USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Sierra Leone update

Here's some good advice from Lansana Gberie, a respected SLPP
stalwart: "Accept Defeat, Work for Victory in 2017 ". It's a
recommendation that all peace-loving people of Sierra Leone welcome:

http://thenewpeople.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=2244:the-2012-elections-accept-defeat-work-for-victory-in-2012&Itemid=101

Those were good words from the SLPP's Mwalimu Bangura too and since he
says that he is "well-trained in Judaism" and hopefully in his own
Islamic faith too, he knows that the resurrection of good SLPP
people could take place in the future and that there's no point in
Brigadier Bio going to a bush war war that he cannot hope to win in
today's Sierra Leone. Nor would the 4% of invalidated votes be wholly
added to his 37% render him the winner of those elections – so at the
end of any protracted legal battle - at most he could hope for 41% to
Our Ernest's 58%.

Alternatively, he could of course declare himself the lawful winner –
like the Mwalimu's Gbagbo, start some nonsense and find himself being
dragged unceremoniously to face the music at the Hague. I for one
wouldn't like to see that.

However, as "Most Honorable Citizen Osagyefo Kwaku Mensah" says
Mwalimu Bangura is "the best guy to educate this forum about the
elections in Sierra Leone". And so I seize this opportunity to ask
Bangura this question which he does not have to answer ( I know the
answer) and the question is: WHY has Brigadier Bio been refused a
visa to enter the United States of America?

Sincerely,

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



On Nov 28, 6:13 pm, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelb...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> http://www.google.co.uk/#q=Sierra+Leone&hl=en&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=n...
>
> Sierra Leone's SLPP in boycott threat over poll results:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20523515
>
> In my opinion, considering that they have limited options it's not a
> latest bad move by the SLPp, since they are still operating well
> within the limits of Sierra Leone law. They are at liberty to relegate
> the country to a de facto one-party rule if that is how they choose to
> view the future of multi-party democracy in Sierra Leone.They must
> understand that they can only come to "power" through the ballot box
> and no other way than that.
>
> My earlier view  of the situation has not changed :
>
> http://bintumani.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1275833...
>
> It's better that they sit their time out  till 2017  when the next
> elections are due to be held and that in the meantime they refuse to
> participate  as part of Sierra Leone's democratic institutions, refuse
> to contribute to the machinery of a functioning democracy, just
> because they lost the last elections in which their candidate only
> polled 37% of the national vote - doing slighly better than
> anticipated.
>
> Better that the boycott than that their leader, ex- Brigadier Bio take
> to the bush for a prolonged guerilla war against the democratically
> elected government of Sierra Leone.
>
> Tomorrow after a few phone calls to Freetown, London and Washington,
> I'll know exactly what the hell is going on....

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