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The unedited e-mail below came from a concerned Gambian.

Ebrima Ceesay

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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: CHEYASSIN: PLUNGING GAMBIA INTO FURTHER CHAOS
>Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000
>
>Coach,
>
>The recent actions of Cheyassin came as no surprise to those who know him
>well.  A close relative of mine who was in the United States with Cheyassin
>in the 60's used to narrate stories about this egomaniac of a personality.
>One of the stories I remember him telling me was when Cheyassin, then a
>sophomore at American University and member of the Student Council, ran and
>lost the Presidency of the Council.  He accused the majority white student
>body of racism before storming out of the meeting. Che is either at the
>head
>or he is out.  This personality trait follows him wherever he goes.
>
>After law studies in the UK and returning to practice in the Gambia,
>Cheyassin
>inherited from the late P.S.Njie, one of the best private legal liberaries
>in the Gambia.  He also inherited the P.S.Njie's clients.  Cheyassin
>squandered all of these in pursuit of his dream of being the President of
>the
>Republic.  He established his political party, contested a seat at Sabach
>Sanjal and lost. In the process, he also lost his law practice and sold his
>valuable library to his colleagues who are now the top dogs in the law
>business in Banjul.
>
>What Cheyassin could not get through the ballot box, he tried to gain
>through the barrel of the gun; thus his flirting with armed and illegal
>revolt against a legally installed Government of Sir Dawda. Providing his
>services to the "taxi driver revolutionaries" led by Kukoi Samba Sagnia as
>the resident intellectual, he proceeded to draft the Long the
>Revolution/Enough is Enough, No MORE speech (in his own hand writing which
>implicated him ) that Kukoi read over Radio Gambia on those fateful days
>in June/July 1981. Of course, what followed is history and Cheyassin fled
>to
>Dakar and was later repatriated to stand trial for treason. Another failed
>attempt by Cheyassin to become President of the Republic. Instead of being
>President, he won the title of "treasonable felon."
>
>During his imprisonment at Mile II, it was Ousainou Daboe and many like him
>who kept Cheyassin's family going and his children kept in school.  It is
>this very same Cheyassin Secka who is now trying to provide the enabling
>legal environment to exterminate, literally and figuratively, Ousainou
>Daboe
>and any opposition (be it PDOIS or NPR) that stands in Cheyassin's way to
>grab the Presidency of the Republic of The Gambia.  According to my
>sources,
>Cheyassin is impatient and he would like to create the environment now
>before the November elections to grab power; something that has eluded him
>ever since he ran and lost to be President of the Student Council at
>American University and the strings of failures that followed since then
>and
>are enumerated above. Cheyassin will not be allowed to succeed in his plans
>and that the elctions will be held and the APRC Government will be driven
>to
>the Atlantic Ocean.  They have failed the Gambian people, they have failed
>the international community and they have failed even their earlier
>supporters.
>
>The precedence-setting 30-odd amendments to the Constitution is a
>deliberate
>act to further muddy the waters but we have news for Cheyassin: WE WILL
>RESIST IT.  Infact, we are counselling Solomon Teliwa Johnson to file a
>suit in court contesting the constitutionality of his dismissal.
>Cheyassin, you know that Yahya's action to dismiss the Chairman and a
>member
>of th IEC is unconstitutional and it will be fought in the Supreme Court.
>The legality of your recent actions will also be challenged in the courts.
>We all know what the APRC is trying to avoid; ELECTIONS. But elections will
>be held and we will insist on them being free, fair and internationally
>monitored. 1996 will never be repeated in The Gambia.
>
>Cheyassin is being driven into madness by his personal failures both as a
>student activist and a politician. He will go to any length to please Yahya
>just so that he will eventually grab power for himself. He has attempted it
>once. He will attempt it again. I guarantee, he will fail again and
>miserably so.  Thanks, Ebrima and happy Ramadan to all.
>

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