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>From: Madiba Saidy <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Strasser ping pong between Britain  and The Gambia?
>   (Independent)
>Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:26:02 -0800
>
>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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