Fatou, You asked a very controversial and hot question on the African Presidents. I think gift to a Nation is for the people and not thier president. I am not brave to face such controversial topics deeper. I recommend you pose your question to the rising super fighter Bubacarr Sankanu, the jounralsit, producer, lawyer and Sarahuleh intellectual who is not afraid of burning questions. I think His debate on Freedom Newspaper with that Micehal Scales on the sample of Predient Jammeh as Presient-king goes in the same direction like your quetion. Hope I have been of some help Emman Cairo, Egypt -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 01:40:23 +0200 > Von: Fatoumata <[log in to unmask]> > An: [log in to unmask] > Betreff: A burning question!!! > Could someone shed light on this? > (Some) African presidents consider money received from donors as "gift" or > "present" belong to them and not their nations. Assuming that China > presents > a gift of $500,000. to Abdoulaye Wade, has he the right to put that money > in > his private account as his personal gift? > I already know several presidents have considered such "gifts" as personal > instead of putting them in the government coffers or declaring them. How > else could they account for their "extreme riches" in the short period > they > govern. I refuse to call the pot black!!! > > Anything in the constitution concerning this??? > Thanks > Fatou > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L > Web interface > at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html > > To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l > To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kanns mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤