ISN’T THIS THE END OF THE MARGAI DYNASTY
In this Twitter column, we insist on calling the “PMDC” leader The Dalai Lama. This is why: He believes he has a spiritual call to lead Sierra Leone in continuation of the Margai Dynasty; he believes he has a party called PMDC (his namesake thinks he has a country called Tibet – an illusion indeed). The reality is that Tibet doesn’t exist as a country under the leadership of The Dalai Lama; it is part of One China. It is also the reality that PMDC doesn’t exist as imagined by its leader and the few guys around him.
And the idea of a Margai dynasty ordained by God to rule Sierra Leone is surely now The Dalai Lama’s political Holy Grail.
The performance of the PMDC in the areas already announced in the 2012 elections is shocking only to those who didn’t see it coming. We did. The latest we are hearing is that no vote was recorded for the PMDC even where The Dalai Lama and his family voted. Anyway we shall return to such election 2012 mysteries in the coming days.
The Dalai Lama made a lot of political miscalculations and opportunistic moves that have brought his party to this situation where they’ve been blown away from the political ground they proudly occupied in 2007.
So what next now sir? We think there are only two options: The Dalai Lama should resign from politics, return to Bo and spend his last days doing lots of pro-bono work on behalf of the many poor people whose rights are being trampled on all over the place. In other words ending where he started off. The other option is that he should return to the SLPP and ask for forgiveness with the pledge never to run for the leadership of any political party in this country or for at least 20 years. How old is he now?
We are taking all this trouble just because we are your genuine friends.
WHEN A
SPOKESMAN FAILS TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF
What
we’ve been hearing on IRN stations since the weekend are so-called
provisional results of the election on Saturday but we believe we are
right to make some early conclusions about certain candidates and the
special circumstances around them. SLPP spokesman MUSA TAMBA SAM
looks like he is well and truly out of parliament. We think he was
unable to convince his people to vote for him. We wonder how he could
have convinced the nation to vote for his presidential candidate.
Sam
is an implacable political fighter and we expect him to resurrect in
other areas. But we have to ask the inevitable question: How come the
guy who was the “authentic” voice of the SLPP was not able to
speak when his political enemies came for his head in that small
corner in Kailahun?
O
Sam! Please when you do your soul-searching think about this: Isn’t
it the case that you spent more time going around radio stations in
Freetown defending the whole party to the total neglect of your small
constituency? Cheer up Sam. When will you declare for...???
ROBIN THE SON
OF FALLAY FALLS ON HIS OWN SWORD
Still
dealing with provisional results, we project that Robin the son of
Fallay has lost his place in parliament. Fallay is the guy who has
great ideas how to get out of serious legal and political troubles.
Accused of being complicit in under-aged voter registration, Fallay
was arrested, brought before a court and remanded for ten days in the
dungeon that is Kenema prison.
With
his back against the wall, Fallay struck a deal. He agreed to De Pa’s
long-standing request for him to join the APC. He put the call
through to Frank Kargbo and soon enough Kargbo was on the road to
Kenema for a court hearing of the Fallay case. Kargbo represented the
state of Sierra Leone. He offered no evidence and Fallay was freed.
On the last day of parliament, Fallay did that melodramatic nonsense
in parliament, literally walking over to the APC side and shaming his
colleagues on the opposition side from whence he had come.
Next
the son of Fallay promised to deliver Segbwema to De Pa to
demonstrate his enthusiasm and commitment to the cause of the APC.
It’s turned out now that Fallay is gone – defeated by his own
people. He is nowhere to be seen now. We’ve been calling for the
last few hours but the phone is dead. May be there’s a problem with
all the networks. We shall keep calling.
Again,
this is the story of a political operative, who over-estimated his
own political relevance and tried to bring the world to his feet. As
a relatively young man, he still has time to turn things over in his
mind and make it up with his people.
HONEY BEES ON
VOTING DAY – POLLING STATION No. 00000
Thousands of
honeybees turned up at polling station No. 00000 to vote in the
just-concluded general and presidential elections, according to NEC
boss. They were hoping that NEC would provide polling officers to
supervise the exercise but they were disappointed. All those
assembled to watch this ground-breaking event fled leaving voting
materials at the mercy of the unscrupulous.
The honeybees
waited for an hour for the polling station to open, but Christiana
Thorpe’s people were nowhere to be seen. In fact the honeybees
discovered later that polling officers had set up their office at
another location. The bees couldn’t understand why. After all, they
are all ORDINARILY RESIDENT in that area.
Christiana Thorpe
enjoys disenfranchising people, now she’s done it through bees. A
spokesman for the insects said they would make an official complaint
to the NEC boss and demand that polling be re-run in their area
otherwise they would block entrance to the NEC building and stop the
whole process at this stage.
This will be very
interesting. We live in Sierra Leone where anything is possible. It’s
also just possible that we shall wake up one morning to find
honeybees running the country – in Parliament, State House, the
Courts, the University, Kroo Bay and such other places.
BUSES FOR
VOTERS – THE LEWIS KAMARA FARCE
We always said
that taking ordinary people’s car off the roads just because it was
voting day was wrong and politically incorrect. The result of
official insensitivity and arrogance was on our streets for all to
see.
The nation was
told that Bockarie Lewis-Kamara would provide those TATA buses to
move people around the city. We saw a few of them but by Jove people
walked long distances. They complained and complained but nobody
listened to them.
We have a lot of
respect for the work Lewis Kamara has done at that sorry place. But
why didn’t he tell the authorities he couldn’t cope with the
Election Day assignment? That would have strengthened our case
against this draconian measure put in place by the ONS.
And this MAC-P
thing was again completely ill-advised. Those soldiers who were
behaving as if they were attacking rebel positions in DR Congo were
only idle. The country was as calm as can be and we are very happy
with the way most of us behaved.
Were those few
buses also available in places like Mattru Jong and Fadugu? Shenge or
Makali? Definitely not. Everything was concentrated in Freetown where
we saw only a few of them. Next time please let us use our own
vehicles, bicycles, motorcycles and Omolankes – don’t try turning
our country into a NANNY STATE.
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Politico 20/11/12
