Pa Nderry, I welcome and look forward to "your probe".  Boy what ever 
medication you're taking whether prescribed or otherwise is not in agreement 
with your mind.  It is this kind of mediocrity and buffoonery that is why 
some of you are never going to be taken seriously.  When you started this 
nonsense Coach was your target.  I brought other names to show you how silly 
you sound, you figured you switch to fabricate a lie about fraud.  It is 
also interesting you throw Fatou's name after I reveal to you that there are 
others working close with Jow, including Fatou.

Now, how did you miss to explain to Gambians how you all howl about Yaya's 
abuse of journalists, yet could not see the wisdom to form "your credible 
union", twelve years and continuing?  Yes, since 2005, that measly $50 is 
all you ever put in this.  The pledge was for $10 monthly, so you do the 
math, to date.  How then can you in good conscience ramble here about the 
GPU-USA is not funding this and that?  Think about it Nderry, why would 
someone that donated for your own betterment, turn around a take a dime from 
a church mouse?  Think boy, think!

You also asked who authorized me to receive donations for the GPU-USA, a 
dumb question, but none the less, one I will remind the peanut in you.  I 
was nominated and very reluctantly accepted to volunteer because none wanted 
to take the responsibility.  Just so you know, the money Banka collected on 
behalf of the media and the original media fund collection, which the donors 
kindly grandfathered was under my care.  So, if you wanted to host the funds 
in the interim while you register "your org." it was all yours, but you were 
and are still busy presenting your tabloid for a paper.

You also stated,

"This paper's editor Pa Nderry M'Bai once mailed a Bank of America Check of 
$50 Dollars to Sambou. M'Bai extended the financial help to GPU Gambia. This 
was the time when we received an appeal from  GPU Madi Ceesay to help the 
Gambia Press Union to pay its rent arrears. There are other Gambian 
journalists who mailed Checks to Joe Sambou. It's hypocritical and dishonest 
for anyone to suggest that Gambian journalists abroad are insensitive to the 
plight of their suffering colleagues in the Gambia."

I'm glad you did not lie about your $50, since 2005.  Everyone on the list 
serve knew how much was sent to GPU Gambia and Madi Ceesay knows how much he 
received, so I leave you with your baggage to haul around.  My friend the 
way you run your mouth on this issue, if you had put one tenth support 
financially, that would be more beneficial to your colleagues that are 
locked up indefinitely, on the ground.  And so, the joke is on you.

Oh, before I forget, you mentioned how easy it is to open an account for an 
unregistered org.  Well, that shows your ignorance on the subject.  Going 
back to your probe, for two years you did not see the need to fund GPU-USA, 
but you're pledging to finance a probe.  Again, a dumb view of things, but 
that is a sea you'll have to swim out of on your own.

"Joe would do a great justice to himself, GPU USA and Gambians  by 
surrendering financial records he reached, negotiated, collected or acted on 
behalf of the Union to its general membership for scrutiny."

Again, you are the clown you've become.  How do you "reach financial 
records"? How about "negotiating financial records"?  Mediocrity at its 
worse.  Please do not dissapoint the readership with your probe.

I still have not heard you to once say you and your side kicks will step up 
and do responsibility to yourselves.  For five years, this idea is crying to 
be adopted by the very people that asked for it.  Selfishness is what has 
suffocated it and will continue to suffocate it as long as the focus is on 
sideshow wars.

So Nderry, there you have it, and please do not disappoint me and not follow 
through with your probe.  Since you started this nonsense, how come none has 
come to join you in your buffoonery?  You seem to be speaking for the many, 
yet, none is standing next to you, I wonder why?  The rest of your 
colleagues have papers and can easily join the chorus, how come they are not 
also asking for a probe?  GPU Gambia is not joining you, what's the matter?  
I think your situation speaks for itself.  What a slime.  "Yow Nyorrulor.  
Lee Moi Toye Tiggi"

Chi Jaama

Joe




>From: Essau Gambia <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: GPU USA should be investigated! Joe Sambou, Jow and others should 
>tell us how much money they collected in the name of the union?
>Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:16:39 -0400
>
>Thanks Coach Jow for speaking your mind. We respect your views and we 
>expect
>you to reciprocate our stance. We have set the pace for sound, sincere and
>honest debate about the Union that never was. GPU USA's failure should not
>be buried under the carpet. We should talk about it. We don't mind to be
>damned  for exposing agents of "failures." Our only perceived crime is,
>speaking  out against people who are claiming to be representing Gambian
>journalists, when in actual fact, there is no serious organization put in
>place to carry out such a task. What Jow and co failed to realize is that
>it's healthy to have dissenting views within the rank and file of GPU USA.
>Exposing GPU USA'S "dirty leans" in public don't make one  to be an enemy 
>of
>the Organization. GPU USA, is not making any serious "progress." It has 
>been
>reduced as a " talk show" organization with or no serious long term plans
>designed to keep the organization running. The real GPU USA is yet to be
>born. This is not the type of organization we want for our journalists. An
>organization where its President can dictate who should succeed him without
>allowing the electoral process to take its cause. An organization, where
>there is no accountability and transparency. Since the inception of GPU 
>USA,
>there is no information available about monetary transactions reached in 
>the
>name of the organization to its general  membership. Here we need brother
>Joe Sambou to come up with progress report about the Union's latest
>financial records. This paper's editor Pa Nderry M'Bai once mailed a Bank 
>of
>America Check of $50 Dollars to Sambou. M'Bai extended the financial help 
>to
>GPU Gambia. This was the time when we received an appeal from  GPU Madi
>Ceesay to help the Gambia Press Union to pay its rent arrears. There are
>other Gambian journalists who mailed Checks to Joe Sambou. It's 
>hypocritical
>and dishonest for anyone to suggest that Gambian journalists abroad are
>insensitive to the plight of their suffering colleagues in the Gambia. What
>has Coach Jow contributed to bail out our Colleagues in the Gambia? We are
>curious to know. Perhaps, if Joe Sambo should hand over his records to 
>media
>houses, the truth would prevail at last.
>
>We are not alleging any financial impropriety at this hour, but for the 
>sake
>of transparency, we want GPU USA to be accountable to its membership. This
>would win the confidence of donors. Monies collected in the name of the
>Organization should be made public. As members of the Union, we cannot  
>tell
>if the Organization had a bank account and  where the collected funds are
>remitted to. This might sound weird, but the truth be told there is no
>transparency at GPU USA.
>
>Joe Sambou needs to clear himself from this mess, because as a Chartered
>accountant, he ought to know better. GPU USA should be in the position to
>open a Bank account in its name, but there is no account in the name of  
>the
>organization as far as we know. This exposes  how "weak and dormant"  its
>Executive is. There are banks in the US, which provides free  Bank accounts
>to interested customers. But GPU USA took the " back door route" by 
>allowing
>Sambou to collect monies on its behalf. Joe would do a great justice to
>himself, GPU USA and Gambians  by surrendering financial records he 
>reached,
>negotiated, collected or acted on behalf of the Union to its general
>membership for scrutiny.
>
>We can vividly recall when Fatou Jow Manneh wrote to Joe Sambou expressing
>the need for him to expedite the process to wire the collected funds to 
>Madi
>Ceesay. Madi privately wrote to Fatou enquiring the status of the
>fund-raising. Close $1000 dollars was collected. But up to this hour, there
>is no acknowledgement from GPU Gambia, as to how much money was wired by 
>GPU
>USA. There was also no news item published by Gambian papers, regarding the
>said funds extended to the parent body in the Gambia by Gambian journalists
>abroad. Jow cannot tell us that he is a "caretaker" President who allows 
>Joe
>Sambou to receive monies in the name of the union without his signature or
>blessing. By the way, who audits Joe Sambou? Joe reports to who?
>Under the circumstances, the best thing Jow, Sambou and whoever is involved
>in this mess to do,  is to submit themselves to "an independent probe." We
>at the Freedom Newspaper are prepared to help in terms of monetary and
>material needs to coordinate the said probe. There is absolute need to
>investigate GPU USA. We are interested to know the activities of these
>individuals since the formation of GPU USA. As journalists, we must 
>practice
>what we preach.
>
>We want to inform our good friend Pa Samba Jow that we don't need his
>permission to write about GPU USA. Our Editorial is the opinion of the 
>paper
>and we do not  need a third party to decide the content of our paper. As 
>the
>saying goes "Journalist Doumboka." Being our friend, don't make you immune
>from being criticize by Freedom. We tell the Gambian story as it unfolds.
>
>As intimated to you during our phone conversation, your press release came
>as a spam mail. Our server for some reasons could not allow it in. Thanks 
>to
>other sister papers, we read your "wild and unsubstantiated" allegations
>against our fine men and women of the press. This paper had in the past
>published your pieces and would continue to publish your pieces despite our
>dissenting views on issues. We hope our explanation would help in this
>regard.
>
>Finally, we want to reaffirm our call for Coach and co to steep down. It
>tantamount to doing disservice to one's community, when there is no serious
>leadership put in place to run GPU USA. Winning an election is a good 
>thing,
>but having the ability to deliver the goods is another thing. Since the
>current executive is not accountable to its membership,  it should step 
>down
>for now and allow investigators to probe their past activities. We hope our
>piece would be read in the sprit of unionism , transparency and
>accountability. We look for the day, when GPU USA would be accountable to
>its membership, donors and well wishers. We thank you for your attention.
>Peace.
>Posted on Saturday, June 23, 2007 (Archive on Monday, July 23, 2007)
>Posted by PNMBAI  Contributed by PNMBAI
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