Thank you note to Mr. Joseph Sherman by Nanette Thomas
Mr. Editor, Please allow me space on your online news print to thank Mr. Joseph Sherman of Washington DC, US for his quick response to Mr. Umaru Sitta Turay Editor of the New People Newspaper, Freetown who claims to be in Atlanta. When I read his article “God delivers Justice New People Editor A Rejoinder” I quickly asked myself whether I was reading about the same Lungi Airport I just travelled through with the same Brussels Airline, or maybe I was having a nightmare. (Photo: Nanette Thomas)
Sitta, I want you to remember that you are a Sierra Leonean, and you do not have to belong to the APC party for you to speak the truth. But for God’s sake stop the negative propaganda, the lies and false stories. It is not going to take you anywhere. The opposition party is supposed to be a quality control program and should be able to come up with checks and balances for the government. A good government must have an effective opposition. For you to put such terrible lies on the World Wide Web for a country that you were born and raised leaves much to be desired. It saddens me so badly when a Sierra Leonean can discredit his country to the extent that Sitta has done and for him to say that the toilet at the airport which I used December 22, 2009 “is so nasty that one would hardly differentiate it from those of mabela (slums)” makes my stomach sick after reading such a terrible and dangerous story. Can a Sierra Leonean be so wicked to his country and to himself? Sitta I want you to remember that when you point one finger at the APC party four fingers are pointing back to you.Â
Let me quote the Information Attaché at the Sierra Leone High Commission in the United Kingdom/Northern Ireland
“Sierra Leone is booming with investment opportunities calling – I’m sure it’s just a matter of time.”
There is little or no noise from Kabbah Tiger generators with great improvement in electricity supply. The atmosphere was frenzy with musical sets bombarding every corner of the city during the festive season.
There is life everywhere you go – and for the first time I see people dancing out in the streets without chanting anti-government songs – a common phenomenon during previous governments.
The streets are no longer littered with filth as they used to be the case – people have taken upon themselves to compliment government’s efforts in that direction. There are now women who voluntarily go out there and sweep streets.
Cost of living might be difficult as a result of mismanagement and bad governance from the previous regimes, (the current government is still trying to cover those messes) but people are confident there are better days ahead.
There had been rapid infrastructural developments going on at the moment.
Victoria Park business centre is currently being reconstructed into a massive market centre by the Freetown City Council; Clock Tower keeps glittering enough to give any first-time comer an attractive first impression.
Almost all the major roads are being reconstructed by the government – the Lungi – Port Loko Highway, Masiaka – Bo Highway, the Conakry – Rogbere Highway, Lumley – Tokeh road and many others.
With all these projects going on successfully, I can simply say: “yesterday nor betteh pass tiday.”
John Sherman thanks so much for your response and your advice to Sitta. I hope he listens and change his style of writing. LONTA!!!
Nanette Thomas, USAStay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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Sitta Turay
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Most of the times, I do not bother myself to respond to the trashes of attack from APC members when I write my pieces on the development of the country. I know very well that the APC have a violent nature of governance and that was the reason I was viciously attacked by late Almamy Kamara and the other thugs. I have sensed from the writings of Nanette Thomas and Joseph Sherman that violence can be unleashed on me if the chance is permitted for them to do so. The whole world knows that it is the natural way of rule by the APC. I am not in any way surprised for such attacks.
18th February 2010There is no genuine nationalist of Sierra Leone that will deny the facts I wrote about the Lungi airport. I will not believe that a Sierra Leonean living in a civilized world will hide the facts I have highlighted in that piece and hide under the guise of patriotism. I am a genuine patriot of Sierra Leone and it is for that reason I am exposing the flaws of the present government so that action “will†be taken. l am never hesitant to do so even if people are threatening to kill me. The airport is a security risk; it is infested with former rebels, it is never properly cleaned which makes the toilets stinky and there are no working scanners at the time I was leaving the country. This is the hard fact and I have exposed it!! It was never like that before September 17th 2007. Just for example sake; I will want to know who is Kindama Kargbo and what position is he holding at the airport presently? I will want Nanette Thomas and Joseph Sherman to honestly answer that question please. Also, if Nanette Thomas tells me that she used the toilets at the Lungi airport on December 22, 2009, then she must have been suffering from H1N1 flu at the time and was having Oncho (river blindness). I am very sure of what I wrote because I sourced it very well.
The majority of the readers tapped me on the back for the job I did so I do not really mind what these two guys are saying here. Sierra Leone must develop and some of us must exist so that it will happen. I say so not egoistically but because of the fearlessness in us to publicly say the short falls of our governments. I have decided to expose all the lies of the politicians in that country. That is the reason I am continuing in that vein so that serious government officials will pick it up from my point and correct themselves. Mine is a genuine criticism, I will always say.
I am very much aware of the fact that the truth hurts but that should not scare away people to say the truth if the country is to develop. I am pushing for it and I will not relent. No amount of intimidation will stop me from the stance I have chosen in my permanent life of journalism. I am clear about the fact that, in the process people like Nanette Thomas and Joseph Sherman will want to eliminate me but those threats will not scare me away from writing the truth. It is very legitimate for every Sierra Leonean to express views about the country and I am sure that is what these two guys are intending to do. The only thing is that, they have chosen the APC pattern of violence which makes it all wrong. The choice of ways to handle an article that is not in one’s favor should be classic so that blood feud will not be manifested in the writing. These two guys that I believe are secretly admiring me have failed to properly investigate the status of the things I have written in that piece before they could come on the firing line. I will not blame them in any form because I am very much aware of the desperate status of all APC supporters to sustain the ascension of the party in power. I am only advising that, the APC can only remain in power if citizens are ready to accommodate criticism. There is no way a government can remain in power when it is violating the rule of law, looting the opposition’s headquarters, raping women in broad day lights, killing innocent civilians in simple local by-elections, beating electricity workers because the light went off accidentally when the President is on visit, using Matorma, Ariogbo and ex-combatants to intimidate people. There is no way a government can be re-elected when the cost of living is hyper expensive. There is no way a government can be re-elected when it is marshalling all the country’s resources towards one single idea of giving electricity to Freetown ( just a minute percentage of the country) and leaving the rest of the country in perpetual darkness and hunger. There is no way a government can continue to rule when it using the ones that unleashed terror on the people of the country as Presidential bodyguards whilst the ones that were amputated are begging at Cotton Tree some few meters from the State House. There is no way a government can be retained in power when the country’s money is depreciating minute by minute. Hunger has become the password for the average Sierra Leonean. What are you guys trying to protect or hide? It is when one is sick and openly tell the doctor about the sickness that a cure is going to be found. I know you guys are always afraid that the truth will scare away donors and investors but who tells you that these donors will not want for these things to be corrected? Investors always prefer a sober atmosphere to invest than the ones that hide the truth. It is clear that I have removed myself from that type of being a nationalist. I have, over the years, learnt that it is always the truth that will make a country grow. We must shrug ourselves out of these kinds of loyalty to our Parties. We must adopt the “Speak the Truth†pattern of loyalty.
I am never ever averse to anybody trying to protect his/her party; I only do not endorse the trend of being violent and dishonest in doing so. People who lives in the first world are expected to behave better than late Almamy Kamara and others who attacked me and will still want to kill me. It is frustrating to know that Nanette Thomas and Joseph Sherman have not learnt anything by staying in America. I believe they do want to have the guts I have to confront the bad political gimmicks that are currently taking place in our dear country Sierra Leone.
Hey fellow citizens (Nanette Thomas and Joseph Sherman), there is Peace now in Sierra Leone that was ushered in by the SLPP (the opposition), please, please. Please let us live by that Peace. I Love you as Sierra Leoneans!!!!!!!
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