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Sierra Leone: Sylvia Blyden Takes Shekito to Court
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Concord Times (Freetown)
18 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008
Ben Samuel Turay
Solicitors Wednesday filed a lawsuit in the Freetown Magistrate court on behalf of Dr Sylvia Blyden whom they said has been libelled by Sheka Tarawallie (Shekito), press secretary to President Koroma, contrary to law.
The complaint before court accused Shekito of publishing an article captioned: "THAT MISCHIEVOUS ARTICLE IN AWARENESS TIMES," on the internet with defamatory matters against Dr. Blyden, the complainant.
The summons quoted the article dated Friday 11th July 2008 as saying: "For you to formally tell me about your affair with John Benjamin S.L.P.P. strongman and former Minister of Finance clearly tells the story of where you are coming from." The firm, Berewa & Co, further quoted the article thus: "...and for you to have tried to ingratiate your self in the A.P.C. government by forcing an affair with someone close to the powers-that-be and failed may have propelled you to be malicious and vicious." Meanwhile, the defendant said he has always stood by his words claiming that he had had telephone conversations with the complainant during which she told him about her relationship with people.
"I stand by the article and I believe what I wrote were all true. She told me about her life and this could be on record," he said.
Poor Sylvia, she is just wasting her time, money and energy, as Sheka Tarawallie is very well protected.
You might see it that way but what Sylvia wants is exactly what Ernest Koroma is doing. Everytime, she comes out looking victimised and gets HUGE POPULARITY whilst he comes out looking very bad. I do not understand why Shekito behaved so stupidly in this matter nor why him and his boss do not see how they are playing into clever Sylvia's hands. The money she spends on legal fees is buying her not legal services but HUGE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIVIDEND.
If people spent less time, energy and money attacking the government then maybe the government would have more time to do the job it was elected to do i.e rebuild a war torn country.
Democracy is new to Sierra Leone and with that the capacity of the elected representives which will make mistakes. No government in the world is error free as we are all human. I for one think that the President is doing a fantastic job especially as within the 1st year he has had to deal with the rise of fuel and food prices which people have... [Read Full Text]
It really bothers me that since I have heard news of this, no one has yet questioned whether it was the place of the Press Secretary to the President to do something like this. Its makes a mockery of the government!!
I work occasionally with the UK Media, the BBC to be precise and this would be unheard of here. A couple of days ago in the free London Paper, they had printed a picture of Gordon Brown (The UK Prime Minister) with two read horns on his head. It made me think of when Sylvia Blyden was taken to... [Read Full Text]
Did Ernest Koroma really file a nolle prosequi and have the matter thrown out of court this morning? LORD HAVE MERCY!!!
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