Diaspora Politics in North America pesters an alliance of prejudiced creatures (APC) to dias a scope of anti-social politics

It is debatable to emphasize that since the establishment of the All People’s Congress (APC) party in Sierra Leone; APC organizers and administrators have always cuddled and encouraged a persuasive insignia of inclusive socio-politicking until the middle of the 1980s when the leadership of civic party politics was handed over to a military cleric, late Brigadier Joseph Saidu Momo. 

During Brig. Momo’s leadership of the APC party, social politicization turned out to be ragingly unharmonious and undulating because Brigadier J.S.Momo was best acquainted with the supervision of “Left, Right, About-turn and Forward-match” than he understood about civilian leadership alongside national politics.  Thus, gluttonous APC politicians who assumed that they were better than Brigadier Momo misled the young officer through ill-advices, gossiping, infighting and blackmailing of others in order to filch the party leadership from Brig. Momo, which repercussion went afar political imagination.

However, the Momo era experienced more of infightings, which shattered the image of togetherness that used to influence an unconditional participation in local politics of each and every member of APCs assembly.  As such, the strength of mind ensconced towards randomly rallying for more membership from all corners of a nation with a crippling economy and chaotic tribal as well as regional politics faded away. Consequently, old politicians’ ego engaged in inebriated bickering to lead the APC or break-away from the APC in order to establish a break-away party such as the Sorbeh party of late Thaimu Bangura. 

As time went by, the meaning of APC sprouted a downbeat imagery in the vein of an Alliance of Prejudiced Creatures (APC). The failure of the APC to win the March 1996 elections and the subsequent one was as the result of internal partisan conflicts, disregard for organizers and selfishness similar to the impediment that the APC-NA is undergoing at the moment.

By default, a bizarre meaning attached itself to the APC, especially when local politics in Sierra Leone converted into a mechanism of  effortless pilfering of public resources, which heightened the core of political sleaziness that continue to enrich selfish scoundrels.  Thus, it shouldn’t be too surprising when power thirstiness of APC aficionados in the Diaspora haggled with APC stalwarts from Sierra Leone in their efforts toward inconsiderately distracting political unity in the Americas. It is unambiguous that members of the APC in the Diaspora were never coerced or commanded by APC officials in Sierra Leone to organize political factions in North America.

What was and is still apparent is that the national APC administration continues to depend on supporters in the Diaspora for financial support.  Without any financial support from the Diaspora (Europe, Asia, United Kingdom, United States and some countries in Africa) the present APC administration could have not survived the 2007 general elections. What appears to sadden every normal and grateful mind is that the new APC administration of President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma appears to be boogieing to the melody of ingratitude measures not only by antagonizing those whose toil boosted up the APC party when it was in desperate need but also by trying to crumble their well organized  associations. What the heck is that malodorous politics searching for at a time when the APC ought to be revitalizing its membership in order to seek its second term in office after nearly 15 years of political setbacks? 

Many a time, APC leaders had on various platforms damned political naughtiness in their efforts to induct an innovative chapter of civilized political inclusiveness.  In the first instance, what is the constitutional clause that suggested the disqualification of any party wing that lacks information on memberships’ telephone numbers and e-mail addresses? If there is any such passage in the original APC constitution, do all party supporters and organizers in Sierra Leone have documented telephone numbers and email addresses?  If telephone numbers and evidence mail aka electronic mail addresses are required for ease of contacts because westernized communication networking elicits such methodologies, requiring the collection of such personal information ought to be negotiated and fully compromised but shouldn’t be chillingly required in a confrontational manner.

Beyond doubt, if many lettered people in Sierra Leone do not have email addresses and telephone numbers, disqualification of a selected population for allegedly not measuring up to a devised amoral ideology deliberated to sneakily sidetrack political organizing in order to secure selfish motives is an illegal misdemeanor that square-headed leaders ought to demoralize instantaneously if they are not elements of such petrifying scheme. Is there any clause in any constitutional APC manuscript that specifies that one has to surrender his/her email address and telephone number in order to be eligible for APC membership? That kind of ailing mentality disgraces intended transformational leadership models such as those bogusly practiced by the new APC administration of President Dr. E.B. Koroma.  As an insurance business broker who joined politics not to ruin Sierra Leone’s political economy but to be administering the political affairs of the country like a business industry, much is expected of his administration.

For the simple fact that in business the customers are always right, while in politics the constituents are the clientele, the new APC should watch its family of politicians, while staying away from the things and practices that they had blamed on the SLPP. This article is neither to please any person nor to discourage anyone but to delineate what is generally right for society. Forthrightly, there are always two things to compare with on earth, either you say the truth or you tell lies; you are short or tall; handsome/beautiful or ugly; fat or thin/slim/small. Do all registered APC supporters in Sierra Leone have email addresses and telephone numbers? Or is this scheme just orchestrated in an attempt to preclude some key players from participating in active APC politics?

The current APC-NA political nightmare is a bare solitary bastardization of political proponents based on trepidation, revulsion, resentment and political insensitivity, which obtrusive blatancy has a propensity to brooch to the knees any association. In particular, a political party emerging from many years of struggles such as the APC shouldn’t be muddling with majority of its organizers just to gratify handful backbiters and their concubine relatives. 

Let’s think about how innocent APC supporters suffered between 1992 and 1996 as the result of internal partisan conflicts that virtually shredded the APC apart after the NPRC seized power from late President Momo’s APC administration, which continued on to the first SLPP administration of former President Alhaji Dr. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. APC politicians have learned numerous shoddy lessons that they are pompously ignoring at an early stage of the party’s comeback-to-power. Why all the mess and pettiness in the Diaspora? Most hard working organizers and supporters of the APC  in North America will hardly or never benefit  from Sierra Leone politics as long as they continue gossiping and blackmailing each other.

To a large extent, most of APC’s ambitiously arrogant administrators as well as many political leaders who used to admire at various Sierra Leone communities in the Diaspora because of the tremendous financial power and generosity they incessantly rip-off from westerners, no longer attach any respectful meaning to North America politicians because of their idiotic kangarooing politics that is fond of mischaracterization of each other to gain cheap popularity from visiting political squirrels.

In the meantime, APC political leaders and administrators who are supposed to be setting the records straight seemingly feel delightfully aligned with disintegrating members of APC-NA as the result of power drunkenness and repulsive antagonism.  Seven APC-NA chapters ought not to be disqualified because senior party leaders intend to reprimand one person, such as Mr. Osman Conteh.  If APC authorities feel that Osman Conteh shouldn’t lead any APC Chapter, it’s okay for them to feel that way though it is an absurdity elicited by delinquent mentality. However, putting too much negative focus on how to manipulatively eliminate a very strapping organizer or supporter from politicking is apparently another hogwash political expostulation that doesn’t merit any step forward. 

Politicians such as Mr. Hindolo Trye who had innumerably masterminded students unions and labor movement strikes that instigated political unrests that nearly toppled the then APC government of late Pa Siaka Stevens in the 1970s is presently encouraged by APC leaders to continue serving as an APC Cabinet Minister, which is not strange at all because there is great need to have a government that can forgive but not forget. 

Why not encourage members of the seven APC-NA chapters and Mr. Osman Conteh who have never done any harm to the APC except to raise funds for the party’s coffers?  Is there anything so far identifiable that the seven APC-NA Chapters and Mr. Osman Conteh have done that appears worse than what Mr. Hindolo Trye and many others had done against the APC during the late Siaka Stevens era? 

The APC suffered under the NPRC as the result of the similar pettiness that is currently going on in North America. At this moment, APC leaders and administrators ought to be undertaking the reunification of their supporters and organizers in a venture to dominate local politics in Sierra Leone. While in power, as long as the APC or any other party can uphold prosperous and true democratic principles, it will stay in power if all other parties are not measuring up to expectations or they’re apparently not stirring up national political progress.

My writings are not for or against anyone; rather, I am an advocate for democratic principles and freedom of the press.  Besides, neither am I tribalistic nor is anyone telling me what to write. I think and write for myself because I’m not subliminal like those who can easily succumb to opinionated obscurity based on lack of self-conscience coupled with anomalous way of thinking.  Right-minded journalists or political commentators including myself (E.K. Stanley) seem to detest individual ravenousness and abhorrence or envy whenever such abysmal politicking appears to be bamboozling political organizations or community entities in an effort to mess up social organizing such as the one happening within the inner core of APC-NA.  After all, you can preclude me from participating in your local partisan politics or snub my presence in your organization but you (whosoever is against my expressively objective commentaries) can never ever take away from me my citizenship and can never ever be competent an inch to refute my Sierra Leonean birthright. 

In my opinion, SLPP is to NPRC as APC is to SLPP, so what is the deal?  The only good thing concerning SLPP leadership is that they are very intelligent and they respect their organizers and supporters. As such, SLPP leaders, organizers and supporters do not engage in partisan public confrontations among themselves. The present political disruptiveness with APC-NA should be adjudicated by concerned Sierra Leoneans as an unrepresentatively reprehensible myth to the recuperating new APC administration of President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma.

Meanwhile, it is an abject misapprehension for a pilfering civic courier to be underscoring that a political party is always bigger or mightier than an individual organizer or supporter, which assertion is an iniquitous and illusory slouch.  For an illustration akin to any other organization, the name SLPP, APC or PDP is an abstract name attached to an assembly of people with common goals. If there is no membership, there is no party. Any ascribed name of an organization or a political party itself doesn’t have life. Thus, the life of an institution depends on its organizers and members. As such, a political party never realizes problems or hurtful episodes except its membership. Nevertheless, there is always a relationship between an organization and its members, which interrelatedness can only be acknowledged and explained by members of that association or observers but not the organization itself because the organization has no way of knowing its relationship with human beings. The name of an organization or a political party is an identification of an abstract entity that isn’t reminiscent of a living organism because it has no human intelligence.  Without concerted efforts of meaningfully organized populace, there is no organization. Therefore, no logical person in his/her correct mind ought to droopily mumble that a political party or an organization is bigger than anyone of its members. 

In view of the fact that appointed individuals to oversee an institution are often considered as leaders or managers of that entity, which routinely empowers an appointee to be leading the responsibilities of a given organization such as the state by state APC chapters in America or overseas, no party is greater than an individual. Regardless of any presumptions, it’s only human beings who can organize and lead an organization but a political party itself can never lead its members because it’s lifeless.

There is nothing on earth that God made comparatively with fractional knowledge of GOD apart from the human being, which natural ability of humanity renders the statement ” the party is above every person” very ludicrous. With the understanding of organizational leadership in mind, the assertion that no one is above an organization or a party is bigger than any person is a screwed-up brain damage statement purported to perplex, undermine and tear apart the spirit of togetherness of any targeted population to be singled-out.  Nonetheless, the 21^st century politics has made it clear that the time has passed and that time will never come again when politicians whose livelihoods wholeheartedly depend on the labor produced by society or constituents can be allowed to be abruptly stupefying political organizers and observers through manipulative delinquencies.

At times, politicians tend to be respecting and listening to their organizers and supporters only when campaigning for power is intensified, but they often rebuff the ideas of those who voted them to power after they’ve secured appointments, which fundamental alteration is very bewildering. Notwithstanding any perceived disparities in socialization, it can be argued that an institution such as a political party can only be ingeniously bigger than a single person if and only if administrators and leaders of that institution adopt true democratic principles by always doing what is right for society by accepting whatsoever majority of the membership agrees on.  In that vein, however, it will be self explanatory that a group of people is better and bigger than a single contributor, which statement is in supportive of the philosophical saying that “many heads are better than one” as long as they are engaged in what is popular, acceptable and right for the majority but not for whose conspiratorial conduct is more nerve-racking.

In the case of APC shenanigans, the providential few are empowered to decide over the faith of the majority, which renders the party’s leadership similarity to that of a nonentity. Whenever a politician intends to swindle, trick, preclude from active participation in local politics and eventually punish those s/he fears, the most common words s/he may perhaps woof from his/her binary beak is “the party is bigger than anyone” or “no one is above the party”.  

When I started criticizing the first suspension of then APC-NA Chairman, Mr. Osman Conteh, many members of the seven suspended chapters were outraged with my articles because they thought I was anti-APC.  What had happened to Mr. Osman Conteh is now happening to the membership of seven chapters because they had relaxed from preaching against undemocratic misconduct based on the thought (MATA woe e-blant throw-way rice na ground rainy season, go stop way dry-season cam; borbor na lie, e-dae continue because e-don use to dat) that such unconstitutional misbehavior against Mr. Conteh will never be perpetrated against others in the future.  There you go, it’s replicating itself in a different atmosphere. Anyone who intends to discuss his/her concerns about my reports should always feel liberated to do so with no malicious intent, rather than polluting unfounded imaginations about me.  I always tend to distant myself from those individuals who like to discuss the downfall of other people, while I come closer to people who are fond of discussing ideas, issues and projects.

This is an unconditional call for the new APC administration to appear very compassionate to all organizers and supporters of APC-NA because they have labored too much for the party, which bestows on them better and equal treatment.  The premise of admiration embedded in social organizing emphatically illustrates that the significance of showing respect for others embraces the idea of self-respect. Therefore, one has to be respectful in order to be respected, which emphasizes that you should respect others in order to be respected by others.  But wait a minute! Ambassadors are public servants like garbage collectors in any United States municipality that is why they are paid out of public fund. Nonetheless, Ambassadors fail to realize that they go as governments change, and they must not present themselves like masters of those whose families pay the taxes that feed, clothe and shelter them. In the meantime, they can only get hold of public respect if they circumvent womanizing, hypocrisy, double standards and political pettiness. After all, not even an American President will intimidate me concerning who I should or shouldn’t respect. (BO DO-YA, LEH DEM LEF We-YA. Nor TO so GOD SAY, NA because Sa.Lone man dae foolishly honor even corrupt authority; and burku people Na political hypocrites make de poor and uninformed electorate dae tolerate too much hanky-panky way make politicians dae halakie de country).

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