This took place in the presence of representatives of the government comprising of ministers, deputy ministers, Office of National Security, Police and management of African Minerals Limited in Kalansongia chiefdom in the Tonkolili District.
The objective of the workshop was to promote responsible journalism during the electoral process; understanding best practices in elections covering and understanding the electoral process; and the basic principles of democratic elections and the role the media can play to ensure elections are conducted in a non-violent atmosphere and be the watch dog, and the voter’s voice.
Speaking to this press, Hon. Komba Koedoyoma of the SLPP representing Constituency 27 in the Kono district said the fire disaster took place on the 29th of March this year at around mid-day and consumed the entire village of Sagbawa leaving three hundred people homeless and properties worth millions of Leones destroyed.
Humans in the Lion Mountain especially in Free City do not have enough water to drink and take bath, so who is Fountain to get water supply just to shoot into sky? Humans in the Lion Mountain and especially those humans in Free City, daily suffer from blackout; so who the hell is Fountain to get power and waste it just to run machine to pump water into sky?
The humans in the Lion Mountain will never forget Charlie Boye when he promised that the Lion Mountain would taste the sweetness of war. The kind of sweetness of war the humans in the Lion Mountain tasted still can be tasted and left in its wake so many destructions not to talk of the borku humans who lost limbs, eyes, ears and lives.
We realize that the protesting workers though they had a right to voice their concerns over alleged unfavorable working conditions, they had no right to burn down property worth millions of Leones. They had no right to vandalize AML offices. They had no right to attack Police Operational Support Division (OSD) officers who were there to protect AML workers and property.
He noted that the allegations about a $65,000 gift to Belgium Sellers Association was not only false but was a wicked propaganda bandied around to give the impression that President Koroma is loaded and stinking rich to the extent that he doles out money for no real or useful reason.
He noted that at yesterday’s meeting, several Belgium Sellers Association representatives informed President Koroma that they were very happy he called them to discuss the allegation.
If today a politician is not accused of engaging in ritual murder, tomorrow another would be accused of dishing out borku-borku money to idle youths in the Lion Mountain. Look sef oh, it was merely a few days back when tok boss nar Lion Mountain that Chancellor Honest Bai Koblo had dished out borku Lion Shillings to youths of Schwarzenegger.
But burn ose incidents aside, tiffy tiffy is also taking place on a very large scale during burning of house accidents. Humans in the Lion Mountain get tin dem oh! They are wicked oh! When their neighbour’s house is ablaze, is the time they want to get rich at all cost by tiffing the properties of the distressed person on the pretext of helping them save property from being lost to blaze?!