Poor One Drop

I don’t believe that Mohamed (One Drop) Sankoh reads all the newspapers or whether his reading of political commentaries is not selective. It may be that he reads them but prefers not to take notice of some of their comments; he could be compared to a man who looks at his face in a mirror and then turns away. I have come to this conclusion because the Old Prince Walean, (was he in Macauley House I wonder?) appears to repeat his praise singing even after warnings by the managing editor of the standard times and even by an editorial comment in the African Champion which carried his latest blah, blah, blah. But first I must confess that I could see no connection between the story of his pretentious colleague of the Prince of Wales of his day and the main content of his article in the Monday edition of the Champion.

He continues to pour scorn on our claim that a lot of the on-going infrastructural projects, especially roads now in progress were not original APC; rather he stresses on the fact that one may now travel to Kenema or to Makeni without running into potholes; did that come about because of APC policies?. As newspaper editors here want to say, “We stand by our story,” or in this case by our allegation. We refuse to be impressed by mere rhetoric.

Most of our pro government detractors refer vaguely to the SLPP being in power for eleven years and doing nothing either in development or for the welfare of the population, hence we were thrown out in 2007. If these critics persist with their false allegations, then we on our part will never get tired of saying boldly that we were not rejected, rather that we were cheated of the results of those elections and we have always stated by who. Interestingly One Drop makes no mention, or he dares make no mention about the economy and its effect on the welfare of the people. He like others, keeps repeating that the global situation was responsible for the majority of our people still living below the poverty line. Let him tell that to his hungry population in 2012.

During a reception somewhere in the Hill Station area while we were still in office I heard one of the guests telling some other guests gathered round him, that Britain’s interest in Sierra Leone was because of the relationship between the then Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Ahmad Tejan-Kabbah and of the British Prime Minister’s interest in the country. He was sure that IMMATT would pull out as soon as Tony Blair left office. Tony Blair visited Sierra Leone during President Tejan-Kabbah’s period in office; it was a one day visit which was limited to the Lungi area. In his address to the chiefs and people who had gathered in the Kaffu Bullom chiefdom he said that he would be back again and that he would then visit the main land. Tony Blair was succeeded in office by Gordon Brown and IMMAT was still around. Today both Gordon Brown and Tejan-Kabbah are out of office but IMMATT is still around and Tony Blair has returned to Sierra Leone on two occasions. Because of Sankoh’s misguided interpretation or is it ignorance, he needs to be reminded that as far as the west is concerned, the common saying is that “They have no permanent friends but only permanent interests.” If One Drop Sankoh believes that Tony Blair came back to Sierra Leone specifically because of President Ernest Bai Koroma, let him wait and see what changes when Dr. Koroma shall have been replaced by a democratically elected SLPP President in 2012. I have been informed that by the time readers, including Mohamed One Drop, J B Roy/J B Roy-Kajue would have read this piece the Supreme Court would have commenced proceedings on the Consent Judgment case between SLPP Flag bearer aspirant Dr. Bu-Boakei Jabbie and the leadership of the Sierra Leone Peoples’ party SLPP. Then we shall begin the process of electing the next President of Sierra Leone.

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