{"id":39812,"date":"2012-05-02T01:54:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T01:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=39812"},"modified":"2012-05-02T01:54:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T01:54:45","slug":"mafa-crowned-champions-in-slpps-non-violence-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=39812","title":{"rendered":"MAFA crowned champions in SLPP\u2019s Non Violence Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">MAFA FC narrowly beat Cole Farm FC by\u00a01-0 on Friday April 27 to clinch the opposition Sierra Leone People&#8217;s Party (SLPP) Non-violence and Awareness Raising Football Gala Trophy at the Lumley-Grassfield football field, Constituency 112.\u00a0 (Photo: <em>SLPP Rep from Germany, Madam Sallay Kamara handing over the giant trophy and cash prize to MAFA Captain \u2013 Salifu Samura)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">FC Kallon\u2019s Mohamed Bililie Bangura\u2019s goal separated the two sides to the hour mark. Grassfield, Hill Station, Wilberforce, Aberdeen, Murray Town, Brookfields, Cole Farm, and MAFA have all participated in the three week long ding dong gala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Mr. Thomas Daddy Brima popularly known as \u201cMac Dad\u201d and John B. Tucker widely known as \u201cJ.T.\u201d were the co-sponsors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Mr. Brima is aspiring for the Mayoral seat in the capital Freetown\u2019s Western Area, while Mr. Tucker is vying for the parliamentary seat in Constituency 112 under the ticket of the opposition Sierra Leone People&#8217;s Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39813\" style=\"width: 346px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Mac-Dad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39813\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39813 \" title=\"Mac Dad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Mac-Dad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-sponsor, Mac Dad (centre) handing over two million Leones cash prize to the runners up, Cole Farm FC Captain, Hasler. (Left)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The champions MAFA received a cash prize of Le 4 million, runners-up Cole Farm received the sum\u00a0of Le 2 million,\u00a0and Grassfield received the sum of Le 500,000 as the best behaved team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Addressing the pool of crowd, the SLPP presidential nominee, Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio appealed to party supporters to be law abiding as his party the SLPP does not tolerate violent people. He said all must respect the party\u2019s motto which is \u201cOne country, One People\u201d. He assured his supporters of victory come 17<sup>th<\/sup> November 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The co-sponsors thanked all who supported them in diverse ways to stage a successful football gala event. They promised to replicate the gala to the centre of the Western Area and later in the far East of the capital Freetown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAFA FC narrowly beat Cole Farm FC by\u00a01-0 on Friday April 27 to clinch the opposition Sierra Leone People&#8217;s Party (SLPP) Non-violence and Awareness Raising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[12055],"class_list":["post-39812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-non-violence-gala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39812","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=39812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}