In response to Dr Sama Banya …

The scathing and contemptuous attacks on the personalities of Rev. Kabbs Kanu, Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Nation and Joseph Sherman, Editor of the New Daily Nation by Dr. Sama Banya of the SLPP with an attention-grabbing critique captioned “Peripatetic Puawui, “ is not only an insult to his integrity but a mockery of wasted political career.  Dr.  Banya is peeved antiquated supposed to retire politician who is not worth responding to because of his incurable insanity and frustrations which makes him a braggart and unnoticeable character in the new political dispensation in Sierra Leone.

The reason behind the old man’s bias appetite is just to remind people about how much he has failed his people and tribesmen. If SLPP intends to reinstate the good image of the party, the party should dribble Dr. Banya out of active political discussions. Allowing Dr. Banya’s political babble to dominate and disrupt healthy discussions in an atmosphere that chases reconciliation, socio economic and political development will be a fierce set-back toward political development. Besides, it might damage the able SLPP’s good political intensions. SLPP should not be seen as a bad party except for Dr. Banya who seems to be stubborn by refusing to give-up his political agenda. SLPP will likely fail elections again if the party continues to allow Dr. Sama Banya to manipulate the SLPP in his antiquated political propaganda. If Banya wants to be considered one more time to spread lies and infiltrate the SLPP leaving out fresh bloods to champion the cause of the party, and then there is little or no reason to believe that the SLPP will likely regain power soon.

The SLPP should be searching for a youthful charismatic person who will open a new chapter that can and should put the SLPP back on the right track in national politics. The SLPP must try to let Dr. Banya stay away from the old tactics of destructive politics triggered by selfishness. The reason to disengage Dr. Banya’s political agenda stems from the fact that he is a defector who cannot be trusted in any well-mannered political community. For instance, Dr. Banya had been a member of the APC Party who held many senior portfolios after he was recruited by the late Pa Siaka Stevens (May his soul rest in perfect peace). What did Dr. Banya do or achieve when he was a high ranking politician in the APC party? He turned against his people and even inflicted disheartening pains on them. After serving many years in the APC party, he rejoined SLPP politics, which should remind the SLPP that Dr. Banya is a political prostitute with two-fold tongue. Being the (MADDA) father of the party doesn’t qualify Dr. Banya to be blotching clean hearted politicians. If SLPP intends to stay in the good hands of Sierra Leone politics, quack politicians such as Dr. Sama Banya must be made to keep their mouths shut. The more he talks the more people find fault in his political garbage.

It his well noted in Sierra Leone that Dr. Sama Banya and many of the SLPP supporters fueled the rebel war in Sierra Leone after failed attempts with the late Hinga Norman coup attempt, Ndorgborwusu uprising and successfully with the NPRC.   With all these schemes to destabilize Sierra Leone, what has he gained?   An aged man (80 years) should be prudent and sober-minded instead he has reduced himself to a clown who posterity will despise whenever a name like Sama Banya is mentioned in Sierra Leone and his kinsmen.   Customarily, we may be tempted to conclude that the actions and behavior of Dr. Sama Banya is a parental curse of past events he was involved him or are we to say it is a generational curse from the elders of Kailahun District where he has committed many unforgivable sins?  There is no sin that God cannot forgive unless the individual doesn’t sincerely repent for them.

Dr. Sama Banya, if you dispute the fact that SLPP was never tribalistic and self-centered, how many Limba and Temne ministers were in the SLPP government of 11 years of governance in Sierra Leone?  Although, Ex-President Kabbah purports to come from Kukuna chiefdom in the Kambia District, what development has he initiated in Kambia District or least to say Kukuna chiefdom?   Dr. Sama Banya you should be ashamed of yourself in bringing out the stigma that characterized the SLPP political nature.  The new political dispensation in Sierra Leonen is in the hands of the youths and political savvy politicians not outdated quack politicians like Sama Banya.

The youths of SLPP should mobilize and protest against the ugly leadership of Dr. Banya in order to let him retire from active politics. Or else he will continue to disrupt the party’s progress. Even if he voluntarily retires or is coerced to resign, he should not even be tolerated to advise the party because he is very tactful in easily misleading politicians. If Sama Banya was unable to advise Former President Kabbah correctly, if he was successful in engaging in polluted politics that caused the failure of the SLPP in the recent general election, why should the SLPP continue to encourage him to be the mouth piece of the party? SLPP and their supporters have very many educated, experienced, well-mannered and well-to-do young politicians that can influence participatory leadership model. Therefore, allowing Sama Banya to be engaging in disseminating egotistical and lewd opinionated misinformation explicates the party’s lack of reputable leadership and no planned agenda.

Callous and nonconformist political approach to an already impoverished nation should and can no longer be tolerated by Sierra Leoneans because it is a deceptive and non-progressive behavior that the citizenry is fed-up with.  Not only Sierra Leone voters but all citizens over the age of 10 years have been sensitized by the ravages of war that was perpetrated by the grimy politicians through irresponsible greedy behavior such as the one that Dr. Banya and a few journalists are promoting. Dr. Banya’s lousy discussions coupled with his bias do not have a place in a nation that (Dr. Banya) has misruled for over 11 years.  Any average and meaningful Sierra Leonean with common sense will agree with the facts that the decade-long motiveless war that smashed the nation’s human resources, infrastructure and economic development was the result of political greed, miscarriage of justice, preclusion of many politicians from democratic politics and dictatorship that should not be blamed only on one party.  Now that the era of grubby political beliefs seem to have been wiped out by the recent war followed by almost 15 years of NPRC and SLPP blunder, right-minded citizens of Sierra Leone should be doing what so ever it will take to reunite the citizenry through polite political principles.

Shutting Dr. Banya up will not only help the country in its course to meaningful development and progress but will encourage sane people to contribute their quota constructively and meaningfully.   He did not only fail the citizens of Sierra Leone, rather he also failed or disappointed his SLPP by not governing the way that could have continued to maintain the party in full leadership role.

Joseph S. Sherman, Editor-in Chief, New Daily Nation

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