Subject: EBK will do the right thing!!!!
From: Ronaldino
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Date Posted: 17:42:45 07/15/08 ()
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Why cant our leaders rule with a firm hand? Why does Pop shek Stand head and
shoulders over all leaders since. Ask yourself if this cocaine debacle happened
under Stevens' rule would Kemoh still be a minister?
This is a good turning point for EBK and he has to grab it. sack and jail anyone
involved in this business without sentiment and show the nation that you are the
man.
Tejan Kabba had two chances I know of where he could have stamped his mark. The
first was when Tejan Jalloh then minister of Transport slap a civil servant in
front of witnesses in the early days of SLPP. Secondly, when he Kabba was ripped
apart by the interviewer on Hard talk.
TK should have sacked TJ then and there and the person who did not coach him him
in preparation for the interview should have been sacked.
Momoh in his 'I have failed' speech too should have sacked who ever prepared it
because the moment you say I have failed you have to follow it up by saying 'I
resign'.
I put my confidence in EBK. He might want to get a few more details from Somassa.
He will not fail us.He cannot fail us.
Subject: This Governments responsibility to the People
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 17:39:01 07/15/08 ()
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I had decided not to wade into this current issue of the drug plane and refrain
from castigating aspersions on peoples characters with regards to whose drugs
these were, in the absence of competent evidence. Pointing fingers wouldn't
help, and it does a lot to divide us along party lines than to unite us as one
nation. This is a National Problem and one that must be addressed as such.
My point here is simply to comment on this governments responsibility to the
people of Sierra Leone. This government must and should realise that in a post
conflict environment such as ours, the lure of quick monetary gains at the
expense of public safety, is highly possible. It must do all it can to plug and
curtail the influence of greedy hawks within its
ranks, particularly in light of its past reputation.
It must be willing to sponsor laws which would make the pursuit of quick riches through criminal enterprise, unprofitable. It must pass a form of Rackeeter Influenced Corrupt Persons/Organisations Act. Said act should ome within the jurisdiction of the Anti Corruption Commission with powers to prosecute. I am unaware of any laws that are presently being sponsored by parliament, of this nature. These laws should provide for HEAVY FINANCIAL PENALTIES AND LONG JAIL SENTENCES.
At present the highest available fine for illegal drugs, to the best of my knowledge, is One million leones which is about three hundred dllars and some change. It is unconscionable to fine someone the equivalent of One million leones for their attempt to import 60 million dollars worth of Illegal drugs through the Country.
There are rumours of the involvement of some members or associates of the government. This is the most ideal time for this President and the government of the APC to establish a NO TOLERANCE for the importation of illegal drugs into the country, or the illegal exportation of our natural resources. All of these acts should be criminalized with the appropriate penal and financial sanctions.
This experience, presents the best option for the government to establish a get tough concept and a new and dynamic approach to the enforcement of law in sierra leone. This government must pass laws which would allow Law enforcement to be self supporting, provide incentives for efectiveness in carying out their duties and provide promotion for all personnel as a reward for effective performance of their duties.
Also, this government has been faced with the greatest catalyst for reviweing the pay scale of serving military and police personnel. One cannot expect a police officer who being paid the equivalent of $40.00 per month, to pass on the opportunity of taking a $5000.00 bribe from a cash carrying columbian or venezuelean narco traffiker. The fact is that we cannot afford to ignore the existence of that economic disparity as a precursor to corruptive behaviour, particularly at the expense of NATIONAL SECURITY. The honeymoon is almost over and its time to impress the world with good givernance. Good givernance includes the promulgation of laws to protect the nation, its resources, its reputation and that of its leadership.
Another critical issue here is the issue of security. This government cannot allow the overfly of its airspace by unidentified aircraft carying guns. On one of my most recent trips to Sierra Leone, while on my way to Kono by road, I saw a huge Hercules C130 type Turbo Prop flying very low over the land. I comunicated this observation to some authorities and it was dismissed in a manner which made me feel that I had just reported a UFO sighting. This was during the last administration. Further, there is a lot of violence associated with Narco Trafficking. I recently went to Juarez Mexico against Local Advise and observed certain aspects of the internecine drug wars that are going on over there. There is violence whereever these people go and a post conflict environment such as ours should be the last place that they should be allowed into.
Its a national disgrace to be placed in a position of one of the "Failed States" in the world. It is at times like this that we must all as one Nation speak with one voice for Good governance and ask that changes be made to effectuate the Changes that were promised.
Stay Blessed y'all
Subject: Hello Cocorioko. Hello APC.
From: Bra Enviable
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Date Posted: 16:42:27 07/15/08 ()
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I am back in the ATL after my East African safari. I see that Cocorioko is
aflame with APC passions stemming from a desire to deconstruct the liberal,
democratic Sierra Leone bequeathed to Ernest Koroma by the SLPP. The APC is
slowly reconstituting itself as a permanent ruling party, backed by
supplementary forms of subversion as evidenced in the violence directed against
the SLPP in Kono district.
By the way, has the government issued any official statement about the cocaine-filled plane that was reportedly abandoned by its shirking pilot? Did the police search the plane for documents and clues that could point to possible drug lords in Sierra Leone? Democracies must be talkative about issues affecting the public, and the APC needs to talk to Sierra Leoneans well before the cocaine-driven plane is taxied into detention.
Subject: Support and protect your President in this fight
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Date Posted: 16:02:46 07/15/08 ()
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Well meaning Sierra Leoneans must not forget their duty connected with the
desire to save Sierra Leone from corruption.
An effective anti-corruption commission depends in part on support from the
leadership in Sierra Leone. While President Kabba was busy fighting against the
ACC, His Excellency, Ernest Bai Koroma has demonstrated his willingness to
provide unconditional support to the ACC in order for it to carry out its
mandate uninhibited.
But the President is human and he too needs help. He needs your support when the
going gets rough.
Many of you may feel that making decisions when you are President is an easy
thing. If and when top officials are implicated on the basis of facts there may
result tugging and pulling behind the political curtain to sway his direction
and to dampen his stance on anti-corruption.
Unless, we the people throw our support behind the President in full force he
may become isolated and become vulnerable behind the political curtain.
So, to all those whose love for Sierra Leone is genuine and is beyond
partisanship you are warned that your aspirations to see a corrupt free Sierra
Leone requires you to show your support for the President during these trying
times.
We must assail those leaders who strongly support anti corruption and denounce
those who merely show leap service in order to confuse us and continue the
status quo .
Subject: Re: Support and protect your President in this fight
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Date Posted: 17:09:07 07/15/08 ()
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the president has the support of the people in principle.But there are provisors
for such support to grow.
1 Declare assets and thereby re establish confidence of the people and thereby enjoy renewed energy in nation building.
2 Allow the draconian bill to pass through into law as there is only a draconian solution to a monstrous problem
3 Leave the commission to establish its independence to prosecute be it old slpp or new apc without interferance.
4 Consider a more regionally diverse cabinet so as to make all nook and cranny of the nation feel a sense of belonging
5 Restraint and clamp down on political violence especially from within apc and tamper down your more over zealous party activists and officials and you know them very well sir.
these are the immediate points that i think will make for a very quick turn around and get all hands on deck for development.
SLPP Supporter, (Sierra Leonean First though)
Subject: dope news
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Date Posted: 15:39:50 07/15/08 ()
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sierra Leone arrests 58 over record cocaine seizure
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FREETOWN (AFP) — Police in Sierra Leone said Tuesday they had arrested a total of 58 suspects, including a number of foreigners, in connection with Sunday's record cocaine bust in the West African state.
Deputy Inspector-General Oliver Somassa said those detained included Americans, Mexicans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Brazilians and nationals from Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria. He did not give precise figures.
Others included local airport officials and five police officers. An air traffic controller and an employee of a bank at the airport were picked up trying to cross into Guinea, Superintendent Frank Sesay said.
Sources said the suspects were being detained at the maximum security Pademba Road prison in the capital Freetown. A checkpoint manned by armed guards was set up on the main road to the prison on Tuesday evening.
Somassa said police were still searching the area around the airport in an effort to track down other suspects.
"We have made a lot of progress and we are on top of the affair," he said.
The arrests follow the discovery on Sunday of 600 kilos (1,322 pounds) of cocaine in an airplane bearing a fake Red Cross emblem at Freetown's international Lungi airport.
Police said the plane had come from Venezuela, which is an important exporter of cocaine shipments destined for Europe.
The seizure is a record for Sierra Leone and one of the biggest drugs hauls this year in West Africa.
Transport and Aviation Minister Kemoh Sesay said Tuesday maritime and port
authorities had been ordered to step up checks on all boats in local waters.
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This looks a like much bigger deal. The washington D.C based Afrikan patriots had warned the government on the Criminal syndicates operating in the MRU.Do we see any connection to the capitulative position the GOSL has taken on YENGA!!EBK has to know what was coming.He now has the opportunity to truly clean house!
Any spanish and portuguese speakers on the ground?
tstm
DAKAR, July 12 (Reuters) - The U.N.'s anti-crime chief has told the president of Guinea, the world's leading exporter of bauxite, that his country faces a serious threat to its stability from drug-trafficking and organised crime gangs.
Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), met Guinea's cigar-smoking diabetic President Lansana Conte this week during a visit to West Africa that also included Mali in the Sahel.
UNODC wants governments in West Africa to work with the international community to confront what it says is an offensive on the impoverished region by Colombian cocaine cartels seeking easier routes through which to ship their drugs to Europe.
Costa told reporters during a stopover in Senegal late on Friday that he had warned Guinea's Conte of the risks of not acting decisively against the transnational traffickers.
"I told him that the situation was very serious and that the threat to the country from trafficking was enormous," the UNODC chief said in Dakar.
Guinea, which holds a third of the world's known reserves of the aluminium ore bauxite, has lived in almost permanent institutional turmoil since last year with the ageing Conte being challenged by riots on the streets and army mutinies.
Costa said that Conte, in his presence, had delivered firm instructions to his security ministers to tackle the problems of drug trafficking and organised crime.
"It was a very strong statement and I applaud it," he said.
Anti-narcotics experts believe Colombian cocaine cartels are increasingly focusing on the unstable former French colony and its port capital Conakry as a base for trafficking operations".....reuters
Conakry is so dirty, even the UN had to warn the Govt.of GUINEA to be al3rt to some huge cargo from LATIN AMERICA.
tstm
Once the British were the biggest drug dealers in world..
By Jack Straw »
Do you know the story about a great nation which for centuries made millions from the trade in heroin and opium, and when another weaker nation tried to stop this trade and the damage it was causing to its people?
It's a tale worth knowing.
For the weaker nation was China, and the great nation was us - the United Kingdom.
Moreover, it was we, the Dutch and the Portuguese who ensured that opiates moved from being an addiction of just a few in the area of its localised production to an addiction of many across the globe.
I'm not proud of this story, and none of us should be. But the story needs to better known. Not least to give the lie to the disgraceful untruths in a recent leaflet of the BNP circulating in Lancashire.
The leaflet claims that - "Muslims are responsible for the heroin trade", and goes on with a brazen disregard for anything approaching the truth to assert that "Before the Islamic invasion, it was almost impossible to find heroin in our land".
In the nineteenth century, here in England, opium was freely and lawfully available in liquid form as "Laudanum".
It is claimed with a good deal of evidence that Coleridge wrote much of his celebrated poetry high on the stuff. At the time you could probably count the number of those of the Muslim faith here in the UK on one hand.
But our involvement extended far beyond just drinking the stuff from a bottle.
We'd run the trade worldwide - entirely legitimately - from at least the early seventeenth century, but we became dominant in it in the eighteenth century.
The British East India Company was - until 1858 and what we call the "Indian Mutiny" and Indians call the "first War of Independence" effectively the British Government in India with a Royal Charter, and control over its governance.
By 1793 the Company established - and enforced - a monopoly on the opium trade.
Poppy growers in India were forbidden to sell opium to competitors, and began to make big profits from selling it into China.
By 1839 Chinese rulers became alarmed at the extent of the addiction of its people.
All foreign traders were ordered to surrender their opium. Our response was to send warships to enforce the trade.
The "First Opium War" began. We won it, and not only extracted a large indemnity from the Chinese, but they also had to cede Hong Kong to us.
But China tried to stop the trade again in 1856. This time France intervened as too.
The Second Opium War ended just like the First. China had to pay another indemnity, and had to legalise the importation of opium.
For us at the time, this was a no-brainer.
Not only was the trade itself highly profitable, but it brought in millions in taxes too to the British Exchequer.
The trade directly benefited cotton textile areas like East Lancashire.
National and multi-national controls on opium and heroin did not begin until the beginning of the last century.
They are now strong - though self evidently far from effective - and everyone understands the dangers from these drugs. But even in our recent history the role of Western powers has been ambiguous.
There were times during the Cold War, and since, when some western intelligence agencies, for the "greater good", did deals with drug war lords in parts of Asia.
So the BNP claims have no foundation at all If the BNP have to resort to such blatant fabrication they must really be desperate.
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Your Say YourTelegraphGeert Wilders, says...
4:33pm Thu 12 Jun 08
So Jack lets have a few moral equivalencies and some self loathing thrown in for
good mesure.
We all know where 98% of Blackburn's Smack originates from don't we Jack.So Jack lets have a few moral equivalencies and some self loathing thrown in for good mesure.
We all know where 98% of Blackburn's Smack originates from don't we Jack.
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Joseph, London says...
5:41pm Thu 12 Jun 08
95% of heroin comes from the Islamic Country of Afghanistan, where production of
smack has rocketed since the american lead invasion.
The Taleban outlawed its production (but allowed trading)
The second biggest producer is Burma, a predominently buddhist country.
95% of heroin comes from the Islamic Country of Afghanistan, where production of
smack has rocketed since the american lead invasion.
The Taleban outlawed its production (but allowed trading)
The second biggest producer is Burma, a predominently buddhist country.
the stuff from a bottle.
their opium. Our response was to send warships to But China tried to stop the
trade again in 1856. This time France intervened as too.
The Second Opium War ended just like the First. China
They are now strong - though self evidently far from effective - and everyone
understands the dangers from these drugs. But even in our recent history the
role of Western powers has been ambiguous.
There were times during the Cold War, and since, when some western intelligence agencies, for the "greater good", did deals with drug war lords in parts of Asia.
So the BNP claims have no foundation at all If the BNP have to resort to such blatant fabrication they must really be desperate.
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Your Say YourTelegraphGeert Wilders, says...
4:33pm Thu 12 Jun 08
So Jack lets have a few moral equivalencies and some self loathing thrown in for
good mesure.
We all know where 98% of Blackburn's Smack originates from don't we Jack.So Jack lets have a few moral equivalencies and some self loathing thrown in for good mesure.
(but allowed trading)
The second biggest producer is Burma, a predominently buddhist country.
95% of heroin comes from the Islamic Country of Afghanistan, where production of
smack has rocketed since the american lead invasion.
The Taleban outlawed its production (but allowed trading)
The second biggest producer is Burma, a predominently buddhist country.......
You see how di johnbull dem make some of dem money? If
you put han pan dem business, dem go expose you...got dat Afrikans?
tstm
Subject: Latest Update on Cocaine seizure in Sierra Leone
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arrests 58 over record cocaine seizure
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FREETOWN (AFP) — Police in Sierra Leone said Tuesday they had arrested a total of 58 suspects, including a number of foreigners, in connection with Sunday's record cocaine bust in the West African state.
Deputy Inspector-General Oliver Somassa said those detained included Americans, Mexicans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Brazilians and nationals from Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria. He did not give precise figures.
Others included local airport officials and five police officers. An air traffic controller and an employee of a bank at the airport were picked up trying to cross into Guinea, Superintendent Frank Sesay said.
Sources said the suspects were being detained at the maximum security Pademba Road prison in the capital Freetown. A checkpoint manned by armed guards was set up on the main road to the prison on Tuesday evening.
Somassa said police were still searching the area around the airport in an effort to track down other suspects.
"We have made a lot of progress and we are on top of the affair," he said.
The arrests follow the discovery on Sunday of 600 kilos (1,322 pounds) of cocaine in an airplane bearing a fake Red Cross emblem at Freetown's international Lungi airport.
Police said the plane had come from Venezuela, which is an important exporter of cocaine shipments destined for Europe.
The seizure is a record for Sierra Leone and one of the biggest drugs hauls this year in West Africa.
Transport and Aviation Minister Kemoh Sesay said Tuesday maritime and port
authorities had been ordered to step up checks on all boats in local waters.
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Subject: Is this news for APC sympathisers ? Here is a real Update
From: Abass Sesay
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Date Posted: 15:53:16 07/15/08 ()
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This was yesterday'a it is not an update. A lot happened today.
Kemoh went on UNAMSIL radio and took the fifth. Didn't say thou... apart from blaming our security services. When quizzed about his brother, he simply evaded the question.
Meanwhile our weak EBK is now reportedly sipping frequently from the flask he has now made a habit of carrying. Some say the contents of the flask are alcoholic.
Word in Freetown is that Kemoh Sesay paid big for the Ministerial post and EBK may not be able to sack him. Except of course he returns monies taken over 11 months ago to the new Pablo Escobar of West Africa.
Is Agnes a strong leader or a wife? We shall see tomorrow. A top insider has sworn that EBK will not do anything as his hands are tied. Kemoh may do another major drug trafficking again - perhaps nest time in a ship.
Ahmed Sesay, the APC Minister's younger brother is a major flight risk, as he is very central to the ongoing investigations. He is said to be pretending to be mad. I hope the SLP does not fall for that.
Meanwhile the SLP are searching for several close allies of big vons in the APC, including the First lady's brother, and VP Sam Sumana's close relative
APC has disgraced our nation once again and most like this Weak president will do nothing.
Subject: Re: Latest Update on Cocaine seizure in Sierra Leone
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This is a very good development.
Subject: WHAT WILL OLDMAN Zubah say.. this cocaine trouble?
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Well deer fen lion kele --palava, too much hot pepper en salt.
Subject: 7 APC supporters arrested for burning elections materials
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Date Posted: 15:00:23 07/15/08 ()
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Source Awoko Newspaper:
The following suspects Mohamed Sesay, Mohamed Kamanda, Lamin Kamara, Salieu Sankoh, Mohamed L. Sanie, Sulaiman Kamara and Foday Bangura alleged to be supporters of the All Peoples Congress (APC) aspirant Paul Kamanda of Ward 46 in the Wandor chiefdom in the Kenema district are in police custody at the regional police headquarters in Kenema for allegedly burning NEC election materials on Sunday July 6, 2008.
According to the police the suspects were found roughly dressed with blue and other black substances rubbed on their faces and body when they stormed the polling center code 02136 at Baama in the Wandor chiefdom and attacked the polling officers and other staff working for NEC.
They demanded the election results and then collected all the election materials and set it ablaze and then terrorized the scene living some people running into the bush, without recognizing where the master sheet containing the local council results were kept.
However police has visited the scene where the election materials were burnt
and exhibit were collected and brought to the Baama police post.
The Regional Crime Officer Samuel Sanie Sesay reaffirmed police commitment to
properly investigate the matter and charge to court all suspects connected.
Meanwhile one Fatmata McCarthy of Jagbwema village in the Wandor chiefdom in
the Kenema district also reported to the police that she was attacked by a group
of people because she was in support of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP).
Nine suspects have also been arrested in connection with the matter and are in
police custody in Kenema.
Subject: APCs Tolongbo thats the lowest crap I have heard
From: Abass Sesay
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"Some of our country fellows in the East and South secretly contrived with
Foday Sankoh to destroy the state on the pretext that they hated the APC. How
can you aid a rebel to topple a government? If Foday Sankoh could have started
his rebel campaign in the North or West, he wouldn't have succeeded in
devastating the country".
I really hope you have not started taking this 'fresh' APC supplied cocaine. Because if you are, I am here to put some additional grey matter in your drugged brain.
Here are some facts Mr tribalist:
Foday Saybana Sankoh was born on October 17, 1937 in the village of Masang Mayoso, Tonkolili District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone to an ethnic Temne father. With Charles Taylor's encouragement, Sankoh and two allies, Abu Kanu and Rashid Mansaray, returned from Libya to form the Revolutionary United Front(RUF). Sources (Births & Deaths SL, Wilkipedia)
South and East Sierra Leone share a very looooooooooooong border with former NPFL stronghold in Liberia, that your useless APC gof'ment never bothered to police. Momoh was busy 'doing rudeness'(literally) at Statehouse, whilst patriots like Bio, Nyuma, Mondeh, Kamara and others fought unpaid for months. The rest they say is history.
I am sure you are now cracking you brain to link your 'loathed Mendes' with this APC Cocaine scandal. Eee lef pah yu oooooh... nar sosos Sesay, Santos, Kargbo, Bangura... dae UN/ONS/SLP joint team den dae call en arrest.
Mr Tolongbo Cocaine, this unfolding criminal enterprise is sadly one of painful differences between Northerners and South Easterners. We pipul dem nor dae fraid for do halaki stuff - and you know it. And even as a Northerner, I have to admit this.
Please my brother do not vent your frustrations about the wretched behaviour our own folk's in power to innocent peoples. We wanted power so badly, we were even prepared to start another war. Christiana Thorpe illegally cancelled most of the votes from the South East to give us this power. Now we have the power look at what we are doing with it:
Igniting violence in Kono and other districts
Threatening Female candidates
Reintroducing 'unopppose' again through violence and intimidation
90% of our Cabinet is Northern ...
Ambushing NEC staff members and burning election materials
And now...
....coordinating the supply of Cocaine to Salone and the world at large.
After only 10 months in government, this is so far our contribution to national development in Salone. Imagine what we will do in 4 more years. Tolongbo look deep inside our fiefdom before pointing that crooked finger of yours.
A word for the wise...
Subject: Re: APCs Tolongbo thats the lowest crap I have heard
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Date Posted: 16:08:22 07/15/08 ()
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Abass Sesay if you are to be called so. You can say whatever you want with
utmost freedom. But one thing is certain. Don't ever team up with any one with
destructive ideas against the state.
I can see sensed that you sound offended when I stated that our country men in
the east and south aided Sankoh to succeed in his destructive so called
revolution to paralyze the country. Can you deny that?
Let’s call a spade a spade. The truth will ever triumph on those rouges, who
whenever they lost power they seek the wrath of God to fall on their opponents
and on the nation. Tell me is that patriotism?
I am not defending anyone here, please note. If my father involves in destroying
the image of the country let the law take its course.
All the same if those involve in the cocaine issue are members of the APC, I
don't think the party is at fault. Those guys are just individual Sierra
Leoneans just like you and I. Let the law catch them.
Mind you. I was one of the first to call for swift actions to be taken to catch
the culprits. If that has happened, that is fine, a thumb up for the true
leadership of the APC and its vigilant government.
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Subject: Missing people: Has anyone seen Uman Lappa & Dull Cadaver
From: Charles F Margai
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Date Posted: 14:34:14 07/15/08 ()
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Broda Uman Lappa and Dull Cadaver have vanished. I honestly hope The Cocaine
Investigation team is not after them.
This is very unsual. Two irresponsible bragadoshios vanishing without trace - very odd.
Any citing... please let us know.
Subject: Re: Missing people: Has anyone seen Uman Lappa & Dull
Cadaver
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Don't taunt your bosses you know quiet well that these guys are capable of
putting fire behind your rears, so don't try to provoke the wrath that will
ensued if they descend on you.
Subject: SERIOUS UNANSWERED ?..Did Ecomog commander lie.. ...
From: SORIE Jawara
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Date Posted: 14:23:38 07/15/08 ()
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The cocaine issue is rocking Sierra Leone and many countires along the West
Coast of Africa,if any Sierra Leonean is involved he/she is stupid or money
satanic.Drug 'trafickers' have been under surveilance for over four years,
Guinea Bissa. and Senegal listed as top high ways. Why would any government
official or any citizen participate in a risky venture? I will leave this topic
for answers to come in , But the serious unanswered question , did the ecomog
commander lie about Libya's involvememt with Foday Sankoh and Charles Taylor?
Former president Kabba and our current leader ( President Ernest Bai Koroma)
have ignored this issue , though it is important. This is a serious matter
because many people suffered , we want to know who lied, Ecomog commander or the
corrupt governments .Corruption will not be eradicated if dirty cover ups
prevail.
Subject: Watch for our investigative report on the cocaine scam
From: Perry Mason and Forensic Expert
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Date Posted: 13:48:35 07/15/08 ()
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We will lay all speculations to rest tomorrow. We will provide reliable
firsthand info from the horse's mouth on the mystery surrounding the abandoned
cocaine plane.
Subject: FOOD CRISIS, TO: FARMER, SORIE, AND EDDIE G.
From: Mr. Cullinan
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Date Posted: 13:38:29 07/15/08 ()
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Why isn't the S.L. Government, (SLG) providing monetary assistance to the
farmers of S.L.??? Concern and other humanitarian orgs. should not have to do
the job for the SLG. The land is fertile, there is no shortage of water, or
workers; it is possible the farmers could grow enough food to feed the entire
nation, BUT the people continue to live in a constant state of near starvation,
as they have for decades. The farmers could become prosperous in time but they
need assistance to get started, and they need a viable economic environment to
sell their produce.
In spite of this harsh reality, the SLG does little to help its farmers and its people. WHY??? you may ask. The politicians of the SLG is too busy lining their pockets with foreign aid funds, etc. and engaging in political theatrics, etc. as they have for decades. Foreign aid assistance will not last forever, and the current world food crisis is causing this situation to worsen. How many people will die of starvation before the SLG takes effective action? I agree with the article in Cocorioko, "A green Revolution" by Sarah Long.
Eddie Grant stated, come to S.L. and see a serious Govt. at work. His statement begs these questions: How serious is this Govt. if EBK's cabinet laughs in his face? What has this Govt. accomplished so far? When will this Govt. serve the people's best interests???
Eddie offered to allow SORIE to farm a section of "his" land in S.L. To test Eddie's honesty and integrity, I played dumb, (and poor) and asked Eddie if I could somehow be included in this deal. Of course, Eddie failed this test; he quickly made excuses for not following through on his offer. I agree with SORIE that Eddie does not even have a farm in S.L. Actions speak louder than words; Why isn't Eddie currently farming his land in S.L.??? Mr. C
Subject: Re: FOOD CRISIS, TO: FARMER, SORIE, AND EDDIE G.
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:12:48 07/15/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Thank you very much Mr Cullinan for bringing back this important topic.
I will endeavor to give some insights into some of your questions and concerns raised about the SLG's seriousness in farming:
First of all, the past SLPP government did showed some serious interest in the farming industry by allocating some Le20billion towards securing the rice seeds. Unfortunately those entrusted with this funds were either greedy or lack the administrative drive to see this goes to fruition. These funds were delegated to the District officials who were supposed to secure the seeds but what happen to the rice seeds or the money itself remains a mystery.
Secondly, the reason we're facing this turbulent food shortage is due to the war. Before the war, the farmers were able to farm subsistently and also able to reserve the rice seed for the following farming season. But during the war, this was impossible and so the farmers would have to start from scratch to obtain the rice seed, on the other hand, many of these farmers have migrated to the urban centres so the population of farmers significantly reduced.
"Eddie offered to allow SORIE to farm a section of "his" land
in S.L. To test Eddie's honesty and integrity, I played dumb, (and poor) and
asked Eddie if I could somehow be included in this deal. Of course, Eddie failed
this test; he quickly made excuses for not following through on his offer. I
agree with SORIE that Eddie does not even have a farm in S.L. Actions speak
louder than words; Why isn't Eddie currently farming his land in S.L.??? Mr.
C"
.......................................................
With all due respect sir, I wish you had not past judgement against me because with complete contrast to the above statement of yours I neither gave any excuse nor did I not follow on your response. You told me that money is in short supply for yourself and I made it known to you that, it's not possible to engage in the field without money as it involves from start to finish.
I'm sorry that you thought I refused to follow on the discussion, I thought you deviated from it once I informed you of the financial situation. You're welcome at anytime to discuss the topic sir.
Lastly, If you think I did not own a farm in Sierra Leone then that's your opinion, but as far as I'm concern, I did not only own a balti-land farm but I also own several swampland farms. I have no obligation to prove it to you here and also have no reason to lie but at anytime me and you happen to meet in Sierra Leone, I will make it a point of duty to introduce you to my handy work.
I have not changed my stance on offering interested compatriots a piece of land to farm. What I can't promise is that the land I have is not unlimited meaning, I can only offer a few of those who first showed determination.
I hope you're not offended by all this sir.
Eddie Grant
Subject: Re: FOOD CRISIS, TO: FARMER, SORIE, AND EDDIE G.
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:02:24 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: sotie_jawara@yahoo.com
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Mr. Cullinan, Edie is palying jokes because he does not understand if a man says
the boro is heavy.The truth is , previous administrations did not treat
agriculture seriously. A government should not depend on donations and politics
or discrimination should not prevail.A Farm loan scheme in the form of
seedlings( rice, peanuts, corn etc was created, but serious farmers could not
have it. Some unserious farmers took the loans and ate the seeds because no
tractors available because their families were hungry. The ministry of
agriculture is disorganized and it is the worst public waste department.
Question, should Sierra Leone go hungry?
Subject: Re: FOOD CRISIS, TO: FARMER, SORIE, AND EDDIE G.
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:33:48 07/15/08 ()
Email Address:
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Mr Jawara,
As the saying goes Honesty is the best policy, you initiated the topic of discussion but were never aiming at the direction the discussion went. You'll agree with me that your intention was to bash the present government prejudicially. I say prejudicially because the present government came to power at a time when the farming season was long gone and all they could muster is what was left behind by their predecessors. But being that the past government failed to lay the foundation, the government of the day should shoulder the blame. I believe the most fair criticism on this government would be after October/November,January when harvesting have started.
Mr. Jawara, we have our political differences but unless we begin to put
faithful emphasis on matters of national interest, politicians will continue to
manipulate us all the time. Most of us when it comes to blind support, we're
good at it. But does it really help? I said we and that includes you Mr Jawara.
Subject: Paa C, APC say Cocaine trafficking yu say Farming?
From: Teacher Sanu
To: All
Date Posted: 14:15:13 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Government is not serious about farming. In this first financial year, they have
significantly slashed allocat1ons to the Agriculture Ministry.
As you can see now, with plane loads of cole coming in who needs to support farmers. EBK and his gang are a disgrace to Sierra Leone.
Subject: Kemoh should go now!
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 13:25:36 07/15/08 ()
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The minister of Transport should resign now!! The instant his brother was
arrested he should have gone to the President and offered his resignation. What
is EBK waiting for?
Subject: Agnes is sipping on that wine in his flask
From: No Nonsense man
To: All
Date Posted: 14:08:17 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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I am sure you guys will realise now that indeed EBK=Agnes=Momoh Part 2
What was he doing at the airport at such wee wee hours anyway? Oh he came from Gambia - that early what was the rush?
Leh ee nor biooooh!
Subject: Re: Kemoh should go now!
From: Man Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 14:06:11 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: Man_pikin@yahoo.com
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What do you expect? He will not resign, until EBK fire him. Most Sierra Leonean
politicians dont have respect for themselves. All they are interested in, is
finding ways to get rich. However, this is a test case for Prezo EBK. The plane
should be confiscated and all those involved should be prosecuted to the full
extent of the law.
Subject: EBK should make his move now!!!
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 13:19:19 07/15/08 ()
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The Prezzo should bring his axe down now and sack the Transport minister because
of his association with his relatives in the cocaine plane case and any other
minister he is not sure of performing to a high standard. In other words he
should bring forward his cabinet reshuffle!!
At this momemt no one would want the cocaine 'dutty' to smear on them, thus
giving EBK time to slice through his cabinet.
Subject: Re: EBK should make his move now!!!
From: Mr. Cullinan
To: All
Date Posted: 13:43:58 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: sorrelsteak@yahoo.com
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TO: Ronaldino, I agree completely. Justice delayed is Justice denied. It's time
to eliminate, (not just reshuffle) those in his cabinet who are unwilling to do
their job. A thorough investigation is in order, and I think if the entire truth
of this matter is revealed, many more heads will roll, (assuming that Justice is
served). Mr. C.
Subject: 15 Countries Added to Failing States List
From: Failure
To: All
Date Posted: 13:08:16 07/15/08 ()
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"The Lower House wanted to know which countries have sunk to the level of
'failing state' since 1996. According to the minister, this applies to Burkina
Faso, the Central African Republic, Guinea, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Yemen, Lebanon,
Liberia, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, East Timor, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and
Zimbabwe. In these countries, "the central authority is missing or no
longer functions".
Netherlands: 15 Countries Added to Failing States List
THE HAGUE, 16/07/08 - The military intelligence service (MIVD) has added 15
countries to its list of failing states since 1996, Defence Minister Eimert van
Middelkoop has told the Lower House. The House had asked a series of questions
about the MIVD annual report.
The Lower House wanted to know which countries have sunk to the level of 'failing state' since 1996. According to the minister, this applies to Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Guinea, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Yemen, Lebanon, Liberia, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, East Timor, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. In these countries, "the central authority is missing or no longer functions".
The MPs also wanted to know to what extent Al Qaida is growing in Africa. The minister agrees that this terrorist group "has become stronger in Africa in recent years, (...) is active on various fronts in the Horn of Africa and in North Africa and actively tries to create new theatres of war." The network "thereby seeks links with existing local organisations."
The House also asked for an assessment of the growing military potential of China. According to the minister, "China formed no direct threat from a military perspective to Dutch regional interests in 2007," but "the growing military potential and international ambitions of China do justify greater attention from the MIVD." The government will give the House further information on this in 2009.
Additionally, MPs requested an explanation of the substantial investments of Venezuela's President Chavez in his armed forces, and specifically, whether it is true that there are plans to acquire Russian submarines. Van Middelkoop cannot say anything about this. "Venezuela repeatedly said in 2007 that it wants to buy Russian submarines. To date, it is not known whether contracts have been sealed for this."
The MIVD has also concluded that the number of test launches and the number of ballistic missiles in the possession of 'countries of concern' worldwide has increased. But for "operational reasons, no numbers are given," according to the minister.
The minister is also unable to say to what extent there is a link between the growth of radicalisation among Muslims in the Netherlands and the recruitment of Jihad fighters in the Netherlands. "The link between these two subjects is the subject of research currently being carried out in partnership with the AIVD" (secret service).
To strengthen the MIVD, nearly 10 million euros has been earmarked in 2008.
This amount will rise to some 18 million euros from 2011. "The
strengthening will only be completed in 2013."
Subject: PLEASE DON'T MAKE WILD, UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:28 07/15/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
We don't want to interfere with your discussions since this forum was set up for
this purpose -FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS . This matter affects the nation so you
have to discuss it.
However, let us keep our eyes more on the investigations and the results that emerge. Let us avoid using our freedom on this forum to make wild, unfounded allegations against people , the APC Party, the government and the President. OPINION IS FREE BUT FACTS ARE SACRED. Just a reminder.
Subject: Re: PLEASE DON'T MAKE WILD, UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS
From: umfaali
To: All
Date Posted: 14:27:20 07/15/08 ()
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Mr Kanu all due respect, no one is making any allegations. If it is true that
the Minister of Transportation's brother is involved he should resign is
post. We should make Sierra Leone a better place and not use our country
as a safe heaven for drug dealers.
Subject: Re: PLEASE DON'T MAKE WILD, UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS
From: zakmal
To: All
Date Posted: 13:08:48 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: columbusw@gmail.com
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Having people who make wild accusations regardless of facts is part of life.
However,the sane would always outperform those who are just excited to read
their own silly posts. Let them go on Kabs we live in a country where any
outrageous comments or writings have a voice. Have you listened to some programs
on talk radio lately of visit some of these out of this world websites? Let
freedom of speech triumph.
Subject: Re: PLEASE DON'T MAKE WILD, UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS
From: Please
To: All
Date Posted: 13:05:08 07/15/08 ()
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"OPINION IS FREE BUT FACTS ARE SACRED. Just a reminder"
When did you know that? After you became an APC bootlicker? Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Subject: Give credit where it is due
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:25:33 07/15/08 ()
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If you are rational you will give credit where credit is due. It is under the
APC government that the drug traffickers were captured.
The security at the airport has been tested. It is the same apparatus that
existed under the SLPP regime that prevails today but it is only now that we are
seeing results. Clearly, something needs to be done and I believe that it will
be the topic for discussion in the agenda of the Ministry of Transport.
We should see this event as an eye opener. There is no doubt that the success
will send shivers all around particularly to collaborators. We should expect to
have a very revealing inquiry into drug activities in Sierra Leone as a result
of the arrests and believe me the past government officials will be implicated.
Subject: Re: Give credit where it is due
From: alpha
To: All
Date Posted: 15:27:56 07/15/08 ()
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for any one to think of shipping 705 kilos of cocaine worth USD 100,000,000.00
to sierra leone, then you must have extremely high reliable and credible
business contacts with very senior officials of salone period.furthermore, for
anyone to have the audacity of flying it to our INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT for that
matter, then you must have the powers in you pocket.
it was simply too much of a daring mission and i simply cant see how it can be done with mere junior officials.
i do hope the next thing is not for us to see hired mercenaries coming in to retrieve thier loot becos 100 million dollars is a hell of a lotta money that even the richest in the world wil hate to part with just like that.
SIT TIGHT SALONE SECURITY!!!
I HAVE A VERY FUNNY FEELING ABOUT THS AND I HATE TO SAY IT AINT LOOKIN GOOD>
Subject: Re: Give credit to drug traders in government.?
From: jaff akinson
To: All
Date Posted: 12:50:24 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: jaffakinson@yahoo.co.uk
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Message:
I dont believe this is a true sierra leonean and have the country at heart. Let
us not pleadge premitive loyalty to our leaders because we have relationship
with them and we are benefiting from the evil that they are doing. We are
talking about what has happened few days ago and he is talking about history of
the past government. Why you didnt voice it out when it was happening? If we
love the country we should forget about party politics and address issues. This
is not personal against anybody but is against state interst. If you are an APC
supporter is better you keep quiet and dont mention about what has never been
unearthed. It has happen this time so we talk about it now.
Subject: Re: Give credit to drug traders in government.?
From: HASSAN KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 16:25:36 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: KAMSON10@HOTMAIL.COM
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Message:
Yes it happened this time so we should talk about it, what about Momodu Koroma
who was caught with drugs in a London airport while he was foreign minister
Subject: Wrong. The APC captured themselves due to National curse
From: DEA Agent (Freetown)
To: All
Date Posted: 12:44:53 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Message:
Monkey nor ba lef ee black han. Kemoh had even been mention in earlier suspected
drug scams even before he became Minister. He must have used some of the drug
money to buy his ministerial appointment. Nar Salone sweh don kaicham.
Here is an excerpt from a national paer in Salone:
"A local journalist Umaru Sitta Turay had last year June 2007 strongly protested at a Police Briefing that he had been an eye witness to a mystery helicopter that landed at the Choithram’s Hospital’s Helicopter Pad from which it had offloaded strange items for well over two hours. Sitta Turay had blasted the Police that despite him making numerous calls for the police to investigate the mystery scene, not a single police officer had turned up at the scene. According to Sitta Turay, Hon. Kemoh Sesay and his younger brother, Ahmed Sesay had been present during the offloading of this mystery helicopter at Hill Station last June 2007 but the police turned a blind eye back then"
I am sure he figured that if he is minister of Transport now, he should just
bring a whole plane - not a small chopper. EBK you betteh gee Pablo Escobar een
money back.
I also think Acha has outsayed his usefulness and really must be fired now - but way nar Limba man ee go bi dificult ooh. He really is another dumb head.
Lets see whether EBK truely is Agnes as Good ol' Jacob says.
p/s
For those defending this APC disgrace, whether out of blind loyalty or because
you are practicing the trade as well... please remember that A Nation's curse is
thrice worse than "Mammy Sweh". You have been warned.
Subject: Re: Wrong. The APC captured themselves due to National curse
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 16:30:33 07/15/08 ()
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But the APC was not in power then, so I believe issues are best addressed when,
how and where they happen. Some people are trying to protect their own peers
because of their party affiliations. Why does it hurt if someone says the drug
trade started during the last government. The above article relate to June when
is the SLPP in government. If we continue this baseless protection of
politicians we're doomed.
Subject: Re: Give credit where it is due
From: No Hope
To: All
Date Posted: 12:39:29 07/15/08 ()
Email Address:
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Wow. some of you guys are pathetic. This is the same man who was talking about
patritism before partisanship. Why do you guys always fight for your SLPP, APC
and other scumbag parties?
The report is implicating a sitting cabinet minister, and you are talking about past gov't officials. Where is the love for mama salone?
Can you guys ever exist if there is no SLPP, APC crap in salone.
Some of your people need help.
Subject: Re: Give credit where it is due
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:46:54 07/15/08 ()
Email Address:
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I have already said that if a sitting Minister is involved, he/she should be
dealt with appropriately. But I fervently believe that drug trafficking is a
longstanding activity in Sierra Leone and when the case gets to court many will
be implicated including actors in the past government.
Subject: Re: Give credit where it is due
From: thomas manna
To: All
Date Posted: 16:47:49 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: thomas@hotmail.com
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Before it gets to court, the president should dismissed the transport minister.
As the transport, the most serious aviation breach happened under his watch. The
fact that his brother is alleged to be involed that makes his position
untenable. If this was a USA UK and most other countries, the transport minister
whould have tendered his resignation without been told. But oh god, this is
Sierra Leone. Politic is the only occupation in Salone where criminals can make
money.
In USA and Europe and I believe other organised societies, one cannot be appointed to a responsible jobs if any of your relative or close associates have criminal record. Kehmoh Sesay must resigned or sack by EBK.
This is not a party political issues, this is an audacious criminal activities that can spell doom to our country's trading and diplomatic relations with the western world in particular.
We must not protect criminal and thieves anymore. Sierra Leone is a shamed nation.
Subject: Re: Give credit where it is due
From: zakmal
To: All
Date Posted: 12:56:51 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: columbusw@gmail.com
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I would prefer you had blown the whistle on the previous government instead of
waiting till now. I sense some partisanship here. You have previoulsy mentioned
that our country should come first. The culprits whoever they may be would spill
the beans on all members of the syndicate. However,from past experinces I'm
afraid its going to be whitewashed just like all those commissions of enquiries
which resulted in the seizure of illegally acquired properties but in the middle
of the night returned to the disgraced officials. The system is rotten. NA KAPU
KAPU.
Subject: Re: Give credit where it is due
From: zakmal
To: All
Date Posted: 12:32:18 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: columbusw@gmail.com
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Alie my freind please don't take that far just yet.According to press reports
this matter would have gone down had it not been the presence of the
presidential security detail.However, I stand corrected sir.
Subject: WHICH OF THESE POLITICIANS DID A GOOD JOB IN OFFICE?
From: Dr CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 12:23:58 07/15/08 ()
Email Address:
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The Senior Cabinet Members of the SLPP Government
The following list predominantly contains persons who served all or atleast most of the five Cabinets formed between 1996 and 2002.
President of the Republic and Minister of Defence
Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Vice President
Dr. Albert Joe Demby
Deputy Minister of Defence
Chief Samuel Hinga Norman JP
Attorney-General and Minister of Justice
Solomon Berewa
Minister of Foreign Affairs
(previously Tourism and Culture / later Social Welfare, etc.)
Shirley Gbujama
Minister of Presidential Affairs and the Public Service
(later Foreign Affairs)
Momodu Koroma
Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Adviser to the President
(later Finance, Development and Economic Planning)
Dr. James O. C. Jonah
Minister for Mineral Resources (later Transport and Communications)
Dr. Prince A. Harding
Minister of Transport and Communications
(previously Deputy of Finance)
Momoh Pujeh
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and the Environment (National Resources)
Dr. Harry Will
Minister of Information, Communications, Tourism and Culture
Dr. Julius Spencer
Minister of Internal Affairs and Local Government
(Minister of Safety and Security)
Charles Margai
Leader of the House of Parliament
S. B. Marrah
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation
Dr. Sama Banya
Deputy Minister of Trade (previously Deputy Minister of Finance)
Mohamed B. Daramy
Subject: Re: WHICH OF THESE POLITICIANS DID A GOOD JOB IN OFFICE?
From: Matrix
To: All
Date Posted: 12:58:56 07/15/08 ()
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I think MB daramy did a very good job save that he was unlucky to have a
perfect wife; which drove him to go mad at times as all his colleagues
wanted to have a piece of his beauty. Indeed he did a thorough job!
Subject: COCAINE SCANDAL : WHERE IS EVERYBODY ?
From: Keen Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 12:06:44 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Message:
The cocaine scandal is on the lips of every Sierra Leonean in Freetown - in
bars, transport, shops, markets, offices, bust stops...everywhere.
I would like to hear comments from the following regulars we have not heard from lately:
Kabs Kanu
Fen Plaba
John Leigh
Jacob Kanu
Freedom of Speech
King Loggy (you have just been quoting others..what do you think)
LGSS
Charles F Margai
And any interested forumite
Straight talk gentlemen no mincing/diplomacy. We all know about the wait and see advise. The question is from what you know of have heard so far what is your assessmentand what do you think is the way forward.
Subject: Re: COCAINE SCANDAL : WHERE IS EVERYBODY ?
From: Mr. Cullinan
To: All
Date Posted: 13:52:03 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: sorrelsteak@yahoo.com
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Message:
TO: Keen, I think a full investigation is in order. The whole truth revealed
would be a nice change of pace, and Justice served properly, as well. This
scandal is much bigger than it seems to be now. I do not accept the integrity
and validity of the newspaper accounts so far, and I doubt their future
validity; beware the cover-up. Mr. C.
Subject: We do have a drug problem
From: bobsonmans
To: All
Date Posted: 11:53:02 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: bobsonmans69@btinternet.com
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Message:
I am not surprised that such an incident has happened in Sierra Leone. There
could have been other drug-plane landing incidents before. The assumption here
isthat such a large amount of drugs is destined for Europe. I beg to differ. It
is no secret the amount of cocaine that was in use by combatants during the war.
Knowing the addiction cocaine use can cause, there is definitely a local market
for the stuff. Besides, among the hundreds of Refugees who flocked to Europe in
the 90s, many alongside Gambians and Guineans were involved in drug trafficking
and pushing. No body questioned the loads of money and cars they were sending
back home.Many have returned home and they know the tools of the trade. Add that
to the recent influx of some Nigerians and other foreign nationals of dubious
origins, you have a potential market for narcotics. Drug money can easily fuel
corruption and violence. So only God knows whether the Government can get to
grips with that.
Subject: Re: What if the Government itself is the Trafficker No 1
From: No Nonsense man
To: All
Date Posted: 12:24:55 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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What if key Government officials are behind the major drug traffiicking, as it
is clearly emerging from preliminary investigations?
Can government police itself adequately?
Subject: Re: What if the Government itself is the Trafficker No 1
From: Mr. Culinan
To: All
Date Posted: 14:12:44 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: sorrelsteak@yahoo.com
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Message:
TO: NNM, I think you have asked the most important questions on this issue.
My answers: If thay are behind the trafficking, the future looks very bleak for
the people of S.L.
Also, history has proven many times that they can not and will not.
I would like to know the whole truth, but I doubt that it will ever be revealed.
Mr. C.
Subject: Collusion between governments and the courts
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 10:56:47 07/15/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
When the notorious Swegbe, Justin Musa, was implicated in stealing millions of
dollars of moneys meant for providing adequate and clean water for Sierra Leone,
he was caught trying to escape the country into Guinea. That story made
headlines in all newspapers. But months later when things quieted down the
courts in its infinite wisdom gave him bail and returned his passport to him
thereby giving him the green light to escape. And escape he did.
As the President of Sierra Leone, I would have summoned to parliament the Judge
who made that ominous determination to give Jutin Musa a bail and to return his
passport to him and if he or she cannot adequately justify the action, an
immediate dismissal would have followed.
Justin Musa is now languishing in New York with stolen moneys. He is said to
have opened a dealership and is selling cars.
The inaction by the SLPP government is tantamount to collusion with the courts
and frustrates the efforts of the Anti-Corruption Commission.
Subject: will this not counter "separation of powers" rule?
From: Dr. C. Curtis-Thomas
To: All
Date Posted: 11:50:14 07/15/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"...As the President of Sierra Leone, I would have summoned to parliament
the Judge who made that ominous determination to give Jutin Musa a bail and to
return his passport to him and if he or she cannot adequately justify the
action, an immediate dismissal would have followed."
(Alie Formeh Kamara)
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Will this action not counter the "separation of powers" rule?
Subject: Re: will this not counter "separation of powers"
rule?
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:27:54 07/15/08 ()
Email Address:
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No.
Subject: APC COCAINE PLANE A GIFT TO THE PEOPLE OF SALONE
From: No Nonsense man
To: All
Date Posted: 11:22:00 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
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Message:
What the courts did was very wrong. You know, the same courts is not even
pursuing NEC to release polling station results of 2007 as mandated by our
Constitution.
Mr Alie Formeh, the word today however is Cocaine.
The All Peoples Cocaine Cartel (APC C), a new arm of the Columbian Medellin Cartel in West Africa has been caught pants down. Thats the serious horror our country is facing now.
Did you really think changing the topic will make this go away? You are mistaken, Manzo, Salone Musician is currently working on a single titled "Nar we tem dis... for halaki the contri"
Find a mature way to spin this. That was a very childish attempt
Subject: Re: Collusion between governments and the courts
From: Judge
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Date Posted: 11:17:22 07/15/08 ()
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Gabbidon has been granted bail yesterday. Did the SLpP do that too? Bail is a
constitutional right, and Musa was not yet guilty until he was convicted. Musa
is corrupt just like all the others in the salone gov't, but not granting bail
will not solve the problem.
Subject: Re: Collusion between governments and the courts
From: thomas manna
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Date Posted: 11:07:40 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: thomas@hotmail.com
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The ACC and government of Sierra Leone can request his extradition to face
justice in sierra leone What is stoping that.
Subject: Re: Collusion between governments and the courts
From: Munku Bob
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Date Posted: 11:24:40 07/15/08 ()
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Thomas Manna, you sound like my best friend Bonthe Pikin. Are you another Bob
Jusu reincarnate? Hehehehehee.Munku Bob.
Subject: Do not rush to judgement
From: Alie Formeh Kamara
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Date Posted: 10:24:12 07/15/08 ()
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Let me register my discontent with the illegal use of our Airport as a base for
drug traffickers. But I must warn you that this practice went basically
unnoticed under the reigns of the SLPP government and that there should be no
rush to judgment.
Let me remind everyone that the President, His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma, was
a trumpeter for anti-corruption and I believe that if any of his Ministers or
essential staff is implicated, he will order an immediate dismissal and allow
the courts to take jurisdiction.
I know that many in the opposition will try to use this to smear the APC
government but if you are concerned about corruption then you now have a case by
which you can judge the President.
Let us watch and see how the case would be handled. I am eager to hear the
outcome. We must put our country first.
Subject: Re: Do not rush to judgement
From: APC Bomba
To: All
Date Posted: 12:10:09 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: Bacchusmoi@yahoo.com
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Can somebody please tell me the whereabouts of Uman Lappa and Eddie Grant who
had inter alia made judgements based on their personal investigations.Are they
in any way connected to this ACP drug plane? I hope nobody eats his/her word
here. I hope kothor/hemor bai bai will not be implicated in this ACP&A( All
country Pwell and Alackie)drug mafiaso; but let us don't rush to judgement.I
feel for Uman Lappa, Kinny Brima, eddie Grant and all the ACP&A apologists
in MD.
Subject: Re: Do not rush to judgement
From: jaff akinson
To: All
Date Posted: 11:17:55 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: jaffakinson@yahoo.co.uk
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The SLPP minister was sacked for an helicopter crash and kemoh sesay was one of
the advocate for his neligence in parliament. But more three days after the
incident the president has not taken any bold step to question, arrest or
suspend any of the big names mentioned so far. How are sierra leoneans going to
believe is not a syndicate operation to damage our country. How long is he going
to take to react to such a disgraceful act by top officials in the APC
government.This is not time to protect blue eye boys the nation interest should
come first not individuals interest.Without any action from state house people
are going to jump into conclusions so is up to the president to stop such debate
by taking immediate action against kemoh sesay.Heads must roll from the minister
to IG and top security and airport officials.
I hope there will be some quick action over this issue as this is very
disgraceful for the image of the country.God save the country.
Subject: Re: Do not rush to judgement
From: zakmal
To: All
Date Posted: 11:09:59 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: columbusw@gmail.com
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I agree with your caution Alie. We both live in a country where the presumption
of innocence is guaranteed.However, this incident should be a turning point in
our democracy. The law enforcement and the judiciary should take the lead in
this matter not the state house. I have my doubts however,considering the amount
of money involved. Parliament should get to work right away strenghtning our
drug trafficating laws with stringent penalties. The world is now watching our
government to see what the outcome would be in this case. Any minister or any
other government officails implicated as been suggested in the media should be
suspended without pay until the conclusion of the enquiry. These shenanigans are
responsible for the slow progress of mother sierra leone. Government offials are
oblivious to the suffering because they could care less about their salaries as
they have other income avenues to protect. As you so cleverly mention in your
closing our country comes first. That's patriotism not partisanship.
Subject: Re: Do not rush to judgement
From: jaff akinson
To: All
Date Posted: 11:06:21 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: jaffakinson@yahoo.co.uk
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The SLPP minister was sacked for an helicopter crash and kemoh sesay was one of
the advocate for his neligence in parliament. But more three days after the
incident the president has not taken any bold step to question, arrest or
suspend any of the big names mentioned so far. How are sierra leoneans going to
believe is not a syndicate operation to damage our country. How long is he going
to take to react to such a disgraceful act but top officials in the APC
government.This is not time to protect blue eye boys the nation interest should
come first not individuals interest.Without any action from state house people
are going to jump into conclusions so is up to the president to top such debate
by taking immediate action against kemoh sesay.Heads must roll from the minister
to IG and top security and airport officials.
I hope there will be some quick action over this issue as it the very
disgraceful for the image of the country.God save the country.
Subject: Re: Do not rush to judgement
From: thomas manna
To: All
Date Posted: 11:15:41 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: thomas@hotmail.com
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Even if the transport minister knew nothing or not involved in this scandal, the
normal course of action is for the president to dismissed him including those in
strategic assignment. There is no excuse for our air space to be transgressed
right under the nose of our security. The minister of transport position is
untenable. President koroma must act with speed.
Subject: Re: Do not rush to judgement
From: zakmal
To: All
Date Posted: 11:40:43 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: columbusw@gmail.com
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Speedy action is needed but with caution. The president has no choice here but
to make moves that would convince our benifactors that he is serious about
corruption. He shouldn't protect anyone with the political capital that he is
slowly building internationally especially standing up to that old brute of
Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe whilst the other leaders present folded like cheap
suitcases.
Subject: You really believe that crap
From: Democrat
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Date Posted: 11:45:03 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Standing up to Mugabe whilst ambushing his own NEC staff and destroying election
materials. Sioooor
And now this Key Ministers in drug trafficking. Bo Zakmal Republican lef this nonsense yah.
Subject: Re: You really believe that crap
From: zakmal
To: All
Date Posted: 12:26:29 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: columbusw@gmail.com
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I'm amazed you were to able to detect my political leanings. I hope you and I
would help the people over there that we can disagree but not disagreeable.I am
willing to give Ernest Koroma a chance to rid himself of the APC doctrinaires
who spent their early adulthood studying in the Eastern bloc.
Subject: ‘Man’s Best Friend’ Now a Hit Menu in Liberia:
Consumers, Hu
From: Dog Eater
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Date Posted: 09:38:09 07/15/08 ()
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‘Man’s Best Friend’ Now a Hit Menu in Liberia: Consumers, Hunt for Dogs Up
07/124/08 - Mae Azango, mazango@FrontPageAfrica.com
Monrovia -
Cook Shops like this one in the Gobachop Community in Red Light, Paynesville is
a hot spot for meals serving dogs.
Dogs are one of the best friendly pets to humans (Man’s Best Friend) and serve
as watchman in many instances while people sometimes used them for
entertainment.
In some countries, dogs are traded as goods for comfort and transportation like the Eskimo Dogs in some part of Asia with others serving as security for blind people and also helping the police track down criminals.
In post-war Liberia, dogs have become the best source of food for many and the business of dog is becoming lucrative prompting widespread hunt for dogs.
Dog meat is now 'The Issue'
At the Gobachop Community, one of the major trading centers for dog meat is
dominantly occupied by people from Nimba and Grand Bassa Counties.
Densely populated communities in Monrovia and suburbs have become trading
centers for dog meat referred to as “Issue”.
Hundreds are seen cueing and struggling on a daily basis to get dog meat as cars are parked around the vicinities of dog cooking centers.
The dog meat market now has three partners who coordinate their activities to keep a constant supply of the meat on the market for the growing number of consumers.
People are keeping dogs in good numbers for commercial purpose and sell to the buyers who in turn sell to the cookers and retailers of the animal after been cut into pieces and cooked.
The Gobachop Community in Red Light, Paynesville, a densely populated market center has nowadays become one of the hottest centers for dog meat trade.
People are seen in numbers from other parts of Monrovia at a building behind the market where an elderly lady only identify as Oldma Krubo, popularly known as the “Issue Oldma” sells the dog meat.
In the Gobachop Market area, according to a source, small dogs are sold for US$ 10, while medium size and bigger ones are sold between U$15 to 20 respectively.
The source further said young boys are found stealing dogs from homes which are taken to the “Issue Oldma” for sale but in such case she pays less than US$ 10.
Our reporter who recently visited the Gobachop dog cooking and eating center, pretending to be a customer, bought fours pieces of raw dog meat as the cook ones were not ready; the head, liver, a foot and two other pieces for L$ 100.
Half of the dog head is sold for L$ 70 but was negotiated for L$60 while other pieces are sold for L$ 10 each, chosen by customers.
It was noticed that two dogs were already in a big pot on the fire while two were been cut into pieces and undergoing preparation for cooking by 10: am.
Several Liberians also have job opportunities out of the dog meat market as about six to seven persons are seen working, some cooking, others cleaning new goods, while others go around selling from place to place in buckets the already prepared meat.
Unknown fate: A dog await his time As a result of the new demand for dog meat, dogs are becoming scare in Monrovia and environs as some individuals go about chasing dogs from community to community and wherever they are spotted during the day, at nightfall those places are seized by dog hunters and the dogs are killed while the owners are in bed.
Alfred Sayon, a resident of 16th Street in Sinkor said he sleeps with his dog indoor for fear of been killed by dog hunters.
He explained that recently in his community a fight broke out between two men that resulted into the use of cutlass and other sharp objects because one of the men felt cheated over a stolen dog.
Sayon said he is surprise that such incident will occur on 16th street that has not been known for dog eating, indicating that other places with records of dog eating like Buzzi Quarter, West Point, Logan Town, amongst others might be worse.
Dog hunt creating confusion
The dog hunt is also creating confusion in most communities, as residents in some instances sue others for killing their dogs.
Quite recently, the Magisterial Court at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia sent a man, Thomas Mulbah to detention at the Monrovia Central prison on charges of cruelty to animal and theft of property following a complaint filed by a lady, Ellen Z. Whyte.
Mulbah was taken to court by Madam Whyte on allegation of killing her two dogs on 14th street in Sinkor on June 17.
Complainant Whyte told the court that Mulbah had killed her dogs on three occasions and used them for commercial purpose.
According to Complainant Whyte, Mulbah in recent time paid L$1,200 for one of her dogs he killed following intense pressure concerning the whereabouts of the dogs.
Whyte contended that while it is true that dogs are animals, they too have rights and must not be killed at will.
In Other parts of the country, there are also reports that dogs are been sold on main streets with people buying publicly.
Harbel, Margibi County, where Firestone Plantation Liberia, one of the largest producers of raw rubber is based, has in the past been viewed as one of the well known trading centers in dog.
Over the years, and now, people are seen negotiating for dogs which are kept until the end of every month when the company is paying workers and the dogs are taken to Harbel where they are sold for up to US$ 50 and above depending on the size.
Dogs for rice becoming the norm
Sometimes the dogs are traded for US parboiled rice and some compensation.
Before the war era, dogs were believed to be sold in a local community, Buzzi Quarter leading to many avoiding residing in the area for fear of been termed as dog eaters.
Residents of the Buzzi Quarter community were stigmatized as a result of the dog trading activities in the neighborhood which many claimed were dominantly occupied by people from Lofa County.
In Liberia, dog eating has been ascribed to people hailing from Lofa mainly the Lormas, Kissis, Gbandis but it seems as though it is practiced in recent time by nearly all the tribes.
The Gobachop Community, one of the major trading centers for dog meat is dominantly occupied by people from Nimba and Grand Bassa Counties. Surrounding communities are named in honor of the Gios and Bassas; Gio Town, Bassa Town.
Across Monrovia, debates are raging in support for and against the habit of dog eating and trading.
Some argue that dogs are human best friend and must not be eaten no matter the situation while others say there is nothing wrong with eating dogs.
“Dogs are humans it is only that God made them that way, so I don’t know why people will decide to eat them, sometimes dogs talk to you like humans especially when you keep them around you for longer period”, Madam Alice Coleman owner of a local restaurant expressed.
No health problem, man says
Emmanuel Saah, a 32 year old man said dogs are like any other animals and there is no unhealthy problem involved in the eating of dogs.
“Dogs are animal only that they live in town and so what’s wrong with eating them, in fact dogs are greasy than any other animals and good to eat, we call it town raccoon”, Saah asserted.
Some of the dogs traded are very itchy and appear sickly but Saah said the ones that appear itchy are very greasy.
As the trading in dog increases, there are mixed views with people claiming that restaurants and food centers are involved in the cooking of dogs since meat is very expensive on the Liberian market.
A thigh of black deer meat is sold between L$ 375 to 450 and other bigger animals such as reindeer, raccoons, etc are sold for higher prices.
The high price for meat has also been blamed for increase in the consumption
of dogs as some people see dogs as possible substitute for meat.
Subject: WHY WAS SIRLEAF'S DOG EATING LIBERIA NOT COCAINE PLANE ...
From: Tigbana Tipoteh
To: All
Date Posted: 09:54:36 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Why was Sirleaf's Dog-eating Liberia not targeted for as Cocaine Plane shipment
and transit point?
Ans
Sirleaf has no known hustlers and druggies in her government.
Rhetoric
Can you say that about the Government of Salone?
Subject: LIST OF APC BIG VONS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY NAMED & ROLES
From: Salone CIA
To: All
Date Posted: 09:36:57 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Here is a comprehensive list and Role of some APC vons directly or indirectly
mentioned in investigations by the UNODC, FBI, ONS, SLP joint Cocaine Plane
Investigation Team currently.
Facts:
Cocaine plane made unauthorised landing about 3 am on Sunday 13th and stayed way
off main terminal building. Crew immediately fled scene aided by airport
perimeter breach by Black Jeep (similar to that used by APC Task Force Boys).
One crate of the seized Cocaine vanished whilst offloading exhibit
1. Kemoh Sesay, Minister of Transport: Alleged mastermind behind criminal enterprise. Was confirmed heading towards Lungi hours before Coke plane landed. Brother, Ahmed Sesay (TM Leone Stars, now in custody) had earlier gone to arrange for refuelling for a private plane that they were expecting. Minister Sesay has a close business relations with Frank Timis (a convicted Romanian cocaine traficker; 21K British pounds recently paid in his account from 'questionable source'. Minister had weeks earlier advocated changing Airport personnel at Lungi and had recenty allocated Hastings airfields to some "Nigerian Business" men.
2. Alpha Kanu Minister of Presidential Affairs, close friend of Kemoh Sesay, but no direct link to Cocaine Plane has yet being unearthed. He is however strongly advocating that the International (UN, British & US) Agents should hand the Cocaine exhibits back to 'them'. Weapons taken by Presidential Guards have been taken to his State House Office instead of CID. Alpha Kanu was recently mentioned in unrelated scams - Emzo, Fake Mecca trip.
3. HE Bai Koroma, President: No direct links as yet. Coincidentally happened to have come from Gambia,at an ungodly hour soon after horror drama started unfolding. Reportedly inspected suspect plane (God knows what for)and some of his security officers are known to have taken exhibit weapons mentioned above (2). The President is very keen on having UN assistance in investigations (contrary to his Minister Alpha Kanu's stance). HE is currently making a name for himself on the continent for his lackluster decision making.
4. Unnamed suspects: UNODC and ONS interested in speaking to three close allies of Vice President, Sam Sumana, and a half brother of First Lady, Sia Koroma?
5. Santos Bangura, Acting LUC Lungi Airport Police Station. Small fry, known APC activist. Openly brags of his connections to Minister Kemoh. He has been arrested to help with investigations.
More names and roles to come ...my phone is buzzing... gotta go meet one of my sources...will provide some more updates soon.
Subject: Re: LIST OF APC BIG VONS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY NAMED &
ROLES
From: HASSAN KAMARA
To: All
Date Posted: 10:54:42 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: KAMSON10@HOTMAIL.COM
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What bout MOMODU KOROMA former SLPP FOREIGN MINISTER who was intercepted with
DRUGS IN LONDON?
Subject: Re: LIST OF APC BIG VONS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY NAMED &
ROLES
From: robake
To: All
Date Posted: 10:34:58 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: bakeloko@yahoo.com
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Let us wait until the drama unfolds. There is a lot more than meets the eye.
Filthy rich SLPP ministers should start accounting for the loot and the heavy
infusion of cash they have benefitted from imported drugs.
There is more information to come from the Leone Stars manager who has been their henchman ever since.
Subject: Some Cocaine Boxes Disappear
From: CIA
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Date Posted: 09:21:49 07/15/08 ()
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More than one box of cocaine found at Lungi has disappeared from the custody of
the police. Sierra-leoneans are now asking who took those boxes?
"Meanwhile, one or more boxes of the cocaine under the custody of the security is said to have disappeared. Awoko, Awareness Times, Standard Times, For di People, The New Citizen, The Pool, Independent Observer report the incident".---UnIOSIL NEWS BRIEFS
Subject: PMDC leader challenged
From: Pikin Margai
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Date Posted: 09:17:23 07/15/08 ()
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PMDC leader challenged
The leadership of the Peoples Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) is reportedly facing an unprecedented challenger who hopes to draw support from the north. Dauda Tombo Bangura, former leader of the defunct Grand Alliance Party on Saturday 12 July reportedly declared his intension to contest for the leadership of the PMDC in the APC stronghold of Makeni, headquarters of the northern region.
The occasion was graced by Party Executives with the exception of embattled
leader, lawyer Charles Margai. In his declaration remarks, Dauda Tombo Bangura
reportedly made reference to the need for a more vibrant and visionary
leadership that would enhance the achievement of the ultimate goal of winning
elections, while noting the initial gains that the party made in last year’s
polls, reports Standard Times. Independent Observer in its report refers to Mr.
Bangura as an unsuccessful politician, who was expelled from Parliament, where
he represented the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); and predicts the “death”
of the PMDC along the lines of the PDP and the United National Peoples Party (UNPP)
following the exit of their original leaders, the late Thaimu Bangura and Dr.
John Kerefa Smart, respectively.
Subject: COCAINE FOUND AT LUNGI. THE TRUE STORY.
From: DIAMOND SWEH
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Date Posted: 07:20:02 07/15/08 ()
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Why are many of us so concerned about this story? We are all talking about the
cocaine and the weapons but no mention about the money that was in the plane ?
During the past 5 years whilst I was buil;ding my house in Freetown, I had made
several trips to Sierra Leone via Conakry Guinea. On many occassions, plane
loads of cocaine and cash had been seized at conakry, bissau and even Banjul and
now Freetown.
I remember at one time, I was in the company of two Americans , one black and
one white and we had travelled from Conakry to Freetown and these guys were so
well known at the bars in Freetown for their cash splashing activities on our
young women that I kind of look odd. On one occassions these girls had a fist
fight for one of these guys (The white guy) who would give $500 for a night with
him in his hotel. On this particular night , the white guy was so drunk that he
spoke too much. Being fluent in Spanish, I understood what he was talking about
with references to Medellin and Comlumbiano etc. I was even given the cell phone
number of one of the dudes the black dude a baltimore, md local.
I met with them at their hotel the next day, one of the best in town as they had
promised to buy my jeep which they did buy and asked me to stay around with them
for some days and in case they wanted to come back to conakry drive them back
although they had bought my jeep. So I agreed and will check on them whilst
checking on my projects.
As a naturalized US citizen and one who could speak their language , they let me
in on what they were doing in Sierra Leone and I was tld buy them that they are
doing mining , oil and gas exploration etc. So you see the link now between
diamonds and cocaine?
Anyway, to cut a long story short, we became friends and we are still friends
today. my gut feelings in me is telling me that out of the seven guys arrested
two might be them. By the way, if anyone needs info on their many contacts in
Freetown , which I know, they can reach me privately :avrilintl@comcast.net
Subject: Re: COCAINE FOUND AT LUNGI. THE TRUE STORY.
From: Mr. Cullinan
To: All
Date Posted: 13:55:10 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: sorrelsteak@yahoo.com
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TO: D. S. Please see my response to your posting on the program, "Diamond
Road" and give me your thoughts. Thanks, Mr. C.
Subject: THIS COCAINE PLANE HAD GOVERNMENT COLLABORATION
From: DEA Agent (Freetown)
To: All
Date Posted: 08:05:56 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: donwhite@yahoo.co.uk
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Mr Sweh, I am shocked that you are trivialising this criminal enterprise, as
though you cared less about Sierra Leone. Is it because you have a Green Card
and another place you call home? Aiding and abeting my friend is a crime - good
job you are using a moniker.
You have completely missed the point here. This story is not just about Columbians, Americans or Venezuelians. Its about key APC Government players like the Minister of Transport, Presidential Affairs (this hustler wants the UN to give him the Cocaine exhibit...Alfa Kanu den nor dae fraid), and top National security people directly involved in this despicable criminal activity - that will not only taint Sierra leone, but also flood hard drugs into our country, which by the way, has very high unemployment rates.
I am sure Kemoh Sesay will argue like you. Whats the big deal? They bought a Jeep for me, paid 21 thousand pounds in my London Account and promised to build a house for me etc etc. You have to be very very sick and unpatriotic to think likt that.Well I have news for you Mr, you can shove your Jeep in.... you know where.
You are also arguing like King Loggy... Oh its done elsewhere, so we should allow APC Miscreants to turn Mama Salone into a drug transit point. I am restrained because of respect for other forumites, otherwise I would have described you in a very unflattering manner. You sound very much like the few 'dubious' APC supporters still in denial and unsuccessfully trying to spin this horror real life drama.
Sierra Leone does not need your ilk - one who builds a house for himself and assists drug traffickers to destroy our subregion withour blinking. I strongly urge you to provide those numbers you claim to have - it might just help with the investigations.
Shame on you... Mr "swegbeh"!
Subject: Re: COCAINE FOUND AT LUNGI. THE TRUE STORY.
From: Yasmin Gbenda
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Date Posted: 07:39:25 07/15/08 ()
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Are you trying to blow the whistle on your colleagues? though I appreciate that
giving information on the activities of these drug pushers is very important and
helpful, I do not believe in betrayal as you sounded here.
But please we still need the information and give us your contact details.
Subject: Re: COCAINE FOUND AT LUNGI. THE TRUE STORY.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 08:05:26 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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I will go one step by suggesting that side apart of the showoffishness and
convoluted grandstanding,he is very much part of the well orchestrated
syndicated dragnet of the criminal empire in this sordid state of affairs.
If he was a genuine and true,he should at the very least inform the US Embassy
who will have the FBI,FDA,AND IRS on their tails.Since he is making profits from
from the same trade,that will never cross his mind.All he wants you guys to know
is how well he is now in terms of financial status.It will sure enough catch up
with him and his cohorts.It is just a question of time.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: KEMOH SESAY AND ALL APC INVOLVED MUST BE ARRESTED
From: Saidu O'Bollum Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:59:40 07/15/08 ()
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President Ernest Koroma is looking at his downfall . If he shields Kemoh Sesay
and other APC involved,he id finished . Don't forget how America entered and
arrested President Noreiga of Panama.President, you can't shield anybody. This
is for your own good.
Subject: KING LOGGY & OTHER APC SUPPORTERS IN DENIIAL,: WHY?
From: DEA Agent (Freetown)
To: All
Date Posted: 06:50:23 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
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Why was Transportation Minister, Kemoh Sesay, heading to Lungi around the time
the Cocaine plane was due to land at the airport?
Why was the President coincidentally at the airport? Well, the president was landing in Sierra Leone from a private visit in Gambia. Well, what a coincidence! So when did the president leave Sierra Leone for this "private" visit, and how large was his usual delegation?
Who warned the drug-smuggling pilots that a team of UNODC, FBI, ONS, and a special detachment of the Lungi-based elite RSLAF Unit Force Reconnaisance Group (led by IMATT officers) was waiting at Lungi Airport for them?
Is this not why the drug smugglers ditched the aircraft and fled? Who captured the drug smugglers?
Why was the Inspector General of Police, Brima Acha Kamara, bypassed in the security operation to nab the cocaine smugglers? Why is it that the UNODC, American officials, and IMATT team only informed AIG Munu, of all the senior police officers in the Sierra Leone Police Force? Does that place AIG Munu in the bad books of the APC officials?
Why has the president hastened to appoint AIG John (his personal friend) as deputy head of the ONS? Is he concerned that he is not getting the full scoop on the country's security systems or is AIG John going to be the new mole?
Why is the Presidential Affairs Minister, Alpha Kanu, fuming about the UNODC, American, and British security officials who cordoned off and moved the cocaine Beech aircraft to a safe locat1on? Why has he angrily said that he condemns the "audacity" of "these foreigners" who must "hand over all suspects and contraband to the Sierra Leone security forces." When is Alpha Kanu become a nationalist?
Why did the presidential security detail take back the automatic rifles and pistols discovered at the site of the plane landing to State House? Is the State House the new CID? Why is State House so interested in weapons discovered at a crime scene? How come police officials at CID are insisting that they have received no weapons of evidence from the crime scene? So where are the firearms collected by the president's security detail?
Why is the UNODC and ONS interested in speaking to three close allies of Vice President, Sam Sumana, and a half brother of First Lady, Sia Koroma?
Subject: DIAMONDS, COCAINE AND GOLD : THE LINK.
From: DIAMOND SWEH
To: All
Date Posted: 06:41:34 07/15/08 ()
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Who would argue that there is no link between the diamond trade and cocaine
smuggling in salone?
Subject: KEMOH SESAY IS A DRUG-LORD.
From: alieu sesay
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Date Posted: 06:09:20 07/15/08 ()
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APC Give us FOOD NOT DRUGS..
Subject: Re: KEMOH SESAY IS A DRUG-LORD.
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
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Date Posted: 10:12:52 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: saidubangso@aol.com
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I do not know with certainty that Kemoh Sesay is a drug lord, but I know that he
is the brother of Mr. Ahmed Sesay and both us them have been involved in
criminal activities for many, many years.
I call on the police chief to properly examine this drug case without favour or
ill-will. In the interest of our country, I call on president Ernest Koroma to
detach himself from this case because, Kemoh Sesay is his a good friend and the
president would want to protect Kemoh.
Subject: AT LEAST 16 PRIVATE PLANES HAVE OFFLOADED & REFUELED @
LUNGI
From: Airport Worker
To: All
Date Posted: 05:58:12 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: donwhite@yahoo.co.uk
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This despicable crime is not an isolated incident. In the last 3 months alone,
at least 16 'dubious' planes have landed, offloaded sometimes, and refueled at
our airport at very odd hours. This is very esasy to verify.
Had the crew members not panicked and attempted to excape (believing the Presidential security guard was there to get them), nothing would have come of this.
By the way, why was EBK coming from a trip abroad (Gambia or Burkina Faso) at such an odd hour? Very unsual.
APC will finish Salone dis time round. The 11 year war and the passport scandal will pale to insignificance when we eventually get to the bottom of this. It stinks. Period.
Zero Tolerance my foot.
p/s
HE John Leigh, I really would welcome an opinion from you on this disturbing
National Saga. You may want to call sources in Freetown & Lungi before... I
am sure you may have already started doing this.
Could you use some of your influence and get independent DEA officers to SL ASAP?
What say sir?
Admirer
Subject: Re: AT LEAST 16 PRIVATE PLANES HAVE OFFLOADED & REFUELED
@ LUNGI
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
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Date Posted: 07:12:19 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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Mr.ghost and nameless airport worker believe me you must be joking.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: AT LEAST 16 PRIVATE PLANES HAVE OFFLOADED & REFUELED
@ LUNGI
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 07:57:28 07/15/08 ()
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Mr Kutubu Koroma,
in as much as this is an ugly occurence, there's a lot of truth on what this chap has said. I've been told about this sort of activities taking place in our country.
In March 2006, I visited Sierra Leone and on my way to Lungi, In the ferry there was this Nigerian bloke who occupied one of the seats in one of the decks, he had with him a 'Ghana mustgo' bag. A minute later, he decided to get up from where he was sitting and went somewhere, so his seat is now being occupied by a heavily pregnant woman, when he returned he demanded his seat back he became so hostile, angry and determined to remove the woman from the seat. At this me, my friends and other people intervened but the guy still refuse to relent and I had to inform the police officer on the other side who came with a few more security men once the guy was wrestled to the ground, we pointed to his belonging and to everybody's suprise, a huge amount of counterfeit money in local currency was discovered, as he was arrested he laughed assuring us that he is going to getaway with it.
So the problem is deep rooted my brother.
Subject: Re: AT LEAST 16 PRIVATE PLANES HAVE OFFLOADED & REFUELED
@ LUNGI
From: Airport Worker
To: All
Date Posted: 07:33:56 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: donwhite@yahoo.co.uk
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I swear sir, I am speaking the truth.
Call and ask not only airport workers, but even residents who live locally. Even local fisher men have seen strange speed boats at odd hours, around the airport area. The Minister is also aware, as he even sometimes gives authority to traffic controllers.
I am sure you can understand why I cannot give you my name and number. I do not want Government trouble.
Please call people on the ground. Santos Bangura, Acting LUC Lungi Airport Police Station and a big APC man have even been arrested.
These operations had big people behind it.
Subject: Re: AT LEAST 16 PRIVATE PLANES HAVE OFFLOADED & REFUELED
@ LUNGI
From: Real
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Date Posted: 10:37:23 07/15/08 ()
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Airport Worker your writtings resembles that of The Newpeople. Forumites Please
read Newpeople and judge for youeself.
Subject: Re: AT LEAST 16 PRIVATE PLANES HAVE OFFLOADED & REFUELED
@ LUNGI
From: A K Sesay
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Date Posted: 06:09:15 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Orman, every government has to look after his people, provide jobs and put food
on the table.
Even the great America have turned a blind eye to unsavoury things to promote their national interest. We do not have a drug problem in Sierra leone, so lets understand that this enterprise was not destined for market in Sierra Leone.
Whats all this fuss?
Subject: Re: AT LEAST 16 PRIVATE PLANES HAVE OFFLOADED & REFUELED
@ LUNGI
From: Thomas Manna
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Date Posted: 06:58:59 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: thomas@hotmail.com
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"We do not have a drug problem in Sierra leone, so lets understand that
this enterprise was not destined for market in Sierra Leone"
You must be absolutely mad or one of those involved in drug traficking. The only psycratic in Sierra Leone Dr Nahim said two days ago on an interview with the BBC focus on African that Sierra Leone used to have Jamba smokers, but now 80 percent of his patients are drug related with cocian responsible.
So who is telling the truth you the criminal suspect or the professional who deals directly with mad people like you.
This is a desaster that you are trivalising.
Subject: Re: AT LEAST 16 PRIVATE PLANES HAVE OFFLOADED & REFUELED
@ LUNGI
From: A K Sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 07:19:49 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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You are missing the point Mr Manna.
Why can't our government make easy money for our people. I am sure thats what a patriot like Hon Kemoh Sesay was doing. They should just leave him alone and that is my point. He is the transport minister and he has the right to visit Lungi Airport anytime of the day.
Dr Nahim is exaggerating drug use to get more funding for his outfit.
Subject: THE NATIONAL SECURITY DEBACLE AND THE WAY FORWARD.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 05:15:31 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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The latest national security debacle in which a foreign did not only violate the
airspace of the nation but even landed at its international airport with
reckless disregard for the security of the nation should be viewed with grave
concern by all and sundry.
The administration should embark on the following lines of actions in my
considered judgment and candid opinion as expeditiously as possible.
The leadership should convene a national security council meeting with the
following participants.
The president,
The vice president,
The minister of foreign affairs,
The minister of defence,
The chief of defence staff,
The attorney general,
The national security advisor.
2.The administration should through the minister of foreign affairs,seek
techinical assistance from the United States of America whereby the
CIA,DEA,FBI,and the NI agencies are given lead roles in the investigations of
this grave national security problem that has befallen the nation.
3.The administration can also consider asking the United States of America to
set up a DEA out fit in Sierra Leone to help stem the flow of illegal drugs in
the nation because they constitute a strategic threat to the very citadel of the
national well being of the country.Nigeria at a point in time had such
understand with the United States of America and it substantially reduced
illegal flow of drug activities in the country.
4.On the domestic aspect of it,the chief of defence staff and the national
security advisor should both be placed on adminstrative leave for such a breech
of national safety.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: THE NATIONAL SECURITY DEBACLE AND THE WAY FORWARD.
From: Another curious question
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Date Posted: 05:36:24 07/15/08 ()
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It is believed that one of the top Ministers is furious about the involvement of
IMATT and UNODC in this operation, and he insists that the drugs be handed over
to them?? Would you be able to confirm this??
Subject: Re: THE NATIONAL SECURITY DEBACLE AND THE WAY FORWARD.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 07:07:47 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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Sir,i really dont know what you are talking about a minister insisting that the
drugs be passed over to him.In any case like i have said this is a matter of
national security of the most fundamental character where the survival of the
whole nation is at stake.This is no laughing matter.If it were in a place like
the USA or even Nigeria where a plane violates the national air space and
brazenly lands at any of the airfields,heads should have been rolling by
now.From the Director of the CIA and possibly the Secretary of Defence.Since
this current administration cannot be trusted to police itself on a sensitive
national security of this magnitude,i have already made modest suggestions and
if followed,it will give the Ernest Koroma adminstration the much needed boost
it needs in the relm of credibility.For now most of us consider this government
a big joke especially when it has as Foreign Minister some one of Zainab
Bangura's caliber who do not know what it means to be in such august position.
As for your assertion that a minister has suggested that the drugs be passed on
to him,i will rather not dignify that with comments because it is not worth it .
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: THE NATIONAL SECURITY DEBACLE AND THE WAY FORWARD.
From: Curious Observer
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Date Posted: 05:25:48 07/15/08 ()
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Sir, you have named whole lot of Government officials as participants, and some
of them could be culpable.In last 8 month 16 private planes have landed at Lungi,
in the name of investment and charity.
Subject: Re: THE NATIONAL SECURITY DEBACLE AND THE WAY FORWARD.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 06:26:19 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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Sir,what we have here is a nation on the path of returning to the senless
carnage and wanton destruction as a result of the decade civil war and its
manifold consequences.I can conceive of no better way forward in handling the
situation than for the government itself to step forward to the plate.If there
is an iota of evidence suggesting conspiratorial liability on the part of any
one in this sordid state of affairs,prompt action should be taken against such
persons.
That is why i have said the Government should muster the courage of conviction
and moral fortutude to pass this kind of matter to a nation capable of solving
it to the satisfaction of all and sundry.In the mean time,i have suggested the
suspension of the two senior security officials pending the outcome of an
outside and thorough investigations.The nation does not have the means,and
willingness to police itself in a matter as grave as this.We should all make
clarion calls for this modest suggestions as the only way forward.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: they are not bring rice they are bring drugs
From: jaff akinson
To: All
Date Posted: 05:10:29 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: jaffakinson@yahoo.co.uk
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The mistery surounding the drug plane is not anything any sierra leonean can
believe the stories if we are to be honest with ourselves. Why they didnt load a
ship full of rice and let the ship to dock and the captain loaded in a jeep to
disappear.
By now if the APC government is really up to its job of protecting the citizens
and the image of the state, the transport minister, and other top officials at
the airport and ministry and the IG should be behind close doors by now. What is
the government doing to protect us or they are bent on druging our kids and
using our country as transit point for drugs and tarnish our country for their
own pockets to be full.We have been tarnished by the war brutality, the passport
scandal around the world and now people are taking to drugs.President Koroma by
now should have ordered the arrest of those linked with the matter or in
position of resposibilty. In a train accident in china 3 months ago in less than
3 hours immediately saw the sacking of the railway minister and other top
officials for investigation. But with all the news going around about the
transport minister and his brother in this deal and IGs failure to perform his
duty, yet they are still moving around in tax payers jeep running around
arranging for more drugs to come in and the pilots and crew to disapear. Is this
not an enbrassement for the state and a disgrace for Sierra Leoneans at home and
abroad? Lets talk to the president that this is time for him to act strongly as
this is a big test for him and the nation. We are waiting to see as time goes by
if the APC slogan of na we tiem this means to trade in drug and disgrace our
nation. This is not time for party politics it is our national interest,
security, integrity and credibility that is at stake. I hope the president will
act now.We should not encourage our nation to be destroyed by few people because
they want to be rich over night.
Subject: Re: they are not bring rice they are bring drugs
From: Spin doctor
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Date Posted: 05:17:04 07/15/08 ()
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You people are just negative minded.Out of the proceeds of the drugs, they will
bring in few shiploads of Rice, and give it to the public free of charge.So I am
pleading with IMATT/UN to return our drugs.
Subject: An Opportunity for SLPP to create a Responsible Image
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 05:01:22 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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In our world of today, technology has so much invaded our planet, we are almost
forgetting the natural and/or divine way of doing things. Check out the
spreading mobile telephone use nowadays! People talk endlessly on a wireless
phone, no visible connection with the other phone, but they ceaselessly enjoy
the smooth and unhindered flow of information as one blameless believer in
technology pleads with the other for a favour. But then, ask the same user to
pray to the Almighty God and ask for a favour, he/she blushes, frowns or even
gives a questioning expression …. implying that, God’s response might not be
immediate … if it can be heard at all … irrespective of the fact that, the
two means of communication are both wireless!
I sometimes wonder at the shock that registers in peoples’ faces when I attempt to pluck issues down from the technologically-aided fantasies and bring them down to earth with a lighthearted touch and commonsense tone! I may not be in position to provide cherry-picked statistics to support my well-tested analogy, but I’m prepared to bet my new suit that our world today is gradually drifting away from its nature attributes and slowly edging towards the attractions of impressive technological trickery!
Suppose one should attempt to conscr1pt the above into politics and suggest a similar approach be followed by SLPP decision-makers in matters that have to do with our national integrity, the results might be staggering.
Take for instance, the on-going “drug-plane” saga that has brought the internal security of our country under serious questioning. Naturally, I was expecting the SLPP to come out with a strong statement, unforgivably targeting the criminals without any hint of blaming the government in power. While people are expecting the opposition to blast the government of the day, it dramatically changes its strategy and show responsibility by showing an inordinate amount of the national concern that matters! I would expect SLPP to take the lead in protective statements like: “ …. after all, political bickering aside, Sierra Leone is all we have …….. with drugs and weapons on the cheap, the future of our children and grandchildren is at stake …… we cannot afford to be reckless after what we have witnessed in the RUF rebel war …… (and most importantly) our party is wholeheartedly prepared to offer unlimited assistance to the government if needed, as long as the issue is one that threatens the peaceful democracy of our nation. Remember folks, this party lost the elections because the people thought that the party rulers don’t care much about the country and its people …. rather, they care about themselves. This is a very good opportunity for the SLPP politicians to win back the hearts and minds of the people far away from a campaigning venue!
And in the aftermath, thoroughly tuned, uncompromising in their quest for the reasons behind the irresponsible lapse, the opposition would patiently wait for the unfolding explanation surrounding the landing of the plane. They should be careful enough not to miss the target that must squarely be targeted with stinging criticism, because, the moment the renowned ‘cry-baby’ attitude of the opposition is suspected, the same moment we’ll start hearing the ‘political witch hunt’ buzz-word hitting the vibes! Somehow, and frankly speaking, it will surface anyway, and that’s why it is all the more important for the criticism to be concise, focused and above all genuinely nationalistic!
One thing that is undoubtedly lacking in the SLPP political strategic planning is the need for a totally refreshing approach in winning the hearts and minds of voters. I shall be focusing, from time to time with my own personal opinion, on important national issues, not with any intention to lambaste the ruling government officials’ shortcomings or inadequacies, but rather to contribute in my own little way and see that a healthy political atmosphere of objective discourse prevails in Sierra Leone. After all, national leadership is matter of collective responsibility! And, unarguably, our allegiance to our sovereign country’s national security must be supreme to partisan political affiliations!
Subject: Re: An Opportunity for SLPP to create a Responsible Image
From: Thomas manna
To: All
Date Posted: 07:18:55 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: thomas@hotmail.com
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Mensa
The SLPP of today, especially the current executive do not have the intellect to handle statecraft. You are quite right that any responsible opposition could have by now come up with a patroitic statement stating its support and cooperation with the government to investigate this threat and put a stop to it.
What you will be hearing, is JJ Saffa and Sama Banya will make political capital of this. They are stilled hazed about losing the last election and cannot even think of a blue print in opposition and how to win an election.
I just cannot understand who elected J J Saffa as secretary of SLPP. He has no idea about his role and is totally irresponsible.
Having said that, the SLPP is in disarray and I cannot see them recovering unless they see beyound their noses. Who will vote SLPP with Dr Sama Banya and JJ Saffa in charge.
They took the party to their worst defeat when the then APC opposition was in disarray until three months to the general elction.
Subject: Re: An Opportunity for SLPP to create a Responsible Image
From: Tolongbo
To: All
Date Posted: 07:01:22 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: soribabureh@hotmail.com
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That is it. Let patriotic politics reign. Through this every Sierra Leonean
stands to gain credibility than being portrayed as cocaine dealers.
The evil work of the very few self styled irresponsible elements should not overshadow the positive moves of individuals, party or the nation to move the wheel of progress.
It isn't strange to notice that in Africa, the mudslinging politics is a fatal weapon in destroying the opponents. Some of our country fellows in the East and South secretly contrived with Foday Sankoh to destroy the state on the pretext that they hated the APC. How can you aid a rebel to topple a government? If Foday Sankoh could have started his rebel campaign in the North or West, he wouldn't have succeeded in devastating the country.
What is worthy to mention here is let the SLPP hard core members and even the APC fanatics realize that Sierra Leone is a nation that needs the support of every individual for its progress. Blaming people or parties irresponsibly will not take the nation forward.
Subject: Tolongbo Cocaine thats the lowest crap I have heard
From: Abass Sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 10:56:26 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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"Some of our country fellows in the East and South secretly contrived with
Foday Sankoh to destroy the state on the pretext that they hated the APC. How
can you aid a rebel to topple a government? If Foday Sankoh could have started
his rebel campaign in the North or West, he wouldn't have succeeded in
devastating the country".
I really hope you have not started taking this 'fresh' APC supplied cocaine. Because if you are, I am here to put some additional grey matter in your drugged brain.
Here are some facts Mr tribalist:
Foday Saybana Sankoh was born on October 17, 1937 in the village of Masang Mayoso, Tonkolili District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone to an ethnic Temne father. With Charles Taylor's encouragement, Sankoh and two allies, Abu Kanu and Rashid Mansaray, returned from Libya to form the Revolutionary United Front(RUF). Sources (Births & Deaths SL, Wilkipedia)
South and East Sierra Leone share a very looooooooooooong border with former NPFL stronghold in Liberia, that your useless APC gof'ment never bothered to police. Momoh was busy 'doing rudeness'(literally) at Statehouse, whilst patriots like Bio, Nyuma, Mondeh, Kamara and others fought unpaid for months. The rest they say is history.
I am sure you are now cracking you brain to link your 'loathed Mendes' with this APC Cocaine scandal. Eee lef pah yu oooooh... nar sosos Sesay, Santos, Kargbo, Bangura... dae UN/ONS/SLP joint team den dae call en arrest.
Mr Tolongbo Cocaine, this unfolding criminal enterprise is sadly one of painful differences between Northerners and South Easterners. We pipul dem nor dae fraid for do halaki stuff - and you know it. And even as a Northerner, I have to admit this.
Please my brother do not vent your frustrations about the wretched behaviour our own folk's in power to innocent peoples. We wanted power so badly, we were even prepared to start another war. Christiana Thorpe illegally cancelled most of the votes from the South East to give us this power. Now we have the power look at what we are doing with it:
Igniting violence in Kono and other districts
Threatening Female candidates
Reintroducing 'unopppose' again through violence and intimidation
90% of our Cabinet is Northern ...
Ambushing NEC staff members and burning election materials
And now...
....coordinating the supply of Cocaine to Salone and the world at large.
After only 10 months in government, this is so far our contribution to national development in Salone. Imagine what we will do in 4 more years. Tolongbo look deep inside our fiefdom before pointing that crooked finger of yours.
A word for the wise...
Subject: Re: Tolongbo Cocaine thats the lowest crap I have heard
From: Tolongbo
To: All
Date Posted: 15:53:24 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: soribabureh@hotmai.com
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Abass Sesay if you you are to be called so. You can say whatever you want with
utmost freedom. But one thing is certain. Don't ever team up with any one with
destructive ideas against the state.
I can see sensed that you sound offended when I stated that our country men in the east and south aided Sankoh to succeed in his destructive so called revolution to paralize the country. Can you deny that?
Lets call a spade a spade. The truth will ever triumph on those rouges, who whenever they lost power they seek the wrath of God to fall on their opponents and on the nation. Tell me is that patroitism?
I am not defending anyone here, please note. If my father involves in
destroying the image of the country let the law take its course.
All vedhe same if those invole in the cocaine issue are members of the APC, i
don't think the party is at fault. Those guys are just individual Sierra
Leoneans just like you and I. Let the law catch them.
Mind you. I was one of the first to call for swift actions to be taken to
catch the culprits. If that has happened, that is fine, a thumb up for the true
leadership of the APC and its vigilant government.
Subject: S Leone police seize drugs plane: Too bad for the SLPP!
From: Forensic Expert
To: All
Date Posted: 04:35:25 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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S Leone police seize drugs plane
The UN has warned that West Africa is the new route for cocaine smugglers
Police in Sierra Leone have arrested at least eight foreigners after seizing a plane loaded with cocaine at an airport outside the capital.
The plane bore a fake Red Cross logo, reports said.
The 600kg cargo, worth an estimated $54m, was abandoned on the runway shortly after arriving in the dark in the early hours of Sunday.
The BBC's Umaru Fofana, in Freetown, says the pilots had fled in a vehicle that drove through the perimeter fence.
Our correspondent says it was a dramatic and daring escape, but they appeared to experience no resistance from security at the airport.
'Guns found'
Police spokesman Francis Munu said that a small white aircraft with a fake Red Cross emblem had landed at Freetown's international Lungi airport without authorisation.
"When police searched the aircraft, some 600kg (1,320lb) of cocaine was discovered along with gallons of fuel and several AK47 and AK48 rifles were discovered with 339 rounds of cartridges," he told AFP news agency.
The spokesman said roadblocks were set up and police later arrested seven foreign nationals - three Colombians, two Mexicans, a Venezuelan national and a US citizen - in a car 10km (six miles) from the airport.
"There must be many more flights like this"-
Michael Schulenburg
Head of the UN mission
On Monday they arrested an eighth foreigner, described as being "of Cuban-American origin", AFP said.
However, another report said that nine foreigners had been arrested.
A number of Sierra Leonean nationals had also been detained for questioning, reports said.
The incident comes after a warning from the US embassy in Freetown that some members of the police in Sierra Leone were working with organised criminals, our reporter says.
The seized drugs are now with the United Nations and the British-led International Military Advisory Training Team.
Under attack
Michael Schulenburg, the head of the United Nations mission in Sierra Leone, said it was a very big seizure.
"It's drawn attention to the fact that we have to do more. There must be many more flights like this. It's something that governments can lose control over," he told Reuters news agency.
Last month, the UN warned that West Africa was under attack from international gangs seeking new routes to smuggle cocaine from South America to Europe.
After years of war, Sierra Leone is one of the world's poorest countries and corruption is a major problem.
Guinea-Bussau, another weak West African state, has also been targeted by
Latin American drugs cartels.
Subject: APC TRANSPORT MINISTER UNDER ARREST?
From: Keen Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 05:15:32 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Residents in Freetown and the International Community have now become shocked at
what is emerging to be the political scandal of the decade.
The APC Transport Minister, Kemoh Sesay is said to be the mastermind behind this criminal enterprise. His brother, an apparent foot soldier for him is now under arrest. Kemoh himself may be fired/arrested in a few days... if our President EB Koroma is not a tacit supporter of this serious breach of our territorial integrity.
Is EBK a weak President as has been claimed by his critics? Or is he serios
about zero tolerance? Was this what Kemoh meant when he said "the President
will keep the Zero... we will always have the tolerance" to corruption?
What heartless beast would do that to his country... bring shame and disrepute and not even care about effects on ordinary Sierra Leoneans travelling around the world? Is this what the APC supporters call "nar we tem dis"?
We hope Acha does not allow the criminals to slip away as he has become norious for.
Are their other APC supporters that are brave enough to publicly condemn this serious development in our country?
Subject: Re: APC TRANSPORT MINISTER UNDER ARREST?
From: thomas manna
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Date Posted: 07:24:54 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: thomas@hotmail.com
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Kemoh Sesay will always remain a rich man now that he had established a link
with South American drug barren.
Sacking is not enough but he should go to pademba prison for a long time is he was involved directly or otherwise.
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Date Posted: 04:23:55 07/15/08 ()
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Subject: "THIS FORUM CAN MAKE YOU "SPEAK IN TONGUES"
From: forum observer
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Date Posted: 03:51:06 07/15/08 ()
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Re: Doc Curtis please help decode what Bam is trying to say
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Posted by Dr CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS on July 14, 2008 at 10:01:13:
In Reply to: Doc Curtis please help decode what Bam is trying to say posted by Arnold Jones-Dove on July 14, 2008 at 09:38:13:
"...I am lost Doc. What is this:
"He(talking about Mohamed Kitubu Koroma) mentioned the trials of late Minna and others go back and read his postings of last week. It is not a crime for him to serve his country regardless of under which political party"
Lord ooh!
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I AM ALSO LOST! I WISH THE BOY WOULD STOP "SPEAKING IN TONGUES"
Subject: COCAINE TRAFICKING: KEMOH SEASAY'S BROTHER IS KEY PLAYER
From: Sniffer Dog
To: All
Date Posted: 02:25:51 07/15/08 ()
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As predicted a few days ago, it is now emerging that the cocaine scam smells APC
all over. Kemoh Sesay's brother was at the heart of the matter. Using his
brother's influence, he even went earlier to arrange for refuelling the said
cocaine plane at Lungi.
Jacob Kanu's analysis a day or two ago could not have been more accurate. He's conclusion was there had to be "a big APC von collaborator or the government was simply incompetent in securing our most important gateway and consequently inviting the Pablo Escobars" Either way he opined, a very serious problem that may taint our national image is sitting at our door step.
Some unpatriotic APC elements, like Mr Lappa, Eddy Grant, bam, and the Dull Cadaver etc were trivialising this national security breach soooooo much, one wondered whether these folks really cared if Sierra Leone is destroyed or not. To them I'll just remind them of Governor Clarkson's prayer for our nation. Decent APC folks like the Fen Plaba, Angthorf and Mensa, once again stood above the fray - respect brothers.
One now begins to wonder how far up this is going. Will there be sacred cows? Are we going to nab only the foot soldiers (the small potatoes), leaving the big Dons to recruit new ones and continue their satanic practice? Is this what the APC meant by "Nar we tem dis"? Nar we tem dis for waytin - taint the nation for life? Or flood Salone with drugs?
I hope this serves as a lesson to all of us ... that Mama Salone will always prevail, regardless of the political colour. Its a very sad day for Salone indeed and most poignantly for the New APC. And people are now begining to wonder whether this was what they meant by 'New'.
I'll al3rt all analytical minds to now watch closely, the 'spins' or damage control proses that will be soon flooding from unpatriotic Sierra leoneans. We will read them no doubt, but be rest assured, we will remember to record them.
Long Live Sierra Leone!
Subject: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING SPECIFIC
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 03:23:53 07/15/08 ()
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING SPECIFIC:
It addresses one of the most common errors made by die-hard supportes of a political party. Once this is corrected, results will have much greater consistency and many "difficult" situations will melt away quite easily.
The problem is that most die-hards tend to see their issues through "global glasses." That is, they describe their issues using broad labels which, to them, seem very specific. Examples might be...
"it is now emerging that the
cocaine scam smells APC all over."
" Kemoh Sesay's brother was at
the heart of the matter."
"Using his brother's influence, he
even went earlier to arrange for
refuelling the said cocaine plane at Lungi."
Each of these...and countless more like them...are like emotional forests made up of specific trees (negative events) which contributeto the overall problem. Consider this...one more time:
"Using his brother's influence,"
This appears more like "Kemoh Sesay's brother (who) was at the heart of the matter" is a "sole proprietor" who is being tied to the APC to score political points.
Subject: King Loggy, what exactly are you saying...
From: Desmond Williams
To: All
Date Posted: 03:47:24 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: donwhite@yahoo.co.uk
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Please be honest. Nobody would have the nerve to think of such diabolic
enterprise without connections in the seat of power. All the names been
monitored by Interpol have direct links to the APC Government. Except if you
want us to Believe that Alimamy Seasay (Kemoh Sesay's brother) does not speak to
his Minister Brother.Or whether the 21K Pound Sterling recently reported in
Kemoh's London account was a gift from the Queen of England. Or perhaps the
warning from the US and UK operatives that key Government officals are engaged
in criminal enterprises ...was an April Fool Joke.
All what you have stated are true facts, that can be verified by picking the phone and calling Olu Gordon, Phil Neville, or even your APC Information Minister.
Trying to spin this is simply diservice to your country. I think you are NOT the type. Leave that to the 'small small' unpatriotic boys like Eddy Grant, Uman Lappa and the Dull Cadaver.
You nar sensible man.
Some of us are recording every significant comment as the final picture emerges. We love Salone to bits and woulkd not want any cover ups on this damning indictment of the government of the day.
Subject: Re: King Loggy, what exactly are you saying...
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 04:01:20 07/15/08 ()
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Re: King Loggy, what exactly are you saying...
"Desmond Williams"
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"The problem is that most die-hards
tend to see their issues through
"global glasses." That is, they
describe their issues using broad
labels which, to them, seem very
specific.
Subject: Re: King Loggy, how specific do you want to get ....
From: Desmond Williams
To: All
Date Posted: 04:27:05 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: donwhite@yahoo.co.uk
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Master Loggy, how specific do you want to get before your own political alliance
starts getting the better of you. If you are waiting to hear that Kemoh Sesay,
the APC Minister of Transport was caught redhanded with cocaine strapped on his
body... then you will have to wait for eternity whilst Mama Salone's image is
muddled up and destroyed forever. Please remember that this brazen scandal is a
first on the continent.
If you cannot understand that a whole plane landing and requiring refuelling requires some major collaborators in the government of the day? Then my friend we are not being honest.
If the usual Black Jeep of Task Force boys is at hand to break the security perimeter and brazenly rescue crew members (who thought they have been connered) is not clear signs of Government complacency... then my friend we are again not being honest. This is exactly why a government should not tolerate paramillitary services.
As one writer earlier posted on this very forum, "chickens always come home to roost". The APC turned a blind eye to political violence perpetuated by Task Force boys after they mercilessly beat a Pastor in Brookfields, they turned a blind eye to violence they ochestrated in Kono; they ignored them again when they ambushed electoral officers... they ignored calls for Kemoh to explain suspect monies paid to his London Account...they embrace convicted cocaine trafficker, Frank Timis, under the guise of investment...etc etc
I truely hope for the sake of Sierra Leone they do not ignore all these 'magical coincidences', particularly the breaching of our National security. Thank God independent agents have all their registration details.
APC has disgraced our nation, and we will not forget this for a very loooooong time to come.
Subject: Re: King Loggy, how specific do you want to get ....
From: KING LOGGY
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Date Posted: 04:35:30 07/15/08 ()
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APC has disgraced our nation, and we will not forget this for a very loooooong
time to come.
(Desmond Williams)
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"Drug traficking in Sierra Leone is not new, the SLPP fomer foreign
minister Momodu Koroma was using his diplomatic privileges/immunity to carry
drugs in his luggage. His former president Ahmed Tejan Kabba, himself a crook,
knew about it but took no action when drugs were found in diplomatic bag
belonging to his foregn ministry."
(Thomas Manna)
Subject: Re: King Loggy, what exactly are you saying...
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 04:25:55 07/15/08 ()
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NOW THE FOLLOWING IS BEING SPECIFIC!
THE SLPP IS NOT BEING ACCUSED OF A CRIME HERE, ONLY SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS WITHIN
THE PARTY ARE.
THIS IS EXACTLY MY POINT.
PLEASE READ!
"Drug traficking in Sierra Leone is not new, the SLPP fomer foreign
minister Momodu Koroma was using his diplomatic privileges/immunity to carry
drugs in his luggage. His former president Ahmed Tejan Kabba, himself a crook,
knew about it but took no action when drugs were found in diplomatic bag
belonging to his foregn ministry."
Subject: "The APC can bring a Cocaine-loaded plane" Ex King
Loggy
From: Son of the Soil
To: All
Date Posted: 04:46:40 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
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King Loggy, I honestly did not expect this from you.
Lets assume a diplomatic pouch had contraband during SLPP's tenure.
Are you now saying that whatever SLPP did that was wrong, the APC MUST do a thousand times more - is that it? What is the world coming to... Ex King Loggy is now justifying why the APC should bring a plane load of Cocaine to Mama Salone.
Is that your so called 'global spectacle'?
You truly are a sick man my friend.
Subject: Re: "The APC can bring a Cocaine-loaded plane" Ex
King Loggy
From: Sense
To: All
Date Posted: 05:28:01 07/15/08 ()
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you have no business is interfering with Governance.
Subject: WHAT NOW CAN I SAY?
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 04:55:41 07/15/08 ()
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YOUR QUESTION:
Are you now saying that whatever
SLPP did that was wrong, the APC
MUST do a thousand times more -
is that it?
YOUR ANSWER:
"Ex King Loggy is now justifying
why the APC should bring a plane
load of Cocaine to Mama Salone."
YOUR OPINION:
"You truly are a sick man my friend."
Subject: JUST ZIP IT...IF YOU HAVE NOTHING PATROITIC TO SAY
From: The Regent King
To: All
Date Posted: 05:38:26 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
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Well brother Loggy, you have plenty of time to get your crown back. Suggest you
take off the APC filter off and see this as a serious National issue. Take
Mensa's lead and call a spade a spade.
Also remember that selfish and wicked politicians come and go... we will always stay as brothers.
p/s
And what an opportunity for the likes of Fen Plaba and Mensa to be appointed to
major positions after a serious shake up...that will at least help clean this
increasingly disturbing image of our current gof'ment.
Subject: Re: COCAINE TRAFICKING: KEMOH SEASAY'S BROTHER IS KEY PLAYER
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 03:05:32 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
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How can the Executive Arm of government be connected to drug traficking on this
scale? I think E B Koroma should be impeached for appointing drug traficking
Ministers in the first place.
This government has just been criminal. Period. To graduate from attacking Electoral Officers and burning election materials to facillitating trafficking on this scale is a first on the continent. What is APC planning for Mama Salone again. This is very shameful indeed.
EBK should reassess his position. This weak man nor go able. God knows how many cocaine planes would have landed and refuelled at our airport - with full collaboration of our Government Officials.
The New Criminal APC must look inside their camp closely. For we will never forget this wicked tainting of our nation's image.
Subject: Re: COCAINE TRAFICKING: KEMOH SEASAY'S BROTHER IS KEY PLAYER
From: Desmond Williams
To: All
Date Posted: 03:23:14 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: donwhite@yahoo.co.uk
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Why APC? Why? What has Sierra Leone done to diserve this?
I hope Alpha Kanu & Kemoh Sesay are not involved.
This is the worst imaginable behaviour of a ruling government - anywhere in Africa!
Heads most roll and long prison terms to culprits. Lets wait and see however,as I have no faith in Honest? Koroma as a leader.
Subject: Re: COCAINE TRAFICKING: KEMOH SEASAY'S BROTHER IS KEY PLAYER
From: Doctor
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Date Posted: 05:22:55 07/15/08 ()
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Please sleep soundly, as no heads will roll.
Subject: IF THIS LANDSLIDE CONTINUES, IS A "ONE-PARTY "
POSSIBLE?
From: Chiefdom Elders
To: All
Date Posted: 22:25:59 07/14/08 ()
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MORE RESULTS ANNOUNCED : Now , it is APC 55, SLPP 1
Written by Moses Kargbo : COCORIOKO's Reporter in Sierra Leone
Monday, 14 July 2008
The ruling All People's Congress (APC) has added 15 more Wards to the 37 already
won in the just concluded Municipal and Local Council elections as official
results released today by the National Electoral Commission indicate. Results
for all 15 Wards announced went to the ruling party candidates with nothing for
the opposition and independent candidates. The APC has now won a total of 55
Wards in the Western Area out of 57 whose results have been officially declared.
Progressive Western Region election results: APC 55, SLPP 1, Independent 1
By Moses A. Kargbo
The ruling All People's Congress (APC) has added 15 more Wards to the 37 already won in the just concluded Municipal and Local Council elections as official results released today by the National Electoral Commission indicate. Results for all 15 Wards announced went to the ruling party candidates with nothing for the opposition and independent candidates. The APC has now won a total of 55 Wards in the Western Area out of 57 whose results have been officially declared.
NEC Commissioner-West, Hannah Kawaley told a press conference at the British Council in Freetown that out of the 5,901 stations, the Tally Center has processed results for 3,816 centers, representing 64.7% of all polling stations. She said the total votes inputted into the Commission's data system is 689,655, of which 648,335 are valid votes and 41,320 invalid.
The Commissioner noted that there are results for a total of 131 Wards, and that 44 of these were announced at the last briefing on July 10. She reminded the public that Ward results are only announced when all the polling stations results in all the centers for a particular Ward have been entered into the Commission's data system. She emphasised that results for all Wards are being processed and that considerable progress is being made.
Meanwhile, results for other areas in the provinces were being announced simultaneously at regional level in areas like Makeni for the Northern Province, Bo for the South and Kenema for the East. The Chief Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Christiana Thorpe will later in the day make an announcement of the cumulative results from all the regions on national television.
Subject: Leone Stars Team Manager Arrested For Drug Trafficking...
From: Salone Padi
To: All
Date Posted: 22:15:31 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: salonep@gmail.com
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NEWS
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Leone Stars Team Manager Arrested For Drug Trafficking....Chief Drug Baron on
The Run !
Posted by on Jul 14, 2008, 21:07
Ahmed Sesay, brother of the Transport and Aviation Minister, Kemoh Sesay , Team
Manager and Coordinator of Leone Stars and two British citizens identified by
police sources as Mingle and Berez are helping the police crack squad under the
command of Deputy Inspector General of police Oliver B.M. Somassa to unravel the
mystery surrounding the drug-packed aircraft that landed at the Lungi
International Airport at 3.AM at the early hours of Sunday, July 13th.
According to a police Headquarter source, the Deputy Inspector General of Police, has been ordered by President Ernest Bai Koroma to take over the investigations, while his boss, Brima Acha Kamara has been reportedly ordered to produce a suspect called Gibrilla Kamara, usually seen in black jeep with number plate: GKI001. “GKI is to be produced in less than seventy two hours or loses his job” a senior police officer said. Since Brima Acha became Inspector General of Police, many people including police officers have alleged that drug trafficking has become a national menace and drug caught sometimes in hundreds of kilograms have disappeared while in police custody. The two British, including the Mexicans, Venezuelans, one American and one Guinea Bissaua have been transferred to the Maximum Security complex at Pademba Road, while Ahmed Sesay was seen last evening at the CID head quarters at government wharf.
According to impeccable sources, the suspected drug barons were being monitored by a combined squad of FDA agents from the United States of America and Scotland Yard personnel over the last three months in the country. Surveillance techniques and activities included, but not limited to phone tapping and calls monitoring, locat1on identification and photographing on suspicious locat1ons.
“We knew the date, time and travel routes of the drug-carrying aircraft” one of them was quoted to have whispered to a member of the Sierra Leone Police Force. This was also confirmed by the Minister of Transport and Aviation when questioned by this press. The presence of the guards of the president, on the night of operations could have almost bungled our plan to catch them”, said a senior security officer from Britain, but that helped us greatly’ He added.
It would be recalled that every time the president is due back from an international trip, a contingent of security guard are usually deployed to maintain tight security at the airport. Sources say it was these personnel that the pilot and crew of the drug-plane saw on the ground that caused them to panic. However, on landing, the crew and pilot made calls from handset walkie-talkies to their awaiting trafficking counterparts on the ground, saying “rescue, we have been saddled, over.” Upon this distress call, a stand by black jeep with tainted glasses rushed to the run-way, destroying the entrance gate and picked up the crew and pilot and went back the same route it came, leaving behind smoke and a damaged gate.
An inside police source maintained that a minister in the current APC might be called upon for questioning by the police as the investigation proceeds. This is as a result of his telephone conversations which were been recorded with the Ahmed Sesay, which points to very many discussions leading to the arrival of the cocaine plane. Meanwhile, a source has told this press that Ahmed Sesay was over heard telling petrol dealers in Lungi the night before the arrival of the plane that he and other people were expecting an aircraft which could need to be re-fueled and that he would likely come back to buy gas.
A State House source has said that President Ernest Bai Koroma is so angry, embarrassed and distressed over the whole issue that he has vowed to leave no stone unturned to get to the bottom of the drug trade that has now come to the notice of all, and capable of effacing the country’s good international image. Police sources told this press that Mingle and Berez are wanted for drug related charges in UK.
When contacted to comment on the issue of Sierra Leone becoming a transit route for drugs , senior journalist and author, David Tam-Baryoh only said, “well, let the police produce the suspects, they know them, but we have got a $5m plane without much sweat. Meanwhile, the 600 Kilograms of cocaine is now in the custody of both the United Nations and IMATT for safe keeping, while the arms and ammunition are with the Sierra Leone Force.
Subject: Re: Leone Stars Team Manager Arrested For Drug Trafficking...
From: Thomas Manna
To: All
Date Posted: 02:25:33 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: thomas@hotmail.com
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Drug traficking in Sierra Leone is not new, the SLPP fomer foreign minister
Momodu Koroma was using his diplomatic privileges/immunity to carry drugs in his
luggage. His former president Ahmed Tejan Kabba, himself a crook, knew about it
but took no action when drugs were found in diplomatic bag belonging to his
foregn ministry.
Once this drug thing has started, it will be difficult to put a stop to it. Drug traficking is a billion dollers international enterprise and like prostitution people who want to make money can results to all sorts of tricks, some deadly dangerous tricks.
President Koroma should take the following immediate steps whilst investigation is going on because the signs are that people close to his government are involved.
Dismissed the transport minister whilst investigation is going on.
Shake up the head of police and security system, including immigration.
Failure to crack down heavily will leave his government image tarnished for good and this would affect trade and diplomatic relations especially with USA, UK and EU where the cocain trade are highly priced and destroying lives.
President Koroma should note that the eyes of security and intelligence officials are right in his bed room, ministers and security who are colaborating with drug trafickers for financial rewards.
Establish cooperation with interpol, UN drug agency, British and American intelligence and south American drug busting officials to share intelligence to stop this dangerous trend.
Also set up an internal secret intelligence officials to mount survaliance operations, gather intelligence and spy on not only suspect drug trafickers but the law enforcement officers who may compromised their professional duty for financial reward.
Finally, president koroma must annul the service or diplomatic passport grantd to Members of Parliament. The have no business for using it. Soon some of them will be caught with drugs and that will cause more embarssment to our country.
Note Senegal, yesterday arrested 27 Nigerian criminals involved in the 419 syndicate. We should not waite for criminals to gain a strong foot hold before we act.
President koroma please listen nd act now.
Subject: OBJECTIVE REASONING
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 03:47:01 07/15/08 ()
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Subject: WE ARE CLOSELY WATCHING EVERYONE
From: Keen Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 03:55:36 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
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Justice indeed for MAMA SALONE is the most important thing in this mess. Party
loyalties must be shelved until we get to the bottom of this.
We have to however remember that this is a brand new territory for our poor nation. Why is the question, all honest Sierra Leoneans must be thinking of now.
Subject: Re: WE ARE CLOSELY WATCHING EVERYONE
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 04:41:33 07/15/08 ()
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Justice indeed for MAMA SALONE is
the most important thing in this
mess. Party loyalties must be
shelved until we get to the bottom
of this."
(Keen Observer)
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NOR TO DE WORD DAT BRA?
Subject: NAR DAE WORD AY... WAYTIN YU DAE DO SO
From: Keen Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 05:43:29 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
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You are however putting Party loyalty before Mama Salone.
Be brave King, or risk be dethroned for complacency!
Subject: Re: NAR DAE WORD AY... WAYTIN YU DAE DO SO
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 05:53:25 07/15/08 ()
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Link a statement I made to give you that idea big guy
Subject: Re: NAR DAE WORD AY... WAYTIN YU DAE DO SO
From: Keen Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 06:31:16 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: donwhite@yahoo.co.uk
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"Drug traficking in Sierra Leone is not new…SLPP…”
“THE SLPP IS NOT BEING ACCUSED OF A CRIME HERE..."
Quotes selectively posted by The King Himself.
Please note: our cleaver king only selectively quoted what other unpatriotic Sierra Leonenas had posted earlier as his response to the debate.
You may want to read Mensa's post to get a clearer distinction between
honesty and complacency.
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King Loggy, here is my inference from your selective quotes:
This has nothing to do with our beloved Party APC.
Even if members of the Executive arm of government are caught redhanded with cocaine soup on their fingers... and even if facillitation of such plane load of cocaine enterprise has not happened in SL before...until the APC is in power...
No one should associate this with the APC. (I am sure you meant some thing
else... and I am dying to hear what you meant)
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After thought:
OK King. We will wait for confessions from Central Comittee members on the BBC.
IN YOUR DREAMS!!!
Subject: DOES THIS MEAN THE SLPP SUPPORTED THE NPRC COUP AGAINST...
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 21:58:07 07/14/08 ()
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Chairman of the NPRC National Advisory Council
Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Secretary of the NPRC National Advisory Council
Solomon Berewa
Representative to the NPRC National Advisory Council
from the Sierra Leone Bar Association
George Banda Thomas
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
INTERESTING! Probably that's why members of the AFRC, thought by the SLPP to be pro APC, were "murdered" in that famous execution. The SLPP were favorable to the NPRC members and allowed them "easy passage" after several human rights violations, including the murder of salami Coker and others. In exchange, the NPRC ensure that the SLPP, Having suffered death under the APC "one-man" rule, came back to power. The SLPP continued the reign of terror where the NPRC left off.
SO THEN, IS IT FAIR TO SAY THAT THE NPRC IS TO THE SLPP AS THE AFRC IS TO THE
APC?
Subject: Re: DOES THIS MEAN THE SLPP SUPPORTED THE NPRC COUP
AGAINST...
From: Magic
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Date Posted: 05:42:36 07/15/08 ()
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Chief, Chief,
you are brilliant, and I never thought of this angle.I doff my hat to you (sincerely)
Subject: A Labour minister without a clue
From: Sembu
To: All
Date Posted: 20:18:04 07/14/08 ()
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Minkailu Mansaray's daring attempt in sending our youth to work in the maiddle
east is clearly telling EBK that the Minister is a square peg in a
roundhole.This is minister of labour that knows nothing about the importance of
our cherished youth, especially in the work force of a nation that is in
desperate need of help. While developed nations like Canada and Australia import
human resources to ensure continued development,our minister of labour is busy
negotiating the exportation of our youthful force.Thats a shame.This is a red
flag, Mr Prezo!!.
Subject: Re: A Labour minister without a clue
From: Real
To: All
Date Posted: 23:37:26 07/14/08 ()
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Mind you, we are yet to get to the status of Canada and Australia economically.
May be if the past government had plan our economy properly for eleven years we
will not be having this nonsense discussion. These youths desperately needs some
type of income.
Subject: WE WANT JUSTICE FOR LT.COMM. AZIZ DUMBUYA AND THE OTHERS
From: Man Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 19:25:33 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
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We want justice for Late Lt. Commander, Abdul Aziz Dumbuya who was executed with
twenty three others on October 24th, 1998. Lt. Commander, Aziz Dumbuya was
innocent. He was not a party to the AFRC coup d'etat. He was arrested by the
AFRC and was detained for couple of days. He was supressed and sent to Bonthe as
Commanding Officer. He was not a party to anything bad that happened in Bonthe.
The Former Vice president was the one who told the people of Bonthe that he will
make sure that poor and innocent Aziz will be executed. We want Justice for the
late Abdul Aziz Dumbuya. Berewa should not be allowed to go scott free. He
should be prosecuted for the unlawful killings of Aziz Dumbuya and the others. I
am calling on the families of the twenty four soldiers who were executed by
Berewa and Kabbah to join me in this campaign for justice.
Subject: Re: WE WANT JUSTICE FOR LT.COMM. AZIZ DUMBUYA AND THE OTHERS
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 22:03:22 07/14/08 ()
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DOES THIS MEAN THE SLPP SUPPORTED THE NPRC COUP AGAINST...
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Posted by CHIEF IN EXILE on July 14, 2008 at 21:58:07:
Chairman of the NPRC National Advisory Council
Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Secretary of the NPRC National Advisory Council
Solomon Berewa
Representative to the NPRC National Advisory Council
from the Sierra Leone Bar Association
George Banda Thomas
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
INTERESTING! Probably that's why members of the AFRC, thought by the SLPP to be pro APC, were "murdered" in that famous execution. The SLPP were favorable to the NPRC members and allowed them "easy passage" after several human rights violations, including the murder of salami Coker and others. In exchange, the NPRC ensure that the SLPP, Having suffered death under the APC "one-man" rule, came back to power. The SLPP continued the reign of terror where the NPRC left off.
SO THEN, IS IT FAIR TO SAY THAT THE NPRC IS TO THE SLPP AS THE AFRC IS TO THE APC?
Subject: Re: WE WANT JUSTICE FOR LT.COMM. AZIZ DUMBUYA AND THE OTHERS
From: Dogs Of War
To: All
Date Posted: 19:43:06 07/14/08 ()
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The familes of who? What about the families that these bastatds that you are
advocating for? The mayhem that these dogs caused in that country is
unimaginable.
Subject: Re: WE WANT JUSTICE FOR LT.COMM. AZIZ DUMBUYA AND THE OTHERS
From: Real
To: All
Date Posted: 23:05:25 07/14/08 ()
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Why are you becoming nasty? "Mr.Dogs of war" the facts remains the
facts. There were a lot of innocent people in that unpopular killings, even Solo
B will agree to this facts. I think the families of these men and woman deserve
more explanations from the past government and this present government should
stand for justice for all Saloneans regardless of ethnic and political
affiliation. If Kula Samba was your mother would you have said she was guilty of
the crimes she was charged with? imagne what the families of these people are
going through. let us put politics aside and fight for what is right. The time
for justice for those innocent people is now.
Subject: Re: WE WANT JUSTICE FOR LT.COMM. AZIZ DUMBUYA AND THE OTHERS
From: Man Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 05:16:26 07/15/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
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Thanks Real. All we want is justice for Lt.Commander Aziz Dumbuya, Major Kula
Samba, A.K. Sesay and others. It is time now to ask Berewa and Kabbah why they
killed these innocent and fine officers of our army. We want justice now. Berewa
and Kabbah are killers and should not be allowed to go scott free. When they
executed Lt. Commander Aziz, less than six months, his father passed away. After
the passing away of his father, the mum too died within two months and then his
younger sister. I can stand anywhere and say that the late Lt. Commander Aziz
was innocent. He didn't deserved to die. But since Berewa made a promised to the
Bonthe people that he will make sure Aziz is executed, that was why he did it to
accomplished his plan. Berewa will never have peace in his life. Mama Sa.Leone
we want justice for Lt. Commander Aziz, Major Kula Samba, A.K. Sesay and others.
Subject: Re: WE WANT JUSTICE FOR LT.COMM. AZIZ DUMBUYA AND THE OTHERS
From: Man Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 20:26:11 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
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Lt. Commander Aziz was innocent. Tell me what the late A.K. Sesay and the late
Major Kula Samba did? Did they killed anyone. Let us be realistic, mr. dogs or
war or what ever your name is.
Subject: SLPP
From: Alimamy Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 19:23:13 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: deltablast@yahoo.com
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Your article on the SLPP mendeman bad bart is true! THey are really greedy!!!
Subject: Sierra Leone Police arrest Drug Crew
From: A Concerned Citizen
To: All
Date Posted: 17:51:21 07/14/08 ()
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Mr President;
I request that you look into the accusation made by the U.S. Embassy
in Freetown.
The following except taken from the statement implicating the
members of the Sierra Leone Police Force in criminal activities.
Quote:-
The incident comes after a recent warning from the US embassy in
Freetown that some members of the police force in Sierra Leone are
working with organized criminals, our reporter says.
Unquote.
The above statement is a very serious matter especially coming from
the intel of the U.S. Embassy. I consider myself an independent thinker
and judge a person by the content of their character not their party
affiliation. It troubles to me when the U.S. Intel doubts members of
the Sierra Leone Police Force. I ask that you substantiate these
accusations and brings those responsible to justice thereby vindicating
the integrity of the Sierra Leone Police Force, and the Government.
Sincerely,
A Concern Citizen
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone Police arrest Drug Crew
From: Syl
To: All
Date Posted:
Email Address: sylotte@mts.net
Entered From: wnpgmb014tw-ad03-25-195.dynamic.mts.net at 207.161.25.195
Message:
This is just an incident to awaken Sierra Loeneans about the dangers we are open
to for being too open. Some time ago,on this very forum, some criticized the
Chief Immigration Officer for conducting a foreigner count, while some of us
vindicated him.
To say fellow Sierra Leoneans colluded with these criminals is disturbing; more disturbing if this is found to be true.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone Police arrest Drug Crew
From: Real
To: All
Date Posted: 23:13:09 07/14/08 ()
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Message:
No doubts that there are Saleoneans involved in this crime.
Subject: Investigate - Sending youth to IRAQ..COOKISH DEAL
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 16:14:32 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
Entered From:
Message:
It is a hot issue and quick deals are going on ,but is it true that the youths
will be working for companies or it is just a way for youths to join US /IRAQI
FORCES FOR A DEAL TO A WAY TO THE US? Mr. MINISTER OF LABOUR, PLEASE RELEASE
NAMES OF COMPANIES INTERESTED IN OUR YOUTHS. YOUTHS MUST NOT BE PLACED IN ANY
RISKY SITUATION FOR CRUDE REASONS.
Subject: Re: Investigate - Sending youth to IRAQ..COOKISH DEAL
From: kabbia
To: All
Date Posted: 17:00:19 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Minkailu mansaray should resign noww. He has no solution to our youths' problems
Subject: Re: Investigate - Sending youth to IRAQ..COOKISH DEAL
From: Real
To: All
Date Posted: 23:21:59 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Resign for what? are you one of those "bad heart" Salonean who wanna
have it all and others should not. Leh di man den go wok and help den famble dem
na salone.
Subject: CONFISCATE THE PLANE IMMEDIATELY!!
From: Othello
To: All
Date Posted: 14:41:58 07/14/08 ()
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In many countries, such a plane will be confiscated and then donated to
an executive agency fighting drug trafficking.
I think Sierra Leone should do the same!!
Subject: Re: CONFISCATE THE PLANE IMMEDIATELY!!
From: Ibrahim Turay
To: All
Date Posted: 16:43:11 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: imtu71@hotmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Wait and see first if we won't hear breaking news that the suspects escaped by
means of mystical powers and that the cocaine wasn't really an actual substance
but instead white powder....looool Ahhh mama Salone.
Subject: Globalization of the drug trade..
From: KLA
To: All
Date Posted: 14:27:05 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
THE DRUG TRADE. Think of it as a huge, multinational commodity business with a
fast-moving top management, a widespread distribution network, and
price-insensitive customers."....fortune magazine.
Drug trafficking has risen sharply in Africa, which has become a favoured
transit point for smugglers moving drugs from Latin America to Europe, a senior
Interpol official said on Monday.
"Africa is a region where drugs are produced, consumed and trafficked," said the international agency's executive director of police services, Jean-Michel Louboutin, at the opening of a meeting in Arusha, Tanzania.
JAMBA, Kah tie, Lobito etc. There is a market for drugs in Salone/Africa. The
recent coke haul from amateur Latin smugglers,is a clear indication that the MRU
is a serious base of operationS for GLOBAL CRIMINAL SYNDICATES.
tstm
Subject: How do you think Momodu koroma made is money?
From: Wantune
To: All
Date Posted: 14:46:36 07/14/08 ()
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Message:
From drug trafficking of course? He initiated the audacity we are
beginning to see. Everybody is tempted save for the heroes who nabbed
this disgusting animals. They should be rewarded by giving them
national awards.
Subject: DIAMOND ROAD. TO: DIAMOND SWEH, PLEASE READ
From: Mr. Cullinan
To: All
Date Posted: 14:20:49 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: sorrelsteak@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
TO: D.S. Please see my response posted below to your posting on the program,
"Diamond Road." Thanks, Mr. C.
Subject: APC Govt. to Send 2000 Youths to Iraq
From: Kabbah And Berewa
To: All
Date Posted: 14:17:49 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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APC Govt. to Send 2000 Youths to Iraq
The Minister of Labour, Social Security and Industrial Relations, Honourable
Minkailu Mansaray is said to have disclosed that his government has negotiated
with a Turkish company to employ 2000 youths to work in Iraq, Kuwait etc. The
minister is reported as saying that the APC does not believe in tribal lines and
encouraged every interested youth to go through the normal procedures. He stated
further that his ministry will handle all documents in a numerical form.
Subject: Re: APC Govt. to Send 2000 Youths to Iraq
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:36:21 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
Entered From:
Message:
MR. Minister, please tell the nation the truth. TELL THE NATION ABOUT THE DIRTY
DEAL. RELEASE NAMES OF COMPANIES INTERESTED IN YOUTHS TO WORK IN IRAQ. Why HIDE
THE TRUTH, ARE YOU SELLING OUR YOUTHS TO FIGHT IN IRAQ? Remember the dirty deal
, dumping toxic waste in Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: APC Govt. to Send 2000 Youths to Iraq
From: Real
To: All
Date Posted: 23:57:08 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Sorie jawara thinks we are still in SLPP days, Sir, this APC government is here
to set standards on how a government should behave responsibly, they are bold
enough to let the public know about this development. On the contrary the SLPP
would have sold this opportunities to their own supporters (kukujumuku)and make
it seem like they helped them get foreign jobs, since their supporters tend to
believe anything they tell them.
Subject: Emails theatrics, a laughing matter. Publish it if you can
From: political
To: All
Date Posted: 13:44:52 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I am beginning to wonder why an opposition news paper like the Awareness times
all of a sudden decided to keep emails from Zimbabwe because according to the
editor, she does not want to disgrace EBK. Was it not this paper drew the face
of EBK like a monster and published it for the world to see? Was it not this
paper writes so many disgraceful things against EBK government? What is actually
in those emails(if any) that should be worth keeping from publication?
Well, I guest the only assumption is "There is no authentic emails".
Sylvia, please prove us wrong and publish the emails. Warning, the guy who was
writing in this forum claiming to be from Zimbabwe is NOT a zimbabwean. He is a
leftist SLPP supporter born in Sierra Leone. So if he sends you an email
claiming to be from Zimbabwe is completely misguided. As a journalist you have
to verify every thing you publish on your paper, especially when it has to do
with defamation.
Subject: GOD GEE?
From: KING LOGGY
To: All
Date Posted: 13:40:25 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Can the SLG seize the drugmobile that landed at the airport or not?
Subject: Bravo APC for tackling Drug peddlers!!!!!
From: Janet Reno
To: All
Date Posted: 12:55:06 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This does not seem like a new thing, somehow, it seems like a bust was done, as
the entire airport staff was just recently changed, from Immigration all the way
down.
Umman Lappa said it best
"I am right here buddy, working the phones and trying to get the facts sir.
From the initial reports, it seems that SLPP's lappa has been yanked off their
butts. This maybe a black eye for Sierra Leone but it is a disaster for the SLPP.
That cocaine plane has SLPP fingerprints all over it. Whether SLPP meant to sell
the cocaine to finance upcoming elections or just a brazen propaganda plot
against the APC, the truth is that the Village Rarayboys have been caught with
their pants down.
THINK, PEOPLE, THINK! If the government wants to smuggle in cocaine, it will be the simplest operation in the world because it controls Customs and the Lungi Airport. The government can drive in a 747 jetliner filled with cocaine, if it so chooses. The fact that this drug bust is successful shows the APC's zero tolerance to drug trafficking.
Remember, many SLPP kids were crackheads. Tejan Kabba's son still languishes
in a foreign jail for cocaine trafficking. The drug associates of the SLPP
thought that JJ Saffa, John Benjamin and Puawui can still bribe their cargo of
death into Freetown. Now they know better! I congratulate President Koroma and
our vigilant Customs for saying NO to this drug pestilence. Stay tuned and get
ready for the onslaught as the SLPP mouth pieces start to spin this story with
the most outrageous propaganda"
The question now remains, who owns the plane? UN wants it, the government also
wants it.
The sure as hell needs some Singapore Death penalty to put an end to it.
Subject: The whole Cocaine Plane smells Kemoh Sesay all over
From: Sniffer Dog
To: All
Date Posted: 13:50:10 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Well APC Kemoh... please say somehing. Don't take the fifth . You owe the Sierra
Leonean people some explanation.
Where did you get that money from. Nar una the sell dae contri for coco ebbeh een.
Subject: Size of cocaine cache shrinks from 1,540 lbs to 1322 lbs
From: Kondo bele
To: All
Date Posted: 12:50:19 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: bele@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
The Police need to explain who sniffed the rest between Sunday 2:00 a.m. and
today. AY Salone Police!!! Read on:
Standard Times
A passenger plane loaded with 1,540 pounds of cocaine was found abandoned at Sierra Leone's main airport Sunday, police said.
Cocorioko
“Upon investigation, the police found about 752 kgs of cocaine, 2 AK47 rifles, 1 HK Machine pistol, 1 .45ACP semiautomatic pistol and several rounds of ammunition. Police, led by AIG Munu, are said to have confiscated the cocaine and the weapons”.
BBC- Umaro Fofana
The 700kg cargo, worth an estimated $60m,
The New People Newspaper
Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Crime, Francis Munu, who
has been at the airport since the incident happened, said over 600 kilograms of
substance believed to be cocaine were discovered in the abandoned plane,
estimating the drugs to be valued at $35 million.
Subject: Re: Size of cocaine cache shrinks from 1,540 lbs to 1322 lbs
From: True Talk
To: All
Date Posted: 13:23:41 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
why the quantity keep changing.Somebody is a lucrative bussiness of aiding and
abiding drug peddlers in africa.We need facts. How many grams were found on the
plan and who got there first.
Subject: APC Ministers verify that the cocaine is not NaCl(Salt)
From: Analytical Chemist
To: All
Date Posted: 14:08:41 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
218 lb of initial bust has vanished.
Gossip in Brookfields, Freetown insinuates that some APC ministers wanted to be sample the cocaine to ascertain its quality.
I think that explains that
Subject: Re: Size of cocaine cache shrinks from 1,540 lbs to 1322 lbs
From: Police
To: All
Date Posted: 13:54:00 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
No wonder IMATT has taken custody of the drugs, and some people here are too
unhappy about this.
Subject: SECURITY LAPSE:VERY DANGEROUS FOR A STABLE SIERRA LEONE
From: TALK TRUE
To: All
Date Posted: 12:08:35 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This should be the beginning of establishing full control and setting the stage
for those who commit hanius Crimes (such as this) against the people of Sierra
Leone,should be prosecuted to full extent of the law.
It is an assault on the credibility of President Koroma who has been
preaching no sacred lamb. This will be a testimony for people to start believing
that statement. We are not pointing finger at anyone but a starting point will
be , Minister of Transportation and Aviation, The Office of National Security
and all those Associated Agencies heads, should provide reasonable acceptable
explanation as to what they know about this aero plane landing at our
International Airport. The Inspector General of Police should definitely step
down with immediate effect alongside all Heads mentioned above. If they cannot
provide enough clarification of their respective due diligence , they should
immediately be arrested and detained until proper clarification is sort out by
the respective authorities responsible.
The All Peoples Congress Party (APC) cannot afford to erode its credibility for
few greedy and bad element. This new APC has worked very hard to come to this
point. We need to leave the negative years behind us. Carrying any excess
baggage forward is going to be detrimental to a prosperous and stable Sierra
Leone. That includes all government officials and citizens engaging in dubious
actives that will affect the smooth running of government.
I am confident our security system is not weak to a that we cannot find out who
drove the vehicle or how the controller or the Office of National Security gave
clearance for landing without proper verification and approval from the
respective respective authorities.
Forget about the drug deal. This could have been an attempted Coup and they
could have succeeded. The President needs to treat this situation seriously or
risk been beginning to go down as a corrupt individual and weak President just
like J S Momoh.If we dont beef up security,the drugs trafficking will dominate
our youths and we are going to be fighting another war.The country is poor and
cannot provide for its people.This is an easy outlet for young boys to get
involve. This is serious.
Mr. President , please vindicate youself by providing conclusive Investigations
and Swift Indictment of all these perpetrators.
Sierra Leoneans gave you a mandate on the 5th of July. Please don’t let us
down. The Wheel of justice is on your side.
Keep moving Sierra Leone Forward.
Subject: Re: SECURITY LAPSE:VERY DANGEROUS FOR A STABLE SIERRA LEONE
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 13:48:26 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Perhaps he may want to call in Abdulia Conteh to investigate since he is an
expert in getting testimony the Hitler way.
Subject: Latin coke
From: Kboys
To: All
Date Posted: 12:04:29 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
Who gave the Coke plane landing permission? This is also a National security
concern...IT COULD HAVE BEEN A CARGO OF WEAPONS OF ..............
Is Sierra leone a drug trans Shipment Hub? Is this the first discovery? Lots of questions!!
Subject: SLPP'S COCAINE PLANE CONSPIRACY: WE KAITCH DEM!
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 11:50:18 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Now that the South American drug runners have been caught, the narcopimps of the
SLPP leadership are pooping in their pants with fright. The cocaine traffickers,
now incarcerated in Port Loko, are singing like canaries about the cocaine
shipment. My very reliable sources from deep inside the investigation avers that
some of the very top SLPP alagbas are neck-deep in this narco-trafficking.
SLPP's cut from the drugs was to be used to fuel future elections, buy off
'journalists', establish more opposition newspapers, and train an SLPP 'thugs
brigade' to intimidate opponents in the 2012 elections.
Meanwhile world leaders have been commending President Koroma and his government for the rapid response and quick resolution of this matter. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of the United States has congratulated the Sierra Leone police for its exemplary performance and is now seriously considering partnering with Sierra Leone in its war against international narcotraffickers.
STAY TUNED and remember this about SLPP:
Never in the cankerworm of corruption has so much been stolen by so few from so many!
Subject: Re: SLPP'S COCAINE PLANE CONSPIRACY: WE KAITCH DEM!
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 13:55:24 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
My brother,
There's a much deeper conspiracy than just the seizure of the drugs. According to my very reliable source, the drugs are used as a distarction to camouflage the activities of an underground army of SLPP insurgents. They want to disrupt the on going peace since it stand to expose their dubious activities in the country during their tenure in office. My source, an SLPP insider disclosed to me that the SLPP past government had looted the country mercilessly and now that their political enemy (APC) is in power, the safety of their loots is threatened because the APC is determined to do in short space of time what they had failed to achieve thereby exposing their ill thoughts about Sierra Leone.
My source further lamented that though he's not an APC supporter, he's a Sierra Leonean so if anyone is prepared to threaten the security of the country, he has the right to disclose the information so that the government can be on al3rt and never allow these miscreants to destroy this country any longer.
Subject: Re: SLPP'S COCAINE PLANE CONSPIRACY: WE KAITCH DEM!
From: How concern
To: All
Date Posted: 14:11:56 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
Eddie,
I am still here waiting-PATIENTLY. Please do not reduce youself further by
"batoing" Uman Lappa.
By the way, BBC reported that, so far, Columbians, Mexicans and an American have
been arrested in connection with the dupe saga. I have a strong feeling that
these guys, (the Latinos and the Yankee),are actually from Mendeland. But since
you are still on your "thorough research", I am not going to preempt
you.
I'll wait-PATIENTLY.
Subject: Re: SLPP'S COCAINE PLANE CONSPIRACY: WE KAITCH DEM!
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 14:32:37 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
My cousin,
Please the my response carefully. dont waste more time.
And stop instigating tribalism.
Subject: Re: SLPP'S COCAINE PLANE CONSPIRACY: WE KAITCH DEM!
From: Teacher Sanu
To: All
Date Posted: 15:10:25 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Ho Eddy Boy, shiooooooooor!
Subject: Re: SLPP'S COCAINE PLANE CONSPIRACY: WE KAITCH DEM!
From: How concern
To: All
Date Posted: 14:52:32 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
Eddie,
You were warned less than an hour ago not to further reduce yourself to rubbish,
now look what you have done:
"My cousin,
Please the my response carefully. dont waste more time.
And stop instigating tribalism." Elaborate please.
Be calm. Trust me, at the end of the day you'll be beeter off.
Subject: Cocaine Plane : 7 crew members arrested
From: COCORIOKO NEWS FLASH
To: All
Date Posted: 11:13:48 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
Three Colombians, two Mexicans, a Venezuelan and an American, believed to be
crew members of the abandoned aircraft at the Lungi International Airport, have
been arrested in the northern town of Port Loko. Youths in the area, who were
said to have mounted checkpoints and gone on a searching spree of the missing
cocaine traffickers following announcement on the radio, spotted the fugitives
in bushes along the Lunsar Road and then immediately informed the police, who
wasted no time in apprehending them.
Three Colombians, two Mexicans, a Venezuelan and an American, believed to be
crew members of the abandoned aircraft at the Lungi International Airport, have
been arrested in the northern town of Port Loko. Youths in the area, who were
said to have mounted checkpoints and gone on a searching spree of the missing
cocaine traffickers following announcement on the radio, spotted the fugitives
in bushes along the Lunsar Road and then immediately informed the police, who
wasted no time in apprehending them.
Subject: Re: Cocaine Plane : 7 crew members arrested
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:29:36 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
There are Sierra Leoneans involved.. and this is not an accidental miss the
country because it was dark..
Landing a plan at 2am at out airport was deliberate..
And now that the authourities nabbed a few of the culprits.. i hope there is no
coverup and this investigation gets to the last, and highest collaborator..
When salone begin get plenty tourists from mexico and venezuela.. we should be worried..
==============================
Read Below.. from June 2007..
==============================
Venezuelan authorities seized 2.5 tons of cocaine bound for Africa and
arrested nine suspects including four federal police officers and a U.S.
citizen, the military said Sunday.
Following an undercover operation, military intelligence agents seized the drugs
Saturday at the airport on the tourist destination of Margarita Island, National
Guard Cmdr. Marcos Rojas Figueroa said.
The alleged smugglers were preparing to load it onto a private plane bound for Sierra Leone, Rojas Figueroa told the state-run Bolivarian News Agency. He did not say how authorities knew the drugs were destined for the west African nation, a common way station for Colombian cocaine bound for Europe.
Four police officers who helped transport the cocaine to the airport tarmac were detained along with an airport security guard and four foreigners, including one U.S. citizen, two Mexicans and a Sierra Leone national, Rojas Figueroa said.
http://www.topix.com/forum/world/africa/TQ7382CPE0FEHP4BR
Subject: Re: Cocaine Plane : 7 crew members arrested
From: TRUE TALK
To: All
Date Posted: 12:10:21 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
This should be the beginning of establishing full control and setting the stage
for those who commit hanius Crimes (such as this) against the people of Sierra
Leone,should be prosecuted to full extent of the law.
It is an assault on the credibility of President Koroma who has been preaching no sacred lamb. This will be a testimony for people to start believing that statement. We are not pointing finger at anyone but a starting point will be , Minister of Transportation and Aviation, The Office of National Security and all those Associated Agencies heads, should provide reasonable acceptable explanation as to what they know about this aero plane landing at our International Airport. The Inspector General of Police should definitely step down with immediate effect alongside all Heads mentioned above. If they cannot provide enough clarification of their respective due diligence , they should immediately be arrested and detained until proper clarification is sort out by the respective authorities responsible.
The All Peoples Congress Party (APC) cannot afford to erode its credibility for few greedy and bad element. This new APC has worked very hard to come to this point. We need to leave the negative years behind us. Carrying any excess baggage forward is going to be detrimental to a prosperous and stable Sierra Leone. That includes all government officials and citizens engaging in dubious actives that will affect the smooth running of government.
I am confident our security system is not weak to a that we cannot find out who
drove the vehicle or how the controller or the Office of National Security gave
clearance for landing without proper verification and approval from the
respective respective authorities.
Forget about the drug deal. This could have been an attempted Coup and they could have succeeded. The President needs to treat this situation seriously or risk been beginning to go down as a corrupt individual and weak President just like J S Momoh.If we dont beef up security,the drugs trafficking will dominate our youths and we are going to be fighting another war.The country is poor and cannot provide for its people.This is an easy outlet for young boys to get involve. This is serious.
Mr. President , please vindicate youself by providing conclusive Investigations and Swift Indictment of all these perpetrators.
Sierra Leoneans gave you a mandate on the 5th of July. Please don’t let us down. The Wheel of justice is on your side.
Keep moving Sierra Leone Forward.
Subject: With a claim of £21,000 Mysterious money and now PLANE
From: corruption
To: All
Date Posted: 13:21:11 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
WE should wonder when certain allegations are raised against individuals.wan me
padi sae kongosa nor dae lie nar add e dae add. Where did kemoh sesay got the
money from and why is he silent about the plane issue.i am really dissapointed
with some of our journalist as they are easily intimidated .where did kemoh
sesay got the money that he is spending.Even prezo nor honest as prezo nor know
sae gift sef nar bribe .Most Sierra Leopneans thinks they are only committing an
offence if they receive bribe for an illegal activity.WHERE DID PREZO GOT ALL
THE NEW VEHICLES PARKED AT HIS RESIDENCE.HE SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THESE LEBANESE
OR CONTRACTORS GIVEN GIFTS/BRIBE ARE CLAIMING IT BY CHARGING EXCESS FEE WHEN
THEY ARE AWARDED CONTRACT.
WE LEADERS ARE BACKWARD!!
Subject: Re: With a claim of £21,000 Mysterious money and now PLANE
From: A. Jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 14:56:55 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
Nonsense.
Subject: TO PUBLISH OR NOT TO PUBLISH" DO WE HAVE A RIGHT TO
KNOW?
From: Dr. Charles Curtis-Thomas
To: All
Date Posted: 10:31:53 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
Awareness Rejects State House Challenge
By James Beretay
Jul 11, 2008, 17:52
The Editorial Board of Sierra Leone’s most widely read newspaper, Awareness Times, in a bid to protect the integrity of the Office of the President and out of the respect that this newspaper has for the person of President Ernest Bai Koroma, has decided not to take up a challenge issued to it yesterday by the Office of the President in Freetown.
The Challenge had seemingly called upon this newspaper to publish in full, what are clearly very defamatory materials against President Koroma as authored in several emails sent to us from numerous Zimbabweans living inside Zimbabwe."
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
God knows that I have been "dying" to know the content of those emails! The inevitable question for me is: "as citizens of and most likely as voters in Sierra Leone do we have a RIGHT to know the contents of those emails"?
...and any defence that states anything remotely sounding as "professional client confidentiality" will be thrown "out of court"!
Subject: Re: TO PUBLISH OR NOT TO PUBLISH" DO WE HAVE A RIGHT TO
KNOW?
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 14:02:56 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
I believe we the public have the right to know what's contained in those
e-mails.
Subject: The passing of Osman George
From: zakmal
To: All
Date Posted: 10:01:15 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: columbusw@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
It is with profound sadness that I am announcing the passing of young a
enterpreneur, a compassionate individual,a successful businessman but most of
all an individual who used is God given talents to uplift his family and those
around him. He will be missed by all however,his family would miss him the
most.Osman was a genious by all measure,he started buiding things of interest
from nothing from an early age and he transformed his talents to bigger
engineering endeavors.As a forumite mentioned not too long ago on this platform
"Natural abilty and virtue surpasses all educational accolades without
values". This is a paraphrase.Please accept my apologies Chez.Osman
epitomizes what one can be if determined. He made it against all odds and he did
not leave his family far behind like what most successful would do. He was an
humble soul till the end. This was a man who could instruct engineers any of the
finest universities in the would yet he remained humbled. The are no aplhabets
after his name to brga about but he wnt about his business with confidence
creating employment oppurtunies for the youths in factories and other endeavors
whilst those with all the alphabets after their naes are running around failing
the people. May his soulrest in perfest peace.
Subject: Re: The passing of Osman George
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
To: All
Date Posted: 11:09:39 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
No worries my brother. My prayers to you and the rest of the family! May
his call be met by the coolest of the Angels.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires
that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from
the hard service of the flesh. Such a release the realist prays for.
Subject: "DR.LANSANA NYALLEY THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB"
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 09:55:25 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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“DR.LANSANA NYALLEY ANOTHER SACRIFICIAL LAMB”,MISCONSTRUCTION OF ACCOUNTS.
Mr.Abrahim Alimu Jalloh’s on Dr.Lansana Nyalley as reported on this forum is a
monumental misconstruction of events that warrants the oxygen of facts to enable
it see the light of day in proper context and perspective.
To start with Tegloma organization as I have outlined in detail on the Awareness
Times discussion forum was never intended to be a political vehicle in general
nor was it construed to be a satellite of the SLPP.What is it though,it is
hypersensitive political hangers on and carpet baggers in the likes of
Dr.Nyalley and his lackeys who hijacked the aims and objectives of the
organization to advance their narrow political hegemony.
The Tegloma organization that came into existence thanks to the vision,and
leadership of Mr.Emanuel Vandi Senesie had one goal in mind which was to be able
to provide relief for all the citizens from the South/Eastern communities
resident in the diaspora in times of unforeseen contingencies.
Mr.Jalloh also over exaggerated Dr.Nyalley’s contributions in the
organization.The fact of the matter is that he is the fellow who relishes the
limelight inordinately and will do anything to remain the star of attraction no
matter what.
Sir,you will really have to pardon me this time around for indulging in self
worshipping vanity but the fact of the matter as any Tegloma current or past
members will tell you,I had more distinguished services in the organization than
Dr.Nyalley but preferred to do so with out the lenses focusing on me.
The organization was registered by me in my capacity as Secretary General under
the presidency of the late James Minah.The registration act specifically
prohibits the funds of the organization to be spent on political
purposes.Dr.Nyalley and a group of very small minded people in their vaulting
ambition to be part of the political process,embarked on a cash for office
scheme with Tejan Kabbah under the false pretext of helping “OUR PEOPLE”.In
flagrant violation of the articles of incorporation,they took the finances of
the organization to the dry cleaners toward the 1996 general elections with the
hope that assuming the SLPP was victorious,they will be given governmental
jobs.Even that Dr.Nyalley and his cronies were very selective in their choice as
to who gets jobs.They drew up their own list and the offices they sought and
transmitted it to Tejan Kabbah.Needless to opine that his so called list was
treated with Shakespearean cold and aloof by Tejan Kabbah.
One would have thought the attitude of benign neglect and condescending elitism
on the part of Tejan Kabbah directed at Tegloma sent any message to the
political vultures.Apparently it did not.When Kabbah was kicked out of office
for inefficiency and planlessness and took refuge in Guinea,Dr.Nyalley and his
cabal again hoodwinked the organization with their exaggerated and irrational
demagoguery under the pretext that Tegloma needed to help finance the fight
against the insurgents with funds for the Kamajors,the unsuspecting gullible
membership capitulated to the scheme which was nothing more than a second
attempt at buying jobs when the first bid failed.Again,always wanting to be in
the fore front of folding events so that he will glow in the spotlight,he
Dr.Nyalley volunteered to take the money to Guinea and there he engaged in self
serving and convoluted grandstanding with Ahmed Tejan Kabbah which I watched on
video tape that was given to me to put together as clip to be played at his fund
raising dance when he day dreamt of becoming the presidential candidate in a
playing field with Solomon Berewa waiting to take over.In any case,when Kabbah
was restored the second time,he again,treated Tegloma the same way he did after
the 1996 general election where he took money illegally from the organization
and gave no jobs to Dr.Nyalley and the rest of the job seekers.What
happened?Dr.Nyalley made a carrier out of Tejan Kabbah’s ingratitude using
every available opportunity to speak in the public to lambaste him.His
disagreement and existential fall out with him was more as a result of cynical
expediency as opposed to ideological differences as Mr.Jalloh will like the
readers to know.
It is one thing to write on an issue,it is entirely different matter to attempt
to proffer opinion on issues that one is hopelessly inadequate to cope with the
exigencies of its unprecedented challenges as Mr.Jalloh has done here.
As for the bigoted aspect of the comments which depicts the ‘Mendi man’ in
the pejorative context he has put it,I will not dignify his irresponsible
claptrap on that simply because he has not got the foggiest idea of what Tegloma
is.My feeling is that he has been paid money as it is always typical of pocket
book journalist to write favourable opinions on individuals so as to grease
their cause.Dr.Nyalley finds himself in a political environment where his
chances of leadership is virtually non existent because when the battle royal
begins for successor to Ernest Bai Koroma between the Temne Sakoma’s,and the
Ekutay Limba’s,he will be discarded as a waste paper no matter what because
politics as I have often argued in contemporary Sierra Leone is governed by the
strivings and conflicts of a universal will whose irrational impulses cannot be
understood by scientific application.
Mr.Jalloh’s piece therefore amounts to hogwash and a calculated attempt to
improve Dr.Nyalley’s standing in the body politic which nonetheless was done
with pyramid of lies,and halftruths,and pure speculations far removed from
political reality.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: "DR.LANSANA NYALLEY THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB"
From: Neutralist
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Date Posted: 10:17:48 07/14/08 ()
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An excellent rebuttal
Subject: Re: "DR.LANSANA NYALLEY THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB"
From: yankuba kai-samba
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Date Posted: 11:41:32 07/14/08 ()
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I have read both the arguments from Kutubu and Jalloh. Both have merits in their
respective positions. I must say, however, that I share Jalloh's opinion that
the mende man is envious to their own kind. It is in the character of the mende
man to side with a stranger to undermine his own blood because he does not want
him to be better than him. I have emailed Jalloh to share with him my views.
Subject: The cocaine plane issue justifies Alpha Kholifa's drive
From: The Smart Cavalier
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Date Posted: 09:23:11 07/14/08 ()
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When the immigration boss started the unprecedented drive against illegal
immigrants there was a hue and cry both at home and abroad.The opposition SLPP
instead of providing their inputs tried with little success to not only make
some political gains out of the drive but to sabotage it too. Now it is becoming
clear why it is dangerous to turn a blind eye to illegal immigrants in a country
like Salone where the main opposition SLPP has a reputation of perpetrating all
the machinations to outstrip a democratically elected government.
The abandoned plane fully loaded with packs of cocaine is a cause for
concern.It reinforces the importance and necessity of the immigration's latest
action on illegal
immigrants.That the plane landed unauthorized and unannounced with absconding
occupants is a test case for the aviation department.
Now it is a case of drugs found in an abandoned plane. What will happen tomorrow remains a mystery and that we should not sit by and wait for.It is hightime the government carry out a thorough investigation of the incident rather than speculating and bring to book those responsible.
But if preliminary reports are anything to go by, the patriotic Saloneans will not tolerate any accusations of witch-hunt or political oppression by the SLPP.If their involvement is proved or confirmed they should be dealt with as per requirement of the law. Patriotic Saloneans will not entertain any act that will endanger the reputation of their country. If it is also proved that illegal immigrants connived with the opposition to tarnish the image of the country which is also a serious embarrassment for the ruling APC, then the government should be ruthless because of foreign interference. However we expect the main opposition to cooperate fully with the government since this is a national crisis.
Subject: There goes the Dull Cadaver again with his senseless ranting
From: Jacob Kanu
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Date Posted: 10:33:44 07/14/08 ()
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Dull cadaver, if you have nothing sensible and patriotic to say, I strongly
suggest you zip it. I am sure, an "alledged" smart cavalier like you,
can understand that this shameful incidence has no bearing to immigration clamp
down.
Landing a plane full of cocaine and a few weapons, a first in Sierra Leone's
history, is only possible when highly placed collaborators are invovled to
ensure landing permission and a safe getaways should things go wrong.
Alternatively, if no big von is involved, then it exposes serious laspes on the part of governemt to protect and police its principal international gateway. This will only be an open invitation to the Pablo Escobars of this world,
Either way my assertions of incompetence at the highest levels in the executive arm of government, unfortunately is being substantiated by such despicable criminal enterprise. The Transport Minister must provide answers to poignant questions on the mind of many Sierra Leoneans. How did this happen? How can we stop it from happening again? Who is behind this?
You (Dull Cadaver) and some of the dishonest characters like Mr Lappa can attempt all kinds of "apples vs oranges" spins; when the dust clears its going to point only to one thing - collaboration by some pretenders or incompetence of government. What is at risk here is far reaching than your puerile reasoning can relate to.
Our national image is being tarnished by a few greedy 'low lifes'. Imagine having you isolated and routinely subjected to a cavity search, only because you travel on a Sierra leonean passport. Anyone who down plays this heinous breach of our national security is simply unpatriotic.
This is a great opportunity for EBK to demonstrate leadership, and expediently get to the bottom of this. Keeping a tight lid on this menace is not going to help, neither is proffering outrageous and senseless spins as you have attempted.
I rest my case.
Subject: Re: There goes the Dull Cadaver again with his senseless
ranting
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Date Posted: 14:17:33 07/14/08 ()
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You see how stupid this man called Jacob Kanu is, this man for one minute he
nearly succeeded in gaining my trust but the next minute he will bombard the
forum with ferocious nonese. He left you wonder is he really a Sierra Leonean or
what?.
'if dis guy rite for you, you go fil say ar dae converse wit porson wae get sense. but wae you rid inh rubbish, ee go just shok you lek eletric'.
Jacob Kanu wake up and smell the coffee, didn't you read the story so far? Mexicans, Venezuelans Americans, that are involed in this heist.
Jacob Kanu my cousin, please wake up from your slumber and join the think tanks like the Smart Cavalier, Uman Lappa, Me and many others. You go frustrate yousef oh.
Subject: Re: There goes the Dull Cadaver again with his senseless
ranting
From: How concern
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Date Posted: 10:46:27 07/14/08 ()
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Culled from BBC
S Leone police arrest drug crew
The UN has warned that West Africa is the new route for cocaine smugglers
Police in Sierra Leone have arrested six people in connection with the seizure
of a plane loaded with cocaine at the airport outside the capital.
The six are from Latin America, and include Colombians and Mexicans.
The 700kg cargo, worth an estimated $60m, was abandoned on the runway shortly after arriving in the dark in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The BBC's Umaru Fofana in Freetown says the pilots were rescued by a vehicle that drove through the perimeter fence.
Our correspondent says it was a dramatic and daring escape, but they appeared to experience no resistance from security at the airport.
The incident comes after a recent warning from the US embassy in Freetown that some members of the police force in Sierra Leone are working with organised criminals, our reporter says.
The seized drugs are now with the United Nations and British-led International Military Advisory Training Team.
Last month, the United Nations warned that West Africa was under attack from international gangs seeking new routes to smuggle cocaine from South America to Europe.
After years of war, Sierra Leone is one of the world's poorest countries and corruption is major problem.
Guine-Bussau, another weak West African state, has also been targeted by Latin American drugs cartels.
Subject: Re: The cocaine plane issue justifies Alpha Kholifa's drive
From: laughter
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Date Posted: 10:14:48 07/14/08 ()
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thank you for asking questions instead of pointing fingers at someone.
Subject: Re: The cocaine plane issue justifies Alpha Kholifa's drive
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 11:25:48 07/14/08 ()
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There are Sierra Leoneans involved.. and this is not an accidental miss the
country because it was dark..
Landing a plan at 2am at out airport was deliberate..
And now that the authourities nabbed a few of the culprits.. i hope there is no
coverup and this investigation gets to the last, and highest collaborator..
When salone begin get plenty tourists from mexico and venezuela.. we should be worried..
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Read Below.. from June 2007..
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Venezuelan authorities seized 2.5 tons of cocaine bound for Africa and
arrested nine suspects including four federal police officers and a U.S.
citizen, the military said Sunday.
Following an undercover operation, military intelligence agents seized the drugs
Saturday at the airport on the tourist destination of Margarita Island, National
Guard Cmdr. Marcos Rojas Figueroa said.
The alleged smugglers were preparing to load it onto a private plane bound for Sierra Leone, Rojas Figueroa told the state-run Bolivarian News Agency. He did not say how authorities knew the drugs were destined for the west African nation, a common way station for Colombian cocaine bound for Europe.
Four police officers who helped transport the cocaine to the airport tarmac were detained along with an airport security guard and four foreigners, including one U.S. citizen, two Mexicans and a Sierra Leone national, Rojas Figueroa said.
http://www.topix.com/forum/world/africa/TQ7382CPE0FEHP4BR
Subject: Re: The cocaine plane issue justifies Alpha Kholifa's drive
From: Logical
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Date Posted: 09:37:21 07/14/08 ()
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An aircraft lands at ungodly hours at Lungi Airport, and an official car awaits
the crew at the runway!!!What Immigration are we talking about???
Subject: Mr Kutubu Koroma, what did you do to end these injustices?
From: Dr. C. Curtis-Thomas
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Date Posted: 08:51:34 07/14/08 ()
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"...that was how Stevens,Momoh,and Conteh enforced the laws of the nation
in accordance with their whims,views,and caprices.The three of them decided what
cases went to court and which were settled behing closed doors.Another
monumental display of miscarriage of justice,and orwellina double standard by a
man who touts his standing in law.Again,that was Vintage Conteh.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
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Mr Mohamed Kutubu Koroma, when these injustices were going on in Sierra Leone what did you do to bring attention to the problem. Did you protest or did you just "sit there doing your nails" and wait couple of decades later to " blow hot steam"?
Subject: APC could have killed poor Kutubu in a flash
From: Osai Owai
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Date Posted: 09:06:27 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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The blood thirsty APC could have wiped out Mr Kutubu's entire genration had he
ventured to challenge those animals.
Didn't you hear about the fate of Bank Governor Bangura, Fornah, Taqi... etc etc. Docky now I know you lek Paa Kutubu.
Subject: Re: APC could have killed poor Kutubu in a flash
From: Dr. Charles Curtis-Thomas
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Date Posted: 09:19:00 07/14/08 ()
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"...Didn't you hear about the fate of Bank Governor Bangura, Fornah, Taqi...
etc etc. Docky now I know you lek Paa Kutubu"
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It is better to die trying to end an injustice then to do nothing and "die" because of it.
It is liberty or death; if you cannot have one, try to get the other.
Subject: Re: Mr Kutubu Koroma, what did you do to end these
injustices?
From: bam
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Date Posted: 09:03:02 07/14/08 ()
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There is a lot to Kutubu that forumites don't know, i'm begining to think that
he probably worked with the past APC just like any typical SLPPian.
Subject: Re: Mr Kutubu Koroma, what did you do to end these
injustices?
From: Dr CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 09:05:32 07/14/08 ()
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"...There is a lot to Kutubu that forumites don't know, i'm begining to
think that he probably worked with the past APC just like any typical SLPPian."
(Bam)
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WHAT MAKES YOU THINK SO, BIG GUY?
Subject: Re: Mr Kutubu Koroma, what did you do to end these
injustices?
From: bam
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Date Posted: 09:26:25 07/14/08 ()
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If you read his writtings on this forum especially about Abdulai Conteh. He
mentioned the trials of late Minna and others go back and read his postings of
last week. It is not a crime for him to serve his country regardless of under
which political party.
Subject: Doc Curtis please help decode what Bam is trying to say
From: Arnold Jones-Dove
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Date Posted: 09:38:13 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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I am lost Doc. What is this:
"He mentioned the trials of late Minna and others go back and read his postings of last week. It is not a crime for him to serve his country regardless of under which political party"
Lord ooh!
Subject: Re: Doc Curtis please help decode what Bam is trying to say
From: Dr CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 10:01:13 07/14/08 ()
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"...I am lost Doc. What is this:
"He mentioned the trials of late Minna and others go back and read his postings of last week. It is not a crime for him to serve his country regardless of under which political party"
Lord ooh!
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I AM ALSO LOST! I WISH THE BOY WOULD STOP "SPEAKING IN TONGUES"
Subject: NEW TEACHERS GO ONE WHOLE YEAR WITHOUT PAY! ONE SCHOOL YEAR
From: PEEP
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Date Posted: 08:44:20 07/14/08 ()
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Peep Magazine
NEW TEACHERS GO ONE WHOLE YEAR WITHOUT PAY! ONE SCHOOL YEAR WITHOUT SALARY!
Monday, July 14, 2008 - A source at the Finance ministry has admitted. Education
Minister BAH
Not On The Vouchers
“We haven’t entered new workers on the pay vouchers because we are still
double-checking existing vouchers submitted by schools for ghost teachers” our
source said.
He declined to be named because he didn’t want to talk on a ‘sensitive
matter’.
No Salary
Since they reported for duty in September 2007, most new teachers have not been
paid.
It has been a great strain for many of them.
Still Relying On Parents.
“I have had to rely on my parents” 26 year old Abdul Kamara who teaches at
an east end school confessed. “It is disgraceful that I have finished College
and am still relying on my parents to even buy toothpaste” he said.
Demoralised
The failure to pay new teacher’s salaries has reportedly led to mass
demoralisation of new staff.
Advances
“We have tried to help with advances from school funds - but there is only so
much we can do” a senior Principal said.
Next Year?
It is not known what the effect of leaving new teachers unpaid for a whole
school year will be on new entrants to the teaching profession in 2008/2009.
Subject: Re: NEW TEACHERS GO ONE WHOLE YEAR WITHOUT PAY! ONE SCHOOL
YEAR
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Date Posted: 09:40:09 07/14/08 ()
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Peep seems to be a detractor of Minister Bah.He is busy installing student
government at the University, and he should not be bothered by these trivial
problems.Keep up your good work Mininster Baah
Subject: DIAMOND ROAD ON DISCOVERY ID ON VERIZON FIOS CHANNEL 103
From: Diamond Sweh.
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Date Posted: 07:50:36 07/14/08 ()
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I had a mouthful but if you can try and view this hour long diamond documentary
on Sierra Leone, mae me late for work today, but now I know why the Indians,
Lebanese and Jullahs are in Sierra Leone. Thank you Investigation discovery for
letting me know a lot about my country and why we are poor and it was shot
during the SLPP government with a meeting with SOLO Balso in the documentary.
Subject: Re: DIAMOND ROAD TO: SWEH, PLEASE READ
From: Mr. Cullinan
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Date Posted: 14:17:21 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: sorrelsteak@yahoo.com
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TO: Diaqmond Sweh, This Documentary, "Diamond Road", (I believe it was
3 one hour segments) is not nearly as well-done, or as historically accurate as
the Documentary made some yrs. earlier and shown from time to time on the
History Channel.
This program is titled, "Blood Diamond" and is 2 hrs. long and well worth watching. Also, the DVD is available on the web-site historychannel.com
The "Diamond Road" program deals with Mr. Rappaport's ill conceived
and poorly executed plan to help the miners of S.L. to receive a fair price for
their rough. Unfortunately, (for the miners) Mr. R. is (still)in the Diamond
Business for the money, and always has been.
In the program he goes around willynilly asking rich diamond brokers, etc. to
give up their excessive profits, (they all refuse)BUT does not attempt to solve
the root of the problem. The root of the problem is the local diamond brokers
who constantly rip-off the miners by buying their rough for a basement price.
It's a well-known fact that a miner receives 20 dollars US for a diamond that
eventually sells at the retail level in Amsterdam, New York, etc. for 1,500
dollars US. Also, a woman is quoted as saying to a crowd at a gem show,
"Diamonds are a necessity of life," and we all know that this is
absolute B.S.
My only problem with the 2 hr. "blood Diamond" program is that it
promotes the "Kimberly Process" as an effective program to eliminate
illegal rough diamond smuggling, and it has not. The "Kim. Process"
was created by the diamond elite, (Debeers, etc.) to keep track of
"their" rough before they get their hot little hands on it.
I have said many times that the S.L. Govt. should take TOTAL CONTROL of the
Diamond industry,eliminate ALL corrupt elements, organize the miners, and pay
them a fair price for their rough. Also, according to an article in the A.T.
last yr. the S.L. Govt supposedly had come up with a plan to polish S.L. rough
IN S.L. I have yet to see any evidence at all that this has even begun. SAME OLD
STORY: the poor will continue to be poor due to wide-spread corruption. Diamonds
are our most valuable resource. Unfortunately, only an elite few profit from
this resource. Regards, Mr. C.
Subject: Dr.Lansana Nyalley :Another SLPP sacrificial lamb ?
From: Town Crier
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Date Posted: 07:49:28 07/14/08 ()
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Doctor Lansana Nyalley was never told to not accept the position offered to him
by Dr Karimu and John Benjamin.
I challenge Dr Nyalley's intergrity if he has seen this this article and made no effort to correct this fact.
Also, wasn't he the one that asked the police to arrest that student trying to run for office in student union elections? Speak of jumping into water and turning into fish...
Subject: Re: Dr.Lansana Nyalley :Another SLPP sacrificial lamb ?
From: bam
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Date Posted: 08:07:42 07/14/08 ()
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Just shot up. When are you guys (mende) going to learn decency?
Subject: Buffoon Bam-by stop this tribal charge... you go wound ooh!
From: No Nonsense man
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Date Posted: 08:46:59 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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"Just shot up. When are you guys (mende) going to learn decency? Bamby
Stop this tribal business, it will kill you.
Whether you like it or not the SouthEast is the Economic back bone of the county, and its people are very hardworking and productive. Your hate will only harm yourself.
By the way, its Shut up...with a 'U' not 'O'.
Buffoon Bamby.
Subject: Re: Buffoon Bam-by stop this tribal charge... you go wound
ooh!
From: bam
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Date Posted: 09:15:34 07/14/08 ()
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I know that the truth hurts and it is because of me. The mendes will never
support another government if it is not SLPP as we have seen in the past and
present. You can label me or arm twist my words all you want, the facts remains
the fact, but am sure your conscience is slapping you in the face.
Subject: Re: Dr.Lansana Nyalley :Another SLPP sacrificial lamb ?
From: Konomoi
To: All
Date Posted: 08:37:29 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: Bacchusmoi@yahoo.com
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You should shut up and go wallow in your bigotry and trbalistic
insinuations.Where did the EKUTAY come from? I am sure it is not from the mendes
but you will rather make us believe it to be another SLPP creation. What an
idiot whose narrow mindedness underscores his myopia and abysmal ignorance.Bo go
lap nar yu jamba farm and lick some poyo.We don tire with dis tribal offbeat
talk.
Subject: Re: Dr.Lansana Nyalley :Another SLPP sacrificial lamb ?
From: bam
To: All
Date Posted: 08:56:34 07/14/08 ()
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Whoa, konomoi don't indulge yourself into sycophancy you sound so terrible with
you lines. Who started taking politics into poro bush? if you know that answer
then you will know why the great EKUTAY (i mean your menace) came into the game.
By the way konomoi you know the word (kono ee kono faa).
Subject: Re: Dr.Lansana Nyalley :Another SLPP sacrificial lamb ?
From: bam
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Date Posted: 08:54:53 07/14/08 ()
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Whoa, konomoi don't indulge yourself into sycophancy you sound so terrible with
you lines. Who started taking politics into poro bush? if you know that answer
then you will know why the great EKUTAY (i mean your menace) came into the game.
By the way konomoi you that (kono ee kono faa).
Subject: The APC Government Should Take Action Now
From: Angthorf
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Date Posted: 07:03:26 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: soribabureh@hotmail.com
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I call on President EBK to sermon an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the
mysterious abandonment of a whole aircraft with cocaine at our international
airport.
While the meeting is going on, the following personalities should be taken into police confinement, pending a thorough and swift investigation on the abandoned cocaine plane at our air field. Those to be questioned should include, the air traffic controller and all officials in charge at the time of the plane landing. More so, the minister of transportation should give a clarifying account on the matter.
Until the APC government takes immediate action against any suspects on this international scandal, the image of Sierra Leone and its officials, particularly those who directly responsible for the airport and internal security will ever be tarnished.
Subject: Re: The APC Government Should Take Action Now
From: CID
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Date Posted: 07:15:25 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Angthorf, you sound like a true patriot. The likes of Mr Uman Lappa will rot i
hell, as they are only interested in covering up for APC.
Respect Angthorf. I know you support APC, but you have clearly come out as a true son of the soil. Keep it up.
Subject: Re: The APC Government Should Take Action Now
From: Mensa
To: All
Date Posted: 07:41:55 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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Angthorf, you have really exhibited a responsible and matured way of handling
the situation, by your suggestion. You sound more like a Minister of Internal
Security who happened to be out of the country when the unfortunate incident
occurred, and on arrival, gave a press conference right there and then, at the
airport! Off his sleeves!
Angthorf, you should think of joining politics. Our country will be more
accountable and safer in the hands of people of your type of political maturity!
Subject: Latest developments on SLPP's involvement in cocaine plane
From: Forensic Expert
To: All
Date Posted: 06:12:21 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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The houses of John Benjamin, JJ Blood, John Karimu,Solo Bee, Alhaji UNS Jah and
Sama Banya were raided two hours ago in a simultaneous operation but they were
nowhere to be seen. Sources think they got the hunch and so made a clean pair of
heels with an unknown destination.Police sources intimated that most probably
they have sought refuge in one of the western embassies and are importuning for
a deal to be brokered.The sources went on to inform that when Brima Acha Kamara
was consulted,he referred the matter to his boss the minister who insisted the
now fugitives first of all give themselves up before any discussion.A media
personnel on condition of anonymity revealed that diplomats are doing all they
can to ensure that the fugitives who are already in despair are not arrested.
The investigations continue.
Subject: Governor Clarkson's prayer
From: Pastor Conteh (Brookfields)
To: All
Date Posted: 07:23:30 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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May those who cover up for diabolical crimes that tarnish Sierra Leone's image
contract uncurable cholera and disgrace before perishing. May Mama Salone reign
supreme over political violence and drug trafficking Central Committees
AMEN
Subject: APC's Kemoh Sesay & Convicted Cocaine Dealer Frank Timis..
From: Abass Sesay (Freetown)
To: All
Date Posted: 07:11:19 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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have been invited by AIG Munu for questioning.
It seems the unholy alliance of APC's Transport Minister and the convicted Cocaine dealer, Frank Timis is key part of the mystery surrounding the APC's cocaine plane.
Sierra Leoneans have woken up this morning to learn that their government is now mortgaging the country's image for "coko ebbeh" as John Leigh would say.
Mr Lappa, this is a serious national issue. Please stop trivialising it with your childish rants.
Subject: Re: APC's Kemoh Sesay & Convicted Cocaine Dealer Frank
Timis..
From: A. Jalloh
To: All
Date Posted: 16:05:48 07/14/08 ()
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A zero point attempt here. Your thoughts sir, is speculative and nonsensical
devoid of any verity.
"Sierra Leoneans... now mortgaging the country's image for "coko ebbeh"..."
I implore you sir, let us keep a “cool head” and refrain from any
irresponsible statement(s). If your statement quoted supra can be corroborated
then, I say “my bad” till then hold your fire.
Subject: Re: APC's Kemoh Sesay & Convicted Cocaine Dealer Frank
Timis..
From: no to so
To: All
Date Posted: 08:28:05 07/14/08 ()
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Abass is the typical SLPP fanatic who will do and say dumb things just to prove
a point. I told you a few days a go that you are just out of touch in this
forum. I have never known that some Saloneans like Abass can be this ignorant.
Subject: SLPP are planning another RUF this time, they'll be crushed
From: Yasmin Gbenda
To: All
Date Posted: 06:56:37 07/14/08 ()
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There are rampant reports of SLPP bush tactics rearing it ugly heads again. As
it's always been said that these people cannot waite in the shadows of power,
they have to regain it by hook or crook. Little did they know that all peacefull
Sierra Leoneans are fed up and ready to counter any trouble they'll attempt to
bring back in the country.
It's a big blow to these cocaine pushers, they've already lost a huge amount of cash thanks to our airport security.
Subject: Re: SLPP are planning another RUF this time, they'll be
crushed
From: bam
To: All
Date Posted: 08:40:32 07/14/08 ()
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This time there will be no confusion we know who the culprits are. If these
power mongers attempt to go back to the bush, we will not give them an easy
ride. They better sort themselves out before the public do that for them. I
trust Saloneans, if they have to sort you out for being a bad apple you are
dead.
Subject: FROM ATTACKING EC STAFF TO COCAINE PLANE ON TARMAC
From: Tendai Movunzu
To: All
Date Posted: 06:00:59 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: tendaimchenjerai@yahoo.com
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This was a response to Mr Bambay, but I think makes good reading for all:
..................................................
I'll keep this short and precise.
The concerns I have raised has not been addressed by your prose. My focus is the electoral process and its attendant problems on the continent. It will be very difficult for Africa to assume its rightful position as a power to contend with - without credible elections. The research I am currently doing is very intriguing and challenging: Developing an electoral system that will deliver credible and fair elections in Africa and associated criminalities of bad governance.
Although I care about Sierra Leone and other African countries, my biggest worry (naturally) is Zimbabwe. I loathe Mugabe for the electoral violence and having overstayed in pole position and equally hate any African leader that perpetuates or turns a blind eye to political violence, for his own benefit.
The early warning signs I am seeing from Sierra Leone is not good.
Specifically, I would hate to see your 10 month old President, Koroma, teach the
Mugabes and the Kibakis, new violent strategies - attacking Election officers
and burning electoral materials.
I find it hard that Sierra Leoneans (save a few) have not picked on such
worrying developments and would use partisan politics to trivialize the gravity
and possible impacts of such brazen actions. I am therefore not surprised to
hear from Reuter's agent here in Harare that a plane loaded with cocaine and
some arms is sitting on your airstrip.
I welcome a good debate and exchange of ideas and hope our exchanges will be
mutually beneficial.
My question is what is your position on political violence, particularly the
targeting of electoral staff and materials? And how do you think it translates
to Good Governance and the rather despicable cocaine loaded plane on your
tarmac. Believe me even Mugabe and Kibaki have not deteriorated to this low
level of Governance poor Sierra Leone is witnessing. My take is, inept
leadership is the single most cause of what happens or does not happen in a
country.
I strongly therefore urge all patriotic Sierra Leoneans and Pan-Africanists the world over, to put pressure on HE Koroma, to clean his ways and start taking decisive actions against nefarious actors around him or in his government, that are responsible for the spate of political violence and criminality increasingly being associated with Sierra Leone. Trivializing this into partisan politics will hurt your nation more.
All are free to join in. But please lets keep it non-partisan.
Subject: SLPP'S COCAINE PLANE: WHY OH WHY?
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 04:23:50 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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Wetin apin o wo agboloh dae lick peppeh?
Seems that the SLPP is hungry for cash now that they had been cut off from the
easy cash they have become accustomed to during their years in power. Oh well!
After were been kicked out of office, the SLPP has become desperate for cash and
is now rolling with narcoterroists. But COCAINE? This is a new low.
Subject: Re: SLPP'S COCAINE PLANE: WHY OH WHY?
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 07:03:38 07/14/08 ()
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Uman Lappa, Thanks for keeping these cocainese in check. I'm currently doing my
fact finding mission, and so far the tide seems to be sweeping towards these
Sieriously Lazy Puppet People (SLPP).
I will do a thorough research into this diabolic behaviour by our Southern folks.
Subject: Re: SLPP'S COCAINE PLANE: WHY OH WHY?
From: How concern
To: All
Date Posted: 07:53:42 07/14/08 ()
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Eddie, I am waiting patiently.
You wrote, "I will do a thorough research into this diabolic behaviour by
our Southern folks."
I know your "thorough research" is already underway as you have
identified the culprits to be Southerns.
Hmmm, let me guess;-the Vais cannot do this as they are cool people, the
southern Temnes, Madingoes,and fullahs are too busy managing their petty trading
business... Bingo-it is Mendes, Yes I've got it, eureka-its the Mendes.
Boy I can read you like my ... Anyway, I am waiting to see your report.
Subject: Accurate reading of Bato man Eddy's 'pikin brain'
From: Keen Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 08:04:28 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Full marks. Eddy is so simplistic one can even capture whats on his tribal mind
before he opens his @#$# mouth.
Note:
Eddy please copy and post How Concern's findings. Save yourself time Mr
Probation Officer. I hope you are not slowly becoming a convict by association.
Yuk Tegbeh !
Subject: Re: Accurate reading of Bato man Eddy's 'pikin brain'
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 14:44:08 07/14/08 ()
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"Yuk Tegbeh !"
Well done again my cousin, but it should read yuk thegbeh.
You know that I'm not a tribalist. The fact is whenever you guys are conered
by me, your only defence is to echo tribalism, it won't work here my cousin
especially when you direct your claims against someone like me with a clean
record for being one of the most fair persons on this forum.
Subject: Re: Accurate reading of Bato man Eddy's 'pikin brain'
From: How concern
To: All
Date Posted: 15:04:13 07/14/08 ()
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Still waiting for your "thorough research".
Keh lums, lums, ke gbethie ki tha ba a pa.
Lets see your report on your "thorough research".
Subject: Eddy boy yu go gbekinyekeh aay
From: No Nonsense man
To: All
Date Posted: 07:30:17 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Eddy are you showing your rear again in this serious national issue? Why should
antone take you seriously anymore.
Everything is tribal for you ehn? And you deny you are not a tribalist. Read most of your posts, as you have been advised before. You half-baked sicko!
Subject: Re: Eddy boy yu go gbekinyekeh aay
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 07:35:49 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Shut up moron, if you have nothing worth of discussion to say keep your lips
sealed, before you polute this forum with cuss because that's what you're good
at.
Subject: MR LAPPA ARE YOU ON DRUGS OR YU NAR JIS FOOLISH MAN
From: CID
To: All
Date Posted: 05:28:28 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Read Mr Kanu's investigative report again. Apparently APC's Kemoh Sesay is in
very hot waters. The IC I learn will be soon calling for his arrest and
questioning of Hastings airstripe and this recent drug bust.
Even Cocorioko claims Mr Kemoh is not answering calls right now.
Stop trivialising a very serious APC crisis. Interpol called EBK around midnight and prevailed on him not to allow crew members on board the drug plane to vanish and warned they would attempt to bribe him.
Some pundits claim dae Paa lek money too much... so this interpol warning might just fall on deaf ears. What kind of go'fment is this? Remember also, Mr Lappa, this is a first for Salone. No thanks to the numerous con men in the so called New Criminal APC.
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Mr Kanu please allow me to reproduce your peice to educate this fool:
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APC's infamous slogan is becoming a nightmare. Nar we tem dis... for do watin to we beloved contri? Turn Salone to a cross between Zimbabwe & Columbia enh? Sazimcombia? No way I am not going to be a Sazimcombian, I don't know about you Dr Curtis, or Mr Lappa, or How Concern, or Mr Kutubu or...
First the have ambushed Election officials and burnt election materials. As if that was just a practice session, mystery planes loaded with drugs and weapons are now sitting on our International Tarmac.
The great unknowns that are complicating the situation are who authorised "transit landings" of such flights in the past especially at Hastings airport? Recently, the Minister of Transport and Communication Hon Kemoh Sesay had announced that a Nigerian "airline" has been given sole use of Hastings Airport.
He also announced additionally that he had struck a series of deals for the expansion and development of Lungi airport with the support of "private financiers" he has never named. It is also unclear whether the "orders from above" to air traffic controllers in the past came from security or government officials.
Recently, Kemoh Sesay has been central to providing the Port of Pepel to Frank Timis (a convicted Cocaine smuggler) who wants to develop the sea port ad a nearby airfield for his "iron ore" operations on a site that market analysts have projected as not profitable. Kemoh Sesay even took a concessionary trip - all paid for by Frank Timis - to Romania to "see the operations of the African Minerals group." Not to mention monies to his London Account from unexplained sources
But trust APC and Paa Acha.... hush hush. The alledged prisoner arrested will
escape and the case will fizzle after a few days. NOT WHILST WE'RE WATCHING. YOU
HAVE BEEN WARNED
Subject: UMAN LAPPA IS A FORCE TO REKONED WITH
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 07:17:44 07/14/08 ()
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Jacob Kanu, you see how you exposed yourself to the element of ridicule? the
moment you chose to be biased, false reporter, unpatriotic and hateful of others
that's when you sewn the seed of discord. You will continue to receive
condemnation from all patriotic, peaceful and honest Sierra Leoneans.
Jacob How Concern Kanu, you and your SLPP're doomed, Uman Lappa only decided to spit the recidue of his venom and you and your cohorts are already jittery.
Subject: kinny BRIMA IS INSANE- DO NOT BE RUDE TO OTHERS
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 03:28:43 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
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kinny Brima , This is a decent forum and decency is required, if you cannot read
properly and understand ,you have a problem. If you are crazy about A.P.C.
"THOUGH YOU ARE EMPTY IN POLITCAL HISTORY CONTROL YOURSELF AND RESPECT
OTHERS". Do not extend your dirty crude politics to me . What do you know
about A.P.C. AND S.L.P.P. POLITICS, abosolutely Zero ,therefore control yourself
and be decent.
Subject: Re: kinny BRIMA IS INSANE- DO NOT BE RUDE TO OTHERS
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 07:26:31 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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What you yourself knows about politics doesn't matter here, what matters is
being objective and report things as honestly as they occur for the interest of
our country. But when you guys decided to concoct stories that are more damaging
to our nation than your perceived enemy APC, you must expect patriotic SaLoenans
to counter your lies and that would mean even using strong words where possible
if that's the only language you understand. Many of us have being keeping our
dignity by not resorting with obscenities, but others have a different way of
sending their messages across.
Subject: Re: kinny BRIMA IS INSANE- DO NOT BE RUDE TO OTHERS
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:17:32 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: sotie_jawara@yahoo.com
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Edie Grant, Please read the posting again, it is simple and clear. I have
written so much about violence and causes begining from ALBERT Margai. I know
the battle between S.L.P.P. AND A.P.C., there is no justification for any mad
dog to jumap at me because he/she cannot read and understand. Did I mention
anything about president Koroma ? kinny Brima and all mad dogs in the A.P.C.
need to be retrained by A.P.C.
Subject: Re: kinny BRIMA IS INSANE- MAY BE ON DRUGS FROM THE PLANE?
From: CID
To: All
Date Posted: 03:41:27 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
Entered From: a
Message:
Pa Jawara ignore these APC hooligans yah. Kinny B is probably on strong drugs,
hence his compulsion to use foul language.
Now that their APC Central Committe has allegedly become a Drug Cartel. Who knows what their "small small" boys do? 'Push' things for their mafia agbas?
Want thing for sure, wrecking havoc to Mama Salone will not go unpunished. From the roots to the fruits, they shall be cursed. Period!
p/s
Kinny Brima are you a Sazimcombian APC boy?
Subject: Re: kinny BRIMA IS INSANE- MAY BE ON DRUGS FROM THE PLANE?
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 15:25:05 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
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CID, THANK YOU , kinny BRIMA IS ONE OF THE mad DOGS IN A.P.C. , this is one
reason for violence in the country. A. P.C. WILL ALWAYS BE INTROUBLE BECAUSE OF
IDIOTS LIKE kinny Brima.
Subject: What is leadership?
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 01:22:06 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Ladies and gentlemen, let me first and foremost; express my profound gratitude
for the establishment of a medium that all Sierra Leoneans, wherever they live
in this world, can make contributions about their nation. That is a great move
by the proprietors but something is missing from both contributors’
contributions and proprietary. The forum, though presumably used for the purpose
it was created yet, such contributions seem to undermine the real purpose.
Sierra Leone is suffering and so are many Sierra Leoneans, at home and abroad.
There are many aspiring Sierra Leoneans who are facing problems/difficulties
because of negligence of some such or because of the world
Politico-socio-economic situation. We know of these problems because we discuss
them on a constant bases but our method is not one of solution-oriented or
encouragement for change but more of a rumor-mill assemblage. I know; the
parallel-thinker (one-sided) reader will say this is old but the wise ones who
know of the facts I am observing will see reasons for my constant reminder.
Most of you have been mentors to many Sierra Leonean youths, some of whom are of
age today but you have not continued to maintain the respect that is deserving
of you that many Sierra Leoneans had looked-up to for encouragement and
leadership but such charisma has faded away in that contributions here, some of
which are bellow leadership levels, have not served any motivation purpose but
permeated in, and propagated anger, jokes and gossips or politics of
yester-years. How can we encourage our youths to embrace change when we discuss
in the fashion we do?
My purpose of constantly posting younger Sierra Leonean website contributions
here is to allow you to see the maturity in these forums to remind you of your
responsibilities and the esteem you are or were once held. But my effort has not
been conceptualized because the same tactic continues.
Many of us have contributed on many Sierra Leonean/Africans forums since 1997
and even before that. The discussions on these forums were so informative and
cooperative though there were hiccups among contributors yet, fruitful
discussions were held and fruitful discussions they were that meant a lot and
even led to organization of meetings, decisions and even helped groups to be
formed that are currently helpful to Sierra Leone, in a tangible way.
On the contrary, I have not seen any success as a result of contributors’
engagement on this forum. In fact, there has been deterioration in contributions
and even culminating in meaningful contributors’ dispersal from this forum.
Yes, some one might argue that people have a right of choice but this is not a
matter of choice but a matter of democratically maintaining meaningful
contributors, satisfied and appreciative for being here partaking in meaningful
and responsible contributions. A business-minded will tell you that such
mentality of choice argument is
non-businesslike, in that, maintenance for continuation is not achieved and
upheld. Where is Mr. Mohamed A. Jalooh, Yusuf # 8, Mezzo, C.P.O., VALSATU, Rubie
Jalloh, Alpha Umaru and many other fabulous contributors that we started with?
Has their absence not told any stories or the purpose of this forum is to drive
away meaningful contributors who think differently from our socio-political
views or expressive acumen?
Since the establishment of the Cokorioko, I have not seen positive conversations
that have lasted or resulted in fruitful business.
Could this be the lack of accountability or the lack of formidable leadership of
the forum that has prevented meaningful contributions deserving that can yield
positive results? Could it be that there are anti-nationalistic underground
sentiments here that is beyond the leadership’s ability to control?
Fellow Sierra Leoneans, much is expected of us as people who are from the Athens
of West Africa. What could we do to see that this forum is organized that can
serve as a vanguard to youths, fellow Sierra Leoneans, fellow Africans and
members of the International Community who can make meaningful contributions to
our national development intent identifying with us for this meaningful purpose?
We can participate democratically through leadership portrayed here, rather than
use this forum as a market place where, people come to sell hate and assemble in
a rumor mill, where contributors come to incite, intimidate, manipulate, spread
hate and frivolous rumors.
This post is not intended with disrespect but from my understanding, people from
around the globe read this forum. Every man of some standing will view this
forum and what they expect of educated people, engaged in meaningful
conversation can be disappointing and heartrending if what they get is what is
seen here.
Can we find a new direction in the interest of Sierra Leone and for the respect
of those educated ones in our midst?
I am telling you this because most of you here are expected to be leaders. But
your leadership qualities have been sidelined by pursuits that you could have
received or can achieve by the standard of participation particularly here. What
is wrong?
I am appealing to all and sundry to buck-up and serve as an instrument of
change. There is much to be achieved from our contributions here. That can only
be achieved when we demonstrate responsibility, honesty and integrity. Let us
pride ourselves by our excellence and excellence can never be achieved in
mediocrity.
Thank you for listening.
Subject: SLPP fingerprints on cocaine plane
From: Forensic Expert
To: All
Date Posted: 01:00:57 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Very soon there will be arrests from among the opposition in Sierra Leone.The
arrests related to an abandoned cocaine plane at Sierra Leone's international
airport will hit the main opposition SLPP hard and are scheduled to take place
in the early hours of Monday. According to reliable information,most of the
fingerprints found on the plane and cocaine wraps matched those of some top SLPP
officials.It should be recalled that one of the pilots was arrested after he
tried to board a waiting cab to an unknown destination.After several hours of
interrogation he revealed the names of some top SLPP politicians as those behind
the consignment.With the help of such useful revealation, the fingerprints were
checked. What is not clear is how these people managed to leave their
pfingerprints on the cocaine and the plane itself when only the two pilots were
known to be the only occupants. Investigations are still going on.
Subject: NAR WE TEM DIS..... FOR MAKE SALONE TURN COLOMBIA
From: Jacob Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 02:44:33 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: jacob.kanu@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
APC's infamous slogan is becoming a nightmare. Nar we tem dis... for do watin to
we beloved contri? Turn Salone to a cross between Zimbabwe & Columbia enh?
Sazimcombia? No way I am not going to be a Sazimcombian, I don't know about you
Dr Curtis, or Mr Lappa, or How Concern, or Mr Kutubu or...
First the have ambushed Election officials and burnt election materials. As if that was just a practice session, mystery planes loaded with drugs and weapons are now sitting on our International Tarmac.
The great unknowns that are complicating the situation are who authorised "transit landings" of such flights in the past especially at Hastings airport? Recently, the Minister of Transport and Communication Hon Kemoh Sesay had announced that a Nigerian "airline" has been given sole use of Hastings Airport.
He also announced additionally that he had struck a series of deals for the expansion and development of Lungi airport with the support of "private financiers" he has never named. It is also unclear whether the "orders from above" to air traffic controllers in the past came from security or government officials.
Recently, Kemoh Sesay has been central to providing the Port of Pepel to Frank Timis (a convicted Cocaine smuggler) who wants to develop the sea port ad a nearby airfield for his "iron ore" operations on a site that market analysts have projected as not profitable. Kemoh Sesay even took a concessionary trip - all paid for by Frank Timis - to Romania to "see the operations of the African Minerals group." Not to mention monies to his London Account from unexplained sources
But trust APC and Paa Acha.... hush hush. The alledged prisoner arrested will
escape and the case will fizzle after a few days. NOT WHILST WE'RE WATCHING. YOU
HAVE BEEN WARNED
Subject: PROFESSOR BABGURA'S INACCURATE ACCOUNT OF THE NRC.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 23:40:22 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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PROFESSOR BANGURA’S INACCURATE ASSESSMENT ABOUT THE NRC:
Reading through professor Bangura’s piece reproduced on this forum captioned
‘SIERRA LEONE ‘S REGIME TYPES.SIR MILTON MARGAI TO VALENTINE STRASSER”,I
came across substantial historical inaccuracies pertinent to the NRC that is
worth rectifying.
To begin with,the NRC was never an “eight man cabinet” as was composed.
It was a seven man set up,with one alternate member from the junior ranks that
were brought on board on a three months basis.
The NRC was established on March 23rd,1967 following the inconclusive March
17,1967 hotly contested general elections.
Before its promulgation,the military triumvirate of Blake,Jumu and Kaisamba had
invited the army chief of staff Brigadier David Lansana to a meeting with them
at the Wilberforce officers mess to resolve the fluid political crisis that was
simmering out of control by the minutes.Readers will recall the army chief has
declared ‘Martial Law’ ON THE 21ST,March 1967 after the appointment of Siaka
Stevens as Prime Minister by the Governor General Sir.Henry Lightfoot
Boston.After the arrest of Stevens,Lansana,and Albert Margai,Blaked announced
the formation of an interim administration that was to be in office for fifteen
months.
The full compliments of the nascent administration announced was as follows:
Lt.Col.Andrew Terrence Juxon –Smith,
Chairman,head of state,minister of Defence,Finance,and chief of army staff.
Police Commissioner William Leslie Leigh,
Deputy Chairman,and minister of External Affairs as it was known then.
Sandi Bockari Jumu,(Major)
Battalion Commander,first regiment,
and Secretary of Health.
Augustine Charles Blake,(Major)
Deputy Chief of army staff,
And minister of Trade,and Industry,and Agriculture.
Bockari Idrissa Kaisamba,(Major)
Minister of Transport and Communications.
Abdul Rahman Turay,(Major)
Minister of Education.
Assistant Commissioner of Police,
Alpha Kamara,
Minister of Social Welfare.
Shar James Forah,(Captain),
On three months secondment to the office of Chairman,
With responsibility for the ministry of Interior.
After a brief period,Major Abdul Turay resigned,and returned to the UK where he
was on study leave when together with Juxon Smith he was recalled home.He was
replaced by Major Mohamed Koroma.Captain Forah was replaced by Captain Julian
SamBoma after three months,and who was also replaced by Captain DDK Vandi who
was not even three months on the Council when it was overthrown.Peter Tucker was
replaced by Mohamed Lamin Sidiquee and Adesana K Hyde as Secretaries general
1,and 2,respectively.
Now in terms of decision making,I think the Professor is grotesquely wrong when
he made the assertion against the Chairman.Captain Sam Boma told me that issues
were tabled before the council and every member was allowed to speak on the
issues before votes were taking.On the question of the civilian rule,it was not
the trio who established it.The fact of the matter was that after Justice George
Frederick Dove Edwin has issued his report,the NRC set up another committee that
was named CRC under the Chairmanship of the Medical Doctor turned play write
political activist Dr.Esmond.At the inaugural session of the committee,he used
the occasion to lambaste the soldiers for meddling in state politics and went on
to issued a starn warning to them to return to the barracks with immediate
dispatch and never again to interfere in national politics.He reminded them of
their constitutional obligations which is to defend the territorial integrity of
the sovereign nation from attack.The Council was divided on the committee’s
report.Blake,Jumu,and Kaisamba were in favour of return to constitutional
rule.It was widely rumored that Juxon Smith was not and infact he was intending
to declare the nation a republic with him as head of state.There were moves by
the three to depose him but by the time they wanted to move against them,Patrick
Conteh,Emadu Rogers and the rank and file of the army deposed the NRC with the
acquiescence of Stevens,John Bangura and Ahmed Seoku Toure.That was how the NRC
operated.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: PROFESSOR BABGURA'S INACCURATE ACCOUNT OF THE NRC.
From: Dr. C. Curtis-Thomas
To: All
Date Posted: 08:38:34 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Reading through professor Bangura’s piece reproduced on this forum captioned
‘SIERRA LEONE ‘S REGIME TYPES.SIR MILTON MARGAI TO VALENTINE STRASSER”, (Kutubu
Koroma)
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"Thank you Professor Abdul Bangura for this educational piece"
Posted by Dr CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS on July 13, 2008 at 21:09:21:
Subject: Re: PROFESSOR BABGURA'S INACCURATE ACCOUNT OF THE NRC.
From: Bengazi
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Date Posted: 01:18:10 07/14/08 ()
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Now when Brother Mohamed Kutubu Koroma enthusiastically recapitulate on historic
facts with a broad mind, you see an articulate, cohesive professor with enviable
potentials in the man himself. You feel proud of a national product. The guy is
simply awesome!
But when the entire focus becomes centered on a single personality like Abdulai Conteh, who might be cruising with fruits of his ingenuity … regardless old sinister evaluations, then you see a different Kutubu. It’s sad that, we, Sierra Leoneans, waste so much time, energy and calories in our quest to settle old scores, we even forget the basic need of brainstorming on initiatives that would uplift our national developmental agenda. History is good, if it’s out to relate with past events that are needed to cushion the foundations of the present deliberations, with the aim of securing a better future. Leadership is a matter of collective responsibility, so the more positive our thoughts, the better the future for our beleaguered nation.
Subject: HOW JOSEPH SAIDU MOMOH BECAME ATTORNEY GENERAL BY DEFAULT.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 22:14:26 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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Joseph Saidu Momoh became Attorney General by default.
The question though,where was Abdulia Conteh,the Sir.Patrick Hastings/Lord
Denning of Sierra Leone the Alpha and Omega of academia.?
Suffian Kargbo,who was the Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources in the
Joseph Saidu Momoh administration was involved in very serious fraud relative to
sugar deal that even surpassed the fraudulent rice deal on the part of
Sir.Samuel Bankole Jones and Haja Dordor that wipped away the life savings of
the unsuspecting citizens.
One would expect as Attorney General,the Be all and End all Abdulia Conteh will
charge the Minister to court where among other things,he will be afforded the
rights to:
Habeas Corpus,
Trial by twelve ordinary citizens of his peers,
Representation by a counsel,
To confront his accusers in an open court,
To be held innocent of the charges until all judicial safe guards have been met,
and any other rights granted by the constitution.
Did that happen?The answer almost invariably is no.How was the case
litigated?.Well,While Conteh was busy trying to impress upon his lackeys his
Cambridgenean scholarship,Momoh took upon himself to act as the prosecutor and
the Judge at the same time.He settled the case Momoh style when in an act of
convoluted grandstanding and exaggerated demagoguery imposed fine on Kargbo as a
way making him take responsibility for his criminal conduct.
Whether the fine was paid or not,that was how Stevens,Momoh,and Conteh enforced
the laws of the nation in accordance with their whims,views,and caprices.The
three of them decided what cases went to court and which were settled behing
closed doors.Another monumental display of miscarriage of justice,and orwellina
double standard by a man who touts his standing in law.Again,that was Vintage
Conteh.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: ABDULIA CONTEH'S GREED,GRAFT,AND AVRICE IN THE GAMBIA.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 21:17:27 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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Abdulia Conteh's greed,graft,and avrice caught up with him in the Banjul when
the Military authorities picked him up for questioning in a questionable deal
between him and his first boss Stevens.
When he was bottonholed into reality,he tried to lawyer his way out of the mess
by shamelessly blaming it on Stevens alone.
In his own words,he said:"I WAS ACTING AS THE PERSONAL ENVOY OF PRESIDENT
SIAKA STEVENS".
Is this how people who make eloquent claims to Cambrdgenean investiture behave
when they are confronted with transgressions?.
That is vintage Conteh who is supremly absolutistic about the moral and
intellectual correctness of himself,never capable of accepting mea culpa for
anything even when caught red handed.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Can you give us a clear but short story on our CJ in Belize
From: Belize citizen
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Date Posted: 05:15:50 07/14/08 ()
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WHAT TYPE OF A HUMAN BEING IS ABDULIA OSMAN CONTEH?
Let me begin this project by thanking Mr.Farrah Marrah very sincerely
for providing me with the ammunition I have been searching for all
along to go after Abdulia Conteh,in my attempt to tag him who set out
on a course that deliberately mortgaged not only his conscience,but
humanity as well.
In the February 10,2008 edition of the Cocorioko editorial
opinion,there was heated debate about Conteh’s contribution toward
the nation’s advancements or lack thereof.
To his supporters,he is portrayed as ‘victim of SLPP south/eastern
bigotry’as a result of the strident diatribes on his person.To the
detractors however,he is an opportunistic unprincipled self seeking
carpet bagger who will sacrifice time tested values for cynical
expediency just to be part of the mafisco.I have always tried to
gravitate to a sensible balance in the fray because I have my own
impression of him dating back to his days at the Albert Academy to the
department of Justice.I got to know Conteh not by meeting him in
person,but through my association with Sylvanus Olutu Leigh.I was
able to follow his career path all the way in the United Kingdom for the
duration of his eight years stay and his scholarly achievements which
capped with winning the prestigious Porter prize,and his admission to
one of the eminent Law inns in the UK and Wales.
In this edition,I am not going to delve into that because,it has been
amply covered in a two part series that were chronicled on him.
This project is going to examine the other side of Abdulia Conteh’s
involvement in APC politics and the debris left which has constituted
the bane that have mortgaged everything he has worked for in life on
account of greed,avrice,graft,moral turpitude,bankruptcy,lack of
principles,over ambition,vain glory,short term
expediency,myopia,gross insensitivity,and indecision.
This project has become expedient in light of his November
11,2007,address he gave which can be found on the july 9,2008
edition on this forum.This is the smoking gun I have been looking for
all along to nail Conteh as a disgrace,and embarrassment not only to
himself,but to the very Cambridge University that he and his lackeys
tout so loudly.
Conteh returned home in the early part of the seventies and
immediately landed a job as State Counsel in the office of the Attorney
General.Upon arrival,his office became a sort of Mecca where young
men with promising future thronged daily seeking his counsel.Most of
us were very enamored of his scholarly achievements against
overwhelming odds.He therefore became a source of inspiration to
most of us especially from upland.In addition to his fiat at the Justice
Department,he also doubled as a Lecturer at the nation’s highest seat
of learning,Fourah Bay College,the University of Sierra Leone.At the
Justice Department,he was very low key until the Mohamed Sorie
Fornah Treason case.Conteh was suddenly catapulted to national
spotlight because he was one of the prosecutors representing the
state.The Attorney General then who was a politician who owed his
office to the benevolence or patronage of S.I.Koroma,Nathaniel
Abioseh Palmelstone Buck decided to personally prosecute the case
even though common sense should have dictated the potential conflict
of interest and therefore remove himself from active participation in
the case.Buck’s case was compounded by his gross personal
incompetence,and fundamental lack of prosecutorial credentials not to
talk of his gobbledygook in the Queen’s linga franca.Conteh a natural
gifted person in such discipline emerged as premus inter pares in the
prosecution of the case.The other members of the team if I can
correctly recall them were Tejan-Cole,Barber,Jones,Dabo,Brown
Mark,Turay, and Davies I believe.The state prevailed ,Fornah and the
principal co conspirators were executed.
The case concluded,there was nothing major to catapult Conteh in the
spotlight any time soon until he unfortunately had a run in with
Steven’s “TON TON MACOUTS” .Those gun totting thugs gave Conteh
the beating of his life but for the intervention of a lady who recognized
who he was,he would have ended up another statistics just as Governor
Bangura did.That incident propelled him into instant fame and
stardom.The Bar association particularly were very incensed and they
considered that as the climax of series of assaults on the
constitutional order of the nation and were determined to do
something about Steven’s acquiescence of the innuendoes of law
breaking.They prepared to file what in law is called amicus curiae on
his behalf.For the first time in the political career of Stevens,he felt
threatened.The master tactician and perfectionist at politics of
deception and cajollying,he marked his time waiting for a golden
opportunity to present itself,and it sure enough did.The Bar association
held its annual convention that was capped with the election of Abdulia
Conteh as Secretary General of the association in place of the docile
and inept Bankole Stronge the current Speaker of Parliament. Conteh
basking in his new found instant celebrity,was part of the legal trio
that journeyed to State House for the customary courtesy call on
Stevens.Always the eloquent speaker,I am sure he apparently left
indelible impression on the mind of Stevens,who wasted no time
turning the visit to his own advantage.
The Kambia West constituency in Parliament was headed by Alhaji
A.B.S.Janneh and so Stevens threw the bait to Conteh which he
perfectly knew he will accept gladly.To that end,he was recruited and
given the party symbol and his election to Parliament in May 1977 was
a foregone conclusion because it was going to be held APC
style,tainted and vitiated with fraud and irregularities.Conteh came to
parliament after that questionable election and was appointed Foreign
Minister.He himself viewed his appointment as challenge to the
youths.In September of the same year,he came to the US for the
32nd,annual session of the general assembly of the United Nations in
New York.Always wanting to be in the spotlight,he took time off the
exigencies of his busy schedule to visit us in the metroplolitan area
and a meeing was arranged at the Embassy in Washington. The session
got underway without hitch until in his sense of excellence,sense of
bigness,and sense of fixed grandeur,committed the unpardonable
offence by bringing into question the patriotism of Sierra Leoneans
who are not sold to the political orientations of the APC.In his sense of
vain glory,he went on to accuse us of engaging in calculated idleness
thereby unduly bringing down the APC government.He then went and
threw a challenge to the startled audience which left even his
Ambassador diving for cover to a sumo wrestling match in the for of
“KITE”flying.He said,he has come here to “Fly kite” with us.To say we
were shell shocked at the sort of irresponsible comments coming from
a Foreign Minister is tom put it midly,because we were petrified
beyond descr1ption.In any case,we took his offer with characteristic
grace and calm and waited for him to return from New York for the
contest.As for me,I had my own”kite” flying way above the Washington
Monument waiting for him.The coward he was,we never heard from
him nor saw him after that speech and the next thing we heard,he was
back in Sierra Leone without fulfilling his offer.He stayed on as Foreign
Minister globetrotting foreign capitals wasting tax payers money
explaining a foreign policy that was non existent.In 1980,he and
Stevens,in an orgy of self importance decided to host the OAU
conference in Freetown even though there were extraordinary
impediments to the effect not to talk of financial
ramifications.Governor Samuel Lansana Bangura a true patriot who
stood up to the excesses of Stevenism was unequivocal in his
opposition to the proposal.Stevens of course will only listened to only
things that conformed to his beliefs.The Governor’s counsel was
jettisoned and he additionally paid the ultimate price for his temerity
to challenge Stevens.While the meeting was being planned,Stevens was
busy making a jack ass out of Conteh pretending as though he
supported his OAU headship bid while behind the scene,he scuttled
it.The meeting went ahead,with Stevens as OAU chairman and titular
head of Africa thereby guaranteeing himself a nice invitation to the
White House,and a brief stay at Blair House right across the street from
the WhiteHouse.In the mean time also,Conteh became the chairman of
the council of Foreign Ministers.For a while after the meeting the
political marriage between Stevens and Conteh was riding on the hog’s
ass,and later he was reassigned to the Ministry of Finance.I recall on a
visit to the IMF office I ran into him at the foyer of the building during
the annual meetings of Finance Ministers in Washington.
Stevens,was afflicted with a phobia that was unable to withstand the
rising personalities of others.It was becoming crystal clear that Stevens
was tired of Conteh’s convoluted grandstanding and so he found a
subtle way to side line him without appearing obvious.Using political
chicanery,he planted wedge between Alhaji Musa Kabia who was
deputy to Conteh .The schemed significantly undermined Conteh’s
usefulness to Stevens,and he used the acrimony and embers of discord
to dump Conteh.At first,he started bab mouthing Stevens,but common
sense prevailed over opportunistic calculations quickly nad he got his
acts together by refraining from his critical comments on Stevens lest
he ends up like Fornah and others.
Following his dismissal with ignominy,he settled down quietly until
Stevens was safely out of his way when Momoh pressed him back into
office and appointed him Attorney General.His public career back on
the up ,along with George Carew,and AKT, they formed the intellectual
trinity of Momoh’s administration albeit there were others but were not
in the lime light as Conteh and his buddies were.
The next opportunity for Conteh to be the star of attfraction presented
it self when Francis Minah,Mohamed Tennyson Kaikai,Vandi
Jimmy,Raymond Dowui,Taylor and others were arrested and charged
with carrying out an enterprise that sought to subvert the executive
authority of the nation by force of arms.As the Attorney General,it fell
to him to deliver the case against the accused persons in court.He had
the usual team in the persons of Nasiru Deen Tejan Cole Director of
public prosecution,Akie Barber,Principal State Counsel,Solomon
Berewa,Senior State Counsel,Vallerie Bankole Jones,Gloria Atiba
Davies,Nicholas Brown Mark,and Dabo all assisting in the prosecution.
His opening arguments laying out the case for the state was flawless
peppered with intellectual alliteration.He summed up the state’s case
against Francis Minah with memorable drama when he refereed to him
as the “LUCIFA THAT BETRAYED THE TRUST OF THE PEOPLE”.From the
circumstances of the beginning,some of us were of the opinion that
Conteh should not have injected himself in the case directly because of
the potential conflicts which will be interpreted as a calculated attempt
on his part to looby for Minah’s job especially when Momoh was
openly anti Mendi .Minah and others were convicted and most of them
executed.Conteh was advanced to the first vice presidency with
additional portfolio of internal Affairs.I hope my readers will review this
project in juxtaposition to his November 11,2007,because I intend to
portray himas an individual so bereft of personal moral integrity and
principles to the extent he will do or say anything just to avenge
power.This edition seeks to tie him directly to the innuendoes of wrong
doings on the parts of Stevens and Momoh that he has steadfastly
refused to acknowledge his own role and therefore assume some
measures of mea culpa for.He has fundamentally down played his role
in the sordid state of affairs that has enveloped the nation.My piece
therefore seeks to undermine the integrity of his November 11,2007
posting. As Attorney General in the Momoh administration,he was at
the center of everything that denied the citizens good governance,and
constitutional protection against
capriciousness,highhandedness,arbitrary use of power,police
terrioris,and judicial intimidation with the help of Bambay Kamara and
his much dreaded secret police. For example,Conteh piloted in
parliament a bill that he knew to be totally fraudulent to return the
nation to multi party politics. No matter how the bill sounded in tone
the APC had no intention of leaving power by way of the democratic
process. It was not long in coming when Strasser and his men
surprised them with their sack papers on April 29,1992.
Conteh was at the right place at the wrong time but he managed to
race out of the country leaving all his loots behind for the new
messiahs who had a field day with his ill got wealth.He headed for the
UK with fraudulently traveling documents with the immigration officers
were not impressed and did not let me through.He was detained for
two weeks,and found a seat on the next available flight west bound.He
tried to seek asylum in other Western democracies but was firmly
rejected and finally landed in the Banjul Gambia where his
greed,graft,avice,and his attention calling on himself acidified the
stomach of the military authorities to the extent he was placed in jail
and was about to be “UMARU DIKKOLISED “ back to Sierra Leone in the
waiting arms of the Strasser Led NPRC when providence finally
intervened on his behalf on the good part of the USA who relocated
him in the USA.
Let me explain for the benefit of my readers the term ‘UMARU
DIKKOLISE”.On December 31st 1983,the military triumvirate of
Generals Muhamadu Buhari,Sani Abacha,and Ibrahim Badamasi
Babangida overthrew the civilian administration of president Shagari
and ne of his Ministers Umaru Dikko who was in charge of Transport
and Civil Aviation raced to London and sought asylum.Unlike Conteh,he
was granted.He was wanted because the Military government
allegations that he stole lots of money like Abdulia Conteh. They
contacted the MOSSAD,an Israeli security outfit that kidnapped him on
the streets of London,impaired him by drugging him and meticulously
placed him in a specially made crate and marked it “Diplomatic pouch”.
He was about to be airlifted back to Nigeria when an al3rt and
suspicious security officer out of concern interceded preventing the
cargo from leaving.This brought diplomatic stand off between UK and
Nigeria.Britain insisted upon inspecting the contents of the crate which
Nigeria objected to strenuously citing the Geneva Convention as the
necessary authority that prohibits such exercise.The British
Conservative government stood firm and never capitulated to out
model practice.At the end of it all,Nigeria had no choice but to allow
Britain to open the crate and there was Umaru Dikko very
helpless.Relations Between the UK and Nigeria was in abeyance for a
while following that incident.Although Gambia would not have
repeated similar experiences in Conteh’s case,they were nonetheless
determined to return him back to Sierra Leone.
Now coming back to Abdulia Conteh,how can he possibly come with an
address such as that when he was infact at the center of everything
that went wrong with the country?Is that what he gained from
Cambridge University to be so fundamentally dishonest,bereft of
personal moral integrity,actuated by greed,graft,avrice,to the extent he
was totally incapable of judging right from wrong?Are these not very
reasons why the conference of Heads of States rejected his candidature
for the OAU/AU headship?Will he in good conscience blame people
forn holding him for the chaos and disorder that was visited upon the
political process while he served two successive administrations?Where
was his conscience when all those things were happening?
I think for Conteh to have the brazen imprudence and temerity to make
such remarks on November 11,2007 when he was at the center of
everything that transpired represents a momumental insult to the
intelligence of the vast concourse of the Sierra Leonean citizenry and in
like manner, he should be treated with the utmost contempt
imaginable and relegated to the political footnotes of the country
where he truly belongs.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:57 pm Post subject:
Maybe he learned something from all of this; he seems to be doing well
in and for Belize.
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: Incomprehensible
My God. Talk about Turgid Prose!! And he doesn't even bother to tell
us that he's talking about (I think) Sierra Leone. Such detail, and we
don't know the context, any background. Deliver me from such crap!!
I like to compare our Chief Justice (and his associates) with the British
Courts, for example, the Privy Council. It is virtually unthinkable for a
British Magistrate to be corrupt. But, in Belize, the salaries of the
Justices are paltry. The money that might be produced by developers of
a project like Ara Macao makes their salary look miniscule.
(Remember, they work with narco-bux that cost them about 10 cents
on the dollar.) So, it's easy to envision them making a Justice an offer
he can't refuse.
Add to that the frustrating fact that the judge in Belize has no real
power. In the US... Federal Marshals are the action arm of the courts.
"Hanging Judge Parker" of Ft. Smith, Arkansas, presided over the
Oklahoma Territory. He had 900 Marshals at his beck and call.
(Remember "Rooster Cogburn" of True Grit?)
Rooster was a fictional symbol of everything those enforcers represent.
And Belize has nothing like that. So, Conteh, on his good days, makes
a good ruling, and...
... and....
... and...
You get it? The cops report to the ComPol, who reports to a Minister,
who reports to the PM.... sorta. Another example of the lack of checks
and balances in the GOB.
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:54 am Post subject:
i would like the poster to make it much much shorter , then i might
read the long version afterward.. in general , i believe that long windy
things will never be a solution..
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Subject: Re: Can you give us a clear but short story on our CJ in
Belize
From: Bengazi
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Date Posted: 07:29:34 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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Pretty interesting stuff to read. I really don't know how to commend the writer.
I wanted to address him as "Belize Citizen" but then as I read through
the whole piece, I found "Mohamed Kutubu Koroma". I was going to say
it anyway, except that, the 'monika' naming ceremony could be for a reason.
Perhaps, to conceal the fact that, one can only dig out such a heap our of
malice .... when the real intent is to settle an old score, or a personal
vendetta. I'm trying to figure out whether Brother Kutubu is related to Minah or
any of the folks executed with him. If yes, then all the postings didn't come as
a surprise. Premediated vengeance! Question is: What would spur someone to
attach so much importance ... so much focus on a person that may not even be
aware of his existence! Can't help myself by to put my index finger to the right
side of my forehead. "Brains!"
Good read though! Could publish a book with this profiled research. Could
even earn a Masters Degree on the subject: The Rise and Fall of Abdualai Conteh!
But where would that take you? Just can't understand this level of acrimony!
Pathetic waste of time and energy!
Subject: Re: Can you give us a clear but short story on our CJ in Bel
From: Belize citizen
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Date Posted: 07:48:14 07/14/08 ()
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We are very worried to have such a man who, through the admiration
you bestowed on his intellect, managed to bring you to a brutal war.
How forgetful are you?
Our salaries for judges here are small and such a man heading a court
that gets its funding from the consolidated fund is scary. He can
change his coat at anytime.
We need to know and be ready for what he has under his sleeve. You
are the waste of time for you do not know who you are and no human
understanding about the abuse of social justice. Go and sleep - you
must be tired.
Subject: Re: Can you give us a clear but short story on our CJ in Bel
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 10:14:14 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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I am very happy level minded,patriotic,honest,decent,morally
upright,principled,and god fearing people of your types exist on this planet who
are capable distinguishing facts from emotions.
The guy simply cant understand.He is so actuated by Conteh's association with
Cambridge University that he fails to look at the problems from a wider
perspective.
Conteh himself has brought this onhim when he self servingly made an address
that was posted here on July 9.2008 in which he chillingly detailed how he
served a government that used the threat of forced retirement of Judges to
miscarry Justice.That does not ring any bell in his ears.Conteh himself can come
to the forum and defend himself but the apologist he is,he has decided to be his
mouth piece.Conteh conducted two major treason trials in Sierra Leone.Some one
has come on this forum and said that Conteh said the treason of "fornah and
14 others was farce".they were all executed.If Fornah's case was tainted
and vitaited with invented evidence,why should we not believe that the same did
not happen to Minah.He instead is asking the silly question as to whether Minah
is my relative?What has that got to do with miscarriage of Justice?.
Conteh has lots of other relatives here but not one has come to his defence on
this explosive matter.Even Sidi Sheriff who has always gone to great length to
defend him is quiet on this issue.Cant this fellow get the message.?I have
defended Conteh in this community against my tribes men every time negative
things are said about him.Like i said,it is his own address on November
11,2007,posted on this forum that has turned the tide against him.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: Can you give us a clear but short story on our CJ in Bel
From: yankuba kai-samba
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Date Posted: 11:18:42 07/14/08 ()
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I think Abdulia Conteh must be riddled with guilt. For someone of Conteh's
education to have taken a central role in a suspected truped up treason charges
that sent his equally educated compatroits to the gallow to sustain a regime
that was led by thugs is dame disgraceful. Abdulia Conteh and Minnah were in the
same government. Any guy with moral rectitude would have excuse himself from
trying his own peer.
I remember very vividly when Forna and Taqi were arrested for treason. Siaka Steven sent late L A M Brewer to 61 Siaka Stevens street, then westmoorland street, to persuade late K I Kai-Samba to be the trial judge in the treason charges. My late brother was very unset with his longterm friend Brewer, a cabinet minister in Shakis govt, that I overheard him said to Brewer:L A, can you leave my premises"
I think that was the last time K I spoke to L A M Brewer. He declined Siaka's offer of appointment to try Forna and others saying that Forna was a friend and that it was legally unethical to accept such an appointment.
In fact he opined that Forna had no case to answer. K I Kai-Samba, like Abdulai Conteh studied law at kings college. Notably, whilst Abdulai Conteh tried his own peers, K I kai-Samba was in the opposition SLPP but refused an appointment to a judge to try his political oponent.
My opinion of people who lay claim to high academic achievement but cohorted with political thugs who have no respect for democratic values and fair play to eliminate political rivals is based on my own sound moral standing which I inherited.
Subject: Re: Can you give us a clear but short story on our CJ in Bel
From: chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 11:38:58 07/14/08 ()
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YKS, this talk of AO being educated to Cambridge level is absurd. Think
about this - the man had state sponsored education throughout his life
and the basic necessities of education were all in place - tell me! Why
wont a man with such around him not do well? This AO element is
morally devoid of the Being in us all. A man should be upright, not be
kept upright.
Subject: Re: Can you give us a clear but short story on our CJ in Bel
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 10:44:41 07/14/08 ()
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MKK, to bring AO Conteh to respond is to hit him where it hurts - right in
the heart of the Belize papers. They are hungry to know the truth, not
made-up, about their CJ.
Subject: Re: Can you give us a clear but short story on our CJ in Bel
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
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Date Posted: 10:57:20 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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The fact of the matter is that they can send under cover agents to Sierra
Leone,the Banjul,and London to see if any one will corroborate the facts that he
presided over questionable treason trials where it is believed people lost their
lives as a result of tainted evidence.
He was caught with fraudulent documents in the UK,and eas deported.When the
soldiers raided his home after he was kicked out of office,his place had more
money in foreign notes than the central bank itself.He was picked up in the
Banjul on questionable actvities and blamed it on the dead man Stevens.The worst
thing he has done is to provide a lethal ammunition against himself in an
address dated November 11,2007 that was posted here on July 9,2008 in which
whilst he was in the government,he witnessed,and participated insustained law
breaking and violations of the rights of the citizens without saying or doing
anything to the effect.The people of Belize are free to confront him with all i
have said here and if he is honest,he will admit that i have not lied on him.If
he had not released that letter,i will have said nothing to the effect.I just
dont want him to insult my intelligence.
Hopefull,he has got the message to shut up.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: Can you give us a clear but short story on our CJ in Bel
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 11:30:09 07/14/08 ()
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Do you have a copy of the letter? I would like to build up something at
the Belizian front. With the letter, a presentation will help the Belize
people of their suspicion. They believe that this is a witch hunt and
that their government will not be so daft to have in their midst an
abuser. You have been given us thorough insights into truly knowing
what this hobo stands for. My knowledge of him is only limited to the
injustice done to my late father (RIP) and his inability through greed
and selfishness, to develop his little village - ROGBERRAY.
Please help this course by forwarding to my email any relevant posts
that one can spend time together to show the small world of Belize we
have placed in a quagmire. They are now confused and worried.
On finishing our explosive expositions, I pray that we take the best
form of revenge -to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Subject: Re: Can you give us a clear but short story on our CJ in Bel
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 12:15:57 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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Go this forum and look for an article that bears the name FARRAH MARRAH that was
posted on july 9,2008.
Conteh's address that has sparked this whole debate is dated November 11,2007 in
which he went on to lecture of the separation of powers.It was within the
context of that he made the chilling disclosure that the government used the
threat of forced retirement to have judges do things their way.He sighted two
specific Justices who were treated and both were Chief Justices.That is not also
at issue.What is mind disturbing is for him a trained Lawyer to be in a
goverment that resortts to such orwellian measures.He served both
administrations,as Foreign Minister,Attorney General,vice president and minister
of internal affairs.
His positions as Attorney was a political office and simple ethics should have
dictated that he excuses himself for the inherent potential conflict of
interests.
As soon as Minah who was the vice president was killed,he was offer the
job.Where is the ethics and sense of value.
Also the same chap said that Conteh said the case against" Fornah and 14
others was farce".It well stands to reason that witnesses were coached as
to what to say.The fellow is plainly unethical and bereft of moral principles
and some body like that is totally unfit to sit on the nation's highest
court.Why do you think he was rejected twice for the office of head of the OAU/AU?.He
was jailed in the UK,and Gambia for fraudulent actvities.You want some one like
that as your Chief Justice?Are you telling us that the academic standing of the
citizens of Belize are such that none is capable of serving as Chief Justice
except some one of Conteh's ilk?Come on now,Belize can do better that that.Why
dont the government revisit the application form he submitted to see whether he
has any of the negative things he did in there.If he was honest with the tax
payers,it was not enough to talk about the Cambridge and the other rosy
stuffs.He shold have given the authorities to make an informed judgment about
his negative past also.Afterward,it is a crime to withhold pertinent information
from a prospective employer ,and anything found subsequently will be considered
after the facts.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: Can you give us a clear but short story on our CJ in Bel
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Thank you MKK! I will get down to it right away!
Subject: Re: ABDULIA CONTEH'S GREED,GRAFT,AND AVRICE IN THE GAMBIA.
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INTERESTING COMMENTARY.
Subject: Thank you Professor Abdul Bangura for this educational piece
From: Dr CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 21:09:21 07/13/08 ()
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Sierra Leone’s Regime Types from Milton Margai to Valentine Strasser
Wednesday 11 April 2007.
"The National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) headed by Captain Valentine E. M. Strasser at the age of 27 can be characterized as an ambiguous regime. It is the result of the inability of previous regimes to meet and overcome the crisis that afflicted public agencies at the close of the third decade of independence and to establish a modicum of sociopolitical exchange."
By Professor Abdul Karim Bangura,USA.
Introduction
That Sierra Leonean political processes have been complex, heterogeneous, and frequently both perplexing and uncertain is hardly an exaggeration. Together, political procedures and patterns of change paint a diverse picture of politics. The images portray cases of mismanagement and gross inhumanity, of irresponsibility and official pillaging, alongside those of experimentation, disappointment, vacillation, and ongoing confrontation.
Furthermore, they convey instances of inefficient management and responsiveness, of the making of widely accepted notions of political behavior, and sometimes of allied organizations for their maintenance. In each of these instances, political processes have taken definite shapes and possessed recognizable dynamics.
As Chazan et al. (1988:131-132) point out, the criteria for classifying regime types have varied widely. The crudest distinction and the least helpful is the civilian-military typology, highlighting a confusion between means of regime change and their outcomes. Using a similar conceptual framework, some classifications have been based on the differentiation of leadership styles: mobilizing, conciliatory, coercive, autocratic.
Others have favored categories based on ideology or policy orientations: Marxist, socialist, capitalist, etc. More sophisticated distinctions have been drawn on the basis of degrees of competition, participation, and control. Like Chazan and her partners, the typology of Sierra Leonean regimes used in this essay is based on the dynamic interactions between rulers and the ruled and the norms governing these exchanges.
The choice of this typology hinges on the fact that, as Chazan and her colleagues again suggest, if the concept of regime indeed refers to the rules of the political game and its concomitant institutions, to the ways in which society is linked to the apparatus of the state, then regime types should be defined in these terms. Thus, in this essay, the intent of Sierra Leonean rulers is far less important than the latent principles that have guided their exercise of power.
Chazan and her colleagues classify African regime types into seven categories: (1) Administrative-hegemonial, (2) Pluralist, (3) Party-mobilizing, (4) Party-centrist, (5) Personal-coercive, (6) Populist, and (7) Ambiguous. A discussion of all these regime types is beyond the scope of this essay. It suffices to discuss the four regime types that have emerged in independent Sierra Leone as various experiments were attempted and lessons gleaned from past experiences. The conduct of politics has also undergone a process of localization, accounting for further heterogeneity.
The four kinds of regimes presented in Table 1 and outlined in the following pages have themselves, therefore, been relatively fluid. Nonetheless, as Bailey (1994) observes, a typology is generally multidimensional and conceptual, and it involves minimizing within-group variance while maximizing between-group variance. This means that a researcher arranges a set of entities into groups, so that each group is as different as possible from all other groups, but each group is internally as homogeneous as possible. My maximizing both within-group homogeneity and between-group heterogeneity, the researcher delineates groups that are as distinct (non-overlapping) as possible, with all members within a group being as alike as possible.
Table 1: Typology of Sierra Leonean Regimes
Regime Type Ruler Duration
Pluralist
Milton Margai 1961-1964
Administrative-hegemonial
Albert Margai: 1964-1967
Andrew Juxon-Smith:1967-1968
Siaka Stevens:1968-1985
Party-mobilizing
Joseph Momoh:1985-1992
Ambiguous
Valentine Strasser:1992-1995
Pluralist Regime
This regime type, which characterized the rule of Sir Milton Augustus Strieby
Margai, was based on the notion of separation of powers, with multiparty
political institutions and fairly vibrant representative structures. In this
regime, an effort was made not only to pursue interest-group involvement but
also to allow for a fair amount of autonomous non-governmental activity. At
least some notion of checks and balances was introduced and, thus, the very
centralized political structures apparent in administrative regimes were not
present in this more loosely organized context.
Nevertheless, the regime possessed a strong elitist strain. Although internal disagreement between civil servants and parliamentarians were noted, the position of the dominant group was protected through the judicious use of resource allocat1on. A Big men in government were dependent on their constituencies and, hence, subjected to some popular scrutiny at regular intervals. The principles which guided Milton Margai=s pluralist-regime activities comprised a mixture of bargaining, compromise, and reciprocity.
Milton Margai, a conservative ideologue, used Aethnic arithmetic@ to lead Sierra Leone without much strife. He appointed government officials with a clear eye to satisfy competing interest groups. He successfully built coalitions from the 1950s to attain independence without bloodshed. With his genteel nature, he employed a brokerage style of politics with paramount chiefs and political groups (Musa 1993:40).
Administrative-hegemonial Regimes
The regimes of Sir Albert Michael Margai, Brigadier Andrew T. Juxon-Smith and
Siaka Probyn Stevens were Administrative-hegemonial in the sense that the three
key institutions were the executive, the administration, and the coercive
apparatus (at times with a one-party dominant auxiliary organ subordinated to
the ruler). The main policy decisions were centralized around the leader and his
close advisors. Specific technical and professional decision making was carried
out in the bureaucracy (sometimes with foreign advice), and the military was
generally controlled. More significant, the bureaucratic structures and the
judiciary maintained a certain autonomy vis-à-vis each other. Political
operations, however, were strictly guided by the executive.
Albert Margai=s tenure started amidst controversy in the Sierra Leone People=s Party (SLPP). His political rivals, especially Rev. Dr. John Karefa-Smart, questioned his succession to the premiership after the death of his brother, Milton Margai. But Albert Margai had more support and political muscle than his opponents. He soon sought to introduce a one-party system in his effort to emulate Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana in dealing with political opposition. With very little support for a one-party state in Parliament and a law suit brought by the opposition All People=s Congress (APC) party under Siaka Stevens, the matter was abandoned. Albert Margai subsequently lost the 1967 general elections to Siaka Stevens (Musa 1993:40). Juxon-Smith possessed an arbitrary behavior in his enjoyment of power, and he was insincere on his commitment to return the country to civilian rule.
The National Reformation Council (NRC) headed by Juxon-Smith operated as an eight-man cabinet. The council elaborated its procedural rules in early April 1967 through the untiring efforts of its first Secretary General, Peter Tucker. However, the procedure for taking votes was rarely used, as Juxon-Smith often expressed the sense of the meetings. The Brigadier was Arather neurotic, mentally immature, sometimes erratic and quarrelsome, and in a way cunning@ (Bebler 1973:74). After the Dove-Edwin Commission of Inquiry published its report on November 29, 1967, challenging the foundations of NRC rule and urged for the immediate return to civilian rule, Juxon-Smith adopted a delaying tactic by inaugurating the Civilian Rule Committee (CRC) as a pro tem constituent assembly. His arbitrary behavior and patent insincerity led the founding members of the NRC to overthrow the Brigadier in order to restore Sierra Leone to civilian rule (Cox 1976:196).
Stevens assumed power in 1968 with a great deal of promise and ambition. Much trust was placed upon him as he was then champion of multi-party politics. Upon taking power from the military, however, he soon strove to drive the SLPP from competitive politics in various general elections, using violence and intimidation. With a pliant Parliament, Stevens was able to rule under a one-party state. Two major attempts were made to overthrow his regime, but the alleged confederates were captured and executed (Musa 1993:40).
Party-Mobilizing Regime
The regime of Joseph Saidu Momoh can be classified as party-mobilizing in that
it bore the imprint of some of the participatory elements of a pluralist regime
together with the monopolistic tendencies of an administrative-hegemonial
regime. The ordering of public institutions rested on a combination of strong
one-party domination coupled with bureaucratic expansion firmly under the
control of Momoh. Unlike administrative-hegemonial regimes, the center of
gravity of Momoh’s party-mobilizing regime was an ideological party.
Hailed as the man who would deliver Sierra Leone from previous political malaise and instill accountability, Momoh introduced a political philosophy called AConstructive Nationalism. According to this philosophy, Sierra Leoneans were to put their country first in every endeavor. However, his own ministers never practiced this amorphous philosophy. Instead, they formed an intra-party political club called Ekutay to advance their own interests. Although he first argued that one-party systems were useful in societies with ethnic cleavages, Momoh soon prepared the way for multi-party democracy by signing a new constitution in September of 1991 as democracy became fashionable around the world. A deteriorating economy and flagrant corruption at all levels of society marked Momoh=s presidency (Musa 1993:40-41).
Ambiguous Regime
The National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) headed by Captain Valentine E. M.
Strasser at the age of 27 can be characterized as an ambiguous regime. It is the
result of the inability of previous regimes to meet and overcome the crisis that
afflicted public agencies at the close of the third decade of independence and
to establish a modicum of sociopolitical exchange. Also, the institutions in the
public arena had ceased to function in a familiar or identifiable manner. In
this grim case, chaos, as opposed to order, prevailed. Although the picture was
grim, the citizens were not without hope. With no organized public arena, with
little or no social links, without a recognizable governing elite and, hence, no
rules of interaction and defined spheres of activity, it was difficult to speak
of specific regime principles. Strasser=s regime was welcomed by many Sierra
Leoneans as a relief from the APC. The conspiracy theory that Momoh=s regime at
the time it was overthrown was conspiring to thwart the democratic process by
massive use of force contributed greatly to the initial goodwill many citizens
showed the NPRC. Almost two years after the overthrow of Momoh=s regime, some
were still sanguine. However, others did not see the Strasser regime taking
clear steps to restore the democratic process which its immediate predecessors
suppressed (Musa 1993:41). This prompted his second in command, Julius Maada
Bio, to orchestrate a bloodless coup in January of 1996 to remove Strasser from
power and supervise elections that led to civilian rule under the current
President, Ahmed Tejan Kabbah (Synge 2007).
Conclusion
The various regime types that have emerged in Sierra Leone have reflected both
the many constraints and the variegated options open to Sierra Leonean citizens
and leaders since independence. Close analysis of regime forms and of their
mutations assists in linking the government with its purpose, the political
process with the state and the dominant modes of social organization, and the
theory of politics with the Sierra Leonean setting in which it unfolds. Indeed,
the study of political processes in Sierra Leone through the lens of these
relatively fluid regime forms requires not only the unraveling of the ways
decisions are made and implemented and what responses these actions evoke
(although this is an essential part of such an undertaking), it also draws
attention to the fundamentals of politics: (a) how centers are constructed and
legitimated, (b) how their political visions are crystallized and authority
conceived, (c) how a civil society forms and breaks down, and (d) how
transformations take root and why.
References
Bailey, Kenneth D. 1994. Typologies and Taxonomies: An Introduction to
Classification Technique. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Bebler, Anton, ed. 1973. Military Rule in Africa: Dahomey, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Mali. New York, NY: Praeger Publishers.
Chazan, Naomi et al. 1988. Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa. Boulder, CO: Lynne Riener Publishers.
Cox, Thomas S. 1976. Civil-Military Relations in Sierra Leone. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Musa, Sorie. 1993. Sierra Leone Digest. Washington, DC: Sierra Leone Institute for Public Policy.
Synge, Richard. 2007. Sierra Leone: Recent History. Africa South of the Sahara. Europa Publications Yearbook.
Subject: Re: Thank you Professor Abdul Bangura for this educational
piece
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
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Date Posted: 21:47:35 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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Professor Bangura,i have a different take on Juxon Smith's modus operandi in the
context of leadership.Your assessment of him did not represent his person.You
know the late Capt.Sam Boma a very good frien of mine who was the second junior
officer who was assigned to his office with responsibility for the Department of
Interior gave me an insight of how the NRC operated.
The late Birgadier's problems were the makings of the military trio of
Blake,Jumu,and Kaisamba who as the late Captain told me were fundamentally
disrespectful of his leadership.He said at Council meetings,they talked to him
in any fashion.Infact the three ploted to depose him.It was their collective
overthrow by Patrick Conteh and Emadu Rogers that prevented that on April
18,1968.
Now when he relocated here,i had the honour in the company of Marie Mustapha to
visit with them at the time they were living in Cheverly Maryland.On my very
first meeting with him,i came away very impressed with his motives and
intentions for Sierra Leone.One thing i could say about him,his personal moral
integrity was beyond reproach.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: It is not a Sierra Leonean problem , per se
From: Col. Frank Afrifa (Ghana Armed Forces )
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Date Posted: 20:06:31 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: fafrifa@aol.com
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The shipment of cocaine all over Africa is more about powerful drug lords taking
advantage of porous security at African airports than governments involved in
the drug cartels.
Subject: Re: It is not a Sierra Leonean problem , per se
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 06:52:24 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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Col.Frank Afrifa,i saw your response to the incidence of drugs in third world
countries which was swift and to the point.
I intend to gravitate this discussion with you into another arean which has to
do with a very famous Military General in the politics of Ghana with the view to
knowing what relationship if any you bear to me.
On February 24,1966,the armed forces of Ghana struck with then Major
A.A.Afrifa,Lt.General Emanuel Kotoka,and Police Inspector J.W.K.Harley.They
formed an interrim administrationafter the Nkrumah regime was deposed while he
was on his way to Hanoi for a peace conference.
If my political recollection on the politics of Ghana serves me well,they formed
what was known as the National Liberation Council with the following membership:
General J.A.Ankra,Chairman,and head of State.
Inspector General .J.W.K. Harley,Deputy Chairman.
Lt.General E.K.Kotoka Member.
Lt.General A.Ocran.
J.E.O.Nuoo,Police,Member.
B.Yakubu,Police,Member.
A.Deku,Police,Member .
Major A.A.Afrifa,Member.
From what i recall,Lt.General J.A.Ankrah by then was unceremoniously removed
from the army by the president.Later in the course of his headship of the
country,he was replaced on the Council by A.A.Afrifa,following the assissination
of Lt.General Kotoka by Lts.Arthur,and yeboa.In his honour,the main
international airport was renamed after him in Accra.
The council eventually restored civillian rule with the ecection of Dr.K.A.Busia
who was overthrown by then Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong on January 13,1972,only
to be deposed himself in a palace coup masterminded by Lt.General F.W.K.Akufo in
June 1978,to also be deposed by Flight Lt.J.J.Rawlings on June 4,1979.He
restored power quickly but then turned around and deposed the civilian
administration of president H.Liman on December 31st,1983.
Under the military occupation of Rawlings,the folloing military officers were
summarily executed without benefit to proper legal procedures.They were as i
recall them:
General I.K.Acheampong,
General F.W.K.Akufo,
General A.A.Afrif,
General R.E.A.Kotei,
Major General E.K.Utuka,
Major General G.Y.Boyei,
Col.R.J.A.Feli,
Real Admiral J.K.Amedume.
It was also reported that the army chief of staff Major General Neville
Alexander Oderty-Wellington was shot dead at point blank range by Rawling's men
for apparently no reasons.
In light of all these accounts,would you be kind enough to take me through the
role of the armed forces in the politics of Ghana and the motivations sir?.
Indeed,i will be most obliged.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: THIS IS A FIRST FOR SALONE, AND GUESS WHO?
From: Keen Observer
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Date Posted: 03:50:59 07/14/08 ()
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The APC is in power again.
Times have changed. Now instead of toxic wastes been dumped in our territoirial waters for peanuts... why not collaborate and offer safe havens for traffickers - a very profitable option for unpatriotic hustlers who want to get rich quick.
When you have a conman like Alpha Kanu at the helm of things... anything is possible.
Of the 100s of air strips in the sub-region, only Lungi was 'randomly' selected by the traffickers een?
Col Afrifa, with all due respect take you APC uniform off and leave Mama Salone poor, but at least respected..OK?
Subject: WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
From: Keen Observer
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Date Posted: 17:00:53 07/13/08 ()
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Bad news in Freetown...HUSH HUSH ....and everybody is sooooooooooo quiet?
Where is Mr Kutubu when we need him?
Where is King Loggy?
Where is Dr Curtis:
Where is the Smart Cavalier?
Where is Jaocob Kanu?
Where is Fen Plaba?
Where is LGSS?
Where is Charles F Margai?
Where is How Concern?
Where is Eddy Grant?
Where is Freedom of Speech?
Where is Uman Lappa
Where is Bambay Kamara?
Where is Tendai the Zimbabwean?
Where is "EVERY BOOOOOOOODY"????
COCOTOWN IS unusually SILENT, WHY?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
From: Dr. C. Curtis-Thomas
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Date Posted: 20:48:53 07/13/08 ()
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Bad news in Freetown...HUSH HUSH ....and everybody is sooooooooooo quiet?
Where is Dr Curtis:
Where is Freedom of Speech?
Where is "EVERY BOOOOOOOODY"????
COCOTOWN IS unusually SILENT, WHY?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
PRESENT! The news caught me with my pants done, so to speak, and left me speechless. I suspect that the same state of affairs is true for "Freedom of Speech".
Subject: APC Transport Minister needs to switch his phone on
From: Jacob Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 02:27:57 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: jacob.kanu@yahoo.com
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You nar man ooh. I have been speechless too. But not anymore...
I have phoned a few people and its not looking good for APC transport Minister Kemoh Sesay. This has never happened in Sa Lone - not even in AFRC's brutal rule.
You know there have been reports of unexplained monies in his London Account (Le150 + Millions). His close pal the Romanian Borne Biz Man, Frank Timis is a convicted coanine trafficker.
Just circumstantial evidences...but we'll get there soon. He can't keep ignoring telephone calls.
"Nar we tem dis"...for can make Salane Columbia?
Subject: Re: APC Transport Minister needs to switch his phone on
From: The Truth
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Date Posted: 05:18:37 07/14/08 ()
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Momodu Koroma made his money using his office to peddle drugs all
around the world - so we are now seeing new players. I pray they stop
this sickening way of getting rich quick.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
From: Al KHAN
To: All
Date Posted: 18:37:14 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: alhajie@comcast.net
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Guys, This is very serious, to even enter our flight space without noticing that
plane until it landed.
But again, we should be happy. Thats one plane Sierra leone have just got for
free. Here in the US.when they
found a lot of drugs in your car, they seized/impound it. Now we should do the
same. How big is it? Hey guy's
we just have a new Sierra Leone Airline plane. Do we have any Sierra leonean
pilot out there?
Subject: Den don bos we @$$... you dae tok but ol plane?
From: APC Man
To: All
Date Posted: 18:43:54 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Our finger has been caught in the soup. Mr Alf Khanu. Salone Government is in a
drug racket.
Which part of dis indictment don't you understand
Subject: Re: WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
From: Tyrone
To: All
Date Posted: 18:08:52 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-76-100-130-84.hsd1.md.comcast.net at 76.100.130.84
Message:
Good Job government of Sierra Leone, for nabing the cocaine crooks. This will
put us on the map.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
From: Driver
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Date Posted: 18:10:43 07/13/08 ()
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I though the two pilots ran away into a waiting van at the airport? Who drove
them?
Subject: Re: WHERE IS EVERYBODY? COCAINE CAM ALL MAN SLEEP
From: Pablo Escobar
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Date Posted: 17:25:14 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Well well well... what is the spin to this Cocaine bust, APC boys? Nar Paa Kabba
ihn fault een?
Or DFID is conducting some scientific experiment?
Or may be the plane bound for Jamaica just ran out of fuel.. enh?
Or perhaps the pilot missed his bearings and mistook Sierra Leone for Columbia.
Or does Alhaji Abuja have something to do with this?
Or Eddy Grant the farmer needed some seedlings...
Or Blaise Campoari has found a new best friend?
Jamba Boy boh help me bo.... I have run out of spins
Subject: Re: WHERE IS EVERYBODY? COCAINE CAM ALL MAN SLEEP
From: Wait and see
To: All
Date Posted: 20:23:24 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: codfodnus@aol.com
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Man, you do not know what you are playing with. The government is going to
invistigate the matter to the buttom. Cocain with lot of arminations? You guys
have been advocating for another war in our country? This time we will smoke you
guys where ever you go. Sit down quitely and see the out come.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS EVERYBODY? COCAINE CAM ALL MAN SLEEP
From: Nigeriaman
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Date Posted: 18:34:10 07/13/08 ()
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Why do you think, private planes from Nigeria come to Lungi to see Govt
officials of a brokedom contry??
Subject: APC DON DISGRACE WE AGAIN
From: Old Man Zubah
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Date Posted: 18:50:18 07/13/08 ()
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Drug plane nar Salone... aaaaaaaaaay APC! UNAR BRING WAR... NOW NAR DRUGS?
"MONKEY nor bah lef eeh black anh"
GOD DAE OH!
Subject: Re: APC DON DISGRACE WE AGAIN
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 19:05:17 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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Were the SLPP Kamajors piloting the plane? You guys just committed your last
violation. We will end the narcopolitics of SLPP!
Subject: Re: APC DON DISGRACE WE AGAIN
From: med conteh
To: All
Date Posted: 07:31:34 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: medconteh2005@yahoo.co.uk
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I have been reliably informed that both the pilot and others on board that
cocaine plane have now been arrested
Subject: APC DON DISGRACE WE AGAIN
From: CID
To: All
Date Posted: 03:33:04 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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This things smells APC hustlers all over... perhaps even all the way to the
Presidency. So pleeeeeease stop talking trash Lappa boy!
Have you heard about Frank Timis? Have you heard about planes landing and taking of at Hastings? Have you heard about unexplained monies in transport Minister Kemoh Sesay's account in London, well before now?
Your have to admit that the New APC is loaded with conmen and I will start naming them once I get hard evidence later this week. Nar for begin cryooo because even the International Community has been rudely woken up by the downward spiral trend of Governance in the last 10 months alone.
Nar we tem dis... my foot!
Subject: Re: WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
From: Jamba Boy
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Date Posted: 17:08:57 07/13/08 ()
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The cocaine mek all man sleep. Den go wake up jis nor.
Subject: Re: WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 17:32:41 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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I am right here buddy, working the phones and trying to get the facts sir. From
the initial reports, it seems that SLPP's lappa has been yanked off their butts.
This maybe a black eye for Sierra Leone but it is a disaster for the SLPP. That
cocaine plane has SLPP fingerprints all over it. Whether SLPP meant to sell the
cocaine to finance upcoming elections or just a brazen propaganda plot against
the APC, the truth is that the Village Rarayboys have been caught with their
pants down.
THINK, PEOPLE, THINK! If the government wants to smuggle in cocaine, it will be the simplest operation in the world because it controls Customs and the Lungi Airport. The government can drive in a 747 jetliner filled with cocaine, if it so chooses. The fact that this drug bust is successful shows the APC's zero tolerance to drug trafficking.
Remember, many SLPP kids were crackheads. Tejan Kabba's son still languishes in a foreign jail for cocaine trafficking. The drug associates of the SLPP thought that JJ Saffa, John Benjamin and Puawui can still bribe their cargo of death into Freetown. Now they know better! I congratulate President Koroma and our vigilant Customs for saying NO to this drug pestilence. Stay tuned and get ready for the onslaught as the SLPP mouth pieces start to spin this story with the most outrageous propaganda.
Subject: Uman Lappa stop insulting people's intelligence
From: Pablo Escobar
To: All
Date Posted: 18:14:50 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Mr lappa, who's paying you for this senseless ranting. In Sierra Leone's entire
history only now are we hearing this - Cocaine Plane @ Lungi Airline.
"The government can drive in a 747 jetliner filled with cocaine, if it so chooses" Mr Lappa
What makes you feel that hard working Sierra Leoneans are gonna sit and watch a drugged up gofment take them down?
This is another clear manifestation of EBKs corrupt and incompetent handling of State affairs. From attacking NEC Staff to trafficking cocaine. We get for shob peppeh nar den sonsie.
Uman Lappa ar hope say you papa nor dae push drugs ooh. Old paa sef we nor go sorry for.
USELESS APC GOF'MENT!
Subject: Re: Uman Lappa stop insulting people's intelligence
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 18:46:32 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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You are the kind of Sierra Leonean who is responsible for the backwardness of
the country. You can stick your head in the sand and convince yourself with your
own limp lies about the APC. The truth is that your party has a long and tawdry
record with drugs and your Alagbas have crackhead kids in jail. Abi ar lie? This
SLPP cocaine plane is indeed a big disgrace to your party. I know that you
fellas are gonna go to overdrive as you try and spin yourself out of this
conundrum. Unu sorry o!
Subject: WE NEED THOROUGH INVESTIGATIONS AND NABBING OF GUILTY ONES
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 16:39:37 07/13/08 ()
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The government has to investigate this cocaine scandal and anyone found culpable
should not only be fired but must face criminal prosecution, regardless of who
they are.
Right now, let us avoid pointing fingers because we do not know who is involved. Those who have jumped to conclusion, blaming the government, should wait for the investigations.
I agree that this is a big blow to us, as a people, and to our government. There has to be a good explanation about how such a plane breached our national security and landed at Lungi .
Subject: Re: WE NEED THOROUGH INVESTIGATIONS AND NABBING OF GUILTY
ONES
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 17:03:57 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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I just got off the phone from my sources in Freetown..and these are
unimpeachable sources I daresay. It appears that the cocaine plane has HUMONGOUS
SLPP FINGERPRINTS all over it. The police has retrieved the flight logs and it
appears that the sale and the distributorship of the illicit cargo was meant to
go into ops for the 2012 elections. Because of the sensitivity of the bombshell
indictment of the SLPP on legal and moral grounds, and to avoid the whining of
SLPPers that they are being picked on, the government is said to be seriously
considering inviting Interpol and other international drug interdiction
organization to investigate this matter. As we speak right now, SLPP
headquarters is in a state of panic as recriminations fly between officials. I
hope everyone remains calm until the facts crystallize out of this sordid saga.
Remember, the SLPP as a party should not be tarred with this ugly crime. Only
the greedy, unethical leaders of this organization should be blamed for this
slap at the country's reputation.
Subject: APC NOW PUSHING DRUGS?
From: Snr CID Officer
To: All
Date Posted: 17:42:16 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
Entered From: a
Message:
I really hope the hustlers in this Government have not gone this low.
As investigations continue, it is becoming clearer that our new government has graduated from extreme political violence to drug traficking.
I am not surprised anyway. With notorius conmen like Alfa Kanu in top positions... Mama Salone will be taken to the cleaners if we allow them. BUT WE SHALL NEVER ALLOW CREEPS TO DESTROY SALONE AGAIN.
This investigatioin is going to end up in hush hush... cover up of the century. But some of us will not rest unitl we get to the bottom of this.
Thank God the International Community is finally getting a rude awakening. I just called the American Embassy, and their preliminary investigations does not look good.
I'll keep you posted
Subject: Re: WE NEED THOROUGH INVESTIGATIONS AND NABBING OF GUILTY
ONES
From: kinny Brima
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Date Posted: 17:41:13 07/13/08 ()
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It is not a suprise that this will happen, since the SLPP will do anything for
power they invitd their main allied at that time (Nigeria)to come and help
reinstate them to power at all cost in return they SLPP will make it easier for
Nigerian businessmen to do business as usual.
Don't get me wrong we 've always had Nigerians in Salone befor the war, but
right after Pa. Kabba was reinstated we witness a huge influx of Nigerians all
around the country with all sort of businesses. Now, i am not saying that they
are responsible for the plane load of SLPP cocaine. BUT Hmm
Subject: Re: WE NEED THOROUGH INVESTIGATIONS AND NABBING OF GUILTY
ONES
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 17:26:05 07/13/08 ()
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But again, just as I said earlier, what you have just said is hearsay evidence
.We don't know the whole truth yet and so people should wait until the
investigations are concluded.
Subject: Re: WE NEED THOROUGH INVESTIGATIONS AND NABBING OF GUILTY
ONES
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 17:45:48 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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Kabs, we will wait for the facts to come in. But my conclusions will be borne
out. Think about it. If APC really wants to bring in a squadron of cocaine, who
can stop them, considering that the government controls the airport, customs and
police. They would have made sure that every mechanism in their power was in
place to make sure of a smooth delivery of the cocaine.
The fact is that this is a crime with SLPP fingerprints screaming like goblins. This is a plan for cold hard cash to finance future elections. Let's wait!
Subject: Re: WE NEED THOROUGH INVESTIGATIONS AND NABBING OF GUILTY
ONES
From: Fomer APC man
To: All
Date Posted: 18:32:47 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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"Think about it. If APC really wants to bring in a squadron of cocaine, who
can stop them, considering that the government controls the airport, customs and
police. They would have made sure that every mechanism in their power was in
place to make sure of a smooth delivery of the cocaine" Mr Lappa
Says who? Christiana Thorpe?
My freind APC hooligans do not own Sierra Leoneans. If corrupt Gof'ment operatives are trying to make fast bucks. I don't care who the alledged person is... Even EBK will be impeached for this... not to mention small crooks like Alfa Kanu and Victor Foh.
Una feel say nar una papa den get yah em?
Subject: Re: WE NEED THOROUGH INVESTIGATIONS AND NABBING OF GUILTY
ONES
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 19:02:36 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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Keep deluding yourself, Mister man. The reality is gonna choke you SLPP guys.
Your criminal syndicate, that is not satisfied with perpetrating backwardness in
the country and has now resorted to drug trafficking, will be brought to book.
This SLPP cocaine plane is just another nail in your party's coffin. We in the
APC will move hill and mountain to make sure that a thorough independent
investigation is carried out to ferret the culprits. SLPPers, start shaking in
your tight pantalons like the drug dealers you have become.
For the sake of democracy, let us scoop out the rotten narcopolitics of the SLPP
and consign it to the dustbin of unprogressive African politics.
God bless President Koroma for his zero tolerance to drug dealing.
Subject: APC Transport Minister needs to switch his phone on
From: CID
To: All
Date Posted: 03:58:30 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Can Kemoh Seasay and Frank Timis(concicted Romanian drug trafficker) be quizzed
ASAP.
Switching his phone off is not going to save him.
AaAAAAAAAAAAy APC
Subject: Re: WE NEED THOROUGH INVESTIGATIONS AND NABBING OF GUILTY
ONES
From: yankuba kai-samba
To: All
Date Posted: 17:39:22 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: y020855@yahoo.co.uk
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I think all Sierra Leoneans should refrain from pointing accusing fingers and
allow the governement and the security forces to do their investigation.
I would also call on the people of Sierra Leone to remain calm and support the police and the government to bring those behind this national disgrace.
The governemet has to show the international community that it will leave no stone unturn in its investigation.
Subject: WHAT IF APC AGBAs ARE INVOLVED?
From: Pablo Escobar
To: All
Date Posted: 17:49:54 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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KaiSamba, I know you mean well. But frankly this Government is something else.
Even during the rebel war we had o such scandals. But this APC gofment is totally rotten. From the roots to the fruits.
Why is it only now that we are having Salone as a landing ground for Drug Czars?
Subject: Re: WHAT IF APC AGBAs ARE INVOLVED?
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 19:13:22 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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Pablo, you are entitled to your facts BUT NOT THE FACTS. I wonder how you are
going to react when your SLPP heroes are leapfrogged to jail for drug
trafficking.
No to the politics of narco-terrorism of the SLPP. Thanks to the enlightened zero tolerance to drugs of the APC, all the shenanigans and shady business deals of the SLPP are bursting out for public eyeballing.
SLPP and cocaine? How are the mighty fallen indeed!
Subject: PLEASE STOP ACCUSING THE GOVERNMENT UNTIL WE GET THE FACTS
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 15:32:03 07/13/08 ()
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Don't jump the gun, guys. Wait for the facts . It is premature to blame anybody
now when a thorough investigation has not been done yet.
Subject: OF COURSE WE WANT AN EXPLANATION: - CAN 'T WE DISCUSS IT?
From: Desmond Williams
To: All
Date Posted: 16:00:30 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: donwhite@yahoo.co.uk
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Mr Kabs, of course we are are awaiting an explanation... and it better be a good
one. Thats the least we expect. I know you may want to do some damage control...
but we are not quite there yet. i am sure we can all learn from our independent
sources.
Out of 15 plus International airports in West Africa, a plane full of Cocaine and a few weapons is alledgedly sitting on our tarmac @ Lungi, as I write. This has never happened, not even during the AFRC period.
Reverend its drugs,cocaine - Class A Drugs. Can we just dist dicuss the
ramifications, please?
Subject: Re: OF COURSE WE WANT AN EXPLANATION: - CAN 'T WE DISCUSS IT?
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 16:05:58 07/13/08 ()
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We can discuss it but what I am saying is that we do not know yet how the plane
came to end up in Lungi and who are behind it. Until we get all the facts, we
certainly cannot say that the government did it as many of you have started
doing. Let's diss it but we have no reason yet to blame anybody UNTIL ALL THE
FACTS ARE OUT.
Subject: Re: PLEASE STOP ACCUSING THE GOVERNMENT UNTIL WE GET THE
FACTS
From: Oh Salone
To: All
Date Posted: 15:38:50 07/13/08 ()
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Did you do that with the Libyan rice?
Subject: IS OUR APC NOW PUSHING COCAINE?
From: Sanu Kabia
To: All
Date Posted: 15:11:12 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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I am praying that this is not true.
News from Freetown indicates that there is a plane on the tarmac full of drugs and a few weapons...probably in transit.
I relly hope our government has not stooped so low to start making Salone, a drug conduit. We do not need this knid of bad press.
Can we get clarifications, please? Not the SLPP bashing coming from some of our boys.
Subject: Re: IS OUR APC NOW PUSHING COCAINE?
From: APC Stooge
To: All
Date Posted: 18:36:45 07/13/08 ()
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They do not know, why do Nigerians open their Banks everyday in impoverished
Freetown.The day APC wakes up, they will know that honeymoon is over,and by then
Salone passports, like Nigerians, would have been blacklisted around the world.
Subject: Re: IS OUR APC NOW PUSHING COCAINE?
From: Keen Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 16:39:27 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Is anyone monitoring Cocorioko posts tonite? Some of the threads relating to the
alledged Cocaine & weapons bust at Lungi Airport are disappearing.
Whats going on?
Has anyone called home to find out? This is very bad news.
Subject: Re: IS OUR APC NOW PUSHING COCAINE?
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 16:41:28 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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The only posts deleted were those written by me. The others are intact. I
decided to rephrase my response. You are free to discuss the issue.
Subject: Is A.P.C. a dangerous ( satanists,rebellious ) political ..
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 14:33:13 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
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Discussing political violence in Sierra Leone and finding solutions will be a
difficult task, if the foundation is not properly traced and clearly identified.
READ : "No account of the pre-history of the A.P.C. , would be complete
without a review of the origins and formation of the party's great historic
rival and predecessor,the S.L.P.P. Most of the main parties since the fifties
originated in the schims from the S.L.P.P. AND THOUGH THE A.P.C. WAS BUILT ON
QUITE A DIFFERENT FOUNDATIONS IT INCLUDED FLAKES AND CHIPS FALLEN FROM THE
MOULDERING EDIFICE OF THE S.L.P.P. HAD EXCLUDED FROM A VOICE IN THE GOVERNMENT,
AND WAS AT ITS INCEPTION AN ANTI- S.L.P.P. FORCE ". A.P.C. was regarded as
disgruntled rebellious dangerous elements since its inception ,Septmember
11,1960 . Unfortunately (if so), the selected colour( red) made it easy
propaganda to spread and direct all political evils to the party though some
atrocities were not done by members or supporters of the party. Many people will
testify that S.L.P.P. did serious evil things to destroy the opposition( A.P.C.)
and A.P.C. carried out so many indecent acts to desroy S.L.P.P. What we are
experiencing today is the same old dirty games and bitter battle between the two
giant parties. Unlike the dark days, we are fortunate because there are many
people willing and bold enough to challege and expose the dirty activities .It
is the responsibility of Sierra Leoneans to put party differences aside and
stand against indecent acts, if people are honestly interested in political
decency. We see the attacks on N.E.C as degrading, vicious and undemocratic but
serious ugly incidents happened in the past.
Subject: Re: Is A.P.C. a dangerous ( satanists,rebellious ) political
..
From: kinny Brima
To: All
Date Posted: 17:20:14 07/13/08 ()
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You don't need to explain all that just go straight to the point, from your
writings it is easy to tell that you are anti APC. If we must be honst what
political party started acting a fool while in power (SLPP/A. Margai) this
ignorant Margai created the path for power abuse in Salone, that was why Pa.
Sheki thouht him and his SLPP party how to be ruthless. So, stop the wining and
deal with the monster your party created. Eventhoug EBK is a democrat by blood
you still want to suck that out of him what a monster you have turn yourself
into. UNA NOR DON EXPOSE UNA BAD BAD HABIT TO DI PUBLIC NO DOUT.
Subject: Re: Is A.P.C. a dangerous ( satanists,rebellious ) political
..
From: SORIE Jawaras
To: All
Date Posted: 03:00:26 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
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BRIMA , Re- read my postings and find out . READ MY ARTICLE -DARK HARD DAYS OF
A.P.C. Did YOU PARTICIPATE IN BRINGing THE FIRST A.P.C. IN POWER? How much do
you know about S.L.P.P. AND A.P.C. POLITICS?
Subject: Officials find cocaine-filled plane ditched at Sierra Leone
From: Jamba Boy
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Date Posted: 13:35:24 07/13/08 ()
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Officials find cocaine-filled plane ditched at Sierra Leone airport
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone: A passenger plane loaded with 1,540 pounds of cocaine was found abandoned at Sierra Leone's main airport Sunday, police said.
Airport officials discovered the craft, which was registered to a South American country, along with a handful of guns apparently left behind by a two-man crew before dawn, said Francis Munu, a police official in the capital.
Munu said police had organized a search party to try to find the pilots of the plane.
With cocaine prices in Europe surging ahead of prices in the United States, drug smugglers in South America are increasingly ferrying cocaine to West Africa, from where it is parceled out to hundreds of individual traffickers who carry it north.
Major seizures have been made in Guinea-Bissau and Ghana, and it is widely
believed that other countries along the coast are also being used by drug
runners.
Subject: Which Cabinet Minister Ordered Cocaine?
From: Cocaine Official
To: All
Date Posted: 12:52:58 07/13/08 ()
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Plane-load of Cocaine Abandoned at Lungi AirportSunday, July 13, 2008 10:05 AM
To: LEONENET@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDUJust got this from
BBC's Umaru Fofana on another forum.
Airport and aviation authorities have confirmed to me that a plane-load of cocaine was abandoned at dawn today at the Freetown international airport.
The aircraft is said to contain at least 600 Kgs of the substance, AK riffles and cash in US dollar bills.
Neither its origin nor the identity of the pilots is yet known.
In what reads like a Hollywood scr1pt, the pilots reportedly disembarked and boarded a waiting van and speeded off. Orthers sources say they fled on foot.
Sources say the airport was dark when the craft landed.
It comes just a day after a report leaked paints a chilling picture of the bad state of affairs at the airport saying there are serious security lapses making it fertile for drug- and people-trafficking. It also follows a warning by the US embassy that some security forces are working on cahoot with criminals.
I am on the way to the airport.
Will keep you posted.
Umaru FOFANA
BBC Correspondent
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Mobile: +232 76 609 285
+ 232 33 609 285
Subject: Re: Which Cabinet Minister Ordered Cocaine?
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 14:09:47 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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One of the severe consequences of SLPP's special relationship with the
nigerians.This is just the tip of the iceberg!Competent sources indicate the
trafficking has been going on WUTETEH for the past ten years with the
patronization of some SLPP politicians and ministers.It seems this time the lid
has blown off. Kudos to those gallant officers who intercepted the
consignment.This clearly demonstrates the APC's determination to stop all kinds
of trafficking and this cocaine incident is just the beginning.SLPP criminals
beware!
Subject: Re: Which Cabinet Minister Ordered Cocaine?
From: Thomas Manna
To: All
Date Posted: 17:12:52 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: thomas@hotmail.com
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No wonder cocain was for found in a diplomatic bag from freetown bound for UK
when SLPPMomodu Koroma was foreign minister.
Subject: Re: Which Cabinet Minister Ordered Cocaine?
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 12:56:40 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
You mistake O pa! That cocaine was ordered by J.J. Saffa to supplement the
SLPP's finances.
Subject: IS APC TRAFFICKING COCAINE NOW?
From: Andrea Reddly (DFID)
To: All
Date Posted: 13:10:38 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: andrea@difidsl.org
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I am shocked with this report - a clear demonstration of government
incompetence. This has never happened in the history of Sierra Leone.
I honestly hope HE Ernest Koroma is not the next Pablo Escobar. If he is, then the International Community is going to take their gloves off and start investigating his close relations with Blaise campoare, the Burkina faso War lord PRONTO.
I am calling London now, and other diplomats in country, to get to the bottom of this
Subject: Re: IS APC TRAFFICKING COCAINE NOW?
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 13:42:40 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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Stop hyperventilating, you twit!
I have told you that the consignment belongs to JJ Saffa and the SLPP.
Subject: Re: IS APC TRAFFICKING COCAINE NOW?
From: yankuba kai-samba
To: All
Date Posted: 13:41:47 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: y020855@yahoo.co.uk
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This is desperately cripling for Sierra Leone. As you correctly said, this is
first for Sierra Leone. We have had devastating war that surpasses most wars.
But if this news is correct, I can only ask: where is Sierra Leone heading to.
Drug traficking in Sierra Leone started in trickles, now it came in with a big bang. The government must mount an immediate investigation to cut this dangerous development instant.
I appeal to President Koroma to ask the British PM Gordon Brown to send in special investigating team from the Serious Organise Crime Agency and immigration officials from UK to investigate the whole lot. I can assure the president that Gordon Brown will respond favourably. Sierra Leone is poor, it is most vulnerable and provide a fertile ground for international criminals.
Those who had criticised the Sierra Leone immigration boss for deporting foreign criminals should begin to reflect on their positions.
This is a crime that is imported to Sierra Leone. It is new and first in the country's history. Positive and drastic actions cannot be delayed or ignored.
Subject: I hope it is not true
From: MI 6
To: All
Date Posted: 14:02:39 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: tapadug@ yahoo.com
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If it is true, then its a big indictment to the Koroma Government. And believe
me they would have pushed our tolerance too far.
Stay tuned
Subject: A Beef With Kutubu And Kai-Samba on Dr. Abdulai Conteh
From: Bengazi
To: All
Date Posted: 12:48:11 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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I was profoundly appalled by the level of intellectual display exhibited by both
respectable folks in the names of Yankuba Kai-Samba and Mohamed Kutubu Koroma.
After reading their postings, I see no reason why Dr. Abdulai Conteh should
dignify the frequent postings emanating from the two with a response. We seem to
be talking about a completely different level of playing field here. The two
brothers were energetic in their stormy rise to the occasion, but like the
gadfly, they were fundamentally unfocussed on the issue in question. What we've
witnessed in their comments simply demonstrates that the DNA of an intellectual
cannot be easily spliced into someone else's genetics.
My posting was basically arbitrary but loaded with realistic caution, based on well-established facts about Dr. Abdulai Conteh's prowess in his specialty. . . without much spotlight on his moral bankruptcy. . . or professional flaws. I was merely building up the ground that would host a spectacular display of intellectual discourse, and perhaps, add up some provocative hype to make it a mouth-watering encounter. Surprisingly, both of the postings of Kutubu and Kai-Samba tend to transform the whole debate into a flimsy personality-driven wrestling event, rich in generalization but poor in definitive specifics... and that's exactly what I presume to be the theme of a debate that dwells in law!
If this is the best the two can offer in preparation for an anticipated clash of the Titans, then Dr. Abdulai Conteh would be wasting his time participating! The two may be spurred by a burning vengeance to settle an old score, and the flame may tend to be eating them up from within thus inadvertently losing their focus on issues of pertinence.
I strongly support the notion that recommends the blending of moral and
political convictions with intellectual leadership, but in the spin-dominated
ethos of contemporary politics, emotionally-propelled doctrine could eventualy
see folks suffocating in doom and gloom!
Subject: Re: A Beef With Kutubu And Kai-Samba on Dr. Abdulai Conteh
From: yankuba kai-samba
To: All
Date Posted: 17:04:04 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: y020855@yahoo.co.uk
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Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss "Bengazi"
I don't normally respond to hooded correspondent. But can you tell this forum why you conceiled your true identity.
I was not questioning Abdulia's intellectual capability but I do have an issues when those who claimed to be brilliant joined forces with political thugs like the late S I Koroma to destroy Sierra Leone democracy.
My interest and inquisition is not derived from the need to revenge, but to seek to verify what is being said about the man.
If you have no answer to give, then the easiest thing to do is not to hide your real you but to keep quiet.
Subject: Re: A Beef With Kutubu And Kai-Samba on Dr. Abdulai Conteh
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 14:12:44 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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The fact remains,no matter how you try to genuflect before Abdulia Conteh,he has
been relegated to the political dust bin he truly belongs in the political
ferment of in contemporary Sierra Leone.
He is a kleptomanic,morally debased,untrustworthy,and a disgrace to himself and
the family.
Conteh has lots of relatives in the USA but not one has come to his defence
because no one worth his salt will want to be associated who with all his claim
to academia is a frequent guest in foreign jail houses.
Frankly speaking If Conteh were all that,he would have been at the headship of
the AU.For the second time,he has been rejected on account of the fact that he
is morally unsound.
See how Siaka Stevens of all dumped him as Finance Minister.Any body who is
worth his salt will never serve a less of a human being like Steven.For the
likes of you who are as morally debased as himself,you have no compunction to go
to bat for him because you fall in his same class of individuals with no
personal moral integrity and principles.He was giving an opportunity to serve
his nation.What did he do?He shamelessly stole everything that came within
grabs.When his day of reckoning came,he impersonated another person with
fraudulent travelling documents.Guess what?The people he found at the port of
entry were smatter for him.That explains why he was jailed and evevtually
deported.You think the conference of Heads of States are oblivious of his past
criminal record?.You must be day dreaming to think so.He will ever remain a
vagabond travelling from place to place looking for job that will never come his
way.I fully understand your situation,he invested his loots on you so it is
about time you rise to his defence now.Bo scholl motto says:"MANNERS MAKETH
MAN".No matter how much academia Conteh can lay claim to,with his
fundamental lack of personal moral integrity and his propensity for stealing
things that do not belong to him,no one wants him around.I will assure you if
the citizens of Belize had known of his past criminal background juxtaposed with
his Hitlar lack nature,he would never have sat on their Supreme court to
contaminate.
You seem to be a misguided and ignorant upstart and i am not going to waste my
precious time on you.It is Abdulia Conteh who is my target and if he believes in
his manhood as i believe in mine,the forum is open and i welcome a challenge
from him.In any case he belongs to the past and the best he can do for his kin
and kith is to vanish into sinister circumstances because frankly,he can save
his lectures on the constitutionl mechanism of the country for ignoramuses of
you likes.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: MY RUNNING MATE FOR PRESIDENT? Dr. SLYVIA BLYDEN OF COURSE!
From: Dr. C. Curtis-Thomas
To: All
Date Posted: 11:14:35 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: RNMDTWO@YAHOO.COM
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Message:
Journalists scramble to stifle ugly row between newspaper Publisher and the
Press Secretary
Written by Cocorioko Newspaper Limited
Friday, 11 July 2008
The BBC Correspondent in Sierra Leone, Mr. Umaru Fofana and the Publisher of the
SIERRA EXPRESS newspaper, Mr. Adeyemi John, today scrambled to stifle an ugly
war of words between the Publisher of the AWARENESS TIMES newspaper , Dr. Sylvia
Blyden and the Presidential Press Secretary, Mr. Sheka Tarawallie.
Dr. Blyden and Mr. Tarawallie , since yesterday , have been exchanging harsh
words through e-mails sent to about 58 receipients , including media houses and
personnel , over the publication by AWARENESS TIMES that the people of Zimbabwe
condemned the last Local Council Elections in Sierra Leone.
The article is published in part below :
APC Violence Condemned from Zimbabwe
By James Beretay
Jul 10, 2008, 18:45
Awareness Times yesterday July 9th 2008, received several dozens of emails from
Zimbabweans living in Zimbabwe who in "no uncertain terms", strongly
denounced the Ernest Bai Koroma led Government of Sierra Leone for the continued
harassment and intimidation of members of the opposition in Sierra Leone. The
Zimbabweans were seemingly appalled at the report of an arson attack on
elections materials by ruling APC Party supporters in the Eastern part of Sierra
Leone.
In what was an obviously well concerted effort, the Zimbabweans wrote to Awareness Times with the same strong line.
"In Zimbabwe, no supporter of our ruling ZANU-PF party ever attacked staff of our Elections Commission and burnt to ashes voting materials and ballot papers. What is happening over there is a shame to democracy in Africa and must be condemned in no uncertain terms," wrote Professor Peter Oremidi in his email to Awareness Times yesterday.
"Both your President Koroma and Raila Odinga are the real disgrace to Africa and not Robert Mugabe. Odinga rode to power on the blood of thousands of dead Kenyans and your President rode to power after 477 stations were rigged off for him to win. They should both keep their mouths shut and not talk about Zimbabwe. It is like the biblical speck and logs," Dr. Charles Manyevere wrote in from Harare.
Another anonymous writer who merely identified himself as "Uncle Tom Exposer" wrote the following:
"Please tell that Uncle Tom in Sierra Leone to re-run the elections in all those places where his APC candidates went unopposed before he starts to lecture Zimbabweans about democracy."
It will be recalled that part of the international umbrage against Robert Mugabe’s win of the last elections was that he went virtually unopposed after his rival, seeing his chances of winning, slip away, decided to pull away from the elections in the same manner that several opposition candidates in Sierra Leone decided to pull out of the race including several that are alleged to have been intimidated with raw violence into pulling out of the race.
After the article was published, the State House Press Secretary , Mr. Sheka Taeawallie, responded by describing the article as mischievous and in the strongly-worded release said ( In part ) :
"For a newspaper to then mischievously concoct a story stating that our elections were marred with violence in order to throw spanners in the works of this great achievement is apparently criminal. By way of this press release therefore, the Awareness Times is challenged to prove the credibility of their story by publishing the supposed emails they received from Zimbabwe verbatim with the senders’ addresses. "
This response by Mr. Tarawallie elicited a witty reply from Publisher Sylvia Blyden , who asked : "There is a clause in the Criminal Libel Laws which says that if you challenge someone to publish something and the person goes ahead and does exactly that, you do not have a case against them. Are you sure you want us to publish the Emails we got? That is the most STUPID CHALLENGE I have seen in a very long time. I am having a hearty giggle right now!" .
In Mr . Tarawallie's next response, he gave hints that the matter was serious enough and might end up with a complaint to the Independent Media Commission ( IMC ) or a law suit : "If you don't publish the emails, then the IMC and/or the courts will have to come in. Since you seem to know about Sierra Leone's criminal libel laws, let's pursue that path. Hope to see you soon".
The AWARENESS TIMES Publisher hit back with the following : "Shekito,
Just look at how 'scared' I am by your threats.... I am shivering already with
'fright'. NONSENSE! Yu get boku for learn... Awareness Times no to New Vision
oh! You seem to have a little too much time on your hands. Let me suggest that
instead of sending me these threatening silly emails, why don't you use your
time to issue a LONG OVERDUE Press Statement expressing dismay at the rebel
style ambush and arson of elections materials amongst other such SHAMEFUL &
DISGRACEFUL acts of elections violence & intimidation that happened under
the Koroma Leadership? You can take a leaf out of the following interview where
your Boss DID NOT DENY that violence was occuring under his watch but instead
strongly
denounced it...
President Koroma predicts victory for APC tomorrow : warns troublemakers
against intimidation
Written by Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu : Editor-In-Chief of COCORIOKO
Saturday, 05 July 2008
President Ernest Bai Koroma has strongly warned that anybody caught intimidating others during the Local Council Elections in Sierra Leone tomorrow will face the full force of the law. Speaking with COCORIOKO's Editor-In-Chief , Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu, this evening in an eve- of- elections exclusive interview, President Koroma said that the elections should be as free and fair as dictated by the tenets of democracy.
President Koroma expressed his strongest outrage at the political violence that had been reported in the press. He told COCORIOKO that his government does not support violence or acts of intimidation against political opponents. "My government believes in democracy and the rule of law. My government also believes that the playing ground should be free and fair for all political parties" .
He condemned those going around intimidating others in the strongest terms and warned that anyone caught in such undesirable acts will be fully punished by the law, whether they belong to the ruling APC or the opposition SLPP and PMDC. (END OF ARTICLE)
Blyden continued : "By the way, I am STILL GIGGLING at your STUPID CHALLENGE...Hope to see you soon too."
ACTUALLY, in the article written by COCORIOKO , readers are directed to note that President Ernest Koroma displayed honesty and political maturity by not denying that there had been some political violence , as many untruthful leaders could have done. However, the main theme that runs through this article is President Koroma's revulsion for the violence and his belief that every political party must be given a chance to campaign peacefully . The President then showed that he dispenses even-handed justice by warning all troublemakers that if they were caught causing confusion during the elections, they would be brought to justice, whether they belonged to the ruling APC or not. It must be significantly noted that because of the President's warning, and security measures adopted as well as the resolve of the Sierra Leonean people, elections day was very peaceful in Sierra Leone.
WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO PUBLISH THE MAILS THAT FOLLOWED DR. BLYDEN'S RESPONSE
An escalation seemed imminent but then came the intervention by journalists. In his letter of advice to both journalists, Mr. Adeyemi of SIERRA EXPRESS enjoined :
"Hi Shekito and Sylvia, this correspondence is not good - personal
insults are being distributed world-wide and people will jump on this and
publish it online making Sierra Leone and our government look petty and foolish.
To argue is one thing, but to bring personal information into an argument issued
to all and sundry is not professional for a government body. My advice would be
that if you two want to bring in personal details, the emails should be kept
between the two of you.
I think you are both too intelligent to take this path of correspondence...I
though you two were best or should I say very good friend, why an ordinary
e-mail or publication should turn you guys a boxers over night? I have
tremendous respect for you two, and I’ll advise these e-mails war stop for the
sake of your professions…" .
BBC Correspondent Fofana sent this strong appeal to the feuding journalists :
"My brother and my sister, I am kindly asking for a ceasefire. In the name
of God and our profession."
MEANWHILE, the AWARENESS TIMES Publisher said today that she was standing by her
story. She said that she will also not publish the e-mails .Blyden contended :
"If we publish verbatim, exactly how our President was described by the
Zimbabweans in their emails, President Koroma will be highly embarrassed and we
do not want that to happen to him. As a newspaper, we respect our President and
we want him to maintain his public dignity so we will not take up the challenge
issued for us to publish those unedited materials on him from Zimbabwe."
It is not known whether the Press Secretary will carry out his threats to take the matter to the IMC or the courts."
(Source: Cocorioko)
Subject: JOHN LEIGH, WHY DID THE SLPP "DROPPED" JOE DEMBY?
From: Dr. C. Curtis-Thomas
To: All
Date Posted: 10:26:30 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
1. "Dr. Demby was Vice President from March 31, 1996 until Solo Berewa was
sworn in as VP in May 2002. On or about December 2001, Kabbah decided that
Berewa would be his running mate in the May 2002 election for his second and
last term. In March 2002 Berewa was SLPP's candidate for VP." (John Leigh)
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH, WHY DID THE SLPP "DROPPED" JOE
DEMBY?
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 12:13:49 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Dr. Curtis-Thomas:
I do not know the precise reason and I hesitate to speculate.
What I do know is that at some point in 2001, Kabbah asked Dr. James Jonah to evalute the performances of his cabinet members and to ID a possible successor only from among them.
Jonah ranked then Attorney-General Solo Berewa the highest for his personal loyalty to Kabbah (hence the basis for their 'Continuity' campaign theme).
Clearly, if Kabbah had been satisfied with Demby, he would not have given anyone the assignment he gave Jonah. Hope this response is satisfactory. - JL
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH, WHY DID THE SLPP "DROPPED" JOE
DEMBY?
From: Dr CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 21:43:21 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"...Hope this response is satisfactory. - JL"
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
It is not satisfactory, but "we cannot squeeze water out of stone" can we?
Thanks, though.
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH, WHY DID THE SLPP "DROPPED" JOE
DEMBY?
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 11:00:13 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Dr. Curtis-Thomas, what do you expect from the SLPP? They suck in people, use
them, and then spit out their bones when they deem them no longer useful. It is
like a goat gobbling up an orange, eating up the juicy inside, before discarding
the outside 'beh-tas'. The SLPP used A.J Demby and then kicked him out when they
realized that he was no longer useful to the entrenchment of their useless
ideology. They also used John Leigh, probably the finest and truest nationalist
in their midst, and ambushed him at the political theater at Makeni when they
realized that he was not going to play their corrupt game at the expense of the
nation. They unconscionably betrayed Hinga Norman when they became convinced
that he was 'becoming too big for his breeches'. They conspired to throw the
Karmajor honcho behind merciless bars where the man died of a broken heart. They
fried Charles Margai in palm oil at the same Makeni shindig for daring to
democratically challenge the parasitic leadership, and blacklisted him as an
'enemy combatant' in the Southeast for having the nerve to form a coalition with
the APC. The SLPP campaign in the Bo area in particular was driven by only one
sonorous propaganda beat: That Charles Margai was a traitor to the South, that
he had sold Bo to the 'Makeni Mafia'. What tribalistic drivel!
So you see how the SLPP mafia operates. They are really diabolical!
Subject: Re: JOHN LEIGH, WHY DID THE SLPP "DROPPED" JOE
DEMBY?
From: Dr. Charles Curtis-Thomas
To: All
Date Posted: 11:19:04 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
AN "AWARD-WINNING" RESPONSE!
Subject: CAN SOMEONE TELL US THAT THIS "DAUDA BOY" IS
KIDDING US
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
To: All
Date Posted: 09:54:07 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Posted by Dauda on July 12, 2008 at 22:21:12:
In Reply to: Re: CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS,MD VS CHERNOR JALLOH,Ph.D posted by Mensa on July 12, 2008 at 12:04:16:
"...That is why I highly respect MR. Abdulai Kolleh Dumbuya. He did not get
a degree but he will challenge everybody academically....I mean in any field of
studies...This is the type of person we need..." ( Dauda)
Subject: Re: CAN SOMEONE TELL US THAT THIS "DAUDA BOY" IS
KIDDING US
From: Man Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 15:26:37 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Dauda, you are right. Super K is the man. He can challenge anyone in any field.
Super K is the type of people that we need in our country to serve. Most Sierra
Leoneans with all their PHD'S have not done anything good for our country
instead they have enrich themselves. Look at Momodu Koroma. Poor lecturer. Now
he is a millionaire through stealing from the state coffers. Look at John Karimu,
John Benjamin and others. I believe Prezo Koroma should institute a commission
of inquiry into the activities of the past Kabbah administration including
Kabbah himself.
Subject: CHARLES MARGAI, WAS "GOING TO BED" WITH THE APC A
MISTAKE?
From: Dr CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 09:12:48 07/13/08 ()
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Cabinet Reshuffle… SLPP to Replace PMDC?
By Umaru Sitta Turay
Jul 11, 2008,
The voice of President Ernest Bai Koroma was yesterday evening aired over the BBC’s Focus on Africa Programme where he revealed an apparent displeasure with the current state of the management of the ship of state by some members of his ministerial cabinet.
In the wake of the just concluded elections where the ruling party’s aligned PMDC party, has been all but removed from mainland Sierra Leone onto the Islands (Bonthe) with their final destination seemingly the Atlantic Ocean, there were speculations yesterday that President Koroma will invite members of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) to sit in his cabinet as replacement for the PMDC cabinet Ministers.
"As the Captain of the ship, I have a great responsibility to ensure that everybody is onboard and the ship remains on course if there are difficulties, you can offload to stabilise the vessel. When it becomes stormy, you cannot continue. When it becomes turbulent, the captain must take a hard decision," President Koroma said over the BBC as he expressed concern over some of his more lacklustre cabinet appointees.
According to Umaru Fofanah who filed the BBC report, Sierra Leone’s non-performing ministers have been told to brace themselves for an imminent reshuffle with the BBC reporting that President Koroma even went to the extent of asking some of them not to wait to be sacked but to resign their jobs with dignity.
Speaking in an exclusive telephone chat with Awareness Times last night, Information Minister I.B. Kargbo confirmed that President Koroma was currently "making a review of the performance of his ministers as to whether they have reached their expected benchmarks."
"What I will tell you (Awareness Times) is that the President gave the ministers an opportunity to face their challenges. President Koroma knows the public is expecting his ministers to perform and therefore ministers that are performing will be commended and those that do otherwise should learn from the others," Kargbo said but insisted that President Koroma did not say he was going to sack any minister so as far as I.B. Kargbo is concerned, the State House Meeting with Ministers yesterday did not constitute any threat to any minister’s position thus far.
When asked if it was possible that SLPP members might be joining the ruling APC Cabinet, I.B. Kargbo said "premium must be given to national reconciliation which means that there is the possibility by President Koroma to identify experienced and honest Sierra Leoneans from all over to constitute the administration of the State but nothing about SLPP Minister was ever discussed by the President."
For his part, Jacob Jusu Saffa, Secretary General of the SLPP also spoke to Awareness Times last night and he confirmed that "credible rumours have been circulating around that the President is intending to include some of our former SLPP Ministers in his cabinet but as a party, the SLPP will totally refuse that kind of offer and infact, we will consider those SLPP members that will take up such positions as traitors," JJ Saffa insisted. He also said that it seems as if the APC is lacking of quality human resource to run Koroma’s government therefore they now want to use the expertise of the SLPP but according to Saffa, it was "too late now".
"If the APC knew it did not have qualified and capable personnel to run Sierra Leone when they came to power, they should have asked the SLPP initially; not now when they have spoilt the country," Saffa opined.
(Source: The Awarenesstimes)
Subject: Plane-load of Cocaine Abandoned at Lungi
From: Jamba Boy
To: All
Date Posted: 09:09:08 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Plane-load of Cocaine Abandoned at Lungi AirportSunday, July 13, 2008 10:05 AM
To: LEONENET@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDUJust got this from
BBC's Umaru Fofana on another forum.
Airport and aviation authorities have confirmed to me that a plane-load of cocaine was abandoned at dawn today at the Freetown international airport.
The aircraft is said to contain at least 600 Kgs of the substance, AK riffles and cash in US dollar bills.
Neither its origin nor the identity of the pilots is yet known.
In what reads like a Hollywood scr1pt, the pilots reportedly disembarked and boarded a waiting van and speeded off. Orthers sources say they fled on foot.
Sources say the airport was dark when the craft landed.
It comes just a day after a report leaked paints a chilling picture of the bad state of affairs at the airport saying there are serious security lapses making it fertile for drug- and people-trafficking. It also follows a warning by the US embassy that some security forces are working on cahoot with criminals.
I am on the way to the airport.
Will keep you posted.
Umaru FOFANA
BBC Correspondent
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Mobile: +232 76 609 285
+ 232 33 609 285
Subject: PLAIN AND SIMPLE, THE AFRC WAS A TERRORISTS ORGANIZATION.
From: Dr. C. Curtis-Thomas
To: All
Date Posted: 09:04:13 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
250. The Commission finds that the invasion of Freetown on 6 January 1999 was
the culmination of a destructive rampage through much of the Northern Province
by a combatant group led by and comprised predominantly of former AFRC soldiers.
251. The main troop that attacked Freetown on 6J anuary 1999 was inordinately well equipped by the standards of the Sierra Leone conflict. It possessed artillery pieces and other heavy weaponry that had been imported illegally and stealthily for the purposes of launching a new attack on the seat of Government.
252. A pernicious and cowardly tactic used by the invaders of Freetown was to dissolve themselves into an indistinguishable mass comprised mostly of abducted civilians. It constituted a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, known as the use of “human shields”. The combatants were “protected” from counter-attack as they entered Freetown by the cover of the non-combatants around them.
253. Upon arrival in Freetown in January 1999, the AFRC group bore the primary responsibility for the unprecedented scale and intensity of violations and abuses committed against civilians during the assault on the city. The Commission finds further that the AFRC group destroyed significant numbers of properties in the city and stormed the Pademba Road Prison, releasing several thousand inmates,including persons who themselves went on to participate in further urban warfare in the city."
(Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report)
Subject: HOW MUCH MONEY DID JOHN KARIMU REALLY STEAL?
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 06:23:18 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Whenever the sore point of SLPP tiffy-tiffy is brought up, the hackles of the
SLPP go up as their partisans circle the wagons to protect the oligarchy. They
would rather talk about SLPP corruption DURING THE SIAKA STEVENS ERA than touch
their own mendacity. But we've got news for the Kailahun squad! John Benjamin,
one of the biggest Mafia dons of the SLPP (without doubt, the most callous
criminal political syndicate in West Africa, putting to shame even the
Nigerians) is thought to have stolen nearly $300 million from the country. From
his time as the Secretary-General in the NPRC where he took advantage of the low
grade intelligence of Strasser, Bio, Nyumah and the other Khaki boys and
manipulated a whole lot of intrigue and palace coups...to the manipulation and
stiletto back-stabbing of the SLPP where he ended up controlling the nation's
purse strings and the hundreds of millions of development aid, John Benjamin of
Segbwema presided over the most thorough looting of the nation's money. But he
was a generous don: He shared the spoils with Kabba (See Tejan Kabba's fleet of
seven brand-new Mercedes Benz GL450s and other goodies as he 'rolls' through
Freetown), Berewa and others. And he used some of that money to rebuild the
resources of SLPP (without doubt the richest party in Sierra Leone) and buy
internet mouthpieces like The New People newspaper.
APC has never and CAN NEVER match SLPP's GRON PIGGISM!
Since today is Sunday, WE LEF WE YONE GEE JESUS CHRIST. DI GOOD LORD GO LOOK AFTER SALONE.
Subject: Re: HOW MUCH MONEY DID JOHN KARIMU REALLY STEAL?
From: Look gron man
To: All
Date Posted: 08:53:47 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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That Nigger stole a lot of money, larvished a lot of it pan uman skirt.He's
loaded. Believe oh ! But he cannot run away from his conscience though; God is
looking from above
Subject: JOHN KARIMU VINDICATED
From: The Banker
To: All
Date Posted: 11:33:11 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: charles.margai@yahoo.com
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Message:
I happen to know Dr John Karimu very well and thought it fit to put some of
these APC tribalists in their shells. He is a very brilliant (well educated),
honest and hardworking man.
He briefly lectured @ Njala University and picked up one of the most lucrative jobs in the country at the time (80s); Programme Director for GTZ/Bo-Pujehun Development Programme. As one of the first brilliant nationals hired as an expatriate, he was easily netting over $6000/month for over a decade.
After the brutal war, caused by APC's misrule and corruption, that forced the Programme to close, almost every Sierra Leonean who could afford it left the country. Given that Dr Karimu was highly qualified, he easily picked up a position in the Gambia, as Country Director for an International NGO, CARE. After a fews years in the Gambia he was called to serve in the NPRC Government as a Minister, which is why most APC loyalists hate him sooooooooooo much.
He was a Presidential candidate for the NUP and later on served as Minister in Kabbah's first Cabinet.
When the APFRC/RUF's unholy alliance (with Victor Foe, current APC Sec Gen, as key player)decided to wreck havoc on Mama Salone once again... as if the 11 year destruction was nothing, JAK, as he is fondly called by admirers, decided to go to the US, where he obtained another Postgraduate qualification in Public Finance Management from Havard.
On completion of his studies, he picked up a 2 year Senior Consultancy job with the World Bank's Institutional Reform Project and was posted to Sierra Leone. He later served as Commissioner General, NRA, for a few years, till Koroma's Demendification Pogrom kicked in in early 2008. His NRA tenure, yeilded (amongst others)- 200%+ increament in Government's Revenue base and he changed the NRA's recruitment process into a very transparent and accountable one, with qualifications, psychometric test results & interviews being the yardstick for candidate selection - much to the chagrin of his detractors.
He has since been doing several regional consultancies for major institutions (including NEPAD/APRM, UN and the World Bank)
Lets be honest, this man would have to make a conscious effort to be poor.
One cannot however say this about Ben Kanu and other key APC Ayampis, as all they ever earned and made was directly from Sierra leone's Treasury.
If you are not tribalistic, I think you should focus on people like Uncle Ben (Senior Ayampi)... but alas, the tribal lense completely blinds creeps like you.
Should you have any further clarification please feel free to demonstrate how strong your 'tribal lense' is... trust me, I am an optician.
Subject: Re: JOHN KARIMU VINDICATED
From: onaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 16:41:13 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Banker u jus gee John Karimu trouble. If you tink say the villa he built was
from his consultancies Anti curruption will put that theory to the test.
Further more you are a blind SLPP fibber. U well know say john nar big ayampi
but u ready for cam up wit stupid defences. Tejan-Cole will rip through these.
Consultancies my ASS!!!!!
Nar Francis Gabbidon don ling so. Johny will be sweating to night.
Subject: Re: JOHN KARIMU VINDICATED
From: Thomas MANNA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:47:55 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: thomas@hotmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Why can't you wait for a formal indictment from ACC. Do not jump the gun. John
Benjamin will be given an ample time to defend himself in a competent court of
Law if he was indicted. So please do not get over anxious.
Subject: Re: HOW MUCH MONEY DID JOHN KARIMU REALLY STEAL?
From: Man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 06:51:52 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: Man_pikin@yahoo.com
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Message:
God will surely pay them for embezzlement of public funds. They are wicked.
Subject: Re: HOW MUCH MONEY DID JOHN KARIMU REALLY STEAL?
From: Thomas Manna
To: All
Date Posted: 10:07:25 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: thomas@hotmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Why god, we have laws that deals with crimials, so let's apply it to retrive our
money. God has nothing to do with his thieving, John Karimu stole on earth not
in hell or heaven. He should face justice on earth.
Subject: Re: HOW MUCH MONEY DID JOHN KARIMU REALLY STEAL?
From: Lameh Gblah
To: All
Date Posted: 12:24:51 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Some of you people are talking about John Karimu as if he came from a very rich
family. I knew John, both of us went to the methodist Boy,s High school 6th from
and the FBC studying georgraphy and he later did some part time teaching at the
St Edwards Secondary. That man was a very poor man how come now he is filthy
rich? Its only Sierra leone people become rich by being a politician. Most
people knew that he was Kabbah's peggy boy that stole for him.Please let him
defend himself!!Let's us dont be fooled that by being educated you would be
rich, although it does happens but if that is the case DR Lahai Taylor would
have been a rich man or Dr Davidson Nicole would have, also. Let John be held
and let him give account of his stewardship. Please remember Governor Clarkson's
prayer would continue to hunt him!!!!
Subject: Mr Lameh Gblah, you are not that brilliant to earn $7000/mth
From: Charles F Margai
To: All
Date Posted: 12:57:55 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: charles.margai@yahoo.com
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Read the Banker's post. It will show you how to earn a decent living.
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I happen to know Dr John Karimu very well and thought it fit to put some of
these APC tribalists in their shells. He is a very brilliant (well educated),
honest and hardworking man.
He briefly lectured @ Njala University and picked up one of the most lucrative jobs in the country at the time (80s); Programme Director for GTZ/Bo-Pujehun Development Programme. As one of the first brilliant nationals hired as an expatriate, he was easily netting over $6000/month for over a decade.
After the brutal war, caused by APC's misrule and corruption, that forced the Programme to close, almost every Sierra Leonean who could afford it left the country. Given that Dr Karimu was highly qualified, he easily picked up a position in the Gambia, as Country Director for an International NGO, CARE. After a fews years in the Gambia he was called to serve in the NPRC Government as a Minister, which is why most APC loyalists hate him sooooooooooo much.
He was a Presidential candidate for the NUP and later on served as Minister
in Kabbah's first Cabinet.
When the APFRC/RUF's unholy alliance (with Victor Foe, current APC Sec Gen, as
key player)decided to wreck havoc on Mama Salone once again... as if the 11 year
destruction was nothing, JAK, as he is fondly called by admirers, decided to go
to the US, where he obtained another Postgraduate qualification in Public
Finance Management from Havard.
On completion of his studies, he picked up a 2 year Senior Consultancy job
with the World Bank's Institutional Reform Project and was posted to Sierra
Leone. He later served as Commissioner General, NRA, for a few years, till
Koroma's Demendification Pogrom kicked in in early 2008. His NRA tenure, yeilded
(amongst others)- 200%+ increament in Government's Revenue base and he changed
the NRA's recruitment process into a very transparent and accountable one, with
qualifications, psychometric test results & interviews being the yardstick
for candidate selection - much to the chagrin of his detractors.
He has since been doing several regional consultancies for major institutions
(including NEPAD/APRM, UN and the World Bank)
Lets be honest, this man would have to make a conscious effort to be poor.
One cannot however say this about Ben Kanu and other key APC Ayampis, as all
they ever earned and made was directly from Sierra leone's Treasury.
If you are not tribalistic, I think you should focus on people like Uncle Ben
(Senior Ayampi)... but alas, the tribal lense completely blinds creeps like you.
Should you have any further clarification please feel free to demonstrate how
strong your 'tribal lense' is... trust me, I am an optician.
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Lameh Gblah, what have you done for yourself?
Subject: Re: Mr Lameh Gblah, you are not that brilliant to earn $7000/mth
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 13:15:40 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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"He briefly lectured @ Njala University and picked up one of the most
lucrative jobs in the country at the time (80s); Programme Director for GTZ/Bo-Pujehun
Development Programme. As one of the first brilliant nationals hired as an
expatriate, he was easily netting over $6000/month for over a
decade".....Charles F. Margai.
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Mr. Margai that salary of $6000 a year simply meant that that your boy, John Karimu earned $72,000 a year (Are you sure that that is what he REALLY earned?). It would take him, at that salary, nearly 15 years to earn his first million. I am not even going to include taxes, the cost of living etc. The truth is that John Karimu benefited tremendously from the corrupt syndicate he and John Benjamin spawned at the Ministry of Finance and the National Revenue Authority that netted these two Gron Pigs tens of millions of dollars. Please stop justifying this corruption with all this razzle dazzle bunkum about academic brilliance and bureaucratic jobs that do not amount to a hill of beans!
Subject: Mr Lappa, what has Ben Kanu done in life?
From: Charles F Margai
To: All
Date Posted: 13:49:51 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: charles.margai@yahoo.com
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Now I know you are a very dishonest man Mr Lappa.
Please answer this: Where did APC's Ben Kanu work to afford amongst other properties, the multi-million dollar property that the WFP is renting in Tengbe Town and the 3 storey building on Charlotte Street?
The only qualifications this bloke has is - Born in Binkolo, 1947. Uncle Ben Kanu is barely literate by the way; has not had a proper job in his entire life... where did this ayampi get money from?
But a tribalist like you will avoid all those questions... nar Mende man nar you problem een? You are sick... a very sick tribalist. I am going to be your doctor from now on.
Subject: Charles F Margai is it Mwalaylaymia or what?
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:00:37 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Charles why calling people tribalists when they're simply talking about a Sierra
Leonean, John Karimu? Because he happened to be a Mende even if he commit
economic crime he should not be indicted and anyone who attempt to indict him
would be branded a tribalist by you. Charles False Margai, wake up and stop this
stupidity. You yourself are suffering today because these people cared less
about our country. No amount of foul crying will save who ever is guilty of
corruption.
Subject: Re: Mr Lappa, what has Ben Kanu done in life?
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 16:46:46 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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You really figured me out wrong Mr. Margai. I have the same abhorrence for Ben
Kanu as I do for your alagbas John Karimu and John Benjamin. I consider Ben Kanu
to be one of the nastiest economic criminals that ever disgraced the Sierra
Leonean political scene. He is a thief through and through and I hope he, one
day, is confined to a harsh jail, if he is not already dead. I really don't have
time for the economic criminals of all political stripes who have brought the
country to its knees; I only have contempt for those worms. I simply can't stand
the sanctimonious grandstanding of the SLPP 'wo dae witch bot dae make lek say
dae nor dae cham beef'. As for your vituperative charge that I am a tribalist,
go ahead with your bad self and knock yourself out. I am not into lazy charges.
If it gives you satisfaction and makes you feel good about yourself, hey, have
fun with it. Whatever floats your boat Boss.
Subject: Re: Mr Lappa, what has Ben Kanu done in life?
From: Lameh Gblah
To: All
Date Posted: 06:19:12 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Some of us are really deviating from the topic of been corrupt and corruption.
If you people wanted to know what I earn you would be surprised. I am an
economic consultant in the United Kingdom with a six figure sum in pounds
sterling per year, which is my honest labour and hard work. Let people be held
accountable and give account of their stewardship and let be patriotic. At any
one time people are been accused of been corrupt, the tribalist card always
comes up. WHY??? Please let us have some freedom to make our views known if not
some of these politicians would keep on stealing these moneys from donor
countries with impunity and thinking it’s their divine rights. Please,
educated or not been educated let’s give account!!! Whenever any of these
African leaders or politicians comes to office let them declare their assets and
they would be reviewed yearly. I knew John not in the 80's as some of you had I
knew him in the 70's and I knew what I am talking about. If I had been so
avaricious I would have followed his footsteps to Sierra Leone and be in that
company of thieves and lose my respect. The reason why some of these people keep
on doing this pilfering, is because they are not attached to any professional
body that would struck their names off their register, for bringing the
profession into disrepute.
Subject: Gblah is barely literate and lives in Council Flat in Pecham
From: The Real Consultant
To: All
Date Posted: 06:56:30 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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"I am an economic consultant in the United Kingdom with a six figure sum in
pounds sterling per year, which is my honest labour and hard work"
"Whenever any of these African leaders or politicians comes to office "
"...attached to any professional body that would struck their names off ..."
Mr Gblah stop exposing your rear in public. You are barely literate, can't write, and just a low life liar.
What is an economic consultant? Who will be stupid enough to pay you even 500 quid for misusing the Queen's language like above.
Have you paid you council rent and tax for this month? You cannot even pretend to be a consultant, let alone become one. You need to go back to school for a very loooooong period. Guessing your age, you would have retired before you finish. So please do not bother. Stick to the "care work" OK?
economic consultant my foot.
Subject: Re: Gblah is barely literate and lives in Council Flat in
Pecham
From: Lameh Gblah
To: All
Date Posted: 08:43:37 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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I have never lived in a council flat neither involved in any low paid jobs.
Please if you want to know where I live just give me your email address and
phone number I'LL pick you up anywhere you live in the UK and take you to see my
place. Most of you should be grateful to Foday Sancoh for allowing you to come
overseas as asylum seekers. You don’t know me neither do I.I rest my case
Subject: Re: Gblah is barely literate and lives in Council Flat in
Pecham
From: The Real Consultant
To: All
Date Posted: 08:54:31 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Of course I know you. You'll be surprised how much I know about you. Lie lie
consultant. Yu feel say nar all man dae turn consultant ehn? Yu nor sabi yu left
from you right dae lie say ehn nar conshultant.
Foolish man.
Subject: Re: Gblah is barely literate and lives in Council Flat in
Pecham
From: Lameh Gblah
To: All
Date Posted: 09:22:09 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c
Message:
Well if you knew all that about me lets meet anywhere in the UK or the USA if
you have no money I will send you an Air ticket no matter how expensive it would
beand let’s talk about money have . Or show me your Email address so that I
can show you how important I am in the British Society.
Subject: Re: Gblah is barely literate and lives in Council Flat in
Pecham
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:12:49 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Why do you allow yourself to be drawn into this low lifer? You don't have to
prove anything to him. The guy lambasting you is Jacob Kanu, he thrieves on this
forum by attacking people's intelligence, and using different cyber names if you
follow his posts keenly you will agree with me that he's one of the most
illeterate people here but he likes to think he knows something.
Why don't you give him the benefit of the doubt? This man is always jealous of other people's achievements.
Subject: Re: Gblah is barely literate and lives in Council Flat in
Pecham
From: Lameh Gblah
To: All
Date Posted: 09:21:23 07/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Well if you knew all that about lets meet anywhere in the UK or the USA if you
have no money I will send you an Air ticket no matter how expensive it would
beand let’s talk about money have . Or show me your Email address so that I
can show you how important I am in the British Society.
Subject: Lord Lameh Gblah, HBB, RWP
From: The Queen
To: All
Date Posted: 10:58:13 07/14/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Who's disturbing our undistinguished guest, Lord of the flies Lameh Gblah
HBB(Half-baked Bukman), RWP(Refugee withou Passport).
He used to be a toilet cleaner @ Buckingham Palace.
Subject: Foday Mansaray Is Now My Good Friend And Brother.
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 06:19:03 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: saidubangso@aol.com
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Members of this forum, It gives me the greatest pleasure to inform you that
Mr.Foday Mansaray(of Cocorioko and APC) is now my good friend. I thank God for
letting me meet Foday and a group of senior members of the APC-NA in Maryland
over the weekend. At that meeting Foday was kind enough to make his points and
allowed me to make mine, at the end of it, we amicably resolved our differences.
I now know that Foday Mansaray was ask to act as PRO because Ahmed Conteh( the
substantive holder) is in Freetown. Foday showed me his name tag with the words:
ACTING NATIONAL PRO.
From the bottom of my heart, I thank all those who reconciled FODAY and I and I
pray that this new found friendship and brotherhood would endure forever. AMINA.
This is a good example for others to copy, even when we have different political
affiliations we must respect each other and be friends/brothers because we are
ALL ONE PEOPLE FROM ONE COUNTRY .
Subject: Re: Foday Mansaray Is Now My Good Friend And Brother.
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 06:39:07 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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So welcome to the APC! Orman dayr kan party en borthi. Dayr, dayr, dayr siti
karmoo.
Subject: Re: Foday Mansaray Is Now My Good Friend And Brother.
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 06:32:54 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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God Bless, Brother Alpha Saidu Bangura. This is what mature politics is all
about. We can disagree over politics but still strive to see the humanity in
others. You and Foday are strong supporters of your different parties who have
blasted each other on the forum. If you can see it fit to reconcile, then there
is hope that at the end of the day, Sierra Leoneans will understand that our
hard-knuckles politics shouldn't prevent us from cooperating for the nation's
good. I personally attend functions and chill out with all my SLPP friends in
Maryland, even as I point out their party's wayward habits.
I doff my hat to you and Foday. Congrats.
Subject: Re: Foday Mansaray Is Now My Good Friend And Brother.
From: zakmal
To: All
Date Posted: 08:19:59 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: columbusw@gmail.com
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Alpha Saidu you've finally realized that in politics there is no permanent enemy
or permanent friend. As I've mentioned to you before it won't be too long for
you to also become freinds with the rest of them and eventually their
spokesman.Critize when it is necessary but give credit when it's due.
Subject: Re: Foday Mansaray Is Now My Good Friend And Brother.
From: OBSERVER
To: All
Date Posted: 09:24:49 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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How many innocent names died before your peace deal ? Just musing.
Subject: Is President Koroma really angry?
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 06:03:44 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
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President Koroma should not be angered by any publication dealing with political
hostilities in Sierra Leone. No doubts , the same crude political atmosphere has
not changed that much, more work has to be done to eradicate hooliganism ,thuggery
and indecent behavior .In many cases ruling parties are held responsible and the
leaders are blamed for indecent acts.The best solution , more positive action
should be taken by ruling governments so as to deal with the problem
effectively. In Sierra Leone some people not affiliated with political parties
do dirty things so as to cause confusion and disrupt peace.The rebel war is one
good example wherein , thieves, criminals and doers of dirty activities took
advantage of the situation and carried out their malicious acts.Please note that
your stance on the Zimb. issue did not go down well with some people in Zimb.
and note that you are not the only president blasted .What would you say about
the bad remarks made against some presidents before the sumit conf.? Take it
easy PRESIDENT BAI KOROMA.
Subject: Re: Is President Koroma really angry?
From: Jacob Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 07:19:30 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: jacob.kanu@yahoo.com
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Why should our President be angry? The ambush of the NEC official was reported
by the victims themselves for the whole world to know.
Bai bai is just showing lacklustre leadership. Instead of curbing the ostensible violence we are witnessing in Sa Lone, he is busy pointing fingers at others. Mugabe and Kibaki have presided over very dodgy and violent elections. The projections for Koroma (who has only ruled for 10 months) is going to make Kenya and Zimbabwe look like picnics, for in both cases, the constitutional instrument (the Electoral Commission)was never attacked.
He should grow up, start taking decisions and not preventing police officers arresting the trouble makers (APC Task Force Boys).
I am sure decent APC supporters are embarassed at that savage attack on NEC
officials. I would love to hear Fen Plaba's take on this sad chapter in African
Politics - Ambushing Election Officers.
Subject: Re: Is President Koroma really angry?
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 07:38:12 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Thank you Brother Kanu. My position on election violence has always been clear.
Those who practice violence in elections or in the attainment of whatever goals
need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I don't care whether it is
APC or SLPP. It is disgraceful for any party to attack or harass elections
officials and I am hoping that the government takes an uncompromising stand on
this. This is a non-partisan issue and any one who defends this nonsense ought
to have their head examined. I will direct more of my wrath at this uncouth
behavior after church. We deserve clean, violence-free politics in Salone!
Subject: Re: Is President Koroma really angry?
From: no to so
To: All
Date Posted: 12:01:01 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
From my little understandin of a typcal SLPPian am begining to feel like they
ochestrated the attack on NEC officials so as to score poltical point. Why is
that whenever APC is in power the southeast always result into violece? then
they want to blame it on the govenment, but when SLPP is in power the North and
West is always peaceful and supportive to the government of the day. Let me
remind you guys that these SLPP fellas will do anything for power, these types
of bad behavior is suciadal for them as a party. The public is really getting to
understand what they stand for (IF WE NOR RULE LET WE POIL, EVENTHOUGH WE NOR
COMPETENT)
Subject: No to so for sell yu contri
From: Abass Sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 15:27:11 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
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Some of you brainless kids belong only in one place - $%@%.
Can you kindly call your folks now and again and hear from them. The NEC official was attacked, pure and simple.
Is it right or wrong to attck electoral officers?
Subject: Re: Is President Koroma really angry?
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 09:32:06 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Bro Fen Plaba, Don't allow yourself to be manipulated by these unscropulous guys
who're busy propagating unfounded stories about this government in order to
receive sympathy, they've partly succeeded in luring you into believing their
propanda. Don't get me wrong bro, I share the same believe against violence but
the SLPP concocted story of NEC ambush is simply false, I've contacted my in-law
who happens to work for NEC and he told me nothing like that has come to their
attention. For goodness sake, bro, can't you see that these people are even
posing as Zimbabweans? sending inflamatory e-mails to their mouthpiece.
Cocorioko is widely read all over the world especially in Africa, but why have
this medium not received any of those e-mails? they were sent specifically to
the AWTimes. Doesn't it raised suspicion if it were the SLPP who were allegedly
condemned by foreigners through Cocorioko.
Subject: Re: Is President Koroma really angry?
From: Pastor Conteh (Brookfields)
To: All
Date Posted: 10:08:49 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
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Message:
Eddy, if nar true you dae tok leh God Bless you. But if you are deliberately
defending reckless violence on NEC officials, then Mama Salone ihn hakeh go meet
you surely.
Subject: Re: Is President Koroma really angry?
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 10:37:38 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Thank you Pastor, I will be blessed because that is the honest truth.
I would like these SLPP supporters to bring a credible story against this governmnet and see for yourself what my reaction will be. I believe in national development regardless who bring that development. What I will not allow is people making stories that are not true just to make others look bad.
Like the following short story,
When a man is well know for his 'kalowkalow' even if he's in danger and desperately need help nobody will believe him because he's well known for his jokes.
In relation to the government and the SLPP, if the SLPP is well known for concocting bogus stories against the government, the next time they're saying the truth, nobody will believe them.
Subject: Re: Is President Koroma really angry?
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 11:19:50 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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Brother Eddie, I would like to congratulate you for standing up like a giant to
these SLPP partisans, with resilient courage. You are an inspiration to me. I
know that you are a true patriot who seeks justice and hates the politics of
divisionism and tribalism as practiced by some SLPP Kakatowas.
The so-called ambush that so many of our SLPP friends have been exercised about could easily have been engineered and doctored by SLPP's propaganda HQ. What some of the lazy 'journalists' may have ignored is the possibility that the 'APC' thugs could easily have been SLPP hoodlums posing as APC supporters to discredit the president. John Karimu and John Benjamin pulled that same stunt in Segbwema in order to thwart Ernest Koroma from campaigning in Kailahun, didn't they? Pamtik neba hide ihn banga!
Subject: Re: Is President Koroma really angry?
From: Jacob Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 07:41:43 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: jacob.kanu@yahoo.com
Entered From:
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God bless my brother.
Have a nice Sunday.
Subject: Re: Is President Koroma really angry?
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 08:02:22 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
I can't believe that the once-mighty Fen Plaba has lost his 'liba' in speaking
truth to power, and is now agreeing with SLPP propagandist Gorbois like you. The
truth is that whatever 'violence' fiction your party has been screaming about
was preponderantly unleashed by SLPP in the east and south. There is absolutely
no evidence that the APC engaged in any dastardly conduct that was inimical to
free and fair elections. I challenge you and Fen Plaba to produce verifiable
(not propagandist) proof that APC was culpable in this fiction of your own hot
imagination.
The truth is that your morally bankrupt SLPP is the most violent party in the
history of Sierra Leone. It needs to extend its appeal to other regions or risk
becoming a marginal, parochial player in the affairs of the country. A truly
national SLPP will be good for Sierra Leone's democracy. That should be your
focus, not the other way round. Wake up Jacob!
And Oh, by the way I have been noticing your sexist glee in mockingly calling our president, Agnes. Keep on joking my dear man. You should know by now that some woman dem pass man!
Subject: Uman Lappa vs Agnes....which is more sexist? Be Honest
From: Jacob Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 08:35:09 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: jacob.kanu@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Frankly I wanted to just ignore you as you sound very contradictory (see title
of this thread and read your hollow accusations of sexism again).
Here is evidence of APC violence on NEC:
The NEC official who reported this incidence is called Philip Kargbo,he is the Electoral Office Kenema District. He unequivocally states "we were ambushed - RUF style, molested and election materials confiscated and burnt by APC thugs"
He has since been interviewed by several reporters in SL. Please call any reputable contact in SL and get confirmation of this unfortunate attack.
Just out of curiosity, if you confirm beyond reasonable doubt that this crime was perpetuated against NEC officials, what would you say against such crimes?
Believe me Mr Lappa (by the way which one is your first name.. Lappa or Uman), if SLPP commits such dastardly act, I will totally condemn it. I think you should do be the man you claim to be and do the same.
p/s
Mr Lappa, please do not use the lame excuse that it could have been SLPP
supporters...because SLPP won by a landslide in the wards affected by the ambush
- Constituency 9 Kenema District, and cannot therefore reasonably prevent their
lanslide victory from been announced.
Try another lame excuse. And I anxiously await you to expose your rear in public again.
Subject: Re: Uman Lappa vs Agnes....which is more sexist? Be Honest
From: alpha
To: All
Date Posted: 16:46:07 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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bra we dae learn every day from apc.
2012 wae apc supporter ambush nec official en burn makeni court barry ballot box, nobody nor go grumble nar dog eat dog.
wae apc supporter stone apc rally nar kono en make dem frade for vote , nar dog eat dog e go lef buff.
wae apc candidate withdraw from contest becos of apc thugery. nar so e golef becos nar so wesef go tell dem en eddie en uman lapa go bato we lek aw dem tok am nar ya normo.broda jacob nor art you aid pa.
sokobana dem go begin vandalize apc office jisnor lek aw karmajor dem dae loot slpp office acha lef sidom korlay.
una blow ya!!! pprc en nec dae tell we say we dae sleep. but we go sabi jisnor udat stupid e nor dae far.
The destiny of the nation lies fairly and squarely in your arms.and the path which we traverse as a nation henceforth depends on the decisions that you have, are or will take on political issues.
leh we hope say di more mature wan dem go realize quick en reduce dis thuggery pa.but if dem nor able well necessity is the mother of invention.
There is no great price to pay for the defence of freedom and democracy and bilahi, when the hour is nigh, expect resistance to all attempts to set our nation back to the dark alleys of a tyrannical regime.
Una don ge power, we congratulate una en gi una wit kol art unda serious controversy .danday nor kol yet den una wan sen san san pan we gari again wit thugery? Ay bo leh we dea go normo small small ba if e go born fine pekin.
"Tom nyuma deserves to be killed" una go kill am nor, look am dae yandar.
NONSENSE!!!
To summarize, YOU ARE SETTING A DANGEROUS PRECEDENCE OK
nobody wants the above.and the sooner you realize the consequences the better!!!
Subject: Re: Uman Lappa vs Agnes....which is more sexist? Be Honest
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 08:53:07 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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Message:
Jacob Kanu, unless there are other witnesses to the 'ambush', I will not willy
nilly accept the word of Phillip Kargbo the electoral officer. How is he
granitically cretain that it was the APC that ambushed him? Why the rush to
judgment? Any SLPP squad could have put on red Tafti or scrawled APC on their
heads and attacked Mr Kargbo's vehicle. These dirty tricks have been known to be
perpetrated by political parties in the country to score points against their
opponents. I want an independent investigation of the crime instead of the
biased moronic rush to judgment by some SLPP partisans and newspapers. I really
want to have an intellectual discussion with you instead of the usual personal
insults that I am sure we are all seasoned in. If you agree to go in the ring
and match me blow for blow, in the arena of ideas, instead oh lobbing crude
personal insults at each other, we could have a really fruitful dialogue, even
as we continue to eviscerate our respective parties' positions.
Meanwhile, understand that your SLPP party is really the worst political party
in the history of Sierra Leone. For real Pa Kanu!
Subject: To Tendai the Ignorant..are you the relative of
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 00:59:10 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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General Tendai Chenderai who was in charge of torture? Was he the one that lady
said 'clutched' a hundred cigarettes on her bum disfiguring her for life? Or is
the Genreal your dad or yourself that battered Tchengy on Mugabe's say so?
I personally do not believe that you come from Zim because you will not stand up
for that sorry ass Mugabe. But rather you are a stupid ass myopic SLPPer penning
under the guise of a zim.
We on this forum chew people like you and any stupid Slpper for breakfast. Not
in a blind support for the APC but where we see right we will say so. We have
put down folks like Jalloh, A.Sesay, Johnny etc. So beware who you take on in
the forum.
Mugabe will push his people to the wall. When that time comes all hell will
break loose!
Subject: YOU SEE THE BACKWARDNESS OF SLPP?.....
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 23:05:13 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
For his part, Jacob Jusu Saffa, Secretary General of the SLPP also spoke to
Awareness Times last night and he confirmed that "credible rumours have
been circulating around that the President is intending to include some of our
former SLPP Ministers in his cabinet but as a party, the SLPP will totally
refuse that kind of offer and infact, we will consider those SLPP members that
will take up such positions as traitors," JJ Saffa insisted. He also said
that it seems as if the APC is lacking of quality human resource to run
Koroma’s government therefore they now want to use the expertise of the SLPP
but according to Saffa, it was "too late now".
"If the APC knew it did not have qualified and capable personnel to run
Sierra Leone when they came to power, they should have asked the SLPP initially;
not now when they have spoilt the country," Saffa opined.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For all those SLPP partisans who had been grumbling that President Koroma's
cabinet was made up exclusively of "Northerners", JJ Saffa's
lobotomized "off beat" should make them check their clocks again. We
have finally met the real enemies of progress, integration and nationhood in our
beloved Sierra Leone. It is the SLPP! They would brand any SLPPer who served
their nation, in the APC government, a TRAITOR! Now that is a whopper, even by
SLPP standards. This narrow-minded and dim-witted party that has presided over
some of the most turbulent and harrowing chapters of Sierra Leone's history
would rather the country went to hell with gasoline trousers than have SLPP
talent work for the country, through the APC government. I bet you the initial
dearth of Eastern-sounding names in the initial government was largely due to
the resistance of SLPP to cooperate in an all-inclusive government.
So JJ Saffa, please tell us: Is party now above country? Wuse kine sweh mortal
man you be so ba?
Subject: Re: YOU SEE THE BACKWARDNESS OF SLPP?.....
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 00:36:27 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
He thinks the way a typical hardcore retrogressive and conceitedly arrogant
mende hick thinks! Please don't brand me a tribalist but I tell you a Krio or
Limba or Kono or Temne or Korankoh or Lokko or Fulah or even a Kru in his place
would not have been so caustic and naive.
If it is true that the SLPP are so intellectually bankrupt and think JJ Blood is
a rarity and so have placed all dependence on this guy then the they will remain
in the political back seat for umpteen years.It is about time the SLPP give this
guy a free-kick and replace him with a more matured and sober-minded person like
John Mannah even though he is a taxi-driver in the states.
Subject: Re: YOU SEE THE BACKWARDNESS OF SLPP?.....
From: Tamba Moiwo
To: All
Date Posted: 04:20:13 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moiwo@hotmail.co.uk
Entered From:
Message:
Smart Cavalier,the only thing that stands is CAVALIER but smart you aint.So do
you want a one party state or what?If the people of Sierra Leone wanted such
arrangements where the sitting govt will pick from opposition,they would have
elected to have a govt of national unity--thats not the case--so why shoud SLPP
be roped into APC bizness?Bo go lap.
Subject: Re: YOU SEE THE BACKWARDNESS OF SLPP?.....
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 06:48:04 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Paddy getting an opposition member to fill in a cabinet position is nothing new
in politics.You guys have been crying about northernisation and one-partyism now
that the prezo wants to demonstrate that he is not what you guys think you are
saying something else.What kind of people are you? Why are you so freaking
fastidious and intractable? Now EBK has pushed you to one of the tightest
corners in the world.Let us see how gonna free yourselves.
Subject: Re: YOU SEE THE BACKWARDNESS OF SLPP?.....
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 01:04:22 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
I thought JJ and the guy who built a house over samba gutter(I forget him name)
were blamed by Berewa for carrying out a poor election campaign. And SLPP still
have them in executive positions? 2012 ad 2017 will be walk overs!
Subject: Mr Bride (EBK) should change his ways
From: Jacob Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 06:47:42 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: jacob.kanu@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
I think this weak incompetent fella (EBK) should resign and go back to selling
insurance. Sierra Leone is never going back to a one party state. If the
President wants help, I am sure there are a lot of SLPP technocrats he can call
on to serve in non-political posts. As he has the habit of licking his own
puke...(demonstrated in the Unity Radio saga), he should have no problems
calling back technocrats, he had sacked,purely on tribal grounds. As the adage
goes... "the chickens always come home to roost".
Mr Uman Lappa (APC Krakratoa) and the Dull Cadaver, can you imprint this in your juvenile brains: that Ministerial posts are political appointments. Even in the US or UK, you'll hardly find Democrats serving as Cabinet Ministers in a Replubican Government or a Tory serving in a Labour Government, or vise versa. Thats not how democracy works. SLPP technocrats can however serve in non-political appointments, that are properly advertised and transparently recruited for. JJ knows all this, and you "small small juveniles" don't. Agnes's problem today dates back to his "demendification policy"- massive sacking of technocrats (purely on tribal grounds) during his first few months. Now you have Osai Owai taxi drivers from the US and UK, who have no experience in running state business, masquerading as Program Managers, Directors and Coordinators. But then again, even the Vice President is a Truck Driver.
Is Agnes looking for scapegoats for his already failing Government? I thought SLPP Ministers were inept (according to voucher-gate theives like Victor Foe), why even dream of their services.
That said, I want you small fries (Uman lappa & Dull Cadaver) to understand that the President's underperformance so far is not only due to the high proportion of incompetent Ministers he has. Those who were advocating for him to sack anyone with a non-Northern name and replace them with unqualified Kargbos, Koromas, Banguras et al, simply because "nar we tem dis" are to be blamed. There are a lot of qualified and decent APC folks (just from sampling this forum - the Fen Ps, the Mensas, The Kabs Ks,etc); Mr Bride however ignored all these, and chose to focus on barely literate ones like Leather Boot. How on earth will his Government succeed?
National unity should not be only thought of when you are in distress (underperformance related). A smart leader thinks about this from the onset, and must be ALWAYS committed to it - its not a quick fix alternative ... iron it out for me and I'll sack you later. Mr Bride (EBK) must therefore genuinely check his house again before reaching out to citizens nationwide and conducting transparent recruitment based on merits alone.
Have a very nice day.
Subject: Re: Mr Bride (EBK) should change his ways
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 06:58:03 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
And what about the case of Madeleine Albright a Rep who served as Foreign Sec.
during the Clinton regime?
Man go and do some research before posting bullcrap!
On the flip side it seems you are now taking some crash courses in writing.You are gradually improving.Keep it up and be serious as this write-up.
Subject: Dull Cadaver, check the meaning of "hardly"
From: Jacob Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 07:30:48 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: jacob.kanu@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
You really are a clown, Cadaver and have no qualms about exposing you ignorant
rear in public.
Read the post again and check a dictionary for the definition of "hardly".
And hey stop using my punches... its plagiarism... unless of course you want to start quoting me. Remember one of my pasttimes is to tame you and the other violent APC hooligans in this Forum.
Subject: Seems Eddie Grant is doing well as your lecturer!
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 07:46:08 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
"Read the post again and check a dictionary for the definition of
"hardly"."
You bump head my point is you should not have even made such ridiculous
references irrespective of the operative word you are trying to make a big deal
out of.You should tell Eddie to learn you about the basics of making points.You
have made a celebrated caricature
of yourself by making such statement. You need to do more reading before I start
whipping your slim shady butt again.
Subject: Jeez, Cadaver...Eddy G is violently iliterate!
From: Jacob Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 08:04:53 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: jacob.kanu@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
"You should tell Eddie to learn you about the basics of making
points." Dull Cadaver
Dull Cadaver, I will be very generous and politely ask you to correct your above
statement.
If you are however trying to mock Eddy Boy's pen/keyboard... then thats entirely
up to you. I will not intervene in such internal matters. I have been motivating
Man Eddy to slowly improve his basics and I do not see why I cannot mentor you
as well - its called Distant Learning. Eddy came from very humble 'grammatical
begginings' and look at where he is today - not bad eeh?
Hint about puzzle above: Not to Krio yu dae write.
Good Luck!
Subject: Re: Jeez, Cadaver...Eddy G is violently iliterate!
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 08:55:02 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
I know how to make a Joagbai like you tick! I have intentionally used
"learn" instead of "teach" because I believe that is the
best way to make you understand which is common in the south-east.So you think I
have given you ammunition to attack me? Not so easy dakay.Think again!My duty is
to make you learn from me. Very soon, wielding a long 'koboko', I will assemble
the likes of you at Kenema 'show field'to help you derive some benefits of basic
interaction.
Anyway supply the missing word:'Hint about puzzle above'(Jacobo Kanuee)
Subject: Re: Dull Cadaver, check the meaning of "hardly"
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 07:44:57 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Jacob Kanu, your one-track abhorrence of everything APC is really abhorrent and
sick. You and the other SLPP Gorbois make up these fictions about the APC and
then you believe it. This is insane! The most violent mafia in Salone which
would be the ruination of Sierra Leone if we do not stop them, or make them
change their policies, is SLPP. And talking about ignorant backsides, Sam leh we
blow ya!
Subject: ABDULIA CONTEH TO BE THE NEXT FOREIGN MINISTER?
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 23:01:05 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Rumor has it that Ernest Bai Koroma is totally fed up with the performance of
the current Foreign Minister and he is seriously thinking of replacing her with
Abdulia Conteh in the pending cabinet reshuffle.
How credible is this story?
Sources close to State House suggests that Conteh has people lobbying on his
behalf to assuage for the post of head of the AU that he has lost for the second
time.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: ABDULIA CONTEH TO BE THE NEXT FOREIGN MINISTER?
From: Alpha Saidu Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 02:51:32 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: saidubangso@aol.com
Entered From:
Message:
I hope that rumor is not true. Mrs. Zainab Bangura is must suitable for the
position of foreign minister. Dr. Abdulai Conteh has out lived his usefulness.
He was a part of the failed Stevens and Momoh era.
He had been giving his chance and had failed to make a difference. There is
never a second chance to make a first impression.
Subject: Re: ABDULIA CONTEH TO BE THE NEXT FOREIGN MINISTER?
From: Man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 05:22:45 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Alpha Saidu, did you say Zainab Bangura is suitable for the position of foreign
minister? Are you dreaming? She should be sent to the ministry of gender and
children affairs. I believe Prezo EBK made a big mistake by appointing her as
foreign minister.
Subject: SIERRA LEONE NURSES ASSOCIATION INC OF CALIFORNIA FUND-RAISI
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:36:29 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
The Sierra Leone Nurses Association INC of California will be staging their
fund-raising dance on Saturday August 16, 2008 at 1159 W. El Segundo Boulevard ,
Gardena , CA , from 9pm to 4 am.
__________________________________________________________
Read bellow:
Subject: dOES THIS MEAN THERE IS MORE FREEDOM OF SPEECH NOW?
From: Freedom of Speech
To: All
Date Posted: 22:35:36 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
With all these newspapers, is it fair to say that Sierra Leonean enjoy more
freedom of speech under the SLPP THAN THE APC?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Independent Observer
Democrat
The Post
Justice Newspaper
For di People
Advocate
Wisdom
Policy
Youth Forum
Concord Times
New Vision
We Yone
Independent Voice
4 Real Fashion Magazine
Herald Guardian
Angel Newspaper
Salone Times
Loot Magazine
Rural Network
Spectator
African Standard
The Exclusive
Upline News
Christian Mirror
The Independent
Kalleone Sports Entertainment
Global Sovereignty
The Pool Newspaper
Tourist Newspaper
Cocorioko
Awareness Times
Etc.
Subject: APC is threatening to close some of these papers
From: Charles F Margai
To: All
Date Posted: 06:59:43 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: charles.margai@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
The backward APC regime is fighting with most of the papers perceived as
"anti-government". These clowns just do not have the stomach for
democracy and free press.
Dae borbor dem the cam begin sing jis nor, and I am sure these violent Party will start targeting them. But we will see them in court, if they try.
Subject: Re: APC is threatening to close some of these papers
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 15:48:48 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
Please try once in your life to be objective with your ranting. Do you think you
can take intelligent people on this forum to believe this kind of things? don't
you think as old as you are, you making mockery of yourself?.
Subject: Re: APC is threatening to close some of these papers
From: Freedom of Speech
To: All
Date Posted: 08:26:50 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
"Dae borbor dem the cam begin sing jis nor, and I am sure these violent
Party will start targeting them. But we will see them in court, if they
try."
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_VERY REASSURING!
Subject: For Mr. Tendai M Movunzu (Chenjerai)
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:29:42 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
Mr. Tendai M Movunzu (Chenjerai,) I am sorry to post a belated response to your
post in reply to: posted by Ronaldino on July 12, 2008 at 10:18:20, re:
“Ambushing Election staff is depicable,. Period!,” where you cited certain
issues that I feel the need to highlight and clarify and, if indeed, you are
posting in the interest of the progress of the nation, you engage me in a
fraternal discuss so that we shed light on the truth, with honesty and
integrity, and we both go about our business refreshed and determined to put the
interest of Sierra Leone first, in order for her to grow in the manner we all
wish to see her grow. In order words, I am extending a challenge to you with
regards to this very subject so that we discuss it fairly and with civility to
understand matters better.
Let me start by saying that we have nothing to be ashamed of but be proud that
we can change positively as our government and people have indicated in the 2007
general elections that went smoothly thereby, allowing the government and the
people of Sierra Leone to move in the right direction.
In the first place Sir, I do not believe you have a grip on the two situations
about which you are making comparison. Though President Robert Mugabe and
President Earnest Bai Koroma both received the baton of leadership with great
expectations from their peoples yet, it is a little wonder that you have not
come to grips with the fact that the situations and circumstances, if you will,
are far different.
Let us start with the demographics and or the history of the political
situations under or from which the two Presidents were elected. President Robert
Mugabe came to power in 1980 after Apartheid was “vanquished” in Zimbabwe.
President Koroma on the other hand, was dully elected in an election that the
International body praised as one of the most peaceful and transparent elections
in Africa, in late 2007. However, he came to power after an eleven-year civil
war had ravaged Sierra Leone, raping her of about one-hundred forty-seven
thousand of her citizens, about ten thousand people were amputated, another
twenty and more thousands displaced. Her economy, though received boosting from
the International Community yet, not much is shown for such assistances during
the time he ascended the throne, as per media reports. Most importantly, Mr.
Mugabe’s length of service in office is about twenty-eight years. Mr. Koroma
has not even served a complete one year in office yet. I do not believe, and as
I have said time again, that leaders do not go to magic schools before they come
to power. Though we might have higher expectations of them, we must be mindful
that handling the country’s affairs is a process and processes do take time
and some do even encounter stumbling blocks especially in African politics. So
it takes a leveled-headed leader to unwind the many entanglements before even
starting to lead. Therefore, though we must have criticisms, we have to ensure
that we are conscientious of such criticisms so as to make them objective rather
than subjective because this is what we are trained to do in our educational
pursuit: to look at things from an objective perspective rather than a
subjective one. Regretably Sir, I am of the impression that you have fallen pray
to the latter because you have been subdued in paying little or no attention to
time by ignoringt the differences in the electoral process.
You may by now know, Mr. Tendai M Chenjerai, the adverse effects of subjectivity
on an individual. It hampers one’s ability to see ahead because it embroils
such a person in negativism, shallow thinking and backward. When such euphoria
is prevalent and immaculate in a an individual, a nation, it leads to
destruction of such a nation’s social fabric and destruction of her
socio-economic standpoint.
Mr. Chenjerai, you went on to say: “our mediocre president flies to every
insignificant meeting in the world, leaving behind an unaffordable carbon
footprint and a battered economy.”
Sir, your quagma implies that you are neither a friend of President Mugabe nor
President Koroma nor anything African. Nonetheless, let me move on to address it
any way. It is official that our President is serving his Presidential duties,
holding bilateral talks and negotiating on behalf of Sierra Leone to resolve the
problems that you are not familiar with or honestly interested in. Oil crisis is
a global issue and if you have been watching American, the European Union and
global issues in general, you would notice that prices of essential commodities
have sky-racketed in all nations of the world, making some countries’
Economists, American Economists for instance, to wonder if the nation is not
under recession- heading for depression. Price of milk is almost twice the price
it was when I first came to America in 1991.
President George W. Bush was recently in Japan and Saudi Arabia, where he met
with some members of OPEC to showcase the oil crisis and what such a situation
will mean for America and the world.
Therefore, the problem is not unique to Sierra Leone and President Koroma is not
languishing his time to seek pleasure but help with the nation’s problems.
The following is what should be important to you. It is what impacts our lives
that we should know and pay keen attention to rather than engage in frivolous
propaganda. Sensibly, we should be engaged in trying to ponder how it can be
solved rather than throw blames helter-skelter or engage in malicious
propaganda.
Let me refer you to what I am talking about: something that must concern us,
that we must be engaged in discussing to find a solution rather than the
political prostitution and political vulturine that we are so embarked on.
According to the Awoko Newspaper 07/11/08 release, the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) Resident Representative Alvin Hilaire at a recently held news
conference, at the Finance Ministry stated that “The situation in Sierra Leone
is serious, the country faces a number of social and economic difficulties,”
“although you have growth of about 6.9% over the last three years Sierra Leone
still ranked unfortunately at the bottom of the human development index 177.”
He went on to say that “Sierra Leone and the IMF, have enjoyed a really long
lasting engagement. That Sierra Leone became a member of the fund in 1962, and
has had a lot of financial arrangement with us. In the last decade alone there
was five such arrangements- three from countries that are emerging from conflict
and two Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) to all the low income
members of the fund,”
Therefore, to those who dated Sierra Leone’s borrowing from the IMF to Siaka
Stevens 1980 O.A.U. Summit should stand corrected by this fact. But as I am not
one who belabors on what happened in the past without using it to correct the
situation for a better future, I would just implore you and the named Sierra
Leoneans to see the corrective needs and embark on national rebuilding, knowing
that our problems have a history that most of us are unaware of.
In which case, I implore you to challenge me on these facts or enjoy reading and
stop making derogative comparisons when you can not help neither of the
countries. Help and then complain latter. If Sierra Leone or Zimbabwe is to ask
what help you have honestly rendered in salvaging their problems what would you
proudly say you did besides the many unnecessary grumbles and put down
syndromes? Sir, make efforts and then complain latter. By so doing no serious
individual will blame you.
I await your response.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Tendai M Movunzu (Chenjerai)
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 01:10:38 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Tendai is just a stupid attortor zim who takes 19 billion to buy a loaf of bread
and sees nothing wrong in that. Or he could be a Blind SLPper who in 11 years
could not provide a drop of light or built schools that have no chairs, desks,
teachers or books.
Subject: For Sierra Leoneans and non-Sierra Leoneans, please read
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
To: All
Date Posted: 22:27:21 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
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Subject: ABDULIA CONTEH'S DRAMATIC CLOSING ARGUMENT.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 22:13:45 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
At the invented treason trial of Francis Minah and others,Abdulia Conteh made
this dramatic argument at the closing phase of it.
Pointing to Francis Minah in the dock,he remarked:
"THE LUCIFER WHO BETRAYED THE TRUST AND CONFIDENCE OF THE PEOPLE".
It is now safe to opine that while Minah was the "Lucifer",He Conteh
has emerged as the Hitler that sent innocent citizens to the gas chamber on
fales charges.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: ABDULIA CONTEH'S DRAMATIC CLOSING ARGUMENT.
From: Bengazi
To: All
Date Posted: 02:18:09 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Well, Mr. Kutubu, you appear to be craving for a one-on-one confrontation with
Dr. Abdulai Conteh. I could be in position to invite him to come defend himself
in this forum. Would you be prepared to put up a formadable challenge?
I've already consulted with some active members in this forum and they generally believe that Dr. abdulai Conteh will simply crush you, or 'blow you away' (to quote some of them). Are you sure you'll be strong enough to resist the storm once it starts blowing in earnest?
It's apparent, from your postings that you are also a matured and credible lawyer, so to speak. But as we say in our local adage: "Lawyer pass lawyer"! Dr. Abdulai Conteh is a brilliant and internationally acclaimed lawyer. Don't you think you're fighting against the odds?
Gimme a tip, and I'll get the predator lawyer to reply to your postings!
Subject: Re: ABDULIA CONTEH'S DRAMATIC CLOSING ARGUMENT.
From: yankuba kai-samba
To: All
Date Posted: 06:13:43 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: y020855@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From:
Message:
Mr Bengazi
It is not the brilliance of either Abdulia Conteh or Mohammed Kutubu that will determine the public perception or the merit of their respective positions on the conduct and performace of Abdula Conteh.
Be rest assured that there are more brilliant ordinary men and women who will pick out the truth and any misconduct by Abudulai Conteh committed during his service to Sierra Leone.
In fact there are more brilliant people with no Phds or did not think it is a determinant factor in brilliance, since they have natural brilliance.
To me, you do not even need to hold a degree in law to know the Law of your land. Do you not know, for instance, that taking a property that belonged to someone without conscent is theft. Do you not also know that lying in court under oath is perjury? Do you not know that a man has no right to have sex with his wife or partner without her consent and non observance of this law is rape in British law?
So all these banging-on about Conteh's brilliance is neither a defence nor impressive. Kutubu is talking about integrity. This is the subject of discussion which, places the issues of brilliance in to irrelevance. If Conteh ever attempt to wriggle his way out of the alleged misconduct on his part during his APC days, he will be confronted with superior think thank. I am sure he will be mindfull of this.
Let me give you an interesting example that recently occured in the UK just to show how ordinary people can be smarter than those we thought they are brilliant.
The British parliament had passed a law barring protesters occupying the front of a notorous place near No 10 dowing Street. A man who could barely feed himself had already been in occupation of the place and protesting about the war in Iraq from day one.
When it was put to him that parliament had enacted a law which could lead to his eviction, he replied that the law did not apply to him because he was already there and that the law failed to take account of his position.
He was right. The man had followed the parliamentary debates on radio and read the provisions of the law, even though he was not a lawyer. He noted that the law could not affect him because it was not retrospective and that the law clearly did not addressed the specific proplem he was causing the police in terms of the longevity of his occupation.
In fact he was a lone protester who had occupied the area since the Iraq war started. When the police threatened to evict him, to test the new law on him, the protester challenged the law in high court. There were legal arguments on both the govt side and the man. The presiding judge stated that the police had no right to evict the occupant and that the govt has to re-drift the law in order to effect eviction. In its current form, the judged declined to grant eviction.
As I write, the guy is still there with his beddings and utensils for cooking. Do you see the point am making? that people who studied and acquired higher degrees are not necessarily briliant than the functionally literate. Do you remember the 99.9% of APC tactics of winning the election during Sia Stevens days? Who was the brain behind it? It was S I Koroma who was Abdulai Conteh's boss. Here in UK a vagrant took on the whole law making body and defeated them in their own Law.
Personally, I do not consider anybody brilliant when that person compromised his intellectual discipline with dictats from virtual functional literates to create the sort of country we have in Sierra Leone today. Can Abdulia Conteh seriously defend himself against that?
I have read some of Kutubu's articles on Conteh and I think it has been enlightening. The gravest crime anyone can commit is to send a man to a gallow when you have even the slightest doubt about his guilt. This is the single most argument against capital punishment in civilised nation like UK.
I am waiting to here from Abdulia Conteh and his response to Kutubu's statements.
Abdulai Conteh need to be careful what he come up with vis a vis his role in the apparent political murder of Minah.
We may force a thorough investigation in to the killings of Fornah and Targi as well. These people were the true emerging northern leaders. They were urbane and highly educated. We may probably have seen a different Sierra Leone, far better than that created by Abdulai Conteh and co if they were not killed.
Subject: Re: ABDULIA CONTEH'S DRAMATIC CLOSING ARGUMENT.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 06:40:56 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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Brother,let me start by thanking you very sincerely from the very deep roots of
my humble being.I was about to fire a salvo at this fellow who is so myopic and
intellectually confused that he is incapable of distinguishing the issues on
hand against Conteh's claim to intellectual sustenance.
The facts here has nothing to do with how educated he is,but all to do with his
conduct in office especially the two treason trials he spearheaded.Mr.Marrah has
just made explosive allegation that said Conteh himself made suggestions that
the case against "Fornah and 14 others are a farce".What his
supporters should be doing instead of wasting precious time talking about his
monopolistic "education",he should be urged to address such issue with
despatch and accuracy.If Conteh's so called education was that meaningful,he
would never have served under Stevens let alone Momoh.While at Cambridge,he
befriended David Owen who later became Foreign Secretary in the Callahan
government.He should have exploited that and perhaps got to be head of the
Commonwealth.He decided to be part of the cabal and he should also accept mea
culpa for the chaos and disorder that was visited upon the nation under his
watch.Conteh is very aware of the fact that tere are guys out there like that
fellow who have no confidence in their own level of education that they get
carried away just by mentioning the name Abdulia Conteh.That explains why he had
the brazen imprudence to make the kind of speech on November 11 2007 believing
that no one will muster the courage of conviction and moral fortitude to
challenge him.He really fundamentally misread the whole thing.
Again,the issues for CONTEH to address are honesty,integrity,principles,and
above all,the lingering questions over the integrity of the treason trials he
conducted.These have nothing to do with his international recognition but all to
do with his modus operandi while in the national service of Sierra Leone.
Let me once more thank you very much for educating our Abduliamanias on
something as mundane as principles.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: ABDULIA CONTEH'S DRAMATIC CLOSING ARGUMENT.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 05:46:44 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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This is exactly why Conteh takes advantage of because he rightly or wrong
believes that a good number of you are so enamored of his intellectual standing
in the world to the extent he is second to none.
The issue here has nothing to do with academic attainment but his fundamental
lack of principles,his intellectual dishonesty,political chicanery and
heartlessness.
I dont know why you have not invited him long ago to respond to what i have
written about him.As far as i am concern,he can transmogrify himself to the
Oxford lexicon and use all the high flowing jaw breaking words.The fact of the
matter is that i have nailed him down and i am prepared to stand up to him any
where and any place.Finally,if he were all that,believe me,he would never have
been so soundly rejected for the AU job twice.
To some of you,he is the be all,and end all and only him that has monopoly to
intellectual excellence that explains why he can insult your intelligence and
get away with it because non of you will muster the courage of conviction and
moral fortitude to stand up to his so called Cambridge education for fear that
he will crush you.
From everything i have gleaned so far about him,he is nothing but a fraud,and
spineless character totally bereft of a molecule of moral fiber and
principles.His letter of November loudly accentuates that.The international
community has no use for a moral degenerate for his kin and keith.Plain and
simple.You have my consent to invute him to come on the forum anytime to refute
all what i have said about him including how he was jailed in both the UK and
the Gambia and deported.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: ALBERT JOE DEMBY'S PAINFUL POLITICAL"MUSICAL CHAIR"
From: Dr. C. Curtis-Thomas
To: All
Date Posted: 22:05:29 07/12/08 ()
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Albert Joe Demby (b. 1934 in Gerihun, Kenema District) is a Sierra Leonean
politician and a member of the Sierra Leone People's Party. He served as the
Vice President of Sierra Leone from 29 March 1996 to 25 May 1997, when the
administration was overhrown by a military junta. After the junta was deposed in
1997, he continued his term until 1999, when he was dropped from vice presidency
by Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in favor of Foday Sankoh. Vice presidency was stripped
from Sankoh in 2000, and Demby took his place once again. Kabbah's term ended in
2002 and Demby was succeeded as vice president by Solomon Berewa, who was then
the country's Minister of Justice and Attorney-General. Like Berewa, Joe Demby
is from the Mende ethnic group.
Subject: Re: ALBERT JOE DEMBY'S PAINFUL POLITICAL"MUSICAL
CHAIR"
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:17:49 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Dr. Curtis-Thomas:
Correction please. Dr. Joe Demby was NOT "dropped from vice presidency by Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in favor of Foday Sankoh."
The correct facts are as follows:
1. Dr. Demby was Vice President from March 31, 1996 until Solo Berewa was sworn in as VP in May 2002. On or about December 2001, Kabbah decided that Berewa would be his running mate in the May 2002 election for his second and last term. In March 2002 Berewa was SLPP's candidate for VP.
2. Foday Sankoh was merely a notional Vice President and ranked immediately below Demby in the short-lived National Unity Government arising out of the Lome Peace Accords. A notional VP is one with the title and rank but without the constitutional mandate. - JL
Subject: Re: ALBERT JOE DEMBY'S PAINFUL POLITICAL"MUSICAL
CHAIR"
From: yankuba kai-samba
To: All
Date Posted: 06:32:14 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: y020855@yahoo.co.uk
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Correction Dr
Gerihun is in Bo district and not kenema. Demby resided and practised medicine in kenema. He is a naughty man because he had children with both my maternar and paternal fisrt cousins.
Subject: Re: ALBERT JOE DEMBY'S PAINFUL POLITICAL"MUSICAL
CHAIR"
From: Dr. C. Curtis-Thomas
To: All
Date Posted: 08:32:39 07/13/08 ()
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"Gerihun is in Bo district and not kenema."
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Thanks for the correction. Since I left CKC I have not been to Southern / Eastern Province, hence my memory is fading.
Subject: SOLOMON BEREWA TALKS ABOUT HIS LATE WIFE.
From: Dr. C. Curtis-Thomas
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Date Posted: 21:43:56 07/12/08 ()
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A SHORT REFLECTION ON THE LIFE OF THE LATE DEBORAH S. B. BEREWA by her widower
Solomon Berewa
Here I have chosen to write down a few words of my reflection on the life of my
late wife Deborah.
In the present circumstance it is the only way I can talk about her and attempt
to lessen somehow the grief and burden which I now feel and carry. What is
written here is not meant to be a tribute to her or an exhaustive account of my
reflections of my dear Deborah. She and I lived happily together continuously
for more than two-thirds of a century. In that circumstance nobody else would
know her better than I.
Only I can reflect wholly and truthfully on that period of her life (and that is
the much greater period of her life). What I am writing here is to give
testimony to the life of Deborah as I know she lived it. It is not to praise her
for as the historian Ben Alex said:
Great men and women are not in need of our praise. We are the ones in need of
getting to know them.
Mrs Deborah Selina Boimalo Berewa was born in Freetown 011 4th April 1938. She
was the only surviving child of the marriage of Mr Francis J.J. Tucker and Mrs
Angela Tucker (both now deceased).
She attended St Anne's Nursery and Primary schools and Saint Joseph's Secondary
School in Freetown.
After finishing school with Higher Domestic Science Certificate in 1959, she
entered the nursing profession where she qualified as a state enrolled midwife.
Deborah entered the Sierra Leone government medical service and worked as a
midwife in the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital (PCMH) in Freetown and was
midwife in charge at the Health Centre at Mano where she stayed from 1961 to
1963 before returning to PCMH.
Deborah and I first met in 1957. Her father had been a close friend of my
late father Chief Francis Berewa: Her father always played host in Freetown to
mine and when my father fell terminally ill and had to be treated in Freetown he
and his entourage stayed with the Tuckers at Bathurst Street. Because of this
relationship, lasting friendship developed between the two families. The Late
Francis Tucker acted as a guardian to my elder brother Edwin Augustine Berewa
(now deceased) when he came down to Freetown from Serabu for his secondary
education at Saint Edward's Secondary School, Freetown. In other words, the
Tucker home at Bathurst Street was the regular residence of members of the
Berewa family whenever they were in Freetown.
My late elder brother Edwin Augustine Berewa (after whom we named our son, now
Rev. Fr Augustine Berewa) was a civil servant working in Bonthe. He was
transferred to Freetown~ in 1956.
Naturally, he and his family took up residence with the Tuckers at Bathurst
Street. In 1957 I came to Freetown as a member of the Quiz Team from Christ the
King College, Bo (C.K.C.) to participate in the inter-secondary school quiz
competition for that year and also stayed with my late brother at the residence
of the Tuckers. It was on this occasion that Deborah and I met and became
acquainted and developed friendship. This was the nature of the relationship up
to the time I came to Fourah Bay College in 1959 - and until I completed my
studies there. Meanwhile, my late elder brother and Deborah's late father had
been nurturing the idea of a permanent relationship developing between Deborah
and me. So when I thought I was mature enough I took the bold step to inform my
late brother of my desire to marry Deborah, Her late father did not need much
persuasion from my brother to agree to the idea having regard to the close
relationship between the two families~. The elder relatives were then to sell
the idea to Deborah whose only interest at the time was to be an efficient nurse
and gain advancement in her career. Although she was still friendly to me, she
had no particular interest in men or in marriage and she would not allow me to
come too close to her or take undue advantage of that friendship. She was then a
mature woman in her mid 20s. After some serious deliberations between the two
elder relatives and several encounters with Deborah on the matter, she
eventually gave way and the marriage was celebrated in grand style at the Sacred
Heart Cathedral on 27th February 1965'. The two families deliberately decided to
make it a grand affair to mark their own success in producing that union between
the children of two long standing friends. The late Rev. Fr John O'Reilly C.S.Sp.
at the time chaplain at F.B.C. and later at M.M.T.C. officiated at the wedding
ceremony. My late brother Edwin Augustine Berewa was also for other reasons
particularly happy to see the marriage take place. He wanted to see his younger
brother settle down in life not too long after graduating from college. As a
school boy in Freetown he (my late brother) was ward of Deborah's father at the
time when he (Deborah's father) and her mother got married. My brother had for a
long time known Deborah's mother to be a very committed and faithful wife and as
a woman who was highly religious, caring, kind and enduring. With this knowledge
he was sure that the marriage would succeed and that Deborah too would exhibit
the same qualities and disposition for which her mother was known in her own
marriage life. He turned out to be absolutely correct. Our marriage lasted
without a hitch and without public quarrels or arguments on matters which were
of importance to our family. This was in spite of my own idiosyncracies and
sinfulness. We lived happily thereafter. We lived together for nearly 41 years
until death parted us on the 17th December 2005. We were blessed with five
children: Annie, Solomon (Jnr), Augustine, Martin and Francis; and there is an
addition of four grandchildren to the family:
Simche, Kwamah, Yeani (Deborah) and Solomon III.
Deborah's life as a wife and mother was most fulfilling. She gave herself wholly
to me, her husband, committing herself to caring for me, attending faithfully to
my needs and to whatever would make me happy and comfortable. She could easily
read my mood and know what I liked or disapproved of and then act or refrain
from acting accordingly. Her own personal needs or desires were never part of
the equation.
She ensured that I, her husband, was always happy and comfortable at home and
that I was in the proper state of mind to pursue whatever I was engaged in and
returned at the end of the day to a peaceful and quiet home. She wished and
helped me to succeed in whatever I ventured into even though she did not fully
understand the intricacies or implications of those ventures. She played a very
effective and supportive role in the background and when success came to me she
shied away from participating in or from being identified with that success and
the glamour that often is associated with success, especially success in public
life. She was self-effacing, very humble, simple and unassuming. She was a woman
of peace and would go to any extent to be at peace with other people whatever
was their own attitude or disposition towards her. She preferred to be regarded
only as a housewife and not to be in the public eye to the extent that she
seldom agreed to accompany me to public or State functions even though I
appeared to have become a public figure because of the public positions I held.
She was the driving force behind any success I achieved since our marriage. For
instance, without her immense contribution I would not have been an f1onours and
double award winning student at the English Bar Finals in 1973. While she
studied nursing and worked in London as a nurse she devoted all her income to
pay for my legal education, other expenses and for our own mutual upkeep while I
was a student in law school in London. I was thereby relieved of the burden of
necessarily engaging in menial or casual work during vacations, a burden which
was then the lot of many overseas students in Britain and which adversely
affected or unduly prolonged the period of their legal studies. I was able to
complete my studies in record time and obtained the laurels I earned in my final
exams. All this was due to Deborah's love, generosity and selfless commitment to
me. She was my own human comforter. For me she was peerless. For this and~ many
more I was not able to pay her enough and I will never now be able to pay her.
Ever since we returned home she had never mentioned even to her children or
referred to the role she played in my becoming a lawyer. The only thing that
eases my mind and my conscience is the fact that she knew I was grateful to her
and I appreciated the role she played in my life. I am conscious of the fact
that gratitude is a virtue. I will try to impress this on our children.
While I was in practice either as Attorney-General in the Law Office or in
Private Legal Practice.
Deborah shared a lot of anxious moments with me. She was aware of the
occupational hazards and risks attending my work and also to which she too was
exposed. She and I knew that we had to face some difficulties on a number of
occasions because of the official assignments I was involved in. But she always
trusted my judgement and discretion. My assurances to her were that all will be
well. She believed this because I said it. She also believed that through prayer
I could do what was right and I could come out of it unhurt. Similarly, she
relied on my judgement and proper use of discretion when I took the decision to
enter active politics. She would have preferred the quiet and unnoticed life we
lived and enjoyed while I was in private legal practice. We were not then in the
public light. But she succumbed because of my explanation that the state of the
country then was such that whosoever would do something to ameliorate the
prevailing situation had a duty to come out and do his or her bit or else he or
she would forfeit any moral authority to criticize the way the country was being
destroyed. I explained to her that it was not enough for me to remain in the
cozy life of private practice just working to- earn money without assuming any
public responsibility. She accepted my decision and as usual she told me to lead
while she followed. Her only concern was that I was to avoid deliberately and
unnecessarily making many enemies in politics.
My entering active politics with her consent in fact exposed her to a lot of
pain, mental and physical stress and sufferings like me. I will, for instance,
refer to two particular occasions: when the coup took place in May 1997. She,
like me, had to travel on foot from Sierra Leone to Guinea barely escaping
arrest and even worse. She with me also went through similar experiences in
January 1999. She never grumbled or suggested my withdrawal from active
politics. Instead, she became more attached to me and supportive of me in this
venture.
As a mother, Deborah was very committed to her children. She always cared for
their welfare and moral upbringing. She ensured that at a very early age they
were made to appreciate the importance of prayer, the need to be trustworthy and
honest, and the virtue of respecting other people's rights and feelings; and of
being always helpful whenever it was possible. However, her relationship to her
children was conditioned, above all, on one premise, namely: Papa is right and
you are to take and do what he says. He has the last word. Deborah extended
maternal love not only to her own children but to all other children living with
us; and there were many of them over the years, nephews, nieces and others. She
treated them all exactly as she did her own, making no distinction between them
to the extent that a casual visitor to our home would hardly know who were our
own children and who were just our wards. She cared a lot for the welfare of
members of her and my extended families. My own family is really extended; by
far more extended than hers. She had time for all members of this extended
family. She tried to attend to the needs of each of them inasmuch as she could
and had no preferences among them and she did so without bothering me about
those needs and demands~(which were many) except, in' cases where she could not
manage and there was real and genuine reason for my own personal intervention.
Deborah above all was a Christian woman and a Catholic. She valued the sacrifice
of the Mass.
and regarded it as the cornerstone of her life. There was no way she could miss
Sunday Mass unless there was no Mass said where she spent a Sunday. Even in that
case, she would carefully read and meditate on the scr1pture readings prescribed
for that Sunday in her Sunday Missal which~ she always travelled with. She paid
special attention to major feast days and did her best to attend Mass on those
days. Devotions to the Blessed Sacrament, the Sacred Heart and the Blessed
Virgin Mary were her special commitments. She had great affection for these. She
prayed to the Sacred Heart and the Blessed Virgin Mary every morning as soon as
she woke up and every evening she gathered her entire household (excluding her
me as I often returned home from work late) to recite the rosary. And she would
not miss these daily devotions for anything. She had childlike belief in the
efficacy of prayer and particularly in the devotions to the Sacred Heart and the
Blessed Virgin. So she became life patron of the Sacred Heart Confraternity
whose prayer meetings at Saint Anthony's Church she hardly missed.
My late wife was faithful to whatever course she embarked on. She demonstrated
this by her commitment to various organizations and to the people she met and
had dealings with. She was an active member of the Saint Joseph's Old Girls
Association, a founding member of Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in Juba, a
member of the Catholic Women Association (CWA) in that parish and a life patron
of the Sacred Heart Confraternity of St Anthony's Church, Freetown. She had time
to attend to all these organizations and groups.
As regards loving and caring for others in need, Deborah on her own and without
reference to me and often without my knowledge volunteered to pay the school
fees for a number of displaced school children. She brought some of these
children to live with her at home as her own children without enquiring about
the whereabouts of their parents or who their parents were. There were some
still living at our home up to the time she died. She paid their school fees and
other expenses out of the proceeds of sale of ice blocks and iced water she tied
every night in little plastic bags. She never regarded this as a mean activity
to be undertaken by the wife of the Vice-President of Sierra Leone. She earned
extra money from doing this and no status of her husband would make her. abandon
it especially as it was the means available to her to help others. She did all
this without fuss and not for recognition or appreciation and for the sole
purpose of helping others. This is the legacy she has now left with me. Have I
the energy, time, patience and above all the disposition to take it over? As for
her other acts of charity, every year she would, unannounced and without
publicity, take much needed necessities such as food items, toiletries and
clothing for the terminally ill at Lakka Hospital. The inmates there would
certainly miss her a lot. Also many among the thousands who have since her death
visited our home to sympathise with us have given testimonies to her kindness
and generosity to them personally; and to her humility and humanity. I believe
that it is for this reason that the shock and grief caused by her sudden death
seemed to have transcended religious, political and social barriers. Deborah did
not apply any of these things in deciding whom she was to help. Her only
consideration was that the person needed help and she was able within her
limited means to help somehow.
Deborah never showed excessive emotion or excitement either of joy or sadness.
She was even-tempered and not prone to anger easily. She could disarm even her
bitterest adversary with her gentle and innocent smiles and the freshness and
smoothness in her voice even to the point of becoming inaudible. She was
extremely patient and forgiving; and would spend hours pleading with me the
course of one relative or other when I thought that person had unnecessarily and
unjustifiably hurt or offended me or her or both of us. She was quick to explain
that person's conduct away or put a positive spin on it in order to placate me
so that I would forgo any anger I would have entertained as a result of that
conduct.
She was really a peace maker and a skilful reconciler between me and my
relations in particular. She would achieve such reconciliation even if she
needed to persuade repeatedly to give up my own position in the matter. This was
part of her strength.
There were however a few occasions when Deborah was noticeably happy. These were
after the ordination of our son Augustine to the Sacred Priesthood; the two
occasions when she had the unique opportunity of meeting, grasping and kissing
the hands of His Holiness Pope John Paul II during the celebration in the
Vatican of the 25th anniversary of that Pope's pontificate, and the
beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She noticeably appreciated the
pilgrimage she and I made to the shrine of St Francis of Assisi, Italy; and she
was happy that I gave my consent to the marriage of our daughter Annie and that
we were together in Atlanta for the wedding ceremony of our son Solomon (Jnr).
Her expression of her emotion on those occasions were in direct contrast to the
way she regarded her visits with me to other important places. For instance, she
even accompanied me on official visits to France, Egypt and other countries. On
those trips, we visited places such as the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the
Pyramids in Egypt among others. But she seemed not to have been much impressed
by all these even though other mortals would be anxious to visit such places of
touristic importance.
There were some personal matters which to some extent helped to further tighten
the attachment between Deborah and me. These were matters coming into existence
by sheer coincidences to the realization of which neither of us contributed.
Both of us were born from devout Catholic parents and both of us went through
Catholic education of those good old days when much emphasis was placed on moral
education, simplicity and humility. We both were not ashamed to be described as
"traditional Christians".
Our two fathers fortuitously bore the same first name "Francis".
Because of this, there was no problem in naming one of our children
"Francis". This could be meant to be after his paternal or maternal
grandfather.
Both of us have Old Testament names: "Solomon" and
"Deborah", a matter over which we joked on a number of occasions and
wondered how our respective fathers came to give us such names. Both of us later
became double orphans and only surviving children of our respective parents.
Because of this, we regarded each other not just as husband and wife but as much
more: sister and brother, most trusted friends and confidants; and the only
person who, without any reservation and without expecting reward or expression
of gratitude and appreciation, pursued the interest and sought the welfare of
the other relentlessly and selflessly. We were concerned about and protective of
each other in the same way as a loving father cares about the welfare of his
only child or a loving mother cares for and protects her only child. That is why
her parting away so suddenly has caused such physical, psychological and
emotional havoc to me.
She also acted as my emissary attending family or other social functions
including funerals and weddings or visiting sick relatives where there was need
for her and me to attend such functions or visit such people. In this way I was
relieved of that duty and responsible in order to be able to attend to my
official functions while our social responsibilities and families were at the
same time cared for (a type of division of labour). Who will or can now continue
to play her own role in this regard? We did not realize what was our ultimate
dream and that is, that after my retirement from public life, we would spend our
remaining years together in my native village Yengema, Bumpe Chiefdom, Bo
District where she was even more welcomed and loved. We loved each other only
for what we were to each other and for nothing else and for no other reason
whatsoever.
The West African College of Nursing was kind enough to honour Deborah two years
ago with its prestigious award of honorary fellow of that college. The citation
for the award referred to her devotion to the nursing profession and to what
that profession epitomizes.
On that fateful day, 17th December 2005, after she had spent a restful vacation
with her children in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and was in her usual pleasant mood
rushing home to spend Christmas with her husband and the rest of her family, she
succumbed to the sudden call of the Lord just a few minutes before she was about
to board her flight. This was another instance of God's will being done on earth
which Christ in the Lord's prayer asked us to pray for fervently. This time His
will appears to have been harsh on me and on my children, the Berewa family and
Deborah's many friends and relatives. Our prayer now is that the same good Lord
who allowed that sudden parting to occur will bring consolation to our family
and He will by His grace help us to accept that, what to us is a real tragedy,
is only a manifestation of His will coming on earth and that He in some ways
would pour his grace and mercy upon our family and make good that loss. This is
in spite of the fact that I know my Deborah will not be replaced. I know though
that the good Lord does not allow a gap in His plan. He will fill it as in
indeed He will fill the He has now created in our family. It is now that I
really understand the meaning and effect of the expression "irreparable
loss" in the sense I will never have my Deborah again on this earth and for
the rest of my life.
In any case, when the Lord calls who are we, mere mortals, to wish to deprive
our dear wife and mother of God's divine bliss at the time and at the place He
willed it for her and when it was held out to her. It is this heavenly bliss
that we will always pray for her to have deservedly. May the God Lord bless and
reward/her for her efforts to serve Him and to serve other human beings in this
world, whether or not some of those human beings appreciated her service. We
will settle for the fact that this is the way of the world. May she be given
remission from all her transgressions here on earth. May the strength she had to
serve God and her fellow man remain with us as our own strength and protection.
I will always love and cherish my beloved Deborah's memory and will pray for the
happy repose of her dear soul. So too will our children: Annie, Solomon (Jnr) ,
Father Augustine, Martin and Francis; and our grandchildren: Simche, Kwamah,
Yeani (Deborah) and Solomon III. I pray that with God's grace we shall continue
to live as a united and loving family, caring for one another. This was the wish
of Deborah which we are bound to respect.
MAY THE SOUL OF MRS DEBORAH SELINA BOIMALO BEREWA REST IN PERFECT PEACE AMEN.
Subject: ABDULIA CONTEH'S NOVEMBER 11,2007 SPEECH.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 21:25:56 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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ABDULIA CONTEH’s,NOVEMBER 11,2007 SPEECH,AND THE IMPACT ON THE NATION’S
JUDICIARY
Abdulia Conteh’s November 11,2007 speech and the particular reference to how
the threat of forced retirements which Judges were buttonholed into,and his
willingness to go along with constitutional misbehaviour just to be part of the
establishment,and his kiss and tell all ,after the facts underlies ravenous and
gallivanting politicians will sacrifice principles for expediency.
It is more telling when one takes into account how such raw use of power by some
one in the ilk of Stevens,with Conteh’s acquiescence affected the lives of
some of the sedated and sophisticated members of the nation’s
jurisprudence.This project intends to give an insight of how it affected those
Judges.
I will begin with Sir.Samuel Bankole Jones.As one of the new generation of
Africans who were on hand to replace the colonial jurists like Justice Arthur
Dobbs and others,after independence,he started as police Magistrate and was
eventually elevated to the Bench as a High Court Judge.He had distinguished
services on the Bench where he rose to be the second Sierra Leonean to be
appointed Chief Justice,following the retirement of Sir.Salako Benka Coker.He
was a member of the commission that was set up to investigate the air crash that
claimed the life of the Secretary General of the United Nations.He acted as
Governor General occasions,and was Visitor of the University of Sierra Leone
which was later re designated Chancellor.In 1965,he was Knighted by Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain.He had a run in with Sir.Albert Margai,and that
led to his reassignment as president of the Appeals Court in an apparent effort
to reduce his role and influence in policy making matters.He remained on the
Bench until Stevens sent him on compulsory leave to retirement in less than
honourable circumstances.He set up a Law clinic for young aspiring Lawyers.His
involvement with Haja Dordor over questionable rice deal led to his Waterloo and
that compounding the way he was disposed of significantly contributed to his
eventual demise.
The next victim of the Stevens/Momoh,.Conteh assault on the independence and
integrity of the Judiciary was Justice Christopher Okoro Elnathan Cole.
Like Sir.Samuel,he also was one of the early Africans who were on hand for
services in the Judiciary,He serves as Magistrate,and went on to the High Court
eventually.He was perceived as an APC Judicial activist by Sir.Albert Margai
which led to his reassignment to Diplomatic duties in the USA before the March
17,1967 hotly contested general elections.Under the order of precedence,he
should have been appointed Chief Justice following the reassignment of
Sir.Samuel,but Gershon B.O.Collier,who was serving as the nation’s first
permanent representative at the United Nations when we took our seat as the
100th.member on April 27,1961,was recalled home and made Chief Justice at the
consternation of the Krio members of both the Bench and Bar.In 1968,following
the restoration of constitutional rule,he returned home at the behest of
Stevens,acted as Chief Justice until September 1970 when he was confirmed as
substantive holder of the office.On March 23st,1971,following the abrupt
dismissal of Sir.Banja under false pretext by Siaka Stevens,he was appointed
acting Governor General,and on April 19,1971,he was named ceremonial president
only to be jettisoned by Stevens in what amounted to a constitutional coup
detat.On APRIL 21ST,1971,he involuntarily ceded executive power to Stevens,and
he reverted to his former role as Chief Justice.For a WHILE,Stevens kept him in
office.However,having no more use for him,he discarded him like a waste paper
leaving him totally burdened by pecuniary circumstances to the extent he was not
even able to upkeep the small Toyota vehicle WR5391 he had.He like all other
citizens had to make use of the Poda Poda as a means of transport.He eventually
died in very uncomfortable circumstances.
Justice Richard Bright was treated the same Bankole Jones,and Okoro Cole were
treated.In the case of Singer Christopher William Betts,(SB.400).he was
deliberately passed over of the top job apparently for his connection with SLPP
bigwigs especially Paramount Chief Abu Baimba3rd.of Kakua Chiefdom Bo
district.He too acted as Governor General on few occasions.He was not discarded
like Okoro Cole and others.He was made Speaker of Parliament as a subtle way to
shunt him into retirement.
Conteh contended in his November 11,2007 address that Justices were sent on
retirement when they reached official age.I think he was less than candid on
that and in the course,I will give instances here to undermine the integrity of
such assertion.Livsey Luke who was openly an APC supporter who was infact
counsel of the party was also dispatched into oblivion in very questionable
circumstances as Chief Justice apparently when he fell out of favour with
Stevens.He was however lucky to have a commonwealth appointment to an African
country as Chief Justice although he eventually died suddenly.
When Conteh said Judges were sent on retirement upon reaching the mandatory
age,it was only true in situations where the loyalty of such jurists were in
doubt.For example.Justice George Dove-Edwin remained in office until he
died.O,B,R,Tejan was involved in accident while he was driving under the
influence of alcohol .He was never sanctioned by any one.As far as I knew he
remained on the bench up to Supreme court level.Justice Percy Richmond Davies
who was next door neighbor of Stevens was compensated with the Speakership of
Parliament when he went easy on Stevens during the 1967 commission of enquiry
into the management of the affairs of the city council.Readers will recall that
Stevens was Mayor of Freetown and there was no adverse ruling against.His son
Rupert Davies also benefited from the close connections because,before he landed
back home from the former USSR,a job was waiting for him at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.In addition to that,tax payers had to take him to work every day
because he rode with his father in the official Speakers government supplied
vehicle.The job came by easily on account of the fact that George Lawrence
Valentine Williams was head of the Civil Service,While Llewellyn Alexander Coker
was head of the Establishment,With Eugine Gabbideon ,and Latilawa Hyde Foster at
the Public Service Commission to fast track the appointment.
Justice Marcus Cole, was on the bench till he died so also was Justice Roland
Harding who sometimes went on oversea tours with Stevens.In short Justices who
were openly pro APC had nothing to worry about because their place on the bench
was secured.
It then stands to reason that Conteh very well knew that the Judiciary was not
serving the interests of the citizens and as Attorney General,he was in the
position to influence Joseph Saidu Momoh to do something about the image of it
but he did nothing to the effect .
There was always the pervasive feeling that the Judicial system in the country
was corrupt to the core and infact decisions were rendered to the highest
bidders.I think,I am in the position to confirm that because in my presence,a
sitting judge induced what amounted to bribe.This was what happened.I was in
town for a visit and in the course,I paid courtesy call on a particular
judge.While we were in conversation,he picked up the telephone and dialed some
one at that time I did not know.This is what he said in my presence:”SHEKI,I
DON DON DA TIN,NAR DE GEORGEMENT I DAE RITE”.I later came to realize that he
was talking to Basma,one of those Lebanese Lawyers.I had scarcely left the
judges chamber when Mr.Basma entered.The rest is history which will be left to
the readers to discern what took place in there.That was the type of judiciary
the nation had infested with jurists corrupt to the core.
For a man like Abdulia Conteh with all his legal training to be part and parcel
of an anachronistic and exploitative social set up designed to deny the citizens
of good governance and to turn around and give an insight of the sordid state of
affairs at this eleventh hour does not bode well for him,the profession,his
friends,family,and the nation at large.Compendiously,he will have to leave with
the guilt for the rest of his life and no matter how he hard he attempts to
assuage the feeling of disappointment on the part of his supporters,he will
never be able to succeed because trust is something one cannot quantify.It is
absolute.It is either you are trusted or not.Inthe case of Conteh,there is
absolutely no trust left for his integrity.My counsel he goes some where and
just fade into oblivion.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma.
Subject: Re: ABDULIA CONTEH'S NOVEMBER 11,2007 SPEECH.
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 21:48:21 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Mr Koroma,
Can you do us all a favor by posting this speech by Abdulai Conteh so that we
can make our own judgment on it? It seems that you have reached a set of
conclusions that could be different from mine and others. Thanks.
Subject: Re: ABDULIA CONTEH'S NOVEMBER 11,2007 SPEECH.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 22:03:23 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Mr.Uman Lappa,if you can check for the posting on July 9,2008 by Mr.Farrah
Marrah,you will see it there.He was the one who posted it and i just went
through its contents.
It will always be my authority for my stepped up strident diatribe on Conteh .
Subject: WAS NYUMA'S BEATING JUSTIFIED; DID HIS ATTACKERS GO FREE?
From: Dr CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
To: All
Date Posted: 21:08:36 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Bai Koroma was the APC presidential candidate in the August 2007 elections. He
was allegedly the target of an assassination attempt in the early hours of July
23, 2007, when, according to the APC, a group of armed men led by Tom Nyuma, who
was a participant in the 1992 coup that ousted the APC from power, attempted to
enter his hotel room in the country's second largest city of Bo to kill him.
Nyuma was severely beaten by Koroma's guards, and he was hospitalized as a
result. According to another version of events, however, there was no
assassination attempt and the claim was invented to justify the beating of Nyuma.
Subject: Re: WAS NYUMA'S BEATING JUSTIFIED; DID HIS ATTACKERS GO FREE?
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 21:36:56 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
At an SLPP rally in the Kailahun Barray, Tom Nyumah was in the middle of a
speech asking for votes. All of a sudden, a little boy screamed "Leatherboot!".
Tom Nyumah bolted from the Barray screaming like a woman running from a
Karmarjor raray boy. Nyumah ran all the way to his mother's hut and dived under
the bed, shaking inconsolably. After the retired Lt. Colonel was finally cajoled
from under his bed, he confessed that the name of Leatherboot brought back a
very painful and scary flashback. Nyumah also declared that the terrible
boot-on-neck beating that Leatherboot inflicted on him made him wash his hands
off the assassination business gbata-gbata. He also thanked again President
Koroma for saving his life from certain death that night in Bo because "Leatherboot
beat mi tay ar poopoo nar mi trosis!"
Of course that incident was cataloged by the effete SLPP as an act of APC electoral violence.
Subject: Re: WAS NYUMA'S BEATING JUSTIFIED; DID HIS ATTACKERS GO FREE?
From: Man pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 21:19:16 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: Man_pikin@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
What about the involement of Nyuma in the killings of Salami Coker and others.
He was lucky. They should have killed him.
Subject: Man Pikin nar true APC man
From: Highway
To: All
Date Posted: 10:03:59 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
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Message:
"He was lucky. They should have killed him" Man Pikin
Keep it up son. I was just like you, back in the days. I cant even remeber how many I killed.
p/s
But I died like a pauper though. So becareful what you wish for.
Subject: Re: Man Pikin nar true APC man
From: Man Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 11:55:35 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: Man_pikin@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
I am neither APC nor SLPP. But the truth is Nyuma should have been beaten to
death. Salami Coker and others that the NPCR cabal killed don't have life,
right? So Nyuma life is precious than those of Salami Coker, Sieh Bangura and
others. Give me a break.
Subject: Re: WAS NYUMA'S BEATING JUSTIFIED; DID HIS ATTACKERS GO FREE?
From: Freedom of Speech
To: All
Date Posted: 21:29:34 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"What about the involement of Nyuma in the killings of Salami Coker and
others. He was lucky. They should have killed him."
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
So your position,then, is that Tom Nyuma "got what he deserved"?
Subject: Re: WAS NYUMA'S BEATING JUSTIFIED; DID HIS ATTACKERS GO FREE?
From: Man Pikin
To: All
Date Posted: 21:49:56 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: man_pikin@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
They should have killed him. Do you want to say that Salami Coker and others
that Nyuma and his colleagues killed deserved their untimely deaths. Nyuma, Bio,
strasser, Idriss, Mondeh, Kambo and the others will surely pay for what they
did. They will never have peace in their life time. God will punish them for
what they did. They wil rot in hell when they die. The blood of Salami Coker and
others are crying for revenge. But there is no justice in mama Sierra leone.
Subject: Ghana spends $1.4m on gold medals
From: Ahmad Tejan Koromah
To: All
Date Posted: 18:47:00 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: ahmedtejan@hotmail.com
Entered From:
Another imbercile:-
Ghana's President John Kufuor awards himself the highest award, the
Grand Order of the Star and Eagles of Ghana at a cost of $65,000, many
times more than an Olympic gold medal, whilst his people suffer. The
saga continues and may God help Mama Africa.
Click on link or copy/paste on your browser:-
Subject: Re: Ghana spends $1.4m on gold medals
From: Beggarman
To: All
Date Posted: 05:44:51 07/13/08 ()
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Ghana is a rich Country and they can afford it.They do not live on Donor's
funds, so nothing wrong with them giving out medal.
Subject: Re: Ghana spends $1.4m on gold medals
From: Ignorance is bliss
To: All
Date Posted: 10:20:23 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Ghana gets debt relief.
Ghana's Finance minister Anthony Akoto Osei states:-
" Before the end of the year the impact will be felt"
Subject: Re: Ghana spends $1.4m on gold medals
From: Colonial Mentality
To: All
Date Posted: 21:46:01 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
You are just another sorry soul afflicted with Colonial mentality...
Who has the right to tell the Gold Coast not to flount it god given endowment of gold?.....
Maybe you should encourage the BBC and others who have enabled the mis-educated conditioning of sorry souls like yourself to demand from the queen all the treasures looted from Africa and colonies around the world!....
If you believe that African treasures have benefited it's questionable leaders more than colonial interests then ..Leh God sorry for you sin.
#@$ (!*+
Subject: Re: Ghana spends $1.4m on gold medals
From: Ahmad Tejan Koromah
To: All
Date Posted: 23:34:48 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: ahmedtejan@hotmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Colonial Mentality,
By your fear and cowardice camouflage under the aboved name leads
me to conclude that you are one of the many ignorant and ill informed
people out there. The likes of you; underachievers blame the white
man for all the ills of the black race. I guess you are also sitting
on your ass waiting for your share of the repatriation money for the
black people, dream on. With all its gold Ghana still depends on the
West for economic financial support. Its sends a bad message to the
people you are begging when they see how you use the money you
have; simple.
It is exactly your method of thinking that a great mind like OBAMA is
trying to distance himself from.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity."
-Anon
Subject: Re: Ghana spends $1.4m on gold medals
From: Colonialist
To: All
Date Posted: 22:02:02 07/12/08 ()
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"Who has the right to tell the Gold Coast not to flount it god given
endowment of gold?.....'
But that's the saddest part. One of the largest gold producers in the world, but the medals were bought from the west. What does that tell you?
Subject: Re: Ghana spends $1.4m on gold medals
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 19:08:46 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Uncle Ahmad,i think there is a fundamental misreading on your part on the
"gold medals" saga by the president of Ghana.
It is a fundamentally mistaken premise to say he awarded himself the
"medals".
Here is what i want you to take into serious consideration.
As president,he is the supreme commander in chief of the nation.Therefore,one of
the distinctions and honours he has is the singular honour of being the fountain
head of "Honours".What that means,he is the "GRAND COMMANDER OF
THE ORDER OF GHANA",the higest honour the nation can bestow on any
citizen.The only person constitutionally mandated to bestow that honour is the
president himself.He wears that with the sash across from his shoulders.It does
not matter how much it costs,because,the state makes provision for
that.Similarly also,Earnest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone is the Grand Commander of
the Order of the Republic,as it is part of the office.In the UK,as well,the
Queen is head of the armed forces,and head fountain head of all
honours.Recently,she made her 25 year old grand son,Prince William the
1000th.member of the oldest British order KG,that entitles him to be addressed
as Sir.Since we almost all African nations are no longer under the British
rule,that was why they came with their own honours system and vested such
authority in the head of state.I understand your concern,but it is totally out
of place this time around.Before our Lawyers i.e.,those who have distinguished
themselves were made QC's.Sierra Leone had two,SLPP'S Berthan Macauley,and APC'S
Johnny Henry Smyth.In Nigeria,they changed it to SAN,meaning Senior Advocate of
Nigeria.
I understand your concern for the common man,but i am afraid,i dont share your
views on that anyway.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: Ghana spends $1.4m on gold medals
From: Asking
To: All
Date Posted: 23:59:08 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Mr Koroma i must commend you for such a brilliant and good writngs. Keep it
up,good job. The most important thing about your writings these days is that you
discuss the issues professionally. Keep it up,i am impress.
Subject: Re: Ghana spends $1.4m on gold medals
From: Ahmad Tejan Koromah
To: All
Date Posted: 19:51:47 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: ahmedtejan@hotmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
"Alpha" Kutubu,
Your detailed explanation is much appreciated. Personally, I do not
have a problem with Titles or Honours bestowed. What I do have a
problem with is the states apathy and ignorance. Presently, there is a
global food crisis ongoing and I think that the state could have
directed half of that allocated fund ($1.4m) for their poverty stricken
people; lead by example. Whilst I fully respect and value your views we
shall agree to disagree. Regards to the family.
Ahmad Tejan Koromah
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked
what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor
had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I do not know and I do
not care.
- Richard Pratt
Subject: Pastor on the run for stealing goats
From: Klabs Klanu
To: All
Date Posted: 16:00:02 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Pastor on the run for stealing goats
Posted by VIBE GHANA at 5 Nov 2007 and is filed under Tabloid
The Awutu Beraku District Magistrate's Court in the Central Region presided over
by Mr C.A. Wilson, has ordered the arrest of Pastor Aboagye for conniving with
an ex-convict to steal 16 goats at Gomoa Dominase.
Aboagye, now on the run reportedly conspired with his accomplice and stole the goats but escaped when the police advanced on them, leaving behind his accomplice, Kojo Ahor.
Ahor on his subsequent appearance before the court, on charges of abetment and stealing, was convicted on his own plea of guilty and imprisoned for two years with hard labour on each count to run concurrently.
According to the prosecution, on October 13, 2007, information reached the Watchdog Committee members of Dominase that somebody was giving a goat to Aboagye to rear at Nsuaem. When the committee members went to investigate, they were told that it was the local assemblyman who had ceased rearing his goats at Dominase and was sending the goats to Nsuaem through Ahor of Dominase to. Aboagye at Nsuaem.
The committee members then contacted the assemblyman who denied any such transaction and asked the committee members to investigate further.
The committee members relayed the information to the police who joined the committee members in their investigations.
Soon they spotted Ahor and Aboagye conveying their booty towards Nsuaem in the night.
When the patrol men swooped on the two, Aboagye managed to escape arrest, leaving Ahor who was arrested.
He quoted Ahor as having stated on arrest that he stole the goats from Dominase and sent them to Pastor Aboagye at Nsuaem and that he later stole seven more goats all totaling 16, worth ¢16 million belonging to one Nana Entsie.
The prosecutor said that five of the stolen goats had been retrieved.
source: Mirror
Subject: Re: Pastor on the run for stealing goats
From: Abdul
To: All
Date Posted: 16:53:24 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
This must be a joke
Subject: Re: Pastor on the run for stealing goats
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 18:57:50 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
I have never stolen before, so why use my name ? IT IS A SHAMEFUL STORY, ALL THE
SAME.
Subject: SLPP BELIEVES IN DEMOCRACY? AR GO DIE O!
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 15:27:35 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
APC'S Dr. ERNEST BAI KOROMA: 0 people killed, executed, kangaroo-courted,
imprisoned or necklaced with burning tires filled with petrol. No journalist has
yet been jailed by President Koroma.
SLPP's Dr. AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH: 24 soldiers executed after a kangaroo court
farce of a trial, including a female nurse, Major Kula Samba. Hundreds were
butchered in the streets of Freetown when the Nigerians and Karmarjors muscled
the SLPP back to power in Freetown. Many were necklaced, including Alhaji Musa
Kabia who had been black-listed for elimination by the SLPP. Thousands of
innocents were murdered when RUF rebels attacked Freetown, because the SLPP
regime did not have the strategic vision to contain and eliminate the rebel
threat. Atrocities were committed by both sides in this savage African brush
fire. Summary executions galore. Journalists who offended the SLPP were arrested
and jailed (Paul Kamara, Philip Neville etc).
Under the SLPP, the ACC was gutted as SLPP bombas squirreled away the nation's
wealth.
SLPPers on the forum, Una dae make me ade art wit laff!
Subject: Uncle Uman Lappa.... you nor to wan serious man
From: Pastor Conteh (Brookfields)
To: All
Date Posted: 16:30:41 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Uman Lappa (useless name this), please grow up ans start wearing trousers like
real men do.
APC beats men of God.
On the entire globe, nowhere, I mean no place on this planet, have Election staff been ambushed by a Government. This useless and cruel government that started the 11 year brutal war and supported the AFRC hooligans have now started their violent sprees again.
But they never learn their lesson... violence does not last.
As for you we continue to pray that God touches your young evil heart, so that you start knowing that this spate of violence is bad for your country. If you don not change your ways, Governor Clarkson's prayer might just do it for you!
Subject: Re: Uncle Uman Lappa.... you nor to wan serious man
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 00:54:16 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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Message:
Men of God know very well that they should not meddle with politics.Pastor
Conteh was soundly beaten by members of his own congregation because he allowed
himself to be used by the most hated SLPP party.He was taught a very good
lesson. No Imam has been beaten because Imams know the consequences when men of
God meddle with politics.
Subject: Re: Uncle Uman Lappa.... you nor to wan serious man
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 21:02:20 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
But mi man, you have not REALLY refuted any of my averments. All I have asserted
is irrefutable granite. The SLPP is indeed the scariest politico-criminal
syndicate of Mafioso on the African continent.
Subject: Re: Uncle Uman Lappa.... you nor to wan serious man
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 16:39:01 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Uman Lappa is becoming a thorn on the SLPPers flesh. Continue the good work bro,
these guys thrives on unfounded stories, forgetting the mammoth task ahead of
them, (ie reform of their shattered mwalaylaymia).
Subject: Re: Uncle Uman Lappa.... you nor to wan serious man
From: How concern
To: All
Date Posted: 17:59:04 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
Wan orh want-mu orh ye deh nor
Subject: Re: Uncle Uman Lappa.... you nor to wan serious man
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 04:32:16 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Can you interprete that in english? or better still in krio. No offence bro, but
I couldn't understand a word.
Subject: Re: Uncle Uman Lappa.... you nor to wan serious man
From: Jacob Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 05:37:31 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: jacob.kanu@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
How Conshan, pleash terprit for Kortoh Eddy.
Honestly How Concern, I don't think you should bother with the level of ignorance this chap is demonstrating... I understood perfectly, if he cannot understand his own native tongue, he should be just ingnored.
Subject: Re: Uncle Uman Lappa.... you nor to wan serious man
From: How concern
To: All
Date Posted: 09:09:11 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Mr. Jacob Kanu,
Your advice is well taken. I should have let him wallow in his ignorance and
shallowness long time ago.
Eddie, henceforth you are dismissed.Before you go, let me make it clear to you
that I still reserve the authority and even the temerity to put you in your
place. Lonta ga deh bai.
Subject: Re: Uncle Uman Lappa.... you nor to wan serious man
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 09:46:46 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"Eddie, henceforth you are dismissed.Before you go, let me make it clear to
you that I still reserve the authority and even the temerity to put you in your
place. Lonta ga deh bai."
It should read Lontha ka da bai.
Congratulations though for mastering a few words, honestly you're a rear specie from the mendedom.
Mr Jacob How Concern Kanu, Mr Sorie Jawara and many more of your monikers.
You're a good writer but a very very low thinker.
Subject: Food production crisis...Where is president Koroma ?
From: SORIE Jawara
To: All
Date Posted: 12:34:08 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: soriejawara@verizon.com
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Message:
President Koroma, please tell us what is going on in your office. Where are the
rental tractors? Yes, you have them fooling around in Kono and Bombali because
you have special interest in those places, Koinadugu District is not important
and you do not have any true plans for the development of agriculture in
Koinadugu. Former president Tejan Kabbah spent 10 years on fake promise, MR.
Solomon Berewa believed he could buy votes from Koinaduguans with fake sky
rocking AGRIC .FOOD PRODUCTION PROGRAMS and you are telling the nation that you
want to be included in the cranky lie bag..boro. Koinaduguans don't care about
your big politicking with your minister of AGRIC, but let honesty and fairness
prevail. Is Koinadugu not part of Sierra Leone? Please understand that tractors
will be useless after much of the farming season is gone. Now, you should
understand the reason for food crisis in Sierra Leone.Do you want to be held
responsible ?
Subject: Rev. Kabs, Sir Alex should allow Ronaldo to leave Man. U
From: Low Grade San San.
To: All
Date Posted: 13:14:13 07/12/08 ()
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Kabs,
we are both man u fans but i think that Sir Alex should let Ronald go. He is
Portuguese, and the dream of most Portuguese players is to be a Galaticos at the
Bernabeu. As a young man, Ronaldo has given Sir Alex all what he wanted in
football. 2 premier league cups, and the biggest prize in club football, the
champions league cup.
As a parent myself, i would not want any one to hinder my sons career by
stopping him from fulfilling his dreams. The boy is at his his peak, why try to
stop him from doing what he wants to achieve in his life. Football wok nor to
lek pwd wok, at 30 he will be a pensioner. And am sure Fergie as a
manager/father knows that. So let the him go.
Put it this way, Man U, we are going to make £75 MILLION in cash. And Ron will
be racking in 230 grand a week, so why stop him when every one will be laughing?
We can still win the premier with our present squad with a bit of tactical
changes.And we should be able to make it to the semis in the champions league,
and from there, anything can happen.
With £40 million we can get two for one top strikers from anywhere in the
world. Plus we've got Tevez, Rooney and a fit saha will always get us goals. We
have the best defence in the premier league, and with carrick, Hargreaves, Park,
Nani, Anderson and O'Shea, and with veterans, like scolesy and giggs whats our
problem?
Man, let sir Alex let the poor boy go and bring em on!
There is only one Man U
Subject: Re: Rev. Kabs, Sir Alex should allow Ronaldo to leave Man. U
From: no to so
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Date Posted: 13:46:09 07/12/08 ()
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I think Ferguson is correct keeping Ronaldo will almost guarantee a back to back
premiership title next season, this is business no one wants to loose.
Ronaldo needs to be very careful before making a move to madrid, it is on record
that top players who left the premieship for La liga hardly succeed especially
in Real Madrid. e.g. Becks, Owen, Anelka in the past and the list goes on.
Ronaldo will have more playing time at United than in Real.
Subject: Re: Food production crisis...Where is president Koroma ?
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 13:06:05 07/12/08 ()
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Spend a few hundred dollars and go to Sierra Leone to see for yourself the
evidence of a serious government in place. The farming this year is more than
any other in the history of the country. Be patient till October when the
harvesting season begins.
You've taken too long in the west without visiting home I urge you to go home now. I don't mind to take you with me when I'm going to harvest my 6x3kilometre farm in October.
My brother, sitting in the US or UK and shout about hunger does not help, go home and do your own farming to contribute towards national development. If you're interested, I will provide you with enough land to cultivate whatever you want to grow. We must now be willing to pick up the pieces as the SLPP government have neglected that country for 11 years.
Subject: Re: Food production crisis...Where is president Koroma ?
From: SORIE Jawara
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Date Posted: 14:24:33 07/12/08 ()
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Edie, you need to take yourself to Sierra Leone and find out how many serious
farmers are stranded. You don't anything about farming , so let the president
answer.
Subject: Re: Food production crisis...Where is president Koroma ?
From: Mr. Cullinan
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Date Posted: 13:42:59 07/12/08 ()
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TO: SORIE, Many of the events of the past yr. do not promote the image of a
"serious Govt. in place." I do agree that more farming has taken place
this yr. than in many past yrs. and much more is still needed.
I agree completely with your last paragraph. Does your offer to provide farm land extend to anyone here or just to Eddie??? (It's an interesting and generous offer to be sure.) P.S. I was also involved in that other forum, (under another name); it's good to see that some of us are still involved and still care about contributing towards national development. Regards, Mr. C.
Subject: Re: Food production crisis...Where is president Koroma ?
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 13:50:02 07/12/08 ()
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I do not have unlimited land, but can help any Sierra Leonean who's serious
about farming obtain land.
Subject: Re: Food production crisis...Where is president Koroma ?
From: Mr. Cullinan
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Date Posted: 13:57:52 07/12/08 ()
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TO: EDDIE, Thanks for the quick response, I'm sure you realized my mistakes by
now. I have the time and the motivation , but not the funds to travel to S.L. I
believe in paying the price that is due, in other words, "there is no free
lunch." I live in the US and the economy here leaves alot to be desired. My
computer time is almost up right now so if you want to contact me to discuss
this further, my e-mail address is wramsey32@yahoo.com Thanks, Mr. C.
Subject: Re: Food production crisis...Where is president Koroma ?
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 15:29:54 07/12/08 ()
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My brother, I pray that God give you the financial strength to engage in this
important industry.
Unfortunately the whole process of farming involved money from start to finish, so the lack of it almost made you unable to execute a farm, especially if it is in commercial scale.
Please do not be discouraged by Sorie Jawara, he started this thread not because he's interested in the benefits but as a way of bashing the APC government.
Subject: Re: Food production crisis...Where is president Koroma ?
From: How concern
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Date Posted: 15:39:13 07/12/08 ()
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Ediie, there you go again- "Please do not be discouraged by Sorie Jawara,
he started this thread not because he's interested in the benefits but as a way
of bashing the APC government."
There is a marked differnce between truth and bashing.
Subject: Re: Food production crisis...Where is president Koroma ?
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 16:25:25 07/12/08 ()
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Mr How Concern, I believe you are highly educated but unfortunately are not well
educated. There's a difference between highly educated and well educated, let me
summarize it for you. You are highly educated means you can read, write and
achieve all sorts of diplomas or degrees but lack the quality of reasoning and
tend to be blinded by your mindset so in the process are always opposed to
objective reporting and credible claims about people you dislike.
When you're well educated, you have a huge tendency to understand things beyond your mindset and are able to see the good deeds of people you dislike and make appropriate complements, but you lack all these qualities and so there's no suprise that you're like this.
Subject: Eddy Grant you are just a common APC Thug
From: Teacher Sanu
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Date Posted: 16:55:05 07/12/08 ()
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I know you Mr. And I know you are barely literate.Where you in that APC NEC
ambush, master farmer?
Who is writing for you these days? There has been a dramatic improvement in your lingo. Pray the person does not leave you soon as you will get back to square zot or are you copying from a text book?
I am gonna be paying some attention to your scr1pts...if I find out you are
plagiarising, I will not hesitate to expose you.. OK?
Subject: Re: Eddy Grant you are just a common APC Thug
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 17:18:56 07/12/08 ()
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You must be highly educated but not well educated hence, your lack of reasoning
and understanding.
Please try to discuss the topic and not my person. If it were you that I attacked like this, you would have shamelessly distribute 'mamy cuss your speciality. But you're lucky you directed your unfair opinion towards me a civilize man.
All of you guys are proving me right that you were not present where Understanding was distributed, to you, farming is the most backward occupation in life, I'm proud to have engaged in this lucrative but blessed venture. For you, nar hangry go kill you if you nor take tem.
Subject: Re: Food crisisCORRECTION: EDDIE PLEASE READ
From: Mr. Cullinan
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Date Posted: 13:49:50 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: sorrelsteak@yahoo.com
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TO: EDDIE, My mistake, I should have addressed my last post to you and not Sorie.
Your offer to provide land to Sorie was very generous, and I meant to pose that
question to you instead. I apologize for any confusion. Regards, Mr. C
Subject: Re: Food crisisCORRECTION: EDDIE PLEASE READ
From: SORIE Jawara
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Date Posted: 14:35:22 07/12/08 ()
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Mr. Cullinan, Edie is just talking childish. ASK EDIE IF HE HAS A FARM .
Subject: Re: Food crisisCORRECTION: EDDIE PLEASE READ
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 15:34:14 07/12/08 ()
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Sorie, I do not have to prove anything to you. You don't know me neither do I
know you so lets allow sleeping dogs lay.
But if you are just trying to know whether I have a farm or farms, then say so I'am very happy to invite you to Freetown in October so you can find out for yourself.
Subject: Re: Food crisisCORRECTION: EDDIE PLEASE READ
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 13:52:22 07/12/08 ()
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No harm done bro, I love people who show interest for their country.
Subject: Re: Food CORRECTION: EDDIE PLEASE READ
From: Mr. Cullinan
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Date Posted: 14:08:48 07/12/08 ()
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TO: EDDIE, Thanks bro, For contact info. please read my last response-
13:57:52... are you still here??? We seem to be just missing each others posts.
Were you involved in the other forum???
Perhaps a cooperative Farming effort involving a small group of interested
people??? I'll give some thought to the future, Have a good day, Mr. C.
Subject: Re: Food CORRECTION: EDDIE PLEASE READ
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 15:22:46 07/12/08 ()
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Mr Cullinan, thank you for your interest in this important topic. I just pop
down the supermarket for a few minutes.
Subject: Re: Food production crisis...Where is president Koroma ?
From: Farmer
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Date Posted: 13:12:57 07/12/08 ()
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Relief Web
July 10th 2008
The human cost of the food crisis: Report from Sierra Leone
Rice is a staple food in Sierra Leone. Aminata Sesay, a handicapped widow and mother of five, depends on it for daily survival, as do millions of other Sierra Leoneans living in extreme poverty. Over the last nine months, the price of rice has almost tripled in many parts of the country. How are vulnerable people like Aminata coping?
From the rural villages of Tonkolili to the capital city of Freetown, the Concern team shared their concerns: food is becoming harder and harder to come by in Sierra Leone, and the nation's poorest are facing the first stages of a serious crisis.
THE VALUE OF RICE
In Tonkolili, one of Sierra Leone's poorest districts, Concern has been monitoring the price of food in markets. Since October 2007, the price of rice has risen 300 percent. In fact, a 50-kilogram bag of rice costs 75 percent of the average person's monthly income in Sierra Leone. In rural areas like Tonkolili, people earn far less. The cost of food is becoming a critical problem.
"Rice is so central to the diet here," says Concern Livelihoods Coordinator Tayo Alabi, "that if you ask a person if they have eaten today and they have not had rice, they will say no. Rice is that important."
Although high food prices are the immediate worry, there is also the question of the country's overall supply: indications are that Sierra Leone operates close to the bone in terms of the amount of food it produces every year. And then there is the weather: it's been unusually dry this year. If food prices continue to rise, things could get really bad here.
AMADU CONTEH: DAY TO DAY SURVIVAL
Amadu Conteh is not thinking in terms of trends in prices—he is simply trying to feed his family each day. Amadu is a subsistence farmer: he lives in the small village of Mafulka with his wife and three children. He can no longer afford palm oil—the cooking staple made from the flesh of the palm fruit—so he must use the inferior oil derived from palm seed. It is thick, has little nutritional value, and though he shakes the container vigorously, it will not flow. Amadu has one bag of rice and a few ears of maize to feed his family of five. He says,
"This food will last less than a month. I try to feed my family with what I grow. When the rice I grow is finished, I take whatever money I have to buy rice. In the village - can you imagine? – it is now 700 Leones for one cup of rice. It used to be 300 or 350 Leones per cup. When my money is finished, I search for bush yams and palm cabbage -- even though they are not ripe. If this continues, I will just have to continue to search for food - that is all I can do."
TROUBLING SIGNS IN THE MARKET AT MASINGBI
Thursday is market day in Masingbi town. Sitting at the crossroads of four of Sierra Leone's thirteen districts, it's a major regional trading hub and an important link in the supply chain between Freetown, thousands of rural villages, and big commercial centers in the east. Dust and diesel exhaust fill the air as minivans rumble in and out, loaded with people from across the region. The market is packed, but business at the food stalls is slow, and the anxiety is obvious.
Osman Sesay and his brother John are rice farmers who supplement their income by selling secondhand shoes. Their table is piled high with colorful flip-flops, vintage sneakers, and workboots With a family of twelve—including his 10 children, his wife, and himself—Osman needs the extra money. In December of 2007, he says he could buy a 50-kilo bag of rice for 60,000 leones. Today, it costs him 125,000. Although shoppers crowd around their stand, transactions are few and far between.
"To save money, we are eating less food now than we used to. We used to cook 12 cups of rice a day for my family. Now we cook seven cups," Osman says.
This year, due to inadequate rainfall, farmers didn't grow enough seeds. They have less rice to eat, less rice to sell, and now they are struggling to feed their families. Many have resorted to eating the seed rice they were saving to plant.
Aminata Sesay is among the poorest of the poor in Sierra Leone—an elderly widow with 5 children and 6 grandchildren. She has no reliable source of income. She says she was forced to eat the seeds she had set aside: "I've prepared my land for planting, but now I have no seed left to plant . . . Life in this country is very difficult."
Nearby, rice trader Ali Kanu stands in front of his storeroom piled high with bags of rice—brought in not from the farms of Sierra Leone, but imported from India and China. His customers buy rice by the cup even in the best of times, and recently, his rate of business has been cut in half. Ali says, "Those who used to buy 10 cups are now buying 5-6. I try to adjust, but things will reach a crisis stage. In August, if this trend continues, there will be chaos."
UNCERTAINTY IN FREETOWN
In Mabella, one of Freetown's six overcrowded urban slums, a maze of makeshift tin-roofed shelters runs down a steep hillside to the sea. Bordering Mabella is the city's largest market, boisterous with activity in the midst of stunning poverty. There is a lot of food in the market, but the 20,000 extremely poor people who live in Mabella slum have no money to buy it, and they are going hungry.
Halimatu Jalloh, a 32-year-old mother of four, often sells rice, but not lately. She has neatly arrayed packets of sugar, small plastic bags of flour, and a few cans of tomato paste in her stall. She nervously waits for her next customer.
"[The cost of rice] is affecting my family so much. We used to cook 6-7 cups of rice a day. But now much less. I don't really know what is responsible for the price increase, but if it continues, it will not be good. here is speculation that there will be chaos, but we are praying that it will not happen. I am suffering. My family is suffering. I do not have enough to feed my family and all of the customers are complaining, too. I am worried: if it continues this way, I won't be able to earn money here any longer."
Foday Koroma lives in Grey Bush slum, on the opposite side of the city. He is a 43-year-old former petty trader with a family of five. He suffered an injury, and now cannot find work. He told Concern that his family normally eats 8 cups of rice per day, but now they are only eating 5. Foday says, "We save a small amount of our daily ration of rice for tomorrow in case we cannot find food. We eat, but we don't get fed."
Concern Responds: Reducing the Hunger Gap
A central fact of life for farmers in Sierra Leone—and much of Africa—is the hunger gap. That's the period between harvests, when food from last year's crop has run out, but the new crop is not yet in. In 229 rural villages in Tonkolili District, Concern's livelihoods team has worked with communities to successfully reduce the hunger gap from 5 months to 2 months, helping 11,000 extremely poor people.
With Concern's maternal and child health programs focused on reducing malnutrition, as well as other initiatives like community seed banks, farmer field schools, fish farming, and the introduction of new crops such as maize, cassava, and soy, Concern is working hard to reduce the impact of the food crisis.
But huge challenges lie ahead. As Concern's Chief Executive Tom Arnold
emphasizes, "Food prices are going to remain high for the immediate future.
We have to come up with a multi-faceted approach to prevent what could become a
catastrophe if action is not taken quickly. The poorest of the poor are the ones
who are always hardest hit in times of crisis. Millions could fall into a deep
cycle of destitution if the world does not act now. And to act, funds and
political will at the global level are urgently needed."
Subject: Michael DeBakey, pioneer of heart procedures, dead at 99
From: Ahmad Tejan Koromah
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Date Posted: 11:44:52 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: ahmedtejan@hotmail.com
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Dr. DeBakey's was truly a great man and his reputation inspired many
people interested in the medical institution. He also treated heads of
state, entertainers, businessmen and presidents, as well as people with no
titles and no means. May his soul rest in peace. Amen/Amin.
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding,
the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
Subject: Re: Michael DeBakey, pioneer of heart procedures, dead at 99
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
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Date Posted: 19:29:41 07/12/08 ()
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I thought it was Dr.Christian Bernard.
Mohamed Kutubu kOROMA,
usa.
Subject: Re: Michael DeBakey, pioneer of heart procedures, dead at 99
From: Jonathan T. Boima
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Date Posted: 21:38:49 07/12/08 ()
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C. Bernard M.D, performed the first successful heart transplant surgery ( in
humans), an accomplishment that seriously rested on the works of great medical
pioneers like Dr. M. DeBakey. Among his numerous cardiological accomplishments,
Dr. Debakey was the first (on record) to use “ventricular bypass pump” to
perform “coronary
Bypass surgery”, “cortid endorterectomy “to name a few contributions to
the cardiac treatment. He was also a great contributor the creation of the
artificial heart.
Subject: SLPP STOP CRYING IN YOUR COFFEE!
From: Uman Lappa
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Date Posted: 11:11:02 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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The SLPP needs to get off this hackneyed path of obtuse propaganda, flagrant
lies and personal insults, as constantly belted by their AT and NP mouthpieces,
and begin to lay the foundations to extend its appeal beyond its comfort zones
in the east and south. Unfortunately, the party seems bent on continuing to play
the victim. "We was robbed!". "Christina Thorpe burnt our ballots
and polling stations". "Ernest slapped JJ Saffa and gave a Kanda
Belleh to Puawui!". "Sam Sumana and the U.N sent thugs to disrupt Kono
against us". "Robert Mugabe sent his election terrorist squad to help
APC attack SLPP". "There is a great conspiracy against SLPP in the
Security Council and the AU!". "We stole a few billion US dollars, APC
has stolen a few millions...how come everybody is picking on SLPP? This is
unfair!". Blah blah blah...Grow up people! Stop being so damned lazy. Make
SLPP grand again. Make it a national party and not just another parochial
denizen of Eastern conservatives.
Subject: Re: SLPP STOP CRYING IN YOUR COFFEE!
From: Bakundu
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Date Posted: 23:57:55 07/12/08 ()
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What does the APC stand for? Is it the "Agba satanism" that the like
minds of SI, CA, Bambay and Bandele introduced into the politics of mother
Salone?Where is their comfort zone? 'Blood and North potato barah' My advice to
the SLPP is to stop crying in their coffee and send all the Korthors back to
their potato farms.That is where lazy minds au traders meet to hatch up their
bombalistic and blood thirsty sokoism on the people of Sierra Leone. After
all,the APC/ACP(All country Pwell) is just another 'parochial denizen 'of
northern rebels and anarchists.
Subject: Guiness Book of Records Award to the APC 4 beating NEC staff
From: Amnesty International rep
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Date Posted: 11:57:47 07/12/08 ()
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APC has today gone in the history books for ambushing and beating up Election
staff in Sierra leone. After several violent stunts in Kono, this latest
despicable act is indeed in a class of its own.
Not even Kibaki or Mugabe have achieved this unenviable record.
Shame on you Bai Bai Koroma!
Subject: Re: Guiness Book of Records Award to the APC 4 beating NEC
staff
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 12:40:17 07/12/08 ()
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This is a very good record indeed for teaching you people manners. Your attitude
stinks like a skunk and you know it, so the election of the APC is timely as it
is important.
When you're faced with a repungnant party such as the SLPP, you will need a formidable force to neutralize it, and thats where the APC come in. The APC is the nightmare of the SLPP it is their boss because they will not hesitate to whip their rears if they (SLPP) fail to behave according to the laws of the land. Without the APC, Sierra Leone stands to become like an ancient city because these Mwalaylaymia SLPPers are not interested in a one country.
Its only the APC who can say hey yoh stay where you are! or else you're doomed and they'll pee, wator and release some unwanted volcanic contents . The reason we're seeing the SLPPers 'big mot' is because the electronic communication is at their disposal and also EBK decided that this time he's ready to set everyone free. And even that we can still get the sh*t out of them if we so desire. So let them rant and rave for all I know is it will take some donkey's years before they smell the corridors of power in Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: Guiness Book of Records Award to the APC 4 beating NEC
staff
From: How concern
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Date Posted: 15:18:41 07/12/08 ()
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Ediie, I can't believe all that "sh*t" of rants is/are coming from
you. I now believe the outdated saying that "you can take the man out of
the bush but you can't take the bush out of him". At one instance I was
tempted to believed that you might be one of the few REDDIES that is "cibilized"
but then here you are with your effusion and happy about the attempted murder of
democracy. Yet you claimed to care and have concern about SLeoneans. Concern my
foot.
You were among the first to cry down JJ (SLPP SG) for letting you know that you
do not have monopoly over violence.
eddie, you have can support APC all you want but do not be blind to our peoples
suffering. Uptil now people are still crying "hardship" in the
country.
Me man we self de call FTown almost any other day, it just the same thing- tin
tranger. Even the $5M light/month is rationed, and my cousins at Kissy are at
the short end.
Me open you eyes en see and duya nor lock you yeas
Subject: Re: Guiness Book of Records Award to the APC 4 beating NEC
staff
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 16:00:19 07/12/08 ()
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My brother, seriously I love all Sierra Leoneans, its an undisputed fact. Just
one thing I want say you've being 'sweet talking me' to change my belief in
favour of your SLPP by making assumptions such as
"At one instance I was tempted to believed that you might be one of the few REDDIES that is "cibilized" but then here you are with your effusion and happy about the attempted murder of democracy. Yet you claimed to care and have concern about SLeoneans"
You have being on this forum and have read a lot of my posts but still missed my qualty which is I can never allow my integrety to be compromised by someone who showered me with compliments my belief remains the same.
Futhremore, You're blaming me for supporting the party I believe can make a big difference in our country while you constantly ignored the blatant failures by your party during the past 11 years. Your comments:
Uptil now people are still crying "hardship" in the country.
It is sad and uneccessary for these people to suffer like this, but please if you're interested in objective criticisms, then you can testify on the fact that if only the past SLPP government had strived in farming and encourage the farmers to take their tools and do farming, this current hardship would have been averted. But what did they do with the funds donated DFID on Poverty Reduction? paid rhem into secure accounts out of the country.
My brother, we can fight all night for our various parties but the fact still remains that the only beneficiaries are the politicians.
And for your information, I know a lot about farming because I hailed from a farming family and like I said, if you're willing to have ago I can help.
Subject: Re: Guiness Book of Records Award to the APC 4 beating NEC
staff
From: How concern
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Date Posted: 16:18:04 07/12/08 ()
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Eddie you missed the point. You wrote "The reason we're seeing the SLPPers
'big mot' is because the electronic communication is at their disposal and also
EBK decided that this time he's ready to set everyone free. And even that we can
still get the sh*t out of them if we so desire. So let them rant and rave for
all I know is it will take some donkey's years before they smell the corridors
of power in Sierra Leone." My friend that is killing democracy. period.
My friend, let us stop crying over spilled milk, if you may, the SLPP is gone
for now. It is all APC now and the people are still crying.
Thanks, but no.I am not a farmer, though one day I'll like to own one. I know a
bit about farming as I was born in Kambia. I went through it. Temne-" wan
me soh e bullu do kur, e tereh wase,e tereh lefthy ge talla, e tereh sac, mape
dar'e ka ge roc ay mei bai"
Trust me SLLP do not need you so I see no reason why I should sweet talk you....Pleasssssse.
Subject: Re: Guiness Book of Records Award to the APC 4 beating NEC
staff
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 16:45:55 07/12/08 ()
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Bravo, for mastering a few words of Temne though the accent is clearly that of a
Mende tongue.
You talk about killing democracy, I said voters' dissatisfation. The phrase denotes that your party will simply be ignored by the electorates for donkey's years. You see, you've just corrobrated my point that you are not well educated because you couldn't reason.
Subject: Re: Guiness Book of Records Award to the APC 4 beating NEC
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From: How concern
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Date Posted: 17:06:41 07/12/08 ()
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You wrote "The reason we're seeing the SLPPers 'big mot' is because the
electronic communication is at their disposal and also EBK decided that this
time he's ready to set everyone free. And even that we can still get the sh*t
out of them if we so desire. So let them rant and rave for all I know is it will
take some donkey's years before they smell the corridors of power in Sierra
Leone." My friend that is killing democracy. period.
Here you go,"You talk about killing democracy, I said voters'
dissatisfation".Apply basic "Priciple of Reasoning" and make your
judgement.
So I am no longer Jacob Kanu... that issue is settled then.
By the way how do you tell one's accent from their writing? You nar man plus.
Someone posted here sometime back that you are one heck of a tribalist, and
specialized in mende bashing-I need not say more.
I might not know how to write temne, but I am one hell of temne with my mom from
Old Port Loko ( Robekeh loko) and my dad from Kambia- Kambia town itself. But
most important is that I grew up along that axis.
I might not be well educated, but with you, Osoh, I'll hold my grounds.
Subject: Re: Guiness Book of Records Award to the APC 4 beating NEC
staff
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 17:31:12 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
You're Jacob Kanu my friend, I deal with people the way they present themselves
to me. You chose to respond to my post as How Concern, so I will treat you like
that. It make no difference because you uses many other monikas, I know your
style of writing. The other day, when you wanted to abuse me you used ?????? as
your cyber name.
Keep on using whatever you want.
Subject: Re: Guiness Book of Records Award to the APC 4 beating NEC
staff
From: Jacob Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 05:29:36 07/13/08 ()
Email Address: jacob.kanu@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Eddy, I know you have an eternal obsession about me and you probably, routinely
have nightmares receiving serious thumping from me.
I don't know how to get this into you thick skull - I am not 'How concern', neither am I Mr Dabo. A tiny fry (or is it housefly) like you Eddy, can be effortlessly squashed anyday, anytime.
You should by now know that my interest is really not half-baked foot soldiers like you ... but the incompetent bosses of all, Mr Bride himeself, EBK.
As he has now started attacking Election officers in thug ambushes, we will not allow him to take our beloved nation down with him. If a 'swegbeh' like you think a savage attack on the NEC should be ignored ...then you're simply unpatriotic and blinded by tribal loyalties, and really do not diserve any attention.
p/s
How concern, I think you are doing a great job, keeping this tribalist and very
dull hooligan in check. I cannot believe he thinks we should write with an
accent. Eddy our Preshident, the tantcellor of the Univashity of Shirra Leone
ish already doing that on our behalf... we shall move on to better things.
Subject: Re: Guiness Book of Records Award to the APC 4 beating NEC
staff
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 09:57:52 07/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
Bro, my sympathy for you is still reserved honestly my love goes for every
Sierra Leone and in particular my deepest concern is for you.
You can be angry with me now but you'll surely thank me later for my efforts to put you in the right direction. Believe me bro, if you had used your good writing skills in an objective way, your points would have been elevated, but because of your wayward thinking you failed in all spheres to attract sympathy. But you know I will not give up because there's no bad bush to throw a bad brother I will always be here for you whenever you need me.
Subject: Re: Guiness Book of Records Award to the APC 4 beating NEC
staff
From: How concern
To: All
Date Posted: 17:56:29 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Now back to the issue. Read my posting and answer my questions:
How do you tell one's accent from one's writng?
I also need you conclusion fronm the two statements you made since I can not
read your mind.
Subject: Re: Guiness Book of Records Award to the APC 4 beating NEC
staff
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 12:26:50 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Election observers from every credible organization have declared the elections
to be free and fair. SLPP can scream accusations of fictional violence until
they are purple in the face and it will not thwart the democratic mandate of the
APC. If anyone is guilty of electoral malfeasance, just check under the
petticoat of the SLPP.
Subject: Uman Lappa stop taking that strong medication
From: Christiana Topup
To: All
Date Posted: 12:40:25 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Did you not hear the BBC report on the NEC ambush, and did you not hear the
damning election report from the National lection Watch(NEW).
What about the spate of violence we saw in Kono
The thatening of female candidates with rape
The dozens of unpposed candidates
APC MP David Bai Conteh's terror campaign in Constituency 63 in Gbonkohlenkeh
chiefdom, Tonkolili
Burning of election materials by APC thugs in ambush
etc etc
Uman lappa stop this nonsense. Nation sweh nar big bundle ooh for youngman...
Subject: Re: Uman Lappa stop taking that strong medication
From: no to so
To: All
Date Posted: 13:11:25 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: lamin11@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Correct me if am wrong. The way you make the so called violence in kono sound
like dozens lost their lives and thousands became homeless and women were
repeatedly raped. I have some good news for you, with all the violence you are
claiming in kono the people continue to vote APC infront of the world isn't that
beautiful.
Keep on throwing fake punches very soon everyone will get to see your true
strenghths, which is no less than scared the public with BS. But remember
majority of the people are no longer slow they know how to go about verifying
every piece of information you bring to their attention. If i were you i will
apply better tactics than this self destructive path you continue to follow. UNA
FEEL SAY DIS NA DI SIXTIES NOW ALL MAN GET COMPUTER EN FON.
Subject: Re: SLPP STOP CRYING IN YOUR COFFEE!
From: no to so
To: All
Date Posted: 11:45:35 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
They will not learn. Thats why the APC will continue to take advantage of their
silly mistakes. Keep on exposing yourself, am a young independent salonean what
i see so far is that the SLPP guys tend to fabricte stories which to me has
serious credibility issues. When you make allegations please make sure you have
sufficient evidence to back 'em up with. nine times out of ten SLPP accusations
have proved to be lies and fictional. I want SLPPians to know that we are in the
21st century and anything you say can be verify. Stop throwing unnecessary
punches at your opponent or you will be exhausted before the real battle begins.
Actions speaks louder than words.
Subject: Re: SLPP STOP CRYING IN YOUR COFFEE!
From: Good Point
To: All
Date Posted: 12:21:17 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: codfodnus@aol.com
Entered From:
Message:
Good point. Short story, there was a man well known for stealing. Whenever some
thing got missing, he would be the one accuse even if he was not the one that
stole that particular thing. My S.L.P.P. brothers, We have to build credibility
before 2012, so when the real battle line is drawn, we can give heavy punches
and the people will reason with us. Trust me the A.P.C is politically smark, we
have to acknowledge that hard fact. They have political punches reserve, now
they are building trust, when the time comes, they will use them and the people
will believe them. So let grow up if we want the people to listen to us.
keh-tam-mear
Subject: Former Bush spokesman Tony Snow dies
From: Ahmad Tejan Koromah
To: All
Date Posted: 10:56:10 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: ahmedtejan@hotmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Tony Snow; former White House spokesman and also a former Fox News
Anchor dies of Cancer at the age of 53. May his soul rest in perfect peace.
Amen/Amin
Subject: Re: Former Bush spokesman Tony Snow dies
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 19:34:24 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
My sincerest condolences to the Snow family for their
irreparable loss.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
Subject: THAT PRESS RELEASE
From: Londoner
To: All
Date Posted: 10:42:11 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"Let it be known that while this government respects freedom of the press,
it simultaneously eschews bad journalism, especially when it tries to mortgage
the integrity of our national success for inexplicable reasons."
This is bad English pure and simple!
Subject: To Tendai the Ignorant
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 10:18:20 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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You must be one of Mugabe' team mates that belong to that country club in
Harare.
Subject: Ambushing Election staff is depicable,. Period!
From: Tendai Movunzu
To: All
Date Posted: 11:38:47 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: tmovunzu@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Which part of your naive, juvenile government's blunders don't you understand.
Beating up election staff and burning election materials is simply unacceptable even on your crude standards. Stop this crude and backward behaviour.
By the way I believe your Government ACP, is far worse than Mugabe's. I disagree with the Old Man, but would hasten to add that if Sierra Leone got one tenth of the Press attention we are getting, Mr Koroma will be toast.
Ours, although unexcusable has a long history (apartheid, colonial imperialism, white vs black etc); but yours? What can you say about your 10 month old government's achievement - Nothing but increased election rigging and politically violence, my African brother. He even had the audacity to close the Opposition owned radio, I recently learnt. His cabinet is bloated by his illiterate tribes men (90%), since taking office, I hear all prices, even locallly produced commodities have trippled. Yet Sierra Leone has no Western imposed sanctions.
Your mediocre president flies to every insignificant meeting in the world, leaving behind an unaffordable carbon footprint and a battered economy.
Your government is making Mugabe, if all people look like a saint, at least he never attacked Election Personnel.
You have to be very ashamed of yourself and your rotten juvenile government.
Tendai M Chenjerai
Harare, Zimbabwe
tendaimchenjerai@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Ambushing Election staff is depicable,. Period!
From: Jon Bakundu
To: All
Date Posted: 13:05:25 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: Bacchusmoi@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
The conduct of Mugabe and his marauding looters is despicable and disgraceful to
the whole of Africa and the human race. Why can't African leaders learn to let
go? What has Mugabe got to offer the people of Zimbabwe that he has yet to
figure out? I think it's time for him to vacate the scene for good. That said,
President Koroma is no better than Mugabe. He pretends and pay lip service to
the election violence and intimidation that is taking place in Sierra Leone.
What examples can his government point at to make us believe that he is
different from Mugabe.What about the 41 unoppose in the North.What about the
Bombalization of the cabinet? Only the Korthors and the ACP(All country Pwell)
can call that democracy.
Subject: Re: To Tendai the Ignorant
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 10:37:40 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
It seems that the SLPP's strategy, to regain the State House, is to wage the
crudest, most childish and churlish insults at the President and his government.
"Zimbabweans condemn President Koroma"? The Zims are too hungry to tap
at keyboard keys. The SLPP will resort to the crassest propaganda in order to
win votes. No wonder no one takes Salone politics seriously!
Subject: Re: To Tendai the Ignorant
From: Ronaldino
To: All
Date Posted: 11:05:55 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
These so called 'book men'of SLPP could not build a hundred metres of road, but
however all built mansions in the past 5 years! They are thanking their stars
that EBK is not a vindictive man. Because the man on the street is seeking
revenge for his economic aid the the world gave has ended up as mansions.
Subject: Re: To Tendai the Ignorant
From: OR KASS
To: All
Date Posted: 13:18:49 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
but please dont say that.they built the road to our capital city mukeni much to
the consternation of kailahun and even gave many of our cousins ministerial
positions as well as building many schools and health centres in the north which
the rebels destroyed .Ay wan!!!!
Subject: Doctorate
From: Point to Ponder
To: All
Date Posted: 08:08:03 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Since many citizens are complaining about the calibre,IQ and qualifications of
various Ministers, why not award them a Doctorate each (Honoris Causa), and that
way, they will look more respectable, and educated?They could be charged a
nominal fee for this, which will help the finances of the University
Subject: Re: Doctorate
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 08:39:58 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
That is a silly comment to make about such national concern especially with
people like Zainab Bangura leading the Diplomatic charge for the nation that is
such a dismal failure.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: Doctorate
From: no to so
To: All
Date Posted: 10:17:59 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: shaun12@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Oh well, but the educated ones just left office after eleven years of power
abuse. Yes the educated ministers (or former ministers) did a fantastic job for
salone they (1) provided adequate security for citizens that was why AFRC/RUF
and the uncontroble kamajos were successful in wreckinking havoc on poor
citizens. (2) there was provisions for those who were poor (3) The ministers
were all honest and truthful with public funds(4) they killed people who did not
support them (5)we had the best economy in the region and lastly we became and
remain the poorest country in the world, what a fantastic achievement educated
ones.
Now let me explain to you what the "illeterates" have achieved in less
than ten months in office. (1) they brought the most important factor in making
and developing our economy (electricity) (2) no one has yet to be arrested on
trump charges (3) no one has never been publicly executed for not belonging to
their party (4)they just distributed seeds of rice to poor farmers that means
that hopefully by 2009 we will be food sufficiency. Lastly there is a sense of
hope and the people see a bright future ahead of them they no longer have to
worry about good leadership they have found one in EBK and his ministers you and
your folks are trying to pull down. These illeterate ministers have achieved
what the educated ministers can not or don't know what to do in eleven years.
Brothers lets face the facts for once and give respect to whom it is due. E GO
TAY BEFO SLPP WIN ELECTION NA SALONE, ESPECIALLY WEY FREETOWN AND KONO DON FAINT
PAN DEM LIES. AND LOOK HOW WEL APC DO DIS KWIK TEM.
Subject: Re: Doctorate
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 19:25:52 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
You must be having a jolly good time with Alice in the Wonderland to be day
dreaming like this.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: Doctorate
From: Mr Bride
To: All
Date Posted: 11:05:16 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
In 10 months, "LOOK HOW WEL APC DO DIS KWIK TEM" not to so:
Prices of ALL essential commodities have doubled if not trippled
Violent crimes in Sierra Leone have duadripled
90% of Cabinet from only one region
Truck driver VP buys $1M property in NJ USA
The NEC does not pulish election results anymore, burnt ballot papers and
terminated Official Website
NEC Officials are ambushed and beaten up - more destruction of election
materials
Illegal travel bans
Threatening of press freedom including illegal closure of opposition radio
Ministers are peeing and vomiting in public
Kemoh Sesay has made his personal account in London recepient of National
tariffs
$2 Million + fake government debt to Wamza paid
SL government rented the most expensive electricity on the continent
ACC Czar has been silenced
Known criminals are being trained and conscr1pted in the SLP
Burkina Faso, rebel collaborator, has suddenly become Sierra Leone's best friend
Tibet has no right to demonstarted against opression
Chancellor of USL has become Tantellor of Univashitty
Press Secretary insulting women in public
Most extravagant Presidential Inauguration valued @ half a million dollars
President says Mr Bride ... in public
Not to so are you on drugs? Or you are just plain silly like the masters you're
worshipping. Get a life!
Subject: Re: Doctorate
From: no to so
To: All
Date Posted: 11:21:28 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: lamin11@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Here we go again, eventhough you know the root cause of food problems you still
decided to make a fool out of yourself. you are making nonsense out of freedom
of expression but am pretty sure forumites will decide who is on drugs. Lonta.
Subject: Re: Doctorate
From: Abass Sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:42:36 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
I think you are, Mr No to so. Its that a serious name my friend.
Subject: Re: Doctorate
From: no to so
To: All
Date Posted: 11:59:38 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: lamin11@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Abass i can smell you fom a distance and i don't have time for you games because
you are just out of touch.
Subject: Re: Doctorate
From: no to so
To: All
Date Posted: 11:54:37 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: lamin11@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Abass, i can smell you from a distance and i know who you are but am not gonna
play games with you because you are just out of touch.
Subject: Zimbabwe
From: UN Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 07:52:16 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
British proposal for sanctions against Zimbabwe was turned down by Security
Council.Another defeat for a dying Giant
Subject: Re: Zimbabwe
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 08:09:00 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Another sad betrayal of democracy especially in Africa. It shows that African
leaders can cut our throats like chicken and go Scot-free. All the permanent
members of the S.C share the blame. They all support noxious regimes when it
serves their interests. Today it is China and Russia who are the guilty party.
But Britain, France and America have also protected unsavory regimes all around
the world.
Subject: Re: Zimbabwe
From: yankuba kai-samba
To: All
Date Posted: 09:45:26 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: y020855@yahoo.co.uk
Entered From:
Message:
The failure of UN to put up a united front agaist Zimbabwe is a set back for the
continent's quest for genuine democracy.
After what happened in Kenya and Zimbabwe where both the incumbents lost the elections but refused to go, we are now left with a bizare situation where those who were defeated in the ballot box remains in power and invited the true winners to join them instead in a government of national government.
An ominous sign for future African elections.
Subject: Early warning signs show that EBK is going tobe far worse
From: Independent Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 10:43:58 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Attacking electoral officials is a horrendous crime, even for Zimbabweans. EBK
should change his ways immediately or risk being unenvialby classed worse than
Kibaki & Mugabe.
His early apetite for political violence is very worrying indeed.
Subject: Re: Early warning signs show that EBK is going tobe far worse
From: no to so
To: All
Date Posted: 11:06:46 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: lamin22@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Are you bored this morning? or maybe you ate a lot of casAda leaf this morning.
Ho dare you compare Salone to Zimbabwe the differences are clear. Since EBK took
office how many deaths has been recorded out of political violence? tens of
people dead in Zimbabwe and Kenya. Last week elections in Salone were widely
praised by the same people who wants Mugabe's guts. All you SLLPians and your
unprofessional writers from different mediums needs to cross check your spins
before postng them, don't expect cocorioko forumites to believe your rants. UNA
BLO BO.
Subject: No to so.... is it OK to beat election staff?
From: Abass Sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 11:45:50 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Answer this simple question, thick head.
Is it OK to beat election staff?
Subject: Re: No to so.... is it OK to beat election staff?
From: no to so
To: All
Date Posted: 13:28:59 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: lamin11@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Sir, i told you i don't have time for your crap, you need to find your mates so
you can discuss stupidity with them. You just don't seem to get it, let me warn
you for the last time before i SPIT venom on you. YOU MAKE NO SENSE SO STOP
WASTING MY TIME ON BASELESS DISCUSSIONS. HAVE A GOOD DAY.
Subject: Venom.? .I think you mean phlegm
From: Abass Sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 13:42:51 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
"..before i SPIT venom on you..."
Where you in the nec ambush?
Subject: Re: Zimbabwe
From: zakmal
To: All
Date Posted: 08:01:22 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: columbusw@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
It is a shame that China,Russia and their cohortin South Africa saw it fit to
that Mugabe has the right ro kill and maim his own people at will. These are the
same countries that has brainwashed our people over he years to blame everything
under the sun on the United States or Britain. When is Africa and Africans are
going to wake up and realize that China,Russia and Thabo Mbeki of South Africa
are selling out the Zimbabweans to a brute like Mugabe. This cabal in Zimbabwe
should be indicted by the world court for genocide and wanton murder and the
court should also indict Mbeki as a co-conspirator. Long live the people of
Zimbabwe help is on the way.
Subject: Re: Zimbabwe
From: Ahmad Tejan Koromah
To: All
Date Posted: 10:39:27 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: ahmedtejan@hotmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
zakmal,
Do not fret,whilst we strive for accountability from our leaders we must
also have faith in the Higher Power, believing that it is not how a
person enters this world; but how they exits it. There will come an
appointed time when evil leaders/people will be praying for death but
it will not come until its appointed time; nurses who work deligently in
hospice care can testify to this. Five years who would have thought
that an African name like OBAMA would be the most popular name
uttered around the world. We continue to pray for the people of
Zimbabwe. Nelson Mandela seems to be the only African leader who in
his latter years has been bestowed with blessings.
"Nor can a soul die except by Allah's leave; the term being fixed as by
Allah's writing."
Al-Imran. 3:145
Subject: Shame on the SC...but what about EBK ambush on NEC staff?
From: Abass Sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 09:26:42 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: abusesay1999@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Its a shame Russia and China did what they did. But what about President
Koroma's thug ambushing NEC staff and burning up balot papers.
Zakmal and other APC supporters, what say ye of this despicable crime against election officials. This is brazen and stupid... not even tried in Zimbabwe. EBK do set new record - Worst Political Violence of all times.
I hope the Security Council is watching.
Subject: SOLOMON BEREWA'S ROLE IN THE TREASON CASES.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 07:51:24 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
WHY SOLOMON BREWA’S ROLE IN THE TWO MAJOR TREASON CASES PROSECUTED BY ABDULIA
CONTEH SHOULD ALSO CLOSELY BE EXAMINED.
The two major treason cases where Fornah and others lost their lives in
juxtaposition to those of Minah and others as results of malicious prosecutions
should be widen to examine what role if any Solomon Berewa and the other
prosecutors had to do with the monumental and grave miscarriages of justice if
any.
Along with Conteh,Berewa was part of the Fornah prosecution team as senior state
counsel that also included Nasiru Deen Tejan Cole,Dabo,Akie Barber and
possibly,late Valrie Bankole Jones,Gloria Atiba Davies,and Nicholas Brown
Mark.In any case all of them were the prosecutors in the Minah case
specifically.
I was never a fan of all the accused persons in general and Francis Minah in
particular.As a matter of fact,his late counsin James Minah and I had a very
serious confrontation when he sought to hoodwink the organization into using its
funds to buy a trophy and honour Siaka Stevens in the name of Tegloma
organization in an apparent attempt to boost his cousin’s standing with Siaka
Stevens.While other members were smitten by moral cravenness unable to raise
vocal opposition to it and preferred to soliloquize their disdain for such
proposition in the palatial comforts of the innermost recesses of their
surroundings,I was the only one who stood up to James Minah and made sure that
never happened.
The fact however remains according to Abdulia Conteh’s own address dated on
November 11,2007 carried by this establishment in which he asserted that Stevens
had the constitution tailored in such a manner that there was pervasive
intimidation of the judiciary ,and that the threat of forced retirement of
judges browbeat them in submission to do Steven’s biddings at the expense of
fair play and justice to all.I want to believe that acting on Mr.Marrah’s
claim and Conteh’s own incriminating address on November 11,there was
elaborate conspiracy between Stevens and the nation’s jurisprudence to
victimize innocent citizens who were in truck with his Gestapo
rulership.Coincidentally,I have a piece posted on this forum also that suggests
how Stevens and the Krio judiciary conspired to destroy the fabric of the
nation.
While I have no evidence to link Solomon Brewa to such diabolical conduct
because he is very smart not to write anything that took place while he was an
employee at the Justice department,nonetheless,I am constrained by sheer force
of moral circumstance to suggest that he and others knew that the evidence they
used to prosecute those people were tainted and vitiated with fraud and
irregularities.
Perhaps Solomon Berewa for the good of his own name may want to tell us about
the insidiousness of the Conteh/Stevens/Momoh Justice Department now that
Abdulia Conteh has led off with his chilling Gestapo like accounts of how the
constitution was manipulated to suit the whims,views,and caprices of Stevens,the
perfectionist at Macarthyite and Machiavellian politics.
In my considered judgment and candid opinion,Solomon Brewa will indeed be
helping himself and the SLPP if he can give an account of what transpired in
both major cases where he was an active player.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma.
Subject: Re: SOLOMON BEREWA'S ROLE IN THE TREASON CASES.
From: Non Lawyer
To: All
Date Posted: 07:58:22 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From:
Message:
Sir, why should we blame the prosecutor for treason or other Government
cases??It is the Judge, who delivers the judgement.
Subject: Re: SOLOMON BEREWA'S ROLE IN THE TREASON CASES.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 08:16:18 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
Sir,you are grotesquely wrong on this in your understanding of how the law
works.
The judge is there simply to ensure that that facts of the law are observed and
he should not be on any one's side.
There is in law what is called "PREPONDRANCE OF EVIDENCE".It falls
within the province of the prosecutors to present every available evidence
beyond reasonable doubts.Again,go through the address Conteh himself gave on
November 11,2007,and except you are morally blind,believe me you will see where
i am coming from.
Subject: KUTUBU, WHY THIS BEEF AGAINST ABDULAI CONTEH?
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 07:50:31 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
Entered From:
Message:
Boss Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
Why the anger against Abdulai Conteh? I am sure there have been many ministers,
from APC, SLPP, Sojas and Sobels, who were more destructive and venal than A.O.
Conteh. For example, do you believe in your heart of hearts that an operator
like our John Benjamin is any way better than Dr. Conteh (considering his
duplicitous role in NPRC and SLPP)? How come there is no dissection of this
sociopath? This Abdulai Conteh-all-the-time shtick is getting tiresome. For real
Ngor. This is not history. It is unfairly trashing a great man who cannot defend
himself on the forum.
Subject: Re: KUTUBU, WHY THIS BEEF AGAINST ABDULAI CONTEH?
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 08:10:27 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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Sir,i have just said in many ways as i possibly can that with the exception of
Sidi Sheriff in Virginia,no body has defended Abdulia Conteh in this community
that i have.
The fact of the matter simply is that most of you guys read what you want to
read and that is exactly the proble.
I have nothing against Conteh's person,i however have lots against what he did
while he was a public official.
Conteh himself provided the lethal ammunination for my diatribe against him
based on his address posted on this forum on November 11,2007.You can seee it
posted on July 9,2008.Look at it for yourself and if you have a modicum of the
constitutional understanding of the nation,you should be morally outraged by
that address.As a Lawyer trained from one of the most prestigious Universities
in the UK,and a member of the Bar Association of the UK,and Wales who went on to
win an equally prestgious prize in law ,there is no way on earth he should have
brought himself to the level that he did just to be in power.If he had not made
those remarks on November 11,2007,i will have continued defending him.
Also,let me tell you this,when i visited with him at his Justice Department
office,during our conversations,he asked me for my impression about the Fornah
case.I was very satisfied then he was doing the right thing until his own letter
which has gravely undermined his own integrity.
Conteh's situation will be liken to the evidence used by Mr.Bush for going to
war.At the time,he felt it was ok.It is only now that it has come to light that
it was unethical and faulty.If Conteh has said nothing about how the Stevens and
Momoh manipulated the judiciary,we will not have been at this stage.It is his
sense of bigness,sense of excellence,and sense of grandeur that has brought all
this on him.He served in the government with George Carew and others who also
have superior education just as himself.The same went for AKT,they never said or
wrote anything about the dark days in the APC cabal.He wants to impress you that
he studied in Cambridge University so he can go on to insult your
intelligence.With Kutubu,that is a no,no.I am prepared to take him all the way
possible to give him the message that i do not lionize him as most of you do
because you have no confidence in your intellectual standing.
Subject: Re: KUTUBU, WHY THIS BEEF AGAINST ABDULAI CONTEH?
From: Uman Lappa
To: All
Date Posted: 10:24:14 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: moijuekaisamba@gmail.com
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"I am prepared to take him all the way possible to give him the message
that i do not lionize him as most of you do because you have no confidence in
your intellectual standing".......Mohamed Kutubu Koroma.
Mr. Koroma, it is a reality of contemporary African politics that the distinctions between the different branches of government is nebulous and tenuous. It is no wonder that the most brilliant intellectuals in AFRICA ARE compromised by the fear that if they do not toe the line of the president, they will be severely sanctioned. It is not a principled stand but it is a sober reality of African politics. I would wager that nearly every government functionary in every government, be it APC or SLPP could be ascribed the wrath that you have directed at Dr Conteh. Of course some of them did not write books or submit papers or release mea culpas, to forgive or lambast them with. Dozens of ministers of the SLPP could be similarly sanctioned.
Subject: SLPP supporters are now Zimbabweans. That is even worse!
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 05:37:55 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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It is said "A man is known by the company he keeps" and "The
reputation of a supporter is known by the group or people he
admires".Should anyone doubt that all SLPPers are admirers of a people who
conduct elections with only one contestant?
If we go back to history the SLPP developed,employed, maintained and protected the WUTETEH phenomenon which deals with classical vote-rigging. Had it not been for the God-sent Christiana Thorpe these rogues would have still been in power against the wishes of baffled and intimidated patriotic Saloneans. What these conmen never knew was Christiana Thorpe being a PhD grad is well versed in Applied research.She had been observing for years how votes in every constituency in the SLPP strongholds had outnumbered their populations.The dumb SLPPers never take demographics into consideration-too bad.They stupidly manufactured ballots without thinking about the number of voters participating in the elections as well as the size of the constituency.In 2007 they were easily caught like kids in the game of 'PLAY KAYTCH' who hide with their backs being exposed.What a shame!
One can imagine what will happen to Salone if these Mugabe-wannabes have a chance to rule Salone again.First thing I believe they will do is send Mama Thorpe to exile since they cannot murder her like Kula Sama having no convincing alibi at hand. Next they will employ someone like James Jonah to conduct the elections SLPP-style(WUTETEH) and shamefully make him a minister afterwards.Then they will finally execute any protesters on the grounds that they are coup-plotters against the SLPP regime and with the coup-plotters tag they will take a large number of northerners and women to the gallows. Thanks to God these nefarious swindlers are on their way to Zimbabwe!
Subject: Re: SLPP supporters are now Zimbabweans. That is even worse!
From: Curious
To: All
Date Posted: 07:47:11 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Christiana, a real Ph.D???Which subject??
Subject: Re: SLPP supporters are now Zimbabweans. That is even worse!
From: Mugabe Peoples Party
To: All
Date Posted: 07:31:17 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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I am so glad that my party has finally embraced the towering legacy of Mugabe.
We will use propaganda, deceit and terror to bring down President Koroma. Forget
about democracy. We will get back to power by hook, crook or damned lie.
Subject: Re: SLPP supporters are now Zimbabweans. That is even worse!
From: Keen observer
To: All
Date Posted: 06:31:35 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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well if she was that confident that she was being patriotic, why did she hasten
to burn electoral materials at hastings when a case to reveal the truth was
being pursued that would have laid to rest any iota of doubt to all both within
and out of sl?Surely that was potential evidence wasnt it?
Subject: Re: SLPP supporters are now Zimbabweans. That is even worse!
From: The Smart Cavalier
To: All
Date Posted: 06:47:56 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
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For the fact you know about this incident means it was no secret.Had she burnt
them without public knowledge means something fishy. What was the evidence in
those materials? To help you here the only evidence was that of the WUTETEH
phenomenon. Those materials are the superfluous voting ballots in the SLPP
strongholds.Remember SLPP polling agents prevented non-SLPP voters from voting
in most places in the south and the east to have the chance of ballot-stuffing.On
such grounds votes in those centres were declared null and void.The
international community knows about it.
The materials have to be burnt because there is no use keeping them.
Subject: Dull Cadaver what about the NEC Website she terminated?
From: Keen Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 08:59:04 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: leather.boot@yahoo.com
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Christiana Topup did not only burn balltot evidences, she also took the Official
NEC Website offline. If you do not see that as a blatant manipulation, then Dull
Cadver, yoiu true are a blind support.
EBK Alpha Kanu & Christiana Topup know what they are doing, rigging and coordinating political violence even against NEC staff. They seem to have forgotten how the Bambay Kamaras, the Agbshatanis, the Highways ended... pathetically. Mama Salone is unforgiven when it comes to unpatriotic behaviours. They better change their ways or they will have a pathetic end.
Subject: The Political Significance of a Personality- Charles Margai
From: Mensa
To: All
Date Posted: 04:13:39 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Many a times, when history is being made, the earth-breaking significance of it
mostly tends to pass unnoticed. As we share the camaraderie of old-time
friendship re-union at a particular venue and at a particular time, we mostly
focus on the eventful pleasure of that day, while the historic significance of
the day itself slips away through time as just another day. That’s why history
is called history, because its grabs your attention down the line, when all is
gone and forgotten, and then connect stark events of the present that has a
relation with what ought to be remembered in the past. “Me man, you nor member
Harry? Da guy wae bin dae spin Angelina….Well nar da same guy dae nar the new
Minister of Energy and Power!” Then all shall flock to relate with a common
past and hope for instant electricity…..as one would expect the common past to
guarantee that!
Either by virtue of his upbringing or his natural character as a radical, Charles Margai has made history in our modern times that cannot be denied. The APC losing in Bo and other areas of that vicinity in the past local council elections all the more supports the unavoidable reality that Charles’ efforts to penetrate the SLPP traditional emotions that prevail in the south and southeast, diagnose and dilute them with a logically wholesome nationalistic supplement, is just about failing.
Some, particularly the die-hards whose unflinching partisan dogma is uncompromising in every sense of the word, would rather see Sierra Leone fail than support anything in red. Like a Spanish bull, these traditional fundamentalist would grow horns on the sight of a red flag, senselessly kick-start an all-out chase that would see them go through, ceaselessly, an orgy of destructive head butt, even if it means bringing down every achievable program in the APC agenda. What I presume Charles must have spotted from a far, was the potential of a future stalemate and the continuation of more of the same in this North/South divide. It doesn’t necessarily have to be through this system of block voting that we should witness the only means of solving such political impasse.
And he tried. People who make history are mostly of a special brand. Forget the cosmetic make-up that people like Momodu Koroma had to wear when he was introduced at Mile 91 as an original born of the soil. Now see the unpardonable political flaw that the SLPP embarked on. This Koroma guy was neither a born of the 91 soil when he was Minister of Presidential Affairs, nor when he was Foreign Minister! Just when he was about to be made a running mate to Berewa, a group of buffoon SLPP stalwarts went ahead to introduce him as a true son-in-need of Mile 91! Imagine the insult, as if the Mile 91 people were all born in Lethe!
But Charles is indeed from a different fabric. Sierra Leone’s history must and has to evaluate him in the positive light, as the man that has always been there, thick skinned and a man of his own. Always a short distance away from controversy, yet the controversy has never been surreptitiously handled. He faces potential or actual foes with the solid defense of a man with confidence and a strong personality. He identifies himself boldly with his beliefs and his convictions. And most importantly, he has been fearless!
African political scenarios are riddled with unconstitutional maneouvers, much to the delight of western political pundits who are always on the lookout for blunders in low-level African democracy to grade theirs with perfection. No wonder they had to curse the Americans for that glitch during the Bush Vs. Gore election stalemate. So people like Charles Margai, by virtue of his qualities and formidable character, have to be actively engaged in politics for the country to have a refreshing outlook in our modern political era. The timing was also right. Times change, and people change with time…. the wise ones do. Things happen and smart people seize the opportunity to effect change. Charles made use of the Hinga Norman flaring emotions, the ‘Odoyo’ SLPP way of doing things and projected his political image emphatically, and in the process had to challenge the ruling government and eventually contributed in teaching them a lesson.
Yet still, there are lessons that must be learnt. Would it have been too much of a political gamble if he had accepted a Ministerial position in the APC government and later resign after he had made sure that the idea of a new political ideology – partially free from traditional north/south loyalty- has been fully established? Would his presence in the new government have helped in giving the impression to his supporters that the party is part and parcel of the new era, and that, whatever the early wrong signals, he would be there to see things get better? Wouldn’t he be in position to boost his political image further if he had joined the APC then resigned [the no-nonsense guy] and sustain his respect even with the caucus of his party?
The questions could go on .... but Charles's political significance shall ever remain historically prominent ... at least in our era of today's politics.
Subject: Re: The Political Significance of a Personality- Charles
Margai
From: Angthorf
To: All
Date Posted: 06:48:16 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: soyanka@yahoo.com
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Mensa, you have again hit the nail on the head! Such descr1ptive elucidation of
a national political foresighter in the person of Charles Margai, worths
commendation.
To add sugar to honey, I join your perception on Hon. Charles Margai for trying to bridge the political divide between the traditional SLPP and the old APC in the country. All we are looking forward to now is for every Sierra Leonean to be aware of those sugar-coated politicians in the like of Tom Njuma.
Some of these power mongers have long vowed to have the sweet taste of the power they once usurped and lost. Knowing how power elevated him in particular from zero level socially to residence minister, which he misused until he was kicked off power. I hope he should desist from all forms of violence which he has been nurtured with, if he will ever be considered for a viable top position in the SLPP or the state as whole.
Subject: Re: The Political Significance of a Personality- Charles
Margai
From: yankuba Kai-samba
To: All
Date Posted: 04:45:54 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Mensa Your piece was an excellent analysis. Good reading.
Thanks
Subject: POW Solar Powered Computer Center on You Tube
From: Ahmad Tejan Koromah
To: All
Date Posted: 01:41:11 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: ahmedtejan@hotmail.com
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HELPING THE CHILDREN OF TOMORROW
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much"
Subject: CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS,MD VS CHERNOR JALLOH,Ph.D
From: forum observer
To: All
Date Posted: 21:50:49 07/11/08 ()
Email Address:
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Ph.Ds versus MDs, which one is a real DOCTOR?
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CHERNOR JALLOH, THIS IS WHY Ph.Ds ARE NOT REAL DOCTORS!.
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Posted by Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS on June 21, 2008 at 10:02:20:
"...That Dokta title, every graduate of a medical school, even an Islander, gets one. Actually, only the Ph.D. SHOULD throw a "Dr." BEFORE YOUR NAME; EVERYTHING ELSE IS SALAMI DOKTA. Seriously, graduates of medical schools are PHYSICIANS, NOT DOCTORS..."
(Chrenor "knee-high boots in the middle of summer" Jalloh)
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Chernor Jalloh, pay close attention to this real life story:
A group of Ph.Ds were having a forum and the theme was "Why Ph.Ds are real doctors". Sitted in the audience were a group of Ph.Ds with name tags printed and "pasted" across their chest. Presently, the key-note speaker, another Ph.D,came to the podium to address the gathering. As he was speaking, the Key-note speaker collapsed, there was panic in the auditorium, and the MC shouted, "is there a DOCTOR in the house?" All those fake Ph.Ds with "DOCTOR" printed on their chest sat there looking very, very, very, very, very STUPID. They began to question themselves,"am I a REAL doctor?"
Moments later, a FIRST-YEAR MEDICAL STUDENT dashed to the podium and rendered assistance to the unconscious key-note speaker and he was revived! As the first year medical student made HER way back to her seat, the Ph.Ds, who by now had embarrassingly removed the name tag that said "doctor" looked at the medical student and said, "WOW, WE WISH WE WERE REAL DOCTORS!"
Subject: Re: CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS,MD VS CHERNOR JALLOH,Ph.D
From: Joke
To: All
Date Posted: 07:49:41 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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What did Dr Ola have??? A Ph.D or a D.Sc or D.Litt or was he a medical officer??
Subject: Re: CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS,MD VS CHERNOR JALLOH,Ph.D
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 23:20:18 07/11/08 ()
Email Address:
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Curtis, if you have to participate here, you have to follow our rules and
regulations. Certain names cannot be discussed on this forum and Mr. CJ's is one
of them. He is not a member of this forum and as a result, it is unfair to him
to have his name mentioned here. I know he has been abusing our mothers in the
other forum but we have to know that two wrongs do not make a right. We have to
keep his name out of this forum.
Subject: Re: KABS IS UNFAIR TO DR. CURTIS-THOMAS
From: John E. Leigh
To: All
Date Posted: 10:48:07 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: johnernestleigh@yahoo.com
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Rev. Kabs:
I do not believe that the rule you've imposed on Dr. Curtis-Thomas (re this forum vs. the other forum) is evenhanded.
Here is my analysis:
1. This forum is free-for-all except for participants banned for cause after repeated warnings.
2. The other forum used by the CJs of this world for unlimited free-for-all abuses, savage insults and outrageous lies against innocents in this (your cocorioko) forum, is a completely closed forum accessible only after specific PRIOR permission by the .....!
3. Such a one-sided situation is not fair as it leaves your own forumites - such as Dr. Curtis-Thomas - defenceless in the face of unlimited, repeat attacks. Meanwhile, your apparent 'peace agreement' with that ..... (expletive avoided) gives her pestilential creeps like CJ an unfair blanket immunity from correction.
This one-sided advantage to her forumites vis-a-vis yours, however, could be remedied by seeking equal protection for your all forumites to counter-attack (with equal savagery if necessary) freely in her forum - or in yours if she insists on getting the upperhand for her pestilential abusers.
Here is a simple suggestion:
Please contact the dictator of the other (closed) forum and let the ..... knows that your forumites are left without a reasonable means of redress after attacks and allegations against them (provide examples by reference as necessary) in her forum and that you need her help to correct this unfairness.
In other words, please negotiate a peace deal that
will protect your own forumites. In my experience, protecting one's customers
from pestilential competition is a sound management practice. Thanks. - JL
Subject: Re: KABS IS UNFAIR TO DR. CURTIS-THOMAS
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 11:08:37 07/12/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
Good advice. I will do.
Subject: Re: CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS,MD VS CHERNOR JALLOH,Ph.D
From: Dauda
To: All
Date Posted: 01:37:20 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: daudayainks@yahoo.co.uk
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Kabs, I like your stand on this forum. People think that this forum is fun or
provocation. One thing they are missing is educational interaction. Forum is
created to understand each other and gain some experience that will benifits all
of us but people used it to destroy others which is totally unapprciated in this
world. we need to respect each and everyone that bringing new ideas. Let talk or
bring in propoasal or project that we can discuse towards the benifits of our
beloved country.
Things are really getting rough back home. Our people need to know exactly what is going on and we in the diaspora stay here and fighting each other.
I am kindly asking all of of us to respect each other and share our ideas were professionalism is concern.
I mean no gossip, bad witch hunt, betrayal, bad heart and nepotism. We are all Sierra Leoneans. Our saliva might be different but the origin is tha same.
Kabs i lost you number and email address. Let me get it.
Dauda Mansaray
Subject: Re: CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS,MD VS CHERNOR JALLOH,Ph.D
From: Mensa
To: All
Date Posted: 12:04:16 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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Man Dawoo! From your piece, one can easily see a person with a clean heart, a
devoted national and a fair-minded person. I just like your posting...it's so
pure, so cool and so so full of righteous sermons, I think we could do with more
of your stuff! Thanks!
Subject: Re: CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS,MD VS CHERNOR JALLOH,Ph.D
From: Dauda
To: All
Date Posted: 22:21:12 07/12/08 ()
Email Address: daudayainks@yahoo.co.uk
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Thanks for your compliment. This world, we've to face reality. People are staying in the U.S.A and think everything is alright which is not. They need to travel to Sierra Leone and see what our contempory had achieved. If they see that achievement, that will be a big blow in their system. This is not the time Mensa for betrayal and jelousy; we are all the same. Simply , let try to promote our country and make sure we stop this PHD stuff... I mean pull him or her down.I have saw a lot of B.A, M.A, and P.H.D holder govern that country we did not see any inprovement at all. If they have those qualifications, they need to use it as a tool to benifit our people. That is why I doubt most of their credential-trust me i really mean it. I have do a lot of reaserch on those degree older and the result came fruitless. That is why I highly respect MR. Abdulai Kolleh Dumbuya. He did not get a degree but he will challenge everybody academically....I mean in any field of studies...This is the type of person we need.Could you imaging those tangase(old days) time when they said they have degree and compare to now modernised time when a Associate degree in the U.S or London is equalivent to a B.A in Africa Anyway. I will get a break for now and continue with my study.
Subject: LETTER TO UNCLE OLU.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 21:24:10 07/11/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
Entered From:
Message:
TO UNCLE OLU.
“YOU HAVE SOMETHING PERSONAL AGAINST CONTEH”
Uncle Olu,I have just perused your reply on my posting on Abdulia Conteh and I
have though it expedient to engage on why I have taken this line of action him.
Apart from his wife and children and possibly Sidi Sheriff in Virginia,I have
been the most indefatigable defender of Abdulia.I can give you names and
telephone numbers of people who will attest to that.Conteh was almost a God to
me because of the way I admired him.One day in his Justice Department office in
town,after he and I had finished our conversations,he offered along with his
late friend Terrence Terry to hire me as their Law Clerk.The only reason why I
did not tell him say yes or no,I was in the process of coming to the USA at the
time of the proposition.
Few months ago,this community was turned between his supporters and his
bashers.Sidi Sheriff a young and very progressive intellectual rose to his
defence.I weighed in,and reminded this community to glean from the incident in
Nigeria between the Igbos and the rest of the country on January 15,1966,and
July 29,1966 respectively .The incident was occasioned by publication that he
Conteh maliciously prosecuted Minah on trumped up charges because he wanted his
job.I reminded the combatants that Conteh was just doing his job as the chief
law enforcement officer even though I felt he should not have personally
involved himself in the case because he will be perceived as personally lobbying
for Minah’s job.After the case,Minah and others were executed and Conteh was
elevated to the position of first vice president and Minister of Internal
Affairs.I have nothing against Conteh personally,However,I have lots against his
fundamental lack of principles,and personal moral integrity,his vaulting
ambition,and his intellectual dishonesty.He may have done lots according to
you.Equally however,he has caused considerable pains and sufferings for lots of
families for suborning perjury and coxing witnesses to tell lies on innocent
citizens just to get there jobs.What I want you to do before you put up any
defence of him thereby reducing you to a jack ass,go back on this forum and read
a posting for July 9,2008.You will find a posting by Abdulia O. Conteh dated
November 11,2007,in which he made very serious disturbing allegations against
the very leaders that he served.If He was all that principled and ethical,why
should he continue to be part of such decadence and escapism that infact
succeeded in eating away at the veneer of his claim to academia and
intelligence.Are you telling me that with the kind of education he received
fromKings College in London as well as Cambridge University,he stood no chance
of getting decent jobs any where or staying in the business except he had to
serve hoodlums,street thugs,and functional illiterates and serial kleptomaniacs
like Stevens and Momoh.?Bylden Jenkings-Johnston does not hold a PHD in law no
Berthan Macauley jr,but uncle Olu,those fellows are factors to reckon with in
contemporary Sierra Leone.When Blyden returned home,His father was the town
clerk.He could have exploited sr.Jenkins –Johnston’s position and amassed
wealth.He did not do that,he opened his law practice and named it afer his
mother ‘Yatunde”some thing like that.His brother Deris went to work at the
Bank of Sierra Leone.In the case of Conteh,he wanted instant fame and all the
spoils that went with it and in the process,he grabbed everything he was able to
lay hands on.When the soldiers raided his place,he had more money stashed at
home in foreign notes than the central bank.Where did he get it from.The fact of
the matter is that some of you his defenders are so enamored of his
Cambridgenean association that you look at everything he do in Oxbridge
terms.You have resigned to his sense of infallibility and angelic motivations to
the extent that any criticisms of him are viewed as anti Contehism.I like Conteh
more that you perharps but unlike you,I will never condone his transgressions
because every body walks around feeling that he holds monopoly in the realm of
intellectualism.What has he ever published since he returned from the
UK>Absolutely nothing .You think he is the Sir.Patrick Hastings ,or Lord
Denning of Sierra Leone,absolutely no.He is only an international law and not a
criminal trial attorney.
I finally decided to go after him when I went through what he himself wrote
about the sustained law breaking on the part of the Stevens/Momoh Gestapo
mentalities which he was an integral part and parcel of.All he had to do was to
zip it up because some of us will never allow ourselves to be railroaded in to
his Cambridgeship to the extent,we remain silent on infractions of principles.
If he was ethical,principled,decent,honest,patriotic,and had the personal moral
integrity,he would never have served a street thug like Stevens or hopeless
womanizing drunkard like Momoh Lagunda who frequented all the night clubs in
town chasing bottles and skirts.I have decided to go easy on you this time
around with the fundamental conviction that you will be more than circumspect in
your response to my letter because I intend to save you from the stridency of my
diatribe when it comes to this Abdulia saga.He has other family members here
like Daura Conteh the Fofanahs,and the Sesays who have never attempted to defend
his political record because they are not proud of it at all.For youe
information even at the KDDA meeting,one member one time asked the rest of the
membership to contribute financially and ship him back home during the NPRC
administration so that he can face the Justice that he denied so many of his
fellow citizens.
You his supporters and relatives should quietly prevail on him to rationalize
the fact that he belongs to the past and what ever capital he had whether
interms of intellectual sustenance,or administrative sagacity,have all been
mortgaged all on account of greed,avrice,graft,short term expediency,self
aggrandizement,lack of personal moral integrity,and the chronic inability to
discern right from wrong.How will a man whose own children have made such
success in life continue to make an ass out of himself.His daughter followed him
into the discipline of law,while his son has a very good job either in Michigan
or some other place.What goes through his mind when he carries him self with
less than self respect in the eyes of his wife and children.His letter on
November 11,2007 is so morally revolting that the only way to respond to it is
by exposing his shenanigans,subterfuge,Orwellian double speak,mendaciousness,and
tabernacle of hypocrisy.The intellectual campaign and moral ramifications to
bring down Abdulia Conteh and everything he stands for has not started in
earnest and it is a fundamental attempt to put an end to intellectual dishonesty
on the part of those trusted with public office.They have to rationalize the
fact that it is never a divine right to be invested with public office.Any
citizen who has a modicum of education can hold all the offices Conteh
held,because it was a privilege which nonetheless he flagrantly misused and
abused and will never be allowed to get away with it because he went to an
institution that schooled Royal Princes and other British Establishment
members.It is plain and simple.I will advise you to carefully consider this
letter before embarking on your next line of action because I may not be
spearing of you should I find anything that offends my sense of protocol.
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma,
USA.
Subject: Re: LETTER TO UNCLE OLU.
From: olu
To: All
Date Posted: 22:04:27 07/11/08 ()
Email Address: nathan25@yahoo.com
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Message:
Bra you are correct, he is done some evil equally good too, what do you say
about Solo B? Am not trying to defend any politician in Salone because am angry
at them, I have never voted in Salone because of their rubish and i will
continue to hold them responsible. All i'm saying is that there are people who
have done worst than him why are you not mentioning them on your piece. I can
care less if you don't spare me but make sure you put on your teflon vest when
you attack.
Subject: Re: LETTER TO UNCLE OLU.
From: Mohamed Kutubu Koroma
To: All
Date Posted: 22:41:42 07/11/08 ()
Email Address: mohamedkoroma49@yahoo.com
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Message:
Uncle Olu,be rest assured that it will be more that the vest in question when
the battle royal gets under way.If you have been following the Awareness Times
discussion,you will be shoched what i have there for both Kabbah and Solomon
Berewa.I am never a one sideded person when it comes to the advancements of
Sierra Leone.Take this or leave it,even if it were my parents in eith SLPP or
APC,i swear to God,i will be as equally damming of them just like any other
person.I love the country more than any politician.Until the publication of the
address he gave,i have always defended Conteh.He knows because he may have been
reading the forums.Even when Farrah Marrah said he the conteh has remarked that
the case against Fornah and others was "a ",i almost fell out of him
saying that until he produces evidence,i will continue to maintain Conteh's
innocence .It was his own letter of November 11,2007,that i took to go after
him.This attack on him will continue non stop.I am ready for any one who will be
silly to defend him.As far as i am concerned,he bears the climate of blame for
the things that went wrong while he served both Stevens and Momoh.When the
Awareness Times forum returns,see the two part postings i have on him paying
glowing tributes to him.It is his November 11,2007,that is the bane for my about
face turn on him.
Subject: Arrest of NPP Stalwart, Whitfield Stirs Firearm Possession D
From: Gun Owner
To: All
Date Posted: 19:53:12 07/11/08 ()
Email Address:
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Arrest of NPP Stalwart, Whitfield Stirs Firearm Possession Debate in Liberia
07/11/08 - Mae Azango, mazango@FrontPageAfrica.com
Monrovia - Just a day after President Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf’s statement about the increase in crimes in the country, Mr. John Whitfield the Secretary General of the former ruling party National Patriotic Party (NPP) was arrested and detained by the Liberia National Police (LNP) for possessing a firearm.
Appearing on a talk show over a local radio station in Monrovia with Deputy Information Minister Cletus Sieh, Mr. Whitfield said that he had a fire arm in his possession to protect himself as armed robbery was on the rampage in the country. He told the listeners, “I have a gun as self defense when armed robbers come to attack me at night because armed robbers are terrifying peaceful citizens and inflicting wounds on them because they are defenseless at night.” Mr. Whitfield said the President statement the security situation in the country is bad suggested that the security in country has totally collapsed and the state could not provide security for its citizens.
Immediately after the talk show, Mr. Whitfield was arrested and his residence searched. There, a single barrel gun used for hunting was found and taken to the LNP Headquarters in Monrovia, while Mr. Whitfield is being detained at the Zone Three Police Deport in Congo Town undergoing investigation.
Speaking Thursday evening via mobile to the local radio that hosted the talk show when Mr. Whitfield made his assertion, Chief Cyril Allen, a former chairman of the NPP said he is in support of Mr. Whitfield possessing an arm to protect himself. He said he supported Mr. Whitfield’s statement because of the President’s recent statement that the NPP Secretary General alluded to. Chief Allen said he sees it appropriate for citizens to register and possess arms to protect themselves against crimes such as armed robbery. He called on government to see reason that citizens register and have fire arm in their possession for protecting themselves.
After the arrest of Mr. Whitfield, several citizens calling on another talk show on a different radio station in Monrovia Friday said they are in support of Mr. Whitfield getting an arm to protect himself, with the wave of armed robbery in Monrovia and its immediate surroundings. One of the callers asked “Is it wrong for us to get a gun to protect ourselves, when the very Police who are to protect us are involved in the robbery as well? So nobody should blame Mr. Whitfield for having an arm to protect himself, had it been me, I would have done the same thing.”
Another caller said, “There is nothing done to stop the armed robbery in the country, so why can’t we protect ourselves when we are the ones affected? If you have a job to sustain your family, the armed robbers come over night and rake everything you have ever worked for. Don’t we have a right to good life when we work for it? Why should we live in terror in our own Country?”
With the security situation still being argued by citizens, armed robbery is still on the rampage in the Paynesville and Somalia Drive areas. The armed robbery is constant almost every night at different locat1ons, that a mini mart in the Joe Bar vicinity in Paynesville was attacked 11:30 p.m. Thursday night while every body was still up and moving around. The armed robbers, believed to have been fifteen in number, were armed with brand new pistols each. An eye witness in the area said the robbers came in a jeep and moved quickly by putting the owner of business under gun point. “They made away with almost the entire items in the place before anybody could do something.”
The eye witness who beg anonymity for fear that the armed robbers would know and go for him added; “I don’t believe those who did the act are strange people because it seems as if they had been given info on the lady to know when she closes every night. This is why I don’t want to be known because I believe these guys know me.”
He added that the armed robbers were brave to have come as early as 11:30 p.m. when every body was up to do their robbing. “This means that we are doomed because these people have no fear because they are fully armed to their teeth while no one is there to protect us.”