Of Ghost Authors, B-ongor and as usual …
It appears I’ve put my foot in it once more, but thank God that there are civilized people who know exactly how to call attention to such innocent errors. So it was  during the week; in commenting on his Excellency’s address to Parliament, I wrote that B-Kongor the potential hydroelectric falls was in Kono district in eastern Sierra Leone. When the article appeared I was inundated with telephone calls from well meaning descendants of Gorama-Mende chiefdom that the falls were in actual fact located in the GORAMA-MENDE chiefdom of KENEMA district which is also in eastern Sierra Leone.
I had to confess my surprise and previous ignorance at the information because I had all these many years been told my colleagues and several others who had told me as well as several others that B-Kongor was in Kono.
I recall many years ago when on an official three-day visit to the Kono district with the late President Siaka Stevens, a trip to B-Kongor was only postponed at the last minute. And so my apologies to the people of Gorama-Mende chiefdom in general and the township of Famajo in the Punduru section of Gorama-Mende chiefdom in the Kenema district in particular.
Would confirmation of the new twist be coming from honourable Vice President Sam Sumana, Emmanuel Tommy, KES Boyah and other leaders from Kono? We do not want a repetition of the continuing battle of words between the people of Dodo chiefdom and Simbaru chiefdom as to which chiefdom has the Dodo, I mean the Goma hydroelectric dam in the Kenema district.
He has done it again and I can’t think of any tangible reason for the timing except to cause mischief. I refer to PEL Koroma who has again written his vitriolic diatribe full of venom against certain leading members of the SLPP. It is a scathing smear and character assassination the reason for which I have yet to fathom. The victims include Kadie Sesey, John Benjamin, John Karimu, Momodu Koroma, JJ and Alpha Wurie.
The last contests for executive positions within the SLPP took place during the party’s national convention in Kenema in March this year. Of the people mentioned in Koroma’s trash, only John Benjamin and Kadie Sesey contested leadership positions and they each won by a very large majority.
As far as I am aware the next national party elections are not due until some time in 2011. So what lies behind PEL Koroma’s outburst? Readers of the Concord Times newspaper would recall that prior to the SLPP convention last March, Koroma had poured out the same trash and venom but that time it was directed at former President Tejan-Kabbah and his charming wife Isata. Tejan-Kabbah had gone to Kenema as former leader and President at the request of the party executive, while it was no secret that his wife Mdam Isata was contesting the position of women’s leader. From Koroma’s insults, vilification and threats his readers would have been excused for concluding that the former President and Mrs. Isata Kabbah were going to be chased out of Kenema. In the event the couple not only received a rousing welcome, but Mrs. Kabbah went on to win the position of women’s leader with a very comfortable majority. It emerged later that in fact PEL Koroma was a GHOST AUTHOR of the said article. The actual author was cowardly and shamelessly hiding behind a screen. I warned Koroma later that I used to admire his writings but that I was disappointed that he had allowed himself to be used to pull somebody else’s chestnuts from the fire. I admonished him that in future he should let the cowards do their own dirty work. It would appear from this last article that he has not learnt the lesson and has again allowed himself as many of us have concluded, to be used. The unfortunate and derogatory tone of the language in the present article is very similar to the one last March.
All that talk about interviewing people in Kortuma, Daru, Segbwema, Jaiama-Bongor, Mile 91 and Hill Station is a lot of poppy-cock. The two Johns are particularly revered in their respective home towns. And when did PEL Koroma carry out a poll in the mile 91 or Hill Station area?
Why do people stoop so low even if they have been hired to throw a spanner in the plans of the SLPP by elements that missed out on the grapes?
Let Koroma and his mentors or hirers understand that no amount of intrigues or dirty games will tear us apart in the SLPP. Of course we have disagreements and different interpretations of what happened in Kenema but we are NOT faced with any insurmountable obstacles except those that are being manufactured and nurtured in the minds of malevolent characters.
Will somebody tell this dinosaur just what the Peep editor is straining to put across to his readers as a rejoinder to my article with the title “So they really danced?” What was the objective of comparing the dancing a week ago with the events of March 1998 following former President Tejan-Kabbah’s return from exile? Ha, ha Olu!
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