SCOP’S TB JOSHUA TESTIMONY THROWS UP NEW QUESTIONS
Frankly, it’s beginning to look as if continuing digging into how our the former State Chief of Protocol came to do her power point testimony at Evangelist TB Joshua’s church in Nigeria may end up opening up an unimaginable treasure trove of information of just why she felt compelled to do what has clearly cost her this prestigious job.
A short video is making the rounds on social media – a clear response to the apparent sacking of the SCOP – following the release of her original testimony raised. We have a number of issues that we want to raise. In that video we heard – FOR THE FIRST TIME – that Evangelist TB Joshua gave Sierra Leone FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS and FOUR HUNDRED bottles of holy water to help defeat Ebola after King Messi had written a letter to him asking him to pray for healing in this country. Well done King Messi. Somebody has promised the full letter to us. We will be back after receiving it. For now we have the following questions:
1. That FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS support to the fight against Ebola, was it declared like all the others that King Messi received at the big house with TV cameras rolling?
2. Whether it was declared or not, we now know that the money landed on our soil, can we have a copy of the report of how the money was spent? Assuming the report was done, did you people send a copy with receipts to TB Joshua? We ask because we are good citizens wanting to protect the image of Sierra Leone.
3. When we were told to take a hot bath with salted water at dawn as prescribed by TB Joshua, although he denied asking anyone to, was that part of the ritual?
4. Is this FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLAR issue also being investigated by the ACC? Just wondering why our benefactor did not pay the money into some bank account instead of renting a private plane to fly it over.
5. Can we now ask TB Joshua to send us some more cash to support our Free Quality Education drive? Surely, it’s very easy for an educated community to defeat Ebola. For example, we wouldn’t need any NGO to tell us to always wash our hands.
AFTER KEI KAMARA’S APOLOGY HERE’S OUR TAKE ON HIS OFFENDING POST
So the Sierra Leone international Kei Kamara is back in the squad after being briefly dropped by the Football Queen for comments he made on social media which the Queen understood as being critical of her controversial administration which has been hanging by a thread on the edge of illegality since her mandate expired. Actually, when we read the queen’s reaction to Kamara’s post, we were shocked and scandalized in equal measure. The post was about the reaction to Musa Tombo’s grave mistake in Sweden which was directed more at football fans who criticized the homesick Tombo than at the SLFA in particular.
If the SLFA was looking for an opportunity to attack Kei Kamara, that was definitely not a good one. Kei is an established goal scorer who has proved himself at home, in the US and UK. We don’t condone indiscipline but that was definitely not a sacking offence. Anyway, let’s not react to Kei Kamara’s post because we believe he was actually addressing football fans, accusing them of being gung-ho about Tombo’s mistake but doing nothing about the poor state of the local game.
1. The fans who expressed outrage at Tombo’s behaviour are not football administrators. So the rot in Salone football is not their business. The football administrators sought to milk the Tombo issue to their advantage. We could find no role for them.
2. Please speak more clearly and regularly about the need to stop the factional fighting in the SLFA in the interest of the game. Your days in the national team are numbered because your legs are getting tired now because of age.
3. Before returning to the US please have a brief meeting with Tombo and tell him why it’s absolutely important for people to honour contracts. Tell him he has to be better than CR7 for any team to come knocking at his door during the rest of his career.
4. Also tell him that playing for the national team and playing in the Portuguese Town League at Fergusson Street at the same time is total madness.
5. Kei Kamara, while you have been away honouring your contract in the US, we have been here all this while challenging the illegality at the SLFA. There will be nothing left in our game with the efforts of those who have been on the ground fight while you wait out there for an invite to play.
CLEAR THAT CONTAINER VEHICLE MESS AT CLINE TOWN
Let’s be very serious about what we are doing in this country with traffic management and ordinary sanitation on the top end of Bai Bureh Road, at Cline Street. On both sides of that road people park their shipping container carrier vehicles with no concern for other road users. There are no road signs to warn people about those very dangerous vehicles even at night.
Just behind those vehicles to the right, driving into town centre from Kissy is a pool of still dirty water that nobody cares about, a constant breeding ground for mosquitoes. And we see people hanging around that place doing nothing but waiting and hoping that somebody will bring the world to them. That will not happen to you, guys. We find it strange that you are not outraged by the situation we have just described and are hanging in their snugly. We know that sometimes authorities have to be alerted to certain situations or be forced to pay attention. That’s what we intend doing about those recklessly parked vehicles and bad drainage system at Bai Bureh Road.
For a start, we need answers for these questions.
1. Has the FCC given up that part of town to owners of shipping container vehicles? Can they please tell us how much money the owners are paying to them if any?
2. Does FCC really care about sanitation in this city as the RED Mayor would have us believe? Can she just take a walk along this section of Bai Bureh Road?
3. Why should people buy such vehicles without having a place to park them? And they park out there on the road without the necessary road signs. Are we waiting for some massive accident before we start planning to do something on social media?
4. What is wrong with parking these vehicles in an open field like the one at trade centre all day before they go into action moving containers at night for a small fee? That’s just our mad idea.
5. Are we not strong enough to tell those vehicle owners to look for their private parking area? Those who want to own vehicles should provide a parking space. That’s all.
NEW ROKUPA HOSPITAL TO OPEN ITS DOORS SOON, BUT WE ARE WORRIED
The Rokupa hospital, the first of THREE fantastic new Satellite hospital facilities at Rokupa, King Harman Road and Circular Road, is getting ready to open its doors to the good people of Sierra Leone. We congratulate the government of Sierra Leone and its donor partners for the good job done with those hospitals that are so important to the health care delivery system in this country.
Our concern now is how we use these facilities going forward. The old satellite hospitals had a lot of problems that we don’t want to see in the new ones. So we make bold to make the following suggestions:
1. Please hire a cleaning firm to make sure the place is always clean and there are no rats and cockroaches doing all-house-relay around patients. And we don’t want those contracts of old, which were awarded to people to tend to Connaught just for them to make money.
2. Don’t hire some 60-year-old man to clean the hospital and expect proper hygiene standards to be maintained. We don’t want to go for cure and bring even more serious diseases home.
3. Make sure there are always drugs in the place so people are not directed to a pharmacy just across the road, possibly owned by a staff of the hospital to buy Panadol.
4. Watching Nigerian movies and English Premier League inside those hospitals doesn’t look great. Nurses spend a lot of time on that while patients groan in pain calling for attention.
5. Make sure the staff on early and late shifts get a nice meal daily so they don’t depend on the patients and their relatives for food and transport. Too much begging is taking place in at least one of these hospitals that we have witnessed.
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