Letter of Resignation from the Former Executive Advisory Board Members of the CFAA to the Director of the CFAA, Mr. Godwin Omane

Dear Mr. Omane: Resignation from Executive Advisory Board of the CFAA and the Organization.
We felt honored and privileged to be invited by you in forming the Center for African Affairs (CFAA) in Denver, Colorado, USA. The CFAA is an organization that has broad objectives that included among others (a) to bring unity and understanding among all Africans and people of African descent in Colorado, (b) to help improve the standards of living of our members by making various opportunities open to them and (c) to help our members participate fully in the affairs of Colorado at all levels. These are noble ideals and we all strived to help realize the formation of this organization. During our brief working relationship with you, we have made significant progress in the following areas: (a) various officials were elected to represent the organization, (b) the organization was registered in the name of its officials, and (c) we have drafted a constitution although this document was yet to be adopted. We worked with you with the expectation and with the impression given by you that the CFAA was a shared enterprise for us all. In such a situation we accepted and were willing to be held accountable for the manner in which the CFAA conducts its affairs in the state of Colorado. Therefore, with such responsibility we deserved to be consulted in any significant decision making process that concerns the affairs of the CFAA.

However, in the month of July 2003, you have: (a) taken actions on behalf of the CFAA for which we do not believe you had any authority to do and (b) made certain statements which were unacceptable and surprised all members of the Executive Advisory Board. All these actions by you led to very serious breach of trust between you and us. The constitution which was due to be adopted this past Friday clearly clarified and spelled out the functions of the various officers of the CFAA. The constitution did not have any provisions for unilateral action by the Director with respect to the dissolution or suspension of the Advisory Board. The Board is puzzled and bewildered as to the circumstances leading to this act. You said it yourself that the Mayor had almost got fed up with dealing with African associations due to disunity amongst the groups and gave example of Senegalese, Nigerians, etc. All of us were of the conviction that the idea of forming such an organization was to help and assist our African brethren and your acts seem to be in conflict with what you originally stood for. We cannot understand how you could betray the objective we so valiantly supported and sacrificed so much for. We sacrificed precious time which we could have spent with our families because we thought this was a noble cause.

The bizarre nature of all this is that on July 10, 2003, you took it upon yourself to suspend the CFAA Executive Advisory Board without consultations. In your e-mail messages of July 10 and 11, 2003, to Dr, Bakary Sonko, you have categorically stated that you are the Founder and Owner of the CFAA. again is a serious breach of our trust in that you have deceived us in believing that the CFAA belongs to us all Africans.

In the light of the various serious breaches of trust your actions and statements created between you and us, and the sense of enormous responsibility and integrity we hold ourselves to on account of our actions and statements on behalf of the CFAA, we feel that we do not have any alternative but to resign with immediate effect from the Executive Advisory Board of the CFAA. Furthermore, we the undersign dissociate ourselves completely from all actions taken on behalf of or entered into on behalf of the CFAA by you, Mr. Godwin Omane, or any official of the CFAA from hence forth. This action by us is retroactive as of our last Executive Advisory Board meeting held on July 27, 2003. We also wish to indicate that we absolve ourselves from all transactions, financial or otherwise that you might have entered into on behalf of the CFAA for which we were not made aware of. We feel strongly that we will not serve the best interest of the people we represent by remaining in the CFAA.
We wish you and your organization luck.

Sincerely: Dr. Bakary Sonko, Alioune Sogue, 
Dr. Dominic Magaisa, Julie Magaisa, Jean-Pierre Yoboue, 
Pastor Jeneth Davis.
Notarized by:   Mr. Alioune Sogue, Commission Expires 04/25/2007.