Cousin,
You pounced on this too quickly. I bet if this was UDP you and your mates
on the other side of the pond - Suntu, Bamba et al, would've waited for a
response from the second party before jumping to conclusion. I suggest you
wait for hamat's response before accusing.... Hamat is a gentleman, a
leader of a coalition, and deserve your respect.

On Monday, June 25, 2012, Haruna <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We love you Owens!!! True to form you followed Hon. Hamat's expeditions
and shared your findings with us. I thank you immensely.
>
> I knew there was more to the Mansea Beach Hotel V. Hamat story than meets
the eye, including Hon. Hamat's rank incompetence. I was disappointed in
him when he insisted on the Deyda Hydara murder story but dropped the ball
when he sensed Yahya's discomfort with him. Ever since then, we never heard
anything from Hon. Hamat on the Deyda story. Guess what time he formerly
abandoned Deyda.
>
> It is malignant to any democracy for a citizen politician to undertake
the management of a corporation owned exclusively by foreign citizens. This
goes for any nation. It is partly what led to the sabotage of the Emirattic
nation by deliberate erosion of its economy and propaganda for her
bankruptcy. I am pleased Dubai led the way for the Emirates' full and
resounding recovery.
>
> This matter between the Nigerian investors and Hon. Hamat was a symbiotic
relationship. The identity of the investors will help to explain that
further. Of course they are justified in removing Hon. Hamat from the
management of their enterprise if indeed Hon. Hamat was going around
presenting himself as the owner or for misappropriating funds but they had
chosen Hon. Hamat because among a couple other reasons, they wanted to
support and invest in Hon. Hamat's political career. That is what was more
insidious about the affair. We noticed Hon. Hamat's erratic behavior during
the 2011 opposition negotiations but that was because his job and prestige
at the hotel was threatened. And Yahya had a hand in that. He scared Hamat
straight. Hon. Hamat's political career rested on the prestige associated
with his job at Mansea Beach Hotel and nothing else. The "Nigerian
investors" were also aware of Hon. Hamat's misrepresentations to his
partisans since 2005 but as long as one prestige begat another, they
thought that misrepresentation was actually valuable in the bottom line of
Mansea Beach so they were all too eager to ignore hon. Hamat's moral
shortcomings. It was a matter of existential proportions for Hon. Hamat and
the NRP afterall.
>
> Very strange indeed. It is interesting to note that the Gamcotrap-2 case
is very similar to the Mansea case in that you have a foreign investor
accusing a Gambian citizen manager of funds but the investor accuses the
citizen manager of misappropriation of funds or mismanagement of funds. In
the Gamcotrap-2 case, the state expends taxpayer funds in prosecuting our
fellow citizens. I wonder what happens in the Mansea case. These are some
of the reasons democracy abhors these kinds of arrangements whether it is
direct funding by a foreign non-profit or for-profit investors. All foreign
investment in a nation must be conducted through the nation's duly-elected
government. If you're incompetent or criminal however, it is very easy to
misunderstand democracy or ignore its fundamental values.
>
> I wanted to say more on this Owens but it is frankly not worth my
valuable time. However, we have not seen the end of this because there are
some liabilities yet to be paid, liabilities to the state and the Gambian
people. No wonder Hon. Hamat promised the women of Gambia that if they
voted for him, he will send them all off to Dubai for bisnayss. The
Emirattis were beisde themselves when they heard that little 'ol Gambia was
planning to sabotage their economy once again. And the women Hon. Hamat was
speaking to at the time could be forgiven for believing Hon. Hamat's
cacamayme promisory. What with him being the full and unique owner of
Mansea Beach Island Resort???
>
> Great investigative journalism by the Standard newspaper Owens. They
deserve a pulitzer of sorts for this. I will suggest The GDP initiate a
pulitzer prize for such due-diligence for democracy by journalists of our
ROP. Let me know what you think of that idea Owens when you think about it.
>
> Haruna. Ky, don't even think about it. This is serious business here.
Women!!!!!!!!! I hope you hadn't packed your bags for Dubai had you???????
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sanusi Owens <[log in to unmask]>
> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Mon, Jun 25, 2012 5:22 am
> Subject: [G_L] HAMAT BAH ON THE SPOT LIGHT
>
> Nigerians slam Hamat over hotel 'mismanagement'
> 24/06/2012 20:48:00 Wurra Bah
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> The representatives of the owners of Mansea Beach Hotel, Kololi, have
accused hotelier-cum-politician, Hamat Bah, of mismanagement.
> Speaking to The Standard yesterday, Barrister Markus Engha said Mr Bah
was removed as general manager of the hotel in January and now replaced by
Buba Drammeh.
> “Mansea Beach Hotel is owned by some Nigerian investors who bought the
place in 2004. The company is registered here in The Gambia and the
directors are all Nigerians, but the business was let to a Gambian by the
name of Hamat Bah to manage in trust from 2004. On 27 January 2012, the
business was taken from him. Over the period he mismanaged the business and
it was at a point of collapse. That was when we were approached. We are a
group of investors in hotel management. We were approached by the owners of
Mansea Beach to intervene and invest in the business here in The Gambia.
Hamat Bah came to Nigeria with a bunch of papers to negotiate our
investment in the hotel. He does not own a single share in the hotel. Over
the years, he has been the manager of the hotel. According to the owners,
he has not been sending remittances of the money he gets from the business.
The only excuse he takes is that he is ploughing the money into the hotel
to renovate it and pay government taxes and all that. But when we went half
way into our negotiation with the owners, we came to The Gambia in February
this year to verify the list of liabilities. We found that the hotel owed
Social Security and staff salaries were in arrears for twelve months. We
have to step in to see how we could settle all these outstanding
liabilities. Amazingly, another assessment from the Tax Commission which
was not even disclosed to us states that the hotel owed government taxes in
the region of thirty-five million dalasis! We have learnt that the general
perception in The Gambia is that Hamat Bah is the owner of Mansea Beach
Hotel. Secondly, we have also learnt that Hamat Bah has gone to the media
to say he has brought in a group of investors from Nigeria to rescue
Mansea. Thirdly, we have found that over the years, he has badly managed
the business. These are issues we feel we need to address because if we
don't, our investment in The Gambia will be at risk. We want the general
public to know that Hamat Bah does not own Mansea Beach Hotel. Mansea Beach
Hotel is owned by Mansea Beach Company Limited in Nigeria, and all the
directors are Nigerians. We have registered our company here in The Gambia
called Global Village Suites Limited. We are now the managers of Mansea
Beach Hotel. We are specialised in general hotel management. We have
finally taken over Mansea Beach and we are renovating it. We have put in a
huge amount of money and we don't want to risk it. We also don't want the
general public to have the perception that Hamat Bah owns the business; he
is completely out of the business. We have appointed an acting general
manger, Mr Buba Drammeh. With Buba, we intend to do other things to clean
the business so that our investment will be safe,” Barrister Marcus Engha
alleged
>
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