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      PRINCE OF WALES ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Founded 1925            

 

21st July 2009

 

His Excellency President Ernest B. Koroma

President

Republic of Sierra Leone

State House

Freetown

Sierra Leone

 

Re:  Encroachment and Erosion of Land at the Prince of Wales School

 

 

Your Excellency,

 

In our capacities as Presidents of the Prince of Wales Alumni Associations in the United States and United Kingdom and on behalf of other Old Prince Waleans both locally and in the Diaspora, we feel obligated to write this letter to you to register our dismay at the current deliberate erosion of the Prince of Wales School property adjacent to the Kroo Bay waterfront by poachers as articulated in articles published in the May 14, 2009 and July 1, 2009 issues of the Premier News and Awoko newspapers respectively.  This blatant “land grab” and removal of earthen material in our view presents a clear and present danger to our historic school buildings and the school field.

 

While the poachers may be oblivious to the potential and future damage their continued removal of material poses to the school’s infrastructure, this removal will facilitate the continued erosion of the banks of the property by the tidal motion of the Kroo Bay inlet.  It could also undermine the foundations of the school’s historic and ancillary buildings, which would be devastating, were any to collapse and could also potentially lead to loss of life.

 

We recognize that your government is inundated with a myriad of problems and issues nationally.  However, we humbly request the intervention of your government and appropriate ministries to give this calamitous situation the urgency we believe it deserves to avoid a bigger catastrophe.

 

As you are well aware, alumni of most secondary schools are usually very passionate about their schools.  For a great number of us alumni who live in the diaspora, we know we are indebted to the stellar education we received at the Prince of Wales School.  I am sure you are aware of some of our recent accomplishments like the installation of a solar-powered computer classroom, complete with laptops to aid the pupils and providing scientific equipment for the science laboratories.  We are also very proud that the Prince of Wales School is the premier government school in Sierra Leone and has produced so many luminaries for the country, both nationally and internationally.  In the words of the school song, we want to ensure that The Prince of Wales School always “stands on firmer grounds.”

 

We humbly implore you to give some consideration to our request and thank you in advance for your prompt attention to this matter. 

 

We are attaching a list of Old Prince Waleans who support the contents of this letter.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

Melbourne Garber

President - Prince of Wales Alumni Association, New Jersey Chapter

 

 

For and on behalf of:

 

Raymond Moshe Roberts, President, Old Prince Waleans Association, Freetown

Seton During, President, Old Prince Waleans Association UK and Ireland

Amara Omar Kuyateh, President, Old Prince Waleans Association Washington DC Metropolitan Area

Samuel Atere-Roberts, President, Prince of Wales Alumni Association, Georgia Chapter

Bernard King, President, Prince of Wales Alumni Association, Southern California Chapter

 

Cc:     Hon. Dr. Minkhailu Bah – Minister of Education

Hon. Dr. Dennis Sandi – Minister of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment

Hon. Mr. Dauda Kamara – Minister of the Interior

Dr. Michel Sho-Sawyer – Director, Office of the Diaspora

Mrs. Millicent Ogoo – Principal SSS, Prince of Wales School

          Mr. Aubrey Jones – Principal JSS, Prince of Wales School

          Mr. Moshe Roberts – President, Old Prince Waleans Association, Freetown

          Dr. Delwin Findlay – Chairman, Board of Governors

 


                                                                                         

Supporting Prince Waleans

 

Annis Adams

Ms Ruth Agwu

N. Emile Akabi-Davis

Edmond Bascho-George

Chris Bell

Nurudeen Bello

Peter Berrie

M.O.L. Black

Dr Alex Blanshard

Titus Boye-Thompson

F.G.O. Bright

Edmond Browne

Jenner Cole

Dr Monty Cole

Vidal Cole

Wilfred Ebun Cole

Victor Cummings

Ivor Cummings-John

Phillippe Davies

Roland Davies

Rowland Davies

Patrick Dixon

Ibrahim Dumbuya

Jerry During

Seton During

Louis Ellis

Melvin Finney

Henry Forde

Sq. Ldr. Winston Forde

Dr Lionel Greene

Dr Monty Harding

Winston Hunter

Gilbert Jarrett

Nikita Johnson

Ahmad Kamara

Michael Katta

Ms Hassie Koromah

George Luke

Chris Macauley

Kevin MacCormack

Wilfred Macfoy

Khadiru Mahdi

Madieu Mahdi

Mubashir Mahdi

Salieu Mansaray

Herbert Marlin

Victor Mengot

Gerald Mensah-Coker

Dr Willie Morgan

Dr Beresford Moses

Dr Ivan O'Brien-Coker

Adrian Palmer

Earnshaw Palmer

Emlyn Palmer

Joseph Pearce

Collins Pratt

Edmund Pratt

Dr Kayode Robbin-Coker

Sam Robbin-Coker

Linford Roy-Macauley

Bami Sawyerr

Keith Sawyerr

Dr Aezick Seray-Wurie

Bob Sharka, Jr.

Wilben Short

Zac Smith

Dr Lloyd Spaine

Malyck Sylla

Toks Taylor

Melvin Thompson

Ade Tuboku-Metzger

Gabriel Turay

Dr Lucien Turay

Sim Turay

Ken Turner

Vivian Venn

Mike Vincent

Victor Coni Warne

Christian J. Williams

Adesola Williams

Ian Williams

Sylvester Zac-Williams

Melbourne Garber

Abdul Gabisi

Alhaji Jabbie

Christo Davies

Collins Goodwill

Edward Tucker

Santigie Koroma

Egerton Taylor

Emile Williams

Horatio Wilson

Dr. Dudley John

Brima Rahman

Lancelot Jeff-Macauley

Maurice Garber

Moses Jones

Roland Cole

George Johnson

Ronald Macauley

Rudolph Jackson

Sallu Alghali

Sigismund Ogoo

Wole Williams

Maurice Jagne-Shaw

Foad Sheriff

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Nathaniel Streeter

Jonathan Nicol

Aki Jackson

Desmond Lewis

Emmenette Mason

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Victor E. Williams

Conrad Cole

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Victor Cole

Rexford Jarrett

William George

Lloyd Spaine

Archimedes Faulkner

David Stuart

Ralph Beserve

Arnold Blanshard

Clayton

Arthur Coker

Winston Cole (Abayomi)

Olatunji Fergusson

Malcolm Finney

Mumbie Fredson-Cole

Melbourne Garber

Jehu Hanciles

Charles Harding

Hemmings Harding (Olu)

Naib Iscandari

Alieu Iscandari

Stanley Jarrett

Maurice John

Percy Johnson

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Rodney King

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