EX-Daily Observer MD Halake Calls Sheriff Bojang A Nonsensical Boy!!!!

Halake Takes Issue With Bojang, Amadou Samba and others

Sheriff has said so many bad stuff about Baba Jobe-A Man who helped him get a job at the National Assembly and also as Observer Editor-in-chief, said Halake in this disturbing dispatch to the Freedom Newspaper.

…“ I do not think I should really be bothering to reply to his recent nonsense in Freedomnewspaper.com. You at Freedom and other readers are quite capable of taking Sheriff’s garbage apart and you have done that over the years. Nevertheless, I believe that mud-throwers should be challenged at every opportunity,.”Halaki posited. 

London Letter: Oh, God! It’s my Uncle Sheriff Bojang again …

Sheriff Bojang is a gifted poet/writer, but a small boy in all senses of the word when it comes to politics and I do not think I should really be bothering to reply to his recent nonsense in Freedomnewspaper.com. You at Freedom and other readers are quite capable of taking Sheriff’s garbage apart and you have done that over the years. Nevertheless, I believe that mud-throwers should be challenged at every opportunity.

This boy was the MD & Editor-in-Chief supported by none other than the paper’s owner, the almighty Amadou Samba, and yet he blames his sacking on amongst others “b-----d Hamidou Baldeh”! The first thing Dida Halake did when he took over the Daily Observer in 2007 was sack Hamidou Baldeh on the spot. Even phone calls from Speaker FJC and DPPR JT Kujabie could not change my mind on that. Why couldn’t the brave and mighty Sheriff Bojang do it in the three years at the helm of the Daily Observer? Later of course the IGP undertook an investigation into matters that I put before him (which partly led to my sacking – but as I said it to my Deputy MD “I either do it my way or get sacked. I didn’t expect to be arrested though!).

Sheriff’s warning or threats (is he speaking on behalf of somebody?) are well taken, but if he thinks that is going to sway me in anyway he is very mistaken. The Gambia is the motherland of my three beautiful children – children who are as Gambian as Sheriff and his benefactor. If Sheriff or anyone else thinks that I will stop having my children’s (and The Gambia’s) interests at heart because of threats of imprisonment or death then they are sourly mistaken. I am afraid that The Gambia and my Gambian-in-laws (as you all Gambians are!) are stuck with me.

So Sheriff thinks that President Jammeh runs The Gambia like “JammehKunda”? Did Sheriff tell him that all the time he was at the helm of the Daily Observer? What about the wide variety of Jammeh’s Government which includes Sheriff’s own “father” as a Senior Chief? (He is actually his UNCLE so Sheriff has to join the back of the Q if he wants to claim the Princedom of Brikama!). More importantly, did we ever see or hear from Sheriff that “democratic” President Bush ran the US Government like his own TEXAS RANCH? You have heard that from me many times. And what is all this about President Jammeh’s legacy being “education, education, education”? This was the stupid electioneering slogan of Tony Blair in 1997 and Bliar failed! President Jammeh will be remembered for three POSITIVE things: 1. The University of The Government, 2. The transport infrastructure, 3. The Health Sector and above all 4. Agriculture, Agriculture, Agriculture. The NEGATIVE thing, which President Jammeh himself acknowledges when he refers to himself as “Dictator for Development” is in the area of Human Rights. But how many African Presidents fail miserably on ALL the 4 fronts?

I think, as many have said to Sheriff, what he needs to do is either concentrate on poetry for which he has a gift; or when he wants to talk about politics to stop bull-shitting people and address the nitty-gritty directly – which Pa Mbai does (even though at times I don’t agree with the way he does it!). For example, if you wanna talk about Baba Jobe (the man who gave you, Sheriff, the job at Parliament when he was Assembly Leader and gave you the job as the Daily Observer Chief when he was on the Board) mention his name – don’t say “a politician in prison”. I am proud to say Baba Jobe was Dida Halake’s friend as he was Sheriff Bojang’s. The difference is that he remains my friend and I have kept in touch with his family. You, on the other hand, wrote “an essay” called “Rasputin” condemning him as soon as he was arrested … I don’t condemn anyone who has fed me, no matter who he falls out with (or no matter who tells me to do so!).

Anyway, I am busy now, so I will sign off. Have a nice day, “My Uncle”!