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Aziz Bojang Staff, Security Services
was a police officer in my country, Gambia, and I was brought [to Canada in 2004] to understudy policing but also restorative justice. In the restorative justice training I was asked this question: ‘What would you like to see happen to you when you are arrested?’ The one thing I would really love is to be heard. To be told what I have done, but also to be given the chance. In 2007, I was deployed to the United Nations mission in Sudan and I served for two years there. When I came back to Gambia I actually lost my job. We had a dictator who did a lot of bad things. If you are not willing to do that you lose your job. They were not much for my orientation to human rights and democratic policing. When I came to Canada, waiting for my residency, I did all sorts of other jobs including security and I worked with an agency that dealt with kids with mental challenges. Even when this job [at Dal] came up, I was a little bit reluctant to leave because of my attachment [to the kids]. For me, I’m not motivated by money. My greatest motivation is when I know that my actions have impacted someone in a positive way.
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DANNY ABRIEL
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“ When I completed school and started working, I made it a duty to make sure that all my junior siblings go to school and I pay for them.”
14 dal mag fall 2020
