Ebrima, thank you for your post and yes, all progress minded Gambians are
behind your organization's stance 100%.  I would urge your organization to
also bring their concerns to the L so that we can exchange ideas and also
form a united front to Jammeh and his cronies in the legislature.  Let him
send everyone who does not comply to Mile II or in his basement.  We shall
let the whole world know his Chameleon nature - running around potraying to
be something totally different from the dictator wanna-be he is.  All this
talk about Pan-Africanism by him is hogwash and we shall expose him for what
he is.  We shall never be enslaved by none.

Chi Jaama

Joe Sambou


>From: Ebrima Sillah <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Media Commission Bill:The GPU's Stances
>Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:54:48 +0100
>
>Ladies and Gentlemen
>
>Allow me as the public relations secretary of the
>Gambia Press Union(GPU) to thank you all for your
>words of concern with regards to thie meida commission
>bill. As far as we at the Gambia Press Union are
>concern, the content of this bill is unconstitutional
>and we are not going to cooperate with the government
>on its implimentation. GPU as the umbrella
>organisation for all the media houses and
>practitioners in this country is suppose to be a
>member of this commission/tribunal to try the
>journalists. But we have already decided that we will
>not take up our seat on the commission. All our
>members have also agreed to defy the terms of the
>bill. The government of the Gambia has two
>options:either to allow journalists to carry on with
>their duties as enshrined in the constitution or close
>down all the private media houses in the country and
>send us to mile11. Our position that this is an
>unconstitutional attempt is non-necogiatible and
>unchangeable. I will have time to send you the content
>of the bill by God willing tomorrow.
>
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