ITS TIME TO FLEE FROM THE CONFUSED "DOMBOLO" MIXED UP SLPP

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Tom Nyuma Removes SLPP Camouflage; Declares for APC in Kailahun By Augustine Samba & Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyde. Mar 12, 2012, 12:12
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“Looking at developments all over the country it is easy to infer the President has a good initiative; all patriots must support it,” words of Tom Nyuma on day he went to work with Green symbol of the SLPP and leave for home from work with the RED SUN as an APC member.


Former SLPP Ambassador Expects More Defections off SLPP
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Mar 29, 2012, 17:06
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Lansana Fadika and over 100 SLPP supporters declare for APC

The former Western Area Chairman and lead grassroots campaigner of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), Mr.Lansana Fadika and over 100 members of the party stormed the headquarters of…
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FROM AWOKO NEWSPAPER

Lansana Fadika & others join APC

It was jubilation yesterday at the All Peoples Congress (APC) party office in Freetown, when the Former Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Western Area Chairman with 124 others joined the ruling APC party.
The one hundred and twenty five people who were former executive members and supporters of SLPP Western Area Executive were all dressed in white t-shirts with the inscription ‘d pa dae wok’ ‘no run-off elections’, made a strong commitment of not returning back to the SLPP. Among them are former Western Regional Organizing Secretary Alpha ML Alghali and former financial secretary Josephine Mac-Thompson.
The well attended declaration ceremony was jam-parked with top APC stalwarts, Ministers, Parliamentarians, Councillors, family members and friends of Fadika like Nas Carew. Former musician and broadcaster Atila was also in attendance and made an oath that if Maada Bio rules this country again he will never step his foot in Sierra Leone anymore.
In her statement Josephine Mac-Thompson said that she felt at home by the way they were welcomed to the party. She added that Lansana Fadika is an asset that has joined the APC party. “We want you to know that we have come with all our hearts”. This team is not just supporters of SLPP but core SLPP Western Region executives.
Alpha Alghali explained that “we have come to join Ernest Bai Development develop this country”. He assured that the remaining votes that the SLPP is having in the Western Area, 70% of that will be converted to the APC. “We will make sure that the twenty one seats that the APC has in the Western Area be repeated again”, adding that they are in the party to work and not to fight for positions.
Dressed in red-shirts with the picture of President Koroma and himself with black jean, Lansana Fadika removed his foot wear and climbed up a chair to address the gathering. He started by singing “fire fire fire, fire dae cam” and “no hiding place down there” then went on to “dem wan ya dem go sabi we tiday.” With his eyes red like the APC symbol and sweat running profusely from his face he stressed “we dae finish SLPP”.
Lansana identified key people who influenced him to join the party and paid tribute to his late parents who were strong APC supporters. He maintained he was not bitter but wants to let people know that the SLPP is an ungrateful party.
He stated “I want you to know that the APC is not strange to me, when my father died in 1980, APC was the party that did all the necessary arrangements and he was given a befitting funeral”.
Fadika reiterated that he has come for serious business to work as a team to crush the SLPP to death. “I want you to rest assured that we have come with all our hearts”. He further assured that more people will come onboard.
He admonished them to stop the back biting and infighting but to have the party at heart. The only way we can win this elections he said is by registering for the elections.
Handing the membership card to Lansana Fadika, the Party Secretary General Victor Foh welcomed them and stressed that in the APC there are many rooms for people.
The Secretary General dressed in white t-shirt with a picture of a red monkey warning a green baboon with inscriptions “monkey still working let baboon wait” said that the party’s door is always open to those who want to join.
He called on his supporters to come and register for the elections.
By Abibatu Kamara

JOHN BENJAMIN IN A 'PEKIN' PETTY COMPLAIN TO BIG 'UNCLE SAM'-THE WORLD BANK.

A response to SLPPs John Benjamin’s cash for work letter to the World Bank’s country manager.

By: Press Secretariat State House on December 30, 2011.

Freetown, 29^th December, 2011. The attention of Government has been drawn to a letter written by the Chairman of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) John Benjamin to the Country Manager of the World Bank (Sierra Leone), Vijay Pillai, in which it is suggested that the current administration headed by President Ernest Bai Koroma is employing unfair methods in addressing youth issues in Sierra Leone. It is untrue that the World-Bank-sponsored Cash-For-Work programme handled by the National Commission for Social Action (NASCA) is administered to favour only members of the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) party.

The APC, the party in power at the moment, draws close to 90% of its support from the Northern Region of Sierra Leone and the Western Area; but even in his own letter, Mr. John Benjamin has been unable to justify or even suggest that citizens or youths of the Northern Region and the Western Area are favoured by the Government, instead he clearly states that the parts of the country in which his party is strongest are the areas that benefit from the cash-for-work programme.

It is ironical that Mr. John Benjamin whose party draws its strength from the South-Eastern part of the country, including Bonthe and Pujehun Districts (areas in the country from which the ruling APC could not win even a single parliamentary seat or even a single council seat in 2007), can be the same part of the country favoured by the APC to the disadvantage of the SLPP which is apparently dominant in that part of the country.

We have always emphasized to members of the opposition SLPP that bypassing state institutions such as the Presidency, the Office of the Ombudsman, and the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), to seek redress directly in the quarters of members of the donor community, with tilted and tainted facts aimed at discrediting the government, is totaling untenable.

The issue of accountability is a priority area in this administration’s governance strategy; hence the government’s decision to give the audit services the independence that is so necessary for an effective democratic society. Furthermore, the ACC has been independent and impartial in carrying out its responsibilities for the purposes of enhancing good governance.

The suggestion by Mr. John Benjamin of the SLPP that the recruitment of the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of the National Youth Commission (NAYCOM) was a move to provide jobs for Northerners can only be seen as an attempt to infuse tribalism and regionalism in the operation of a national institutions put together deliberately to address issues relating to youths at the national level.

It is on record that the first government that identified Mr. Anthony Koroma (current Commissioner of NAYCOM) as a citizen with excellent leadership qualities and recruited him to head a national youth movement, the National Social Mobilization Secretariat (NASMOS), was Mr. John Benjamin’s National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) when he was Chief Secretary of State, a move repeated by the SLPP which appointed him Director of Youths and Sports. The bottom-line therefore is that, Mr. Anthony Koroma is perceived by all youth movements in this country, including the National Youth Coalition, as the most knowledgeable and most competent citizen to handle youth issues at the moment; even as he was subjected to parliamentary scrutiny and approved by parliamentarians, including those representing the SLPP.

Parliament also saw wisdom in approving the appointment of a competent and highly educated lady, Ms. Aminata Sillah, who also falls within the youth bracket, to become the Deputy Commissioner of NAYCOM. We therefore find it very strange that Mr. John Benjamin and the non-parliamentary wing of the SLPP can query the recruitment of a Commissioner whose services they have utilized in other capacities in earlier years, just as we find it extremely difficult to understand why Mr. John Benjamin should stand in the way of promoting the aspirations of a clearly competent lady in a country where gender parity is being pursued.

The SLPP’s apparent agenda is to discredit the government, for solely politically-motivated reasons, in those areas that relate to the country’s collaboration with development partners such as the World Bank. Even when financial institutions like the World Bank itself and the International Monetary Fund are putting out positive messages about this country’s progress, the SLPP has deliberately chosen a path of negative propaganda against a country they profess to love and want to rule.

There is no doubt that the cash-for-work programme has been handled impartially by NACSA to meet the needs of the citizens, especially the young people, throughout the country. Even where we concede that many young people in the North, South and the East of the country make more requests in the area of cash-for-work, the little that is available is shared equally and impartially according to the needs of the youths nation-wide.

The unwillingness of the SLPP to accept the APC led-administration as the legitimate and elected government of the people has been a great challenge for the country over the past four years, especially when the government continuously bends over backwards to accommodate an opposition that is clearly unwilling to work and cooperate in the national interest.

Development projects undertaken by this administration are currently equally distributed to all parts of the country, as can be found in the present development strategy of the government. How can John Benjamin continue to talk about regional marginalization when 70% of the Senior Civil Servants in government hail from the South-East, and these are the personnel who advise the Ministers? How can John Benjamin talk about regional marginalization when out of the three capital cities identified for roads development, two of them (Bo and Kenema) are from the South-East of the country?

In the face of the failed attempt by John Benjamin and the SLPP to discredit the efforts of government and to ignore the President’s determination to give a total facelift to the country, the government will continue to address those issues that are relevant to effective national development including governance reforms.

We would continue to advise that the SLPP should not see itself as a parallel government; and that when citizens feel aggrieved, including members of the opposition, instead of parading before officials and offices of donor-community members, they should go through legitimate state institutions to seek redress, including meeting the President who is the Head of State.

We conclude that it is totally untrue that the distribution of cash-for-work is done on a regional basis, as Mr. John Benjamin himself admits that the beneficiaries are from the South-East and not from President Koroma’s strong hold in the North.

We refuse to accept the simplistic and puerile argument that the political configuration of the country is strictly a North-Western and South-Eastern arrangement, as inter-marriages, religious interactions and even old school ties transcend such infantile thinking.

We would plead with the World Bank not to listen to the SLPP, but to indeed enhance its monitoring process, not because the SLPP has dictated that it be done, but because it is the right thing to be done.

Office of the Government Spokesman

Freetown, Sierra Leone

29^th December, 2011

SLPP CONTINUES IN CONFUSED DOMBOLO MIX-UP

Tom Nyuma Removes SLPP Camouflage; Declares for APC in KailahunBy Augustine Samba & Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden  = Mar 12, 2012, 12:12
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Ahead of 2012 Elections … SLPP Sandy declares for APC

As Sierra Leone speedily approaches her decisive 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections, one political heavyweight of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) who was earmarked by former Vice President Solomon Berewa to serve as his running mate in the 2007 democratic elections, Dr. John Sandy (in photo) has on Thursday December 29th, 2011 switched over to the ruling All People Congress (APC) party.

The SLPP heavyweight officially made his declaration at the APC National Headquarters along Old Railway Line in Freetown. Dr. Sandy maintains that his decision to pitch tent with the APC is devoid of any form of coercion or tendency to bag a job, but out of his personal admiration for the leadership style of President Ernest Bai Koroma. The newly APC convert stressed the development strides President Koroma has taken to alleviate poverty and match up postwar Sierra Leone to other progressive countries in the world.

Dr. Sandy commended the APC flagbearer on the grounds that he has used his academic prowess to turn Sierra Leone around for the better. Dr. Sandy pointed out that unlike his predecessors who apparently failed the electorates, President Koroma deserves a second term that will enable him accomplish his promises to actualize consistent and affordable supply of electricity, heightening infrastructural development, advancing agricultural production and advancing health facilities through his Free Health Care Delivery initiative, among others. He advised that for Sierra Leoneans to achieve the rapid socio-economic and political progress they desire, President Koroma must be unreservedly voted for in the coming elections. He admonished that it is against this background he resigned from the main opposition SLPP, where he has served as patron for decades, to join the APC.

On what his move could profit the APC, Dr. Sandy assured that apart from financial contributions, he will provide his new party the edge to command votes in Bo, Kenema District and other SLPP strongholds. He concluded by swearing that he will remain APC for life as long as President Koroma’s legacy continues after his second term.

Welcoming Dr. Sandy, the Administrative Chairman of APC, Momodu Birch Conteh said that the ceremony heralds an impressive political inroad since plenty of opposition political big-wigs will soon contend traditionalism to emulate Dr. Sandy’s bravery to join the APC. He commended the new convert for acting on his conviction that the APC is a party to reckon taking this bold step and assured him of all rights and protection the party offers with better political virtues, culture and philosophy. The Administrative Chairman mandated members of the APC to give their new comrade the necessary support he deserves.

Introducing Dr. Sandy prior to his declaration, Ambassador Bockarie Stevens described him as a disciplined personality who possesses tremendous political clout. He said Dr. Sandy’s democratic tendencies are not only ubiquitous in his public dealings, but also form part of his family life. He said despite the fact that Dr. Sandy was a diehard SLPP member, most of his close relatives including his wife are registered APC members. Despite this partisan dissimilarity, Ambassador Stevens disclosed that Dr. Sandy had long since demonstrated respect for other political beliefs, thus empowering him to join plenty philanthropic organizations like the Sierra Leone Arc of Hope.

In his contribution, the APC Secretary General, Hon. Victor Bockarie Foh expressed his delight over Dr. Sandy’s resolution to join the APC. He emphasized that the overwhelming welcome given to Dr. Sandy demonstrates that the APC membership is open to all, regardless of regional, religious and tribal origin as alleged by those he termed as detractors.

The firebrand Secretary General said that witnessing a brother, hailing from the South-East, declaring for the APC assures him that Sierra Leoneans through President Koroma’s tenure as champion of the New APC have started comprehending the true nature of the party.

He called on Dr. Sandy to feel at home and called on him to exploit his political expertise in assisting President Koroma realize his ‘Agenda for Change’ vision.

In her statement, the APC iron lady, Madam Nanette Thomas described Dr. Sandy as a precious political asset who must be fully utilized for the party’s victory in the forthcoming elections. She divulged that Dr. Sandy is a decent personality whose engagements in the Diaspora cuts across boarders. This innate character of Dr. Sandy she engendered should be viewed as a timely blessing for the party. In another development, Madam Thomas advised female party members to register in their masses as this is what will legalize them to exercise their franchise. She asserted that women should move from the backyards of decision making, regalia parades, and other gender biased assignments to play a key role to politically decide the fate of Sierra Leone.

By Momoja Lappia

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THE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE- ERNEST BAI KOROMA - NEW YEAR (2012) MESSAGE TO THE NATION

UPDATE!! SUNDAY 04 MARCH 2012

Sierra Leone President

                                 Addressing the UN General Assembly

Opinion poll shows Sierra Leone’s ruling APC party set for another landslide victory in upcoming November elections 
 

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Fellow Sierra Leoneans,
New Year’s Day is usually a time for reflection and resolutions. In 2007 you gave me the mandate to push your resolutions through for a better Sierra Leone. Four years on, my record of transformational achievements is very visible for us to reflect on and strengthen our resolutions for 2012.
In 2007, we firmed up our resolutions for development into an Agenda for Change. We resolved to bring back electricity to Freetown and we have done it; we promised to take electricity to every district headquarter town and we are doing it; we committed ourselves to building roads everywhere, turning farms into enterprises that will benefit farmers and the nation, transforming the health sector, reviewing and improving the educational system, fighting corruption, promoting a more effective public sector management system, attracting investment and creating thousands of jobs. Everywhere you go today you will see our resolutions at work and our promises being fulfilled.
These are achievements for every Sierra Leonean. The highway to Bo and Kenema is for every Sierra Leonean irrespective of political party; the Road to Pamlap is for every citizen irrespective of age; the roads in Bo, Kenema, Makeni, Kailahun, Port Loko, Kono, Moyamba, and Pujehun are for everybody irrespective of ethnic group. The water supply systems we are constructing and rehabilitating in district headquarter towns are for everyone. Services provided by the Free Healthcare Initiative are for the mothers and children of every region. We are establishing agricultural business units in every chiefdom and we are providing agricultural inputs to farmers in every district. We made a resolution to be a government of nationwide services; a government of infrastructure and a government of implementation. And we have acted on our resolution.
Fellow Sierra Leoneans, our country is undergoing its greatest transformation since independence. Forecasts for our country becoming an oil-producing nation are great, we may soon become the largest per capita producer of iron ore in the world; we have landed the fibre optic cable, we are attracting huge investments in agriculture. Sierra Leoneans should take charge of this transformation; citizens of this great nation must be the drivers of this change.
I know we can rise up to the challenge, I believe in the capacity of Sierra Leoneans to do what they have resolved to do. In 1996, we decided to reject men of violence, and we did it; in 2007 we decided to establish a government of action, and we did it. I believe the overwhelming majority of the citizens of this country in every region and every political party are peaceful, law abiding and development oriented. I believe in the vision of Sierra Leone as an innovative, forward-looking donor nation in the next few decades.
Fellow Sierra Leoneans, on this very first day of 2012, I am reiterating my resolution to make this country live up to its destiny of greatness. We will continue along the path of progress and development. We will continue to build the roads. We will keep on increasing electricity supply, we will go on with turning farms into businesses, and we will continue to implement the free health care initiative. We will go on with rebranding this country. We will continue to win accolades for our dedication to development and democracy. We will continue to lead reforms at the United Nations. We will go on sharing the blessings of peace by sending peacemakers to trouble spots in the world. We will move on with attracting investments, improving the business climate, creating jobs and maintaining law and order. We will continue to fight corruption. We will continue to protect the environment and bring to book those who violate our environmental laws; we will continue to prosecute those who are involved in electoral violence; we will continue to stand up for the common man and woman. We will not be distracted; we will not turn back; the only option is to move forward with unrelenting zeal.
Let me also use this occasion to congratulate the youths of this country for their great contributions to the development of Sierra Leone. Youths are our partners in transformation, the pillars of our actions and the mainstay of our aspirations for a better Sierra Leone. We salute your resilience and your talents as musicians, teachers, traders, students, religious youths, office workers, riders and drivers. We applaud your skills and energy as operatives of tele and video centers, your mastering of the use and repair of mobile phones and electronic games. We are heartened by your passionate but peaceful support of football clubs. We are with you in your celebrations of youth. Together we are transforming this nation. Together we will overcome the challenges posed by a few youths taking chances with violence and drugs. Together we will continue along the path of democracy and sustainable development.
Later this year we shall be organizing presidential, parliamentary and local government elections. We must ensure that peace prevails. We must continue to repudiate violence. We must continue to reject political campaigns based on intimidation, ethnic sentiments and retrogression. Never again must this country surrender itself to the violent, the law breaker and the extremist. The government that I lead will not tolerate plots or acts to push this country towards violence.
Registration of voters for the elections will start later this month. I call upon all of us to make it a New Year resolution to register. Registration enables us to exercise our rights to vote and be voted for; it shows that we are ready to participate in the governance of the country, and it is one of the most profound of the responsibilities of citizens. Come out in your millions to register and send out a clear message that ballots, rather than bullets must prevail.
We have set up the Sierra Leone Conference on Transformation and Development to facilitate the process of bringing out all the ideas about how we are going to achieve this vision of our country becoming a middle-income country in 25 years and an advanced donor nation within 50 years. Make it one of your New Year resolutions to be part of this movement for a better Sierra Leone. I ask all of you to act on our collective resolutions for peace, democracy, and sustainable development. Bring on your ideas and best practices; make the resolution now, and rededicate your actions to the realization of our best aspirations.
I hereby declare the week beginning 16th January as a week of prayer for Peace, Prosperity and the great transformation of our beloved country Sierra Leone. The Muslims will end their week of prayer on Friday the 20th and the Christians on Sunday the 22nd.
Once again, I congratulate the citizens of this country for the great strides we are making to build a better Sierra Leone.
I wish you all a bright and prosperous 2012

 Freetown - A view.

Maada Bio & His NPRC’s 1992 Executed Victims- ICE

DAE MAN NOR DE SLIP:  MEMBA DAT!

 As I read Sylvia Blyden's post in Face book today I felt for my personal friends who were murdered among those named in that list: my Grammar School friends, Kawuta Dumbuya - a fine Regents Olympic footballer and Salami Coker- a brilliant Actor of Born Free/Aladin fame . I feel for the whole group and especially Bambay Kamara whom I had known since I lived with my Uncle Police Inspector Inor Doherty when they ran Small Police in the East of Freetown. I wrote a likekly piece as a comment on her post and as I go through other comments I can feel a deep sense of sadness  and emotions from the partisipants, and the falies of all  those victims. But Why must Maada Bio and his colleagues get away with blatant murder?
 Let me repeat what I stated in my post a few days ago recalling the attempted Coup on Dr Siaka Stevens by the then Force Commander Brigadier John Bangura on 23 March, 1971. Any one who perpetrated such atrocities must face JUSTICE. All those who had implicated themselves or had the chance to stop the carnage then try to excuse themselves must not be spared. The AMNESTY granted in 1996 at Ivory Coast by ECOWAS was only to get the Country back to normality. These hooligans think they will get away with murder through that amnesty- well they must not be allowed to. Even the Secretary General of the United Nations then, Koffie ANAN was OUTRAGED by that amnesty. The United Nations Body did not and still have NOT recognised that amnesty. So these chaps MUST be brought to trial. If people like MOLOSOVITCH (Yogoslavia), Radavan Karaditch, Ratkom Meladitch,(Bosnia), those in Cambodia who collaborated with Pool Pot or South American Generals (Argentina, Chilli and the like) who committed similar atrocities can be prosecuted, what's wrong with us Sierra Leoneans? THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO SPILL IN VAIN. IF MAADA BIO THINKS HE CAN CON SIERRA LEONEANS BY GETTING HIMSELF PICKED AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, SO IF HE IS SUBSEQUENTLY ARRESTED HE CAN CLAIM FOUL ON THE ELECTORAL PROCESS,HE IS LIVING IN DREAM LAND. I invite you Sylvia, to get your hands on a copy of Volumn 1 of the booklet written by the Late Massaquoi - former Chair of SLAJ exposing these 1992 coup-makers and the plots and sub-plots they were involved in including Maada Bio, Nyuma, Strasser etc. you will be amazed to learn how divious these men were.
I am waiting patiently to see when Young Frank Kargbo, Attorney General will file the necessary papers for their arrest. Our Country's MOTO is "LIBERTY FREEDOM AND JUSTICE". We need to see more on the Justice side for the good of our blessed Country.

I am posting supporting websites whis tell the pain suffered by the families of the victims. We must always remember the even more so TODAY -29th December2011 the 19th Anniversary of their brutal killing.

MAY THEIR SOULS REST IN PEACE!!


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READ MAADA BIO'S WIKIPEDIA ENTRY. INTERESTING!!-
(January 16, 1996 – March 29, 1996)
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 Here is an additional piece CURLed from Sylvia Blyden's response to a contributor.  INTERESTING!!! Read on:-

John Kanu, I see you are repeating the SLPP-Bio propaganda by stating that Bio was NPRC Information Minister at the time of the killings. By making such a claim, the SLPP & Bio supporters are DELIBERATELY downplaying Bio's position as the N...PRC's Number 3 man at the time of the extra-judicial killings by referencing him as a lowly Information Minister.
Kindly allow me to educate you today on this issue. MAADA BIO WAS NOT THE NPRC INFORMATION MINISTER ON 29 DECEMBER 1992.
On 29th December 1992, Julius Maada Bio held the official title of the number 3 position in the NPRC which was that of PRINCIPAL LIAISON OFFICER NUMBER ONE (PLO-1). It was synonymous with being a SUPER MINISTER. In other words, Maada Bio was the Super Minister in charge of the following Ministries: Finance, Foreign Affairs and Information.
The NPRC Minister of Information on the date of the brutal extra-judicial killings of innocent Sierra Leoneans is currently an APC STRONGMAN (name withheld for now because of certain reasons).
Whilst for certain reasons, I will not name the APC Strongman who was the Info Minister at the time of the killings, I will expound on another issue here. The world has read a lot about the position of current APC Justice Minister & Attorney-General who also held the same position in the NPRC. Many are under the illusion that Frank Kargbo was also the NPRC Attorney-General/Justice Minister at the time of the killings 19 years ago. They are mistaken. Frank Kargbo was the NPRC Transport Minister at the time of the illegal killings.
The then Attorney General and so-called 'Justice Minister' was Arnold Bishop Gooding who joined in the post-killing whitewash they (NPRC) tried to perpetuate but when the extent of the OUTRAGE spread after the killings and increased international anger, the NPRC tried to make some appeasement by reshuffling the Cabinet during which the positions of Gooding and Frank Kargbo were switched and Kargbo then became Attorney-General and Gooding became Transport Minister.

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Kishin all the NPRC boys were paid off by foreign donors who gave them scholarships with funding overseas. There was talk of Nigeria's Abacha giving them cash as well but this was never documented. However, it was widespread to such an extent that when Leatherboot attacked and beat up Tom Nyuma in 2007, one of the reasons for bitterness between the two men is that Leatherboot accused Nyuma of not sharing the cash Abacha gave to Maada Bio for the ordinary soldiers serving NPRC ministers. Only Maada Bio and the NPRC can speak on that allegation of getting cash from Abacha as no documented proof exists.
What is not a secret and is well documented is that a special arrangement with the United Nations Development Programme, the British, the French and the Americans ensured the NPRC boys got educated and funded after they were FORCED to quit office. Make no mistake, Maada Bio and Co. left office grudgingly. The market-women drove them out of office. Before the Arab Spring's Tahir Square events, we had the Krootown Road Market Spring. SLPP likes to portray Bio as leaving power willingly. This is UNTRUE. He left grudgingly after his Bintumani II efforts failed...
Infact, one of the first things Bio did on overthrowing Strasser was to spend a huge sum of millions and millions of leones in renovating new suite of offices for himself at State House. Strasser was overthrown on 17 January 1996 and the then elections were slated for February 1996 so why spend such huge sum in renovating new offices for yourself to sit for just one month??? Does not sound like a man who was planning to leave in just a month's time. Does it?
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A word to the wise...
God bless:) 

23 MARCH 1971- A day I will never forget- Attempted Assination of Dr. SIAKA STEVENS

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23rd MARCH 1971- The day the Force Commander, Brigadier John Bangura showed his disloyalty to then PRIME MINISTER Dr. Siaka Stevens and to Sierra Leone. I will never forget that day. I was leaving at Henry Street in Freetown with my four younger sisters. They will not let me out that morning. After the initial NIGHT of heavy shooting which turned out to be an assassination attack on Dr. Stevens's life at his residence at King Harman Road, led by Major Jawara, I left the house and together with the Late Hon. JOHN KANU at Niaimbana Street, we picked up his car and collected Mama Princess. Bucknor (of The APC Office). We drove to Brookfields towards the Dr. Stevens resident; the soldiers did not allow us. We moved towards Congo Cross and saw Lieutenant Colonel Sam King, and others in a Land Rover driving fiercely through Congo Cross Road towards Town. It was confusing! We ended up in a Hon. Minister's house at Wilkinson Road (Name withheld - He was later demoted). He was as confused as us. We left back into Town. I then went to my workplace at Standard Bank, by which time loads of soldiers were marching into town. I advised my General Manage in fear, to shut up shop and all staff ordered not to leave until we all helped each other to finish whatever job they were doing and closed the Bank. By that time soldiers were all over town, and a resumption of shooting, attacking the PM at his office up Tower Hill by Paramount Hotel - the old office of Sir Milton Margai -the first Prime Minister. 

My Cousin - in - Law, the Late Lawyer Kanji Alpha Daramy, Minister of Information (formerly Minister of Development and Economic Planning - the replacement of the earlier sacked Prof Solomon A J Pratt ) was among those with the Prime Minister- but they all survived this deadly second phase. It was still very confusing as it was Sam King who introduced Brigadier John Bangura before he made his 'TAKE OVER' speech at about 3 pm. So, who was in charge?  It became clearer when Sam King and other senior officers staged a counter operation and arrested John Bangura and spoke to the Nation DISSOCIATING themselves from coup attempt later that day. 
I had to make my way home via Circular Road - a round trip - through the back streets, for fear of the soldiers and their guns the types of some I had never seen before. An expatriate had been shot and killed near the American Embassy. It was a RELIEF to hear the PM Siaka Stevens' voice after Sam King and Tom Caulker, and the second broadcast at about 8pm was all inspiring and assuring. The SLBS played its part that day.
I will never forget that day. Brigadier John Bangura was Executed in April 1971 for this Coup attempt - A SAD PATCH in our COUNTRY'S HISTORY.

MAADA BIO MUST TAKE NOTE OF THIS FAILED COUP AND ITS SUBSEQUENT RESULTS- in the light of his statement after the 2007 ELECTION VICTORY of the APC. (See reference in his entry in WIKIPEDIA)

PRESIDENT ERNEST BAI KOROMA : A SHINING LIGHT IN AFRICA

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