BULLET TAKES AIM AT GREEN PARLIAMENTARY LEADER
The Green Movement in parliament is in a bit of turmoil after the movement’s overall chairman threw a grenade among them in the wake of their parliamentary leader being elected to the prestigious position of Speaker of the ECOWAS parliament. Bullet dispatched a letter to Tower Hill telling the ECOWAS speaker he cannot continue as leader of government business in the Sierra Leone parliament while serving as speaker of the regional parliament. On the face of it that would look like a fair point but unfolding events since that letter appeared on social media tell a completely different story.
This week, the man Bullet is trying to dethrone sent out a letter dealing with wide-ranging issues and touching only briefly on the appointment of a new parliamentary leader and his deputy by the bullet. Cut a long story short, Ngor Tunis is saying that Bullet acted outside his powers and in his haste to settle scores with him he forgot to follow the normal procedure.
So we’ve been sniffing around the saga and at this stage can only say that this issue goes really deep into recent developments in the Green Movement.
1. Bullet will NEVER forgive Ngor Tunis for appearing to champion the de-linking of the office of Party Chairman from that of the Leader in the new Green Movement. How come Ngor Tunis didn’t suspect and therefore prepare for a possible strike from Bullet?
2. We are being briefed by somebody who attended a meeting where the removal of Ngor Tunis was discussed and sealed. Once all the necessary journalistic checks are complete we will tell the true story and point out what each of those who attended the meeting will get from the removal of Ngor.
3. On this question of procedure raised by Ngor, we’ve been told by at least THREE REGIONAL CHAIRMEN that they thought the letter announcing the removal of Ngor was one of those fake items making the rounds on social media these days. We told them it’s the real thing real. So we ask: who did Bullet consult then?
4. Frankly, Bullet has gone astray once again because if this process was properly managed – in terms of the procedure being followed and all those that should be consulted treated fairly and in a proper way, Ngor himself would make that announcement in parliament and hand over to his successors. But Bullet enjoys shaking things up and causing controversy.
5. The wider geo-political interest of one of the key men who attended that meeting we referred to just now appears to have received a boost with the new arrangement. Our sources have told us a political earthquake will hit his ambitions at the time he least expects.
PAUL DAMULAY CRIES FOR HELP - NO CASH TO RUN STADIUM
The National Stadium has fallen on hard times since the war against COVID 19 forced a halt to the SALONE PREMIER LEAGUE and the endless CHURCH CRUSADES out of which the stadium management makes a lot of money. Manager Paul Damulay wants the government to step in and help pay their salaries. Honestly we feel extremely sorry for the current state of affairs facing all businesses in the country, not just the stadium and we believe the government should attempt a bail out for as many organizations as possible.
In the meantime we have a few suggestions that Damulay can consider to help cushion the economic situation of the stadium:
1. Manager Damulay please ask for permission from the government and face the banks with a request for a loan. No bank manager will think twice about approving a loan for such a facility as long as the documents are order.
2. Why not collect all the rent owed to you by the Ministry of Youth and people living in that hostel? We understand some are not paying a penny. You are the only Landlord who is so afraid of his tenants that he cannot even collect his rent.
3. We also know there are agencies occupying offices inside the main bowl. Are they all paying rent?
4. Why not get the SLFA and those plenty churches that use the stadium all the time to cover your expenses for as long as COVID 19 lasts? Surely they will need the stadium when the league resumes and for thanksgiving service. They would paid in advance for the use of the place.
5. Having said that we were very disappointed last week when we visited and saw clean water flowing freely from inside the hostel area. A lot of water wasted for the one hour or so we spent there. Surely something as important as water should be handled with seriousness. In fact, how much do you owe Guma Valley Water Company manager Damulay? Why has the stadium gone broke in less than TWO MONTHS?
COVID 19 GIVES SLFA EXECUTIVE MORE TIME
We wish otherwise but the reality is that by the time SLFA delegates vote for a new president Queen would have been in office for SEVEN YEARS, three years after her original mandate expired. After a series of tactical moves with the full support of Infantino’s FIFA, Queen has stayed in office long after her mandate expired and despite the Stakeholders playing all the known tricks in the books, Queen stays on.
We know that the High Court in Freetown will soon hear a case from the Stakeholders in which they are trying to dismantle the judicial bodies Queen set up in Kenema claiming the procedure by which she brought them in to office was wrong and in any case they were created to serve her purpose – that purpose is to disqualify all leadership candidates in the coming SLFA election. Queen wants to go unopposed again. We’ll see.
Certainly, the counting process in Kenema was terribly flawed. We cannot argue with any of the names on that list because they are Sierra Leoneans but the counting of votes that put them in office was as credible as the electoral process in Yayah Jammeh’s The Gambia.
The world hates COVID 19. Queen hates it too but she doesn’t mind the extension granted her by the war against the virus. Nobody knows how long this will last.
FREETOWN – MASIAKA ROAD GRINDING ON EVER SO SLOWLY
At the current pace this road construction project will be completed a few days to the next general and presidential elections in 2023. Meanwhile our friends and their local counterparts are behind the walls of the toll-gate compound counting the daily collection and laughing all the way to the bank. The agreement that brought our friends from so far away is in the hands of the Red Camp and was never crafted to get the best for us. Slowly but surely we are getting totally fed up with the crazy turn this has taken – our patience is running out.
Instead of focusing on finishing off the few kilometers of road, our friends from far away are very much concerned with collecting millions and millions of Leones on the backs of our people. There is some construction activity inside Masiaka town now but the idea is to distract from the huge job that remains along the way. Now we call on the New Direction administration to do the following with that little rogue project on our main road out of the city:
1. Please publish the project documents approved by that RED Camp dominated parliament. The people DEMAND that. We want to see what King Messi did on our highway and who are the people continuing his work there.
2. We want to know the exact completion date, even if it’s a new one.
3. How involved are the local people along the road in monitoring the project and have they been appropriately compensated for their land and troubles encountered during the on-going work.
4. We also want independent experts to check the quality of the road being constructed. We don’t want another Wilkinson road swindle.
5. Please open the gates of those toll road compounds to the public. We want to know what else is taking please there apart from receiving and processing cash bound for that far away country.
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