-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [>-<] Darboe Hits Back At Juwara - Describes Allegations As Malicious From: "THE POINT NEWSPAPER" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Gambia | Post" <[log in to unmask]> Darboe Hits Back At Juwara - Describes Allegations As Malicious The United Democratic Party leader, Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, has described the allegations levelled against him by Mr. Lamin Waa Juwara, the party Propaganda Secretary, as malicious and absolutely false. Mr. Darboe who broke his long silence to the BBC Focus On Africa last Friday on Mr. Juwara's continued attacks, allegations and call on him to resign for misusing party funds among others, told the BBC that he does not want to involve himself in any unedifying debate and personally attacks adding that anytime Mr. Juwara gather few boys under his mango tree, he begins to make such allegations. When asked by BBC whether he uses the party's fund to clear up his taxes in order to qualify to contest the last October presidential elections, Mr.Darboe replied saying that he and the members of his family sold their landed property, raised the monies to pay up. "I didn't, I did not take any money. Infact, I have been spending my own personal funds in keeping this party running," Mr. Darboe told the BBC. Darboe added, "but why should I disclose to anybody. Infact, if it was not this allegations by him I would never disclose to the Gambian people the extend that I have gone in discomforting myself, discomforting my family by depriving them from their landed property just to satisfy the Gambian people." On Juwara's call for him to resign as the party leader, Mr. Darboe replied that if Mr. Juwara didn't agree with how the party is under his leadership, then he should resign from the party on principles. He cited examples in Cameroon and Kenya whose deputies left and formed their own parties. "So, if he feels that things are being placed wrongly under my leadership, then he should resign, I think that is the right thing he should do." It could be recalled that the propaganda secretary of the UDP, Lamin Waa Juwara recently, called on the UDP Party leader Lawyer Ousainou Darboe to resign on the conditions that he conceded defeat at the last presidential elections and that he Darboe used the party's fund to pay up his taxes in order to qualify to contest the October Presidential pools. However, Darboe remained mute over the issue until last Friday when he granted an interview to the BBC. © 2002 The Point Newspaper, P.O Box 66 Banjul, The Gambia [August 19, 2002] -- There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve (Mike Leavitt) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~