11 APR 2018

26 FEB 2018

1 FEB 2018 · IMF wants to force Sierra Leone Government to cut subsidies and raise Taxes few weeks before the upcoming elections. There is now a conflict of interest so the IMF after the first instalment of the loan withhold the next segment claiming that they are still to be satisfied with budgetary income and expenditures of the government. The whole thing is a sham. No responsible government will venture to raise commodity prices, cut off subsidies and invite uneasiness and tension a few weeks towards an election especially in a period of transition. Patrick Smith/Africa Confidential has always come up with negative and tension seeking issues whenever there is an election regardless of the party in Sierra Leone. This is not new, it is as if he always want the opposition to rise up in arms against the incumbent. Even before the NPRC coup, in the early days of inception. His was one of the very few that dealt with/contacted the RUF and made a report. The letter from the IMF representative (With wrong date- 31 January 2017 which I presume typed in a rush to dispel the inciting effect of Patrick Smith/Africa Confidential /BBC plugin) has been couched in 'diplomatic speak' but it is clear that it has NOTHING to do with corruption, or an intention to use the loan for elections. The IMF clearly says "The...External Credit Facility Program (i.e. the loan in question) is ongoing and government continues to meet its debt service obligations on both current and outstanding loan to the IMF...". This is clear manifestation that the government's position is in order, and there has not been any default. The "measures that were to be taken... did not yield"! This diplomatic speak is simply exposing 'a conflict of interest' between IMF and the government: they want to force the government at this crucial election time " to cut of subsidies on delicate and important commodities like petrol, rice etc - things that will directly affect the populace and will certainly bring tension so close to election. At the same time raise prices! NO SENSIBLE GOVERNMENT BEING AN INCUMBENT SEEKING ELECTIONS WILL AGREE TO THAT. Even the opposition will have a field day! The IMF did this same thing to the Kabba/SLPP GOVERNMENT, almost one year to the 2007 elections. So, this is not the first time the IMF had done this sort of thing. Sowing seeds of discord between the government and people. In Siaka Stevens time, they did the same thing - trying to force the APC Siaka Stevens Government to devalue the Leone and raise rice, petrol and local commodity prices. This resulted in the then Minister of finance removed from the Finance ministry after he tried to explain the words "CONDITIONALITY DEMANDS" for his reason to give in to the IMF. Pa Siaka complained bitterly: in sum, "Res price dear now, Den wan le we put price up more wit conditionality demands". He did not allow that bullying to go through and the IMF WITHHELD THE 50 Million SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS (SDR) CREDIT FACILITY (a type of loan). Even when Dr Jusu Sherriff was Finance Minister, they did the same thing. He tried on a few occasions to redeem that 50 M SDR but the IMF STARVED the Siaka STEVENS government passed that on to the MOMOH APC government but as soon as the SOLDIER BOYS - the NPRC, OVERTHREW MOMOH in 1992, THE IMF RELEASED THAT 50 M SDR to them. This strategy of the IMF is always used to undermine confidence of incumbent Developing countries' governments and their actions INFLUENCE OTHER FUNDING BODIES such as EUROPEAN UNION BODIES: and you wonder why Developing countries,especially African countries,turn to China 🇨🇳 and Korea and Russia 🇷🇺. The APC/Ernest Koroma government will not be shaken by this intervention. Patrick Smith/Africa Confidential/BBC can go on preaching distasteful things but it's too late: the seeds are sown and the position is clear. The REGIME CHANGE they are seeking or trying to INFLUENCE will not happen: IT IS TOLONGBO / WAN KRACH on 7th March 2018.

19 JAN 2017 · The dead line for President Yahya Jammeh to step down after 18th January 2017 passed at midnight last night with Jammeh staying put. The threats of Military intervention and a show of mighty military mussel, has not moved him despite the fear of citizens and abandonment by some of his loyalist politicians, Ministers and soldiersJammeh did not budge. Adama Barrow Twitted today 08:03 inviting people to the Gambian Embassy in Dakar Senegal saying he will be sworn in at 4:00pm. NO NEWS YET ON THAT! Meanwhile, Umarr Fofanah gave this report this morning at about 11:00 am saying how quiet the City Banjul has been; no soldiers in streets and that the talk of ECOWAS soldiers especially Senegalese Troops entering Gambia cannot be confirmed. He said Barrow will be sworn in, in The Gambia, contradicting earlier reports of him being sworn in the Gambian Embassy in Dakar Senegal. Talk of negotiations still goes on whilst Jammeh stays put: hie term of office was extended by Parliament Legislators by 90 days and a State of Emergency declared a few days before deadline. There is also a blanket ban on all eligible to swarm in Barrow. As Parliament was not dissolved, the Legislature carried on normal duties and took constitutional actions/ decisions to keep Jammeh in power. On this basis, how would ECOWAS invasion be seen. AS AN UNLAWFUL AGGRESSION? Technically, Jammeh is still the President by virtue of the National Assembly ( Parliament) action. Will WEOWAS and the International Committee respect the GAMBIAN CONSTITUTION? Or, would the constitutional action be ignored and aggressively invade remove Jammeh and impose Barrow as the 3rd President. If this happens, would ECOWAS be setting a NEW PRECEDENT and constitutional future problems yet unseen for Africa?

19 JAN 2017 · 18th January 2017. Supposed last day of President Yahya Jammeh's Presidency as seen by ECOWAS AND THE PRESIDENT-Elect Adama Barrow and his followers. Jammeh stays put despite threats of Military intervention. Some members of his Ministers and Military have abandoned him yet he remains unmoved. His term of office has been extended a few days before D Day by the National Assembly (Parliament) Legislators and State of Emergency declared under Executive Orders. He has tried to achieve the maximum of constitutionality possible to stay beyond 19th January and seems so far to be achieving that goal. Meanwhile, Barrow says he will be sworn in as 3rd President on Thursday 19th January 2017. Looks like outside GAMBIA at the Embassy in Dakar Senegal against a ban through an injunction in filed in Supreme Court banning anyone from swearing him.

26 OCT 2016 · A NEW CONSTITUTIONAL BATTLE- WEST AFRICAN STYLE!! Sacked former Vice President Samuel Sam Sumana is suing Sierra Leone Government for US$210 million in the ECOWAS REGIONAL COURT. Umarr Fofana reporting on BBC Focus on Africa. CAN THE ECOWAS COURT DECISION OVERRULE THE DECISIONS OF THE SIERRA LEONE SUPREME COURT? Is this a re-opening of the Strasbourg European Court problems replay in West Africa? http://www.statehouse-sl.org/judiciary.html CLICK LINK BELOW ( cut and past)🇸🇱KHAN ACADEMY ON EXECUTIVE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT. https://www.facebook.com/israel.parpersnr/posts/10211062492267557 EXECUTIVE POWERS OF A THE PRESIDENT: who can he appoint into office and who can he SACK from office? Does the President have 'assumed' EXECUTIVE POWERS where it is not clearly stated in the Constitution? How does this translate within the Sierra Leone Constitutional Sam Sumana Test Case last year?

25 OCT 2016

25 OCT 2016 · FINE FINE WOMAN: my cover track of the 1965/6 Sound Casters Song. Performed in 1998 with the backing of Sasbanor International at Camden Town Hall Kings Cross London. thanks to Late Bobwin Amara, Latenmm, Siddiqui Fofana, Maitland Collins (deChamp), Ayo and Maitland of King Jimmy Fame. this was the SLGS Fund Raising Dinner Dance in support of the School back in Sierra Leone.

9 AUG 2016

9 AUG 2016