{"id":79374,"date":"2016-09-24T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=79374"},"modified":"2017-01-28T23:54:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T23:54:19","slug":"a-tribute-to-sierra-leones-mamadu-alphajor-bah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=79374","title":{"rendered":"A tribute to Sierra Leone\u2019s Mamadu Alphajor Bah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PHILADELPHIA, USA :\u00a0 <\/strong>Death is inevitable and when it comes, it is always greeted with sadness and despondency. \u00a0Philadelphia has always been considered as the City of Brotherly love and when I stood in the presence of onlookers during the month of Ramadam listening to Alphajor Bah talking about death and the non-permanence of life on earth tells me that, in this cruel life, some people predict their fortune.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sierra Leone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/37439683\" target=\"_blank\">lost one of her illustrious football heroes to death few days ago<\/a>. Mamadu Alphajor Bah was a quiet, religious and unassuming hero. \u00a0He served the country of his choice with dedication, commitment and diligence. \u00a0I never interacted with Alphajor when he was at his hey days as a footballer, serving the Green, White and Blue colors of Sierra Leone. \u00a0Infact those who interacted with him spoke of his civility, humility and dedication to his religion and his country.\u00a0 I came very close to Alphajor during the month of Ramadan in Philadelphia, where he took part in every prayers where youths would gather at the prestigious King Jimmy rendezvous. \u00a0King Jimmy is the hub where youths from Sierra Leone would gather and discuss national issues as well as international matters bordering humanity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At one particular night during the month of Ramadan, Alphajor stood in the midst of onlookers and started talking about life after death. \u00a0He spoke lengthily about the Prophet and his deeds and the way forward about youths in the contemporary world. \u00a0His speech was so pious and didactic to the youths. \u00a0A lady amongst the onlookers, Hafsatu Massie Barrie from Koinadugu was so thrilled that she asked whether Alphajor was bidding farewell to humanity. \u00a0When confronted with the question, Alphajor smiled and said,\u201d If Allah takes my life today, I am grateful that I served my Country and the people of Sierra Leone\u201d.\u00a0 I was so thrilled from the words of Alphajor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the country mourns the death of Alphajor, we at King Jing Jimmy of Philadelphia express our condolence to the family of Alphajor and wish him eternal peace in the hands of God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alphajor, I spent few moments with you at King Jimmy where you spoke about Allah and the grave. \u00a0Today you are in the grave and our only prayer is to Allah to grant you eternal paradise. \u00a0The world you left behind is full of evil, mischief and we are all praying that we meet Allah in His paradise. \u00a0It is unfortunate that you left us so soon when we cherish your company, but Allah loves you best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">May Allah grant you paradise.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, USA :\u00a0 Death is inevitable and when it comes, it is always greeted with sadness and despondency. \u00a0Philadelphia has always been considered as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":79376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,824],"tags":[21465,21466,5100],"class_list":["post-79374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-alphajor-bah","tag-mamadu-alphajor-bah","tag-sierra-leone-footballer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80128,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79374\/revisions\/80128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}