Yenga Oh Yenga

<h1>Yenga Oh Yenga</h1>Author: <a title="Kortor Kamara" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/kortor-kamara/70274.htm">Kortor Kamara</a> Yenga oh Yenga ! Yenga oh Yenga Nestled in the horn of Sierra Leone In the Kissi-Teng chiefdom, Kailahun district with strategic thumb-like tentacles touching foreign neighbors Who for long have had designs on you. Your continued separation from the motherland daily evokes consternation and heartbreak among your countrymen. Yenga oh Yenga the yoke of your continued occupation since 1998, belies the deception not only of your occupiers but of your own leaders. Under the guise of providing for your protection they invited a foreign force who alas had nefarious designs on you. Your leaders complicity in this continued occupation, Oh Yenga, not only baffles your compatriots but their lack of transparency and business as usual attitude with your occupiers Evokes our collective outrage. They do business, dine, dance and play with your occupier And act as though you don’t exist. Their frequent sojourns to and cavorting with the enemy, providing her with comfort further emboldens her; even in his death your leaders like supplicants trooped to and lavished praises at the enemy leader of your occupation. Yenga oh Yenga The architect of your occupation, led ironically by Kailahun’s favorite party and sons Were inept in ensuring a withdrawal and lifting the yolk of your occupation at war’s end in 2002. With naivety and diplomatic blunders, Despite repeated agreements by the occupiers to relinquish their hold, Your leaders continue to fail going on two scores. Yenga oh Yenga Your compatriots demand Our leaders view your occupation as an occupation of our entire country And move with lightening speed to end the cozy relations with the occupiers and redress your pain. About the Author: The author, Mr. Kortor Kamara has over 25 years experience in the insurance industry both in Sierra Leone and the United States. He is a Chartered Property & Casualty Insurer and holds the Workers Compensation Claims Professional (WCCP) designation. He is a Member of the Chartered Insurance Institute ( London); Certified Self-Insurance Claims Administrator-State of California; Registered World Bank Consultant and has served as a Consultant on various Insurance initiatives in Sierra Leone, including design of the country’s first Title Insurance Policy. 
 
In addition, Mr. Kamara is a graduate of Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, 1978-1981; studied Law at both the Univerisity of West Los Angeles School of Law and the California Southern School of Law in Riverside. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Insurance and Risk Management. 
 
Through association with Saddleback Re, were he serves as the Regional Manager, Africa Division, Mr. Kamara is intimately involved in the provision of reinsurance coverage, policy design, loss control, training and risk management services to the African Insurance marketplace. Mr. Kamara can be contacted at <a href="mailto:Kortorkamara@yahoo.com">Kortorkamara@yahoo.com</a>. 
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Yenga oh Yenga !

Yenga oh Yenga

Nestled in the horn of Sierra Leone

In the Kissi-Teng chiefdom, Kailahun district

with strategic thumb-like tentacles touching foreign neighbors

Who for long have had designs on you.

Your continued separation from the motherland daily evokes consternation and heartbreak among your countrymen.

Yenga oh Yenga

the yoke of your continued occupation since 1998,

belies the deception not only of your occupiers

but of your own leaders.

Under the guise of providing for your protection they invited a foreign force who alas had nefarious designs on you.

Your leaders complicity in this continued occupation,

Oh Yenga, not only baffles your compatriots

but their lack of transparency and

business as usual attitude with your occupiers

Evokes our collective outrage.

They do business, dine, dance and play with your occupier

And act as though you don’t exist.

Their frequent sojourns to and cavorting with the enemy,

providing her with comfort further emboldens her;

even in his death your leaders like supplicants

trooped to and lavished praises at

the enemy leader of your occupation.

Yenga oh Yenga

The architect of your occupation,

led ironically by Kailahun’s favorite

party and sons

Were inept in ensuring a withdrawal

and lifting the yolk of your occupation

at war’s end in 2002.

With naivety and diplomatic blunders,

Despite repeated agreements by the occupiers

to relinquish their hold,

Your leaders continue to fail going on two scores.

Yenga oh Yenga

Your compatriots demand

Our leaders view your occupation

as an occupation of our entire country

And move with lightening speed to end

the cozy relations with the occupiers and

redress your pain.

The author, Mr. Kortor Kamara has over 25 years experience in the insurance industry both in Sierra Leone and the United States. He is a Chartered Property & Casualty Insurer and holds the Workers Compensation Claims Professional (WCCP) designation. He is a Member of the Chartered Insurance Institute ( London); Certified Self-Insurance Claims Administrator-State of California; Registered World Bank Consultant and has served as a Consultant on various Insurance initiatives in Sierra Leone, including design of the country’s first Title Insurance Policy.

In addition, Mr. Kamara is a graduate of Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, 1978-1981; studied Law at both the Univerisity of West Los Angeles School of Law and the California Southern School of Law in Riverside. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Insurance and Risk Management.

Through association with Saddleback Re, were he serves as the Regional Manager, Africa Division, Mr. Kamara is intimately involved in the provision of reinsurance coverage, policy design, loss control, training and risk management services to the African Insurance marketplace. Mr. Kamara can be contacted at Kortorkamara@yahoo.com.
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1. JAMES LAHAI KAMARA (20:56, 16.01.2009)

Its great and motivating particully for all Sierra Leoneans. Keep it up!!!

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