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News making the rounds in the United States is that the
Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP),which has still not accepted its
defeat in 2007, is plotting to create a major political mayhem in Sierra
Leone . Many Sierra Leoneans are calling on the government to keep a
hawk's eye on Kailahun District from where hails the SLPP Chairman, John
Benjamin, whose latest activities are being described as suspicious. .
When the STANDARD TIMES newspaper recently came out with
a scoop on the SLPP's plans to create chaos in Sierra Leone, the
Executive Editor, Mr.Philip Neville, a fearless journalist who has no
reason to fabricate the story , became a punchbag of SLPP operatives ,
including their Chairman, Mr.John Benjamin and one old political
spentforce who does not know that he has burnt his candles on both ends,
Dr.Sama Banya.
Now, it is not only the STANDARD TIMES newspaper that is
talking about the SLPP's plans for a major upheaval in Sierra Leone.
News is rife in the U.S. that the SLPP plans to destabilize Sierra
Leone in such a spectacular manner that the central authority of the
civilian administration will be destroyed and they would then invite
the Army to stage a coup to "save the country from complete collapse. "
Sierra Leoneans, who perfectly understand the subversive
activities undertaken by Mr.John Benjamin when he engineered the 1992
NPRC military coup in Sierra Leone, are becoming increasingly
uncomfortable with the SLPP National Chairman who is said to be the main
person insitigating all the vicious propaganda being spewed against
President Ernest Bai Koroma and his government by the pro-SLPP
newspapers. All the malicious and unnecessary attacks in the SLPP
newspapers on the President and his government are said to be part of
the grand plans by the SLPP to disrupt peace in Sierra Leone. They are
now said to be working on the First Phase of the plan, which is to
create public and international dissaffection against the President and
the government. The well-contrived weapon being used is repeated
allegations of rape by "APC thugs ". An APC official in New Jersey
lamented that nobody else commits rape any more in Sierra Leone. "Every
rape is blamed on APC thugs ...You can see that it is a ploy to give
this government a bad name " .
Sierra Leoneans believe that the SLPP is being very
unfair to the Ernest Koroma-led APC government. All the socio-economic
and political problems in Sierra Leone were created by previous
government, especially the SLPP,which spent 11 years in power but left
the nation economically bankrupt and the ciapital and towns filthy and
in utter darkness, with no light and water . Sierra Leoneans are
dismayed that the SLPP speaks as if these problems were created by the
APC IN JUST ONE-AND-THE HALF YEARS. "Why can't they give the APC chance
to rule and solve the problems they left behind ? They created these
problems and now that the government is trying to solve them, they want
to stand in the way ", Abu Sesay of East Brunswick, NJ, complained .
Some Sierra Leoneans who heard news of the SLPP plans to
disrupt peace and good government in Sierra Leone called on the
International Community to take note of these revelations. "When people
are creating trouble in the country, the international community does
not say or do anything, but as soon as the government starts to take
actions against troublemakers, they start talking about human rights ",Abie
Kamara of New York complained bitterly to this newspaper. "The
International Community should realize that African countries are
countries with laws and enforcing these laws has nothing to do with
human rights . Whoever violates the laws of the country should be
punished " ,she added.
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