Gambia-L: The unedited e-mail below came from a concerned Gambian. Ebrima Ceesay ____________________________________________________________________ >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: CHEYASSIN: PLUNGING GAMBIA INTO FURTHER CHAOS >Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 > >Coach, > >The recent actions of Cheyassin came as no surprise to those who know him >well. A close relative of mine who was in the United States with Cheyassin >in the 60's used to narrate stories about this egomaniac of a personality. >One of the stories I remember him telling me was when Cheyassin, then a >sophomore at American University and member of the Student Council, ran and >lost the Presidency of the Council. He accused the majority white student >body of racism before storming out of the meeting. Che is either at the >head >or he is out. This personality trait follows him wherever he goes. > >After law studies in the UK and returning to practice in the Gambia, >Cheyassin >inherited from the late P.S.Njie, one of the best private legal liberaries >in the Gambia. He also inherited the P.S.Njie's clients. Cheyassin >squandered all of these in pursuit of his dream of being the President of >the >Republic. He established his political party, contested a seat at Sabach >Sanjal and lost. In the process, he also lost his law practice and sold his >valuable library to his colleagues who are now the top dogs in the law >business in Banjul. > >What Cheyassin could not get through the ballot box, he tried to gain >through the barrel of the gun; thus his flirting with armed and illegal >revolt against a legally installed Government of Sir Dawda. Providing his >services to the "taxi driver revolutionaries" led by Kukoi Samba Sagnia as >the resident intellectual, he proceeded to draft the Long the >Revolution/Enough is Enough, No MORE speech (in his own hand writing which >implicated him ) that Kukoi read over Radio Gambia on those fateful days >in June/July 1981. Of course, what followed is history and Cheyassin fled >to >Dakar and was later repatriated to stand trial for treason. Another failed >attempt by Cheyassin to become President of the Republic. Instead of being >President, he won the title of "treasonable felon." > >During his imprisonment at Mile II, it was Ousainou Daboe and many like him >who kept Cheyassin's family going and his children kept in school. It is >this very same Cheyassin Secka who is now trying to provide the enabling >legal environment to exterminate, literally and figuratively, Ousainou >Daboe >and any opposition (be it PDOIS or NPR) that stands in Cheyassin's way to >grab the Presidency of the Republic of The Gambia. According to my >sources, >Cheyassin is impatient and he would like to create the environment now >before the November elections to grab power; something that has eluded him >ever since he ran and lost to be President of the Student Council at >American University and the strings of failures that followed since then >and >are enumerated above. Cheyassin will not be allowed to succeed in his plans >and that the elctions will be held and the APRC Government will be driven >to >the Atlantic Ocean. They have failed the Gambian people, they have failed >the international community and they have failed even their earlier >supporters. > >The precedence-setting 30-odd amendments to the Constitution is a >deliberate >act to further muddy the waters but we have news for Cheyassin: WE WILL >RESIST IT. Infact, we are counselling Solomon Teliwa Johnson to file a >suit in court contesting the constitutionality of his dismissal. >Cheyassin, you know that Yahya's action to dismiss the Chairman and a >member >of th IEC is unconstitutional and it will be fought in the Supreme Court. >The legality of your recent actions will also be challenged in the courts. >We all know what the APRC is trying to avoid; ELECTIONS. But elections will >be held and we will insist on them being free, fair and internationally >monitored. 1996 will never be repeated in The Gambia. > >Cheyassin is being driven into madness by his personal failures both as a >student activist and a politician. He will go to any length to please Yahya >just so that he will eventually grab power for himself. He has attempted it >once. He will attempt it again. I guarantee, he will fail again and >miserably so. Thanks, Ebrima and happy Ramadan to all. > _________________________________________________________________________ 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 You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------