SIERRA LEONEANS ARE A DIFFERENT BREED ON SOCIAL MEDIA
While the whole world is busy condemning the brutal killing of the police officer there are Sierra Leoneans, a good many of them living outside the country who are celebrating and threatening more killings. Some even have gone as far as claiming some responsibility for what happened with the OSD commander.
This is a country where we have made so much progress since the end of the civil war that we have recently ABOLISHED the death penalty for all crimes including murder and treason. The message the government was sending out to the world was that this was now a new country and we value HUMAN LIFE. While the world was celebrating with us Sierra Leoneans went on social media and incited their gullible brothers and sisters to attack innocent people and properties on August 10 2022, killing SIX police officers deliberately. This was after instigating violence in Makeni, Lunsar and Tombo causing serious loss of life. An official on that has just been handed over to Principal.
The nation is now waiting for a WHITE PAPER on that report. A few nights ago we went to bed with news that an OSD commander in Makeni was killed in that city by unknown individuals. We are looking forward to a speedy conclusion of the investigations. For now let’s say a thing or two about this social media thing:
1. Sierra Leoneans are always on social media using unprintable language for the most basic of reasons. A culture of decent political debate that we saw in 1996 and to some extent in 2002 is gone.
2. Middle class Sierra Leoneans that should serve as the conscience of the nation are so compromised that they have withdrawn for the democratic space for good conversation, opening up for the kind of people operating there now to take over.
3. Those who brave it out to explain things are insulted and harassed into silence. Is that what social media applications were created for? From the safety of the UK, USA, Australia, Netherlands and France, Sierra Leoneans pour threats, spread ethnic hatred and instigate raw violence on our streets. Meanwhile the so-called International Community is sending out non-committal tweets and waiting for genocide to occur before they start trying to take people to The Hague. The world has still not learnt the lessons of Rwanda.
POLITICAL TRANSFER SEASON OFFICIALLY OPENS APRIL 25
We have already witnessed the total surrender of the three independent candidates in this parliament to the Green Movement. A whole group of C4C councilors in Kono district and the Mayor of Koidu city has also joined the train. As we move towards the end of April, by which time parliament would have closed down, we are hearing that more politicians would be making their way to the ruling party. Clearly, the momentum is with the Green Movement. In this business, there are always surprises. The Red Movement could be planning some of their own signings to prove that June 2023 is wide open. So, as they say, it’s not over until it is over. In this case, until the results are announced and a winner declared.
KKY of NGC has just signed a so-called STRATEGIC ALLIANCE with the Green Movement vowing to use this alliance to unify and develop the country. We shall see. In fact, we are yet to see the details of this new arrangement so the jury is still out on the question of the viability of that alliance and if it would deliver the goodies for the people of Sierra Leone.
Let’s not hide this: the three independent candidates simply turned themselves in because under the Proportional Representation system it’s almost impossible for an independent candidate to hit that 11.9% threshold required to reach parliament in the two districts of Kailahun and Pujehun. So it makes a lot of sense to hand themselves in to the party machinery and get ready to be sworn in.
We are in our corner watching things unfold. As we normally say, there are interesting times just ahead.
NASSIT FACILITY IN BO BECOMES WATA PLAZA
They say water is life. We agree but can NASSIT please tell us something about the original plan for the plaza in Bo because the way things are going there raises a lot of concern. We have seen what is happening to a similar structure in Makeni and Kenema but the one in Bo has about five small companies selling water. The process water at the plaza, load thousands of sachets in trucks and sell them throughout the district.
We have no problem with the companies doing that vital service. We however have a lot of problems with NASSIT that allowed the original idea for which they spent such vast sums of public money to be pushed aside ending with the place becoming a water plaza. It’s never late to turn things around and give us something really decent in the heart of SWEET BO.
WORLD CUP HERO IS MUMMY’S BOY SO NO CASH FOR WIFE
The world is talking about Achraf Hakimi, the Moroccan guy who plays for PSG in France. Depending on who you talk to, Hakimi is an intelligent guy teaching rich and famous people how to protect their money and other assets from the fingers of gold diggers or he is the one of the greediest people ever to walk on the face of this earth.
The story is that his wife Hiba ABOUK filed for divorce - she wanted to go her way after THREE years as the wife of Hakimi with two sons delivered. She approached a court and asked for her share of her rich husband’s properties. The court went to look for the footballer’s property and soon discovered that 80% of what he owned was registered in the name of his mother. This is what the world is talking about. Why did Hakimi do that?
We want our readers to consider the following;
1. Hakimi had a covenant with mummy since he became a man and in simple terms he agreed to hand over all his money and properties to his mum to administer. There may well have been a clause in that covenant saying the status quo would persist even when the man took a wife.
2. Hakimi may have read about the tragedy that befell some famous footballers from Africa who are now broke because their wives divorced them and took away a big chunk of their property and hard cash. So he decided to beat that trap.
3. Maybe the man knew from the outset that his wife was only there to get hands on his money so he tried to be smart. Why not? This marriage lasted only THREE years. The lady is leaving at a time when the man needs her most – he is being investigated for RAPE in France. How could a loyal wife behave this way?
4. We can also say that mummy is crowding out the marriage. She is the mother, big sister, financial adviser and banker at the same time. That’s enough reason for the wife to give up and go.
5. Anyway our man tried to be clever but the law will get him. His mother should now show proof of how she made all that wealth and Hakimi is going to have to tell the court the whereabouts of the big money he has made and continues to make playing at the highest level in Europe.
6. By the way, could it be that the lady making that RAPE allegation is also looking to lay hands on some of the cash in mummy’s bank account? Oh dear!
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