Only
people who do not know the
Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP
) will be surprised to hear that
the chaos in Bo yesterday was a
well-planned and
well-orchestrated ploy by the
SLPP to gain sympathy from the
international community. We have
been warning Sierra Leoneans
about this since two years ago
that the SLPP , knowing how
limited they are in human
resources to challenge President
Ernest Koroma ‘s popularity and
achievements , will do
everything to provoke violence
and frame the ruling All
People’s Congress ( APC ) to
involve the fickle International
Community.
JOHN BENJAMIN : THIS MAN IS THE
SLPP’S MASTER TACTICIAN
ORCHESTRATING ALL THE PLANS FOR
VIOLENCE TO FRAME THE APC
Everything happening is
according to laid-out textbook
-type plan by the SLPP to frame
the APC. Remember that they
started it in 2009 during that
famous chaos at their
headquarters in Freetown that
was provoked by them , during
which the demonic John Benjamin,
tried unsuccessfully to use the
former U.S. Ambassador, June
Carter Perry, to smear the APC
Government to the International
Community. Knowing the revulsion
with which the International
Community and the United Nations
(UN ) now regards
politically-motivated rape and
human rights abuses of women,
the SLPP coached some women to
lie that they were raped by SLPP
supporters. It was only when a
judicial investigation was
launched through the setting up
of a committee that the truth
was unravelled that the women
were not raped. All these tricks
being employed by the SLPP are
the handiwork of the desperate
-for-power and nebulous
character, John Benjamin , who
believes that by stigmatizing
the APC as a violent party he
can get the International
Community to sympathize with the
SLPP and effect regime change in
Sierra Leone.
If the
SLPP are not depending on
violence, they would not have
chosen a violent thug and
murderer like Maada Bio as their
presidential candidate . The
move to cheat Wusu BOIE of the
flagbeareship in the last minute
and hand it to Bio was motivated
by the desire to bring in a
violent man and somebody who
provokes violemce because the
SLPP has decided that violence
that will frame the APC is the
only way. What is surprising is
why certain people just cannot
get this message.
It is to
be hoped that the International
Community will not buy into the
SLPP game plan and that they
wait for all the facts to come
in from independent sources on
the ground. They need to know
that some of the key officials
of the Sierra Leone Association
For Journalists ( SLAJ ) are
pro-SLPP. They showed their true
colours recently when a
journalist was assaulted
.Quickly, without waiting for
the facts to emerge, SLAJ
floated a statement accusing the
Presidential guard and calling
for investigations.
Interestingly, when three
journalists from the AWARENESS
TIMES newspaper were brutalized
by thugs unleashed on them by
the violent Maada Bio, SLAJ
response was muted and
compromising. This is one of the
incidents of double standards by
SLAJ that will destroy the
organization’s credibility if it
is not stopped .
Nor
should the International
Community take some of our civil
society groups seriously. They
came into existence during the
reign of the SLPP and many of
them are pro-SLPP. All these
facts attest to the delicacy of
the political situation in
Sierra Leone and the
International Community should
avoid making the mistake of
jumping to conclusion early when
the SLPP and their allies SLAJ
and civil society groups start
condemning the government. They
should make their own objective
investigations.
We hope
the SLPP will cease all the
dirty policking and start
practising real and genuine
politics
