Mr. E.L George,
I truly sympathise with your predicament and I hope you will find a way
to solve your load of problems. Nevertheless, I must say that you seem to
raise a lot of questions unanswered in your mail:
You say that your photo was published in New African magazine (March
2003) in such a way that it deforms your character. But why is your life
threatened by bumpsters?
You feel cheated by publishers of the Gambia experience in which magazine
you say your photo is used. If you feel the magazine is in breach of a
contract with you, could you not pursue the matter in court?
You wrote that your cousin Lai Mboge does not pay his staff correctly.
Did you raise this matter with him, or those who work for him?
You say your image has been used to promote Badala Park illegally yet you
suffer from humiliation and harassment, and that your life is threatened.
If Badala Park is making millions by using your image why should anyone
threaten your life?
I am very sorry for the suffering you and your wife endured on account of
her accident. But I hope she was insured (travel insurance, social
security insurance (försäkringskassan))if indeed you both were then on
holiday?
Finally, I hope you would refrain from using your "bullets" so as not to
cause the bankruptcy of Badala Park. If for nothing, but for the sake of
those Gambians who inspite of poor wages, as per your claim, are able to
find work there to help maintain there families in these very trying
times in Gambia. I also hope that your participation in Vision 2020 would
be of benefit to the Gambia even before that magic date arrives.
My impression is that you are in need of a journalist and a solicitor or
both. Good luck.
Momodou Sidibeh,
Stockholm.
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Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 06:10:53 +0000
Subject: Badala
> Hi folks,
>
> I guess many of you have seen my photo in the article about "the Beach
> Boys" syndrome in New African magazine, issue March 2003.
>
> I have nothing to do with that article or with the bumsters on the
> beaches in the Gambia. I am well known in the Gambia and abroad and
> many people recognise me in that photo. My photo was published in such
> a way that it is deforming my character and the photo itself was also
> manipulated (coming from page 25 in the catalogue "The Gambia
> Experience" for the season Nov 2000-Oct 2001) .
>
> I feel very angry, hurt and offended. My life is threatened by the
> bumsters, so it is dangerous for me to move in the Gambia. My
> intentions and projects to participate in the development of the Gambia
> are also undermined and threatened.
> Nobody should take me as a bagatelle and make money on my soul. I was
> cheated for my photo to be in the Gambia Experience catalogue for
> several years (since 1997) and now it is more worse.
>
> I blame my cousin and "friend" Sammy Lai Mboge. I have supported him
> and Badala Park Hotel since the start in 1991. Many more people and
> authorities are angry with him. For one, he does not pay his hotel
> workers correctly.
> Recently I received a significant warning letter from Mr Matarr
> Drammeh, who claims that he is the accountant general of Badala Park
> Hotel. I do not recognise that letter.
>
> I was born in the Gambia in 1944 and live in Sweden since 1972. I have
> travelled a lot and I am well recognised as a businessman and
> traveller. I am a well qualified artist in three technical fields but I
> am not a musician. I have three City & Guilds from the Swedish
> technical highschool - glazier, building carpenter, welder and
> blacksmith. Me and my wife were the first to write a wollof phrase
> booklet (in 1974).
> I have participated in the Vision 2020 for the development of the
> Gambia to the highest degree. Not any Gambian has done the same. Even
> the president has my project in his office.
>
> I am very angry because I am suffering from harassment, humiliation,
> maltreatment, my life has been jeopardised and I am encountering
> cheating financially and injustice. My life has been threatened because
> my image has been used to promote Badala Park illegally without my
> authority for the past seven years and I have been threatened severely
> and provoked in Banjul and Serekunda and I have given the blame to the
> proprietor of Badala Park.
>
> In August 1998 my wife had an accident caused by the negligence of
> Badala Park because of the bad structure of the foundation near to the
> ā la carte restaurant and my wife Ida George fell to the stone ground
> and hit her face severely and suffered from bruises and a swollen eye
> the right one. The worse thing was that she injured her small finger on
> the right hand which will never be OK again. This we know from various
> hand surgeons in Sweden and they even refuse to operate (by taking bone
> from the leg and screw it in the finger) because the handicap can only
> be worse. None from the management of Badala Park has ever called my
> wife and asked her how she is feeling after the accident, which we
> believe is inhuman or paganism - and it is a disgrace to a so called
> friend - because we, Ebrima Lamin George and wife, are not among the
> members of the owner of Badala Park family so they use us to generate
> so many millions of dollars and Euro.
>
> I am ready to solve it once and for all. Even to go to court for my
> right. None has right to maltreat me and my wife. I have more to say
> and more to fight for and there are many tangible reasons that I will
> use to hit the devil and the hypocrites. Allah says in the Hadiths "he
> who shows no mercy should not get mercy".
> I am an international businessman and also an agent of many companies
> and all these companies give me the highest respect that any nobleman
> deserves and a great honour. I have no artificial life, all my life is
> unique and all my qualifications are highly honoured and important and
> very valuable for the benefit of mankind.
> Gambia and the Gambians are longing for me to gain knowledge from my
> blessing and I fear neither hardship nor death, nor anybody who is
> dealing with sorcery, rubbish black magic, criminal lawyers or so
> called haram-money-man. I have more "bullets to shoot" that anybody can
> imagine, which I do not think the proprietor can afford, it could lead
> to the bankruptcy of Badala Park Hotel and Palm Beach.
>
> Prince Ebrima Lamin George
>
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