STRAY DOGS ALL AROUND – WHERE ARE THE COUNCILLORS?
May be we should stop complaining about the ineffectiveness of the Freetown City Council and wait for November 17 to show how angry we are at the total failure of the Freetown City Council to do the most basic things on behalf of residents of this city.
Last week we counted at least six decomposing corpses of stray dogs on the GREAT Wilkinson Road. Apparently they were washed down De Pa’s most valuable campaign monument by heavy rain and there was nobody to clear them away. There are just too many stray dogs in Freetown. We know very well how much of a danger they pose to our health but like for every other thing we are just carrying on as if life is good. We like animals but somebody should own, register and take care of them. People who’ve lived in Freetown for about twenty years should remember how City Council officials made sure that all dogs in this city had owners. They even went as far as putting down dogs that weren’t properly registered.
Humans don’t have homes in this city so we are not asking the council to build a dog’s home like the one at Battersea in London. We want the council to take out all stray dogs and get pet owners to properly handle their pets and own them in the true sense of the word. Don’t tell us we are asking for too much. This is what a city does for its residents.
VIOLENCE IN WATERLOO – APC FIGHT APC FOR SYMBOL
The next two weeks will be interesting for neutrals like us. For those seeking political office or those hoping to benefit from one political group or the other gaining power, these are tense times and the stakes are really high. Waterloo and Tombo witnessed sporadic acts of violence on Tuesday because the APC big men at Marine House decided to reverse the will of the people in terms of who represents them on the local council. We heard that the whole thing led to violence on the streets and arrests in Tombo and tear gas in Waterloo. Politicians appear on radio and TV speaking against violence but they create the conditions that encourage violence.
The APC set up electoral colleges with the mandate of selecting suitable candidates for the coming elections. When the candidates are selected, the big men go into their room at Marine House and reverse the outcome in favour of De Pa’s anointed. When the people complain, they send our police to beat and arrest them.
We said it not too long ago that all the parties are doing – setting up electoral colleges and consensus building committees – are all part of the facade they use to portray themselves as democratic institutions. These are all social clubs in which the most favoured people thrive. They are after raw power and money. We don’t trust them with the people’s welfare.
EMPTY CHAIRS AT P.D.P NOMINATION IN MOYAMBA
As we went to press, news came through that the People’s Democratic Party, PDP -SORBEH, failed to turn up for the nomination of their candidates for the local council in Moyamba. So they appear to have given up on that part of the country. Is this a national party or some political organisation based somewhere in Grey Bush? We have always said that since the PDP died with its charismatic leader, Thaimu Bangura, the party stopped breathing. If the PPRC really does its job on these so-called parties, a lot of them will be found wanting and thrown out of the race. Since the day their Spokesman made that disastrous appearance on 98.1, the party has not recovered from the way the Freetown audience treated them. PDP should just pull out of this contest and end the life of the project Thaimu started in the early 90s
OPERATION NO-LIVING-THING COLLINS THINKS WE ARE JOKERS
We hear a lot about Maada Bio’s collective guilt for the sin of the NPRC over the killing of controversial IG Bambay Kamara and twenty-eight others (and it’s up to him – Maada – to defend himself), but we hear very little, if anything, about ELDRED COLLINS who in his rebel days called on his troops to embark on OPERATION NO LIVING THING in Freetown. When those forces entered the city, THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE were killed; HUNDREDS OF HOUSES DESTROYED and about TWO THOUSAND CHILDREN were abducted. God knows what happened to them. ELDRED COLLINS is here again campaigning to become president of Sierra Leone. We just feel that he is taking his luck too far and we should let him know that. The TRC was all about putting the ghost of the war to rest and moving on but the killingfields of Freetown are something we will find difficult to forget. How this guy is getting cash to move around with the name of his fringe party is a mystery. In Sierra Leone many mysterious things are happening with huge cash and jeeps popping up in odd places almost daily.
The day of the Lord is coming.
HIDING BEHIND THE SHADOW – SIDI TUNIS’ DIVIDED LOYALTY
The story of Sidi Tunis is an interesting one. The guy is so politically unreliable that his party ordered him to go on national radio and pledge his LOVE and LOYALTY to the SLPP. This is the first time I have heard such a thing. At the time candidates were being screened, Tunis fled to America and asked that his own screening take place on the phone. The committee refused. Little Tunis returned to Freetown and went to Moyamba for his own screening under the cover of darkness. The whole thing ended up in a free-for-all punch-up. Little Tunis returned to Freetown quietly. On Tuesday Tunis was due to go on radio for the first time in his life to say to the whole country that he was and still is a true son of the SLPP. Tuesday went by without Little Tunis making the move. Is this guy’s name still on the ballot for the primaries?
People like Tunis have been waltzing around the corridors of power for too long, making no impact save for themselves emanating from business contracts awarded them. We have been checking the Hansards at parliament to see how much contribution he made to debates during his time in parliament. So far we can’t find anything. Little Tunis
wants to be the friend of God and Caesar at the same time. He believes he has only two jobs – being a contractor or a member of parliament who says nothing in parliament for five years. Good luck to the SLPP.
NDA, HOW MANY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DO YOU HAVE?
It seems as if no week passes by now without somebody declaring himself flag bearer of the National Democratic Alliance. They travelled to Kenema for the party convention which was a no-show, according to some, and some violence happened. Pateh Bah returned to Freetown shouting PEACE IN OUR TIME: I AM YOUR LEADER.
Two days later, other party officials went to a night club called CHANGES and changed Pateh’s status. They announced the name MUSIDAL JALLOH as the Great Leader of the Socialist Republic of NDA. Now we hear they are on their way to court while others are nominating their candidates for November 17. The innocence of NDA has been severely violated. Now they look like any of the others.
We are waiting to welcome the other leader next week. Please, this business of holding party conventions in night clubs is disrespectful to our people. Stop it now.
