Fwd: [SLPPVictory] Maigore Kallon Memorial in Maryland

[Kwame Fitzjohn]

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From: 'JAIAH C. KALLON' via SLPPVictory <SierraLeone...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015
Subject: [SLPPVictory] Maigore Kallon Memorial in Maryland
To: SierraLeonePeoplesParty <SierraLeone...@googlegroups.com>, BBI <B...@listserv.tamu.edu>

Invitation to

Maigore Kallon Memorial in Maryland

All are cordially invited to attend a memorial service for the late

Hon. Maigore Christian Kallon

to be held at the

Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church

7414 New Hampshire Blvd.,

Takoma Park, Maryland

this Saturday, May 2nd, 2015

at 1 pm.

Repast will follow the service in the church banquet hall 

For additional information, please contact:

Mr. Jaiah C Kallon, 240-706-2449;

Mr. Moinina Sawi, 301-437-9549;

Mr. Sheku Tarawalli, 240-374-3250;

Ms. Ann Koker, 919-638-2894

~~~~~oOo~~~~~

 

Maigore Christian Kallon  died on March 5, 2015 in Freetown. He had celebrated his 89th birthday on the first day of the previous month.

 

MC, as he was fondly known, represented the Kailahun Central constituency in parliament during the 1960s and early 1970s, -- a vast area encompassing five chiefdoms where he consistently polled some of the highest votes in every election during that time.

 

Mr. Kallon was the last survivor of an amiable group of idealistic young men and women who served our country with distinction and fanfare during the early years of independence. Others included Paramount Chiefs Madam Ella Koblo-Gulama and Bai Shebora Yumkella; and Messrs John Karefa-Smart, S. T. Matturi, Kande Bureh, M. S. Muatapha, Salia Jusu-Sheriff, S. B. Marah, Berthan Macauley, Taplima Ngobeh, A. D. Wurie, G. Dickson-Thomas, M. J. Kamanda-Bongay, J. Nelson-Williams, D. L. Sumner, K. I. Kai-Samba, Robert G. O. King, Aloysious. J. Demby, and Yankay D. Sesay.

 

Mr. Kallon served as cabinet minister in all three SLPP administrations, the only Sierra Leonean who had that distinction. He was Government Whip and Leader of the House as well as Deputy Minister of External Affairs in the Government of our first prime minister, the Right Honorable Sir Milton Augustus Strieby Margai.   He was  appointed Minister of Internal Affairs and then Minister of External Affairs in the government of our second prime minister, Sir Albert Michael Margai. Finally, he served as Foreign Minister in the government of President Ahmed Tejan Kabba.

 

He was a young but very vibrant member of what could be referred to as in Biblical imagery as The Moses Generation of Sierra Leone politicians, -- the founders and pioneers who presided over the transition from colonial imperialism to a free and independent country. They struggled to secure the Promised Land, and for much of the first decade of our independence, worked tirelessly to maintain national tranquility and harmony, as well as prosperity and hope. It is a near-utopian period in our country's history that is often fondly referred to as The Good Old Days! Our country will forever owe them a wealth of gratitude.     

 

The mantle has since been passed on to the rest of us in what is now the Joshua Generation, -- the beneficiaries of those sacrifices. We must constantly ask ourselves: What is called of us in the Joshua Generation? What do we do in order to fulfill the legacy that was bequeathed to us by the Honorable Maigore Christian. Kallon and his peers, to fulfill our obligations to the motherland, and to pay the debt that we owe to those who allowed us to be here today?

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- Jaiah C. Kallon, Publicity Secretary, Washington, DC-Metro SLPP Chapter.

 

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