Tam-Baryoh is “Fighting” for VP Sam-Sumana but God will have the Final Say By Dr. Sylvia Blyden (in United States of America) Sep 30, 2013, 12:08 Email this article Printer friendly page You May Click Here To Read or Discuss Views About This Article David Tam-Baryoh has the unenviable record of creating needless bad blood around the Vice-President of Sierra Leone at an amazing rate. Few weeks ago just before I travelled out of the country, the Minister of the East, William Juana Smith, who is one of the strongest ever APC loyalists, whilst in Kono, walked in to greet the Vice-President who was also on a visit to Kono. Pa Smith met Tam-Baryoh seated next to the Vice-President in a room in Kono. W.J. Smith immediately told the Vice-President that if he had known David Tam-Baryoh was seated in there, he would not have gone there to greet the Vice-President. This is just one example. Other examples abound! I understand Mr. David Tam-Baryoh was boasting on MONOLOGUE this Saturday 28th September 2013, that he has gotten many local newspaper editors to publish a nasty piece he had written in which he makes clear insinuations of grave falsities against my person. He maliciously and falsely insinuates in the said piece that the reason why I stood up for the rights of the recent alleged female rape victim, is because I am myself a victim of rape! Section 37 under Part V of the Public Order Act of 1965 gives an interpretation of what is to be considered as “defamatory matter” under the Criminal Libel Laws of Sierra Leone. It says thus: “defamatory matter” means any matter which if published of and concerning a person (deceased or alive) is likely to expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule or to damage him in his trade, business, profession, calling, or office whether such matter be expressed in spoken words or in any audible sounds or in words legibly marked or in any substance whatever or by any sign or object signifying such matter otherwise than by words wither directly or by insinuation or irony; I have indeed read the said piece on a London-based website. David Tam Baryoh makes a very clear insinuation that I was raped by an uncle who impregnated me and the child I produced from the rape, is being raised by my mother in London because I do not want to see the child. This is totally false, very malicious and nasty. I have never been raped in my life let alone by an uncle! It is being insinuated to intimidate me because I simply pointed out that in a civilised world, when a woman like the female student, alleges she has been raped, it is not a license to humiliate her publicly. For saying this, David Tam Baryoh is even going to the extent of attacking my parents and grandparents. Wow! This has shown how low journalism has sunk under an inept Independent Media Commission. Anyway, David Tam-Baryoh can be sued under the 1965 Public Order Act for such wicked and false insinuations. I just wonder if him and the local editors, he boasts will publish his trash, have good lawyers? Most importantly today, let me state that this is not a matter of ordinary journalism falling within the remit of IMC. The ongoing actions by David Tam Baryoh that are being played out on his MONOLOGUE programme are offshoots of HIGHLY POLITICAL “fights”. I will be most remiss if I do not make a point in this piece that it is now clear to so many folks that this latest nonsense over my views on the rape matter is just another vehicle being used by folks like Tam Baryoh who are uncomfortable with the very high confidence and undiluted trust which President Koroma has in Sylvia Blyden. This trust and confidence is the reason why the President brought me to be very, very, very near him at State House with unfettered official access. This trust and confidence are the reasons why the President asked me to accompany Hon. Alpha Kanu to the United States of America to represent him; which I have done masterfully to the admiration of all. Those who do not like this unwavering confidence and trust which President Ernest Bai Koroma has in Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, should learn to bear it. That strong confidence and trust my boss has in me, is not going away anytime soon neither am I leaving State House anytime soon. This Special Executive Assistant (SEA) enjoys an excellent relationship with my boss, the President of Sierra Leone! The reality is that I am a victim of those who are just too desperate to succeed him and see my loyalty to the President, as a hindrance to their plans. Let me categorically state today that they had most effectively gotten the President CAGED and my singularly presence has created an escape route for President Koroma out of the CAGE they had built. That is why if you read the piece by Tam Baryoh, you can see him ascribing almost omnipotent powers to me at State House. One single lady alone can do all what Tam-Baryoh is claiming? You can imagine! The truth is that indeed my presence at State House with undiluted official access to the President, is like “san-san na den garri” (sand in their meal bowl). That is why David Tam Baryoh is so exasperated with my presence at State House. I recently educated the same Tam-Baryoh when he told me that the Vice-President is also my boss. I told him that I only have one boss in Sierra Leone and that is, His Excellency the President. Even the Honourable Vice-President is not my boss! I have always respected the Vice-President as a big brother but I am not legally answerable to him or to anyone else other than President Koroma. That is why though my appointment letter states that I carry full Cabinet rank, I am not a Cabinet Minister as all Cabinet Ministers are answerable to the Vice-President. I am totally not answerable to the Vice-President or to anyone else other than my boss, His Excellency the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone. I understand David Tam-Baryoh apart from his nasty false insinuations about my poor mother raising up an incestuous rape product grandchild, actually also went on to insult my father and grandfather over his radio programme of Saturday 28th September 2013. If this confidence and trust in me by President Koroma is the reason why Vice-President Sam-Sumana’s media handler, is now using his MONOLOGUE programme to insult my grandfather, Solomon Pratt, and my father, Babatunde Blyden, two of the architects of the 1967 success known as APC which the Vice-President is enjoying in Sierra Leone today, then so be it. God will have the final say. I rest my pen.
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