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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 18 Jan 2008 : 20:10:04
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Driver Charged With Negligence Over The Dead Of Ten People
By Bubacarr K. Sowe
A driver who was purportedly driving the truck that ran into a crowd on Sunday evening at Serrekunda-nding, Kombo Central, is charged with rash and negligent acts, which allegedly caused the dead of ten people.
Alhagie Badjie, who appeared at the Banjul Magistrates’ Court, is currently in police custody.
Magistrate Kayode Olajubutu said that his court does not have the territorial jurisdiction to hear the case and therefore ordered it to be transferred to Brikama Magistrates Court which has the jurisdiction.
The police also said that six people who sustained injuries are currently admitted at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital.
The deceased are Adama Camara, Fatoumatta Camara, Malang Camara, Titti Darboe-Ndow, Alieu Ceesay, Maimuna Ceesay, Isatou Badjie, Lamin Manka, Bintou Sowe and Lamin Sanneh.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issues
Issue No. 008/2008, 18 – 20 January 2008
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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 Jan 2008 : 17:24:54
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This is a terrible incident. may the deceased rest in perfect peace. May the injured have a speedy recovery. Stricter Road
Regulations need to be enforced in Serrekunda-nding area to prevent such accidents from recurring in the future.
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Karamba
United Kingdom
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gambiabev
United Kingdom
3091 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jan 2008 : 19:41:37
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Karamba
Thanks for posting this. So the suggestion is the opposition people were deliberately ploughed down as if they are nothing.  
Then the police cover up YET AGAIN!
The police/justice system should be separate from the government.
I fear for the future of Gambia and it's people if these types of things keep occuring.
One day...may be not next week or next year..but one day the people will say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I hope the story has a peaceful and democratic ending...but fear it may end up with neighbour turning on neighbour in civil unrest.
My sympathy is with the families of all of the dead and the injured. |
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Momodou
Denmark
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gambiabev
United Kingdom
3091 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jan 2008 : 20:37:12
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| Oh SORRY for my misunderstanding. I jumped to the wrong conclusion. SORRY. |
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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
2085 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jan 2008 : 21:18:11
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Yes Bev you got the wrong end of the stick,There is a erase button if you are truly sorry. I'm sure those who have lost their loved ones will take offense over what you have written in regarding the lose of their loved ones. How do you square the police being separated from the government. Please show us an example in the world were the police are villantes working for themselves. Gambia isn't the wild wild west. Neither is it approprate in this thread to call for political unrest and bloodletting amongst the ruling party and opposition Gambia will not follow the stereotypical BBC slot for African Tribalism. By the way is this how Gambia is repaid by not having visa control to scrutinize educational exchanges whose Teachers advoacate civil unrest and anarchy. I hpe this doesn't reflect the rest of the Teaching Staff of your school nor the parents of the pupils which you;ve posted here on the forums photographs without parental consent or the woman who shares your photographs views, Does it?
Food for Thought
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gambiabev
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 Jan 2008 : 21:55:31
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Bantaba offered me the opportunity to edit my posting. But I prefer to apologise and leave it there. i think constant editing often makes the flow difficult to follow. For example if I delete my posting, then yours wont make any sense to people who follow on and read further.It was a genuine mistake and I once again apologise.
Sister Omega i had a little smile to myself. I just knew you would have to post to critise me. You never miss the opportunity. 
The lady on the picture with me is my guides mother and his baby. I asked the families permission before I used the photo. The other photos are mainly general photos. The english pupils signed consent forms before they went on the trip and I double checked with the team leader it was ok to use their pictures. The Gambian people didn't. In group settings with general pictures I dont think that is a problem. Obviously if I was putting names to the pictures that would be a different issue.
If sufficient people think there is a problem with this I will delete the link.
I wanted to share my experience and in the future hope to use the pictures from kolior for a fund raising web site for the nursery project. There is a saying that a picture paints a thousand words.
I havenot written anything to offend the deceaseds families, on the contary I offered my sympathy. It is deeply sad.
In the Uk the police are indpendent. The government affects emphasis and policy, but doesnt interfer in day to day policing. The police dont work for themselves, they are answerable to government and they work on behalf of the people of the country.
The school I go on the visit with isnt the school I work at. I work at a special needs primary school in the north. The pupils I go with are from a secondary schools sixth form in the south. I take time off without pay and pay my own way on the trip. My views published here are my own and don't reflect any other teachers views. None of the teachers I work with are involved with or interested in Gambia. My school wont allow me the time off for the trip this year, so I have to decide whether to not go or look for a different job that will allow me the time or resign from the school. I might not be able to do it this year, but my return to supply teaching so I can continue to do it in the future.
I have not CALLED for political unrest!!!! merely stated that tight government control over people over years and years sometimes results in that. It is not just in Africa that that is the case. It is human nature. At some point a pressure cooker without any release explodes.
Sister I made a mistake. I am only human. I have said sorry.
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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
2085 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jan 2008 : 23:28:03
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How naive you are the police in Britain come under the control of the Home Office and the Home Secretary is chosen by the Prime Minister, and s/he forms part of the government. The labour government sets targets for the police to meet haven't you heard them complaining over the media.
As for a pressure cooker in Gambia going off, I am sure that its advocates will be comfortably sitting in the British countryside out of harms way. It is tragic that people died in Serrunka-nding regardless of their political persuasion. As for police powers some may argue that there has been a decrease in civil liberties within Britain since 9/11. it all depends on how you see things anyway as you said you made a mistake. It doesn't seem too big for you to retract it.Even though these people died exercising their democratic rights in this case for the APRC causing your argument to crumble into insignificance.
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Karamba
United Kingdom
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Posted - 21 Jan 2008 : 01:15:57
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Bev
No need to erase the text. It suffices to admit your error. Besides it makes no difference being APRC supporter or being opposition supporter. There is a clear case of insensitivity demonstrated by the party leader in whose name these people died. Within a span of one week a massive celebration was held to mark the claim by APRC party leader that he discovered cure for AIDS (something flatly refuted by experts.) The point is that to have so many people die in the manner they did for the sake of a party that was good reason to stop the party from making a celebration about a discovery that is yet to be taken serious.
On the photos it is unthinkable someone of your level would ever post photos of people without their prior permission. For many you have done so well and deserve being commended. |
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mbay
Germany
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Posted - 21 Jan 2008 : 13:31:56
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Quito SIS OmegaI hpe this doesn't reflect the rest of the Teaching Staff of your school nor the parents of the pupils which you;ve posted here on the forums photographs without parental consent or the woman who shares your photographs views, Does it?
I share the same headaches with you, if this will be normal (tourist)picture i don't think no one will complaint to it but in my view a this is a scandalous!
I remembers just two month back when my ex wife ware troubling our daughters by sharing their pictures with other at students website, and prompt three weeks later it comes on TV about one girl which she has being humiliated, and it was the same them she was complaining.
Bev is from here(West) so i took it she knows it all better ! |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 21 Jan 2008 : 13:51:03
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As sometimes happens in this Bantaba,topics have moved off target from a very sad accident which was caused by a DEFECTIVE vehice,the state of commercial vehicles in Gambia that are used to carry goods is BAD no excuse at all Local mechanics are untrained and worn out parts are often used for maintainence, I am not the moderator but from a mistake by one poster this topic has moved on the teachers and visas,I am not saying that this is due to the fact that GAMBIABEV is known from her own postings to be a teacher,Politics appear to creep into anything that is posted on Bantaba,people scoring points over each other.
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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mbay
Germany
1007 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jan 2008 : 16:21:33
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Its good that you see it long last,
Yes we are here to Mount our voice for having a nobel prize, but none is here to cares about what we daily hear and see with .
This might be for some like boulevards but i wonder if one will be happier when one is affected.
We only knows that the cops are after Ruddy guys for misuses of pictures daily, but for what then |
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gambiabev
United Kingdom
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Posted - 21 Jan 2008 : 18:43:02
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| mbay I dont understand this posting. Can you explain more? |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 21 Jan 2008 : 21:36:41
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Nor do I,clarification please. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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mbay
Germany
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Posted - 22 Jan 2008 : 10:18:41
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T 1020. What i means is that why we are taking this as a simple maters?
people are misusing -manipulating pictures that we are seeing daily, and now every one are ignoring it!
As i said she may means nothing bad but just for making some one happier, well:
and again i don't know what the RUDDY guys will said about it, which means they will not care what so ever this pictures roots means; its simple a welcoming pictures for them, that's what i means corps are after, AND NOT YOU, BEV!. but who will take my...?
But i already knows that the wind it will blows in different direction. but will that stop me on my opinion?.
You Guys has your mind and i have my but yours is the correct one and my are nothing but fack. well....
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