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SLPP casting their hopes on a song and a prayer – a Rejoinder to Dr. Kolifa Fadika (PhD in Political Extrapolations pending)

Author: SEM Contributor

Indeed the differences are not only glaring but very stackingly glaring – they are like night and day. Fadika, doing your PhD in Political Extrapolations does not appear to have influenced your mindset to rational reasoning in the political metamorphosis of our dear Mama Salone. Recent political history 101 will take you back to the 24 years of APC demagogic fiti-fata misrule under Siaka Stevens and J S Momoh with the devastating outcome of the 10 year barbaric rebel war. Based on your brief article, it appears that SLPP propagated that war. Should that be your reasoning, then I would say – Oh what a shame, what an utter shame on you.

Granted, SLPP did not do anything on the Bumbuna Project, granted SLPP did not undertake any infrastructural development, granted SLPP stole every nickel and dime that was pumped in SaLone into their Swiss bank accounts and granted SLPP is the most unpatriotic political party in Salone. Oh yes, all of those in positions of responsibility were not only unpatriotic but scums who squandered the country’s resources to its barest bones. How about that?

Contrary to these narrow minded perceptions, however, it should also be granted that before handing over to EBK, more than 95 % of the work on Bumbuna was completed, several highway projects were either completed or nearing completion, Funding for the Peninsular Road, Kenema to Koindu Road etc., were signed between the Government and the Donor Agencies, Sierra Leone became debt free, every one of the 147 chiefdoms received a healthcare centre and Connaught Hospital was given a complete facelift, every Chiefdom received first class Primary School Buildings under the SABABU and the Islamic Development Bank Projects. Also, in the Education Sector, the free Girl Child project particularly for the Eastern and Northern Provinces was a success, BECCE was free throughout the country, Successes in national exams was at an all time high, the Leone was stable against the dollar at between 2,800 and 3,000 for more than 5 years, every teacher – yes every teacher, and all government employees were paid on time, NRA, NASSIT and NACSA were established, effective local government institutions were re-established, a bag of rice was at 60,000 Leones, Poda Poda was 700 Leones per stop, there was no gang rapes, no highway robberies and the list goes on an on. These are neither alleged nor assumed propagations. They are the basic facts pure and simple – no salt – no pepper and no Maggie are added.

Is it also not true that EBK stated that there will be no sacred cows in his administration and for nobody under the Sierra Leonean sun. So you see, and rightly too he put his words into action by setting up the current Justice Janneh Commission of Inquiry more than a year ago to investigate and bring to book the corrupt practices of the perpetrators – particularly former Ministers and other government functionaries. To date and irrespective of the millions of Leones that have been spent, the Commission is yet to apprehend and convict any body. In the same vein the ACC, the governmental watch dog whose primary prerogative is to investigate, incriminate and punish perpetrators of corrupt practices in government has not also caught the perceived Gbashi-Gbashis of the erstwhile government. Probably you guys know more than the Commission and the ACC about these corrupt practices and being patriots, you are doing a big disservice to Mama Salone for failing to report/expose those miscreants to these two institutions. Other than narrow minded praise-singing nincompoops whose insatiable thirst for power cannot stop them at anything in propagating and distorting facts, most Sierra Leoneans are now sick and tired of these unsubstantiated allegations albeit outright lies .

Now let’s come to the current events. Mama Salone was blessed in 2007 and she is now under the rule of saints and patriots who are working assiduously to correct the misdeeds of the untouchables and forge the affairs of the country in the best way. Their first port of call is the cocaine saga and the incrimination of the saintly APC operatives.

Do you remember:

Minister Kemoh Sesay and his brother the Wamza $25 million pay off?

The income electric brouhaha?

The proposed 25 year lease/sale of the Lungi Airport and the Ports Authority? The inheritance of more than $600 million in foreign reserves and more than 200 billion Leones in government coffers that is no more?

Mining of diamonds in peoples houses in Kono?

The fiti-fata sackings of qualified technocrats in place of half backed political operatives?

The very deplorable healthcare delivery system?

The abysmal performance in the education sector, the reintroduction of poor parents paying their children’s BECCE fees.

The increase in tuitions of tertiary education?

The continuous free fall of the Leone against foreign currencies ($1=4,000 Leones and climbing)?

The unprecedented rise in highway and armed robberies?

The disappearance into thin air of the $ 12.8 million the World Bank to be paid for reparations to property owners along the Bumbuna power lines?

The disappearance of the much touted transparency and accountability?

The Attitudinal Change that is now embroiled in egocentrism and the list goes on.

Oh my God, ALL in ONLY two year.

Oh sorry all of these Gbashi-Gbashis and unabated misrule with impunity are global and are instigated by the SLPP. Such insensitivity would easily transcend to abomination for anybody to even entertain such a thought. Indeed what an utter shame that would be.

It is very true that AFRC and Johnny Paul who apparently was J S Momoh’s nephew and his cabal overthrew the SLPP and in cahoots with the Rebels, they destabilized Freetown. So you are gloating that the SLPP is responsible for all those atrocities? This is indeed the most sycophantic and unchiseled expression from someone who professes to be a pending PhD recipient in Political Extrapolation. This is very much below the belt of intellectual reasoning.

Yes by writing in the comfort of your home in America, you can say anything but the man or woman in Sierra Leone is the one bearing the brunt and burden of the hard times that they endure day in and day out. By and large, based on the narrative of your article, it appears that with your mindset and reasoning, your pending PhD in Political Extrapolations appears to be insignificant and infinitesimal and it has not done you any good, if at all. By the way, you have the right to assume that TIDAY BETTEH PASS YESTERDAY but my brother, a majority of our countrymen who sleep and wake in the four corners of our motherland, who have to fend for their families, who cannot provide one square meal a day, who cannot afford the spiraling cost of basic necessities, who cannot afford their children’s school fees, whose health is at the mercy of God, whose security has been compromised by the dangers inflicted from armed robbers, whose children and wives are easy prey to being raped etc., etc., strongly believe and are convinced that – No ands, ifs, or buts.

By Karim A.Bangura

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One Comment on "SLPP casting their hopes on a song and a prayer – a Rejoinder to Dr. Kolifa Fadika (PhD in Political Extrapolations pending)"

Fatorma Gabba on Sat, 31st Oct 2009 12:28 pm

Excellent article! You should be a front runner for a Nobel Prize Award for objectve journalism. A brain like yours is what Sierra Leone needs. I feel very strongly that had all the current crises occurred under the SLPP, you would have objectively analyzed it to reflect the status quo. Keep up the good works.
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