{"id":28330,"date":"2011-08-22T01:25:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T05:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=28330"},"modified":"2011-08-22T01:25:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T05:25:21","slug":"thousands-welcome-usman-boie-as-he-gives-thanks-for-their-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=28330","title":{"rendered":"Thousands welcome Usman Boie as he gives thanks for their support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unremitting silence of Usman Boie reaches it end soon after his arrival in Kenema and Bo Friday 19<sup>th<\/sup> and Saturday 20<sup>th<\/sup> to talk to thousands of supporters, who in diverse ways joined him at polls in the just concluded Sierra Leone People&#8217;s Party (SLPP)\u00a0 Presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 5 pm Friday 19<sup>th<\/sup>, Usman Boie attended the Kenema Central Mosque where he joined thousands of Muslim compatriots for the evening prayer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was greeted with respect, extolled for his contributions towards the development of the mosque and more importantly his love for humanity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At 10 am on Saturday 20<sup>th<\/sup> he was at the SLPP regional office in Kenema where he gleefully and in smiling countenance thanked the thousands or more party supporters for their prop up solidarity for him before and during the SLPP Presidential flag bearer election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am currently giving tribute to the sacred month of Ramadan and will practically not make any political statement at yet, but will take the opportunity to invite you to Freetown on the 4<sup>th<\/sup> September when I shall be making my speech and state my political position,\u201d Usman Boie said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His Kenema visit illustrates the fact that he is truly a leader and worthwhile politician whose courage to see Sierra Leone develop is unavoidably apparent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just about 1pm, he was also in Bo where he eventually addressed an enormous get together of big and small SLPP supporters at the party\u2019s Bo regional office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hours before Usman Boie\u2019s arrival, some thousands of eagerly waiting SLPP supporters were reportedly converged at their party office to respectfully salute the coming of whom they slogan \u2018a courageous political knight in shining armor.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The visit, according to our Bo &amp; Kenema correspondent, was one of a kind and has sparked debate in the minds of the electorates in that part of Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since then, up until past Friday and Saturday respectively, the visit of Usman Boie has left lips of SLPP supporters, including top executive officers, in a trembling and unsuspecting manner, wary of not losing such a popular politician at all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full details next edition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unremitting silence of Usman Boie reaches it end soon after his arrival in Kenema and Bo Friday 19th and Saturday 20th to talk to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,692,1],"tags":[2579,759,6029,6253],"class_list":["post-28330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-sierra-leone-peoples-party","tag-slpp","tag-usman-boie-kamara","tag-usu-boie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}