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Subject: Osageyefo will be turning in his grave
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 09:56:45 06/01/08 ()
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Voluntary Re-Colonization of Ghana to Be Strengthened With US Military Base

There is an African proverb which says that, "truth is like pregnancy. You can not hide it for ever. It will eventually get exposed". The agenda of building US military base(s) in Ghana has now been exposed. Months gone by a number of our Ghanaians drowned on the Volta Lake when they were forcibly removed from a forest reserve they called home. The reasons that the State gave to the Ghanaian public, at the time of tragedy was that, the victims were cutting down trees in the forest reserve. Not much was done for the survivors by our Government. Ghanaweb users contributed to the victims' cause by donating monies to help them deal with their afflictions. My thanks to citizens who helped raise donations and donated to the cause.
Contrary to the official version of the event, certain citizens leaked disturbing information, which alleged that the Ghanaian government was planning to use the area to build forward bases for the US military. Equally troublingly is the fact that, the Afram Plains is the nation's breadbasket. It stretches along some of the most fertile lands needed for food production.

Why Afram plains many might ask? The reason is simply. It will be ideal for military bases. The bases will easily have access to fresh water, via the Volta Lake. The Afram Plains is a flat land, which makes it a suitable environment for the construction of airstrips. There are no hills or forests to hide enemies, whether real or imaginary. The lake serves as an easy and reliable route to transport heavy munitions, personnel and vital supplies such as food to the bases. From what this writer has read and seen the US military plans to open up an entrance, via Volta Region and Ada, for their frigates and other small to medium naval vessels.

The government of Ghana did deny and still denies that, there are any such plans for the US forces in Ghana. It must also be taken into account that, in years gone by, several top US military personnel have visited Ghana in quick succession. Are these visitations a twist of fate or coincidence? Unfortunately for our government, its attempt to shield the truth from the Ghanaian public was exposed by recent interviews granted by US military officials and strategist who are now openly talking about building bases in Senegal, Uganda, Ghana, Djibouti, Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. In one such interviews, which was reported by the Insight newspaper, one official stated that, "The United States of America is seriously considering the establishment of a military base in Ghana for the sole purpose of protecting its access to West African oil." Marine General James L. Jones, Head of the US European Command, who made the disclosure said the Pentagon was seeking to acquire access to two kinds of bases in Senegal, Ghana, Mali and Kenya and other African Countries (Source: The Centre for Research on Globalization. (CRG) is an independent research and media group of writers, scholars and activists. It is a registered non profit organization in the province of Quebec, Canada).

The major risks associated with hosting US military installation include terrorist attacks, the destruction of national culture and more direct US control over the lives of their hosts. Tamale Airport, according to speculation is to be turned into a US air force base if current consultations are concluded." (Source: The Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) is an independent research and media group of writers, scholars and activists. It is a registered non profit organization in the province of Quebec, Canada).

For those of you who follow world trends, please add your thought(s) to this issue, and which I feel needs a national debate. Currently the US buys approximately 15% of its oil from West Africa mainly from Nigeria, Gabon, Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea. The US plans to buy at least 30% of its oil from West Africa, which has vast reserves of unexplored petroleum. We might have to ask Sir Sam Jonah for more details, as a major shareholder in Equator Exploration, a major oil exploration company that owns rights to many of West Africa’s oilfields. USA’s reason is simple. It needs to reduce its risk of being held hostage by oil producing countries in the Middle East and Russia; a reason which makes perfect economic sense. It is also important to US national security.

Africa is a rising player in the world energy field, with North African oil and gas flowing mostly into the EU and rapid rising stocks from West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea to North America and Asia. Africa provided 25% of all new oil and gas discoveries in the world in the last 5 years. Africa’s 300 billion barrels of oil will account for a third of the total global oil production in the next five years adding a whopping 3.5 million barrels per day between 2006 and 2010. Source: BP review of world energy information. Africa is awash with oil and world events are now shifting the spot light onto the continent’s oil and gas reserves.

There is also the Indo-Chino effects, as China and India are now competing with USA for access to energy. The US is doing exactly what China is doing in places such as Angola and Sudan, where China is drilling, transporting and protecting oil facilities for its own use. Sudan currently supplies China 7% of its daily oil needs of about 700, 000 barrels a day for which China has a 24/7 Chinese military presence in Sudan protecting oil fields and pipelines. The world now knows that China protects Sudan at the UN, using its veto to block UN Security Council Resolution on West Darfur because of access to oil.

We are all aware of problems in the Nigerian oil producing areas especially in the Delta region. The situation is not about change any time soon. According to some predictions, Nigeria will experience the spasms of a potential civil war as the nation's general elections come closer. There will be a bloodbath should different powerful factions decide to use violence to extort and preserve their power, and does look more probable so by the day. This unsavoury situation will affect oil production, availability for the world. The US knows this, hence, the need for military bases on the West African subcontinent to guarantee oil shipments to US and rest of the world.

Where else in West Africa can the US operate its military base(s) in peace except Ghana? Nigeria is too unpredictable and Nigerians by nature do not take kindly to foreign occupation of their land. Other English-speaking West Africa countries, such as Liberia and Sierra Leone are too unstable to host military bases. France will not allow a US base in any of the former colonies. The France still controls lives of its former colonies and US bases in former colonies will be too close for comfort. This leaves Ghana as the only stable country willing to accommodate US military bases. At present, the US is building a new embassy in Cantonments, which is believed to be the biggest of its kind in Africa. One of the huge complexes on the site will be the new African Headquarters and Communication Monitoring Centre for the Central Intelligence Agency.

At 50, Ghana is still reeling under neo-colonialism. Decedents of the very citizens who aided the West to over throw Nkrumah are now helping the US and other powers to re-colonize us. These traitors parade around in Armani suits, dine in international hotels, smoke the best Cuban cigars and binge on the finest whisky. We now have Western monitors and consultants sitting in on meetings by senior civil servants, all in the name of monitoring developmental funding and capacity building. They tell the nation's policymakers how to spend our resources, price our primary commodity exports. They also dictate to us whom we sell our nation's raw materials and act as agents.

Ghana has a non reciprocal agreement with the US where on the behest of America, a Ghanaian can be extradited to face charges in the US. The opposite is the case when an American citizen commits a crime in Ghana.. By allowing foreign military bases on our lands, just think of all the possible crimes these unruly GIs will get away with.

The question is; will American military be protecting oil supplies for the good of the world or solely in America's interest? If the UK, the most trusted and closest ally of the US has not gained from US exploitation, how can Ghana? It is against the backdrop of these stated facts that I oppose any foreign military base in Ghana.

The US can still protect its oil supplies without relying on Ghana. After all the USA has always maintained a naval battle group on the coast of North Africa, West Africa and South Africa within international waters since the end of the second world war; so why can't it continue to maintain this policy or operate from the joint UK/US base on Diego Garcia?

There are those who will argue that such a base will create jobs. To them, I say dream on. Temporary manual jobs are not long term economic opportunities. Others may say that the US military bases in Japan, South Korea and Germany helped these countries to develop. This contrary to the truth, those countries have been paying hundred’s of billions to the US in the name of so called helping to protect those nations from enemies.

Think of the secret CIA prisons and torture camps across Europe, Middle East, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Zanzibar, Djibouti and South East Asia. Ghana could potentially become one of these countries if we allow the US to build a military base on our territory.

An American military base in Ghana should not be politicized. We need a national and parliamentary debate. I am against it period. Algeria has just recently turned down a request to host the headquarters for US Military operation in Africa. So why is our government so eager to allow bases(s) in Ghana when others are turning away from such installations?

I might be wrong in my analysis. Let's start a genuine debate and take it all the way to parliament. In my estimation, the NPP government is weak and has failed to weigh the implications that attend hosting military bases on one's soil.



Subject: Haja Afsatu Kabba Breezes Into Iran
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 07:39:10 06/01/08 ()
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The plane landed at exactly 3:30 AM, Sunday, June 1, 2008, amidst a jostling crowd of Iranian passengers rushing to witness the annually-celebrated anniversary that marks the death of the revered revolutionary, Imam Khomienie. Tehran, the capital city of Iran, is usually transformed into a city of mourning with black photographs of the late leader in every corner.

As I walked through the main entrance of the Imam Khomieni Airport, I felt curious eyes pleading for contact, but I deliberately avoided them. I’m no more a novice in the Persian land …. not after two years of adventure. The attention is welcomed, but the facial expression is better left unnoticed. As a new guy around town, I was quick to develop an ambivalent attitude towards the reception of Iranians. Some wear this genuine smile of curiosity, receptive to a stranger. Others mock your black skin. In between, it’s extremely difficult to extract the genuine folks from the lot. But that’s the problem of a newcomer.

The flight has landed, but the police inspection normally takes ages. What of a period of high traffic! I deliberately crashed into one of the airport chairs between two Iranian ladies … fully out-stretch my long legs, relaxed in such a way that, my entire vision is the ceiling of the lobby.

The thing about Iran is that, once you start to know your way around, your perception of the country goes 180. You begin to enjoy the tremendous amount of attention that Iranians reserve for you. Take a walk around the shopping centers and you see no black man. Short, tall, slim, fat, strong etc, it doesn’t matter … you simply mesmerize them! And when you catch one mocking you and approach him/her, he/she simply carves in and surrenders. And that’s as far as it goes! No hard feelings! But if one considers oneself to be in a world of racism or a victim of same, then one is bound to miss the grove! Indeed, within that mockery belies an invitation, which, when accepted, opens a floodgate into the unknown ….. particularly where the opposite gender is involved! You will need to be on your toes though, less you might drown in the Persian Gulf!

Talking about gender, I was jerked from my thoughts with the laughter of Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Iran, Haja Alari Cole! Gender indeed! Female Ambassador to welcome a female minister in an Islamic state! Damn the pessimist! Sierra Leone is pioneering in the field of women empowerment!

And when she emerged from the sliding doors, Haja Afsatu Kabba was distinct in an immaculately-cut purple Grand Boubou! As she greeted the Iranian dignitaries I took some steps backward, to the end of the line. I wanted to have a good look at the lady I’ve heard so much about! But when she eventually shook my hands, she was soft, cool and motherly!

“Hey! Who said this cool and smiling lady “fixed” EBK at the Insurance Co. and later did the same to Pa Kabbah!’ I wondered!

It didn’t take long though for me to realize the bristling side of her. Earlier discussions with the Ambassador made me privy to the fact that she was invited to attend the Imam Khomieni anniversary. But a document was handed to her by the Ambassador with the heading “Aide Memoire”! I was trying to make sense out of the two words when I heard the Minister go into a blazing torrent of facts she has already gathered before coming.

As I watched her being rushed away by police escort with blazing sirens, I took a few minutes to digest it all. The Minister was going to use her invitation to attend the Khomieni anniversary and put her points across. Now that’s what I call political expediency! From what I overheard, she was to meet with the Minister of Petroleum, Foreign Minister, her counter part Minister of Energy, although the appointments were yet to be confirmed.

Well now my pretty! If more ladies do take center stage in the country’s political limelight, you’ll definitely have more male politicians prepared to listen and inevitably go all the way and change the rules of engagement.. And from the manner I heard the Minister speak, just after being handed the Aide Memoire, I’m certain she could be forcefully persuasive.

Oops! The Minister didn’t come alone! She did come with another top official! His name is Mr. Surrur. And from the look of things, the trip is already a success, because the name “Surrur” in Arabic Language means “happiness” ……. to be “cheerfully flooded with happiness”! That’s what I expect as an outcome of the trip! Forget the gloomy aspect that shrouded the anniversary itself! There are many more to come!


Subject: Re: Haja Afsatu Kabba Breezes Into Iran
From: Kabs Kanu
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Date Posted: 08:07:59 06/01/08 ()
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Mensa, this is great. So you live in Iran ? Do you have many Sierra Leoneans there ? How are they coping with the strict religious codes ? Do you guys socialize together, like we do here --"Pull-nar-does", "sarahs",weddings, birthday bashes and "settlements" ? Readers would appreciate if if you send us regular despatches from Iran, especially with you being such a brilliant and exciting writer. The same goes for Sierra Leoneans living in "unknown" countries, like Kosovo, for instance.


Subject: Sierra Leone: Dear Mr. President,
From: Mr. President
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Date Posted: 18:00:50 05/31/08 ()
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OPINION
23 May 2008
Posted to the web 26 May 2008

Ibrahim Seibure
Freetown

It is while since you last spoke to Sierra Leonean journalists. However, I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to interview you at a press conference that was hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat during CHOGM in Kampala, Uganda in November 2007.

At that press conference issues like the United Nations Human Development Index report, the Millennium Development Goals, Sierra Leone foreign policy under you administration and most important was your plan to ensure that the mining sector benefit the people of Sierra Leone.

Sir, I am writing to jog your memory on these issues that you did dilate on now that it six since we left Kampala. My summation reminding you is centered on our mining sector which over the years has been a curse to the people of Sierra Leone rather than a blessing.

From your words you stated that your government is going to review all mining agreements and ensure that the people of Sierra Leone enjoy their endowed mineral resources.

Before you were democratically elected on September 11, 2007 I have been actively involved in investigating the ills that are affecting our mining sector. I spear headed a campaign in 2005 to under earth a deal to sell properties that belongs to the people of this nation i.e the railway and the Pepel in the Port Loko district.

My vision was to prevent the railway and the port so that it would not be destroyed thereby benefiting some unscrupulous business people and unpatriotic Sierra Leoneans.

I would not like to bore you with what really happened but with my patriotic instinct the officials at the Ministry of Mineral Resources intervened and those properties were protected at that time.

When you assumed office on September 17 2007 you promised this nation that you are going to run this nation like a business entity and proper measures will be put in place to harness the country's natural resources.

It is expected that after inspections of all mining and exploration licenses of foreign investors in the mining sector, the government should encourage them to start operations. The people of Sierra Leone want jobs and these foreign owned mining companies have the prosperity to create jobs. It will ease the burden on the government and will contribute to development. The people of Sierra Leone will remain poor until the potential riches are harnessed.

Sir, we most have it in our heart that serious minded investors should be encouraged to contribute in our transformation to rebuild our country after the ten year brutal civil conflict.

Recently, I read in our local press that your government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with African Mineral/SLDC granting it an exclusive lease and operating agreements for both the railway and the harbour in the Port Loko district..

Sir, below is an excerpt of the press report.

"This information has been confirmed by RNS, the company news service from the London Stock Exchange.

Subject to the results of the study the Company will upgrade the Port, which it will then maintain and operate on a commercial basis. Having identified a need for enhanced carrying capacity and improved transport services in general, the Company will engage engineering consultants to complete a study examining the feasibility of upgrading the existing railway between the Port and Marampa ("the Railway") from narrow gauge to standard gauge. Subject to the results of the study the Company will upgrade the Railway, which it will then maintain and operate on a commercial basis. The Port and the Railway would be made available at commercial rates to other users including mining companies and general cargo and passenger transporters; Subsequent to receipt of satisfactory engineering and feasibility studies, the Company will construct and manage an extension of the Railway to the Company's flagship iron ore project at Tonkolili, enabling the Company efficiently and cost effectively to transport its iron ore production to the Port for export to international markets." As stated earlier, as a nation we most properly investigate these so called foreign investors before they are granted permission to explore or mine our resources.

My investigation have shown that immediately after African mineral put out that press report the company's shares at the Stock Market went up. Is it that the news release was to ramp up the stock in the interest of the company and at the same time undermining national interest?

African Minerals cannot even use rail and harbour for many years to come until Tonkilili would be a mine, if ever, and until a 100km railway from Tonkilli to Marampa has been build.

Sir, although an MOU is not legally binding, yet, I cannot understand why a government would do such a thing. It causes problems for everyone.

This will negates all the deals that the government had made earlier and therefore it undermines its own credibility and power. Had this government not promised to change things, and is such an MOU not a sign of "business as usual"? It strengthens the position of companies that take advantage of the gullibility of people and that are big on promises but short on delivery. It is a slap in the face and undermines the position of companies that act in good faith.

Yesterday it was Global Steel (confidential MOU to carry out a feasibility study on the rail and port that led to the stealing of 20km railway), Tecsbaco given over twenty years mining lease covering both Marampa and the Peple harbour, London Mining, a free hand to alter the Sengbeh bridge making it not suitable for trains and now Africa Minerals.

Sometimes, I get depressed and discouraged. A country that has everything going for it: pleasant, intelligent and spirited people, agricultural lands, minerals, fishery, attractive for tourism, comfortable climate, not overpopulated, not too big. By all means, it should be a rich country. But so sad, it is the poorest country. Why, what is the explanation, and can nothing be done to change it? Compare Ireland, same size, same amount of people, horrible climate, terrible food, large tracks of moors and mountains, but is one of the richest country in the world.

Our worry is: why is that African Minerals/SLDC´s licenses cover more than half of the country, which is very unusual when you compare with other countries? It is dishearten to see a country like ours given out its land for mineral to one company. All we want is fair use of railway and port in the understanding that this only can happen when the railway and port is controlled by an impartial entity.


It's all very nice to pave roads, fix bridges, support soccer teams, etc. I agree wholeheartedly with it, you know that, but this has to be done in addition to exploration and mining operations. For all genuine companies, the plan is to developing a mine that will create a stable work environment first. Other activities should be done simultaneously, but should never be done to get head lines in the papers for support for issues that are secondary to exploration/mining or that have nothing to do with it.

The movement of the share price of some companies is typical: buy your shares or get options when the price is low, ramp up the share price with inflated announcements, cash in your options or sell your shares, when the share price has fallen after a while because nothing much is happening: repeat the process.

Investigations conducted in Vancouver ("the scam capital of the world") for many years and have seen it all. Elsewhere, for instance this reportedly was done big time with an oil deal in Greece and - if one can believe the reports - with money made that way a main interest in another company was bought. You know what I mean.


Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Dear Mr. President,
From: M. Alieu Isandari Esq
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Date Posted: 08:29:35 06/01/08 ()
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This is an interesting article but the ideas are a litle bit disjointed and lack cohesion.


Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Dear Mr. President,
From: Focus
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Date Posted: 09:15:13 06/01/08 ()
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Alieu, I thinkk the writer makes a cohesive point -- that the govt. should be smarter about doling out mining and related concessions. The EBK govt. is not doing so, the writer argues. The writer therefore reminds EBK that he is not running the country as he had promised.


Subject: Perception
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 09:55:49 06/01/08 ()
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I do not perceive it to be so. I realise that he may be making a very important and salient point, but it has not come out like that.


Subject: Old man Pa zubah and clever fool, Samba
From: SORIE Jawara
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Date Posted: 16:43:50 05/31/08 ()
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Samba: Pa Zubah,My friend told me he used kerosene to get rid of the bed bugs in his house. I bought a gallon of keronene, sprayed the beds, chairs and the cupboards.I have no idea where the fire started but my house is completely destroyed.
Old man pa Zubah: Sorry it happened clever fool, but it is a good lesson, always ask how things are done if you don't know.


Subject: The Imported rice, another step forward
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 13:44:55 05/31/08 ()
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This is another step by the government to clinch 2012 if all goes well. The reason for this is the people have suffered so much in terms of food shortages, at first the opposition nearly succeeded in turning the tide of voters against the government by proclaiming the lack of care for the people in part of the government. But gradually, the people began to realise that the problem is a global one contrary to what the oppsition claimed.

Furthermore, this year saw one of the biggest farming engagements in the country for over two decades so the importation of the rice is timely as countdown began to the hervest months of October, November through to December.

In my recent visit, I witnessed the trend of farming festivities that I've never seen throughout the time I was in the country and this is because the people of Sierra Leone became much more aware of the importance of farming myself was able to cultivate a few acres and I'm getting ready to go back in October to harvest . If this kind of engagements continue, I guarantee we will soon become self sufficient without having to import rice.

The past government did it best to bolster food security but due to curruption by disricts officials the huge Le 20billion meant for securing rice seed was scundered by these officials. But a very good intention by the previous gov. and I hope this present gov. continue from where the previous started, I know the new gov. have started to probe the missing funds.


Subject: Reply if you are Sensible
From: Ayaman
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Date Posted: 12:43:28 05/31/08 ()
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The Cocorioko forum is if not one of the best, but Oh Ya, most discussion is completely baseless. I put it to you guys if you dear to challenge. Why can Sierra Leoneans realized that “book good for know, but common sense is better, capou sense, nor capou word”.

Statistic of Sierra Leoneans
• Book Man………40%
• Hustle Man………30%
• Politician…….…..15%
• Farmers…………5%
• Heng Man………5%
• Drug addicts………….1%
• Crase Man…………..1%
• Baygar Man……….1%
• Infants and Old People….2%

Why can’t we grow our known rice or most of the things we eat, because Adama, Johnny, Pa, Ma and a bunch of folks are overseas and the will sen for me. We are a failure to ourselves, when one think that Slaves were brought across from Africa to plant and make America rich, when will learn.
All you guy seem to gobble about is Awareness Times and some other ratted thing that are of no importance to the growth of our country.
The average Sierra Leonean likes being spoon feed and is hanger-on more especially the women and some men who do not know their position as men. How many are engage in agriculture, fishing, there is so much money there. For those who know reference to the Farms in New Jersey’s New Egypt, it is so reminiscence of slave days to see all the niggers picking cotton, but this time the have to pay the MAN, why cant we as black get a farm like that, because we have being brain wash to go to the highest level of education and yet still you cannot get the job and end up driving cab in USA and England. If that same effort was place on farming and using the resources that God gave US in SL we would have gone very far, but hey we got to wear designers and drive Mercedes and Range Rovers, have you every stop to think, where and who all this money is going to.
The reason is the majority or the once in the top are bunch of ignorant niggers and as we continue in this stead, we will always be a laughing stock. Curse to all the politician, civilized wray women in high places and hustle/con man dem, Jah/Allah has a plan waiting for you all.


Subject: Re: Reply if you are Sensible
From: chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 14:19:14 05/31/08 ()
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Rather blunt and harsh but I like it. What have you done to resolve the
things bugging your mind? You have explained what troubles us and
how we can resolve that which troubles us but what is lacking is that to
any constructive criticism, the accompanying guide must be a positive
recommendation initiated or championed by the initiator.

bro/sis, you have made my day. My suggestion is that you start your
crusade by identifying serious minded fellow country wo/man and set
them up into small scale business - be it transportation, agriculture,
animal husbandry, baking cakes, etc and see what they can come up
with. institute a sensible management and accountability strategy and
you will see in the course of 12 months what they can do.

You cannot change all Sierra Leoneans or have them believe to follow
what you have said. We know our problems but due to some God
unknown factors, we are unable to be creative in development
progress. We can talk the talk but cannot walk the walk.

I use to try to get every body I know onboard a project conceived. I
have not succeed in the last 20 years. What I got after of it is knowing
myself and that experience is paying off. Let others see what you do
and like it - if they are not envious then can replicate that which you
are succeeding or progressing in their own communities. there is so
much that we can do for our communities back home that will curb the
dependency.

I do not have any family member that will ask me now for any money.
I asked all to tell me what they want and I did my utmost to settle with
them. Some are now looking up to their destinies and not the brother
that is overseas.

I recently received 4000 litres of pure red palm oil from one of the
ventures I co-funded. After paying all the taxes that individual was
three times better off in terms of profits. if that individual saves that
money after paying other incidentals - within two years that individual
will come to visit overseas and go back. We have so much that is
needed in the west. take a stroll around the big markets in the west -
our food stuff are being sold by Asians and people from the middle
east. Why is that? Simple reason, they have a foresight to see the
great benefits the trade brings to them.

We are all culpable - some of us have tried to bring all onboard but
that has not worked so now see what if you give support to individuals
and groups having a common design/interest. It will make a big
difference. In such a partnership do not forget to make agreements
and always put your interest paramount to enable you carry on the
crusade of changing lives.

I salute your honesty. stay Blessed.


Subject: An Imbecile Statement: ' Troops must back Mugabe or quit '
From: Ahmad Tejan Koromah
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Date Posted: 12:31:50 05/31/08 ()
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Zimbabwe's army chief is an imbecile.


Subject: Re: An Imbecile Statement: ' Troops must back Mugabe or quit '
From: Bai Forna
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Date Posted: 15:45:17 05/31/08 ()
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Ahmad Tejan Koromah, I support your view. The Zimbabwean Army Chief is indeed a moron and therefore unfit to lead the Army. I strongly recommend that he do not only retract his statement but resigns with immediate effect.

The Military, Police and other Security personnel have no business in politics except to quietly vote for the candidate of their choice. Mugabe should disassociate himself from the Army Chief's statement.


Subject: Re: An Imbecile Statement: ' Troops must back Mugabe or quit
From: Ahmad Tejan Koromah
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Date Posted: 18:11:34 05/31/08 ()
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"The Military, Police and other Security personnel have no business in
politics except to quietly vote for the candidate of their choice."
Well said, kudos to you Bai Forna.
Unfortunately the senile Mugabe and his wife's statement (see link)
only exacerbate the problem.
Sincere sympathy and condolence goes out to the people of Zimbabwe
during this difficult time.

They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin


Subject: Woman lived hidden in Japan flat
From: Funny World
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Subject: Information Act
From: Mading Man
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Date Posted: 08:10:40 05/31/08 ()
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Is there any Freedom of Infomation Act in Sierra Leone?


Subject: Re: Information Act
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Date Posted: 09:02:16 05/31/08 ()
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NO


Subject: Problem over
From: Guinean
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Date Posted: 06:56:44 05/31/08 ()
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Guinea is peaceful, and the Conakry is calm, and soldiers have returned to their barracks.It is so clear that some of the forumites, including the ones, who sought refuge in Guinea in 1997 and then in 1999, do not mean well for us, and they always wish for guinea to collapse.But praise be to Allah, and he is with us.


Subject: Re: Problem over
From: Guinean
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Date Posted: 07:36:00 05/31/08 ()
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This is my handle - thanks all the same - I wish you not bad but good so
as good can come to us in Sierra Leone.


Subject: Civil defence force men in trouble but unfair
From: SORIE Jawara
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Date Posted: 05:37:59 05/31/08 ()
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The civil defence force men are in serious trouble, but the decision of the court is unfair, irrational,dishonorble and should be condemned. Yes, the civil defence force committed some atrocities in the operation, but I believe the wild Ecomog undisciplined forces committed more atrocities than the cdf; senseless beatings, brutal killings of defenceless children and adult civilians were beyond calcution. Some of the barbaric acts were caught live on cameras and the world saw the wrong doings,the only explannation given by Kabbah ,it was kill or be killed. It is unfair to justify the dirty actions of one group and severely punish others for the same acts. This is not justice in any degree, it is silly and dirty in the eyes of decent people. This is not a court of justice, but a court of corruption aimed at some people .The issue of recruiting children to defend themselves should not be considered a crime, because it was the only way they managed to survive the terror created by the rebel forces. This is not the first time children have been involved in defending themselves and their people, children fought along side with samory's sofas against the ruthless French army and recruited Africans (for sixteen bloody years).How about atrocities committed by Strasser and his men? How were suspect rebels treated by Strasser and his men? I hope this so called court will understand the dirty cover up operation in this so called justice for the people of Sierra Leone.In my opinion it is a court of corruption and waste money . Money should be saved to help war victims in agony.


Subject: http://www.sc-sl.org/Transcr1pts/CDF-120104.pdf
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 11:38:52 05/31/08 ()
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A. Well, in the veranda, there was a small shop, and the
27 veranda was inhabited by a Temne man. So some of the
28 Kamajors, when some of the boys in the town had joined
29 the Kamajors, they had realised that the man was a Temne

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1 and the man could not speak Mende. It was only Temne and
2 Krio. They arrested the man in the park. I was sitting
3 watching them. The distance was a little bit away. They
4 were not seeing me.
5 They arrested the man, and the man was trying to
6 deny that he was not a Temne in Krio. He answered some
7 difficult questions in Krio. When they were talking,
8 they were talking aloud.
9 Q. What happened to this man?
10 A. Well, during that time when the man was trying to deny
11 that he was not a Temne, he tried to answer the question
12 that he does not know. So the man -- they called their
13 colleague to kill the man. As the other was trying to
14 reach them, then the other holding the gun fired the man,
15 and then the man dropped down.
16 Q. What happened to the man after he dropped down?
17 A. After he fell down on the ground, because the road was
18 large, so they were to use another route to go there
19 with. But they started stepping on the man as they
20 passed by.
21 Q. Witness, can you repeat your answer, please. What was
22 large?
23 A. Like what? Because I don't understand.
24 JUDGE BOUTET: Mr Witness, can you repeat what happened after
25 the man went down on the ground. You said they killed
26 him with a gun, and he went to the ground. What happened
27 after that?
28 THE WITNESS: Well, when he fell down, the route was lined.
29 They were supposed to use another route, but they used
the same route, stepping on the man because it was -- it
2 was a street used by vehicles. So they stepped on him,
3 and then passed by.
4 MS PARMAR:
5 Q. Witness, after they stepped on the man, what happened to
6 him?
7 A. The man was lying there because -- because during that
8 time, it was not the same Kamajors that came to our house
9 did the act because the Kamajors had all gone to the
10 town. The man was lying there. There was nobody to go
11 and take him there. If there was anybody to go there to
12 take the body to bury, if you were caught, it was a
13 problem for you.
14 PRESIDING JUDGE: So is he saying that it is not the Kamajors
15 who came to their house who allegedly killed that man?
16 Is that what he is saying?
17 MS PARMAR: Your Honour, that's my understanding of the
18 witness's last response.
19 JUDGE BOUTET: Ask him again.
20 THE WITNESS: The Kamajors, they were all over in the town.
21 The Kamajors that were at our house, they had not left
22 the house. You stay at the house and see across the
23 street. You see the veranda clearly. You see the street
24 clearly. Our house was facing the street.
25 MS PARMAR:
26 Q. Witness, was this a different group of Kamajors who you
27 saw shoot the man?
28 A. Yes. It was a different group of Kamajors.
29 Q. Witness, what else did you see happening in the park?
A. Well, the park -- opposite the park, there was a dust bin
2 where people go to throw your trash. With that park,
3 there are some areas that are flat and clear. During the
4 evening hours, because -- on that day in the evening
5 hours, we left the place. The Kamajors -- I don't know
6 what actually they are doing that present moment, but I
7 saw something burning, that they were going around it.
8 Even if it was something burning, those of us who were
9 close at the place would get the smell of it. What they
10 were burning that I knew was a human being because when
11 they are burning a human being, you get the smell. The
12 smell most times is bad.
13 Q. Witness, what happened to your father during this time?
14 A. Well, during that time, after they had beaten the pastor,
15 at that time I was trying to go upstairs. As I was
16 approaching our own apartment, the Kamajors went. They
17 went upstairs to us. They came -- they met my father.
18 They started saying "It is this man, it is this man" in
19 Mende. They arrested my father. I was there with my
20 father and my younger brother. They arrested my brother.
21 Then they didn't release me again. My younger brother,
22 it was the people on the other side that took my brother.
23 Then they went with us.
24 PRESIDING JUDGE: "Went with us." Let him be precise, please.
25 "Went with us."
26 MS PARMAR:
27 Q. Witness, who went with you?
28 A. The Kamajors.
29 PRESIDING JUDGE: [Microphone not activated].

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1 THE WITNESS: That's me and my father. They met us in the
2 house.
3 JUDGE BOUTET: You have said something about your younger
4 brother. Where is he?
5 THE WITNESS: He was a small boy. But then when my mother
6 left us, we went to our grandmother. He was unable to do
7 something for himself, so he didn't go with him. He left
8 him. So the other people in the other apartment, the
9 Maringo people took him.
10 MS PARMAR:
11 Q. Witness, you said that they "went with us." Where did
12 you go?
13 A. We went -- we went to where they were based. There were
14 many at that time.
15 Q. Where who was based?
16 A. Where they were based.
17 Q. Who was based?
18 A. The Kamajors based.
19 JUDGE BOUTET: And you were saying that there were many at
20 that time. Many what? Many Kamajors? Or many
21 civilians? Or many what?
22 THE WITNESS: The Kamajors.
23 MS PARMAR:
24 Q. Witness, before you reached the base, who was with you
25 while you travelled to the base?
26 A. Well, as we were going along, I saw my uncle that I've
27 got used to. He gave me money. So I saw him. I shouted
28 his name, "Uncle, uncle." He's a huge man. I shouted
29 his name, "Uncle, uncle." Then he was called. When he

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1 was caught --
2 PRESIDING JUDGE: Who called him?
3 THE WITNESS: The Kamajors.
4 MS PARMAR:
5 Q. What happened when your uncle was called by the Kamajors?
6 A. When he was called, they don't know whether he was a
7 Temne. They wanted to know if he's a Temne so when he
8 was called there, he was placed down at gunpoint with my
9 father. Then one of the Kamajors held my hand when we
10 were going.
11 Q. What happened when you reached the Kamajor base?
12 A. When we arrive at the base of the Kamajors --
13 PRESIDING JUDGE: [Microphone not activated]. The uncle comes
14 after he has said, "Uncle, uncle." The Kamajors call the
15 uncle. He comes. Meets him and the father. They place
16 them under gunpoint. Now we are finding what happened
17 when --
18 THE WITNESS: Yes, sir.
19 PRESIDING JUDGE: -- when they got to the base? Let's go
20 progressively and see after they were held at gunpoint
21 what happened. That is, the father and the uncle.
22 THE WITNESS: Yes, sir.
23 MS PARMAR:
24 Q. Witness, after your uncle was taken under gunpoint, what
25 happened to you, your uncle, and your father?
26 A. We reached where they were, where they were based with
27 their companions, the Kamajors.
28 PRESIDING JUDGE: That is, they took them to where they were
29 based. From there, isn't it?


Subject: Re: Civil defence force men in trouble but unfair
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 11:21:55 05/31/08 ()
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It is very rare that an appeals court will increase the jail sentence of an appellant from the lowere court. This is justice at its best. The Kamajors killed innocent people. They killed people whose onl crime was that they did not support the SLPP or were not mende by tribe. I see nothing wrong in proseuting them. The ECOMOG particularly the Nigerian troops and Guinean troops also committed atrocities against innocent people and they should also have been brought to justice. To that extent I agree with you and you are quite on point. The special court has not been a waste of money and even if that were so, whose money is it any way? Not ours not ours.

When the history of sierra leone would be written many years after we would have all left this earth and become dust, my hope is that these ears of the special court will go down in history as one of the pivotal times in our country when Justice prevailed.

Any argument that supports dropping of all charges against the Kamajors (not necessarily the CDF) should by extension support dropping all charges against all of the indictees to be fair. What is so manifestly unfair, is that those who habor the belief that the kamajors should be absolved of all crimes committed, are also some of the most fervent proponents for Justice and long jail terms for the RUF and AFRC. This manifests a great degree of partiality and unfairness and would lead to nothing more than deep seated feelings of unfairness and partiality felt by the prosecuted towards the unprosecuted.

The issue of recruiting "children" to fight is an issue of international concern. Children must be protected and not used to commit atrocities. The law in all its might has even refused to prosecute children for the crimes they commit. Instead as a compromise, those who recruit children to commit these crimes against humanity are being punished. Your argument that children were used by Alimamy Samory Turays army to fight against the French is weak, in that you are comparing attitudes that exist in the 17th and 18th centuries to present day attitudes. The world has evolved vastly from the world of those years and the law has similarly followed suit. It is wrong to place children in a position where they have to kill their loved ones or be killed. It is wrong to teach children to dismember other human beings for fun. Any one who does these things must and should be prosecuted.

As a matter of fact I strongly believe that anyone who can identify another person who committed personal atrocities against them or their family members should have a right of personal action against the perpetrators. Any such personal action should have a penal as well as financial sanction as a possible consequence. Nothing worng with that.


Subject: Re: Civil defence force men in trouble but unfair
From: SORIE Jawara
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Date Posted: 15:50:43 05/31/08 ()
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MR. Iscandari,
The involment of children in the war cannot go without noting the fact that they were attacked by unknown young youths. ARE YOU SAYING THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE MOBILIZED THEMSELVES AND FIGTH BACK ? Children were mobilized through out the country to fight.How many children were mobilized by the government ? Yes, it is not our money that is spent to sustain a court that is unfair BUT WHAT PROvision is there to sustain war victims? You may see it differently but in my opinion it is wrong. If the court is designed for justice ,why should the issue of Gaddafi's be disregarded?


Subject: Re: Civil defence force men in trouble but unfair
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 18:46:13 05/31/08 ()
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Sorie,
I have been on record, and an advocate for the proposition that the government of sierra leone should file an action for damages against Libya, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso with the international court of Justice. Much in the same light as the Lockerbee lawsuits against Libya. We should endeavor to have the support of the powers that be, who are now friends of the Libyans, such as the US and GB. On that note we are on the same page and I appreciate your frustration with what appears to be a double standard in alocating indictments against "those who bear the greatest responsibility".

Where I disagree with you is your assertion that the involvement of children in the war is NOT by design of adults who actively sought to recruit these children in waging war. There is a legal difference between the acts of children who engage in war to defend themselves (which if I must add is a RIGHT that they have) and the affirmative act of RECRUITING these children, training them into a militia and unleashing this killing machine of former innocent children on other innocent people.

I have always posited that the Kamajors were in the best position to have emerged as the heroes in the sierra leone war. In that most noble cause, its leadership failed to create a fighting force worthy of these laurels. What in fact they did was to use the chaotic war situation to breed a tribal militia, which went on the rampage and killed many others who did not belong to their tribe, or the political party that they supported.

On the issue of the war victims and God knows there are man of them, it was important that those countries which were instrumental in training, forming, arming and unleashing the RUF on siera leone, be made to pay for these acts against the people of sierra leone. They can only be made to pay when these issues are brought to the worlds attention in a potential lawsuit against them. I am on the same page with you on this very discreet issue.

yes the court was designed for justice but as you know very well sierra leone has a very small contribution to the workings of the court. Thus it has a very little say on who may or may not be brought to justice. To the extent that this is true, Justice then could be seen to have an international political component. Your opinions are not that entirely wrong. I however encourage you to go to the special courts website and take a look at the transcr1pts of the CDF trial and you will see that these men did not have a halo around their heads.

Blessings


Subject: Re: Civil defence force men in trouble but unfair
From: SORIE Jawara
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Date Posted: 06:50:04 06/01/08 ()
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Mr. Iscandari Esq, Honestly, I agree with you on many points and it is good we are discussing some of the issues.The bitterness of the war took another direction because many people entered the war with different motives in mind, some for doing evil, some had the opportunity to discharge old grudges and so many other things.Video tapes can tell who went for what , and no joke they achieved their goals.It was a tribal war in many areas; limbas against madingos in karina,yahlunkas against fullahs in some parts of koinadugu and temnes against mendes in many parts.The involvement of children in a war as the rebels and rebel army did was wrong ,seven year old children dressed in full combat uniform and firing pistols all around. The children in my case were the brave ones that stood against all the factions to save their villages,towns and their families, this was the case in Koinadugu where the attacks were aimed at destroying the entire district, had the little boys and girls not acted properly, no koinadugu today, funny...paramount chiefs ( ex soldiers ran away).One thing we should note is that children have been used by the so called politicians for a long time,before the first A.P.C. took power, children were used to cause havocs on opposition, in 1973, little children " peoples militia" caused severe havocs especially in the extreme north.We have the same problems today,little children as party supporters are causing trouble almost every where in the country. Let us go back to the external forces ( Libya, Burkinafaso etc), the Ecomog commander gave a detail involvement of these parties, but involvement of the parties in the war were totally rejected as baseless and mere rumours. Sierra Leone,Liberia, and ecowas could not question any of the leaders , instead they made friends with them and collected donations. Where is justice for Sierra Leoneans? My brother , many people have suffered for no just course and the agony will be there for a long time. Do you know the special court is asking for more usd60m ? THANK YOU AND LET US PRAY ,WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH IT AGAIN.


Subject: Re: Civil defence force men in trouble but unfair
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 08:35:43 06/01/08 ()
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before the first A.P.C. took power, children were used to cause havocs on opposition, in 1973, little children " peoples militia" caused severe havocs especially in the extreme north."

This is news to me. Would you believe that in the years that you mentioned I was a resident of the North and travelled all up North. Does the name Magba Kamara come to mind? Never heard of "children" participating in political violence. That is just not true


Subject: Re: Civil defence force men in trouble but unfair
From: Tejan Kamara
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Date Posted: 06:28:10 05/31/08 ()
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Sorie, The injustice that has been perpetuated against the CDF is unbelievable. I can't understand how their sentences were added when the Trial Chamber had found them not guilty of the more serious charges. However, President Tejan Kabbah and the SLPP government are the ones that have to be blamed for selling them to the Special Court.


Subject: HAJAs win APC rice distribution!!!
From: Johnny
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Date Posted: 05:23:51 05/31/08 ()
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A consortium of hajas led by Binta(ex Siaka/Momoh squeeze) and haja Mattoe(London Peckham based) have won the distribution rights to 20,000 tonnes of the APC rice. Haja mattoe threw a hefty celebration party last night in Peckham. Most APC bigwigs were in attendance. Oh Salone!


Subject: Re: HAJAs win APC rice distribution!!!
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
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Date Posted: 13:24:07 05/31/08 ()
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Thank you very much Johnny for your interesting post which justifies my the point I have always been making about THE SAME APC-yesterday, THE SAME APC- today and THE SAME APC-forever.
I am sure if not all, but a large number of us still remember that DURING THE DAYS of PA SIAKI and Joe Momoh rice was in the hands of the so called HAJAS( WHO WILL SELL AT EXORBITANT prices and spend the money on the APC). That act is outside the tenets of ISLAM. But the APC'S so called HAJAS, do not care about what the DIN- ISLAM says, they only want to make MONEY to maintain the APC IN POWER at all cost.
I pray that one day, the whole membership of the SATANIC APC will understand that:
The Almighty Allah is MAALIKI YAWMID-DIIN! (THE MASTER OF THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT). I wish to assure all APC members that on the day OF JUDGEMENT, the good GOD will dump all of them IN JAHANNAMA-THE HELL FIRE, for their actions to our country and its PEOPLE.
It gives me JOY TO inform the APC that:
(1) DR. SIAKA STEVENS is now the newly appointed Principal Assistant to Satan( The Enemy Of Mankind) and
(2) Dr. J.S.Momoh is now the Personal Assistant to Satan.
They received these appointments only because of the BAD things they did to Sierra Leone.


Subject: Re: HAJAs win APC rice distribution!!!
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 14:07:27 05/31/08 ()
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I bet you benefitted one way or the other during the era you described. But my brother, if your sensitivity to bad governance is geniune why have I not hear you ever comment on the miserable failures of the 11 years of SLPP rule?. This has led to the conclusion that you're not genuinely criticising the present government for the good of our country but for your self satisfation. You're bitter because your party was booted out of power and there's clear indications that this present government stand to clinch the next elections and that means your party will be muddled into the wilderness.

But my advice is, please try to be more reasonable once on a while otherwise frustration can derail your thinking. I have no problem with you criticising this present government my concern is your health balance. I'm always prepared to criticise this government constructively when the need arise.


Subject: Eddie Grant Stop It
From: Sam
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Date Posted: 02:02:00 06/01/08 ()
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A few days ago, when Cocorioko posted a story about India providing us with an allotment of rice, they erroneously mention in the headline that it was 400,000 tons of rice. That made me comment on the rice situation and I mentioned that I hope the rice is distributed fairly and we don't go back to the days when the well connected and ministers' wives were getting the "contracts" to sell the rice that the govt procured.

That was a few days ago before it was announced that hajas have gotten the contract. So people being upset about this is not APC bashing. If this is true, this is very wrong.

They are supposedly throwing parties to celebrate?!? Who do you think will pay for that? I guess we can give them the benefit of the doubt for now, but it will be interesting to see how much a bag sells for.


Subject: Re: Eddie Grant Stop It
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 05:40:19 06/01/08 ()
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Kothor Sam,

I'm not in any way supporting mal-practices, the problem I'm having with Saidu's comments is to do with his dishonest condemnation of just one side when we all know that both past APC and the previous SLPP governments failed the country badly. He refused to condemn the past SLPP's misrule focusing only on an 8 months old APC government, and most of his claims, if you look at them with a sense of fairness is evident that he holds a grudge on the APC but they're have nothing to with uncovering the truth for the good of the country .

On the part of the rice distribution, there were claims of a so-called Haja celebrated the winning of the contract to distribute rice. I just want to let you know that I live in the heart of Peckham and there's no such party here as claimed. What I will relentlessly trying to find out is, if the contract is actually given to people who did not deserve it, (those who may not distribute it in good faith).

And the part where you mentioned the quantity of rice imported, I can see that some of my comments directed at you were unpleasant if that the case I would like to apologise, but bear in mind that I did commend your comments as they support my stand on the subject.

I have very reliable sources in Freetown who would provide me with credible information in regards to the rice distribution saga and I hope to corroborate or disprove some of these claims.


Subject: Re: HAJAs win APC rice distribution!!!
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 00:06:31 06/01/08 ()
Email Address: saidubangso@aol.com
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Eddie, I am very happy that you have proved to be a typical MEMBER of the APC, the only people in this WHOLE WIDE WORLD who will NEVER defend nor deny thier BAD RECORDS, but will personally attack people who BRING out the party's BAD RECORDS.
I wish you will FIND somebody who knows me very well, I am sure they will tell that I will NEVER support people who ACT WRONG. Even in my SLPP, when our members fail to do the right things, I condemn them and ensure that CORRECTIVE measures are put in place to prevent such wrong things from happening again.
That is the ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA are will be till I go to my grave.
I assure you also, that I will always be ONE OF THE VERY FEW Sierra Leoneans who will PUT THE INTEREST of my country ABOVE my personal INTEREST.


Subject: Re: HAJAs win APC rice distribution!!!
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 06:05:18 06/01/08 ()
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"Eddie, I am very happy that you have proved to be a typical MEMBER of the APC, the only people in this WHOLE WIDE WORLD who will NEVER defend nor deny thier BAD RECORDS, but will personally attack people who BRING out the party's BAD RECORDS."

Saidu, This is where my problem with you lies, its not about criticising the government but your ability to generalise anyone you perceived to be an APC supporter, your comment above is a living proof.

I'm disappointed that you regarded my comment as a personal attack to you. Infact, it will interest you to know that I'm not a loyal supporter of any political party in Sierra Leone but only supports the party which I beleive stands for good value. If this APC government slip up as I've always said I will not be obligated to stay with them.

There was a time when you and the Rogue New People carried a story of the VP buying a US$1million house in New Jersey, I was compelled to contact Saidu Mansaray in order for him to refute the claims, I did not stop there but took the extra mile to contact a few reliable people to exornerate the VP, even when you and all others involved failed to provide proof of your claims (as always)

You know we can argue here in this forum but the fact of the matter is, if we choose to cover up the truth about past and present governments because of our affiliations with them, we would be taken for fools by these politicians.

To be honest with you, I would love to listen to your criticisms but the more I look at them the more I discover countless flaws in them and left me with no option but to conclude that they're due to personal grudge.

Please Mr Bangura, try to instill credibilty in your opposition and stop the generalization of APC supporters maybe you could see the need for constructive criticism.

Lontha!!


Subject: Re: HAJAs win APC rice distribution!!!
From: Tis
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Date Posted: 06:58:17 06/01/08 ()
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Problem i have with Saidu is what qualify him to call imself an Alpha and what make him think is the only person who can solve Sierra Leone problem?


Subject: Re: HAJAs win APC rice distribution!!!
From: man pikin
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Date Posted: 14:44:34 05/31/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
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Message:
Saidu, are you bereaved again? Dont call that poor woman again and tell her that you have a death in your family. How is your watchman job? I agreed with eddie that your criticism is not for the good of the country, but for your own selfish desires.


Subject: Re: HAJAs win APC rice distribution!!!
From: Bai Forna
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Date Posted: 16:23:39 05/31/08 ()
Email Address: baiforna@yahoo.com
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I lauded the efforts made by the Koroma administration for bringing in such a huge amount of rice for the consumption of our starving people. I will further doff my hat to President Koroma if he lives the distribution of the rice to the actual business people.

“Those who do not remember history are forever condemned to repeat it’ so said George Santayana


Subject: Re: HAJAs win APC rice distribution!!!
From: Alhaji
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Date Posted: 04:31:28 06/01/08 ()
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Hajas are God's favourite people, so I see nothing wrong in empowering all our Hajas.


Subject: Chaos at FBC Campuc
From: Thugs
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Date Posted: 04:20:07 05/31/08 ()
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Reports from Freetown intimates that the Blackman Student Union government at FBC has lost power to opposition Whiteman group. While the total vote is yet to be determined, but the victory is said to be a narrow margin of thirty-seven votes.

As usual, the election was mired by violence from both parties and there are uncofirmed reports that the campus is litrarily on fire right now. Pre election tension resulted in skirmishes that required the police intervantion and fired tar gas canisters before temporal peace was restored. The election result was announced by the Principal of the University of Sierra Leone on the CTN radio since both parties could not trust each other on it.


After the announcement of the result, reports claim, the Whiteman supporters went on the rampage attacking Blackman supports, destorying their rooms and setting fire on their belogings/property. One victim I spoke to from London, Munda Rogers claimed " all my property were burnt after the room was broken into...". Senior members of the Blackman Family are alleging that the election does not reflect real democractic practice.


They claimed it was clear from the onset that they (Blackman) would be prevented from winning the election, as both the university administration and the central government of the APC vowed not to allow an "Anti APC group to win student eleciton in Sierra Leone". These allegations went further to indicate that twenty three strong members of the Blackman Family were arrested before they could vote, including the Auradicals Dictator,Salia Kpaka, who it is reported was chained and drag to police station. According the Umaru Koroma, alais Napoleon, a former dictor himself and a strong member of the Blackman Family, " S.N Dumbuya, the Deputy Registrar, was instructing the police to arrest every Blackman support who attempted to vote.


He said he would ensure that the SLPP supported Blackman supporters are all driven out of college after succeeding in rustricating Bonapha ( Bonapha was also a dictator of Auradicals and was expelled for two years few months ago)". He however denied any link between the Blackman Family and the SLPP and claim "there are supporters of every political political party in our Family". Responding to these allegation, Gertrude Vakaba, a senior member of the Dephlosaux Club, jubilantly intimated me that " ... when they (blackmen) won election, they did the same to us two years and we are paying them back. Now we have our government in power and we can do anything..." Members of the FBC administration refused to comment on the issues.


The officer-in-charge of the special OSD force that was sent to FBC campus, an Inspector Kamanda, acknowleged using tar gas to "disperse the violent students". He further revealed that some students have reported "...attack on their rooms and person, but the police is awaiting the (FBC) administrations report before we could commenced investigation" . Even as I type this report, reports indicates and confirmed by phone that there is a huge crowd of supporters of the winning Whiteman group attacking the Blackman Family supporters at "Airport", the taxi stop at FBC.


What is certainly however is that since 1977, the Blackman Family, with its original route in the Gardeners, had had no rosy relationship with the FBC administration or the APC government that it nearly toppled in the popular Hindolo Trye student upraising. It strang though that student union election has witnessed the most bestial exchange and has degenerated to being aligned to tribal, religion, and national political lines.


Subject: Re: Chaos at FBC Campuc
From: London Boy
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Date Posted: 08:57:50 05/31/08 ()
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"Now we have our government in power and we can do anything..."


Somethings never change....
And to think this is coming from a University Student,it goes a long way to tell us about democracy under the APC Government.


Subject: Re: Chaos at FBC Campuc
From: Dwight Tucker
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Date Posted: 06:29:30 05/31/08 ()
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What is this Blackman and Whiteman student union business ?


Subject: Re: Chaos at FBC Campuc
From: Politics
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Date Posted: 04:23:09 05/31/08 ()
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"when they (blackmen) won election, they did the same to us two years and we are paying them back. Now we have our government in power and we can do anything..."


Wow, scary stuff. Everything in salone is politics. The Politicians continue to steal, while the poor folks keep fighting to align themselves with these rogue groups. Shame on these politicians. Shame on the Prez and his party.


Subject: Sierra Leone: Between Mines Ministry And Mining Companies
From: Concord Times
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Date Posted: 04:14:17 05/31/08 ()
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Sierra Leone: Between Mines Ministry And Mining Companies



Concord Times (Freetown)

30 May 2008
Posted to the web 30 May 2008

Pel Koroma
Freetown

The All Peoples Congress (APC) government of President Ernest Bai Koroma, through the Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources, seems to be frustrating many mining companies.

Among them is London Mining Company Plc, a British company that was seemingly stopped from making necessary arrangements to continue operations at the Marampa Iron Ore deposit together with access to the Pepel port and rail.


The company gained its mining lease transfer from TECSBACO, a local company in 2005 and signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the mines ministry in 2007 which should have included the rehabilitation of the ports and rail and non-exclusive right to operate the facilities for their mining operations at Marampa.

But despite these developments, government is yet to give the go ahead for the company to start full operations.

In a chat with some staff of the mines ministry, all of London Mining's documentations relating to its operations in Sierra Leone are correct. But the ministry, under the present political head, Dr. Abu Bakarr Jalloh, is doing everything to frustrate the company.

An insider at the ministry said it is becoming endlessly difficult to understand how the Sierra Leone government wants the mines division of the country to operate. "Sierra Leone mines ministry is a difficult place to do clean and fair business," the insider asserted.

According to an Australian citizen intending to invest in textile and gold mining in Sierra Leone, the mines ministry appears to be unfriendly especially in granting clean and reputable companies the right to fully establish in the country.

"We are here to help in the reconstruction process of Sierra Leone through job creation, infrastructural development and boosting the foreign exchange earning of the government," he stressed "but certain government ministries, especially mines, are bent on slowing the pace of development in the country." Since the mines minister Abu Bakarr Jalloh came from a trip to Romania, things have become very chaotic at the ministry.

A European national working for a mines-related non-governmental organization (NGO) said the ministry does not understand that "commissioning these facilities at the earliest will bring substantial benefit to the country in the form of revenues, jobs, infrastructural development and concomitant socio-economic benefits".

The snail pace, or refusal to grant, these mining facilities to serious mining companies is simply because of their refusal to engage in shady deals, are tantamount to corruption.

This attitude, being exhibited at the mines ministry, seems to conflict with President Koroma's statement made at the opening of the Pepel Bridge on Friday 18th April 2008.

The President spoke of his admiration for the corporate role of London Mining in building the Pepel Bridge, rehabilitating the Lunsar Community Health Center and now contemplating on a US $100, 000 rice project for the community people.

The First Lady of the Republic, Madam Sia Koroma, officially opened the health clinic project in Lunsar and also thanked the company for the jobs London Mining Company is currently providing even though the extraction work has not started yet.

Close associates of the State House believe that the President, in tête-à-tête meetings, has been talking of his appreciation for London Mining but that every time the president brings up the issue of London Mining Company, the mines minister will just frown and play London Mining's name with triviality. Whether voodoo forces in the cabinet have changed that impression on the president or not remains a guess.

Despite the positive comments the President made openly or said to have made about London Mining, the company is currently being disturbed by the one-step-forward-three-steps backward approach of the Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources since Abubakar Jalloh took over as minister.

Abubakar Jalloh was recently in Romania with another minister on the ticket of Sierra Leone Diamond Company (SLDC)/ African Minerals Ltd whose owner, Frank Timis, lives in Australia.

Following Jalloh's return from Romania, African Minerals put out a press release stating that the company has signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the Government of Sierra Leone granting it exclusive right to the Pepel Port and rail. This MoU was published in the Financial Times in London and in some local tabloids.

So far, Abubakar Jalloh has turned down every attempt to comment on his trip to Romania and to answer to the said allegation that Ernest Bai Koroma may not have approved of such a deal with African Minerals on behalf of the government.

Even the ministers and other individuals who accompanied Abubakar Jalloh are also refusing to speak on what the per diem was, who paid it, the allegation of welcome 'kola' as well as goodbye package from Frank Timis and African Minerals as tradition may deserve.

In the same vein, Abubakar Jalloh refused to show up at the last Government Weekly Press briefing held on the 8th floor of the Ministry of Information and Communications, Youyi Building. Instead, the Director of Mines represented him and he denied any knowledge of such MoU with the government.

Many journalists present at the occasion expressed their frustration over the absence of minister Abubakar Jalloh as they had wanted him to open up his Romania suitcase that allegedly has more skeletons than one could imagine.

Since his Romania fun-fair trip, Dr. Jalloh has been seen moving around with five bodyguards instead of one. He was also spotted at the golf club with many hungry fans.

Recently in Freetown, there were public cries after a local radio programme in which Dr. Jalloh bogusly ranted about APC party's affiliations. These clearly suggest that Dr. Jalloh must be investigated about his trip to Romania.

The programme also suggested that the government, through the Mines Committee in Parliament, should not do any business whatsoever with African Minerals Ltd until they tender the copy of the MoU they signed with the government which gave it the sole right to take over Pepel ports and rail.


In another development, State House has developed a code of ethics for ministers which bans them from traveling abroad on the ticket of companies. One of those issues that came out with this code of ethics is probably what has been dubbed the Romanian-dollar tour.

The Public Relations Unit head of London Mining has re-emphasized that London Mining stands for transparency, development and hope that President Koroma would keep alive his dream of fighting corruption and see the company as a partner in rebuilding Sierra Leone.

The unit refused to comment on the alleged SLDC MoU but said, "The government, especially the president, knows what is good for Sierra Leone".


Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Between Mines Ministry And Mining Companies
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 13:07:55 05/31/08 ()
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The government, after assuming power in 2007, promised to review all mining contracts and licences. So my friend, lets waite and see what it intend to do before making hasty judgements.


Subject: Wilberforce cemetery in bad state
From: Concord Times
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Concord Times


Wilberforce cemetery in bad state

By Ben Samuel Turay

Wilberforce cemetery in the west end of Freetown is currently in a very bad condition, with only a supervisor in charge of the cemetery and no grave diggers to assist mourners during burial.

Residents around the cemetery use the cemetery as a dust bin while others have resorted to encroaching on some parts of the cemetery claiming it belongs to no one.

Cemetery supervisor Gescoyne Davis affirmed that the cemetery has only one man to dig up the graves during burial, adding that grave digger Saner Mansaray alone will not be able to dig up three to four graves at the same time.

“When two corpses come unless corpse owners dig up the other grave,” he said.

However, indigenes of Wilberforce village at ward 389 Wednesday have denied Freetown city council's idea to fence the cemetery.

Elder of the community Oliver Sawyer told Concord Times that the idea of fencing the cemetery was a waste of resources.

“Let the FCC use that money to rehabilitate the community market or to build another market that is not of a modern stature,” he said.

Sawyer said the cemetery land is big enough for some part of it to be used as a road, while he called for some of the graves to be relocated into the portion that will be fenced.

He said the cemetery was large enough to be used for the construction of a school with a free access road.

He, however, noted that the cemetery was in bad condition as people keep encroaching on it without any preventive measures against the act.

He said the cemetery also plays host to drug addicts, prostitutes and other criminals and observed that bad boys would stay around the cemetery at night to attack passers by.

Councillor of ward 389 Sam Franklyn Gibson said he has never received any money to rehabilitate the cemetery.

“I know the council has approved the project of fencing it,” he said.

He said the cemetery was not fenced and that they are putting polices in place to protect it. “We fence for encroachment and from thieves,” he said hoping that people will not claim parts of the land.


Subject: Re: Wilberforce cemetery in bad state
From: Name one
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Date Posted: 06:58:59 05/31/08 ()
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Why Wilberforce, look at the pathetic condition of cemetery at Kissy Road, at Ross Road and Ascension town as well.Seems no one cares and no one is interested."Why bother now, we are not going to die soon"- that is our ignorant belief.


Subject: Bishop Humper released on Le 2M bail
From: Concord Times
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Date Posted: 04:05:00 05/31/08 ()
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Concord Times

Bishop Humper released on Le 2M bail

By Rachel Horner


Resident Bishop of the United Methodist Church (UMC) in Sierra Leone was yesterday arraigned before Magistrate Mohamed Bawoh of Court No. 6 on a three count charge of disorderly behaviour.

Bishop Joseph Humper was released on a Le 2 million bail after pleading not guilty to the charges.

The accused was alleged to have behaved in a disorderly manner that led to private criminal summons of assault occasioning in actual bodily harm contrary to Section 47 of the offences against the person act of 1861.

According to the particulars of offence, the accused sometimes in February 2008 allegedly slapped Samuel Jackey during a service to mark UMC's annual conference and the incident was said to have caused the church to close its session for a moment until police intervened to quell the situation.

He was also charged for disorderly behaviour, contrary to Section 12(a) of the Pubic Order Act of 1965 and as repealed and replaced by Section 1 of the Public Order (amendment) Act No 2 of 1973; and intimidation contrary to Section 4(2) of the Public Order Act No.

Counsels for the defence were Eke Hallowell and Roland Ade Ceasar.

The case was adjourned to June 6, 2008.



Subject: Re: Bishop Humper released on Le 2M bail
From: Dwight Tucker
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Date Posted: 06:31:45 05/31/08 ()
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I know Bishop Humper well. How can a Bishop be charged with disorderly conduct ? This is very bad.


Subject: Re: Bishop Humper released on Le 2M bail
From: Sympathiser
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Date Posted: 07:00:55 05/31/08 ()
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I have all the sympathies for the Bishop, and he is just unlucky.He made his fortune at TRC, but all the wealth went to the Nigerian money doublers.And now, this uninvited trouble.


Subject: Butchers Need Help
From: Sierra Express
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Date Posted: 03:55:39 05/31/08 ()
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Sierra Express


Butchers Need Help

30 May, 2008

Zainu Abdul Bassie

Butchers Need Help


Butchers and meat sellers have spoken about the poor sanitary conditions and lack of basic facilities at the Mabella Butchery, the major abattoir in Freetown.

In an interview with the General Secretary of the United Federation of Butchers Sierra Leone (U.F.B.S.L), Saidu O. Jalloh, he said members of the association are disappointed about the dilapidated state of the butchery and it surroundings as the places are unkempt.

He further stated that lack of water, electricity, a poor drainage system and inadequate vehicles to supply meat to other areas in the city are problems confronting the union.

Mr. Jalloh recalled that a letter was written to the Chief Administrator of the Freetown City Council about the withdrawal of the meat van since 2004 in which they registered their dissatisfaction and asked for a reversal of that unfortunate decision. Mr. Jalloh disclosed that the vehicle is now in the possession of the Council Works Yard.

He said on a recent visit by the Mayor and officials of the Trade Ministry, National Power Authority, and the Guma Valley Water Company, a promise was made to them that the concerns will be addressed within 90 days. A lot of days have passed and still our concerns have not been addressed but we are very patient and we are waiting, hoping that these promises will be realized, he concluded.


Subject: No Jobs for APC Kolonkos
From: Sierra Express
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Date Posted: 03:52:30 05/31/08 ()
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No Jobs for APC Kolonkos

30 May, 2008

Sierra Express

No jobs for APC Kolonkos

Hopes were high in many youths in this country that thought that the coming into power of the APC would make their dreams come true. Disappointingly however most of their aspirations have been dashed to the ground as the APC has turned out to be their tormentors and oppressors. History continues to prove to us that history has taught us nothing as we still continue to allow politicians to fool, use, misuse and abuse us year in year out.

We always fail to recall simple past experiences into comparing the present trend of affairs. Many youths have been made destitute, vagabonds and disillusioned as they have realized alas too late, that they have been used and dumped in the dustbins once again.

I know for sure, that certain Sierra Leoneans who have fought battles, heaped invectives on their neighbours, attacked each another on tribal, religious or party lines all for politics are now burying their heads in shame as they face the disappoint of the APC. Sadly though most divisions that were allowed to grow between people because of politics are so deep that most of them are now permanent enemies.

Ethnocentrism and the politics of intimidations draw lines for anarchy. We still do not believe that God did not have a purpose for every system for which politics has an affair in His Kingdom. Still some Sierra Leoneans believe that politics has no divine connotation so they ascribe to it the trick of the devil.


During the electioneering period, Sierra Leoneans were brandishing themselves with all kinds of names, and the destitute (Kolonkos) which are the class of no hope Sierra Leoneans thought things were going to happen with a magic wand. In totality they implied what is known as discarding away what they have ahead of what they were expecting.

The question of youth folks in getting jobs in his country is discriminate. There are those youths who are unskilled, and those who are educated but have options for jobs that they can not take any type of job. The most preferable jobs for them are white-collar jobs.

Aren’t these Kolonkos ashamed of themselves, when still in sycophantic bravado they are now forming illegal and criminal taskforces for the APC to continue to harass and rob peaceful citizens in broad daylight?

Are they not ashamed that they still continue to allow themselves to be callously used by politicians without a conscience who live in affluence while they continue to wallow in abject poverty and uncertain futures?

Perhaps it is now time they start to think rationally and engage in positive initiatives instead of kowtowing in the same old nonsensical ideology of Bra you Borbor dae ya o.

Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!


Subject: George Bush to retire in Sierra Leone
From: Gbanababu
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Date Posted: 17:52:57 05/30/08 ()
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Credible sources have relayed plans that the present US president
George Bush is finalizing plans to retire in Sierra Leone. President
Bush told a friend at his Crawford Texas ranch that his aim after
leaving office was spreading democracy around the world, and since
Sierra Leone was the model of democracy in West Africa, he wanted
to make this country his base of operations.

Plans are already in progress to lease Kabassa Lodge for 50 years. He
also plans to engage in rice, cassava and soybean farming


Subject: Re: George Bush to retire in Sierra Leone
From: keke blahima
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Date Posted: 20:52:58 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: epa@gmail.com
Entered From: adsl-68-74-74-210.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net at 68.74.74.210

Message:
what did you smoke today...tea leaves?


Subject: Re: George Bush to retire in Sierra Leone
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 18:20:43 05/30/08 ()
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Message:
Mi man dis nar good news O!
Do you think we can convince him to stay in Masiaka?
Why Masiaka, you ask? Gee mi paddy! Masiaka is the "4 Road Yoncshion" as my three-toothed Uncle Shaybom likes to say. The roads to south, east, west and father north...they all run through Masiaka. Besides if Bush actually settles in Masiaka, we will consider dissing Pa Sheki and renaming the town, MaYoyBoos, after the great Texan himself.


Subject: Re: George Bush to retire in Sierra Leone
From: Sornyamu
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Date Posted: 17:58:33 05/30/08 ()
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Message:
Let him retire in Fallujah


Subject: Rice in Sierra Leone jubilation hurray
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:52:43 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
Entered From: pool-72-75-96-151.washdc.east.verizon.net at 72.75.96.151

Message:
There is happiness in Sierra Leone because RICE-RICE-MALAY KROO,MAALLA IS SAID TO BE in town.I don't know how many people will have access to the rice, and I don't know how the distribution will work, but this is one good step to solve the hardship temporally. I hope president Koroma will revist his statement on how much money is spent on importing rice and develop easy solutions that will stop rice import and other grains. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT SIERRA lEONE HAS NO BUSINESS IN IMPORTING RICE, CORN FLOUR,WHEAT, ONIONS,ETC. "Sierra Leone can produced enough for home and export". Experiments were made and all were successful , but projects designed to solve the severe devastating food problem went down the drains. Today, many farmers are stranded as rental tractors are not available as promissed. Government should treat this matter with seriousness if the goal is to solve food problem in the country. A hungry nation is an angry nation and a weak one.


Subject: Re: Rice in Sierra Leone jubilation hurray
From: Tejan Kamara
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Date Posted: 17:00:35 05/30/08 ()
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It is good news for our people. What method of distribution ? They must just flood the stores let the people buy.


Subject: Re: Rice in Sierra Leone jubilation hurray
From: Reality
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Date Posted: 17:10:18 05/30/08 ()
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Message:
Very good news


Subject: God is with Rev.Kabs Kanu
From: elvisk2004
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Date Posted: 15:21:51 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: elvisk2004@yahoo.co
Entered From: c-98-221-89-233.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 98.221.89.233

Message:
Rev Kanu as a man of God someone is working on your side very seriously in New Jersey. He is very young and talented guy in society.This particular guy is pursuing a course in Criminal Justice and have a vast knowledge in computer software, hadware and internet aplication and many more. This individual is trying to shot down all media/newspaper on the internet against the man of God(REV. Kabs-Kanu).When I confronted him with the fact that people have their freedom of speech to express, his reply was certain freedom of speech is against society and he name few that is very dangerous in society. Such as hate speech beyond legal procedure, symbolic speech and profanity. Mr. Thoronka also said that he will took this to a higher levellocally and Internationally.



Subject: Re: God is with Rev.Kabs Kanu
From: Kabs Kanu
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Date Posted: 15:33:11 05/30/08 ()
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Thanks for your sentiments.I am aware that God is with me and because he is a holy God who loves righteousness we must try to keep our consciences tender by listening to advice from well-meaning people and putting rights perceived wrongs against other people.

The lesson we Christians must always learn is that we cannot fight our own battles and we must not attempt to do so, lest we tie God's hands. We must allow God to fight for us. I would therefore advice that in defending me, you use a positive approach --Saying the good things you know about me.Do not lambast those who oppose me to avoid chaos. As I have always said, I am held to higher standards than others , because of my title and position of REVEREND.

I however appreciate your kind gesture to be on my side. May God bless you.


Subject: Re: God is with Rev.Kabs Kanu
From: elvisk2004
To: All
Date Posted: 16:03:27 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: elvisk2004@yahoo.co
Entered From: c-98-221-89-233.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 98.221.89.233

Message:
Yes Sir, I do exactly what you said in the name of Jesus.


Subject: Re: God is with Rev.Kabs Kanu
From: elvisk2004
To: All
Date Posted: 15:59:21 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: elvisk2004@yahoo.co
Entered From: c-98-221-89-233.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 98.221.89.233

Message:
Yes sir, I will do exactly as yor said-Rev. Kabs-Kanu


Subject: Kabs-Kanu trying to get Dr. Curtis-Thomas to return!
From: Forum Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 13:24:25 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
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Posted by Curtis-Thomas Observer(Rev. Kabs-Kanu) on May 30, 2008 at 12:43:45:

In Reply to: missing the great and brilliant one on this forum (2) posted by forum observer on May 30, 2008 at 12:00:19:

Curtis-Thomas, if you the one writing all this and you are missing this forum and want to return, learn humility and just apologise and you I am sure the Publisher, Kabs, will have you reinstated.
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Kabs Kanu, if you are the one writing the above (and there is reason to believe that it is you) WHY NOT DEFROCK yourself and apologise to the doctor for being RUDE AND UNBECOMING toward him. As usual he might forgive you for the following sins; however, CHANCES ARE SLIM OR IMPOSSIBLE THE DOCTOR WILL RETURN!


Wetin dee Chief say Tiday, Oh ?

Posted by Chief in Exile on April 09, 2008 at 18:42:07:

3)"... For the minority (and the Chief is included here) they have become "liberated", they have "tasted" democracy and consequently will scream whenever "dem savage boys dem" continue to practice "savage politics" and in short FEAR causes us to be afraid to return home. The story of Dr. Mohamed Sorie Forna's "murder" by the APC is a case in point..."
(Chief in Exile..."Home again, when shall I see my Native land, I shall never forget my home")

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Posted by kabs kanu on April 08, 2008 at 14:14:58:

Dr. Curtis,
While it is not our intention on this forum to interfere with people's right to self-expression, your thread below about the President is unacceptable. I criticised President Kabbah throughout his rule but did not use any disrespectful speech against him.

We will not allow you or anybody to use this forum to disrespect our President. You can criticise him without calling him names.

Since stakeholders read this forum and we are right now involved in getting them to develop a positive image of Sierra Leone so that they can help our country out of our desperate situation, your post is going to be removed. Moderator, please remove the whole thread.

You don't see even President Bush attacked with epithets in the most democratic country in the world. Americans criticise their President but they show respect for him.

You have no proof that the idiot you are quoting is writing the truth. He may have an ax to grind with the President. If you are going to use his article, ask your question in a respectful manner. Do not use it to abuse our President.

We hope our standpoint will be understood. We are not going to allow our forum to be used to discourage investors and helpers from Sierra Leone.

Have a nice day .

KABS KANU


Subject: Re: Kabs-Kanu trying to get Dr. Curtis-Thomas to return!
From: Sally een last word!
To: All
Date Posted: 13:52:27 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
If the Late Dr. Mohamed Sorie Fornah were to comment on the above, He probably would say of Rev. Kabs-Kanu:
¡±¡¦this display of infantile vanity may all appear trivial, but to ME with a trained medical mind, they are the manifestations of a MEGALOMANIC SYNDROM. It is the top of the iceberg submerged below a sea of personal shyness. This coupled with an insatiable thirst for power can only spell disaster to this country..."


Subject: For Mr. ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:39:55 05/30/08 ()
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Mr. Bamgura, please permit me to respond to the following: "Bambay, May God bless you for being a fair and nice person(you are one of the few people in this forum who look at issues with an open mind). I also thank you from the bottom for my heart for pointing out that the SPECIAL COURT was set up to BRING those who attacked innocent people in Sierra Leone TO JUSTICE. Let me remind you that Alieu Iscandari worked for the SPECAIL COURT, and I am sure if Alieu had any evidence to prove that I was a part of the RUF, he MUST had made sure that I am indicted for committing a crime AGAINST HIS FATHER.
Since, Alieu Iscandari failed to use due process of LAW to fight me, I NEED to CLEAR MY GOOD NAME.
Please HELP ME in letting Alieu understands that :
HE MUST DO UNTO OTHERS, AS HE WISHES THEM DO UNTO HIM.
We live in a GIVE and TAKE WORLD, therefore ALL of us, must be ready to receive whatever we give OUT."

Let me start by thanking you, once again, for the time you took to, first and foremost, responding but most importantly, that you took your time to clarify certain issues that most people would never have thought of. It tells a lot about your character and even gives the impression that you would like to put this sad chapter behind you. I hope M. Alieu Iscandri Esq. is in the same frame of mind.
The piece of advice I would share is that the amount of load one gets off his or her shoulder, the lesser the pressure one has to carry. The load of the conscience is the heaviest load to carry. The lesser people one would have to think of negatively, the lesser the worries, the broader and clearer one thinks. The more the conscience is bothered, the more unsure and unclear an individual becomes and the more difficult it is for them to accomplish goals. No matter how difficult a task is, when it is approached with a clear conscience and with determination, it can be accomplished. Men have gone to the moon but still there are men who cannot phantom how such a task is possible.
Whatever you do in this instance Mr. Bangura, make sure that when you look back on it years from now, you would proudly say, I did it with my clear conscience and for those for which you were unsuccessful with, your conscience tell you, at least I tried.
Do your best with clear coscience.
God bless you and have a nice day.


Subject: missing the great and brilliant one on this forum (2)
From: forum observer
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Date Posted: 12:00:19 05/30/08 ()
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ASTROLOGY, YOU BELIEVE IN IT? I DON'T, BUT I USE TO!

By Dr. Charles Curtis-Thomas


Most people that I have talked to believe in Astrology
But what if I ask you about your horoscope? Do you check your horoscope in the news paper before you head out of the door in the morning ( if you ¡°nar real saloneman, dis mean say before you lef you house----because ¡°men¡±, door don doty now---- you don rub and drink you lili tin, you don mek you snake lik you fos tin nar morning, you don go nar treet naked four o¡¯clock nar morning for go talk to ronshoo number 666¡¦and you name it)? Perhaps you check your horoscope ¡°just for fun¡± or you might be one of the many people who take their daily horoscope seriously. References to astrology, on which horoscopes are based, are everywhere---in newspapers, and magazines on radio and TV, you name it.

Reliance on astrology is becoming more and more common or popular In a May 2001 Gallop poll, 28% of all those interviewed said they believe in ¡°astrology, or that the position of the stars and planets can affect people¡¯s lives.¡± And when it comes to reading their horoscope, the figure is much higher than that. Recent figures indicate that 20 million books on astrology are sold every year! Many people today live their lives with both eyes, if you will, firmly fixed on their star charts and predictions.

But the question becomes is astrology credible? Is it origin not as ancient as other ways of predicting the future that we now consider to be ¡°old superstitions¡±? My position on the issue is that ¡°once upon a time the Lord gave certain men the ability to look at the stars and predict the future as in the three wise men ( these men were astrologers) that ¡®saw Jesus¡¯ Star and came to worship Him¡¯, and I further believe that because the hearts of men is evil the Good Lord must of strip mankind of this gift.

The basic theory of astrology is that the orbits and alignments of the sun, moon, and planets control our destiny. Even though we live in a skeptical and highly scientific age, many believe it. When asked for evidence, people report that the predictions on their horoscopes were accurate. Most people overlook the fact that most horoscopes are generalized which raises its inaccuracy rate.

Again, the inevitable question for me is ¡°what are the facts¡±? Is the theory of astrology at least possible? Let us consider the following points:

1. No scientific evidence whatsoever has been found to indicate that the changes in position of planets relative to the earth have a direct effect on human beings. This idea is completely unscientific and goes against all we know about the natural world.

2. Why should one particular combination of planetary positions mean one thing and another position mean something else? Why is the planet Mars, for example, associated with violence and Venus with love? How does anyone know what the position mean in terms of character or feeling or the future? Who decided what meant what?

3. Why should there be 12 divisions or signs of the Zodiac? Why not 13 or 10 or 20? And why is each person linked to this sign just because of birth? Why should the exact date and time of our birth limit us for the rest of our lives?

4. Astrology is based on the understanding that the earth is the center of the universe, and that the sun, moon, and planets all revolve around the earth. Why? Because that¡¯s what the ancients believed. But we now know today that that belief is completely false. Even the late rebel leader, ¡°Dr¡± Foday Sankoh, who defended himself in his trial, would tell you that ¡°predictions based on inaccurate science will invariably produce inaccurate conclusions¡±. YES, I HEARD YOU, WHEN YOU SAID ¡°PEERIOOODD¡±!


Also, there is the scientific fact that star positions relative to our planet, earth, have changed since astrological calendars were created! The zodiac, created more than 2,000 years ago, no longer matches what we see in the night sky. The signs are no longer valid, and their error rate increases year by year. If the actual alignments no longer match the calendar, how can the predictions be accurate?

On top of this, and I in no way intend to sound exhaustive, astrology doesn¡¯t recognize other more recent astronomical findings. The ancient planetary system used by astrology and horoscope readers has six planets, including ours, earth. But the three planets of our solar system that have been discovered since 1781 are totally disregarded! The only planets known in ancient times were Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, hence the various ¡°Greek gods¡± representing them. The alignment of these planets is supposed to influence human attitudes and behavior. But in 1781 Uranus, another planet was discovered. The Astrologers ignored it! In 1846 Neptune was discovered The Astrologers ignored it! In 1930 Pluto was discovered. Again, Astrologers ignored it. Why is it assumed that five planets affect our daily lives and destiny, but three others don¡¯t? Now it stands to simple reason that if the alignment of the six planets affect us, what influence do these more recently discovered planets have? Why wouldn¡¯t they influence us too? After all, they are ¡°not new¡± planets, we just did not know about them! It stands to reason then that because the astrologers did not know what to do with these other planets, they conveniently ignored them! One has to ask the very logical question: if five of the solar planets affect us, why wouldn¡¯t the other three?

If scientific evidence and logic are lacking, why do people still believe in astrology?

Human beings have an insatiable propensity to know their destiny. Since religious belief has been abandoned by many, people need another kind of ¡°faith¡± to live by. Astrology seems to answer questions they have about life, and especially about the future. One reason for astrology¡¯s great popularity is that it gives people a force outside of themselves to believe in instead of God. Yet God is real while the forces in the stars are imagined. And this imagined force suggests that you might as well not try to improve yourself because it predetermined who you are and what you are.

Did I hear you ask, ¡°So where did astrology come from?¡±

Astrology is based on pagan religion. It began with the priests of ancient Babylon, who first assigned the planets godlike powers and eventually worshiped planets as gods, each ruling over certain areas of life. The astrologers interpreted the pattern of stars and planets to advise kings and rulers of ¡°auspicious times¡± and to make predictions about the future; the same way ¡°all Salon past and present presidents/prime minister are expected to have their advisers and moray man from every part of Africa and house them at State house/ Juba, Lumley, or what have you , its called ¡°you get for protect yousef¡±!

Because astrology gives guidance based on heathen religion rather than looking to the Creator for guidance, the Bible GIVES NUMEROUS STERN WARNINGS AGAINST DABBLING IN ASTROLOGY!

Through the prophet Isaiah, God points out the futility of following astrology: ¡°Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you¡¦they cannot even save themselves. ¡°(Isaiah 47: 13, 14) He sent the prophet Jeremiah to give another warning: ¡°Do not

Learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them. For the customs of the people are worthless.¡±(Jeremiah 10:2, 3) The prophet Daniel recorded how the Babylonian astrologers could not or were unable to interpret the king¡¯s dream (if you are wondering, I am referring to king Nebuchadnezzar). Only people who worshipped the Creator God could interpret the king¡¯s dream (The implication of that dream as it affects us and the world is another ¡°ball game¡± too complex to pay adequate tribute to here)

I can hear you say, ¡°What is your closing argument?¡±

Since astrology is based on heathenism, we should not be too surprised if its theories contradict what we know about God and His relationship to his creation:

***** Christianity says God is in control of this world. Astrology says the stars---the planets---are the controlling factors.

***** Christianity says that we are responsible to God for what we are and do. Astrology says we are not responsible to God.

***** Christianity says we should focus our attention on helping and caring for others. Astrology says ¡°ah, papa, nar you sabi, all man for himself¡±!

*****Christianity says we should worship God and look to Him for guidance and advice. Astrology says nothing about God and instead directs attention to human interpretations for the way to live your life.

***** Christianity says God can save you and give eternal life. Astrology says (you got it!) NOTHING!


Why rely on advice provided by people who have a worldview that is at odds with God¡¯s word?

ASTROLOGEEEEEEEEEE! SO DO YOU STILL BELIEVE IN IT? I DON'T BUT I USE TO!

(C) 2008. Charles Curtis-Thomas, SECHN, Dip. Druggistry, BSN, RN, MD (Hons.), MPH.
Is a Sierra Leonean-born Physician residing in the USA. He is also the Director, Center for Medical Education and Advancement, College Park, MD.
Contact him via email: RNMDTWO@YAHOO.COM


Subject: Re: missing the great and brilliant one on this forum (2)
From: Curtis-Thomas Observer
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Date Posted: 12:43:45 05/30/08 ()
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Curtis-Thomas, if you the one writing all this and you are missing this forum and want to return, learn humility and just apologise and you I am sure the Publisher, Kabs, will have you reinstated.


Subject: Re: missing the great and brilliant one on this forum (2)
From: forum observer
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Date Posted: 13:30:38 05/30/08 ()
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Posted by Forum Observer on May 30, 2008 at 13:24:25:

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Posted by Curtis-Thomas Observer(Rev. Kabs-Kanu) on May 30, 2008 at 12:43:45:

In Reply to: missing the great and brilliant one on this forum (2) posted by forum observer on May 30, 2008 at 12:00:19:

Curtis-Thomas, if you the one writing all this and you are missing this forum and want to return, learn humility and just apologise and you I am sure the Publisher, Kabs, will have you reinstated.
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Kabs Kanu, if you are the one writing the above (and there is reason to believe that it is you) WHY NOT DEFROCK yourself and apologise to the doctor for being RUDE AND UNBECOMING toward him. As usual he might forgive you for the following sins; however, CHANCES ARE SLIM OR IMPOSSIBLE THE DOCTOR WILL RETURN!


Wetin dee Chief say Tiday, Oh ?

Posted by Chief in Exile on April 09, 2008 at 18:42:07:

3)"... For the minority (and the Chief is included here) they have become "liberated", they have "tasted" democracy and consequently will scream whenever "dem savage boys dem" continue to practice "savage politics" and in short FEAR causes us to be afraid to return home. The story of Dr. Mohamed Sorie Forna's "murder" by the APC is a case in point..."
(Chief in Exile..."Home again, when shall I see my Native land, I shall never forget my home")

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Posted by kabs kanu on April 08, 2008 at 14:14:58:

Dr. Curtis,
While it is not our intention on this forum to interfere with people's right to self-expression, your thread below about the President is unacceptable. I criticised President Kabbah throughout his rule but did not use any disrespectful speech against him.

We will not allow you or anybody to use this forum to disrespect our President. You can criticise him without calling him names.

Since stakeholders read this forum and we are right now involved in getting them to develop a positive image of Sierra Leone so that they can help our country out of our desperate situation, your post is going to be removed. Moderator, please remove the whole thread.

You don't see even President Bush attacked with epithets in the most democratic country in the world. Americans criticise their President but they show respect for him.

You have no proof that the idiot you are quoting is writing the truth. He may have an ax to grind with the President. If you are going to use his article, ask your question in a respectful manner. Do not use it to abuse our President.

We hope our standpoint will be understood. We are not going to allow our forum to be used to discourage investors and helpers from Sierra Leone.

Have a nice day .

KABS KANU


Subject: Missing the Great and brilliant one on this forum
From: Forum observer
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Date Posted: 11:29:33 05/30/08 ()
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CAUGHT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION; PRESENTING SIR ISAAC NEWTON

By Dr.Charles Curtis-Thomas
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As a Nurse and a Physician and, by definition, a scientist, I have often struggled with religion and science!

Science is based on what we humans can observe with our eyes and ears. Scientists examine nature carefully, keeping meticulous records of what they observe. The fact that humans have confirmed a particular fact through this process gives us great confidence in the conclusions of science. Thus, science becomes an authority that we trust to tell us the truth. We sometimes settle arguments with, “…but science says…!” That is using science as an authority.

We Christians also trust the Bible as an authority. It informs us of certain very important truths that we can learn from no other source. Without a doubt, the most important is the plan of Salvation that arises out of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

There is a great difference, however, between the source of the Bible’s authority and that of science. We trust science as an authority because it’s based on human observation. On the other hand, we Christians understand that the Bible gains its authority from God. The words in the Bible are true and therefore authoritative because God “spoke” them. He revealed them. We support this conclusion with the texts of scr1pture such as Paul’s assertion that “all scr1pture is given by inspiration of God.”

So, then, it is obvious that no scientific test in the world could verify that God inspired the words we find in the Bible. So how can we know that He did? The answer is faith. We simply believe God spoke through the prophets who wrote the Bible.

The real problem (for me and other scientists) comes with ideas such as the “virgin birth of Christ and the resurrection from the dead”. The Bible affirms that these events did happen. Science says they are not scientifically possible.

…And suddenly I /we am/are confronted with a conflict between our two authorities. One says a particular idea is true; the other says it cannot be true. How do we decide which one is right? Some people solve the dilemma by claiming that the Bible is true when it speaks of spirituality and morality, and that science is true when it speaks of our human observation of the natural world. The two do not conflict, they say, because science cannot probe spirituality and morality, and the Bible cannot examine nature!

What about the issue of the resurrection? Science says that it is impossible, yet the Bible says that our eternal life depends on accepting Christ’s resurrection as a historical fact or event. Our assurance that the Bible’s statements are true MUST be based on faith, not observation. That is why the Bible says that faith is being “certain of things we cannot see or observe...” It is human nature to trust what we can see above what we cannot see.

Also, the Bible says “…And Seth lived for nine hundred and twenty years and then died…And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years; and he died…And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died…” (Genesis 5:8, 10, 27). Of course, science says this life span is impossible, unless a different system of calculating “time” was being used!

I have very great respect for the authority of science. But when the conclusions of science conflict with scr1ptural statements that affect my eternal life, I will accept the authority of scr1pture over that of science!

Did I hear you say, “Does this mean we Christians must park our “scientific brains” at the door when we enter church?” My answer is NO. For a detail answer to this issue, please help me welcome to the podium someone who I admire very much, Sir Isaac Newton.

Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting Sir Isaac Newton!

This is no ordinary place. This is Westminster Abbey, England’s most famous Church.
Here England’s kings and queens and other notables have found their final resting places. Here is Charles Darwin’s grave. His evolutionary ideas have severely challenged many a person’s belief in God. If the “theory of evolution community” will allow me to paraphrase what Charles Darwin was saying, it means, “about fifteen billion years ago a tremendous explosion created matter, energy, time, and space all at once. Atoms condensed into gaseous clouds, stars coalesced from whirling strands of fire and light, and from those stars, molten globules hardened into planets, including our own. Shallow water fermented, simple life forms, emerged by chance, and millions of years, human beings. If the temperature had been warmer or colder or if gravity had been slightly off, none of us would be here”. Oh, Charles Darwin!

Paradoxically, just a few feet away lies one of my role model (“my boy”), SIR ISAAC NEWTON, considered by many to be the greatest scientist of all time, and also a man with great reverence for God. I often muse about the great disparity between the lives of these two world-renowned scientists, their relationships to God, and their contrasting legacies. Newton reflects a prowess that exemplifies how science and religion can work together; he was passionately dedicated to both God and good science.

Newton was born in England on Christmas Day in 1642. His father’s death three months earlier was one of several events that created a difficult childhood. Because of circumstances associated with his mother’s second marriage, Newton was reared mainly by relatives and friends. He loved books and showed an insatiable desire to improve all kinds of mechanical devices, such as kites and sundials. Newton had few friends and was not always well understood or appreciated. Described as being “never at rest,”(who knows, he might have been suffering from hyperthyroidism!) he tended to work very intensely on his various projects, sometimes forgetting to eat or sleep.

At Cambridge, Newton immediately distinguished himself and soon became a renowned faculty member, the “new kid on the block”, if you will. The novel kind of telescope he invented was received with great enthusiasm by scientists at the Royal Society of London. He sent the Royal Society thoroughly prepared documents about the properties of light and color that were likewise well appreciated. Being reticent to present his new ideas, he often waited years before releasing them. He published only a little of his work, but each was an imperishable monument to his genius.

It is probably inevitable that the arrival of a young, inexperienced but brilliant scientist should quickly draw criticism from the old guard. Several feuds continued for years, reaching international proportions. While Newton tended to avoid confrontation, and like me, he could be a formidable foe with those who felt free to evaluate his ideas but did not understand them.

Newton eventually published the results of some of his most important findings in the three-volume Principia. This work has been hailed as “perhaps the greatest event in the history of science---certainly the greatest till recent years.” Furthermore, “no living person could challenge its originality or power. Newton had become the admitted dictator of scientific thought, and there was no one able to cross sword with him.”

Principia is full of mathematical deductions about gravity, celestial mechanics, comets, the moon, tides, and associated laws. Its most significant contribution is the introduction of an unprecedented and high level of observational and mathematical rigor, dramatically improving respect for science. Principia also reveals some of his religious fervor as he concludes that “this most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the council and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all.”

Many honors were bestowed on Newton. At Cambridge, his mathematical prowess won him the title of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, an honor later held by famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking. During the last 24 years of his life, Newton was president of the Royal Society. The Academie des Sciences in France elected him as a Foreign Associate, and Queen Ann knighted him. There is very little doubt that Newton possessed one of the greatest minds of all time.

For me the most remarkable is that this premier scientist also had a profound devotion to God and a very deep interest in religious matters. At least a third of his voluminous writing deals with religious topics. Sometimes I feel as if I share a similar gene with this great man (note that I say this with incapacitating humility)! Newton was especially interested in Biblical prophecies, and he studied all available materials, whether written in Greek, Aramaic, Latin, or Hebrew. The relation of prophecies to history prompted him to prepare a manuscr1pt that was published shortly after his death under the title Chronologies of Ancient Kingdoms Amended.

Newton’s analytical approach is revealed in his series of 15 “Rules for interpreting the words and language in scr1pture.” A favorite topic was the two prophetic books of Daniel and Revelation. A few years after his death, these writings were published as the book Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John. To Newton, the study of God’s nature were all part of his overwhelming desire to know God.

Newton’s religious fervor brought him many admirers. A renowned Frenchman tried to establish a Religion of Newton Church, and another Frenchman severely criticize England for not giving due respect to Newton’s divinity. In his view, the calendar should be changed to start with Newton’s birthday (I violently disagree with this because if that was carried out can you imagine how many great people would fight, literally, to have their birthdays on the calendar?), and a Church should be built in Newton’s birthplace (this makes more sense).

The scientific community has not followed Newton’s example in combining faith and science; instead it has followed Darwin. In Newton’s time, God was an integral part of science. Now many scientists still believe in God but exclude Him from scientific explanations. Today’s science is a secular worldview that tries to explain most of reality within a limited materialistic (mechanistic, naturalistic) outlook. In rejecting God, science has become a closed system, unwilling to find truth wherever scientific investigation may lead. Science cannot find God as long as it excludes Him. At present, science has replaced God as the creator with evolution, but science is finding very serious flaws with the theory.

Science indulges in all kinds of speculative ideas and does not seem to have a sound basis for excluding God because a lot of scientific data points to God. As was the case for Newton, science can be a study of the nature and the laws that God has created. Newton clearly demonstrated that one can be preeminent scientist and also include God in ones conclusions.

Ladies and Gentlemen,” my boy”, Sir Isaac Newton had it right; please join me then in giving Sir Isaac Newton a standing ovation!

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(C)2008: Charles Curtis-Thomas, SECHN, Dip. Druggistry, BSN, RN, MD (Hons.), MPH (In Infectious Disease Epidemiology) is a Sierra Leonean-born Physician residing in the USA. He is also the Director of the Center for Medical Education and Advancement, College Park, Maryland, USA. You can email him RNMDTWO@YAHOO.COM

CAUGHT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION :PRESENTING SIR ISAAC NEWTON


Subject: Wrong to change national anthem for posited reason
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:49:11 05/30/08 ()
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The grass is not greener on the other side. There is as much disunity amongst other African nationals as amongst Sierra Leoneans.

A NATIONAL ANTHEM, in my view, is merely a group of symbolic expressions that play a supportive role to the NATION STATE. National anthems have a galvanizing tendency and therefore an instrument to solidify the nation state. They do not define a nation or a people.

Scholars have repeatedly pointed to differences in the creation of nation states in Africa as compared to the WEST. Unlike the WEST, African nations do not have cultural homogeneity. We in Africa celebrate our cultural diversity thereby turning a negative, from the western perspective, into a positive. Whether the celebration is a subterfuge or not, there is no alternative to our nation states as presently constituted and our cultural diversity is a social reality.

Nation states in Africa are much more difficult to manage because the element of cultural diversity that characterizes each is also the stuff upon which political divisions are made.

While the going on’s among Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad can appropriately be labeled non patriotic or disuniting but that is not a rational reason to change our national anthem. And if we were to change our national anthem for that reason then does the author want to make the case that the words should reflect our disunity and lack of patriotism for I see no logical connection between his lengthy historical account and his conclusion that Sierra Leone needs a new national anthem which would never pass away with time but one that stands the test of time and history.

The author’s piece is simply a case of bad logic where the conclusion and the explanation are miles apart. But to his credit his historical account is informative.


Subject: Re: Wrong to change national anthem for posited reason
From: Reality
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Date Posted: 11:33:29 05/30/08 ()
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Alie the historical account of this long narrative is not even informative,
but full of distortions and downright lies. If you have ever heard about
Mein Kempf, which Adolph Hitler wrote about the Jews before he
assumed power and proceeded on a process of mass extermination,
this was what it read like.

When somebody who is supposed to be an intellectual write an
account of history in which only one group of people, the Mendes and
one party the SLPP were responsible for all the problems that a
country has ever experienced, that is ethnocentrism, pure and simple.

Most rational Sierra Leoneans know that the country has been dealt a
bad hand by politicians of every tribe and party. Joseph Saidu Momoh
who brought the country to its knees was as far as I can remember not
a Mende, yet this account does not even mention him.

Would you imagine how sick a man is to go to a funeral that happened
as he said ten years ago and only pay attention to the language of the
songs that were sung at the vigil? If a Temne man dies do will a
rational Mende go to the funeral and expect songs only in Krio,
funerals are usually cultural affairs. If you go to a Fula funeral go and
pay your respects and forget the language the service is conducted in.

When people die, the attendance at their funerals is usually a function
of the impact they made while they were alive, and their associations.
If a person is as tribalistic or unfriendly as the writer was, definitely he
would not have expected a big funeral, had he died in the Gambia.


Subject: Re: Wrong to change national anthem for posited reason
From: Read it again Mr.
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Date Posted: 18:07:17 05/30/08 ()
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I think your assertion about the article seems to fall in line with what the author is exactly trying to portray. If you read the article carefully, you will find out that the author took his time to attack both parties and both tribes that are the root of the problem. If I can remember, he attacked Siaka stevens strongly and Sir Milton Margai. Siaka Stevens was an APC leader. He stressed the assassination tactics, the divide and rule of the Siaka government. What up with that? You concentrate on the funerals in Gambia, but the context of that I think is to stress how we are unfortunately divided as a nation. Those who were in Gambia knew the Sa loneans were not united as the Guineans, and other nationalities. I think this article by this gentleman should be a reminder and an eye opener for Sa loneans especially those in the diaspora to start questioning some of our behaviors towards our brothers and sisters.


Subject: Re: Wrong to change national anthem for posited reason
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 11:38:30 05/30/08 ()
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Your comments are well taken.


Subject: Re: Wrong to change national anthem for posited reason
From: forum observer
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Date Posted: 11:47:34 05/30/08 ()
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"Alie the historical account of this long narrative is not even informative,
but full of distortions and downright lies.."
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Alie, your response, "Your comments are well taken" means that you agree with the fellow. Do you agree that "the historical account of this long narrative is not even informative,
but full of distortions and downright lies.."?????????????????????????????????????????


Subject: Re: Wrong to change national anthem for posited reason
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:34:30 05/30/08 ()
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I cannot say that the historical account is full of distortions because I would have no basis for saying that. But look at all else the writer said and tell me what you really think from an objective perspective. I have reproduced it for you below. Note that the writer is not disagreing that the SLPP or some Mendes are not guilty of actions that are disuniting, he/she is simply questioning the motive of intellectuals when they decide to give half truths.

'When somebody who is supposed to be an intellectual write an
account of history in which only one group of people, the Mendes and
one party the SLPP were responsible for all the problems that a
country has ever experienced, that is ethnocentrism, pure and simple.
Most rational Sierra Leoneans know that the country has been dealt a
bad hand by politicians of every tribe and party. Joseph Saidu Momoh
who brought the country to its knees was as far as I can remember not
a Mende, yet this account does not even mention him.
Would you imagine how sick a man is to go to a funeral that happened
as he said ten years ago and only pay attention to the language of the
songs that were sung at the vigil? If a Temne man dies do will a
rational Mende go to the funeral and expect songs only in Krio,
funerals are usually cultural affairs. If you go to a Fula funeral go and
pay your respects and forget the language the service is conducted in.
When people die, the attendance at their funerals is usually a function
of the impact they made while they were alive, and their associations.
If a person is as tribalistic or unfriendly as the writer was, definitely he
would not have expected a big funeral, had he died in the Gambia.'



Subject: Re: Wrong to change national anthem for posited reason
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 14:46:50 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
Entered From: pool-72-75-96-151.washdc.east.verizon.net at 72.75.96.151

Message:
I believe our Sierra Leone national anthem is a great one and it should not be chnged.This is non political because many people are fully aware of mishappenings of the past. Let people think about the general achievements of Africans and reach a decision that much has been done to be proud of on the table.Africans have been in bondage of massive exploitation and slavery for the longest time in living history. Today, we can be proud of many Africans and excellent children are growing . Sierra Leone is one country of greatness and determination to forge ahead successfully, but this can be done "only" if trying is not destroyed and quit is not the final decision. The national anthem has motivating powerful words that can be used to create new hope, aspiration and zeal , this is the time to use the anthem to correct the many people still doing wrong things. Should the ten commandments be thrown in a dust bin or used as guiding laws? The answer is simple ,the ten commandments are series of guidelines . This is just one example and I believe our national anthem should be saved for that purpose.


Subject: Europe fuel protests spread wider
From: Bonthe Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 10:35:29 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: bontilaynga@gmail.com
Entered From: at 82.114.74.98

Message:
Europe fuel protests spread wider
Fuel protests triggered by rising oil prices have spread to more countries across Europe, with thousands of fishermen on strike.

Union leaders said Portugal's entire coastal fleet stayed in port on Friday, while in Spain, 7,000 fishermen held protests at the agriculture ministry.

French fishermen have been protesting for weeks, with Belgian and Italian colleagues also involved.

UK and Dutch lorry drivers held similar protests earlier this week.

The strike reflects anger at the rising cost of fuel, with oil prices above $130 (83.40 euros; £65.80) a barrel.

Trade unions say the cost of diesel has become prohibitively high, after rising 300% over the past five years.

Wholesale fish prices, meanwhile, have been static for 20 years.


Fishermen's leaders from France, Spain and Italy have been meeting in Paris to co-ordinate strikes and protests over the next three weeks in the run-up to a European Union fisheries ministers' meeting.

The protesters are calling for direct immediate aid for the fisheries industry, coupled with increased subsidies.

The European Commission said in a statement it was willing to show flexibility towards the industry but it has ruled out subsidies to offset rising fuel costs.

Short-term aid packages were acceptable as long as they were used to address structural deficiencies in the fleets, it said.

'Ruin for fishermen'

Several thousand fishermen marched on the agriculture ministry in Madrid, where they handed out 20 tonnes of fresh fish to members of the public in an attempt to draw attention to their ailing industry.

Many blew whistles and klaxons, and let off firecrackers producing red smoke.


We must mobilise like the French and if we have to block ports, we'll block them
Xavier Aboy, union leader

The BBC's Steve Kingstone at the protest said he could see flags from Catalonia, the Basque country and Galicia.

One banner read: "Soaring diesel plus cheap fish equals ruin for fishermen." Another chided Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero: "You are sending us to the cemetery."

One union leader in Barcelona said the country's fishing fleet was at a standstill.

"Compliance is total. The entire Spanish coast is at a halt," Jose Caparros told AFP news agency.

The unions also say they could blockade ports, a day after French police forcibly removed fishermen blocking oil depots.

"We must mobilise like the French and if we have to block ports, we'll block them," Xavier Aboy, a union leader in Galicia, told AFP.

In France the authorities have offered 100m euros in aid, prompting some fishermen to return to work.


Please turn on Javascr1pt. Media requires Javascr1pt to play.

Fishermen gather in Spain's capital Madrid

At dawn on Thursday, French riot police cleared protesters from the Mediterranean oil depots of Fos-sur-Mer and Lavera, and a Total refinery at La Mede in the south.

On the same day police clashed with fishermen who burned tyres in the Atlantic port of Lorient, while hundreds protested in Quimper, Brittany.

On Friday, protesters blockaded the Channel port of Le Havre.

Hundreds of farmers have also been blocking oil terminals near the cities of Dijon and Toulouse.

In Italy, at least 5,000 fishermen are expected to strike, the main trade union Federcoopesca says. The government has already refused emergency aid to the industry.

But the BBC's David Willey in Rome says many fishermen are adopting a wait-and-see policy as talks with the government continue, and in the Adriatic ports the response to the strike has been mixed.

"No boats went out" in Portugal, a union leader there said, and in the central port of Peniche boat owners set up a barrier to prevent unloading.

Bulgarian bus drivers are also planning a one-hour strike on Friday, following protests by lorry drivers on Wednesday.

FISHERMEN'S PROTESTS
France: Many returning to work after several weeks of action after government offers 100m euro aid package
Spain: Thousands taking part in Madrid protest
Italy: 5,000 expected to strike, emergency aid refused
Portugal: Indefinite strike from midnight (2300 GMT on Thursday)
Belgium: Dozens demonstrating in the capital Brussels



Subject: Knowing is beautiful
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:14:17 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 208.3.139.54

Message:
This is good!


Subject: SL tribunal doubles prison terms
From: BBC
To: All
Date Posted: 10:05:36 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-21-180-12.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 76.21.180.12

Message:


SL tribunal doubles prison terms

The Kamajor militia supported the government in the civil war
Sierra Leone's UN-backed war crimes court has more than doubled the prison terms of two former pro-government militia leaders during the civil war.

Judges said the original terms did not reflect the gravity of their crimes.

Moinina Fofana's sentence was increased to 15 years from six and Allieu Kondewa's to 20 years from eight.

The men led the Civil Defence Force that fought against rebels in the 10-year war in which some 50,000 were killed and many more maimed and raped.

'Welcome'

The UN court originally convicted Fofana and Kondewa last year in what was a controversial trial.

The CDF recruited traditional Kamajor hunter militias to fight various rebel groups.

Correspondents say many Sierra Leoneans see the CDF as a force that fought for a noble cause, to defend the population against brutal rebel groups such as the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).

When the head of Kamajors, Sam Hinga Norman, was indicted five years ago there was public outcry. He has since died in custody.

The new decision on sentences was welcomed by Human Rights Watch, which said there was no excuse for attacking and mutilating civilians.

The Special Court for Sierra Leone was set up when the war officially ended in 2002 to try those people who bore the greatest responsibility for the atrocities.


Subject: A GOOD SIGN THAT{ R U F} BANDITS WILL GO FOR LIFE JAIL
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 10:43:05 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb1303w-ad03-41-34.dynamic.mts.net at 142.161.41.34

Message:
Well, i guess RUF will be more higher jail terms


Subject: Want to see some old friends
From: Gbosh kidi
To: All
Date Posted: 10:00:58 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 166.189.61.207

Message:
See pictures of old friends and print if you like at
www.segbwema.blogspot.com


Subject: Sermon for today: HYPOCRISY
From: Secular Cocorioko's Imam
To: All
Date Posted: 07:41:28 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: 194-237-247-130.customer.telia.com at 194.237.247.130

Message:

HYPOCRISY

Dear Believers:

Assalamu 'Alaikum (Peace be unto you)


Our subject for today is Hypocrisy. This topic is of extreme importance in our daily lives, as it reflects our behavior, our manners, our faith in Allah, and His teachings.


The word "Hypocrisy" in Webster's dictionaries may mean the following: an act or a practice of feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; especially, the false assumption of goodness. Therefore, a hypocrite is a false pretender and dissembler to virtue or piety.


In the Islamic terminology, the word "Hypocrisy" is a substitute for 'Nifaq'. This word Nifaq has been mentioned in the Qur'an thirty-one (31) times in different forms such as: Nifaq; Munafiqoon; Munafiqat; Munafiqeen, and Nifaqan.

Dear Believers:


There are some vices prevalent in society that a person may acquire, nurture and establish within himself which affect his personal behavior. The vice of hypocrisy is one of them.


Allah hates those people who acquire this vice, and He therefore warns them that their punishment is indeed hell. Allah says in the Qur'an:

"God hath promised the hypocrites, men and women, and the rejecters of Faith, the fire of Hell; therein shall they dwell; sufficient is it for them: for them is the curse of God, and an enduring punishment." (9:68)

Allah has promised the hypocrites a heavy penalty by saying:

"To the hypocrites give the glad tidings that there is for them but a grievous penalty. Yea, to those who take the unbelievers as their leaders rather than the believers" (4:138-139)

The penalty that the hypocrites are to receive is the following: In the Hereafter they are to be taken to Hell. Allah says:

"For God will collect the hypocrites and those who defy faith-all in hell;-" (4:140)

They are to be at the bottom in Hell and no one is to help them. Allah says in this regard:

"The hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the fire-no helper will thou find for them;-" (4:145)

The hypocrites have been cursed by Allah wherever they go. They are to be captured and to be assassinated. Qur'an says about them:

"They shall have a curse on them: wherever they are found, they shall be seized and slain without mercy." (33:61)

While in hell, they request the believers to help them and to save them from the severe penalty. They are refused and kept in penalty. Allah recalls to our attention the dialogue between the two groups:

"One day will be the hypocrites - men and women - say to the believers: Wait for us! Let us borrow (a light) from your Light! It will be said: 'Turn ye back to your rear! Then seek a light (where ye can)!" So a wall will be put up between them, with a gate therein within it will be Mercy throughout, and without it, all alongside, will be (wrath and) punishment! (Those without) will call out, 'Were we not with you?' (The others) will reply, 'True! But ye led yourselves into temptation; ye looked forward (to your ruin); ye doubted (God's promise); and (your false) desires deceived you; until there issued the Command of God. And the deceiver deceived you in respect of God." (57:13-14)

Dear Believers:


One may ask why a person should act as a hypocrite? Or why he should be a hypocrite? The answer could be any of the following:


A person who has no faith in Allah, His Messenger, and the Day of Judgment may act as a hypocrite.


A person who has a weak faith may be trapped in his daily life to play the role of a hypocrite.


A person who lacks confidence in himself/herself may become a hypocrite.


A person who lacks security, morally, psychologically, or financially, may be led to be a hypocrite.


A person who is conceited, selfish, and who likes himself above all others, may play the game of hypocrisy so as to achieve his personal gains and to satisfy his ego.


A person who is not a man unto himself, and whatever he does is seeking assurance of success and gain. Hence, he plays the dirty game of hypocrite.


A person who seeks to please everybody even if it demands his cheating, lying or stealing. Allah says in this regard in Qur'an:



"When the hypocrites come to thee, they say, 'We bear witness that thou art indeed the Apostle of God.' Yea, God knoweth that thou art indeed His Apostle, and God beareth witness that the hypocrites are indeed liars." (63:1)


Dear Believers:


These situations, factors and prerequisites may lead a person to be a hypocrite. The only way to cure this disease from people is that they should have faith in Allah, in His Messenger, Muhammad (pbuh), in the Day of Judgment and in the teachings of Islam. Even if he/she has a weak faith, he should try his/her best to strengthen it, and to enrich it daily. Therefore, it is a matter of having faith (Iman) or having no faith. Nifaq, hence is noticed and observed in those societies, in those families, and those individuals who, either have no faith, or who are weak in their faith.


Dear Believers:


The signs of a hypocrite are many among which are the following three signs:


1. He lies whenever he talks.


2. He does not fulfill his commitment.


3. He betrays the trust that he takes.


In this regard Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said:


"The signs of a hypocrite are three: when he speaks, he lies; when he gives an agreement, he does not fulfill his commitment; and when he is entrusted, he betrays the trust." (Reported by Abu Hurayrah - "Agreed.")


For this reason Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) informed us that a hypocrite is a mischievous person. He said:


"You will find that the worst person is double-faced; he meets one group of people with one side of his face, while another with the other side." (Reported by Abu Hurayra - "Agreed.")


Dear Believers:


Since this vice is most hated by Allah and His Messenger, and since the penalty is very heavy, may I request you to kindly check upon yourselves. Check your Iman, your personality, your character, your manners, your behavior and your daily activities. Then try to find out whether you are acting like a Mushrik; like a Kafir; like a Munafiq or like a Mura'i. If any of these vices is having a foothold on you, may I request you kindly to get rid of it and to remove yourselves from it as soon as possible so as to be rewarded by Allah. If you do not act immediately, remember that life is short, and who knows for how long you are to live! Death may be as close to us as a twinkling of an eye. Hence, we should be prepared to face Allah Almighty with happiness and not with sorrows or sadness.


Dear Believers:


We hope and pray that Allah guides us all to the straight path of Islam. We pray Allah to keep us all on the straight path of Islam. We pray Allah to help us erase all vices that we have acquired in our daily lives including that of Nifaq, so as to be blessed and rewarded by Allah. Before ending my talk may I remind you of the Hadeeth of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) saying:


"Don't give the title of "Sir" or "Mr." to a hypocrite if he becomes master, or you will displease your Lord the Almighty." (From "Abu Dawud" and "Al-Nisai.")


May Almighty Allah bless us all. Ameen. Let us ask Almighty Allah's forgiveness.



Subject: Re: Sermon for today: HYPOCRISY
From: Muslim
To: All
Date Posted: 14:47:11 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: aca7fdc9.ipt.aol.com at 172.167.253.201

Message:
Hypocrites always see in others what is inside them.


Subject: Re: Sermon for today: HYPOCRISY
From: Warlord
To: All
Date Posted: 11:20:16 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 129-2-19-49.umd.edu at 129.2.19.49

Message:
who does this cap fits?


Subject: Re: Sermon for today: HYPOCRISY
From: John McCain
To: All
Date Posted: 17:31:03 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 166.188.132.82

Message:
Barack Obama


Subject: Cocorioko Board: No religious songs for Friday?
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 05:03:10 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: 194-237-247-130.customer.telia.com at 194.237.247.130

Message:
Remember it was promised to air religious songs on Fridays,Saturdays and Sundays. Almost every forum participant was acceptingly excited. You started last Sunday with some nice gospel songs which was commendable.Today is Friday and everyone expects the same but nothing has happened.Is there anything hindering the continuity of the activity? If so please tell us so that we know it is neither a deliberate inhibition nor a victim of biaseness.


Subject: To Chill: God has used me too!
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 04:54:14 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: 194-237-247-130.customer.telia.com at 194.237.247.130

Message:
What do you mean by dangerous ground? Did you reply to my last message as a batoliner or an intimidating deterent? I know the Mammy very well both as a tribeswoman and when she was a muslim long long time back. I never said she is bad or arrogant. She was like a mother to me. My only concern is she became a rage overnight in the most inexplicable way. And let me tell you someting about me:I have bits of ESP(Extra Sensory Perception) and so have the instincts for something sinister.On several occasions at the behest of some friends I have tried to visit the Mammy for some help but something like a voice always tell me:' pray for yourself directly to God, the woman is only human'.The voice continues:' If you pray earnestly and believe God will accept, you will have a solution to any problem.Don't trust or depend on human beings, if you do you will one day regret it'. Boy I have been following such advice and I have been living a very happy life till now.I have no worries because I believe if I have any problem I only need to pray directly to God and it will be solved just the way I wish.

Can you tell me the meaning of God using someone? Why should he just use some and leave some? As far as I am concerned God uses everyone. He has used me to raise people's eyebrows on the mysteries and dubieties of spiritual healing just as you claim he is using the Mammy too.


Subject: KABS KANU, PLEASE CALL THIS NUMBER-IT'S URGENT
From: Sierra Leone patriot
To: All
Date Posted: 03:19:19 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: patriot@gmail.com
Entered From: at 82.114.74.98

Message:
Hello Kabs,

Please call-00386 49 321 327

God bless


Subject: Radio Unity Is Back On The Air Waves.
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 02:02:27 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: saidubangso@aol.com
Entered From: at 12.54.4.2

Message:
On behalf of the entire membership of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party North America(SLPPNA)region, I thank all those who played a role in making sure that our radio(which is a symbol of the voice of democracy) comes back on the air waves in Sierra Leone.
We consider the re-opening of radio Unity as a manifestation of the readiness of our people to stand up for the DEMOCRACY they fought hard to get. Never against we will the people of Sierra Leone stand by and watch our state actors kill DEMOCRACY.
Long live DEMOCRACY, God Bless Sierra Leone and its PEOPLE.


Subject: Re: Radio Unity Is Back On The Air Waves.
From: Bai Forna
To: All
Date Posted: 18:51:36 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: baiforna@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 84.54.21.148

Message:
Mr. Vice President, THANK YOU. You have demonstrated a wise leadership. Sierra Leone is too small for us to continue fighting each other.

Times are hard now in our sweet Sierra Leone and must therefore put our energy in how to help the Government meet the myraid of challenges that lie ahead.


Subject: Re: Radio Unity Is Back On The Air Waves.
From: right channel
To: All
Date Posted: 04:11:31 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 196.207.239.175

Message:
You must say thanks to President Koroma.He is a nice man and means well for the Country, but some of his overambitious and overzealous Ministers and Party activists mess him up with their silly actions, and embarrass him.


Subject: Re: Radio Unity Is Back On The Air Waves.
From: Plaba Bessie
To: All
Date Posted: 11:26:38 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: nat1-whar.wcjc.cc.tx.us at 207.80.112.1

Message:
Is it true that We Yone Radio is not properly registered and that anti-corruption is investigating their paperwork right now?


Subject: WE LIVE THAT WITH APC TO STRUGGLE WITH
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 12:29:09 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb1303w-ad03-41-34.dynamic.mts.net at 142.161.41.34

Message:
As long as that for opposition is right on,we live that with them to fight with.


Subject: Re: Radio Unity Is Back On The Air Waves.
From: APCHEEEEEEEEEE
To: All
Date Posted: 10:16:35 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126

Message:
Fourrrrrr what?
You think he is not complicit in this?

His fingers are all over the red banga.
He climbed the mampama tik, drink some of the poyo and cut the banga, But the mampama too trong. And he was caught with his pants down chewing banga, with red palmoil all over the ebidence.

Tell President koroma to back off our rights.
We are not looking for another Siaka Stevens.

President Koroma should look at this and pray that he can transform our country to what it once was or was supposed to be.
http://gallery.mac.com/koromahfamily.mac#100071

Not retrogress us to a bombali court barreh mentality. We want convension centers. Not court Barrehs like the SLPP left us. Thats why we voted for change.


Subject: THEY SHOULD BE FIRED IF TRUE
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 09:25:10 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb1303w-ad03-41-34.dynamic.mts.net at 142.161.41.34

Message:
Why not kick them out?


Subject: What happened to the Awarness Times?
From: Prying Probing
To: All
Date Posted: 20:25:50 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-75-64-73-106.hsd1.tn.comcast.net at 75.64.73.106

Message:
Just Curious! The Awareness Times has not been up in my area for some days now. I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing difficulties accessing it. Just want to know! what happened to Awareness Times? Regardless of how I feel about her, I am wondering if Dr. Blyden is alright? Hope she is Okay.


Subject: Re: What happened to the Awarness Times?
From: elvisk2004
To: All
Date Posted: 14:36:05 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: elvisk2004@yahoo.co
Entered From: c-98-221-89-233.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 98.221.89.233

Message:
I think Dauda Thoronka in New Jersey do something with it up because he was the won initial install that program in the internet.


Subject: Re: What happened to the Awarness Times?
From: sadman insane
To: All
Date Posted: 10:26:07 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: sadman_insane@yahoo.com
Entered From: ritatimarco.plus.com at 80.229.45.21

Message:
same with me. I cant access awareness times from my area since yesterday. Hope shes ok.


Subject: The day Sierra Leone blew a 2-0 lead over Algeria
From: Kabs Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 19:34:58 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: aca5408d.ipt.aol.com at 172.165.64.141

Message:
Sierra Leone were an unknown quantity where as Algeria had just made international fame in the World Cup. In Freetown, we outplayed them in all respects but blew a valuable 2-0 lead . HERE ARE THE STATISTICS :

31/05/1980, Freetown, Siaka Stevens Stadium, 36500
World Cup Qualifier

SIERRA LEONE 2 (Akie Noah 58', Ishmael Dyfan 60')
ALGERIA 2 (Tedj Bensouala 72', Lakhdar Belloumi 85')


Sierra Leone: Thomas Quinton, Amadu Kamara, Abdulai Jalloh, Kelfallah Kamara, Joseph Toby, George Floode, Alusine Sesay, Akie Noah, Sentu Johnson,
Ismail Dyfan, Nabieu Bangoura.


Algeria: Lyacine Bentaala, Mahmoud Gendouz, Mustapha Kouici, Mohand Ouamar Grib,Chaabane Merzekane, Mohamed Kheddis, Rabah Madjer (Djamel Menad 68'),Ali Fergani, Tedj Bensaoula, Lakhdar Belloumi, Salah Assad.


Referee: Tevi Lawson-Hetcheli (Togo).


Coaches: Sierra Leone: Kabba Kamara .
Algeria: Mahieddine Khalef.


Cards: Sierra Leone: Ismail Dyfan [Y], Akie Noah [Y].
Algeria: Mustapha Kouici [Y].


Subject: Re: The day Sierra Leone blew a 2-0 lead over Algeria
From: Plaba Bessie
To: All
Date Posted: 21:37:11 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-194-213-250.hsd1.tx.comcast.net at 98.194.213.250

Message:
Rev. Kabs Kanu, this is very impressive. Where do I get this information from?


Subject: Re: The day Sierra Leone blew a 2-0 lead over Algeria
From: umfaali
To: All
Date Posted: 22:14:42 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-100-130-84.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.100.130.84

Message:
check this out


Subject: Re: The day Sierra Leone blew a 2-0 lead over Algeria
From: umfaali
To: All
Date Posted: 22:12:26 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-100-130-84.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.100.130.84

Message:
from my posting!!!!!


Subject: Guinea---Is This The Country Occupying Our Country?
From: Carl Carter
To: All
Date Posted: 16:29:12 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 41.222.12.113

Message:
Where is "GUINEAN" the man who used to post rubbish on this forum about law and order in Sierra Leone? Look at what is happening in Guinea again. Is this the country stealing our lands because of the Guinean mentality that Guinea is stronger than Liberia and Sierra Leone combined? When the looting in that country comes to an end His excellency Pa Koroma should boldly tell Guinea to leave Yenga before we hit them hard.


Subject: Re: Guinea---Is This The Country Occupying Our Country?
From: Guinean
To: All
Date Posted: 21:24:47 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-205-104.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.205.104

Message:
I am not a Guinean - I am a born-bred SaLone man. My thrust was to
make my brothers and sisters take the issue seriously. thank God things
are working well on the diplomatic front. I pray that the troubles in
Guinea halt - 'Honi soit qui mal y pense'.

Carl, mine was to stimulate and put to action our patriotism. Guinean
was/is Chez Winakabs Europe - Dr. Nahim, my psychiatrist will attest to
this.


Subject: Re: Guinea---Is This The Country Occupying Our Country?
From: J.....
To: All
Date Posted: 17:59:23 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-164-239-38.dllstx.fios.verizon.net at 71.164.239.38

Message:
Guinean was only trying to stirrup controversy. The type of hullabaloo you are trying to revamp now, maybe unwittingly. Go to the archives and see how that debate with Guinean ended.


Subject: Anthony Karim Kamara
From: Truth
To: All
Date Posted: 15:01:47 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 32.168.115.32

Message:
Kabs you may not know Anthony Kamara. All Sierra Leoneans who
resided in the Gambia, regardless of the tribe they were from knew him
as the most tribalistic bigot you would ever come across.
Anthony's tribalism is a disease as he was so prejudiced that he never
made friends outside his tribal group. This despicable nature of his can
be gleaned from every article he writes and it was only due to the
blessing of God that the RUF never got to recruit him, otherwise we
would have been talking about genocide.

He is and always has been a miserable fellow whose prejudice has
never permitted him to see the good in all of God's creations. To him
every man's action is dictated by the tribe he belongs to and his narrow
vision has never allowed him to realize that there are good and bad
people in any group.

I don't usually allow people like him to disturb my peace, but given
what I know about this character, I assure the Cocorioko team that if
be is on your editorial board, people will seriously start contemplating
whether your intention is to promote opinions
that would one day lead our country into genocide.

We have lived with this character and he has serious mental issues
caused by the hatred that resides within him. Anthony you will die as
you have lived, with hate in your heart.


Subject: Re: Anthony Karim Kamara
From: Abdul Kaimachiandeh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:44:09 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: akamachie@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 206.35.36.4

Message:
In all fairness I think Mr Anthony Kamara's piece is quite balanced. I have lived in the Gambia for years, and I didn't even notice him, let alone being that terrible or miserable as alleged by Mr Truth. I think if ever tribalism becomes the biggest issue in Sa. Lone,it will be perpetrated by the two majority tribes.Notwithstanding,every tribe has people with attitude problem, it is the degree that differs. Considering the whole world, Sierra Leone is not even up to a dot,so by number we are a small group of people, therefore it shouldn't be impossible for us to achieve the love,unity,needed to forge ahead as a nation with the sole aim to prosper.


Subject: Re: Anthony Karim Kamara
From: Reality
To: All
Date Posted: 17:08:32 05/30/08 ()
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Message:
Abdul if you consider this article balanced, then there is no need to
even comment on your post, it is not worth it. Many Germans also
thought Hitler was right.


Subject: Re: Anthony Karim Kamara
From: duh
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Date Posted: 18:07:07 05/29/08 ()
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Message:
What is the problem with this article? To me it is balanced.


Subject: Re: Anthony Karim Kamara
From: Mr. Mason
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Date Posted: 15:51:05 05/29/08 ()
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Message:
I can assure you that this is that so called Alpha saidu bangura ready again to cut down another sierra leonean.


Subject: Re: Anthony Karim Kamara
From: HASSAN KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:49:04 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: KAMSON10@HOTMAIL.COM
Entered From: dsl092-165-252.wdc2.dsl.speakeasy.net at 66.92.165.252

Message:
This is not ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA. He does not write like that. Besides he did not reside in the Gambia. I believe the writer was in the Gambia and probably taught in the same school with Anthony Kamara.


Subject: Re: Anthony Karim Kamara
From: Kabs Kanu
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Date Posted: 16:06:59 05/29/08 ()
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Message:
Reality,
Newspapers are the market of divergent public opinions. We don't agree with all people write but we have to publish their views anyway in the interst of press freedom and democracy.

If you don't agree with Mr.Kamara, who is a contributor,not a member of Cocorioko, write and promote your own views too. That is whatdemocracy is all about.


Subject: Re: Anthony Karim Kamara
From: Reality
To: All
Date Posted: 18:28:44 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 166.189.9.246

Message:
Kabs I am a fervent believer in free speech and would never in any
way advocate the supression of free speech. Most of us from Sierra
Leone however confuse the difference between hate speech and free
speech.

Whenever negative speech is aimed at a group of people over
attributes over which they have no control and such speech is aimed at
ridiculing, suppressing or endangering that group, this is hate speech.

Example we can freely what you want to say against SLPP or APC as
people consciously decide to belong to these organizations. However
no one decides to be black or white, Temne or Mende, Jew or Indian.
So any negative public speech aimed at these groups fall under hate
speech and even in countries like America, hate speech is not
permitted as though everybody has a right to his opinion, society has
the right to prohibit the propagation of opinions that endanger its
members. I can refer you to several intellectuals who may be able to
explain this concept better. That is why you can publicly say anything
you want against Republicans as long as it does not amount to slander
of libel, but cannot just write negative things against Jews or blacks.

I hope we will desist from labelling hate speech as free speech.


Subject: Curfew Is Imposed to Stop Unrest in Sierra Leone Feb 3, 1977
From: umfaali
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Date Posted: 14:50:10 05/29/08 ()
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Curfew Is Imposed to Stop Unrest in Sierra Leone
E-MAIL
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February 3, 1977, Thursday
Page 9, 145 words
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, Feb. 2 (Reuters) President Siaka P. Stevens
declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew in this West
African country last night after clashes between pro-Government
demonstrators and students demanding his resignation. No deaths or
serious injuries were reported, but all schools were closed.

washington Post


Subject: Salone best footballer list
From: umfaali
To: All
Date Posted: 14:35:03 05/29/08 ()
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Message:
This were past games played, scores and players


Subject: For Mr. ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:42:41 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 158.59.27.31

Message:
Mr. Bangura, thank you for responding. Please permit me to respond to the following: "Bambay, I thank you pointing out the fact that Alieu Iscandari and I had been at loggerheads for a long time. I want to take your mind back to the start of this case. I posted something against the APC(not Alieu) but Alieu decided to reply by falsely and maliciously saying that I was part of the RUF.
I know for sure that Alieu never went to Sierra Leone during the rebel attacks in Freetown and has not evidence to link my good name to that evil act. But, he did that to me only because he hates me and wants to destroy my reputation and my image.
Alieu was also insulting my mother and some other respectable people in my family on this same cocorioko forum.
Now, I have in my hands enough evidences to prove that Alieu Iscandari did to lot of unethical things to a sister Kadi Kamara in Arizona. Do you except me to hide them from this same cocorioko forum?
The only day, I ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA will reconcile with Alieu is when he tells this forum that all what he said about me and my family were false, incorrect and malicious, then apologizes to all of us . I am a devout Muslim, that is what my religion DEMANDS.
After accepting that he acted wrong me and my family and asks for my forgiveness, I will FORGIVE HIM FOR THE SAKE OF GOD. Both of us will then turn to a NEW PAGE."
All I will say, Sir, is that I would hope I had an opportunity to talk to you two gentlemen in a private sphere away from this forum. Many fights have not been resolved as a result of efforts made in this forum. This argument between you two can hardly be resolved here because there are those who are quick to take sides without making an effort to get to the bottom of the matter. As such, it is best for one who wishes for his or her problems to be resolved to avoid bringing them to this place.
I was confident that issue between you and M. Alieu Iscandri Esq. goes way beyond petty issues discussed here.
I know how you feel with regards to the alleged smear made against you. Nonetheless, I would want you to remember that I talking about peace among Sierra Leoneans should have learned my lessons by now because when we had our war, when it was ragging starting 1997, I talked to brothers and sisters that we should stop the war and engage in dialogue. I came to the U.S. in 1991 and never went back until 2003, which makes it clear that I would know nothing about our war if I do not read about it. Beside, the man who brought me up was the President’s Personal Assistant and I do not know President Kabba or Foday Sankoh. I never sided any one but the civilians who were dieing in their numbers. However, there were those on these forums who thought that the war should go on. The rebel supporters believed that they could have overcome the government vise versa. But as one who studied history in college and have been reading and listening to news since I was a little boy, and have followed rebel wars and gorilla war, I knew that there could have no way-out of war but through peaceful means. When this came to be the case, those who argued me about dialogue thought it fit to try to prove that I am wrong and branded me in every way. Some even claimed that I was a rebel supporter and others thought I was on the side of the government. I suffered tremendously for standing for peace for our beloved country. However, I always believe that intelligent people use their brains to asses things. We have International Criminal Court set-up in Sierra Leone but your name was not mentioned to stand trial nor did you stand trial. So please let that go and forgive as is required by your religion.
I will be talking to you soon as I am out of class and heading for work.
Once again, thank you for responding.


Subject: Re: For Mr. ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 16:04:49 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: saidubangso@aol.com
Entered From: c-69-140-129-105.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.129.105

Message:
Bambay, May God bless you for being a fair and nice person(you are one of the few people in this forum who look at issues with an open mind). I also thank you from the bottom for my heart for pointing out that the SPECIAL COURT was set up to BRING those who attacked innocent people in Sierra Leone TO JUSTICE. Let me remind you that Alieu Iscandari worked for the SPECAIL COURT, and I am sure if Alieu had any evidence to prove that I was a part of the RUF, he MUST had made sure that I am indicted for committing a crime AGAINST HIS FATHER.
Since, Alieu Iscandari failed to use due process of LAW to fight me, I NEED to CLEAR MY GOOD NAME.
Please HELP ME in letting Alieu understands that :
HE MUST DO UNTO OTHERS, AS HE WISHES THEM DO UNTO HIM.
We live in a GIVE and TAKE WORLD, therefore ALL of us, must be ready to receive whatever we give OUT.


Subject: Re: For Mr. ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 00:02:38 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-147-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.147.25

Message:
Mr. ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA, I am touched.
I just arrived home from work, tired and have to leave at about seven for class in the morning and back to work after which. Nonetheless, I was concerned about the issue and was expecting a response, which is why I checked to let you know that I care about how you feel. Thank you for responding.
I will talk to you tomorrow. Please know today that God has blessed you for your interest in peace. May God continue to bless you and your family.
Talk to you in the afternoon.
M. Alieu Iscandri Esq.


Subject: Re: For Mr. ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 00:07:42 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-147-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.147.25

Message:
Sorry for the quick post. I meant to say, M. Alieu Iscandri Esq. if you are reading please think over what your brother has said and read between the lines, sleep over it and look back at the good old days, remembering that there are better days ahead and be prepared to talk peace with your brother, Mr. ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA.
I love you guys.


Subject: Re: For Mr. ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
From: Curious
To: All
Date Posted: 07:13:41 05/30/08 ()
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Entered From: ip503dc437.speed.planet.nl at 80.61.196.55

Message:
Bambay, were you a defender for East End Lions?. I remember in the late 80's , Lions was having an abled defender called Bambay.


Subject: Re: For Mr. ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:09:58 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 158.59.91.31

Message:
Curious, you got that right. I was the Bambay who use to deffend at the East End Lions stand (smile). No I was not the Bambay who use to deffend for East End Lions.


Subject: Re: For Mr. ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
From: The guy
To: All
Date Posted: 02:52:34 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cpe-24-95-37-96.columbus.res.rr.com at 24.95.37.96

Message:
Man, please take this load of crap some place else. The readers in this forum are not interested in your hypocritical peace deal. You persistently flood this forum with much too much nonsense, who cares about your intentions to attend class at this o'clock? or when and how you work. Man, your shinanigans are getting unbearable. I cast blame not to you but to a great extent the damn forum Police; he seems to be asleep at the wheel. WHO GIVES A RATS AS ABOUT An AGING FEUD? CALL both men on the phone or fly, walk, whatever, to Oakland and Silver Spring to expend your appetite for sham in your much to do about nothing twaddle.
Again, find another medium to play Chief koblo. Please! not here.



Subject: Re: For Mr. ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:15:34 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Liquids find their level. You are right. Too combatant for me and bellow my intellectual, ethical and moral level.
Peace to you too.


Subject: Re: For Mr. ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA
From: The guy next door
To: All
Date Posted: 02:41:53 05/31/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Whatever man, just cut it out.


Subject: Chernor Ojukwu seasy
From: Dehunge
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Date Posted: 12:41:06 05/29/08 ()
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Message:
I read somewhere that the Information Attache' to the UK was questioned by the ACC. Why is this information not being discussed in the forum?


Subject: Dis Boy Sabie Write
From: Researcher
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Date Posted: 11:21:52 05/29/08 ()
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Message:
[Culled from Standard Times]

Harvest of Hate — Mary's Saga
Posted by Roland Bankole Marke on May 27, 2008, 11:38

My name is Mary Bangura, although I was born and baptized Mary Talabi James, at Saint John's Maroon Church in Freetown, Sierra Leone: to a middle class Creole family of Liberated African roots, forty-seven years ago. This was the period when Sierra Leone was at the crossroads of British imperialism and a self-determination struggle for emancipation. I emerged from a warm, enchanted culture, where men desired tailcoats and top hats, and women gracefully wore long, flowing, decked kabaslot and kotoku, a unique hybrid of Western and African cultures. I'm a diamond in the rough; who had no college education, but only a sound secondary education.

Growing up in post independence Sierra Leone, life seemed rosy. Exchange rate of our currency, the Leone was 85 cents to the dollar. We chose which supermarket the family could shop in for our weekly groceries. There was Choithram, Challeram, Chanrai, and many more. Ah! But this was virtually short lived: A one party democracy that degenerated into dictatorial regimes followed this era of prosperity. The middle class status that I once enjoyed diminished entirely over the years. As a single mother, my upbringing had prepared me for the difficult challenges that were to come. But, over the years, as most middle class families, my three children and I were further reduced into destitution by poor leadership under a military leader turned politician.

On Jan. 6, 1999, I was taken by storm. Feared Revolutionary United Front (R.U.F.) rebels had invaded most of Sierra Leone and were approaching Freetown maliciously. But our government discounted the validity of any imminent threat, and called them rabble-rousers. Warnings, fused anxiety, vicariously climaxed my despair, as denial, panic, and tardiness emboldened them to accessible intrusion, to which my beloved country would fall. Originally, my country was very peaceful, especially as we sailed through a bloodless transition from colonial rule to independence. Its reputation as the home of higher learning in West Africa had earned the accolade, "The Athens of West Africa." I recall those good memories of my secondary school teacher, a demagogue, who would brag as he tapped the desk with a rattan. He was proud of the high reputation Fourah Bay College had built in the world of academia. "Sierra Leone's premier college is the Athens of West Africa and a citadel of learning." He spoke proudly of its educational acclamation and continued a disdainful discussion on Sierra Leone being discovered by a Portuguese explorer called Pedro Da Cintra in 1462, who is believed to have named it Sierra Lyoa (Lion Mountain). He would argue vehemently, "But others were here before him and how could he have discovered our country?" And this would amuse me then. I knew that my ancestors were not indigenous inhabitants, but freed slaves who once settled in Freetown.

On this chilling, somber, awful dawn, the rebels reached Freetown at last, an episode in which Sierra Leone would witness its freedom, pride, and dignity usurped by ruthless, ragtag boys. Its central and eastern perimeters were doomed, besieged, and shredded. R.U.F. attacks hushed the city with terror, violent rage, and weird brutality. Innocent and helpless civilians like me were spectators, watching our lives ruined and property looted or destroyed. Dangerous-boys branded child-soldiers and under the influence of cocaine, LSD, and marijuana saturated the city. They launched the notorious Operation No Mercy; attacking unarmed and poverty-stricken civilians. Normally, wars are between soldiers of opposing sides, but this one was unique. We succumbed coldly to brutal stings and the horror of heartless and insane youths. Violent looting and plunder briskly germinated, adorned in carved arsons, carnages, rapes, and cruel amputations. Harmless as we were, we yielded to bizarre ragging rebels or gasoline fury flames.

Bandits were thrilled and entertained, while I was only meat ready to roast like an Easter pig or Ramadan sacrifice. The massacre seemed organized to its minute detail, while the boys went uninterrupted from house to house, in a reign of amputating, raping, and roasting the helpless with detestation. Anarchy's reign began to blossom. Our legally elected government took to flight as a hunted chicken for its precarious safety, planting a dire state of pandemonium. Forcefully, they recruited and dragged me into the massacre of my homeland and my own people. I developed disdain, my house at 55 Cassell Farm at Kissy, became a rebel sanctuary. Vitriolic-infested hooligans who adopted lethal intimidation confiscated the entire merchandise of the petty trading I did to sustain my kids and myself. My personal belongings, including my watch, chain, earrings, easily switched ownership at the dawn of this nightmare. They brutally seized my only cash and even my Holy Bible. This was a traumatic experience that remains rooted in my active memory. "Jesus! Oh! Jesus," I screamed with married might and breath. The animation of viewing a thriller movie at the renowned Globe crossed my mind. It was amid the chaos that I sneaked away to a neighbor's house, to dissolve my state of panic. The interval dispelled my traumatic experience married to dementia.

On return, they reprimanded me never to leave for any reason. Brutally hard, I followed orders to safeguard my precious doomed-life. Before the advent of the rebels, fourteen people occupied my inherited home that the rebels had now possessed. We were led like sheep to the slaughter, under gunpoint. Viciously, they dragged me upstairs, while they sprayed the structure with gasoline. I shouted profusely in protest. "Lord have mercy oh, Lord save me, Jesus help me." But this only infuriated them. But, as a long, firm believer of Christ, my faith was fused with hope. Before the doors were shut and torched, a swift transformation evolved. My fate was at stake. Believing any rescue was realistic sounded irrational. I clung to hope as my last straw, while the incredible dawned.

My hope rejuvenated when an ex-soldier named Sorie appeared, who just got out of prison when a band of rebels broke into the central prisons. His presence altered the trend of events. He heard so many desperate, distressed screams for rescue. It was so severe that even someone without feelings would have offered swift help. Otherwise, I would have perished in the blaze. Mine was a scary homecoming. Sorie and his men saved my life. The other ten, were not so lucky. They perished in the ignited fire. After this daring rescue, through instinct, I was suddenly hooked to him eyeball to eyeball.

Sorie emerged as a lion that had killed an elephant, and was awaiting coronation. He is my hero, for saving my life, but he would become more than a hero to me. He was now practically my husband. I had no choice caught up in this limbo of disdain, from the brutal actions of the rebels and a determination to stay alive. And between a rock and a hard place, I gave in to become his wife without any proposal. Subsequently, I got protection from two of his guards. I had nothing to repay him in this building, since I was indebted for his kindness, except my womanhood and loyalty to his cause. I began to follow orders or face the trauma of amputation or death. I had no choice, for life did not guarantee me a duplicate copy.

Later, they moved me to St. Patrick's Hill at Kissy, opposite the mental hospital, where I spent five days in a confiscated and looted house. I had no food for two days. Evidently, they were not fully equipped with food supply, when they attacked the city. And I saw routine and ruthless plunders on civilians, practically every tangible along with civilians' food using threat or lethal force. It was now obvious that I needed the strong connection I had established with Sorie, if I should survive the ongoing carnage. My religion taught me "Thou shalt not steal." But I was forced to violate this strong religious belief, by aiding and accepting stolen goods, especially food.

In captivity, the rule of thumb became the law of the jungle, and serving as an accomplice was a means to survival. My conscience was at war with itself. Life in the jungle was utter destitution; change of clothes was the least basic human need that I was concerned about. All I could say then, "I'm lucky to be alive." But my gloom and human weaknesses were hardly concealed or embedded.

From Kissy, a suburb of Freetown, we hiked for two days in disguised darkness and dense forest to outwit our enemies. We dashed under brushes and laid flat behind trunks of huge trees at every sound or suspicion. Fear had us rushing into the bush away from baboons, cobras, and monkeys. It was then I began to learn the guerilla warfare in order to be safe. But the desecration of folks for noncompliance or ignorance was no big deal. It was a trivial issue to accept and then move on.

It was disturbing to watch the horrible manner young girls were killed for their body parts, to aid rituals. The rebels believed that their body parts, especially their genitals made the best charm that provided supernatural power for the exploit. Girls' genitals were removed, while they were still alive. And my heart pounded in disgust, as these demon-style executions were carried out in the most atrocious way. They struggled for their lives in such a pathetic way that I had not seen during my tenure with the rebels, as they gruesomely gave up the ghost. Surely, these events hardened my heart throughout the ordeal. Often, I witnessed these occurrences, because there was a high demand for girls' genitalia for the preparation of potent diabolical voodoo-charms. Nevertheless, my passionate, motherly instinct would hunt me painfully, and made me sob in solitude amid the heartbreaking persecutions.

Surprisingly, I saw a dove peeping down on us from its position, perching on a tree. Since I was a Christian, I translated this to mean that God witnessed the act of committing atrocities. And certainly, He saw us conducting endless monstrous crimes. Indeed this was not welcomed, but an intrusive song that ruined the serenity of the ritual. But we also trespassed on the silence, as we sang a monotonous ritual chant and dirge overshadowing the dove's song, so soothing to me. My spirit climaxed its mysticism as I looked above to glance at the impressive soloist. Unconsciously, tears streamed down my face. My conscience was undergoing purgatory. The bitter truth had hit my mental radar.

Arriving at Grafton, I was weak and exhausted. I moaned, shedding bloody tears. At this point, I demanded that they take me to Kissy. They told me it is either death or "do what they told me." If I had no kids, I would have given up. The thought of dying and leaving my three helpless kids, goaded me to cleave on to life.

Despite my predicament, I became enchanted with nature in the countryside that I was now being exposed to, for the first time. We had just arrived at the bank of a crystalline stream and drinkable mountain ground water for the first time, since my ordeal. The water galloped over rocky boulders, formed a miniature-waterfall, and produced a melodious sound. The branches of trees and other impurities bubbled and dived, and later seen down stream was a soul enhancing experience. The stream flowed as vibrant ripples of hope. It was flanked by dense wild nature and the charming beauty of the Creator's exquisite artistry. A sudden chill ran down my spine and the hair on my body stood briskly on end. Fear of the extraterrestrial overwhelmed me, as I gazed at the beautiful rock formation, and carefully formed rows of forest trees, whose roots were deeply entrenched on granite, beside the stream.

Everyone else scrambled around me for a gulp of water. Some squirted, stretched their arms out toward the stream with watertight leaves. These were made into makeshift funnels to gulp water down our throats, as if this was our maiden drink of water. Indeed, it was about time. We were all dead thirsty. I took a bath after my refreshing drink of water, but without a change of my clothes.

We began our second leg of the journey from Waterloo to Masiaka, a distance of about forty-seven miles from Freetown. We could not travel on a straight route, paved road, or street. My captors had perfect knowledge of the jungle. They knew that Guinean-led foreign peacekeeping troops (ECOMOG) controlled the area. Our jungle experts pioneered the safest route away from detection. At Masiaka, homes were vandalized, plundered, or ruined. Practically, we plundered every village we traveled through. It amazed me that eminent folks were in the jungle with us too. Rebel sympathizers included top gun politicians and businessmen. I almost had a cardiac arrest, when I saw former ministers and powerful government officials visiting us in the bush. Some took part in the rituals to help them regain power or recognition. But their identities were preserved with the utmost secrecy.

Spinning cowries and magical talisman emboldened the tycoons and boosted the rebels' notoriety. Visitors came with a wish list. A preview of mysticism was demonstrated by spinning an odd number of cowries; if they exhibited more heads than tails, it meant that a desired wish would come to fruition. New converts like us, who were first-time witnesses of these supernatural powers, were shocked in admiration. These included dominant people for power, wealth, fear, or respect. Our rebellion had answers to their endless demands. But I never stopped wondering; why would folks with such mystic prowess be in the bush, living in futility and wretchedness? It only harped the good old saying, "One can take a man from the bush, but not the bush from the man." I watched the blind dragging folks down damnation's hopeless lagoon. Lust for power was absolutely venomous and deadly amongst the rank-and-file. Yet, we pursued many selfish or violent agenda at the expense of others.

My life with the rebels was complex, but the survival concept was simple; they had a passion for power, and I had a passion for survival no matter what the proximate cost. The craving for both power and survival for us became insatiable. "Could knowledge alter any heinous persona?" I thought. But it did not reform dubious lives, for we had become dangerous, ruthless, brutal, and vicious people. On board were foreign officials from Russia, Burkina Faso, and powerful men who seemed to be sponsors. We captured an official from World Vision, but released him after consultation with R.U.F. leadership. Periodically, we received correspondence from abroad, and I followed through with them. Mails were picked up or delivered by helicopter or stolen fishermen's canoes.

Finally, I was appointed the head woman, with a titular position, "Mammy Queen." My letter of appointment was prepared abroad. A picture identity card had been prepared for me earlier for this purpose. I presided over all women, and resolved petty disputes, ranging from jealousy to infidelity. I executed my duties with shrewd expertise.

My new status gave me the privilege to change my clothes. In fact, I had the preference to help myself to a consignment of cargo that had been shipped to us. Nights were infectiously romantic. Tropical breeze trickled through the shady monkey-bread trees. One night, a child-soldier sneaked up on me. I heard his footsteps from rattling leaves. I recognized people by instinct. "Who are you?" I asked. I shouted a few names. I had just finished taking a bath, and was reaching for my clothes when a 13-year-old child-soldier named Born Trouble intruded into my space, which was hardly private to me. He fumbled with my breast and buttocks. I lashed, "You pekin you mama nor train you?" And I gave him the spanking of his life. My screams woke up senior rebels with my piercing invective. I was about to be raped, which was a common practice of boys his age. These homegrown cubs were now exhibiting the traits of animals. Though I was old enough to be his mother, was not enough reason to deter him. But the ordeal came to a temporary closure when he was tied and executed without a tribunal. I was now left toiling with my conscience for causing his death.

Being the culprit for his death still weighs heavily on my conscience. He was a menace and a threat though, for his name depicted these traits. But while a child-soldier was killed for attempting to rape his commander's wife, I witnessed molestation, mutilation, and rape of teen girls by rebels with impunity. I could not even show sympathy or alarm, because my life could be jeopardized. They expected me to be comfortable with the routine of taking lives, though we were angels of death. Probably, that is what the people thought when we reached their towns and villages. I never became comfortable with this culture as they expected, but I was forced to participate. And I invented a bottled up strategy to every novel emotion.

Being a "Creole," the rebels, including my husband, could not pronounce my name. I corrected him several times, without success until he became angry and declared that my name is henceforth Mary Bangura. It signified an official declaration of our marriage. In the ranks, we also had spiritual leaders; imams and sorcerers who provided fetish prophesy and direction. In fact, they blessed our marriage. Sessions were held, demonic rites, cultural shows and dances also took place when a man declared a name change. Though my husband of convenience Sorie would caress, cuddle, and protect me. He is six feet tall, creative, a sensuous lover boy and a sex machine; intriguing, endearing prowess that kept me up all night. He loved to chew bitter kola, a natural stimulant that is deemed to enhance sexual performance. I was his passionate treasure. And I was referred to by all as his wife. But accepting him without qualms was a survival wit. The attempted rape incident had unnerved him and he even cautioned me about the insanity of child soldiers on a daily basis. His nature depicted his warm and enchanting spirit.

Drugs were in abundant supply, especially marijuana. However, I tried earnestly to avoid it. The very first time they passed a joint to me I coughed so hard, Sorie thought I was going to pass out, and conceded it was not for me. In the same way, I managed to stay away from cigarettes.

We traveled for two days on foot from Masiaka to Lunsar, with scarcely any time to rest. These dangerous journeys seemed almost like eternity. We trod, crossed the Bambray River at night. Luckily, the water level had gone down after the rains had ceased for a couple of days. But it was scary because it was neck deep at the deepest part, even for the tallest among us. And Sorie had to carry me on his back at this point. In fact, a drugged child-soldier drowned in the dark still water. We only found out after we crossed the river, and did a roll call. That was not a big deal, as we moved on and finally stormed Lunsar at last, despite the hurdle.

The sorcerer strangled a red cock about 5:30 a.m. Its blood was quickly added to a concoction of herbs and palm oil, which our commanders drank for super power. All the women were commanded to urinate into containers, which the sorcerer brewed into a drink with nut oil, herbs, spices, and honey. This potent mixture was believed to boost our men's boldness. Among us were girls between 10 and 17 years old, who were full-fledged rebel wives. Their screams while being raped initially, were disturbing. I had lapses of intermittent nightmares when I recalled those heartbreaking memories. Many babies were born in the jungle from these relationships, and often thrown into the bush. There was little time or patience for crying babies, deemed a viable setback. Shrilling cries, images of ghosts, haunted us and entrenched our shallow minds. Those who were accused of violence against female officers, were tried, found guilty and executed in the most ruthless manner in broad daylight. Often, these killings were authorized from above, but the manner in which the messages were sent back and forth remained a lifetime secret. Unconsciously, I had perfected the genius of a professional flatterer; this went a great distance to massage the egos of rebel commandos.

We had heroes in our selfish and mundane world. At Lunsar, we organized ourselves into administrative strata. We had three jungle warfare offices: G5, MIB, and MP. As the "Mammy Queen" in charge of settling disputes, I managed the MP office. My duty stretched into dealing with civilian affairs, which included liaison between local chiefs and rebel commandos. I proved to be a woman of mettle, and was further promoted commando for women affairs. I attended meetings and became a prominent voice in decision-making. Our meetings were attended by officials from Freetown, including prominent chiefs. How they traveled to attend these meetings assaulted my imagination and disbelief.

We had little tolerance for ill health. The sick were a burden to us, and were left to die without much attention. It was against policy to authorize their freedom, due to ill health for fear they would give away our strategies and position.

Sometimes R.U.F. boys, now with us, would harass and taunt me. "Creole girl, we are now equal," one said. "Only rain made the sheep and goat to be sheltered in the same shed," I retorted to their jokes. "You can't even understand," I added. I could get away with these remarks, because of my rank. But the other girls dare not say such things or resist sexual advances. It was their job to offer sexual pleasure to the fighters. Sex, alcohol, and drugs were common rewards for gallantry. It was a crime to resist a sex hungry rebel fighter, once assigned to him. In such cases, the girls were shot through their genitals and slaughtered. These were traumatic occurrences, which left me with heartthrob pain. But I dare not show any emotion or sympathy. Nothing would erase these terrible nightmares because of what I witnessed, while with the R.U.F. It is so difficult to tolerate endless atrocities, brutality, and senseless destruction of life. Humanity's intrinsic value was reduced to rubble. Many lacked conscience, respect for life, or empathy. But their sanity had evaporated without conscious knowledge. Others were planning a more devious, intriguing attack on Freetown. Such agenda would inflict a catastrophic assault on life. The ingenious projection to eliminate any memory of Freetown formed a secret plan named, "Operation No Living Thing," which did not materialize. British paratroopers made a daring raid that bombarded our positions, when we held captive five unarmed British soldiers.

Efforts to secure their safety were frustrated. Armed with air power and superior ground logistics, a daring raid of endless bombardment, and a ground assault on our positions also launched. The Brits crushed and demoralized our fighters entirely. They also rescued the captives in a battle in which two British soldiers died in a friendly fire. In the wake of a well-organized assault, rebels were left to bleed in rage and thrown into disarray. There was no hiding place; Judgment Day had finally dawned on us.

The intervention of United Nations forces and British troops thwarted an intriguing scheme. They were instrumental in supervising peace talks between rebel factions and government troops. The outcome, the signing of an initial peace treaty, was negotiated and stamped, led to my freedom. After the treaty was signed, the U.N. dispatched buses from the provinces to transport captives and rebels to Freetown. Earlier, the disarmament contingent toured many rebel strongholds, disarming rebels in exchange for money. This incentive helped to get guns out of the hands of rebels in disarray, to prevent them from terrorizing civilians with AK-47's. Combatants received about $100 to $500 based on the availability of funds. This incentive helped us to restart life. And with the job training skills offered, we could invest on a new career and start a peaceful livelihood. This was our most rational choice. But those with a personal vendetta decided to keep their weapons, their only source of terror or defense. I just could not squander this chance to switch allegiance from the R.U.F. to the United Nations. I asked, "Is freedom a farce?" It was real. Even though the R.U.F. attempted to thwart the efforts of the peacekeepers, increased U.N. forces facilitated a road map to peace.

Excited with bubbling emotions, reminiscences of home, I joined the line to get a seat in an old, cross-country bus. I had acquired a new education, while living in the bush. A novel education possessed me, called discipline. But it did not exist in the bush. I recall dad's strict discipline and nurture, as a child growing up. My education is now balanced: One at home, in school and most recently in the jungle. I had unconsciously updated my resume. After a long wait, I secured a seat in the bus next to a U.N. soldier. I felt human again. Major Kakata was an elegant, polite, respectable, disciplined soldier and role model. "What is your name?" he asked me." Mary Bangura," I answered. A friendly conversation cautiously ignited. I was concealing my real name. Too ashamed of myself, I was careful about the information I made public. I asked him about the fate of Freetown, my pending safety, and freedom. His reply was very diplomatic but honest. "Freetown is recovering from the ruins and aftermath of warfare. The disarmament process is earnestly in progress," he said. I did not ask him about my house or community. Specific or sensitive information could be hurtful; the truth might just break me down. It was a long and soul-searching ride. My body and soul seemed journeying to the grotesque and inevitable. I was not psychologically ready for this eventuality. But faith and love for freedom goaded me tenaciously.

I longed for my children Julia, Juliet, and Sony. Are they still alive? I had no guarantee my house would be still standing. I knew that most of Kissy had been destroyed and the wreckage demolished. Is my home also among them? No one offered me straight answers. I needed true answers. But I had no guarantee: reality hurts. Do I have to reinvent my life all over again? As the bus made stops, children were shouting, "We want peace!" My heart was bleeding, viewing angry, destitute kids demanding a future. I can't refute the truth with my life now in disarray. I'm a party to the demise. I developed courage and strength as my journey of faith climaxed a crescendo.

Despite regaining my freedom, I will never reinvent myself easily. My identity is completely lost, my self-image ruined. In due course, the tangible assets I have lost may be recovered. But my emotional, spiritual, and psychological facets have suffered a permanent decay. I express gratitude to God for his unchanging love, grace, and protection. "To Him be all glory." His strength, courage, and wisdom helped me to bear my abomination.

As I struggle to rebuild my life, pertinent questions incessantly permeate my mind. "Who am I, why me, will I regain my identity?" Indefinitely, I will be searching for answers. Why blame God when bad things happen to good people? Today, evil dominates the world. He's still omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. It is now time for my people to embrace unity. Too long, we endured the absence of good leadership. We still need a rallying factor to merge and educate our vulnerable nation, seemingly fragmented into units of discord. We can't survive in times of crisis. The road towards tangible peace seems extremely fragile and superficial. The emblem of our national flag clearly reads, "Unity, Freedom and Justice." Why should we depend on the United Nations to solve our basic problems?

Frankly, a revolutionary thinking, is the ingredient my potentially gifted, naturally rich nation yearns for. War is no recipe for change, peace, and unity. I began to sing fearlessly, loudly, as in a transfiguration, a freedom chant:

"Oh … oh freedom, oh … oh freedom,
Oh … oh … freedom over me …
And before I become a slave, I'll be buried in my grave,
And go home to my Lord and be free …"

At the ungodly hour of 4:30 a.m., frogs were croaking, as a shrilling cock blasted "cocorioko … cocorioko …" Dogs barked with austere, mystic overture and gradually resurrected the child in me. I grew terribly frozen as phobia in emptiness. The melody in the freedom song grew so infectious; a drawn choir joined a wild-spirited jubilation. A frenzied, electrifying atmosphere seized my bleeding soul and spirit. My internal lacerated name of shame and pain developed a bleeding ulcer that grew nagging and tormenting. Where do I turn to for therapy? How could I be cured of my septic name and pain? Probably, my name has even changed forever. Over a decade, Sierra Leone had nurtured a fertile soil, where seeds of hate had been planted. These wild seeds had blossomed into scary thorns, out of proportion. The time was ripe to practically reap this Harvest of Hate.

From "Harvest of Hate: Stories and Essays 'Fuel for the Soul'" ISBN 1-4137-7592-6 (Publish America, 2006) by Roland Bankole Marke. Other books by the author: Teardrops Keep Falling –Minuteman Press, 2003 and Silver Rain and Blizzard, 2005. Visit his website on; www.Rolandmarke.com or call 904-645-5738 for more details.


Subject: Mohamed Kallon is the best SL player
From: Salone boy
To: All
Date Posted: 10:11:07 05/29/08 ()
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Message:
Mohamed Kallon should take that coveted position as the best Sierra Leonean player of all time because his footballing skill enabled him to play for Inter Milan and Monaco.
Playing in the Champions league surpasses any league in the world.
For those who will come out with the reason that the old footballers have limited opportunities, must remember that there were good numbers of Africans that played in the west.e.g. Roger Milla, Biri Biri and many more.
Mohamed Kallon is the best Sierra Leonean player of all time.


Subject: Re: Mohamed Kallon is the best SL player
From: Go back
To: All
Date Posted: 10:55:14 05/29/08 ()
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Visit those crucial times - King Kama days. Mohamed Kallon's stardom
came at a time when the world became globalised and countries'
footballing rules were relaxed. Do not get me wrong - MK is a great
player but luck and his character played a key part in his stardom. King
Kama will always be my greatest. Ismail Dyfan my second and Alusine
Terry my third but the man I admire most - cool and composed.

What criteria have we used to determine who the greatest player is?


Subject: Re: Mohamed Kallon is the best SL player
From: Saloneboy
To: All
Date Posted: 07:57:45 05/30/08 ()
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Entered From: ip503dc437.speed.planet.nl at 80.61.196.55

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I think King Kama was a great footballer. Since the inception to crown World footballers, the criteria that has been used is the achievement of the individual in winning trophies, caps, etc, etc.
Sadly, Kama Dumbuya was not bought to ply his trade abroad. To be the best, ne needs to be participated in International finale and competitions. Football pundits in the world will never nominate anyone who has not excelled in the international stage. Forget about luck and so forth... Success in football lies on exposure.
Mohamed Kallon will easily win the best Sierra Leoneaan footballer, beacuse pundits, coaches sport journalists will first look at his CV. He has plyed his trade in some of the best clubs in the world.
Did globalisation prevent Biri Biri, Roger Milla and others to play in France, Denmark, Spain, and Portugal?.
Ill luck on the part of King Kama should not be a leeway for him to be crowned the an time best.
The man Super K was a dribller, schemer and potent striker. He danced with the ball in any defence and his mesmerising skills, ability to out pace opponents in the box, would pushed him neck and neck with Ronaldo. Super K read football. I am talking about a genuis. He himself can fall inside the first best three Sierra Leoneans of all time.
Did you watch Might Blackpool and Old Edwardians in 1979?. A duel between Max-Macarthy and Super K. Who will outwit Who/. That was a superb game!. Max Macarthy too was a remarkable player in every detail of the art of football.
King Kama was having the tenacity to strike potently in goal. But, his scheming and dribbling skills were limited and clealy the brand of football Super K, Ishmael Dyfan, Max Macarthy, Tom (Alusine) Terry displayed was unique.
To come back to all this, these guys were unfortunate to play in big leagues in the west. One thing that stood in their way was the economic glory existed at that time. The leones was valued more than the dollars. And some of these guys were comfortable with the social dimensions in the country.
We did hammer strong footballing countries like Ghana, Guinea, and Nigeria.


Subject: Re: Mohamed Kallon is the best SL player
From: Okobo Argborlor
To: All
Date Posted: 14:33:58 05/29/08 ()
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Entered From: at 166.188.91.236

Message:
What about Goaler Quin we were told that he would leave the field
while the game was on to go buy fry fry


Subject: Cocorioko - The poll or what ever scr1pt you have running
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:34:18 05/29/08 ()
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Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126

Message:
Is eating up on load time for the forum page..
It takes 2 minute for the page to load @

http://www.hwforums.com/2179/


Subject: coup in guinea? kontek removed?
From: Lansana Konteh
To: All
Date Posted: 08:57:10 05/29/08 ()
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Entered From: c-69-143-225-110.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.110

Message:
Hello, I just go a call from guinea saying that Gen Konteh has been removed from office by mutinous soldiers, who took over the airport and forcing flights to be diverted to Freetown. Please confirm anyone?


Subject: Re: coup in guinea? kontek removed?
From: No coup, but unrest (BBC)
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:44 05/29/08 ()
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Message:

Guinea troops cause airport chaos
Mutinous soldiers have stopped aeroplanes arriving in Guinea's capital, Conakry, in a continuing pay dispute with their government.

Soldiers forced their way on to the runway to prevent a US military plane from landing on Wednesday night.

At least two commercial airlines also had to cancel flights before the soldiers returned to their barracks.

On Tuesday, the government agreed to pay troops some back wages in an effort to stop the unrest.

The BBC's Amadou Diallo in Guinea says troops are demanding the dismissal of top-ranking army officers.

Rampage

Soldiers from the Alpha Yaya Diallo barracks near the airport took the deputy head of the army captive at their base on Monday.

The soldiers went on the rampage, looting shops and leaving at least one person dead.

Shots were also heard near two inland barracks.

Shortly afterwards President Lansana Conte fired the defence minister.

Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souare later announced the troops would receive GNF5m ($1,140), and an increase in army rice subsidies in an attempt to end the dispute.

He has also asked the opposition to help him name a consensus government, our correspondent says.

Soldiers say that some of them have not received any pay since 1996.

President Conte, who took power in a coup in 1984, fought off a similar revolt and general strike last year.


Subject: Re: coup in guinea? kontek removed?
From: Lansana Konteh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:47:02 05/29/08 ()
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Entered From: c-69-143-225-110.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.143.225.110

Message:
My source told me that Konteh has been removed , wait on BBC and you will catch it later. The soldiers are demanding the removal of all the generals includng Konteh, so they have all gone into hiding.
General Sory Doumbouya who was sent to negotiate with the coupligans has been de-exed and commandant Diallo Korka has been evacuated to Maroc, his body guard has died.


Subject: Re: coup in guinea? kontek removed?
From: GUINEA UPDATE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:52:59 05/29/08 ()
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19 dead ,67 wounded in just 5 days of so called rioting. Shops ramsacked in Madina, Matoto, Hamdalaye, Taouyah and Bellevue,. In one incident four soldiers who had gone stealing were sharing the loot, one of them felt he was not being given a fair share of the loot threw his granade on the three and killed them.
In Faranah, a major (commandant) at the barracks shot point blank a mutinous soldier who had wanted to break into an arms galary. US plane was full of "siops" and arms but was it meant for who? The govt or the coupligans" Sources claimed it has landed at Faranah, airport which could even land a concorde.


Subject: Re: coup in guinea? kontek removed?
From: KLA
To: All
Date Posted: 10:18:58 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 164.82.84.3

Message:

The BIG BOYS want to play. Can you imagine an oil concession as large as Salone? Lansana Conteh and his Cabal should have been long gone.

Guinea, the great storehouse of wealth in the MRU is about to change!


Subject: Rice in Freetown
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 07:19:42 05/29/08 ()
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Entered From: at 165.155.200.85

Message:
Just read in Cocorioko that the government has brought in 40,000 tons of rice to ease the rice crunch. I think this is a good move by the government that should be applauded by all parties. Now we must be vigilant and the govt must make sure that the usual power syndicates do not 'disappear' this rice into their pockets, stiffing the people.
All in all, a good move in the short term. Now for a long term solution...


Subject: Re: Rice in Freetown
From: Plaba Bessie
To: All
Date Posted: 18:23:53 05/29/08 ()
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Entered From: c-98-194-213-250.hsd1.tx.comcast.net at 98.194.213.250

Message:
I think New People reported this in April or March. Sorry forumites, just linking the source for cross-reference puirposes.

I hope the President ensures that the rice is fairly and equitably distributed and available to all Sierra Leoneans.


Subject: Re: Rice in Freetown
From: Tyrone Jamison
To: All
Date Posted: 13:56:25 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: Tyrone.Jamison@dla.mil
Entered From: phl1t082.dscp.dla.mil at 131.82.5.82

Message:
I think it is a great progressive step for the government.


Subject: Re: Rice in Freetown
From: Kabs Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 14:35:26 05/29/08 ()
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Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202

Message:
Tyronne,

Welcome to the forum, my good brother. I am sorry thatmy hectic schedule made me not to call you as promised. This weekend, I will be busy interviewing a professor and a politician, but will squeeze time to call .

Thanks, bro, for the interest. You are an asset to us in Somerset, NJ.kEEP IT UP.

REV. KABS-KANU


Subject: Re: Rice in Freetown
From: Tyrone M. Jamison
To: All
Date Posted: 11:02:37 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: Tyrone.Jamison@dla.mil
Entered From: phl1t082.dscp.dla.mil at 131.82.5.82

Message:
My new cell is 1-215-410-6872, my office number is still the same. I know you are busy sir, and your affecting positive change. So I'm happy that you are busy. Keep up the good work.


Subject: Re: Rice in Freetown
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 07:37:55 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: lpsdsl2.claranet.co.uk at 79.123.36.144

Message:
To ensure fair, credible and honest distribution of this rice, government should delegate the task to very few but trusted people to distibute it. The reason for this is that if many hands are laid on the life saving cargo, the intention of the government to sell it at affordable price will be a mission impossible. We have people right now who have connections in government are preparing to make themselves rich in the form of 'GBARA' that is to say buy in bulk without paying money untill the person has sold the rice to the public and made good profit.

I spoke to my in-law who had heard people talking about doing what I described above. I think this should be prevented immediately otherwise, the government's good intention will be hijacked.


Subject: Re: Rice in Freetown
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:23:20 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126

Message:
Government should get its hands off importation/exportation and distribution of commodities..

It did not work in Roman times, it did not work in the reinessance, it did not work during colonial era, neither did it work during shekism or momohism..

Create the environment for commerce..

Easy credit availability, better banking laws, enhance our trade and commerce caliber @ the embassies so they can go out and talk trade.

Make water quay free for all foodstuff and essentials..
Buy more tractors..by the time the last bag of this shipment is sold we will have harvested our first rice..

Think long term.. think brazil in the 70's..
Plant sugercane for ethanol..

This will end up been another blunder...
Salone government does not have the capacity, nor does it have the network to distribute rice amicably...


Subject: Re: Rice in Freetown
From: Tyrone M. Jamison
To: All
Date Posted: 13:57:04 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: Tyrone.Jamison@dla.mil
Entered From: phl1t082.dscp.dla.mil at 131.82.5.82

Message:
Sir do you think that the Sierra Leone government will need assistance from the United Nations with this initiative? If so do you think it is a good idea to get some help from the outside? Sir may I also have your opinion on the viability of any party to make drastic, maybe even questionable moves, to improve the government for the benefit of all its citizens? As you know sir I'm not familiar with the politics of the country so I'm learning, is there any social support programs in the country similar to what Britian and the United States have?


Subject: Re: Rice in Freetown
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 14:25:09 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126

Message:
UN's assistance for what Mr Jamison..?

About the parties ability... to improve government and subsequently governed.. i would hope so.. but the sad truth is that it is rare.. even in mature democracies to even make the leap we need to catch up with other 4th world countries.. let alone 2nd world..and our politicians burn out too fast.. (lack of candor, a core ideology, who knows..) to make a lasting mark.. and when they realise that brains will not archieve the objective.. they are quick to turn to brawn..and that has its own spiralling effect..

Governance and governed is simply another commodity..traded (batter system) openly by an agreement based on hope and wishes and in most cases disappointment (except you live in scandinavian countries.. aka lala land..)..

What will redeem us from this effffed up catch 22 is just what this man here is saying...
http://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/article.php3?id_article=2664
CAPITAL...INTELECTUAL AND MONEYTARY... an asset that can grow..
We skipped the industrial revolution.. that has a price...there is hardly any shorcuts in life..

As to you question of social nets..
There is hardly any social net in most African countries except maybe A Rich Uncle, related or not (sugar daddy included)......
If and when it does exists, the money can hardly buy a decent meal.. let alone left over for a game of BINGO or some flowers for that girl with the tubes and wheelchair you have been married to for 75 years.


Subject: Re: Rice in Freetown
From: Tyrone M. Jamison
To: All
Date Posted: 10:58:10 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: Tyrone.Jamison@dla.mil
Entered From: phl1t082.dscp.dla.mil at 131.82.5.82

Message:
Thank you for explaining how Seirra Leone's political network is designed. I wonder is there anyway to fix the problem? It seems like there are people that are willing to try.


Subject: Re: Rice in Freetown
From: Tyrone M. Jamison
To: All
Date Posted: 13:54:27 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: Tyrone.Jamison@dla.mil
Entered From: phl1t082.dscp.dla.mil at 131.82.5.82

Message:
Sir do you think that the Sierra Leone government will need assistance from the United Nations with this initiative? If so do you think it is a good idea to get some help from the outside? Sir may I also have your opinion on the viability of any party to make drastic, maybe even questionable moves, to improve the government for the benefit of all its citizens? As you know sir I'm not familiar with the politics of the country so I'm learning, is there any social support programs in the country similar to what Britian and the United States have?


Subject: Dyfan, best Salone football of all time!!
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 07:03:22 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83

Message:
It is only Dyfan who invented a footballing dribble called 'ZINGY ZONG'. I have always said that he was born into the wrong era. If he had played in the English premiership he would have been up there with Christiano Ronaldo.


Subject: Re: Dyfan, best Salone football of all time!!
From: kenema man
To: All
Date Posted: 10:14:58 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.70

Message:
What about JAMES KOMBOR? do you remember him?


Subject: Re: Dyfan, best Salone football of all time!!
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 15:48:28 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83

Message:
I have not seen any Sierra Leone Footballer with the skills of Dyfan. Plus Dyfan played abroad which Kama and others did not. Kallon played at a high level in his career but did not carry Leone stars on his shoulders like Dyfan


Subject: Re: Dyfan, best Salone football of all time!!
From: AL. KHAN
To: All
Date Posted: 22:15:14 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-111-111-102.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.111.111.102

Message:
i belive Dyfan is the best player, but, do you guys remember, Domingo. He died at an early age.


Subject: Allieu Iscandri should sue Alpha Saidu for calumny
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 05:50:26 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: 194-237-247-130.customer.telia.com at 194.237.247.130

Message:
This is getting out of hand! Alpha Saidu should pay a dear price for his allegations which he is yet to prove or cannot prove at all.


Subject: Re: Allieu Iscandri should sue Alpha Saidu for calumny
From: AWOKO
To: All
Date Posted: 14:08:50 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: ABU@AOL.COM
Entered From: pool-72-83-233-126.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.83.233.126

Message:
Wait and maybe he will have to use some of his wedding money to pay a good lawyer ,but he is not the one footing the bill. poor lady wants a man in her life.


Subject: Best Sierra Leone footballer
From: Reality
To: All
Date Posted: 04:45:44 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 32.168.186.203

Message:
Any list of best Sierra Leone footballers that does not include Junior
Tumbu is meaningless. The sample of voters is also extremely biased
at it is comprised of:
1. Only Sierra Leoneans with access to the Internet
2. Only Sierra Leoneans who read the Cocorioko forum
3. Mostly Sierra Leoneans who have left the country in the 70s and
80s as indicated by the the names of the players mentioned.


Though the list a good attempt it also fail to realize the fact that most
Blackpool and Lions fans see their own players as the best. So if you
have a lot of Lions supporters on this forum, then an Eastern Lions
player will most likely be chosen as the best player.

A voter can also delete his cookies and vote more than 100 times. If
the vote tally is 150, does his vote not automatically decide who the
best player in Sierra Leone is?

Also given the role that all the individual players played in making
Leone Stars such a formidable team in the past, what is actually the
point in people deciding who was better or best, is it not just a
pointless divisive exercise. The same kind of superficial division which
is just meant at damaging the unity of our country. I say this because
football is one of the few things that unite our people as a country and
I would not want Cocorioko to continue its divisive tactics by involving
our national pastime.



Subject: Re: Best Sierra Leone footballer
From: Yes
To: All
Date Posted: 08:01:45 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: socrates.la.psu.edu at 146.186.141.163

Message:
"Any list of best Sierra Leone footballers that does not include Junior Tumbu is meaningless"

I was just about to post the same thing. You make an excellent point.


Subject: Re: Best Sierra Leone footballer
From: Tombo Boy
To: All
Date Posted: 07:24:35 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: dele25@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-151-196-33-143.balt.east.verizon.net at 151.196.33.143

Message:
I guess we can only talk about the experiences we had growing up. Those of us who left Sierra Leone in the seventies or earlry eighties know or care about soccer in Sierra Leone up to and including Dyfan and others. The junior Tumbus of this world we leave to you NPRC generation who cannot be relied on for honesty or any rational thought.


Subject: Re: Best Sierra Leone footballer
From: Reality
To: All
Date Posted: 14:29:01 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 166.188.240.176

Message:
Thanks to the forum hostess for removing the meaningless poll.
Tombo boy you must have your head far up some unnamable part, so I
would not even go into a pointless exchange.


Subject: Re: Best Sierra Leone footballer
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 09:58:58 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126

Message:
You must be out of your bloody mind.........
Your freaking generation.. sit by idly while siaka stevens and his fat mini me momoh drag us to hell and you are here talking about our generation not been relied on for honestly and rational thoughts..??

It was the bade that you pred we had to lie on..


Did you not see the degradation.. from the colonial handover to the present day..

Here take a look again..
http://gallery.mac.com/koromahfamily.mac/100071

You can only start to atone and ask for forgiveness from our generation when you accept your mistakes..

Sorry boss.. you might be older, but that mentality needs to be challenged..


Subject: Re: Best Sierra Leone footballer
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 05:00:44 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: 194-237-247-130.customer.telia.com at 194.237.247.130

Message:
"I say this because
football is one of the few things that unite our people as a country"

Are you for real? How many times have you witnessed matches between Mighty Blackpool and East End Lions or Mighty Blackpool and Real Republicans or East End Lions and Ports Authority? The fact remains people become more divided when rival teams clash. Most Sierra Leoneans tend to be more loyal to their clubs than to the national team.


Subject: Re: Best Sierra Leone footballer
From: Reality
To: All
Date Posted: 05:24:13 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 32.168.186.203

Message:
We all rally behind Leone Stars


Subject: Investment & Employment
From: Very concerned
To: All
Date Posted: 04:16:08 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 41.208.164.39

Message:
What happened to 3 Billionaires, who were to invest Billions and create huge employment??? In the name of investment, I have only seen a couple of Petrol stations


Subject: Old man pa Zubah on hot pepper soup
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 03:43:15 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
Entered From: pool-72-75-77-102.washdc.east.verizon.net at 72.75.77.102

Message:
Old man pa Zubah: You will not understand,how much your money can burn your mouth and rough your intestines until you spend your money on hot pepper (paradise of heaven) soup. Thank you rooster for making my hens produce.


Subject: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kamara
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 03:31:43 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
Entered From: pool-72-75-77-102.washdc.east.verizon.net at 72.75.77.102

Message:
Mr. Anthony Karim Kamara,your article on the posted subject is a great one.Well witten and supported ,but in my opinion it will be a defeatism if changes are made. Like you stated, the anthem has powerful words that are now useless because of things that happened and the current situation. True, like you stated ,but I believe the same powerful words can be used effectively to change the dreadful situation, use the same weapon to beat back the evil destroyers. Many people are fully aware of the fact , the nation has been stripped naked and the nakedness can be seen and felt all over the nation. What we see today are the seeds of destruction sowed by devils in the form of politicians ,insane human beings and power hungry minced people. Differences in religions , tribes, etc ,did not cause severe problems until politics entered the stage. Here is one example, I called one honorable deputy minister and told her , she is the illegitimate child of her father. She was bitterly angered, but I got her under control by reminding her about the way her father in (first S.L.P.P.government) used to call young A.P.C. supporters illegitimate children because some of them defied their fathers, she is now a normal person and she is preaching peace,love and unity . I believe many people are aware of the fact , first A.P.C. developed the concept "OPPOSITION " is disloyal and an enemy( check A.P.C. RISING SUN). NOW, many people should understand how we got to this devastating point. The slaves anthem " man was not born as slave to no man" was a freedom song created by slaves before Moses,it was destroyed by enslavers, but it was revived in the 16th century and became the weapon that destroyed the most devastating devilished act carried out by devils. Do we see hooliganism, cannibalism,thuggery and many evil things in our today Sierra Leone? If the answer is yes, then the next question is simple, why were many people blind and deaf ? I believe this is the time Sierra Leoneans must come together and use the anthem to cure sick people and permanently eradicate the seeds of destruction before another rain fall. Kill the seeds of destruction now before they gernminate, grow and cause severe havocs . More on this stuff later and thank you.


Subject: Re: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kamara
From: OK WHAT
To: All
Date Posted: 09:26:18 05/30/08 ()
Email Address: OKWHAT@MSN.COM
Entered From: gate3-norfolk.nmci.navy.mil at 138.162.0.43

Message:
WE NEED TO WORRY ABOTU DEVELOPING OUR COUNTRY. ISSUES LIKE THESE TAKE US AWAY FORM THE REAL ISSUES.


Subject: Re: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kamara
From: No Change
To: All
Date Posted: 12:39:26 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-255-228-184.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.255.228.184

Message:
just because bad things happened in a country don't mean it should change its national anthem. the anthem stands for ideals that the country strives for. Those ideals are not chaff that will blow every which way the wind of history blows at any particular point in time. So, by all means record the history of salone as the writer did. but that is not a reason to change the national anthem.

How many countries have changed their national anthems just for their bad history? None that I know of. Not even after civil wars, like those in U.S., UK, Nigeria, Congo, Rwanda, Liberia, etc.


Subject: Re: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kamara
From: Tolongbo
To: All
Date Posted: 10:08:35 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: soribabureh@hotmai.com
Entered From: at 212.102.0.104

Message:
I salute the idea for the change of our national anthem. The only advice I have in that regard, let there be patriotic national devotion on whatever line we may decide to tune. In addition, the state should make it mandatory that each and every Sierra Leonean knows the meaning of the song and to sing it correctly. I have all along been ashamed to death whenever our anthem is said to be chorused, the majority keep mumbling the lines!

We, Sierra Leonean have very little regard for anything of a national value. This should change. Let the teachers devote to teach the importance of knowing one's anthem. It was only when I entered college I was able to read carefully all the three stanzas of our anthem. I had never seen those lines on students' books or even notebooks as most countries do in order to familiarize the school going children with such important lines.


Subject: Re: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kamara
From: Saloneboy
To: All
Date Posted: 05:38:06 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 35-67-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.67.35

Message:
Mr Anthony Karim Kamara, first of all may God bless you for your wonderful article.
It takes honesty, sincerity, magnanimity and above all love to write such an outstanding article that says it all about our bad attitude.
Thank you Mr Kamara!


Subject: Re: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kama
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 21:59:21 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-205-104.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.205.104

Message:
Let us stop building castles in the air. Mr. A. K. Kamara's piece was a
narrative lacking objectivity. he focussed on what he wants us to
believe happened.

Take the case of his narrative on Bai Koblo Pathbana (RIP). Mr. Kamara
who first imprisoned Chief Koblo Pathbana (RIP)? Was it not
Agbashaetani - recall when pa Skei was away and PC Koblo (RIP) and a
few of our uncles were rounded up and taken to Pademba Prisons.
Who dethroned PC Koblo (RIP)?

Another issue I noted was that of AO Conteh's failure to secure more
than one vote during the AU Chairmanship elections. You stated that it
is a Sierra Leonean loss. It is your opinion that you truly hold fervent. I
believe otherwise. AO Conteh shamelessly and woefully failed in his
service to his country. Aside that he remains arrogant believing he
holds monopoly over intellectual achievement not reflecting on the
option of trying to repair the blemish on his dispensation as a former
senior executive of state. AO Conteh needs serious psychological
rehabilitation therapy to be fit to run Africa affairs. It was a loss to a
greedy and selfish element. As I have always maintained, the character
needs atoning. He has a lot to give to Sierra Leone for Sierra leone to
fully accept him as a worthy son.

Thanks for the time you spent crafting such a beautiful quasi-fiction.


Subject: Re: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kama
From: reality check
To: All
Date Posted: 18:52:34 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 207.108.136.237

Message:
Chez, the guy showed a time line and if you pay attention to read his article you will find the answer to your question. Before Siaka came to power who was then the president or prime minister and what year did Siaka took power? You should have realized that the answer lies beneath those time line.


Subject: Re: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kama
From: chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 19:15:05 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-194-209.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.194.209

Message:
Reality Check, I was not able to find the 'time line' that linked to my
questions. What I was able to see was a 'show-jump' - no mention of the
dethronement of PC Koblo Pathbana (RIP) nor his incarceration during
Sheki's reign.

A specific pointer may help me note the areas in the 'time line' that
answers my questions.


Subject: Re: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kama
From: Saloneboy
To: All
Date Posted: 07:27:58 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip503dc437.speed.planet.nl at 80.61.196.55

Message:
What Mr Karim Kamara is emphasising is that beneath the sacred texts of our national anthem, there is an impediment that hides our ability to hate others and denigrate anything progressing as long as it is for other compatriots.
Abdulai Conteh participation in the Stevens government should not warrant you to come out in the open to tell his employer that he was bad public civil servant.
Your views are speculative about the man. He has never found wanting for any malfeasance in a court of law. You claimed to be an educated and ethical person.
We all knew that when it came to desecrate the constitution, Abdulai Conteh stood up against Stevens and he lost his job.
I think Mr Kamara is saying that the lyrics in the national anthem do not reflect the attributes of the country;s locals. For we to reflect the wholeness of the anthem, we must first practice ethical and good actions. There has to be patriotism , love for one another and tolerance.
The last time I checked every APC Minister was arraigned in Commission of Enquiries and their properties confiscated. If the national anthem is to be prewserved its ethical stance, magnanimity of purpose, aura and moral tone, then all Sierra Leoneans must behave with sound mind and judgement.
Will you call a spade a spade when there is a doubt about uniformity of purpose?
A blue is always blue. There is a big contrast between the lyrics in our anthem to our behavious vis a vis the country's development.
Think about it Mr!


Subject: Re: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kama
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 19:51:12 05/30/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-129-194-209.range86-129.btcentralplus.com at 86.129.194.209

Message:
Saloneboy, I only addressed areas that needed some objectivity and did
not touch on the main.

I have not in my entire participation on this forum claim to be an
educated man. I continue to learn everyday. If you are an honest man
you will admit to all that Abdulai Conteh was a disappointment to the
principles and ideals of natural justice. The beliefs he studied were
dumped in favour of greed and self-interest. Such a man can never be
a national hero. Just as I said in my previous post - he needs
atonement combined with acute rehabilitation therapy. No fooling us -
he needs to understand that he participated in a reign that was the
precursor to our current situation. To sweep such under the carpet is
not my style. One thing I have learnt and hold true is to take
responsibility for my actions and inactions. To stand before all and
acknowledge your falings is a honourable deed. You tend to promote
that which is clustered with smears that fumes kalium - smells
horrible. Clean up your character for many like self to regard as a
honourable professional capable of leading a noble and honourable
cause.

I pray that your support for Abdulai Conteh does not cloud our minds
from understanding and acknowledging the real issues our nation face
causing disunity.

You are correct in advocating love for one another and tolerance. I
have love for all my people and the tolerance is great. What I will not
accept is when a brother neglects to own up to his imperfections and
continues to regard all as fools and amnesics. I can forgive but will not
forget the wrongs done by others to me or another. I believe you are
an ambitious fellow - do not let your ambition destroy your moral duty
to your country and Her people. God Bless you and save us all!!


Subject: Re: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kama
From: Salone boy
To: All
Date Posted: 04:03:26 05/31/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 35-67-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.67.35

Message:
Chez, unlike you, I never support anybody because we are from the same region, tribe or have shared values. I am fearless and do not curry favour to any man born of a woman.
Your statement below is far from the truth. I have never met or received any support from Abdulai Conteh. My defence for him is based purely on ethics to uphold the truth and be my brothers keeper.
You have known to be a turn coat man! It was here you castigated everything Kabbah/Berewa and you even went as far as to recruit some of us to start a political movement. When that failed, you quickly joind Berewa team to lick the milk from the poor.
I think you are prone to join a camp where bread and milk are available.
My service is to Sierra Leone and I will be the first to censure the APC when it negates on its promises.
I think you are full of vendetta and such a tendency is not good to possese.

I pray that your support for Abdulai Conteh does not cloud our minds
from understanding and acknowledging the real issues our nation face
causing disunity


Subject: Re: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kama
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 07:07:27 05/31/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-146-157-240.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.157.240

Message:
Salone boy, you got me or read me wrong. I made no note of you
currying favours from Abdulai conteh - he will not even give you if you
were to do such. I respect that you are fearless and would not curry
favours from any man - that is how life should be. respect people for
what they are and their actions to others . In this case of Abdulai
Conteh, being his keeper should not prevent you from acknowledging
that the people of Sierra Leone would like to hear his side of the story
and an apology for any understandable human frailties. No one is
perfect, the grace is acknowledging that you made mistakes and
attempt to make good or support good to the errors made.

I am not suffering from amnesia, I have never castigated Berewa.
Kabbah! Yes!! My support for berewa stemmed from the fact that I
believe he would have invested time in identifying, recognising and
supporting the best minds of tomorrow Sierra Leone. Salone boy, like
you I do not curry for favours - my pride makes me to believe that
suffering is a good advise. On many ocassions, I was asked to speak
with Berewa, I refused for one reason: I would not want to be sucked
into something that will make me pass a remark that may offend and
spoil the show.

Let me give you an example of why I refuse to curry for favours. I see
a bigger into anything I show interest.

Between 1998/99, a certain group of successful Sierra Leoneans had a
problem with a media house. The media house was bent on nailing
them. I read the news and immediatley devised a plan to save the
situation. The head of the Sierra Leonean group who thought I have
never liked him decided to pay me a visit. We discussed the issue and
all was salvaged. He called me another day and invited me for lunch to
sort something out for me. I refused to go and explained to him that
what I did was for the benefit of us all and not only for them so he
should not worry for he owes me nothing. I had to devise the scheme
(that which I cannot say here) for the benefit of the black and minority
ethnics. You see, we are all extensions of one another - white or black.
If that organisation had gone down - it would have had an effect on all
who cared and such loss was a loss for all in the community. Any
other organisation that springs up will be subjected to similar
prejudice. I devote my time to good causes and making the lives of
others and their communities better.

Do you know how many relatives and friends I have with power in this
current administration? Many!! We talk every week and even yesterday
and uncle called me and pleaded with me to join the APC. I love my
family and would not want politics to come in the way. I said to him to
drop the issue and we focus on how best we can all work to make life
better in Sierra Leone. I have no hate for my present government and
would respect them if they are doing the right things. As at now - it is
too early for me to say anything against the APC save the caution on
overspending and tackling the real issues.

I still have the intention of forming a new brand of institution from the
grassroots to bring change in the country. Politics is not my real forte
- I love to be open in my thoughts and deeds and such is a cons in
politics. Talking too much also contaminates the spirit and such good
utterances can be arrested by the bad spirits stalling actions.

I posses no vendetta for anyone -I tend to habour the deeds of bad
people and make such, if I have the power, to prevent such people
from ever repeating those wicked and inhuman deeds.

Let me for the first time on this forum tell you what has changed in my
thoughts about the last election. The man I supported lost and was
here in the UK. Despite my calls for him to meet his supporters to
thank them and console them after the loss, he did not move an inch to
reach out. It pained me so much. I was asked to go see him and I
tactfully turned down the invitation. Berewa's refusal to go and see his
supporters who sacrificed for him during his moment made me
believe that God had His way. I can fight man but God's decision is
final.

Let us not smear one another for an unpopular effect - AO Conteh is
AO Conteh - I just cannot stomach the prejudicial reporting on him -
no one can sell rotten meat in a market - there is bound to be
someone who has a strong sense of smell. I can smell the stench
anytime anyone tries to glorify the inglorious.

Let peace reign and stay blessed!


Subject: Re: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kama
From: Salone boy
To: All
Date Posted: 09:50:00 05/31/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 35-67-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.67.35

Message:
Chez, I have no ill feeling towards your stance against those who destroyed our country.
It is alright to have different views. However, our criticisms should be free from malice and lies.
Like you, I want us to live in unity and tolerance. To be erred is human. The problem in our country can be solved when we show respect and love for one another.
Stay blessed!


Subject: Re: Change Sierra Leone national anthem by Mr. A. K. Kama
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:56:48 05/31/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-146-156-160.range86-146.btcentralplus.com at 86.146.156.160

Message:
I pray we have the courage to own up and then attempt to reconcile the
conscience to give back to society what we have taken. That is my malice
and contains no lies.

I pray also that we learn to resolve our conflicts honourably.

I still pray that our children and theirs will see a glorious country.

Stay blessed and peace to us all!!


Subject: The Same Old---Same Old ----APC---Power.
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 03:02:34 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: saidubangso@aol.com
Entered From: at 151.196.164.10

Message:
I am sure that many members of this forum will remember a few weeks ago, when the APC, north America joyously announced that former NPRC official, Idriss Kamara is now a new member of It region.
It is clearly stated in the constitution of the APC, north America region that:
ALL EXECUTIVE OFFICERS MUST BE ELECTED AT A DELEGATES CONFERENCE.
I know for sure that the last APCNA delegates conference was held a few years ago in Washington, DC. The new member, Idriss Kamara has been appointed to act as Organizing Secretary(AN EXECUTIVE POSITION) outside the party's constitution, only because the party does not believe in democracy.
All reasonable minds will agree with me that a new member on probation is NOT QUALIFIED to hold an executive position.
Fellow country men and women these are the people(APC) who are calling for A CHANGE OF ATTITUDE at a time when they can not follow the laws that govern thier party. They assured us that thier party is now called THE NEW APC, because it is different from the APC of Siaka Stevens and Joe Momoh. But as we all know the SAME THINGS that are now happening in the APC, also happened during the days of PA SIAKI and J.S.MOMOH.
The APC needs to stop the politics of LYING TO OUR PEOPLE because is totally wrong.


Subject: Re: The Same Old---Same Old ----APC---Power.
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 07:45:25 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: lpsdsl2.claranet.co.uk at 79.123.36.144

Message:
" know for sure that the last APCNA delegates conference was held a few years ago in Washington, DC. The new member, Idriss Kamara has been appointed to act as Organizing Secretary(AN EXECUTIVE POSITION)"

"
All reasonable minds will agree with me that a new member on probation is NOT QUALIFIED to hold an executive position."

Mr Bangura, can you please clarify this in more details it sounds like you failed to state when the new member was appointed.


Subject: Re: The Same Old---Same Old ----APC---Power.
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 16:10:13 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: saidubangso@aol.com
Entered From: c-69-140-129-105.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.129.105

Message:
Eddie, Let me point out again:
IDRISS KAMARA became a member of the APCNA a few weeks AGO. He was appointed an executive officer outside the party's constitution, A FEW DAYS AGO.


Subject: Re: The Same Old---Same Old ----APC---Power.
From: AWOKO
To: All
Date Posted: 14:12:54 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: ABU@AOL.COM
Entered From: pool-72-83-233-126.washdc.fios.verizon.net at 72.83.233.126

Message:
Saidu this should not be your problem or concern .


Subject: Quality of our favorite paper - again!
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 22:36:16 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-19-137-141.hsd1.ma.comcast.net at 76.19.137.141

Message:
I know the workload of this paper just keeps getting bigger, but the mistakes are climbing too. Did we get 400,000 tons of rice, which would set us straight for a whole year, or did we get 40,000, the actual correct amount.

Great work on the part of the govt, but could you journalists please play police and ensure that this gets to the people in a fair manner. We know it is situations like these that always leads to favored people getting the deals to distribute the rice and while there is a supply in the country, the common man still ends us paying inflated prices.

We don't want the ministers' wives having sole distribution rights as used to happen under Pa Shaki. The govt should just have an open auction for dealers (govt officials and family members exempt!!) with a cap on the wholesale price and the understanding that those who buy the rice can only sell at a certain price.


Subject: Re: Quality of our favorite paper - again!
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 07:55:49 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: lpsdsl2.claranet.co.uk at 79.123.36.144

Message:
Thank you kothor Sam, but I hope you don't have an eye sore because its clearly written as 40,ooo tones (forty thousand tonnes) not 400,000 tonnes.

But you have a very good point I hope this rice is distributed fairly as this government holds the capacity to either make or break democracy, courtesey of people's call at the past elections.


Subject: Re: Quality of our favorite paper - again!
From: Sam
To: All
Date Posted: 13:13:51 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-19-137-141.hsd1.ma.comcast.net at 76.19.137.141

Message:
The headline did say 400,000. it has been changed. But small point. I am very happy that the gov was able to put in such work to put get us rice from countries that are banning exports. Hope it is distributed fairly.


Subject: Judiciary mourns , as Judges Sidney Warne and Emile Thompson
From: umfaali
To: All
Date Posted: 22:35:03 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-100-130-84.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.100.130.84

Message:
Mr. Kargbo, Justice Sydney Warne passed in the USA, not in the UK.


Subject: Kabs, please help
From: Don Osman
To: All
Date Posted: 22:33:23 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: mail.yfci.net at 68.165.96.68

Message:
Kabs, how does one cast a vote for the best footballer? The facility only allows one to see the results of those who have voted but does not provide a place to cast votes.Please advise.


Subject: Salone's best footballer
From: Don Osman
To: All
Date Posted: 22:29:40 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: mail.yfci.net at 68.165.96.68

Message:
Kabs, how does one cast a vote for the best footballer? The facility only allows one to see the results of those who have voted but does not provide a place to cast votes.Please advise.


Subject: Re: Salone's best footballer
From: Forum Statistics Bureau
To: All
Date Posted: 23:21:00 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-244-76-207.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.244.76.207

Message:
All you do is click against the footballer of your choice and then click on the orange knob to cast your vote. Ps. - only one vote allowed.


Subject: Re: Salone's best footballer
From: Don Osman
To: All
Date Posted: 23:23:47 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: mail.yfci.net at 68.165.96.68

Message:
Thanks for the explanation. Where is the orange knob?


Subject: Re: Salone's best footballer
From: Forum Statistics Bureau
To: All
Date Posted: 23:27:27 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-244-76-207.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.244.76.207

Message:
Under Steven Bio.


Subject: Re: Salone's best footballer
From: Kabs Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 00:52:10 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142

Message:
Don, I hope this answered your question.

I also support your idea that we launch a drive to have the government honor King Kama Dumbuya.


Subject: Another Blod Jokes from Australia. Very Funny.
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:52:39 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-147-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.147.25

Message:
Just check it out.
Why can some people understand simple things?


Subject: The Sierra Leone Story
From: Ahmad Tejan Koromah
To: All
Date Posted: 21:06:11 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: ahmedtejan@hotmail.com
Entered From: ip98-163-71-117.dc.dc.cox.net at 98.163.71.117

Message:

If you have trouble accessing the link below, please copy and paste the URL into your browser.


Subject: Re: The Sierra Leone Story
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 22:14:42 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip98-169-8-64.dc.dc.cox.net at 98.169.8.64

Message:
Mr Koromah..

Thank you for making my evening..
Screw that........thanks for making my month..

Thats one of the best thing i have seen online about Sierra Leone..

We had so much promise......ssssss


Subject: Anthony's Incorrect statement about the flag of sierra leone
From: Pilot
To: All
Date Posted: 19:38:41 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: proxy2.messagelabs.net at 216.82.251.227

Message:
Anthony i don't have time to really point out all of the flaws in your writng about the national athem of Sierra Leone.But there is a particular incorrect statement about how the colours of our beautiful country's flag was derieved upon.Anthony writes:

..."Ofcourse we have a national flag in three colours-, Green representing our natural resources, White for the peace and unity of the country, and Blue for the Atlantic waters along our coastline. But does the peace and unity intended in the white colour really reflect the present day situation in the country?"

Sir your statement is erroneous because the WHITE colour in our flag does not represent peace,but the WHITENESS of the sand along the coast of Sierra Leone if you are approching Lungi International airport via aircraft. Check your facts sir.

The GREEN as you rightly pointed out represent the green forest. WHITE represent whiteness of the sand,and BLUE represent the blue water of the Ocean.

When ever you fly again seat next to the window when you are approaching Lungi International airport for landing, it is so visible and so obvious the way the green forest,white sand of the sea shore and blue water of the sea reveals the colour of our flag.

You are family with the name Bai Bureh,Kingtom and other chiefs that actually gave the white man tough fight right.


Subject: Who marched in the 1977 student Demo?
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 19:12:52 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 82-44-17-83.cable.ubr04.croy.blueyonder.co.uk at 82.44.17.83

Message:
From Technical to St John. Joined Grammer school boys en route to town. Was a small boy then. Could anybody give me full details? I could remember 'kus kas'and tear gas. Pa Siaki was on the ropes. If only our parents had joined in!!


Subject: Re: Who marched in the 1977 student Demo?
From: No College No School
To: All
Date Posted: 20:50:01 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-75-64-73-106.hsd1.tn.comcast.net at 75.64.73.106

Message:
The Slogan was, "No College, No school." I was a freshman at Albert Academy. We were in the crossfire between those crazy SSDs, APC Thugs and our seniors who never relented. Right there at Akaymory, the SSDs opened fire to prevent Academicians from joining the protest either toward town or toward FBC.I did not know what the protest was about. I know that we were told to hold banners and shout over and over, "NO College, No School." Then came the bullets sounding like fire crackers. Luckily no one was hit. At that time they shot up in the air dispersing us.


Subject: Re: Who marched in the 1977 student Demo?
From: Bai Forna
To: All
Date Posted: 19:45:01 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: baiforna@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 84.54.21.148

Message:
The APC Minister, Hindolo Trye, led the 1977 Student demonstration against the APC regime. He will provide the major players and perhaps or better not, give you reasons why they demonstrated. Ha, ha, ha, how times can change people


Subject: Re: Who marched in the 1977 student Demo?
From: Edwardian
To: All
Date Posted: 19:53:11 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-244-76-207.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.244.76.207

Message:
Wascalleh was among our heroes in those days. From St. Edward's we headed off to Prince Of Wales and then off to Brookfields. We were met half-way by the Grammar School - Collegiate rallye. Boy, those were serious days.


Subject: Re: Who marched in the 1977 student Demo?
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 12:31:22 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
"Wascalleh was among our heroes during those trying days".
Heheheheheheh I wonder where he is now.


Subject: Re: Who marched in the 1977 student Demo?
From: umfaali
To: All
Date Posted: 22:42:46 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-100-130-84.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.100.130.84

Message:
No school, no college!!!!!!!! Grammar School - Colligate- Rosevelt-MGHS-Technical - FSSG - Convent meet with Edwards - POW - AA.......NO School No college. That was the days


Subject: Pa Zubah and the disgruntled woman
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:57:12 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
Entered From: pool-72-75-116-130.washdc.east.verizon.net at 72.75.116.130

Message:
Old man pa Zubah: Woman ,why are you crying?
Woman: My husband did not give me enough chop money for today . He only gave me le.40.000, and we are ten in the family.
Pa Zubah: Woman , say thank you good Lord, my income for the month for cleaning the streets is Le.40.000, ha..ha ..now you can understand heaven is better than hell.


Subject: Why Choose If You can Combine?
From: Question
To: All
Date Posted: 17:35:39 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-244-76-207.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.244.76.207

Message:
Here's the latest.


Subject: Why Choose If You can Combine?
From: Question
To: All
Date Posted: 17:33:35 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-244-76-207.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.244.76.207

Message:
Here's the latest:


Subject: Don't miss the only UK Jah-Victory Tour - Alpha Blondy cue
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:02:02 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-161-179-149.range86-161.btcentralplus.com at 86.161.179.149

Message:
Posted by Chez Winakabs Europe on May 16, 2008 at 13:55:26:

For lovers of pure and natural Reggae, Alpha Blondy is on tour for tour
dates and countries check out the link below. Read more about our
greatest reggae icon.

Alpha Blondy's recording career through the early 21st century,
spanning about 20 years and drawing in roughly equal measures from
the albums he issued between the early '80s and early 2000s. In fact,
for fans who have strong opinions about what constitutes his best
work, it might be too evenly balanced, taking just one or two songs
apiece from numerous releases (though Merci is represented by three
cuts). It does, however, give listeners a good idea of what Alpha
Blondy's about, his multilingualism encompassing songs in French and
English, his brand of reggae informed but not dominated by African
and rock influences. Whatever language he sings in, however, politics
are rarely off his radar, addressing apartheid (in "Apartheid in Nazism,"
one of his most celebrated works), imperialism ("Super Powers"),
African pride ("God Bless Africa"), and war and violence ("La Guerre,"
"Bloodshed in Africa," and "Coup d'État"). The new album gives a taste
of cross-culturalism - african, latino, european, indi, indu and caribb
style. You cannot afford to miss this show - the one in london and
Switzerland. Side attractions - your favourite. i am compelled to
attend.


FOR MORE INFO ON LONDON SHOW - CHECK THIS OUT!!!
------------------------------------------------------
ALPHA BLONDY
Saturday 7th of June 2008
8:00pm
CORONET THEATRE
26-28 New Kent Road,
Elephant & Castle.
London SE1 6JT

Admission £25 (more on door)

Tickets: ADVANCE BOOKING AVAILABLE FROM
ticketweb.co.uk 08700 600 100
ticketmaster.co.uk 0870 534 4444
seetickets.com 0871 2200 260
stargreen 0207 734 8932
wegottickets.com - gigantic.com
Body Music, Seven Sisters 0208 802 0146
Reds Records, Brixton 0207 274 4476
Blacker Dread, Brixton 0207 274 5095
Massive International, Camden Lock 0207 267 9490

Four years after his last London appearance headlining the Brixton
Academy, Alpha Blondy returns for a one-off UK date to promote peace
in his homeland and Africa.

Along with Chelsea FC super star Didier Drogba; Alpha Blondy is the
principal cultural ambassador for the Ivory Coast, an African nation
recently on the brink of civil war. Whilst Alpha Blondy in his capacity as
UN Peace Ambassador, recently staged a massive peace concert in
Ivory Coast’s capital attended by the leaders of all opposing parties,
Didier Drogba, UNICEF Ambassador, spearheaded a reconciliation
football match in Bouake in the North, the former rebel stronghold.

Throughout the troubles that flared in 2002, Alpha Blondy remained
his homeland, choosing to commit his energy to the peace process in
Ivory Coast. He pledged not to release any more music until peace had
returned. In the heart of the crisis, he famously pointed out;” I am not
of those auto-proclaimed heroes who desert the ships like rats when
things go wrong. I would rather stay with my people and face the
music, no matter what”. Democratic elections are now to be held in the
latter part of 2008.

Alpha Blondy’s new album, Jah Victory, shares with the world the reality
of his troubled country. It features an excellent reggae take on “Wish
You Were Here” from Pink Floyd. Impeccably produced by former Bob
Marley’s former keyboardist and arranger, Tyrone Downie and recorded
at Tuff Gong studio in Kingston (Jamaica), the album presents a mosaic
of powerful lyrics sung in English, French and African dialects.

Alpha Blondy tours festivals and large venues throughout Europe, USA,
Canada, Asia and South America and of course Africa.

Info: contact Al on: 0208 265 1169 -------- 07951 671 095



Subject: Remember Super Negros?
From: Jr.
To: All
Date Posted: 12:54:10 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69

Message:
Can someone please help close a debate between my buddies and I? With the exception of one, who thinks Super Negros originated from Liberia, most agrees that they are from the North but the towns in the debate range from Makeni, Matotoka, Masiaka, Lunsar, and Magburaka.
As for Liberia, I think the only band with links to Liberia was Superb 7. I stand to be corrected.


Subject: Re: Remember Super Negros?
From: Jr.
To: All
Date Posted: 06:41:22 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69

Message:
So they really originated from Lunsar? Well my loud mouth buddy got it right this time.Thank you very much fellows!
Is it true also that the band was kicked out of Lunsar by the chief because the fellows were just too bad with high school girls? They were getting them pregnant like it was no one's business?


Subject: TRUE AS WAS WHAT I EXPERIENCED AT BO
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 07:27:38 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb1302w-ad01-26-113.dynamic.mts.net at 142.161.26.113

Message:
Yes they were.


Subject: Re: TRUE AS WAS WHAT I EXPERIENCED AT BO
From: Jr.
To: All
Date Posted: 10:34:29 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69

Message:
Thank you Sir!!
Now this one is for you:

Taxi driver duya kerr me go
If you do me good ar go member you when we meet,
another time.


Subject: SUPER NEGROS ORIGINATED FROM LUNSAR
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 00:48:05 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb1307w-ad02-32-13.dynamic.mts.net at 142.161.32.13

Message:
That for sure as i was connected to one of the members.


Subject: Re: Remember Super Negros?
From: Borboh Pain
To: All
Date Posted: 13:54:28 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: c83-248-233-19.bredband.comhem.se at 83.248.233.19

Message:
Indeed the band originated from Lunsar. And you are damn right about Ajay Superb Seven


Subject: Re: Remember Super Negros?
From: Tejan Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 14:08:42 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-98-128-128.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 76.98.128.128

Message:
The PSYCHEDELIC 6 with broken instruments and burst bands also came briefly.


Subject: Re: Remember Super Negros?
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 18:38:38 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123

Message:
Yep. Super Negroes of Sweet Delco Lunsar fame. Those pioneers were famous for terrible instrumentation. My Uncle told me a story about how the lead singer, at a concert, held the mic and started saying, "testing, testing...". Unfortunately some of the wiring in the mic was out of sync and as soon as his lips touched the mic, electrical sparks leaped from the mic and threw the poor man across the hall. Concert cancellation!

Who could ever forget the timeless tune?
"Ayay Mama
Ayay Papa
Ayay Mama
Super Negro!

Some man dae Kolay
Ayay Mama
Super Negro!"

Or something to that effect...


Subject: Re: Remember Super Negros?
From: Jonathan T. Boima
To: All
Date Posted: 21:10:29 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: jtboima@aol.com
Entered From: pool-71-191-114-68.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.191.114.68

Message:
They had bad instruments by today’s standard. One thing you have to credit them for was their creativity to improvise. Those fellas could play anywhere. I remember taking those guys to Tefeya and the rest was entertainment history. Even to entertain them was not something you had loose sleep over. They welcome anything: beer, stout, omojatus, sas ,poyo anything edible is welcome.
Those memories will never fade. Could this singer be Benson? We use to call him F@@kman. His real name was Abdul Sesay, Some years after the band folded I went to Lunsar for a visit that was when I learnt his real name (Can you imagine having a friend for years and not knowing his name). I was just tracing old bodies. I went to say hi to Mr. koblo (senior driver) he had just finished his house right opposite Miata Boys Sec School. He told me that boys went their separate ways.


Subject: Old man pa Zubah in thoughts
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:26:21 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
Entered From: pool-141-156-217-171.washdc.east.verizon.net at 141.156.217.171

Message:
Old man pa Zubah: If you sleep too much ,the eagles will help you with your chikens. I have no bones to chew with any person because I don't have teeth and peace is my message. The butt of a pot is not afraid of any fire.


Subject: Re: Old man pa Zubah in thoughts
From: Cocorioko
To: All
Date Posted: 12:31:27 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-98-128-128.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 76.98.128.128

Message:
Thanks, Sorie and welcome to this forum.


Subject: Re: Old man pa Zubah in thoughts
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 17:39:44 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
Entered From: pool-72-75-116-130.washdc.east.verizon.net at 72.75.116.130

Message:
Thank you very much.


Subject: 2 CDF HAVE LOST THEIR APPEAL : SENTENCES IN FACT INCREASED
From: Cocorioko
To: All
Date Posted: 12:25:00 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-98-128-128.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 76.98.128.128

Message:
Reports are coming in that Moinina Fofana and Alieu Kondewa of the CIVIL DEFENCE FORCE have lost their appeal by majority decision of 3-2 with Sa Leonean -born born judges Gelega King and Kamanda dissenting . Their sentences were increase from (6)15 and (8)20 respectively .

SLPP and CDF supporters have started describing today as a sad day in the history of Sierra Leone.

WE WILL BRING YOU MORE REPORTS SOON.


Subject: Re: 2 CDF HAVE LOST THEIR APPEAL : SENTENCES IN FACT INCREASED
From: Angthorf
To: All
Date Posted: 10:27:16 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: soyanka@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 212.102.0.104

Message:
Let justice reign in our land. God bless all those who stand firm to instill justice on those elements who devastated the welbeing of our innocent nationals. I am quite sure that the culprits will one day face their judgement wherever they are.

No body will ever go free especially those who had the power to slaughter and rape the innocents. If you don't believe, where are these? What has happened to them? Foday Saybana Sankoh, Sam Bockarie- Maskita, Hinga Norman, Saj Musa and many others...
Those who live by the sword die by it.


Subject: Re: 2 CDF HAVE LOST THEIR APPEAL : SENTENCES IN FACT INCREASED
From: Bock Jah
To: All
Date Posted: 04:11:01 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 195.172.14.94

Message:
Majority of Sierra Leoneans would share the sentiments expressed by many of you.It is about time that we look at what the formation of this so called special court has benefited Sierra Leone.Is the establishment of the court creating more unity among Sierra leoneans or stimulating division?
Whilst the perpetrators of the worst crimes are roaming freely about as if they have done nothing wrong the innocent and heroes who gave hope to our people are being handed lengthy sentences.
If the research findings about what actually caused the conflict in our country is anthing to go by then the this entire process is just another mismanagement of resources by an inefficient organisation called the UN.


Subject: Re: 2 CDF HAVE LOST THEIR APPEAL : SENTENCES IN FACT INCREASED
From: Bai Forna
To: All
Date Posted: 18:09:19 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: baiforna@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 84.54.21.148

Message:
Today should a sad day for any Sierra Leonean with an iota of nationalism and not just SLPP or CDF supporters.

The members of CDF were ordinary Sierra Leoneans like you and I who sacrificed their lives to save the land that we love, Sierra Leone.

When Foday Sankoh and his RUF bandits attacked Sierra Leone, from the Bomaru axis on March 23, 1991, the peace that we enjoyed in Sierra Leone for generations came to a halt. Lives were lost, properties destroyed, women raped, population displaced and the APC administration of late President Momoh overthrown for not effectively prosecuting the war (and other reasons that we all knew at the time).

The late Dr. Alpha Lavalie of blessed memory, late Chief Sam Norman and others decided to organize themselves with a view to assist the Government bring the war to a speedy and amicable conclusion. By the way this was long before the Kabbah administration. These patriotic Sierra Leoneans fought with machetes and locally made shot guns. Many of them lost their lives without any compensation.

When the SOBELS overthrew the democratically elected Government of former President Kabbah, they stood their ground and fought for restoration of democracy. It is this democracy that we all enjoy today.

To make fun of such people been given long years behind bars is very unfortunate. Any person that carry arm during a conflict is bound to violate the international humanitarian laws. We have witness plenty in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo by the most democratic nations in the world but it was never tantamount to war crimes.

To the family and friends of Moinina Fofana and Kondowa, I say take heart and keep hope alive. Some of us here in the US will organise some fund raising activities to assist in our own little way the wives and children.

For the rest of us Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad, let us do all we can to build on the peace we all now enjoy. The way forward is good governance, justice, respect for human rights, the rule of law, freedom of speech and the press and other democratic principles. People shed their blood for it and others have lost their freedom for it. LUNTA

For anyone to paint a picture that the CDF fought only for the SLPP is very unpatriotic. COCORIOKO SHOULD RETRACT THAT STAEMENT.


Subject: Re: 2 CDF HAVE LOST THEIR APPEAL : SENTENCES IN FACT INCREASED
From: Good Judgement
To: All
Date Posted: 05:15:31 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 35-67-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.67.35

Message:
Bury your head inthe sand if you think the conviction of those murderers are unfair.
What about the palm wine tappers, women and other victims of the kamajors.
The kamajors deserved to be punished and sent to a long time in jail.
Bravo to the Special court for identifying with the victims theses cold blooded murderers killed and tortured


Subject: Re: 2 CDF HAVE LOST THEIR APPEAL : SENTENCES IN FACT INCREASED
From: Bai Forna
To: All
Date Posted: 17:43:31 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: baiforna@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 84.54.21.148

Message:
Today should a sad day for any Sierra Leonean with an iota of nationalism and not just SLPP or CDF supporters.

The members of CDF were ordinary Sierra Leoneans like you and I who sacrificed their lives to save the land that we love, Sierra Leone.

When Foday Sankoh and his RUF bandits attacked Sierra Leone, from the Bomaru axis on March 23, 1991, the peace that we enjoyed in Sierra Leone for generations came to a halt. Lives were lost, properties destroyed, women raped, population displaced and the APC administration of late President Momoh overthrown for not effectively prosecuting the war (and other reasons that we all knew at the time).

The late Dr. Alpha Lavalie of blessed memory, late Chief Sam Norman and others decided to organize themselves with a view to assist the Government bring the war to a speedy and amicable conclusion. By the way this was long before the Kabbah administration. These patriotic Sierra Leoneans fought with machetes and locally made shot guns. Many of them lost their lives without any compensation.

When the SOBELS overthrew the democratically elected Government of former President Kabbah, they stood their ground and fought for restoration of democracy. It is this democracy that we all enjoy today.

To make fun of such people been given long years behind bars is very unfortunate. Any person that carry arm during a conflict is bound to violate the international humanitarian laws. We have witness plenty in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo by the most democratic nations in the world but it was never tantamount to war crimes.

To the family and friends of Moinina Fofana and Kondowa, I say take heart and keep hope alive. Some of us here in the US will organise some fund raising activities to assist in our own little way the wives and children.

For the rest of us Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad, let us do all we can to build on the peace we all now enjoy. The way forward is good governance, justice, respect for human rights, the rule of law, freedom of speech and the press and other democratic principles. People shed their blood for it and others have lost their freedom for it. LUNTA

For anyone to paint a picture that the CDF fought only for the SLPP is very unpatriotic. COCORIOKO SHOULD RETRACT THAT STAEMENT.


Subject: Re: 2 CDF HAVE LOST THEIR APPEAL : SENTENCES IN FACT INCREASED
From: Tejan Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 18:05:04 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-98-128-128.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 76.98.128.128

Message:
Bai Forna, I agree with you that today is a very sad day not only for SLPP supporters and the CDF, but for all Sierra Leoneans. We have allowed our heroes to be jailed while those who cut our people's limbs and killed them are walking free in the street.


Subject: Re: 2 CDF HAVE LOST THEIR APPEAL : SENTENCES IN FACT INCREASED
From: Mulai
To: All
Date Posted: 20:56:57 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
Some of them are in the US writing on the cocorioko forum


Subject: Re: 2 CDF HAVE LOST THEIR APPEAL : SENTENCES IN FACT INCREASED
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 15:01:16 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202

Message:
Terrible news indeed!

Who were the appellate counsels for the CDF appellants?

This is terrible. - JL


Subject: Re: 2 CDF HAVE LOST THEIR APPEAL : SENTENCES IN FACT INCREASED
From: Dwight Tucker
To: All
Date Posted: 14:11:01 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-98-128-128.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 76.98.128.128

Message:
This is a very sad day for Sierra Leone. You mean nobody can save the men who fought to redeem our country from the hands of the RUF ? May God punish Ex-President Tejan Kabbah.


Subject: Re: 2 CDF HAVE LOST THEIR APPEAL : SENTENCES IN FACT INCREASED
From: UN
To: All
Date Posted: 18:20:59 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 41.208.167.148

Message:
Why not punish Kofi Annan and other top guns of UN, who without even knowing our problems, just jumped in to earn high salaries and make big deals.


Subject: Re: 2 CDF HAVE LOST THEIR APPEAL : SENTENCES IN FACT INCRE
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 21:41:00 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-147-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.147.25

Message:
Ladies and gentlemen, why do you think this is a sad day for Sierra Leone?


Subject: KAMAJORS LOSE APPEAL : SENTENCES IN FACT INCREASED
From: Cocorioko
To: All
Date Posted: 12:16:58 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-98-128-128.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 76.98.128.128

Message:
The CDF accused Kondewah and Fofana sadly lost their appeal at the Special Court today on a 3-2 verdict. Their sentences were also increased . We will bring you the details later today.


Subject: 11 Best Sierra Leonean Soccer Players Ever
From: Bra Bod
To: All
Date Posted: 11:59:49 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: dele25@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-70-18-225-247.res.east.verizon.net at 70.18.225.247

Message:
1.Frank Williams
2.Nat Williams
3. Abu Syrian
4. Joseph Pani toby
5. Umaru Deen Sesay
6. Manneh Peters
7. Brima Mazolla Kamara
8. Christian Cole
9. Obi Metzger
10.Ishmael Dyfan
11.Apollo Lawson
Subs
1. Wasiru Sumunu
2. Joseph Ngaimoh
3. Sentu Johnson
4. Amadu Kargbo
5. Mohamed Kallon
6. Borboh Kolleh
7. Mohamed Sama
These in my opinion are the best ever players to wear the Leone Stars colours.


Subject: Re: 11 Best Sierra Leonean Soccer Players Ever
From: Fenthi
To: All
Date Posted: 13:25:01 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: fenthi@hotmail.com
Entered From: e182006044.adsl.alicedsl.de at 85.182.6.44

Message:
Amadu OKROH Kamara, Gbateh Davies, Steven Bio, Bangsu (Dr. Foday J.Bangura). These are names worth considering.


Subject: Lessons from Othello
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 11:00:41 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" (Exodus 20:16). Falsehood is dishonesty. The malicious spreading of untrue accusations in an effort to injure another is one of the most vicious kinds of dishonesty. Said Shakespeare:

Good name in man and woman, . . .

Is the immediate jewel of their souls:

Who steals my purse steals trash; . . .

But he that filches from me my good name

Robs me of that which not enriches him,

And makes me poor indeed.

[Othello, act 3, scene 3, lines 155­61]


Subject: Re: Lessons from Othello
From: Plaba Bessie
To: All
Date Posted: 22:25:56 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-194-213-250.hsd1.tx.comcast.net at 98.194.213.250

Message:
While we're on Shakespeare, Polonius notes:

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, act I, scene iii, lines 78–80.


Subject: Do You Have A Good Name?
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:48 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: saidubangso@aol.com
Entered From: c-69-140-129-105.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.129.105

Message:
Alieu, Nobody is spreading false accusations against you. You have been doing that to other people,(e.g.ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA) only because you hate me for my loyalty to your parents at a time that nobody esle was willing to help them.
After the new people newspaper broke the story about your unethical dealings with Kadi Kamara in Arizona, you sent an email to them in which you admitted acting wrong and you called Kadi and offered her $20,000 from the money you and your friend unlawful ate in her case.
All the parts you played in the case were DEAD WRONG:
(1) You came into the case as AN EXPERT WITNESS and then went on a JOY RIDE to Sierra Leone at the expense of Kadi.
(2) When you returned to the USA, you changed your position to CO-COUNSEL . You Went before the court and wholefully messed up the case, because it was believed that you were drunk at that time( I stand corrected on that, I was not there).
(3) The court offered Kadi a compensation of $250,000 which you and your friend collected and shared among yourselves without telling Kadi Kamara.
(4) You shamelessly played a clip of that case,(a case you lost) during your 50th birthday celebrations.
How many sober minded lawyers will be proud to show a clip from a case of that nature?
(5) When the new people newspaper(a group of well trained JOURNALISTS) got that news, they properly investigated the case and published all sides of it. To be fair to you, they also published your side.
I am sure you will never deny that I know you and your family more then anybody else in this forum(whatever comes from me is INSIDER INFORMATION), therefore with ALL DEGREE OF CERTAINTY, I put it to you that
YOU DO NOT HAVE A GOOD NAME:
You do not have a good name in your
FAMILY(both your mother's side and your father's side),
You do not have a good name in your WIFE'S family,
You do not have a good name in the Sierra Leonean community in California, and above all you do not have a good name to all the people who had lived in your house in California.
Let me teach you the BETTER policy in this world and that is:
WHENEVER YOU ARE WRONG,ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE WRONG AND APOLOGIZE. Do not try to manufacture a defence that will make you look funny and further erode your moral standing.
There is a massive distinction between right and wrong.


Subject: Re: Do You Have A Good Name?
From: Azziz
To: All
Date Posted: 20:54:33 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
Saidu you do not know Alieu Iscandari and you have made a terrible mistake on his record. You ask if he has a good name? Ask yourself if you have a good name. You may think that you are a hero now but where will your backers be when you need to cross the bridge that you have burned down and so wickedly. You can never be equal to alieu iscandari not in this life time not ever.

I do not know you but I hope to God that I never meet someone like you. You act like you are going out of your mind. You may end up losing your mind before you die. I have a piece of advisee for you and thats what my grandma in Tombowala always told me. You can cook for the whole world to eat, but if the whole world cooks for you to eat you will be unable to. Any misfortune that befalls you is deserved. You are indeed scum of the earth


Subject: Re: Do You Have A Good Name?
From: Plaba Bessie
To: All
Date Posted: 22:27:44 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-98-194-213-250.hsd1.tx.comcast.net at 98.194.213.250

Message:
Why do you have to abuse Alpha Saidu Bangura?

Stay with the discussion, sir.


Subject: Re: Do You Have A Good Name?
From: Low Grade San San.
To: All
Date Posted: 14:24:32 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-87-74-0-136.dslgb.com at 87.74.0.136

Message:
Boy! this is SERIOUS.


Subject: Re: Do You Have A Good Name?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 13:19:17 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-161-179-149.range86-161.btcentralplus.com at 86.161.179.149

Message:
Alpha Saidu, I just want to understand how things operate in the US of
A:
1. When compensation is paid to a counsel on behalf of a client, does
it go into the Counsel's client account or the practice account?

2. Does a practice submit periodical client accounts reports to
regulatory authorities?

3. can a client go back to court or the appropriate authority to report
that they have not receive that which was awarded to them?

Let peace reign!! In a civilised environment, there are procedures to
get that which is due to you without fuss.


Subject: Re: Do You Have A Good Name?
From: KASSIM
To: All
Date Posted: 20:46:07 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198

Message:
Chez, I am a Lawyer in the UK but I will tell you that everything that this young man has said about Alieu Iscandari is false. If it were true, they would have made report about him to the bar. what surprises me is why is it that alieu has not taken any action as yet against this uncouth fellow.

I almost believed the reports until I went to the California state bar website and typed up his name and realised that for all the years he has practiced law he has not had any complaints against him. Go check it out yourself . Type www.calbar.org.

input his name and you will see that he has not had any acts of moral turpitude against him. people do not get bad all of a sudden. he could not have had such a stellar record and then turned out to be stealing clients money.

I contacted a lawyer colleague of mine who workks in teh same merger firm I do in London and was trained in Arizona and he explained to me that in a contingency case, the clients do not put any money up front. So if they do not put any money up front why do these people say that this otherwise stellar brother has stolen peoples monies or this womans money.

This is the dirtiest game I have ever seen anyone play on a professional at anytime in my life. I cant understand why this brother has chosen not to give these guys hell. If this had happened to me someone would have had hell to pay for that.


Subject: Re: Do You Have A Good Name?
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 09:59:09 05/29/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-148-214-77.range86-148.btcentralplus.com at 86.148.214.77

Message:
Kassim, you got my drift but honestly, you blew the intended purpose.
I know very well that Alpha Saidu's claims were from a biased premise.
I wanted him to respond to my query - knowing him he will only jump
on to something that is good to his ears. I intended to trap him on an
issue but he dodged my query.

What bothers me in this matter is why do they have to come to the
forum to recover such an amount of money they alleged was 'stolen' by
professionals from them. It beggars belief!! I know Alieu is too
intelligent to be sucked into such an act.

Our brothers' and sisters' lack of understanding procedures attempt to
feel and come up with what they think should be the right thing
forgetting that there are laid down principles that even the none
professional should follow to have what one desires.

Alieu's cool on the matter is remarkable - it reminds me of a saying
that you only fight ignorance when you, the very self, is ignorant.
Alieu has shown the maturity that others have always wanted him to be
showing. The Alieu that I came to know on this forum would have
lambasted invectives that not even shock and awe could contain. he
has stayed calm - kudos Alieu! So you are telling me that whenever
you are angry means the truth has been said - profound wisdom and I
have got it from you now. When I see you blasting anyone on APC
issues, I will know the truth has been said (lol).

Kassim, thanks for the enlightenment. Peace be with You.


Subject: Re: Do You Have A Good Name?
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:51:48 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-147-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.147.25

Message:
Brothers and sisters, it is evident that some times I sound highly controversial and seemingly uncompromising to many whose views I disagree with but I always have reasons for this stance: I see many things going wrong and wrong approaches employed to right them. But deep down in my heart, I do believe that in this civilized world, certain things must never be acknowledged or compromised with especially when they are destructive in nature.
Brothers and sisters, we are not helping. Wrongs have been done but we cannot right the wrongs by doing wrong or adopting wrong mechanisms. They intensify situations rather than resolve them.
Let us take this dispute years back, back to 1997 when I joined the Sierra Leonean forums but particularly, 2005 when these two professional gentlemen had been at loggerheads. With the fervent belief that taken sides would never resolve the problem, I decided to admonish the two brothers to berry-the-hatchet and refrain from posting ill-information on a world wide web that possibilities exist that millions or billions of people can read and form opinions, some derogatory, about one's compatriot. As I have suffered similar smearing, I understand how devastating such would bring on an individual who has worked relentlessly for a legacy that possibilities do exist can be trashed in a second.
In this vain, I cautioned both men to quell or tone-down the attacks on a public media such as this. We are all computer literate who must know that the information we write and read here is read throughout the world.
We tend to forget the viability of such a media in doing harm and or good. Can you imagine how sad it is for one who does not know you, have not met you and you might probably never meet in your life to form an opinion about you, when based on this reality one will never have the chance to defend oneself to them or will meet but before the encounter they have already had an opinion that might go to destroy your chances of successfully accomplishing the goal for which one wishes to meet them?
Brothers and sisters, as we enjoy the technological era of exchange, let us not forget about respecting the responsibilities of withholding other’s rights and dignities. Let us not forget that each Sierra Leonean has a role to play in the socio-economic development of our nation. Remembering that each person that has worked hard to achieve a standard of education, did so with the desire to help their families, subsequently, helping Sierra Leone develop. Any hindrance to an individual in such communal economic system that we have not as yet have control over, is destruction of a whole village.
Mr. Alpha Saidu Bangura and M. Alieu Iscandi Esq. please find amicable ways to resolve your problem. You are loosing more than gaining anything from the back-and-forth battle of words and smear campaigns. Millions of Sierra Leoneans that could have gained from your collaboration will evidentially loose from the lack of such cooperation and worst, smear campaign. Would you compromise the success of our country for egocentric reasons? I doubt that very much.
I have not spoken to Mr. Alpha Saidu Bangura but from speaking to M. Alieu Iscandry Esq. I am confident that he is a gentleman and I am positive you are too. I have no doubt about that. Please be brothers again.
I have to run. When I finish school by December I will do all I could to make peace between you two. I will invite both of you to my graduation as a start. I am confident M. Alieu Iscandri will attend because he even invited me to Atlanta to hang-out but we broke communication while I was in California. I am confident you will too. Let us hope and pray that all things go smoothly. This is why I am working hard so as not to disappoint responsible well wishers like you who have had confidence in me. Pray for me.
I love you guys.


Subject: Re: Do You Have A Good Name?
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 00:04:35 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: saidubangso@aol.com
Entered From: at 151.196.164.10

Message:
Bambay, I thank you pointing out the fact that Alieu Iscandari and I had been at loggerheads for a long time. I want to take your mind back to the start of this case. I posted something against the APC(not Alieu) but Alieu decided to reply by falsely and maliciously saying that I was part of the RUF.
I know for sure that Alieu never went to Sierra Leone during the rebel attacks in Freetown and has not evidence to link my good name to that evil act. But, he did that to me only because he hates me and wants to destroy my reputation and my image.
Alieu was also insulting my mother and some other respectable people in my family on this same cocorioko forum.
Now, I have in my hands enough evidences to prove that Alieu Iscandari did to lot of unethical things to a sister Kadi Kamara in Arizona. Do you except me to hide them from this same cocorioko forum?
The only day, I ALPHA SAIDU BANGURA will reconcile with Alieu is when he tells this forum that all what he said about me and my family were false, incorrect and malicious, then apologizes to all of us . I am a devout Muslim, that is what my religion DEMANDS.
After accepting that he acted wrong me and my family and asks for my forgiveness, I will FORGIVE HIM FOR THE SAKE OF GOD. Both of us will then turn to a NEW PAGE.


Subject: Best Obama Music Video Online
From: Check this out
To: All
Date Posted: 09:53:41 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: socrates.la.psu.edu at 146.186.141.163

Message:
http://www.dipdive.com/dip-politics/wato/


Subject: The Reproductive system
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 09:48:51 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 208.3.139.54

Message:
Gynecology


Subject: Is Mammy Dumbuya for real?
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 08:57:25 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: 194-237-247-130.customer.telia.com at 194.237.247.130

Message:

Few weeks back I was browsing through the site of one of Sierra Leone's best-sellers when I stumbled on an article on a beauty contest that took place somewhere around Brookfields.It was reported that the event turned out to be a rat-race which further culminated into underworldism when one of the thespians, the hot favourite to be precise, collapsed and lost her sight and speech.
So what happened afterwards?
She was taken to hospital but the occurence was so mysterious that the victim had to be refered to spiritualists. According to the report all attempts by the spiritualists failed and the victim had to be taken to the renowned Mammy Dumbuya for prayer treatment.The Mammy is still praying with no signs of success but the explanation given is that like a dose of medicine this cure will be a transient one too!

The Mammy has been very famous for her healing powers but if rumours are anything to go by it seems there is something fishy or phony about her abilities.For instance it was rumoured that two giant super cobras came out of the blue,circumambulated the mammy's church and vanished into thin air. People raised a lot of questions as to the origin of the serpents(to be more accurate) and the relationship with the Mammy.

But the million dollar question still remains:Is Mammy Dumbuya for real?
If she is that powerful why didn't she see it coming to her husband before he was brutally murdered by the NPRC? And if she is so great she could have been an itinerant healer by visiting hospitals, assylums and prisons on daily basis to take away all the troubles that took people to these places. While some people may try to argue that she can cure only those that have faith one can question the conditionality or string attached. It seems she uses the healing to attract people to her church so that the collections will swell.Soooooo smart!


Subject: Re: Is Mammy Dumbuya for real?
From: Low Grade San San.
To: All
Date Posted: 14:18:10 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-87-74-0-136.dslgb.com at 87.74.0.136

Message:
"If she is that powerful why didn't she see it coming to her husband before he was brutally murdered by the NPRC?"

and how do you know she did not see it coming or even prophesied what was in Kahotas way. But Kahota being Kahota, a fearless Soja never took it serious. Did our "Lord Jesus Christ, the only son of the father" not tell his Aposoles all what was going to happen to him and still got nailed. You sound like the bloke (thief) who asked Christ, if you are that great why allow all this suffering to happen to you? I have never met Mammy Dumbuya but am told by those who know her that she is indeed a great preacher and healer.

"It seems she uses the healing to attract people to her church so that the collections will swell.Soooooo smart!"

I wonder what you are going to say when you see Benny Hill doing his so called healing at the Royal Albert Hall in London and raking in the savings of those poor souls.

But enti mammy dumbuya nar sa.lone woman, any tin ee do nar for cash, Mercy!


Subject: Re: Is Mammy Dumbuya for real?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 15:31:13 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126

Message:
So how about we condemn Mammy Dumbuya & Benny the dollar bill Hill? Together..

Both con's, using the poor, the weak and down trotted.. and the human weakness for yearning for salvation as bait..

Its true.. if she can heal.. she should put cottage and cannaught out of business..


Subject: Re: Is Mammy Dumbuya for real?
From: Chill
To: All
Date Posted: 15:53:30 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: socrates.la.psu.edu at 146.186.141.163

Message:
Again, Candid, my advice to you is to please chill. You, better than most, ought to know that there is no evidence that she is a "...con [], using the poor, the weak and down trotted.. and the human weakness for yearning for salvation as bait". You cannot substantiate that at all. Similarly, she never ever claims to be able to heal. If you have heard her make this claim please provide the evidence. I have had the opportunity to meet with her and from my experience with her I will say that she will not, again will not, make such claims. Ask those who know her. Please let this issue rest. I don't normally participate her that much, but this is one woman that I think deserves the utmost respect from these unsubstantiated allegations.


Subject: Re: Is Mammy Dumbuya for real?
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 20:51:21 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip98-169-8-64.dc.dc.cox.net at 98.169.8.64

Message:
I will take your word for it..
But mine was not her per se.. its the ones thinking they are ordained.. or has the right to scam poor people and build big churches and have private jets..

I hate the Oral Robert factor of religion.. there can never be anything more disgusting..

Cheers man..


Subject: Re: Is Mammy Dumbuya for real?
From: Chill
To: All
Date Posted: 11:31:43 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: socrates.la.psu.edu at 146.186.141.163

Message:
Bra, take am easy. You are treading on dangerous grounds here. I have met this woman before and I can say that she will be the first to tell you that "...she is [not] powerful..." at all.

Besides, you are using rumors, not actual facts, to claim that "...there is something fishy or phony about her abilities...". Bra, my advice to you is to please chill. These rumors are untrue, and we should consider them to be so until we have cold hard facts to support them.

This woman is very humble, more humble that most people can ever imagine. She and many others will agree with me that God uses her mightily. This means that God, not mamy Dumbuya, has the final say. Please let the issue rest.


Subject: Re: Is Mammy Dumbuya for real?
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 04:52:49 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: 194-237-247-130.customer.telia.com at 194.237.247.130

Message:
What do you mean by dangerous ground? Are you replying as a batoliner or an intimidating deterent? I know the Mammy very well both as a tribeswoman and when she was a muslim long long time back. I never said she is bad or arrogant. She was like a mother to me. My only concern is she became a rage overnight in the most inexplicable way. And let me tell you someting about me:I have bits of ESP(Extra Sensory Perception) and so have the instincts for something sinister.On several occasions at the behest of some friends I have tried to visit the Mammy for some help but something like a voice always tell me:' pray for yourself directly to God, the woman is only human'.The voice continues:' If you pray earnestly and believe God will accept, you will have a solution to any problem.Don't trust or depend on human beings, if you do you will one day regret it'. Boy I have been following such advice and I have been living a very happy life till now.I have no worries because I believe if I have any problem I only need to pray directly to God and it will be solved just the way I wish.

Can you tell me the meaning of God using someone? Why should he just use some and leave some? As far as I am concerned God uses everyone. He has used me to raise people's eyebrows on spiritual healing just as you claim he is using the Mammy too.


Subject: Re: Is Mammy Dumbuya for real?
From: lokomasama boy
To: All
Date Posted: 10:20:57 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: lokomasaboy@yahoo.com
Entered From: wnpgmb1309w-ad05-57-111.dynamic.mts.net at 142.161.57.111

Message:
Do trust such bolony?


Subject: Old man pa Zubah and the little girls
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 03:19:13 05/28/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
Entered From: pool-68-239-76-158.res.east.verizon.net at 68.239.76.158

Message:
The little GIRLS: Oh pa Zubah, Are you crying or laughing, what is the problem today?
Old man PA Zubah: Oh girls, it is a mixture, joy because I lived through the war and crying because Foday Sankoh increased my suffering, this morning, thieves stole the only one bag of rice I saved for my family.God punish the evil doers.
Little girls: Ok pa Zubah, have faith in God and keep the prayers going, we don't like short mini skirts, but we cannot have long skirts because money is not enough.
Old man pa Zubah: Well girls, a roosters don't chew kola nuts because no teeth...ha...ha ...remember, you are girls today and you will be women tomorrow.


Subject: Business propotitition for the East End of Freetown
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 01:46:25 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-147-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.147.25

Message:
Is it an ideal investment to develop a beach or casino along the East end of Freetown the same way Lumley beach is developed in the Western part of Freetown since the East-End of Freetown does not have tourist attractions that have been developed as it in the West and besides, people who have to travel or who live in the East-End and have not enjoyed certain facilities as provided in the West could have an opportunity to go to night clubs, the standard as those in the Western Area? I lived in the Western Area for many years, Wilkinson Road to be specific, and graduated from Milton Margai that is near Funkia, all of which are close to beaches and entertainment centers, from Milton Margai College to the Police Beach is a walking distance, in fact that was where I studied most of the time in the evenings, These places have plenty places to choose from when it comes to entertainment and tourist attractions but when I stayed in the Eastern part during my last time visited to Sierra Leone in 2003, I had to drive to Lumley beach to party. Probably that is because I was not accustomed to what goes on in the Eastern part of Freetown since I never lived there before though I have family members who lived there for over forty to fifty years or more.


I do believe that decentralization can be accomplished if the Eastern Part of Freetown is developed to provide jobs and make foreign exchange available for use in that part of the city.
Good night I have a test tomorrow


Subject: Ivanka Trump on a business Trip to Africa. Hey!
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 01:25:22 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-147-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.147.25

Message:
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Subject: Sierra Rutile - Results 2007
From: Freetownboy
To: All
Date Posted: 17:51:47 05/27/08 ()
Email Address: no-reply@freetown.org.uk
Entered From: 5acc713b.bb.sky.com at 90.204.113.59

Message:
# Sales of US$67.8 million in the year (year ended 31 December 2006: US$51.3 million)
# Loss before taxation US$17 million (year ended 31 December 2006: loss of US$1.5 million)


Subject: Just fancy that!!
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 14:17:11 05/27/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: c83-248-233-19.bredband.comhem.se at 83.248.233.19

Message:
Is it not amazing?


Subject: 100 worst "FARELEH" Players in Sierra Leone.
From: Low Grade San San.
To: All
Date Posted: 15:32:46 05/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host-87-74-0-136.dslgb.com at 87.74.0.136

Message:

Rev.Kabs,

i am sorry to rudely interrupt. The move by leonet to compile a list of the best ever 100 Sierra Leonean footballers is interesting. However, as a footie fan myself, i don't think the list will be completed without naming the worst 100 "FERELEHS" players on that list.And here goes.

1. AYEETA BANDA. Remember him? EE Lajons.

2. ASANA JONES (Land Rover) EE Lajons

3. GARBEL (Sell game) Olympic

4. Late YOUSEF LOWLEH. EE Lajons again.

5. OFFIE JORGBOR Port Authority.

6. SAMUEL MUNKU (ABARBAY) Old Edwardians.


Subject: Pa Zubah and his presidents
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 13:51:10 05/27/08 ()
Email Address: sotie_jawara@yahoo.com
Entered From: pool-72-75-112-134.washdc.east.verizon.net at 72.75.112.134

Message:
PA Zubah: Thank you Cocorioko for posting my great picture,I am delighted and you can see it in my laugh and cry ,but young girls will refuse to kiss me because they have no idea about old papa living in nativity.Former presidents never looked in my direction because they believed I am not important, therefore, they ignored old Zubah . I hope president Koroma is not another bad guy, but I am humble and my faith is my comforter, let God be the judge.


Subject: Re: Pa Zubah and his presidents
From: Cocorioko
To: All
Date Posted: 12:26:57 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-98-128-128.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at 76.98.128.128

Message:
Sorie, welcome to this forum. Old man Zubah really makes our readers' day with his jokes.


Subject: President Koroma And His Flying Ministers.
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 11:17:29 05/27/08 ()
Email Address: saidubangso@aol.com
Entered From: c-69-140-129-105.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.129.105

Message:
Since the days of ex-president Joe Momoh, APC ministers having been going on JOY RIDES at the expense of the tax payers in our country.
President Ernest Koroma is now continuing that bad policy because he promised to take our nation back to the ugly days for Pa Siaki and Joe Momoh.
President Koroma knows very well that his ministers are going on trips that are solely meant for the PROFESSIONALS and not politicians in their ministries. Since the ministers have no business in this trips, the only thing they do while they are away is ENJOY themselves.
It will interest every Sierra Leonean to know that when a minister travels he/she gets about $450 per day as per Diem for traveling expenses and if all of that money is not used on the trip, it MUST be returned to the treasury. Let us ask president Koroma to tell us how many of his ministers have complied with this policy?
During the ex-president Momoh era, I was very close to an APC minister who traveled 96 times within 4 years and seven months( he was fired after that for an act of dishonesty). When he was taken before the Beckles- Davies and Nylander commissions of inquire, it was clearly proved that he misappropriated government funds that were meant for travelling expenses.
I thank God for president Ernest Koroma to prove that was he was lying to the people when he told them that HIS APC is different from the OLD APC.
The only time the APC will change for the BETTER is the time "PIGS BEGIN TO FLY".


Subject: President Koroma And His Flying Ministers.
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 09:56:37 05/28/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69

Message:
The only time the APC will change for the BETTER is the time "PIGS BEGIN TO FLY".



Subject: Re: President Koroma And His Flying Ministers.
From: saloneman
To: All
Date Posted: 15:08:08 05/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: proxy2.messagelabs.net at 216.82.251.227

Message:
Alpha,the per diem for traveling you stated in your posting i think is not correct, but i will cross check and get back to you.


Subject: Is this fair to us, fellow Sierra Leoneans?
From: sadman insane
To: All
Date Posted: 14:09:39 05/27/08 ()
Email Address: adman_insane@yahoo.com
Entered From: host86-137-206-65.range86-137.btcentralplus.com at 86.137.206.65

Message:
My cousin phoned BMI(British Midlands), the new airline plying the london freetown route to make a booking. She needed a three month "open return" ticket. To her surprise BMI told her that she has to stipilate a return date and that if for any reason she want to change that date she will have to pay £50.
From my own experience of flying, every time i buy a ticket lasting for at least three months, i have alwasy had the opportunity to change my return date at least once before paying any charge for changing my return date.
forumites three months is a fairly long period. anyone who buys a three month ticket or longer is obviously going for some buisness that will take time. it is very unlikely that he or she will know his or her exact date of return at the time of leaving for freetown. moreover that type of ticket is not a bargain ticket. It is a standard ticket with no concenssion. I dont think it is fair to attach this kind of hostile condition with it.
I think this is a clear case of rip off. they have already reduced the baggage allowance to 2 pieces of 20 kg each. as if that is not enough look at this other condition. I think BMI is taking advantage of the fact that it is now the only airline plying the london -freetown route.
I dont think this is fair. I dont believe they do that to the other countries they are flying? why do it to us.? we need to rise up against this day light cheating. they come as missionaries and yet they end up ripping us .may be it is a case for the office for fair trading in the uk or for Kemoh Sesay in freetown


Subject: Re: President Koroma And His Flying Ministers.
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 13:53:46 05/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.85

Message:
"Since the days of ex-president Joe Momoh, APC ministers having been going on JOY RIDES at the expense of the tax payers in our country"

Alpha Saidu, I think I understand your concern about the wasting of government funds. However, in the interest of equanimity, I would have been more favorably disposed to your posting if it had said:

"Since the days of ex-president Joe Momoh, MINISTERS OF ALL PARTIES have been going on JOY RIDES at the expense of the tax payers in our country."

As I said in an earlier posting, selective excoriation of the other party while we coddle the offenders in our own party does not cure the pox. Joy rides that are merely a perk and do not add forex to the nation's kitty are wrong. Period; be they of the APC, SLPP or SLPC. Merci.


Subject: Re: President Koroma And His Flying Ministers.
From: Bahron
To: All
Date Posted: 15:41:41 05/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ppp-70-244-76-207.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 70.244.76.207

Message:
Who pays taxes in Sa Lone?


Subject: Re: President Koroma And His Flying Ministers.
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 17:46:27 05/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123

Message:
Good question!


Subject: State burial for Sunny Okosuns
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 04:43:52 05/27/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: 194-237-247-130.customer.telia.com at 194.237.247.130

Message:
May his soul rest in perfect peace.


Subject: Re: State burial for Sunny Okosuns
From: Prince Nico
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Date Posted: 07:19:41 05/27/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
A tribute:


Subject: Obituary: Sunny Okossun 'the african soldier' is no more!
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 04:37:39 05/27/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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May his soul rest in perfect peace.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2008/may/26/national-26-05-2008-001.htm


Subject: Pa Zubah and the little boys--on Corruption.
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 03:55:53 05/27/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
Entered From: pool-72-75-68-14.washdc.east.verizon.net at 72.75.68.14

Message:
Pa Zubah was trying to chew his salted raw cassava, but it was difficult because his front teeth could not make it easy. The little boys around him were talking about ' Eradication of Corruption' and laughing, pa Zubah approached them and said, boys I heard the boom bam about eradicating " CORRUPTION" , but understand you have a problem with the issue because you don't have front teeth to support your back teeth, you will eradicate corruption when you have full support from the system teeth. Is pa ZUBAH still laughing at the moon because it is not as hot as the red sun? Some people read cocorioco because they want to know what the hunting bird said, but pa Zubah is indeed a funny old papa," borboh, don't laugh , because I don't have front teeth, yours will fall soon. You want to eat white meat? Surely, chicken wings and breats are yours if have money. Thank you Cocorioco.


Subject: I am in deep love
From: abu
To: All
Date Posted: 03:08:01 05/27/08 ()
Email Address: abu5@yahoo.com
Entered From: c-71-59-32-161.hsd1.ga.comcast.net at 71.59.32.161

Message:
Ladies and gentlemen:
I would like to inform my fellow Sierraleonean that i am deeply in love with the woman of my life. I would like to extends this most joyous moment of my life to all at home and abroad. I have never felt nor taste the meaning of true love until now. My fellow Sierraleonean join me in the celebration of my new life.


Subject: Re: I am in deep love
From: Hajie Bah
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:17 05/27/08 ()
Email Address: hajie1@myway.com
Entered From: s100-masq.iptelsl.net at 83.229.112.20

Message:
go talk em na bush,yu tu talk na luv yu nor sabi en no to mi go learn yu ful man.stop fu talk but pantap luv.


Subject: Re: I am in deep love
From: JJ
To: All
Date Posted: 13:24:39 05/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 144.226.173.69

Message:
Give the guy a break man; let his enjoy this moment of his life.


Subject: Re: I am in deep love
From: Hajie Bah
To: All
Date Posted: 13:14:13 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: hajie!@myway.com
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2

Message:
No man dis guy nor disav em bo,if di lov sweet keep em no talk lek small bobo(sorry correction)


Subject: Re: I am in deep love
From: Hajie Bah
To: All
Date Posted: 13:12:00 05/29/08 ()
Email Address: hajie!@myway.com
Entered From: at 83.229.112.2

Message:
No man dis guy nor disav em bo,if ah di lov sweet keep em no talk lek small bobo


Subject: Re: I am in deep love
From: Nar u sabi
To: All
Date Posted: 07:20:53 05/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-166-94-175.range86-166.btcentralplus.com at 86.166.94.175

Message:
Nar U Sabi, first time ever, wow,very sweet ininit wait until they show you the other side of love I will hear you shout PEPPER for now just keep quiet and enjoy it GOOD LUCK
Nar U sabi


Subject: Cocorioco and Pa. funny but clever Zuba
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 02:09:58 05/27/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
Entered From: pool-72-75-68-14.washdc.east.verizon.net at 72.75.68.14

Message:
Cocorioko pa Zuba is really a funny old man and I enjoy reading many of his great sayings. Look at this one" if you see a mouse laughing at the cat ,there is a hole some where". Surely, the mouse must be sitting by the hole and a reasonable distance must exist. The big pain the leoness has is, " she cannot climb a tree so a monkey sitting by a tree can laugh and laugh." Thank you Cocorioco and thank you pa ZUBA


Subject: Response for Observer
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 01:23:16 05/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-147-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.147.25

Message:
Observer, in the following you stated: “What I have observed,Bambay, is that we have to be broad-minded with this issue. I think some people like to take advantage of others. The man on the other forum has been taking advantage of Kabs and our forum for too long . Why did he keep attacking Kabs after peace was restored between Kabs and Sylvia ? He has called Kabs all kinds of names.We don't care for him here but he also keeps calling us names. Others on his forum want to debate .You can see that. They want to debate the price increases, the APC peformance, our country's destiny et all but Umpire does not allow them. This Umpire guy ,like one huge BABOON , sits over everyone there, dictating everything. I feel sorry for Kabs. He is taking too much heat.Can you honestly tell us, Bambay, that if you were in his boots, you will remain silent forever ?”

In response, let me thank first and foremost, and continue by saying that if I was in the Reverend's shoes I will not remain silent. I will devise methods that will intellectually correct any individual who tries what he; the said person is alleged to be doing against the Reverend.
I have been in situations that I will vouch that the Reverend might find difficult to handle properly. In the first place, for the past ten years, I have been ridding busses, Trains or walking. Even if I have money to buy a car, I couldn’t without my license. Traveling to Sierra Leone cost more than most cars people drive but I couldn’t buy one because of hate and ignorance. I can get a car today but I wouldn’t because of the reasons I have suffered through-out the past ten years that I would want the world to see the reasoning, that has pervaded me from getting the license to this day and then go to the places, to the very last time I checked upon it, when racism was still blindfolding people in a situation that has no racial trace in it.
My drivers' license was taken from me in 1997 for a 0.09 DUI. About ten thousand four hundred dollars ($10, 400.00) was garnished from my paycheck while I was working for the University of Virginia, with the notion that the money was sent to Fairfax General District Court, where my license was suspended. To this day I have not had my license and the two do not know what happened to the money. This is so because interpreted a situation to mean that they have been mandated to enslave me since that is what they are accustomed to, enslaving people of color.
It is out of love that I have even been contributing among you guys. My life was put in jeopardy when I went to California. Through whom? Sierra Leoneans, of course.
On this very forum, time there was when every trick in the book was adopted to quiet me because of the vibrancy of my contribution. To this day, the same tricks are adopted but I believe in the truth and will continue to stand by it because I believe our parents, all contributing here, paid and made tremendous sacrifices to get us educated. Besides, I am not sitting in people's living room, where I have held people at gun-point to not contribute vibrantly and refute me in a civilized manner in a debate. Therefore, should I join their band-wagon to fall prey? I don't think so!
By and large, the Reverend should be tactful in either avoiding the individual because two objects stroke together make noise. Or he has another way of civilizing the gentleman by responding to him in a mature, civilized and informative fashion that will put sense into the man's head that will make him stop disrespecting the Reverend. Every human is liable to making mistakes but only progressive-minded and civilized ones learn from their mistakes and change for the better. An individual who makes mistakes and refuses to be corrected or cannot be corrected is known as an incorrigible wrench. The Reverend knows about all this so why not implement these tactics.
More importantly, the Reverend must live by examples. He should not be the one that will condone mischievous activities nor have such attitudes associated with anything he does because it is said birds of the same feather flock together. Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.
Therefore, I will not be silent but will use a better mechanism to tackle the situation.

Good night.


Subject: The Most Hon. Justice Sydney Wynn Dies In The USA.
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 00:44:13 05/27/08 ()
Email Address: saidubangso@aol.com
Entered From: c-69-140-129-105.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.129.105

Message:
I regret to announce the death of the Hon.Justice Sydney Wynn. Hon. Justice Wynn was a lawyer for a long standing and served as a judge of the superior courts of Sierra Leone. When he retired he also served as the chairman of the political parties registration commission with distinction.
For behalf of the entire Sierra Leonean community in the USA, I extend our heart felt sympathy and condolences to his family here and aboard.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
We pray that God will reward him for his faithfull and devoted services to our country. Amen.


Subject: Re: The Most Hon. Justice Sydney Warne Dies In The USA.
From: umfaali
To: All
Date Posted: 21:01:19 05/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-100-130-84.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.100.130.84

Message:
For your correction his last name is Warne.


Subject: Re: The Most Hon. Justice Sydney Wynn Dies In The USA.
From: Percy Crowther
To: All
Date Posted: 16:21:34 05/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-96-239-232-49.nwrknj.east.verizon.net at 96.239.232.49

Message:
Alpha, I think the name is Hon. Justice Sydney WARNE (not WYNN).


Subject: I Thank You For The Correction,
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 21:43:45 05/27/08 ()
Email Address: saidubangso@aol.com
Entered From: c-69-140-129-105.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 69.140.129.105

Message:
Percy, I thank you very much for the correction, it shows that you have clean blood running in your head.
I hope other people in this forum will copy your good example. Mistakes are a manifestation of HUMANITY.
No one person has a monopoly of knowledge. Once again I thank you for correcting me. God bless you. Amen.


Subject: O Ambassadors
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 00:36:42 05/27/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-178-147-25.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.178.147.25

Message:
Are we learning anything?


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