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President/Chief Executive of CADS Global Network
-- Kenday "Ken" Samuel Kamara Visiting the Gambia
as an Ambassador of the WCPA and CADS Programs Donates Rice to Refugees
at Basseh
Message to Refugees:
Reverend Father, Refugee Leaders, and fellow refugees. Good afternoon. I am glad to be with you all this afternoon. I stand here this afternoon as a refugee like most of you with heartfelt wishes for a Sierra Leone that is genuinely tolerant of common humanity and love of country.
It hurts to say, we are a threatened people. Threatened of extinction, that's why most of us have to flee. Our lives been made so miserable by years of unending political violence so complicated that we are perpetually the victims of this senseless conflict for power. I am a Sierra Leonean with abiding interest in Sierra Leone.
I am so deeply concerned about what is going on in our country and I constantly pray for the truth and permanent peace to prevail. After all, we do not have the privilege to live forever in this third planet. If I were the powers that be therefore, I will just naturally strive to be most productive and honorable, selflessly utilizing the resources of our country for the benefit of all.
The United States of America is an example of a country where political leaders are so concerned about their citizens. About their country. They even twist arms of other countries to make their people happy. To make their country the greatest in the world today. If only our leaders have this same spirit, Oh! what a wonderful Sierra Leone we will have. Because it is dramatically clear we have the natural resources in abundance. Therefore, our country would have been the greatest in this planet. But what is wrong. Why are we so wicked to ourselves? Why do we hate ourselves so much that we constantly strive to hurt ourselves? Now look how we are suffering today. Hundreds of thousands of Sierra Leoneans scattered across Africa, some of us clamoring to seek asylum and resettlement status in the west where we have to contend with all sorts of immigration indignities. Why do we find it impossible to live as a human family earnestly working for the good of our nation -- not corrupt, not nepotic, not tribalistic, but for equal development across the country, that is: from the forests of Pujehun through the diamond lands of Kono to the Mena Hills of Makeni and the Wara Wara Mountains of Kabala. Now look at ourselves. We must be ashamed, for having the wretched likes of Sam Bockarie, Gibril Massaquoi, and Foday Sankoh who chose to wage a most senseless war which they could not even explain to date. Why are they killing us, killing our brothers, killing our sisters, killing our fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles and even robbing our diamonds to sell at give away prices to other countries. Even if our politicians are wrong, this is not the way to correct the system by lopping off the arms and legs of children, raping young girls, among other cruelties.
Look at us, we all have to pay residential fees to our various countries of asylum every year to continue to live in countries we are always categorized as foreigners and aliens far and way from our land of diamond and gold, and agricultural abundance. Why cannot we end this re bel nonsense now? What has made ending this killing spree so difficult and complicated??? Having asked these passionate questions, without much to say, we must now only have to swallow the bitterness of the painful consequences from our stupid conflict we have endured all this time, to accommodate ourselves better. The lessons we have so far learned are so hard and caustic. Let's now start by having compassion for ourselves. Learning to share, and to love one another. Our leaders whom we trust will come up with the wisdom to end our troubles do not have forever to live, but they can live most honorably for posterity to honor them just like how the Americans are honoring great statesmen like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson among many, many others today. So we trust they will have to be more practical and forthcoming. Our country's circumstances are self created and self inflicted.
Therefore we must seek to redress these circumstances, mend where we are lacking, then come together as one nation, not as mendes, temnes, or limbas, but as Sierra Leoneans. Besides, development must be countrywide. And food must be available to all, three meals a day. And the poorest of the poor must feed three meals a day.
This very small donation of rice I am presenting today to the most needy refugees here in Basseh is to show how deeply concerned I am for our present circumstances. I wish I could get my institution to do more. Our global program is indeed deeply concerned about the multiplying problems across the globe, especially Africa. And we are not satisfied with the role of the United Nations in all these circumstances all across the world that have so badly affected us in Sierra Leone. That's why our institution is fully established to identify the weaknesses of the United Nations with the larger goal to replace it with a more functional and constitutionally responsible federal body capable of aptly addressing the gross injustices of our world. In four constituent assemblies held in various parts of the world between 1971 and 1991, our organization, the World Constitution and Parliament Association succeeded to draw up a thoroughly debated Constitution for the Federation of Earth designed to replace the Charter of the United nations, and we stoutly believe, if ratified, by at least 25 countries, and implemented, will provide elaborate human rights protection that will assure us sustainable stability in Sierra Leone, also in all countries of the world where us and other peoples of the world will live happily and prosperously in a Federation of Earth, wherein every human, every Sierra Leonean, every Gambian and every American is given the opportunity to be fed at least three meals a day, to be robustly healthy, to be properly clothed and to be adequately housed. In the interim, we hope this token donation we are making today and the arduous task I have endured to travel from far and away from the United States to Basseh will strengthen your faith for our organization and will enrich you with the hope that when we succeed in our campaign to get 25 countries to ratify the Earth Constitution, life in our country will be brighter and very peaceful. And we trust from this far removed camp in Basseh - some 388 kilometers from the great city of Banjul, you will make your voices be heard in support of the campaign for the ratification and implementation of the Earth Constitution.
At this juncture, I must let you know that I will continue to work hard to cater for our more distressed brothers and sisters. And I look forward to when all of us will have the opportunity to return to Sierra Leone, I will be more instrumental in promoting the sustainable peace, stability and constructive development of our country. For the time being, I promise to liaise with the Pan-African Mission for Social Development Work in the Gambia to continue to cater for your interest. MAY PEACE PREVAIL IN AFRICA!!! MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH!!!
Kenday
S. Kamara addressing refugees at Basseh -- January, 2001.
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