Lamin Singhateh - Adopts Isatou Abdoukarim Kanyi @ $2.00/letter - $42.00 - Pledged
Rick Baker - Adopts Isatou Abdoukarim Kanyi @ $1.00/letter - $21.00 - Pledged
Ousman Ceesay (Caesar) - Adopts Isatou Abdoukarim Kanyi @ $1.00/letter - $21.00 - Pledged.
Suzanne Pentecost - Adopts Isatou Abdousalam Kanyi @ $2.00/letter - $42.00 - Received
Aminata Dabo - Adopts Abdousalam Kanyi @ $5.00/letter - $75.00 - Received
Maimouna Ceesay - Adopts Isatou Abdousalam Kanyi @ $1.00/letter - $21.00 - Received
Binnette Diallo - Adopts Isatou Abdousalam Kanyi @ $2.00/letter - $52.00 - Received.
Haddy Sumbundu - Adopts Isatou Abdousalam Kanyi - $21.00 - Received.
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.