Hi Ebrima,
I read the reactions of  Mr. Tall's  so -called Lawyer. I reallly do not
know how some people can call themselves lawyers when they do not know how
to practice the rudioments of the profession outside the examination hall (
if at all they go thourt it). His claims were baseless. A lawyer as we know
its relies on facts to justify his argument but Mr. Tall' Attorney fails to
do so. He went on condemning you without an substance.
Do not worry about him. We all know the truth and we are not childish enough
to accept the showiness of an empty, LLB ,MAS, braggart.
We are are on your side. Keep up the good work yourare doing and kindly
extend my best wishes to your Sources in Gambia!

Regars,
Mamau Tage
Hamburg



>From: Ebrima Ceesay <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Another Ebou Taal's son reacts!
>Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 12:15:33 GMT
>
>Salieu Taal:
>
>Before I attempt to shatter your baseless allegations into pieces, I must
>warn you now, that if this is the kind of shallow analysis, or flimsy
>writing you are going to be rendering us, especially with all the
>credentials added to your name, I'll have no choice except to ask
>Buckingham
>University to revoke the Law Degree conferred on you forthwith. And I mean
>it!
>
>Believe me, Sal, next time you send me this sort of woolly, quibble and
>muddled writing, I'll send a copy of it to Buckingham and ask them whether
>this is the sort of narrow and smattering analysis/writing they are
>teaching
>their students.
>
>I'll make it clear to the Rector at Buckingham University that if they do
>not want their reputation as one of the leading Universities in England to
>be tarnished, then they must ask you, Salieu, to go back to school and do
>some serious reading!!
>
>Honestly, Salieu, being an alumnus of Buck - a very expensive private
>University for that matter - but, more significantly, given all the
>credentials/titles ( LLB; MA ) attached to your name, I had expected you to
>come up with something mature, tangible, ungarbled and well-thought-out!
>
>But just like your Sister's trash the other day, yours too was childish -
>very immature to say the least - empty and, of course, full of distortions.
>What a shame! Sal, believe me, with all your bluff, I swear I CAN put you
>in
>a classroom and teach you - having regard to the trash you just sent me.
>
>How can a lawyer, or someone with a Law Degree like you, deliberately tell
>lies or distort the facts? Who told you that I was the one who wrote the
>Story about your Dad in the Daily Observer? Even your punk sister, Fatou
>Taal, did know that "Alieu Badara Sowe had written the story" in question,
>except that she, Fatou, had lied that I had asked Alieu Badara Sowe to
>write
>the story.
>
>Anyway, let me now move to the issue. Salieu, among other things, you
>wrote..."Ebrima, I am shocked by your unwarranted and unsubstantiated
>attack
>on my father...You ought not write any story on the basis of hearsay or
>undisclosed sources... My father never came to the UK neither was he
>declared Persona Non Grata...Your report was factually unsound and inspired
>by spite"...
>
>Sal, these cited quotations from your e-mail, are very misleading and
>unfounded to say the least - wrongly insinuating that I wrote the Daily
>Observer story - and in fact if you do not withdraw them forthwith, I'll
>write a pamphlet on your mediocrity and expose to the whole world, what a
>man of straw you are!!!
>
>Let me now put things in perspective for you, in order to set the record
>straight, but also to expose you as a buffoon and a crank!
>
>** The first point to note, Salieu, is that the story on your Dad, or in
>question, was written by Alieu Badara Sowe, who is an assistant editor at
>the Observer and it was the very Observer he works for that carried the
>article.
>
>** Question: How did I get into this whole saga?
>
>** Now, Salieu, read this very carefully: One of my sources in Banjul sent
>me an e-mail, where he had said that his Secretary had phoned his mobile
>when he was at a meeting in Yundum, and told him that one of the newspapers
>had a headline, saying that "Ebou Taal was declared Persona non Grata by
>the
>UK government."
>
>** And later on, when my source finally got copies of his newspapers, he
>sent me another e-mail - which I forwarded to the L - disclosing, first of
>all, that it was the Observer that reported the Ebou Taal story, adding
>also
>that according to the article, Ebou Taal apparently travelled to London,
>but
>was given 48 hours to leave the UK.
>
>** Subsequently, the Daily Observer realised that the story was unfounded
>and, as a result, they retracted it with an unreservedly written apology to
>your Dad.
>
>** And, needles to say, in keeping with the ethics of good journalism,
>Tombong Saidy - and later on my very self - forwarded the retraction in the
>Daily Observer, to the L, except that in my own posting to the L, I made a
>comment/observation to the effect, that it was "untrue" for the Government
>to have said, through the Daily Observer, that your Dad was "never
>convicted
>for embezzlement." Because the record shows that your Dad was indeed
>convicted for embezzlement!
>
>So, Sal, where did I go wrong? Or better yet, who told you, or where on
>earth did they say that I wrote the article in question? Yes, the person
>who
>authored the story about your Dad, Alieu Badara Sowe, just like you, is
>someone I know very well, but if he had contacted me before hand, he
>wouldn't have written such a wrong and hasty story.
>
>I would have given him all the facts he needed to know regarding the
>decision by Yaya Jammeh to appoint/nominate your Dad as Gambia's
>ambassador-designate to the UK and, more significantly, the disapproval of
>your Dad's nomination by the UK government.
>
>But, the truth of the matter, Salieu, is that I have not been in any form
>of
>contact with the Daily Observer since Kenneth Best sold it to Amadou Samba
>over a year ago. And, in fact, the last time I spoke with Alieu Badara Sowe
>was in the Gambia in 1996!
>
>So, Salieu, where is the evidence that I wrote the article on your Dad?
>You've really let me down academically/intellectually! Sincerely speaking,
>I
>had thought that you were better than this - on the whole you are nothing
>but a lightweight, a froth, a pipsqueak!!
>
>And, surprisingly, at your level, you do not even write English well, your
>grammar was disappointing to say the least! Boy, if I was lucky - many
>years
>ago - to have the African Development Bank pay for my University Education,
>as they did for you all these years, believe me, I could have been one of
>your lecturers at Buck!
>
>You call me "half-baked." Me! In fact, Susan Rowe on Gambia L, who trains
>teachers at Reading University, and who also wrote about 5 books, had to
>laugh at your claims - the whole of yesterday - that I, Ebrima Ceesay, have
>"half-baked, haphazard and dubious educational background"...
>
>Well, except something is wrong with Susan Rowe (Laugh) but anyway it was
>consoling to hear an independent person, an outsider like Susan Rowe,
>acknowledge that my writings, especially my English, are "impeccable"
>unlike
>yours!
>
>And, by the way, even today your "half-baked" Journalist was invited in
>Reading to share his limited knowledge with the students there, but he
>couldn't make it!
>
>Well, let some of you continue to call me a "half baked" Journalist. The
>Prophet Muhammed (SAW), as we all know, was initially rejected by his own
>people, but, subsequently, he carried the day! My day will come!
>
>Meanwhile, at least, I can find some comfort in the fact that while Salieu
>Taal is calling me a "half-baked" Journalist, more and more outsiders are
>recognising the potentials in the me and are in fact demanding to work with
>me.
>
>Susan Rowe being the latest person, apart from the late John Wiseman, to
>ask
>the "half-baked journalist" to co-author two books with her; and, needless
>to say, that project will soon start.
>
>And again, thanks to Susan Rowe's benevolence, the necessary fund will be
>obtained - through the Joseph Tree Foundation - for me to do my Doctoral
>thesis this September! Inshallah!
>
>May be, if I have the title of "Dr" added to my name, then people like
>Salieu Taal, who has this mentality that ONLY Ph.D holders are academically
>good, will soon give me the respect I deserve! (laugh!)
>
>Ebrima Ceesay
>Birmingham, UK
>
>PS: Gambia-L: It always pays to be humble/modest, but when people keep
>pushing you against the world, one is obliged to be act immodestly!
>
>Dr Janneh: Thanks for clarification on the Omar Bongo/Jammeh e-mail my
>source sent me yesterday!
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