By Gibrill Gotor
He served the Sierra Leone Embassy as Ambassador, representing Sierra Leoneans in Guinea for almost 7 years, no doubt until some of his people sold him out to the devil.
Ambassador Alimamy Hassan Bangura is a household name in Guinea-Conakry and Kambia, his birth place in Sierra Leone. An all-rounder and a major reason for the governing Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) regaining its lost glory in 2018. The SLPP many party supporters believe, was founded on a solid foundation of Unity by their forefathers, including Late PC Bai Farma Tass, Late PC Kandeh Yumkellah and many others, who formed part of the party’s architecture. The strong history of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), stemming its background from Kambia district, gave it a strong grip in one of the major northern districts of Sierra Leone prior to the 2007 election.
In 2018, after almost 11 years in opposition, the SLPP began regaining control over Kambia district, with Ambassador Alimamy Hassan Bangura as leader, following a resounding victory that saw President Dr. Julius Maada Bio as President of the Republic of Sierra Leone.
To his appointment as Sierra Leone Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea, Ambassador Alimamy Hassan Bangura brought several reforms that restored the lost dignity of the country’s diplomatic mission abroad. Ambassador Bangura through his leadership, succeeded in rebranding Sierra Leone’s diplomatic image by taking its office from a chicken cage at Belle View for over 30 years, since the reigns of the Late Siaka Probin Stevens, to now a state-of-the-art office environment at Kaporo in Conakry. This is a milestone achievement that restored our country’s dignity in the international stage.
Prior to his appointment as Sierra Leone Ambassador to Guinea, employment opportunity at the Embassy was a nightmare for children of Pa. Kambie not until in 2018 when opportunities of such nature was created through his support.
He brought life to the Embassy and created gainful bilateral relationship between Guinea and Sierra Leone through a well organized border trade, in which many men and women in the business community in Kambia district were beneficiaries. Today, Sierra Leoneans, men and women, are enjoying freedom, traversing the borders day and night, unhindered.
CAN A MICE STAND A CAT?
SLPP Supporters in Kamia District amidst this trying time still see the former ambassador as a unifier, philanthropist, and development oriented personality whose political footprints in development is all over the place making it difficult for his enemies and detractors to succeed. For the people of Kambia, they see him as the ‘‘Political Wild Cat’’ in whose kingdom no mice will survive.
Some hold the view that irrespective of what his distractors perceived about him, yet he remained a shining star even in a state of turbulence.
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