"In the streets of the capital on Friday, one woman lay curled in a fetal position, eyes shut, precariously balanced on cardboard sheets next to an open gutter in front of locked storefronts. From a wary distance, the anti-Ebola volunteers said she had high fever. Hours of calls had produced no ambulance. A small crowd, including the police, soldiers brandishing guns, presidential advisers and spectators taking cellphone pictures of the immobile woman, milled about. A medical worker said two more bodies in the vicinity needed attention. But still there was no ambulance.
Saturday February 28, 2014
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Panic stations in the thieving and uncaring
domain of the rat after the first exposure...and
this is just the tip of the massive corruption
and stealing of funds meant to combat the deadly
Ebola Virus disease. Time to start thinking
about referring the rat and his cabal to a
tribunal for crimes against the people. 
The corridors of State House in Freetown have been the scene of panic, confusion and consternation as a part of the massive corruption over the use of funds to combat the deadly Ebola Virus Disease is laid bare in the recent report of the Auditor General - "Report on the Audit of the Management of the Ebola Funds". In the process of trying to smother the fallout of this disgraceful, shameful and inhuman episode, apologists of the thieving band of murderers and uncaring plunderers of resources meant to combat the disease have been falling over each other in trying to distract public attention from the thieving exploits and banditry of the uncaring cabal. First there was the war of words and authority over who should comment and take action on the report. One repugnant character terming himself as leader of the House of Representatives went as far as to publicly challenge the authority of the head of the Anti Corruption Commission telling all those who had been summoned to appear before the Commission not to heed the call. After what can only be seen as a pantomime of cover orchestrated by the rat at State House, both shameless individuals issued a rather inane statement insisting that they were now working together to bring the culprits to justice. We are not impressed because we see both the Anti Corruption Commission headed by Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara and that apology for all things honourable singing from the same sheet - protecting the rat at State House. And talking about so-called "Honourable" MPs, that prefix had long ago lost its value as those carrying the title engage in all things dishonourable whenever the opportunity presents itself. Please be reminded that the chief killer and thug serving his master the rat and who has been implicated in violence against the main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party, the SLPP, was at one time, during the AFRC/RUF reign of terror calling himself an "h". First move by the confused and clearly agitated rat was to refer the matter to Parliament in the hope that his minions would delay action against people implicated in the pillage of funds meant for the fight against the scourge and when that failed to work and the ACC stepped in - the scene was set for a confrontation as to who can best protect the rat for the ACC is well known for blowing hot air and not daring to prosecute the interests of the rat. The Sierra Leone Telegraph summed up the collective anger of citizens who after three thousand deaths and counting could not believe that those entrusted with the management of the funds could stoop so low in their thieving - "That rubbish from the dimwit and dishonourable leader in parliament – Ibrahim Bundu" in which the author concluded - "The Sierra Leone Telegraph now calls on the dishonourable Ibrahim Bundu to bow his head in shame, apologise to the Anti-Corruption Commission, as well as the people of Sierra Leone, and above all – retract that stupid parliamentary statement which can only come from dimwits." Kindly recall that there's enough provision within the pages of the Anti Corruption Act of 2008 to bring many officials to justice but have been let off the hook, no doubt after he's been told by the rat that as long as he's President, it is he who should decide who goes to court and not only that who gets convicted and acquitted by a compromised and subservient judiciary which on paper should be independent - according to the Constitution. It was this same Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara who caused to be published a list of people who had failed to make their annual returns on their assets as required by law. This was at a time when MPs, Ministers and other public officials were openly stating that they would not comply with the ACC because the rat at State House had not made his assets known to the ACC and the public and that they too would not be in any position to reveal their assets. That was the end of the matter. The Anti Corruption Act of 2008 offences section empowers the Commission to enquire into anyone who in the Commission's opinion has or displays unexplained wealth. He has so far not done anything to bring these defaulters/thieves to the core to book. We would for now want to remind all those who in their ignorance believe the Auditor General's report was faulty or hasty. This shows that they know nothing, absolutely nothing about auditing practices and maybe this little line from the Audit Service Act of 2014 will help throw some light on their sheer ignorance of the powers of the Auditor General under the Act - Offences. 36. (1) Any person who –
(a) fails to produce for
inspection by the Auditor-General or to otherwise give to him any book, record, or return relating to any accounts being audited by the Auditor-General when he so request; We are baffled by the desperate attempts of the hirelings of the rat to deflect the minds of people from the recent report. Baffled because the Auditor General had always published such reports and these were routinely ignored - thanks to the rat at State House who would have assured them that under his tenure, he would be the only one who can decide what the Anti Corruption Commission, Parliament and the Judiciary can do. This is what can be found on the pages of the website of the Auditor General including the recent 2013 report. As regards that attempt by the so-termed Leader of the House we would again buttress our argument that he and the ACC were fighting over each other to save the skin of the rat under whose direction all those illegal and criminally-prone contracts were awarded. If the ACC head was really serious about his job he would have charged the MP for obstructing the work of the Commission as outlined in the 2008 Anti Corruption Act. Just a reminder - Independence of the Commission.9. (1) The Commission shall act independently, impartially, fairly and in the public interest. (2) Subject to this Act, the Commission shall not, in the performance of its functions, be subject to the direction or control of any person or authority. The Commission is also empowered to investigate all public officials and these include - a) Cabinet, any ministry, department or agency of Government; (b) Parliament; (c) the Judiciary; (d) the Armed Forces; (e) the Police Force; (f) the Prisons’ Service; (g) a local council; (h) the Freetown City Council and any other city council;
(i) a Government company;
etc etc.
We would now urge the Anti Corruption Commission to investigate the Information Minister one Alpha Kanu who in the recent past was reported to have set up what we can only see as a conduit for laundering funds meant to help in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease. The ALPHAKA FOUNDATION must be investigated now!!! The New York Times has this excerpt on how Sierra Leoneans were treated by a cabal that was only interested in what financial gains they can harvest from the agony of those struck by the disease. Finally, a rickety ambulance pulled up, more than five hours after the initial calls, the volunteers said. But the loosely outfitted attendants refused to pick up the sick woman: they had no chlorine spray and said it was not their job. A loud anti-Ebola jingle played on a car radio. It took a second ambulance, and the president of a moped club who quickly suited up in protective gear, to get the sick woman bundled off to uncertain care." The number of articles and denials of crimes committed by the rat have left many thinking that the thieving and looting of state resources are now on an industrial scale under the direct control of the rat who would dip his filthy paws into any and all matters relating to dishonesty, thieving, unconstitutional behaviour and everything that led our country into a past we would not want to visit again. With more than three thousand deaths and still counting one would have thought the rat would have a limit to the thieving and corrupt practices over which he presides. Not so it would seem. There would come a day of reckoning and that is why we are calling for an independent international tribunal to investigate whether crimes against the people have been committed for we believe that there could have been a deliberate attempt by the rat to have more Sierra Leoneans dying of the disease as a means of appealing to the conscience of the international community as well as concerned Sierra Leoneans within and without Sierra Leone to chip in as the scourge squeezed the lives out of thousands including health delivery workers and ordinary Sierra Leoneans.
If the past is
anything to go by, we would not be surprised to
have startling revelations as to how funds were
raised by various government officials within
and outside the country and we would urge the
Auditor General and the Anti Corruption
Commission to look into the activities of our
missions abroad with a view to ascertaining the
funds and resources raised and how these were
disbursed.
We would continue to ask about the fate of those workers who were dismissed because they went on strike for their pay which had not been forthcoming. Have they been paid their just dues - we mean their monies? Now we know why genuine workers who risked their lives were not paid as the recent audit report shows that the Ebola funds were plundered by uncaring and shameless officials with close links to State House from where orders were issued as to who should have those fraudulent contracts. Kindly take another look at the report and close in on a section that relates to contracts for the feeding of those quarantined by the government on Friday 16th September in that infamous 3-day lockdown justified by an Information minister who told the world and the nation that the incubation period for the disease was between 2-3days. Remember the gangs who went out to sensitise, handing out bars of soap to resident forcefully trapped in their homes? Many could not afford meals during those times and yet the heartless beasts had awarded contracts to their kind in a free for all scramble for the funds. We would also want the public to know what MPs who received money did with it for the people in that so-called sensitisation programme. We would be looking at Constituencies 005 and 015 to see what their illegal representative did with the funds received as their seats in Parliament are a direct transgression of the laws of the land. They should have been subjected to a bye election and not the illegal action taken by one injustice Showers. Here's what Al Jazeera says about people subjected to quarantine measures - TARGRIN, Sierra Leone — In this fishing village across the bay from the capital, three young mothers who recently lost housemates to Ebola attempt to nurse their babies.It’s difficult, the women say, given the lack of food in their quarantined home. “I need baby formula and water,” says Asanatu Kamara, holding her limp 2-month-old infant close to her chest. Kamara has been isolated with more than a dozen other potential Ebola carriers for more than a month. After the head of the household — a father with 10 sons — died of Ebola on Jan. 9, the compound of two clay, one-room houses and a dirt yard was cordoned off with a thin rope. Locals hired by Western aid agencies dropped off rice, oil, fish and two tins of baby formula. A week later, the man’s two wives fell ill. They were sent to the hospital, where they died of Ebola. In late January, an adopted daughter in the compound died of Ebola as well. And in the weeks that followed, four of his sons fell sick. By then, only rice remained. Last week another son was diagnosed with Ebola. That means the compound’s inhabitants will be quarantined for at least another 21 days, the incubation period for Ebola. Yet they say they have received no food deliveries since the initial drop-off in early January, and now hunger stalks them along with the disease. “What’s happening is unacceptable, but I have no choice, so I take it as it is,” says Daramy Sesay, 35, the eldest among the group. Monday March 2, 2015 -Update: We've just heard the Vice President of Sierra Leone Sam Sumana on the BBC saying he has put himself into quarantine.
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