Federation of Patriotic Youth & Child Advocacy Network

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*THE FEDERATION OF PATRIOTIC YOUTH AND CHILD ADOCACY NETWORK (FePYoCAN) JOINS THE GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE AND OTHER YOUTH-LED AGENCIES TO COMMEMORATE THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY 2018*

*The Federation of patriotic Youth and Child Advocacy Network herein referred to as FePYoCAN is a non-governmental and non-political organization that was formed in 2012 on the golden platter of ameliorating the predicaments that surround the youths and children of Sierra Leone. This child-and-youth led network thrives beyond length to securing the future of our darling youths and children by creating the platform for them where issues of substance would be addressed and curtailed appropriately.*

*FePYoCAN as an organization believes that ‘YOUTHS ARE THE ENGINES OF TRANSFORMATION IN EVERY NATION’ of course; it is an undisputable and undeniable fact to assert such a word in this newest era. As an entity, we have deemed it necessary to commemorate this day because it is an onus that is hinged on us as a youth-led organization. However, countless number of our youths are in the streets of the country without knowing the relevance of this day; not because they do not wish to know, but simply, the responsibility of those that are aware of this day’s importance has plummeted thus leaving them victims of circumstance. We are representatives--representing the multitude of the youths of SIERRA LEONE.*

*Every youth has potential that he/she will tap into to secure and promote their enabling environment and to build that potential, it takes more than spaces, diluted words that are basked and cloaked with dispirited and unmotivated promises that are mostly from the adults, but most importantly, it takes more than knowing to tap into those potentials of the youths in the world or our country. We all know that it is pretty unlikely for a youth to be resourceful without knowing what boils in the behavioral and youthful potential-DNA.*

*Our youths have been threatened by the fear of productivity that resides in them; simply because they think there is no better future for them due to the unfriendly status quo. We as a network want to reaffirm the hidden values of our youths by refueling their minds positively through the help of everyone. Truly, youths have been sidelined, left out and neglected for far too long and which is why some have lost their inborn skills.*

*Referenced to the above preponderances, we are poised to ask ourselvesthis entire simple question: how can we build the potential in the youths when they’ve not tapped into their untapped potentials? So, let us focus on encouraging the youths to know exactly what they are capable of doing and how they would improve on that; and that is why we as FePYoCAN is sending this message to the government, concerned institutions or agencies and youth-led forums to rights those wrongs, we need to be extraordinarily careful and mindful about making the youths of this great nation youthful, useful or resourceful and hopeful. FePYoCAN believes that those with a realized-potentials are handpicked and plethora amongst them are hell-bent on improving those skills to effectuate change.*

*FePYoCAN is calling on us all to engage the government so that the interest of the youthful populace would be prioritized so as to allow them feel that a sense of self-nurturing environment is given to them. Therefore, we as youths are calling on the set-aside bodies of youth related issues, the government and agencies to strengthen and elaborate our visions. FePYoCAN encourages all the youths of the country to hold firm onto their wildest and scariest dreams.*

*Finally, we cannot only build the future of our youths, but we can build the youths for the future. Yes! We can. Let us not forget that the youths of a nation are the potential potentates that will steer the progressive wheels of a nation.*

*God bless the youth of this country and long live FePYoCAN!*

*END*

14/02/2015

QUESTIONS FOR PRESIDENT KOROMA TO ANSWER?

WHY CHARLES MAMBU: THE EBOLA MONEY SCAPEGOAT?

Some people are MISSING THE POINT. Why shoot the messenger not the SENDER?

Please do not shoot the poor messenger Charles Mambu and other Ebola money beneficiaries.

Let us be fair and let us look at other side of the coin and find answers to the following 10 questions:

1: Who is the Head of Ebola Taskforce?

2: Who authorised the payment to the ' one man civil society" of Charles Mambu?

3: Who employed Charles Mambu and the other rogues?

4: Who collects Ebola money onbehalf of Sierra Leone?

5: Who are the signatures to the Ebola money Bank accounts?

6: What are the total monies collected for Ebola?

7: How much money has been spent on Ebola?

8: How many people have been killed by Ebola --- names and addresses

9: What is the relationship between Charles Mambu and the fraudulent companies to President Koroma, APC and MPs?

10: Why blamed Charles Mambu and not President Koroma who is Head of Ebola taskfoce?

© Pipul Pikin Media Network is seeking answers to the above 10 questions. Until these questions are answered, we have no case against Charles Mambu and others.

A man is innocent until proven quilty by a competent court of law.

Charles Mambu and others are innocent until found quilty by a court of law.

We can not only convict and send Charles Mambu to prison and leave out the Head of Ebola Taskforce or the signatures to the bank account or those who authorised the payments. Everyone must be sent to prison. This is called joint criminal enterprise.

PRESIDENT KOROMA ( Head of Ebola Taskforce) VS CHARLES MAMBU ( one man civil society) WHO TO BLAME?

President Koroma ( Head of Ebola Taskforce) should be blamed and held accountable for the missing Ebola money, not only poor Charles Mambu who only exploited a rotten system created by Government to get rich quick and create more Ebola deaths. If a one man civil society Charles Mambu with limited access to Ebola money could corrupt such huge funds, how much more the head of Ebola Taskforce and powerful government officials with unlimited access to Ebola money may have chopped? Hmmmmmm. We are still waiting for the FULL list of names and addresses of all Ebola deaths as requested earlier. Blame President Koroma, Lontha

13/02/2015

When I read this piece few minutes ago from a striving org that happens to be a watchdog to all those chopping our EBOLA money, I just laugh. But on a more serious note, it is heartrending to see/hear such when some patriotic youths and voluntarily fighting EBOLA, others are building houses with blood money, others are transferring EBOLA money to foreign account while others are living luxuriously. Posterity will judge us all.

FePYoCAN is ready to promote transparency and accountability to all the youths of mama salone.

As some of us are working tirelessly and voluntarily to help eradicate EBOLA (FePYoCAN did the first Ebola song and video in collabo with UNITED SIERRA LEONE and helping the youths and people through community awareness campaign against Ebola with no financial contributions from government, international donor partners), word don comot na doe, how dem don charm wi money.

Ooh unpatriotic saleonens, they are still our stumbling block to national development.

Plz read this EBOLA AUDIT REPORTS below;

There were inadequate controls over the disbursement of funds. For instance, payments which exceeded Le14 billion were made from the Emergency Health Response and Miscellaneous Accounts without any supporting documents to substantiate the utilisation of such funds. Further payments which exceeded Le11billion were made from the same accounts without adequate supporting documents such as receipts, invoices, delivery notes, etc.

In the absence of a well coordinated sensitisation plan to raise awareness on Ebola and its prevention, the auditors observed an overwhelming number of requests from various individuals, Non-Governmental Organisations, parliamentarians etc, for sensitisation activi-ties to be carried out in different parts of the country. The audit team found that payments were made to the Member of Parliament (MP) for constituency 93 in Goderich to carry out sensitisation activities even though an amount had earlier been paid to all seating members of parliament for similar activities. Furthermore, an amount of Le161 million was given as loan to Health For All Coalition (HFAC) for scaling up of the response to the Ebola fight. Of utmost concern was the fact that the total loaned amount was made in the name of Charles Mambu instead of HFAC, the organisation which he represents. In addition, the loan was not documented and the repayment terms were not agreed between the ministry and HFAC.

Withholding taxes of Le526 million and US$70,500 were not deducted and paid over to the National Revenue Authority from payments to various suppliers and contractors.
Several weaknesses were observed in the payment of incentives to healthcare workers. For instance, incentive payments to the sum of Le26 billions were made to various hospitals in the country for which returns were not produced to substantiate that such payments were made to healthcare workers. Furthermore, a spot review of incentive payments at the Connaught Hospital revealed that the
Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces and the Sierra Leone Police security personnel were included on the list of workers to receive hazard payment even though funds had been transferred to both forces to meet the deployment of their officers.
Procurement procedures were not followed for a number of contracts undertaken by the Ministry. There was a complete disregard for the law on public procurement in an emergency situation. For instance, contracts were entered into without any clear guidelines on the specification of items required. Furthermore, contracts were badly drawn up as if to allow for additional costs to be incurred thereby preventing a transparent, competitive and cost effective procurement. For instance, the contract in respect of the purchase of 20 ambulances for a contract sum of US$1,050,000 was inappropriately entered into as specific areas relating to the inspection, transportation and delivery of the ambulances were excluded in the Special Conditions of the contract. Consequently, additional costs of $60,590 and Le39,330,000 were incurred in respect of air freight, daily subsistence allowance and airfare for the ambulances bought by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. In additions,contracts worth over Le1billion in respect of food for quarantined homes were awarded to various suppliers without regard to the provisions of the procurement regulation in relation to procurement in an emergency.

The Ministry failed to produce any documentation for contract agreements that amounted to Le17billion (including Le12.7 billion for the purchase of 50 vehicles and ambulances, Le2.7billion for the construction of the Port Loko Treatment Centre).

A review of the donations register and bank statements of the Health Emergency Response Account (No. 003001118285030109) held at the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank (SLCB), revealed that a number of donations totaled at Le1,670,000,000 were retuned dishonoured

28/01/2015

PRESS RELEASE

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT FOLLOWING A PROTRACTED DISPUTE BETWEEN THE EXECUTIVE OF THE SIERRA LEONE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION (SLFA) AND FOOTBALL STAKEHOLDERS REPRESENTED BY A NINE-MAN INTERIM COMMITTEE, HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT DR. ERNEST BAI KOROMA IN HIS CAPACITY AS PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL CONVENED TWO MEETINGS OF THE PARTIES, AT STATE HOUSE ON 26TH AND 28TH JANUARY, 2015 TO RESOLVE THEIR DIFFERENCES AND MAP THE WAY FORWARD.

AT THE SAID MEETINGS, ATTENDED BY THE MINISTER OF SPORTS, THE PRESIDENT OF SLFA, CHAIRMAN OF THE INTERIM COMMITTEE, INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE AND THE SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT IT WAS AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
THE SLFA CONGRESS WILL BE HELD FROM 17TH TO 18TH APRIL, 2015.
ALL FOOTBALL STAKEHOLDERS SHOULD REGULARISE THEIR STATUS IN ORDER TO GIVE LEGITIMACY TO THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE CONGRESS.
THE STATUS QUO SHOULD BE MAINTAINED FOR NOW BY ALLOWING THE CURRENT SLFA EXECUTIVE TO CONTINUE IN OFFICE AND CARRY ON ITS WORK.
CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF SLFA FUNDS DURING THE INTERIM PERIOD UNTIL THE SAID CONGRESS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE OF SIERRA LEONE WILL ACT AS A MORAL GUARANTOR TO ENSURE THAT EXPENDITURES ARE DULY SUPPORTIVE OF THE SLFA’S AVOWED OBJECTIVE OF PROMOTING THE GAME OF FOOTBALL IN THE COUNTRY.

END

STATE HOUSE
FREETOWN 28TH JANUARY, 2015

22/01/2015

BROADCAST TO THE NATION BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT.

22nd January 2015.

Credit: FePYoCAN

22nd January 2015

Fellow Sierra Leoneans
We have been ensuring a steady downward trend in the number of Ebola cases in Sierra Leone over the past seven weeks and I wish to express my deep and sincere gratitude to all those who have contributed to this achievement. In my working visits to all districts and nearly all treatment centers in the preceding months to urge, endorse and monitor the measures we have collectively taken, I saw first hand the courage and great work of all our Ebola response workers and the determination and commitment of ordinary Sierra Leoneans to fight this disease. We owe the downward trend to this collective commitment This positive development also reflects the significant improvement in the infrastructure that government and our partners have put in place across the nation to combat Ebola; we have substantially more beds and lab capacity, more ambulances, better processes and response time and more trained staff across the breadth of the response.
We are now entering a transition phase. Given the progress being made against the disease, we must take action to enable economic and social recovery.

Starting tomorrow, we are taking the following measures:
First, restrictions on movement will be eased to support economic activity. As such, there will no longer be any district or chiefdom level restrictions on movement. No quarantines or restrictions on movement above the household level will be imposed either by Government or local authorities. But we should not become complacent. I welcome the initiatives taken by District Ebola Response Centres and local authorities to enhance community surveillance and community watch efforts. These efforts must continue as we move into a phase of hunting down the disease.

Second, at the same time as we embark on the second phase of the Western Area Surge, we have decided to ease the restrictions on trading hours in the Western Area. Trading hours on Saturday will now end at 6pm. However, restrictions of trading on Sundays remain in force.

Third, as we move towards our target of zero cases by 31st March, hazard pay for Ebola Response Workers and health workers will be removed at the end of March. We are reviewing the needs of the sector as a whole, to ensure we are able to transition towards a stronger and more resilient healthcare system.

Starting on the 1st of February, we will implement a more rigorous system of payment for hazard pay, ensuring fair compensation for exposure to risk, whilst ensuring that others do not take unfair advantage of the system. Any persons found to have falsified lists or taken advantage of the system will be investigated. We will not let the heroic works of our burial teams, swabbers, doctors, nurses, lab technicians, surveillance officers and others be tainted by those wishing to take advantage of the situation for their own personal gain. In the mean time, the NERC and the Ministry of Health and Sanitation are working intensely to ensure urgent payment of all back pay owed to Ebola Response Workers.

Fourth, we are well into putting modalities in place for the safe re-opening of schools. Our target date is the third and fourth week in March. Towards this, we have designed a Schools Re-opening Programme that will ensure the following actions:

Disinfection of institutions used as holding and/or treatment centres as well as those institutions identified as having accommodated Ebola victims; satisfactory water and sanitation facilities at schools; provision of educational institution with thermal sensors, training of teachers on Ebola safety protocols; incentives to get pupils to schools. This include school feeding programme, education provisions in place for girls who became pregnant during Ebola period and are unable to return to school; and supplementing teaching and learning at all levels through broadcast programmes.

Let me also state that the fight is not yet over. Even as we ease restrictions,

• We must focus on surveillance and contact tracing, until no new cases are coming from unknown sources;
• We must enhance our social mobilisation and community engagement efforts. We must own the response and Ebola must stop with us.

• We must continue to refrain from washing and touching corpses. Our records show that this is now the greatest threat to our victory over the disease. Law enforcement agencies and chiefs are under instruction to ensure that the full force of the law is brought to bear on those who touch or wash dead bodies.

Fellow Sierra Leoneans
The fight will not be over:
• until we have had zero cases for 42 days;

• until our neighbours in Liberia and Guinea have had zero cases for 42 days;

• until our surveillance capacity can ensure that no new cases are going beneath the radar; and until we have built the capacity and resilience in our healthcare system to interrupt transmission and prevent future outbreaks.

Only then will the fight be over. Therefore, though victory is in sight, we must not relent, we must continue to soldier on, we must continue to refrain from touching the sick and corpses, we must continue to support surveillance and contact tracing activities. These are the actions we must collectively continue to take ensure victory in the shortest possible time, and intensify the recovery of our beloved Sierra Leone.

God Bless You,
God Bless Sierra Leone.

19/01/2015

EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---January 19, 2015

Credit: FePYoCAN

DISCHARGED CASES

• Total Survived and Discharged Cases = 2,145

NEW CASES

• New Confirmed cases = 20 as follows:
Kailahun = 0, Kenema = 0, Kono = 0
Bombali = 1, Kambia = 2, Koinadugu = 0, Port Loko = 10, Tonkolili = 0
Bo = 0, Bonthe = 0, Moyamba = 0, Pujehun = 0
Western Area Urban = 5, Western Area Rural = 2, Missing = 0

Note: Missing = sample which could not be traced to a district due to wrong information or data on lab forms

CUMULATIVE CASES

• Cumulative confirmed cases = 7,917 as follows:
Kailahun = 565, Kenema = 498, Kono = 235
Bombali = 979, Kambia = 140, Koinadugu = 103, Port Loko = 1,292, Tonkolili = 442

Bo = 314, Bonthe = 5, Moyamba = 202, Pujehun = 31

Western Area Urban = 1,999, Western Area Rural = 1,098, Missing = 14

CUMULATIVE DEATHS

• Total cumulative confirmed death is 2,780

• Probable cases = 287
• Probable deaths = 208
• Suspected cases = 2,158
• Suspected deaths = 158

04/01/2015

CAN AFRICANS LIVE TO SEE ANOTHER GHADAFI AGAIN?

GADDAFFI'S LAST FORMAL SPEECH:

In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful...
For 40 years, or was it longer, I can't remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food. I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, I stood up to attacks from that cowboy Ronald Reagan, when he killed my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me, instead he killed that poor innocent child. Then I helped my brothers and sisters from Africa with money for the African Union.
I did all I could to help people Understand the concept of real democracy, where people's committees ran our country. But that was never enough, as some told me, even people who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied, as selfish as they were they wanted more. They told Americans and other visitors, that they needed "democracy" and "freedom" never realizing it was a cut throat system, where the biggest dog eats the rest, but they were enchanted with those words, never realizing that in America, there was no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing, no free education and no free food, except when people had to beg or go to long lines to get soup.
No, no matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others, they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and Muslim leader we've had since Salah-al-Deen, when he claimed the Suez Canal for his people, as I claimed Libya, for my people, it was his footsteps I tried to follow, to keep my people free from colonial domination - from thieves who would steal from us.
Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called "capitalism" ,but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer.
So, there is no alternative for me, I must make my stand, and if Allah wishes, I shall die by following His path, the path that has made our country rich with farmland, with food and health, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab brothers and sisters.
I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it.
Let this testament be my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up to cruelty, stoop up to betrayal, stood up to the West and its colonialist ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and Muslim brothers, as a beacon of light.
When others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent. I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly, and like Salah-al-Deen, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem for Islam, I took little for myself...
In the West, some have called me "mad", "crazy", but they know the truth yet continue to lie, they know that our land is independent and free, not in the colonial grip, that my vision, my path, is, and has been clear and for my people and that I will fight to my last breath to keep us free, may Allah Almighty help us to remain faithful and free.
Mu'ummar Qaddafi.

Credit:FePYoCAN team

04/01/2015

DAVID TAM BARYOH PLAYED THE FIRST EBOLA SONG IN AFRICA IN HIS MONOLOGUE PROGRAME YESTERDAY.

Did you hear the first Ebola song on David Tam Baryoh's MONOLOGUE programme?

I have got series of messages on Sapp/emails by some people for me to forward Rebecca's Ebola song to them.

Well if U want me to forward the song to you then plz Sapp Musa Barrie (the leader of the UNITED SIERRA LEONE & also the founder and chairman of FePYoCAN) on +232-78-845-566 OR U Sapp Messeh Leone a.k.a the smartest (the initiator of the UNITED SIERRA LEONE cause) on +44-7939-998-442.

Rebecca's song happens to be the first Ebola song in the whole of Africa (before all these many money making Ebola songs in the country) and we are proud that our organization happens to be the first to do an EBOLA song in this country and Africa at large.

Had the government and the people of my country listened to that song and follow the precautions, we wouldn't have got all this problems now. Instead they were busy with AFTER U NA U while Ebola slowly making move into our beloved country.

Remember David Tam Baryoh happens to be the first person again to play that EBOLA song again on air.

This is just for those who think we just talk becoz we wants to.

We were not paid by any institution (s) to do that Ebola song which we supported REBECCA to do.

We never received ANY DONOR from anyone coz we don't want EBOLA MONEY. We give to the poor so we don't want poor people's money.

We did a video clip of that song and also did a documentary of EBOLA.

We are proud of ourselves and we are always apolitical.

We will criticize and commend the government when due.

We are not bootlickers or praise singers but partners in development.

So plz wuna nor ask wi watin wi don do coz we have done a lot and still doing more.

Mek God judge all d wandem wae don make EBOLA as a business while the poor and innocent people are loosing their lives.

So to all listeners of the Monologue programe, I say thanks to U all and GOD BLESS U.

LONG LIVE
LONG LIVE
LONG LIVE (the first person to do an Ebola song in the whole of Africa.
LONG LIVE .
LONG LIVE .

Brought to you by the FePYoCAN team.

Feel free to contact me on +232-78-845-566 (text or Sapp only) if U want to know much about FePYoCAN and our campaign UNITED SIERRA LEONE.

03/01/2015

Wow David Tam Baryoh presently playing our Ebola song on monologue.

Rebecca's song happens to be the first Ebola song in the whole of Africa and we are proud that our organization happens to be the first to do an EBOLA song in this country and Africa at large.

Remember David Tam Baryoh happens to be the first person again to play that EBOLA song again on air in May 2014.

This is just for those who think we just talk becoz we wants to.
We are proud of ourselves and we are always apolitical.
We will criticize and commend the government when due.

We are not bootlickers or praise singers but partners in development.

So plz wuna nor ask wi watin wi don do coz we have done a lot and still doing more.

So to all listeners of the Monologue programe, I say thanks to U all and GOD BLESS U.

LONG LIVE
LONG LIVE
LONG LIVE (the first person to do an Ebola song in the whole of Africa.
LONG LIVE

03/01/2015

EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---January 3, 2015

Credit: FePYoCAN team.

DISCHARGED CASES
Total Survived and Discharged Cases = 1,842

NEW CASES
New Confirmed cases = 37 as follows: Kailahun = 0, Kenema = 0, Kono = 3 Bombali = 2, Kambia = 2, Koinadugu = 0, Port Loko = 7, Tonkolili = 0 Bo = 0, Bonthe = 0, Moyamba = 1, Pujehun = 0
Western Area Urban = 13,
Western Area Rural = 8,
Missing = 1

CUMULATIVE CASES
Cumulative confirmed cases = 7,542 as follows: Kailahun = 565, Kenema = 496, Kono = 204 Bombali = 967, Kambia = 114, Koinadugu = 102, Port Loko = 1,209,
Tonkolili = 430 Bo = 307,
Bonthe = 5, Moyamba = 189, Pujehun = 31
Western Area Urban = 1,889, Western Area Rural = 1,033

CUMULATIVE DEATHS
Total cumulative confirmed death is 2,524
Probable cases = 287
Probable deaths = 208
Suspected cases = 1,914 Suspected deaths = 158

03/01/2015

WHEN SIERRA LEONEANS?

By Julius George Kamara de analyst.

Airtel Sierra Leone, New Year with more rotten Internet browsing facility. When will Sierra Leoneans in the Internet World enjoy a non-shakeable Internet facility services even when it rains and thundered? When actually! Today's Jay 2nd with steady rotteness in Browsing services.
Sierratel, when will you finished I.B. Kargbo's Fibre Optic installation which was landed during the night at the Lumley beach?
Madam SLAFA, when will Leone Star win a 'Butter cup' for this nation?
SLP, when will you stop taking bribes and harass the poor "Okada" riders where 60% of the youths of Salone earn their living?
NPA, when will you start to supply undeterred electricity in the city Freetown?
MEST, when will you stop chasing Ghost teachers and schools and constructively pay teachers on time without any heavy backlogs in salaries and subsidies?
Min. Of Transport, when will you focus in minimizing the trasnport brouhaha for the general public?
Prezo EBK, when will your government faithfully serve the people of this country especially the poorest poor and severely disadvantaged?
Sierra Leoneans, when will this EVD be eradicated with your lawlessness in touching dead bodies and washing and burying dead bodies?
Yeh, when will my younger ones start attending schools again?
Yeh, when will i stop seeing beggers indiscrimnately parading the streets and corners of the central business of Freetown just to make ends meet?
Yeh, when will the street children secure a warmly home with perfect care from the government and donor-money-eating NGOs all in the name of Street Child/Children?
Yeh, when will i see 80% of Sierra Leoneans live an average life with homes and cars and secured jobs?
Yeh, when will i see graduates in full time employment immediately after their graduations?
Yeh, when will Julius George Kamara stop talking about some of the aforesaid social problems or Social Injustices in his Country-Sierra Leone?
Yeh, when will you as friends and families in this our world stop reading about Social Injustices in Sierra Leone from me?

Brought to you by the FePYoCAN team.

01/01/2015

THE FULL NEW YEAR SPEECH OF OUR BELOVED PRESIDENT.

Credit: FePYoCAN

Please read;

New Year’s Day Broadcast by His Excellency President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma

Fellow Sierra Leoneans

The New Year is a moment for resolutions, andtoday I call on all Sierra Leoneans to strengthen our individual and collective resolve to defeat Ebola. I firmly believe a resolution by each and every Sierra Leonean to act to end Ebola will see this virus defeated very soon in our beloved nation.

The resolution must be action oriented and geared towards positive change. I am very sure that all Sierra Leoneans want this scourge to end; and it is therefore time for all Sierra Leoneans to follow up their aspirations with their actions. And these actions that are required have been stated over and over again. Do not touch the sick; do not touch corpses; call health workers to handle the sick; do not seek to disobey quarantine orders. As we make our New Year resolutions, these are the actions that we must commit ourselves to doing.

As a nation, and with support from our international partners, we have increased our capacity to defeat the virus. From a single treatment centre when the virus struck in May, we now have over 30 treatment and holding centres; from a single lab for testing suspected cases, we now have over 10, and from a single doctor specializing in the treatment of Ebola, we now have thousands of health personnel all over the country, with skills to handle Ebola cases.

With firm resolutions from all Sierra Leoneans we will get ahead of the virus. And there are many examples to show that firm resolutions are registering successes in our fight against the virus. Now people who go to Ebola Treatment Centres have far better chances than before of surviving the disease. Our remarkable doctors at the Hastings Treatment Centre are now making sure that most people who get admitted within three days of getting Ebola symptoms survive. Other treatment centres are also greatly improving the survival chances of those who report early. Most districts, including Kailahun, Kenema and Bonthe are now registering zero infections over several days and weeks; and the surge in our lab, treatment, sensitization, and surveillance activities in other districts are ensuring faster test results, more people being taken to treatment centres, and more safe burials.

But whatever we do as a Government, whatever support is given to the country by our international partners to fight the disease, however hard our valiant doctors, nurses and other health personnel work to stem the disease, the fight would still be very difficult without resolutions by every individual, every family and community to refrain from touching the sick and from touching, washing, and burying the dead.

I know what we are being asked to do is very difficult; we are a people that have built our humanity on hugging each other, on shaking hands, on caring for the sick and showing communal empathy by participating in funeral activities. But today the Ebola devil of illness and death hides in the innocent clothing of our culture to get us. That is why it is very necessary to suspend these cultural practices to defeat this evil virus. Suspending these practices for now does not reduce our humanity, rather its gives life to us. Humanity is about promoting life; let us continue to display our humanity by promoting habits that promote life during this unprecedented Ebola outbreak.

We are people of faith, a people who believe that without God’s intervention, we struggle in vain. With the consent of religious leaders, we hereby declare seven days of prayers, fasting and charity with effect from today 1st January 2015. Our Muslim Leaders teach us that God is closer to us than the veins in our necks, and He has commanded us to call on Him in prayers, for He is ever ready to answer the call of His people. We have put in place mechanisms to secure our country from this evil virus; but the Bible teaches us that except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watches in vain. Today I ask all to commit our actions to the grace, mercy and protection of God Almighty. I also call on you to make resolutions of prayers for the lives of our health workers and all other Sierra Leoneans and our international partners who are putting themselves in harm’s way to defeat this evil. We shall ever be grateful for your services. I also ask that we remember in our prayers the sick and those whose lives have been cut short by this deadly virus. And let us also pray for strength to do what is right and proper to promote life and healing in our beloved nation.

Fellow Sierra Leoneans, with my instruction, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is putting in place modalities to reopen schools and colleges in the shortest possible time. Dates for the reopening and other modalities will be announced by the ministry in due course.

Fellow Sierra Leoneans,

There are some people, from all regions, professions, and age groups, who want to use this moment to make money, to score political points, or to cause mischief and disaffection in the land. We must resist them. There are people who don’t work but want to hide under the cover of those who work to get paid; we must expose them. There are people who are not involved in raising awareness about the disease, but who are raising funds to siphon unto selfish ends, we must bring these shameless crooks to book. Government agencies stand instructed to keep record of all Ebola related transactions for accountability now and a more thorough auditing of the process after we defeat this virus. We expect all international agencies, NGOs and Civil Society Organizations who have received the majority of funds to fight Ebola to have similar records for a thorough accounting of their actions.

The task ahead is difficult. The focus now is on defeating the virus. This is not a time for politics; it is a time for healing. This is not a time for strikes; it is a time for service. This is not a time for partying and going unto crowded places, but a moment for reflection and prayers. This is not a time for holding on to practices that cause death; it is a moment for promoting habits that promote wellbeing, understanding, and national survival. We now have the capacity to end this outbreak. It is now only a matter of time. We now have the treatment centres in place. It is now only a matter of time. We now have the holding centres and personnel in place. With our individual and collective resolutions as families, district and region, it is now only a matter of time for our nation to end this outbreak, and like we did after the war, we will once again become a symbol of recovery, healing and growth.

I wish you all a Happy New Year.

God Bless Sierra Leone.

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