Mayor with four IPADS
The Mayor of the Great Homeland of Makeni is a good friend of the late Steve Jobs and his apple group. He has four IPADS. Don’t ask me what the hell he is doing with all that. But if you’ve done that already, let me attempt an answer: All the machines are on at the same time on our Mayor’s official desk. The time is 2pm on a Monday. As you know, the Mayor is a busy man with many people, including the usual dreg man dem waiting to see him. The Secretary’s instruction is this: ‘tell them I am very busy with official work.’ Busy indeed.
IPAD – 1 The Mayor is checking his e-mail
IPAD – 2 The Mayor is on e-bay trying to purchase some electrical goods on-line
IPAD – 3 The Mayor is searching Google to see how unpopular Mayors from Kampala to Nairobi have managed to cling on to power
IPAD – 4 The Mayor is listening to the music of the late Whitney Houston. He can’t believe his favourite lady is dead.
You see how busy the Mayor is? We have just checked the Mayor’s monthly salary and we bet our last penny, he has questions to answer about that disgrace he calls a house planted in the outskirts of the town. With his wife in the diaspora, the Mayor is clearly living above his earnings. Ordinary folks like us have also read the Auditor General’s report. The ACC is refusing to act. We shall act on November 17, 2012.
NEC - hiring of vehicles – John’s Palm Oil
We honestly don’t like writing about anything that will dent the image of the National Electoral Commission. The future of this country depends on how they carry themselves between now and elections day. But we have serious concerns about some people within NEC and we know them, who are bent on making money out of this process. They are asking for commission from car rental companies. Their own personal vehicles are rented out to NEC through third parties and after that, they prevail on their colleagues not to deploy their vehicles in rough terrain outside Freetown.
We can prove that ¼ of those vehicles now in the field have direct links to some NEC officials. The other day we got news about some of the young registration clerks being short-changed and a few more things. Look NEC, behave yourselves, we shall come down really hard soon. This ‘dregman’ business will eventually cause problems in the coming elections and we will not tolerate that.
So So Pamphlet Nar MMCET
It’s as if administrators at MMCET are deaf and dumb (with the greatest respect to our disabled brothers and sisters) because we can’t understand why they still haven’t taken action to stop this out-of-control pamphlet business. Just this week an old woman visited us to complain about the pressure she is feeling due to the many requests for her daughter to buy pamphlets – naturally, the pressure gets transferred to her. What’s the matter with MMCET; we don’t hear this kind of rubbish from FBC, IPAM or even UNIMAK. We are prepared to launch our own campaign against this aggressive pamphlet business at MMCET and time now and we shall forward our conclusions to the minister who will have no option but to act. The sight-tight principal of MMCET and his Rottweilers were all over the place fighting to push Dr. Philip Kanu out of the college for his political beliefs. Now we expect them to show the same zeal in removing Lecturers who spend all their time writing pamphlets for sale instead of using the same materials in class. Check out Diploma II – Business Administration and Business and Finance. We urge them to start immediately. We shall come ‘like a thief in the night’ Next time, LONTA!
Good Morning ‘Mayor’ Theo Nicol
News came through last week that our friend, Theo Nicol will be running for the position of Mayor of Freetown. In fact Theo called our editor to confirm the story. Great then Mr. Nicol. We are told you might run with a RED one piece suit on. Not bad. But our brother must know this: The City Council is in deep trouble and that makes your job unenviable.
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The Council has a big image problem. The people don’t trust them anymore in terms of managing their tax leones, cleaning the city or doing anything right no matter what that bogus Cyril Mattia says.
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The Council is in debt – huge debt. They’ve had to fall back on the Central government to pay their staff.
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The Council has too many so-called metropolitan police men who were recruited to ‘secure’ the former Mayor, now indicted for corruption. Convicted or not, there are two things involved: Herbert George-Williams will never return to frontline politics and the Council will never recover from the disgrace of the entire management being indicted in one swoop for corruption.
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Finally sir, we must tell you that since the start of this football season, the City Council Football team has won only one game. Do you know how much of tax payers’ money is used to keep them in the Premier League? Please put it in your manifesto that you will disband this team if you became Mayor.
And one more thing, we are reviewing some of your programmes at SLBC, just to keep in touch with some of the things you said on those programs about governance. We want to be able to give you periodic ‘friendly kicks’ when you get in.
Meteorology Department - On The Mend?
It looks as though the department of meteorology is trying to come out of the cold. The Director gave a rare interview to CTN the other day. It was good to hear from a department that is completely forgotten. Good news indeed that they are about to build new weather stations – this is long overdue. At least somebody will from now on tell us the weather condition when the whole country is covered in haze and dust to the extent that flights are diverted to neighbouring countries as happened recently.
Next step for you Director Bockarie is for you to move your office out of that byzantine structure you call office on Charlotte Street. The weather has taken its toll on that building without you knowing - part of the roof is falling off, sir. Before we leave you sir, can you please start deploying your staff to SLBC? We absolutely want to know about the weather even on a weekly basis from people who have authority over the subject matter, not those celebrity presenters who care more about their clothes than the news. We hope you still have staff for that Director Bockarie, because with the kind of conditions you spoke about in that interview, we cannot even begin to imagine the staff attrition rate. Well done anyway.
