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I
must begin by congratulating Mr. Dorley and his team for
winning the just ended election. But most significantly
I want to thank the community for the mass turnout and
also Mr. Kromah for being a great activist and leader
that I have respected in the past but never had the
opportunity to work closely with him until very
recently. As many stakeholders in our community and
beyond were worried that the result of our election may
lead to split in our community and since I had indorsed
Mr. Kromah I felt obligated to call him when the results
were announced.
As
the members of MMA (Minnesota Mandingo Association) go
to the pool on Sunday, February 26, 2012 to elect new
corp if officers to manage the affairs of their
community, we write to admonish them to see this
democratic exercise as an opportunity to come together
and work together for preservation of peace and unity in
the community. In this election, the two candidates,
Mohammed Dorley and Kafumba Kromah, are dedicated.
The
Liberian Mandingo Association of Pennsylvania (LIMAP)
was established to encourage peace and unity in our
community. TO facilitate such enviable endeavor, the
board of directors was created to enhance and uphold
those beliefs and to create activities that the
community can benefit from. Contrary to ensuring a
proper adherence to the BY-LAWS of Limap, The Abu Sillah
led Board has deviated from its constitutional
responsibilities and has injected hatred.
New
York, 22 February 2012 the Executive Director of the
United Nations Office on Drugs Crime (UNODC) Mr. Yury
Fedotov has expressed serious concern over the use of
African countries as conduits for drug trafficking and
other dangerous substances by the South American drug
cartels. Mr.Fedot’s remarks was contained in a paper
delivered at the United Nations Security Council
briefing on the “Impact of Transnational Organized Crime
on Peace, Security and Stability in West Africa and the
Sahel Region” He said that South American drug cartels
are exploiting regional vulnerabilities in West Africa:
This
letter is to register the concern of our campaign over a
possible violation by you of MMA constitution. Two years
ago, February 20, 2010 to be precise, you took an oath
before the Minnesota Mandingo Community in which you
swore to faithfully execute the Office of President and
to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of MMA.
You are required to faithfully execute the provisions of
the constitution. This execution must not only apply to
the twenty dollars membership fee, but also to Article
V section IV Term of Office:
On
Thursday, February 16, 2011, while on my normal routine
visiting Liberian news outlets online to acquaint myself
with issues happening back home, I came across a story
in the New Dawn Newspaper captioned: “Christians Gather
1 Million Signatures to Declare Liberia a Christian
state.” According to the paper, the Christian state
campaigners want to repeal article 14 of the 1986
Liberian Constitution which declared Liberia as a
secular state.
“The
unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates (470-399
BCE).“Socrates felt so passionately about the value of
self-examination that he closely examined not only his
own beliefs and values but those of others as well. More
precisely, through his relentless questioning, he forced
people to examine their own beliefs.”
Wow!
What a laughable Resolution. Abu Sillah is completely
unfamiliar with type of board Limap has. Is he thinking
that this is a board that chooses its CEO or the
president? He is dead wrong and out of touch with the
reality in the state of Pennsylvania. The president of
Limap is not chosen by the board of directors, but
elected by the people of Pennsylvania. Your
unconstitutional resolutions or self-entertained
resolution is nothing but charade and is not welcome by
the people of Pennsylvania who massively voted Mr.
Lamine Kromah into Office.
With
elections fast approaching, MMA presidential candidate,
Hon. Kafumba Kromah has made a partial release of his
long awaited platform to mark the official beginning of
campaign season.
A
minister in Guinea has been charged for his role in the
killing of scores of people during a protest in 2009 in
the capital against military rule. Col Moussa Tiegboro
Camara is the most senior official to be charged over
the massacre, one of the bloodiest events in the West
African country's history. At least 157 people died when
the troops opened fire in a Conakry stadium and 100
women were raped.
BUFFALO,
N.Y. – A Liberian man who helped lead a faction accused
of torture killings and recruiting child soldiers during
the West African country’s civil war has been ordered
removed from the United States, where he raised a family
and worked as a public school administrator in upstate
New York. The immigration judge’s ruling Monday followed
a 2010-2011 trial at which U.S. Immigration and Customs
authorities said George Boley Sr., 62, committed
atrocities in Liberia in the 1990s and was in the U.S.
without valid documents.
Revolution
of any kind does not occur in a vacuum. There has to be
a cause or multiple causes to start one. And once it
begun, it becomes difficult to contain it without a
robust and/or adequate redress. French and the Russians
revolutions and most recently the so called “Arab
Spring” are all categorized as instruments for change.
When brutality and vandalism became the order of the
day, it took certain brave men and women to defend the
cause of freedom thereby emancipating themselves from
the bondage of brutal rule and deprivation to that of
self esteem.
Ambassador
Kamara who was elected last year as the chair of the
Bureau to steer the affairs of the Commission on the
Status of Women said she was pleased to have been given
the opportunity to serve on such an important Bureau of
the world body which goals and objectives are to promote
gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout
the world.She told the representatives of the NGO
community that the Bureau under her leadership will work
hard to up hold the tradition of encouraging their
participation and to have a constructive and close
relationship.
