SLFA CLUTCHING AT MUSA TOMBO STRAW AS WIND OF CHANGE BLOWS
The leadership of the SLFA is clearly a desperate bunch. They have completely lost the support of the vast majority of their members and from what we now know, their hiding place in Zurich is getting too hot and may soon reach boiling point. Caught in this situation, the drowning Executive Committee is looking for straws to clutch on to. So when Musa Tombo experienced his moment of indecision and naivety in Sweden, they saw a perfect opportunity to strike and create the façade of a caring Queen and committee.
Here is a man who went abroad looking to start an international football career and managed to get a second division side to start life only to tear up the contract and return home to become the poster boy of this controversial organization. The SLFA issued a press release threatening to investigate a contract to which they are not a party and to make the failed Musa Tombo Great Again. Come on guys this publicity stunt is woefully wide off the mark. Here’s why, if it is not too obvious:
1. Musa Tombo is truly out of his depth dealing with his recent experience. He needs help with being an international footballer – the mentality, the stamina and the ability to live and work in a multi-racial environment far away from home. He hasn’t even been able to deal with his celebrity status in Sierra Leone after winning the league and becoming the highest goal scorer. Otherwise how do we explain the fact that a day after winning the league, Musa Tombo was found playing six-a-side football in a depressed neighborhood in Freetown?
2. We get the feeling the man was prepared by his newfound friends in the SLFA to take to social media to tell people what happened in Sweden. As it turned out, his performance was poor. He needed TEN or more takes and drastic and skillful editing to produce anything coherent. Clearly, that outing failed.
3. How can this man abandon a comparatively lucrative contract abroad to return home, according to him, to play for the national team when the list of EIGHTEEN foreign-based players invited did not include Musa Tombo?
4. Please let nobody tell us about witchcraft or any fight over his economic rights by local clubs. We remember what happened when Mikel Obi moved from Lyn Oslo to Chelsea after previously signing for Manchester United. The battle was long and messy but the young man kept his cool and became a star in the UK.
5. So after all the trauma of cancelling a contract and flying into a storm of negative publicity, the first thing Musa Tombo could do is grab a bowl of rice and Krain Krain and deliver himself to the SLFA. Good Man.
IS PRINCIPAL ABOUT TO FINISH OFF THE WALKING DEAD?
We enjoy a fair bit of speculative journalism because of our ability to connect dots and remember what somebody said even in esoteric language, and then make projections about coming events. We have not always been bang on the money but by and large we have managed to help our readers know the direction of the wind is blowing. So, we can now say that we have heard from sources that should know that Principal is about to kill off some dead wood – and they are mostly people who have been walking the corridors of power in the past year or so. In fact, our sources gave the names of FIVE people who will fall, barring any last-minute change of heart by Principal. They include some really big ones. Sorry guys, we have a job to report the news.
We don’t know how robustly Senior Prefect supervises some of the students. We say so because some of them have clearly underperformed and deep down do not believe their luck that they are still in post. Does Senior Prefect do any periodic study to evaluate the performance of his colleagues? If yes, can he make those available to the public please?
We are tempted to release the names of some of the dead guys as passed on to us by our sources but we suspect it will be counterproductive. However, we have it on good authority that Principal is taking a final look at those names plus a few more. Those who survive this will NEVER be the same again.
SO WHERE ARE WE NOW WITH THE HOTEL IN KONO?
We are definitely not happy with the pace at which the next questions about Ribar Hotel in Koidu are being answered by those who should. We always thought that the first question was the most difficult and because it was a compulsory question, surely people had to provide a single straight forward answer. The next major question has a number of answers to consider. Here it is: With Ribar Hotel now a property of the government, into what use is that building going to be put?
What is really difficult about this question?
The other day Boy Afro suggested that Ribar be turned into some maternity center for our mothers and sisters in Kono. We have no objection to that. But there are a few more things we can do with Ribar including the following:
1. Sell the hotel and spend the proceeds helping young people start a business. Small businesses are very powerful at job creation.
2. Turn Ribar into a vocational training center for out-of-school girls. There are many of them who need help in Koidu and beyond.
3. Donate the building to the growing Rastafarian movement in Sierra Leone as a place to worship Jah. Please give them iron-cast guarantee that no police officer will raid the place looking for marijuana. It will be a free zone.
4. Allow homeless young people to take over Ribar Hotel. They need a place to lay their heads after moving from place to place all day.
5. Knock down the building and turn the land over to the good people of Kono. By this action no dead person will come from their grave after many years to claim Ribar. We have made our own contribution to the debate. Act now!
PROFESSOR FROM GREELEY, IS THIS FIGHT FOR THE LEONE OR YOUR JOB?
The Bank of Sierra Leone is busy announcing one measure after another to try and control the continuous fall in the value of the Leone. The Professor from Greeley has come under fierce criticism together with the embattled guys at the Finance Ministry as the Leone loses its value against the major currencies of this world.
We have no problem with professionals like the man from Greeley announcing this and that measure as along as it is in the interest of our country and not a smokescreen to create the impression something serious is being done on our behalf when in fact the whole thing is a stunt for people to remain in office.
What if Professor had started his job with the bank by announcing these measures? After all things were already on the downward slide before Principal was elected so why that delay sir?
The measures are generally targeted at ending the increasing dollarization of this country but why didn’t you specifically mention the way property owners treat their tenants by charging in dollars? It is a serious matter that may one day create chaos in this country. For house owners to go on insisting that their rent be paid in US dollars is a wicked and exploitative act that people are sick to death with. Come on, Prof!
Just a little warning, we are keeping an eye on the implementation of these measures to ensure fairness and firmness of purpose.
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