Former Presidents Wives Explain Their Ordeals

By Alhaji Saidu Kamara
As part of their tours to various countries within the sub-region ahead of the official launching ceremony of the new formidable organisation known as Former President Wives Coalition to be launch in Conakry , this December 2024.
Senior executive members of the coalition led by the National Coordinator Madam Fatmata Nippe Sow Momoh the wife of former president of the Republic of Sierra Leone Maj. Gen JS Momoh has held fruitful discussions with ex Presidents Wives of The Gambia, Ivory Coast and Senegal.
In a meeting with one of the longest ex President Wive in The Gambia Madam Njaimeh Jawara. Madam Momoh was happy to see her big sister and explained to her why the organization was formed, it’s aims and objectives.
She said the ormer president wives coalition is a strategic and diplomatic initiative designed to address the systemic neglect and marginalization faced by the wives of former African presidents after their husbands leave office or pass away .
Madam Momoh said these women find themselves without institutional support, financial security, or social recognition.
She said they are determined and committed to reversing this trend by building a platform that ensures the continued dignity, visibility and legacy of ex President wives.
She said membership is open to all former president wives of African nations particularly those from West Africa
She said the coalition presently comprises of 84 former past presidents wives and is actively expanding it’s across the continent .
Responding Mrs Njaimeh Jawara was so bitter for the way and manners they treated her when her husband Sir Dauda Jawara was overthrown by the military.. She said all her belongings and properties were looted and vandalized. Mrs. Jawara said there is nothing to show to generation yet unborn of one that has ruled that nation. She thanked President Adama Barrow the president who restored her dignity just like in Guinea where Col. Mamodu Dombuya also came to the aid of Madam Andre’ Toure the wife to the former president of Guinea Ahmed Sekou Toure. Her advise to the coalition is no retreat no surrender but to moved forward to ensure that they changed the narrative of former past presidents wives.
In Senegal the situation is worrisome as all the former presidents after they lost power , they run into self exiled in Morocco for fear of been repremanded by the in coming government through the setting up commission of inquiring . All their former houses are been occupied by military personnel. The current presidents and their spouses are giving their support and cooperation to the coalition .