GOOD MORNING, MR.PRESIDENT,DAILY OBSERVER TRYING TO SET GAMBIA/SENEGAL ABLAZE!!!
  Good morning, Mr. President, 
  Provocation they say, could lead to anything. We do not know what your errand boys at the Daily Observer are up to. Dr. Taal and his drunkard crew have started again by trying to provoke neighboring Senegal. Yes, the Senegalese High Commissioner was named by the alleged coup suspects. But what is the big deal here? What is the Observer trying to achieve to provoke Senegal? Mr. President, tell your friends at the Observer that if they don’t love The Gambia, we do. The issue at hand requires matured journalism and not the type of irresponsible junk journalism spearheaded by Saja Taal and Mam Sait Ceesay.
  
  SAJA TAAL TRYING TO BURN THE GAMBIA
  AND SENEGAL
  Mr. President, The Gambia stands to lose if we have differences with Senegal. We all know what the border impasse cost our country. Economic activities were brought to complete halt with the poverty stricken Gambians at the receiving end. Saja and co should minimize the weed smoking before they set the two countries ablaze. Does it make any sense to attack Senegal, when the government, you are busy marketing to the outside world is appealing to Dakar to hand over coup suspect Ndure Cham? Saja Taal, Mam Sait, down to the editor of this disgraceful paper should be sacked with immediate effect. Lamin Cham was sacked because of the border impasse story ran by the Observer. Here again, we are seeing Taal and his crew hell bent on provoking violence. 
  Mr. President, the observer is doing disservice to The Gambia and your very government. Their recent editorial will no doubt jeopardize relationship between The Gambia and Senegal. Perhaps, they wanted you to go back and nil before Wade and apologized to him for your recent accusations against his government. The Observer will do a great respect to itself and readers if it observes the rights and liberties of Gambians and non Gambians alike. 
  
  Hear the Observer in this write up “As much as we would like to give the Senegalese High Commission the benefit of the doubt, their apathy is antithetical to what we expect of them, as brothers and sisters, to do in these strange circumstances. They should, for their own good, issue a statement to refute Mr. Jasseh's allegation if they consider it to be spurious; otherwise, the general impression already being held about them is uncomplimentary and could be irredeemable. To further clear their name, the Senegalese Government should do its utmost to help capture the fugitive who is said to have taken refuge in the Casamance, Senegal. We would like to see a practical demonstration by our Senegalese brothers and sisters of our unique bilateral ties in these trying times.” 
  Mr. President, silent they say is golden. The Observer need to do more investigative journalism to find out why Senegal is no speaking out at this hour. The observer need to get its facts right, before throwing stone at a neighbor’s house. Mr. President, we know you owned the Observer and its staff are answerable to your office. We are in a crisis situation and we expect your errand boys to be responsible in the way they coordinate their misinformation materials. 
  Mr. President, Ndure Cham’s whereabouts is suspending in the air. While others feared him dead, your government says Cham is in Senegal. But your claim is yet to be collaborated by the Senegalese government. Cham was not a small man in the army. His disappearance should be of interest to Gambians and the world at large. We expect the Observer to be asking you questions about Ndure’s whereabouts and not the Senegalese failure to react to the coup. 
  Mr. President, we do not want to hold brief for President Wade, but the man is a true democrat to the core. He believes in democracy. We will be very, very shocked if the allegations being peddled against his government contains any iota of truth. Remember, Senegal was one of the countries on the sub-region to be named as a role model for democracy. Wade, an African statesman will not mortgage his democratic achievements overnight. It is suicidal for the Observer and your government to blindly buy the stories of the coup suspects without thorough verifications from those named. Give the Senegalese authorities the right to be heard. Never rush on serious issues of this nature. 
  Mr. President, by the way what happened to your unfinished overseas trips? Bahaanadal. It great to hear from your spokesman that your future trips had been cancelled until further notice. Don’t get me wrong, this info was not from Omar Fye, but somebody close to corridors of power. During this period our economy will recover little bid, because we all know the foreign exchange involved to facilitate such trips. 
  Mr. President, Dr.Taal or intellectual prostitute Taal need to be cautioned before he will burn the two countries. Once a drunkard always a drunkard. By the time Taal and his crew knew the damage they caused to the two countries, it is already late. If they cannot give up smoking and drinking then they should minimize it. Journalism is a noble profession. 
  Drug users should exercise some degree of patriotism and responsibility before they burn the two countries. We need drug free people in the Gambian media and not crack heads like dude Taal and co. Have a great day, Mr. President. 
    
Posted on Saturday, April 01, 2006 (Archive on Monday, May 22, 2006)
Posted by PANDERRYMBAI  Contributed by PANDERRYMBAI
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