ANOTHER BORMEH ON FOURAH BAY COLLEGE ROAD
Maybe it’s not quite at the level of the main BORMEH in the east of Freetown but what is happening on the road to Fourah Bay College, about 100 yards from the White Water Bridge has the potential to change the look and smell of that very important stretch of road. We have spent the last FOUR weeks watch a potential new BORMEH develop from bits of paper to a full blown dump site. Now they’ve started setting fire to the rubbish, polluting the whole area.
As a first step we are calling on the Freetown City Council to deal with this situation IMMEDIATELY after reading this. We are assuming here that no staff of our City Council has seen what we are writing about. We expect them to do the following:
1. Clear the rubbish piled up right now and put a notice board there warning people against dumping rubbish in that place.
2. Investigate where that whole load of rubbish suddenly came from
3. Put a system in place to arrest and prosecute those responsible for attempting to create another BORMEH in that part of Freetown. We are watching to see what happens next.
GREEDY SIERRA LEONEANS AND THE SUPER ADVERTIS SWINDLE
Wealth Builders, Power Rangers, My Residual Coin – their investors call them MY COIN have all taken turns to swindle a lot of money from some of the greediest Sierra Leoneans alive. Just when everybody thought after those three criminal enterprises came to an end in Sierra Leoneans leaving many people weeping, lessons would have been learned ahead of the next Ponzi scheme showing up but here we are again with another one, apparently orchestrated by a group with the unlikely name, SUPER ADVERTIS. Estimates about the amount of money now in play but we are hearing and reading about some big money.
Since the first day SUPER ADVERTIS collected the first deposits, we raised serious concerns about the credibility of the business but some of our people were locked in already and couldn’t care less. So where do we go from here:
1. Even at this late stage some of those who invested money in that Ponzi scheme are refusing to hold Super Advertis accountable. They are running around with this idea that Orange Money is responsible for the current mess. We find that really strange. We will not waste a second on that. They know those who took their deposits. Why not go there?
2. The way those who invested in this scheme were desperate to make quick money, even the government wouldn’t have been able to stop them. So they have only themselves to blame.
3. We have absolutely no doubt that if another Ponzi scheme emerged tomorrow, other greedy guys would flock there to make quick cash. What’s all the noise about?
BUYA TURAY SHAMES SALONE ON SOCIAL MEDIA
How does one go from being the highest goal scorer in the Swedish league and winning that league to becoming a hopeless MAMMY CUSS man on social media? To bring things hope in a proper way, we should add that the subject of that disrespectful behavior is your MOTHER-IN-LAW. The woman’s only sin is that she gave birth to your wife with whom you’re having disagreements all over the place soon after a lavish wedding that was also the talk of social media for weeks.
Buya Turay is in the spotlight now but there is, sadly, a growing number of Sierra Leoneans who have come to believe that MAMMY CUSS is the best way to express oneself when one comes up against difficult personal or national questions. And they are not even ashamed to go on social media and tell the world who they really are. Many Sierra Leoneans have complained against this in the strongest possible terms but it would appear as if attitudes are not changing. Here is an opportunity for the good people of this country to make a statement against this nonsensical behavior, at least for people who are in national office. Let’s start there by doing the following:
1. We call on all women’s groups in this country to immediately issue a collective statement on Buya Turay’s madness and shame him in the eyes of the country and the world. That statement must reach his current employers so that they know the kind of guy they have on their books.
2. The SLFA MUST immediately kick Buya Turay out of the national squad indefinitely. He must only be allowed to return after making a full apology on social media and giving up his salaries and allowances for three months to charities working with abused women in Sierra Leone.
3. This idea that he is under some kind of juju spell is as ludicrous as it is untenable. We do not believe in juju. From what we saw in the video, he carefully shot that film and made it available to the world on social media.
4. We have not quite touched the issue of his turbulent marriage because that is his personal business. We are not interested in what’s going on in his bedroom. Many people, including those in national offices and are serving as role models to our children are going through the same or worse but they have not gone on social media to shame our FLAG. We are watching to see how this plays out.
TURKISH REFEREE PUNCHED BY CLUB BOSS: WHAT WAS HE THINKING?
Football officials in Sierra Leone spend a lot of time complaining about the quality of refereeing every time their clubs take to the field. It’s not uncommon for fans and officials to complain – in fact it’s almost as if that is an integral part of their training. However, when the head of a Turkish football club left his seat in the stands and gave a referee a nasty punch in the face, he crossed a line never imagined by people like us in this corner.
FIFA and the local football federation have instituted strong action against the man but what was he thinking?
1. Maybe that punch was landed by a devil that entered the man’s body and drove him from his seat in the stands onto the pitch to attack the referee. The devil left him immediately after the punch landed.
2. Could it also be that the referee had collected some cash from the football official but refused to deliver the goods on the field of play? That wouldn’t justify the punch but that’s a nice background to enrich our understanding of what really happened.
3. Maybe the referee was asking for something the football official refused to give, believing instead in the qualities of his players and the referee wanted to prove that he was in charge and could decide the outcome of the match with or without a VAR system.
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