the SLPP - Dr. Kandeh Yumkella and Obai Kabia. As Dr. Kandeh is not too keen, I believe our hope is Obai Kabia, eldest son of late Madam Ella Koblo-Gulama. He can give back that which the SLPP lost in Kabba and ungrateful Berewa! What says my comrades?
Subject: Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER?
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 02:04:11 03/04/08 ()
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Obai Kabia may have a chance if he were born and or raised anywhere in the South or East. Do you know?
Anything less is a recipe for defacement.
Subject: Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER?
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 02:15:16 03/04/08 ()
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The mother was, I believe from the south - She was the Paramount Chief of Kaiyamba - she commands respect in the south- Honourable PC Madam Ella Koblo Gulama - some say Mende-Sherbro others pure mende (what is pure mende)
The father was from the north - port Loko - the great Bai Koblo Pathbana II - a Temne/Mande others say pure Temne (what is pure temne).
I believe he can be the new hope for a New SLPP. Obai, if you read this start tighening up as a call will come to you to lead the SLPP if Dr. kande Yumkella continues to be undecided.
Subject: Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER?
From: mamie vamboi
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Date Posted: 05:03:06 03/04/08 ()
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Time changes eh. This the same woman that SLPP treated like a nobody when she was alive. Today, its all praises because the ungreatful SLPP was to use her product. Please give us a break. Can you not find a mende child this agian?
Subject: Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER?
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 05:26:35 03/04/08 ()
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I do not like to be drawn into debates along tribal prejudice. I see myself as a Sierra Leonean first. origin from India but born in Sierra Leone - speak temne, mende, susu, a little limba and krio. I see myself first as a Sierra Leonean.
An individual's pristine character to me is what is more important when serving others. Many Sierra leoneans are very selfish and think only of their close knit. To have one and to behold a good pristine being i Sierra Leone is very hard to come by. To do with, we look for those that are moderate and can unite the country.
If a mende comes up and has the stamina to withstand the chores of leadership so be it. A tribe beautifies the whole.
No SLPP is trying to use the late Madam Koblo Gulam's product - it is his destiny and if that is the case allow it. Embrace it! pray for the better and not negativity. Mamie Vamboi, you disappoint me - Sierra Leone needs her sons and daughters. For the very reason you stated regarding the treatment of the late chieftess by a party her father helped founded should be a reward for the myopia in the negatives in the party. Do not be one of the negatives, transcend and grow above that by looking at the positive side to have a place among the positives.
Subject: Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER?
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 02:45:47 03/04/08 ()
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I know this much about his parents.
But indeed what is "pure" Temne or Mende?
Fact is, his genetic makeup and the environment he grew up will make the greatest difference towards his acceptability and electability.
Will he be considered a Temne because of his father?
Or will he be accepted because of his close ties to the people and their cultures?
Subject: Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER?
From: Ndakei
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Date Posted: 05:10:32 03/04/08 ()
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One thing you did not mention is his mother Kono backgroud. Do more research about their sando connection. They should be able to talk a bit about their grandmother who hails from kono. Pure mende my boot. If you are fit for the job let it be given to you period.
Subject: Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER?
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 05:30:51 03/04/08 ()
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It all adds up! Spices up! A man cutting across the North, South and East! Any knowledge of him cutting across from the Westside? This man will give EBK the ride of his life! The funny thing is the younger brother is the abled-lieutenant in the Health ministry of EBK's reform group. What would be his take on this? Where will his allegiance be? Sierra Leone will get better and better! the more the merrier!!
Subject: Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER?
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 03:00:55 03/04/08 ()
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In the motherland - it is a fact that his grandfather , Paramount Chief Julius Gulama worked relentlessly to bring people of all ethnic groups together. He supported and worked for the establishment of the BO Government School and was one of the founding members of the SLPP. After his death in 1953, Madam Gulama succeeded him as Paramount Chief of Kaiyamba Chiefdom. This is a clear manifestation of tolerance and leadership that I believe should be an embraced heritage for Obai kabia to follow.
The same can be said of his late father, all ethnics were present in the time of the great Ore rush - most workers in marampa were from the south and mendes. He cuts across - North and south.
During his years at the Un he did not forget his country. His presence was always felt within. He was helpful to people of his motherland and fatherland. I happen to know that the inter-tribal alliance of his mother and father saw a lot of people from the north inter-marrying in the south and such unions produced some of the best minds we have today - though they remain very silent on matters affecting us.
His nomination to the help of the SLPP leadership should see them come out and believe in the new Sierra Leone dream that I believe he should adopt if he was to be elected.
Subject: Re: WHAT SAYS THE SLPP TO ELECT OBAI KABIA AS LEADER?
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 03:13:57 03/04/08 ()
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Well, I wish him all the luck. Chances are he will become our very own Barack Obama.
Finally, thanks you very much for your time as it's after 4 am now in my neck of the woods.
Subject: Dear Mr. President
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 00:52:40 03/04/08 ()
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Remember when sama banya took thugs to Kailahun, and JB dauda's thugs burned down the SLPP headquarters in Kenema? Guess who got blamed? Yes sir you are right WE the APC got blamed. Please do not fall for that MO this time around. Rein in the Resident Minister Southern Province. Publically sanction him for his conduct in leading a group of thugs whom he couldnt control. He should be investigated. Please remember the phrase "NOT IN MY NAME". Do not allow ANYONE to drag your image in the dirt. I mean NO ONE
When the SLPP came to power guess who screamed the loudest about APC violence and Malfeasance? You guessed again right Mr. President it was "Puwawi Banya"
Subject: Re: Dear Mr. President
From: Alieu Wait Fors
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Date Posted: 01:34:18 03/04/08 ()
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Alieu, please don't condemn the Resident Minister before all the facts are in from Bo. I bet you when all is said and done, we will discover that the kiskas in Bo was a deliberate provocation by the antidemocratic SLPP extremos who are now crying foul after they have been scalded by hot water.
Granted, that highly incediary act with the President's portrait is an act of democracy, misguided as it was. However confronting those Jamba smokers was also an act of democracy. Nobody was killed, just a few slaps exchanged jaws. Big deal! In the States, defacing a campaign portrait or poster is a misdemeanour-- for the benefit of those who think that democracy means you can walk down the street, slapping everybody. Consequences and Newton's Third Law, my friend!
Subject: Re: Dear Mr. President
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:09:07 03/04/08 ()
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I lost a reasonable, sensible friend and country man a few days ago..
If by any chance you find him.. please tell him we miss him a whole lot..
His name is fen plaba..
I think the ariogbo's are haunting my friend.. he might need some exocising.. A few sprinkles of APC holly water might just do the trick..
Bra a few slaps...
Ever heard of assault..?
My friend fen plaba would not make an uninformed and willfully bias and malicious statement like this.
----we will discover that the kiskas in Bo was a deliberate provocation by the antidemocratic SLPP extremos who are now crying foul after they have been scalded by hot water-----
If by any chance you run into that Bombali grannat pikin.. let him know we on the other side care.
Subject: Re: Dear Mr. President
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 12:09:16 03/04/08 ()
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Candido, your brother has not gone away. Just taking a handle sabatical break. U know say me nar san-san boy. Just chilling and rejuvenating till I get back with a new hot salsa. For now imps and urchins mine are on some kind of school yard romp. I can't be too bad though because you, more than anyone else on the forum, knows my CSI pat down. Take care bro.
Subject: Re: Dear Mr. President
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 02:18:14 03/04/08 ()
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just a few slaps exchanged jaws
Man I am laffing but this is serious if you do believe that just a few slaps aginst the political opposition is "no big deal". Lets say I have become the keeper of the integrity ofthe APC. This time around, we intend to make sure that our leader and party is blameless and all those who are culpable get the blame. How bout that
Subject: Re: Dear Mr. President
From: Albert Sowie
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Date Posted: 17:28:07 03/04/08 ()
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Where was PMDC in Bo when this kuskas between APC and SLPP was taking place? Did they take sides with their estranged cousins the SLPP or were they with their new comrades the APC?
Politics is thicker than blood, I was reminded the other day.
Subject: Re: Dear Mr. President
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 02:49:45 03/04/08 ()
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Alpha, this is the real you!! Tell it as it is! No more hissing and kissing of a***s! You are indeed pa Iscandri's ball eye! Kudos for the reformation. With this kind of attitude, you will make your APC go far. Watch out though for Obai kabia in 2012 will come up with new strategies surpassing all for the benefit of the whole.
You make me feel proud! Indeed APC has begun unlocking the darkness that has clouded most of you. The sun will shine!
Subject: The case of the $52000.00 vehicle
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq.
To: All
Date Posted: 00:32:14 03/04/08 ()
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The case of the $52,000 SLRA vehicle
- Wednesday 30 January 2008.
Dear Editor,
There is a suspected deal involving the Director of Sheladia Associates Inc. in the U.S Mr. Caporia, the head of operations of CSE in Sierra Leone Mr. Diop and the out going Director General of the SLRA Mr. Kebbay.
Sheladia was awarded a supervision of works contract by the World Bank on a road project in Sierra Leone and Sheladia in turn awarded the road contract to CSE headed by Mr. Diop.
Sheladia bought the $52, 000.00 Toyota 4* Runner fully loaded in the US and shipped it to CSE in Sierra Leone for use in the contract. At the end of the contract the vehicle should have been handed over to the SLRA because it was bought by Sheladia from World Bank money allocated to the Sierra Leone Government under the SLRA.
The said vehicle was cleared by CSE in 1999/2000 but rather than use it for the contract for which it was purchased, it was kept by Mr Diop for the personal use of the outgoing SLRA Director General Mr Kebbay. The vehicle was neither used in the contract nor was it delivered to the SLRA.
What this means is that, Mr. Caporia of Sheladia, Mr. Diop of CSE and Mr. Kebbay of SLRA have utilized the sum of $52, 000.00 from funds borrowed by the Sierra Leone Government from the World Bank for use on road construction in the country and have secretly rewarded Mr. Kebbay with the said vehicle for future road contracts at the SLRA at the expense of the Sierra Leone Government.
Mr. Diop of CSE or his representative in Sierra Leone should be contacted and asked about the above vehicle and why it was not used on the contract. Also the ducuments used for the clearing of the vehicle should be requested.
2. The outgoing Director General Mr. Kebbay should be contacted and asked about the whereabouts of the vehicle.
3.Mr. Caporia of Sheladia should also be contacted and asked about the vehicle and the purpose for which it was purchased.
Yours Sincerely,
A Concerned Citizen.
Culled from Patriotic vanguard
Subject: Re: The case of the $52000.00 vehicle
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:01:30 03/04/08 ()
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Leh the case warm...
I think Mr Kebbey
Diop et al have a case to answer..
If they are not found wanting.. its a good way to clear the foul air around their names..
Especially Kebbey..
He spent a while at SLRA and i would have expected that peninsular rd to be his lasting legacy.. but woyang..
Subject: Re: The case of the $52000.00 vehicle
From: Nomoli
To: All
Date Posted: 04:07:30 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: cbalagu@yahoo.com
Entered From: adsl-76-192-157-37.dsl.wotnoh.sbcglobal.net at 76.192.157.37
Message:
Where were you when your daddy was over bidding on contracts at PWD or when he was mismanaging the Tourism Dept? You were content that it was your father that was doing the stealing so you kept your big mouth shut. Your family should not be the only one to benifit from the ill- gotten wealth from Sierra Leone, there are other crooked families that are in competition with yours. We trust that you would keep exposing your competitions. AYAMPEE
Subject: Re: The case of the $52000.00 vehicle
From: george
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Date Posted: 04:38:04 03/04/08 ()
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you jus cuss da man for nartin. he respoted the article from Patriotic Vanguard and gave credit to them at the bottom of the article. check the link below
Subject: Re: The case of the $52000.00 vehicle
From: truth now
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Date Posted: 07:46:01 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: truthnow@msn.com
Entered From: gate4-norfolk.nmci.navy.mil at 138.162.0.44
Message:
I do not think it is fair to attack Alieu for the good deeds or the bad deeds of his father. This politics of personal destruction must stop on both sides. I am a slpp supporter but I dont just go attacking people baseless. we are one country.
Subject: Re: The case of the $52000.00 vehicle
From: mistadocta
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Date Posted: 02:04:14 03/04/08 ()
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Message:
http://www.anticorruptionsl.org/
Subject: Doctor shortage:Could Sierra Leone Replicate this program?
From: Erica Adams
To: All
Date Posted: 23:43:40 03/03/08 ()
Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com
Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235
Message:
Check out the link to see what Israel has done to attract its own to come practice medicine.
Subject: Re: Doctor shortage:Could Sierra Leone Replicate this program?
From: mistadocta
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Date Posted: 02:10:19 03/04/08 ()
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There is no economic base for this type of endeavour in Sierra Leone.However,there are are some creative ways we could look at......
Subject: Candid-O's Logic
From: Mensa
To: All
Date Posted: 23:43:32 03/03/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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Reading through the "Coup" debate below, it is apparent that there's an outrightly hypocritical line of debate that Candid-O is following! This guy was quick to spring up in defence of "Freedom of Speech" when the cartoons were posted. So, why fail to do the same when someone gave the legal consequences of a coup. Is it that, his national conscouslness only comes into question when the consequence of a coup was mentioned, but he finds freedom-of-speech pride in his country's president being "ridiculed"? What a nationalistic sense of humour!
Subject: Re: Candid-O's Logic
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 01:41:34 03/04/08 ()
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The "coup" is a figment of schizophrenic APC twarts. It is scare-mongering - no one will make a coup - they will not succeed and will not be accepted - nationally and internationally. Stop the scare and fear mongering!!
Let the president and his men do their work. If he does and many of us see him transforming the image of the country and his entire team including himself, my likes would not mind declaring our unconditional support. I want to see progress!
Subject: Re: Candid-O's Logic
From: Mensa
To: All
Date Posted: 07:42:00 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
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Mahatma, you really don't seem to get the line of my argument, or rather, the area of my emphasis. I am trying to express my disappointment towards Candid-O's bias reaction. He seems to sing nationalism at very high pitch when the 'Coup' was mentioned eventhoug you and I know that it's just a scare, as you rightly pointed out. I would have liked to see the same reaction that Candid-O expressed earlier in support of 'Freedom of Speech' when the cartoons were posted. Even a "scare" is a Freedom of Speech if we are to judge on the same premise!
Looking at it from another angle, you might even want to give credit to the fact that, the "Coup" statement is not only cautionary, it is infact in response to a previous satanic action. You can't condone one and condemn the other! The "Fitna" started from the Cartoons and their ensuing negative ramifications!
In Arabic we say: Al-Fitna Ashadu Min-Al Qatl!
Subject: Re: Candid-O's Logic
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 08:40:00 03/04/08 ()
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To this effect, i can say..
There are laid down laws.. and consequences for breaking those laws..
If you are a coupist.. you better make sure you succeed.. or your freedom of speech, expressions and the right to bear arms will have have a noose around thier necks..
Now.. if you does succeed..
Well, a quick suspension of the laws and constitution and opposition is all it takes to twart that all mighty clause in our daily lives called breaking the law..
My statement was not hypocritical..
I did not jump on the thread you mentioned because the writer was talking about a coup. I did defend my stance on coups..
I got on the thread because the writer (culmunatively) had been building up a crecesdo of vex and venom directed at those who oppose the APC or the APC stance on the recent broohaha's in our nation.
Thats it..
If and when we have laws against cartoons and satire..
I see no reason to break them and not expect to be punished..
I am of the mindset you should know the time before you attempt the crime.. and if you still decide that the odds are in your favor.. go for it..
If there is any more clarification you require..
I am here all day.
Subject: Re: Candid-O's Logic
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 13:12:48 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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From a strictly legal perspective, Candid-O, you could be right, notwithstanding! It's pretty cool reading your legal logic. But there's something else to this debate than imported written laws. I don't need to memorize the rules and laws sheepishly enshrined in our country's constitution by some piggish white blokes for me to be able to identify a myopic and unjustified attack against the Head of State of my country.
Admittedly, there's indeed a great chunk of the law that is designed for the good of mankind, but certainly, there is also a sizeable portion of it that outrightly contradicts our cultural and traditional doctrines. You might agree with me, if you please, that it will be dangerous to swallow it wholesale!
Take for instance the 18-year maturity mandate erroneously bestowed on teenagers in the west. That hardly operates in the SL tradition eventhough it might be conviniently lodged in the constitution.
The majority of our people look at life from culturally-tinted glasses. We judgeand approve of actions/behavious according to our cultural background! Scr*w the "Gitmo" rules!
Subject: Re: Candid-O's Logic a case study.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 14:41:48 03/04/08 ()
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Would it be taboo to bitch slap the bishop and 3 foot him and give him a good ass whooping?
Or is this one of those our African taboo's or respect structure where a man of god should not be touched?
Even if i catch him been horizontal with my wife..?
---------Culled from allafrica.com
Bishop of the United Methodist Church (UMC) yesterday denied allegation made by some members of his congregation that he slapped one Samuel Jackey last week Sunday during a service at the Baughman Methodist Church, Brookfields in Freetown.
JC Humper allegedly slapped Jackey during a service to mark UMC's annual conference and the incident was said to have caused the church to close session for a moment until police intervened to quell the disorderliness.
When contacted, Samuel Jackey explained thus: "I was holding the keyboard when the Bishop gave me a nasty slap. I went off when he publicly slapped me. Blood oozed from my mouth and my lips were swollen." For his next line of action, Jackey said he will complain the Bishop to church elders before making a formal report to the police.
A woman who claimed to be an eyewitness but preferred to be mentioned under anonymity said she saw the bishop when he slapped Jackey and suggested he should apologize to the church instead of denying it. "It was really embarrassing to see Bishop stand up and punch one of the instrumentalists," she said.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200802280777.html
Subject: Re: Candid-O's Logic
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 14:07:44 03/04/08 ()
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Inconsistencies exists in our daily lives.. from religion to culture & tradition to economics..
Taboos are meant to be broken and i am wholeheartedly glad that this one has been broken..
It might have been unjustified.. but the article that went with the image explained the mindset of the writer at the time it was been penned..
It was a demystifier and an attempt to take the woshipness out of EBK as the writer states..
Some of our cultures and traditiond that does the most harm to our society and collective way of life should be shined with the spotlight.. not this..
Eg:
Bra, bra.. you borbor dem day..BAD
Nor fityeye you elders...BAD
Government NOT passing the freedom of information act..BAD
FGM/BONDO..BAD
Economic crimes..BAD
Teachers and school kids having sex..BAD
Kasanovaism in salone..(infidelity) ..BAD
These are issues that are kiling our society that we should give a voice.. not ekebe super style drawings of EBK..
Subject: The Distance travelleved. Thie hie hie.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 21:50:42 03/03/08 ()
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Name: #2 Warren Buffett
Education: University of Nebraska Lincoln, Bachelor of Arts / Science
Columbia University, Master of Science
Net Worth: $52.0 billion (DOLLARS)
Fortune: self made.
And they sa they love him!
Unbusiness minded.
Thie hie hie.
Subject: Issa Sesay wants Tejan Kabbah to testify!!!
From: Betty Milton
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Date Posted: 20:38:51 03/03/08 ()
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The first accused of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), Issa Hassan Sesay, has filed a document requesting an order to subpoena former president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah to give a pre-testimonial interview and after which he will testify in his defence.
According to the document filed to the count by the lead counsel of the accused, Wayne Jordash, the purpose of the evidence of the ex- president is to establish the fact that the accused did not order an attack or coordinate attacks against UNAMSIL troops.
Urging that, “Kabbah has full knowledge of the innocence of Issa Sesay in this regard; he has refused to cooperate and ought in the interest of justice be compelled.”
It was further stated that during the incarceration of Foday Sankoh, by the Sierra Leone government, Issa Sesay directed all activities of the RUF and thereafter maintained the continuance of the widespread attacks during relevant time as stated in the indictment.
The defence argued that Issa Sesay did not plan, instigate, order, commit, or otherwise be in the planning, preparations, or execution of any of the alleged crimes against the UNAMSIL troops and also the accused did not fail to prevent or punish any subordinate for any of the aforementioned crimes.
The defence also submitted that the accused played no role in the attacks on the UNAMSIL troops within the northern region, stressing that during these attacks Mr Sesay was located within the Koidu axis when news of the attack was made known to him and he had to travel to Makeni to ascertain the security situation.
“Mr Sesay was not acting on the orders of either Foday Sankoh or any other superior authority when he took charge of the UNAMSIL troops within the Makeni axis nor when he removed them safely of Kono.
The Issa Sesay defence also submitted on the issue of the evidence of the former president, they stressed that the president knew there was a deliberate governmental/United Nations policy to ensure that Foday Sankoh could not give orders to any RUF commander nor to Johnny Paul Koroma concerning what should happen to the UNAMSIL troops or RUF activities in the country as it was alleged by the prosecution in the indictment.
“So [ex-president] Kabbah knows Issa could not have taken orders from Foday Sankoh at this time or during the remainder of the indictment period. Hence Mr Sesay could not have been receiving orders to continue any widespread attacks between April and 15th September 2000,”the defense team stated.
Due to all of these factors, Issa Sesay’s defence stated further that there was every need for the former president to testify on behalf of the accused.
It was revealed also that the defence has made several attempts to meet with ex-president Kabbah but to no avail.
It will be recalled that this is not the first request made a Special Court indictee to subpoena ex-president Kabbah. The first was made by late Hinga Norman, first accused of the Civil Defence Forces (CDF), and the second accused Moinina Fofanah and now Issa Sesay.
Subject: Re: Issa Sesay wants Tejan Kabbah to testify!!!
From: fair play
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Date Posted: 07:49:26 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: fairplay@msn.com
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ok we know acts of babarisms was commited by both sides. let them pay the price. enough with tryign to let people go because they family members supported you.
Subject: For APC Thugs:AFTER BO...WHAT NEXT?
From: Peep
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Date Posted: 20:09:16 03/03/08 ()
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AFTER BO...WHAT NEXT?
Monday, March 03, 2008 - FRONT PAGE
The vast majority of Sierra Leoneans, and this includes those who voted SLPP in last year’s elections, have put Politics on the back burner for now. Their main concern is the Economy; feeding and fending for themselves and their families.
Lunatic Fringe
Yet the SLPP has a lunatic extremist fringe that still believes - and wants the nation to believe - that the Elections 2007 matter is still a Live issue. Let’s make a few things clear to them right away. The Elections are over. Done with. Whether you like him or loathe him, Ernest Bai Koroma is president of the Republic of Sierra Leone. This constitutional order will continue until 2012; because it is the will of the majority that it be so. There will be no coups, insurrections or conspiracies that will change that fact.
Given our recent past, only a madman could seriously contemplate extra-constitutional methods of changing the Democratic Order... These SLPP extremists may sit and grumble over their beers in tiny bars; but they know, themselves, that any attempt to shake the Democratic Order will attract penalties they are not willing to pay.
Remember the AFRC and its collaborators torn limb from limb by the angry masses? Well, we can guaranteed that this will look like a Sunday picnic compared with what will happen to those who attempt to disrupt the present Constitutional Order and the established government.
That said, the recent incident in Bo demonstrates the fragility of our political institutions and the immaturity of some of those picked to run them. What Business Had He? Why, in Heaven’s Name, would the Regional Minister (South), Musa Tarawallie decide to paint Bo’s Clock Tower in Red and White (APC colours) to ‘welcome’ the President to Njala’s convocation?
Indeed what business does the Resident Minister(South) have to do with Bo’s Clock Tower; when Bo has a Town Council elected by the people of Bo? We’d be very interested to know from which vote or budget money was appropriated to buy paint and pay labour for their exercise...
Silly Act Does Not Change The Fact. The painting of Ernest Koroma’s portrait Green was a silly, childish act - well worthy of the SLPP’s Lunatic Fringe. You can deface his portrait and paint it Green, Yellow or Purple.. it makes no difference to the reality on the ground. Ernest Koroma is President of Sierra Leone(and that includes Bo, Kailahun and other so-called SLPP strongholds).
To add recklessness to stupidity, the attack on the SLPP offices in Bo by ‘youth’ associated with the APC only poured petrol on the flames. The SLPP is a legally registered political party. It cannot be held accountable, without firm evidence, for the misguided actions of its Lunatic Fringe.
If anyone had proof that the SLPP planned the disfiguring of Ernest Koroma’s portrait - then a complaint should have been made to the Police. It is not the job of the APC or the Resident Minister, to behave like vigilantes. That is unacceptable. It is not in conformity with our Democratic Society - or, we are sure, President Koroma’s wishes.
Given all the information at our disposal, the Police, we believed, acted wisely by taking senior SLPP officials and Town Councillors into ‘protective custody’. We can only thank God no innocent lives were lost in this stupid escapade. A word of warning to the Resident Minister. Your job is not to inflame tensions in your region - but to pacify them.
Some months ago, Dr. Ibrahim Abdullah, a respected academic, argued that there was no real need for ‘regional’ ministers anyway; given that a local government system is in place and at least functioning(badly) all over the country...
President Koroma’s choice of Musa Tarawallie, a former SLPP loyalist, was perhaps meant to paper over political cracks. But it appears Tarawallie, with a convert’s zeal, wants to demonstrate he is real APC; by antagonizing people in the South. That’s not his job. If his continued presence in office proves to be a destabilizing rather than a healing factor... then isn’t it time for him to get the Presidential Boot?
Subject: The APC never heard of ECOWAP
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 18:56:34 03/03/08 ()
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Almost sounds like e go wap.. if u shake..?
Anyways to seriousness..
Awoko is reporting that we invited some of our brothers to the south to come see how we do farming and how those produce are sold in the region and overseas...
2 points caught my candid eye in light of the past weeks heated debates..
1) ECOWAS Department of Agriculture??
----Does our government know we are members and signatory to this?
2) It targets three major areas of intervention with the objective of boosting production, improving food availability, enhancing the competitiveness of regional agriculture, integrating markets for agricultural products and improving access of regional farmers to the international market..
----enhancing the competitiveness of regional agriculture, integrating markets for agricultural products and improving access of regional farmers to the international market.
Isn't this what poor farmers are doing when they are accussed of smuggling..?Accessing international markets?
----Culled from awoko (best salone newspaper imho)
Southern African community to learn about ECOWAS agricultural policy
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A delegation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will arrive at the ECOWAS Commission today to undertake a study of the ECOWAS Common Agricultural Policy (ECOWAP).
Regional leaders approved ECOWAP in 2005 as a mechanism for the coordinated development of agriculture in the region. It targets three major areas of intervention with the objective of boosting production, improving food availability, enhancing the competitiveness of regional agriculture, integrating markets for agricultural products and improving access of regional farmers to the international market.
The 14-member SADC is in the process of developing a similar policy for countries in its region. The visit of the four-member delegation will therefore enable the delegation to learn from the ECOWAS experience in the implementation of the policy.
Officials of the ECOWAS Department of Agriculture will brief the delegation, which also includes a consultant from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) that recommended ECOWAP to the SADC during the visit. They will then meet with key officials, including the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas.
During the four-day tour, they will also visit two big farms in Nigeria, including that of the former Nigerian President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.
They also reiterated their commitment to the development dimension of the EPA, which should translate into effective implementation of programmes that address the regions development and resource mobilization concerns.
To this end, they underscored the need for improvement of the productive sectors in the agricultural, industrial, cottage industry and service sectors; the development of infrastructure (energy, roads, railways); the upgrading of enterprise the building of the capacities of the private sector and facilitation of its access to financial resources; Compensation for losses of tax revenues.
These were the decisions of the two-day extraordinary session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee (MMC) comprising Ministers of Trade in ECOWAS and Mauritania held in Nouakchott on 20th and 21st February 2008.
At the opening of the meeting, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, recalled the mandate of the Heads of State and Government at their summit held in Ouagadougou on 18th January 2008 for the ministers to prepare an appropriate regional framework for the EPA. They are also expected to put forward proposals for resolving the outstanding issues in order to facilitate the adoption of a single Common External Tariff.
In line with this mandate, the ECOWAS and UEMOA Commissions are expected to lend support to Ghana and Cote d Ivoire in the finalization of their negotiations on the interim agreements initialed with the European Union and ensure that they are consistent with the commitments taken under the regional integration process.
The ministers decided to speed up the costing of the development programmes required to equip the region for the EPA and agreed to establish coherence between the areas covered by such programmes and the EPA Regional Fund.
They directed the ECOWAS and UEMOA Commissions to assess the net fiscal and economic impact of the EPA and identity priorities in terms of support to the negotiations, with a view to building the regions offer capacities.
Following the recent negotiations with the European Union, progress was made in the establishment of coherence between some provisions of the interim agreements initialed by Cote D Ivoire and Ghana and the regional concerns Both Commissions will continue to support and monitor these interim agreements on the outstanding issues.
The agreements will cease to exist upon signature of the comprehensive agreement. After underscoring the linkage between the Common External Tariff (CET) and the EPA, the meeting also agreed that a single tariff regime should be established for the region and reaffirmed the urgent need for the activities on the CET to be completed not later than 30th June 2008.
They further agreed that the comprehensive regional agreement be concluded by June 2009, at the latest, in line with the schedule adopted in Ouagadougou in December 2007.
http://awoko.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=2081&cntnt01returnid=15
Subject: Inciting Tribal Violence---Notice To The Cocorioko
From: Washington Insider
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Date Posted: 18:53:47 03/03/08 ()
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For the information of all forum participants, and the Cocorioko Board, this website and forum are being forwarded to the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for promoting hate speech and the incitement of civil wars in a fragile State and sub-region. A due warning was issued to the Board to discourage such a dangerous development, but to no avail. In recent times, we have seen a surge in the hate speech and attacks against ethnic groups such as the Fulahs, Creoles and now the Mendes. As a result, this online news and hate outlet be listed with the United States Government as a source of hate speech, and the breeding of civil unrest in the West African sub-region.
Please also not that those who participate in the promotion of violence and instability in the sub-region will now be databased, traced and brought to justice. This includes violators both within and without the United States.
Subject: Re: Inciting Tribal Violence---Notice To The Cocorioko
From: Supporter
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Date Posted: 19:17:20 03/03/08 ()
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Thanks. I will also start making an archive of inciting statements and forward accordingly just when when Kabs stands accused as facilitator and in some cases calling for the persecution of members of ethnic groups and the political opposition
Subject: INCITING TRIBAL VIOLENCE---NOTICE TO THE COCORIOKO BOARD
From: Washington Insider
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Date Posted: 18:28:36 03/03/08 ()
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FOR THE INFORMATION OF ALL FORUMITES, AND THE COCORIOKO BOARD, THIS WEBSITE AND FORUM ARE BEING FORWARDED TO THE UNITES STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, THE STATE OF DEPARTMENT, AND THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, FOR PROMOTING HATE SPEECH AND THE INCITEMENT OF CIVIL WARS IN A FRAGILE STATE---SIERRA LEONE. A DUE WARNING WAS GIVEN THE BOARD TO DISCOURAGE THIS DEVELOPMENT, BUT THERE WAS NO EFFORT ON THE BOARD'S PART. WE HAVE SEEN AN INCREASE IN THE ATTACKING AND BASHING OF FULAHS, CREOLES AND NOW IT IS THE MENDES. THIS ONLINE PAPER AND FORUM WILL BE LISTED WITH THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS A SOURCE OF HATE SPEECH AND THE BREEDING OF CIVIL WARS IN THE WEST AFRICAN SUBREGION. PLEASE ALSO BE MINDFUL THAT THOSE WHO ARE PROMOTING SUCH HATRED AND UNREST BY POSTING HATE MESSAGES, FROM NOW ON WILL BE DATABASED BY THE GOVERNMENT, WHETHER SUCH VIOLATORS ARE WITHIN OR WITHOUT THE UNITED STATES. THEY WILL BE EVENTUALLY BE TRACED AND BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
Subject: Education is the key
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:19:07 03/03/08 ()
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Julie Suzanne Chen (born January 6, 1970) is an American television personality, news anchor, journalist, and producer for CBS, and is the wife of Leslie Moonves. She has 12 years of newscasting experience. She is best known for co-anchoring CBS's The Early Show, alongside Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez and for hosting the U.S. version of Big Brother since its debut in July 2000.
Chen's mother grew up in Rangoon, Burma, where Chen's grandfather was a leading industrialist. Her father was born in China and was one of the top leaders in the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek. Consequently, her family moved everywhere in China, eventually fleeing to Taiwan. Chen was born in Queens, New York.
Chen attended Junior High School 194 in Queens, where she was voted "Most Intelligent and Most Likely to Succeed." She graduated high school in 1987 from St. Francis Prep after having failed entrance exams for Bronx High School of Science, the school her older sisters attended. She attended the University of Southern California and graduated in 1991 with a major in broadcast journalism and in English. One of her earlier jobs came in June of 1989, at CBS Morning News--the series which she would anchor a decade later--where she answered phones and copied faxes for distribution. The following year, while still in school, she worked for ABC NewsOne for one season as a desk assistant. She was subsequently promoted to work as a producer for the next three years. The following year, she traveled to Dayton, Ohio to work as a newsanchor for WDTN-TV, from 1995 to 1997.
From 1999 to 2002, Chen was the anchor of both early-morning shows, CBS Morning News & The Early Show, alongside Bryant Gumbel and Jane Clayson. Since 2002, she has been a co-host for The Early Show on CBS. Before CBS News she was a reporter and weekend anchor at WCBS-TV in New York City.
Subject: The Mistakes we make.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:13:10 03/03/08 ()
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Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the flagship evening news program of the NBC television network. Williams replaced Tom Brokaw on December 2, 2004. Previously, Williams was the network's chief White House correspondent and host of The News with Brian Williams on CNBC and MSNBC. In 2007, Williams was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. He lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with his wife, Jane Stoddard Williams, and one of their two children.
Early life and career
The son of a business executive, Williams was raised in a comfortable middle class home. In his childhood his family moved from his birth place, Elmira, New York, to Middletown, New Jersey. He graduated from Mater Dei High School, a Roman Catholic high school in the New Monmouth section of Middletown.[1] While in high school, he was a volunteer firefighter for three years at the Middletown Township (New Jersey) Fire Department. After high school, he attended Brookdale Community College, before transferring to George Washington University, and then to the Catholic University of America.[2] He did not graduate, instead taking an internship with the administration of President Jimmy Carter. He now calls leaving college one of his "great regrets." In 2004, he returned to Catholic University and gave the commencement address.
______________________________________________________
Hold himdown!
Subject: Deleted Posts
From: Moderator
To: All
Date Posted: 16:24:14 03/03/08 ()
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PLease be informed that latest deletions were because of the caps and nothing else. Give the rules a chance.
Cheers! /Moderator
Subject: Re: Deleted Posts
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 16:32:35 03/03/08 ()
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Yeah, but you left this one. Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY. I dont think the Subject line been in caps should be a problem.
Subject: Re: Deleted Posts
From: Moderator
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Date Posted: 17:52:40 03/03/08 ()
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I started by editing the headline but stopped short of going all the way with it because of the thread metamorphosed to "Talibanization...", and there wasn’t much I could do because of the coding.
You opinion respected but be reminded that these rules were put in place to enhance the forum and not meant to curb your enjoyment. Hopefully you'll consider decapitalizing your handle next time you post to avoid breaking the rules.
Cheers!
/Moderator.
Subject: Re: Deleted Posts
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 18:29:19 03/03/08 ()
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Heheheheh...tell am..
Complaining about me breaking the rules while breaking the rules..
As randy jackson kin say...
"What's up with that dawg"?
Subject: Re: Deleted Posts
From: political
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Date Posted: 17:59:20 03/03/08 ()
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Yes sir!
Subject: Who is the real Tribalist
From: Real Culprit
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Date Posted: 16:09:27 03/03/08 ()
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Kabs-Kanu is th ereal tribalist on this forum. This guy hates Mende's so much that he would allow all bigotted statments about Mendes but make one statement against Temnes he deletes it. This is what happens when a Loko man sells his birth right to Foday Mansaray. I would bet if anyone writes anything cloes to what they have been writing against Mendes on this forum, Kabs would delete it. The man is a hypocrite
Subject: Re: Who is the real Tribalist
From: Watasai Stone
To: All
Date Posted: 16:57:05 03/03/08 ()
Email Address: laj201@aol.com
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You are speaking nothing but the truth my brother.
Subject: Re: Who is the real Tribalist
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 16:26:21 03/03/08 ()
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Sam u sef get problem eh? Why sa lone man so obsessed with tribalism tok?
Subject: Re: Who is the real Tribalist
From: Kalokalo
To: All
Date Posted: 16:38:14 03/03/08 ()
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Nor men di Swegbeh. Real Culprit, you are a disgrace to the human race. We will not allow fulsome idiots like you to insult Kabs. I am tired of you scoundrels that cowardly cover yourself with the cop-out cloth of tribalism everytime you get squeezed in an argument. Argue like a man! Meh God Sorry for You Kondoe Bracket!
Subject: SLPP SHOULD STOP SECTIONALISM PROPAGANDA.
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 16:07:01 03/03/08 ()
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First, I will never expect any sierra leonean to forment tribal trouble for the country at this time. Sectionalism or tribalism is not something one can instigate because the country is so diversed that one who tries to forment such anarchy may unknowingly hurt the very people he claims to support. The danger is that most of us belong to multiple tribes at the same time. So, who do you think I'm going to fight for or against when you forment such problem?
Those who are living right here in the US and try to cause another unnecessary problem back home will not go unpunished this time. Be warned!
Subject: CORRUPTION IS TO APC, AS APC IS TO CORRUPTION..
From: ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
To: All
Date Posted: 15:55:09 03/03/08 ()
Email Address: SAIDUBANGSO@AOL.COM
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Fellow Sierra Leoneans, let not your hearts be troubled,because the APC(under President Koroma) will never be corrupt free.Please, do not forget that the APC was founded on corrupt practices and therefore, it will always have people with records that will show gross corruption.
I am most respectfully begging all well meaning Sierra Leoneans not to listen to President Koroma nor Alieu Iscandari(because both of them benefited from APC corruption). They can not run or hide from their clear public records).
There is no way in this world that President Ernest Koroma will appoint people with clean proven records to hold positions in his administration because that is not what his party stands for.
I call on all the peoples of my country, to join me in praying the "God saves our nation from the MOST SATANIC POLITICAL GROUP CALLED, THE A.P.C..Amina.
Subject: Re: CORRUPTION IS TO APC, AS APC IS TO CORRUPTION..
From: Solution
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Date Posted: 16:03:54 03/03/08 ()
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Youse a crase man. Very stoopid and very ilitarate. And youse a rebel and a fake alpha man. When Slpp was in powers you never opose them for crimes against rice, crimes against bolgoh, and crimes agenst good job and oportunities. Now Apc is in power you wrap your peeOtoe in nuts! That is bad ting Morray man.
God go ponish you Alpha Saidu for bad hart politics.
God go ponish you for all the bolgoh and Gadafi rice for poor pikins, the SLPP stealed and you gets share of.
Subject: Re: CORRUPTION IS TO APC, AS APC IS TO CORRUPTION..
From: The Guy
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Date Posted: 16:03:26 03/03/08 ()
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Why don't you denounce your citezenship for the moment if you feel as such of the current democratically elected government. I am not sure any one person is listening to you... so you are better of getting lost for the next 4 yrs better yet 12!
Subject: Please Keep to the Rules
From: Forum Prefect
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Date Posted: 15:33:36 03/03/08 ()
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No caps please or contributions will be deleted.
Subject: Phillip Neville's naked pictures of Sylvia Blyden.
From: Picture Perfect
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Date Posted: 15:21:38 03/03/08 ()
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Since we are all stout defenders of press freedom and are commendatory of Sylvia Blyden for desecrating and animalizing the picture of President Koroma, I hope y'all don't mind if we publish the nasty naked picture of Sylvia Blyden that got Phil Neville in trouble.
And since the SLPP Kakatowers are slapping their thighs impishly at Sylvia's provocations, let's see how they love it when the frightful nakedness of their heroine, Sylvia Blyden, is shown in stark living color. We plan to do so in one of the local Freetown papers very soon. Behold the Gorgon! I await the pornographic hypocrisy from the SLPP miasma when this happens.
Subject: Re: Phillip Neville's naked pictures of Sylvia Blyden.
From: Mahatma
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Date Posted: 16:33:21 03/03/08 ()
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You have every right to show us such. There is nothing sinister about exposing a two-faced lying character - if your claims are authentic. Go on - show us the naked pictures - the more the merrier. Democracy at work!! If you live in a glass house do not throw stones!!
Subject: Re: Phillip Neville's naked pictures of Sylvia Blyden.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 18:25:04 03/03/08 ()
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I might even download it and send to playboy for there halloween issue...
And tell them that we don't breed softies and victoria secret wearing wenches...
Traga yace kroo bombor wearing female, one of a kind..
It might just hit the front page and give everyone a nightmare...
But i ole her bomb though, no joke.. she is a steadfast and strong one.. If only in my heart i could forgive her for her ninja stint...i think i would have more respect for her..
Subject: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION
From: Jagboima
To: All
Date Posted: 14:58:46 03/03/08 ()
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This is a very serious warning to the treasonous saboteurs of the SLPP who scream like crocodiles about democracy but fight like hyenas to overturn the democratic mandate. If you attempt a coup or incite an insurrection at this time in Sierra Leone, we will hunt you down like the rabid beasts that you are and call in the firing squad.
We are sick and tired of extraconstitutional BS from you chaps. We know right now that hot plans are afoot to spread confusion and terror in the country with the hope that your embedded fifth columnists will stage a putsch that will clear the way to power for you again. This dastardly plan is being carefully planned right now, as is hinted by the trial ballons being floated by foot soldiers like Miss Blyden and other SLPP media and by the 'test' in Bo.
Just because the president did not clamp down on that Bo and Awareness provocation doesn't mean he is asleep at the wheel. We know WTF ya doing, kids. If any of you rebel cowboys move a muscle to destabilize the country with a coup, we will hunt you through your rat holes and drag you to court before we string you from the tallest branch of Cotton Tree.
Continue with the surreptitious economic terrorism you are waging against the President and the subtle regional and ethnic bombs you are playing with. If however you try a coup, just kisss your ass goodbye!
Subject: Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION
From: Sylvia Who?
To: All
Date Posted: 20:30:04 03/03/08 ()
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When did Sylvia Blyden become SLPP?
Is She a card bearing member of the party?
To Convince confused pundits like some of you, I think that Sylvia's Grandfather SAJ Pratt and her father Babatunde Blyden former APC bigwigs must also declare their support for SLPP for people to be convinced that she is no longer APC and believe that her anti APC stance is genuine...I say so because Sylvia is known to take her cues from father and her grandfather!...and she has never been enstranged from them....Oona faint late!
Remember Super combo says watch for dem bellahs! Sylvia is the ultimate bellah I think!
I believe that Sylvia is just a smart b!t@h who has has outwitted and successfully infiltrated the SLPP in order to defeat their purpose and enable their ongoing marginalization!
if nar lie leh APC arrest am bah for fityeying President Koroma!...dem nor able because nar dem pekin!
If Acha nor even invite am sef nar CID oona nor faint say nar big game day play!....norto Acha bin question Neville trahday?
Sylvia and her batoliners can fool some of the people some of the time,but they can't fool all the people all of the time!....
If SLPP wan betteh leh dem forget but "Sylvia di Medusa" im spins en move on !..Lonta
Subject: Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 02:03:23 03/04/08 ()
Email Address:
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Some logical reasoning in your thoughts. What begs the question is: What has Sylvia really done? I am not a supporter of Sylvia but I think she sometimes tries to make other people work harder. She comes up with things that can prevent other from abuse of power in the future. The same can now be said of The New People. They are indeed helping the APC to be al3rt and be on their guide. APC should not even dare to touch these two people - Slvia and Sheku Kallon - they are the APC bedrock. They see what others do not see. Only the fools in the APC will get angry - Ernest and those with deep thoughts will be happy that they have other eyes in the Syvia and Sheku personnel.
take the case of the actions of the APC Task Force in Brookfields relating to the harassment of the Pastor. The president would not have known had it not have been for Sylvia's publication. You are right Sylvia is APC pekin and all are playing into the big game. She may also be a genuine petite, looking after her country!
I think Sylvia and Sheku kallon are doing APC a big service. only the wise will see what good they are doing.
Subject: Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 16:36:03 03/03/08 ()
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Why the panic - the guys you call extremists are just fume-venting sorts and cannot even lift a pin to prick anyone. APC get on with your job and stop the complainmongering - you have to work harder!! Do the job!!
Subject: Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION
From: Fan of Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 16:46:33 03/03/08 ()
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Trust me bro, I believe you about the complainmongering. These guys are just plain sissy. The SLPP folks have had a field day laying propaganda as thick as Cherry jam on Korthor brade. Now that Jagboima just cautioned that peaceful opposition is cool but that violent overthrow-the-government politics is treason, they are all tied up in knots. Fact is fact. Coups are frowned upon everywhere in the world and are punishable by death. All of a sudden some preachers of tribal politics are trying to turn it into a tribal thing. What a cowardly shame! Oppose but no coup please, my lunatic friends.
Subject: Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 02:07:20 03/04/08 ()
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The talk of coup is scare and fear mongering. The world is not ready to see that - Our Global partners are not ready for such - they will quell it before it starts - trust me!
Subject: Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION
From: Salone Police
To: All
Date Posted: 15:20:23 03/03/08 ()
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Rev Kanu, is there a place for such hate language in your forum? Is it OK because it is anti-SLPP?
Let us take caution, gentlemen. Sierra Leone is for all of us, and this kind of incitement about a cartoon drawing is not appropriate.
Subject: Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION
From: Be Real
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Date Posted: 15:38:01 03/03/08 ()
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Cartoon? This have nothing to do with cartoons, You can cartoon the president till you turn to Bugs Bunny. You can cuss the president till you are charcoal black in the face. Hell, you can hoard rice, petrol and commit economic sabotage till your baffa catches fire. If you however try to grab power extraconstitutionally, then Egad, you should be ready to face the deadly consequences of youe actions. Remember, your SLPP party lynched thousands in Sierra leone when your leaders returned from exile- many of the victims being APC. And don't forget Kula Samba amd the innocent soldiers. Please spare us the hypocrisy sir.
Subject: Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION
From: Mahatma
To: All
Date Posted: 04:17:22 03/04/08 ()
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fear mongering again! This should stop! no right mind individual/s will think of derailing the relative stability we now see. The whole world will join the APC to fight them. APC do your work and stop the paranoia!
Subject: Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION
From: Minkailu Johnson - Sannoh
To: All
Date Posted: 17:42:45 03/03/08 ()
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Fact is, tejan kabba was branded kolonko in 2002.Solo B s mother was abused in 70 different ways not to talk about the sleeping bomber stuff placed on papers time and again so.lets just say what goes round comes round.calm down my brothers and sisters, it takes a while getting used to the heat being in power.trust sierra leoneans the praise singers are turning to the crucifiers.nobody is hoarding fuel my brother, its just the global oil market thing we used to talk about u know, that you wouldnt listen to but instead poisened our illiterate brothers with anti slpp propaganda. so you see what goes roun coes round. sotell them sani abacha and shell lorry park about the global world market price of oil.by the way hog bin dae ask i mama wetin make i mot long well pekin hog don big now en insef don dae shae for ask again.coup? well the number one coupist got to be christiana thorpe u know assasinating democracy and slpp with 477 bullets.
Subject: Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:36:05 03/03/08 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
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Is that where we are headed..?
Sharia law..?
Are we openly inciting violence against those we disagree with, even worse.. over a stupid cartoon?
Is this like the proverbial bush fire we set as kids to clear the field for planting..and when by mistake the bush burn down the whole village, we hide and act like we have never seen matches in our lives..
Do we easily forget these pictures of our countrymen and women.. young infants dying on the road ..??
Are we about to witness another generation of our people seeking refuge and streaming over the guinea/liberian borders because we changed political parties..
Are the instigators aware that IF IT HAPPENED ON EBKS watch.. well.....it happened on his watch..
We should not allow ourselves to feel this amount of hate for our pet dogs.. let alone our fellow countrymen..
The good Rev should not allow this forum be used to stain our national pride..
We fly the GREEN WHITE & BLUE...EVEN at the KAILAHUN barreh.
Bo....unu sef..
Subject: Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY
From: What do you Know
To: All
Date Posted: 16:14:26 03/03/08 ()
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Candid Kabs-Kanu wants that. He loves mende bashing and according to Leonenet, this guy's parents were given a good place to stay in Bo where they were all born. For him to have such hatred for Mende's beats me. The world is seeing Kabs-Kanu allowing Temens to preach genocide against the Mendes...thank God it is written for dee bambai we know we can hold the Rev responsible
Subject: Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY
From: Are you a moron?
To: All
Date Posted: 16:31:53 03/03/08 ()
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Some of you guys are nothing more than buffons. Where in the thread is there talk of Mende or Temne or Krio or Yalunka? It sees to me that you are the real tribalist trying to squeeze tribal blood from a civilized discussion. The posting clearly states that if any SLPP is trying to stage a coup, then there are dire consequences, that includes execution when convicted. Why are you dragging tribalism into the argument? Maybe you are one of the practitioners of tribal politics? Shame on you my country man! If you want to wilfully insult Kabs, just do so but don't slip in a tongue of hypocrisy.
Kabs-Kanu's parents were given "a good place to stay in Bo". What a moronic thing to say! Were your parents in the welcoming party for Kabs parents? Did your parents give his parents a place to stay free of charge? You are numbskullingly silly in your mal logic. Last time we checked every Sierra Leonean has a right to stay any place, any time in Sierra Leone. Stop this foolishness and shove this shameful tribal politics.
Subject: Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY
From: TALIBAN MY FOOT!
To: All
Date Posted: 15:49:21 03/03/08 ()
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You should take that stupid propaganda picture of yours and show it to the violent, nihilistic, looney fringe of your party! Why are you scared my SLPP friends? ARE YOU PLANNING A COUP AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT? If you are, then you should be terrified. No government in the world will allow its overthrow, my good man. The point of the article is that all opposition should be non-violent. If that is the case then why worry? Given the trend of events and plots against a 5 month old government, maybe it is a public service to warn violent extremist lunatics in your party that THE PRICE OF A COUP IS INDEED THE FIRING SQUAD! We cannot afford an insurrection again in Sierra Leone. Peaceful opposisition till 2012 is just fine.
Subject: Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:55:52 03/03/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
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Firing squad it is..
I dont have any problems with that..
Give me the gun even.. i will shoot the first coupmonger.. i detest coups.. they are darn hard to recover from, half the trust built over the past 15 years will just evaporate.....
I would only support a coup when it is absolutely absolutely neccesary..
Like the way togo needs one.. angola needs one and that freak in cameroon..and zimbabwe and cuba..needs to be booted.
So.. who is afraid of a coup..?
And i do not belong to the SLPP.. or any other party for that matter..
I try as much as i can to be neutral.. and if it seems i am on the APC case.. it is because they are the current government.. no need for me to waste energy on SLPP.
Subject: Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY
From: POLITICAL
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Date Posted: 16:15:50 03/03/08 ()
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Did I hear you say you do not belong to a particular party? Yeah, you r-i-g-h-t.
Subject: Re: THE TALIBANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 18:17:03 03/03/08 ()
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Message:
Well i stated my case..
You prove otherwise.. you are on the prosecution side..
I am not of any party....
Its a waste of chi energy... when i can't vote..or do anything with my membership..
Subject: Re: TO SLPP EXTREMISTS: THE PRICE OF A COUP IS EXECUTION
From: Hate Language?
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Date Posted: 15:28:09 03/03/08 ()
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What is hateful about reminding enemies of democracy that a treasonable coup d'etat against a democratic government is punishable by death. Every civilized country in the world, including the United states and Britain, will definitely execute those who try to overthrow the constitutional order. It was true of Kabba's SLPP. It is true of Koroma's APC. If you are a lawful opposition, don't be scared. If you try to overthrow the government, then be afraid. Be very afraid!
Subject: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage!
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:12:38 03/03/08 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Gentlemen:
For your information, this posting replaces my earlier posting that was dispatched to the archives just a few quick minutes after I first posted it. Since the food situation is tense in Sierra Leone as we write - and the production problem tough - I thought the subject matter needs a thorough debate in this forum.
Simply put, my view is that the export of Sierra Leone food crops to our neighbors under current conditions of extreme poverty is not economic sabotage by any stretch of the imagination - let alone by application of the laws of our land.
Granted, the food scarcity problem in SL population centers is very serious but Knice and Kay, et al, are absolutely right that the long-term solution is to encourage production by expanding free trade and providing subsidies to producers.
The short-term solution in the present difficult situation is, of course, for the government to purchase for cash (please, absolutely no credit) and at export market prices received by producers in Kailahun/Koinadugu/Pujehun Districts minus their export delivery costs, if any.
Free trade means that goods from Sierra Leone should flow to the buyer(s) - regardless of locat1on - paying the highest price to the poverty-stricken producers in our country. This in turn will tend to encourage higher levels of production. Higher production levels should translate into more employment, more wealth and more foreign exchange. Such an ideal situation will thus improve the overall economic and social situation in the producing area – and indeed even elsewhere within our last-placed country.
Let it be remembered that the fundamental food problem in SL is under-production relative to consumption. We are simply short on producers and surplus on poverty-stricken consumers. The long-term solution is thus to reverse this situation. Public policy, therefore, needs to be focused on increasing production both by providing production subsidies and encouraging sales to neighboring consumers willing and able to pay the highest possible prices.
But, clearly, where production subsidies are provided and accepted, the authorities would be reasonable to request through negotiations that a certain portion of subsidy-supporting production be sold locally only to the producers’ poorer customers at home at negotiated prices.
At this stage in our country, any public policy designed to encourage consumption at the expense of producers; or a policy that tends to discourage production (such as by blocking exports to higher priced markets or imposing excessive high customs export duty) will most certainly be utterly counter-productive.
Further, one cannot legally smuggle goods from Sierra Leone to neighboring countries because Sierra Leone is part of both the Mano River Union and ECOWAS common market (Free Trade) areas. Deliberately selling SL goods to Guinea and Liberia is thus legitimate! Some exporters may be avoiding customs duty, if any, and such conduct may be considered smuggling. But merely selling goods to higher paying customers next door cannot constitute smuggling by any stretch of the imagination.
Besides, imposing duty on the tiny quantities of crops that are produced locally via back-breaking, cutlass-and-hoe manual labor and zero subsidy is not intelligent at all. The SLPMB's de facto tax on cacao, coffee, piassava, etc., coupled with corrupt practices, killed the production of those crops. Last time I was in Kailahun, I witnessed over-grown and abandoned cacao and coffee farms!
Additionally, please note that Kailahun, Koinadugu, Kambia and Pujehun people have been trading with peoples of neighboring countries since recorded history. Public policy must encourage the continuation of such trade by removing all obstacles to trade expansion with Guinea and Liberia.
Lastly, trading with Liberia and Guinea is much easier than transporting Kailahun crops to Kenema, Bo, Makeni and Freetown because the roads linking Kailahun to Kenema, and Bo and Kenema to Makeni are just too terrible.
On the other hand, distances to Guinean and Liberian markets are shorter and the road to Liberia is in good shape and once inside Liberia the main highway is surfaced. This means that the cost of trading with neighboring countries is lower than trading with the rest of SL. (Furthermore, Robertsfield Airport is closer to Eastern SL than Lungi.)
Thus, one way to encourage Kailahun traders to trade more with their fellow SLeoneans is to substantially upgrade the road network linking Kailahun producers to Kenema, Kono and Makeni. In fact, merely modernizing just one key road - the Kailahun-Kenema highway - will be enough to encourage substantial increases in trading between Kailahun producers and consumers within SL.
Until then, we must either subsidize agricultural production or leave the producers of Kailahun alone to fend for themselves because their decision to trade with our neighbors is very intelligent, fair and proper and, above all, said trading is clearly in the long-term public interest. Thank you. - JL
Subject: Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotag
From: Yaya Fanusie
To: All
Date Posted: 20:29:17 03/03/08 ()
Email Address: saigobe@lanset.com
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Message:
Hi John,
The elections are over so I do not visit forums that much. I read you posting and it is very good and I support what the others mentioned about Free Market and let the producers make money. I think those who see it as
sabotage do not understand the market dynamism. The government should use this shortage in food to encourage people to grow food crop and sell where they can get the best price. There should be no subsidy to farmers. So they can sell the crops where ever they can get the best price.
Yaya Fanusie
Subject: For Dr. Yaya Fanusie: SL Food Crisis
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:45:54 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
Dear Dr. Fanusie:
Very please to hear from you and do hope you are doing well.
Although SL elections are over, there are interesting topics in this forum for someone like you to comment on from time to time. We can all benefit from your wise counsel.
From time to time, I do peep in here to see what is hot - like the food situation at home. So I joined the debate because I learned a lot from my campaigning at home from 2004 to 2007 that I thought I could share with other forumites. I am glad you enjoyed reading my contribution and many thanks for your kind and generous remarks.
During the 2007 election campaign, my party was unfairly blamed for high food prices. This was not surprising in our unsophisticated society and in a land of fat-incumbent bellies, gross incompetence and avaricious official corruption. Now, most foodstuffs are unaffordable to many urbanites. Food scarcity is a worldwide problem. Yesterday, Thai rice reached its highest prices in international commodities market in 20 years at $500 a tonne.
We all should look at the food crisis at home as a national problem (and opportunity), not a political problem for selfish exploitation. This way we can objectively examine the problem and come up with solutions for our people's benefit rather then confuse the debate for political party gain.
Hope you won't go away for long from here but will from time to time peep in with your sound opinions. All my very best. - JL
Subject: Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage!
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 20:25:59 03/03/08 ()
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Mr. Leigh thanks for your well argued points in support of yuour position. I agree in part and disagree in part. The following will elucidate my position on the issues that you have raised. You state as follows:
"Simply put, my view is that the export of Sierra Leone food crops to our neighbors under current conditions of extreme poverty is not economic sabotage by any stretch of the imagination - let alone by application of the laws of our land."
In fact the operative phrase here is "under current conditions of extreme poverty". In fact it should be the case that under these conditions as you have heretofre described, it should be imperative that during conditions of extreme poverty conditions it is economic sabotage and highly unpatriotic to export food from sierra leone to neighboring countries thus creating more of a shortage, and driving the extreme poverety conditions you so aptly described much deeper. You say its not economic sabotage by any stretch of the imagination? I say my imagination must be more vivid and realistic than yours and it is within the realm of my imagination.
You state as follows
"Further, one cannot legally smuggle goods from Sierra Leone to neighboring countries because Sierra Leone is part of both the Mano River Union and ECOWAS common market (Free Trade) areas. Deliberately selling SL goods to Guinea and Liberia is thus legitimate! Some exporters may be avoiding customs duty, if any, and such conduct may be considered smuggling. But merely selling goods to higher paying customers next door cannot constitute smuggling by any stretch of the imagination."
It appears to me that you have made a very Lawyerly argument here. Its called DOUBLE TALK. Whereas you state that one cannot legally smuggle goods out of sierra leone, you end by saying "Some exporters may be avoiding customs duty, if any, and such conduct may be considered smuggling" . I must say that I adopt in toto the last quoted paragraph of the post.
You state as follows
"Until then, we must either subsidize agricultural production or leave the producers of Kailahun alone to fend for themselves because their decision to trade with our neighbors is very intelligent, fair and proper and, above all, said trading is clearly in the long-term public interest"
I will respond by using a quote from one of my great grand uncles "Granpa bankole" Dry dog sweet but watim man go jehun tae de dog dae dry" You talking about long term benefits of cross border trade at higher prices which plunges the country into deeper poverty situations. The solution to the extreme povert that you so aptly alluded to is in the short term and we must never lose focus on that.
Stay Blessed!!!!!!!!! and All is forgiven. Wink wink
Subject: Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage!
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:16:09 03/04/08 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Message:
Gentlemen:
I see a big philosophical difference between Atty. Iscandari and myself on what constitute 'economic stabotage', 'shortage', 'unpatriotism' as well as the solution to our food scarcity problem.
The extreme poverty we are all talking about was not created by the individual farmer who chose to export his surplus crop in search of the highest price. He is thus under no duty whatsoever to use his individual, back-breaking effort to save the day of other poor people by selling his property at below-market.
The producing farmer is creating no shortage whatsoever by selling his goods to whomsoever offers him the best price. SL poverty is the culprit! In fact, it is a farmer's duty and God-given right to seek the best deal for himself wherever he can get it. If in-country consumers are able to meet his price, he will sell to them but since they can't meet his price because of their poverty, he must be free to sell to whomsoever can pay him value-for-value.
This is simple economic democracy - and it is fair and entirely reasonable.
The existing shortage of food is also the result of the high demand and low production. This in turn is the result of huge increases in urbanization and the corresponding deline in rural population. To correct this imbalance between consumption and production government must intervene properly on the side of production because production is more difficult to solve.
"Hoarding" is the right of the owner of property. In fact, what you call hoarding in the herein context is a fair commercial strategy by owners around the world. The entire economic/financial system of most countries is based on holding assets until they appreciate sufficiently value to the satisfaction of the owner-sellers.
Each one of us with assets (houses, stocks, vehicles, goats, sheeps, rice) want to sell them at the highest possible price. Oil producers continuously regulate production to maximize the price they receive per barrell. And those who have the economic staying power can hold out for as long as necessary in order to obtain the price they want.
Holding for the purpose of price appreciation is a valid strategy in any modern society and is fundamental to capitalism.
Few people in this world wish to sell lower than they believe they are entitled to. SL food producers and exporters are no exception!
The fundamental problem in SL are inadequate production and large but ineffective demand.
There are many reasons for this disequilibruim. Apart from urbanization, a woeful lack of capitalization and the requisite skills for modern agricultural production, lets face it: many, many of our people choose a life of poverty via rubhand jobs, begging, stealing, rah-ray, dregging, prostituting themselves, looting, rampaging, congo-sah, remain as idlers, etc. in the cities. Government should discourage such life-style choices by not subsidizing their food costs at the expense of the punishing work of farmers.
On the other hand, few SLeoneans wish to engage in back-breaking cutlass agriculture in rural areas.
Government ought to encourage adequate food production increases by encouraging existing farmers to increase their output and by encouraging more people to enter into the field of agricultural production. One sure way to achieve this is to protect farm prices from forced devaluation and degradation.
And the last thing the government should do is deprive farmers of the true value of their property by blocking them from securing the highest prices for their commodities because such is the surest way to increase food shortages over time.
If there is a food emergency presently in SL for productive citizens the correct solution is for government to buy from producers at market prices and distribute at subsidized prices in urban areas.
Right now, our government is subsidizing electricity costs in the Western Area. So, why can't it subsidize food costs?
The government is paying market price for fuel and equipment for Freetown electricity to rich corporations overseas. So why can't it pay market price for food to hard-working, poverty-stricken, cutlass-and-hoe farmers residing in old-fashioned poverty villages with no amenities but who despite all the obstacles found the motivation to produce and distribute surplus food at a profit?
As for unpatriotism, SLeoneans are notorious for raping and otherwise abusing their nation. Crimes by officeholders are all over the place and they number in the thousands - if not in the tens-of-thousands.
It is thus those who hold public offices and then go on to abuse their offices and powers are the unpatriotic ones - not the poor farmer who is seeking to gain in the open market from his own painful, honest effort.
In sum, the solution to our food crisis today is to pay producing farmers market price for their output and distribute purchased food at subsidized prices. Farm support and mechanization are the longterm solution.
As for smuggling by avoiding customs duty, the imposition of customs duty on SL-produced goods contravenes the rules of genuine freemarkets. In fact, the main purpose of freemarkets is to eliminate duties between member-nations. Next, ourt government lacks the ability to police our porous borders effectively. Besides, some of those in charge at our borders are most likely abusing their positions for private gain. Such conduct invite the contempt and avoidance of poverty-stricken farmers otherwise engaged in legitimate production.
The correct solution to smuggling and the building of genuine freemarkets in West Africa is to abolish export duties on goods produced by SLeoneans at home and sold in our freemarkets.
Good governance can take us from the present situation of inadequacy to efficient productive mechanization to satisfy both home consumption and exportation.
Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this debate. - JL
Subject: Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage!
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 23:07:15 03/03/08 ()
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Alieu, chances are these farmers too hailed from "under (similar) current conditions of extreme poverty" If this is the case, they cannot be restricted from selling their product to the highest bidders. These farmers, you must understand, are involved in such primitive and back-breaking work that is quite unique for all practical purposes.
The worse the government can do is to regulate their earning power.
However, if middlemen are the one's making the most profit for exporting these products to other countries, "under current conditions of extreme poverty" then the government might have both an economic and a philosophical case to make.
Subject: Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage!
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 23:31:39 03/03/08 ()
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However, if middlemen are the one's making the most profit for exporting these products to other countries, "under current conditions of extreme poverty" then the government might have both an economic and a philosophical case to make.
You have in a Loggesq manner made my case my dear brother. If it were the farmers making themoney, it would have been different. It is actually the middle people who sometimes have a political bent and mens rea in maintaining scarcity and contributing to the poverty that is my problem.
Subject: Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage!
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 08:47:38 03/04/08 ()
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Your argument again does not hold water..
If even it is the middlemen... and even if the middleman has a political leaning.. no way it is a crime for him to maximise profit..
Imagine the orange growers and vineyards of california most been republicans in a predominantly democrat state..
And the gubenator restricting wine export to japan because the californias wine growers association donated to the McCain campaign..
How ridiculous..
Encourage and even assist more production.. that way.. we have more to eat and mroe to export..
Any other method is couterproductive...
Subject: Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage!
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 15:01:49 03/03/08 ()
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Hi Mr Leigh,
I completely agree with you, I think your piece is honest, candid and free of any prejudice, thanks for that.
Such is what is needed in our country today, the attempt by this government to curb what is believed to be smuggling is a desperate measure to my view to ease the food crisis. Which is why my ealier thread in regards to this phenomenon, must be considered seriously.
I observed that you still believe the HOE and CUTLASS method is a backbreaking exercise, I cannot dismiss this as for any work you do even in the office is still hard. But the truth of the matter is that this method is one which many people would not believe to have any potential but is the short term solution that is cost effective and simple to carry out the result could be cheered by even those who will not dear endorse it.
But once again you've spoken well, but please give my earlier suggestions further consideration and help promote it. I witnessed recently on this forum how our fellow Sierra Leoneans got carried away by irrelevant discussions in terms points scoring, I honestly thought we are lost. I've also observed that you are very different from many here in that, though you supports a different party from the ruling party, you showed so much maturity, patriotism and love for your country, for that God will bless you and family abundantly, this is not trumpet blowing, but to commend you for your objective thinking which is what our country need now.
Finally, I may lack the literal prowess to put my point across but this is a very important venture which is why I implored the help of highly intellectual and patriotic Sierra Leoneans like you to come in and help echo this important piece.
If we embark on this project now, we'll see a huge relief on food shortage the following year.
Edward
Stay blessed.
Subject: Re: ISCANDARI, et al: Exporting Food Is Not Economic Sabotage!
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:50:26 03/03/08 ()
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Dear Edward:
Many thanks for your kind remarks. Appreciated!
While I am obviously way down on your proposed cutlass-and-hoe system of agriculture, I agree with one thing you've said, namely, it is the short-term solution. I admit that we simply do not have the capitalization and skilled manpower to mechanize agriculture at this point in time but public policy must be directed to this area in the very near future or else the situation will get worse and dangerous.
Already, there have been food riots in Duala and Yaounde, Cameroon and in Ouagadougu (Wagadugu), Burkina Faso because of the high price of foodstuffs in those cities. The riots in Cameroon were said to be very serious indeed and lives were lost.
To put cutlasses and hoes to proper effect, however, you need ample supplies of rural labor. But if you travel in small towns and villages in our country today, you will notice that the population of young, able-bodied men is very tiny. Many have fled the rural areas for one reason or the other including avoiding low income, low productivity cutlass-and-hoe manual farming.
Farm work is simply too hard, of low pretige and the returns too low to interest many of young men. Young pre-literate women are now the backbone of our food production system. Besides, many young people prefer to gain their education so they could earn better in less strenous physical jobs or emigrate.
These young ex-villagers are now residing in Freetown, elsewhere in the Western Area, Kono, Bo, Kenema and Makeni. To attract them to cutlass-and-hoe farming won't be easy but it can be dome with subsidies, good planning and first class management.
At some point in the near future we must mechanize. That is, in my view, our long-term solution. Thanks again. - JL