RAMADAN OVER BUT WOULD DONATIONS CONTINUE PLEASE?
Ramadan must have started and ended well for many low or zero income people right across the country. We say so purely based on social media reports of mainly ruling party politicians donating bags and bags of rice and cash to those people. They have not had it so good in the last few years. Even prisoners at a maximum security jail spent some time with the First Lady and found themselves eating some of the best fast foods in the country. We applaud that.
We note however that some of those ministers who went all over the country were ordinary people around town before the last election, who upon being appointed to their current positions suddenly turned their backs on the rest of society, concentrating solely on their friends and members of their Laybelleh committee. They no longer answer their calls, having decided that they would wait for the next three years – well on the eve of elections – to start pressing the flesh on the streets of Freetown again. They should never take the people for granted anymore.
So what’s going to happen now that Ramadan is done?
1. First of all a good many of these ministers were genuinely helping the poor. We know them. But others were only doing little things to catch the headlines and pretend they care for poor.
2. Between now and January some ministers will not touch any of these people they were pretending to care for so much even with a ten-foot barge pole. No way. They were simply shamed into donating food stuff by the action of generous colleagues.
3. Hunger can cause people to sacrifice even their own values. How do you accept food from somebody who has refused to pick your calls for a whole year? Isn’t that suddenly generosity very suspect? Joe Hills says “mind who you run to brother fe go beg for help.”
4. Those Ramadan philanthropists must know people eat right across the year. Not just at Ramadan. Show them how to fish instead of bringing fish once a year. By the way, those prisoners who dined with the First Lady, what class of prisoners were they – hardcore or petty thieves? Who were they? How were they selected or was it free for all?
5. May be we should all just stand on our own feet and avoid lying politicians and their Trojan Horses.
HOW TO AVOID ANOTHER CHAOS AT GREEN CAMP HQ
When the Green Camp HQ erupted into shouting and chaos just before the visit of Principal recently, it came as a real shock. Here was the Principal himself arriving at the headquarters of his victorious Camp only to be told that before his arrival some of his closest people had been booed off the stage and told in no uncertain terms that they were not welcome in their own house.
All this came about because since they became ministers, directors and managers of this and that, they abandoned the Camp leaving their foot soldiers to look for water to drink on a very dry gron. Therefore returning to the Camp because Principal was around was a bit of a shame. So let’s suggest a few ways to avoid such a scenario a second time.
1. Give the boys and girls who are employable a job to do. But please do so on a competitive basis.
2. Put a lot of money into infrastructure projects and employ those with skills. Stop pretending as if you don’t know this.
3. Do you really need people flocking into party offices in such large numbers daily when elections are four years away? Be strong and tell the young people to get up and work hard. That’s it.
4. Provide them with raw cash to start small businesses.
5. Tell them the economy is struggling and you cannot care for only a small section of society whether they are Green Camp supporter or not.
NOWHERE TO BE SEEN: CORNELIUS DEVEAUX LEAVES TO FIGHT AGAIN
Tell us guys where is Cornelius Deveaux? We ask for two reasons: First, we like the sound of his voice on radio – not the best, but we just like it. Second, as good citizens we want to turn him over to the police. That’s our sacred responsibility. Anyway, why should the police call media people around to put a bounty on the head of Cornelius Deveaux? There are pictures all over the place of Deveaux in the hands of police officers. How did he get away? But is it really necessary to put a bounty on the head of an opposition spokesman who doesn’t necessarily pose any danger to society?
In fact, we should be asking the police officers who undertook that operation outside the Red Camp office that day. In the interest of peace and security we have decided to work with those searching for Deveaux. We make the point however that we are totally not interested in small amount of money put up as bounty by the police.
Deveaux could be in any one of the following places:
1. At his home watching all the drama on TV and listening to debates about the incident at Red Camp HQ. Is anybody really looking for him?
2. He has taken refuge in his virtual social media home with address at 29 Bandelee roads, Facebook @Deveaux.com as press releases roll in every hour.
3. Some people say he is at the US embassy. We don’t know for sure but we will not be surprised. Red Camp people love hiding out at that embassy. It is to that same embassy that Chief Sidikie is reported to have fled to – or wanted to fell to – when EBK withdrew the police from his residence. Sikidie denied he ever went – or wanted to go – into that embassy. We know the story but let’s just wait to see if the APC spin doctor is becoming another Julian Assange in Ecuador.
4. When everybody fled Red Camp HQ under tear gas Deveaux remained in there like Mohammar Ghadiffi vowing to stay and fight.
5. Are we sure he hasn’t found his way to the Republic of Makeni? He may have gone there because he wants to enjoy himself and live happily ever after with King Messi.
FIFA LIFTS BAN ON SALONE BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SLFA CONGRESS
The FIFA ban is gone. Hail the Queen of Mercy who has worked her magic. Is that correct? Well correct or not the ban is gone and we couldn’t care less how much the Queen celebrates until we hear from the court of Appeal. Many ACC cases were won and lost in that same court under King Messi of the Republic of Makeni.
Let the Queen and Caliban celebrate but this is what the ordinary football-loving people of Sierra Leone think:
1. We know the queen came to the throne through the most flawed electoral process we have ever witnessed. Now she must openly confess the fact that a shadowy cabal of football officials with the blessing of King Messi put her in office.
2. We want a clear roadmap leading to an elective congress no later than September 25, 2019. Her mandate expired way back in 2017.
3. All those other witch hunt tactics shrouded in so-called integrity test must take place now. And they can eliminate as many people as possible. The people know that the Queen can be easily beaten by any candidate in that race.
4. We are not afraid of FIFA bans any more. It’s all a trick to put political pressure on small nations. Why didn’t they ban the big nations who are still trying and jailing corrupt FIFA people all over the world?
5. The people will stop going to the stadium if the Queen remains in that office on stolen time after September 25. And football will die the real death.
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