Isatou Badjie - Adopts - Abdousalam
Kanyi - $15.00 - Received
Anonymous A.L. - $25.00 -
Received.
Haruna Darbo Family - $58.00 -
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.