The Spotlight: Sainabou Phall
By Yero Jallow
Today, our spotlight is on one of the Diaspora activists, Sainabou Phall, fondly Sister Sai (pronounced Sei). Sai lives in Las Vegas Nevada though off and on, she in the Washington DC area.
In talking to Gainako, Sai disclosed that she is working on some projects currently to help liberate the Gambia.
For Sai, she believes in action movement, and spends her time and energy to see something going for Gambians. Name, fame, position, credit and material are far from her agenda. Sai said she is in it for her input and to impact the lives of many by her participation as an activist.
Sai is trying to mobilize a lot of activists in the Diaspora to show support in Minnesota during the sentencing of the Gambians charged by the U.S Department of Justice on the alleged December 30th 2014 coup d’état, namely Papa Faal (Former U.S Military, Minnesota), Cherno Njie (Real Estate developer, Texas), Banka Manneh (Activist, Georgia), and Alhagie saidy Barrow (Former U.S Military, Tennessee). Sai will be designing T-shirts for participants to wear on the day. She has also been reaching out to a lot in her network to convince them to show solidarity in Minnesota’s sentencing rally likely to be before year’s end.
Sai is working with some of her close comrades on a flyer with links that captures atrocities and human rights violations in the Gambia. She intends to distribute these flyers to U.S Law makers, students, and other concerned people in an effort to expose more the risk posed by the regime in the Gambia in terms of human rights violations.
Sai, though not a registered member in many organizations, is one of the PPP activists in the Diaspora, and extends solidarity to almost all organizations on a true path to liberation. In the slated demonstration in New York September’s ending at the U.N Assembly, Sai designed a special T-shirt with the slogan, “ELECTION LEGITIMIZES JAMMEH’S TYRANNY” which she intends to wear to show solidarity and signal a strong message about the likelihood that election under the current political temperature may legitimize Jammeh on the power seat.
Sai is also a mother, an activist, a concerned citizen, and volunteers at her local community mosque on all related activities including the Quranic School.
Citizens, join me all, in congratulating Sai for her continued civil duties in seeing a liberated Gambia from the clutches of tyranny.
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