To which I say... Hehehehehehehehehehehe! A new tenant at Pademba Road?

Madiba.

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Yusupha Jow wrote:

> November 10, 2000
> Banjul
> Captain Valentine Strasser a former military head of state in Sierra Leone
> was returned to The Gambia on Tuesday, barely four days after he was deported
> from this country to the United Kingdom where he had been residing since his
> removal from power in 1995.
> Captain Strasser was made head of the National Provisional Ruling Council
> (NPRC) when the Sierra Leone army overthrew the government of President
> Joseph Saidu Momoh in April 1992.
> However in 1995 he was also deposed in a palace coup and replaced by
> Brigadier Maada Bio who saw to the transition from military to civilian rule
> in 1996.
> Since then, Strasser had fled to Guinea where he lived for a while before
> surreptitiously reaching the United Kingdom where he became a student in a
> college in Warwick. He arrived in The Gambia on October 27, apparently
> without the knowledge of the Gambian authorities. Strasser had told his
> compatriots living her that he had come to The Gambia to escape Sierra
> Leoneans in the UK who wanted to kill him. However four days after his
> arrival in The Gambia, he was arrested and deported by the Gambian
> authorities. The British authorities however refused him entry to the UK and
> early this week they flew him back to The Gambia.
> When contacted a senior official at the British High Commissioner in Banjul
> confirmed Strasser's refused entry to Britain because he said he (Strasser)
> did not get the proper document to enter that country. He added that they
> were taking him back to Freetown

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