Concord Times (Freetown)
6 September 2008
The recent speech given by the former First Lady of the United States of America, Hilary Rodham Clinton, at the past Democratic National Convention in which she called for party unity and support for Barack Hussein Obama has become the singsong for some supporters of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP).
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Your article is 90% true especially that touching on the sacking of JBD, Banda-Thomas, Emmanuel Grant and Mrs Jina Banda-Thomas from their position just after the Makeni convention. This was the greatest mistake and blunder of Ex President Kabba and Solomon Berewa.They were made to believe that relieving these guys will not impact on their votes. This was the same mistake that Sir Albert Magai did in 1967 when he was made to believe that not awarding symbol to LAM Brewa and Kaisamba will not harm his support base. Emmanuel Grant alone would have been in position to champion SLPP chances in the Western area and even challenge the hooliganism that the APC displayed in Freetown prior to the run off election which saw many SLPP supporters moving out of F/T and not voting. But come to think of it Solomon Berewa received 100% of the votes from the Northern and Western arae delegates during the Makeni convention whislt CF Margai, Mada Bio and JBD divided the Eastern and southern delegates. Did Kabba campaign for Berewa in the north or was it the 99 tactic of the APC who had infiltrated the Kabba SLPP to say northern delegate just go and nominate the weakest man from the SLPP strong hold and we will do the rest? If SoloB was so popular in the north why did President Koroma get more vote in Bo District alone compare to the total votes SoloB got in all the Northern District combine?
In my view, a comparison between the politics of the Nation of the United States of America and the politics of the soupist occupied Territory of Sierra Leone is not only misplaced, but intellectually dishonest.
Sierra Leone and the US are like water and oil. Perhaps, the essayed concordance may be explained by the irrational focus on soupist political discourse by maroons from the soupist occupied Sierra Leone.
But then again, talk is cheap: certainly much cheaper than investing some money in soupist Sierra Leone. Catch twenty-two: only a fool would invest in soupist Sierra Leone, unless he or she is willing to maintain the soupist state of stagnation in the Territory of Sierra Leone. And how, you ask: why, the ten percent surcharge, of course.
Man or woman does not live on political discourse: how about some riffs on how to grow the economy, the educational system and entertainment. Catch 22 again: the soupist occupier state has its teeth in these zones of "private enterprise."
Does this phenomenon explain the alleged fact of the effusive, tautaulogical and senseless political discourse by intellectuals who hail from the territory of Sierra Leone? Or, does someone hold a contrary view?
My friend, I believe the strongest and most credible reason the SLPP lost the elections is due to their abyssmal performance in the country. They showed a total lack of patriotism and betrayed the trust people reposed on them.
The SLPP were given two terms by the people to turn the poor state and improve the lives of the people. But they only focussed on being re-elected, they turned Freetown as the darkest and filthiest city on earth.
The SLPP appoints people into office based on their political affiliations and not on merit, hence the catalogued failures of most of the ministries.
The SLPP continously preached tribalism and regionalism, hoping this could help them to be re-elected little did they know that the people of Sierra Leone have come of age and that division is no longer the norm in politics.
Your article is 90% true especailly that touching on the Your article is 90% true especially that touching on the sacking of JBD, Banda-Thomas, Emmanuel Grant and Mrs Jina Banda-Thomas from their position just after the Makeni convention. This was the greatest mistake and blunder of Ex President Kabba and Solomon Berewa.They were made to believe that relieving these guys will not impact on their votes. This was the same mistake that Sir Albert Magai did in 1967 when he was made to believe that not awarding symbol to LAM Brewa and Kaisamba will not harm his support base. Emmanuel Grant alone would have been in position to champion SLPP chances in the Western area and even challenge the hooliganism that the APC displayed in Freetown prior to the run off election which saw many SLPP supporters moving out of F/T and not voting. But come to think of it Solomon Berewa received 100% of the votes from the Northern and Western arae delegates during the Makeni convention whislt CF Margai, Mada Bio and JBD divided the Eastern and southern delegates. Did Kabba campaign for Berewa in the north or was it the 99 tactic of the APC who had infiltrated the Kabba SLPP to say northern delegate just go and nominate the weakest man from the SLPP strong hold and we will do the rest? If SoloB was so popular in the north why did President Koroma get more vote than the vote SoloB got when all the Northern District were combine?