Government press statement reproduced to demonstrate how SLPP operatives distort and fabricate facts

February 3, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU News Extra, Uncategorized 0

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We reproduce the press statement from the Government of Sierra Leone on the recent relieving of his post of the Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Professor Ogunade Davidson . The statement mentioned nothing about “Non-Performance ” . Where did the NEW PEOPLE’ s National Correspondent get it that the government had  said Professor Davidson was dismissed for non-performance , which warranted what the paper wrote under the headline : “COCORIOKO CONTRADICTS PRESIDENTIAL PRESS GOVERNMENT ON LAST WEEK’S SACK OF SIERRA LEONE’S ENERGY MINISTER ” ?

The NEW PEOPLE wrote :

“Cocorioko, the main online propaganda mouthpiece of President Ernest Koroma’s corruption and violence tainted regime, has contradicted last week’s press release from the president which gave “non performance” as the sole reason for his decision to sack former Energy Minister Prof. Ogunlade Davidson.  ”

 ” In its story How Professor Davidson made his exit Cocorioko says “apart from stating that the President has deemed it necessary to relieve Prof. Ogunlade Davidson of his duties no other reason was given for the dismissal”.

“A foreign embassy diplomat in Freetown who read the story instantly reacted in total disbelief, saying: “Where on earth can a president worth his salt dismiss his main minister who leads his regime’s number one priority (Energy in his “Agenda for Change”) without any reason”.

“However, the Cocorioko cover up came in too little and too late as local and international press houses such as Sierra Express Media, Reuters and Africa Young Voices have been swift in either reporting the president’s “non-performance” excuse as stated in his press release, or investigating with solid evidence the plausibility, truth and accuracy of this excuse as standard practices in professional journalism require.”

FIRSTLY, Cocorioko was not the paper that wrote the said article.It was the TORCHLIGHT Newspaper. The article in COCORIOKO was clearly credited to THE TORCHLIGHT.
SECONDLY, the Presidential press statement mentioned nothing about non-performance ,but listen to the NEW PEOPLE  repeatedly saying so.
We reproduce the press statement below for Sierra Leoneans to see another classic example of idiocy and distortion of facts by the NEW PEOPLE and SLPP newspapers. Be careful what you read in an SLPP  newspaper . You might be reading something that is totally false and deliberately meant to deceive you. The SLPP journalists have no respect for truth or accuracy. Spewing lies , hate, tribalism, miscreancy  and idiocy are enough. Read the statement now and see:
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 GOVERNMENT PRESS STATEMENT

 

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT HIS EXCELLENCY THE

 

PRESIDENT HAS DEEMED IT NECESSARY TO RELIEVE PROF. OGUNLADE

 

DAVIDSON OF HIS DUTIES AS MINISTER OF ENERGY AND WATER RESOURCES

 

WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT. IN CONSEQUENCE THEREOF, IT HAS PLEASED HIS

 

EXCELLENCY TO APPOINT MR OLUNIYI ROBBIN-COKER AS MINISTER OF ENERGY

 

AND WATER RESOURCES, SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF PARLIAMENT.

 

END

 

STATE HOUSE

      FREETOWN                                                                                  24TH JANUARY, 2012

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