By Adama Makasuba
Council of African Descendants (COAD) also known as Bla Xit has offered a support of borehole worth D200,000 to the community of Busura Nema, Brikama South constituency with aim of helping the village to have access to clean drinkable water.
The ceremony brought together village elders, youth and other VIP which includes the constituency member of parliament Lamin Sanneh.
Speaking at the ceremony, Juliet Ryan Nyancho Kujabi, Secretary of COAD said “This project started because we were looking for another home for many of us as African descendants to find somewhere to live and contribute to the local community also to the local economy to enable us work with our brothers and sisters here in the village.”
She continued that “If we don’t come together and we can’t work together, there is no hope for the future. We have to work together [because] we are brothers and sisters.
“Lots of us who are in the diaspora who are African descendants are coming home and we need to find somewhere that we can call home. We need to find places that we can adopt as our villages and our homes,” she added.
Madam Ryan Nyancho added further that “We are coming home, this is our home, this is our birth right and we are asking for automatic citizenship for all Africa descendants”
However, she dilated on many other proposed development plan in offing and as well dilated on COAD activities in the country which included helping the schools and donating books to their library, helping the Nema disaster victims among others.
Lamin Sanneh, Brikama South National Assembly member, also thanked the group for the support. He described their assistant as crucial development, but harped that “bringing the project is one thing, but sustainability is another thing and problem.”
“History has taught us lots of lessons, there were lots of boreholes dug in the different part of the country but today you go to those places they are dilapidated. So, we must have a strategy put in place in this community to make sure the borehole is sustainable.” he told the community of Busra.
Ebrima Jimboi Kujabi, head of the village development committee, commended the donors for giving a timely support to the village as well as called on fellow village youth to tighten their belts for the development of the village.