Thanks Haruna. I hope Mr. Sey does. Have a good evening.
Buharry.
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From: [log in to unmask]
Date: 2010-05-31 14:59
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subj: Re: Raaki.con, GRTS and the Gambia Government
Buharry,
I join you in encouraging former Ambassador Essa Sey to use the
Freedomnewspaper platform and issue a public apology to you and the
Raaki network. It is not healthy nor is it productive to issue innuendo
and slander to inure egregious association and tarnish. It is
counterproductive and criminal. WHen brought to one's attention that it
is inaccurate and potentially malignant, it is honourable to apologise.
The alternative to voluntary apology is legal suit for redress.
The internet is a medium of communication not a conduit for gratuitous
slander and libel. Those are crimes.
Haruna. It will probably take one lawsuit filed by an aggrieved to stem
the tide of Gambian charlatanry. I am terribly disappointed with
Ambassador Sey. He generally strives to bear on fact and experience. I
therefore hope he issues an apology in this matter.
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From: M. Gassama <[log in to unmask]>
To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sun, May 30, 2010 4:36 pm
Subject: Raaki.con, GRTS and the Gambia Government
Hi!
y attention was brought to an interview on Freedom Newspaper?s radio
http://www.box.net/shared/h750egpg0j
by Essa Sey. In the interview, Essa intimated and insinuated that
aaki TV is owned by or fronts for the Gambia Government. I want to
ategorically and unequivocally put it to Mr. Sey that his statements
egarding Raaki are baseless and false. I further call on him to use
he same medium he used to utter those words to take them back and
pologise to Raaki.com and those behind it. I will not front for
nybody. If I wanted to declare my support for the government, I will
ot hide behind rebroadcasting GRTS material nor will I let myself be
sed. I am sovereign citizen with inalienable rights that include the
ight to support anyone or any party I like. I am providing Raaki as a
ublic service without expecting a butut in return.
aaki is owned and run by me with the help of my wife. I started Raaki
n 14th. January 2005 when I believe, Essa was working for the Gambia
overnment. Version 2 was launched on 22nd. November 2006. Version 3 is
till not ready but some aspects of it including the GRTS page have
een launched. Raaki is named after my daughter who was named after my
randmother, a Fula. Raaki is the Fula version of Rohey. The site has
ince its inception been completely funded by me. I have never received
butut from any government be it the Gambian, Swedish, American,
hinese, Japanese or any other. I have never received a butut from any
gency or individual towards the maintenance of the site. In fact,
uggestions have been made many, many times for me to charge a fee to
ecover some of the costs involved and compensate for the time put into
he effort but I have said no. I don?t even accept advertisements or
se Google Ads on Raaki even though the site has over 1500 unique
isitors per day.
he motivation for starting Raaki was the fact that Gambian media
nline was relatively non-existent at the time and the fact that
ambian culture and cultural practitioners were much underrepresented
nline. I therefore started the first live Gambian online radio and TV
o provide Gambians with Gambian material. Due to the bandwidth
roblems especially those associated with video, I discontinued the
ive video broadcasts and instead put the videos online whilst the live
adio broadcasts continued. I used to record GRTS when I visited Gambia
r ask family and friends to record for me and I encode and make them
vailable online. When GRTS went on satellite and the opportunity to
et the broadcasts in real-time, I decided to record material for
ebroadcast daily.
believe Mr. Sey, that you are on one of the mailing lists and will
ead this. I put it to you that you have erred big time. My motivation
or creating Raaki was not to be used by or front for anybody,
overnment or agency but to offer Gambians abroad the opportunity to
ccess Gambian material and promote Gambian culture. I hope you get
acts straight before making pronouncements. Pa Nderry tried on several
ccasions to correct you but you kept on. I love The Gambia and will
ontinue to promote it, its culture and its people distractions
otwithstanding. GRTS happens to be the only tv station from Gambia. If
here were other stations broadcasting from Gambia, I will broadcast
aterial from them. I feel gratified and happy that Raaki has inspired
nd resulted in the proliferation of sites that promote Gambian culture
nd music. Thank you.
uharry
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