Good news, but all the way?
If readers missed their favourite Puawui column last Friday and yesterday Monday October 18, it was because Puawui had traveled from Freetown all the way to Buedu in constituency 4 of Kailahun district primarily on Torkpoi business. We had left Freetown much later than planned on Friday but still made good progress to Kenema. There we received advice from Buedu that we could not make it that evening because a huge trailer had been bogged down at Tigo point on the Pendembu to Kailahun stretch of the road. We decided to spend the night, all six of us in the so-called “abandoned house of Dr.Sama Banya in Pendembu” (Philip Neville in the Standard times newspaper.) After what my companions who included Kadi Sawi and her husband and Comfort Kabbah (standard times newspaper) described as a comfortable night, and energized by an early heavy breakfast Puawui style courtesy of my sisters in the back house, we set off early for the next stretch of our journey. To our utter disappointment the truck was still there at Tigo point and a fuel tanker had also got stock right by it.. After some three hours wait we abandoned our vehicle and joined a relief one which had been sent from Kailahun. Readers may recall my story about a huge and wild chimpanzee which had appeared around the Tigo spot. It made our stay enjoyable because it suddenly began the well known chimps’ excitement and antics as more vehicles gathered. The good news is that the villages surrounding the area as well as other folk have been warned against any attempt to harm the Tigo Bruno. Unfortunately we had no fruits to throw for him.
Up to the beginning of the previous week there ware continued reports of the feud between the PMDC leader Charles Margai and the APC government spokesman and information minister I B Kargbo. There is now wide spread report especially in the pro APC media that the antagonists had agreed on peace or is it a truce brokered by the ‘supremo’ himself. It certainly is good news when leaders from two main political parties who are also in alliance against the SLPP agree to wash their dirty linen at home. Charles has so far not been quoted but IB is quoted as saying that Charles had been a long time friend and that they both had attended schools (different actually) in Bo town. Although we haven’t been told what it all means. But has Charles withdrawn his vitriolic Kenema and Makeni attacks against his allies that they were a corrupt party and government? Has IB withdrawn his equally scathing attack accusing Charles of blackmailing the President whenever he was broke and of not reporting any of EBK’s regular handouts to his colleagues in the PMDC? There has been none of these and we the public can only conclude that following the reported private dinner with his Excellency the President, the parties have merely covered the wide cracks in the relationship with newspapers. Will that temporary repair with non permanent material hold until 2012? In the meantime Charles’ two cabinet ministers in the marriage of convenience are keeping tight lips as to whether they would in fact heed their leader’s directive or as it is more likely in Africa, if need be abandon their boss for their own self interest.? Are we to retain the sensational Margai disclosure that indeed the supremo had financed Charles Margai’s former chairman Mohamed Bangura to enable him to form his own political party? The news of the political reconciliation may be good but as the saying goes have we heard the last word on the subject? No; not yet.
As I left Kailahun on Sunday afternoon the news was that his Excellency the President would be embarking on a FOUR day official tour of Kailahuin district beginning next Friday. The itinerary makes interesting reading even if A VISIT TO YENGA IS NOT INCLUDED.
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