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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 28 Nov 2006 : 12:13:51
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Tribute To Mamadi Jabai
A True Servant of The People
By Suwaibou Touray
Mamadi Jabai, alias Mamadi Kalleh Jabai, has passed away. He died on the 20th day of November 2006, at the M.R.C Headquarters in Fajara. Mr. Jabai's body was transported to Sutukoba Village in the Wuli East District of the URD, on the same day by the MRC staff.
Mr. Jabai will be remembered for his hard work, his patriotism and love for people whom he served with abnegation. This indefatigable man worked for the department of education as a teacher from 1976 to 1979. He also worked for the department of agriculture from 1979 to 1996. From early 1996, Mr. Jabai became a staff of the Medical Research Council, MRC, as a field staff. Up to the time of his death, he served the MRC as a field staff. Mamadi was also a blood donor for several years.
During his funeral, people expressed their sorrow for the demise of one of the most illustrious sons of not only Wuli but of the whole of the Gambia. They talked of his kind heartedness, his love for people and the endless help he rendered to the sick and the needy.
Honourable Sidia Jatta, the National Assembly Member for Wuli West, gave a solemn speech. He indicated that he usually does not like to speak at funerals but that Mamadi's was a unique one. He said that there are two types of human beings, i.e. one that lives and works for oneself and the one that lives and works for others. He said that Mamadi was one who lived and worked for others selflessly; that he used his time and resources to serve the people. He said that that is what we consider to be a good human being who will live in the hearts and minds of the people forever and ever.
He posited that those who live and work for themselves alone cannot be considered good human beings or there is nothing of significance they leave behind for which they would be remembered. He said that Mamadi is not really dead; he is more living than some of those who are still living.
Mr. Kandakasse Juwara, the Chief of Wuli East District, spoke of Mamadi as indeed a man of the people. He said that Mamadi did not discriminate. He served them all irrespective of political affiliation, tribe, or place of origin. He said Mamadi did not keep grudge in him against anybody; that he was never angry with anybody or kept any ill feeling against anybody. He said that the people of Wuli and indeed the people of The Gambia have really lost a good human being who will be hard to replace. He called on people to forgive Mamadi.
Hundreds of people who converged at the funeral prayed for Mamadi and he was buried in one of the cemeteries in Sutukoba.
Mamadi was the National Assembly candidate for the PDOIS in the Wuli East Constituency in the 2002 elections. He is survived by two wives and seven children. His sickness was unknown to many people until his death. He was first admitted at the MRC Health Post in Basse before being transferred to Fajara. That is why the announcement of his death struck people like a thunder bolt from the blue.
They cried and fainted as the news of his death reached Wuli. Some ask themselves whether they would ever have a replacement for Mamadi.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No.104/2006, 27-28 November, 2006
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28 Nov 2006 : 12:33:16
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Originally posted by Momodou
Mamadi Jabai, alias Mamadi Kalleh Jabai, has passed away............
May Allah grant him Jannah. May his family have the fortitude for the irreparable loss. |
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