Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue Issue No. 48/2004, 17-20 June, 2004 Editorial ARE THE CHLOROQUINE TABLETS VIABLE? First the medical personnel will tell you to take 4 tablets and 2 after six hours. Two tablets should then be taken daily for a period of two days. The dose changed to 4 tablets a day for two days and then 2 tablets on the third day. Now a patient takes all these tablets and still has to take three Fansida. Despite this people still go back after weeks and are given more injections or tablets. What is happening to the malaria parasite? Is it becoming more resistant to the drugs available in The Gambia or are the drugs faked ones. It is abundantly necessary for the Department of State for Health to take up this issue. A serious study needs to be made as a lot of lives are being lost because of the parasites. COALITION ENDORSES KEMESENG’S CANDIDATURE The Prospective Alliance (Coalition) has started kicking even before it has bee formalized. A Press Release issued by the Coordinator, Halifa Sallah, reveals that the Alliance has endorsed the candidature of Kemeseng Jammeh of UDP in the forthcoming Jarra West By Election expected on July 1. We publish the full text of the press release below. A task force which has been set up by the prospective Alliance (Coalition) comprising representatives of the NDAM, NRP, PDOIS, PPP and UDP in alphabetical order, have completed the work of harmonizing the position of the various parties regarding candidature for the Jarra West By Election. In the absence of the formal launching of the coalition the consensus principle was allowed to prevail when the candidates of the other opposition parties volunteered to step down to create the enabling environment for the candidature of Kemeseng Jammeh of UDP to be endorsed by the Alliance (Coalition). The Alliance (Coalition) also mandated for preparations to be made for Famara Fadera to be nominated as an Independent Candidate, as a contingency measure had Kemeseng failed to have his n! omination approved. The Alliance wishes to announce that Kemeseng Jammeh has been duly nominated as the candidate endorsed by the Alliance for the Jarra West constituency by election. The Alliance (Coalition) wishes to assure the people in Jarra West Constituency that it is fully responsible for the way the campaign of the by election is to be administered and calls on all those who wish to teach President Jammeh the lesson that power belongs to the people, to vote for the candidate of the Alliance (Coalition) as a protest vote. An Alliance (Coalition) victory is not a victory of any individual political party or leader but a victory of the Gambian people as a whole. An Alliance (Coalition) victory will be a victory of the people against the might of a President who thinks that he can decide the fate of the people according to his whims and caprices. The aim of the campaign is to send the right signal to President Jammeh that he should respect the people and listen to the! ir dictates rather than attempt to subject them to his dictates. The representatives of the Alliance (Coalition) call on the people in Jarra West Constituency to settle all differences and avoid using any language, which antagonizes others because of past political differences. All those who volunteer to speak on an Alliance (Coalition) platform must be bound by the same campaign ethics. They must not insult or slander and must conduct their campaign with the view to unite the people instead of attempting to ignite old political differences. The Alliance (Coalition) will set up a campaign committee that will receive all complaints of violations of our campaign ethics and settle them with speed. COORDINATOR Isued on 14th June 2004. Nomination In Jarra West Monday 14th June 2004 was nomination day for the Jarra West Constituency by-elections, following the conviction and imprisonment of the former majority leader and member for the constituency, Baba K. Jobe. Two candidates were duly nominated at the IEC Office in Mansakonko. Musa Hawa Saidykhan, a 59-year-old retired headmaster was duly nominated by the APRC. He was eventually selected by the APRC barely a day before the actual day for nomination after a tussle between him and Mr. Njie Barrow. Mr. Saidykhan, a member of the civic education team, retired in 1996. The second candidate to be nominated was Kemeseng Jammeh of UDP whose candidature was endorsed by the Alliance (Coalition). Support for the coalition in Jarra is growing rapidly. Mr. Kemeseng Jammeh is a veteran politician who had previously held the seat for Jarra West Constituency. There was a third prospective candidate to be nominated as an independent candidate had Kemeseng Jammeh’s nomination failed. He discontinued the process after confirmation of Kemeseng’s nomination. Mr. Saidykhan told journalists shortly after his nomination that he will win the contest for the Jarra West Constituency come July 1st. He said he stepped into politics in order to unify people. He promised the people of Jarra West that he would help them with water supply, agriculture and health. His attention was drawn to the fact that even his home village of Kanni Kunda is an opposition stronghold he said that he had already overcome that huddle. Mr. Kemeseng Jammeh was also interviewed by reporters shortly after his nomination. He said he was very much confident that the APRC will be defeated at the poles come July 1st. He added that the APRC is already finished and the people want to teach the president a bitter lesson that he will learn to respect the people. Kemeseng Jammeh was escorted to Mansakonko, the place for nomination by supporters of UDP, PDOIS, NRP, PPP and NDAM, the five parties which constitute the alliance (coalition). Yahya Dampha of PDOIS who also accompanied Mr. Jammeh to Mansakonko called on the people of Jarra West to vote for Mr. Jammeh, the candidate supported by the coalition to teach the president a lesson. Shortly before nomination, police Commissioner, Jata Baldeh and the Divisional OC approached both candidates and advised them to keep the peace during the election campaign. Jata Baldeh assured both candidates that his officers would always be available when the need arises. He gave his telephone number to both candidates and their close aides. Official campaign period started yesterday and will end on 29th June 2004. COURT DELIVERS JUDGMENT ON BABA JOBE & CO CASE The Banjul High Court presided over by Justice Savage on Monday delivered judgment on the acrimonious civil suit involving Guaranty Trust Bank and the following defendants: bereft Majority Leader, Baba Jobe, Salifu K. Jaiteh, YDE and Momodou Fofana. When the case was called, Sheriff Marie Tambedou, counsel for Guaranty Trust Bank informed the court that the plaintiff (his client) has filed a consent agreement on 8th of June and an amended agreement term was filed on 14th of June 2004. Tambedou’s information was confirmed by Edu Gomez, counsel for Baba Jobe, Momodou Fofana and the Youth Development Enterprise. However, Salifu K. Jaiteh, the third defendant is not part of the agreement. The case is adjourned to the 6th of July 2004 for Salifu K. Jaiteh to put up his defence. The amended consent terms entered into by the plaintiff, Guaranty Trust Bank, the first defendant, Youth Development Enterprise, second defendant, Baba Jobe and forth defendant, Momodou Fofana urged the court to deliver judgment against the aforesaid defendants jointly for the sum of D7, 769, 635.17 together with interest at the rate of 32 % per annum from the 20th February 2004 until the day of payment. The consent term also urged the court to make an order for judicial sale of a leasehold property with registration number K58 / 1995 situated at Kotu West Layout and held under deed of assignment serial registration number 65 / 2001 Vol. 64 KD (the mortgaged property) and held under a mortgage dated 20th March 2003 and made between Youth Development Enterprise, Baba Jobe, Salifu K. Jaiteh and Momodou Fofana. The amended consent term also asked the court to make an order stating that the conduct of sale of the mortgaged property be given to the plaintiff, first, second and forth defendants or whosoever of them as is necessary shall concur in the sale and do all such things necessary to secure the sale of the mortgaged property with vacant possessions. The learned High Court judge, Justice Savage went straight to deliver judgment on the terms agreed upon by the aforesaid parties. Batch Faye’s Murder Trial Continues The murder trial of Batch Samba Faye resumed at the Banjul High Court on Thursday with defence witness, Mustapha Samasa telling the court that he was provoked, attacked and stabbed by Malick Njok John (the deceased) in Hanover (Germany) when he, Samasa went to visit his friends living there. Samasa told the court that he did not like the deceased because he, Njok wanted to kill him. According to him, when he was stabbed by Njok, the house master called the ambulance service who came with police officers. He noted that he was taken to hospital where his hand was stitched. He noted that he did not press charges against Njok because he was going back to Amsterdam where he was living. Asked by the prosecutor, Chernor Marenah whether the police recorded his statement, the witness responded in the negative. He went further to say that he did not know whether was prosecuted for the attack meted out to him, the witness said he did not know. He noted that the deceased had committed a lot of crimes, but when Chernor Marenah asked him whether he has heard of the deceased going to court in Europe or in The Gambia he responded in the negative. Further asked whether he would be surprised that with all the alleged crimes commi! tted by the deceased he was never arraigned in court, the witness replied that he would be surprised. Mr. Samasa said that he shunned all the night clubs in The Gambia because of his fear of the deceased. He said he has always been avoiding the deceased. The witness refuted Mr. Marenah’s claim that his dislike of the deceased provoked him to come to court and distort the facts. Mr. Samasa informed the court that he was not present at the Waaw Night Club on 6th December 2003, the day the deceased and the accused fought. _________________________________________________________________ Stop worrying about overloading your inbox - get MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~