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Dalton1
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 Posted - 15 Feb 2007 : 12:51:47
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"(But most importantly, I'll really get into our Israeli Forums ? seriously ? and start writing articles, opinions, as best I can ? quite another understanding and wavelength ? and of course there, nobody like you, Dalton, etc or a Gambiebev is going to start asking me what is my motive for being in any of those Forums, discussion groups etc."-Uncle Corne.
You seem to be in high moods to go. Your motive to stay or leave shouldn't be influenced by anyone of us. We are all just merely contributors or readers just like you-so ordinary that we shouldn't influence your go. You've been a great contributor filling the heads of younger ones with baggage of links, rather important but lenthy.
Regarding the anwer you requested about "Batuta"-i am sure you might have figured out what the word means in our local languages. it means magic, or some devilish thing.
follow links
www.raaki.com, and let me know what you think after you watch the clips on Jammeh's cure of Aids.
I had you for breakfast. Make your self a good day.
Dalton.
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"There is no god but Allah (SWT); and Muhammad (SAW)is His last messenger." shahadah. Fear & Worship Allah (SWT) Alone! (:
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Santanfara
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Posted - 15 Feb 2007 : 20:56:30
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| our bantaba greatest scholar will be surely be missed . good luck uncle coni . i will be checking the israel pundit colunms . you have been a star . |
Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
"And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran
www.suntoumana.blogspot.com |
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Santanfara
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Posted - 15 Feb 2007 : 20:56:30
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| our bantaba greatest scholar will be surely be missed . good luck uncle coni . i will be checking the israel pundit colunms . you have been a star . |
Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
"And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran
www.suntoumana.blogspot.com |
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Santanfara
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Posted - 15 Feb 2007 : 21:23:27
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| i read some where that ajj went missing in kaniale . if the witch doctor can be lost in kaniale how can he be a good witch ? |
Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
"And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran
www.suntoumana.blogspot.com |
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Santanfara
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Posted - 15 Feb 2007 : 21:23:27
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| i read some where that ajj went missing in kaniale . if the witch doctor can be lost in kaniale how can he be a good witch ? |
Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
"And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran
www.suntoumana.blogspot.com |
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Cornelius
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Posted - 16 Feb 2007 : 00:45:26
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quote:
Originally posted by Cornelius
http://www.raaki.com/yajjtreatment.html
I would volunteer for a good body massage. I did not know he is a a Massage Therapist. What better luck can it be to get a massage from a President.
This video speaks volumes. Interstingly this patient is asked not to smoke when it was this government that lifted the ban on advertisement of cigarettes.
It looks like in one of the videos, the Secretray of State is doing the interview herself. What happened to the GRTS reporters paid to do such jobs. |
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kondorong
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Posted - 16 Feb 2007 : 00:45:26
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Originally posted by Cornelius
http://www.raaki.com/yajjtreatment.html
I would volunteer for a good body massage. I did not know he is a a Massage Therapist. What better luck can it be to get a massage from a President.
This video speaks volumes. Interstingly this patient is asked not to smoke when it was this government that lifted the ban on advertisement of cigarettes.
It looks like in one of the videos, the Secretray of State is doing the interview herself. What happened to the GRTS reporters paid to do such jobs. |
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Cornelius
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Posted - 16 Feb 2007 : 01:58:02
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Originally posted by Dalton1
"(But most importantly, I'll really get into our Israeli Forums ? seriously ? and start writing articles, opinions, as best I can ? quite another understanding and wavelength ? and of course there, nobody like you, Dalton, etc or a Gambiebev is going to start asking me what is my motive for being in any of those Forums, discussion groups etc."-Uncle Corne.
You seem to be in high moods to go. Your motive to stay or leave shouldn't be influenced by anyone of us. We are all just merely contributors or readers just like you-so ordinary that we shouldn't influence your go. You've been a great contributor filling the heads of younger ones with baggage of links, rather important but lenthy.
Regarding the anwer you requested about "Batuta"-i am sure you might have figured out what the word means in our local languages. it means magic, or some devilish thing.
follow links
www.raaki.com, and let me know what you think after you watch the clips on Jammeh's cure of Aids.
I had you for breakfast. Make your self a good day.
Dalton.
YOU don't have to read this:
Brother’s keeper Dalton,
Remember how wrong you were about Madam Kamuso? You said that Yahya’s agents had tortured her to death in a detention facility – your false accusation is there in the Bantaba archives – but by the Grace of God, she lives, Madam Kamuso is alive!!!!
Patience Mr. Dalton. (I had a classmate called Dalton Faulkner)
I got the aids treatment link from another Gambian Forum which I belong to.The GAMBIA-L@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html
I joined a few weeks before this:
http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?A2=ind0611d&L=gambia-l&H=1&O=D&F=PP&P=2104
Whether we live in the Gambia or not, there is only one Bantaba in cyberspace. I myself cannot try or pretend to be or act like someone else. Yesterday I did meet with a whole lot of Gambian brothers, apart from Sam and David and Poe Djatta (the Mandinka Nationalist (I’m sure he’d like to resurrect the great Mali Empire – and so would I) and also even older Gambian friends that I’ve known since I’ve been in Sweden, people like Francis Reilly – and many, many others in Sweden and the Gambia. I don’t need to get a passport to live like one and there’s no Gambian that I know and who knows me and who has ever met me face to face that can say anything bad about me to you or anyone – apart from – some fanatics who might say that I am a Yehudi……still, I wish them no harm. Live and let live is my motto.
Respect begets respect and I have told you this before.
If you had read a couple of biographies, you would be a little more humble, and I can recommend a few to you, if you - living in America, have the time to read. For me there was a time I read a something like 15 hours a day, for years. Still reading, and let me hasten to add that Neville Jarrett, Sylvester Young, Leonard Gordon-Harris, Fowell Whitfield, Akintola Wyse, Aminata Mahdi, Joseph Carpenter, Blyden Jenkins-Johnston, Edna Becker, Edmund Lahai, were among some of the brightest people in my class, not me.
I discuss with my two daughters and my son. I talked to the middle one one on the phone this evening. They are not precisely am-haaretz and you yourself, if you were me, you would think differently. And so just as I accept the difference between us, you being you and me being me – and of course Jammeh being neither of us, so too you should allow me to think like me, and not impose your own understanding – or limitations on me. That’s all I ask of you and not all of us can sing like Youssou N'dour or play like Alpha Yaya Diallo and who are you to tell me how to think, what to link my thoughts with or how to write, or play?
If you don’t have the time to read 18 hours a day – and there are young Hassid in Antwerp who spend that length of time studying TORAH everyday, and then someone like Musa P pops up and wants to lecture about ” his perspective”. By all means let him do so – but let him not stop or limit anyone else’s freedom to think and express a a fallible opinion.If he spends more time in the philopshy department we'll get along a little better.
I have never in my life tried to Lord it over others. It’s true, that in the circumstances, in which I grew up, we had servants, a cook, Chauffer, a so called houseboy of two etc but I have never lorded it over anyone and unlike military men I don’t like giving orders. I'm good at taking them. However, fairplay is probably in my genetic code, because when my mother once told me ” You are just like your father” – my father who spoke Suso as fluently as Lanasana Conte ( and some Mende and Mandinka) – she explained about his egalitarian ways. And that knowledge has secured my own identity because the Almighty does not like rivals and those who exalt themselves or want to set themselves up as partners of the Almighty are the most heinous of criminals.
AS a Sierra Leone born person, here is an example of the confidence and self-assurance with which I relate to Sierra Leone political matters, in ways in which I would never dare to interfere in Gambian matters – unless your president or whoever, was a threat to anyone’s/someone's life or freedom.
I wrote and posted a couple of opinions today, to the Sierra Leone Forum, in connection with the forthcoming Presidential elections in Sierra Leone, on the 28th of July. Here are three of them – all relevant to the Gambia, as we are so to speak( Sierra Leone and the Gambia) in the same soup and have the same crop of problems in common – one major difference being that Alhaji Kabbah has not yet had the calling to put on his gloves and stride to take up an appointment of curing aids and asthma. Perhaps President Jammeh will transfer some of his power and share some of his knowledge of the herbal treatment with his presidential brother, when Dr. Kabbah goes into retirement this year.
1. ( about a strike at FBC – something about the Gambia there.)
LEADERSHIP!
As we know, the TORAH was revealed on the lowly Mt. Sinai------ and since you are
not in the habit of wasting words, it used to be one-liners from you for some
time on Leonenet; but you have advanced and you have put your finger on the
problem in just two succinct sentences:
” FBC, like the rest of the educational system in Sierra Leone, is suffering
from
the lack of effective leadership. Until the entire system is revamped and
politicians are removed from it, it will remain in its malaise.”
http://www.alinstitute.org/
The praise singers, sycophants and “boy-boys” sometimes lack critical acumen
when they WANT/ need something, just as MR-- - the latest praise singer,
upon reading that Concord interview which I also read, says that he is quite
impressed with Mr. Berewa’s administrative vigour, listing as achievements his
stint at being the AG and the ogre that secured Chief Hinga Norman’s
incarceration - praising him, even after John Lansana Musa put his pen to the
service of analysing the Lomé accords and that general amnesty which in the
end deliberately evaded the chief and got him out of the way. Yes, JLM writes
and explains – whilst other less gifted ones have been lazy or still silent or
denigrating his laudable efforts to make sense to all of us.
You remember Karmor AKB, the dismal view you expressed about the whole idea of “Athens of West Africa” with your Sankore blackground as background and you remember what miracles you said you could/would perform if you were the Chancellor – that you would secure a place for the Sierra Leone University among the top 500 in the world.
Your critics and other unselfconfident sceptics will say talk is cheap – nothing ventured, nothing gained and it’s mostly a question of financing which probably comes from the resourcefulness and enterprising spirit that the first citizen believes is at the top of the seven national values. We also know that the problem to be avoided is that when the money appears it should then not
disappear with impunity, just as appointments should not be mainly acts of cronyism in what was once mostly a pre-independence a meritocracy in a Sierra Leone in which everything functioned: education, the judiciary, even the military knew where to take orders from.
We all know: That secondary school education supplies the raw materials for higher education and is of course, the foundation that should be strengthened.
Does V-C Gbakima have the vision and the administrative competence to acquire
the right staff to lift standards lift standards?
Since everybody, including Alpha Wurie, the minister of education understands
the importance of EDUCATION as being the very foundation of democracy and
development my question is very simple: why isn’t there adequate funding of FBC
which in the Humanities Section at least is lagging far behind every other
University in Africa with perhaps the exception of the Canadian-affiliated
college in the Gambia which is advancing rapidly.
The snail pace is blamed on “the war” like ina Inglan and Germany during
Marshall plan & reconstruction years even while later, Peter Paul and Mary in
United States of America, sang “ Where have all the flowers gone.?”
Our question - because of lack of transparency – a word we hear so often but do
not see: WHERE does/did all the money go?
We also know that we are second to last in the world in the UNDP Human
development index 176/177 and have occupied that position for donkey’s years,
just a few points above famine- ravaged Niger.
Yahya Jammeh has just created a new ministry – that of Higher Education and
Research. That’s progressive thinking and implementation isn’t it?
The staffing of FBC’s English department for instance is a garbage heap
compared with what it used to be once upon a time with Prof Jones, Dr. Eustace
Palmer, Derek Elders, Evans, Carter, Graham, Prof Jack B. Moore, Miss
Robertson, to name a few – and so too all the other departments have been
buried in debris and as to standards I read that five people had emerged with
first class honours in Media and Communication last year. Congratulations to
all of them and to their first class teachers too.
The fact that there are only FIVE dentists in the whole country – to service a
population of FIVE MILLION shows up the inadequacy of our meeting our required
manpower needs and no wonder Tim Sebastian telling President Kabbah “But people
say you are a toothless chimpanzee” - in connection with his powerlessness in
the face of overwhelming odds: overwhelming and undiminished corruption.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/2149188.stm
For all the terror that ravaged Algeria after FIS won that election, Algeria
has 39,000 doctors, Sierra Leone, one hundred and sixty eight. Is it any wonder
that we have the highest child mortality rate in the whole wide world?????
I looked in on your friend who also has something to say about tragedy:
http://africaunchained.blogspot.com/2005/12/future-of-universities.html
Otherwise that was a very kind and diplomatic letter from Dr. Sheku Kamara puts
one in mind of the devils dictionary of abasement:
ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth
or power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.
2. (A response to Concord Times interview with Sierra Leone’s vice-president ( who I actually like – he is an experienced and efficient bureaucrat, but not half as charismatic as Yahya. He’d be the last to invite Chavez and Ahmadinejad to Freetown to inspect a guard of honour, because Hilary Benn and Tony B-liar wouldn’t like it. He knows where his bread and the daily bread is buttered. He is wise.):
I must be missing out on something here.
Could someone from the Berewa stable please explain the meaning of the
following sentence:
” Israel Vice President and presidential flag-bearer of the Sierra Leone
Peoples' Party, Solomon Ekuma Berewa, in an exclusive interview with Concord
Times Friday said, "It's all rubbish for me and President Kabbah to quarrel
over a running mate. We can never quarrel over issue like that."
http://allafrica.com/stories/200702140913.html
It???s the ???Israel Vice President and presidential flag-bearer of the Sierra
Leone Peoples' Party, Solomon Ekuma Berewa ??? that bothers me, since Idid
know that Mr. Berewa is a citizen of Israel and I am not aware of Israel
having a vice-president.
http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/government/personalities/presidents/
In my last posting I wanted to mention that the Israelite prophet Moses, the
humblest man who ever trod this earth, is a good example of leadership.
Is Berewa as popular as he claims? WHY? The whole”interview” is nothing short
of an exercise of extended self –praise. At least some self-criticism is part
of stocktaking. And why are we still trampling water at 176/177?
What about other unSolomonic gaffes like him saying” without any hitch!”– And
it’s arrogance speaking here and a little sloppy of him being so pleased with
himself. Who else but one propped full of unknowingness can say thus:
“I have not left anything undone that I ought to do.”
(This is a conscious and deliberate contradiction of the well known Roman
Catholic catechism tenet reeling in his head the “"We have offended against thy
holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we
have done those things which we ought not to have done, and there is no truth
in us”)
This long and doubtful statement beginning
“There is no instance of anybody saying that I abused my position as Attorney
General or rather, I created an avenue whereby the lowest and the highest can
enjoy protection under the law”
and ending with
“There are so many number of things which I cannot itemize but there are so
many things that I have done. Some are very perceptible and some are
imperceptible but they have made government more very fruitful.”
Some are indeed imperceptible, Karmor Berewa, and some hidden between now and
20th July 2007.
So, WHO ended the war?
Mr. Berewa did not answer the question and it is possible for him to win our
confidence in that quality he has not out rightly boasted of being in
possession of that which John Kufour and Thabo Mbeki certainly have, namely
brilliance. Mr. Berewa you have all day long. Could you please show your
mettle by answering the question – and where would you be without the
International Community, you ungrateful man or as JLM would put it, ingrate!
First of all, lets thank NIGERIA and the Nigerians for the lives sacrificed and
the about $1 billion in money spent all those years. Also lets remember Maxwell
Khobe, may his soul rest in peace and the Ghanaians and the UNITED
KINGDOM!!!!!!!!!!
Of course when the uncharismatic and portly figure of Berewa was mumbling so
indistinctly into the microphone at the UN general assembly, it seems that he
flatly contradicts that answer that he now gives:
http://www.news.sl/berewaun/index.html
To the question of hunger he answers:
“People are hungry like in every country.”
What a sap! And what happened to that promise that by 2007, nobody – nobody,
not even little Tommy Tucker who sang for his supper, would go to bed hungry.
Elsewhere the sap has run dry and here he is not eloquent but loquacious (and
thinks that he is thinking well:
“Government officers that are seen in air-conditioned offices is to enable them
work well, to think well, to have a proper environment to work for the people.
They are not sitting there for pleasure. They had to be in a good working
environment to think well. If you were sitting on the floor doing this
interview, will you write a good article? You have a fan in your office, you
have to have cool chair to be a good editor more so when you are working for
people, you are appealing for their future you are planning for them the
progress and development are you to sit in the field on the stone to do
that? “
There is a brief flash of wisdom down below, but does he understand what he is
saying?
CT - On that Hinga Norman saga sir. What is your take on that considering the
fact that the man rely supported your party?
Berewa- He didn't support our party alone, he fought for the country
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Concerning what Mr. Berewa says about other politicians, he says “They cannot
do that” – are not capable of doing ( ”achieving) ” what he has done - and how
does he know that, when perhaps Barack Obama would make a better president of
Sierra Leone than Mr. Berewa would make a vice president (God forbid) of
Israel
3.
From the old horse’s mouth about his political intransigence and other crimes he says “ I have not left anything undone that I ought to do “ - as if he would be the last to admit to his creed that all have made mistakes and fallen short of the glory etc
“One hell of a liar“ says that he has not done that which he ought not to have done. A spin can be added to that and there’s a dozen ways of interpreting his perfection there – the opening words of the former AG in the dock on being asked, do you plead guilty or not guilty, answers: “I have not done anything which I ought not to have done!”
Re:” Israel Vice President and presidential flag-bearer of the Sierra Leone Peoples' Party, Solomon Ekuma Berewa”
How is Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi going to think of kuffar when he reads that caption? You think he is going to give his financial support to King Daud Kabbah’s crown prince Suleiman the Bumpeh kille still in perfect black & white print http://allafrica.com/
as “Israel Vice President and presidential flag-bearer of the Sierra Leone Peoples' Party, Solomon Ekuma Berewa”???
Even OIC must be asking for a clarification as to whether it is Sierra Leone or Israelione.
Seriously, you know that the Great Bai Bureh is my Sierra Leone hero. If he were in this process he would certainly not be supporting BeLewa-Yodalaria’s borbor belleh cabudu. Nor would Chief Kpana Lewis. I should think that chief Lewis and Chief Hinga Norman – blood brothers and of the same Poro fraternity would also be natural allies.
WHERE is Abbas Bundu in all this? We don’t hear so much about him (the distinguished one) and San-San boy, Lee.
LIAR in describing BeLewa-Yodalaria?
Where is your poetic genii Bra AKB? What about just incorporating the idea into bobor Bellehwa-Yodaliaria?
If you like I’ll show you what the acronym you coined could stand for.
Charles Margai would like it.
Ernest Bai Koroma, the soft spoken leader of the APC who was not at the CKC party fracas is relatively as pure as the swan in water, the Paramahansa. |
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Cornelius
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Posted - 16 Feb 2007 : 01:58:02
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YOU don't have to read this:
Brother’s keeper Dalton,
Remember how wrong you were about Madam Kamuso? You said that Yahya’s agents had tortured her to death in a detention facility – your false accusation is there in the Bantaba archives – but by the Grace of God, she lives, Madam Kamuso is alive!!!!
Patience Mr. Dalton. (I had a classmate called Dalton Faulkner)
I got the aids treatment link from another Gambian Forum which I belong to.The GAMBIA-L@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html
I joined a few weeks before this:
http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?A2=ind0611d&L=gambia-l&H=1&O=D&F=PP&P=2104
Whether we live in the Gambia or not, there is only one Bantaba in cyberspace. I myself cannot try or pretend to be or act like someone else. Yesterday I did meet with a whole lot of Gambian brothers, apart from Sam and David and Poe Djatta (the Mandinka Nationalist (I’m sure he’d like to resurrect the great Mali Empire – and so would I) and also even older Gambian friends that I’ve known since I’ve been in Sweden, people like Francis Reilly – and many, many others in Sweden and the Gambia. I don’t need to get a passport to live like one and there’s no Gambian that I know and who knows me and who has ever met me face to face that can say anything bad about me to you or anyone – apart from – some fanatics who might say that I am a Yehudi……still, I wish them no harm. Live and let live is my motto.
Respect begets respect and I have told you this before.
If you had read a couple of biographies, you would be a little more humble, and I can recommend a few to you, if you - living in America, have the time to read. For me there was a time I read a something like 15 hours a day, for years. Still reading, and let me hasten to add that Neville Jarrett, Sylvester Young, Leonard Gordon-Harris, Fowell Whitfield, Akintola Wyse, Aminata Mahdi, Joseph Carpenter, Blyden Jenkins-Johnston, Edna Becker, Edmund Lahai, were among some of the brightest people in my class, not me.
I discuss with my two daughters and my son. I talked to the middle one one on the phone this evening. They are not precisely am-haaretz and you yourself, if you were me, you would think differently. And so just as I accept the difference between us, you being you and me being me – and of course Jammeh being neither of us, so too you should allow me to think like me, and not impose your own understanding – or limitations on me. That’s all I ask of you and not all of us can sing like Youssou N'dour or play like Alpha Yaya Diallo and who are you to tell me how to think, what to link my thoughts with or how to write, or play?
If you don’t have the time to read 18 hours a day – and there are young Hassid in Antwerp who spend that length of time studying TORAH everyday, and then someone like Musa P pops up and wants to lecture about ” his perspective”. By all means let him do so – but let him not stop or limit anyone else’s freedom to think and express a a fallible opinion.If he spends more time in the philopshy department we'll get along a little better.
I have never in my life tried to Lord it over others. It’s true, that in the circumstances, in which I grew up, we had servants, a cook, Chauffer, a so called houseboy of two etc but I have never lorded it over anyone and unlike military men I don’t like giving orders. I'm good at taking them. However, fairplay is probably in my genetic code, because when my mother once told me ” You are just like your father” – my father who spoke Suso as fluently as Lanasana Conte ( and some Mende and Mandinka) – she explained about his egalitarian ways. And that knowledge has secured my own identity because the Almighty does not like rivals and those who exalt themselves or want to set themselves up as partners of the Almighty are the most heinous of criminals.
AS a Sierra Leone born person, here is an example of the confidence and self-assurance with which I relate to Sierra Leone political matters, in ways in which I would never dare to interfere in Gambian matters – unless your president or whoever, was a threat to anyone’s/someone's life or freedom.
I wrote and posted a couple of opinions today, to the Sierra Leone Forum, in connection with the forthcoming Presidential elections in Sierra Leone, on the 28th of July. Here are three of them – all relevant to the Gambia, as we are so to speak( Sierra Leone and the Gambia) in the same soup and have the same crop of problems in common – one major difference being that Alhaji Kabbah has not yet had the calling to put on his gloves and stride to take up an appointment of curing aids and asthma. Perhaps President Jammeh will transfer some of his power and share some of his knowledge of the herbal treatment with his presidential brother, when Dr. Kabbah goes into retirement this year.
1. ( about a strike at FBC – something about the Gambia there.)
LEADERSHIP!
As we know, the TORAH was revealed on the lowly Mt. Sinai------ and since you are
not in the habit of wasting words, it used to be one-liners from you for some
time on Leonenet; but you have advanced and you have put your finger on the
problem in just two succinct sentences:
” FBC, like the rest of the educational system in Sierra Leone, is suffering
from
the lack of effective leadership. Until the entire system is revamped and
politicians are removed from it, it will remain in its malaise.”
http://www.alinstitute.org/
The praise singers, sycophants and “boy-boys” sometimes lack critical acumen
when they WANT/ need something, just as MR-- - the latest praise singer,
upon reading that Concord interview which I also read, says that he is quite
impressed with Mr. Berewa’s administrative vigour, listing as achievements his
stint at being the AG and the ogre that secured Chief Hinga Norman’s
incarceration - praising him, even after John Lansana Musa put his pen to the
service of analysing the Lomé accords and that general amnesty which in the
end deliberately evaded the chief and got him out of the way. Yes, JLM writes
and explains – whilst other less gifted ones have been lazy or still silent or
denigrating his laudable efforts to make sense to all of us.
You remember Karmor AKB, the dismal view you expressed about the whole idea of “Athens of West Africa” with your Sankore blackground as background and you remember what miracles you said you could/would perform if you were the Chancellor – that you would secure a place for the Sierra Leone University among the top 500 in the world.
Your critics and other unselfconfident sceptics will say talk is cheap – nothing ventured, nothing gained and it’s mostly a question of financing which probably comes from the resourcefulness and enterprising spirit that the first citizen believes is at the top of the seven national values. We also know that the problem to be avoided is that when the money appears it should then not
disappear with impunity, just as appointments should not be mainly acts of cronyism in what was once mostly a pre-independence a meritocracy in a Sierra Leone in which everything functioned: education, the judiciary, even the military knew where to take orders from.
We all know: That secondary school education supplies the raw materials for higher education and is of course, the foundation that should be strengthened.
Does V-C Gbakima have the vision and the administrative competence to acquire
the right staff to lift standards lift standards?
Since everybody, including Alpha Wurie, the minister of education understands
the importance of EDUCATION as being the very foundation of democracy and
development my question is very simple: why isn’t there adequate funding of FBC
which in the Humanities Section at least is lagging far behind every other
University in Africa with perhaps the exception of the Canadian-affiliated
college in the Gambia which is advancing rapidly.
The snail pace is blamed on “the war” like ina Inglan and Germany during
Marshall plan & reconstruction years even while later, Peter Paul and Mary in
United States of America, sang “ Where have all the flowers gone.?”
Our question - because of lack of transparency – a word we hear so often but do
not see: WHERE does/did all the money go?
We also know that we are second to last in the world in the UNDP Human
development index 176/177 and have occupied that position for donkey’s years,
just a few points above famine- ravaged Niger.
Yahya Jammeh has just created a new ministry – that of Higher Education and
Research. That’s progressive thinking and implementation isn’t it?
The staffing of FBC’s English department for instance is a garbage heap
compared with what it used to be once upon a time with Prof Jones, Dr. Eustace
Palmer, Derek Elders, Evans, Carter, Graham, Prof Jack B. Moore, Miss
Robertson, to name a few – and so too all the other departments have been
buried in debris and as to standards I read that five people had emerged with
first class honours in Media and Communication last year. Congratulations to
all of them and to their first class teachers too.
The fact that there are only FIVE dentists in the whole country – to service a
population of FIVE MILLION shows up the inadequacy of our meeting our required
manpower needs and no wonder Tim Sebastian telling President Kabbah “But people
say you are a toothless chimpanzee” - in connection with his powerlessness in
the face of overwhelming odds: overwhelming and undiminished corruption.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/2149188.stm
For all the terror that ravaged Algeria after FIS won that election, Algeria
has 39,000 doctors, Sierra Leone, one hundred and sixty eight. Is it any wonder
that we have the highest child mortality rate in the whole wide world?????
I looked in on your friend who also has something to say about tragedy:
http://africaunchained.blogspot.com/2005/12/future-of-universities.html
Otherwise that was a very kind and diplomatic letter from Dr. Sheku Kamara puts
one in mind of the devils dictionary of abasement:
ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth
or power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.
2. (A response to Concord Times interview with Sierra Leone’s vice-president ( who I actually like – he is an experienced and efficient bureaucrat, but not half as charismatic as Yahya. He’d be the last to invite Chavez and Ahmadinejad to Freetown to inspect a guard of honour, because Hilary Benn and Tony B-liar wouldn’t like it. He knows where his bread and the daily bread is buttered. He is wise.):
I must be missing out on something here.
Could someone from the Berewa stable please explain the meaning of the
following sentence:
” Israel Vice President and presidential flag-bearer of the Sierra Leone
Peoples' Party, Solomon Ekuma Berewa, in an exclusive interview with Concord
Times Friday said, "It's all rubbish for me and President Kabbah to quarrel
over a running mate. We can never quarrel over issue like that."
http://allafrica.com/stories/200702140913.html
It???s the ???Israel Vice President and presidential flag-bearer of the Sierra
Leone Peoples' Party, Solomon Ekuma Berewa ??? that bothers me, since Idid
know that Mr. Berewa is a citizen of Israel and I am not aware of Israel
having a vice-president.
http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/government/personalities/presidents/
In my last posting I wanted to mention that the Israelite prophet Moses, the
humblest man who ever trod this earth, is a good example of leadership.
Is Berewa as popular as he claims? WHY? The whole”interview” is nothing short
of an exercise of extended self –praise. At least some self-criticism is part
of stocktaking. And why are we still trampling water at 176/177?
What about other unSolomonic gaffes like him saying” without any hitch!”– And
it’s arrogance speaking here and a little sloppy of him being so pleased with
himself. Who else but one propped full of unknowingness can say thus:
“I have not left anything undone that I ought to do.”
(This is a conscious and deliberate contradiction of the well known Roman
Catholic catechism tenet reeling in his head the “"We have offended against thy
holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we
have done those things which we ought not to have done, and there is no truth
in us”)
This long and doubtful statement beginning
“There is no instance of anybody saying that I abused my position as Attorney
General or rather, I created an avenue whereby the lowest and the highest can
enjoy protection under the law”
and ending with
“There are so many number of things which I cannot itemize but there are so
many things that I have done. Some are very perceptible and some are
imperceptible but they have made government more very fruitful.”
Some are indeed imperceptible, Karmor Berewa, and some hidden between now and
20th July 2007.
So, WHO ended the war?
Mr. Berewa did not answer the question and it is possible for him to win our
confidence in that quality he has not out rightly boasted of being in
possession of that which John Kufour and Thabo Mbeki certainly have, namely
brilliance. Mr. Berewa you have all day long. Could you please show your
mettle by answering the question – and where would you be without the
International Community, you ungrateful man or as JLM would put it, ingrate!
First of all, lets thank NIGERIA and the Nigerians for the lives sacrificed and
the about $1 billion in money spent all those years. Also lets remember Maxwell
Khobe, may his soul rest in peace and the Ghanaians and the UNITED
KINGDOM!!!!!!!!!!
Of course when the uncharismatic and portly figure of Berewa was mumbling so
indistinctly into the microphone at the UN general assembly, it seems that he
flatly contradicts that answer that he now gives:
http://www.news.sl/berewaun/index.html
To the question of hunger he answers:
“People are hungry like in every country.”
What a sap! And what happened to that promise that by 2007, nobody – nobody,
not even little Tommy Tucker who sang for his supper, would go to bed hungry.
Elsewhere the sap has run dry and here he is not eloquent but loquacious (and
thinks that he is thinking well:
“Government officers that are seen in air-conditioned offices is to enable them
work well, to think well, to have a proper environment to work for the people.
They are not sitting there for pleasure. They had to be in a good working
environment to think well. If you were sitting on the floor doing this
interview, will you write a good article? You have a fan in your office, you
have to have cool chair to be a good editor more so when you are working for
people, you are appealing for their future you are planning for them the
progress and development are you to sit in the field on the stone to do
that? “
There is a brief flash of wisdom down below, but does he understand what he is
saying?
CT - On that Hinga Norman saga sir. What is your take on that considering the
fact that the man rely supported your party?
Berewa- He didn't support our party alone, he fought for the country
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Concerning what Mr. Berewa says about other politicians, he says “They cannot
do that” – are not capable of doing ( ”achieving) ” what he has done - and how
does he know that, when perhaps Barack Obama would make a better president of
Sierra Leone than Mr. Berewa would make a vice president (God forbid) of
Israel
3.
From the old horse’s mouth about his political intransigence and other crimes he says “ I have not left anything undone that I ought to do “ - as if he would be the last to admit to his creed that all have made mistakes and fallen short of the glory etc
“One hell of a liar“ says that he has not done that which he ought not to have done. A spin can be added to that and there’s a dozen ways of interpreting his perfection there – the opening words of the former AG in the dock on being asked, do you plead guilty or not guilty, answers: “I have not done anything which I ought not to have done!”
Re:” Israel Vice President and presidential flag-bearer of the Sierra Leone Peoples' Party, Solomon Ekuma Berewa”
How is Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi going to think of kuffar when he reads that caption? You think he is going to give his financial support to King Daud Kabbah’s crown prince Suleiman the Bumpeh kille still in perfect black & white print http://allafrica.com/
as “Israel Vice President and presidential flag-bearer of the Sierra Leone Peoples' Party, Solomon Ekuma Berewa”???
Even OIC must be asking for a clarification as to whether it is Sierra Leone or Israelione.
Seriously, you know that the Great Bai Bureh is my Sierra Leone hero. If he were in this process he would certainly not be supporting BeLewa-Yodalaria’s borbor belleh cabudu. Nor would Chief Kpana Lewis. I should think that chief Lewis and Chief Hinga Norman – blood brothers and of the same Poro fraternity would also be natural allies.
WHERE is Abbas Bundu in all this? We don’t hear so much about him (the distinguished one) and San-San boy, Lee.
LIAR in describing BeLewa-Yodalaria?
Where is your poetic genii Bra AKB? What about just incorporating the idea into bobor Bellehwa-Yodaliaria?
If you like I’ll show you what the acronym you coined could stand for.
Charles Margai would like it.
Ernest Bai Koroma, the soft spoken leader of the APC who was not at the CKC party fracas is relatively as pure as the swan in water, the Paramahansa. |
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Galo Sowe
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Originally posted by Cornelius
Since TORAH STUDY and other devotions are infinitely more satisfying - and rewarding than hanging out here with you, I am hereby now cutting out – so don’t expect any further posting or postings from me- no matter what you say. I also have more important things to attend to, even books to read, scripts to write, prayers and songs to compose.
Did you not say you are gone? |
"Soldiers are experts at camouflage but that is on the battle field not the political one, were transparency is the watch word" Kaaniba |
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Galo Sowe
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Posted - 16 Feb 2007 : 16:06:10
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quote:
Originally posted by Cornelius
Since TORAH STUDY and other devotions are infinitely more satisfying - and rewarding than hanging out here with you, I am hereby now cutting out – so don’t expect any further posting or postings from me- no matter what you say. I also have more important things to attend to, even books to read, scripts to write, prayers and songs to compose.
Did you not say you are gone? |
"Soldiers are experts at camouflage but that is on the battle field not the political one, were transparency is the watch word" Kaaniba |
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dbaldeh
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Cornelius, you are a champion either here in Bantaba or any other forum. Forums seems to be the greatest gift modern technology has given us to stay close while afar.
I can feel and sense a passion of sharing information from you and there is nothing more satisfying that being the educator. You educate and see the contributions of your students in society. This is why I have so much respect for teachers. They give from the heart and no one can pay them for their services.
The teacher is how I see you and the lessons are your contribution to this and other forums. To be passionate about something is to drive satisfaction from it even though there might not be tangible evidence of the satisfaction.
Staying with Bantaba and other forums gives us the opportunity to make impact on lives we would have never had the opportunity to even imagine coming across. This is why I believe in Bantaba and am proud and lucky to be a part of history. I cannot be more grateful to Modou for Bantaba. We compliment him by being active members of Bantaba. Am in now and forever regardless.. what about you professor Cornelius? The world needs education and information, are we going to share or reside in tide corners and be held hostage against our will??? I hope not... |
Baldeh,
"Be the change you want to see in the world" Ghandi
Visit http://www.gainako.com for your daily news and politics |
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dbaldeh
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Posted - 16 Feb 2007 : 21:23:47
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Cornelius, you are a champion either here in Bantaba or any other forum. Forums seems to be the greatest gift modern technology has given us to stay close while afar.
I can feel and sense a passion of sharing information from you and there is nothing more satisfying that being the educator. You educate and see the contributions of your students in society. This is why I have so much respect for teachers. They give from the heart and no one can pay them for their services.
The teacher is how I see you and the lessons are your contribution to this and other forums. To be passionate about something is to drive satisfaction from it even though there might not be tangible evidence of the satisfaction.
Staying with Bantaba and other forums gives us the opportunity to make impact on lives we would have never had the opportunity to even imagine coming across. This is why I believe in Bantaba and am proud and lucky to be a part of history. I cannot be more grateful to Modou for Bantaba. We compliment him by being active members of Bantaba. Am in now and forever regardless.. what about you professor Cornelius? The world needs education and information, are we going to share or reside in tide corners and be held hostage against our will??? I hope not... |
Baldeh,
"Be the change you want to see in the world" Ghandi
Visit http://www.gainako.com for your daily news and politics |
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