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Daily Obserer Editor-in-Chief Replaced

The Independent (Banjul)
NEWS
January 14, 2005
Posted to the web January 14, 2005

By Ahmed Carayol
Banjul


The recently appointed Editor of the Daily Observer, Miss Ndey Tapha Sosseh has been replaced by one Momodou Sanyang, following the inauguration of the company?s new Board of Directors.

Reports reaching The Independent revealed that she was relieved of her duties on the grounds that at the time of her appointment, the Managing Editor of the paper, Sheriff Bojang did not consult with the then Board of Directors.

According to insiders, the former board headed by Lang Conteh was virtually dysfunctional and as a result Sheriff could not consult with them to authenticate the appointment of Ndey Tapha Sosseh.

Another theory suggests that the company?s management were not the least happy with some members of the staff, who took part in the solidarity march organised by the Gambia Press Union (GPU) to vent their anger over the gruesome killing of Deyda Hydara, a professional colleague and the subsequent one-week news blackout by several independent media houses, which the management reportedly argued accumulated to several loss of revenues for the company.

As a result, the salaries of some of the affected staff were deducted including the replaced Editor-in-chief, who requested for a one-week casual leave.

Reports indicated that the action prompted the management, who were grieved over the situation to replace the then Editor-In-Chief with a substitution. But some of the insiders, who felt disgruntled over this latest development, said they were bullied into rubbish.

Though lot of hellable things were being ascribed to the issue, the new Editor, Mr. Modou Sanyang who was introduced to members of staff on Monday in a meeting held at the office, did not report work as at time.

Meanwhile, efforts to talk to former Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor, Sheriff Bojang, proved futile.


Pa Nderry M'bai <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Ndey has been replaced. That's the story. The
circumstances surrounding her replacement is not yet clear.
But Post and L members will be informed accordingly
whenever, we received any reliable info about her abrupt
replacement.


>From: Sanusi Owens
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>Subject: Re: Observer Gets New Editor-in-Chief-Attention PA NDERRY MBAI
>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:19:31 +0000
>
>Thanks for this news briefing.
>
>Does this mean that Ndey Tapha Sosseh has been replaced??? I was made to
>believe that Ndey Tapha is still the Editor in Chief..
>
>Good weekend
>
>Sanusi
>
>Pa Nderry M'bai
wrote:
>News
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>Observer gets new editor
>By Ebrima Jaw Manneh
>Jan 14, 2005, 10:30
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>Momodou Sanyang
>Momodou Sanyang, associate consultant with Management Development
>Consultants International, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Daily
>Observer newspaper with effect from Tuesday, January 11. He replaces Ndey
>Tapha Sosseh.
>
>Sanyang attended Sukuta Primary School, Armitage High School and then St
>Augustine’s High School. He enrolled in the School of Public Health, where
>he graduated as a public health inspector and served at various health
>posts
>country wide.
>
>Mr Sanyang left for the former USSR in 1975 to pursue a masters degree in
>international relations at Kiev State University, Ukraine. He returned to
>the country in 1979, and taught Literature, English and Government at St
>Augustine’s Junior Secondary School before joining Action Aid-The Gambia in
>1986.
>
>At Action Aid, Sanyang served in the Donor- Liaison Unit, Research
>Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, Development and Communication Unit
>
>In 1995 he resigned on health grounds but subsequently secured a job at the
>Village Savings and Credit Association, VISACA, as monitoring and
>evaluation
>officer.
>At the end of that contract, Sanyang went into consultancy until his new
>appointment at the Daily Observer.
>Asked to comment on his new job in relation to the impartiality of the
>Daily
>Observer’s editorial line, Sanyang said: “I know that the press should be
>independent, objective and neutral. These principles I want to uphold. I
>will not throw spanners in the wheel of press freedom. If the paper was
>being viewed as objective, I will work to consolidate and improve on that.
>This is my intention.”
>
>On whether he had any media experience the new Daily Observer editor said:
>“If you look at my work experience at Action Aid, the job of a development
>liaison officer is to prepare project proposals for funding. This entailed
>not only preparing project, but receiving progress report from various
>project managers for onwards transmission to donors. This entailed editing
>and verification of reports.
>“Additionally at Action Aid, we had a publication team that publishes a
>development newspaper called Yiriwa Kibaroo. I was an editor and secretary
>to this newspaper. I also received in-house-training in news writing and
>editing.”
>
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