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Gambia News : Gambian Authorities to exhume bodies of 44 Ghanaians
President John Evans Atta Mills has promised
that Ghana will co-operate with the Gambian Authorities to exhume the
bodies of 44 Ghanaians killed in the Gambia. This is part of the
recommendation of the joint UN-ECOWAS Commission Report that they
should be given a fitting burial and compensation paid to the families.
He said the unfortunate period is over and the two countries should cooperate for the benefit of their people.
President Mills said this when he received letters of credence from four envoys designate to Ghana at the Castle, Osu.
The
first to present his letter of credence was the Zambian High
Commissioner, Cecil Holmes, followed by Ackah Emmanuel Auguste of Cote
D’Ivoire, the Gambian High Commissioner to Ghana, Angela Colley and the
Swedish High Commissioner Per Lindgarde.
President Mills said
doubts associated with the unfortunate incident which occurred in 2005
and nearly marred relations between the two countries would be dealt
with and called on the new High Commissioners to work hard to erase
such doubts.
Gambia High Commissioner, Angela Colley said Ghana
and Gambia have a lot in common and the unfortunate incident which
occurred in 2005 should not strain the relationship.
She
pledged to work hard to strengthen relations between the two
countries.Receiving the Ivorian Ambassador, Ackah Emmanuel Auguste,
President Mills said African countries should work to invigorate their
economies.
There is a lot to be derived when Africans pool
their resources. President Mills remarked “let the ideals of the
African Union stimulate African leaders for such cooperation”.
He
congratulated the Ivorian President, Laurent Gbagbo for the successful
completion of the voter registration exercise paving the way for
elections to be held.
President Mills Assured the Ivorian Ambassador of Ghana’s support to ensure successful elections.
The
Ivorian ambassador on his part called on President Mills to continue to
support Cote D’Ivoire for the country to have total peace.
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- It takes an illiterate and idiotic clown like Jammeh to smear the pristine image that Gambia once had.I am so sorry and ashamed for The Gambia,i truly am.As for his rabid dogs doing his bidding we will never spare them when the day of reckoning comes
(Posted on September 5, 2009, 10:37 PM john)
- Yahya Jammeh has done more than any Gambia to tarnish the good image of a country once the bastion of African democracy. The massacre of innocent Ghanaian lives by rogue elements of Jammeh's dreaded security forces is an international criminal act.
(Posted on September 5, 2009, 7:33 PM Ansu Koroma)
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