On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 3:29 pm, <sophiakoroma@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello, My Love ,
I pray for you to be in sound good health there today when you receive this mail from me and thanks for the mail you wrote to me that I read around after 11 my time here in the morning, I wanted to write a mail to you, but I decided to let me go and get dressed and take permission from the camp authorities and go locate a bus park where I’ll board a bus heading to Guinea Bissau, my love, when I took permission from the camp authorities and left the camp. I asked a few people on way where I can get a bus park for vehicle’s heading to Guinea Bissau and I was told that where I can get a bus terminal for vehicle’s heading to Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau and the Gambia, I was told that I should go to the Gare routière des Baux-maraîchers in Pikine which is very far and it will cost me by taxi around 1 hour 1 min, which is 61.7 km to get there and the local taxi men that I met here, all of them told me the same thing. So, since I had no money on me, I decided to head to other nearby local parks to enquire and I was told the same thing. Luckily for me, I was directed to meet with a taxi driver who I learned he applied the road frequently, I inquired from him that I want a park where I’ll board either a hired taxi or make arrangement to join a bus transport heading to Guinea Bissau, the taxi driver told me that I can’t get a direct bus heading to Guinea Bissau rather that I can only get a bus heading to Guinea Bissau but it must pass through Guinea Conakry where the bus will spend a night in Guinea Conakry before heading to Guinea Bissau, the taxi driver explained to me that first to go to the park, that if I hire a taxi to take me to the park, that a local taxi driver here will charge me around 10,000.00 CFA to take me to the park, then if I get to the park and decide to hire a personal taxi to take me directly to Guinea Bissau, that I will pay for the seats, meaning that for each seat cost is 50,000.00 CFA per person, so if I hire a personal taxi for me alone, the taxi driver will charge me for the 7 passengers he supposed to carry meaning, 50,000.00 X by 7 persons = 350,000.00 CFA that’s what he told me that I will pay, but that if sitting with seven people in the taxi Peugeot 505 Turbo station wagon can be strenuous so if I don’t want to go through the stress that I should pay for two seats which will cost me 100,000.00 CFA and that it will be allowed and it will grant me the space to be free in the Peugeot 505 Turbo station wagon taxi. but that if I pay for a bus transport from the park, that I will pay 45,000.00 CFA per person and if I want two seats, then I will pay 90,000.00 CFA, the local taxi driver went further to explain to me that if I get to the park and get out of the taxi, that the usual hustlers there will approach me and that some are thieves. I should ignore them and head for the entrance gate. That when I enter the entrance gate, I will see men that wore yellow vests and that I should asked them where I can get a taxi or a bus heading to Guinea Bissau and that the men will point to me towards terminal one and that it’s all very organized there, meaning that if I walk in inside the park, I will see the signs for the different country cities in the top of the roof in the terminal and that the park is like an open hall. Then I can choose the bus I like or I can then meet with a taxi driver and negotiate with him if I have the money to hire a taxi alone for myself, but if I don’t have the money, then I should go and pay for a bus seat plus some amount for my luggage’s like around 6000.00 CFA depending how heavy my luggage’s is and whenever the passengers in the bus are complete, Off we go and on our way to Guinea Conakry and from Guinea Conakry to Guinea Bissau, my love, that’s all that the local taxi driver explained to me today and I told him that I read online that to get a taxi or bus to Guinea Bissau, it will cost me around 25,000.00 to 30,000.00 CFA, but that what he the local taxi driver has told me is different from what I read online and the taxi driver reacted and said, Sister, I am not the one taking you to Guinea Bissau that I should request for higher charge from you but I am just helping to offer you an insight of what you’ll face and how much it will cost for you to get a taxi or a bus that will take you to Guinea Bissau, my love, the local taxi driver told me that I shouldn't trust whatever I read online because anyone can come online and write nonsense when they don’t apply the routine daily as he does, He told me that for instance, let say that I took a bus to Guinea Bissau last two years and now I am about to take a bus again and travel to Guinea Bissau, that there is no way, the cost of what I paid last two years and the cost of what I will pay for transport fare this year will be the same. my love, the taxi driver told me that I should take a local taxi and go to the Gare routière des Baux-maraîchers in Pikine and find out things for myself. So, I told him is ok, that I heard all he said, I thanked him and was about to leave, He called me back and told me, Sister, find something for me, I felt ashamed because I had no dime on me, so I told him not to worry that I will come back by next week and board his taxi, He will take me to the park, So, I thanked him again and left the local park back to the camp here. my love, I have really stressed myself today, all these places that I went today to get the information that I need, I trekked throughout and my foot is paining me. my love, sometimes, it is often at this point that my mind will remind me of my prayers to Allah Almighty. You sent me out since today’s morning to go and find out how much and the park where I’ll get a bus that will take me to Guinea Bissau only for me to come back and was writing this mail to you and your message of insulting me came in, my love, at times, I do wonder what is really wrong with you, do you really love me and trust me? You wrote in your mail that I read while writing this mail to you that there is no refugee camp in Senegal and I quote you wrong, please copy the camp website and paste it on your browser (https:/ /rcsenegal.webs.com/), I hate to be insulted and accused wrongly for no cause. I love you very much, yes and you know it, my love, you have to apologize for insulting me, Yes, words have no power to express my love for you, only my heart can feel it and knows how deep you have eaten in me. my love, I love you very much, just want you to know that even though you have hurt my feelings for you this evening, I still love you and always will, my love, I have to stop this mail here, for now, NO kisses for you and continue with your search online and insult me more for no cause.
Thank you,
With love always,
Sophia Koroma
From: <sophiakoroma@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 8:32 PM
Subject: my love, stop all these nonsense
To:
Hello, My Love ,
I have a picture that our lawyer showed to me when I came out from
coma which he told me then that it’s a picture of me he sent to you
when he informed you about the accident I had and here I have attached
the picture and a picture that I took the day that video I sent to you
was taken and you said I was not identified in the video, Now view
these two photos and replay the video again, watch the video
environment and watch the environment that I took these picture with a
fellow Muslim sister in this refugee camp, You are a doctor and you
know the apparatuses you’ all doctors use which I have no idea, so
watch the picture that our lawyer took when I was in coma and tell me
again that you didn’t see the tube, stitches on my nose and the
Intensive Care Unit room I was admitted in, my love, I sneaked
out to come here again and check my mailbox and write this mail to
you, because I knew you will write a mail to me but my greatest
surprise is to see all these nonsense that you sent to me which has
nothing to do with me or our lawyer, I had told you in one of my
earlier mails in 2017 when you came into my life about the problem I
had with someone who hacked into my mailbox after I refused to send my
naked pictures to the man, He hacked into my mailbox and downloaded my
pictures which he created another fake email with my pictures and he
told me then that he will tarnish my image since I refused to grant
his request to send him my naked pictures and that after tarnishing my
image, No one will accept to help me out which he carried out his
threat and you’ve found this out online earlier in 2017 and complained
to me about it which after I explained what transpired between me and
the man, you assured me then not to worry about it that you are here
and would see that I get the help that I needed so that I will leave
this refugee camp and join you in Brazil, So, why come up with this
nonsense again now? my love, at times you make me wonder what
kind of a difficult man I am dealing with, a man who I thought he has
known everything about me and what transpired in my life, yet he keeps
treating me like as if I have committed a crime against humanity by
revealing my true identity to him, my love, at this point, I
will tell you the truth, please don’t send any money for my trip to
Guinea-Bissau on Monday since you don’t trust me again, there is no
need for me to take the risk to escape from this refugee camp and land
myself in trouble by travelling to Guinea-Bissau and when I reach to
Guinea-Bissau and contact you from there, then you will start with
this your doubting attitude again and desert me in Guinea-Bissau for
no cause, my love, it’s better I stay back in this refugee camp
and continue to tolerate whatever I face here than for me to risk my
life to travel to Guinea-Bissau and when I reach there, then you will
continue with this your ill-treatment attitude towards me. my
love, I don’t know why you do easily forget things, well, I have
downloaded a PDF document that has all the west African refugee
information to clear your initial doubt and when you come back to your
senses, we can then plan ahead like one family, but for now, I have to
leave you alone to continue with your ill-treating attitude and insult
me more for no cause. Have a good night and take good care of
yourself. The truth stands.
Thank you,
With love always,
Sophia Koroma