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A senior member of the APC gives out warnings

Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden OOR on Friday August 5th 2022, has issued Audio 076 which is her 76th Audio (54 Minutes 51 seconds long) and in which she:

▪️ ADVISES ORDINARY CITIZENS TO IGNORE THE CALL FOR PROTESTS ON AUGUST 8, AUGUST 9, AUGUST 10, AUGUST 20, AUGUST 40, AUGUST 100, AUGUST BLAH BLAH BLAH BY FACELESS PPP MAMMY CUSS.

▪️ ADVISES CITIZENS NOT TO LISTEN TO ONE LAWYER WHO RECENTLY WENT OVER AYV TV TO URGE CITIZENS TO COME OUT AND PROTEST IN ONE PLACE.

▪️ SHOWS HOW THE LAWYER ONLY LOOKED AT SECTION 17 OF PUBLIC ORDER ACT WITHOUT ADVISING ON SECTION 12 WHICH CARRIES A PENALTY OF UP TO 18 MONTHS JAIL FOR OFFENCE THAT INCLUDES PROTEST IN ONE PLACE.

▪️ CAUTIONS THAT ALTHOUGH SECTION 17 FOR UNLAWFUL PROCESSION, CARRIES SENTENCE OF NO MORE THAN 6 MONTHS BUT SECTION 12 AGAINST INSULTING, INDECENT, DISORDERLY & RIOTOUS CONDUCT, ESPECIALLY AT A POLICE STATION⚠️ OR AT ANY LOCK-UP LOCATION⚠️, CARRIES A FAR MORE SERIOUS PENALTY OF UP TO 18 MONTHS JAIL.

▪️ GIVES HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (1996 TO DATE) ON THE GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ELECTORAL LAWS OF SIERRA LEONE WITH RESPECT TO PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF POLITICAL PARTIES TO FREELY CANVASS FOR VOTES DURING ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS.

▪️ CAUTIONS POLICE OFFICERS AND MILITARY OFFICERS THAT WHILST THEY HAVE FULL POWERS TO OBSTRUCT MOST PROCESSIONS ACCORDING TO THEIR DISCRETION, THAT DISCRETIONARY POWER DOES NOT APPLY TO A POLITICAL PARTY PROCESSING ON A DAY ALREADY ALLOCATED TO THAT PARTY BY THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF SIERRA LEONE (ECSL).

▪️ STRONGLY CAUTIONS SECURITY OFFICERS AGAINST FOLLOWING UNLAWFUL ORDERS TO OBSTRUCT MEMBERS OF A POLITICAL PARTY DURING CAMPAIGNS ON DATES ALLOCATED TO THAT POLITICAL PARTY BY ECSL.

▪️ EDUCATES MILITARY AND POLICE OFFICERS THAT WHILST SECTION 125 OF EXTANT PUBLIC ELECTIONS ACT OF 2012, PROVIDES A CAVEAT PROTECTION FOR THEM, SECTION 127 PROVIDES NO SUCH CAVEAT AND SO A POLICE OR MILITARY OFFICER WHO DELIBERATELY AND WILLFULLY OBSTRUCTS POLITICIANS OF POLITICAL PARTIES GOING TO CANVASS FOR VOTES, CAN BE CHARGED, CONVICTED AND FACE A MINIMUM OF 5 YEARS IN JAIL. 

▪️ ALERTS MILITARY AND POLICE OFFICERS INVOLVED THAT ON SATURDAY JUNE 11TH 2022 WHEN THEY WILLFULLY OBSTRUCTED DR. SAMURA KAMARA, AMBASSADOR OSMAN YANSANEH, HER WORSHIP TONKOLILI CHAIRPERSON YABOME THASLIM SESAY-KOROMA, HONOURABLE ABDUL KARGBO & OTHER APC MPs FROM FREELY PROCESSING TO CANVASS FOR VOTES IN SAMBAIA BENDUGU, A CRIMINAL OFFENSE WAS COMMITTED BY THOSE POLICE AND MILITARY MEN AND FOR WHICH THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO PROTECTION UNDER THE CURRENT LAW.

▪️ POINTS OUT THE IRONY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE OBSTRUCTION (APC POLITICIANS) BEING ASKED BY THE ACTUAL OFFENDERS (POLICE OFFICERS) TO GO AND FACE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS AT THE CID. 😃😃😃😃

Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden OOR ends Audio-076 with the music of the National Anthem.🇸🇱🎵🎶

 🔜 Audio 077 will be out soon and will discuss issues around Women and Proportional Representation.

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