Folks,

This is from the Independent.

Perhaps Mr. Juwara and the rest of the opposition should take advantage of the opportunity presented by Mr. Baldeh's appointment than insisting on charging Jammeh for defying Degree 89! 

Malanding



Charge Jammeh for defying Decree 89 
   Waa Juwara challenges IGP 

The United Democratic Party National Organising Secretary, Lamin Waa Juwara, has challenged the Inspector General of Police to charge President Jammeh for defying Decree 89 by appointing Bubacarr Baldeh as the deputy national mobiliser of the APRC. 

Lamin Waa Juwara made threw this challenge in an exclusive interview with The Independent at his Brikama residence recently. 

Mr. Juwara said it was unacceptable for the APRC to appoint Bubacarr Baldeh, a former cabinet minister in the ousted PPP regime, when Decree 89 was still in place. 

Decree 89, instituted during the transitional AFPRC military regime in 1996, bans former ministers of the PPP regime from participating in politics in The Gambia. 

Mr. Juwara said with Decree 89 still in place, it would be criminal for Buba Baldeh to campaign for the APRC. 

Mr. Juwara said despite President Jammeh's pronouncement that former PPP cabinet ministers were corrupt, he has now appointed one of these ministers to a senior position within the APRC. 

He said President Jammeh could not continue to draft the former PPP ministers into his party through the backdoor while Decree 89 was still in place. 

'Any law that is discriminatory is bad and should be rejected,' he said. 

Mr. Juwara also said Baldeh's appointment demonstrates that the APRC is not a credible political party. He said Buba Baldeh should be 'ashamed' to face the Gambian people and campaign for a regime that had condemned and banned his former party. He said if Buba Baldeh campaigns for the APRC regime, all parties and people affected by Decree 89 should also defy the ban and participate in the democratic process of the country. 

Mr. Juwara also advised former PPP ministers to seek a court order for the return of the banned party's properties including its headquarters in Banjul, the bureau in Brikama, a number of vehicles and bank accounts. 

Former minister of the ousted PPP government, Omar A. Jallow, earlier this year challenged Decree 89 in the High Court. The court dismissed the challenge, ruling that it had no jurisdiction to entertain the suit. 
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