Sierra Leone News: National Islamic Mission gets New Leadership

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The National Islamic Mission of Sierra Leone (NIMSL) has on Friday 1st November 2013 presented Mrs. Mary Sallu the legally wedded wife of the late founder and proprietor of the National Islamic Mission Alhaji Mohamed Brima Sallu of 39 Dakiyei street Kenema city as their new leader. This revelation was made during the national conference of the NIMSL held at the Islamic Secondary School compound along Hotagua street in Kenema city. In his opening statement the Principal of the Islamic Secondary School for senior session Mohamed Vamba Konneh thanked all and sundry for attending the conference which comprised of missionaries, teacher, principals, head teachers, headmistresses, the police, education ministry and school pupils, being all who have a stake in the mission. He said the NIMSL at the moment can boast of about seven secondary schools and over one hundred primary schools across the country under the mission. He praised the late founder of the mission as having lived his life in two generations, and disclosed that the late man left a ‘Will’ which the lawyer will read to the conference. He described the Islamic Secondary school along Hotagua street as the parent school in the country. In his statement the Lawyer Joseph Konuwa Lansana from the High Court in Freetown first explained to his audience the law governing marriages in Sierra Leone and its interpretations and the steps so far taken by the deceased wife. He spoke about cap 45 of the laws of Sierra Leone of 1960 and the 2007 devolution of estate. He said the NIMSL with its headquarter formally at 16 Dakiyei street now 39, the Islamic Secondary schools and all its primary schools in Sierra Leone are now under Mrs. Mary Sallu as the new proprietress and founder of the mission as she was legally married to the late man and the late man prepared a ‘will’ which has given her the right to do so, by also taking out the letters of administration from the High Court. It was during the conference that a copy of the suspension letter of the education secretary of the mission Mannah Lahai was shown to the public. He was replaced by Bockarie Joseph Dyfan, Principal of the Islamic secondary school at Lubembu section in Kenema city,who nowacts as the education secretary of the mission. In her statement the new leader of the mission Mrs. Mary Sallu thanked all and sundry for attending the conference and giving applause to her leadership. Mrs. Sallu explained that she got married to the late man at the age of 32 while the late man was 53years old. She met two women with the late man and their children and she teamed up with them in taking care of the children and the home. But later her mates and their children abandoned the late man when he got an electricity case and later got eye problem. She explained that she stayed with the late man throughout his lifetime recounting how she was crisscrossing the nation to find a solution for his eye problem until they ended up in Liberia. Upon their return to Sierra Leone she said they put up the building at Dakiyai street and the late man got married to her at the Registry. Later on she said they went to the late lawyer PPD Kebbie who prepared his will. The other women and children she said only came to the house after the death of the late man. She thanked the missionaries, the Konneh family and some family members whom she described as foundation members of the mission, saying that she recognized and appreciates their effort in making the mission as it is today. Madam Sallu said the late man is gone and therefore calledupon the other women and children to come together as a family to control the estate although she is now the head of the estate of the late man. She said she still recognizesthe wives and children of late Pa Sallu and she on her part is blessed with three children to the late man a girl and two boys who are all degree holders. She appealed to all and sundry to come together and work as a team to continue to push the mission ahead. “I did not come to interfere and witch hunt people but to lead all as the head of the estate and to ensure that things continue happening in the right way for the benefit of all and sundry,” she said while describing herself as mother of all. In his contribution one of the sons of the late man Mohamed H. Sallu thanked all for attending the occasion. He said their father established the mission but he did not do it alone, rather it was in collaboration with people he described as foundation stones. He appealed to them to continue working as a team in propagating the Islamic religion and educating the masses. “Let us all work together to push the mission in the name of national interest,” he said. The conference ended with Alhaji Mariwan Conteh a missionary and a member of the mission reading Quran verses for the mission, the leadership of the country and the nation in general. By Saffa Moriba Thursday November 07, 2013

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