IS THIS THE BEST WAY TO SPEND THE DISABILITY COMMISSION'S MONEY?"
By the time De Pa' tenure ends in 2017, the credibility of certain individuals and institutions would have been so damaged that the best thing would be for those individuals to retire from public life and spend the rest of their days on earth in a monastery and for those institutions to be closed down. No change of names or personnel.
Since we heard the disability commissioner on radio announcing that he gave some of the commission's money to a group calling itself DISABLED APC SUPPORTERS so that they can distribute wheelchairs to their members across the country, we have still not recovered from the shock that left us in. What is happening to this country? Can't people access services provided by the state unless they attach APC to their names? This is gross insanity and relegates to the backburner whatever undemocratic practices Siaka Stevens and his one party rule were so infamous for!
We cannot believe that a well educated and respected man like that commissioner who carried himself with such dignity for many years in the civil service, could fall so easily for such blackmail. We are now beginning to understand why Emerson Bockarie describes himself as the last man standing. All our good people, the last strongholds of national morality and conduct are collapsing like a pack of cards under After U nar U pressure.
So using that same logic, if disabled supporters of all the political parties turn up for similar support, would Commissioner Kamara meet all of those demands? What about those who would have nothing to do with political parties? Aren't they Sierra Leoneans too?
The commission could easily have deployed its own staff to facilitate the distribution of whatever wheelchairs and then account properly for our money using their own system. But we suppose they chose the politically correct route. Even distributing chairs to people with disability is now a political football? Gosh! The APC food-for-work groups are busy doing their own in the provinces. At the expense of the state! Long live De Pa?
INCOMPETENT ZUBAIRU KALOKOH RETURNS IN A RAGING STORM
Imagine a father returning home from leave somewhere and the welcome he gets is all his children staging a big demonstration with placards calling him names and demanding that he return to his holiday home in The Crimea or Mosul.
The only message we get out of such action is that whosoever finds himself in such mess was never a good father in the first place and to compound that, during his absence, a stepfather performed so well under the circumstance that the children can't stand papa coming back. We urge papa to go and never return. GOOD BYE PAPA PLEASE PRAY FOR ME, as West Life would sing.
Those workers who demonstrated against Zubairu Kalakoh's reinstatement at NPA did a good thing. They let the world know that life under Kalakoh was hell on earth for them. It was hell for us too who paid for electricity - the highest tariff in West Africa - but never got it while the man in charge spent all his time complaining in the media about huge monetary payments to Bumbuna management.
In the coming months, we shall again publish documents obtained from our sources in America pertaining to Zubairu Kalakoh's service - or disservice - in that country. We call Kalokoh incompetent based on that document and what we have experienced in Freetown during his tenure at NPA. De Pa continues to ignore that document but those who prepared it are very sober-minded US government people. That document has been with us for seven years. We shall publish it again when we feel it's necessary to do so. No negotiations please!
CALM RETURNS TO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL BUT WHY DEPLOY POLICE.
We are very happy that calm has finally returned to International School at Jomo Kenyatta Road. We love the school. It was the centre of excellence until a few things started going wrong with the administration. We received a number of documents from at least three people who were very concerned about what was happening to the school and wanted to put the issues into the public domain. We resisted a full blown reportage and opted instead for brief comments just to let the protagonists know we knew what was going on. We also thought the bright lights of the media would damage the school for a long time.
Our sources have now told us that some settlement has been reached and for now it appears all parties are satisfied. We shall hold fire for now and hope that the decisions reached at the last stakeholders' meeting would be carried through without hitches.
By the way, why was it necessary to deploy all those police officers for a small meeting like that? Every time Munu's boys are deployed to some event, they create tension to justify their special deployment allowances. With all those SUVs parked there, does anybody think those parents in that hall would have thrown stones at each other like SLPP Green Movement guys to destroy their own vehicles? Please Munu, deploy your men to the criminal den called Lumley where they are most needed. When will International School reopen please?
MASADA AND THE WOMEN CLEANERS OF MAMA SALONE
We don't really think the big people at MASADA are aware of this but we have found out that the female cleaners employed by this company have no gloves. This is true and we found them at different locations in Freetown. In fact two of them told us gloves were for men only. We were shocked.
So far we believe MASADA are doing a good job. And we are looking at the scale of the problem facing them. This is a very dirty city where successive governments have failed to establish an effective cleaning programme to tell the world we are a civilised nation. So MASADA represents a real determination to deal with the problem. We wish them well but how can they allow their female workers to be exposed to such danger especially in this Ebola era? Please do something good people of MASADA.
And we have noticed that those one-piece orange suits we complained about are virtually missing. Please don't bring them to this country anymore. They definitely remind us of the kinds prisoners in those US state penitentiaries wear. Hahahahaha, Please, please, please.
GO SLOW: DANGER AHEAD! NEW ROAD AT LUMLEY SET TO EXPLODE
Please be careful next time you approach that roundabout near Lumley police station by car. Look carefully on that road. You will notice two big bumps that look like volcanoes waiting to erupt. Well we may not be on a volcano belt but some explosion might just happen in that very important place.
Even before we start celebrating De Pa's infrastructure masterpiece, we stand the risk of being blown away in our cars by those bumps and they are not speed humps. We thank De Pa for doing that road but please when CSE people return from their fasting in Senegal, they should be made to fix that road quickly. Otherwise they will be responsible for any death or injury that an explosion at that place would cause.
We have complained about the incompetence of CSE all over the place. Many Sierra Leoneans are also complaining but we now believe that CSE is one of the biggest sacred cows in Sierra Leone. Unu try dae!
MAMA SALONE AT THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES BUT SOMETHING IS MISSING.
We are glad that our team and officials have finally arrived at the Commonwealth Games village in Glasgow. Unlike that fake so-called Project Fame which banned our contestants even though they are totally free of Ebola, the organisers of the Commonwealth Games have more sense and humanity. We don't even know what this Project Fame nonsense is about.
But back to the Commonwealth Games, how come there is no contact number for our delegation at the contact board provided for such in the Village like all other teams there? Our reporter in Glasgow has been to that village many times since they arrived but there is no contact number. Please let's try and get it up because we want to interview the officials and athletes.
We also want to tell pope John Paul to tell one of the journalists there that we want to see and hear from the athletes. We are not interested in seeing his photos on Facebook. What kind of small man attitude is that? Wake up people.
(C) Politico 24/07/14
