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Subject: [>-<] Darboe Hits Back At Juwara - Describes Allegations As
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From: "THE POINT NEWSPAPER" <[log in to unmask]>
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Darboe Hits Back At Juwara -
Describes Allegations As Malicious
The United Democratic Party leader, Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, has described
the allegations levelled against him by Mr. Lamin Waa Juwara, the party
Propaganda Secretary, as malicious and absolutely false.
Mr. Darboe who broke his long silence to the BBC Focus On Africa last
Friday on Mr. Juwara's continued attacks, allegations and call on him to
resign for misusing party funds among others, told the BBC that he does
not want to involve himself in any unedifying debate and personally
attacks adding that anytime Mr. Juwara gather few boys under his mango
tree, he begins to make such allegations.
When asked by BBC whether he uses the party's fund to clear up his taxes
in order to qualify to contest the last October presidential elections,
Mr.Darboe replied saying that he and the members of his family sold their
landed property, raised the monies to pay up. "I didn't, I did not take
any money. Infact, I have been spending my own personal funds in keeping
this party running," Mr. Darboe told the BBC. Darboe added, "but why
should I disclose to anybody. Infact, if it was not this allegations by
him I would never disclose to the Gambian people the extend that I have
gone in discomforting myself, discomforting my family by depriving them
from their landed property just to satisfy the Gambian people."
On Juwara's call for him to resign as the party leader, Mr. Darboe
replied that if Mr. Juwara didn't agree with how the party is under his
leadership, then he should resign from the party on principles. He cited
examples in Cameroon and Kenya whose deputies left and formed their own
parties. "So, if he feels that things are being placed wrongly under my
leadership, then he should resign, I think that is the right thing he
should do."
It could be recalled that the propaganda secretary of the UDP, Lamin Waa
Juwara recently, called on the UDP Party leader Lawyer Ousainou Darboe to
resign on the conditions that he conceded defeat at the last
presidential elections and that he Darboe used the party's fund to pay
up his taxes in order to qualify to contest the October Presidential
pools. However, Darboe remained mute over the issue until last Friday
when he granted an interview to the BBC.
© 2002 The Point Newspaper, P.O Box 66 Banjul, The Gambia [August 19,
2002]
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There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see,
yet small enough to solve (Mike Leavitt)
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