To all the family
please accept my sympathy
Hj Habib Diab Ghanim, sr > Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:13:13 -0800> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Tribute to Lamin Sanneh> To: [log in to unmask]> > My cndolences to all the family. May god bless his soul. Lamin was a sincere and generous African brother. We will all miss him .> Oko Drammeh> A Friend> > Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: FYI> Courtesy of > http://www.thegambiajournal.com/artman/publish/article_1533.shtml> Malanding> > > > MOMODOU LAMIN SANNEH : A LIFE OF SPECTACULAR ACCOMPLISHMENTS.> > > By KABBA M.O. NYANGADO> Dec 10, 2007, 03:36> > When I learned about the demise of Lamin Sanneh, my heart sank to the > lowest depth of despondence in inverse proportionality to the numbness > of my spirits. The incredible sorrow and unfathomable sadness > concomitant with Lamin's departure can only be understood , if one has a > modicum of insight into the life of this man, husband, father and public > figure.> Born in Brikama , to parents from Kaiaf; Kiang East in the Lower > River Division of The Gambia, Lamin was raised by a father employed as > an interpreter in the judicial service of colonial Gambia. Following his > graduation from Armitage and Gambia High Schools , imbued with a passion > to study civil engineering and a propensity to serve his country, Lamin > began his career in the civi service as a Works Superintendent at the > then Public Works Department(PWD). After a brief stint in the foregoing > position , he won a scholarship to study civil engineering in the United > Kingdom. It is noteworthy, that as an undergradute civil engineering > intern, he participated in a monumental structural engineering project > in Sweden and his subsequent phenomenal performance in that undertaking > earned him an additional fellowship to pursue further professional > engineering studies in the United Kingdom.> Upon completion of his studies in the U.K, Brikama as he was > affably refered to by contemporaries, was appointed Divisional Engineer > Eastern ( DEE) , with jurisdiction over all infrastructural projects in > the eastern half of the country, i.e , from Mansakonko to Basse. During > his tenure in that position, he oversaw the planning, design and > construction of the Soma- Basse highway which became one of the most, if > not the most significant infrastructural endeavour in post colonial > Gambia. One son of our beloved country who has earned what he got by > dint of expertise, experience, sense of industry and seriousness of > purpose is Lamin Sanneh. His unquestionable brilliance and unassailable > integrity may not have endeared him to all , but it left no one indifferent.> Murphy, as he was affectionately called by his Armitage School > mates, put the service to his country to the frontburner against a > multiplicity of odds and adverse circumstances. By July 1994, Lamin was > already the Director of Technical Services, following the dissolution of > PWD as part of a restructuring of the public service mandated by the > Structural Readjustment Programme of the IMF in the 1980's. Shortly > after the rape on our democracy on July 22nd 1994 , he was dismissed, > arrested and detained on charges of sabotage and subsequently released > and reinstated. Family, friends and well wishers admonished this > technocrat of unalloyed credentials to accept jobs he'd been offered > while in detention by IDB and BADEA , to no avail. True to his > convictions, Lamin felt that he owes his country so much, for it is the > Gambian taxpayers who educated him from Kaiaf Primary School through > Armitage to the best schools of engineering in the United Kingdom and > that they deserve better than putting the acquired knowledge and > expertise to just his personal aggrandisement. What a man of conscience! > Truth be told, how many half baked educated, briefcase totting > bereaucrats across the quadrangle would decline an international > appointment for a salary of the Gambia Integrated Pay Scale.> In 2004, Lamin was confirmed by the Board of World Bank as > Director- General of Gamworks. In less than twenty four months in that > capacity, he was recalled by our Government of academically deficient > and intellectually inadequate miscreants to run the Department of state > for Infrastructure as Permanent Secretary. It is true that no one is > more equipped, experienced and prepared to discharge the duties of that > office than Lamin Sanneh. But the underlying intentions of such a recall > were far more sinister. As Director- General of Gamworks, he may be > beyond the reach of the wicked arms of Gambia Government and so it made > sense for them to cajole this engineer of a superlative calibre and > public servant of distinction to return to the inner core of the civil > service in order to be toyed and played with, at will. All of a sudden > , sometime last year , he was arrested and detained for an inordinate > period of time, only for the charges against him to be dropped by the > state. Lamin has succumbed to the wickedness, apathy and callousness of > a despotic tyrant and a kleptocratic machinery. However, he died a man > of fairness, impeccable decency and unblemished integrity with decades > of service to his country with a high place in its history. > Notwithstanding the foregoing, I have lost a loving brother and a true > friend. On a broader level, The Gambia has lost not just a public > servant or technocrat of substance, but a rare son of integrity, purpose > and a mission .And a mission , Lamin has indeed fulfilled with honour > and distinction.> May his soul rest in eternal and perfect peace. 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