NEW POLITICAL PARTY FORMED IN MAKENI – SLPC
Kothor Alpha was at it once again at the funeral of Mama Alice in Makeni. Alpha likes such moments – a large and powerful audience including the president, listening to him. The guy forgot he was at the funeral of the president’s mother. With the presence of all political parties, Kothor Alpha decided to create a new political party. He called it SIERRA LEONE PEOPLES’ CONGRESS. He then went on to explain how his new party will salvage Sierra Leone. Interesting!
Well once we got home, we fell into a deep sleep and like American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, we had a dream concerning what Kothor Alpha’s SLPC would mean in practice. Here we go:
- Wusum Stars would become Leone Stars
- Appropriate qualifications would be the only requirement for jobs and contracts
- All unnecessary profiling and stereotyping of ordinary people for political reasons would end
- This relentless politicising of all state institutions, student unions and even social clubs would end
- De Pa would continue helping the less fortunate but in a much more orderly way (no more Belgium or Dollar Boys scenario).
- Kortho Alpha would stop taking the people for granted, lying about things that are common knowledge to even the most common people.
(To be continued)
PA PESSIMA AND THE CIVIL SERVICE KASANKAY MONEY
Old Mama Alice Koroma was buried at the weekend in Makeni. As expected, massive crowds turned out to take her home. The family must be very pleased about the whole affair. At 80, she’s done her best even though many people would have loved for her to still be around.
We suggested last week that her funeral wasn’t going to pass without some controversy but we didn’t mention any of what we are about to say now out of respect for an illustrious compatriot.
We really can’t understand why Pa Pessima, the Head of the Civil Service would write a letter like the one published in the Global Times asking all Permanent Secretaries to contribute monies from their ministries to help De Pa prepare his mother’s funeral.
Come on Pa Pessima, what kind of man are you? Are you seriously telling us that De Pa needed your cash to give his mother a befitting funeral? Why do you people always think in terms of money? What we think De Pa needed was for his friends and work colleagues to come around and sympathise with his family and pray for the late woman’s soul. De Pa doesn’t need your money.
Where did you really expect Permanent Secretaries to get money? Don’t you know that since the year started many government departments have not received a penny from government to run their services apart from Salaries? Isn’t that the money you guys play around with?
The Koroma family is right to mess Pessima up in the way they did with that press release. And they shouldn’t be surprised to learn that in communities up and down this country, people are collecting money and livestock from the poor ostensibly for the funeral of Mama Alice. This is not right. You are giving De Pa a bad name.
What is Pessima still doing in the Civil Service? We are sure while he was at Human Resource Office, he doctored his age to show that he is 48 in 2012.
Some of us truly believe that this outpost of hypocrisy and sycophancy called civil service must be scattered now. There are thousands of civil servants who have died in active service and their families have still not received their benefits. Instead of addressing that, Pessima is running around collecting money for burial. Pessima you turn go cam and God alone knows who will collect your own Kasankay money.
KEEPING PEACE ABROAD, KILLING AT HOME: SLP O YEA!
We couldn’t care less what people like Kalia Sesay tell us about the effectiveness of the Sierra Leone Police in peacekeeping operations in Sudan and Somalia. Ordinary Sierra Leoneans would still continue to call on De Pa to sack Francis Munu today and appoint somebody with the requisite credentials to start re-building trust between the people and their police. The high point at which Keith Biddle departed this land has been brought so low by Acha Kamara and Francis Munu that the maxim “force for good” is now a cause for derisive laughter.
We warn De Pa to stop Munu now before another set of Sierra Leoneans are killed or injured by his badly trained police officers. There are very good police officers in this country but Munu’s KGB-style command is destroying innovation and creative leadership in the SLP. The foot soldiers are taking instructions from the wrong officers who themselves are questionable people. How can a man like Yete Yete lead anything?
Let Munu please explain to this nation why is it that his officers open fire at the slightest provocation?
In the most recent example, police officers trying to arrest some alleged marijuana-smoking youth opened fire at Circular road wounding four in daylight.
We don’t defend Marijuana smoking in anyway but we find it strange that the officers were trying to arrest people with perhaps one cigarette size marijuana while their colleagues on the Kambia border are helping smuggle tons and tons into Guinea daily. A marijuana economy is thriving in the Freetown peninsular and outlying areas on Francis Munu’s watch. So what hypocrisy is this?
If we were to carry out a citizens’ arrest of marijuana smokers, we can assure Munu that the bulk of those who will be jailed are police officers. Imagine Munu suggesting that the people hurt at circular road were victims of stray bullets. Why did your men open fire in the first place? Did they come under fire from those hungry and frustrated young people? You can as well tell us they were trying to arrest Pablo Escobar or those drug gangs in Mexico. Please resign now!
FRIENDS OF THE DEAD - ASCENSION TOWN BRANCH
Since Munu has instructed his officers to arrest and possibly shoot down Marijuana Smokers anywhere they find them, we thought we could help save police time by calling his attention to a den of Marijuana Smokers who’ve made Ascension Town Cemetery their home. They call themselves FRIENDS OF THE DEAD. Don’t be surprised to know that the indicted former Mayor of Freetown is their greatest friend. In fact they are the only Freetown people supporting the City Council Football Club with the indicted Mayor providing morale booster in the form of alcohol and DRY GRASS SUSPECTED TO BE MARIJUANA. Why don’t Munu send his boys to arrest them, what about those ones at Lumley Car Wash, what about those at Government Wharf, what about those at Lumley Street and many many other places in Freetown? The police must not get us started. Please! This shoot-to-kill policy will only end with the sacking of Francis Munu.
PROPHET JOHN THE BAPTIST LEIGH ADDRESSES HIS DISCIPLES
Brethren,
Behold the word of the Lord came to me in my sleep. I heard the Lord say: “Arise John and lead thy people out of the land of Green Palm Trees into the bright Sunshine for I am about to do a wonderful thing in the land of Salone.” The Lord told me that the King of the land of Green Palm Trees will put up a strong fight against the land of Sunshine and that I should join De Pa to fight King Osuafia and that he the maker of all the world will be with us.
Then the people replied: Are you sure?
Prophet John The Baptist Leigh then went on nationwide radio and made the following statement: “I am going to the land of Sunshine, “if betteh fallah me, ar go member una yah.”
And it came to pass that the whole world was disappointed with his statement and every man returned to their home crestfallen. Selfish man! They shouted.
POPE JOHN PAUL’S OLYMPIC ARITHMETIC – 3:15 = POSSIBLY NO MEDALS
Fifteen officials including Minister of Football Pope John Paul and his Director of Sports are now in the UK to see our people win medals, we hope. The Sierra Leone delegation is made up of fifteen officials and three athletes – this is real madness. In fact only two athletes flew out of this country with all these per-diem seeking officials. The long-jumper is based in the US and will probably find her way to East London.
Nigeria, a country with more than one hundred athletes, and very promising ones at that, has told non-essential officials they can only travel to the games at their own expense. Sierra Leone with little money is taking fifteen people along for only three athletes.
When the minister asked journalists not too long ago to pay their way into the stadium even if they were on duty in the name of patriotism, some people supported him. But here’s the Pope who is totally a non-essential team member insisting on going to the UK and collecting Per Diem. Even with the remains of the mother of president still in the morgue he went to fun and frolic. So much for his attitudinal change and patriotism talk!
We have NOC officials, the director of sports and that Chef de Mission who does one hundred and twelve things all over the place in this delegation. Why is the “patriotic” minister wasting taxpayers’ money to fly to London? We just hope they all return home. Sierra Leone is at peace, no asylum claim will be considered. Long live vigilant UK immigration.
