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A rebuttal to the July 7, 2009
publication written by an unknown volunteer entitle: President elect,
Mohammed Dukuly Celebrates his Victory with bad precedent! By: Varmuyan A. Sirleaf 10 July, 2009  Please
allow me a space on your web site to write a rebuttal to the allegation
leveled against FELMAUSA’s President Elect Hon. Mohammed Dukuly
regarding the incident at the Debate Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota on
Friday July 3, 2009. This story appeared in the July 7th,
2009 publication of the Mandingo Nation Website. It was written by an
unknown Volunteer reporter. We as Mandingo people are blessed at last to have someone in our midst that can stand up and advocate for his rights and the rights of others regardless of the ramification.
1. National president-----$200.00 2. National Board chairman-----$200.00 3. National Vice-president Administration---$150.00 4. National Vice president Operation------$150.00 5. National General Secretary----$100.00 6. National Treasure-----$100.00 7. National Financial Secretary----$100.00 If my math is correct, a total of one thousand dollars ($1000.00) was collected from the candidates to off set miscellaneous expenses at the convention by the candidates. Hon. Mohammed Dukuly was a presidential candidate at the just ended FELMAUSA’s Elections in Minneapolis, Minnesota which he won decisively and convincingly. As a qualified candidate, Hon. Mohammed Dukuly must have paid his $200.00 demanded or required by the strict Election Commission that rigorously enforced all the election guidelines; otherwise he would have been disqualified to stand in the first place.
Therefore my first argument:
As part of the process, the debate which was held under the auspices of the Election Commission that demanded to conduct the debate and collected between $100.00 to $200.00 from every candidate that participated in it (the debate), that Commission should not have obliged the very candidates that supplemented its budget for the smooth conduction of the election which included the enthusiastic debates to pay a penny for entrance. The candidates paid at least 10 times more then all the attendees.
My second argument:
All the people who attended the debate program were there to see the candidates debate each other. If a candidate had refused to enter the debate hall to participate in the debate, the entire process would have been a failure. It was not wise to force your indispensable guests to pay a penny to enter a hall where they are needed (not wanted).This was synonymous to asking a football team to pay at the gate of a game they are scheduled to play. One can imagine what would have happened to the entire program if they had refused to pay to enter. This was a high risk miscalculated by the organizers. Can you ask your guest Speaker an entrance fee to speak? In every organization, indispensable guests do not pay entrance fees. There are many other ways they can contribute. They should be the recipient of hospitalities, and not the other way around. Standing up for your rights and making your organization hospitable is not a refusal to financially support FELMAUSA, but it is rather making it hospitable, warm, cordial, sociable and gracious. FELMAUSA does not stand for any thing short of these. That I can assure you!
To those who say that forcing everybody to pay including the gate-keeper was done to raise money, do not know FELMAUSA well. FELMAUSA is a potent and viable organization with well knowledgeable men and women that have powerful, persuasive and effective ideas to raise tons of money in various ways. We should never disrespect our useful and essential people for the sake of money. The gate-keeper who should be at the entrance for the entire program should never be forced to pay $10 to enter a debate hall when he or she is destined to stay at the gate for the entire program. This is an ingredient for embezzlement and should not be tolerated in FELMAUSA. Hon. Dukuly, like many of us that took part in the debate, does not have problem with spending but the employed methodology. Any rational, balanced and cogent person will show such a mark of an educated man. The writer is no exception. Many of us, the candidates, raised similar concern at the gate because it was not the right thing to do, so I do not comprehend why he should be singled out. Is it because he won the mandate of the people? This is unfortunate and bias.
I know Hon. Mohammed Dukuly to be a strong contributing member of the Education Committee of FELMAUSA that I chair. He won the mandate of the Mandingo people on July 4th, 2009 to lead FELMAUSA for the next two years in order to consultatively bring about transparency, and put an end to unilateralism. The presidency is an institution that must be protected. Publishing negative story about any one without first inquiring from the sides involved to balance your story is considered bias. Mandingo Nation should desist from yellow journalism if it wants to be credible. Yellow journalism is a style of journalism that makes unscrupulous use of scandalous, lurid, or sensationalized stories to attract readers. The ABC of journalism is Accuracy, Balance and Clarity. Credibility is not purchased, but earned. It is advisable to take note of the above in order to avoid unnecessary tension and mix feeling in our community. I applause the hard work of our brothers and sisters who want to informed the world about FELMAUSA activities as it grows by the day, but please transmit a balanced and truthful accounts of happenings in our community.
I conclude to recommend that all extremely desirable guests of FELMAUSA from now on should carry cards made purposely for the occasion that will show their names and title for that event. These cards should be shown at the entrance along with a government issued identification cards or passports. It is important to understand that during the infancy of any social organization such as FELMAUSA, we are bound to make these mistakes, but our willingness to correct them will make the difference.
You can contact the writer by email: vsirleaf@yahoo.com
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