Sylvia Blyden Hounded Out Of State House Disgracefully!!!!! PUAWUI…DR. SAMA BANYA Only the APC leadership and its bootlickers would believe that in present circumstance the party would win free and fair elections in Sierra Leone. In the past they have relied on violence and in 2007, on the collusion between Christiana Thorpe and her regime change patrons of the then international community. The above statement is truer today because of the dismal record of the regime which has concentrated on wide spread construction almost at the detriment of the living standards of ordinary Sierra Leoneans. But does the APC really need to be reminded about this? When Christiana Thorpe robbed us of the 2007 election results, we told anyone who care to listen of the facts, but would they? The former United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone Dr. Thomas Neal told a University congregation in the United States that the SLPP had blamed everyone but themselves for losing the election. Over the last four years Christiana Thorpe had found herself in situations where she all but admitted that her action was not backed by legal authority and she has been trying to legalize the procedure for a future occasion. Readers would recall that Sylvia Blyden, Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden and I had spent several weeks calling attention to the inaccuracy of Thorpe’s final figures for the Presidential run-off as a result of which NEC very hurriedly removed all the falsified figures from their website. In addition, by cancelling the ballot results in 477 polling stations, mostly in SLPP strongholds, the woman had robbed us of 167,000 potential votes. Although the event itself may now be history with barely ten months to the next polls, we are pursuing it in order to make sure that never again would such blatant cheating be repeated in our electoral process. We are still waiting for the Supreme Court’s ruling! In the light of the above, what is the APC ranting about with regard to the Fourah Bay result? What is their real problem, that their pride had been hurt and that they had been humiliated by a party which they had in their arrogance written off as dead? Considering the high profile, “Alagbas” who were touring the ward and the constituency on that Saturday what is their complaint? Why is Victor Foh’s press release silent on the unlawful and persistent attempt by Lansana Fadika to force his way into a polling station? To extol the virtues of President Ernest Bai Koroma in abhorring violence, why hasn’t his party urged him to take action on the Shear-Moses commission report which he has refused to release so far? If his Excellency as head of state for ALL SIERRA LEONEANS had implemented the recommendations of that commission, would Musa Tarawali have dared to lead a truck load of OSD to the constituency on Saturday? In which other country, including totalitarian states, has any minister been involved in the process of arresting even hardcore criminals? I see it all as H E’s practice of treating the opposition SLPP with contempt and disdain. The SLPP has snatched the ward from the ruling APC with all the power and machinery of incumbency. As the Mende would have enthused in a goboi dance, “GOMBO KOLE MU KOMBUA TEYA!” (We have snatched it from their hands.)
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 11:44:21 +0000
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