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                                                        Ambassador John Leigh

  

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                       AMB. JOHN LEIGH EXPOSES BIO BIG TIME ON FACEBOOK

Please take time to read a brilliant and factual narratives from a former Sierra Leone Ambassador to the USA for 6 years and at a time when Sierra Leone faced its darkest hours in political turmoil and conflict or rebel war. The responses from Bio's supporters are insults and abuse of the esteem former Ambassador who also happens to be a USA trained economist and a Lawyer. There is no attempt by the paopas to either defend or refute these glaring authoritive accounts which comprehensively and convincingly exposed Bio as a lair and a fraudster who is unfit to lead the oldest political party in the subregion.    

  Yankuba Kai-Samba.

                                        

                                                               Maada Bio

By John Leigh:

Lets correct, point-for-point, PAOPA Mr. Sahr Lebbie’s erroneous beliefs regarding Madder Bio’s lie-lie propaganda. Said propaganda is designed to fool and mislead some of his slpp Mende people to again make him slpp flag bearer. Bio may fool some of his people but he cannot fool the rest of the people of Sierra Leone at the General Elections.

What a writer, Sahr Lebbie, recently posted in this forum as his beliefs regarding Bio public service record is posited below under the rubric “PAOPA” and numbered for ease of reference. The true historical facts in response are posted here by me under the rubric “CORRECTION #_”.  And lets get started from Mr. Lebbie's post in strict chronological sequence as follows.

1.PAOPA �- Maada became Head of State under the N.P.R.C regime �

              The day Bio overthrew Captain Strasser 

CORRECTION#1:  Bio was junta chairman for 3 months after overthrowing Strasser by getting his fellow juvenal junta boys to double-cross, brutalize him and deport him to Conakry.  No registered voter ever elected Bio as head of state. He was there by the force of gun as a Foot of State.

2. PAOPA�- He handed over power to civilian government to ensure that democracy becomes the father of freedom 

CORRECTION #2:  After the NPRC II's attempt to derail the 1996 their election and stay in power failed following their successful coup against their boss Capt. Strasser, the donor nations forced all the NPRC junta boys to surrender power to the winner of the multi-party election as directed by Dr. James Jonah, the Chairman of the Interim National Electoral Commission, or face arrest and prosecution for Treason and other crimes.  

But an olive branch was offered the junta boys to stay on and observe the election peacefully and quietly in good conduct. And that if they behave themselves and vacate power when the new president is inaugurated, they would each be compensated with an all-expense paid scholarship abroad for 4 years and provided they each stayed away for the full 4 years, they won’t be prosecuted.    

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3. PAOPA�- Maada left Sierra Leone for the United State of America to seek asylum after he handed over power 

CORRECTION #3: Bio did not go to the USA to seek asylum. He would never have been granted US asylum because he and his junta boys were notorious killers, thieves and abusers of human rights.  Bio and his junta boys were poorly educated with no more than a Form Six education. Hence, it was the Donor nations forced the junta boys to go abroad to study under terms of a Settlement between Civil Society and Donor nations on the one hand and the junta boys on the other hand. Donor nations made it easier for the junta boys to go away in peace by offering them money.

The entire junta was told that upon Dr. Jonah naming the election winner and with Tejan Kabbah’s immediate inauguration, the NPRC junta must swiftly and immediately be dissolved and every junta boy, including Bio, was forced to pack out of their military quarters and depart Sierra Leone quickly for at least 4 years. 

Each of the NPRC Junta boys without exception was given a visa to the countries where their colleges were located plus scholarships and money for books, lodging and incidental expenses.  Some went to the UK, others went to the USA Bio went to Washington where I was ambassador for 6 years.  

And after those 4 years were over, the US immediately told Bio to vacate the US or deported in handcuffs. 

For your information, a legitimate  asylee in the US would have been granted a Green Card after a year. Bio does not have a Green Card or a re-entry visa for the US.

�4. PAOPA�- - He became the first leader to speak to Foday Sankoh when he took over power 

CORRECTION #4: After the NPRC junta boys’ successful coup against their boss, Capt. Strasser, the junta boys tried to keep power for themselves and prolong the life of their brutal, thieving juvenal junta. Their foolish ploy was to deceitfully claim that the people want peace before elections. So the junta boys and their civilian backers in National Unity Party contacted Foday Sankoh through relatives in the RUF, such as Bio’s sister and elder brother Stephen Bio, to bogusly talk peace with Foday Sankoh.  A junta delegation led by Bio and an RUF delegation led by Sankoh traveled to Ivory Coast to talk peace soon after but Foday Sankoh laughed at small boy Bio and nothing ever came out of that silly meeting. The whole idea was a childish scam to keep the brutal junta in power for as long as possible.

Meanwhile, Civil Society vehemently opposed the junta’s attempt to delay Sierra Leone first multi-party elections in nearly 30 years and demanded that only the Elected Representatives of the people, not members of a brutal, thieving uneducated discredited juvenal soldiers toting guns, must conduct peace negotiations. The people of Sierra Leone plus ALL donor nations plus ALL multi-lateral organizations requested ELECTIONS-BEFORE-PEACE.  

When the junta boys refused to agree but instead begged for more time to enjoy, 3 Mass Civilian Demonstrations were held against the junta juvenals.  Further, donor funds were cut-off. Dr. James Jonah of the UN was appointed as the Interim National Electoral Commissioner with the mandate and funds to conduct general elections IMMEDIATEDLY.  The foolish junta boys had no choice but surrender forthwith and were then compelled to cooperate with the INEC or face prosecution for High Treason.  Thats when they said they will take the scholarship money.

5. PAOPA

- Maada taught it fit to join the S.L.P.P to further HIS political ambitions to become slpp flag bearer. 

 

CORRECTION #5:  Madder Bio joined the slpp only circa 2004 after fighting unsuccessfully during the first 3 moths in 1996 to keep power for himself and his junta boys under the bogus Peace-Before-Election Movement, and failing that, he tried to give power to the National Unity Party with Dr. John Karimu as presidential candidate and supported by the likes of J.O.B., C.F. Margai and other NPRC junta types. 

                                                              Dr John Karimu: From Secretary of State Ministry of Trade and Industry in the NPRC to Chair/Head of NUP and now SLPP member

         John Oponjo Benjamin: Former Secretary of State NPRC now SLPP Presidential aspirant

Slpp badly defeated the NUP. Bio was then forced to handover power reluctantly. He and his junta boys were then rewarded with scholarships and told to stay away from SL for at least 4 years.  

                                                                                                                                    Charles Gankey Taylor - former President of Liberia. Now serving 50 years jail term in U.K. Prison for his part in the 12 years Sierra Leone war 

From May 1997 thru 2003, Bio fought against the SLPP Administration of Tejan Kabbah by supporting the AFRC-RUF junta and supporting Foday Sankoh and Charles Taylor as they waged a catastrophic war against our people and stole Kono diamonds, raped every female they wanted, cut peoples hands, burn homes, schools, Churches, Mosques and looted and burned shops, vehicles, etc. – but all to no avail! 

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6. PAOPA �- He became flag bearer of the S.L.P.P�

CORRECTION #6: Bio was elected flag bearer of slpp in July 31, 2011 with only 33% of the votes cast. 67% of the delegates voted for other candidates. Upon Bio’s election many strong party members left the slpp. Bio then went on to be woefully defeated at the General Elections by APC by a whopping 424,000 votes. 

Under Bio as Flag Bearer, slpp lost all its MP seats outside the South and East and the APC's national vote-share in the slpp heartland creased from 40,000 to 250,000 votes and winning MP seats in all 4 provinces. Finally, under Bio’s candidacy, slpp gained the lowest vote-share in any SL general election ever since slpp was founded in 1951.

7. PAOPA�- Maada‘s candidates all over Sierra Leone will clinch 98% of the zooner and constituency elections �

CORRECTION #7:  A plurality of the delegates supporting Bio may most likely win in the South and East but not in the North or West.  Most of those delegates supporting Bio would be pure tribal types from the Mende tribe, ex-combatants, ex-juntas, ex-juntas’ and West Side Boys’ titis plus the highly experienced unemployed 2-fut aratas long resident in the slpp and bidding their time for the next slpp victory to wreck Sierra Leone.  

Of course, a flag bearer win for Bio means defeat for Bio and slpp at the 2018 general Elections.

8. PAOPA� He will be giving the leadership of the S.L.P.P again whether you like it or not �

CORRECTION #8: A small plurality of slpp delegates may likely vote to give Bio the slpp flagbearership nomination for 2018 based on a strict tribal-arata alliance vote at the nominating convention.  Bio will then go on and surely loose the General Election for himself and the slpp.  

In 2011, Bio received only 33% of delegates’ votes to be the slpp flag bearer and woefully lost the General Elections.  Bio really cares not whether slpp is defeated. All he cares for is his control of slpp for life. 

9. PAOPA�- He has been given VISA to enter United State after a long scandal �

CORRECTION #9: This is another lie. The United States has not given Bio any visa to enter the US. Bio told the same lie in 2012 to the officials of slpp branches in the US and SL only to end up fooling many of his party leaders who had made preparations to receive him in New York and Washington, etc.  Bio has never entered the USA since he was kicked out in late early 2001.  Your Bio is a shameless liar.

10. PAOPA �Maada will be president of Sierra Leone again for the second time 

CORRECTION #10: Madder Bio was never president of Sierra Leone in the first place and never will be.  Bio was only a junta chairman for a mere 3 months in 1996 but only after he and his boys used conspiracy and force to overthrow their Krio Boss, Captain Valentine Strasser.  

Presidents are elected by majority vote. But because of Bio’s long odious and repulsive junta and post-junta records, he has very little support outside his tribe and non-arata circles. 

Further, Bio’s support among his tribe is dwindling as obnoxious ex-combatants, notorious tribalists and highly experienced 2-fut aratas gain the upper hand inside slpp while decent people in the slpp heartland vote for the slpp or secretly mutilate their ballots inside voting booths rather than vote for known nation-wreckers and thieves. 

�11. PAOPA�- Sierra Leoneans‘ lives will be improved under HIS leadership �

CORRECTION #11: Bio has no interest in nation building from his past. His record shows killings, fake promotions, stealing of public funds and deliberately lying to conceal his dastardly conduct so that he looks like a hero to his gullible people. Bio will lead the people of SL to deterioration, darkness and suffering.

12. PAOPA �Sierra Leone Go Beteh

                                                  

                   Vvvv                

CORRECTION #12: Sierra Leone will never thrive under junta boy Bio and the numerous, hungry 2-fur aratas surrounding him. Those people are out only for themselves

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�13. PAOPA�- Ar rest mi case yaa.�From Korbex and Communications Team

CORRECTION #14.  Please judge for yourself members of the SL public and always try hard to put your country first rather than seek to put your tribe’s and personal interest above your country’s and party's interests.

Thank you for your kind attention.

John Leigh

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THE REPORT CARD OF JULIUS MAADA BIO 

{Courtesy: Alusine Dainkeh - Cocorioko Forum of Patriots 25 July 2017}

PREAMBLE 

It is now time to subject Julius Maada Bio to an examination of his public record. We shall draw on the record of the NPRC, the statements and philosophy of Julius Maada Bio to ascertain his fitness to serve as President of the Republic of Sierra Leone. We shall call on President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Vice President Solomon Ekuma Berewa and Dr. Abass Chernor Bundu, a principal advisor to assess whether his claim that he is the father of democracy in Sierra Leone or whether he is even fit to be President after serving for 73 days as unlawful head of state designed by a military coup.

In the following Report Card, the various aspects of Julius Maada Bio’s political career and character become evident. This political character took the form of betraying his oath of office as soldier and committing treason, engaging in power struggles leading to another coup, having a role in extra-judicial killings, selling passports, instigating violence, getting caught up in corruption, delaying the handing over of power to civilians and falsely claiming he is the father of Sierra Leonean democracy.

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To be continued...

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WHO IS MY BROTHER?? 

ALBERT MARGAI ONCE STOOD AGAINST SIR MILTON MARGAI FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF THE SLPP.  SIR MILTON LOST BY ONE VOTE.  An agreement was reached, which  accommodations were not fulfilled by Sir Milton. That brought a SPLIT in the SLPP. This led to ALBERT and his Lawyer friends (plus Siaka Stevens) to break away from the SLPP and form the PNP (Peoples' National Party aka PEKIN NA PIKIN PARTY). But Sir Milton later made peace with his brother who eventually succeeded him as Prime Minister. The rest is history. KKY, never mind your big brother FODAY'S betrayal, (or CHOICE), BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER!!!! LUNTA!!

{Courtsey: Pay Wahun: Facebook post.}

https://www.facebook.com/pay.wahun/posts/1682513961778485

Kandeh Yumkella's Response to Foday Yumkella's Maada Bio Endorsement:

Date: Monday, 15 May, 2017.

Dear Foday,

Last night, I sent a message on social media urging my supporters to respect your choice of endorsing Julius Maada Bio. I was told that since you made the endorsement on Friday night my supporters have written so many things trying to discredit you. I cannot tolerate any of my supporter for blackmailing or smearing you because of your political choice.

I am sad that as my big brother I have failed to convince you to support my aspiration to lead the SLPP that our father was a founding member. I take personal responsibility for that failure and that has had a profound negative impact on me and my campaign in the last few days. I respect your choice to choose my opponent but doing it at this time has exposed me to public ridicule and mockery. It pains.

In the past few days after your endorsement of my opponent, I have also used the opportunity  to do an introspection of myself and the actions I have taken since I nurtured the ambition to lead the SLPP. On some occasions, I know you have expressed your personal disappointment on the manner in which I have carried my campaign and certain utterances I have made in the process. 

One thing that you have always pointed out was the embarrassment I caused the family over my registration fiasco with the many allegations of forgery. I accept I should have handled that better and be more honest with my supporters. Further, when it was also reported that I referred to party members as terrorists, gangsters and bunch of criminals  you questioned my political judgement and maturity to lead the SLPP. I also remember you advising me against disrespecting Party authorities.  I now accept I could have been more responsible with my language and show more respect to Party authorities and ordinary members I aspire to lead.

I know your greatest disappointment has been the frequent court cases against the Party and your view is that my supporters are holding the Party hostage when the Party should concentrate on preparations for national elections. I disagree with that view because in a democracy people should seek justice if they are aggrieved. However, I accept that the frequent court cases against the Party are damaging the credibility of the Party and I take personal responsibility for failing to do more in seeking political solution than supporting court actions against the Party by some of my supporters. 

Foday, with all the embarrassments that have befallen my campaign, I also now accept that I was unwise with the composition of my campaign team to include Foday Daboh, IJ Kabbah, Alusine Fofanah, Brima Keita, Memunatu Koroma, Joseph Kpulun, Martin Gbonda, Ibrahim Njal and others. I only later learned that these persons have all lost internal elections in SLPP and have personal bitterness with the current Party executives. Also, I only later know they were all supporters of Usu Boie who lost against my opponent and went to APC. The grassroots have expressed that anger against me. I also now accept that the legacy of President Kabbah in the Party is not something anyone can be proud of. I have now learnt that the anger against President Kabbah is what is vetted against me because of the UN background. 

If I were to start my campaign all over again there would be many things I would do differently with the decisions I have made and the utterances I have made. It has been a learning process for me throughout this period and most times it has been very painful. I feel personally hurt with all that I have gone through. However, I still aspire to lead the SLPP but if I am not successful I will hold nothing against you because you just don't believe in me. You believe in the ability of my opponent to make a change and I respect that. That is what our  democracy should be about; citizens supporting a candidate beyond tribe, regional and other parochial considerations. Ramadan Mubarak in advance. 

Your brother,

Alhaji Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella

CHARLES TAYLOR TALKING ABOUT ALI KABBA

https://www.facebook.com/israel.parpersnr/videos/10208965862493123/

https://www.facebook.com/israel.parpersnr/videos/10208965759850557/

https://www.facebook.com/pay.wahun/posts/1682513961778485

KKY lays out his vision for Sierra Leone.

https://www.facebook.com/kym2017/videos/1234746253301076/

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SLPP NEEDS TO Find Their Touch LIGHT TO CEMENT PEACE AGAINST 2018!

BREAKING NEWS 🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱

{Courtesy: John BS Tucker FB Post 09/02/2017}

The opposition Sierra Leone People's Party today had a peace march from Cotten tree the central of Freetown.

In the peace march was KKY, Maada Bio, J O B, Timbo, Andrew Kelli, Munda Rogers, Eng Rogers, Ndomahina and key SLPP elders like Prince Harding. They matched through the central of Freetown to demonstrate that the long internal fight is now over.

My source told me today that a memorandum of understanding was signed amongst all flag bearer aspirants to henceforth warn all their supporters to respect each other.

If this initiative holds then the APC should be ready to be given a run for their money. However, this peace overture has been long overdue.

BUT HOW LONG WILL THIS MARRIAGE OF CONVIENIENCE LAST BEFORE WE START TO SEE ANOTHER SERIES OF LEGAL AND ILLEGAL CHALLANGES????

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 IS MAADA BIO THE LEADER OF THE SLPP, OR CONFIRMED CHOICE TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2018?

 MAADA BIO: speaking at SLPP HQ Tuesday 10 Jan 2017. 

 

   SLPP supporters in and out of building. 

Maada Bio Vows: “We Cannot Afford To Fail Our Nation And I Cannot Afford To Fail You” 

By: Julius Maada Bio Media and Communications Team

As elected SLPP delegates across the country gathered at the SLPP headquarters in Freetown on Tuesday 10th January 2017, to declare their support for the leading SLPP flagbearer aspirant ahead of the Party’s National Delegate Conference in February, Rtd. Brigadier Bio has vowed that SLPP cannot afford to fail the nation and he cannot afford to fail the people. 

Addressing SLPP delegates, National Party Officers, Members of Parliament, Former Ministers, Senior Party Stakeholders, grassroots members and the Press, Bio said SLPP is a blessing to the nation and that the SLPP has a moral obligation as it led the country to Independence and out of the civil war so must the party now lead the country out of the current APC austerity. To loud cheers, Bio promised the SLPP members that he will provide the quality of leadership that will take the country out of the current predicament. He called on the party members to show maturity, compassion and discipline.

As a candidate who has also written and spoken about the need for respect of the party constitution, Bio condemned the 4th January 2017 meeting held at Miatta Conference Hall describing it as illegal and lacking legitimacy. Without shying away from the issue, Bio made it clear that the party only has one National Executive Council body which met on the 17th December 2016 and passed its binding resolutions. He distanced himself from the 4th January 2017 meeting and stated all its resolutions are null and void. Bio also made the distinction that the problem in SLPP is not between "Maada Bio versus the Alliance” rather it is a set of people who don’t want to respect the elected party officials. 

On the issue of Alliance, the grassroots politician stated that while other flagbearer aspirants have formed alliance amongst themselves he made an alliance with the ordinary people because power comes from the people. A confident Bio looking forward to the national elections told the jubilant crowd: “I will have to transform my alliance from the SLPP to the rest of the people of Sierra Leone when I shall have won the flagbearership come February". Bio also admonished all SLPP members to be law abiding and not to engage in any violence.  

https://www.facebook.com/alphasheriff/videos/10202484743516148/

The leading Flagbearer aspirant further reaffirmed that he has no personal malice against any member of the Aspirants’ Alliance saying that he considers the members as part of SLPP. In a bid to foster peace and party harmony, Bio disclosed that he is willing to dialogue with the Alliance to chat the way forward for the party but expressed concern that the Alliance does not have a leader whom he would directly engage. He expressed hope that the dialogue will commence after the pending court case. 

As a disciplinarian Bio also condemned the incident at the law courts leading to the shooting of one of his supporters and thanked the Sierra Leone Police for their intervention. Bio warned he will frown at any supporter who goes to the court to create problems and he expects all his supporters to be law abiding.

The historic event at the SLPP headquarters was climaxed with SLPP Regional Chairmen, Regional Executives, District Chairpersons, District Executives, Constituency Executives and hundreds of other delegates from the Northern Region, Western Area, Eastern Region and Southern Region all declaring their supports for Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada for the SLPP Flagbearer election scheduled for February 2017.

©Julius Maada Bio Media and Communications Team.

{Courtesy: Yusif Keketoma Sandi - in Sierra Leone Political Discussion Board}

  Maada Bio: Parrading the Streets of Freetown after overthrowing his Coup making partner and Boss Captain Valentine Strasser.

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     SLPP!! WHO IS IN CONTROL???? 

  REPORT ON THE SLPP NEC MEETING AT MIATTA CONFERENCE HALL ON 04 JANUARY 2017: 

Click Link: 

SLBC NEWS HOUR 04/01/2017

         https://youtu.be/klDqh-zAVyo

Kapen's (REAL) SLPP NEC Meeting expels 4 and suspends 8.  Where is MAADA Bio in all this??

EXPELLED.

1.Dr. Prince Harding replaced by Joseph Maada Kpulun

2.Abass Bundu 

3.Lawrence Lahai Leema replaced by Imran Sillah 

4. Am. Alie Badara Kamara(sec. Gen.) replaced by Mohamed  M.  Massaquoi. 

SUSPENDED

1. HON. Edward Suluku - South

2. Manso Dumbuya , West 

3.Hon.Philip Tondoneh_East

4 Alhaji Kanja Sesay 

5.Kanji Daramy 

6.Augustine Kallon

7. Rex Bonapha 

8.Alimamy H. Bangura.

http://cocorioko.net/slpp-thugs-supporters-and-officials-go-to-blows-in-mass-brawl-outside-law-courts-building-woman-shot/

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COMMENTARY:

Alan Luke Post: Sierra Leone Political Discussion Board

SIERRA LEONE : SLPP ALLIANCE RESIST SELF STYLED FATHER OF DEMOCRACY 

Mahmud Tim Kargbo

5th January 2017

In most cases, the downfall of people is glued in their lack of means to figure out the factors of their perpetual deterioration and adversity. When you identify your frail spots or those reasons that hinder your progress, there is the possibility, assuming the rich upper class interest is purely committed in stirring ahead, to set apart and disband  such negative quantity, in every place that they may exist, as an intrinsic procedure in taking community ahead.

A lot of challenges continue to threaten the Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP) democratic structures since former Sierra Leone coup leader Julius Maada Bio was elected as the flagship of the party in the 2012 Presidential elections. It kind of look like a tactical stalemate between Julius Maada Bio Paopa faction and true democrats within the Party who disagree with him. To many observers the Chairman and leader of the Party Chief Kapen was with a mission and Maada Bio with a tribalism lead to protect. 

Today, from the SLPP Alliance resistance and the messages they keep on sending out to fellow nationals; it's very clear that all advantages from Bio must come to an end. Who can doubt this positive strides against a lawless leader? From the messages the SLPP Alliance is sending out it is possible Maada Bio tribalism messages will soon end in the slope. The truth is Bio and his fake Paopa faction will be very disappointed with their lack of pure democratic organisation in staging scores of negative actions against political party comrades. The question will be who owns the headlines not just for the slope, but for all true loving democrats in our country? This is an impressive action from the Alliance, the alliance are whining up the clock to sustain genuine democratic structures and in terms of democratic structures the Paopa Maada Bio faction are lining up the cracks. 

This will surely not going to be Bio's time again and the SLPP Alliance is very determine to stop the delicious long run of madness from Bio and his team this time round. To be honest, everything about the Alliance resistance against Bio and his undemocratic Paopa faction worth it in order to sustain our democratic structures in Sierra Leone. One can just asses the current poor actions of our politicians and the poor performance of our Parliament in responsibly holding the Executive Arm of government by their obligations to the State. Democracy lovers in Sierra Leone are only hoping that the Alliance will stick to their current game plan as their action is not just for Maada Bio and his Paopa faction, but for other detractors of democracy within Sierra Leone that they can't get away with their undemocratic actions when the people are really ready to stand up for their democratic values. The Alliance must understand that Maada Bio is not always tidy, he's not always effective democratically speaking, but he can use his tribalism messages to destroy our democratic structures to make money and satisfy his 21 years idleness. The truth is Sierra Leone will benefit extremely from a multidimensional cultural SLPP than having a well tribalistic organised Maada Bio Paopa SLPP faction.

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{Courtsey: Editayo George Temple }- 

*BREAKING NEWS❗❗❗*

*Arata Na E Mot Kill Am... Imran Sillah Replaced Lahai Lawrence Leema* 

Following the outcome of a well attended and constituted caucus of National Executive Council (NEC) members of the main opposition, Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), they have unanimously expelled some members of the party, for insubordination and anti party activities, whilst others were also suspended for similar abrogation, on Wednesday 4th January, 2016 during an extra ordinary NEC confab, held at the Miaata Conference Hall, in Freetown. 

Apparently, the party's acting national publicity secretary, Lahai Lawrence Leema has been expelled for gross manifestation of human indiscipline, and replaced by Mr. Imran Sillah, followed by Dr. Prince Harding, the Deputy Chairman and Leader who has also been replaced by Mr. Joseph Maada Kpulun, Ambassador, Alie Badara, the party's Secretary General has also been expelled and replaced by Mr. Mohamed M. Massaquoi and finally, Dr. Abass Bundu has been expelled, respectively.   

Furthermore, as part of the just concluded SLPP's N.E.C meeting, the following members have also been suspended until further notice pending investigation, they are as follows:- 

1. Hon. Edward Suluku-South

2. Manso Dumbuya-West

3. Hon. Philip Tondoneh-East

4. Alhaji Kanja Sesay

5. Kanji Daramy

6. Augustine Kallon

7. Rex Bonapha

8. Alimammy H. Bangura

 

Significantly, at the NEC Conference, in attendance were, former Vice Presidents during the SLPP, Mr. Solomon Ekuma Berewa and Dr. Joe Demby, alongside Mrs. Isatu Jabbie Kabba, widow of the late President of Sierra Leone, Alhaji, Ahmed Tejan Kabba, Hon. Dr. Bernadett Lahai, Minority Leader in the house of Parliament, Dr. Kanden Kolleh Yumkella, Joe Blell, John O. Benjamin, Andrew Kaillie, Munda Rogers, Alpha Timbo and the embattled chairman and leader of the party, Chief Sumanoh Capen among others. According to the look of things, as at press time, members of the Julius Maada Bio, Pa O Pa squad has been dwarfed.

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DESPITE THE OUTCOME OF THE SLPP NEC CONFERENCE OF 4 JAN 2017, THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASE WAS POSTED AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE SLPP :

PRESS RELEASE

SLPP NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS

FREETOWN, 4th JANUARY, 2017.

The NAtional Secretariat of the SLPP wishes to inform the general membership of the party and the public at large that the decisions/expulsions emanating from the illegal and fake NEC meeting summoned by the suspended Chairman and Leader, former Chief Somanoh Kapen III has no effect and therefore a mere 

exercise in futility. 

The Secretariat is encouraging everybody to stay calm and focused, while the legitimate National Officers/Executive headed by Dr. Prince Alex Harding remain fully in charge of the operations, assets and fortunes of the party. We further assure you that we shall continue to chat the way forward on abated for the success of the party.

We are weighing all options to come out with a robust response to this nefarious, lawless and dangerous anti-party activities.

ONE COUNTRY! ONE

 PEOPLE! 

Signed:...........

Ambassador Alie Badara Kamara,

National Secretary General, SLPP

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COMMENTRY:

"...the SLPP  has a checquered past but the party definitely lacks  a future..."

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SIERRA LEONE: IT'S A PIOUS FRAUD TO THINK SIERRA LEONE CAN GROW WITH A 21 YEARS IDLER AS A LEADER

 BY Mahmud Tim Kargbo

Centre, for Research Documentation Policy Studies and Development of Law

9th January 2017

I take risks to write these truths.

I know that writing in such public forums could adversely impact my career. I have learned that I have many privileges that afford me the option of being out as an objective nationalist. I have accepted that, simply by virtue of who I am, writing the truth about our past, current and potential oppressors in social positions of trust in my own country will always be considered by the very oppressors and their stooges as subjective. I recognise that until we have massively reformed our appraisal of the study of scientific research method practices, my present situation as a researcher and the research that I conduct will be carefully think about surmise and subject to additional scrutiny. I know that, on such a systemic level, rethinking which types of research matter and are worthy of publication will be a long, slow process. But am determine to carry on with a nationalistic sense of purpose, dam the consequences.

And so do many other liberal activists and scholars living in very oppressive regimes. Yet even when we write about our own lived experiences with leaders that doesn't know what's expected from them by the people as they keep on marginalising the majority to satisfy their personal interests we are frequently told (even in academic spaces that imagine themselves as accepting) that we are wrong, mistaken, lying, attention seeking or otherwise excessively doing what's existing in our minds. Need evidence on this? Go through the remarks part of just about any article written by liberally minded  people or scholars I assure you will discover response that attempt to fix our supposed misunderstandings of our own experiences, at best, and undress us of our very humanity, at worst.

If I am going to sustain my actions as a keyboard fighter, I have no doubt that this process is malleable. It’s a culture that we can change from both inside and outside our activities. Within the academy, we have a responsibility to take a long and hard look at which bodies we value and which ones we don’t, and ask ourselves why that is. We have to ask ourselves what types of work are worthy of pay in this coming leadership contest, of promotion and of tenure to save our people from the current economic oppression cause by the poor leadership actions of the current regime. The truth is Maada Bio doesn't have the leadership quality to take our country out of the current economic mess. He battered himself long before now with financial and human right abuse criminal records. He's not trustworthy in any sense of the word to even lead primary school going pupils because responsible parent will be truly concern he may pass over his criminal tricks to the kids, let alone a country. 

This notion of lacking objectivity in Sierra Leone in handling national issues is the heart of all problems. By virtue of being a responsible nationalist, tribalism scholars, scholars with personal interests, politicians with criminal records and politicians with unpatriotic actions and so on, often when they are exposed by nationalists scholars they form the nest of evil against nationals that failed to dance to their oppressive dictates and incarnate a group that is truly seen as despotic in all fronts against democratic peaceful voices. In theory, true nationals always host serious concerns with these acts: subjectivity is incredibly dangerous. Acknowledging subjectivity to be the order of the day in any democratic dispensation paves the way for arrogant behaviours from those in social positions of trust as this often make them to believe that they aren't equal in front of the law. This is disgusting and worrying and it spread lawlessness from the top rankings in social positions of trust in running the State from their prejudices and partialities, but we shall continue to confront them head-on. Valuing subjectivity allow rogues in social positions of trust to use oppressive methodologies like outright sycophancy that let non principled nationals to surrender their professionalism to win favour from these dictators. That's why such subjectivity permits us to delve into a level of research within our communities and cultures that outsiders to our communities would find difficult or impossible to access.

But unfortunately, as a responsible nationalist, my presumed subjectivity from state oppressors has real national consequences. It affects the types of research I am allowed to conduct. It affects whether my research will be considered empirical, useful and valid as am exposing the rots of previous,current and potential State oppressors parading around as our people in social positions of trust are causing to our country in a relentless manner, It affects how hard I will have to fight to get approval to carry out my research by the academic review. It means that to engage in qualitative methodologies, I have to risk the double jeopardy of conducting subjective research as a supposedly subjective scholar and dealing with the fallout should I attempt to publish research considered by many to be as an adviser in my nationalistic program put it "wishy-washy.” It means that the work we do in our own communities may be appropriated by other scholars seen as more objective than ourselves.

Such issues are much more than minor inconveniences. Failing to value and respect the types of data that objective scholars are collecting and the ways we are collecting them is a form of silencing us. When we pioneer methodologies or bring to light cultural knowledge previously or currently rejected as subjective in academic spaces, we are adding our voices to the conversation in the most authentic ways we can. So when our courses are decried as agents of a very political party or politician, or when peer-review publications, Politicians and their stooges reject our efforts with contempt, or when we are ridicule that our writing style is not widely accepted, stooges or the very evil doers of the State and their people want to silence us with an intension to promote their evil acts around the country without being checked. Concurrently, we are being dismantled of our genuineness by the negative forces.

I write truth that past, current and potential oppressors of the people parading around as people in social positions of trust do not want to see or hear. 

I do this with the genuine intention to play my own positive role as a nationalist to educate fellow nationals that might not have the opportunity to unearth the wickedness of our past, current, and potential leaders. The wickedness of our these leaders in most cases is very difficult to understand by outsiders who have never witnessed our real life experiences, in most cases they believe that their wickedness and extreme greed directed towards fellow nationals is beyond normal human behaviour. This is a stretch they often find frightening  in our leaders in terms of genuine national cohesion and patriotism, as their actions are mostly rooted in the devaluation of fellow nationals instead of serving them well as stated in our legal books to add concrete value in their lives. Actions of our past and current leaders are rooted in what they now considered to be a culture that does not believe the ordinary man and his children are equally suppose to benefit from the resources of the state just as they previously and presently benefited/benefiting with their family members, they don't believe survivors of the war they created through their own greed or Ebola and other oppressed nationals are telling the truth about being personally abused in a number of odd ways by not prosecuting embezzlers of Ebola and other national funds, their actions are rooted in a culture that does not believe when the ordinary people say they are experiencing violence and intimidations at the hands of the justice sector. There actions are rooted in a culture that does not believe in objectivity and the rule of law and they are never what they claimed to be when they overthrown the then APC regime or were grappling to gain governance. 

I write the hard but uncomfortable truth.

As true nationalists, we must avoid hypocrisy in all national issues and learn how to tolerate fellow nationals how to think critically. Unfortunately most of our people in social positions of trust like critical thinkers only if they are saying things that are affecting them, but have difficulty turning that lens upon themselves when they're oppressing others. We do not want to consider that our systemic devaluation of objective national thinkers may be rooted in something more than personal preference. We don’t want to admit that we are comfortable judging the merit of values but live in fear of what we cannot easily quantify. We have difficulty accepting that, however inadvertently, we have created an institutional culture that devalues the work of liberalise scholars when we dream ourselves to be committed to the work of personal interest and promote disadvantages in all sectors of our society.

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Below report is from Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 December 2016.

Will the Sierra Leone opposition SLPP SURVIVE ITS LATEST KNOCKOUT BLOW?

The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is in the habit of knocking itself out every now and again – a habit it has come to perfect, since losing the 2007 elections. But will it recover from yesterday’s bout with its own demon?

Yesterday’s resolution passed by a group of its National Executive Council (NEC) members, to suspend a number of their fellow executive officers, including the party chairman and leader – Chief Somano Kapen, has brought the party closer to the edge of disintegration.

Although the party has faced serious instability, chaos – and many would say anarchy, since it lost the 2007 presidential and general elections, there are questions now as to whether the party can seriously recover from what looks like a palace coup – staged yesterday by a group of NEC executives, believed to be supporters and sympathisers of presidential aspirant – Julius Maada Bio.

The suspension of the party leader and chairman – Chief Somano Kapen – in abstentia, also raise doubts about the constitutionality of yesterday’s NEC meeting and the validity of the resolutions passed.

But critics of Chief Somano Kapen (Photo) say that he has become a lame duck chairman, who has lost the confidence of the majority of members of the party and their supporters. They say he is incompetent and deeply partisan.

What is not in doubt however, is the fact that since his election as party chairman and leader in 2013, Kapen has struggled to assert his authority and maintain order and discipline across the party.

He has become a hostage to fortune to those factions of the party, whose single objective is to further the personal and political agendas of some of those seeking presidential office in 2018.

Yet his supporters, of which there are many, say that Kapen’s difficulty in maintaining order, the rule of law and discipline in the party has little to do with incompetence and lack of leadership skills, but more about the determination of a few disruptive elements whose mission is to make the party ungovernable, so as to topple and have him replaced by a chairman who is pliable and sympathetic to their cause – the Maada Bio presidential candidacy.

But after presiding over a series of deep rooted internecine disputes and Supreme Court battles in the past three years, Kapen’s leadership is far from being described as effective.

He has lost control of his executives and the trust of many of the rank and file members who are now tired of the infighting and lack of party discipline.

So why has Kapen been suspended?  

This is how the publicity secretary of the party – Lt. Rtd. Lahai Lawrence Leema, announced yesterday’s resolution to unceremoniously suspend Kapen and others:

“Following the resignation of the elected National Secretary General – Mr. Sulayman Banja Tejansie, the deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alie Badara Kamara, who has been acting in the said capacity since the suspension of Mr. Tejansie, has now been upgraded to the substantive Secretary General, while Lawyer Umaru Napoleon Koroma appointed by the National Executive Council (NEC) as the new SLPP Deputy Secretary General.

“Additionally, the Chairman and Leader of the  SLPP and five others have been suspended for acts contrary to the party’s ideals, philosophy and programs of the party, pending investigation by the disciplinary committee of the SLPP.

“NEC therefore resolved that Dr. Alex Prince Harding – the Deputy National Chairman and Leader of the SLPP be acting as the National Chairman & leader, until the substantive chairman and Leader Chief Kapen faces the disciplinary committee of the SLPP to answer questions for flouting provisions of the SLPP 1995 Constitution as amended, which thereby brought the image of the party into disrepute and public ridicule.”

Whilst Kapen may no doubt be seen as an affable and friendly chap with whom many would have a pleasant and intelligent discourse, it seems his affable personality may have become his greatest weakness.

The SLPP is a highly diverse and complex political party to manage.

And with this diversity and complexity, comes the challenge for any leader to be able to instill discipline, enforce party rules without fear or favour; and more importantly, to set aside minority and personal objectives, in favour of party interests.

Has Kapen shown strong leadership, clear direction, non-partisanship and assertiveness, in the face of the huge challenges and complexity, posed by the vociferous and sometimes violent and disruptive behaviour of those factions, whose respective short term interest is about ensuring that their aspirant for the 2018 presidential election wins the party’s flag-bearer race?

But irrespective of Kapen’s short comings, do the party rules allow for the suspension of the NEC chairman by his fellow NEC officers?

Can they decide to suspend him at an NEC meeting that was believed to have been irregularly convened and not quorate? Was the motion to suspend on the agenda of yesterday’s meeting?

Was the chairman present at the meeting? Was he aware of the motion to suspend prior to the meeting?

If the answer to these questions is no, then yesterday’s NEC decision to suspend Chief Kapen will be seen as a palace coup.

This was yesterday’s NEC agenda

One of the executives at the meeting sent the following running commentary as the NEC meeting was in seating yesterday:  “Chief Kapen, Chairman and Leader of the SLPP has been suspended alongside Victor Sheriff.

“Dr Prince Harding is now the Acting National Chairman and Leader of the SLPP. The mandate of NEC has been extended till after Convention that’s to take place on February 24, 25 and 26th 2017, in Kenema.

“All Lower Level Executive Elections have just been ratified by NEC. Dr Abass Bundu is reading the rules and regulations for the position of presidential nominees. Le120,000,000 as candidature fees has just been agreed  by NEC .

“NEC meeting is in progress.  Nominations have just been made. We are going to take a vote on them. We have just filled the vacant position of Secretary General.  Ambassador Allie Badara is now the new SG.

“NEC life span has been extended to February 28, 2016. The Convention date is 24, 25 and 26 February 2016. The Elections for the National Executive and that of the flagbearer shall be done concurrently.

“The 24 25 26 February 2017 agreed date for the next delegate and flag bearer conference. The Venue is Kenema.”

But condemnation of yesterday’s meeting has been swift and passionate. A senior member of the SLPP told the Sierra Leone Telegraph:  “They (NEC) went against all the rules and regulations you could think about in this world to get to where they are.  The NEC meeting was called without Kapen’s consent. This is not legal under the SLPP constitution. That means the Maada Bio group held a meeting that is unconstitutional.”

According to some supporters of Kapen; “The rules and regulations agreed by the country’s Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) as gazetted and later amended, were flouted by the Maada Bio supporters on the NEC – popularly referred to as ‘Paopas’ (by any means necessary).

“Instead of the delegates list authentication to be done concurrently by the Constituency Chairmen, District Chairmen, etc, all was done by the Regional Chairmen. This was completely wrong.

“In principle the Regional Chairmen are responsible for the mess the Party is in at the moment. Even when a court injunction was in place during the past days, they proceeded to hold the district and regional elections at secret locations.

“If SLPP  is behaving in such undemocratic manner, how are we expected to oppose APC if they do likewise. More, importantly SLPP may field a candidate as Flagbearer that was not elected in accordance with the Constitution, hence risking the possibility of nullification at the 2018 general election by APC.”

Other comments from SLPP members 

“SLPP has today been finally laid into its grave.  May its soul return to its founders.”

“SLPP is imploding and no one seems to have authority over the Paopas. This is Sad.”

“Instead of a party convention next year, it will be a coronation of Julius Maada Bio.”

“The Paopa faction continues to hold the party to ransom. The rest of the flagbearer candidates and non-Paopa membership have some serious decisions to make.”

“Yesterday’s resolution gives certain faction ascendancy in SLPP affairs. And this group will not put the party’s best interest above all else.”

“The party now stands at cross roads…some hard counter measures need to be decided on by genuine stakeholders and not charlatans and political hacks.”

Speaking to the Sierra Leone Telegraph last night about what the party must do now to save itself, Jonathan Tengbe (Photo) who is one of the contenders for the party’s presidential candidacy, said: “The flagbearer election must be organised by a new national executive. What they have put forward is not in the interest of democracy in Sierra Leone and Unity in the Party.

“Any flagbearer resulting from such arrangement will not be supported by a huge proportion of the SLPP membership and SLPP will risk losing the national elections in 2018.”

“My suggestion is to re-do all  disputed constituency, district and regional elections, following which we should convene another NEC meeting to discuss a date for the National Executive elections and later a flagbearer election.”

Yesterday’s event at the NEC meeting of Sierra Leone’s main opposition SLPP party may seem like the end of what many regard as a grand old party with high ideals. And in the words of a party supporter:  “I think NEC has just managed to tip the party overboard yesterday. We wait and see what unfolds.”

But it is important to put into context, what is happening in the party as symptomatic of the current state of the country’s national politics.

Democracy, and law and order in Sierra Leone are still in a state of flux. These are the building blocks of a stable, progressive and inclusive society.

But, until they are fully adopted and domesticated across all political parties in the country, Sierra Leone will continue to be governed by charlatans.

Most people aspiring for political office regard politics as perhaps their only opportunity to access or gain power to further their personal interests, or to become rich.

Sierra Leone is one of the poorest nations in the world, yet few are entering politics or seeking political leadership out of altruism and the need to serve their fellow humans. Far too many in the opposition SLPP have lost sight of what is really important in politics.

And this is true also of the ruling APC party, whose battle for its heart and soul – especially their party presidential candidacy for the 2018 elections, will soon commence. And when it does – there will be blood on the carpet.

SLPP NEC Resolution passed yesterday, Saturday, 17th December 2016:

 

 

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Maada Bio Is Bad News for SLPP and S/Leone

By Ranger 

 {Courtesy form another Post 27/7/16}

In response to a post which attempted to paint Julius Maada Bio as a saint and the most popular candidate for the SLPP and for the people in Sierra Leone, it is crystal clear that Maada Bio can never ever claim innocence when history is delved into.

In the first place, it is only the most ignorant person who would agree that Maada Bio is not a traitor. Everyone who was old enough to know at the time knows that Maada Bio betrayed his boss Capt. Valentine Strasser after convincing the other members of the NPRC to stage a palace coup against Capt. Strasser. Maada Bio's reason at the time was because Strasser was too ambitious and was planning to hang on to power.

However, everyone knows that Strasser was never the man Maada Bio portrayed him to be because Maada Bio's current pa-o-pa behavior for the SLPP to accept him at all cost and make him their next flag bearer is an indication that Maada Bio is not only a violent man but that he has no good intention to display anywhere.

For Blama's Finest aka London Jet to write ‘The Truth is not our Enemy' in which he makes a fine attempt to paint Maada Bio as a saint is a misnomer. To say Maada Bio demonstrated his concern by putting the lives of his wife and daughter at risk apart from his own life, shows how callous and desperate he is to lead the SLPP. 

The statement that the APC sent a paramilitary wing to terrorize the SLPP is not only a misleading statement but a deliberate attempt to confuse the issues and make the RSLAF look like they are partisan when all they are doing is their professional and patriotic duty. 

Perhaps Blama's Finest aka London Jet would like the situation to degenerate to chaos and anarchy whenever the SLPP have a public meeting and the security forces should stand by and allow them to kill each other? No, this can never be allowed to happen because the APC and RSLAF are more intelligent than that.

Talking about Yumkella in your post, it is clear to see that Maada Bio can never light a candle to Yumkella, not even when Maada Bio would have completed his so-called doctorate degree in a London university. In the first place, Yumkella is a gentleman which Maada Bio never was and never can be. Maada Bio can never be as respected and dynamic as well as loved by the people the way Yumkella is loved and accepted by the SLPP. 

Yumkella is free to travel to the USA anytime he wants and the US Embassy would grant him a visa. But Maada Bio would never dare to step his foot on American soil without risking arrest after he beat up a woman said to be his actual wife. Between the two men who is violent and who is a gentleman?

Before laying this matter to rest, it is necessary to state that the APC under President Ernest Bai Koroma  is the best thing that ever happened to Sierra Leone.

Finally, against this background, it is worth mentioning the fact that even all the members in the SLPP aspirants Alliance are of far better presidential material than Maada Bio can ever hope to be.

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The truth is not our enemy.....

Julius Maada Bio cannot be ignored!

Julius Maada Bio is the single most popular individual in the entire SLPP.

When Julius Maada Bio turns up, the earth shakes, things happen and the impossible becomes possible.

Kailahun was and is a very good example of why Julius Maada Bio has such huge mass appeal, adoration and affection from the hardworking men and women across the country.

In Kailahun, when they needed support and the physical presence of the so-called SLPP Big Chiefs only Julius Maada Bio was willing to put not only his life at risk, but his wife and precious beautiful baby daughter.

For Julius Maada Bio understands what matters most to our people:

You can throw money at us...

You can boast about your CV...

You can even impress us with your fancy autographs with world leaders....

But our eyes are wide open.

We can see through the empty rhetoric and contempt you have for us.

If we are not important enough for you to stand with us in our hour of need. When the APC Political Mafia sends its paramilitary wing aka the Sierra Leone Army to terrorise us....then it is clear for all to see that we don't matter to you.

We are not worthy of your time, and yet you claim to be our saviours??

God help us!

If the ALLIANCE of dreamers is the answer, then I fear the question.

Julius Maada Bio stood up to be counted, ready to take a bullet for us. Putting his wife and precious beautiful baby daughter at risk...

Where was the ALLIANCE of dreamers when Kailahun needed your presence and inspiration?

I guess we all know the answer:

Absent Without Leave (AWOL)

And this is the ALLIANCE of Cowards that can deliver us from APC terrorism?

Please folks, our lives should not be treated as a joke served up to assuage Yumkella's ego....

People call for unity and an end to the Blame game....

I agree!!!

Unity starts with HONESTY and a SHARED COMMON PURPOSE.

Honesty should mean and end to the stupid myth that the ALLIANCE of dreamers can deliver the North....

Honesty should mean an acceptance of Julius Maada Bio's statesmanship, courage and humility.

And a SHARED COMMON PURPOSE should mean that we all rally around our party's Biggest asset (Julius Maada Bio) and work tirelessly to end APC terrorism.

The truth is not my enemy, don't make it yours. Look in the mirror, swallow hard and join with us to end the suffering of all our people across our beautiful Sierra Leone.s

Blama's Finest,

The Man Who Conjures Something Out Of Nothing!!!