Mr Sillah,
Thank you for validating what some od us so called loud mouths have been
pointing out, and which Gassa continues to paint as rosy picture when the
hard facts are quite the contrary.
Jabou Joh
In a message dated 12/30/2001 2:40:26 PM Central Standard Time, ebrimasillah@
YAHOO.CO.UK writes:
> . For a start when we talk of the
> independence of the media it goes beyond the private
> operators alone...but also the centrally controlled
> public media. You have to understand that the so
> called freedom of the media that you always talk about
> here came about not thanks to anybody's benevolence
> but our resilience as a group of dedicated
> professionals who dared the hot,the cold, the cells
> and the electrics wares to get where we are at the
> moment. Am sure you are still a living witness to the
> numerious reports of torture and illigal arrests and
> detention journalists were and are still going through
> in this country. According to our own investigations
> not more than 15 arrest and detention of journalists
> took place during the 32 years of the former regime.
> But from 1994 to date more than 35 arrests and
> detention of journalists have taken place in the
> Gambia...myself about eight, Alieu Badara Sowe about
> eleven,Baboucarr Gaye about three, Deyda Hydra about
> one, Pap Saine about one, Yorro Jallow and Baba Galleh
> Jallow about two, N.B Daffeh about three, Alagie Mbye
> about four,not to talk of others like Cherono Jallow
> in the US, Ebrima Sankareh(US) Rodney D. Sieh(US),
> Savage(US) , my own Ebrima Ceesay(UK). We have also
> recorded physical torture not to mention the closure
> of Citizen FM, the bourning down of Radio 1FM and the
> owner George, the deportation of Kenneth Best to his
> war torn country Liberia and another S/Leonian
> journalist to his country where he was wanted. We dont
> forget the case of Sulae Musa who was deported back to
> Nigeria for writing a critique on Abacha's killing
> spree. Saulae upon reaching Nigeria was immedaitely
> bondled into a waiting car to one of the most horrible
> prisons in that country awaiting his faith. Thank God
> it was that same week that Abacha died. So when we
> talk of press freedom it embodies a lot of issues not
> only the expression of the mind alone...infact the
> expression of the mind is the end result because
> before you say something, the enabling environment has
> to be there. Today all the newspapers are thinking of
> survival because of the unnecessary taxation, the high
> cost of printing materials because of huge importation
> tax they attract. Infact as at now do you know that
> the government printer is not printing the independent
> newspapers? So where is the freedom. Reporting the
> news and going about searching for that news are not
> the only yardstick that one uses to measure the
> freedom of the press but the whole package that go by
> it. I dont have much time but i hope this helps to put
> things in their proper context.
>
> E Sillah
>
>
> --- Jungle Sunrise <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
> Despite all the hulla baloo over the
>
Regards,
Mrs Jabou N.Joh,
President/ceo,
Cumberland Investment Group,
557 Holt Valley Rd,
Nashville, TN, 37221
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