Dampha,

I find this topic very interesting. I however would
like to ask few questions on the issue.

(1) Was Darboe a public officer when he apeared before
the Commission?
(2) As a lawyer are you supose to run after your
clients to prosecute their case especially when they
show little interest in it?
(3) This commission case Joof is now referring to...i
could remember covering it. I could remember also
Darboe saying to the commission that he processed all
the papers before the courts and what he was waiting
for from his clients was for them to give him the go
ahead as well as produce the witnesses. So in a
situation like this does a lawyer have to keep
pestering the jude and the courts especially  when the
 accusers have not come up with anything for their
lawyer to pursue?
(4) Another important question that i think should be
cleared is (though am not a lawyer)...when a stay of
execution is before a court can that same issue be
taken as a case against an accused or a litigant?

If all these questions can be properly answered then
we will i think get to the bottom of this case.
Because as far as i could remember(am not sure whether
is correct)..Darboe had appealed against the case.
But i will be very important too for Darboe himself to
clear the doubt. Am currently out of the country
covering events in Dakar and the neighbouring
countries so there is little info i can give on this
case but hopefully when i return God willing i will
check my records on this case.

E Sillah.






--- Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
Brother, I got to tell you that this is the biggest
> provocation I have seen
> so far in this election season. I NEVER thought that
> I will say that some
> one was ‘dumber’ than Yaya. But Joseph Joof has just
> broken a record. The
> irrational rattling coming from this man is simply
> mind-boggling. This is
> what the Gambian taxpayer got for giving Joseph Joof
> the opportunity to get
> a scholarship (during the Jawara regime) to go and
> study law in Britain at a
> time that daughters of cabinet ministers like
> Sheriff Sisay were denied
> scholarships. At least Yaya can say that he did NOT
> finish his education.
> All he got was what the ‘poor’ Jawara ‘education’
> could offer. Joof was
> given the BEST opportunities one can get. The vermin
> CANNOT say that his
> parents worked to put him in school in Britain. He
> used his connections in
> the Jawara regime to get a scholarship. This Wallace
> Grant he is citing
> played a part in who Joseph Joof is today.
>
> Like you said, this is the surest way the vermin can
> plunge our country into
> turmoil. Under no circumstances would these
> elections be stolen. Since the
> Opposition does not have an agenda and AFPRC/APRC
> does, I wonder why the
> cowards are so scared of a fair fight of agendas and
> ideas. Let Yaya run
> even though there are questions about his
> citizenship. We are NOT afraid of
> him. We know the vermin CANNOT be elected if he was
> running for class
> president in High School. All the AFPRC/APRC
> apparatus has is character
> assassination, hate, threats, and lies. Without
> their AK-47s, they are
> NOTHING.
>
> If they are NOT lying about Jawara, they are
> threatening people. If they are
> NOT lying about SM Dibba, they are trying to pit
> PDOIS against NRP or UDP.
> That’s all the vermin are good at. Check the
> Observer (the APRC mouthpiece)
> and see whether you will see plans about the future
> of our country. All you
> see is lies upon lies about SM Dibba, Dembo Bojang,
> ‘Jawara is coming home,
> let us hide under the beds’ and all sorts of silly
> tales. You go to GRTS,
> all you hear is ‘defections’. According to the
> morons, the whole country has
> ‘defected’ to the APRC. Yet they are scared to death
> to contest elections.
> Well, they just came up with the silliest one. Joof
> is now taking Yaya from
> the frying pan to the fire. Banning Darboe is far
> more catastrophic than
> banning the Decree 89 politicians. If they think
> that they were under some
> pressure to ‘un-ban’ the Decree 89 people, they have
> seen nothing yet.
>
> Joseph Joof has gone mad again.
> KB
>
>
>
> >From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing
> list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Joseph Joof and APRC Pulls another one
> >Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:24:55 EDT
> >
> >Now Joof and his paymaster, Jammeh, have really
> gone bonkers. Fancy now
> >spurrious charges/rulings by a kangaroo court that
> is illegal - by all
> >sense
> >of definition of that word - suffices to legally
> rule out Mr Darbo as the
> >Alliance's presidential candidate. Has the APRC
> leadership really thought
> >through the logical implications of what they are
> trying to hatch here?
> >Have
> >they considered the political impasse that will
> ensue when they try to
> >stymie
> >the Gambian people's peaceful and polite efforts -
> through democratic means
> >-
> >to ask Jammeh to go? Any astute political observer
> would not fail to
> >recognise the potentiality of Joof's declaration or
> veiled threat to the
> >Alliance to draw Gambia into the political
> territory of violence and
> >uncertainty. To avert such a scenario, the
> goofballs "running" our country
> >should stop using and or invoking these legalese
> subversions as a
> >masquerade
> >to force through their illegal political agenda.
> >
> >The APRC, still reeling from the after-effects of
> the Alliance's Brikama
> >rally, know fully well that if they don't go about
> subversively meddling
> >with
> >the electoral process, their days are definitely
> numbered; and the
> >countdown
> >may have well started last Sunday in Brikama. So
> they decided to get their
> >consiglieri -  i.e., a mafiosi legal adviser to
> make underhand tactics look
> >legal and normal - Joof to get to work on possible
> means to legally rule
> >out
> >the Alliance's endorsed candidature of Mr Darbo.
> They are in for a rude
> >shock
> >if they imagine they can subvert the Alliance's
> legitimate endorsement
> >candidature of Mr Darbo. For all that it is worth,
> if the APRC presses
> >ahead
> >with this legalese sleight of hand, the first
> consequence would be a
> >complete
> >disarray of the presidential elections; and from
> there, things can only go
> >downhill. I hope Joof was honest enough to tell
> that to his paymaster.
> >There
> >are no ifs, buts and maybes here: any legalese
> subversion that seeks to
> >undermine the Alliance's legitimate democratic
> pursuits, will result to a
> >complete political disengagement and in extension
> political choas. We are
> >talking about a total boycott of the elections if
> the APRC goes ahead with
> >its underhand tactics. There is no middle course
> here.
> >
> >As far as things go with the Alliance, i strongly
> recommend that this new
> >legalese nonsense from the APRC be given the
> contempt it deserves. This is
> >nothing but a legalese sleight of hand the APRC
> intends to invoke when the
> >going gets tough vis-a-vis the current presidential
> elections. The Alliance
> >ought to out come with a strong condemnation of
> this current legalese
> >sleight
> >of hand from the APRC and say that under no
> cirmcumstances would this
> >illegal
> >regime dictate to them how they pursue their
> inviolable democratic
> >freedoms.
> >It must be made unequivocally clear that no
> executive meddling of the
> >current
> >electoral process would be tolerated. The Alliance
> should never dither when
> >the APRC illegally try -  through its executive
> powers - to subvert the
> >political process: it must resolutely condemn such
> actions and or threats
> >and
> >appropriately deal with them. Which takes me to the
> question: since was
> >Joof
> >as AG empowered to police who is eligible and
> ineligible to stand for
> >elective office in the Gambia? I thought their
> toilet paper constitution
> >has
> >divested those powers away from the executive and
> they reside with the IEC?
> >Is Joof doing his homework these days? Signs of a
> man losing his grip?
> >
> >  Knowing fully that their goofball of a candidate
> - Jammeh - is going down
> >come October, the APRC resorts to these underhand
> political shenanigans to
> >subvert the wishes of the Gambian peoples. The
> Gambian peoples would under
>
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