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Private Eye With Gambisara-Best wishes for x-mas and prosperous 2007
Saturday, December 23, 2006 (556 reads)

Best wishes for x-mas and prosperous 2007

By: Gambisara, Senior Manager.

On behalf of the management and staff of the Freedom Newspaper, I am honoured to convey to you all the seasons greetings and our best wishes for a merry x-mas and a happy and prosperous new year in advance.As we wish you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year, we know that there are thousands of people in our own country who suffer from poverty and deprivation which is not their fault. Thousands more without jobs and are forced to beg and depend on others for their livelihood, with all the negative consequences this has on their dignity as human beings. Many others are also sick, some of whom will succumb to preventable diseases. Contrary to our collective and fervent-wish, there are others who have been and will be exposed to crimes or violence of political nature. Others will continue to be exposed to humiliation and suffering as a result of calculated discrimination at the national level.

Breaking News:November 11 Coupists Planned To Kill Council Members And Their Families-Sana Sabally Alleges....
Saturday, December 23, 2006 (1160 reads)

Former junta Vice Chairman Sana Bairo Sabally is speaking out for the first time regarding the November 11 alleged abortive coup, which led to the execution of dozens of senior and junior army officers in the West African country. Sabally who is on self imposed exile in Senegal, in a dispatch claimed that the alleged coup plotters planned to kill AFPRC council members including their families in the event the coup went successful. Mr.Sabally who was alleged to have participated into the killing of members of Gambia's young and senior army officers implicated in the said coup commented"The plots against us [the Council (AFPRC)] on Friday 11 November, 1994 aimed at very dangerous things. They were not only foiled, but Allah’s wonderful working turned the tables, and brought good out of evil in each case. They tried to arrest, or injure or slay us and our families and our close bodyguards, but the wonderful example of our humility, perseverance, and fearlessness furthered the cause of the Council (AFPRC). They plotted to kill us, and Allah planned too. And Allah is the Best of planners. The plots of betrayers are known fully to Allah, and He can fully circumvent them if necessary, according to the fullness of His Wisdom.Can I ask you this simple question? What do you expect us to do- fold our arms and be herded to the gallows? " Below is the full statement of Sabally's piece. Please read on...

Three GAMTEL Directors Fired-Claims A Reader.....
Thursday, December 21, 2006 (1228 reads)

From:	<ANONYMOUS>		Date: Thursday, December 21, 2006 5:10 PM
To:	<editor@freedomnewspaper.com>
Subject:	Website FeedBack Submission
Attachments:	(none)	HTML \| Plain Text \| Header \| Raw Content

Hello GOOD Citizens, I was informed of a case in GAMTEL just this evening but am yet to confirm the truth. I heard that three (3) directors of GAMTEL namely Lamin Jagne, Bolagi Williams and Yusupha Jallow were served their marching out letters today from state house. Could you please find out from your correspondents in Banjul about this case and comment. Thank you. ANONYMOUS

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Breaking News:Newspaper Editor Escapes Death In Gambia!
Thursday, December 21, 2006 (871 reads)

Gambia ALERT: Newspaper editor attacked

Baron Eloagu, a Nigerian news editor of a Banjul-based privately-owned
newspaper the "Daily Express" newspaper was on December 10, 2006
violently attacked by four unknown assailants for allegedly writing
stupid things about the Gambia.

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) sources say on the night of
the incident, while Baron was on his way home from work, the attackers
numbering about four ambushed and subjected him to severe beatings.

The assailants fled with the personal belongings of the journalist.

Prof. Kwame Karikari
Executive Director
Tel: 233 21 242470
Fax: 233 21 221084

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Breaking News:Poverty Retards The Development of Our Continent-Says Julia Joiner!
Thursday, December 21, 2006 (837 reads)

By: Gambisara; Senior manager.

Following the human rights day celebrations worldwide, Madam Julia Joiner made a statement on the occasion onbehalf of the African Union. Gambisara contacted her in her AU office for an approval to publish the statement, which she approved. I will use this opportunity to advise President Jammeh and his APRC administration that the Freedom Newspaper does not harbour any grudge against them. We direct our comments on your administration because you are the political leaders and vested with the authority by the Gambian People to steer state matters. Please advise your cabinet to respond to members of the press to avoid rumors. Onbehalf of the Freedom Newspaper, I thank Madam Joiner for her cooperation and look forward to mutual cooperation in the future.

Below is her unedited statement:

MESSAGE OF H. E. MRS. JULIA DOLLY JOINER COMMISSIONER FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY (10TH DECEMBER 2006)

Fifty-eight years ago on December 10, 1948, The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations and called upon all Member Countries to publicise the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of counties or territories.”

The Dida Halake Controversy-Cherno Omar Barry Makes A Point....
Wednesday, December 20, 2006 (1064 reads)

By Cherno Omar BARRY

Pa Nderry please allow my comment on the Dida and Mohammed's issue on Jammeh. I just wish to inform both that we can most definitely have divergent views on the topic as well as support or not support Jammeh. I have been reading with keen interest the excellent postings by Dida in The Gambia particularly when a debate arises between him and Harmattan. There too he was able to defend a point by forwarding facts and figures.

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A TRIBUTE TO THE BEST DAD EVER-Deyda Hydara's Daughter Speaks!
Wednesday, December 20, 2006 (894 reads)

A TRIBUTE TO THE BEST DAD EVER

BY MARIE HYDARA JOHN

It’s 24mths today since your coward killers thought they have succeeded in silencing Deyda Hydara. How wrong could they have been? Though dead he still poses a threat, and we are glad we aren’t the only ones crying. People from all around the world join us in mourning your gory death. You are our jewel , we love and will always miss u. Death is part of life that is the natural order of things, but to lose you in such an inhumanly manner is absolutely numbing! We try to live as much as possible but some days is hard to think about even hard to breathe. All we do is try not to make your dead greater than your life by celebrating your life like you wanted. How can we let you go when nothing could ever take your place. At times it seems as though nothing could comfort us but with the support of few God fearing Gambians and support and recognition from international organization we have the faith to live.

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TOWN CRIER TAKES ISSUES WITH Mr. Yahya Jammeh
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 (1198 reads)

By Town Crier

My task today is to analyse boy Jammeh's inuagural speech delivered at his 3rd term swearing in. Read on. In bold are excerpts from the speech and the rest my reactions.

"It is not easy to build a nation". That is why we ask you not to run it

like your zoo/home. Run it like it belongs to all of us. Consult with people who know more than you do.OK? Stop the hiring and firing of hard working men and women of Gambia. If you believe that your hiring and firings are genuine, give reasons so Gambians would know…transparency. But any govt. that operates behind the curtain stands to be suspected of ill play.

Press statement;Gambia leader asks for forgiveness while journalists continue to be persecuted
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 (1019 reads)

On December 15, 2006, as he was being sworn in for a third five-year term in office, President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia asked his people to forgive him for any crime he may have committed against them.This is the first time in the 12-year rule of President Jammeh that he has openly asked for forgiveness of Gambians since he seized power in a military coup d'etat in 1994.President Jammeh made this appeal in the presence of many international dignitaries including four other African heads of state: Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo, Ethiopian President Girma
Wolde-Giorgis, Faure Gnassingbe of Togo, and Ely Ould Mohammed Vall of Mauritania.

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Breaking News: GPU UK Demands Justice On Deyda's Murder Case!
Monday, December 18, 2006 (733 reads)

THE GAMBIA PRESS UNION / UNITED KINGDOM BRANCH
PRESS RELEASE

IN COMMEMORATION OF THE ASSASINATION OF DEYDA HYDARA

It is two years since veteran journalist Deyda Hydara was brutally murdered by unknown cowardly assailant/s. Despite the continued condemnations and calls for justice both nationally and internationally, the authorities in The Gambia are yet to ensure that those responsible for this most ghastly crime are apprehended and brought to justice.Mr Hydara who was co-proprietor and Managing Editor of The Point newspaper was also Reporters Without Borders’ Banjul correspondent. He was gunned down, on December 16, 2004, whilst he was driving his Mercedes Benz from work going home. Two of his colleagues, who were with him in the car, Ms Nyansarang Jobe and Mrs Ida Jagne-Joof both sustained various degrees of injuries as a direct consequence of the bullets that were sprayed at the moving vehicle. The incident happened on the day the paper celebrated the 13th anniversary of its inception.

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