I don't think anybody could have said more Prince. It's time to move on to higher grounds. Let the saga continue. Long live The Gambia, "Short Leave Kanilai"! >From: Prince Obrien-Coker <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Response to Fatou Taal >Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:56:00 +0200 > >Mr. Alieu Badara Sowe, > >I honestly believe that you are now adding insult to injury. I was of the >conviction that your article was taken out of context, but you are now >proving me wrong. As a journalist you should not involve in character >assassinations and conspiracies to discredit peoples name. You said in your >piece that the criminal conviction of Ebou Taal is "public knowledge". My >question to you is: If it is "public knowledge", what is the ... point of >publishing it, in the first place? Where is that "Sutura" we used to have >for each other? Is a "scoop" more valuable that that? You are a journalist >of high esteem, please keep it so, and remember, personal attacks can >devalue your integrity. >One more thing. If you want to attack Fatou Taal, do it in another way and >not through the Gambia-L. She did not send anything regarding this issue to >the List. May I inform you that we have settled all differences regarding >this subject and we want to address some residents of Kaninlai. > >Prince Coker > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alieu Badara Sowe > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 3:28 PM > Subject: Response to Fatou Taal > > > 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 > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the >Gambia-L > Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------