EX-PRESIDENT MOMOH’ SENT HIS WIFE TO FORMER MINISTERS, RELATIVES AND FRIENDS TO HELP HIM WITH MONEY WHILE HE LAY DYING, BUT NONE OF THEM HELPED HIM
Concord Times (Freetown)
By Sahr Musa Yamba
August 26, 2005
Freetown — Widow of the late President Joseph Saidu Momoh, Mrs. Fatmata Momoh Tuesday revealed to Concord Times that the late Head of State and President Kabbah reconciled before the passing away of her husband.
Mrs. Momoh lamented that when the health of her late husband deteriorated considerably while in exile in Guinea in 2003, she met President Tejan Kabbah and Vice President Solomon Berewa and complained. “They were very quick to respond,” she revealed and adds, “the President could not withstand it. He instructed me to go and bring my husband immediately. When the two saw each other, it was amidst tears that they embraced and forgave each other. Let bygones be bygones they said to themselves in tears.”
Mrs. Momoh recounted that of all the friends and relatives including Finance Minister Joseph Bandabla Dauda, that her husband sent her to collect money from to help him while on his sick bed, none responded. “JB Dauda of all only told me to go and wish my husband a speedy recovery,” she laments.
