SOLOPRIMO FOLLOWS IN HIS GREAT GRANDFATHER'S FOOTSTEPS
FIFA hit man called Primo Covaro, whose real name is SOLOPRIMO, likened the off-side goal scored against Mohamed Kallon and his colleagues on the Rodney Michael side of the recent SLFA elections as the sort of mistakes referees make on the field of play that must be accepted as part of the beautiful game. Well, going by Soloprimo's warped logic, he expects Sierra Leoneans to accept the undemocratic so-called Normalisation Committee's action against Mohamed Kallon and others in the same way England accepted the referee's decision to deny Frank Lampard a goal against Germany in the last World Cup - grumble and complain all over the place and then start a vigorous campaign for goal-line to be used to determine such controversial goals, in basically the same way as tennis does.
Now we understand why FIFA is as unashamedly corrupt and undemocratic as it is. They appoint dull and shameless guys like Solomoprimo and send them around good Africa to stage-manage situations like these in cahoots with locals who can't think beyond the next meal or bags of CEMENT to continue living in vanity like the biblical RICH FOOL.
So let's play Primo's game:
THE NORMAL REFEREE
We hope we are on the same page as Soloprimo with this definition. The normal referee is well trained and certified by the appropriate bodies to handle matches. He is expected to make split-second decisions and be fair. Even with his training, his human frailties come into play – like having sympathies for one side on the pitch, being susceptible to corruption or generally being completely unable – like all humans – to make correct decisions all the time.
FIFA'S "NORMALISATION COMMITTEE" as SOLOPRIMO's REFEREES
They are brought into office by FIFA using the back door after some confusion fuelled by FIFA and its hit men in national Football Associations, sometimes aided and abetted by corrupt politicians who consider themselves gods on earth. In the case of Sierra Leone, none of the so-called Normalisation Committee members were trained for job they were appointed to do. They were recommended by a corrupt businessman whose spirit will forever be restless, even in death, for his cruel manipulation of Sierra Leone football management since independence.
The so-called Normalisation Committee were paid very pornographic salaries considering the job they ended up doing. In fact, don't we deserve to be told how much they were paid?
Staying with the Sierra Leone case, they had seven months to take just one decision – decide who was eligible to contest in the elections and organise an election in which a mere 47 delegates would vote. Let's remind ourselves again that it took the Normalisation Nonsense seven months to reach that flawed decision. We cannot put any finger to any other thing they did in the same period. Ali Fornah and others must prove us wrong or they remain shame-faced.
PRIMO THE FIXER
The great grandson of a pirate called PEDRO-DA-CINTRA who claimed to have discovered Sierra Leone now wants us to weigh the decision of the normal referee who has only a second to make a decision in a football match like the one made in that World Cup match between England and Germany and the decision made after seven months of eating and flying all over the world by an unelected and murkily-appointed so-called Normalisation Committee. He called that a mistake! We call it a wicked manipulation and football GENOCIDE. All the committee set out to do was to execute a process aimed at bringing down Rodney Michael whom Pope John Paul calls a “white Sierra Leonean”. Even with all the evidence, nobody, including De Pa has even thought about calling the Pope to order and telling him such naked RACISM is unacceptable in our 21st century Sierra Leone. Pope John Paul told the whole world that he was reflecting the views of the government of Sierra Leone. We hold the government to that because even that powerless State House communication man refused to directly address the Pope's RACIST attacks against Rodney Michael, a fellow CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY.
Anyway, we are used to living with Portuguese mistakes – even the name of our country is the result of a monumental Portuguese mistake that we could confidently classify as ERRONEOUS GENERALISATION. We can't believe that more than FIVE HUNDRED YEARS after that, another Portuguese man has travelled down the coast and screwed us up again in the presence of our elected De Pa and with the acquiescence if not the instruction of his appointee. SOLOPRIMO is off to another destination for the same task.
GOAL LINE TECHNOLOGY NEEDED AT SLFA ELECTIONS
After receiving serious British media bashing, FIFA boss Sepp Blatter has agreed that goal line technology will be used at the World Cup in Brazil. We applaud that. But we believe that goal line technology ought to have been used throughout the seven months tenure of the so-called Normalisation Committee. That would have helped us see that the so-called Normalisation Committee's goal against Mohamed Kallon and others was scored from an off-side position. Now the goal has been allowed to stand despite the obvious consequences for the development of the game.
By the way, why did Kallon and family actually go to State House to ask De Pa to "intervene" in or "interfere" with the process of ensuring justice with or without goal line technology? How come these guys failed to consider what happened a few hours before the recent bye-election at Mile 91 and at the Red Movement convention before asking the man who presided over both events to help them secure their democratic rights? Come on guys, we are all Sierra Leoneans.
We believe Kallon and friends scored a spectacular OWN GOAL by that false move. It turned out that this was only another opportunity to CEMENT the culture of UNOPPOSED DEMOCRACY firmly entrenched in Red Movement thinking since the Siaka Stevens era. Didn't the Pope do that childish BABU YAI thing on you as soon as you left the lodge? A minister doing BABU YAI at his own people! Gosh!
Late Reggae singer Joe Hills says "Mind who you run to, when you go beg for help." You guys ought to have realised by now that your real friends in all this are the good people of Sierra Leone and their representatives that you call delegates. Now go home and lick your wounds safe in the belief that, and we quote Joe Hills again saying "...wickedness will prevail but only for a little while."
TEN DAYS OF BUMBUNA - BLACKOUT MINISTER AT WORK
We want to call the attention of Blackout Minister to the fact that his TEN DAYS of "routine maintenance" on Bumbuna power supply system are gone but we still don't have electricity at our office. Our neighbours are also in darkness. Well even at the best of times, we didn't get electricity for more than a couple of hours a day.
Because Blackout Minister has always asked us to give him ten days to do maintenance on the Bumbuna plant, we've been trying to figure out what those 10 days are normally like for the Blackout minister. Here we go:
Day 1 – The Blackout Minister comes to the office unusually early and calls his engineers in for breakfast. Then a long, boring and sometimes totally unproductive discussion takes place about this and that.
Day 2 – He calls in Zubairu Kaloko to ask him questions on the state of the generator that serves his office. No doubt, even NPA has a generator to power their offices. Kabbah Tiger is back. The much vilified Sierra Leonean feels vindicated after all.
Day 3 – The Blackout Minister receives a maintenance budget from his team of engineers to cover their trip to Bumbuna and the almighty PER DIEM.
Day 4 - The team departs. They stop over in Makeni to pick up a few more people, some of them are unconnected with the work at hand but, Blackout Minister’s engineers have to be in the right frame of mind.
Day 5 - The team leader calls Blackout minister to tell him, they need more money because the task is more serious than first thought.
Day 6 – The Blackout Minister is very angry that their assessment of the "routine maintenance" requirement was faulty. He asks for a supplementary budget charged on Zubairu's account.
Day 7 - Meanwhile the engineers and friends are having a good time out in Bumbuna.
Day 8 - Even De Pa is now getting fed up with all the complaints from people in Freetown and the fact that the main plank of his "legacy" - ELECTRICITY seems to be falling apart. Heard businesspeople complaining on radio the other day about water and light NOR DAE.
Day 9 - Blackout Minister drives up to Bumbuna to personally supervise work and finds his men enjoying good food and booze, waiting to ask for more supplementary budget. On this day they light up a few areas to ease some pressure on the minister. The people in those areas benefiting, shout LONG LIVE De Pa!
Day 10 - Makeni continues to enjoy 24 hours of electricity supplied from the same Bumbuna. Bumbuna cables and power lines continue to be stolen, a Bumbuna pole that collapsed on the road to FBC in March is still lying there, guarded by two armed police officers day and night, rain or shine.
The Blackout Minister returns to Freetown asking himself, "how long can I go on like this?" But he reminds himself that England is a hard place today.
