Very typical how of our leaders takes the law into their own hands. If only one criticism result to an expulsion of a committee member, I wonder what they would have done to people that openly criticize them if they were in power? God bless the Gambia.
Momodou Krubally (Seattle)
Beran jeng wrote:Juwara Finally Expelled From UDP
The Independent (Banjul)
August 26, 2002
Posted to the web August 26, 2002
Banjul
The protracted tirade within the United Democratic Party between its leader,
Ousainou Darboe and National Organising Secretary, Lamin Waa Juwara has
finally reached a climax with the expulsion of Waa Juwara from the party.
The decision to expel him from the party was reached at a meeting by the
party's Central Committee Thursday 22 August, which was boycotted by Juwara
himself. In a press release to that effect, which is reproduced below, the
committee explained the rationale behind the decision to expel Juwara from
the party:
The Central Committee of the United Party (UDP) met on Thursday 22nd August
2002, at the Party Secretariat following the spate of persistent attacks and
diatribe leveled against the Party and its leadership by Mr. Lamin Waa
Juwara, National Organising Secretary of the Party.
The Central Committee expressed serious concern over the failure of Mr.
Juwara to attend this very important gathering, comprising of Area and
Constituency Chairmen, Female and Youth Wings, constituency- sponsored
candidates, and National Executive members, to formally present any matter
concerning any aspect of the Party, for discussion. In this case, the
Central Committee of the Party is the best forum to propose removals,
investigations or any disciplinary action resulting from improper behaviour
or conduct of any executive member including the Secretary General.
The failure of Mr. Juwara to attend the scheduled meeting, to which, like
all members of the Committee, he was invited as National Organising
Secretary, and raise issues and matters of serious concern to him about the
welfare of the party, and the way and manner the affairs of the party are
being administered, raises questions about his seriousness. Internal party
affairs should be discussed internally within the various organs of the
party i.e. the National Executive, Central Committee, or the National
Congress. The fact that Mr. Juwara decided to talk to the press rather than
to members of the various organs of the party raises suspicions of his
motives for a different agenda.
Having considered that Mr. Juwara, being the architect who spear headed the
party boycott of the National Assembly and Local Government elections,
ostensibly based on his investigations and findings as National Organizing
Secretary, about he registration of aliens and the manipulations of the
Independent Electoral Commission, the Central Committee felt disappointed
that Mr. Juwara should now unashamedly attribute the boycott to "lack of
funds" especially when he knew that the party had paid all the deposits for
the candidates. Some candidates were, as a matter of fact, prepared to pay
their own deposits as independents. It is a known fact that some parties
require their candidates to pay their own deposits. Lack of funds was
therefore not the issue at all. Mr. Juwara as the party's officer in charge
of political affairs, convinced the executive to boycott the elections.
If Mr. Juwara is serious about the so-called revelations and assertions that
he made about the boycott, he should show his true colour by endorsing the
outcome of the presidential elections and stop attacking the UDP leadership
for congratulating Jammeh.The Central Committee regards these two
contradictory views held by Mr. Juwara as dishonest and devoid of integrity
and concluded after lengthy discussions, that the National Organising
Secretary has a hidden agenda to destroy the party and all it stands for
locally and internationally. Consequently, the Central Committee made the
following decisions:
That Mr. Lamin Waa Juwara be expelled from the United Democratic Party;
2. That the National Executive be given the mandate to fill the post of
National Organising Secretary, made vacant by the expulsion of Lamin Waa
Juwara;
3. That Mr. Femi Peters, Campaign Manager, will handle the responsibilities
attached to the post of National Organising Secretary until a substantive
officers is appointed by the National Executive Committee
The Central Committee renewed its trust and confidence in the Secretary
General and Party Leader of the party, Lawyer Ousainou Darboe and pledged
its total commitment to the achievements, under his leadership, of ideals
and objectives of the party for a better and more prosperous Gambia as set
out in the party's constitution and manifesto. Finally, the Central
Committee called on all party militants and sympathisers to stand firm
behind the party Leader and not to be detracted from the present woes of the
country, by cankerworms crawling from within the party woodwork.
Long live the United Democratic Party
Long live The Gambia
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