Pasamba Jow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi,
It is important to understand that as journalists,both Ebrima Ceesay and
Badara Sowe have it as their duty to report things that are of public
interest.It is also true that Fatou Taal is obligated to come her dad's
defence ,but should that be areason for emphaty certainly not. If one should
emparthize with Mr Taal's kids ,then one should not critize Jammeh because
he also has a family that may be obligated to come to his defence.
To Ebrima and Alieu keep up the good work ,and continue reporting things
that are both accurate and in the public interest without fear or favour.
PEACE COACH
JOW
Pa Samba, the news about Ebou Taal most definitely is in the public interest
and both Ebrima and Badara did an exceptional job bringing it to light; that
is not my concern. Those private mails sent to Ebrima were full of emotions
and less of "reasonableness", I think as journalists they should've recognize
that. Again I state " these kids will never accept what is factual as reported
by Ebrima--you might say in a state of denial"
How did Jammeh figure in this equation? What Ebou Taal was tried and convicted
of does not compare to what Jammeh is doing to the Gambian people--witness the
shooting of students expressing their freedom of speech in the form of a
demonstration.
Chi Jama
Daddy Sang
>From: Emmanuel N'Dow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [Response to Fatou Taal]
>Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:36:42 PDT
>
>Alieu Badara Sowe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Fatou Taal
>
>I read with interest your correspondence with Ebrima Ceesay, on Gambia-L,
>and I am compelled to put the records straight for the sake of my
>integrity,
>which I jealously guard from the date I became a journalist. I worked very
>hard, suffered all kinds of treatment in the defence of press freedom at
>the
>time Gambians needed their journalists most (1994 to date). So I will not
>idly sit down and watch a worthless girl like you to tamper with that
>integrity.
>Let me start by making it categorically clear to you that I wrote your
>dad's
>story in the public interest and without malice. Like Ebrima Cessay
>rightly
>put it to you, let me also say it that I last spoke to Ceesay in 1996 and
>he
>has nothing whatsoever to do with your dad's story. Ebrima has not
>telephoned or written a single letter to me since he left The Gambia.
>However, what I cannot even understand is, why do you have to embark on a
>fruitless venture of trying to establish who my source is, when as you
>intimate, the story was untrue!
>After I published your dad's story, the Daily Observer took it upon itself
>to come up with a reaction that tends to imply that my story was totally
>fake. Your dad, and of course some APRC big wigs capitalised on a simple
>factual error to publish what the Observer printed as a correction. Note
>that I am not a party to the Observer's so called apology to your father.
>I
>would have gone for a clarification.
>Yes, it maybe correct that your dad had not even travelled to the U.K. I
>did
>make several efforts to talk to your dad prior to publication but to no
>avail. Nonetheless, what is very clear is that the substance of the story
>was true. If your dad is arguing that his appointment was not rejected by
>the British authorities on the grounds that he (your dad) is an ex-convict,
>can he then tell us why he didn't leave for the U.K. since his appointment
>early this year (it is almost six months since his appointment)!
>The bottom line is, whether for corruption, embezzlement or stealing, your
>dad has a record of criminal conviction and this is public knowledge.
>Peace.
>
>Alieu Badara Sowe
>
>Alieu, why the invective? if anything both you and Ebrima should empathize
>with these kids; that's their father and any one of us would be oblige to
>defend our parents despite the evidence. As journalists am sure you
>remember
>that it was Ebou Taal that reminded Jawara of the existence of a defense
>treaty <> Gambia and Senegal. This I believe form the basis upon which the
>Senegalese army came to Jawara's aid. There's also an inherent belief among
>the Taal family and their friends that Jawara set Ebou Taal up ant that he
>(Jawara) was ungrateful. Look at it in his children's eyes; they'll never
>accept what is factual and known by most of us. If am wrong in what I just
>said , I stand corrected. Empathy please!.
>Daddy Sang
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