For Hinga Norman, Others SLPP Will Remain Cursed!
Natives of the Eastern and Southern regions of the country have still not swallowed their disgust at the way in which the Kabbah led erstwhile Sierra Leone People’s Party government treated the ex-Kamajor chief Sam Hinga Norman and other Kamajor Lords presently in detention courtesy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Most of the people this media talked to during a recent tour of the Kailahun, Kenema and Moyamba Districts referred to the action of former President Kabbah and his government as a betrayal of the confidence the lot of them put in their villainy to fight for the reinstallation of the then Kabbah government using the Kamajor civil militia under the coordination of deceased Special Court Indictee Hinga Norman.
Citizens from those areas Sierra Express spoke to frowned at the very establishment of the Special Court of Sierra Leone, calling it all a ploy by the then SLPP government to silence potential people that could have stood in their way in the political dispensations of the country.
Talking in tears, Alhaji Sama in Kailahun who claimed to have served with the deceased Kamajor leader lamented the fact that the SLPP government could afford to “bite the finger that fed it” saying that “when he (Kabbah) was kicked out by the junta like a small boy, he went running to Guinea with his tail between his legs, leaving Hinga Norman to run his restoration show here on the ground and yet he afforded to incarcerate and kill him cold blooded; his blood shall ever remain on Kabbah and all those that took part the plot to have them out of the way.”
Andrew Kabbia an elderly man and retired court clerk who lost two of his Kamajor sons to the war scolded at the establishment and incarceration of the “Kamajor Heroes” in the confines of the Special Court saying “it defeats the very essence of lost valiant souls that stood for the restoration of peace and democracy” during the war. “I certainly don’t see how the blood of these fallen heroes wont fight the very existence of the SLPP, the current split and disunity could be just a start of what’s in store for the party, until the souls of Sam Hinga Norman and his poor Kamajor boys rest, the SLPP will always continue to tow in the lead of other in politics of the country”.
Aminata Kamara in the Lower Bambara Chiefdom in the Kenema District who is a traditional leader and head of the women secrete society and a widow reported that she lost her husband who was a Kamajor in 2008 “when they were called upon by Hinga Norman to help in the fight against the rebels in Freetown to restore the government of our party-SLPP, he left three children behind; ever since I have been struggling to bring them up and its has been hard and difficult job for a woman of my age” she said tears welling up in her eyes. Asked about her loyalty to the SLPP, she said “I have no place for politics in my heart, my husband is gone, those who could have been there to recognize his and the efforts of his colleagues are all now either dead or behind bars-why would I be interested; I am sure the good God will fight their cause Mrs. Kamara concluded.
In Moyamba Youth Leader Samu Johnson attributed the disgraceful ousting of the SLPP in the last general election to the ungratefulness it exhibited towards the Kamajor people that fought for its restoration after its deposition in 2007. The SLPP can never be the same again; it will forever continue to lie in political ruins as was the case in the 60s it played the same ungratefulness Songu Briwa’s and other-they lost the election. “It is no surprise the SLPP in the last election despite flexing every muscle to ensure that it’s stayed in power.
It could be recalled that when after the 2005 the now leader of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change-PMDC Charles Francis Magai split from the SLPP, he used the notion on the “betrayal of the Kamajor Leader” as his campaign flagship which virtually rocketed its gains in the region making it the third largest party in the country.
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