PDL STATEMENT ON THE COCAINE PLANE IMBROGLIO II Posted on July 23, 2008 at 01:34:58 by salpedel1986
The Sierra Leone People’s Democratic League (PDL) does not buy the vague idea that the future of the Sierra Leonean nation be entrusted in the hands of an illegal Government, which is so ridden with deceits and subservient to foreign criminal adventurers.
The mystery surrounding the smooth landing on Sunday July 13, 2008, at the Lungi International Airport in Freetown, of a foreign plane loaded with 1, 540 pounds of cocaine has further helped to vindicate PDL position that, the illegal government of President Koroma has lost credibility to steer the affairs of Sierra Leone. It is our assessment that the souring narcotic trade syndrome gripping Sierra Leone today is deepening in view of the strong and mounting evidence of inactions by President Ernest Bai Koroma.
While the reported unauthorised landing of this mysterious cocaine plane amount to complete mockery of Sierra Leone’s sovereignty and national integrity; it further exposes the APC inability to direct the affairs of Sierra Leone. We therefore join Sierra Leoneans everywhere to express our indignation and dismay at the huge embarrassment and disgrace this cocaine plane saga has caused for our country and Africa in general. The danger that lies here is that, should it for instance, be a foreign military aggression plane at that time of the morning, what would have been the response of our Western trained security men and women to force that plane not to land on Sierra Leone territory? Where was the radar system at the airport? What happened to the marine unit of the Sierra Leone Army that no one was able to intercept the reported “speed boat” loaded with people, which departed from Freetown to the direction of the international airport across Lungi, only two hours before the landing of the said cocaine plane at the international
airport? Is Sierra Leone really safe in the hands of President Ernest Koroma?
The Sierra Leonean people are once again confronted with the political deception and insensitivity of the APC bandwagon with regards to providing the needs of the nation. The APC business-like government has continued to diminish with the deteriorating insecurity to Sierra Leonean life and property.
The Sierra Leonean people do not need outside agents or hired mercenaries to help intimidate proper investigations into the cocaine plane. Because, they have learnt from experienced that where and whenever these people are deployed on foreign lands, on similar situations they ended up burying facts and killing entire cases of natural death. Sierra Leoneans don’t need what happened in Ghana to be imported in their country. In Ghana, for instance, there was a catch of cocaine worth over five hundred million United States dollars that was seized at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra. These same agents from the US and Europe were invited and paid by the Government to assist investigations into the illicit trade in that country. Until today, Ghanaians are left wondering what really happened to the seized drugs and whether arrests were even made.
We strongly believe that the US has a role, an important role to play in combating the menace of the illicit trade in narcotic drugs in Sierra Leone and elsewhere, and that battle could only be won if it is first fought at home by destroying the chain of king pins and stopping users. If there are no consumers, there are no middle buyers, and then production will diminish. In a situation where the illegal use of drugs in the United States alone now netted its controllers over two hundred billion dollars yearly is too dangerous for the well-being of mankind. We share the belief that there should be conscious decisions, based on fact rather than propaganda, at the grassroots level of the global community, that the global drug trafficking should not be tolerated.
The facts about the rising illicit trade in Sierra Leone are well documented. Those familiar with Sierra Leone’s recent past politics would be tempted to question the activities of political godfathers in the country, who receive funding from outside, mainly from right-wing extremist groups to install and control governments. These political godfathers undoubtedly control everything-own big-time businesses, handle government contracts, dictate the composition of cabinet and heads of the various State Departments; and they use every dirty trick: invent propaganda, import marabous and Alfa-men to protect the President, finance political parties’ campaigns; stuffed ballot boxes; purchase elections; extort; blackmail; invent false stories in the media to hang the opposition; infiltrate and obstruct opposition political parties and even organise coups. We challenge the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) of Sierra Leone to publish information regarding political parties funding in the 2007 elections campaign.
The APC must check itself proper than spending its precious time and resources to hire foreign agents into the cocaine plane saga as a ploy to subvert facts. What action has the President taken on reports of misconduct in a flight, of head of a Sierra Leonean government delegation to Nigeria? Has the President acted on the report that his Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs, Hon. Hindolo Trye was refused entry into the UK and sent back home via Spain on suspicion that he was too addicted with drugs? Who is the APC fooling by bringing into the country foreign agents whose activities are funded by the profits of international drug smuggling, to investigate on a matter that we believe there are men and women of integrity in the Sierra Leone Police and other security organs of the state could handled better. We beg the APC not to bring laughter in the funeral home.
We want to warn the APC not to repeat the un-diplomatic blunders committed by its predecessors in 1982, by hiding behind the cocaine plane saga to turn any territory of Sierra Leone as a centre for malicious propaganda attacks on foreign governments, which are opposed to US imperialism, oppression, plunder and hegemony. We oppose and ready to fight back any attempt by the US/Western imperialists to use the cocaine plane imbroglio in Sierra Leone to tailor malicious and character assassination propaganda against the elected progressive governments in Latin America and elsewhere.
It is on record that the APC regime under the late President Siaka Probyn Stevens allowed Sierra Leone’s territorial waters be used by the British Royal Navy as staging posts during the invasion of the Argentina Island of the Falklands, in 1982. Other disgracefully foreign policies championed by the APC and this time under late President Joseph Saidu Momoh include and not limited to aiding and abetting the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) planned and funded invasion of neighbouring Liberia in an attempt to overthrow the government of late Samuel Kayoun Doe in 1985; and the party’s open support for US/NATO aggression and heinous bombing of the Libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi in 1986. And only recently, the US and Britain had asked the illegal government of President Ernest Bai Koroma in Freetown to table a resolution calling for tougher sanctions be imposed against our black brothers and sisters in Zimbabwe.
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