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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 13 Jun 2011 : 12:47:03
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Registration of APRC Supporters from Mauritania at NYSS
By Baboucarr Ceesay
Sunday, June 12, 2011
 Five large buses from Mauritania have brought about 250 APRC supporters to obtain voter’s card for the upcoming presidential election due November 24.
The Daily News went to the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSS) headquarters in Bakau where the five buses and the political home comers are jam-packed.
“To be frank with you these people are members of an organised APRC group in Mauritania who foot the bill of their transportation to the Gambia to exercise their civic rights as Gambians”, said Momodou Lamin Jarjue, first secretary to the Gambian ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
Mr Jarjue, who admitted that he was acting on the instructions of his boss, the Gambian ambassador to Mauritania Momodou Badjie confirmed that the group comprises Gambian Qur’anic students and hustlers based in Mauritania.
“Some of us would be staying with our various families,” said a young man wearing a turban on his Arabic skullcap.
“You see I have been here for the past two days to wait for our brothers and sisters to arrive so as to make them comfortable. I am attached to the Kanilai police station, though I am not a policeman,” said a young man who was recording names of people who want to stay with their families within Kanifing municipality and the Kombos.
He described the Mauritania-based Gambians as patriots who are here to help the president keep sweeping the polls so as to continue his development work.
“It is only unfortunate that all of them cannot be accommodated at the NYSS headquarters and had to stay with their families, but the IEC team will be here to register them and they will return to Mauritania and come back come November 24 to vote for President Jammeh,” he explained on condition of anonymity.
When contacted, the IEC chairman Alhaji Mustapha Carayol cut off the telephone conversation when our reporter told him about the five buses that brought the 250 Gambians from Mauritania, demanding an explanation for the reasons of using NYSS as registration centre for Gambians from Mauritania.
IEC has started registering and issuing voter cards to the Mauritania-based political home comers at the NYSS headquarters since Friday, June 10, 2011 and the registration exercise is still in progress.
Source: Dailynews
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13 Jun 2011 : 20:48:10
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According to the Election Decree, one has to be born or resident for at least 6 month before he/she could be eligible for registration in a particular constitutency. That means the IEC can only register these people at the NYC if they satisfy one of these requirements in relation to the Bakau Constituency. Otherwise, their registration would be illegal and utterly void.
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I do not oppose unity but I oppose dumb union. |
Edited by - Nyarikangbanna on 13 Jun 2011 20:51:22 |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 13 Jun 2011 : 21:17:38
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| "They" probably didn't read that bit ! |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Janyanfara
Tanzania
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Posted - 13 Jun 2011 : 22:14:45
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Hey Guys
Now all of you would belief me that this old grand pa is worst than Yahya Jammeh.Mustapha Carrol is the number two criminal of the Gambia. But all the same what are the opposition doing? |
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Momodou
Denmark
11717 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jun 2011 : 18:17:05
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Foroyaa Editorial : AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK FOR THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSION
By Publisher
13-06-11
FOUR BUSES FROM MAURITANIA DESCEND ON TALLINDING BANTABA
It has been long since Gambians in the Diaspora raised questions why the Independent Electoral Commission has not made arrangement for them to be registered at their places of residence abroad. The Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission had always been swift to answer them by indicating financial and logistical problems.
On Friday, 9th June 2011 the problem of the registration of Gambians from the Diaspora became a practical one that the IEC could not ignore. What do we mean?
Foroyaa received information that four buses with Mauritanian number plates have crossed into Senegal and were heading to the Gambia. The buses were trailed to Barra. The buses from Mauritania did cross over and were finally trailed to the registration centre situated at Tallinding Bantaba.
The Registering officer and their supervisors made it categorically clear that a person should not be registered where one is not resident or was not born. The claimants were told that those who were born in Tallinding could register and those who were not would have to wait for further instruction.
Some officials of the APRC, whose names we will withhold since they eventually decided to listen to wise counsel and stop interfering with the process and castigating the principled IEC staff of being opposition agents, initially did insist that the claimants must all be registered since they had National documents. The IEC staff refused to be dictated to. Pandemonium developed as different party representatives descended on the ground to check each other. After heated exchanges, tete a tete discussions started between some of the representatives. Eventually, the IEC sent its Chief Electoral Officer to handle the matter. He reiterated that the law permits people to register where they reside or where they are born. To free the registering officers to carry on their work one of the party representatives proposed for all the party representatives, the Chief Electoral Officer and the Gambian High Commissioner in Mauritania to move away from the registration centre to discuss matters. The Foroyaa reporter saw the Chief Electoral Ofiicer, Robert Anthony Secka, The Gambian High Commissioner in Mauritania, Rtd. Lt Colonel Momodou Badjie, Mayor of KMC, Yankuba Colley, Halifa Sallah, Secretary General of PDOIS and Momodou Sarr of the UDP discussing.
It is reliably learned that the Chief Electoral Officer recalled the provision of the law, defended the decision of their staff and indicated that those from Tallinding would register in Tallinding and those from other places with national documents would be taken to other registration centres. The High Commissioner is reported to have expressed that if the rule was clear to them before they came the chaos that developed would have been avoided. The political representatives were said to have tried to contain each other so that none would dictate what the Chief Electoral Officer of the IEC considered to be appropriate.
In our view, the IEC has been given an impossible task. The Law is its guide. Section 12 subsection 1c states that “a person shall be entitled to have his or her name registered on a register of voters in a constituency if he is resident or was born in that constituency.”
The IEC could exercise discretion where the law is silent. Hence even if the IEC accepts to register those who are not born or resident in a constituency there names could be deleted by a revising court on the basis of failing to meet residential qualifications. What the Gambia High Commission in Mauritania should have done is to get the IEC to sensitize all the Gambians to rush to their place of origin and get registered which should not take more than three days regardless of where one originated from in the Gambia.
The real solution is to ensure the registration of Gambians abroad. It is unfair to have Gambians come all the way and have difficulty in getting registered because of the technicality of the law
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Janyanfara
Tanzania
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Posted - 16 Jun 2011 : 14:58:05
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THANK YOU FOROYAA.IT IS TIME ALL GAMBIANS READ YOUR PAPER SO AS TO BE SENCITIZED AS THEY ARE CLEAR PRECISE AND PATRIOTIC. I PRAY YOU SOON BECOME DAILY FOROYAA.
SO THAT WHEN UDP BECOMES THE GOVERNMENT, YOU WOULD VIGOUROUSLY CONTINUE TO SENSOR THEM ON A DAILY FOR BY THEN DEMOCRACY WOULD BE RESTORED WITH PRESS FREEDOM. |
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 Jun 2011 : 23:49:07
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"UDP IN GOVERNMENT AND FOROYAA TO VIGOROUSLY CENSOR THEM", WHEN WILL THAT BE VISION 2040 LOL |
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Janyanfara
Tanzania
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Posted - 16 Jun 2011 : 23:58:41
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| maybe 2190.hey but ask yourself if UDP would be 2040, what about your NADD? Maybe 2330 (laughs) |
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