A WARNING TO AMADU MASSALLY!

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fodei joseph batty

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Aug 9, 2012, 1:28:09 PM8/9/12
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Dear Sierra Leone Networkers,
      A few years ago we founded the Sierra Leone Network in order to contribute to the postwar development efforts in our beloved homeland of Sierra Leone. At the inception of the Network, we emphasized political neutrality because we wanted Sierra Leoneans from all shades and stripes to have a central forum where they could all share ideas and efforts to help our needy country. And they did. At our inception, we had well over 50 members who regularly called in and donated their hard-earned money from all across the world, including Sierra Leone itself, to help our homeland. Our teleconferences were lively and lasted several hours. We embarked upon a few noteworthy projects including being the first organization to clean up Lumley and its immediate environs.  We also worked very hard and persevered over a couple of months to register our organization with the United States Federal Government as a 501 (c) organization, which has implications for our status as an organization set up for charity. 501 (c)means that any organization registered under that section of the United States tax code is apolitical etc.
    Over the course of several months now, other well-meaning Networkers and I have patiently stood by and watched the radical transformation of the Network Forum (and the Sierra Leone Policy Watch Forum-less so for the latter) into something else other than the purpose for which we intended it. To be unequivocal, we have watched Amadu Massally, and to a small extent Yaya Fanusie,  transform the forum into pretty much a propaganda tool for disseminating the messages of the incumbent government in Freetown. This is not the purpose for which we created the Network. When Amadu Massally joined the Network a few years after we formed it, i am sure that a few others and myself were very clear in telling him the intended purpose of the organization that we had created. I don't think that we told him at any time that the organization was intended to serve as a support tool for any incumbent government. It is therefore puzzling that Amadu Massally has elected by himself to steer our forum into something for which we did not intend it.
   This email is intended to serve as a warning to Amadu Massally to cease to use this forum as a tool for disseminating his political messages. He must do so immediately upon reading this email or risk the consequences. We all have our political preferences. I have friends in both the APC and the SLPP and other political parties but i have never violated the privacy of someone else by choosing to use this forum to spread my political messages to them without invitation. There is afterall virtue in political neutrality that any wise person who has followed Sierra Leone politics should know. I respect the privacy of others and understand that they may be reading any posts i send out to the forum.
    The profanity-laced, taunting and sometimes prejudicial emails that Amadu Massally has continually spewed out over this forum ever since he used it to declare his political support for the APC is confounding. This is underscored by the fact that he was not a founding member of the organization. He did not put his money into our efforts to register the organization so why should he use it as a personal tool?
    Let the message be very clear, Amadu Massally should apologize to everyone on the forum and desist from posting additional nonsense to the forum otherwise i will forward copies of all his messages to the Internal Revenue Service in pursuit of a formal legal complaint that he and a few others have violated the intended purpose for which we founded the organization ( a federal crime that i am very certain of). I have diligently compiled all posts by Amadu Massally and others insulting certain ethnic groups etc. on this forum as well as other inflammatory posts they have sent out to everyone. 
   I returned from Sierra Leone on Tuesday and really wished i would have found some justification for Amadu's posts but i did not and it is disheartening that he has taken it upon himself to use our forum to spread false messages and non-truths. Let this email be a clear warning for him to stop using our forum for a purpose for which we did not intend to use it.
 
Sincerely,
Fodei Batty

JFSuma

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Aug 9, 2012, 2:16:46 PM8/9/12
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Fodei Batty, it looks like you are the last person to know that SL network was officially dissolved over two years ago. I am sure that is what IRS would tell you. The SLN forum is not used only for former members of SLN to continue networking. 
But the official function of SLN has long been resolved in a Board meeting three years. I fought hard to avoid it but I was out voted.

Cheers,
JFSuma

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Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 1:28 PM
Subject: [SierraLeoneNetwork] A WARNING TO AMADU MASSALLY!

 
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JFSuma

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Aug 9, 2012, 2:18:59 PM8/9/12
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Fodei Batty, it looks like you are the last person to know that SL network was officially dissolved over two years ago. I am sure that is what IRS would tell you. The SLN forum is now used only for former members of SLN to continue networking. 
But the official function of SLN has long been dissolved in a Board meeting three years. I fought hard to avoid it but I was out voted.

Cheers, (Dissolved I meant to say)
JFSuma

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Amadu Massally

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Aug 9, 2012, 2:23:33 PM8/9/12
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Fodei:

Thank you for your comments.  I just have a few things to say to respond to your rant.

  • It was I who created the SLN yahoo groups and sent an invitation to you without signing any papers with you.  And I can delete you today, then we will settle it in court if you like if I was totalitarian in my action.
  • This SLN forum was expanded to include discussions from Sierra Leoneans in general as not all members of the listserve were even members of the organization.  A now dissolved organization.
  • How much money did you ever raise for or contribute to the SLN?  Did you ever come to a function since we launched formally in 2005 at Howard?  Ever?
  • Did you not leave here to go to Freetown to work on something and the next thing we knew you were in State House working for Obai Taylor-Kamara?
  • Did you not accidentally send an email to the forum snitching on me to Obai during those days?
I really don't know what gives you the audacity after being MIA for years when we struggled to build the SLN image to come here today to try to claim heroism.  But this is silly season, indeed!  And you have not seen anything yet!

Regards,

Amadu Massally

P.S.  SLPW readership, sorry you got caught up in this, but I have to respond to you guys as well given the circumstances.


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fodei joseph batty

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Aug 9, 2012, 3:44:31 PM8/9/12
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Amadu Massally,
   Other well-meaning members of the Sierra Leone Network such as Mustapha Sesay, Omar Kuyateh and Mohamed Serry will tell you about my contributions to the Sierra Leone Network both financially and in terms of writing the first constitution for the organization. I wrote the first draft of the constitution, not you or anyone else. I could also dig deeper and find bank receipts for checks i wrote to the organization.  To address some of your points:
 
1. I did not attend the events at Howard and other places on the East Coast because i was in graduate school at the time and those events coincided with my school work. You can ask your friend Robin-Coker to attest to that and he will if he is truthful.
 
2. I went to Sierra Leone and Liberia in 2006 for field research for my doctoral thesis. During my stay in Sierra Leone between 2006 and 2009, i taught at Fourah Bay College for almost free. It was my way of giving back to Mama Sierra Leone. In Early 2007 i was hired under a UNDP Capacity Building Program Grant to work with the National Policy Coordinating Unit (NPCU) in the Office of the President. I served in that capacity until the transition of power from the Kabbah Government to the Koroma Government. Following the ascension to power of the Koroma Government, i served in a similar capacity until April 2008 when i returned to the United States to defend my dissertation. Upon the conclusion of that chapter, the position of Policy Analyst in a new proposed Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU) in the Office of the President at State House was advertised in local papers across Sierra Leone. I applied for the position and was interviewed by phone by two officials from the UNDP, Abubakarr Multi Kamara who is now ambassador to China, and an official in Tony Blair's Governance Assistance Program. I emerged as the best candidate from those interviews and was hired for the position. I traveled to Sierra Leone using my own money to take up the position and resigned after a few months to return to the United States for personal reasons.
 
3. Obai Taylor-Kamara ( whom i have a lot of respect for ecause of his intelligence and self-respecting attitude) was my colleague at State House. I never worked under him and we were not in the same unit. He is copied in this email.
 
4. Will i ever snitch about you to Obai? I rather discuss refuse at Kroo Bay than waste my precious time contemplating you for a second so get that point off your petty mind.
 
5. You may be the list controller for this SL Network Discussion group and that is because upon my departure to Freetown in 2006 you wormed your way into the group and with your persistence (harassment) got other members to elect you to head the group. I remember someone saying that was the end of the Network when they allowed you come on board.
 
6. It is the same point other people are making now about you swinging your loyalty to the APC. Someone said the incumbent party is going to face a difficult time because you have joined them because nothing good follows where you go. Have you stopped to ask yourself why?
 
7. You once tried to mess with me after you joined the SL Network and i deftly avoided those exchanges at the time because i really thought you were younger than me. Your behavior was so immature that it left me wondering about a few things. I did not want you to disrespect me because i thought it will do no good. Little did i know that you are way older than me. In fact you are much older than even my immediate older brother so let me tell you this in clear terms...if you want to go down the route of replying me in disrespectful terms, bring it on. I was born in the seventies and if you were not, which i know you are not, be very careful.....you have been warned!
 
8. This forum was created to serve the purposes of an organization we founded regardless of its demise. It has been used by everyone, including the misuse by you, to make their points so i will use it to make any points i want to make about political neutrality and you better not mess with it or you will suffer the consequences.
 
9. I have warned you enough for one day but i doubt you will listen because i have observed you for a while and you seem to be just that kind of brainless moron, never mind your incessant rants across social media. I hope your political ambitions will caution you to respect the instructions that i gave you to keep this forum neutral...otherwise prepare yourself for the consequences.
 
In very sincere terms,
Fodei


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Subject: Re: [SierraLeoneNetwork] A WARNING TO AMADU MASSALLY!
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    Amadu Massally

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    Aug 9, 2012, 4:00:19 PM8/9/12
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    Fodei Batty,

    Where were you when we launched the SLN?  Where were you when we did all those activities?  The Constitution you did was not even used as Amara and I and I believe CJ and Niyi worked on the version we ended up using.  Similarly, you were no where around when I filed the tax papers along with Amara Kuyateh.  It was I who was dealing with the folks in New Jersey to properly register directly.  

    Contrary to your rant again, the SLN experienced the most successful stories when I led it as President.  The records will speak for themselves.  And if you want to play yo9ur funny games, have you ever been considered for anything within the national SL context?  Well I have twice, in major ways. 

    1. When I won the NOSLINA Diamond Award in 2009 it was unanimous for the first time ever.  Do you know what that is?
    2. Under the leadership of Jesmed Suma, 200+ Sierra Leoneans asked President Koroma that I represent them.
    3. Your other childish stuff, acting your age indeed, are not worth my response time.

    Like I said, you have not seen anything yet?  And I don't know who it is at SLPW you are trying to impress that you keep copying that forum in your nonsense?

    Regards,

    Amadu Massally


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    fodei joseph batty

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    Aug 9, 2012, 4:07:06 PM8/9/12
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    Amadu Massally,
        You are a funny, petulant old man. Act your age or face the consequences, foolish man!
     
    Sincerely,
    Fodei
     
    P.S. Don't let me tell you who i'm trying to impress at SLPW...trust me that you don't want to know.
     
       



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      Amadu Massally

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      Aug 9, 2012, 4:16:56 PM8/9/12
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      Fodei,

      Is this not what you all resort to when they cannot hold on to a conversation?  I am not going into the gutter with your kind!  But I will send you reeling back to wherever your hypocrisy is coming from with facts and not fabrications or innuendo.

      I am just telling you that SLPW has no business in this fight.  So who are you trying to impress there I ask again?

      Regards,

      Amadu Massally



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      Jesmed Suma

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      Aug 9, 2012, 4:27:16 PM8/9/12
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      May I kindly request that we remove SLPW egroup from the mailing list on this subject please. We want to respect the time our members take to read emails from our egroup, hence we try to make sure each posting is directly or indirectly related to the purpose for which the group was created.

      Thanks
      Jesmed F Suma
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      Sierra Leone Policy Watch Inc. 


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