Welcoming the recognition by Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma that corruption poses a serious threat to the West African country, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that while he is encouraged by some improvements in its political climate, challenges to fostering political tolerance and promoting non-violence remain.
"There is an urgent need to build trust and mutual confidence between major political parties," the Secretary-General states in his latest report on the work of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL), designed to keep the country from slipping back into the violence that marked the long-running civil war that ended in 2002.
Noting recent clashes between the ruling All People's Congress (APC) and the major opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), Mr. Ban calls on both political parties to abide by the code of conduct in the joint communiqué of 2 April 2009.
The clashes "do not augur well for the peace and stability of the country," nor for the presidential elections scheduled for 2012, he writes.
Looking at development within the country, the Secretary-General appeals to the international community to fill an anticipated shortfall in donor funding for the implementation of the Government's so-called Agenda for Change, the national poverty reduction plan which focuses on ensuring a reliable power supply; increasing productivity in agriculture and fisheries; improving the national transportation network; and boosting social services.
"The attainment of these goals will in turn help to improve the difficult socio-economic indicators which have all contributed to making Sierra Leone a fragile State, notwithstanding progress thus far achieved," Mr. Ban says.
He also calls on international development partners to provide additional support to the National Human Rights Commission and the Government's Special Trust Fund for War Victims. In addition, he requests Member States to donate vehicles and boats for Sierra Leone's security sector agencies to improve their ability to fight organized crime.
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What a smart dude, this Ban Ki-moon! What a sparkling clean instrument of INVADERDOM in soupist West Africa and, particularly, in the super soupist, toxic territory of Sierra Leone!
Moon, this tail of THE---perspicuously---INVADER-CONTROLLED UN knows the score: if the soupist APC and SLPP fail to recognize their mutual AND IDENTICAL soupist interests, i.e. enslaving the neo-modern slaves in the territory, to PROMOTE BRITISH INVADER INTERESTS therein, then they would be smashed by the neo-modern the slaves, dazed, as they are, in slumbering helplessness.
HENCE, Moon reminds the buffoons in those pithole, gutter, and sordid parties what I have been urging all along: the applicability of my theory of political soupism to that god-forsaken crap called "Sierra Leone."
Moon, quite conscious of the interests of INVADERDOM in Sierra Leone and the invader tails in West Africa, knows that if the IDENTICAL PARTIES (they are DIFFERENT only in name) fail to cooperate in the PROJECT OF LOOTING THE TREASURY in the interest of INVADERDOM, then THE SLAVES WOULD RISE and clubber them into the dustbin of history, and Sierra Leone would be free of the shadows of INVADERDOM.
THE POINT? Invader Britain never left; 'independence' was a scam, And, the result?
Behold: INDIRECT RULE, WITH PALPABLE LOWER TRANSACTION COSTS.
Den tink say we nor go kaetch dem: well, we did unravel the scam:
OPOTOE GO HOME! En no forget for take you BIG MAN EN BIG WOMAN dem wit you.
DOWN, THEN, WITH INVADER BRITAIN, the legendary poodle of Yankeedom.
Cheers, then, from the West African Rhetorical Anti-Soupist Front.
richerson88 - You make absolutely no sense! I do not know what the point of your jibberish is but certainly, it is not to enlighten anybody. Reading your piece was nauseating to say the least. I believe you are a dimwit wanting so desperately to fit it the category of intellects. Wise-up and write something sensible.
Ban-ki Moon's views are clearly right on. The effort for Seara Leone to morph into a civil society should continue without deliberate brakes.
The point of my "jibberish" (sic), moron measureless, is certainly not to "enlighten" you---YOU OF ALL PEOPLE..
BEHOLD, ARICAN PEOPLE UNDER THE YOKE OF INVADERDOM;, another invader bootlicker has crawled out of the woods, following the tokens of KROOBAY OKURU DOG, africa35, and other bootlickers of INVADERDOM in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
HIS NAME? Walahi and tawakaltu, I baptize him, in the name of the God of Africa, the God to "whom belongs everything between the heavens and the earth" (Sura Yasin, THE HOLY QUR'AN): "Peter, the Moron."
Peter, the moron and the spineless poodle of the VALUES of INVADERDOM, I have never aspired to be, nor shall I ever aspire to be, a scholar or an intellectual, as defined by INVADERDOM, for I have no interest in preserving the TRADITIONS of INVADERDOM, the precise hermeneutical definition of a "scholar" or an "intellectual.".
And, never shall I boast of degenerate educational laurels from a civilization mired in ignorance and stone cold barbarism and labrynthine confusion: INVADERDOM.
Beyond these preliminary shuffles, given your clear ineptitude in matters rhetorical and your vain and useless chest beating about intellectual prowess---INVADER INTELLECTUAL intellectual prowess---I would be deeply disturbed, indeed cognitively depressed, if you were to UNDERSTAND ME.
Accordingly, I urge you to misunderstand me or, worse, REFUSE to understand me, for I have more urbane and more rhetorical resourceful interlocutors, ideological degenerates, though they may be, FROM WHOM I CAN LEARN A THING OR TWO.
SOUPIST PAR EXCELLENCE!
PETER, THE MORON, SIRED COUNTLESS MANY MOONS AGO in INVADER clap trap; PETER, the soupist Davidson Nicol; PETER, THE PITIFUL PRETENDER.
Cheers, then, from the SUMMIT OF AFRICAN GNOSEOLOGICAL HUMILITY. .
When the BLANK hits the fan, Peter, the Pretender and soupist and INVADER VALUES BOOTLICKER, herein "intellectualism" and other tokens of egghead pride, Peter, sorry Peter, go hide na Bra Jabar in cave na Mabayla
PADDLE FOR FOREVER, jackass English Krio---THEN.
Of course, your days of slavishly and non-understandingly peddling INVADER VALUES among "country men and women" in Soupist West Africa are over, nipped in the bud by a robust AFRICAN CONSCIOUSNESS, even, I must say, among marooned Sierra Leoneans in INVADERLANDS: they proudly wear African clothes to their weekend festivities, after slaving for INVADERDOM 9-5, Monday through Friday.
Peter the Pretender occupies a lower rank than MAROONS.
NOW, peter, mr. davidson bunkum, get lost, O.K?
SOUPIST!
Cheers, then, from PADDLE, NUMBER ONE, ALWAYS NUMBER ONE.