THE ILLUSORY CONVENTION AT THOMPSONIAN ILLUSIONS
So after a very costly civil war lasting more than two years, The Dalai Lama and his boys have finally decided to come together once again to get the PMDC working. We don’t yet have the details of the hurriedly-arranged truce but what we do know is that the party will never be the same again and while officials in Freetown are celebrating the new atmosphere, the reality is that the support base in the southern region has been eroded beyond recognition.
See what we have now: The PMDC is conducting its convention at Thompsonian Illusions in Freetown. To us this demonstrates just how out of touch the party is with those who gave it relevance in 2007 under persecution by Solomon Berewa. Almost all PMDC’s supporters are in the south. But that's not the point...perhaps they want to capture Freetown. But how can they decide to come to a hall that holds no more than 100 people to organise a party convention?
Remember this PMDC, your convention is taking place in a quiet neighbourhood and there is no serious car park around. Tell your delegates not to try to remove The Dalai Lama from his leadership position because he will fight back and you will return to where you came from. As for those other confused guys who are hanging out in the APC, we can’t even start talking about them. The people now know how politicians behave when their personal interests are at stake. Convention at Thompsonian? Are you guys launching some kind of campaign song or what?
MAADA BIO SPEAKS THEMNE – “POLITICS DON FORDOM”
We are in good times in this country, you know. We have ten political parties – the nation is spoilt for choice. The party leaders are doing extraordinary things to get our votes, for the first time in five years we could feel the power of our votes. Maada Bio has been in the north in the last few days and he’s been speaking some Themne in an attempt to get across to the people. UDAT U WAN FULL BA!! SHIYORRRR!!! Anyway, your tongue was a little shaky with the few words you spoke. How long did it take you to memorize them? We don’t know if the people fell for that.
The man from Bonthe District received his Pentecost day gift at his office in Freetown and revealed his language skill to the tribes of the north in full campaign rhetoric. Why can’t Christiana cut through this hypocrisy and declare campaign started? The politicians are all over the place. Christiana is sitting in her tarpaulin-covered office pretending to be in charge. Lef we yah!
KAKA FET FOR APC SYMBOLS
We are in a period in the history of this country when we can safely say that everything is possible. We woke up to news on the front page of one of our national newspapers the other day that APC partisans were using faeces as weapons of political destruction in the race to get party symbols. Does anybody really understand what is happening to our people these days? Do we now understand why the battle against cholera will be difficult, almost impossible to win?
This symbol thing is threatening the peace of many communities and it’s not just the APC. SLPP areas are also neck-deep in this attempt to circumvent the will of the people. It’s just that we cannot understand why APC boys decided to throw faeces on themselves. No doubt, it was easily available to them because we are talking about Guard Street where sanitation is almost zero; it’s perhaps the most depressed area in the whole of Sierra Leone. We wonder which message politicians are taking to places like that. Why can’t these young people think seriously about themselves for once and tell the politicians to go hang!
USL FINANCE DIRECTOR - SO POWERFUL, SOOOOO...
Madam Finance Director, University of Sierra Leone what’s up? Somehow staff of USL find it difficult to understand how you operate. Have you stopped to ask why almost everybody at USL think you are a stumbling block to the effective functioning of the place? The Finance Director is slow, she trusts nobody’s judgement and she couldn’t care less what even her bosses say. They approve document for her to take action, she stalls. And didn’t these people recently say “it’s no longer business as usual at the university”?
USL has this problem of employing people who grow wings and dictate the pace and depth of the job for which they are being paid. We don’t know how long his bosses at USL will accommodate this but other sectors are getting fed up with her attitude to work and disrespect of colleagues.
RATS AT THE MILLION DOLLAR AIRPORT
Has Chidi Minah returned home yet from his Caribbean honeymoon? We ask because we have a little message for him. Rats are gradually taking over his multi-million dollar airport. We know how the former UN guy is going to react: He will soon offer a consultancy firm from Barbados a contract to study how RATS came to occupy the canteen area, the duty-free shop, and baggage reclaim. They are expanding their area of influence and soon the presidential lounge will not be safe. Perhaps that will be the only time action will be taken.
The consultancy will last for eight weeks. Then a company from Comoros Islands will be contracted to kill the rats. This company has a lot of experience in killing rats. Even the guy in the nursery rhyme can’t drive the breed of rats we have at Lungi Airport.
We don’t think Minah should be in office beyond Friday 7th September. He is out of touch with the realities of Sierra Leone. Long live the RATS of Lungi Airport.
POPE JOHN PAUL – THE CONTROVERSIAL LANDLORD
This is an important message for our esteemed readers: If you need to discuss any serious official matter with the Western Area Football Association WAFA, please don’t go to their office at the hostels of the national stadium. Please call Foday Turay and Abdul Kanaseiu on the phone. We are trying to get their numbers for you.
WAFA is no longer at ease at the Stadium Hostel as the Pope has locked their offices with padlocks from Guantanamo Bay prison. You dont need to be a rocket scientist to know that the reason is their support for the now disqualified Rodney Michael for FA president. When the Pope threatened to take the action the other day, we all thought it was a joke. When will somebody really get the Pope to respect other Sierra Leoneans? He doesn’t want anybody to disagree with him as far as football administration is concerned. You know, even in The Vatican, some of the Cardinals disagree with your Brother Superior without consequences.
This is the story of the Sports Ministry since the Pope came around. All those individuals and groups that have disagreed with the Pope on whatever have found themselves in the cold while the sycophants have flourished. Welcome to the ONE PARTY state at Bishop House. We are getting fed up.
EXCOMBATANTS TRIAL – THE TRIAL OF SHAME
We are still at a loss as to why this government kept those “mentally imbalanced” and “chronically ill” ex-combatants in jail for so long for their attack on the Minister of Defence. The only reason why these young people spent so much time in jail, is because the Minister wanted REVENGE. A justice system based on revenge will fail. Isn’t that the reason why we have more people on remand than those tried and convicted in this country? Isn’t that why the prison yard is overflowing with suffering humanity?
Everybody in this country condemned the soldiers for attacking the minister. But we also called attention to the fact that people who sacrificed their lives for Mama Salone ought not to have been provoked to that extent. We have video pictures of what actually happened and we believe the Minister was strong enough to fight his way out before things got out of hand. Frank Kargbo believed it was the ex-combatants who were on trial. No, it’s our sense of justice and fair play, our inability to forgive and rehabilitate erring countrymen that was on trial. Using the justice system for revenge will not work sir. It’s the same as throwing Robin Falley of Segbwema into jail for allegedly organising under-aged voter registration while refusing to do same to hundreds more found out by the same Electoral Commission in other parts of the country. So much for your sense of justice and fair play! We wonder what Frank would have done with Andreas Brevijk?
WILL SADIQ SILLAH SURVIVE?
The clouds are gathering over the Wanjei River, The crocodiles are licking their mouths and the vultures are circling. Reports are reaching us that Sadiq Sillah, the District Council chairman is about to be sacrificed and replaced with a man called Swaibu Sowa. Some elders from the district came to see us the other day and told us Sadiq will be gone by next week. We are watching with interest.
