This is indeed a jubilation for the opposition. Pap like all those
intellectual prostitutes, your days are near. The dictator will use you and
release you to your enemies in the opposition. We will forever remain
strong. The dirimo cannot intimidate us. Only the ignorant and the selfish
will sell themselves to lunatic yahya.
Naphiyo,
Comrade ML Jassey-Conteh
------Original Message------
From: Saikou Samateh <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: January 31, 2001 3:24:41 PM GMT
Subject: Re: Pap Cheyassin fired!!!
A correction,
Pap Che has never been a member or an active member of Moja.
For Freedom
Saiks
----- Original Message -----
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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