Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Congratulations to President Koroma, his government and the people of Sierra Leone for bringing corr

Respected Professor Abdullah,

The watchword is down with corruption!

I said it's down , I didn't say that it was dead. Perhaps a better
watchword should be " Death to corruption!" ? And may it never
resurrect.

Now to tell us what we already know:even if you call such knowldege
"pro-pa ganda "

Sierra Leone has improved – according to the kinds of measurements or
yardsticks that Transparency International was able to apply.

In a BBC Hardtalk interview (24 July 2002)Tim Sebastian told Sierra
Leone's president Kabbah "People say that you are like a toothless
chimpanzee in your fight against corruption" - that's exactly what
Tim said – no matter any printed evidence to the contrary. Mr. Kabbah
had told him,
" I think for anybody to say that you will get rid of corruption in
any country to the extent of one hundred percent elimination of
corruption is a dream."

Elsewhere Mr. Kabbah had repeatedly moaned about a corruption that he
himself said was all- pervasive – and it was the levels of the all-
pervasive corruption that contributed to the SLPP government's
downfall in the 2007 elections, after ten years in power, ten years
of rampant corruption, corruption everywhere. In the more than five
years of its expensive existence, the Anti-Corruption Commission was
only able prosecute and nail less than a dozen small fry. There was no
net to catch big fish like Momoh Pujeh.
Eugene Davis – the Commissioner (an honourable schoolmate) eventually
resigned because of political interference from above.

Since late 2007, the Anti-corruption Commission has been more vigorous
and more effective under President Koroma's government.

https://www.google.se/search?q=Tim+Sebastian+Hardtalk+-+with+Ahmad+Tejan+Kabbah&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

In the last two years of SLPP government Sierra Leone was ranked at
position 150 in the corruption perception index.

Not surprisingly the APC's Ernest Bai Koroma after sitting in
parliament for ten good years as leader of the opposition campaigned
and won the presidential elections on a platform of Zero Tolerance for
corruption.(Like Hamas vs the then corrupt Fatah)

Since then, and under the new APC govt management of the country
Sierra Leone has been successively placed at lower levels of
corruption in the Transparency International meter, compared to Sierra
Leone's position in the last years of the SLPP era.

It's only in that sense that we should congratulate President Koroma,
his government and the people of Sierra Leone for bringing corruption
DOWN!

Over here in the land of Jante this is how we boast :

http://www.thelocal.se/44876/20121206/

In that sense I can say " We Great !"

http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/




On Dec 7, 7:54 am, Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Corruption is down in Salone? What a joke!!!
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> Corruption is alive and thriving. It cannot be otherwise; patrimonial
> politics of the belly/spoils is built on corruption. You cannot have
> one without the other.
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> You folks out there take the media/propaganda to absurdity!
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> IB Abdullah
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> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Cornelius Hamelberg
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> <corneliushamelb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Positive news as we climb up the ladder ...
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> > Congratulations to President Koroma, his government and the people of Sierra
> > Leone for bringing corruption DOWN!
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> >http://bintumani.websitetoolbox.com/post/Congratulations-to-President...
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