A more palatable turncoat, I agree, but still a turncoat and needs to apologize for his betrayal of our people in the first place.
Kejau
--> Hi Everyone,
> While it is not my intention to defend Dr. Scattred Janneh
> for whatever role he may have played in helping to prop up the Jammeh
> regime,
> but I do agree with some people that the very fact that he did not do as
> most
> others before him did, that is to stay mute and expect to be recycled when
> he
> was sacked, but instead he came out in the open to try and change the
> system
> means that he deserved some respect and commendation.
> We have seen how so many people who had been sacked and humiliated
> still not only kept so mute expecting to be recycled but some of them even
> went
> ahead to write letters to the president to renew their support and
> allegiance
> to him as if they cannot survive on their own.
> Therefore, the fact that Dr. Scattred Janneh did not subject
> himself to such humiliation but instead he also risked everything to stand
> up
> to the regime makes him a more palatable ‘turn-coat’ than many others.
> Demba
>
>
> ________________________________
>
From: Oceanic Lad <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, 1 December 2012, 18:14
> Subject: Re: [>-<] Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh
>
>
> Ousainou NK Darboe but DK Jawara is the worst .
>
> On Saturday, December 1, 2012, Sainey Sisay wrote:
>
> Nobody is perfect. In our fight against the dictator, we need all hands on
> deck. Dr Janneh could have taken the easy way out after falling out with
> the dictator by either praise singing him or just keep mute like others
> who had fallen out with dictator. If we continue attacking each other
> instead of concentrating on curing our body politics of this cancer
> call Yahya Jammeh, then let's be prapare for a long ride with him. Who is
> Gambia's worse
>>
>>
>>
>>________________________________
>>Subject: Re: [>-<] Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh
>>From: [log in to unmask]
>>Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 16:05:23 +0000
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>I've got a headache
>>
>>On 1 Dec 2012, at 15:40, abdoukarim sanneh
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>Is our political strugge focussed on political system or
>> individual(personality)? A right to political association is a free
>> choice every individual including Amadou Janneh. I didn't subscribe to Dr
>> Janneh's views and comments about Gambian Journalists. It will be a
>> classic case of dishonesty or another Gambia online character
>> assasination to illusive think that Amadou Janneh craft the media laws in
>> his tenure as SOS. I really embrace Amadou Janneh's efforts since his
>> release from Mile Two. He is not muted with silence!
>>>________________________________
>>>
From: [log in to unmask]
>>>To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: [>-<] Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh
>>>Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:40:27 +0100
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>“… some guys wine and dine with Jammeh and after falling out with him,
>>> they suddenly appear to be the biggest opposition.” E. I. Chongan
>>>
>>>Now that the dust has settled on executions in the Gambia and the
>>> release of Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh, it is now time to revisit the
>>> case of the good old doctor. I have read two interviews with the doctor
>>> after his release and yet was astonished by the questions he was asked.
>>>When Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh, as SOS for Information etc, referred to
>>> some Gambian journalists as “sloppy” and as “high school graduates not
>>> knowing what they were doing” and also promised to deal with it
>>> effectively, I did not know what he meant. But after reading these
>>> interviews, it became clear to me.
>>>Dr Janneh was the SOS for Information etc. from 2004 to 2005 and many of
>>> the atrocities and persecutions against Gambian journalists was in this
>>> period but that was overlooked by the interviewers. Pa Nderry Mbai, who
>>> bagged a degree in Mass Communication and also the CEO, Managing Editor
>>> and Producer of the Freedom Newspaper, was more concerned whether Dr.
>>> Janneh had a Fan at Mile 2. Had Pa Nderry done his research properly, he
>>> would have known that, at Mile 2, inmates would have more solace in a
>>> coil of “Moon Tiger” than an electric fan. Inmates battle tsetse flies
>>> during the day, mosquitoes at night and the “mutu-mutu” day and night.
>>>Dr. Janneh has emerged from this as a victim of Yahya Jammeh, but in
>>> actual fact he is simply a victim of his own arrogance and
>>> egocentricity. Dr, Janneh knew that if he goes to bed with a stray dog,
>>> he will wake up with fleas. Pa Nderry had even gone so far as to
>>> compare Dr. Janneh with the Greek philosopher, Socrates. I think that is
>>> stretching it too far. I think Pa Nderry should keep himself to what he
>>> knows best, and leave the Classics to the classicists. There is nowhere
>>> in his works that shows that Socrates betrayed the trust and confidence
>>> of his peers. The sooner we confront these turncoats with the facts of
>>> their treachery, the earlier the Gambia will be free of tyranny. We
>>> should never forget that the Baron got his absolute power through the
>>> machinations of kaleidoscopic “sahi laka-laka” like Dr. Amadou Scattered
>>> Janneh.
>>>What happened during Dr. Janneh’s tenure as S.O.S. for Information,
>>> Technology and Communication?
>>>The man was appointed on Thursday, 8th April 2004.
>>>On Saturday and Sunday, 10th and 11th April 2004, (Yes!! 10th and 11th
>>> April) he received well-wishers who came to congratulate him for his
>>> appointment.
>>>Tuesday 13th April 2004, of all days, was his first day in office.
>>>Wednesday 14th April 2004 the Independent Newspaper was firebombed
>>>Friday 19th April 2004, Dr. Janneh gave an interview to DO in which he
>>> referred to Gambian journalists as “Sloppy and high school leavers”. He
>>> also expressed his desire to abolish the Nation Media Commission, thus
>>> giving him total control of the media. And his opportunism in becoming
>>> one of those he once called “Aimless People Ruining our Country.”
>>>On Monday 9th August 2004, D.A. Jawo, as President of the GPU, received
>>> a threatening letter with the message: "Very soon we will teach one of
>>> your journalists
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