Five years after ex-president Kabbah’s public disclosure about the activities of the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC I&11) in their four- year- in governance and how they reluctantly and grudgingly handed over political power to the SLPP Government, documentary evidence has countered the Sierra Leone People’s Party recent campaign of lies and deceitfulness to the general public that the NPRC and Julius Maada Bio willingly handed over political power to a democratically civilian Government, which was headed by Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.
In a speech delivered by ex-president Kabbah on the occasion of the launching of a Gunboat and landing craft donated by the Government of the People’s Republic of China on 2nd January, 1997 at the Government Wharf ex-president Kabbah did not mince his words while addressing the mammoth gathering in the presence of the Vice President, Dr. Albert Joe Demby, Speaker of Parliament, Justice Edmond Cowan, Chairman, Committee of Management, Cabinet Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Members of the Diplomatic Corps and a host of Distinguished Guests and Representatives of the Chinese Government and its Ambassador Qu Wen Ming, that his government uncovered two coup plots, which prompted action from him to enlist assistance from the Nigerian Government to conduct investigation in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Police ‘That panel, he said had since completed its investigations and submitted its report to Government and while my Government was taking action on that report another coup plot was unearthed…” The ex-president recalled.
But what sent shock waves among members of the gathering was the disclosure made by ex-president Kabbah, when he revealed thus “It is common knowledge that the NPRC regime handed over power very reluctantly and grudgingly as a result of the irresistible and overwhelming desire and determination of the population for an elected civilian Government. Consequently some members of the NPRC left their personal staff and bodyguards with the impression that the NPRC was only going on break. Some of the soldiers in that category actually believed this and are still unwilling to give any civilian administration a dog’s chance for survival, as now evidenced. The soldiers concerned are those who have been closest to the NPRC regime and on whom special and undeserved favours have been conferred. Some of them have had strange and irregular promotions, lacking in discipline, and believing that by creating an atmosphere of indiscipline and disorder they could seize power and establish NPRC No. III. They are acting only as surrogates for some NPRC members within and out of the country. The Special Investigating Panel went to great lengths to identify who those NPRC members and sympathizers are, and my Government is painstakingly keeping a close watch on them and on every move they make.
The speech was delivered on 2nd January, 1997 and runs contrary to the propaganda made by the SLPP that Mr. Julius Maada Bio should be commended for peacefully handing over political power to a civilian government. It is not known what next step the SLPP will now resort to as it is now abundantly clear from Mr. Julius Maada Bio’s successor that there was no willingness on the part of the NPRC to hand over power.
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UNBELIEVABLE!!!! This is a shame to SLPP. Was any vetting of Maada Bio even done in the first place?