A step in the right direction. The UDP U.K members will support this
initiative Haruna. I hope all concern citizens of the Gambia give generously
to this noble call.
Suntou

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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 Darbo Family -(4)- adopt Abdousalam Kanyibaa Isatou Kanyi - $58.00
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