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]>
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>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
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