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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.
Question
is his qualification or merit but not tribal identity.
Sometime
we take comfort in the fact that based on our collective
experience of the war and the hardship it has brought
upon us as a people and nation and the fact that many
Liberians, more than ever before, have traveled widely
and have become much more enlightened about the issue of
hate and bigotry and therefore embracing of the values
of tribal and religious diversity. But whenever a
Mandingo person is appointed to a key position in
Liberia, tribal hatred and bigotry have always raised
their ugly heads.
My
attention is drawn to Sunday, January 22, 2012
publication of the Africa Standard News outlet
captioned: Irony of Prez. Sirleaf latest
appointments-Guinean Mandingo heads Liberia’s financial
sector in which one Lee H. Williams ignorantly delved
into issues way above his understanding.
The
United Nations Secretary General, Ban Kim Moon has
revealed plans for his second terms five years agenda
with issues of human rights, good governance,
sustainable development and preventive diplomacy taking
the center stage on the agenda. Addressing the Member
States during an informal meeting on Wednesday, January
25, 2012 held at the Conference room four of the UN
headquarters in New York, the Secretary General said
that the next five years of his term will be crucial for
defining and agreeing on what he referred d to as a “
common vision for the future”.
The
Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas (ULAA)
has congratulated President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on her
inauguration as President of Liberia for a second term,
and on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. During a
courtesy call on the Liberian leader on Friday, ULAA
President Gaye D. Sleh described as very positive the
delegation’s experience since their arrival in Liberia
to witness the inauguration ceremony of the President.
The
former secretary of the national board of directors of
FELMAUSA Hon. Musa S. Fofana has expressed his
endorsement of the candidacy of Mr. Kafumba Kromah of
Minnesota to be the next President of the Minnesota
Mandingo Association (MMA). Mr. Fofana (in an interview
with our senior reporter) praised Mr. Kromah’s courage
and desire to take up that mantle of community service.
He however lamented that the Minnesota Mandingo
community will be blessed to have Mr. Kromah as their
president.
Shortly
prior to his appointment Thursday as Foreign Minister
designate, Mr. Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, while acting as
Finance Minister, refuted as “untrue” allegations that
he transferred US$400,000 to a Liberian government
scholarship student abroad. A local daily and radio
station this week accused Mr. Ngafuan of “fraudulently”
transferring US$400,000 to Arthur W. Fomba, former
deputy minister of Finance for Expenditure.
Early morning on Friday, January 14, 2012, nearly 200
Minnesota Mandingo community members were awaken by an
audio/voice messaging system recently acquired by the
MMA presidential hopeful, Hon.Kafumba Kromah for
the purposes of disseminating his campaign messages now
and to be used later as an alternative, or addition to
the current text messaging alert system used by our
communities all across the U.S.
Special
Guests, Special Representatives of Colleagues, to
Compatriots, to our Opposition Leaders sitting there: We
observe today, for the first time in two generations,
the swearing in of a second successive democratic
government elected peacefully by the will of the
Liberian people. Today, Monday, January 16, 2012, on
this Capitol Hill, in the presence of international
dignitaries and the eyes of a watching world, we
inaugurate a new beginning, a rebirth of our democracy
and a restoration of hope.
Let
take a bit of introspection to some historical
backgrounds of the term democracy. Modern democracy
might have started with the a popular rebellion against
the monarchy in England (1642), which was brought to a
climax/highlight by the execution of King Charles
I…Later an inspiration led and guided largely by
political philosophers, notably the French philosopher
Montesquieu and Jean Jacques Rousseau, and the American
statesmen Thomas Jefferson and James Madison played
pivotal/key role in the fight to establish modern
democracy .
It’s
been weeks since the Kafumba Kromah campaign was
announced at the MMA November’s meeting. Though the
campaign is yet to be launched formally but the
candidate, Honorable Kafumba Kromah and some senior
members of his team have been busied knocking on doors
all across the Twin Cities seeking support. The group of
dedicated campaigners have made contact and earned the
support of hundreds of prominent Mandingo community
members both at homes, places of worship, work/job (hair
braiding shops), on the street and via telephone
conversations.
Since
the passing of our mother, aunt, sister, Haja Machemeh
Donzo on January 3, 2012, hundreds of family members,
friends and community members in general have paid their
respects by visitations in both Monrovia, Liberia and in
Philadelphia, USA. The outpouring of supports from our
family members, friends and the communities in both
Liberia and the USA have strengthened our faith and
resolves as Muslims. Our faith has been strengthened in
our Creator in these hours of our bereavement.
