Saul,
    why write about such a trivial matter as Jammeh's third wife or even
speculate about it when all you can offer as proof is/was sources?  Isn't
this avalanche journalism and reeks of tabloid knee jerk stories that papers
in the West here compete to out do each other at? Who gives a tosh any way
about Jammeh's private life? He deserves a private life just as you are
enjoying; nothing less nothing more. even for public figures there has got to
be a dividing line between the private and the public. lets not get into the
private life of the guy it will only spiral out of control and degenerate
into the arena of the undesirable which we certainly don't need here.
what importance is Jammeh's third wife to debates on issues of national
importance?
    on Baba Galleh et al, i know they are reputable and hard working news
hounds but you have to ask yourself the question why they will go after
Jammeh's private life when they could have written on so many issues of
national importance and in a circumstance where they haven't got all the
information that makes a valid newspaper story. isn't this the classic case
of journalists subtly changing "getting it right" to "getting it first". in
other words for them the chance of nabbing an exclusive front page story from
"rival" competitors arose from the circumstances aforementioned and they went
for it head long lobbing the journalist ethics of "getting it right" into the
dust bin.
    if there is anything that journalists the Gambia need to avoid is the
tendency to degenerate into the standards that you will discover in the west
especially amongst tabloids and avalanche journalists.
    of course getting it wrong about someone's private life doesn't deserve
them being treated like criminals as you claimed they were. i hope the
natural course of justice prevails.
    Good Day.
Hamjatta Kanteh


hkanteh

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