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Salieu Taal:

Before I attempt to shatter your baseless allegations into pieces, I must
warn you now, that if this is the kind of shallow analysis, or flimsy
writing you are going to be rendering us, especially with all the
credentials added to your name, I'll have no choice except to ask Buckingham
University to revoke the Law Degree conferred on you forthwith. And I mean
it!

Believe me, Sal, next time you send me this sort of woolly, quibble and
muddled writing, I'll send a copy of it to Buckingham and ask them whether
this is the sort of narrow and smattering analysis/writing they are teaching
their students.

I'll make it clear to the Rector at Buckingham University that if they do
not want their reputation as one of the leading Universities in England to
be tarnished, then they must ask you, Salieu, to go back to school and do
some serious reading!!

Honestly, Salieu, being an alumnus of Buck - a very expensive private
University for that matter - but, more significantly, given all the
credentials/titles ( LLB; MA ) attached to your name, I had expected you to
come up with something mature, tangible, ungarbled and well-thought-out!

But just like your Sister's trash the other day, yours too was childish -
very immature to say the least - empty and, of course, full of distortions.
What a shame! Sal, believe me, with all your bluff, I swear I CAN put you in
a classroom and teach you - having regard to the trash you just sent me.

How can a lawyer, or someone with a Law Degree like you, deliberately tell
lies or distort the facts? Who told you that I was the one who wrote the
Story about your Dad in the Daily Observer? Even your punk sister, Fatou
Taal, did know that "Alieu Badara Sowe had written the story" in question,
except that she, Fatou, had lied that I had asked Alieu Badara Sowe to write
the story.

Anyway, let me now move to the issue. Salieu, among other things, you
wrote..."Ebrima, I am shocked by your unwarranted and unsubstantiated attack
on my father...You ought not write any story on the basis of hearsay or
undisclosed sources... My father never came to the UK neither was he
declared Persona Non Grata...Your report was factually unsound and inspired
by spite"...

Sal, these cited quotations from your e-mail, are very misleading and
unfounded to say the least - wrongly insinuating that I wrote the Daily
Observer story - and in fact if you do not withdraw them forthwith, I'll
write a pamphlet on your mediocrity and expose to the whole world, what a
man of straw you are!!!

Let me now put things in perspective for you, in order to set the record
straight, but also to expose you as a buffoon and a crank!

** The first point to note, Salieu, is that the story on your Dad, or in
question, was written by Alieu Badara Sowe, who is an assistant editor at
the Observer and it was the very Observer he works for that carried the
article.

** Question: How did I get into this whole saga?

** Now, Salieu, read this very carefully: One of my sources in Banjul sent
me an e-mail, where he had said that his Secretary had phoned his mobile
when he was at a meeting in Yundum, and told him that one of the newspapers
had a headline, saying that "Ebou Taal was declared Persona non Grata by the
UK government."

** And later on, when my source finally got copies of his newspapers, he
sent me another e-mail - which I forwarded to the L - disclosing, first of
all, that it was the Observer that reported the Ebou Taal story, adding also
that according to the article, Ebou Taal apparently travelled to London, but
was given 48 hours to leave the UK.

** Subsequently, the Daily Observer realised that the story was unfounded
and, as a result, they retracted it with an unreservedly written apology to
your Dad.

** And, needles to say, in keeping with the ethics of good journalism,
Tombong Saidy - and later on my very self - forwarded the retraction in the
Daily Observer, to the L, except that in my own posting to the L, I made a
comment/observation to the effect, that it was "untrue" for the Government
to have said, through the Daily Observer, that your Dad was "never convicted
for embezzlement." Because the record shows that your Dad was indeed
convicted for embezzlement!

So, Sal, where did I go wrong? Or better yet, who told you, or where on
earth did they say that I wrote the article in question? Yes, the person who
authored the story about your Dad, Alieu Badara Sowe, just like you, is
someone I know very well, but if he had contacted me before hand, he
wouldn't have written such a wrong and hasty story.

I would have given him all the facts he needed to know regarding the
decision by Yaya Jammeh to appoint/nominate your Dad as Gambia's
ambassador-designate to the UK and, more significantly, the disapproval of
your Dad's nomination by the UK government.

But, the truth of the matter, Salieu, is that I have not been in any form of
contact with the Daily Observer since Kenneth Best sold it to Amadou Samba
over a year ago. And, in fact, the last time I spoke with Alieu Badara Sowe
was in the Gambia in 1996!

So, Salieu, where is the evidence that I wrote the article on your Dad?
You've really let me down academically/intellectually! Sincerely speaking, I
had thought that you were better than this - on the whole you are nothing
but a lightweight, a froth, a pipsqueak!!

And, surprisingly, at your level, you do not even write English well, your
grammar was disappointing to say the least! Boy, if I was lucky - many years
ago - to have the African Development Bank pay for my University Education,
as they did for you all these years, believe me, I could have been one of
your lecturers at Buck!

You call me "half-baked." Me! In fact, Susan Rowe on Gambia L, who trains
teachers at Reading University, and who also wrote about 5 books, had to
laugh at your claims - the whole of yesterday - that I, Ebrima Ceesay, have
"half-baked, haphazard and dubious educational background"...

Well, except something is wrong with Susan Rowe (Laugh) but anyway it was
consoling to hear an independent person, an outsider like Susan Rowe,
acknowledge that my writings, especially my English, are "impeccable" unlike
yours!

And, by the way, even today your "half-baked" Journalist was invited in
Reading to share his limited knowledge with the students there, but he
couldn't make it!

Well, let some of you continue to call me a "half baked" Journalist. The
Prophet Muhammed (SAW), as we all know, was initially rejected by his own
people, but, subsequently, he carried the day! My day will come!

Meanwhile, at least, I can find some comfort in the fact that while Salieu
Taal is calling me a "half-baked" Journalist, more and more outsiders are
recognising the potentials in the me and are in fact demanding to work with
me.

Susan Rowe being the latest person, apart from the late John Wiseman, to ask
the "half-baked journalist" to co-author two books with her; and, needless
to say, that project will soon start.

And again, thanks to Susan Rowe's benevolence, the necessary fund will be
obtained - through the Joseph Tree Foundation - for me to do my Doctoral
thesis this September! Inshallah!

May be, if I have the title of "Dr" added to my name, then people like
Salieu Taal, who has this mentality that ONLY Ph.D holders are academically
good, will soon give me the respect I deserve! (laugh!)

Ebrima Ceesay
Birmingham, UK

PS: Gambia-L: It always pays to be humble/modest, but when people keep
pushing you against the world, one is obliged to be act immodestly!

Dr Janneh: Thanks for clarification on the Omar Bongo/Jammeh e-mail my
source sent me yesterday!
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