Haruna Darbo Family - $58.00 -  Received.
Anonymous A.L. - $25.00 -  Received.

Friends and  coleagues,

Sometimes we assume that  everyone will be sympathetic to the trials and
suffering of a kidnap victim and  his or her family. And we therefore
extrapolate such automatic sympathy to an  outpouring of support when we endeavour
to yield the family relief. This is a  lazy expedition for fundraisers or the
family and friends of a kidnap victim.  The reason is because those who are
encouraged to gift to the fundraising may  also have competing demands for
their meagre funds not the least of which are  family sustenance and the
care of a sick child or parent. Further, for a kidnap  victim, funds raised for
his or her family do not aleviate the suffering due to  absence of a
breadwinner nor does it fill the void of love and companionship the  kidnap victim
was able to share in  freedom.

So imagine with me if you  please:

You woke up one day full  of energy and hope for your family. During the
course of your routine day, you  are abducted from your home by men working
for your government. Leaving your  wife behind who is pregnant with a child
who will have been your first born. And  you had just purchased a home and
moved from the family home in order to begin a  life full of hope with your
wife and children. You were not allowed to even say  goodbye to your young
pregnant wife. The men who kidnapped you were sent for you  by your government's
minister of Defense Col. Babucarr Jatta with collusion by  your National
Assembly slave Jung  Conteh.

Your family cannot visit  with you nor do they know your whereabouts. They
do not know if you are well or  are being fed. There is no court to speak of
which is concerned about your life  or death while in the kidnappers'
hands. Your government, because it actively  participated in your kidnap, cannot
investigate your disappearance nor can they  ascertain your  whereabouts.

This is what happened to  Kanyibaa Kanyi. And like all Statenap victims,
his family has to go on  each day worried sick about whether he is alive or
not. Crimes of statenap are  such that untill and unless those state officials
who participated in  one's statenapping are either kidnapped themselves or
they somehow  disappear themselves, no closure can be yielded about your
life or death much  less your freedom. As long as those state officials are
free themselves,  their continued freedom is directly related to your continued
 disappearance.

That brings us to what  your fellow citizens can do in the mean time as
they continue to hope reason  will come to these unconscionable and uncouth but
remarkably  egotistic state officials. Your fellow citizens have to also
live with  the worry that they could be the next victim of statenapping. That
worry alone  saps any creative and productive fibre from their very being
and they exist  in Gambia only as zombies. Their families they leave behind
when they go to work  each day are in a constant state of listless paralysis.
That is why it is in  their interest not only to support the family you left
behind, but also to seek  justice or remedy for your  condition.

Friends and coleagues, I  come to you now to raise some funds in support of
Kanyibaa Kanyi and his young  family. Kanyibaa's son whom he has never seen
and who has no idea who his father  is, Abdousalam Kanyi was intended by
the statenappers to end up in an orphanage  not to ever know who his parents
were. It was also envisaged by the same  statenappers Jatta and Conteh that
Kanyibaa's lovely wife become destitute and  waver from holy matrimony to
Kanyibaa. Thanks to Kanyibaa's strong wife Isatou  and their related family,
Abdousalam is being cared for by Isatou. That care can  be enhanced, if in the
short term as we work to free him, if we lend a hand  to her and her
supportive  family.

Please help to adopt one  or any number of letters in the name Abdousalam
Kanyibaa Isatou Kanyi (29  letters). I understand the competing demands on
your funds that is why I  encourage you my friends to give whatever you can in
this manner of adopting one  of these 29 letters or as many as you can
given other considerations for  your gifting. There is no value attached to the
letters so you can attach  whatever value you feel comfortable with
considering how many letters you wish  to adopt.

All proceeds from this  family support effort will be forwarded to the UDP,
who I challenge to make a  statement that they will match any funds raised
in our FreedomnewspaperEllen  support effort, for onward transmission to the
Kanyi family. Please send  your donations in check or money order  to:

The  GDP
P.O.Box  775
Lithia Springs, GA  30122

Please mark:  Kanyibaa Kanyi Family  Fund.

If you wish to remain anonymous, please indicate that on your  checks and
money orders and we will keep that trust and acknowledge your gifts  in a
manner that only you will  recognize.

To start us off, my son  and daughter have agreed to adopt the letters in
Abdousalam (10 each) at $1.00  per letter for a total of $20.00 and I have
agreed to adopt the remaining  19 letters at $1.00 a piece for our two other
children ($38.00) for a  grand total of $58.00 from the Haruna Darbo  Family.

Thank you so much for  your time, audience, and  consideration.

Haruna.


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