>From: Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: fwd:Jammeh-Jawara Deal Exposed State to Refund Sir Dawda Over D8 Million Hefty >Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:40:44 -0500 > >Jammeh-Jawara Deal Exposed State to Refund Sir Dawda Over D8 Million Hefty > >The Independent (Banjul) >NEWS >September 23, 2002 >Posted to the web September 23, 2002 > >By Jalamang Jammeh >Banjul > >An agreement has been tacitly reached between Sir Dawda Jawara and The >Gambia Government to refund him more than D8 million accrued as rental >incomes from three of the former president's properties over the last eight >years. > >Transactions from both ends to effect the refund of D6, 160, 000 million to >Sir Dawda are at an advanced stage and will involve rental incomes >emanating from two of the ex-leader's rented properties from 1994 (the year >of his overthrow) to 2002, the year he put paid to his exile with a short >and silent homecoming. Arrangements to release to him a further 68, 000 >pound sterling as rental income from a third property are also in the >offing. > >A correspondence (MF/C110/Part 9/(57) from the Department of State for >Finance and Economic Affairs dated 16 September 2002 was addressed to the >managing director of the Asset Management and Recovery Commission (AMRC), >requesting information about how much Jawara's properties were rented on a >yearly basis. The department had given a deadline of September 17 (the >following day) for the AMRC's response to its request to determine rental >income for Sir Dawda's properties listed as located at 7 Louvel Street, 38 >Atlantic Boulevard and Wellington Street Flats in Banjul. The department's >correspondence copied to the permanent secretary at the PMO was the state's >means to independently ascertain how much was going to be paid to Sir Dawda >who had made his own conclusive calculations, which stood at D6, 160, 000 >in respect of the properties in Louvel Street and Wellington Flats, and 68, >000 pound sterling in respect of his Atlantic Boulevard property. > >Proceeding the department's correspondence to the AMRC, a 3 September 2002 >fax statement from Sir Dawda to Seedy Jawara his cousin as the privileged >custodian of the ex-president's properties conveyed a simple proposal to >the Department of Finance and Economic Affairs to refund him rental income >in respect of three of his properties. Sir Dawda's statement to Seedy >outlined that the annual rent for his Wellington flats stood at D650, 000 >while his Louvel Street property was being rented at D220, 000 annually. >Sir Dawda's fax also indicated that the annual rent for his 38 Atlantic >Boulevard, which was at 8, 500 pound sterling had accrued to 68, 000 pound >sterling from 1994 to 2002. > >Ex-president Jawara's agreement with the current regime is set to culminate >in the release of D8, 404, 000 (eight million four hundred and four >thousand dalasi). This would represent a hefty rent refund package that was >denied him after his overthrow and subsequent exile in the United Kingdom. > >Sir Dawda's deal with the current administration, which does not >conclusively signify the return of all of his assets comes less than a >month after his formal resignation as PPP secretary general. He had >communicated his wish to PPP local vanguards on August 29, 2002 and was >aì¥Á M ð ¿ éÚ bjbjâ=â= " ?W ?W éÖ ÿÿ ÿÿ ÿÿ l oe ¨< ¨< ¨< ¨< ì¥Á M ð ¿ éÚ >bjbjâ=â= " ?W ?W éÖ ÿÿ ÿÿ ÿÿ l oe ¨< ¨< ¨< ¨< > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >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] > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~