Mr Gassama
Please note that until the Secretary of State for the
Justice/the National Assembly do the necessary
modifications, Decree 89 is still valid.
As I said before, President Yahya Jammeh can neither
make nor amend any law. Since Decree 89 was introduced
into our Statute Books, it will have to be amended by
the appropriate authority- The NATIONAL ASSEMBLY and
NO ONE ELSE. It is therefore right for me to say that
Yahya Jammeh speech of 22 July was just a message of
intention.
I understand some APRC supporters have started
praising President Yahya Jammeh for repealing Decree
89, but the truth of the matter is that there is no
need to jubilate, since there is the likelihood that
the unbanned politicians will only be able to re
activate their political rights 1 month or less before
the elections.
Have a wonderful day
Sanusi
--- Jungle Sunrise <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
Sorry to butt in, what the president said is that
> "decree 89 is no more".
> All those affected by decree 89 are henceforth free
> to execise whatever
> rights tbey were denied. By this he explained, all
> who where affectd by
> decree 89 are now free to take part in political
> activities, join any
> political party of their choice or ressurect their
> old parties. He further
> went on to state that by that declaretion, he was
> instructing the attorny
> general and speaker of the National assembly to
> urgently make the necessary
> arrangements to legalise the declaration. That is my
> understanding of the
> gist of his pronouncement.
>
> Have a good day, Gassa.
>
> >From: Asbjørn Nordam <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing
> list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: DEGREE 89 IS HISTORY
> >Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:01:29 +0200
> >
> >Mr. Tombong Saidy,
> >please enlighten me a bit, and excuse me being
> ignorant.
> >
> >One thing is a president making a declaration in a
> speech held to celebrate
> >july 22nd. Our Prime Minister does the same on
> certain occasions. But that
> >is not the same as presenting the same idea as a
> bill in the parliament and
> >get it through. Does the Gambia constitution give
> the President the
> >absolute
> >power to put decrees into action and then later in
> a speech just take them
> >out of action again ?
> >Is decree 89 no longer existing from the day of
> july 22nd?
> >
> >Regards from Asbjørn Nordam
> >
> >
> >on 22/07/01 17:42, TOMBONG SAIDY at
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >
> > > President Jammeh has lifted the ban on all
> political parties and
> > > politicians. He made this declaration today,
> JULY 22ND 2001. DEGREE 89
> >is
> > > history. All former politicians are now free to
> either join existing
> > > political parties, form new ones or rejuvenate
> their old parties.
> > >
> > >
> > > PEACE
> > >
> > > Tombong
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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