WITHIN THE WALLS OF FICTITIOUS LOYALTY AND REAL LOYALTY: AN OPEN NOTE TO PRESIDENT MAADA BIO OF SIERRA LEONE

 

WITHIN THE WALLS OF FICTITIOUS LOYALTY AND REAL LOYALTY: AN OPEN NOTE TO PRESIDENT MAADA BIO OF SIERRA LEONE

Statement of Reality

 

 

Author:  Prince Foday

 

President Maada Bio, please be alert about fictitious loyalty and real loyalty. The people close to you should never be trusted, except for the few genuine worldly angels around  who supported  you and believed in you when you  had nothing in the UK ( the spring board of your civilian political journey), and those beyond the UK obsessed in the SLPP party loyalty.

Trust that those you embraced from the few that were empathetic and never had the clue of a payback of their voluntary support of your political bounce-back are the very people that should be sealed in your heart.

When some of us were teenagers and young, we felt everyone was nice, loved us and with a heart of gold. Upon growing up and with challenges, we realised their evil-hearts and noticed that they were humans born in their reincarnated lives to destroy and test the human angels of God.

Maada, I know you are a great angel but being destroyed by people fanning the flames of your exile. Trust that the wrong decision you made was to allow Ernest Bai Koroma to go on exile. I am optimistic that the action was fuelled by fictitious loyalists and people who shall smile when you go into political exile after  APC bounces back to power. 

The point I am making is out of genuine concern for you and the potential position you shall be in when the political steam subsides. I have a strong ancestry and parental lineage with Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party and even registered with the party in the UK& I, although left out of the way politics was conducted by the team then. I was never motivated to stay after performing a litmus test of their political delivery. My dad even supported your partt to  win from his chiefdom and that tells the stake his siblings have in your win during the 2018 elections. My dad died a few months after the elections.

Nigeria politicians continue to build the platform of their politicians to stay at home to create jobs, even with their history of stealing public funds. Do you know how many Sierra Leoneans were benefiting from Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma to the extent of removing household incomes from them? It is inevitable that Ernest still has businesses running but the impact of his stay in country would have generated more jobs and income from taxation beneficial to Sierra Leone's development efforts. 

In my observation, Ex-President Koroma was trying to set the stage for Nigeria’s political model, where Ex-Presidents will stay home to provide employment, advisory SEP (social, economic and political) services and stability. Ex-President Koroma never stayed in the city but built a mansion in the village, engaged in agriculture and other employable services to relieve our Sierra Leone from its unemployment challenge. 

If you can remember, Ex-President Koroma never made it tough for you in your renewed political journey after being a combat head of state. He encouraged you in your civilian political journey and even financed your party for national projects.

To be honest, Ernest had no clue about the coup. The coup in my observation was orchestrated by those who feel their bread and butter were removed from them and with the expectation that Ernest should stay in power for a lasting period for them to benefit from their selfishness.

Understanding the Sagittarius 

Sagittarius cannot mince their words, although subject to unexpected deaths for the benefit of all. Sagittarius is jesus (lower jesus) in disguise with the inevitable risk of death out of human greed, misunderstanding and maybe regrets from human targets. 

Bio, my home in the UK is open to you during your potential exile and that will be a time to tell you about my history of human deceit, nightmares, strong hope in God to sail me through from unknown encounters, faith and hope.

Learning from the Experience of Leadership and Life journeys:  A genuine dispensation, hate, jealousy and natural karma

My first experience of betrayal was in university when I handed my assignment to a colleague to hand over to our lecturer after helping them with problems in quantitative economics. The colleague voluntarily asked me to give him my assignment to present it to the lecturer. Upon asking the lecturer, he told me that he received no assignment. Assignments in my university constituted a component part of the comprehensive assessments and I had to lose that part of the grading.

Secondly and in the same university, I took a diamond to our hostel to show colleagues. After showing the diamond to colleagues, I put the diamond in my luggage in my personal wardrobe in the university hostel. The diamond worth 3 million Leones in the 90s. At the time I wanted to sell it and looked in my luggage, it was not there and I could not find it. 

The third experience of betrayal was from two colleagues in my department at the Gambia Senior Secondary School. One of  colleagues who is now mentally challenged out of all the wrongs he had done and toes he stepped on (branding his family as witches and falsifying information about friends in the Gambia, Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom to drag them into to his mental challenge) failed a student on the subject he was teaching. As head of department, I was asked by the Principal to second mark the paper. The student passed after the second marking. As the action was a professional misconduct, the school management held a disciplinary meeting. The management was about to sack him but I intervened to appeal to the disciplinary team to give him a second chance.

The fourth experience in my department again, was another colleague I recruited in my department after going through an interview with the board of governors. As a tradition in the school, I was part of the interview panel. He joined my department after the interview but within the first academic year complains started coming about him not knowing the subject or inefficiency in delivering the subject to the expectations of the students and standards of our school. I protected him by telling the students to be patient with him as he is new in the school. Further complaints went to the Principal and Vice Principal. But because I was protecting him as a new teacher out of my rationality and the fact he needed to be given time to familiarise with the standards of the school, he survived the first academic year. In the second academic, I still continued to protect him, even when the students approached me on his subject delivery problem, I still kept on asking for patience in that deescalating manner. As it is the culture, heads of department, including the other members of the management team will meet to evaluate all the teachers. I still continue to protect him. It was after the meeting that the principal and vice principal called me for a personal meet, informing me that the very teacher I am protecting was coming behind to gossip about me to them. I had no option but to leave the management to decide on his sacking. He finally left our school after the second academic year. 

The Question about My National and Global Contribution to Sierra Leone: Explaining the invisible hand to Sierra Leoneans-God being my reward, not human beings

The intense civil war situation in Sierra Leone made me flee to the Gambia where shortly on arrival I became employed as a teacher. I was employed to teach Business Management and Economics at a grade “A” secondary school, Gambia High School which later became Gambia Senior Secondary School. I taught maths and statistics too in afternoons at the Banjul academy.

After teaching at Gambia Senior Secondary School for a year, I established the Gambia Senior Secondary Business Club together with my head of department. 

The club was meant to provide practical experience to students. The club opened a canteen and stationery shop in the school. The canteen and stationery shop were used as a research platform for students. The club organised a yearly trade fair that was open to businesses to exhibit their products and promote sales.

I can remember one of the business participants giving our school one million Dalasis for being impressed by the initiative. The hard work in the school led to my appointment as head of the commercial studies department after my head gained employment at Marina International School. 

Although I was teaching at the Gambia High School, my multitasking nature led to the establishment of a registered and incorporated charities, Voluntary Teachers’ Association (VOTA) and Group for African Peace (GAP). 

The voluntary teachers association was formed to respond to the educational integration of refugee students from war-affected countries in West Africa. We intervened to meet their learning needs through the project, School for the Academic Displaced (SAD). We initially started with summer classes. Upon the reopening of schools, we wrote to Principals and Heads of schools appealing to them to absorb the non-exam class students. We maintained the refugee students meant to sit GCSE Exams in our school for the academically displaced. Interestingly, our school had nine division ones out of eleven divisions in the whole country.

The formation of the Group for African Peace led us to win a bid for Sierra Leone after the civil war for the African Youth Conference Against Hunger. I was appointed to represent the team from Sierra Leone to speak for them before the elections as to where the next conference should be. I used the sound bite that the conference in Sierra Leone will give hope to the youths. The sound bite appealed to voters made the Sierra Leone youth team win ahead of Senegal, Nigeria, Congo, and so forth.

Upon returning to Sierra Leone after the civil war, I took up a job as an Accountant at a reputable security firm and later became a Columnist on human rights with the New Citizen Newspaper. The newspaper runs for five days a week and as a columnist, you are meant to come up with articles. My multitasking, teamwork skills, problem-solving skills, time management skills and result-oriented skills made me cope with both jobs. 

My approach in Sierra Leone after my return is to educate Sierra Leoneans to be self-reliant. I created my own job without depending on the government or public sector jobs. 

An Appeal for the Return of Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma: I have to beg you on this President Maada Bio for the sake of stability and peace  in our thriving democracy

 

Sierra Leone Brothers: Ex-President Koroma and President Bio

President  Maada Bio, I am appealing for the return of Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma. President Koroma set the stage for incoming presidents to settle in their villages or towns after politics. 

I was impressed by the huge mansion that he built in his town coupled with employment opportunities he provided for the township and its people. We need to understand that there is no place like home. Allowing him to stay in exile in Nigeria will not be beneficial to Sierra Leone and that would have a psychological torture on him from being far from his people and country. 

Ex-President Koroma has contributed a lot to Sierra Leone and deserves stability and statesmanship. We need to understand that he is our brother and a family member, and there is no need to dispose of him in a bad bush. 

President Bio, I continue to appeal for his return to reset his vision of the political model in Nigeria. I am making the appeal because you are a Sierra brother and building the right post-political pathway is a feasible region to be.  

Sir, you have had the experience of life overseas and grave experiences of being in exile. The pathway I am suggesting is in your best interest of achieving a stable and peaceful political retirement. I will want you to search soul and work towards the return of Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma. It is ideal to forgive him and embrace his innocence. 

I was a heightened critic of Ex-President Koroma but that was all about providing the invisible hand to shape our beloved country for the better. I could remember writing an article about the arrest of some military personnel and civilians for the coup. I said in an article that we do not further want innocent bloods to shed in Sierra Leone.  I further wrote the many other articles to caution his social, economic and political negative actions.

In a post-war era, all those at the core of politics or steering our nation ships need is to work towards a reflective practice of what went wrong, how can we change the narrative of the yester-years, how we can build peace in all corners of Sierra Leone, how we can ensure a fair spread of our national income and how we can model our political system to cope with international standards, and how we can ensure that the rural sector matches with the urban sectors.

Conclusion 

President Maada Bio, hope you will learn from the caution to reverse the wrong dynamics. You can do it through reflective practices, and why not Mr President? We are all not perfect but reasonably working towards the threshold of perfection is the best pathway to be. 

Fictitious loyalists are damaging your credibility, affecting your political psychological torture and mental health. They will praise you and lure you into dangerous and regretful outcomes. Within their hearts are insecurities, uncertainties in their static evil-middle chain of fictitious loyalty. They are groomed by your political brand competitors to fake as a loyal party member but within their intention is to destabilise your genuine political intentions and further share your political strategy with rivals. 

The fake political bees are among all political engagements and serving their self-interest beyond political ideologies and focus.  Most hailed from poor backgrounds that only understand the language of fictitious political loyalty and predominantly and statically self-centred. They present themselves as political loyalists but their poor-past had made them aggressive to amass wealth to show off to feed their board line personality disorder and to impress those that had seeing and benefitted from wealth through political lineages, and hard-working wealth and unexpected wealth ordained by God.

Most failed to understand that the civil war in Sierra Leone was a way of God turning the table around for the poor to become rich. It is observed that lessons have not been learnt, as only an infinitesimal step has been made to address the poverty gap, and close our poverty gap out of greed and forcing admiration out of stolen wealth. 

The country's politicians and rich need to wise up and embark on a positive pathway to mitigate the poverty gap. If lessons still continue not to be learnt, our beloved country will be reversed to the dark days of President Siaka Stevens in the start days of the 80s and middle 80s, and President Momoh’s after the middle 80s and start of 90s.

The appeal to you President Bio is to organise a mediation between you and Ex-President Koroma on the basis of his return from exile. I suggest that the mediation should include Ex-Presidents of ECOWAS and an independent legal luminary to serve as moderator.  I would not mind to be part of the mediation team on press coverage, as I have my media pass to interview leaders or famous people that want their void to be heard at community, national and global levels as a professional freelance journalist.  I suggest the outcome of mediation to be in the form of a memorandum of understanding that is strict kept  by both you and Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma. 

I and many genuine people that yearn for your peaceful post-political settlement in Sierra Leone mean good for you, and nothing else. There is no place like home. We want you to settle in Sierra Leone after your political journey to provide us and the international community with political wisdom, to serve as an election observer in Africa’s democratic milestones, to continue creating jobs, and to live in peace in your community, national and global family as a statesman an emulating stateman.

Reconciling with Ex-President Koroma and setting the stage for our Ex-Presidents to stay home will be an inevitable way of building our social, economic and political peace. In additional, the reconciliation will support our citizens’ personal, social and emotional development. 

Prince Foday

Sierra Leonean

Managing Editor, the Global Incarnator online News