Collins Pearce

Deputy Education Officer in the Department of Education,Freetown City Council and a Political Scientist. Have passion for Leadership and a fan of Man Utd.

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@SoeMarrah Your leadership will the purpose

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@yakisawyerr @schwabfound @wef You're unlimited in all you do Ma'am

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@UTDFat Welbeck

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@VickieRemoe Try to study the access to school every academic year.

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@utdforever7 @ManUtd @premierleague @B_Fernandes8 No chance

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@JabbieNamisa It's called real timing

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@ManUtdInPidgin Yes

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@yakisawyerr Her Worship the Mayor of Freetown sitting pretty.

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The vibrant leadership at @FCC_Freetown is brainstorming about the existing steps already taken and mapping ways for the future to address the global phenomenon called climate change. This is how big the vision of transforming Freetown is. Let's talk about that.

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Building bilateral relationships is important and part of the plan to transform Freetown.

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Transform Freetown is the focus. Let's talk about that.

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@gmail I need to delete some unwanted and old mails from my box

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@USEmbFreetown @USEmbFreetown You're urging the APC candidates to take their seats in governance but it's a difficult thing to do when the truth is right in front of you.

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@USEmbFreetown It's all clear now but why wait so long to release such a report? Numbers don't lie except if you tempered with them.

What will be the next step? What will become the outcome of the dialogue? Will the recommendations be considered?

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@samurakamara201 A courageous speech and very encouraging, but Sierra Leoneans need to know the truth about their votes. I pray the dialogue will bring to light the true outcome.

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Statement by APC Member of Parliament elect Osman Abdal Timbo Esq.

Since I officially joined politics in 2013, I have always maintained that I want to represent people, hence my choice to be a parliamentarian, and nothing else.

In the June 24th General Election, I again asked the people to repose their confidence in me and allow me serve them as their parliamentarian. With a score of over 65%, the people in the locality of the district where I ran, gave me their votes.

I take those votes very seriously. People's votes are not just numbers or figures that can be played with anyhow. They represent their sweat, blood, voice and desire, and that must be respected. Our national constitution (1991) in section 5 (2) (a) provides that 'sovereignty belongs to the people of SL from whom Government through this Constitution derives all its powers, authority and legitimacy'. It is all about the people we seek to represent.

I take their votes as their signature in a social contract entered into with me. Since after the announcement of the results, I have received barage of calls, messages, voice notes and visits from the same people, all saying the same thing - don't go to Parliament, just yet. Infact, as I type I continue to receive persistent calls and messages.

Today, as the 6th Parliament commences and the Oath of Office administered, I WILL NOT be attending in line with the voice of the people. 'Vox Populi, Voi Dei' - the voice of the people, is the voice of God.

I wholeheartedly, without any form of compulsion, endorse my party's (APC) decision, informed by its supporters and members, to stay away from participating in governance until certain demands are met, primary amongst them (in my view) is the publication of the disaggregated polling station results to corroborate the flamboyant results read out by the ECSL - remember, this ECSL and other state institutions and CSOs have many a time reminded us that it is the ECSL that has the sole mandate to publish results.

Final results MUST accurately represent the total tally of those votes validly cast at every polling station. It should not take more than a day after the announcement of the final results for that to be published (for the sake of transparent and 'saful' elections) as even an uneducated man would expect that it is a simple addition of the 1 + 1 votes from the polling stations that should equal to the total final figures announced.

I also note #USEmbassyFreetown post urging the opposition not to boycott Parliament for the sake of democracy, stating that 'those who voted for the opposition need to have their voices heard'. Well, those who voted for us have asked us not to participate. Isn't our silence loud enough? Remember how much we spoke and did in the last 5 years? Well, now we've chosen to keep quiet and mind our business. In this case, our silence does not mean consent. Silence here, is golden.

Regards,

Osman Timbo

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@sierraeyesalone Power to the people

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@Kamanda_Koroma_ Time will surely tell, and when that time comes those who selfishly ignore reality because of political or party gains will know what the West means to us.

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