Kemo, according to your twitter profile, you are a legislator and an adviser to the Mayor of KMC. You also tweet about politics and History— I assume these are your areas of expertise. It is unscrupulous and amoral when you tweet out something inaccurate and refused to correct it https://twitter.com/kemo_bojang/status/1302922584229584897

2- after learning that it is incorrect. You are not doing what you are peaching; rather, you are sanctimonious. Sheriff Dippa never resigned as Vice President “on bases of ethics and principles.” In August 1972, Senegalese customs officers stopped a Land-Rover flying the Gambian

3- When the vehicle was searched, “It was carrying a quantity of contraband goods and its occupants were subsequently charged with illegally importing transistor radios and copper Gambian currency (bututs) to Senegal (where they were recycled for their metal content).”

4-The scandal earned the nickname “butut affair” because of the large quantity of butut found in the vehicle. The perpetrators were all found guilty and heavily fined. Kutubo Dippa, the brother of the then Vice President, Sheriff Dippa, happened to be the chief culprit.

5-He, Kutubo Dibba, “was running the operation from No. 1 Marina, Dibba’s formal residence as vice president, and that Sheriff Dibba raised the money to pay the fine.” At this stage, there were rumors about Sheriff’s involvement but nothing concrete.

6-Sheriff never addressed the issue by disassociating himself from his brother’s crime or being ethical and moral by tendering his resignation. In fact, at the time of this scandal, Sheriff held two cabinet positions. His other cabinet position at the time was Minister of Finance

7-Sheriff never resigned because his involvement in the “butut scandal” was already circulating in Bathurst; he resigned because the pressure increased when: the disgruntled former minister, H. O. Semega-Janneh, publicly attacked him in a speech in the House of Representatives.

8-Although Dibba continued to deny any personal knowledge of what had been taking place, the political and diplomatic embarrassment was too much for Jawara who, egged on by Dibba’s rivals in the cabinet and the party hierarchy, forced him to resign as vice president two dayslater

9-He remained temporarily as minister of finance, but was no longer in Jawara’s confidence, and on October 9, Jawara reshuffled his cabinet, with Garba-Jahumpa succeeding him as minister of finance. As compensation, Dibba was appointed The Gambia’s first envoy to the European

10-Economic Community at Brussels, but this sidelining only served to stoke up his resentment. It also failed to pacify his predominantly Mandinka supporters, who were becoming increasingly disgruntled at their weakened representation in the cabinet.

11-Sheriff never resigned because he has ethics, or he was principled as you claimed. He was forced to resign because he lacked ethics and was not principled. He lied about knowing what was going on even though he was the one who paid his brother’s hefty fine. He became

12-disgruntled and resentful because he was forced to resigned from one position and removed from the other. Even though his involvement was a national disgrace, he continued to benefit from tax-payers money by serving in our government. In July 1974, there was a cabinet

13-reshuffle.  Sheriff “was brought home to head the new Ministry of Economic Development and Industrial Planning (MEPID).”  on July 29, 1975, Sheriff was “accused of seeking to unseat the president through a cabinet revolt and was dismissed.” In August 1975,

14-he was expelled from the PPP. He formed his political party the following month. End of thread.