PMDC ‘ChairBoy’ Suspended for Misconduct

The Chairman of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC), Mohamed Bangura, has been given a three-year suspension for reasons not unconnected with misconduct.

The decision to suspend him came after the disciplinary committee that was set up to look into his recent unbecoming conduct found him wanting of gross misconduct and recommended that he faces disciplinary action.

The National Council (NC) which is the second highest decision making body of the party considered the recommendation of the committee and after careful consideration unanimously agreed to suspend Mohamed Bangura both from his position as chairman and membership of the party.

The decision which was made public after an extraordinary NC meeting at the party’s head office in Freetown on Thursday 27^th May 2010, came amidst widespread jubilation amongst party loyalists, all of whom expressed extreme happiness at the decision.

Secretary General of the party, Tucker, said in absolute joy that “The suspension of Mohamed Bangura is like removing a severe cancer from the body”.

Reliable sources within the party revealed that there are a couple of unquestionable audio evidences of Mohamed Bangura implicating high level personalities within the ruling All People’s Congress (APC) that are bent on undermining the progress of the PMDC.

“We are celebrating”, said Secretary General Tucker, who went on to state that “The audio tape evidences we have show very clearly that Mohamed Bangura had no genuine intention for the party and that he was conniving with external forces to destroy our party”.

Mohamed Bangura’s suspension came as no surprise, as he recently lost the admiration and support of the entire membership of the party when he wrote “an ill-intentioned” letter calling for the leader of the party, Charles Francis Margai, to step down.

He was found wanting of dragging the party’s name into disrepute by behaving in a manner not expected of a chairman of a whole political party.

Sources say the crude attitude of Mohamed Bangura towards the original founders of the party played a great part in the spate of resignations that greeted the party following his elevation to that enviable position.

Many now regret voting for him at the party’s last National Delegates Conference in Kenema, saying they never knew he would have turned out so badly to the extent of putting the party’s future in jeopardy.

Sources say the step taken against Mohamed Bangura is in the best interest of the party, and that all his accomplices including Mohamed Sowa Turay who happens to be the Western Region chairman of the party, would be weeded off if only to save the party from saboteurs and continued decline.

Mohamed Sowa Turay, a founding member of the PMDC, is deemed to have become a liability to the party, and is likely to be slammed a non confidence vote.

It remains to be seen whether Mohamed Bangura will resort to court action on grounds that he was duly elected to the position and that his tenure is yet to expire, but credible sources within the party say that the action taken against him is in line with the constitution of the party and that he will never win a case against the party.

According to internal PMDC sources, all efforts by personalities such as President Ernest Bai Koroma to plea on behalf of Mohamed Bangura in a bid to avert the suspension fell on deaf ears, as the leadership of the party insisted that it was purely an internal matter.

The suspension of Mohamed Bangura who is widely believed to be a political novice and an opportunist, has been seen by many as an end of his political career and a slap in the faces of those who blindly elected him chairman of the party.

By his being suspended, Mohamed Bangura has been technically expelled from the party, as he has to reapply for fresh membership after the expiration of his suspension. He is of course not going back to the position of chairman as he was elected to serve a two-year term only.

Although many say the suspension of Mohamed Bangura will remove the party from its current stagnation, observers hold the view that the action will only benefit the party bad publicity especially so when its seems to have parted away with the momentum with which it entered into the political landscape.

This is the first time in the history of Sierra Leone that a ‘popularly’ elected chairman of an established political party is being subjected to such an action, courtesy of extremely bad manners.

Theophilus S. Gbenda

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