Alieu, Greetings from Wagadou Gaana Remme (you laugh!) >From: Alieu Badara Sowe <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Response to Fatou Taal >Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:28:28 GMT > >Fatou Taal > >I read with interest your correspondence with Ebrima Ceesay, on Gambia-L, >and I am compelled to put the records straight for the sake of my >integrity, >which I jealously guard from the date I became a journalist. I worked very >hard, suffered all kinds of treatment in the defence of press freedom at >the >time Gambians needed their journalists most (1994 to date). So I will not >idly sit down and watch a worthless girl like you to tamper with that >integrity. >Let me start by making it categorically clear to you that I wrote your >dad's >story in the public interest and without malice. Like Ebrima Cessay >rightly >put it to you, let me also say it that I last spoke to Ceesay in 1996 and >he >has nothing whatsoever to do with your dad's story. Ebrima has not >telephoned or written a single letter to me since he left The Gambia. >However, what I cannot even understand is, why do you have to embark on a >fruitless venture of trying to establish who my source is, when as you >intimate, the story was untrue! >After I published your dad's story, the Daily Observer took it upon itself >to come up with a reaction that tends to imply that my story was totally >fake. Your dad, and of course some APRC big wigs capitalised on a simple >factual error to publish what the Observer printed as a correction. Note >that I am not a party to the Observer's so called apology to your father. >I >would have gone for a clarification. >Yes, it maybe correct that your dad had not even travelled to the U.K. I >did >make several efforts to talk to your dad prior to publication but to no >avail. Nonetheless, what is very clear is that the substance of the story >was true. If your dad is arguing that his appointment was not rejected by >the British authorities on the grounds that he (your dad) is an ex-convict, >can he then tell us why he didn't leave for the U.K. since his appointment >early this year (it is almost six months since his appointment)! >The bottom line is, whether for corruption, embezzlement or stealing, your >dad has a record of criminal conviction and this is public knowledge. >Peace. > >Alieu Badara Sowe >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------