By Adama Hawa

Our Verdict columnist Adama Hawa has just read our lead story this morning captioned "The Power of Chance: Fatou Who?" and has a few more things to add to Speaker Fatoumata Jahumpa Ceesay's sexed up resume. Since she is a public figure, we cannot censor Adama's piece. Below we reproduce Adama Hawa's reactions. 

I really enjoyed your interesting and comprehensive write up on our distinguished Speaker of the National Assembly, the Right Honourable Fatoumata Jahumpa Ceesay (a.k.a FJC), giving us a detailed account of her educational background as well as her numerous fortunes, as opposed to the deceptive claims she had been making.

However, I wish to add my own little knowledge of her educational background which you failed to mention. In the first place, FJC went to Armitage because she could not pass her common entrance exams, and therefore, Armitage was the only high school she could have gone to at the time. The rest, as you indicated, is history.

However, what you did not seem to know was that after a  sojourn at the Gambia High School (GHS) when she left Armitage, she became pregnant and that was how her chequered educational career abruptly came to an end. Just as you indicated, she had a powerful father, and as such, there was no way anyone would have had the guts to expel her from GHS. Therefore, because she did not have the brains to pursue her education with seriousness, she had to engage in some other pastime, which eventually led to her being impregnated by a Senegalese.

As regards her claims that she did a journalism course in the US, that is the biggest lie. While she indeed was selected by the US Embassy in Banjul to undertake a one-month tour of the US, it was certainly not a journalism course. It was indeed thanks to her association with the Daily Observer, where she was running a Family column that the Americans spotted her, even though, just like those horrible stories she was filing to The Point, her writings at the Daily Observer were just as bad. In fact, a majority of what she wrote in that column was plagiarism of what she culled word for word from magazines and other publications, and yet she never had the decency to attribute them to their rightful authors. Instead,  Fatou wrote them as hers. That was yet another clear indication of her dishonesty and deceptiveness.