24 Hours After Sacking Orders, Director Reinstated




The Independent (Banjul)

October 1, 2001
Posted to the web October 1, 2001

Banjul, the Gambia

All is certainly not well with The Gambia Radio and Television Services
(GRTS) as reports reaching The independent confirm that Tombong Saidy the
director general of the GRTS had been unceremoniously sacked, reinstated,
sacked and now reinstated!

His multiple marching orders came in the wake of an earlier letter to him,
ordering him to pack up. He was later reinstated.


This latest sacking came barely twenty-four hours after the first letter
last week Wednesday and an insider at the GRTS intimated to The independent
that his short-lived removal resulted from a deteriorating relationship
between him and Bakary Njie, board chairman of the GRTS over what was termed
as a conflict of interest.

The issue of the highly publicized but controversial Pajero raffle, which
was never announced was another theory connected by sources to Mr. Saidy's
troubles.

Meanwhile sources also revealed to The Independent that Mr. Saidy's
reinstatement was made possible through the personal intervention of the
vice president Isatou Njie-Saidy and Bora Mboge the GRTS programme manager
who declined to comment on the issue.

Tombong Saidy's who could not be reached for his own side of the story was
appointed as Gambia's Ambassador to the United States immediately after the
1994 coup, but was declared persona non grata by the US authorities four
years later.

He was later appointed deputy permanent secretary in the Office of the
President and later redeployed as deputy permanent Secretary at the
Department of Trade and Employment. He succeeded Ebrima Sagnia as GRTS
director.




_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L
Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html
You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask]
if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------