MORE PICTURES FROM THE VISIT TO NEW JERSEY ON MAY 19-20, 2006 OF THE HIGH-POWERED APC DELEGATION FROM FREETOWN, LED BY THE PARTY LEADER AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, ERNEST BAI KOROMA
| KABS KANU BECAME THE FIRST JOURNALIST IN ALL SIERRA LEONE TO INTERVIEW ERNEST KOROMA, AFTER HE REVEALED HIS AMBITION TO BE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE |
| APC SEC.GENERAL AND COCORIOKO EDITOR REALIZE IT IS A SMALL WORLD
The APC Secretary General, Victor Foh, and the COCORIOKO Editor , Kabs Kanu, had cause to learn once again that we live in a small world.
Foh came from downtown Somerset with aides and met the Editor interviewing the APC Leader. He was busy enquiring from aides and joking, asking who it was that had such very close proximity contact with the leader (Possibly for security reasons since they were in a different country). Before the interview, incidentally, somebody had told the Editor that Foh was married into a family the Editor grew up with in Bo. The Editor took the opportunity to joke with Foe : “When you soon known who I am, you will be surprised ” .Foe was anxious naturally to know but waited patiently and after the interview, the Editor asked him : “Where is my sister ( Your wife ) ? I The Editor surprised him obviously and after Foh heard that the Editor grew up with members of the family in which he had married, he was very excited and n they had an interesting conversation during which the Editor named all his inlaws. and recounted how his and the wife’s family lived virtually as one family . . Yonta, who and her sisters and brother grew up with the Editor at Reservation , Bo , during the 1960s. Her sisters Lydia and Evelyn attended the same primary school with the Editor. Their brother, Sammy , and the Editor were closer than brothers and were not only classmates but played together and exchanged comics as kids. Foh was moved to know that the Editor knew his wife, brother and sisters as well as her parents, and that they were virtually a family at Bo Reservation during childhood. Foh took the hand of the Editor and led him around introducing him to other APC stalwarts as his “Komaneh” .He tried to introduce him to the leader , but Ernest told him that the Editor and himself were buddies at FBC in the 1970s. . The lesson to be learnt from this is that we Sierra Leoneans may have our different political associations , affiliations and philosophies but we must never forget that we come from a very small country where we are all interrelated somehow by marriage, kinship, tribe , region or other considerations. Foh (Right) and the Editor took this friendly picture afterwards. Indeed, it is a small world.
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| The APC Secretary General, Victor Foh, and Mortgage Banker, Foday Mansaray( In white shirt ), with the APC Leader’s delegation and some members of the New Jersey Chapter of the APC.
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| The President of the New Jersey Chapter of the APC, Mr. Mohamed Azziz Nabe |
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| Mr. Mohamed Sowe , the Internal Auditor of the APC North American Branch and Secretary General of the New Jersey Chapter |
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| An Old Edwardian get-together at the hotel where the COCORIOKO Editor, Kabs Kanu , interviewed the APC Leader. The Editor ( Right ) , an Old Edwardian too, was excited to meet one of his boyhood soccer heroes , Allieu Pat-Sowe (Second from right ) , who was one of the stars of the Old Edwardians soccer team of the mid to late 1960s .Pat-Sowe played alongside other Old Edwardian greats like the late Patrick Kemokai,the late goalkeeper Amadu Kargbo, Obi Metzger, Wasiu Sunmonu, Prince Elba ,Allister Walton-Davies, Daniel Kamara ( Fangay), Sylvanus Morado Kamara etc who captured the 1968 League Championship and the 1969 FA Cup. Obi and Wasiu joined Ports Authority after 1968 .
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| The Editor (Centre) seen here interviewing the APC Leader, Ernest Koroma ( Left). Sitting next to them is the President of the North American Branch of the APC, Mr. Alimamy Kargbo. |
| Alex Mansaray ( Centre) confers with the Editor while he was interviewing the APC Leader. Right is APC North America Chairman, Alimamy Kargbo, taking notes too from the leader’s responses.
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| Business man , Mr. Asmad Barrie, the Internal Auditor of the New Jersey Chapter of the APC. |
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| The APC people pose for this picture after the Editor finished interviewing the leader of the party, Ernest Koroma. |
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| The APC Leader, Ernest Koroma , being interviewed by the Editor of COCORIOKO. .The leader is wearing a special party T-shirt with his name and position inscribed on it. Watch his right chest . Copyright. COCORIOKO. |
J.J . SAFFA AND DELEGATION SCORE FIRST VICTORY IN DC
Thursday May 4, 2006
The star-studded SLPP Delegation touring the various branches of the party abroad scored their first victory in the United States of America when they succeeded in restoring peace and sanity to the chaotic Washington DC Branch of the party, after a long, all-night meeting yesterday.
Our reporter was present and he sent us this preliminary report :
VICTORY FOR 8 MEMBER SLPP DELEGATES IN AMERICA, AS THE LONG AND SOMETIMES EXPLOSIVE WASHINGTON, DC. BRANCH DISPUTE PEACEABLY RESOLVED
In a meeting that lasted for several hours at the residence of the SLPP Secretary General, Mr. Jacob Jusu Saffa, the long and sometimes explosive dispute that resulted into the formation of two factions in the Washington DC SLPP Branch has finally been peaceably resolved.
According to our reliable source in Maryland, the two bitter opponents, Mr. Ben Silla and Mr. Matthew Margao apologized to each other and shook hands to the applause of members present. Mr. Silla and Mr. Margao will not be candidates for either the Washington Metropolitan Chapter elections or the National SLPP Chairmanship elections. Mr. Jonathan Lebbie states that new candidates will now contest for those positions. (More to Follow )
