Mr. P. Gassama,
some days ago I asked Mr. Tombong Saidy if the President could put decrees
into action and just by giving a statement repeal it again.

Your information is maybe an answer to my question. The decree is still in
action and IS NOT YET REPEALED.

That said,  I´m glad that there is still have some kind of democracy, and
The Gambia is not run like in Europe a few hundred years back, a feudal
society with a reign supreme and absolute monarch.

Some of the gambia-l members have said that the APRC dominated parliament
just will formally legitimize the Presidents declaration, and others are
saying that the decree from the start was illegal. You may have right. But
if the information that the national assembly will have to meet to formal
legitimize and repeal the decree, I still welcome that no matter what we can
say about the system.

Let me ask another question ? Can anyone on the gambia-l send me the exact
text of the indemnity act, which I understood the parliament voted for
before they went for summer-holidays ? I should like to learn from it, what
kind of indemnity are we talking about. My question because I come to think
of former parliament members, ministers and president. Are they also
affected, included of the indemnity ?

Regards from Asbjørn Nordam


on 28/07/01 19:23, Jungle Sunrise at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> I wanted to post this yesterday but the number of posts allowed me per day
> were unfortunately wasted by Lamin Sisawo Barrow, Mr. Souboutmalla and
> Makaveli. Any I hope you will find it informative.
> 
> EARLIER POST.
> 
> The National Assembly, having received a notice of urgency, will meet next
> week to formally repeal decree 89. This was announced over GRTS a few
> minutes back.
> 
> In another development, there has been an outbreak of diarrhoea in the
> village of Njaba Kunda in Baddibu. It is reported that someone  slaughtered
> a goat and threw it in the tank that supply the village with drinking water.
> Many people were hospitalized after drinking from the taps for days without
> realising that the water was contaminated. The motive and perpetrators are
> not yet known.
> 
> Have a good day, Gassa.
>

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