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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 06 Feb 2007 : 13:50:02
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UNACCREDITED ELECTION OBSERVERS IN FONI BINTANG
The voting process at Foni Bintang Constituency would have passed off as relatively excellent had their been no presence of Non Accredited election observers at polling stations. At Foni Bintang Polling station C31, this reporter met with John P Bojang, Gambia's Ambassador to the US and Taiwan. When contacted by this reporter for any comment, he simply dilated his concern on the voter turn out and the competency of the staff overseeing the election. At Kansange polling station C30, personnel of the military came in and asked one of the security officers in charge if every thing was all right. Also at Balanjor, the IEC presiding officer there was asked if he'd seen any soldiers around. He said he did but they did not intimidate him or anybody who was interested in the election process. However, as many people waited in the queue to vote, the presence of soldiers going and coming made many to feel very uncomfortable. One observer from the coalition of election observers questioned why the soldiers are interested to know if everything was all right. At Kusamai polling station C26 and C25, a Nissan patrol with tinted glass and numberless registration plate made a stop at the polling grounds and in it were plain clothes officers who came down and started asking both polling agents and the presiding officers if everything was all right. After spending sometime the plain clothes officers who said they are from Kanilai boarded their vehicle, drove a few metres away and then stopped just behind a small mosque. They were still there when we drove away. One of the IEC officers at Kusamai who was asked whether he had any knowledge why the military personnel were roaming polling stations, said they were only patrolling border villages. But what this reporter noticed is that Kansange, Balanjor and Bintang are not border towns or villages?
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 014/2007, 5-6 February, 2007
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Karamba
United Kingdom
3820 Posts |
Posted - 06 Feb 2007 : 14:01:27
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| Let nobody play around it. In the skulls of Jammeh and his band of military bandits, they own Gambia, have right to kill and misbehave any how. Unless Jammeh is out of the political game in Gambia, everyone is at very high risk of every danger. |
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Karamba
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Feb 2007 : 14:01:27
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| Let nobody play around it. In the skulls of Jammeh and his band of military bandits, they own Gambia, have right to kill and misbehave any how. Unless Jammeh is out of the political game in Gambia, everyone is at very high risk of every danger. |
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