PHOTO: Student Mohamed N. Kamara
By Charles Gbayor, maorethason1997@gmail.com
HARPER, Liberia- Thursday’s National Thanksgiving Day holiday celebrations turned bitter for family members and fellow schoolmates of student Mohamed N. Kamara of the William V.S. Tubman University, 403 kilometers from Monrovia.
Mohamed, a student of the College of Engineering and Technology, who was reading Computer Science, had on November 6, 2020 gone to the Tubman Beach with some friends to enjoy the national holiday through recreation.
However, the beach recreation turned out the opposite from around 1 pm GMT, as he is said to have vanished in the ocean.
According to eyewitness, Mohamed Kamara and his friends were playing football in the water at Tubman beach when one of his friends throw the Ball behind him.
Mohamed is said to have swam to get the ball but while coming back to his friends, he got tired and subsequently started drifting. But at first, his friends taught he was joking, so they never really paid attention to him.
A few minutes later, they then took it serious after the ball came but their friend, Mohammed N. Kamara could not be seen.
Another witness told www.newspublictrust.com that when his friends left, another guy identified as Shaka Konate said their Friend (Mohamed) was not coming and was already drowning.
But before they got there, he had already gone deeper into the ocean, thus making it impossible to rescue him from drowning.
Meanwhile, it is not clear as to his exact fate as a search and rescue operation is currently going on.
Student Mohamed N. Kamara was a student Volunteer with Tubman University Volunteer Movement. This is a not-for-profit Organization on the campus of Liberia’s second state owned University.
This Student Movement seek to give back to the Community.
Mohamed was also part of TUVM team that was trained by UNICEF last December to create awareness in Maryland.
The Group of over eighty students were trained to create awareness on Water and Sanitation, Health, Child Birth Registration, among other things.