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Editorial: Another ‘award’ for President Jammeh?
Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:28
We have been receiving email messages from our readers requesting that we look into the authenticity of the latest claim of
an ‘award’ received by Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, as indicated by an editorial on his newspaper, the Daily Observer, on its Monday February 14th edition.“We wish to congratulate the Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Yahya AJJ Jammeh for bagging the International Order of Merit (IOM)
award from the International Biographical Center (IBC),” the Daily Observer wrote.And it proclaimed: “The conferment of such a highly honoured and prestigious humanitarian award by IBC on the Gambian leader is indeed not a surprise.”
Indeed, not a surprise.
The International Biographical Centre which, according to its website, is located in Cambridge, England, described itself as a world leader in biographical publishing.
On the surface, the company is a business entity as it trades in publishing biographies of people based on payment.
Like an earlier ‘award’ attributed to Yahya Jammeh recently from the controversial IPSP, this one also stinks of suspicion; not only because it charges monetary payment for its awards, but also because the center is widely considered as a scam.
This link by Wikipedia will give a fair idea of the nature of the center.
We hope this will do justice to our concerned readers.
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Comments
the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow..just you wait and see"
Living and breathing with African's..teaches me something different every day.
I can honestly say..the British people and The Gambian people...are as one.
Those I know in government...are undivided in the hope that you will achieve your desires and fulfil your ambitions.
This has nothing to do with The British government or the British people...
Unlike the Nebraska local government award...which was a government scam or joke..whatever?
This is some small back street "quango" set in the academic centre of Cambridge.
There are many who operate mainly on the internet claiming to be centres of academic excellence.
I recall my African wife paid several hundred pounds for an Open University law course...from an outfit in Oxford...before we realised it was just another scam.
I don't think the British government will do anything with Jammeh other than under the terms of the Conoutou agreement or to franchise directly with The Gambia's institutions ..such as Law.
The expelling of Deputy High Commissioner Joshi...by Jammeh...will live long in the FCO's memory.
I think this award was akin to sending yourself a Valentine...
Sad ?
If this Award is true then the West are killer supporters and hypocrites.
First forcing in to power,false promisses promissed, killing of journalists,the student killings,human rights abuses, whitch hunting and poisonings, the arrests of opposition leaders, the dissapearance of Gambians without a single trace,Gambians exiling themselves in fear of there lives,the interlectuals fearing to speak there minds against the odds, the list goes on and on.........
Another award? Yawn.......
The only difference this time is they have learnt to keep it on the low low, after the stinging criticism from past "awards".
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