Samuel Kallon 
By Ragan M. Conteh
The fight for electoral justice has reached a stage that has ignited what many perceived as unending battle for supremacy between the former Chairman and Leader of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), Chief Somano Kapen and the All People’s Congress (APC) party Executive.
In a marathon exchange of words on social media, Chief Kapen said, what many fail to realize is that electoral justice is not a slogan but a phenomenon that has shaped nations throughout history.
He went further to state that those who have studied English history will recall the Battle of Bosworth Field, which ended the Wars of the Roses when Prince Richard III lost his crown to Henry VII.
According to Chief Kapen, that moment was described as an epoch, a turning point in history. Stressing that, England alone gave us the defining word Magna Carta, a symbol of justice and accountability, and today, Sierra Leone stands at such crossroads, between truth and falsehood, between justice and deception, between courage and cowardice.
He narrated that from the controversial elections of Sir Milton Margai and Albert Margai (PNP), marred by irregularities and violence, the nation’s electoral history has been plagued by flaws, citing that the 2023 elections were no exception.
He revealed that his message today is also a warning to those within his own ranks who have chosen propaganda over principle, stating that history teaches us the dangers of reckless spin. Kapen also remembered Reich Marshal Joseph Goebbels of Nazi Germany, or Mohammed Said Al-Sahaf, “Comical Ali” of Iraq, who denied reality even as American tanks rolled into Baghdad, maintaining that falsehood is not strategy; propaganda may buy time, but it cannot buy truth.
Within our party, he said, some seemed intent on repeating these mistakes.
He highlighted that, since the departure of former Secretary-General and Vice President Victor Bockarie Foh, they firmed a dangerous cult of personality.
Speaking to acting Chairman of the APC, Pa Yansaneh, he said, “You were once close to Dr. Samura Kamara, as a personal friend, yet you turned against him like Brutus against Caesar. You call yourself the “encyclopedia,” but you should know better: Samura is no ordinary man, he is a sleeping lion, and one does not dare touch the tail of a lion, even when it rests. Do not mistake his calm for weakness.”
He urged Pa Yansaneh to watch The Downfall, a German film portraying Hitler and Goebbels in their final days, stating that it is a sobering lesson in denial and delusion.
Yansaneh, Somano Kapen said, history will hold him responsible if this crisis explodes, for instead of being a unifying Secretary-General, he has become the face of every division.
To the APC Publicity Secretary Sidi Yaya Tunis, Chief Kapen lamented, “You rush to the forefront without clarity, message, or direction. If there were a bunker today, you and your allies would be huddled in it, whispering narratives that no longer hold water,” he cautioned.
He also spoke to Pope Kamara that “You said you are a teacher, Let me ask you, have you read Rudyard Kipling’s poem If? It teaches that keeping calm in chaos requires wisdom, not ignorance of the moment. Yet your three contradictory audios have embarrassed not just you but our party. Your intent to debunk my audio on the 30/08/2025 has become the subject of ridicule. That is not leadership; it is disgrace,” Kapen lambasted.
He insisted to consider the fable of The Monkey and the Cat, pointing that the monkey tricked the cat into pulling chestnuts from the fire, leaving the cat burned while the monkey feasted.
He said that is precisely what Yansaneh and his allies have done to Pope Kamara and others. They used them and left them to bear the backlash.
In politics, Kapen said, they cannot place a crown on a clown and expect a king. “Leadership demands wisdom, vision, and integrity. Puppet behaviour will not build a party, and blind loyalty will not secure victory,” he stressed.
Contrast this with our leader, Dr. Samura Kamara; he said, in the midst of storms, he has remained calm, steady, and courageous. “That is true leadership.”
Kapen reminded the APC Executive also that a political party exists for one reason, to win elections and enter governance.
“How then can one claim victory while denying justice? Do you even understand the mandate theory in political science?” he asked.
History is clear, Nixon was not undone by Watergate itself, but by the cover-up and that propaganda destroys nations. “The people are watching.
The grassroots are speaking. They are tired, tired of leaders without vision, tired of reckless propaganda, tired of betrayal,” Kapen emphasized.
He said Sierra Leone deserves better and the APC must do better, history will judge those who choose falsehood over truth in this decisive moment.
“Let us rise with courage, Let us stand with integrity, Let us fight, not for self, not for faction, but for Sierra Leone, for the end, only justice will secure peace, only truth will restore unity. Only leadership with integrity will deliver the Sierra Leone our people deserve,” Kapen underscored.
