{"id":429394,"date":"2011-05-24T12:38:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T12:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/24\/between-kanja-sesay-and-mohamed-jabbie-the-true-story\/"},"modified":"2011-05-24T12:38:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T12:38:32","slug":"between-kanja-sesay-and-mohamed-jabbie-the-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/24\/between-kanja-sesay-and-mohamed-jabbie-the-true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Kanja Sesay and Mohamed Jabbie- The True Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Concord Times (Freetown)<\/p>\n

Abubakarr Joe Sesay<\/p>\n

20 May 2011<\/p>\n

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opinion<\/p>\n

Freetown \u2014 The public should by now be aware that inept acting SLPP National Chairman (his mandate expired in March this year), John Oponjo Benjamin, is synonymous with a certain newspaper and therefore whatever appears in that paper pertaining to certain high profile personalities in the SLPP could be his handiwork.<\/p>\n

John Benjamin hates leading SLPP flag-bearer aspirant Rtd. Brig. Maada Bio more than anything on this planet for reasons he alone can explain and by extension any individual associated with him. It is on this basis that abominable lies seeking to tarnish the hard earned reputation of Maada Bio’s supporters have been overblown to create the mischievously erroneous impression that the former Head of State is only backed by a group of rag tags.<\/p>\n

It is all part of the obnoxious PR strategy of a desperate flag-bearer aspirant who naively believes that money is the be all and end all in politics. Sadly enough, he holds firm to the bizarre notion that national politics is like the civil service where any amount of money is enough to let one have his way. He is terribly mistaking. The day of reckoning will soon come.<\/p>\n

Except for a few whose objective view has been blinded by hate such as the fake journalists in our midst, Alhaji Kanja Sesay, the former Commissioner of the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA), is held in very high esteem. Most people remain appreciative of his pivotal role in the country’s post-war reconstruction strides and admire his extraordinary humility and kindness which is what a perfect ingrate called Mohamed Jabbie is seeking to exploit. What I can authoritatively tell the public is that everything Jabbie has been spewing to the press is blatant lie. He is just behaving like a dying rat that will not give up without shaking its tail.<\/p>\n

I have been close to the two men for a couple of years now. The house in question that has sparked the brouhaha is where I put up each time I am in Bo city. As a matter of fact, Alhaji Kanja Sesay has sheltered, fed and clothed Jabbie, a fifty-five plus year-old man, all these years. So he is just exhibiting ungratefulness because perhaps someone has deposited money in his pocket he has not seen with his eyes before.<\/p>\n

When did demanding one’s own property back become intimidation? The massive compound at Reservation in Bo city where Jabbie resides belongs to Alhaji Kanja Sesay. Don’t landlords often ask tenants to vacate their premises? So it is only special in this case because it involves Kanja Sesay, a friend of Rtd. Brig. Maada Bio? Of course Jabbie must face the consequences of biting the finger that feeds him.<\/p>\n

The only clout Jabbie has in Bo city is his association with Alhaji Kanja Sesay, whose ever growing popularity there remains intact. How nonsensical it is to insinuate that his popularity has plummeted because of his support for Maada Bio. It is a black lie. In fact on the contrary, Kanja Sesay’s popularity has soared even more in Bo city for being an ardent supporter of Maada Bio who is adored in that part of the country.<\/p>\n

If anybody’s popularity has waned in Bo, it is the party’s embattled acting leader, John Benjamin. He was recently snubbed twice in two weeks by Bo residents who are angry with him for dragging their party to abyss. The first was at the unveiling of the bust of Sir Milton Margai. John Benjamin arrived very late, close to the end of the ceremony. He was terribly shocked by the cold shoulder treatment he received from the audience. Nobody chanted his name (JOB) or even waved to him as usual. Once everything was over he hurriedly left the venue subdued like a dog with its tail between its legs.<\/p>\n

A week later, the party went to Bo again to celebrate its 60th anniversary only to be greeted by a virtually empty hall. A lot of people openly expressed that they will only now participate in party activities when John Benjamin’s rationality comes back from vacation. John Benjamin is now the most unpopular SLPP personality among party faithful.<\/p>\n

Back to the issue of Mohamed Jabbie and Alhaji Kanja Sesay. Jabbie has only ever been an errand boy to the erstwhile NaCSA boss. So as a kindhearted, God-fearing man, Kanja Sesay in his magnanimity decided to provide him (Jabbie) some privileges and comfort that the latter recently abused by going on air to rain insults on the man after losing his Bo District Public Relations position in the party’s internal election a month ago. What sane person on this planet will tolerate such madness – keeping somebody in your own house that goes to insult you publicly?<\/p>\n

Jabbie has always been a die-hard supporter of Maada Bio, openly insulting all the other flag-bearer aspirants and declaring them unfit to lead the party. The very flag-bearer aspirant that has allegedly bought him over was the man he never wanted to hear about. I have evidence to substantiate this.<\/p>\n

The other matter between Jabbie and Hon. Foday Rado Yokie is in court, so I cannot comment on it. But his media backers call it intimidation. Again Hon. Yokie has no right to clear his name simply because he supports Maada Bio?<\/p>\n

Was it not Jabbie that accused Hon. Yokie of being among the people that he said beat him up in Moyamba? Didn’t Hon. Yokie who was in Kenya at the time promise to come and clear his name? So where does intimidation come in here? Let Jabbie go and prove his case in court where police officers and other people present at the time will testify to the effect.<\/p>\n

An overgrown man like Jabbie should be left to go around making baseless accusations against people with impunity, calling them what they are not? No way! The law has to take its course. That is not intimidation even in the odd sense of the word.<\/p>\n

Alhaji Kanja Sesay’s crime is simply asking Jabbie to vacate his house and using the appropriate legal channels to make that happen. This would never have made headlines if Kanja Sesay was not a supporter of Maada Bio. This is the crux of the matter otherwise the whole thing lacks substance.<\/p>\n

Jabbie has resorted to blackmailing because he has finally fallen out with the man on whom his daily subsistence depended all these years. He now realizes it is foolhardy on his part to misbehave the way he has done. Why has he not told the public the fairy tale he claims he knows about Kanja Sesay until now when things have fallen apart? He is doing this in the vain hope that the man will succumb to his blackmailing tactic and backtrack on his decision to throw him out of the house.<\/p>\n

Jabbie is widely perceived in Bo as a rowdy troubleshooter, the reason why most people refrain from doing business with him. His only saving grace all this while has been Kanja Sesay. And now that he has lost everything and is aware of the repercussions, his best option, naturally, is to fight back by making some noise in the ears of those not au fait with what has transpired between him and his former benefactor.<\/p>\n

Everybody knows Alhaji Kanja Sesay is a man of impeccable character who troubles no one. Any bit of random sampling across the country will arrive at this conclusion.<\/p>\n

So Jabbie’s rantings will in no way bring him down.<\/p>\n

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