A correction,

Pap Che has never been a member or an active member of Moja.

For Freedom
Saiks
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From: Amadou Drammeh <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:44 PM
Subject: Pap Cheyassin fired!!!


> Culled from Pan Africa News.
>
>
> The Gambian government Tuesday announced the dismissal of Pap Cheyassin
> Secka from his post as Attorney General and Secretary of state for
Justice,
> barely one year after his appointment, official sources said in Banjul.
>
> Joseph Henry Joof, who is president of the Gambia bar association,
replaces
> Secka with immediate effect.
>
> Though the office of the President did not give reasons for Secka's
sacking,
> political analysts believe it has to do with the controversy that has been
> rocking the Gambian judiciary under Secka's leadership.
>
> The recent confusion generated by the report of the commission of inquiry
> and coroner inquest unveiled to the public by Secka last Friday, is
believed
> to be the straw that broke the camel's back.
>
> Pap Cheyassin Secka, 59, a lawyer and political scientist, formed the
> National Liberation Party in 1975, and became very active in the Movement
> for Justice in Africa or MOJA in its heydays in 1979.
>
> He was arrested in 1981 for an alleged involvement in a coup attempt and
> subsequently sentenced to death in 1982. The sentence was later commuted
to
> life imprisonment.
>
> Following his release by the defunct government of Dawda Jawara in 1991,
> Secka returned to private practice.
>
> He was also the lawyer of the ruling APRC government until March 2000 when
> he was appointed to be attorney General and secretary of state for
justice.
>
> In an interview a month after his appointment last year, Secka had said:
"I
> have always believed that every adversity has in it, the seed of an
> equivalent advantage. My motto has always been 'a quitter never wins and a
> winner never quits'".
>
> "If tomorrow the president decides to change me, it is probably because he
> has found somebody else more capable than I am".
>
>
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