Fundraising for human rights
October 7, 2011 by Grace Franklin
Alieu B. Ceesay with Gillian Wilson, chief executive of NIDOS which promoted the Take One Action Film Festival.
The Campaign for Human Rights in The Gambia will hold a fund-raising concert in the CCA, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow on Tuesday 25 October at 7:30.
Local musicians have agreed to perform and VIP guest speakers have been invited. Film of recent activities by the Campaign to bring to public notice in the UK the fact that people are ‘disappearing’ and being killed without trial in the West African sun spot, is also expected to be shown.
Exiled journalist Alieu B. Ceesay recently conducted two successful workshops at a seminar in Edinburgh on ‘Reporting International Development’ which was jointly organised by Amnesty, ‘Take One Action’, NIDOS and the National Union of Journalists.
Internet reports show that a Gambian lawyer had been sentenced to two years hard labour by a Nigerian judge in The Gambia on a charge of ‘giving false information to a public servant’ (http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/gba-condemns-moses-richards-conviction). The Gambia Bar Association had called a week long strike in protest . (http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/lawyers-protest-moses-richards-conviction).
The Gambia is a “no go area” for any person who believes in humanrights and the rule of law. Simplt type YAHYA JAMMEH’S name on google or other search engines then see who the monster and the vicious unlettered killer is. I was an Ambassador working directly under him between 1999 and 2003/2004. I had to leave while en poste in Washington DC because the injustice is way too much for any serious professional to ignore. This is what brought me in direct contact with sons of the land like Alieu Ceesay. The Gambia MUST be helped if not we have another Ivory Caost in the making. Today Liberia is enjoying peace because they have someone who sensitize the world on former President Taylor’s excesses in the name of President Johnson Sirleaf. The world listened to her therefore came in and helped Liberians remove Taylor BY FORCE! Today Taylor is in Hague while President Sirleaf is being seen as the most qualified to receive a nobel peace prize! OH YES AFRICANS CAN MAKE when we we have the right leadership!
Any dollar,any pound,any dinar,any euro or anything you contribute towards helping Gambians means a gesture geared towards saving the lives of a helpless population being roasted by a brutal dictator!
Help save The Gambia from the claws of a political vampire!
Signed….Essa Bokarr Sey
Louisville KY USA
October 7th 2011
Alieu you guys are doing a very good job so I commend you for all your energ and, effort for letting the whole world know what the dictator yahya jammeh is doing to our homeland THE GAMBIA.
The Gambia is a “no go area” for any person who believes in human rights and the rule of law. Simply type YAHYA JAMMEH’S name on google or other search engines then see who the monster and vicious, unlettered killer is.
I was an Ambassador working directly under him between 1999 and 2003/2004. I had to leave while in post in Washington DC because the injustice is way too much for any serious professional to ignore. This is what brought me in direct contact with sons of the land like Alieu Ceesay. The Gambia MUST be helped; if not, we have another Ivory Coast in the making. Today Liberia is enjoying peace because they had someone – President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – who alerted the world to former President Taylor’s excesses . The world listened to her and, therefore, came in and helped Liberians remove Taylor BY FORCE! Today Taylor is in The Hague while President Sirleaf is being seen as the most qualified to receive a Nobel Peace Prize! OH YES AFRICANS CAN MAKE IT when we have the right leadership!
Any dollar, any pound, any dinar, any euro or anything you contribute towards helping Gambians means a gesture geared towards saving the lives of a helpless population being roasted by a brutal dictator!
Help save The Gambia from the claws of a political vampire!
Signed….Essa Bokarr Sey
Louisville KY USA
7 October 2011