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INJUNCTION SEASON OPENS IN THE RED CAMP There’s hardly anybody in the Red Camp or those watching Sierra Leone politics from outside the two dominant parties who didn’t know that FEBRUARY SURPRISE was on the way as the party prepared for a conference to elect their leaders. For insiders they knew it would come from one of their own who was either disgruntled about the way the lower level elections have gone or from others seeking to close some legal pits that the party may fall into at the 11th hour which the opposition may receive with glee. Things have been moving really fast over the last few days within Red Camp. They have completed the vetting process from those contesting for national office and in the process disqualified Chief Sidikie who thinks becoming president of Sierra Leone is the only way he can be useful to this country. We don’t want to touch the details of the kind of statements we’ve heard from a few quarters since the injunction was slammed on the holding of the convention – it’s for legal reasons and also because we are not into the kind of vulgarity that we hear on a daily basis when a group of San San boys decide to make a contribution to the national debate. Chief Sidikie has been left a disappointed man again after being told he was NOT qualified to run. God alone knows what he must be thinking at the moment. Does Chief Sidikie know that he has no option now but to fight to the finish? Here was this man who the whole world stood with to fight King Messi now trying to enter the same door as if nothing happened yesterday. Very few people would now sympathize with him for the greatest political miscalculation of all time. Chief wants us to believe he has NINE LIVES in politics. We are watching closely to see him deploy the other life before Red Camp turns up at Tower Hill to hand in nomination papers. FCC MAYOR TO LIVESTREAM DEPARTURE ON FACEBOOK – 1ST MARCH 2023 By this time next month Mayors and Chairpersons of local councils would have left office. Their terms of office would end on the first of March, according to the Ministry of Local Government. We are based in Freetown and we pay our taxes here so our attention is on our dear Mayor Kemokai of the Freetown City Council. She is likely to leave office on that day streaming her emotional departure on Facebook live. Our Mayor spent many years in her other country and was sent here by the great ruler of that country ostensibly to help us fight Ebola. Once the battle was over, the woman who would become our Mayor entered the State House to work on some project and make the necessary contacts to represent Tolongbo at the FCC. Now after FIVE years we are scratching our heads trying to find what the people of this great city would point to in celebration of FIVE years of Mayor Kemokai. First of all we want to advise Mayor Kemokai to make sure she clears all her belongings from City Hall as she leaves office on the last day of February. The people of Freetown have a verdict to deliver and it could go for or against our Mayor. It’s not the easiest thing to be told to return to your old office to collect your stuff on the morning after an election defeat. Between now and the end of February, we will be publishing some articles trying to make sense of Mayor Kemokai’s FIVE years in office. For now let’s see how some of her people would react on her last day in office. 1. THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR – Mayor Kemokai once asked for this guy to be moved from FCC. She just couldn't see eye to eye with him as he tried to assert his authority as a big man in FCC with some powers over budget and program implementation. The Chief Administrator would hope that Mayor Kemokai is defeated in June. Well, he wouldn’t know who the next mayor would be but just seeing the back of Mayor Kemokai would de-traumatize him. 2. CORE AND GENERAL STAFF OF FCC – After FIVE years of marginalization, these people would emerge from the cold thanking God that the era of a mayor pretending they didn’t matter was over. 3. MAYOR’S DELIVERY UNIT – Our Mayor was warned in official documents to disband this so-called delivery unit and to refund monies spent on the people she put in that group. We understand she has paid every cent to the ACC to avoid a very messy litigation. What we don’t know is whether members of that unit simply melted away or were given another name. They will miss overseas travels and fat per diem payments. Our advice is that team members should simply return to their second home in Europe and leave Sierra Leone in peace. MAN CITY ACCUSED OF FINANCIAL DOPING: LET JUSTICE BE DONE Manchester City left the Emirates Stadium in London on Wednesday evening with three points in their bag. They’ve now played one game more and are leading the table on goal difference over Arsenal. The Gunners are beginning to fall back and it’s all beginning to look so familiar for many fans of arsenal. They’ve been leading the pack for several weeks and all we can do now is to pray that what we think is about to happen is a very bad dream. For Man City, no matter how many goals they score, no matter the high quality of their football they are just like Justin Gatlin serving a doping ban and coming back to beat Usain Bolt. For the second time Manchester City have been accused of breaching the financial fair play rule. In other words they are engaged in FINANCIAL DOPING just to take advantage of their competitors. We know they have absolutely denied all the charges levied against them by the English FA. They defended themselves against similar charges from UEFA and have hired the same lawyer that got them off that hook. At the end of this current case the lawyer would get a bank balance enough to end hunger in several countries. So while they are all over the place celebrating, deep inside they are being told to look over their shoulders to see that it’s possible this could signal the end of the Man City project. Pep would move back to Spain and continue the Catalan independence struggle or retire in America. As for the players they would simply move to other clubs that are clean of financial doping and play on. Copyright © 2023 Politico Online (17/02/23)
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